Spring, summer, autumn and winter, all year round, alternating between cold and summer, the years flow......

It's the depths of winter again.

It has been more than a year since they came out of Lingzhou after beating Mu Qing.

When he arrived at the junction of the two states, Yukun said goodbye to everyone, saying that he did not want to go to the sect, where there were too many rights and wrongs, which made people upset, saying that he was going to Dongyao Prefecture to visit his old friends.

Mu Qing knew his temperament, and he also knew that he was going to see Sister Yangliu, so he didn't stay long, and exchanged messengers with him.

Before Yu Kun left, he left the thousands of illusory mud to Mu Qing, and whispered to Mu Qing to let him remember to help him refine a storage ring with Baina Crystal.

secretly gave Murong Xue a look, and left.

Mu Qing knew that maybe it wouldn't be long before the two brothers could meet again.

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At Mu Qing's suggestion, several people made a detour to Shanyang.

This year, Sanyang has changed a lot.

The branch of Danzong has begun to take shape, making a small Shanyang City lively, as if it is the scale of a medium-sized city. Under the building that imitates the Wandan Building, there is a flow of people, coming in and out.

Mu Qing turned into a black-faced man with a thousand faces and illusory mud, and deliberately went to investigate, and found that as Chen Xuanji said, the pills below the spirit level were sold at half price, and the monks who came to buy the pills were all excited, and there was a trend that the supply exceeded the demand.

Mu Qing also found that ten miles outside Shanyang City, there was an extra mortal military camp, heavily guarded, and after inquiring, he heard that the Emperor of Yunguo specially sent a garrison in order to curry favor with Danzong, responsible for guarding and continuing to build pavilions and palaces.

didn't care much, Mu Qing and a few people gathered together, continued on the road, and headed in the direction of the ancient lantern shining on Qianqiu.

Half a day later, has arrived at the westernmost part of Lingzhou, the towering Tongyun Mountains are like a long arm, turn a corner here, hold a basin in the embrace, although it is deep winter, this place is the ancient trees towering, lush.

Under Yan Wei's guidance, the flying boat slowed down, lowered its altitude, and headed towards the foot of the mountain to the west.

In the distance, I saw a large number of buildings and halls built by the mountain, the middle one is the most grandiose, not as exquisite as the building of Yunlan Sect, but it is full of a majestic and heavy atmosphere, twelve pavilions of the same style, slightly smaller, as if the stars hold the moon and embrace it.

This is the place where the sect has been established in Lingzhou for more than 2,000 years - the ancient lamp shines for thousands of years.

Legend has it that the ancestor of the ancient lamp is a great monk in the late stage of the Lingyuan Dynasty who practiced the fire attribute exercises, and when he traveled to the west of Lingzhou, he suddenly found that there was an underground fire vein buried here, so he knew that there was no hope of breaking through the spirit god, so he simply opened a sect in this fire vein and became the master of a sect, hoping to pass on his supernatural powers.

Before sitting, he left his natal magic weapon, the "Soul Burning Lamp", to his heirs, and passed it on from generation to generation as the treasure of the Zhenzong......

According to legend, this magic weapon "Soul Burning Lamp" is a fire attribute treasure, which has been burning for more than 2,000 years and has never been extinguished.

These, of course, were introduced by Yan Wei.

As for the soul-burning lamp, Yan Wei had also heard of it, but he had never seen it with his own eyes.

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The flying boat began to move slowly against the ground, surrounded by pine and ancient cypresses, and the eagle cried and the ape chirped.

Along the mountain path and go a few miles, a lonely huge stone archway towers in front of you, the stone pillars on both sides are carved with a couplet, the upper link is: the fine fire burns three thousand souls, the lower line is: the light does not extinguish a little star, and the middle horizontal batch of four big characters - Qianqiu ancient lamp.

Yan Wei said excitedly: "It's here, it's here! After this stone gate, it's the realm of the sect!"

Under Yan Wei's enthusiastic introduction, Mu Qing, Mi Fu and Yan Tianxin also had a general understanding of the situation of ancient lanterns shining for thousands of years:

In addition to the old ancestor of the dragon who saw the head and the tail, Xiao Xingzhou, there were four monks who had a spiritual crystal period in the ancient lanterns.

Sect Master Xiao Dusk is Xiao Xingzhou's personal disciple, in the late stage of Lingjing.

He also has a junior brother named Ding Yishan, who is in the middle stage of Lingjing and serves as an elder of law enforcement. Xiao Xingzhou originally had an apprentice, but he fell in a hunt for demon beasts.

Another monk in the late stage of the spirit crystal is named Cheng Xuanfeng, Mu Qing has met once in Yunlan Peak, it is said that this person's cultivation is still above Xiao Dusk, Ren Chuangong Elder is also the first elder, and his status is only below Xiao Dusk. This person has a stubborn personality, acts old-fashioned, is not good at words, and is not Xiao Xingzhou's personal disciple, he belongs to another lineage, so when he was electing the current sect master, Xiao Xingzhou thought about it again and again, and still passed the position of sect master to Xiao Dusk.

There is another person, who brought the art into the sect halfway, and Mu Qing has also seen it, that is, the teacher of Yan Wei and Shi Yan, that is, the refiner who had learned the way of refining weapons under the Wussanzi sect of the Instrument Sect - Tan Cangmu, in the middle stage of the spirit crystal, served as the refining elder.

Xiao Xingzhou cultivates the fire system, and these four people are also fire spirit roots, so the disciples of the ancient lamp shine for thousands of years are also mainly based on fire magic.

All the disciples together, but more than 300 people, in terms of the number of people and Yunlan Sect is far from the difference, however, the Gu Lantern has very high requirements for accepting disciples, and it must be accepted in the spirit period, so in terms of comprehensive strength, even if you don't count the ancestor of Xiao Xingzhou, you can also rank among the five sects in Lingzhou.

The rules and pattern of the ancient lantern shining for thousands of years are very different from those of the Yunlan Sect, and they are not divided into halls and courtyards, and all the disciples are in a hurry, obeying the orders of the sect master and the three elders, except for those who are personally disciples, everyone has the same identity.

There are no outer disciples of the ancient lamp, and the replenishment of personnel all depends on a few nearby branch small sects and immortal cultivation families, more than a dozen small sects such as the nearby Agni Gate, Shenhuo Gate, and Sanjue Gate, and dozens of immortal cultivation families such as the Sun family, the Zhao family, and the Ma family, will all recommend their own advanced and agile juniors to enter the ancient lamp cultivation. At the same time, it is also protected by ancient lamps.

The place where the ancient lamp is located, because of the existence of the underground fire vein, is not suitable for planting spirit flowers and spirit grass, and there is no large spirit stone vein, so there are two main sources of income for the ancient lamp, the first is to mine the ore on the mountain, and then use the fire vein to smelt it to make raw materials for refining tools, and then sell it.

The second is to cross the Tongyun Mountain Range, go to the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons to hunt demon beasts, and sell demon beast materials.

As for the Huoyun Grass, which is specialized in the fire vein, it is not enough to use it for alchemy, so naturally it will not be sold.

It is precisely because of the lack of resources and the perennial struggle with demon beasts that no matter how the Gu Deng disciples cultivate, their actual combat ability, especially the ability to hunt demon beasts, is far above that of the other sects.

It is also because of this that over the years, it has created the unique temperament of ancient lights. That is, bravery, good fighting, encouraging fighting and competition, and being informal.

Every year, Gu Deng will organize a sect competition, and also invite those nearby branch sects and immortal cultivation families to participate, the purpose is to select talents to enter the sect, and the second is to hone the fighting spirit and actual combat ability of the disciples.

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Listening to Yan Wei's introduction so much, Mu Qing really became a little interested in this ancient lantern shining for thousands of years.

Yan Wei continued: "Brother Yang, I don't think you can say anything about temporary parasitism, you will join our ancient lanterns, and everyone will be brothers and sisters of the same sect, I see that you have cultivated to enter the realm like this, you must be a genius of Tianzhong, I recommend you to my teacher and let him accept you as a personal disciple!"

Without waiting for Mu Qing to answer, Mi Fu spoke first and said, "I don't care about anything else, I have accepted Qing'er as a personal disciple, and I want to worship others again, unless it is an ancestor of the Spirit Yuan Period!"

Yan Wei realized that he had lost his words, and pursed his lips with an embarrassed expression.

Murong Xue hurriedly relieved him and said: "Brother Yang has obtained the inheritance of the alchemy technique, and he also has a relationship with our instrument sect, so there is no need to apprentice, but he can learn the way of refining with Elder Tan Cangmu Tan, I believe that he will definitely be able to gain something." ”

Mu Qing nodded hurriedly and said, "Yes, yes, it is shallow on paper, so you still have to practice." Seeing that the fat on Mi Fu's face was a little drooping, he hurriedly said: "Master, I won't let go of the alchemy technique, go hand in hand, go hand in hand!"

He said to Yan Wei again: "Senior Brother Yan, I am already very grateful to be able to come to your sect to send me, I am an outcast of the Yunlan Sect, if I worship your sect, I am afraid that it will cause trouble." ”

Yan Tianxin also listened to a few people briefly talk about the past along the way, and said: "Brother Qing, this outcast is terrible, Yunlan Sect lost two spirit-level alchemists at once, I'm afraid it hurts!"

Mi Fu snorted and said, "I was scared back then, but I didn't expect Chu Feng to be such a narrow-minded person, in order to find a wife for his son, he had to slander my apprentice as a puppet demon!"

Hearing Mi Fu mention Chu Feng, Mu Qing gritted his teeth and said, "This is where the domineering of the superior lies! I won't take a little monk in the spirit period in my eyes at all! ”

Yan Wei patted Mu Qing on the shoulder and said, "Brother, don't worry, I'm going to be angry, brother, I'll accompany you in the fire! His grandmother's, Lao Tzu looks down on those villains' tricks the most!"

Thinking of the years in Yunlan Sect and Qiu Lan who had turned into an ice sculpture, Mu Qing looked melancholy.

Murong Xue's mind was also on Mu Qing, seeing that he was displeased, she leaned towards him and said in a low voice: "Brother Yang wants to take revenge and get angry, and I will be counted as one." ”

Yan Tianxin said: "Naturally, I have to be counted." ”

A few people said that the group of buildings was already close in front of them......

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