Xuanjizi didn't know when she had already stood behind Tianhuo and Zhou Yong, and shook her head when she saw the green ox and eagle on the ground that were as limp as mud.

With a flick of the sleeves of Xuanjizi's robe, a breath of true yuan blew on the bodies of the green ox and the eagle, quickly removing the beast control prohibition on their bodies, making the two beasts who were trembling and twitching immediately stop and quiet.

Xuan Jizi did not blame Zhou Yong, but said coldly to Qingniu: "Qingniu, why don't you worship when you see your master?

Qingniu trembled, hurriedly got up, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to Zhou Yonghe and Tianhuo frequently, making mooing sounds in his mouth, as if admitting his mistake.

"It's Master, me?" Tianhuo pointed at himself in disbelief, his mouth opened so wide and said, "Master, when did I become the master of this green cow?"

Xuanjizi smiled and said to Tianhuo: "Tianhuo, when you were unconscious, this green cow happened to be by your side, I saw that he was destined for you, so I accepted this disciple on your behalf." Don't underestimate him, he is a monk in the Jindan period, and he will be your apprentice, do you still have any dissatisfaction?"

Xuanjizi secretly said to Tianhuo: "The Xuanji faction wants to revive, but there is a shortage of people, property and property, these two Jindan stage demon cultivators can temporarily fill the lack of manpower, you don't talk nonsense." ”

Tianhuo rolled his eyes and said, "Master, you have arranged everything, what can the disciple be dissatisfied with." It's just that if outsiders know that I accept a green cow as an apprentice, others will laugh at us Xuanji for accepting any apprentice, so it is not a matter of honor and disgrace for the apprentice alone. ”

Xuanjizi glared at Tianhuo fiercely: "I don't know what's wrong! You are the third disciple of the second generation of the Xuanji Sect to accept apprentices, so let's have fun! Qingniu is already in the Jindan stage, and he has the ability to transform into shapes, so he can no longer be regarded as an outlier, they are all serious monks, but his cultivation has been sealed for the teacher, so he can't transform now, you silently recite the beast control technique, look at your wrist." ”

Although the Beast Control Method is Zhou Yong's main practice, Tianhuo is a major in knowing and guarding the world, and on the basis of this skill, learning other exercises often gets twice the result with half the effort.

After Tianhuo silently recited the beast control technique, he saw a small trace of a green ox appearing on his left wrist, like a faded tattoo pattern, but Tianhuo could feel the soul of the green ox in his grasp through that sealing pattern.

Qingniu was even more frightened at this time, because of the existence of this mark, his fate was completely in the hands of Tianhuo, and he could no longer resist, and he instantly felt like he was dead.

Xuanjizi walked up to the eagle again and helped him pull out the two eagle arrows on his body, and the eagle glared at Xuanjizi with vicious eyes.

Xuanjizi patted the eagle's head and said, "You are very unconvinced, don't you, do you think I took advantage of your serious injury and captured you? In fact, if I hadn't saved you that day, you would have died a long time ago, and you don't know how to learn about Entu's retribution." In that case, you should also be my registered disciple. ”

After speaking, Xuanjizi took out a drop of essence blood with a wisp of soul from the eagle's forehead and threw it at Tianhuo, Tianhuo hurriedly raised his wrist and took the drop of essence blood, and that drop of essence blood instantly merged into Tianhuo's body.

It only took a breath or two for Tianhuo to have another kite mark on his wrist, and after Tianhuo dissipated the beast control technique, those two marks would disappear.

Xuanjizi got up and clapped her hands and said, "Zhou Yong, before the two of them completely take off their wildness, it is still up to you to train them, and let them recite the "Xuanji Sect Rules" every day until they memorize it. ”

Zhou Yong bowed and clenched his fists: "Yes, Master." But you still seal their cultivation, they can't speak yet, how can they recite it?"

Xuanjizi slapped his forehead, forgot about this kind of big thing, turned around and patted Qingniu and Eagle respectively, lifting part of the ban and allowing them to regain their ability to speak.

Xuanjizi said to Tianhuo: "Apprentice, these two demon cultivators are temporary bodyguards that the master found for you, before you advance to the Jindan stage, if there are some things that are inconvenient for you to come forward, you can command them to do it."

Although their marks of life and death are in your hands, and the teacher also uses prohibitions to control their bodies, if you want them to willingly serve you, you still have to find a way to subdue their hearts. ”

Tianhuo nodded silently, and there were two more registered disciples whose strength far surpassed his own, which not only made him happy, but also made him feel a lot of pressure.

Xuanjizi said to Zhou Yong again: "Zhou Yong, the beast pen in the back mountain is going to be enriched, the master will be free in a few days, take you to the depths of Yunwu Mountain to catch some spiritual spirit beasts, the spirit beasts raised since childhood should be taken care of as disciples, and if you can successfully transform in the future, you can give the treatment of a formal disciple." ”

Zhou Yong was overjoyed, he begged the master to take him to catch the spirit beast before, but the master was always too busy to go, and this time it seemed that his skill of controlling the beast would be of great use.

Just when Zhou Yong wanted to ask Xuanjizi for some doubts about his recent cultivation, the third senior brother Cang'er (Lao Cangtou) hurried to the back mountain, and when he saw Xuanjizi from a distance, he shouted: "Master, Master Li Cheng, the prefect of Xuanwei Mansion, personally went up the mountain to visit your old man's home, and asked Master to see him in front of the mountain." ”

Tianhuo Qi said: "Why did the people in the official mansion come to the Xuanji Sect to visit Master?"

Xuanjizi said to Tianhuo: "Well, it's finally here, it's a little faster than I expected. Tianhuo, go with the teacher to have a look, and tell you why the people in the official mansion want to visit the teacher on the way. ”

Zhou Yong had no interest in the people from the government, so he confessed to the master, and drove the green ox and the eagle to treat the injury.

Xuanjizi himself cultivates the "law of nature", and has always advocated teaching without class, teaching students according to their aptitude, and is more tolerant of his disciples, and does not like to force them to do things he doesn't like.

Disciples like Zhou Yong, Zhou Heng, and Xia Yi who only focus on cultivation and study, and are unwilling to touch worldly things, Xuanjizi also appreciates them very much.

As one of the three great powers of the Chinese nation, the Song State had a territory of nearly 6 million li at the widest point from east to west, and 3 million li at the widest point from north to south.

In addition to Gyeonggi, the country has 12 provinces and 49 provinces, more than 1,200 large and small state capitals, more than 26,000 counties, hundreds of billions of people, and more than 100 million monks.

Such a huge country is not something that the Zhao royal family can govern, many secular families and Xiuzhen families participate in it, forming large and small powerful groups, and privately fighting for hundreds of millions of years for controlling the size of the territory, the amount of Xiuzhen resources, and the recruitment of Xiuzhen talents and special talents.

Among them, the largest powerful group is the imperial alliance composed of the Zhao royal family, the Zhou family descendants and the Daluo faction of the Protector God Sect, which has controlled the Song dynasty for nearly 10 million years.

However, the Imperial Alliance is not a monopoly, and there are several alliances of equal strength that threaten the imperial power at all times, so in order to maintain the advantages of the Imperial Alliance, the Zhao royal family has to take advantage of the convenience of holding orthodoxy and righteousness, and constantly attract scattered cultivators or small and medium-sized sects to join the Imperial Alliance, so as to strengthen the momentum and fight against other forces.

The Xuanji faction is very in line with the conditions of the royal family, the sect is very small, has no backers, has a certain regional influence, and the head of the sect has just stepped into the stage of transformation and has a certain combat power.

Therefore, after the news of Xuanjizi's promotion to the god transformation stage was confirmed, Song Neng, the magistrate of Wanshui County under the mountain, immediately sent thirty servants, and at the same time urgently reported to the government, province, and provincial yamen, and asked the imperial court to reward Xuanjizi from the province.

The Song bureaucracy, which was usually rigid and inefficient, was only rarely efficient in dealing with matters related to monks.

The imperial court soon gave instructions on the reward of Xuanjizi, and instructed Li Cheng, the prefect of Xuanwei Mansion, to go to Xuanji Mountain to handle the matter in person.

After the imperial court's reward order was delivered from the official teleportation array, Li Cheng quickly prepared the relevant reward materials according to the imperial court's will, led the Qincha honor guard to set off overnight, and hurriedly drove away for four days before arriving at Wanshui County, so that he could rest for a night.

The next day, Li Cheng, the prefect of Xuanwei Mansion, took Song Nengzhi County of Wanshui County to visit Xuanjizi on the mountain, and read out the holy decree by the way, hoping to win over Xuanjizi to the imperial court.

If it had been placed in the past, Xuanjizi would not have had any interest in these things, but this trip to Xuanyuan's tomb touched him a lot, and made him know the importance of foundation and leverage.

In addition, Tianhuo's previous Xuanji revival plan made him excited, so Xuanjizi planned to meet Li Cheng in person and feel the court's attitude and support for the Xiuzhen sect.

Li Chengsheng has big ears, short hair under his chin, and an elegant face, and is sitting in his red tweed official sedan chair in full official clothes at this time.

Wanshui County, Xuanwei Mansion, has produced a monk in the Transformation Period, which is a major event under the rule of Xuanwei Mansion, and the promotion of monks of this level has not been encountered in Xuanwei Mansion for hundreds of years.

If you can successfully recruit this monk of the Transformation Period for the use of the imperial court, you can record a great merit in the prefect and the prefect of the county, and count it in the three-year merit examination.

Li Cheng, a 26-year-old Jinshi, first worked in the post of Fu Xuezheng for three years, and then released two terms as the prefect for six years, and after being promoted to the prefect, he has served three terms for eight years, and is now 44 years old.

However, Xuanjizi's promotion to the god stage this time brought a glimmer of hope to Li Cheng, if he can remember a great merit, Li Cheng is eighty percent sure that he can be promoted to the Taoist of North Yunnan Province, and if he is lucky enough, he can also impact the position of governor of Yunnan Province before the age of fifty-five.

Li Cheng has been busy for eight or nine days, and he has been on the road for four consecutive days in the middle, and he is already extremely sleepy, but the dinner party prepared by Wanshui County last night was very exciting, Li Cheng unconsciously drank a few more glasses, and left two singers to sleep, so he couldn't get up this morning.

In the end, it was up to others to carry him into the official sedan chair, Li Cheng was able to come to Xuanji Mountain, on the way he was groggy, starting from Wanshui County, to the front of Xuanji Mountain, and had been sleeping in the sedan chair.

Cang'er, the third disciple of the Xuanji faction, and Song Nengzhi County of Wanshui County are old acquaintances, and they have dealt with each other many times before, and a few days ago, thirty servants were personally sent to Cang'er by Song Neng.

Song Neng briefly explained the intention, and Cang'er immediately understood the purpose of their trip, and hurriedly went to invite Xuanjizi.

Song Neng watched Cang'er go in to report it, and felt that he couldn't let the prefect continue to sleep, otherwise Xuanjizi would come out after a while, and I was afraid that it would annoy the immortal master if he didn't have a good number of courtesies here, and it would be a pity to miss a great achievement.

Song Neng beckoned, and a cook in the back immediately sent a bowl of slightly hot Lingge Shouwu soup, which is a hangover porridge carefully cooked with Ganoderma lucidum, He Shou Wu, arrowroot powder, chicken inner gold and japonica rice, which is Song Neng's family secret recipe, which has a special effect on relieving hangovers and replenishing vitality.

Li Zhifu couldn't afford a hangover last night, and this morning it was Song Zhixian who personally put him on the official sedan chair, and I don't know how Song Zhixian, who weighs only six feet four inches and one hundred catties, carried the seven feet four inches and one hundred and eighty pounds of Li Zhifu on the official sedan chair.

Song Zhixian not only put Li Zhifu on the official sedan chair, but also asked the official to carry his cook and a cooking utensils to Xuanji Mountain in a sedan chair, the cook began to stew this pot of Lingge Shou Wu soup from the time of departure, arrived at Xuanji Mountain just two hours, the porridge has been stewed, and it can be eaten after a little placement.

Song Neng came to Li Cheng's sedan chair with the bowl of Lingge Shouwu soup, and called softly: "Lord Li, are you awake? Drink two mouthfuls of porridge to relieve hangover first, and you will meet Daoist Xuanjizi in a while." ”

What Song Neng said was the reception, in fact, as long as a monk in the Transformation Stage was willing to accept the solicitation of the imperial court, his status was much higher than that of an official at the level of the state capital.

Otherwise, rewarding a monk in the Transformation Period would not have allowed Governor Li to personally go to Xuanji Mountain to read out the court's commendation order, and Song Neng said this, which also gave Li Cheng enough face.

Li Cheng opened his eyes with some difficulty, and asked, "Have you arrived at Xuanji Mountain?" It's Song Zhixian outside, right? ”

At this time, a guard who was not tall, but with a bewitching and handsome appearance came out of Li Cheng's guard, he took the porridge bowl in Song Neng's hand, lifted the sedan curtain and entered the sedan chair, and waited for the adults to eat.

Song Neng smelled a strong smell of rouge pollen in his nose, but he could only pretend that he didn't smell anything.

The guard just now looked very standard, if Song Neng hadn't seen his Adam's apple, he would definitely think that the guard was dressed as a man.

Soon after, Song Neng heard some strange clothes rubbing sounds from the sedan chair, as well as the coquettish sound of pinching his throat, and Song Neng felt a little chill on his scalp.

He regretted that he personally carried Li Zhifu on the sedan chair in the morning, although he really wanted to greet Shangguan, but Song Neng was a standard straight man from the bones, advocating male style, and he absolutely couldn't accept male style.

Hearing the sound in the sedan chair, Song Neng felt that his back was also starting to become very itchy, and he smiled awkwardly at the other guards who pretended not to hear anything, and moved two steps to the side, so that he could rarely hear some sounds in the sedan chair.

Fortunately, the old man went to ask Xuanjizi for a long time, and after a stick of incense, the handsome guard took a pair of bowls and spoons out of the sedan chair, and handed the bowls and spoons to Song Neng, leaving a wisp of incense by the way.

Song Neng saw that the guard's neat guard uniform just now was messy and stuck on his body indiscriminately, and then saw the guard's step-by-step gait, Song Neng only felt a churning in his stomach, and the breakfast he had two hours ago was a little unbearable.

Song Neng hurriedly ran back to his sedan chair, stuffed the bowl and spoon into the cook's hand, and held the sedan chair to relieve his breath, for fear that his retching sound would cause Li Zhifu to be unhappy, so he endured it.

The cook took the bowl and spoon and asked more: "Master, there are still some Lingge Shouwu soup, and you haven't eaten for two hours, do you want to serve you a bowl too?"

Song Neng glanced at the bowl and spoon in the cook's hand, only to feel that he couldn't suppress the feeling of vomiting anymore, and hurriedly pushed the cook away and went around to the other side of the sedan chair and began to retch.

After vomiting for a long time, except for some water, there was nothing else, the cook hurriedly handed him a towel to wipe his mouth, Song Neng took the towel easily, but saw that the cook was still holding the bowl and spoon in her hand, and roared in a low voice: ", what are you doing with that broken thing, throw it away for me!"

The cook didn't understand for a while, and asked in surprise: "Master, this set of celadon tableware from the official kiln is your favorite, do you mean to throw it away?"

Song Neng got up and kicked the cook on the waist, directly kicked the cook to the ground, lowered his voice and roared: "Can't you understand what I say? I let you throw it away, and then throw the pot of porridge and the stove to me!"

At this time, Li Cheng's sedan chair came from his somewhat lazy but nice voice: "Is Song Zhixian here?"

Song Neng didn't have time to continue to teach the cook a lesson, so he immediately trotted all the way to Li Cheng's sedan chair and said, "My lord, the next official is here." ”

Li Cheng said nonchalantly: "Song Zhixian, your cook's cooking skills are good, she cooked Lingge Shouwu soup, I took a bowl, and I felt a lot better immediately, I heard the guards say, you are punishing the cook, I don't know why?"

Song Neng naturally heard that Li Cheng was a little dissatisfied, and his eyes rolled and said: "My lord, it turns out that you think Lingge Shouwu soup is not bad? I saw that you didn't say anything just now, thinking that the soup was not to be cooked, so I punished the cook, so it seems that she is to blame." ”

Li Cheng snorted, accepted this explanation, and continued: "I've been waiting for almost two quarters of an hour, why haven't you seen Xuan Jizi and the others come out to greet you?"

Song Neng muttered in his heart, I am afraid it is unlikely that you let the Immortal Master of the Transformation Stage come out to greet you, but he said: "My lord, these cultivators are all reckless and don't know etiquette. How do they know the authority of the adult, and let the adult wait here, it is really unreasonable, wait for me to urge again. ”

Song Neng hurriedly walked towards the Xuanji faction, praying in his heart that Governor Li had better not anger Xuanjizi today, otherwise the eight achievements of the two of them would be over.

As soon as Song Neng walked to the door of the Xuanji faction, he saw the old man and another handsome young man of fourteen or fifteen years old walking out.

Song Neng hurriedly took two steps forward, clasped his fists and said, "Three Immortal Master, what did the old Immortal Master say?"

The old man also hugged his fists and replied: "Song Zhixian, don't worry, my master said that the main hall is waiting for the two adults, and he is willing to accept the reward from the imperial court." ”

Song Neng was overjoyed, as long as Xuanjizi was willing to accept the reward, it would be equivalent to receiving most of the credit, and the rest was to be optimistic about Li Cheng and always be ready to play a round, lest the proud Li Cheng inadvertently anger Xuanjizi.

Song Neng trotted back all the way back with the placket of his official uniform, and ran to Li Cheng's sedan chair to report: "My lord, the old immortal master of Xuanjizi promised to accept the reward from the imperial court, and asked us to go to the main hall to read the holy decree. ”

Li Cheng said with some displeasure: "What kind of immortal master? What a big shelf, this official has traveled from Xuanwei Mansion for four days to personally read out the reward order for him, won't he come out to greet him?"

Song Neng comforted: "Don't be annoyed, according to the rules of the imperial court, the immortal master of the god transformation period enjoys the treatment of a third-grade official, and there is also a knighthood, so you can't easily offend!"

The prefect of the Song State was an official from the fourth rank, and unless it was a title inherited from his ancestors, there would definitely be no knighthood.

According to the rules of the imperial court, Xuanjizi really didn't have to come out to greet Li Cheng, Li Cheng was just complaining here, and Song Neng was even more clever to persuade him.

Li Cheng sighed, got up from the sedan chair, and walked out of the official sedan chair, the sun was a little dazzling near noon, Li Cheng squinted his eyes slightly, and looked at the mountain gate of Xuanji Mountain.

There is only a small archway at the mountain gate of the Xuanji faction, and the three words Xuanji faction on the plaque are not from the hands of famous artists at first glance, and the entire Xuanji faction is also very simple in Li Cheng's eyes.

As the head of a mansion, Li Cheng has naturally seen the Xiuzhen sect near the mansion, which one is not magnificent, and the atmosphere is myriad.

In addition to a mountain gate, the Xuanji faction does not even have a wall, only a dozen buildings and courtyards, and the highest building is only two floors, which is completely unplanned and scattered in a disorderly manner on the front mountain.

Li Cheng unconsciously felt a little disdain in his heart, such a small sect, I don't know what kind of shit luck the head of the sect has taken to advance to the god transformation stage, and I will have to take a good look at it later.

Maybe it was the effect of the bowl of soup, Li Cheng felt much better at this time, he led Song Zhixian and a group of subordinates with the holy decree, and walked towards the main hall of the Xuanji faction with the rewards of the imperial court.

Only six of the twelve disciples of Xuanjizi came, and the others were either not interested in getting involved in the matter, or there was something wrong with the mountain.

Tie Yumo, Cang'er, Jun Mojiao (Fourth Senior Brother), Lu Qiming, Yi Prisoner, and Tianhuo were already waiting under the steps of the main hall at this time.

Song Neng took two steps forward to introduce Li Cheng and said, "Master Li, these are the senior apprentices of the old immortal master of Xuanjizi. ”

Li Cheng maintained a very official smile on his face, and nodded his head to greet Tie Yumo and the others, when he saw Tianhuo, his eyes lit up, and he took the initiative to ask: "This little immortal master has a big name?"

Tianhuo felt that Li Cheng's eyes had a sticky feeling, which made him very uncomfortable, but Tianhuo still politely clenched his fists and replied: "Hello Lord Li, Xiaomin Tianhuo will give you a salute." ”

Li Cheng said with a smile: "No courtesy, no courtesy, like a young brother of Tianhuo, such a talented person, will definitely be a pillar of the country in the future." ”

After speaking, Li Chengcheng wanted to step forward and pat Tianhuo's shoulder, Tianhuo's shoulder sank, and he took a half step back and said, "My lord praised me falsely, and the master said that I was the most stubborn." ”

Li Cheng slapped his palm, a little embarrassed, and laughed to cover it up: "Young Brother Tianhuo, don't be too modest, I think it's your master's joke." I hit it off with the young brother at first sight, and I should have talked a few more words, but the official still has some official business at the moment, and I will talk to the young brother after I am busy. ”

Song Neng secretly complained on the side, for fear that Li Cheng would continue to entangle Tianhuo without knowing the current affairs, and it would be all over if he provoked the little immortal masters to get angry and start their hands for a while, but fortunately, Li Cheng did not stalk him.

When Li Cheng walked into the main hall, he saw a middle-aged Taoist priest with a red face and a slight fatness, who was Xuanjizi.

Song Neng hurriedly introduced Li Cheng and Xuan Jizi to each other, and the three parties were all old people on the scene, and the meeting scene became happy in a few words.

Li Cheng greeted Xuanjizi warmly, and then said to Xuanjizi: "Daoist Xuanjizi, it is not early at this time, and the lower officials should read out the holy decree first." ”

Xuanjizi nodded and said, "Okay, everything is arranged by Lord Li, please read the holy decree to the lord." ”

Li Cheng stood at the top of the main hall, faced everyone, and said in his low, somewhat magnetic voice: "The emperor is sympathetic to the hardships of the monks, and allows Xuanjizi not to kneel to receive the holy decree, the rest of the people kneel to receive the holy decree, and the idle people wait outside the hall to wait." ”

After speaking, Li Cheng looked at the people in the hall, all the people brought by Li Cheng and Song Neng, including Song Neng, knelt on the ground, Tianhuo was unwilling to kneel to receive the holy decree, so he regarded himself as an idle person, etc., and pulled a few senior brothers out of the hall, except for Li Cheng and Xuanjizi, the rest of the people in the hall had all knelt down.

Li Cheng shook his head at Tianhuo and the others who had exited the main hall, and did not pursue them, and looked at Xuanjizi again, who bowed slightly to show his respect for Emperor Song.

Li Cheng opened the decree and began to read:

"Fengtian carrier, Emperor Song summoned and said: Xuanwei Mansion Wanshui County Xiuzhen Taoist Xuanjizi, both ability and political integrity, dedication to the Tao, overcoming difficulties, has perfected the realm of God, and immediately canonized as 'Jingbian Immortal Master', from now on with the Viscount Juelu, given to live in Xuanji Mountain, given the best spiritual weapon cave, given 100,000 taels of silver, 100,000 catties of cold iron, 100 catties of copper mother, and 10 pieces of the best spirit stone.

Wangqing upholds the Taoist heart, abides by the law, self-denial and revenge, and has the virtue of being born in heaven, ensuring the safety of the people. ”