Chapter 30: The Red Flower in Bloom
The so-called canteen only provides them with a room to eat, not to prepare meals for them, and everyone's evening meals are still delivered by their own spirit puppets.
At this point, everyone will be able to see clearly how their food is different from others.
As the first place, Qu Qingge's spiritual food is of course the best and richest, but Zhang Lian'er is much worse than her, but she is not jealous, she just thinks that this is what Qu Qingge deserves.
After all, the kind of desperate energy she has when she trains every day can be seen by everyone, and it can even be said that this is the treatment that people exchange for their lives, and no one has the right to be jealous of her.
However, in the face of this gap, the other disciples were still unwilling, and they all lost to a child who was not as old as them, which was really not something to be happy about.
Qu Qingge didn't know how many children were stimulated by her to work hard in order to surpass her in the future, but she was just concentrating on eating her own food, ignoring what others thought of her.
After dinner, Qu Qingge was pulled by Zhang Lian'er to run to the bulletin board to check what interest classes she had, she looked up and saw a series of courses densely listed on it, and the location and time of the class were marked behind each course.
Inside, piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine, flowers, tea, riding archery, female red, etc. are all available, and there is a note at the bottom of the notice board that each course is only on the ground for half an hour every day, and each disciple must choose at least two or more courses.
The above piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, riding and archery, and female red songs are all necessary skills for a noble girl in gold, even if she is actually not willing to learn female popularity, but she was still forced to learn by Zhou Liniang.
But with her kind of female popularity, I'll get you a simple purse, a handkerchief or something, and she can sew some clothes, but if you ask for some embroidery or something, it's impossible.
She was really not interested in poetry, hops, tea songs, and light songs, and in the end she chose chess, calligraphy and painting, while Zhang Lianer chose female celebrity and painting.
There is no time limit for these courses, but they only require students to pass the assessment after they have learned it, and then they can successfully complete the course.
Those who learn quickly and are confident in their skills can apply to the teacher who taught the course to take an early assessment, and if they can pass the assessment, they can also end the course early.
Qu Qingge is running towards this rule that can end early, and chose these courses.
The course was chosen, and because the first class they chose was different, they went to the location of their chosen course in front of the bulletin board.
After all the lessons for today, it was the end of the day and the beginning of the day, Qu Qingge dragged her slightly tired body back to her small courtyard, and when Jade Sleeve saw her come back, she quickly stepped forward to inform her: Hua Shu had prepared a medicinal bath, let her go and soak it.
Qu Qingge closed his eyes and immersed his whole body in the brown-green medicinal liquid, allowing Hua Shu to keep adding elixir to it, stirring, and adjusting the heat. That posture was like it was going to cook her.
【Di Di Di ...... The system upgrade is successful, the upgraded version of this system is V2 system, please explore the new functions by yourself. 】
The sudden sound of the system raised made Qu Qingge immediately open his eyes, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes, Hua Shu happened to be standing next to the bathtub, bending down to add her ground medicinal powder to it.
Unexpectedly, she was taken aback by Qu Qingge's sudden look, and secretly patted her chest in her heart, sighing that Senior Brother Zhou is good at adjusting/teaching people, it has only been half a year, and she didn't expect this child to have such sharp eyes.
But also, if nothing else, with this child's performance, there will be no place for her among the core disciples in the future.
As a proud son of the sky, it is normal to have such momentum at a young age.
Thinking so, Hua Shu didn't bother with Qu Qingge's eyes just now, reached out and gently rubbed Qu Qingge's little head, and after getting Qu Qingge's eyes open, he turned around and went back to continue concocting the elixir with laughter.
Hua Shu grinded a spiritual grass in her hand into a paste, and sighed in her heart, while she was still young, she still had to touch a few more handfuls to have a good time, so as not to reverse her identity in the future, she still had to salute when she saw people, and such a fluffy and soft little head could not be touched.
Qu Qingge also lost his temper with this uncle who was looking for opportunities to touch her head every day, and after soaking in today's medicinal bath, he immediately washed up and dressed and walked out of the secret room, causing Hua Shu behind him to laugh again.
When I got outside, I looked up and saw that it was already time.
There was darkness between the heavens and the earth, and the sky was covered with dark clouds, not even a little moonlight, let alone stars.
Because she had already chosen a calligraphy class, and she had already taken the opportunity to write all the twenty elixir knowledge taught by Mu Lao in class, she didn't have to practice calligraphy tonight.
Qu Qingge went back to his room, and after waving back the jade sleeves, he opened the updated system to see what changes had been made to the upgraded system.
Open the system panel, only to see that in addition to an icon with collection and backpack written at the bottom, there is also an icon with identification written on it, and there is also a V2 word on the collection technique, but the identification technique is a gray color.
As soon as she saw the words 'identification', Qu Qingge's eyes lit up, her heart was ecstatic, and her face couldn't help but smile.
No way, the name is so easy to understand, as long as she has this function, in the future, whenever she collects something new that she doesn't know, she will no longer have to worry about what it is.
She stretched out her hand to point out the identification technique, but saw a prompt sound pop up in the system: [Di Di Di ...... Please install feature patches on the host before you can use this feature. 】
I can't use it yet!
The joy in Qu Qingge's eyes faded a lot, and there was a look of disappointment in her eyes, but she didn't have the patch that the system said, so she could only temporarily discard it for the time being, and instead looked at the collection technique with the extra V2 logo.
Reaching out and tapping, the collection icon suddenly lit up, and Qu Qingge saw that there was a small line of remarks below the words 'Please lock the collection target'.
[Tips: The system collection technique has been upgraded to level 2, and in the future, you can collect second-order and below targets, and at the same time, you can randomly collect level 0 to level 2 props, please be aware of the host!]
Seeing this prompt, Qu Qingge carefully recalled every time she collected before, the level of the props collected, and found that none of the props were more than one level, basically all of them were zero-level and first-level items, and it seemed that there were many restrictions on the items that this system wanted to collect.
She turned her head and suddenly aimed at the battery level in the lower right corner of the system interface - 10%!
I choked in my heart, in the cultivation realm, a high-grade spirit stone can top 10,000 lower-grade spirit stones, and a low-grade spirit stone can be charged with 1% of the power before, but now the system swallows a high-grade spirit stone, but it is only charged with 10% of the power, which is equivalent to becoming a medium-grade spirit stone to charge 1% of the power.
In order to confirm that this may only be because the system upgrade needs to consume too much energy, which causes the power to be so scarce, Qu Qingge tentatively took another high-grade spirit stone to absorb the system, and watched the system's power gradually become 20%, Qu Qingge's eyes darkened, and he suddenly felt that he had nothing to love for a while.
All of a sudden, a hundredfold increase! How can she accept this?
She now holds a first-class monthly rule, and the monthly income can only barely maintain the system for a month, and even when it comes to those 31-day months, she may not be able to maintain it for even a month.
Originally, when she got the monthly rule, she was happy that she could get so many spirit stones, but she didn't expect that before she could heat it in her hand, the spirit stones in her hand would fly.
After having the monthly example, she thought that she would be able to be a wealthy person in the cultivation realm in the future, but in the end she found that she was still a poor ghost, and she couldn't even afford to support a system, how could she support herself?
Qu Qingge thought about the various courses in the future, thinking about whether there were any courses that would give her the opportunity to collect, but finally found that there were none.
She decisively threw three more high-grade spirit stones into the system to increase its power to 50%, and then immediately turned on the power-saving mode to reduce the system's daily energy consumption.
I planned that when it was time to collect again, she would resolutely not turn on the normal operation mode of the system, otherwise she would really not be able to afford it at the energy consumption rate of 1% of the system's daily power consumption.
After dealing with the heart-stopping system, Qu Qingge climbed on/bed and fell into a deep sleep.
On the second day, after following everyone to do the necessary daily morning exercises, Qu Qingge came alone to the study place agreed with Uncle Qin Fang yesterday.
Before she came to the familiar waterfall, Zhou Qinfang was already carrying a huge burden and had been waiting here for a long time.
When Qu Qingge walked in slowly, she suddenly drew her sword, and the heavy giant sword was like a tiger coming out of the mountain, wrapped in a fierce momentum, and quickly attacked Qu Qingge.
Zhou Qinfang is also good at using giant swords, and the weapon she carries with her is also a black giant que, but the sword she used when attacking Qu Qingge is exactly the same ironwood giant sword as the one behind Qu Qingge.
The fierce sword momentum rushed towards him, and the heavy momentum unique to the giant sword pressed Qu Qingge's body slightly.
Her expression was grim, and she quickly pulled out the giant sword behind her with one hand, the horizontal sword was on her chest, and her wrist was powerful, intending to block Zhou Qinfang's blow head-on with her own strength alone.
The two swords slammed into each other, making a loud "bang-" sound.
It seems that because both of them used too much force, the surrounding grass was blown slightly to the waist by the strong air generated by the collision between the two of them.
Since she can use the giant sword, Zhou Qinfang's strength is naturally very large, and she suddenly sent out this blow, I don't know how many layers of strength it used.
But Qu Qingge's tiger mouth was shocked and numb, and a tearing pain came, and she frowned slightly, dissatisfied with her current too delicate body.
Bright red blood slid down her palm, dripping on the green grass, splashing blood flowers, red and green reflected each other, and said that those blood flowers were like blooming red flowers, bright and bloody.
Qu Qingge's eyes narrowed slightly, his lips pursed, ignoring the pain in his hands, grasping the handle with both hands, he suddenly exerted his strength, picked up the giant sword and swept towards Zhou Qinfang with all his strength.
Zhou Qinfang quickly took a few steps back and bent down to dodge, the giant sword swept along her waist, but it was swept away, Qu Qingge did not stop, and relied on brute force to force the giant sword to change direction halfway according to her wishes.
The giant sword suddenly changed from a horizontal slash to a vertical slash, forcing Zhou Qinfang to have nowhere to hide.
Helplessly, she swung her sword to block, and with a sword swing away the sword edge that Qu Qingge slashed from, the huge force pushed her back several steps before she could stabilize herself, and the grass on the ground was torn by her feet to turn out two black-brown soil marks.
Qu Qingge didn't have time to take a few more breaths, so he tapped his toes again and quickly attacked Zhou Qinfang with a giant sword.
She understands very well that she is not Zhou Qinfang's opponent at all, so she can only immediately take a strong attack to seize the opportunity at the moment, and not let Zhou Qinfang have a chance to make a move, otherwise she will definitely be suppressed by Zhou Qinfang with one move. "Okay!" Zhou Qinfang showed a hearty smile on the corner of his mouth, shouted loudly, and also carried the giant sword towards Qu Qingge's rapid attack.
The wind swept through the grass and blew the branches and leaves of the trees, making a rustling sound that composed a natural rhythm.
The two figures moved quickly through the grass and woods, and from time to time they made the sound of weapons intersecting, "Qiang-Qiang-", again and again, powerful and crisp.
Due to the strong strength of the two sides, every collision between the two giant swords sparked pieces of metal, and the sparks flew in all directions, scattered between the heavens and the earth, and gradually dissipated.
Qu Qingge is fighting fiercely against Zhou Qinfang, although she is short, but she is born with divine power, flexibility, and skillful sword moves, just like a warrior who has gone through thousands of battles, in the battle with others, she has her own battle rhythm.
And Zhou Qinfang abandoned it and didn't use his own spiritual power, and only relied on his own physical/physical strength to fight against Qu Qingge, and for a while, the two fought to a close end.
After the brief separation of the two after another fierce collision, Qu Qingge was half-squatting, the hair on his forehead was all soaked, sticking to his forehead, he was so tired that he was panting violently, his chest rose and fell rapidly, but his hands were still holding the weapon in his hand, his eyes were like a sharp sword out of the sheath, with a sharp edge that swept everything, pointing directly at Zhou Qinfang!
The giant sword was held diagonally in front of her, the tip of the sword pointing downward, and a trail of blood slowly flowed down the blade until it reached the tip of the sword, dripping into the dirt, and was quickly absorbed by the brown-black earth.
Her hands had been shattered, and blood was dripping down, staining the handle of her sword and the body of her sword, but there was not the slightest tremor in her sword.
Seeing Qu Qingge's posture of holding the sword, Zhou Qinfang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly, and glanced at the little child in front of him again.
This is a gesture of protection, at this time the child is like a great general, a person insists on guarding the city behind him, facing the thousands of troops in front of him, not afraid of danger, only full of fighting spirit, quite a kind of tragic momentum of a husband and a man.
This time, the sect has received an excellent talent!
Zhou Qinfang, who was thinking like this, also planned to end this force test as soon as possible, and when Qu Qingge swung her sword again, she directly stretched out her long legs and kicked the little figure into the river!
After a long period of high-intensity fighting, Qu Qingge's body was already very tired, and when she used all her strength to attack again, she didn't expect that Zhou Qinfang would rely on her height and long legs to directly stretch her legs and kick people, she could only sigh in her heart: careless!
Then she felt a tremendous force from her shoulder, and her small body was kicked into the water like a butterfly with a broken thread.
The scene only heard the sound of "plopping-", which was the sound of heavy objects falling into the water, a huge splash on the river surface, and then the sound of "bang-la-la~" when the water splashed back on the river surface.
Qu Qingge was suddenly surrounded by the icy river water, and was caught off guard for a while, and during the struggle, she drank several mouthfuls of river water, so that she was familiar with water, and finally paddled out of the water by herself, otherwise she would have to be drowned by this Uncle Qin Fang, who didn't know the severity.
She was soaked with the river water, and her clothes were sticking to her body wetly, and she was very uncomfortable.
Just when Qu Qingge wanted to jump out of the water with light skills, he was slapped under the water again by Zhou Qinfang's heavy sword that suddenly swept over.
Rao is a person with a good temper, who will be furious when he encounters this kind of thing, not to mention that Qu Qingge's temper itself is not much better.
She came out of the water again, and angrily said to Zhou Qinfang: "What are you doing!"
The child is soaked in the water, full of embarrassment, and shouts angrily at you with a puffed bun face, for the culprit, not only does not feel the slightest guilt, but also makes me want to laugh at the bottom of my heart, but at this time this occasion is still not suitable for laughter.
Zhou Qinfang stood by the river, his apricot eyes squinted, looking at Qu Qingge in the river condescendingly, and commented lightly:
"Your natural strength is several times stronger than that of others, and you are indeed more suitable for using a heavy weapon like a giant sword, and your martial arts moves are a bit interesting, and even vaguely, you already have a trace of sword energy, but there is no sword intent in it!"
"If you really want to use the giant sword and fully exert its power, you can use it as your natal soldier and become a sword cultivator. And the most basic thing for a qualified sword cultivator is to have his own sword intent!"
"Disciple Qingge, please also ask Uncle Qin Fang for advice, how can you have sword intent?" After listening to Zhou Qinfang's bright comments, in fact, he taught, Qu Qingge was in the water with a happy heart, respectfully bowed to Zhou Qinfang, and humbly asked for advice.
She is a person who really loves swords, how can she not have a longing for what Zhou Qinfang said, sword intent! What a distant word it is to her.
She has practiced martial arts for 16 years in her previous life, experienced hard training in the early stage, killed people in the middle stage, and led the troops to fight in the later stage, but she only realized that trace of sword energy, but she never even looked up to the unattainable realm of sword intent.
Now Zhou Qinfang said that this was just the most basic thing for sword cultivation, how could she not be shocked in her heart!
Zhou Qinfang didn't answer Qu Qingge's question, but just erected the ironwood giant sword in her hand in the ground, and then she slowly pulled out the giant gate behind her with one hand.
The giant unsheathed was carried behind by Zhou Qinfang, but it didn't hurt her in the slightest, at this time, it was held by Zhou Qinfang with one hand, and it was like a puppet being injected with life, and it suddenly became full of spirituality.
As Zhou Qinfang slowly pulled it out, it was like a child who was about to go out to play, full of excitement and anticipation, and couldn't wait to "buzz ......" and vibrate.
As soon as Juque came out of the sheath, it was covered with a layer of cold white frost, and Zhou Qinfang carried Juque with one hand, just waving it casually as if it were an understatement.
An extremely cold sword qi swept towards the woods, the sword qi cut through the void, it was so cold that the speed was so fast that people could only barely see the phantom of the sword qi, where the sword qi passed, the trees stopped and broke off, and the heavens and the earth turned into a piece of ice and snow in an instant.
The temperature around plummeted, and the trees that were originally green and lush were all cut down by Zhou Qinfang's handy blow, and the collapsed trees and the whole world were frozen into a frost-white ruined world, and a gust of wind blew, blowing a little snowflakes, lonely and desolate.
Qu Qingge's pupils shrank suddenly, and then suddenly widened to the extreme, and the clear eyes reflected the ice and snow land that had become dreamlike under the morning light, and his small body seemed to be frozen, trembling uncontrollably in the river.
At last she was shocked to find that the surface of the river was also covered with a thin layer of ice, no wonder she felt so cold.
Obviously, Zhou Qinfang swung her sword in the opposite direction of the river, and the ice field was almost a hundred zhang away from the river, but even she in the river was affected by Zhou Qinfang's blow.
Through the reflection of the river, Qu Qingge found that her eyelashes, hair and lips were all frozen with a layer of white frost, she pursed her lips, brushed off the frost on her lips, and subconsciously operated the qi in her body, so that her body temperature gradually warmed up, and she felt a lot better.
It was only then that her frozen dull brain had time to think......
That's it, the real ...... Sword intent?
Is...... What a power that is so shocking and so longing!
"The so-called sword intent is the sword intent formed by sword cultivation through a long period of tempering, stepping on the red dust, comprehending all things in the world, and integrating one's own perception into the sword in his hand!" Zhou Qinfang greeted the morning light, looking at the ice and snow land she had created with her own hands, and her neutral and hoarse voice carried some inexplicable feeling.
Zhou Qinfang's expression was solemn, he turned to face Qu Qingge who was immersed in the river, his beautifully shaped apricot eyes were full of solemnity, staring straight at Qu Qingge's eyes, and said in a solemn tone: "If you want to learn the idea of sword with me, within three years, you can only recognize me as the master of your sword." So, thou, do you want to learn?"
"Think!" Without the slightest hesitation, Qu Qingge blurted out directly and answered Zhou Qinfang's question firmly.
Even if she agreed to Zhou Qinfang, she would have to follow this master for the past three years, which was equivalent to directly giving up her two weapon options in the future, but she didn't regret it.
Because since she has found the weapon she wants most and is most suitable for herself, why should she give up her roots and care about those two meaningless opportunities?
"Good. Zhou Qinfang showed a hearty smile on her face, and shouted happily, her eyes that originally looked at Qu Qingge were full of appreciation for talents, but now they have changed to the love of seeing their own apprentices.
Even if she knew in her heart that Qu Qingge, as a preparatory core disciple of the sect, could not have a fixed master before she transformed into an official core disciple, since she had decided to give Qu Qingge all her peerless knowledge, she also regarded it as her own personal disciple in her heart.
Facing the little disciple who was staring at him, Zhou Qinfang raised his chin, pointed to the waterfall on the side, and said with an indifferent face: "Do you see that waterfall over there? There is a boulder at the bottom of the waterfall, climb up and swing your sword ten thousand times." ”
"Yes. Qu Qingge nodded in response, but he didn't ask what effect this move had on comprehending the sword intent, he just directly performed light skills, jumped up from the river, and with a few taps under his feet, he flew from the river and swept lightly in front of the waterfall.
Taking a closer look, Qu Qingge found that there was indeed a big stone at the bottom of the waterfall, dark in color and hard in texture, and it was extremely round by the waterfall for a long time.
This scene makes people wonder if Zhou Qinfang is deliberately embarrassing her, she can't stand on it just by standing, let alone having to lift a giant sword that weighs a thousand pounds, swinging the sword ten thousand times, it's just torturing people!
Qu Qingge did not hesitate to rush into the waterfall, thanks to her long-term zama step, even if she was young, but she was stable.
As soon as she entered the waterfall, she was hit by the incessant impact of the pouring water, and her body was beaten to the core, and the stones under her feet were extremely wet and smooth, but she could still stand firmly on it.
Wearing shoes was not conducive to Qu Qingge's feet grasping the ground more favorably, so she simply took off her shoes and grasped the boulder more forcefully with the soles of her feet, allowing the shoes to be washed away by the water and drifting down the current to the far side of the river.