Since he first entered the Dragon Scale Valley and had two close encounters with Lin Sha, Ishikawa has been secretly watching for this strange man, but it didn't take long for Lin Sha to go down the mountain on a mission, and he didn't come back until more than half a year later, and then he didn't stay in the valley for a few days before packing up his things and going down the mountain again, and he didn't come back until yesterday. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Not only Ishikawa, but after Lin Sha, a demon star who drew his sword without saying a word, came out of the mountain, many disciples in the valley breathed a long sigh of relief.

Lin Sha coughed a few times, and said in a hoarse voice: "I just came back this morning." ”

Ishikawa's gaze froze, and he clearly saw Lin Sha's somewhat distorted expression when he coughed, as well as a trace of blood spilling from the corner of his lips.

"Senior Brother Lin is injured!?"

Lin Sha raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his lips, and said coldly: "Those who kill will always kill them, and those who hurt people will always hurt them." ”

Although Lin Sha said without a beginning or an end, Ishikawa still understood what he meant, "I still have some healing elixirs there, senior brother can come to me to get them later if you need to." ”

Lin Sha shook his head and bluntly refused, "No need." ”

Unconsciously, with Ishikawa and Hayashi as the center, a large area was quietly vacated around it.

Only Zhu Shanhe pushed the crowd forward two steps forward and stood at the closest place to Ishikawa.

Ishikawa and Hayashi fell into an awkward silence.

In the end, it was Lin Sha who broke the silence, he withdrew his gaze that had been looking at Ishikawa, and said with some strangeness and disappointment: "Since I left last time, your cultivation doesn't seem to have improved much?"

Ishikawa sighed and said very calmly: "My qualifications are relatively poor, and it is normal that no matter how hard I try, I can't catch up with others." ”

Lin Sha showed a rare expression of deep doubt: "My feelings shouldn't be wrong, you shouldn't be like this." ”

Ishikawa looked at him and smiled, "I don't think I should be like this, but that's how it turned out, and this is one of the great illusions of life." ”

Lin Sha turned his body directly and wondered, "How many illusions?"

Ishikawa replied in a low voice, "Yes, I'm the protagonist, I can fight back, she likes me." ”

Lin Sha's gaze turned around on Ishikawa, then turned his head and glanced at Yin Yin a few times, and suddenly shook his head and said, "She shouldn't have that kind of affection for you." ”

Ishikawa laughed and said, "I just said it was an illusion." ”

There was another unbearable silence.

Lin Xu followed Ishikawa's gaze and looked at the group of rookie disciples for a while, and suddenly said, "You are looking at the little boy in the left corner." ”

Lin Sha used a declarative tone, not a question.

Ishikawa said slowly, "I think he is a little different from other disciples. ”

Lin Sha glanced at it a few more times, and sneered: "It's just that he is carrying something, maybe it's hatred, maybe it's a tie, if his soul is strong enough, it is very likely that he will turn it into a driving force for courage and diligence at the beginning of his cultivation, but if he doesn't know how to put it down later, he will fall on it sooner or later." ”

"How to put it down?"

Lin Xu said indifferently: "There are only two methods, one is to go straight and ask for a thought to be clear, and the other is to cut off the past and forget it completely." ”

Ishikawa asked, "I understand the first method, but as for the second method, isn't it difficult for ordinary people to do it?"

Lin Sha squeezed out a trace of an ugly smile, and replied in an astringent voice: "It is indeed difficult for ordinary people to do it, but for those who cultivate Buddhism, the second method is not difficult to accept, and even for us Taoist monks, sometimes we must learn to forget, just like the accident thirteen years ago, what cannot be forgotten has basically been cut off from the path of cultivation." ”

"What happened thirteen years ago!?" Ishikawa's eyes flashed, it was the first time he heard about it, and he couldn't help but ask, "What is that?"

Lin Sha obviously didn't want to talk deeply, but asked with a lonely expression, "How many registered disciples are there in Dragon Scale Valley now?"

Ishikawa glanced at the newly registered disciples and replied, "If you add more than a hundred of these new beginners, there are more than three hundred registered disciples in the valley. ”

Ishikawa thought for a moment, and wanted to ask if there was anything wrong with this, but suddenly he stopped talking again and froze there.

No, the wrong number!

Like a bolt of lightning in his mind, Ishikawa suddenly realized something he hadn't noticed before.

There were more than 100 new initiation disciples in this year's general election, so when he entered two years ago, the total number of registered disciples was only more than 180 people, and he knew from Tang Qi that basically all of them had entered the sect with him last time.

So, where have all the former registered disciples gone!?

Ishikawa suddenly remembered some of the things she occasionally said when chatting with Bai Qing, the registered disciples of the sect may have spent decades in the valley without success, and in the end they could only leave the mountain in gloom and return to the world.

Ishikawa could imagine that there were definitely not a few registered disciples who had been unable to enter the Kunwu Six Peaks in the sect for decades, so after several generations of accumulation, how could it be that there were only more than one hundred and eighty registered disciples when he first entered the valley!?

What about those old disciples who were supposed to exist, where did they go!?

At this moment, Lin Sha's dry voice sounded in Ishikawa's ears: "You finally figured it out, this matter is taboo in the entire sect, I can't say more, just experience it yourself." ”

After Lin Sha finished speaking, he seemed to have completely lost the interest of talking to Ishikawa again, and regardless of the fact that the welcome ceremony was still going on, he turned around and walked directly towards Tanaka.

Only a few words were left in Ishikawa's ears.

"I used to be as full of vitality and curiosity as they were, but now that I think about it, this is really a ridiculous and naïve performance, since that incident, you people have been raised as delicate flowers and plants, and it is easy to take refuge even down the mountain to carry out tasks, although it is much safer, but whether it is good or bad, is unknown......

Ishikawa remembered what Tang Qi had said to him a long time ago, "The sect divides different things into different levels according to the degree of danger, and a registered disciple like us can of course only take over the lowest-level tasks. "............" is too much to mean that many people die at one time, especially when they go out to perform a mission......"

Ishikawa didn't know how many people died at one time in Tang Qi's mouth, but if what Lin Sha said was the truth, then wouldn't those previous missions have to kill more people?

In addition, Ishikawa has another question in his heart, that is, Lin Sha looks like a young man who is less than twenty years old at most, whether in terms of face or figure, but he just said that the accident happened thirteen years ago, could it be that he entered the door when he was five or six years old?

It's a little too small.

As Ishikawa pondered absentmindedly, time passed little by little, and the annual orientation ceremony soon came to an end.

In the end, Yin Yin did not come to Ishikawa to tell the story of the man and the pig, but left the scene early and returned to Liquan Peak.

Ishikawa was assigned a small job by Bai Qing to send a group of new juniors to their residence.

Ishikawa was not disgusted with the familiar things in front of newcomers, and after cleaning up his mood, he led a group of teenage children towards the courtyard that had already been cleaned up for them.

Along the way, Ishikawa enjoyed the feeling of being a senior brother, looking at the immature faces in front of him, he couldn't help but feel that he was an old qualification.

However, Ishikawa's gentle attitude soon made the group of boys completely relaxed, and the sense of restraint soon disappeared without a trace, and the words gradually increased, but it was really annoying to be surrounded by a group of half-grown children asking questions, thanks to his patience, he was answering their questions as much as possible along the way, and did not show any impatience.