Chapter 138: Delay

Old man Pu smiled, but did not answer him immediately, and after a moment of silence, he said, "You go out for a walk with me." ”

Shen Shi was slightly surprised, but he still nodded and agreed. Old man Pu turned around and walked away, Shen Shi followed closely, and Xu Yanzhi, who was standing on the side, just wanted to follow, but suddenly saw Old Man Pu wave his hand and said, "Girl, you don't have to follow." ”

Xu Yanzhi was stunned for a moment, and then said with some annoyance: "What can't I listen to?"

Old man Pu walked forward without looking back, and at the same time said, "Because you are stupid." ”

Xu Yanzhi stomped his feet, stood in place, looked angry, and muttered: "This hasn't started yet, you just say I'm stupid for a while and stupid for a while, how can I be a senior sister in the future?"

Old man Pu walked out of the Five Elements Hall with Shen Shi, and he didn't mean to continue his journey, so he took Shen Shi to the corridor around the Five Elements Palace. The Shutang is already deserted here, inside and outside the huge hall, it is rare to see a few figures, the two of them walked along the corridor and walked through a bend in the front of the main hall, and the surrounding area was a quiet and uninhabited place.

A few quiet birdsong, from the woods outside the hall gently came, a wisp of wind blowing, the trees rose and fell slightly, like the pure land of the world.

Old man Pu walked in front with his hands in his hands, took a few steps forward, and then suddenly said lightly: "Shen Shi." ”

Shen Shi took a deep breath, walked quickly behind him, and said in a low voice, "The disciple is here." ”

Old man Pu turned around and glanced back at him, and said, "Now, there is no need to hide it, the old man has heard of you a few years ago, and I met you by chance under the sea of books the day before yesterday, so it is also a chance to come." Therefore, I sent someone to summon you over and comprehend the magic in the Five Elements Palace, just to see how talented you are in the Five Elements Technique, and whether it is worth the old man's income as an apprentice?"

Shen Shi hung his head and was silent, the corners of his mouth were slightly tightened, his hands hung down at his waist, and the hands hidden in the sleeve robe were already clenched into fists.

Old man Pu showed a faint smile and said, "Now it seems that your talent is indeed good. ”

Shen Shi's heart jumped, a burst of ecstasy swept by, and he couldn't help but raise his head suddenly, looking at Old Man Pu, but his mouth was a little excited and unspeakable, and he stammered: "Senior, I, I ......."

Old man Pu smiled tolerantly, but stretched out a hand and waved it in front of his eyes, and then said: "Your talent is very good, and the old man is also pleasing to the eye, so you might as well say it directly, I do have the intention of accepting you as an apprentice, but before this, there are two more things that I have to tell you well." ”

Shen Shi said respectfully: "Please speak directly, the disciple listens." ”

"First, since the old man is an elder of the Shutang, what he has learned in his life is mainly the Five Elements Technique, of course, as a cultivator, the Dao Fa Divine Ability is naturally also proficient, but there are still some deviations from the cultivation of Allah in Fang Jin's world. Old man Pu said lightly, "Now in the Hongmeng Cultivation Realm, what is the status of the Five Elements Technique, you must also know it in your heart." If you enter my sect, I am afraid that it will be more difficult than other monks to practice in the future, and the cultivation of various Five Elements Techniques is difficult and exhausting, not to mention, it is very likely that the improvement of the Dao realm will be slowed down, and even in terms of actual combat power improvement, it will be much slower than that of monks in the same realm. Have you thought about these things yourself?"

Shen Shi was stunned, but he didn't expect that the first thing Elder Pu said was actually the disadvantages and shortcomings of the Five Elements Technique, and he couldn't help but be a little stunned for a while.

Old man Pu looked at him lightly, took all the surprised expressions on his face in his eyes, and said calmly: "The cultivation journey is difficult and long, so this foundation is especially important, if you choose the wrong path at the beginning, you will have to do half the work if you want to regret it in the future, it is not worth it." This matter is related to the future of your life, and you should think carefully before answering me. ”

Shen Shi was silent, but the thoughts in his heart were like ups and downs, and all kinds of gains and losses flashed in his mind, but at this moment his state of mind was strangely clear, and there was no ripple between the two choices, and in an instant, his mind had been decided.

"The disciple is willing to enter the Shutang to practice. This sentence was categorical, without hesitation.

Old Man Pu stared at him for a moment, then grinned, showed a hint of a smile, and said, "Okay, it's rare that you have such a mind, I understand." Then, his face turned grim, and he said, "But before I officially accept you as an apprentice, there is a second thing, and that is that you have to do one thing, which can be regarded as a test." ”

Saying that, he himself also had a bit of self-deprecation, and said, "I don't know if I'm a cocoon or not." ”

Shen Shi was a little puzzled, and said blankly: "Senior, you mean ......?"

Old Man Pu waved his hand and said, "I guess you also know that I just joined the Great Elders' Council a few days ago, but there is nothing good there, it's all ...... Well, anyway, as soon as I went in for the first meeting, I had a big fight with a few other people. ”

Shen Shi lowered his head silently, the figures at the level of the Great Elder Council were really too far away from him, even if there was a Great Elder standing in front of him, but in his heart, he still felt that those people and things were far away from him.

Old man Pu snorted coldly, looking not very happy, he casually took out the wine bottle and took a sip, and then said lightly: "So there are some things that your senior sister is still inconvenient to hear, and as for you, it is also because of the matter, so I said this to you." After a pause, he continued, "Let's put it bluntly, in the Council of Elders, for the sake of the elite disciples of the Four Righteous Conference next year, the Sect Leader and I want to reduce the number of disciples of the family, but some of the other elders are fiercely opposed, and although some have a milder attitude, they don't really agree with it. It's just that the old man and I have a loud quarrel, coupled with the prestige of the real person in charge, so I can barely talk about half of it......"

Shen Shi was stunned for a moment and said, "Half?"

Old man Pu shrugged his shoulders, his face was also a little helpless, and said: "The family is big, even if he is in charge of the senior brother, he has many scruples, it is good to have this." In short, there will be a slight adjustment to the method of selecting disciples for the Sizheng Conference this time, not to mention it, but in order to lead by example, all the disciples under the Yuan Dan Realm Elder Seat of the sect want to be selected for the Sizheng Conference, they must have a reason to be able to convince the public, or a prestige book, or a recognized talent, if you want to accept new disciples, you need to pass a test under the witness of other elders, in short, in this extraordinary period, you can no longer accept a child of a family as an apprentice as casually as before, you can directly recommend it to the Sizheng Conference. ”

Shen Shi took a deep breath and said, "Disciple understands. ”

Old man Pu smiled and said, "I quarreled too fiercely at the elders' meeting, and I swept some people's face. If those people knew that I was going to accept disciples, they must also know that most of the disciples in the Four-Righteous Conference under my name in the future would also be yours, and I am afraid that they would not be too polite to you. Of course, I'm not easy to mess with, old man, and I don't dare to do too much with them, but I'm afraid it's inevitable that you will suffer some hardships, how's it, isn't it terrible?"

Shen Shi's face was calm and calm, and he bowed deeply, and said:

"With you, you can't die anyway, except for life and death, there is no big matter, so why should the disciple be afraid?"

Old man Pu was stunned for a moment, then laughed, patted Shen Shi on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Good boy, well said!"

It's just that Shen Shi immediately seemed to remember something, glanced at Old Man Pu, but asked in a low voice, "Hmm...... But that place, don't you still have Senior Sister Xu under your seat, why did you say you want to give it to me?"

Old man Pu sighed, shook his head after a moment of silence, but did not answer Shen Shi's question without saying a word. Shen Shi didn't dare to ask more questions when he saw him like this, but he still hid a question in his heart.

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Everything was settled, and the old man Pu took Shen Shi back to the Five Elements Palace, and called Xu Yanzhi to briefly explain the matter, and Xu Yanzhi was also overjoyed when he heard that the master really intended to take Shen Shi under his door. It's just that then he heard that there was going to be one more test or something, and he couldn't help but complain a few more words, and Old Man Pu just didn't hear it.

In short, even if Shen Shi has already stepped into the threshold of the art hall with one foot now, as for whether the foot behind can also step into the threshold smoothly and completely, it depends on the next test. Old Man Pu will go to other elders to testify and arrange the test in the future, but according to what Old Man Pu secretly said to Shen Shi, he had already arranged this matter, so that he could rest assured, and in the end, he even took a little cunning, and explained to Shen Shi with a smile that he would go and practice the water repellent technique well, which would be of great use.

Shen Shi naturally responded one by one, but then he found out that after this bunch of things, Old Man Pu specially told him not to go out and go down the mountain, what kind of status did the elders of the Yuan Dan Realm have, it was absolutely impossible for them to wait for a disciple of the Ning Yuan Realm, so once he made an appointment with the elders to witness, he had to test it immediately, and if he said that he had to wait on this Golden Rainbow Mountain.

Shen Shi hesitated in his heart, but he thought of Ling Chunni and Xiao Hei in the inn in Liuyun City, counting the days, they had been waiting for themselves for a long time, but how could they give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of them?

For a while, Shen Shi didn't know what to do, but in the end he agreed to Elder Pu and Senior Sister Xu Yanzhi, but when he walked out of the Five Elements Hall, he looked at the bright blue sky outside the hall, the vast sea in the distance, the blue waves were like washing, and the sea was at the end, but he didn't know who was still waiting?

A trace of annoyance flashed in his eyes, and Ling Chunni's figure and appearance passed in front of him, and he hesitated a little in his heart, but finally turned into a sigh, and slowly walked away with a little dazedness.

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In a blink of an eye, Shen Shi spent another two days on Jinhong Mountain.

The days of waiting were extremely difficult, and in the past two days, Shen Shi was often a little restless, but even he couldn't tell whether he was waiting for the upcoming test of Elder Pu of the Shutang Hall, or whether he was a little worried about the woman who was still in Liuyun City?

Farewell that day, whispered, tender affection is still around her, these few days of delay, will she also be a little anxious and worried, and will there be some accidents, after all, although the inn is secluded and safe, but the Beast Alliance is a native of Liuyun, will it be possible to find her?

A little worry and eagerness made Shen Shi a little restless, and in his irritability, he simply left the cave and walked to the top of the sea viewing platform. All the way along the mountain road to the sea viewing platform, he was thinking about whether to go to the Shutang to have a look again, when he suddenly noticed that many disciples of the Lingxiao Sect around him were walking towards one place, and looking at that direction, it was where the Dantang Elixir Hall was located.

He frowned, thought for a moment, and suddenly reacted, it turned out that today was the first major event in the Lingxiao Sect in recent days, and Elder Yunni personally presided over the beginning of the Dan meeting with the selection of disciples.

Shen Shi's heart moved slightly, and when he looked at the Elixir Hall again, the gaze in his eyes was already different, and his heart swept over Zhong Qinglu's figure, and after hesitating slightly, he still took a step forward and walked towards the Elixir Hall.