Heavenly Killing Peak, the source of the cave spirit.

On each of the two adjacent trees sat a person, one sighing and the other leisurely, both munching on the sweet and delicious fruit.

"Old Thirteen, do you know what it feels like when there is a person standing next to you, but you can't feel his presence as a human being?"

Yue Chen laughed "haha" and just shook his head!

"That gives people the feeling that it's like a shadow standing next to it, you can't say no, it's not quite right to say that there is!" Ouyang Xiu frowned and said, "It's like a living shadow person!"

It wasn't the first time Yue Chen had heard someone say this. As for how this situation came about, Yue Chen himself was a little unclear, whether it was caused by the mysterious mystical method on the Xuantie tablet, or the immortal method in the "Taiqing Divine Immortal Book", or whether it was caused by the simultaneous cultivation of both. And the things in the illusion, Yue Chen didn't want to mention it, and for a while, he had nothing to say.

"Old Thirteen, you can really toss, one sleep is three months. If you sleep for more than a month, it's next year. Ouyang Xiu said, "During your 'retreat', that is, last month, a little turtle surnamed Xiao came to you and was ready to challenge you. Haha......! There is also an 'ugly eight monsters' surnamed Qin. However, speaking of her, it seems that two months ago, another person surnamed Qin also came to you. It seems that your kid is still quite popular, much better than Senior Brother Nine and me. ”

"Oh! Xiao Shengsheng is looking for me to challenge me again? Now, I'm afraid he is not absolutely sure that he will win me!"

"Tsk, you don't smell beautiful, what happened in the past three months, if I don't see it with my own eyes, I can only listen to it as a legend. ”

"Hey, senior brother, what happened in the past three months?"

Ouyang Xiu smacked his head a few times, shook his head and said, "Do you remember when we went to Fenglin Continent? At the beginning, I also thought that we had caught the fire dragon and the red phoenix, and the limelight completely overshadowed those two veins. I didn't think that what they found was far better than ours, at least, much faster than ours. In the past, I don't know where Chu and Fu snatched a large number of high-grade alchemy spirit materials, and it was really a trick!"

Yue Chen pondered for a moment and then asked, "Effective, Senior Brother, what does this mean?"

"How do you say that?" Ouyang Xiu lowered his head and thought about it, then said, "Do you remember the new batch of disciples this year? I can tell you this, Du Chenyi, the closed disciple of the little old man Zilun, has already entered the Guanqing Realm. In addition, in this group of disciples, in the two veins of Yuqing and Shangqing, there are twenty-one disciples each who have entered the Hundred Practice Realm and the Ninth Realm. I'm just telling you this, just to tell you, this is the harvest and results of their trip to Fenglinzhou. However, don't be scared, this thing is not tied, people are rich and rich, and it should be. ”

"Haha...... Senior Brother Xiu, you know how to make up lies and deceive people!" Yue Chen looked up at the sky and said, "You and I have both personally experienced the hardships of the path of cultivation. Every trace of spiritual power in the Jade Mansion needs to be cultivated according to law for a long time before it can gradually gather, condense, and condense until it is condensed, how can this kind of thing be achieved quickly? What's more, the immortal magic and Taoism passed down by the sect, and the promotion of each realm, even if it is an unborn genius, it is difficult to improve after a few years, even decades, or even hundreds of years of cultivation and enlightenment.

It's incredible that they can reach a level that takes at least five years for their peers to reach in less than a year!"

Yue Chen said, but when he thought of his Dao Progress, he inevitably felt a void in his heart. At least, it's not what you say you are!

"This is the reason why you have little knowledge!" Ouyang Xiu said, "People like us who no one loves or love, naturally they can only rely on their own little by little accumulation." However, there is never a certain number on the path of monasticism. Sometimes, you have to believe in chance, because when you don't, it does happen. Moreover, it will always fall on some people's heads at an inopportune time.

Now, among your fourth batch of disciples, the Yuqing line has become famous as the 'Nine Winds', and the Shangqing line has become famous as the 'Nine Shows'. Among these eighteen people, your disciples at that time, two seats each of the two veins, are really too few and pitiful. Fortunately, there are still the old thirteen, who will support the façade for which of you. It's just that Du Chenyi is already recognized as the first person in the fourth batch of twenty-first generation disciples. I think he will fight you in order to confirm his status as the first person.

And our vein, the difference is a little worse, and it is still said in the past. On the bright side, the senior brother and the second senior brother are already the top five disciples of the sect, and the thirteenth elder is at least the first person in the same batch of disciples in terms of cultivation, and the three people surnamed Wei have also successfully advanced to the fifth level of the Guanqing Realm. The other sixteen, although they are not particularly outstanding, are all the cultivation of the eightfold cultivation of the Hundred Cultivation Realm, and they are also said to be in the past. ”

Yue Chen swallowed, he really couldn't believe what Ouyang Xiu said, and he didn't know what had happened to the sect in the past year. For some reason, Yue Chen always felt that the rapid progress of the sect's disciples this time must have something directly related to that mound. After being silent for a while, he asked tentatively, "Senior brother, what you said is true?"

"Nonsense! Of course it's true!Oh, by the way, I forgot one thing!" Speaking of this, Ouyang Xiu's face was flushed with a layer of sorrow, he took a few sips of the gourd and said, "The sixth and eighth are already cultivators of the Divine Evolution Realm. Alas, they all blame the old man for being partial. ”

"Why? Hao Xian Dazhen doesn't seem to be such a person!"

"Alas, the old man took the spiritual materials from the fire dragon and the red phoenix to refine the six-grade spirit pill, no more, no less, just two successes. The three of us don't have enough points, so we can only go first-ordered. Do you say this is annoying?" Ouyang Xiu said with a little anger, "If we press this round, it will be our turn in the eighth month of the year of the donkey." ”

Yue Chen said: "Senior Brother Hugh, why should you be angry! Actually, you are only one step away from the Divine Evolution Realm now, and it is not too much!"

Ouyang Xiu's eyes were like torches, he glared at Yue Chen, shook his head and said, "Silly boy, you really don't understand anything. You must know that for a big sect like a sect, a person's cultivation is only too much that does not lag behind the top people, then there is still a chance and 'status'. The minimum requirements should not be too much lower than that of the same batch and the same door. If you're really outdated, it's nothing.

Especially in such big sects as the Maha Palace, Taiyi Mansion, and Chengming Sect, only when the cultivation reaches the sevenfold level of the Guanqing Realm can it be regarded as a person, and others will look at it differently! Otherwise, the end will not be better than ordinary people!"

These words reminded Yue Chen of his years of cultivation in obscurity in Yunqiaojian, as well as the things he had heard Wei Yuan and Zhang Huan say, and said in his heart: "These senior brothers are so prepared for danger in times of peace, and they think a lot. What a person like me who has no lungs and no heart!" thought for a while and said, "It seems that the sect has indeed accepted a large number of 'demons'. In the future, you have to be more diligent in cultivating magic powers. Otherwise, nothing will be our share. ”

"Demon, demon!" Ouyang Xiu repeated several times, laughed loudly, and said: "They are more demonic than demons, and you say that they are demons, but you also underestimate them! Originally, your Dao Journey Realm was already at the level of demons, but compared with the fourth batch of disciples seven years later, you are still in the middle. Next, it will be up to Master Haojing to cultivate you vigorously.

You stinky boy, this time you walked out of the Tiangong Terrace, giving people a completely different feeling, as if you have changed a person. ......！”

"Well, the people on the tree listen, Master Haojing told you to come to Chenhe Hall quickly!" This voice came from the top of the cave spirit source, the sound was like thunder in the sky, and the aftersound was like a bell, so far away, Yue Chen felt that his ears were "buzzing", and he said in his heart: "I don't know who called the two of us, and they made such a thunderous sound." ”

"Let's go, Old Thirteen! The person who called us just now is Tu Lei, the eldest disciple of Uncle Haohe. What a stinky guy, as old as you, is really scary when he has a loud voice. In the future, you have to be careful, if he suddenly roars in his ears, his ears will be easily deafened. Ouyang Xiu jumped off the tree first, put away the wine gourd, and walked towards the Chenhe Hall with Yue Chen, and continued on the way: "Don't say it, the eyes of these bad old men are really vicious, and the disciples selected by themselves are all different from ordinary people.

Let's just say that this Tu Lei, Uncle Haohe spent a lot of valuable spiritual elixir on him, and when he entered the sixth level of the Hundred Cultivation Realm, he even taught him his secret method of Crazy Thunder Tianwei Sword Technique. Although this kind of heaven-reaching seventh-order Dao magic power could not be cultivated at all before the Divine Evolution Realm, if you can get the secret early and comprehend it on your own, it can only be a good thing, not a bad thing. ”

As he spoke, Ouyang Xiu glanced at Yue Chen mysteriously, made a weird smile, and said in a low voice: "The four junior sisters selected by Senior Uncle Haomo are all as beautiful as the legendary fairies. It's just that this old man won't let any of us get close to his precious disciple. Ouyang Xiu suddenly kicked Yue Chen, and said with a smile: "You kid can be honest." Not long ago, the sixth old man was beaten by the seventh old man. Haha!"

Because it was summoned by Haojing, the two of them did not dare to slow down, and walked quickly to the front of the Chenhe Palace, and saw a tall young man with broad shoulders and a thick waist standing not far from the palace gate, with a circle of beards on his face. This person is the first disciple of Haohe Zhenren, Tu Lei, who is looking at the person with angry eyes, and there is indeed a sense of thunder god descending from the sky.

Ouyang Xiu scolded "stinky boy" and quickly rushed towards Tu Lei. Tu Lei, such an extraordinary and majestic man, saw Ouyang Xiu chasing after him, turned around and ran towards the hall. Yue Chen followed behind, with a smile on his face, and said in his heart: "These twelve newcomers must have been teased by Ouyang Xiu. ”

Yue Chen also understood that although these sixteen people were seven years later than him, in terms of their status in the sect, from the moment they became their own disciples, they were destined to be much higher than themselves. Therefore, in his own heart, he is still inferior.

After entering the hall with Ouyang Xiu, he glanced at it, except for Han and Liu, who were standing behind Hao Xian Zhenren, the other seven disciples stood under the elder, and the disciples of the other five elders were all standing behind the master, with respectful figures. After meeting the elders, Yue Chen didn't know where he should stand for a while, and after a short pause, he followed Ouyang Xiu to the side. His eyes converged, and he didn't dare to look around.

The seven elders were golden-eyed, looking at themselves together. Hao Jing and Hao Xian glanced at each other, each nodded lightly, and the color of joy appeared on their faces.

"Before we get down to business, let's do something trivial!" Hao Jing Zhenren called, "Yue Chen, you step forward!"

Yue Chen's heart tightened, knowing that he had not made a mistake, and he didn't know what the truth of the first real person was. But when the first elder called, how could he delay, so he quickly stepped forward, bowed respectfully, and said loudly: "Disciple Yue Chen is waiting for the elder's message!"

Hao Jing Zhenren took out two things from Qiankun's sleeve, a very thin and worn book, and a sword with a black sword hilt and scabbard, and asked Yue Chen to come forward to collect it. When Yue Chen stepped forward, he found that he was still holding the wet clothes that had just been washed in his hand, and he was embarrassed for a while, and he didn't know where to put them. Hao Jing Zhenren gently put it on the clothes that Yue Chen was holding in both hands, and said, "This kendo secret book is what I learned when I was young. This sword was forged by myself, and has been with me since I was a child. These two things, passed on to Yue Chen in front of all the juniors and disciples, are not considered to be against the ancestral teachings. ”

Haoxian Zhenren nodded and said, "This strange book, our seven senior brothers have all studied it, and we have gained very little. Yue Chen has a good understanding, and there may be more discoveries. This golden black sword is refined by the senior brother with the giant beak of ninety-nine cold blood golden crows, and it is a magic sword that is neither iron nor copper, nor jade nor gold, and it will take at least half a year for Yue Chen to use the sword technique to control it. After finishing speaking, he also took out three bottles of elixir from Qiankun sleeve, handed them to Yue Chen, and waved his hand to retreat. After Yue Chen bowed, he respectfully stepped back, still standing with Ouyang Xiu.

Next, it was Haoyi Zhenren who spoke: "I came to you this time, mainly for the great trial that the sect is about to hold. After deliberation and decision by the seven of us, I am going to evenly distribute some cultivation spiritual materials and spiritual pills to you, so that you can improve in the near future, so that you can fully prepare for the sect trial to be held on September 9 of the next year.

There is another major event related to the rise and fall of the Taiqing line. The senior brother decided that I should also establish a hall in order to be self-sufficient. At present, there are only four halls, namely, the instrument, the pill, the array, and the beast, which are respectively in charge of the four junior disciples. Among the twenty-nine of you, if you are interested in any of them, you can say it now, and at that time, you will be given additional spiritual materials to cultivate. However, this share is limited, if under the premise of the spiritual materials provided by the sect, the disciples who cannot meet the requirements of refining the Dao can only walk in the corresponding hall until they solve the spiritual materials themselves and the Dao Xing meets the requirements of the sect.

Like Han and Liu, the two nephews don't have to, just help the four juniors and disciples to run the four halls.

Now you can say what you choose, or you can choose nothing. If you have chosen, all the utensils will be in place. "Haoyi Zhenren said in great detail, but in the matter of choosing the hall, it is clear that there are only eleven people who have chosen. The four elder disciples who were in charge of the hall definitely didn't need to be re-elected.

Yue Chen pondered: "I don't know anything, it's the same to choose that one." However, when I thought about what had happened to the sect recently, I already had an idea in my heart. Quietly looked up at the senior brothers, and everyone seemed to be engaged in a fierce ideological struggle.

First, Zeng Gu, Wang Fu, and Zhang Huan chose the Array Hall, and then Lu You, Su Zhe, and Wei Yuan chose the Qi Hall, and Su Shi chose the Dan Hall, but no one chose the Beast Hall. Yue Chen snickered in his heart, knowing that this Elder Haomo had a strange personality, and no one dared to provoke him.

At this time, Huo Xuan said loudly: "I choose the Beast Hall!" Immediately after, Qin Yan and Ouyang Xiu followed as if coaxing: "I choose the Beast Hall!"

Haomo Zhenren's giant eyes glared angrily, and he snorted: "Master Huo's nephew was originally from a family of beast masters, so it's just a matter of choosing the beast hall." The other two teachers and nephews should find another one!"

Qin Yan was nothing, it seemed to be expected, and he smiled. Ouyang Xiu's eyes were also wide open, and when he was about to open his mouth to argue, he was stopped by Hao Xian Zhenren, so he had to "hum" and stop.

After thinking about it again and again, Yue Chen chose the way of alchemy. Qin Yan and Ouyang Xiu didn't choose anything in the end, and ended up as a free man. The four elders also sent the beginner ruyi bag that had been prepared early to the relevant disciples, and gave instructions on some simple matters. After Elder Haoyi distributed another beginner-level wishful bag to everyone, he motioned for all the disciples to go back.

Yue Chen and Ouyang Xiu walked out of the hall side by side, Ouyang Xiu muttered non-stop, Yue Chen just smiled and didn't say anything, but he said in his heart: "Such a generous cultivation disciple, even among the disciples of the Chengming Sect, I am afraid it is extremely rare." Historically, only the top niche disciples have had such an opportunity for immortal fate. Since then, there are probably only ancient immortal weapons in that mound. However, what other natural treasures have made a huge sect get such a huge amount of supplements. ”

After saying goodbye to Ouyang Xiu on the mountain road, Yue Chen walked back to the Tianqi Platform alone! Before he took a few steps, Ouyang Xiu suddenly stopped and ran over and said softly, "Little junior brother, can you give me one of your little tigers?"