Chapter 1, Sending Letters
The Great Zhou Sect, the Cai State Xiuzhen Sect, now commands the Cai State of hundreds of thousands of mortals, located in the Great Zhou Mountain in the middle of the Cai Kingdom, because it is attached to the north and has more than one million mortals in the world, so although it is only an eighth-class sect, it can go on.
Liu San'er is a disciple of the Great Zhou Sect, and he spends six hours of "Yin Fu Sutra" practicing qi meditation every day. This made him calm down from his excitement a month after he started, and he could no longer be the ignorant boy who thought that he could go to heaven and earth and be omnipotent by practicing a random exercise in the immortal gate. The sun was setting, and he had just finished his day's Qi practice time. After silently thinking about the gains and losses in his previous practice for a while, he left behind the unhappiness of being stuck in the third layer of Qi training.
There are three realms of Qi training, the early, middle, and late stages, each realm is divided into three layers, and each level of cultivation of a monk will gain some abilities that mortals do not have. Liu San'er's third layer of qi training belongs to the introduction of qi training, except for being able to control basic monk magic weapons, such as storage bags and the like, others can't even use all kinds of talismans. Compared with ordinary people, he is now strong and strong, and his strength is just a little longer.
After washing, Liu San'er was just about to lie down when he heard the bell on the top of the mountain buzzing. Helpless, he had no choice but to hide the "Cai Guo Fengyun Lu" that had just been pulled out from under the futon again, put on it and walked slowly towards the top of the mountain.
In view of the fact that he had to wait outside the house for half an hour every time he was convened, and his residence was only a little more than a mile from the top of the mountain, Liu San'er was not in a hurry to walk at all. He didn't plan to go too fast at all, it wasn't too late to reach the top of the mountain in a quarter of an hour, and the others usually took about two quarters of an hour to arrive.
"When is it, and I summoned again, this old man is really getting more and more confused the more he looks at it..."Liu San'er muttered as he walked, and his voice was so small that only he could hear it. Originally, at this time, he should have been lying comfortably in the quilt watching "Cai Guofeng Yunlu", eating dried almonds, and then sleeping beautifully, and by the way, he continued to have the dream last time.
Everything was ruined by the obnoxious bell. According to the rules of the Great Zhou Gate, if there is no bell to convene, the disciples only need to greet the master once a month at the beginning of the month, and the rest of the time except for cultivation is theoretically free as long as they do not go out of the mountain protection array. In the past two years, such bells have been ringing more and more frequently, and this month there are still 10 days to go, but there are an astonishing three times. I don't know if the top of the mountain is about to be unraveled, Liu San'er thought.
"Oh! Senior Brother Liu is really positive, for my brother I wanted to fight for the first place on the mountain today, but it seems that there is no hope!" A crippled man came from the fork in the road, and he was really crazy and couldn't go fast.
The person who came was Zhao Xiang, in his forties, and he was one of the people who could talk to Liu San'er on the mountain. However, because of his lame legs, he has not been treated by anyone on the top of the mountain.
Liu San'er's situation is only slightly better than Zhao Xiang's, but it is only a little. If it weren't for the fact that he was only thirty years old this year, theoretically speaking, he would have been swept away by the one on the top of the mountain.
"If the senior brother really wants to be the first to enter the door, after turning around and leaving, he will inform the brothers, and no one will dare to refute this face. Liu San walked over and picked up Zhao Xiang, looked around again, and said in a low voice: "Could it be that the old man is bankrupt, this has been calling us too often recently!"
"Bankrupt?" Zhao Xiang disagreed: "That's impossible, don't look at our place to look dilapidated, there is not even a magnificent house, that is all deliberate by the old man, you have only been here for seven years, you may not know our situation here." If you had been here for twenty years, like me, I wouldn't have said that. ”
"Yes, yes... But this is recently..."Speaking of this, Liu San'er wanted to speak and stopped.
Zhao Xiang seemed to know what Liu San'er wanted to say, and hurriedly waved his hand: "Ahem, let's talk about the cultivation matter! Senior brother has the possibility of a breakthrough recently?"
Seeing that he was about to reach the top of the mountain, it was no wonder that Zhao Xiang changed the topic. But when it came to cultivation, Liu San'er's face immediately became heavy, and he couldn't help sighing.
Seeing Liu San'er like this, Zhao Xiang was not embarrassed, but laughed: "Senior brother, you have been stuck in the third layer of qi cultivation for five years, it stands to reason that it is time to break through, you have not broken through like this, not only is the master unhappy, but I am afraid that your master will not be able to sit still." Although I am only stuck on the sixth floor as a brother, at least because I am lame and the master's family will not be embarrassed, and the master will drive me away, and he will also consider the feelings of the master's family. You will be different, once the master family loses faith in you, there is a good chance that our brotherhood will come to an end..."
"Alas... After taking so many benefits from the main family, if you can't build a foundation in the end, it's really..."Liu San'er was a little helpless, but he could only be helpless. He is the body of the five spiritual roots, although the five spiritual roots belong to the miscellaneous spiritual root avenue is hopeless, the time to cultivate to the foundation building period is the fastest among all the spiritual roots, if everything goes well for more than ten to twenty years, the foundation can be built, which is much faster than those heavenly spirit roots, earth spirit roots fifty or eighty years old. But his original life was a small black worm the size of a fingernail with a pair of fleshy wings, and he couldn't even name it, let alone find it. The old man didn't give up, and spent a lot of money to buy him a lot of insects to try to make the same ginseng, but none of them resonated with the black worm, and he had to give up after tossing for two years without any gain.
Zhao Xiang originally wanted to say a few more words, but when he saw that he had reached the top of the mountain, he broke free from Liu San'er and bowed three times to the house in front of him, and said loudly: "Disciple Zhao Xiang is called to come!"
"Disciple Liu San'er is called to come!" Liu San'er also bowed three times to the house.
For a long time, there was no response from the house. During this time, seven more people came to report their names, but they were all silently blocked from the door.
These seven people are all Liu San'er's senior brothers, and the senior brother Li Junming is in his fifties, very short and fat, and he has practiced qi at the eighth level. The second senior brother Sha Jiang looked a little younger than the senior brother, but he was actually a few years older than the senior brother, with an introverted personality, an eight-layer cultivation of qi, and his face was as white as paper. The fourth senior brother Bai Yangliu is a bit of a sissy, but he is less than thirty, and he has cultivated to the eighth level of the same Qi training. The fifth senior brother is Zhao Xiang, who has practiced qi at the sixth level. The sixth senior brother, Han Changhe, is in his forties, bald, and has a four-layer cultivation of qi. The seventh senior brother Bai Caifeng is also a bald head, his skin is darker than that of the sixth senior brother, and he has the same four-layer cultivation of qi training, and he usually has a little contact with Liu San'er, and all the senior brothers are relatively close to Liu San'er except for Zhao Xiang. Eighth Senior Brother Wu De is a handsome child, only twenty years old, but he is also a genuine sixth-level Qi cultivator.
Liu San'er was the latest to get started, so he ranked ninth. Temporarily ranked last in the absence of new onboarding.
"Yo... What's the matter today, you guys are running away one by one, leaving me at the end of a girl's house, are you embarrassed?" Before the third senior sister arrived, a doll-like voice came.
The third senior sister Yao Min is a flowery red-haired woman, her age seems to be less than thirty, but it is said that she is actually more than fifty, practicing qi at the sixth level of cultivation, but it is said that she has recently broken through the seventh layer, and she has been in retreat at every turn for more than a year, and rarely comes to the top of the mountain to see the old man, even if the bell beckons, she only appears occasionally.
The title of the "old man" in the house was what Liu San'er heard from the third senior sister when he first entered, and he thought it was quite pleasant, and then he always called it that way in private. Although the old man was quite good to him, he was also a person who taught the scriptures and instructed him in his cultivation, and even worried a lot about his natal companions, but he was not allowed to read all the books except the Qi Dao cultivation book, saying that it was for his cultivation to go smoothly and not be disturbed. This is really a great torture for Liu San'er, who has nothing to do after sitting for six hours a day to practice, and it is inevitable to peek at "Cai Guo Fengyunlu" to relieve boredom.
The third senior sister can be presumptuous with the old man, but others can't, so no one answers outside the house.
Faced with such a situation, the third senior sister has long been accustomed to it, and she is a little proud. She twisted her hands on her waist around Liu San'er and the others, and immediately the fragrant wind hit people, and only after seeing that all her noses moved, did she say proudly: "Look at your appearance, you are still cultivating immortals! This incense powder is just an ordinary product, if you change those high-end goods bought with spirit stones, you won't eat me!"
"Senior sister said that it was funny, with the master and his old man, even if we have a few more guts, we don't dare to beat your idea!" The senior brother looked at the house seriously, and although he answered, he didn't look at the third senior sister.
The corners of the third senior sister's mouth twitched, and she was about to speak, but there was finally movement in the house here, the door opened silently, and the originally dark room was lit up.
The senior brother was the first to enter, and Liu San'er followed closely behind, only the third senior sister was outside for a while before she twisted into the house unhurriedly.
The house is a three-in, three-out courtyard, the old man lives in the innermost, and he doesn't need to take care of his daily life, except for cultivation is to grow all kinds of medicinal herbs, but the three-in and three-out courtyard is dressed up with a bit of aura.
The old man was an old man with a white beard, and there were no wrinkles on his face, but he could tell at a glance that he was very old. In fact, he is really old, ninety-seven years old, practicing Qi Nine-Layer Cultivation, and hitting the foundation five times without success, the most recent one was not long before Liu San'er started, and there was basically no chance. That's why he went down the mountain and accepted Liu San'er, who was in charge of the accounts of a dart bureau in a mortal town, as an apprentice.
When I saw the old man, I inevitably had to bow down again, and then I sat down according to the eldest and youngest, and the third senior sister also changed her image outside the house, sitting upright, and the scene was quite serious.
The old man had just finished his work, and he was in good spirits, and after seeing the nine people one by one, he talked about the purpose of this summoning.
It seems that the draft has been prepared a long time ago, and the old man said angry words one by one, but the core meaning is that Liu San and the nine of them will be sent to five places to deliver letters, four of which will go in groups of two, and the remaining one can only be gone by one person. As for who goes where, the lottery decides.
After speaking, the old man took out the bamboo tube and nine bamboo sticks that had been prepared earlier from behind him. The bamboo tube is pasted with the qi-locking talisman paper, which can prevent the monks from probing in the middle and late stages of qi training.
Nine people have done such a task before, and more than once, but they have never seen the old man play such a trick today, so they are a little confused for a while, and no one comes forward to draw the first one.
Seeing this, the old man didn't talk nonsense, looked directly at Li Junming, and said undoubtedly: "Junming, you come first!"
As a senior brother, Li Junming naturally couldn't refuse, so he grabbed one with a dry smile and read the sign on the spot, the White Crane faction.
The White Crane Sect is the same as the Great Zhou Sect is attached to the Dustless Sect, the two families are not very far away, and the round-trip journey is about a month, but the Great Zhou Sect is an eighth-level sect, and the White Crane Sect is a seventh-level sect, and there are foundation building monks in the gate, leading nearly 200,000 mortal realms.
After that, everyone drew lots. The fifth senior brother, like the senior brother, was sent to the White Crane Sect.
The third senior sister and the seventh senior brother were sent to the Songjiang Academy, which was close to the Great Zhou Gate. Although Songjiang Academy is also an eighth-level sect, there are less than 50,000 mortals under its jurisdiction, and mortals are constantly escaping.
The sixth senior brother and the fourth senior brother were sent to the seventh-level sect Langya Pavilion, and they had to walk for almost two months before they could go back and forth.
Liu San'er and the second senior brother were sent to the Dustless Sect, while the fourth senior brother could only go to the Seventh-level Sect Daliang Sect, which was also attached to the Dustless Sect but had the farthest distance, and it would take at least half a year to go back and forth.
Before leaving, in addition to handing over the letters that had been prepared long ago, the old man also specially gave everyone a burden, in addition to the map, a few hundred taels of silver, and a spirit stone that is usually strictly controlled, three hundred first-order spirit stones per person. Since the fourth senior brother acted alone, he lent the old man a three-party storage bag, which could hold nearly a hundred similar burdens. Fortunately, she was envious of others, and the third senior sister couldn't sit still anymore, so she ran to the old man's side and stalked him, saying that she wanted to borrow one, even if it was one party's, but she didn't want to come.
There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, everyone wore a unified Da Zhoumen robe and went out of the mountain protection array together, encouraged each other and headed towards the destination according to the previous lottery arrangement.
Liu San'er and the second senior brother didn't go far before they noticed something unusual, and the fourth senior brother actually followed them and didn't go in the direction of Daliang Gate.
In fact, the fourth senior brother didn't plan to hide it from the two, and when he was discovered, he approached with a smile and said straight to the point: "Senior brother Liu San'er, can I discuss something with you?"
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, as long as the junior brother can do it, he must do his best!" Liu San'er couldn't understand the purpose of the fourth senior brother for a while, but he stretched out his hand not to hit the smiling person, he should accept it first, as long as he didn't say it to death.
The side of the fourth senior brother was immediately revealed, and Orchid pointed to the storage bag that made Liu San and the second senior brother both excited, shook it, and said, "Then I'll say it bluntly, I plan to use the right to use this storage bag as a condition in exchange for exchanging the route of the letter with the junior brother." ”
"It's... But I disobeyed the teacher's orders..."Liu San'er's face changed: "Although I am rare in storage bags, but when I turn around and the old man knows, I am afraid..."
"If you don't say it, if I don't say it, the second senior brother will naturally not say it, right?"
The second senior brother nodded, indicating that he acquiesced.
Liu San'er had already guessed that the second senior brother would be like this, but he still insisted: "But even so, when the old man asks back, we still have to show our feet, besides, Daliangmen is far away, and I am alone..."
"The right to use the storage bag and add a copy of "Rainstorm Tianluo", you can't give a sentence!" Before Liu San'er finished speaking, the fourth senior brother increased the code again, and explained: "This "Rainstorm Tianluo" But a secular martial arts, and junior brother, you usually look at those scenery and things, rankings and the like are different, after practice, you can take the head of a person from a hundred zhang away, and we and other qi cultivators may not be able to beat it, junior brother stuck in the early stage of qi training for many years, but in the early stage of qi training, in addition to being able to open the storage bag, in addition to being longer than the popularity of ordinary people, he can't use any spells, and he can't even play the rune paper, with this martial arts, the benefits can be imagined!"
"Fourth Senior Brother has already cultivated?" Liu San'er was moved when he heard this, but he didn't think that the sissy who had never had much friendship with him would be so generous.
The fourth senior brother's expression was suddenly embarrassed: "This... Not really... This martial art was also recently taken out of the big box and small box given by my master's house, and I haven't had time yet!"
"Senior brother is very generous! In this way, in addition to the right to use the storage bag and martial arts books, add another hundred taels of silver, how about it?" Liu San'er really didn't want to entangle with this person, after all, the gap between the third layer of Qi training and the eighth layer of Qi training was very clear in his heart, once he angered the other party, but even if he had the second senior brother by his side, he would not have good fruit to eat.
The fourth senior brother immediately agreed, as if he had expected Liu San'er to bargain.
So, the two sides exchanged things, said a few more precious words, and then separated.
When Liu San'er walked away, the fourth senior brother and the second senior brother let out a sigh, and then looked at each other and smiled.