"Woohoo"!

"Squeak squeak"!

......

The barking of dogs mingled with the screams of monkeys, echoing on the big bamboo peak of Qingyun Mountain, breaking the silence here. Zhang Xiaofan rushed out of the kitchen door with the black sè burning stick in his hand, and was furious: "Dead dog! Dead monkey!

The monkey Little Ash jumped on the back of the big yellow dog with a swish, and the rhubarb, which had already gathered momentum, spread out his feet and ran, Zhang Xiaofan couldn't catch up, and watched Little Ash make a grimace and put a fragrant meat bone into Rhubarb's mouth. Rhubarb was so excited that if it weren't for the two rows of teeth to bite the flesh and bones, I was afraid that the dog's teeth would have fallen out with laughter.

"Whew!"

Zhang Xiaofan looked depressed and walked back to the kitchen indignantly. Since he was in charge of the kitchen at the age of fourteen, his craftsmanship has impressed everyone, and Rhubarb, with his "old dog" behavior, can't help but covet the delicious food in Zhang Xiaofan's hands, especially the meat and bones that Zhang Xiaofan used to make soup, which is fragrant and delicious, and it is the meal that Rhubarb dreams of.

However, Zhang Xiaofan's soup is for people to drink, although the "age" of rhubarb is big (Tian is not easy to raise since childhood), and the qualifications are older, but he does not get the treatment he deserves, and he often salivates but cannot get it. It wasn't until it became familiar with the monkey Xiaoshen that the above scene often appeared on Dazhu Peak, which lasted for two years, no matter how secret Zhang Xiaofan hid the meat and bones, as long as there was a rhubarb nose and Xiao Ash's flexibility, this battle of meat and bones often ended in Zhang Xiaofan's defeat.

Two years have passed in a hurry, in fact, it is a year and a half, Zhang Xiaofan has grown into a sixteen-year-old boy, his body is taller, and now he is half a head taller than his senior sister Tian Ling'er. During this period of time, because of Tian Buyi's strict order, all the disciples on Dazhu Peak practiced behind closed doors, except for the sixth Du Bishu who traveled down the mountain, only Zhang Xiaofan, the chef, was the most idle.

In the past two years, without anyone noticing, Zhang Xiaofan has been practicing alone, but what he himself doesn't believe is that according to the method taught to him by his senior brother Song Daren, it only took him one year to complete the second layer of the Yuqing Realm-Qi refining.

He had doubts in his heart, but after all, he didn't ask Tian Buyi, and Song Daren, Tian Ling'er and others had been concentrating on practicing behind closed doors, and they had no time to take care of other things, and Du Bishu, who was his best friend, went down the mountain again, so he only hid this question in his heart. But then there was a big difficult thing in front of him, Tian Ling'er privately gave him the third layer of the method, he knew very well that this was a big violation of the rules, but every time in the middle of the night, when he was alone, standing in the small courtyard and looking up at the night sky, he would think of a sentence:

No matter how much you practice, it's better than Senior Brother Qi Hao!

Ten nights later, he began to practice the third level of the Dharma!

In the Taiji Xuanqing Dao, the first to third layers of the Jade Qing Realm are the foundation of all techniques, and the difficulty is also getting deeper, unlike the first two layers of "Qi Induction" and "Qi Refining", the third layer of the method "Yuan Qi" has focused on cultivating Tai Chi Yuan Qi. Fa Jueyun: "Tai Chi vitality, letter three is one." Extreme, middle also, yuan, the beginning also, in the twelfth chen...... This yīn Yang Hede, Qi Zhong Yu Zi, the one who incarnates all things. (Note: The words are from the "Hanshu Law Chronicles")

The disciples of Qingyun Sect, when they practice to this realm, will obviously present a watershed, and the level of qualifications is clear at a glance: intelligent people are often like a bamboo, breaking through to a higher realm of "expelling things" in one fell swoop, and thus laying a solid foundation for cultivating the Immortal Dao, while the slightly inferior disciples often stagnate, and there are many who waste their lives.

Zhang Xiaofan has been in the field for five years now, and he has naturally heard these things countless times in conversations with his senior brothers, but it is obvious that all the senior brothers have classified him as "slightly worse".

He walked back to the kitchen, went to the stove, filled it with water, and then continued to add firewood to the stove to boil some water. The bright yellow flame regained its vigor, Zhang Xiaofan took his poor black sè "burning stick" that had been used for two years, and stirred the firewood between the stoves, and after the fire burned steadily, his eyes slowly fell on the burning stick in his hand.

But it wasn't something he had discovered, it was a very ordinary thing - he was in a daze.

In addition to the bead on the head, the burning stick is only about a foot long, and the only thing that is somewhat abnormal is that under the black sè of the burning stick, there is a faint vein like blood, especially at the interface between the short stick and the ball, sometimes it seems that these two things seem to be dissolved together with human blood.

Zhang Xiaofan's whole body shook suddenly, and the thought of human blood dissolving in his mind just now made him feel disgusted. Over the years, he has slowly forgotten that trip to the valley back then, and only occasionally dreams back in the middle of the night, but he will suddenly dream of that strange experience, and wake up sweating profusely.

At that time, he felt very lonely, facing the unknown hideousness alone, and facing the dark death alone. At this time, he always couldn't suppress his inexplicable emotion, with a hint of fanatical impulse, and couldn't help but feel like killing. Even, in the dark, he recalled the strange fanaticism in his eyes when the monk Puzhi looked at him on the edge of the broken grass temple many years ago!

Zhang Xiaofan didn't know why he had such a strange feeling, but fortunately, he had another way to calm his terrifying heart: Dafa Prajna!

He has practiced for five years, and the greatest use is to suppress the strange feelings that have appeared inexplicably in the past two years.

"Smack"!

Zhang Xiaofan had a pain in his head, and an object fell to the ground, but it was a pine cone, Zhang Xiaofan was angry, turned around and said angrily: "Dead monkey, don't let me catch it...... Hey, you're ...... Ahh

Zhang Xiaofan jumped up, and saw a person standing at the door, medium height, jīng dry face, smiling, and a small burden on his back, who is not the sixth Du Bishu who has not been seen for a long time?

Du Bishu looked Zhang Xiaofan up and down, and said in his mouth: "Amazing, it's only been a few years, and you kid has grown as tall as me." ”

Zhang Xiaofan walked up quickly, grabbed Du Bishu's shoulders hard, and said with a smile: "Sixth Senior Brother, why have you been gone for so long, we all miss you very much." ”

Du Bishu smiled: "Aren't I coming back?"

Zhang Xiaofan immediately asked, "Does Master and Master know that you are back?"

Du Bishu said: "No, I just came back and saw smoke in the kitchen here, so I came over to take a look first, hehe, I knew that you kid was working here." You haven't seen you for a few years, do you miss me?"

Zhang Xiaofan was happy in his heart and nodded again and again. Du Bishu touched his head, and suddenly whispered, "Go, accompany me to see Master." ”

Zhang Xiaofan was stunned for a moment and said, "Why do you want me to accompany you?"

Du Bishu had a bitter face and said: "Master asked me to go down the mountain at the beginning, saying that it would be limited to one year, but I played more, uh, no, I searched for half a year before I found a good material to refine the magic weapon, but I was afraid that I would be scolded by the master." Come with me. ”

Zhang Xiaofan glared at him and said, "Then you said that you came to see me first, by the way, Sixth Senior Brother, what kind of magic weapon are you refining?"

Du Bishu smiled dryly: "Hehe, of course I came to see you first, little junior brother, let's go, let's go." As he spoke, he pulled Zhang Xiaofan and left.

After a while, Rhubarb, who was hiding in a corner, gnawed on meat and bones, and Xiao Ash, who was leaning on its back to catch lice, heard an angry roar from the Shoujing Hall: "Unscrupulous people, I'm angry to death!"

At dinner time, the people of Dazhufeng had a reunion for the first time in two years, sitting at a table to eat. After everyone sat down, Tian Buyi was still angry, and after all the disciples greeted Du Bishu, they couldn't help but quietly ask him: "Sixth, why is the master so angry when he sees you?"

Du Bishu was embarrassed, and he talked about him left and right, but Zhang Xiaofan, who was sitting next to him, had a smile on his face, but he didn't dare to laugh, and he looked quite strange.

At this time, Tian Ling'er, who was sitting opposite, finally couldn't help it, and was the first to ask Tian Buyi: "Dad, the sixth senior brother finally came back, why are you still so angry?"

Du Bishu quietly raised his eyes and looked at Tian Buyi, Tian Buyi glared at him, and Du Bishu was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head. Tian Buyi snorted and said, "Sixth, put your own magic weapon out for everyone to see?"

Du Bishu opened his mouth, he couldn't speak, he raised his eyes to look at Su Ru, but saw Su Ru smile and said, "Bishu, you can take it out for everyone to see, and let everyone know why your master is angry?"

Seeing that he couldn't put it off, Du Bishu took his small burden slowly, shook it twice, took out a few things from the middle, and put them on the table.

Everyone stared straight at each other without blinking, for fear of missing something, and the dining room was extremely quiet for a while. I saw that above the dining table, there were three things that seemed to be made of some kind of hard wood, half the size of a fist, in a six-sided square, with white sè all over the body, and various points carved on them, but they were three dice.

The crowd was dumbfounded, speechless, and after a moment burst into laughter.

Du Bishu's face was flushed, Tian Buyi looked at him, his face was angry, and he said angrily: "Rotten wood can't be carved!"

Su Ru shook his head with a smile at this time, and said, "Forget it, it's not a big deal, just dice, anyway, this magic weapon is also used by himself." ”

Tian Buyi glared at his apprentice and said to Su Ru, "How do you know that he didn't use this to cheat?"

Du Bishu was startled, and hurriedly said: "Master, master, the apprentice will never dare to do such an obscene and shameless thing." It's just that a few years ago, I found a thousand-year-old three-bead tree (Note 1) on the bank of Chishui in the south, which is very aura, and carved these three dice from its jīng Hua, which was completely on a whim, and never thought of other ......"

Tian Buyi was angry, and said: "You are happy, hum, you can cultivate the others, and now you have refined a set of gambling equipment, and wait until a month later, the Seven Veins will compete in martial arts, as soon as you appear on stage, do I still have a face?"

Du Bishu didn't dare to say any more, Su Ru shook his head and said in a low voice: "It's not easy, this is something he likes himself, don't force him." Do you remember Senior Brother Wan......"

Tian Buyi was suddenly shocked, turned his head to look at Su Ru, Su Ru sighed lightly, and said to Du Bishu: "Bishu, you know, your master and I have never forced you to cultivate the fairy sword like other masters and brothers, but magic weapons are often very important, you have to be careful yourself." ”

Du Bishu secretly glanced at Tian Buyi, but saw that the master's face was unhappy, and he was sulking, how dare he say more, and nodded again and again: "Yes, yes." ”

Su Ru glanced at her husband again, and then said to everyone: "Time flies so fast, next month is the Seven Veins Martial Arts Test." When the time comes, we will go to Tongtian Peak where Nagato is located, so you can prepare early," Speaking of this, her beautiful and gentle face suddenly turned grim, and she said quickly: "Don't let me and your master down again this time, do you know?"

The hearts of all the disciples jumped, and they said in unison: "Yes!"

"Teacher, teacher. Mixed with everyone's loud answers, an incongruous faint voice came out, Su Ru looked, saw the last seven Zhang Xiaofan, frowned, and said, "What's the matter, Xiaofan?"

Zhang Xiaofan said cautiously: "Then did you mean that I would go too?"

Su Ru was stunned, glanced at Tian Buyi, a smile appeared on her face, and said with a smile: "Yes, aren't you also a disciple of the Great Bamboo Peak lineage?"

Zhang Xiaofan was overjoyed, jumped up with cheers, and high-fived Du Bishu next to him, ignoring Tian Buyi and said coldly in the distance: "Anyway, there are nine places, even if you give one to an idiot, it's still a waste, don't use it in vain." ”

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At night, when Zhang Xiaofan returned to the house, he saw that Rhubarb and Little Gray had already run to his bed to rest. From a year and a half ago, rhubarb because of the good relationship with Xiao Ash, also moved to Zhang Xiaofan's room to sleep, at the beginning it was also scared Tian Buyi, everywhere can not find a dog, finally knew the reason snorted, without saying anything and walked away, Zhang Xiaofan saw that the master did not blame, and did not drive rhubarb out (in fact, it can't be driven out, a bed of rhubarb accounts for half, Xiao Ash accounts for half of the half, you can know the mood of the owner of this house).

But after a long time, I probably got used to it or got acquainted, Zhang Xiaofan no longer slept with Rhubarb and Xiao Ash with him, this night, he was in a very good mood, walked into the room and sat at the table, his eyes glanced, but saw Rhubarb lying lazily, Xiao Ash didn't know when he went to the kitchen again, stole his black sè burning stick again, and rubbed on Rhubarb.

His heart moved, and he faintly felt that Xiao Ash seemed to be very interested in this burning stick, but he was not in the mood to think about it so much now, and his heart was completely filled with the joy that Master had unexpectedly allowed him to participate in the Seven Veins Martial Arts.

If Rhubarb and Little Ash looked at Zhang Xiaofan at this time, they would see a human with glowing eyes. Zhang Xiaofan's eyes looked at this monkey and a dog, but his mouth seemed to be speaking to the air: "Look, it's great that I have the opportunity to participate in the Seven Veins Martial Arts." Master, his old man is really magnanimous, even if I am stupid, he will take me to a long time, well, maybe you will be able to see the frightened feather then. ”

Speaking of this, he seemed to remember something, and whispered to himself: "But if you really compete on stage, I'm afraid that you will embarrass the master." Forget it, just do what you have to do. Rhubarb, Ash, don't you say?"

"Squeak squeak!"

Zhang Xiaofan raised his eyes to look, but saw that Xiao Gray's mind was in the fur of Rhubarb, carefully grasping the lice, and only screamed a few times to deal with him, and Rhubarb was even more straightforward, even putting down the two dog ears, and didn't look at him.

"Dead dog!" Zhang Xiaofan scolded indignantly, and suddenly his eyes went dark, but it was Xiao Ash who suddenly smashed the burning stick in his hand. He was startled, and quickly dodged, and the burning stick hit the table, jumped twice, and fell to the ground.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" This time the voices of the big yellow dog and the little gray monkey became a symphony, Zhang Xiaofan grimaced at the two beasts, sat down hatefully, and somehow, Qi Hao's heroic posture on the big bamboo peak two years ago suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Freeze ice into a wall!" Zhang Xiaofan read in a low voice, he was fine when he didn't cultivate, but these rìzi his cultivation deepened, but he deeply experienced the difficulty and unattainability of reaching Qi Hao's realm.

He remembered that night, Tian Ling'er was by the light in this room, with gentle but fiery eyes!

His heart felt like it had been pricked by a sharp needle at that moment.

The burning stick on the ground was lying there quietly, and there was the sound of monkeys and yellow dogs frolicking next to him, Zhang Xiaofan suddenly felt that he was so similar to this burning stick, even the burning stick fell to the ground, in his eyes, it seemed to be a little lonely.

"Alas," he sighed, trying to imagine what it would be like for him to reach that realm, and then, in a completely relaxed posture that he didn't care about at all, for the first time in his life, he did the "repellent" action that the Qingyunmen disciples had done countless times: he waved to the burning stick on the ground.

That moment seemed like forever.

Zhang Xiaofan was very normal, not even a little sad, and was ready to accept his defeat as a matter of course, and then, he saw the burning stick in the ground move.

It was so gentle, slightly, as if it had been sleeping for a long time before waking up, and it moved!

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