Chapter 39: Ten Years
Time flies, looking back.
Shaoguang is fleeting, how many years.
The years in the mountains always pass quietly unconsciously, and ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Outside the Xuanqing Gate, a young Taoist wearing a Taoist robe, with an extraordinary aura and clear eyebrows, stood outside the door with his eyes closed, and a broom in front of him stood as quietly as he did.
Suddenly a light wind swept by, and the leaves slowly fell to the ground, as if reluctant to give up the branches, as if nostalgic for the old times.
Suddenly, the silent Dao Sheng opened his eyes, danced with his left hand, and shouted in his mouth, "The autumn wind sweeps away the fallen leaves!"
The broom in front of Dao Sheng seemed to feel it, and it flew on its own to roll up gusts of wind, and the leaves scattered on the ground around it were also put together.
A smile rose at the corner of Daosheng's mouth, and he said happily, "Ha, it's done." ”
"Cough, cough, I said that you kid has to make such a big movement every time he sweeps the floor for Mao?" A dark, short, and fat figure behind Dao Sheng walked over.
"Yo, aren't you on your feet, Second Elder. Dao Sheng said without replying.
The second elder had an expression on his face that his lie had been punctured, and said embarrassedly, "Oh, when you say that, my feet really hurt a little. He sat down on the stone steps of the doorway, rubbing his left ankle.
Dao Sheng turned around, looked at the second elder's clumsy performance, and said angrily, "Didn't you say that your right foot is broken, why are you rubbing your left foot?"
"Hey, really?" he said, hurriedly lifting his right foot and rubbing it.
"In the last three months, I have suffered from stiff neck, then pain in my left shoulder, then a sprained thumb in my right hand, and now a broken right foot. Dao Sheng said with a smile, "Why don't I help you break your left foot, so that you can rest for another half a year and don't have to work, how about it, Second Elder?"
Seeing Dao Sheng slowly walking towards him with bad intentions, the second elder stood up and said righteously, "No need, I just suddenly had a surge of Dao Qi in my body, which healed my right foot, and I will continue to leave the matter of cleaning up the fallen leaves to me in the future." ”
Dao Sheng shouted loudly, "Fart! Today is the last day, and the three elders will be in charge of cleaning up from tomorrow." ”
The second elder came to Dao Sheng's side, put his arm around his shoulders and said with a smile, "Hehe, Xiao Fan'er, don't be so careful." ”
"Cut!"
After worshipping Xuanqingmen and cultivating for ten years, now Mingfan has become a weak-crowned teenager from a child.
"Ah, I almost forgot to get down to business. The second elder remembered that he had been instructed by the Great Elder to come to Ming Fan, "Big brother, let you go to the hall to find him after sweeping the fallen leaves." ”
"Huh, the Great Elder is looking for me?"
In the hall of Xuanqing Gate, the Great Elder and the Third Elder were chatting with tea, when Ming Fan walked in, bowed, and said, "Elder." ”
The Great Elder smiled slightly, "Fan'er, sit down." ”
"Yes. Hearing the words of the Great Elder, Ming Fan casually found a place to sit down and asked, "I don't know, what is the Great Elder looking for me?"
"Fan'er, it's been ten years since you got started, so a few of our elders discussed it and felt that it was time for you to go down the mountain and practice. The Great Elder and the Third Elder glanced at each other and said.
Ming Fan was overjoyed and said, "Really?!"
The third elder laughed, "It seems that you are not holding it lightly on the mountain." ”
Ming Fan scratched the back of his head and smiled wryly.
Xuanqing Gate has training, after entering the school, you must concentrate on cultivation for ten years, and then there will be a chance to go down the mountain to practice, and the elders will issue a task, as a judge of whether this experience is successful, as long as it can be successfully completed, there will be no restrictions on going down the mountain in the future.
Zhu Xin and Yan Yunxiao's training tasks have been passed, and now it is Ming Fan's turn to carry out his training.
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"Three demon beast Neidan?"
The Great Elder nodded and said, "That's right, we discussed it, and give you three months to hunt three demon beasts and retrieve Neidan, which is your training mission this time." Didn't you say you ever wanted to be a hunter?"
Moreover, after becoming a hunter, you can also undertake the hunting task of the "Hunter Guild" and earn some silver taels. The third elder then mentioned, "After all, you also know that our Xuanqing Sect is different from the rest of the sects, everyone has their own sect industry or business, we don't even have a hair, and we need to earn our own expenses and everything. ”
"Uh-huh!" the Great Elder coughed in embarrassment, "What is this called, a person who cultivates the truth should be pure-minded, what kind of industry, business, and system!"
Ming Fan agreed, but ..... It's not that I agree with the Great Elder, but with the words of the Third Elder, the Great Gate Sect is not comparable, and compared with the small sects whose strength is weaker than themselves, the Xuanqing Sect is also notoriously shabby.
The cultivation foundation of the four elders has reached the point where they don't have to supplement themselves by eating, but the three disciples and a few people in the farm next to them still have to eat.
Although vegetables and grains are grown in the forest fields, and Aunt Sun also raises some poultry in captivity, self-sufficiency is not a problem. But some living expenses still depend on the side jobs of senior sister Zhu Xin and senior brother Yan Yunxiao.
Soon Mingfan will also go to work and be subsidized. The smiles of the two elders became more and more like those of Zhou Peeling.
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"My training mission?" Yan Yunxiao's appearance has not changed much, for cultivators, it may not be very realistic to stay young forever, but the years really can't easily leave traces on them.
After coming out of the hall, Ming Fan felt that he should ask his senior brother and sister for some experience, so he went to the martial arts arena to find Yan Yunxiao, "Yes, I specially came to ask my senior brother about my training experience." ”
Yan Yunxiao thought for a while and replied, "My original training task was to go to the Northern Martial Arts to quell the bandits. ”
"Banditry?"
"That's right, at the beginning, there was a very serious bandit problem in the Boshan Territory at the junction of the Northern Martial Arts and the Central Plains, and it was when I went down to practice, so several elders took the elimination of bandits as my training task. Yan Yunxiao recalled all kinds of things back then, and said, "As for the experience.... That's it..... Have faith in your own strength. ”
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"In the blink of an eye, Xiao Fan'er is going down the mountain to practice. Zhu Xin, who was at the backmountain waterfall and was healing the white winged silver fly, touched Mingfan's head with a smile and said.
Ming Fan said helplessly, "Senior sister, it's awkward to always touch your head, I'm not a child anymore." ”
"But in my eyes, you will always be a little junior brother who doesn't grow up. Saying that, Zhu Xin touched Ming Fan's head harder.
The white winged silver fly, who was being treated by Zhu Xin, smacked his lips, and said with the same emotion, "I didn't expect that the little ghost who was not as tall as my waist at the beginning has grown so big now, does it taste better than when I was a child?"
Ming Fan: "........ Let's get back to business. ”
Zhu Xin pursed her lips, thought for a while, and said, "My original training task was to go down the mountain to rescue a hundred people. ”
Ming Fan said thoughtfully, "Senior sister who is good at healing, takes saving the people as the training task, the second senior brother who is good at strength, takes punishing evil and promoting good as the training task, and here I am hunting demon beasts as the training task, it seems that the elders are not casually giving tasks." ”
"Yes, the elders give assignments based on our own strengths. ”
Ming Fan didn't have a good temperament, "Senior sister earns some silver taels by going down the mountain to practice medicine." The second senior brother kills the wanted criminal pursued by the Law Enforcement Hall to get a bounty. Then let me become a hunter and get paid for taking on hunting tasks. These old guys are doing a good job!"
Grand Elder: "Ahh
Second Elder: "Ahh
Third Elder: "Ahh
Fourth Elder: "Ahh
The four elders said in their hearts: "Alas, you have a cold?"
Zhu Xin suddenly smiled mischievously and said, "By the way, Xiao Fan'er, don't forget to go to the Fourth Elder before going down the mountain, and ask him for good things to take on the road." ”
Ming Fan looked at the smile on Zhu Xin's face, feeling a little weird in his heart, but he still responded, "Well, I know, senior sister." ”
Just as Ming Fan was about to step back, the White Wing Silver Fly stopped him, "Little guy, wait." ”
Ming Fan turned around and asked, "What's the matter, Xiaobai?"
The white-winged silver tiger face was a little shy, and Ming Fan smiled evilly, "Oh~~~ Is there something to ask me, what, lonely? Do you want me to go down the mountain and find you a tigress?"
"Mother, you chicken, which eye can you see that I'm lonely!" Ming Fan's joke also made the shyness of the white winged silver fly disappear, and said, "Actually, I want to tell you, if you have the opportunity, I hope you can help me bring back a special demon beast Neidan back." ”
"A special monster?frog?"
“...... No. ”
"Toad?"
“...... It's not ......"
“...... Forest Frog!"
"Hey, that's enough, what are you competing with frogs!"
"Okay, don't be funny, what are the special monsters you are talking about?"
The white-winged silver tiger said seriously, "That demon beast is .........."
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There was a knock on the door
"Fourth Elder, I'm Ming Fan, are you in the house?"
The fourth elder put down the book in his hand, got up and opened the door and said, "I knew you would definitely come to me, come in." ”
Ming Fan walked in with a smile, and before he could speak, his intentions were seen through by the four elders, and then he said, "Fourth elders, look, I'm going down the mountain tomorrow to practice, do you have any good things here that can help me?"
As the top student among the four elders, the four elders spent most of their time in the room studying various black technologies except for teaching the three disciples formation knowledge on weekdays.
"It's Xin'er who asked you to come to me during the experience and search for it, right? The four elders said with a smile.
"Hehe!" Ming Fan smiled, indicating that what the fourth elder said was right.
"Don't worry, before Xin'er and Xiao'er went down the mountain to practice, I gave them the same treasure respectively, and of course I am ready for the treasure for you. After speaking, the four elders turned around and picked up an arrow from the table and handed it to Ming Fan.
"Fourth Elder, what is this?" Ming Fan asked as he looked at the colorful arrow in the fourth elder's hand.
"This is a 'phantom rainbow dysprosium' specially prepared for you."
"Phantom rainbow?"
The Fourth Elder explained, "That's right, this is the latest work I've been researching in the past few years. ”
"You've worked on these colorful arrows in the last few years? You give me a few buckets of paint, and I can make thousands in an hour. "Ming Fan really can't see the mystery of the arrow.
The fourth elder knocked Ming Fan's head with his fist and said, "You kid doesn't know the goods yet, right?" The color on the arrow is not dyed. ”
Ming Fan took the arrow closer, sniffed it carefully with his nose, and found that there was indeed no smell of paint on the arrow, but a ......, "What is this smell?"
"Do you smell it, this is the smell of a small demon beast 'avoiding service'. The Fourth Elder replied, "By attaching the Inner Dan of the Evasion Beast to the body of the arrow, these arrows with special effects were made. ”
"Special effects?" asked Ming Fan with a slight surprise.
"Crimson arrows with an explosive effect. ”
"A cyan arrow with a piercing effect. ”
"Blue arrows with a freezing effect. ”
"Silver arrows with a tracking effect. ”
The four elders explained the effects of arrows of various colors to Ming Fan one by one.
"So powerful?" Ming Fan said in surprise, "Is there anything else, Fourth Elder, give me a few more?"
The fourth elder shook his head and said, "Do you think this thing is very easy to make? There are five arrows of each effect, and just these twenty Phantom Rainbow Dyssis have already consumed a lot of my Forbidden Beast Neidan, and the requirements for the maker's Dao attainments are also very high, so the success rate of making Phantom Rainbow Dysprosium is not high now. ”
"That's right. Ming Fan said regretfully.
"Alright, don't be satisfied. Compared with Xin'er and Xiao'er back then, the treasures I gave you are already very good. The four elders looked at the expression on Ming Fan's face and scolded with a smile.
However, the words of the fourth elder also aroused Ming Fan's interest, and asked, "What did you give to Senior Sister and Senior Brother when they were training?"
The four elders pondered for a moment and said. "Xin'er went down the mountain to treat the people, so I gave her a stethoscope given to me by a friend. ”
"Auscultator?"
The Fourth Elder nodded, "Yes, that stethoscope is said to have been left by my friend when he was a child, before his father died, and because of this incident, he was devastated, so when he grew up, he did not become a physician like his father, but became a dark knight guarding his town." ”
Ming Fan felt that this story sounded a little familiar, so he asked, "Fourth Elder, what is your friend's surname?"
"Hmm...... Surname 'Wei'"
“...... Well, I think I get it. Ming Fan didn't dwell on the question of the fourth elder's friend, and tried to ask, "Stethoscope, did Senior Sister use it later?"
"It seems that the profession is not right, so after Xin'er took the stethoscope, she put it away once it was useless. ”
"Hell if you can use it, Senior Sister is studying Chinese medicine!" Ming Fan shouted in his heart.
"When the second senior brother went down the mountain, what kind of treasure did you give?" asked Ming Fan without giving up.
"Xiao'er came down the mountain to solve the bandits, so I gave him a treasure for self-defense. What's it called... It's a mouthful. The fourth elder frowned and thought for a long time, "Ah! ”
“......... What is this?"
The Fourth Elder was caught up in the story again, and said, "This Grove is a metal object given to me by a friend of mine surnamed 'Ge', and the way to use it is to turn on the safety and press the switch, and then this metal object can fire a very fast hidden weapon. ”
"Safety, switch, do you mean to say.... Press the trigger?" Ming Fan said with a faint look on his face.
The fourth elder nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes, Mingfan, how do you know?"
"Huh...... Scold...... You're just going to let me guess. What happened after that?"
The fourth elder regretted it and said, "My friend said that this thing is the only one in the world, so I can't suppress the mentality of wanting to study it, so I dismantled it, but later found that An couldn't go back, but fortunately, it was a metal product, and it had a certain weight that could be used as a secret weapon, so I gave it to Xiao'er." ”
Ming Fan's heart suddenly chuckled, looking at the phantom rainbow in his hand, the corners of his mouth twitched, "Sure enough, what I was given was the most practical." ”