Chapter 2: From Miscellaneous Servant to Apprentice
The next day, Liu Gu took the two little babies and sent them to the other side of Gu Quze by Xiang Xian's father, Xiang You.
Xiang You was a little puzzled at first, how could this immortal chief be willing to take his own fishy boat, instead of waving his sleeves and driving away like the legend?
But when Liu Gu took out a piece of jade pendant, and the green mist in front of him rolled away, this doubt disappeared.
At the foot of the mountain range on the side of Gu Quze, there was this kind of green mist, and after the mortals entered, there was no direction to follow, so they went around and went back to the same place.
Legend has it that thousands of years ago, this mountain range could still enter and exit at will, but since the immortals came, there has been this green mist, and the mountains are not allowed to enter, and the villages next to Gukuze have changed from hunters to fishermen.
Of course, what a great blessing it is to be able to live side by side with the immortals? Naturally, no one will be dissatisfied because of this, not to mention that after the immortals came, Gu Quze has not had a flood for thousands of years, and there are no spirits to cause trouble, and now he can live and work in peace and contentment, it is all because of the blessing of the immortals.
Seeing that the immortal chief held the jade pendant and led the two little babies into the green mist one by one, Xiang You bowed in the distance and turned away. It is said that when he has completed his cultivation, there will be a day when he will meet, and he will go back to persuade the mother-in-law at home, and he doesn't have to be too hurt to part.
An old, two young and three people, walked in the mountain range for three days and three nights, this mountain is inaccessible, there is no way to follow at all, through the deep forest to cross the stream, the mountain has also turned over countless people, but has not yet reached the place.
On the first day, Xiang Xian's soles came out of the blisters and cried, and then walked a few miles and squatted on the ground and shouted to Xiang Yang to carry him, although he was not very old, but he was smart since he was a child, and he was like an adult.
Liu Gu looked at the two of them and didn't say a word, Xiang Yang gritted his teeth, squatted down and let him lie on his back.
Xiang Yang, who grew up eating hundreds of family meals, has excellent physical development, the same age as Xiang Xian, but he is half a head taller than him, and his strength is much greater than him.
But after all, he is only a nine-year-old child, this mountain road is originally difficult to walk, at this time there is another person behind him, although Xiang Xian is thin, but how can he have a weight of dozens of catties, gritted his teeth and walked for a long time until nightfall to rest, but he lay on the ground and didn't want to move.
Set off early the next morning, only walked dozens of miles, Xiang Xian repeated the old trick, Xiang Yang carried him on his back again, until the afternoon, he couldn't support it, he mixed his foot on the root of the tree, and fell straight upright.
Xiang Xian exclaimed, flipped out from the top of his head, planted his head in the thick fallen leaves, and pulled his head out of the mud under the fallen leaves with a half-sound, wiped the black mud on his face, and scolded angrily.
Xiang Yang got up from the ground without saying a word, his forehead hit a dead branch, and he made a little finger-long cut, and after a while, he was bleeding all over his face.
Liu Gu originally opened the way in front, but when he saw the two little babies falling, he walked back, frowned and wiped the blood with his cuffs to help Xiang Yang, and then untied the gourd on his waist, poured out some bright red liquid and wiped it on his forehead, only then looked at Xiang Xian, who was still shouting there, with a straight face, and scolded: "What are you talking about! Go by yourself! If you can't endure hardship, go back!"
Xiang Xian was stunned for a moment, although he didn't understand why his master reprimanded him because of a small handyman, but he had always known how to observe words and looks, and seeing that Liu Gu's face didn't look like he was joking, he immediately stopped talking.
Xiang Yang was stubborn and silent, and after two days of contact, he found that this immortal chief was a little strange.
He usually doesn't talk much, but his brain is not stupid, and he can even be called extremely intelligent, when he was four or five years old, he liked to drill under the restaurant in the east of the village to listen to people's stories, but he can still understand one or two, now more than nine years old, there are dozens of storytellers who have come and gone in recent years, and he has heard a lot of stories.
Aren't all immortals able to fly, but why did this immortal take them on foot?
Don't immortals have magic weapons flying swords? When a sword flies away, even a mountain can be split, but why does this immortal use a woodcutter-style thing, and when he is in a hurry, he has to personally cut through thorns in front of him?
But every day, this immortal chief would go into the forest to hunt, or fish in the stream, and eat several times more than the most famous pot-bellied man in the village.
After all, he is still young, so he can't think too much, but he just thinks it's weird!
But no matter what, this immortal chief is a good person! First, he accepted himself as a handyman, and he fell and injured himself, and he didn't know what to wipe on his forehead, it was hot, and the pain of the wound was relieved a lot, and he also scolded that first.
Nine-year-old Xiang Yang's mind is very simple, if you are good to me, then you are a good person!
On the third day, Xiang Xian walked for a long time, and before noon, he lay on the ground, panting.
He was reprimanded by Liu Gu yesterday, but he didn't dare to ask Xiang Yang to carry him anymore, he just looked at Liu Gu pitifully, and looked like he wouldn't leave if he killed me.
According to the careful thinking he thought about all night last night, this immortal can take himself as an apprentice, which shows that he must be a genius in the mouth of those storytellers, and he will definitely become the protagonist of an immortal in the future, how can his master be willing to really drive himself back? Yesterday it was just to scare himself!
Now he really can't walk, and he doesn't mean to cheat, but to see what this master will do, it's a small temptation.
Liu Gu frowned and looked at him and didn't speak, Xiang Yang was stunned, walked to Xiang Qian with his head down, and squatted down.
His thoughts are similar to Xiang Xian, although this immortal chief scolded Xiang Xian yesterday, but he must be reluctant to really drive him away, he still knows each other, don't embarrass the immortal who is very good.
Xiang first glanced at Liu Gu, slowly got up from the ground and attached it to Xiang Yang's back, but before he could get firm, he felt a flower in front of him, his body was lifted up, and he swayed forward, but Liu Gu grabbed the belt around his waist and held it in his hand.
Xiang Yang looked at Liu Gu's back gratefully, and Xiang Xian raised his head on Liu Gu's waist and made a grimace, thumbs down with both hands, and gestured triumphantly.
The three of them walked like this for two days, after passing a deep valley, there was a high hill in front of them, the mountain was thousands of feet high, the mountain wall was as steep as a mirror, and the strange rocks at the foot of the mountain were numerous, Liu Gu took two children around the piles of strange stones, and drilled into a cave under the cliff, after turning around, there was a sudden light in front of him, he put Xiang first on the ground, pointed to the front and said: "It's here!"
This is the land of immortals?
Xiang Yang rubbed his eyes vigorously, he wouldn't be in the wrong place, right?
In front of him was a long and narrow valley, and in the distance was a dense forest, and I didn't know how deep it was. Near the exit of the cave, there are dozens of dilapidated thatched huts, surrounded by a simple fence, in the fence, a few big roosters proudly raise their necks and lead their harems to patrol the territory, from time to time flapping their wings and fighting with a few sneaky earth dogs.
In the depths of the valley, there is a pond where lotus flowers bloom, in the pond, a group of white geese swim around, sometimes their necks bend, pecking at the water, it is a small silver fish belly, eat comfortably, occasionally lead the neck to sing a few times,
On one side of the valley, there is a large pigsty in which dozens of fat pigs lie lazily.
A big man with a shiny face was dragging the fattest head out of the pigsty, and with a knife down, a valley that should have been secluded and beautiful was tossed into a slaughterhouse by the screams of the fat pig as he died.
A dozen or so old men with withered faces each held a sea bowl with a large basin, looked at the big man with blank eyes, lined up to hand it over, and from time to time someone told a few words: "Gangzi! Look at it, don't spill this eight-treasure soup!
Where is this place of cultivation, it looks worse than your own small fishing village... At least in the fishing village, because there are fish sellers coming and going, an inn and a small restaurant have been built in the east of the village.
Liu Gu ignored them at this time, pushed open the bamboo gate on the fence that was about to fall off, strode over, and shouted from a distance: "Okay! What time is it today?
The old men looked back at him, and someone waved his hand weakly: "Hall Master, if there is no eight treasure soup to drink, we are all starving to death, and we have no strength to cultivate... Hey, you actually received an apprentice this time?"
Seeing the two children behind Liu Gu, the tone of the old man who spoke turned out to be as if something strange had happened, but he soon lost interest again, and turned back to watch the strong man slaughter the pig, it seemed that the attraction of the pig was much greater than that of Xiang Yang and the two of them.
"Okay, okay, slaughter! It's also a celebration that we finally have a new disciple in the Golden Body Hall!Wait!" Liu Gu hurriedly ran towards a thatched hut, and in a blink of an eye, he came out with three sea bowls and lined up at the back of the line, and beckoned to Xiang Xian and Xiang Yang: "You guys come over too, there are yours too!"
The group of old people suddenly crowed: "The two little children are also divided, and you are not afraid of supporting them to death?"
Liu Gu stroked his beard triumphantly: "They can't drink it, aren't there a master like me?"
As he spoke, he looked at Xiang Yang and muttered, forget it, for the sake of this bowl of eight treasure soup, this little guy should not be a miscellaneous servant, take it together!
Xiang Yang didn't hear this, how did he know, because of a bowl of pig blood, his identity inexplicably became a disciple from a miscellaneous servant...
That night, Xiang Yang and the other two had dinner in a small bowl of half a bowl of pig's blood, which Liu Gu called eight treasure soup, and specially instructed them to taste it carefully and never drink it all in one gulp.
Could it be that there is something strange about this pig's blood? Otherwise, why should this immortal chief be so solemn? Xiang Yang has always been careful in doing things, and he is still smelling it with a wrinkled nose, unlike the usual pig's blood, the bowl in front of him is not the slightest bit fishy, but has an indescribable fragrance, which makes his pores all over his body seem to open when he smells it, and he is extremely comfortable.
Xiang Xian on the side didn't care so much, he took a big sip with a grunt, and muttered in his mouth: "Isn't it just a little pig blood... It's not a panacea. ”
Along the way, he also felt that the master he was following seemed to be unreliable, and when he arrived at the ground, he found that it was this kind of situation, far from the prosperity of the Xianmen that he thought, and he was a little unhappy in his heart, and he was a little impatient to speak at this time.
Liu Gu didn't stop him, he just squinted at him, just waiting for him to have a longer memory after he endured hardships.
After five days and five nights, he got to know the two children he brought back. Although there are some immortals in this first, he acts lightly and has no perseverance, and he is afraid that his future achievements will be limited. On the contrary, it was that Xiang Yang, whose performance in the past few days shocked him.
He had already inquired about the ages of the two children, and knew that they were only nine years old, and Xiang Yang was even half a year younger. But this kid is extremely calm-hearted, and he is hard-working, and after such a long journey, even if Xiang Xian tricked him to carry it, he didn't say a word.
Liu Guke saw that the blisters on the soles of the little guy's feet were piled up, and they were broken one after another, and when he walked here, he couldn't find a few pieces of intact skin and flesh, and it was not easy to persevere.
If you don't count the immortal seedlings, this Yang is more suitable for the Golden Body Hall.
In addition to the eight treasure soup, this is also one of the reasons why he suddenly changed his mind and directly accepted Xiang Yang as a disciple, plus after observing along the way, this little guy's physical fitness is far beyond that of ordinary children of the same age, and he is half a head taller than Xiang Xian of the same age, and his body is also very solid.
In the past thousands of years, although after the sixth generation of the sect master obtained the immortal yuan, the Golden Body Hall has also made some improvements in the way of cultivation, and figured out some methods used to cooperate with the immortal seedlings, and even the predecessors left a jade slip of exercises, but the whole is still mainly based on physical cultivation. In other words, those who have immortal seedlings can be cultivated, and those who don't have immortal seedlings are actually not a big problem, at most it is just slower to cultivate.
In the era when the ancestor of the Fuyu Sect was established, Xiang Yang was a real genius.
Thinking of this, Liu Gu couldn't help but sigh again.
Now after all, it's not that era anymore! Without immortal seedlings, you can't cultivate vitality, and without vitality, you can't use Dao talismans and magic weapons, and you can't use spells, even if you have the best golden immortal embryo, what's the use of cultivating the golden body to the top?
Xiang took a sip first, but he didn't feel anything unusual, he couldn't help but glance at his master proudly, and was about to take another sip of the small bowl in front of him, but he didn't expect that before his fingers touched the bowl, his whole body suddenly became hot, and then there was a burst of hot heat, and for a while it was as if the whole person was boiling in boiling water.
With a scream, he fell to the ground with his body bent, and after a while, his whole body was as red as a boiled shrimp shell, and even the top of his head was steaming.
Xiang Yang was taken aback, the hand that had been holding on to the side of the bowl was slammed away, looked at Xiang Xian on the ground beside him, the boss with his mouth open, pointed at him and said, "Master... Master, this... What's going on... ”
Liu Gu had already told Xiang Yang that although his qualifications were not good, he was victorious in his hard-working and resolute will, so he made an exception and accepted him as a disciple instead of a miscellaneous servant, which is also one of the reasons why Xiang Xian has not been very happy.
Hearing Xiang Yang's question, Liu Gu twisted his beard on the side and said with a faint smile: "I said it all, this eight-treasure soup has to be tasted slowly, he has such a big mouthful, and he is not guilty of living to be called a hell!"
looked up at Xiang Yang's frightened appearance, and said a few words of relief: "It's okay, just wait a while, this eight-treasure soup is not ordinary pig blood." Those pigs are all grown up eating natural treasures, compared to the demon beasts, it is not a little worse, this eight treasure soup contains a very thick vitality, ordinary people can nourish the body with a small sip, and he is like this when he drinks too much. ”
"Of course, the better your body, the more you can drink. Well, don't be stunned, drink quickly. Be careful, stop after taking a sip, wait until you can withstand the heat in your body before continuing, and don't drink when you reach the limit... ”
In fact, he is also boasting, how can there be any natural treasures in this golden body hall? These pigs eat just some ordinary astragalus ginseng and other medicinal materials, but the number of years is longer, the vitality is sufficient, and when raising those fat pigs, some secret methods are also used, and most of the effectiveness of the medicinal materials is concentrated in the blood, which is why there is this kind of eight treasure soup.
Of course, if you get it to the mundane land, this bowl of pig's blood is also a good treasure, but in the fairy gate, it is only the most inferior thing. But even so, the average strong man will reach the limit by drinking a bowl, Xiang Xian is only nine years old, and he drank half a bowl in this mouthful, and it is reasonable to suffer from it if he is too much supplement. However, the medicinal properties in this eight-treasure soup have been transformed by secret methods, and they are quite mild, and Xiang Xian is at most a little bitter, which is still very good for the body.
Xiang Yang turned his gaze to Liu Gu's face, although the identity of this immortal chief has a lot of questions, but he still has a good impression of this old man, he grew up eating a hundred family meals, he is used to seeing people's faces, and he has already had the talent to recognize people, although this old man is ugly, but he is really a good person!
At this time, when I heard him urging himself to drink the bowl of eight-treasure soup, he didn't resist, but turned around and took a small sip, almost just the tip of his tongue.
Liu Gu couldn't help but feel a little amused when he looked at his movements, and deliberately coughed with a straight face: "What's the matter, you stinky boy, are you afraid that I will poison you as a master?"
Xiang Yang smiled wryly while holding the bowl, lowered his head and took another sip, this time he drank more, but it was only a wooden spoon.
Then, he put the bowl back on the table and quietly waited for the heat that Liu Gu had said.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for a warm breath to rise in the stomach, and it dispersed up and down the whole body, the feeling was extremely comfortable, the whole person seemed to be soaked in warm water, and even the fatigue of trekking through mountains and rivers in the past few days had been reduced, and the soles of the feet were not so painful.
He couldn't help but be overjoyed, looked up at Liu Gu, and took another sip when he saw that he didn't stop it, and after a while, the comfort was even more enhanced, which made him feel a little fluttery.
Another mouthful, but after this mouthful, he felt that his body was a little hot, and the breath also brought a hint of burning feeling, and he estimated that his limit was like this, so he was ready to sit quietly and wait for the heat to dissipate.
As soon as he put down the bowl, he found a strange thing, the breath suddenly disappeared for a moment when it passed through his chest, and then when he reappeared, the burning sensation was gone, and the heat in his body was also clear.
Xiang Yang couldn't help but be surprised, picked up the small bowl in front of him and took another sip, these few sips, but he drank more than Xiang Xian, Liu Gu frowned beside him, this little guy seems to be a little frizzy, it seems that he has to suffer a little hard to hone and hone.
But what he didn't expect was that Xiang Yang didn't look strange at all, but not long after, he picked up the eight treasure soup in front of him and drank it all, and looked at him with a blank look after drinking: "Master, it's so delicious, is there anything else?"
Liu Gu was dumbfounded on the side, although this eight treasure soup is not a good thing, but it is already a big supplement for these mortal children, he is about Xiang Yang to be able to drink this half bowl in an hour is already good, which means that this kid has an excellent physical foundation, and he can also get twice the result with half the effort when he cultivates the golden body in the future, but how much time is this?
It's all over and gone...
Isn't this kid a freak?
Liu Gu smashed his mouth and said in a daze: "Also... Also, you can drink as much as you want!"
He got three sea bowls by himself in the afternoon, and he wanted to see where the limit of this little guy was!