When Yang Xiaotian arrived at Chongwu Academy, the atmosphere here was not like a place to study and settle down, and it was much more lively. Perhaps it is related to the Taoist conference on the ninth day of the ninth month of September, where there is an endless stream of people, and the majority of people who cultivate the truth, such as Confucianism, sword cultivators, martial artists, Taoists, and people in Buddhism, can be seen everywhere.

Chongwu Academy is built on the mountain, behind is the famous green pine mountain of Lu country, among the towering ancient trees, the pavilion courtyard, all of which are elegant and elegant, the vermilion gate is open, the corridor is tortuous, everything looks like it is scattered.

When Yang Xiaotian walked in from the door, he was not hindered, and the boy at the door glanced at the two of them, and then continued to cast his eyes on the book in his hand.

Yang Xiaotian was about to find someone to ask where Mei Shengqiu lived, but the people who came and went looked like they were all in a hurry, their eyes were focused on the front, and they didn't pay attention to the two outsiders.

"Xiaotian, you see they look busy!" Liu Feiyi said.

Yang Xiaotian just smiled, and was about to return to the door to ask the boy about it, but he saw a young scholar coming to him, who had seen him at the martial arts conference, but he couldn't remember his name for a while.

The man was also stunned when he saw Yang Xiaotian and Liu Feiyi, and hurriedly ran over and said, "Why are you two here to participate in the Dao Conference." He said to Yang Xiaotian again, "You are also here on behalf of Tianguanmen, haven't you already sent someone from Tianguanmen?"

It turned out that someone had come to the door when the day was closed. Yang Xiaotian asked, "I don't know who is coming from the Tianguan Gate?"

The man looked at him strangely, as if he was very surprised that his disciples who had closed the door that day did not know who his sect had sent to participate in the Dao Conference, but he still said, "It's Qin Ke who came. ”

"It's him!" Yang Xiaotian was a little happy when he heard this, Qin Ke was still good to him when the sky was closed.

"Then who is from the Western Emperor Sword Sect?" Liu Feiyi asked, she did not receive an invitation from Chongwu Academy before going down the mountain, guessing that it may be that the people from Chongwu Academy arrived at Xihuang Mountain after she went down the mountain.

The young scholar said, "The Western Emperor Sword Sect didn't send anyone over this time. ”

Concubine Liu nodded, Liu Feixu had just become the sect master, and there were many things to do, and she would not be able to leave for a while.

"Brother Tai, by asking, where does Mr. Mei Shengqiumei live?" Yang Xiaotian asked.

The young scholar was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Yang Xiaotian to know Mei Shengqiu, many people in this academy didn't necessarily know that strange old man.

Yang Xiaotian saw that he didn't answer for a long time, thinking that he didn't know either, and was about to leave with Liu Feiyi and ask someone else for directions.

"Go this way, and when you get to the inner house, find someone to ask, and that's it. ”

The young scholar pointed out a forest path to Yang Xiaotian.

"Thank you!"

Yang Xiaotian picked up Concubine Liu and walked over to the side path, and at the end of the walk was the inner house of the academy, which was much quieter, except for the boy who was eight or nine years old who was sweeping the floor, and did not see anyone else.

"Little brother, do you know where Mei Shengqiu lives?" Yang Xiaotian asked.

The boy was Bai He, staring at Yang Xiaotian with wide eyes, the expression on his face was incredible, if he remembered correctly, this was the first time that someone from outside came to find his ancestor.

"Who are you, what are you looking for my ancestor?" Bai He said.

Yang Xiaotian secretly thought: It turned out that he was Mei Shengqiu's apprentice, but he didn't know if he was Cui Yan's disciple or nephew.

"Cui Yan asked me to come over!" Yang Xiaotian said.

When Bai He heard this, he said happily: "It turns out that you are a friend of Uncle Cui, what about Uncle Cui, why haven't you come back after so long!"

Yang Xiaotian was very happy to hear the news of Cui Yan, and couldn't bear to tell him that Cui Ji was dead, and said with a smile: "Brother Cui has some delays, will he come back for a while and a half!"

Bai He was obviously a little disappointed, and said, "Since you are friends with Uncle Cui, then come with me." ”

Yang Xiaotian and the two came to the door of a school under the leadership of the fat boy.

"Master, there are two people who say they are friends of Uncle Cui, and they want to see you!" Bai He shouted at the door.

"Let them in!" the old voice remembered from inside the door.

Mei Shengqiu seemed to have known that they were coming, and he didn't ask them who they were or where they came from, but just invited them to sit down, while he started tea.

Yang Xiaotian thought for a while before saying, "Mr. Mei, I am a friend of Cui Yan. ”

"I know!" Mei Shengqiu nodded.

Yang Xiaotian thought that he had just heard the boy's words before saying this, so he continued: "Brother Cui has something for me to bring back to the academy and ask me to return it to you. ”

The woodcarved waist card, "Humble gentleman, humble to self-shepherd"!

Mei Shengqiu took the waist card in Yang Xiaotian's hand, touched the inscription on the waist card with her fingertips, and said calmly: "Very good!"

Yang Xiaotian didn't know what he meant by this, and was saying how to tell Mei Shengqiu that Cui Yan was dead, so that he would not be so sad.

How do you know that Mei Shengqiu got up and scolded Yang Xiaotian with a hooded face, "Stinky boy, who wants you to be nosy! Are you idle and have nothing to do, you can go and have fun if you have nothing to do, what do you do about my disciple's affairs!"

Yang Xiaotian was a little inexplicable, but because the other party was Cui Yan's master, he could only endure it. Concubine Liu saw this old man like this, but she couldn't help it, Xiao Tian came all the way here for your disciple's advice, and she didn't get a good word without saying anything, but she provoked a wild scolding.

"What's the matter with you old man? Do you deserve your Confucian dress without asking?"

Mei Shengqiu didn't care, and shouted: "In Chongwu Academy, who doesn't know what I Mei Shengqiu does to confucianize him or not, provoke me Mei Shengqiu, not only will I scold people, I will also beat people!"

Liu Feiyi thought he was just talking, who knew that he really rolled up his sleeves and slapped Yang Xiaotian.

Yang Xiaotian avoided it on one side, smiling vigorously, but Mei Shengqiu was unforgiving and still unforgiving.

Yang Xiaotian retreated to the door, glanced at Concubine Liu, and said, "Since Brother Cui's things have been delivered, then my affairs are done, in order not to make the old gentleman angry, the kid will leave." ”

"Come back!" Mei Shengqiu hurriedly stopped him.

Yang Xiaotian had already stepped out of the door with one foot, turned his head and said with a bitter face: "Old man, you don't bring anything to talk well, can I come back?"

Mei Shengqiu sat back with a cold face and said, "Come here, sit down and talk!"

Yang Xiaotian actually has no intention of leaving, Cui Yan has done half of the thing, and there is no reason to leave now.

"Mr. Mei, why are you scolding me for no reason?" Yang Xiaotian saw that Mei Shengqiu was no longer out of breath and asked.

Mei Shengqiu's face turned pale, and he said: "My apprentice is dead when he dies, who wants you to be troublesome!"

Yang Xiaotian was taken aback and said in surprise: "It turns out that Mr. Mei already knows that Brother Cui is dead!"

Mei Shengqiu said: "Cui Yan is my most proud disciple, although he rarely accompanies me, how can I not pay attention to his whereabouts. ”

Then you still let him kill the people of the Wu Clan?" Yang Xiaotian thought to himself.

Mei Shengqiu saw his eyes, guessed what Yang Xiaotian was thinking in his heart, and snorted coldly: "I'm not an immortal, Huanlangzhou is thousands of miles away from Ancestral Continent, even if I have the heart to save him, there is no way to save him, not to mention that he is reckless, so I don't bother to help." When he said the last sentence, he puffed out his cheeks, like an angry child.

Yang Xiaotian disagreed, and said: "Brother Cui is a rare humble gentleman, just as engraved on his waist card, "Humble gentleman, humble and self-shepherd", I think this is the portrayal of Brother Cui. ”

Mei Shengqiu's face finally calmed down a lot, and sighed: "There is a rule in Chongwu Academy, every inner disciple must choose a waist card and carve his favorite sentence on it, I remember that Cui Yan was eleven years old that day, holding a small carving knife, and it was these eight words that were carved. ”

Yang Xiaotian nodded, it turned out that this was the text that Cui Yan had been carving since he was young, and then used it to restrain himself and carry it out for the rest of his life.

"I don't know, Mr. Mei, what kind of words are engraved?" Yang Xiaotian asked tentatively.

"It's about you!" Mei Shengqiu said.

Yang Xiaotian was speechless, and said for a while: "If the old gentleman doesn't want to say it, forget it, why scold!"

Mei Shengqiu's expression was flat, and he didn't seem to be angry.

Yang Xiaotian was surprised, and secretly said that it was really "about your birds", and looked at his waist, it was empty, and he didn't have a waist card.

"Here!"

Mei Shengqiu's right hand slapped on the tabletop, and a dark wooden racket fell on the table.

Yang Xiaotian took it and took a look, there were four big characters engraved on the wooden plaque, the words were extremely ugly, even people who had just learned to write were better than him.

The waist card is a little old, and some of the strokes have been broken, and Yang Xiaotian carefully identified it.

"It's your business!" the young man was stunned, there was such a boring person.

Concubine Liu slapped Yang Xiaotian on the top of the head and shouted, "Don't say foul language!"

Yang Xiaotian couldn't cry or laugh, handed the waist card to Liu Feiyi, and said helplessly: "Look at it yourself!"

Liu Feiyi took it, blushed, and threw the waist card back to Mei Shengqiu.

Mei Shengqiu laughed and asked, "How is it?"

Yang Xiaotian's face was extremely solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "Seniors are immortal and bone-minded, and their thoughts are clear!"

Mei Shengqiu snorted coldly and shouted, "Speak well, don't scold!"

Yang Xiaotian said: "Senior, this is really boring!"

Mei Shengqiu shouted: "Where is it boring, don't underestimate these four words, it contains the highest state of life, there are all living beings in the world, there are many people who can say these four words, but I am the only one who can make these four words go unhindered, every time these four words come out of my mouth, no one dares to make noise in front of me!"

Yang Xiaotian sincerely admired and praised: "Senior, amazing!"

Concubine Liu didn't like this strange old man in her heart, and thought to herself: How can Xiaotian's friend's master be such a person, he looks like an old ruffian!

Mei Shengqiu seemed to be able to see through people's hearts, looked at Liu Feiyi and said with a smile: "Did the girl say in her heart that I was an old ruffian!"

Concubine Liu shook her head and said with an expression on her face: "No!"

Mei Shengqiu shook her head with a smile and sighed, "I thought I could hear the girl's praise in person." "It seems that Liu Feiyi is a little disappointed that he didn't call him an old ruffian.

Concubine Liu couldn't cry or laugh, what kind of person is this, it's really a strange thought!

Yang Xiaotian found that he liked this strange old man more and more, and he was obviously shouting and killing just now, but he was able to joke with you calmly this time. It's just that he has always been a little puzzled why he scolded himself, how to say that the two are also meeting for the first time, even if his grandfather robbed his lover, it was the previous generation, and there was no reason to knock him down on the head.

"Old man, let's get back to the point, Cui Yan was killed by the people of the Wu Clan, in addition to asking me to bring the belt card back, he also asked me to tell Mr. Mei not to let me avenge him, Brother Cui said that he had personally stabbed the enemy!"

Mei Shengqiu's face was a little gloomy, and said: "I don't know Cui Yan's thoughts, he knows my temper, and he is afraid that I will find the Wu clan for his death, and he knows his master's catties, so he is afraid of causing me trouble!"

Speaking of this, Mei Shengqiu glared at Yang Xiaotian again and said, "Cui Ji is dead, why are you doing so much?"

Yang Xiaotian was puzzled and asked strangely, "What did you say, old man?"

Mei Shengqiu said: "Cui Yan's talent in runes is the first person in a thousand years, even if he dies and is reincarnated, I will find him back again, let him become my disciple again, inherit my rune path, and in the end it will be a great avenue." But it's good that you kid tricked him into going to that ghost place, so that now people don't look like people and ghosts, and he cut off his avenue. Are you talking about being nosy!"

Yang Xiaotian knew that this strange old man hated himself for this matter, and he couldn't help but want to scold him: Do you want Cui Yan to become a ghost clan?

Mei Shengqiu snorted coldly: "Don't tell me this, if you have the ability, in a few days, talk about the Dao conference, and debate with those boring guys!"

Yang Xiaotian couldn't help but ask: "Elder Mei, Brother Cui asked me to participate in the Dao Conference, but I don't know what the Dao Conference is mainly about?"

Mei Shengqiu said: "It's all boring people doing boring things!"

Seeing that Yang Xiaotian and the little girl were looking at him, waiting for him to continue, he said what he didn't want to say, " There is a dispute between martial arts and literature at the conference, at the beginning, it was the representatives of the various sects involved in the conference to add martial arts competition, there is nothing to say, anyway, it is table tennis, you beat me and I beat you, after the fight is the dispute between literature and Taoism, this is even more boring, anyway, they are all playing tricks, the young are as clever as springs, and they suppress the old ones in one go, and the old treacherous and cunning ones are dug up to the young ones, and in the end, whoever has a good mouth wins. It's boring anyway. ”

"What, you want to participate too?" asked Mei Shengqiu.

Yang Xiaotian said: "I want to go and see it a little, but we were not invited!"

Mei Shengqiu said: "It's not a big deal, I'm one of the participants, and you two can be my entourage when the time comes." ”

Yang Xiaotian was about to agree, but Liu Feiyi pinched him, Yang Xiaotian guessed that she had other ideas, so she didn't agree.

Mei Shengqiu didn't say anything.

"Old Mei, I heard Brother Cui say that you are the first person in the world of Jiuzhou!" Yang Xiaotian said.

"Where is it! This Jiuzhou Continent is so big, there are a lot of capable people, which round will get me Mei Shengqiu!" The look on the face of the strange old man was full of it, young man, you really have vision!

Yang Xiaotian secretly thought: Brother Cui is really good, tell yourself that this strange old man likes to listen to good words.

Yang Xiaotian said with a smile: "Mrs. Mei is modest, Brother Cui is a humble gentleman and a sincere person, he said that Mei Lao is the first person in the world, so he can't be wrong." What's more, when I saw that there was an opportunity in line with this heavenly way between Mei Lao's demeanor, I knew that it was right, I had found the right person!"

Concubine Liu smiled secretly, knowing that Yang Xiaotian was talking nonsense.

How do you know that Mei Shengqiu heard something else, his demeanor is indeed practicing the rules of the rune all the time, even the bamboo forest path that cleans the inner house of the Dao School that day on weekdays is actually just him practicing his rune path, but he didn't expect to be seen at a glance by the young man in his early twenties in front of him. Could it be that this young man is also like Cui Ji and Bai He, they are all runic geniuses who are seen once in a thousand years. But why can't I see it, is it that my old eyes are dizzy, or that this young man is well hidden.

Mei Shengqiu was silent for a moment, and asked: "Could it be that after you heard Cui Yan talk about me, you wanted to learn Fu Tao from me! But you must know that I, Mei Shengqiu, swore that I would only accept one disciple in my life, and if Cui Ji died, I could accept another disciple, but unfortunately you were late, and I had just accepted the boy Baihe outside as an apprentice." You can only blame yourself for bad luck!"

"Old Mei, I didn't plan to be your apprentice!" Yang Xiaotian said calmly.

"What, you don't want to worship me as a teacher, so why are you asking so much?" Mei Shengqiu said in a cold voice.

Yang Xiaotian said with a smile: "I want to discuss with Mei Lao and study the Fu Dao together!"

"Nonsense!" Mei Shengqiu shouted, "How old are you, even if you have practiced since your mother's womb, you may not have much attainment, you actually want to discuss Fu Dao with me, is your young man's tone a little bigger!"

Yang Xiaotian didn't speak, turned his hand, put the "Danshu Fu Gong" on the table, and opened the first page.

"What?Sleepy Dragon Talisman!?"

Mei Shengqiu looked at the talisman and her eyes widened.

Yang Xiaotian turned the "Danshu Fu" to the second page.

"Ten thousand ghosts are hiding?!"

Mei Shengqiu's voice became higher and higher.

Yang Xiaotian looked at the strange old man with a smile, and slowly turned the page to the penultimate page.

"It's... This is?" Mei Shengqiu's voice trembled, and he trembled for a long time before he said, "This is the Innate Talisman?" The tone was uncertain, and it seemed that he couldn't tell if it was the Innate Talisman.

Mei Shengqiu's hands trembled and stretched out to the "Danshu Fu Urn", wanting to grab it and take a closer look. How do you know that Yang Xiaotian is faster than him, and he has already put away the "Danshu Fu Urn" and hid it.

"This is the Danshu Fu, tell me quickly, where did you get it? Mei Shengqiu asked urgently.

Yang Xiaotian looked at him with a smile, his mouth open.

Mei Shengqiu's eyes widened, anxious to know the answer.

"It's about you!"

The young man smiled and said without hurry.