Shou Chang handed an axe to Lu Xiaoyuan and said: "Chopping wood, carrying water and these chores are to exercise your physique, we who practice martial arts, it is very important to have a strong physique, and the wood of the hug is born in the end of the millennium, which is also a kind of experience for you." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Lu Xiaoyuan nodded, took the axe, tied a bundle of rope used as a bundle of firewood around his waist, and went to the place designated by Shouchang to cut firewood. The trees on Tianzhu Peak are clustered, all kinds of rare trees have grown, and the use of firewood is nothing more than ordinary trees such as poplar birch.

Lu Xiaoyuan locked on a white birch with his arms folded and cut it more than a hundred times, only half of it was cut, and he was so tired that he was out of breath, so he sat on the ground to rest. The trees are tall and canopy, and there are only a few rays of sunlight in the forest, so it's cool and comfortable to rest here.

After resting for a while, he got up and wanted to cut again, and when an axe was chopped out, Lu Xiaoyuan exclaimed, and the axe stopped in mid-air and did not move: the tree that had been cut in half just now was intact, as if it had not been cut at all. Putting down the axe, rubbing his eyes, and seeing that the body of the tree was still intact, he was very strange: Could it be that the trees on Shenglang Mountain have been cultivated into immortals for a long time and can heal on their own?

Then it occurred to me that if this was the case, Master and Senior Brother would not let themselves come here to cut down trees. He slashed a dozen more times, then stopped and stared at the scars to see what was going on. After staring at it for a while, the slash marks still did not change, and Lu Xiaoyuan continued to cut. After cutting down a lot, the body of the tree was cut in half, Lu Xiaoyuan stopped to rest, he was afraid that he would not pay attention to the tree to heal again, so he simply sat aside and stared.

After resting, he raised his axe and was about to cut again, when a strange thing happened again, and the cut marks on the tree were slowly closed, and after a while, the whole tree was intact again. Lu Xiaoyuan was stunned and watched this scene happen, and only after the trees healed for a long time did he react and shouted, "Who is teasing the master!?"

There was no answer in the woods, only the "bang-la-la-la" sound of the wind blowing through the leaves of the trees. Lu Xiaoyuan searched around and found nothing abnormal, so he changed a tree to cut down.

How do you know that this is still the case, every time Lu Xiaoyuan is about to cut down, the cut marks will heal intact, and all the efforts of Lu Xiaoyuan will be in vain. Lu Xiaoyuan shouted and searched everywhere, but he didn't find the initiator, so he stopped cutting and returned to the Tianzhu Peak practice ground. On the field, only Shourong and Shouchang are practicing martial arts. Qinghua Zhenren did not require everyone to be in the practice field, and Shoubai and Shouxiong went to practice elsewhere.

Keeping honor and keeping the routine cooperate with the practice. Shou Chang is good at defensive martial arts, his arms are outstretched, and a green light mask covers his body. Shou Rong used two weapons, a long sword and a gossip shield, the long sword flickered, the flames surrounded, and stabbed on the azure light cover that Shou Chang transported, the light mask collapsed slightly, and the flames surged along the sword body to the light mask, and the light mask was impacted by the flames, producing a burst of ripples.

The edge of the gossip shield is extremely sharp, waving it to generate a blast, slashing at the blue light cover one after another, and often greets each other with the palm of the hand in the light mask, the shield and the palm meet through the light mask, and the turtle's back texture appears on the light mask, and at the same time, the green Xuan streamer flashes, like a long snake. Shou Rong throws with his left hand, catches with his right hand, throws with his right hand and catches with his left hand, the two weapons are used randomly, and he also attacks with fist palm martial arts from time to time, and the palm of his usual hand also keeps slapping towards the light mask, increasing the defense of true qi.

The two of them attacked and defended, holding each other for half an hour, Shou Rong smiled and said: "Senior brother, your cultivation can be improved a lot! In the past, the Xuanwu Lingwei couldn't support it for such a long time. "While talking, the offensive is non-stop.

Shou Chang's right palm met Shou Rong's flame sword strike, the light mask only shook slightly, and said proudly: "Don't say it's only half an hour, you just come for another half an hour, and I can stop it." ”

Shourong shouted, "Then you have to be careful!" The gossip shield slashed at the light shield, and the flame of the long sword in his left hand ignited and stabbed out at the same time. Shou Chang shouted: "Senior brother, you are going to kill me!"

Unbeknownst to him, Shourong's two weapons were halfway through, and they suddenly took off their hands, and the "Biyun Po" snap finger martial arts and the "Meteor Fall" boxing technique hit Shou Chang's waist together. Shou Chang didn't expect him to suddenly use tricks, the defense on his waist was weak, and the light mask was broken by the snap of his fingers, and he was hit by the strength of the fist and fell out.

Shourong took the long sword and shield, scratched his nose proudly, and said with a smile: "What's the matter? Senior brother, didn't you say that you could still block it for half an hour?"

The regular "carp straightened" got up, rubbed his buttocks, and said angrily: "This doesn't count, you won the battle by cheating." ”

Shourong said with a smile: "Master said that martial artists can't be rigid when they fight, and it is the master who adapts to the situation and guides according to the situation." It's not going to work like you. ”

Guarding the usual, Lu Xiaoyuan stepped forward to persuade the two of them and told them about his adventures in the forest. Shou Rong was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Senior brother, it's not people who are playing tricks on you, but the two spirit beasts on Tianzhu Peak." ”

Lu Xiaoyuan said strangely: "Spirit beast, what spirit beast?"

Shourong continued to explain: "I don't know how many years ago, there was a crane and an ape on Tianzhu Peak, both of which were the most ordinary beasts, and they often listened to the ancestors of Tianzhu Peak preach about mysteries and teach martial arts to their disciples. ”

"Beasts can also cultivate the Dao?"

"That's nature, everything has a wisdom root, as long as you have an upward heart and perseverance, you can cultivate the Tao. In fact, spirit animals are born spiritual, and their spirituality is acquired, strictly speaking, they are not spirit animals, but the Taoists of the past generations still call them spirit apes and cranes. ”

"Then why are they going against me?"

"Although the spirit ape and crane have cultivated the Tao, after all, the beast nature has not been shed, and the childlike innocence is not lost, they are not against you, they are just joking with you. According to you, most of the trees were cut down and restored, and it was due to the crane's healing ability. ”

Shourong put his head to Lu Xiaoyuan's ear again, and chuckled: "Let me tell you a little secret again: when your fourth senior brother entered the Shenglang Sect, he also went to chop wood, and he was also teased by the crane. But he was too timid, and he didn't know what was going on, and he thought that he had met a ghost in broad daylight, so frightened that he screamed and ran to the master's room crying. We followed up and saw that he was holding Master's legs and begging Master to change his errand!"

The more Shou Rong spoke, the louder his voice became, and finally Shou Chang heard it, Shou Chang was ashamed and annoyed, feeling that he had lost a bit of majesty in front of the little junior brother, and said angrily: "Third senior brother, this is all old history, what do you mention him for!"

Shourong shrugged, spread his hands and said, "I also forgot, senior brother mentioned this, I just remembered." Shouchang snorted and ignored him.

Knowing that it was a beast that teased him, and that his rank was far above his own, Lu Xiaoyuan couldn't help but laugh and asked, "Then what should I do?" Can't I go back and continue cutting down trees, and then let the crane restore me, right?"

Shourong pondered for a moment and said, "Why don't you carry water first, and tell the head of Jixiang Kitchen about chopping wood, this kind of thing has happened before, and he won't embarrass you." Lu Xiaoyuan thought that he had no choice but to do so, so he said goodbye to the two senior brothers, took a bucket and a burden, and went down to Tianzhu Peak to fetch water by the Tianzi River.

The Tianzi River is also on the Shenglang Mountain, only three miles away from the dining room, a yellow mud path leads directly to the Tianzi River from the back door of the Jixiang Kitchen, and the Taoists who do chores are fetching water, and the Taoists who do chores are chopping firewood at the moment, and there is only Lu Xiaoyuan on the road.

Seeing that he was about to get to the dining room, Lu Xiaoyuan suddenly tripped over something at his feet, stood unsteadily, and fell into a dog eating. "It hurts me, oops~" Lu Xiaoyuan hummed and chirped in pain, got up at the same time, dusted off the dust on his robe, and saw two buckets rolling on the ground, and the water was scattered all over the ground, secretly calling unlucky. Carefully looked at the feet, but there were no rattans, stones or anything like that, and then thought of what Shourong told him about the crane spirit ape, and he had roughly guessed that it was the ghost of these two spirit beasts.

Looking around, the yellow mud path is full of low bushes, even if the spirit beast is hidden here, how can it be found? I can only accept my fate, return to the Tianzi River and fetch two buckets of water. This time, Lu Xiaoyuan learned to be obedient, carrying two buckets of water while not forgetting to watch his feet, although he walked slowly, he was relatively safe. When he was about to arrive at the dining room, a yellow shadow flashed under his feet, Lu Xiaoyuan had already prepared, and hurriedly stopped so as not to trip over the yellow shadow. Unexpectedly, he didn't touch Huang Ying, but Huang Ying hit him in the legs, Lu Xiaoyuan was carrying two buckets of water, and he was unable to move, "Ah" exclaimed, and was knocked to the ground by Huang Ying, still in the posture of eating.

"Damn!" Lu Xiaoyuan got up and shouted, ignoring the bucket on the ground. "The master didn't provoke you, but you came to provoke the master, as a spirit animal, are you also bullying!"

The yellow shadow squeaked and flashed on the top of the bushes, moving very fast, neither stopping nor falling, Lu Xiaoyuan couldn't see the true face of the yellow shadow clearly, thinking that it was a spirit ape, and hated it for pretending to be a ghost, so he scolded: "When the master catches you one day, he has to make you into steamed crane wings and burn monkey brains!"

As soon as these words came out, the cry of the spirit ape became sharp, as if it was angry, the yellow shadow flickered, and a small thing flew towards Lu Xiaoyuan quickly, Lu Xiaoyuan couldn't dodge, and was smashed on the forehead corner by this thing, and a big bag was raised.

"Oops...."In the cry of pain, Lu Xiaoyuan covered the wound and looked at the thing on the ground, which turned out to be a stone. The spirit ape squeaked twice, as if to provoke and warn.

Lu Xiaoyuan was furious, and said angrily: "I'll fight with you!" The bronze broadsword he carried with him was placed in the room, and there was no blade on his body, and he picked up the flat pole on the ground and swept the spirit ape.

The spirit ape's body was erratic, and he didn't know what strange body tricks he used, and the flat shoulder passed through the center of the spirit ape's fleeting figure, but there was no actual harm to the spirit ape. Suddenly, there was a light in his hand, and the flat arm was broken by the spirit ape, and Lu Xiaoyuan didn't see any tricks made by the spirit ape.

One person and one ape tossed here for a long time, and other Taoists who did chores also came to fetch water. Seeing the two Taoists coming from the dining room, the spirit ape let out a long cry, turned around and disappeared into the bushes, and disappeared, leaving only Lu Xiaoyuan standing on the ground, holding a half-cut flat pole.