Li Yuan held Guo'er in his arms and followed the Guo brothers along the rugged mountain road and slowly walked up the mountain.

Yan Chengxue followed behind him, making a grimace from time to time, waving his fists, and the resentment in his heart was still not calm.

Along the way, the twin brothers talked about the Hundred Grass Sect.

It has been thousands of years since the establishment of the Hundred Grass Sect, and the years that have passed are no shorter than those of the Chixiao Sword Sect. It's just that the sect has been mainly based on alchemy for many years, and it is relatively slack in cultivation and other aspects, so it has never been out of the top powerhouse of the famous Pangshan County.

There were very few people in this sect, and even at its peak, the number did not exceed a hundred. Now it is even more bleak, plus a few lay disciples who are responsible for cultivating herbs, there are only thirty or forty.

However, the reputation of the Baicao Sect is not small, because each generation of sect masters is a well-known Dan Dao master in Pangshan County, and many strong people with advanced cultivation sometimes have to give generous gifts in order to ask for a furnace of elixir, and they owe a lot of favors.

Therefore, although the Baicao Sect is small, in some respects, its status in Pangshan County is also the best.

This steep mountain is called Qihuang Peak, and it is the mountain gate station of the Baicao Sect, and most of the disciples live on the mountain. In addition, several of the surrounding low mountains are all medicine fields and medicine gardens, which are tended by lay disciples.

Qihuang Peak is very steep, there are not many houses on the mountain, most of them are built by the mountain. Or in the mountain pass, or on the edge of the cliff, or under the ancient pine, the architectural style is simple and natural, and it looks quite extraordinary from a distance.

The group walked along the road, and occasionally met a few disciples of the Baicao Sect, and when they saw the Guo family brothers, they would salute and shout "Senior Brother".

Yan Chengxue's treatment is much worse, some call her "little junior sister" when she is in a good mood, and some simply don't see it, turn around and leave.

"Is the relationship between the Chixiao Sword Sect and the Hundred Grass Sect very good?" asked Li Yuan.

If it is just two unrelated sects, the disciples should not be commensurate with each other.

Guo Yunzhi replied: "There is not much contact between the two factions, but because my father and Uncle Xu Shi once had a fateful friendship, the colleagues of the Baicao Sect are very friendly to both of us. After my father passed away, it was also thanks to Uncle Xu Shi's care that the two of us brothers were able to have enough pills for cultivation. Otherwise, even if we have good talents, we will not be able to get to this point today under the situation of the lack of resources allocated by the sect. ”

Li Yuan nodded, thoughtful.

It seems that the internal competition of the Chixiao Sword Sect is very fierce, and the two famous disciples of the Guo family brothers will get closer to a small sect like the Baicao Sect, half because of the relationship between their fathers, and the other half is probably for the sake of interests.

In the afternoon, the group came to the main hall of the sect on the mountainside.

A middle-aged monk received them, and after knowing the identity of Li Yuan's distinguished guest, he immediately asked them to clean out two houses for Li Yuan and Guo'er to live in.

The middle-aged monk Huo Zhong is the deacon of the Baicao Sect, responsible for a series of chores of the sect, knowing that everyone has not had lunch yet, and specially asked his disciples to send exquisite meals for everyone to enjoy.

Immortal cultivators actually don't have very high requirements for food, especially for monks above the Condensation Realm, it is enough to eat only one meal a day.

However, Guo'er has no cultivation, just a thin and delicate girl, and Yan Chengxue only has the cultivation of the seventh layer of qi refining, and she can't shrink her food and open up the valley, so she still has to eat it.

Guo'er grew up on Zhongyun Mountain with Xuan Zhenzi, and in addition to rice grains, the best things to eat are all kinds of vegetables. Xuan Zhenzi can't practice, and he is getting older, and he has to work hard to even fight a hare, and the little doll has barely tasted meat when he grows so big.

Therefore, when Huo Zhong asked the disciples to send hot astragalus pigeon soup, fragrant peanut braised pig's trotters, thick and silky stewed tofu and other dishes, the little girl was so hungry that she kept swallowing her saliva, and her big shining eyes were full of desire for food. For a while, even the grief of Master's death was diluted a lot.

"Eat. ”

Li Yuan gave her a bowl of soup and two pieces of meat, and the little girl looked at the others timidly, then lowered her head and ate it in small bites.

Although she is very greedy, she has always remembered the truth taught to her by her master since she was a child, and she knows that she must hold her image and not gobble it up, which makes people look down on her.

During the meal, Huo Zhong asked about Li Yuan's origin.

He replied half-truthfully, telling the truth about Zhongyun Mountain and Guo'er, but concealing the matter of the "Reincarnation Lotus Blossom Mystic Law".

As for himself, he only said that he got the cultivation method and battle knife, immortal jade and other things in the mysterious cave when he was young, and he had been groping for many years, and he had just recently come out of the mountain, so he was still very unfamiliar with the world of cultivating immortals.

A few people were skeptical, but they didn't get to the bottom of it.

After dinner, continue to the back mountain.

The mountain road in the back mountain is even steeper, with strange rocks, and it is almost impossible to find a road to walk, and even the dead pine and ancient trees are much less.

Walking around for a while, a quaint hall built out of stone appeared in front of him, the plaque at the door was branded with the words "Laojun Palace", and there was a statue of an old fairy at the door.

At this time, the door of the main hall was open, and there was a fiery aura coming from inside, which could be sensed from a distance of thirty or forty meters.

Huo Zhong explained: "That's where the sect master usually alchedes. In the main hall, there is a Naling formation laid out by the patriarch, which can help the effect of Dan Qi condensation. Now that the sect master is refining the pill, it is inconvenient to disturb it, so let's go in and visit another day. ”

"Is the refining of the elixir complicated?" Li Yuan said curiously.

He knew almost nothing about pills, magic weapons, formation paths, and other things, and he urgently needed someone to solve his doubts.

Huo Zhong, as a deacon of the Baicao Sect and a master of alchemy himself, replied with a smile: "There are complicated and simple. Like the Tong Xuan Dan that the sect master is refining, it needs to use hundreds of medicinal materials, go through dozens of processes, and go through seven days and seven nights of endless refining before it can become a pill, which is relatively complicated. For example, the treatment of skin trauma is very simple, it only needs to grind five herbs into powder and mix them together. ”

"Sounds like a deep science. ”

"Definitely. Dan Dao is endless, and many people can only learn a little bit in their lives. Even the sect masters of the past dynasties of our sect often lamented that the Dan Dao was profound and not inferior to the immortal path. ”

While speaking, everyone had already bypassed the Laojun Hall and came to the place of cultivation in the back mountain.

Several wooden houses are scattered on both sides according to the terrain. This is already the upper part of the mountain, and a thin cloud mist can be faintly seen drifting by, and the temperature is a little lower than the front mountain.

Huo Zhong pointed to an elegant bamboo house near the cliff and said, "Li Daoyou, what do you think of that house?"

Li Yuan looked in the direction he was pointing.

The bamboo house was built on the edge of the cliff, and there were no other houses within a hundred meters of the vicinity, only a winding path leading in the direction of the Laojun Palace. Behind the house was a smooth rock, and in front of the house there was a small clearing, and beyond that was a cliff full of vines.

The mountains are accustomed to the mist, and the mist is rubbing, like a fairyland.

"It's a good place. Li Yuan nodded with satisfaction.

For the next few days, the bamboo house was where he and Guo'er lived.