At this time, the sky was already bright, Zhou Shaobai stood in the bamboo forest, listening to the breeze through the forest, seeing the light flowing bamboo shadows, he really felt that the bamboo leaves were bright green, and he felt that his mood was much brighter. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

He looked back at his master, and saw Chengyu sitting on the stone platform, looking calm, a few wisps of cool breeze blowing his sleeves and beard, really fluttering like a fairy.

Zhou Shaobai said in his heart: The senior brothers all say that the master is ninety years old this year, but looking at the prime of life of forty, Xiyun's Taoist cultivation is really magical. Even so, not everyone can practice to such an extent. Along the way of cultivation, every step is dangerous, and if you can reach the level of Master, there is no one in ten. I really don't know how Master practiced hard to get to where he is today.

He looked at the bamboo intently, and he really didn't know what secrets this ordinary green bamboo was hiding.

While meditating, I strolled, slowly walked out of the bamboo forest, and came to the stone road in the mountains, which was some distance from the stone platform and close to the wing house where the brothers lived.

Zhou Shaobai saw that the fireworkers in the kitchen were busy on the side, so he walked over, and saw that they were preparing the items needed for lunch, washing vegetables for washing vegetables, chopping wood for chopping wood, and they were very busy.

One of them, armed with a sharp axe, was splitting the bamboo into sections. Zhou Shaobai felt strange in his heart, so he stepped forward and asked, "Is this good bamboo split like this to make firewood?"

The man smiled and shook his head: "That's not it, I split this bamboo to make bamboo rice." ”

Zhou Shaobai hadn't heard of it, so he said curiously: "Bamboo tube rice? What is that? The bamboo tube is so hard, how can it be cooked?"

The man couldn't help laughing, put down the axe, wiped his sweat and said: "The bamboo tube rice is not made of bamboo tubes, but the bamboo tubes are used as rice containers. ”

Zhou Shaobai listened very interestingly, and said with a smile: "This bamboo tube rice is a novelty, I really want to try it now......

At this time, he suddenly realized something, stopped talking, got up and hurried to the stone platform deep in the bamboo forest.

"Master, the disciple already knows. Zhou Shaobai came to Chengyu and said.

Chengyu opened his eyes and nodded approvingly: "So confident, it seems that I understand, yes, it's faster than the teacher expected." Say, what do you understand?"

Zhou Shaobai nodded: "Master, the disciple understands, the reason why Qingzhu can be tall and straight, the roots reach the mountain tendons, and the leaves touch the light clouds is because the inside of Qingzhu is empty, and it is possible to be relaxed by abandoning the unnecessary burden." For disciples, it is necessary to truly empty distracting thoughts when cultivating in order to achieve their goals. ”

Chengyu nodded: "You really know." Yesterday, you went crazy because you couldn't let go of the distracting thoughts in your heart, if the teacher didn't guess wrong, it must be because of the girl named Qin Ziling. ”

Zhou Shaobai's face turned red, and he lowered his head and said, "Sure enough, I can't hide anything from Master." When the disciple cultivated yesterday, there would always be her shadow in his heart, so that he went mad and disappointed the master. ”

Cheng Yu laughed: "What is this disappointment or not, you are a young man, you know how to be lustful, then Mu Shaoai, it is normal." But as a cultivator, the mind of nothingness is the foundation of cultivation. If you don't empty yourself, you can't accept it. Do you understand?"

Zhou Shaobai heard what the master meant, nodded and said, "Master rest assured, when the disciple is cultivating, he doesn't dare to think nonsense anymore." ”

Chengyu stood up: "That's very good. Then, you can continue to study the Chalcedony Sutra with your teacher. ”

"Yes!" Zhou Shaobai replied neatly and simply, and he secretly said in his heart: Sister of the Qin family, since I promised you to protect you for the rest of my life in the future, I will definitely do it. In the current cultivation, I can only wronged you, put you in my heart for the time being, and miss you again when I succeed......

So, Zhou Shaobai was firm in his belief and began to continue to practice the "Chalcedony Sutra" with his master.

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More than 20 days have passed in a blink of an eye, and these days, under the careful cultivation of Chengyu Dao people, Zhou Shaobai's cultivation has advanced by leaps and bounds. Originally, he had a very solid foundation, and he had cultivated a very profound skill in the generation of young disciples, and now he has studied the thirteen swords of the Yunlong of Xiyunmen, and the thirteen swords of the cloud dragon are said to have been created by the ancestor of Xiyun in order to subdue a man-devouring dragon that haunts the Bibo Lake.

Zhou Shaobai had only practiced some introductory swordsmanship before, and as soon as he came into contact with this kind of sword technique, he suddenly felt hardship, and Chengyu was extremely strict with him, in addition to continuing to study the "Chalcedony Sutra", he also personally held the sword and demonstrated and explained to Zhou Shaobai. After the cultivation every day, it was already the east mountain on the moon, the stars were floating in the south sky, Zhou Shaobai was so tired that he didn't even want to take a bath, and he slept in his clothes. Chengyu saw that he was really hard, so he was exempted from the punishment of sending food early.

On this day, as usual, Zhou Shaobai dragged his extremely tired body back to the wing, only to see that everyone had almost fallen asleep, he was sleepy, and wanted to sleep in his clothes, but then a senior brother said to him: "Little junior brother, the senior brother said that he hasn't seen you for more than 20 days, and he misses you very much, so it's okay to bother you to deliver food today?"

Zhou Shaobai was very strange when he heard this: "Senior brother wants to see me? ”

He was extremely tired today, and he really didn't want to go, but when he thought that this meal delivery work was originally punished by the master, and the senior brother in front of him was the one who was affected by himself, he was embarrassed to think about it, so he had to say: "Okay, since the senior brother wants to see me, I'll go and deliver the food." ”

"Then be careful on the road. The brother handed him the food box, yawned and went back to his bed.

Zhou Shaobai packed up immediately and went out with the food box.

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Because of the recent harsh cultivation, Zhou Shaobai was exhausted, and the road to Qingxintai was very slow, and it took more than half an hour than usual, but he finally passed the eagle and came to the stone cave safely.

"Senior brother, I've brought you food. Zhou Shaobai shouted a few times at the entrance of the cave weakly, but there was no answer inside.

He thought to himself: Could it be that he walked too slowly today, and the senior brother was tired, and he was already asleep?

So Zhou Shaobai went into the stone cave, it was still stuffy inside, and the beads of sweat on his body came out all at once, soaking the clothes that had been wet several times again.

I saw that the cave was much brighter than usual, and it turned out that this time it was different from the last time, and more than a dozen candles were lit, and there were flickering candles everywhere. In the candlelight, I saw the senior brother sitting at the stone table, dumbfounded, not moving, and not knowing what he was doing.

Zhou Shaobai shouted again, but the senior brother still didn't move, Zhou Shaobai felt strange in his heart, walked over to take a look, and saw that the senior brother's eyes were empty, and he looked at the stone wall in a daze, and he didn't even notice his arrival at all.

He shook his head and said in his heart: It must be too lonely here, and I have thought about it to become this virtue.

He put the lunch box on the stone table, faced the senior brother and said, "Senior brother, I have brought you food, you can eat it quickly." ”

Senior brother blinked his eyes like waking up from a dream this time, and saw clearly that it was Zhou Shaobai, so he grinned: "Little junior brother, it turned out to be you." ”

Zhou Shaobai saw that he was haggard, his hair was disheveled, his beard had grown old, his clothes were filthy, and he seemed to have aged a lot all of a sudden, so he couldn't help but shake his head and pushed the food box in front of him: "It's me, senior brother, this is your meal today, let's eat quickly." ”

The senior brother asked straightforwardly: "Little junior brother, I heard that this time the Nine Veins Theory, Master plans to let you fight?"

Zhou Shaobai thought to himself, this person who delivers food is fast-talking.

He nodded: "That's true, although I shirked it in every possible way, but the master's fate was difficult to disobey, so I could only bite the bullet." ”

Senior Brother smiled bitterly and said, "It seems that Master, he has finally started to teach you." ”

As he spoke, he shook his head and laughed miserably, and when he got to it, he began to cover his face and cry loudly.

Zhou Shaobai naturally knew what was going on, a few years ago, the master planned to take the senior brother to fight, and he had been carefully preparing for a long time, but on the eve of the discussion, the senior brother accidentally broke his leg when he was practicing, and missed the discussion.

Seeing Senior Brother a big man crying so sadly, Zhou Shaobai couldn't help but feel compassion, and he said kindly: "Senior brother, you don't have to be too sad. Master said that as long as you sincerely repent and change your mind, He will give you a chance and will not drive you down the mountain. ”

Senior Brother wiped away his tears and said, "If he hadn't sent someone to participate in the Nine Veins Discussion this time, I would have believed your words, but now that he really wants you to fight, I'm already dead." ”

It turned out that he wanted me to come here in person to verify the authenticity. Zhou Shaobai shook his head: "Last time you were injured and didn't play, the rest of the eight veins all laughed at Yuping Peak as a shrunken turtle, and the master has always been unhappy." This time you have an accident again, but the master can't afford to wait, so he drove the duck to the shelf, and he must let me fight, senior brother, you have today, you have hurt yourself, and you can't complain about others. But don't be discouraged, there's another time. ”

The senior brother was stunned: "Next time?"

He frowned, stretched out his sleeve to wipe away the tears on his face, stood up and said gloomily: "Little junior brother, are you pitying me? Hehe, I didn't expect that I would have to be so despised by you one day. ”

Zhou Shaobai was unhappy in his heart, and immediately said: "I enlightened you with good words, but you are all treated as a donkey's liver and lungs, or if I am in vain, senior brother, it is still the same sentence, you are so self-conscious, say goodbye." ”

With that, he stood up and turned to leave.

Who knew that a strong wind hit the back of his head, and Zhou Shaobai felt a pang in his heart: sneak attack!