Volume 1: Rise Chapter 14: Convincing People with Virtue (I)
The blue sky is like a wash, the five-colored clouds cross the sky, and the fragrance of tea comes from the clouds.
Guo Zheng was doing the three of them in the sedan chair, Lin Xie poured a cup of fragrant tea for Guo Zheng, and stretched out his hand to invite tea: "Last September, Dean Ding joined the Senate, and in October, Yang Qi and Lu Zhihan also joined together to become the youngest elders, the Continental Era has been changed to Zhending, and this year is the first year of Zhending, at the beginning of the year, the Senate issued eight resolutions...... "Lin Xie told Guo Zheng about the changes in the mainland during this time, Lin Ruo on the side was practicing, she fell asleep last night, and she had delayed a lot of time, so she had to make up for it as soon as possible.
"All domains are now preparing for the first 'martial arts conference', with the advent of "Qimen Dunfa", I believe that this first conference should be able to emerge a lot of talented cultivators in magic, the conference in the Eastern Regions is scheduled to be held in August, if Mr. Guo is not in a hurry, you can watch this conference before leaving. Speaking of this, Lin Xie paused for a moment, raised his glass of tea, and waited for Guo Zheng's reply.
"It's okay, I'm ashamed to say that I've been studying and traveling all these years, but I rarely communicate with people, and I don't know what the level of cultivation in the mainland is now, so I just take this opportunity to see it, and I'm afraid I'm going to trouble Vice Dean Lin at that time." Guo Zheng said humbly, in fact, he has been studying in the library of the academy over the years, although he has good contact with the outside world, but through the words of the faculty members of the academy, he still has a cognition of the level of cultivation in the mainland, and there is not much change from thirty years ago.
"Master, my uncle said that this conference is divided into several levels, and there are also competitions in the foundation building period, should I participate?" At this time, Lin Ruo woke up from his meditation and heard that Master and Uncle were talking about the 'martial arts conference', so he asked Guo Zheng out loud.
"Well, do you want to participate?" he asked with a smile as he looked at his disciple and asked instead of giving his opinion. Lin Xie on the side looked at this pair of master and apprentice with interest, Guo Zheng was different in many aspects, just like now, as a master, he would listen to Lin Ruo's personal wishes first, instead of directly pointing it out to the apprentice.
"Master, I don't really want to participate, but I'm afraid that my family will let me participate when the time comes!" Lin Ruo thought for a while and looked up at Guo Zheng.
"If you don't want to participate, you won't participate, your family is from me, there is really no need to spend a lot of time practicing spells during the foundation building period, there is little significance in competing skills, and your true yuan does not have much advantage in casting the general five elements spells, but it is a pity that Yang Qi's "Qimen Dun Method" does not include various spells other than the five elements, you are afraid that it will be difficult to benefit from it, and you can also try to develop some spells suitable for your own true yuan in the future, which can be passed on to future generations. Guo Zheng said to Lin Ruo gently.
"Listening to Mr. Guo's meaning, it seems that "Qimen Dun Fa" still has shortcomings?" Lin Xie has been studying "Qi Men Dun Fa" recently, and I heard Guo Zheng mention it, wanting to know his opinion on this strange book.
"There are naturally shortcomings, before he started compiling, I had a conversation with him, Yang Qi himself and I are not mutated true yuan, the magic of mutated true yuan has been recorded before, but we both agreed that it is not suitable to be recorded in the "Qimen Escape Method", the five elements of the escape method contained in the book Yang Qi himself can be cast, the true air rotation in it, The size of the power and the control of the subtleties have a personal experience, the practitioner only needs to cast the spell according to the book, the mutation of the true element will not work, one of the mutated true elements on the continent does not appear much, and secondly, each mutated true element has its corresponding spell, if you can't experience it, the words will inevitably be untrue, and even if it is the same mutated true element produced by the dual system of wood and fire true element aggregation, there will be subtle differences, not exactly the same, the effect of the same spell will also be very different, therefore, the cultivator of the mutated true element, but also develop their own suitable spellsใ The reason why I want to accept Lin Ruo into my sect is only because her true yuan is very suitable for the thunder method I have obtained in the tribulation. Guo Zheng said slowly, looking at Lin Ruo, who had already entered meditation on the side.
"Vice Dean Lin, I don't know that the jade you use for this bead curtain is from the northwest?" Guo Zheng suddenly asked a question that had nothing to do with the previous topic.
"It turns out that Mr. Guo also has a study of the genus of jade? This jade is indeed produced in the northwest, it is said that it is produced by the Yang family where Yang Qi is located, and the texture of jade can only be regarded as medium, but it has a concentrating effect, and it is not widely spread, but I didn't expect Mr. Guo to know. Lin Xie replied with some surprise, no matter how you look at Guo Zheng, he doesn't seem to be a person who is interested in these accessories, I don't know how he would know the origin of this jade? Could it be that Yang Qi told him? Immediately denied this possibility, Yang Qi is not a person who is interested in family business.
After that, the conversation between the two was no longer limited to practice, Lin Xie didn't expect that Guo Zheng was also interested in foreign objects outside of practice, and he had seen and heard much more than Guo Zheng in this regard, jade, robes, rune paper, etc. were like treasures in front of Guo Zheng. The journey was spent in a pleasant conversation, Lin Ruo had already entered a state of deep sleep for the second time, and the flying boat had also entered the boundary of the Eastern Regions, and a patch of green came into view, with many forests in the Eastern Regions, many volcanoes in the South, many mineral veins in the West, and ice fields in the north, which are the characteristics of each region of the continent, and also the origin of the main exercises in each domain.
Qingyun Mountain Range as the largest mountain range in the Eastern Regions, the peaks are continuous, the height is undulating, 100 zhang high to 1000 zhang high, there is a city in the mountains, here is the location of the Lin family in the Eastern Regions, this city is called the Lin family, the buildings in the city are all wooden, and the woods in the mountains are connected as a whole.
The flying boat landed at the gate of the tree wall not so much as the city gate, and the disciple on duty saw the three people walking down the flying boat, and shouted "The second owner and the young lady are back" at the entrance to report to the master's mansion, Lin Xie landed at the door, and there was already the intention of letting the disciple go in to report.
On both sides of the road leading to the mansion of the head of the family, from time to time there were people from the Lin family who greeted Lin Xie, and cast curious glances at Guo Zheng next to Lin Xie, an outsider who had no hair on his head, and when he saw Lin Ruo's blue and purple hair, he couldn't help but exclaim, there were rumors in the family that the eldest lady did not listen to the advice of the elders of the clan, insisted on going her own way, and did not practice well.
Lin Ruo did not squint, followed Guo Zheng step by step, there was neither sadness nor loss for the malicious speculation of the clansmen, and the firmness of his heart made Guo Zheng, who always paid attention to her, more satisfied: In the future, if Lin wants to follow his own cultivation, the road will definitely not be smooth sailing, think about his past, the slowest Jindan, the latest Yuanying, and the difficult to enter the gods, these are the evaluation of the faculty members of the academy on themselves,' The title of the strongest yuan infant in the Northeast may be more of an irony in it, and if Lin Ruo enters his own door, the improvement of the realm will not be very fast, and he will inevitably have to face all kinds of gossip at that time, if his mind is not firm, how to get out of his own way on the road of cultivation.
The three of them came to the location in the center of the city, and Lin Xie introduced: "This was originally a square, and the ring built now should be prepared for the martial arts conference in August. โใ
"The wood system exercises are happy to be quiet and happy, your family majors in wood exercises, and it is reasonable not to like fighting, because of this, you can be friendly with the spirit clan who is close to nature for generations, otherwise the spirit clan will settle in the Eastern Regions. The spirit clan and the demon clan will also participate in this martial arts conference, right?" Hearing that Lin Xie's tone was a little frustrated, Guo Zheng comforted Lin Xie.
In the small talk between the two, before the three of them came to the mansion of the head of the family, there were already people waiting for the three of them at the door, this person was nine feet tall, dignified, aged at twenty-five or sixteen years old, his hair color was slightly different from the green of the Lin family, showing a dark green color, standing on the steps and looking at Lin Ruo with a smile: "Little sister, are you finally willing to come back?
Lin Ruo didn't respond immediately, but first glanced up at Guo Zheng, who smiled and said, "Go!" She rushed up the steps and hugged her brother like a milk swallow throwing into the forest. This is my brother's eldest son, Lin Universe, which made Mr. Guo smile. Although he said this, Lin Xie's face also showed a smile of appreciation for Lin Universe, as the eldest son of the head of the family, his cultivation talent is excellent, it is a wood and water dual-attribute spiritual root, and his hair color will only appear dark green.
At this time, Lin Universe was looking at his sister in his arms dotingly, as the eldest young master in the clan, he naturally knew that the little sister was a rare mutated true element, as for the gossip in the family, his sister was still very well understood, and he would never slack off in his cultivation, I believe that she must have a reason for this.
This is Lin Ruo remembered that he hadn't introduced himself to his eldest brother yet, so he hurriedly broke free from Lin Universe's embrace, took his arm and introduced: "Big brother, this is my master Mr. Guo Zhengguo." โ
Lin Universe glanced at his sister meaningfully, and bowed to justice: "Mr. Guo, please come inside, my father has been waiting for a long time!" After speaking, he pulled his sister and walked inside, but Lin Ruo broke free, and it was not until Lin Xie and Guo Zheng walked past that she followed the two and walked in. Lin Yuyu grabbed his sister from behind: "Why did you suddenly worship a master? Those elders in the clan are about to arrange an elder of the spirit clan for you as a teacher recently because you are disobedient, Dean Ding went to the senator's council, and the clan feels that you have no need to continue to practice in the academy, this is good, you worship a master by yourself quietly, and see what your father says about you for a while." After speaking, he glanced at Guo Zheng with some pity, Elder Hua of the Spirit Clan is a guest at home, that is, the master found by the clan for the little sister, and then Elder Hua will teach Guo Zheng a lesson, so that he can retreat from the difficulty, originally fighting with the realm, the Spirit Clan and the Demon Clan are stronger than the Human Race, this Elder Hua is already a big master in the late stage of the merger realm, no matter how you look at Guo Zheng, she will not be her opponent.
In the reception hall, Lin Ao, the head of the Lin family, sat on the main seat, talking and laughing with the elder of the Spirit Clan who was sitting across the table from him, and looked up at the outside of the hall from time to time. Originally, he didn't have the luxury of hoping to invite Elder Hua to take over, but when Elder Hua heard about Lin Ruo's talent, he moved his mind to accept Lin Ruo as an apprentice, and regardless of the ugly face of the three elders of the Spirit Clan, he snatched the opportunity to accept an apprentice from him.
Looking at the four people who were walking into the hall, Lin Ao slowly stood up, Hua Xifeng just looked up at the people who came, but did not get up to greet them. Lin Xie stepped into the hall first, and was about to introduce Guo Zheng to his eldest brother, but Lin Aoyi, who took a step forward, grabbed the raised hand and spoke first: "Second brother, you are back, this is the second elder of the Spirit Clan, Elder Hua Xifenghua." Pulling Lin Xie to Hua Xifeng, Lin Xie had no choice but to bow his hand to Hua Xifeng and said, "Lin Xie has seen Elder Hua. "Lin Xie, the great name of Hua Xifeng, has heard of it for a long time, but he didn't expect her to be a guest at the Lin family, the Lin family is friendly with the spirit clan, and the people who came to the Lin family in the past were the three elders of the spirit clan, why did it come this time it was Elder Hua? Thinking of a possible Lin Xie, his face changed in an instant.
"What's the matter, second brother, what's wrong?" Sensing that his brother's face turned red, Lin Ao asked out loud.
"I'm fine, big brother, Elder Hua, this is Mr. Guo from the academy. Lin Xie hurriedly gathered his thoughts, pressed the worry in his heart, and introduced Guo Zheng's other identity to Lin Ao and Hua Xifeng with some difficulty: "Ruoruo has already worshipped Mr. Guo as a teacher two days ago. โ
"Bastard!" This time, it was Lin Ao with an angry face, and even ignored Guo Zheng who had lost his identity, and directly scolded Lin Ruo: "How dare you be so self-absorbed in such an important matter as apprentice......ship? Lin Ao was about to continue to reprimand the two, and suddenly felt a palpitation, he turned to look at Hua Xifeng, thinking that she was dissatisfied and wanted to make a move on herself, but she saw that the latter was also frowning slightly, and her face was puzzled.
At this moment, a gentle voice came into Lin Ao's ears: "The Lin family master is not busy and angry, since I accept Lin Ruo as an apprentice, the disciple has something to do with the master, just say something to me." Guo Zheng withdrew his divine sense and bowed to Lin Ao. Then he turned around and arched his hand to Hua Xifeng: "This is Elder Hua of the Spirit Clan, right? I have seen Elder Hua in Xia Guo Zheng, I don't know how Elder Ye Feng is doing recently?" Hua Xifeng suddenly thought of a person that the Great Elder of the Spirit Clan had mentioned, his face changed greatly, and he hurriedly got up and saluted back: "It turned out to be Mr. Guo, I have admired the name for a long time, and everything is fine with the Great Elder!"
Guo Zheng is obviously a little-known person on the road, why does she want to say 'I have admired the name for a long time'? Is she sarcastic about Guo Zheng? But Hua Xifeng's respectful expression is not like it!
The experienced Lin Ao was the first to react, and said to Guo Zheng: "Mr. Guo, it's rude, please take a seat." He raised his finger to the position of his head. Unexpectedly, Hua Xifeng snatched it out again: "Mr. Guo, please take a seat." It made the two Lin Ao brothers inexplicable for a while.
"It's still Elder Hua to take a seat, you are the honored guest of the Lin family, just let me sit here. Guo Zheng said as he walked to the right side of the head, waiting for Lin Ao to take a seat. Lin Ao looked at Guo Zheng, and then at Hua Xifeng, she looked like a cramped little girl at the moment, Guo was waiting for him to take a seat, he was waiting for Hua Xifeng to sit first, and the three of them froze. Lin Ao felt this bitterness in his heart, when Hua Xifeng first came, he didn't talk about these etiquettes, why did Guo Zhengzi become so polite? In desperation, he could only sit down first, and once again motioned for Hua Xifeng and Guo Zheng to take a seat, Guo Zheng saw Lin Ao's difficulties, raised his hand and asked Hua Xifeng to sit first, and the latter confessed and said, 'Trespassing' before taking a seat, Guo Zheng then did it.
Lin Ao breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Lin Xie, Lin Universe and Lin Ruo respectively: "Second brother, you can also sit; "Meet my father, I have seen Elder Hua. After Lin Ruo saluted the two of them, he stood behind Guo Zheng.
The little girl didn't know how to be polite, which made Elder Hua smile. Seeing his daughter behaving like this, for fear that the second elder of the spirit clan would not like it in his heart, he smiled at Hua Xifeng and said, seeing Hua Xifeng's expression, Lin Ao couldn't help but pause, as if he didn't believe his eyes, and blinked again, making sure that he was not mistaken, why did this Hua Elder look at his daughter with unconcealable envy in his eyes? Could it be that this Guo Zheng is really a senior master? No, the power of the human race knows it itself, there is no reason to casually appear that a person is a peerless master, looking at Guo Zheng's appearance, but thirty Xu, it is by no means the kind of old monster who has cultivated for hundreds of years, it is really incomprehensible, is there any unknown secret between these two people? Or is it ......
"Mr. Guo has a friendship with the Great Elder of the Spirit Clan?" Lin Ao, who guessed a possibility, couldn't help but ask, this Guo Zheng should be friendly with the Great Elder of the Spirit Clan, Ye Feng, and it would be like this because of the flower that had lived under Ye Feng for a long time. At this time, Lin Yuyu walked in with a tea tray, and saw that this posture was to personally pour tea and water for a few people, and by the way, he listened.
Taking the teacup handed over by Lin Universe, Guo Zheng lowered his head and took a sip, and said thoughtfully: "I can't talk about friendship, but I did have a one-sided relationship." "Then Mr. Guo came to the Lin family this time?" Lin Ao was even more puzzled in his heart, if there was only one side, it was really impossible to talk about friendship, then how could Hua Xifeng be like this? Forcibly holding back the curiosity in his heart, he asked Guo Zheng about the purpose of coming to the Lin family, and saw that his younger brother Lin Xie wanted to speak out, and made a downward gesture to signal his younger brother not to speak first, and looked up at Guo Zheng, he wanted to probe Guo Zheng's bottom, don't come to the Lin family to make trouble.
"The head of the Lin family doesn't need to be careful, Guo has no other intention to come here, just to accept Lin Ruo as a disciple, listen to the meaning of Vice President Lin, I am afraid that the elders of the Lin family will not like this matter, so I came to visit the elders of the Lin family before, so that the Lin family can rest assured. Guo Zheng saw through Lin Ao's mind and explained with a smile.
"If this is the case, I am afraid that Mr. Guo will have to stay in the Lin family for a while longer, and the three elders have not returned from visiting friends, and they still need to wait for him to return. Although Guo Zheng had already expressed his intentions, Lin Ao still had concerns, so he made a procrastination trick to settle Guo Zheng in the Lin family first, and then talk about it after asking the second brother.
"Don't worry, I'm fine, just stay in the Lin family for a little longer, and I can enjoy the scenery of the Qingyun Mountains, but I'm afraid I'm going to cause trouble to the head of the family." Guo Zheng replied with a smile.
"Eh, don't bother, don't bother, Mr. Guo is too outward, Mr. Guo is tired, why don't you let the universe arrange a place for you to rest?"
"In this way, thank you to the head of the family, there is the eldest son of Lao to lead the way. Guo Zheng didn't break it, he got up and was about to leave with Lin Universe.