When Hong Tuo woke up, it was already night, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a sky full of stars, he moved, sat up, and found himself sleeping on a pile of hay, with a bonfire burning in front of him, and Di Gua sitting on the other side.

"Master......"

Hong Tuo was still a little confused, and looked around, it was still the shore where he met the water ghost in the afternoon, and he couldn't help but be a little afraid when he thought of the coldness that seeped into his soul.

Di Gua, who was meditating, raised his eyes and looked at Hong Tuo, seeing that his breath was slightly constricted, I am afraid that he already has the realm of Void Dan, and the aura in his body is gradually condensing, it seems that the pressure exerted by the water ghost on him has stimulated the medicinal power precipitated in his body, and greatly improved his cultivation.

"Now that you feel the condition of your body, is the aura condensed at the dantian, and there is a rudimentary form of the Dan?"

Hong Tuo sat down cross-legged according to his words, meditated to mobilize the aura in his body, and found that most of the aura was gathered in the dantian, which seemed to be gathered but not gathered, and seemed to be scattered but not scattered.

"It's a lot of aura, but it's still relatively vague and not condensed. ”

Di Hexagram nodded, "It can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, under the stimulation of such life and death, it has boosted your cultivation, during this time you need to find a safe place to retreat, and completely reach the Jindan realm, but before that, we still need to find a few medicinal materials to refine a taste of the pill to ensure that you succeed in ......"

"Herbs, just look for them here?"

Di Gua nodded, and thought for a moment, "You are progressing a little fast, and your spiritual power far exceeds your physical strength, so you can also take this opportunity to exercise your combat ability." ”

Hong Kuo also understands this, in terms of spiritual power, he does progress at a speed, but his body martial arts are not even comparable to the outer disciples of Shushan, and after studying for two days before, he can probably understand that after all, his foundation is not solid enough.

Di Gua showed an intriguing smile, and stared at Hong Teasing like a play, "Unless I meet the role of the water ghost in the afternoon, I won't do it, you have to solve it yourself." ”

Hong thought for a moment and asked, "What level of cultivator is that water ghost roughly equivalent to?"

"Close to the Yuan Baby. ”

Hong was taken aback, "Apprentice, I don't have Jin Dan yet, so what if I meet a spirit at the level of Jin Dan?"

Di Gua glanced at him and asked, "You won't figure this out by yourself? The sheltered eaglet will never fly high, you know?"

"I ...... But the strength is there!"

"You can rest assured that you can fight, there are a lot of healing elixirs here for the teacher, and you are guaranteed not to die. ”

Hong Tuo was choked, and he had a premonition that the days after him would not be too good, but he had to accept it.

The surroundings gradually quieted down, Hong teased his eyes at the sparkling water, looked very calm, and suddenly said, "Master, did you take that water ghost away?"

Di Gua's eyes flashed, and he shook his head and said, "Although his Taoism is slightly lower than mine, the environment and weather at that time were somewhat helpful to him, so it only hit him hard." ”

Hearing that it was just a heavy blow, Hong Tuo still felt that his heart was hanging, and he couldn't let go, so he thought about the words that the water ghost said in the afternoon, and asked Di Gua, "Master, did you hear those words in the afternoon?"

Di Gua nodded, "Obviously he was killed, there should have been someone else who came to the back mountain with him at that time, what kind of deal did that person have with him......"

"Master may have judged that he was probably a posthumous disciple of Shushan, and whether the person who killed him is still in Shushan?"

Di Gua thought about it, and was not sure, "Judging from the breath, he should have been dead for one or two hundred years, and his cultivation was already close to Jindan before his death, and he was still a water attribute, so if he becomes a water ghost after death, his mana will be so powerful." ”

One or two hundred years, Hong Tuo roughly calculated the time, the Yan Dynasty was about three hundred years ago, at that time Di Gu had already come to open Shu Mountain, so this water ghost should have come to Shu Mountain a hundred years after Di Gu left Shu Mountain.

"Master, when the disciples of Shushan enter the back mountain to practice, will there be an elder to lead the team?"

Of course, Di Gua understood what he was thinking, and replied, "In order to ensure the safety of the disciples, most of the time there will be an elder to lead the team, but there are also a few, some of them think so highly that the disciples will come in groups of three or five and sign life and death certificates. ”

"Will Shushan allow it?"

Hong Tuo was a little surprised, but Di Gua disagreed: "This so-called back mountain is far more vast than Shu Mountain, and the number of spirits and Ganoderma lucidum and exotic grasses in it are not something that Shu Mountain can control, and with the elders leading the team, they will not be allowed to hunt too many good spirits, let alone collect these Lingzhi and exotic grasses." Therefore, for some disciples, the following of the elders is an obstacle, and Shushan also thinks that if he can experience life and death by himself and come out of the back mountain, his cultivation will increase greatly, but it is relatively not safe enough, so he does not support it, but he does not refuse too much. ”

"Then when this water ghost entered the back mountain, there were no elders around him?"

Di Gua nodded, "Naturally, if there is an elder, he will not die, and his family will not let go of Shushan so easily." ”

"But he said that the metallic nature promised him to become a true disciple, isn't it only the elder who can make this decision?"

Di Gua thought for a while, "It's true that it's more about how the elders choose their true disciples, but this also has a range of choices, just pick an outer disciple who feels pleasing to the eye, not to mention that the head doesn't agree, even those inner disciples won't agree, which is fundamentally not conducive to the stability of Shushan, so the elders can only choose the true inheritance from the inner disciples with excellent qualifications, so as to convince the public." ”

"Then ......" Hong Tuo always felt that this matter was not quite right, "If it is only a disciple, how can another disciple become a true inheritance?"

Di Gu didn't care about this matter, after all, the top priority now was to train Hong Tea, and then go out of the mountain.

Hong Tuo felt that this matter might be able to help the outside, because the disciples who can do this kind of thing are by no means good, and if Shushan doesn't do well this time, there is also that person who is in the way.

"Do you think that the person who does this kind of thing must be a wicked person, so he is likely to practice evil arts for the sake of Taoism, right? So you can ask this person from the mouth of the water ghost, and then find out this person in Shu Mountain, but these are all your guesses, it has been a hundred years, and the water ghost is called metallic instead of name, don't you understand?"

Hong was stunned, "But he's ...... Shushan itself is also to severely punish the disciples who make mistakes, this water ghost has been here for a hundred years, after all, they are the same sect, we can't ignore ......"

Di Gua sighed, looking at the river with a little more worry in his eyes, "The disciples of Shushan need to soak in the pure spirit pool when they enter the door, and the people who have soaked in the pure spirit pool will only give birth to good spirits even if they die, this is a method for Shushan to avoid the death of the disciples and still have no peace, but he has become an evil spirit, and he has not dispersed for a hundred years, there is something strange, and it is not something we can solve, as for his identity, he can only go back and go to the bottom of the Wanjuan Building to check the disciple's file." ”

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