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was expelled from the division, although Mu Chen was mentally prepared for this, but when Fu Yi personally informed him of the news, he still felt a great pain and reluctance in his heart.

Fu Yi couldn't bear to tell him the news, but the matter had come to this point, what was the use of concealing it.

Thinking that Mu Chen was about to become a helpless casual cultivator, he was also the saddest as the junior brother who had been in contact with Mu Chen for the longest time.

Although the elders sent by the seventy-two sects were not satisfied with Xuan Qingzi's punishment of Mu Chen, it was as simple as expelling him from the sect, and they even thought that at least Mu Chen's cultivation should be abolished, but they didn't know what threatening means Xuan Qingzi used to ensure that Mu Chen's cultivation would not be ruined.

Mu Chen knew that the matter had come to this point, and there was no room for maneuver, so he got up and left the wing room, and returned to the bamboo pavilion where he had been cultivating alone.

It was rare that Fu Yi didn't follow him, he knew that Mu Chen needed to be alone at this time.

The bamboo forest is lush and still exudes a charming flavor.

This small bamboo forest with a charming mirror has a beautiful scenery all year round, filled with the familiar smell of the old days.

Mu Chen sat on the big stone that he usually used to run around, and the back of the stone had been polished to a little smooth like a pebble, and he couldn't see the edges and corners of the stone at the beginning.

Sha Linyou raised his head and saw the bamboo leaves fluttering in the air in the wind, and his eyes were full of the scenery he had seen here.

In spring, the bamboo leaves will be hung with morning dew, and the green bamboo leaves look like a piece of jasper, with a little crystal color that only water droplets have, and its color is tender, like a girl who has just woken up.

In summer, the bamboo forest is no longer green, but verdant.

The bamboo in summer is no longer a weak tender bamboo, and all the bamboos that grow up have become strong, masculine and upright, exuding vitality.

The bamboo forest is full of colorful wildflowers, and the wet soil has become hard, but the bamboo can still break through the soil, and it will show an indescribable backbone.

The bamboo forest in autumn is a different scene.

The bamboo leaves have fallen one after another, like golden butterflies dancing in the forest, but all the bamboos still have a masculine atmosphere.

It doesn't snow much in the winter in Shuzhong, but the north wind blows on the bamboo leaves, and the golden bamboo leaves turn white.

The withered bamboo leaves flew all over the sky, and the bamboos stood in the cold wind, like slim fairies, accompanying Mu Chen through one lonely and cold cultivation time after another.

The small bamboo forest in my hometown is so beautiful all year round.

In every season, the bamboo forest has a beautiful scenery, and it is a place that Muchen is already deeply familiar with.

But now, he's going to say goodbye to this place forever.

It's also a bit ironic, when he tried his best to leave the Bamboo Sword Hall, Master Qin Xiuzi even made an appointment with him for three chapters in order to keep him, making him swear that he must complete those three agreements before he can leave the mountain.

And to this day, he has not fully fulfilled a single promise, but he is about to be driven down the mountain.

Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded behind me.

"Mu Chen, you're here. ”

Mu Chen turned his head suddenly, but he didn't see Qin Xiuzi's figure, he thought that the master was back again.

It's a pity that it wasn't Qin Xiuzi, but Xuan Qingzi who came out of the depths of the bamboo forest, the two of them were not alike, Mu Chen didn't know why his eyes were spent, and they were still a little moist.

"Uncle Shi......"

"You're here......"

Sha Lin wiped the morning dew from the corners of his eyes, cleaned up his mood, and bowed to Xuan Qingzi.

"Get up, don't call me Uncle in the future, since you have been expelled from the sect by me, then this title should also be changed. ”

Xuan Qingzi was still expressionless, but he was no longer reprimanded as sharply as before, and his tone inevitably softened.

In the end, he failed to fulfill his senior brother's instructions and failed to protect Mu Chen in the hands of those people, but he really tried his best.

"Yes, teacher...... Xuan Qingzi senior. ”

Mu Chen once again made a big salute to Xuan Qingzi.

This is to thank Xuan Qingzi for his full protection of Mu Chen in such a serious incident, and he knows that if Xuan Qingzi does not protect himself behind his back, he is afraid that it is a question whether he can still live now.

Subsequently, Mu Chen asked him a little confused:

"Xuanqingzi's seniors, the juniors are still confused in their hearts, can you ask the seniors for advice?"

"You say. ”

"Senior, my agreement with Master Qin Xiuzi has not yet been completed, and this kind of change has happened, how should I go on my path in the future?"

Qin Xiuzi stood under the bamboo, still wearing a Dao bone fairy style, and said leisurely:

"The agreement between you and Senior Brother Qin Xiuzi is the agreement between the two of you, and it has nothing to do with whether you are in the Bamboo Sword Hall or not, it just depends on whether you are willing to abide by it. ”

"Finally, I will send you a word, my generation asks for immortals and asks, with heaven and earth to establish the heart, the people to establish their lives, no matter when and where you go, you have not forgotten your heart, and your path will naturally be seen clearly. ”

"Mu Chen, your fate with my Bamboo Sword Hall is over, go, go. ”

At this point, Xuan Qingzi brushed his sleeves away and never looked back.

Mu Chen finally broke into the Phantom Bamboo Forest of the Bamboo Sword Hall, and all the senior brothers and brothers on the mountain came out to say goodbye to Mu Chen, and the vines hugged Mu Chen with tears in their eyes, crying and unwilling to let Mu Chen leave the Bamboo Sword Hall.

Mu Chen patted her head and hugged and said goodbye to Senior Brother Delicious, without sacrificing the Blood Qin Sword, but walked down the mountain step by step.

He walked a total of twelve thousand thirty-six steps, and at last he reached the foot of the mountain before nightfall.

This is the second time Mu Chen has looked at Zhushan at the foot of Zhushan, and the last time was when Fu Yi was looking for trouble without clothes, and he and Fu Yi were angry here for the first time because of a lack of clothes.

Now that I think about it, it feels like it happened yesterday.

At night, the bright moon reflects the bamboo forest, sprinkles the moonlight, and the bamboo shadow is also rippling in the stream, and the crystal clear water droplets seem to be beautiful eyes. There are also new bamboo shoots popping up, growing secretly under the moonlight.

In the end, Mu Chen knelt at the foot of Zhushan, kowtowed to his forehead with his hand, and said goodbye to the Zhujian Hall that had raised him for many years.

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After leaving the Bamboo Sword Hall, Mu Chen suddenly didn't know where he should go.

But he knew that he should leave Shuzhong as soon as possible, otherwise people from other sects would find out that he was still on the realm of the original sect, which would not be a good thing for Zhujian Hall

He could only follow the trajectory of ordinary scattered cultivation first, and came to the gap between the chaos of the jurisdiction of multiple sects.

Moreover, in addition to cultivation, Mu Chen now has to find a new livelihood.

In this way, in a small county town where the five sects are not large, Mu Chen will secretly eliminate demons according to the instructions of the Great Yan Heavenly Dao Technique at night, paint portraits of people during the day, sell folding fans, and go to hunt demon beasts outside the city at night.

Mu Chen even started a business to exorcise evil spirits for some big portals.

When he was bored with his cultivation, he would also sell charms and traps to kill rats.

Of course, Mu Chen didn't stay in a fixed town for too long, because if the matter of hunting demon beasts privately was known by the people of the seventy-two sects, they would have another reason to deal with themselves.

At the same time, Mu Chen traveled around the country in order to find out what happened ten years ago.

On the day of the question, after he found out that Ziyunding might be the murderer who forced his mother to death, he followed this clue and kept tracking it down, searching for the secret history of the past few years along the way, as well as about the abyss of the apocalypse that the winter idle people told him.

But most people avoid answering the Abyss of Apocalypse, as if they think it's a very obscure place.

During the days of traveling around the Divine Continent, he also got to know a lot of loose cultivators.

Although in the entire cultivation realm, the notoriety of his Chenxing Gongzi is already outside, most of these loose cultivators have a stinky problem that the Righteous Dao Sect is not used to.

Mu Chen also met Zhang Banxian when he was showing people hexagrams, in fact, it was because Mu Chen didn't know the rules and entered Zhang Banxian's territory to read the hexagrams, and all Zhang Banxian came to the door with a group of people.

But when Zhang Banxian saw Mu Chen, he was speechless with excitement.

In the end, he took Mu Chen's hand and slapped it hard.

"I know all about it, we all know what happened to you. ”

"Bullshit seventy-two sects, there's nothing to deal with, it's good to be free to cultivate!"

"In the future, you will follow us together, and your brother Zhang will take you!"

The casual cultivators enthusiastically accepted Mu Chen to join the unrestrained casual cultivation team, and some casual cultivators believed that the cultivation path should be free, and it was difficult to achieve the great road only if it was governed by those rules and precepts.

These casual cultivators took Mu Chen to drink together, party, and go out hunting and barbecue......

A leisurely life, extremely happy.

Although, it seems that there is a secret behind every casual practice, everyone agrees that no one will ask about the past of others.

Some of them change their names, and as long as they don't meet people they knew before, no one knows where they came from.

And as Mu Chen's paintings spread on the Shenzhou continent, his paintings somehow won the love of the emperor of Guangshuguo, that is, Chang'an, which was located under the jurisdiction of the Donglai Dao faction, as the capital, and the emperor of the largest dynasty on the Shenzhou continent.

Mu Chen's paintings are getting better and better, but he doesn't want to make money from them, so he only paints one painting a month.

During this period, Wangshu and Yiyi got married and sent an invitation to Mu Chen, although they didn't care that Mu Chen participated in their wedding as a casual cultivator, but Mu Chen just glanced at it from a distance and gave a painting as a gift.

The unfettered casual life continues.

These people get together every month, and every three months, and when they sit together, they just talk about which big family they have deceived, where the wine and food are delicious, and some gossip that middle-aged men like to talk about the most.

They also get together to play cards, and those who lose are not allowed to use the Taoist method to steal chickens from farmers' houses.

Mu Chen mixed with them, and felt that life seemed to be quite interesting, and there were even casual cultivators who had to introduce young Dao Gu to Mu Chen.

It's just that after these people get drunk, Mu Chen lies alone on the branches, and he still often recalls the pure life on the bamboo mountain.

He would also think of Jingnu from time to time, and he didn't know what happened to her.

In the past, although he was not a good person, at least Mu Chen was also a serious disciple of the sect, but now Mu Chen has become a casual cultivator, but he feels that he has no face to take the initiative to find her again.

On this day, suddenly a loose cultivator came to Mu Chen and said that there was a good thing.

Mu Chen jumped down from the branch, and the casual cultivators who were drinking had not yet woken up, but Niu Lao Dao brought a big news that made everyone feel energetic in an instant.

It turned out that some casual cultivators had received news of a vision in a certain place, and everyone speculated that treasures were about to be unearthed there.

And there must be demon beasts gathered in the place where the treasure is unearthed, and this group of scattered cultivators are very poor, so Niu Lao Dao hopes to go treasure hunting with everyone, even if he can't find the treasure, he can hunt the demon beasts, get some materials to make mechanisms and sell them, or sell them to people from major sects.

Mu Chen didn't really want to join in the fun, and he stipulated that he would not deduce because of the treasure hunt.

It was through the constraints that he had gained a clearer ability to deduce disasters, but he could not resist this group of enthusiastic cultivators.

The monks all said:

"What people fight for in life, they fight for a breath!"

"This treasure is not anyone's house, even if we can't get it, can't we take a look at it from afar?"

So, they finally went to Huguang together, that is, the remote town on the border of the Shenzhou continent where the vision appeared.

Huguang is the southernmost part of the Houtu continent inhabited by humans, and further south are continuous mountains and rainforest swamps.

Mu Chen had long heard that there were Nanwu living in the mountains, and occasionally appeared around Huguang, but the beliefs of the people of Nanwu were different from those of the Central Plains, so they were not protected by the seventy-two sects.

Legend has it that they have their own patron saints and cultivation methods. However, although this region has crossed the boundary, people do not distinguish the boundaries and beliefs so clearly when good things come out.

When he first arrived in Huguang, Mu Chen saw the rainbow light in the southern sky, and even people's faces were reflected red.

The dozen or so cultivators were also surprised, and they were also looking forward to the treasures that were about to be unearthed.

When they entered the hotel, they met someone wearing a golden Phantom Sword Alliance disciple's uniform.

When they saw Mu Chen, they naturally sneered: "Yo, I said who is this, isn't this the Mu Chen monk who was expelled from the sect by the Xuanqingzi sect master?"

"It seems that Monk Muchen's face is really not ordinarily thick, when that kind of thing happened, you still have the face to appear in the Huguang area, do you also have anything to think about that treasure?"

Mu Chen didn't speak, and he didn't even give them a look.

Niu Lao Dao couldn't help it, and began to help Mu Chen speak: "I said, the hands of your Phantom Sword Alliance are stretched too long, right?"

"Who will end up with this treasure, no one knows now, don't think that you Phantom Sword Alliance is overwhelming, the treasure is yours, you have to see if people outside the Phantom Sword Alliance agree!"

As he spoke, the scattered cultivators burst into laughter, but the faces of these Illusory Sword Alliance disciples were blue and purple.

After all, the cultivators who ate in this hotel were not all members of his Phantom Sword Alliance, although these seventy-two sects would unite when fighting against the people of the Demon Sect and the fierce beasts, but in the face of the ownerless treasure, these people were not so humble.