Xiaojian Peak is the highest peak in the entire Thin Smoky Mountains, where a thousand-year-old tree once grew, full of aura. The canopy of the www.biquge.info is sheltered by a large number of spiritual grass and fairy trees, which is one of the most famous blessed places in the Smoky Mountains.

With this thousand-year-old tree, the Little Sword Sect that was entrenched here back then can be regarded as a strong party.

However, more than three hundred years ago, a certain senior of the Boyan Sect wanted to borrow a small part of the heart of the Millennium Tree to refine the magic weapon. Back then, the Boyan Sect was already the overlord of this place, and although the Little Sword Sect was powerful, it couldn't be compared. Considering the relationship between the two factions, after several discussions, they made a deal, and the Little Sword Sect agreed to sell a part of the thousand-year-old tree heart.

On the day the heart of the tree was cut, there were some accidents. The thousand-year-old tree, which had been dug out of a small piece of the heart, withered and died in an instant. No one knows what's going on, and no one can save the situation.

Without the Divine Tree, the Little Sword Sect began to decline since that day.

The Millennium Tree may be dead, but there is still power in its roots. The huge roots took root in the mountain peaks and turned into the roots of the wood spirits, and under its nourishment, the mountain peaks were densely covered with spiritual grass, and the quality was also very high. It's just that the down-and-out Little Sword Sect has overexploited these spirit grasses for years in order to pursue the glory of the past, and today, there are not many precious spirit grasses.

Two male disciples of Yan Kangmen were taken to the Little Sword Sect, and a low-ranking monk took the two of them to the back mountain to dig up elixirs, treating them as ordinary coolies.

Luo Hui naturally did not lack these two medicine diggers, and the reason why he asked them to come was simply because he didn't want to lose the upper hand in the sect battle. Now Yan Kangmen has paid a little price, which is equivalent to showing weakness and demoting himself in the status of the sect.

After returning to the Little Sword Sect, he, the young sect master, basically left this matter behind. I didn't expect to receive bad news a few days later.

At that time, he was practicing spells in his room, and the servants of the family came to report that the disciple who went out to collect medicine was attacked by spirits, and several people were killed and injured. Among the dead, there were two monks who had been borrowed from Yan Kangmen.

"Is there such a thing?" Luo Hui took a breath and scolded: "Damn, it's really unlucky"

"Yes, Young Sect Master. The servant chimed in, "It's unlucky." We haven't seen a difficult spirit near the mountain gate for more than ten years, and the people of Yankangmen are really a disaster. ”

"I'm talking about my bad luck!" Luo Hui didn't bother to say more to his mentally handicapped servant, and waved his hand to tell him to get out, "Hurry up, don't hinder my cultivation." ”

"But, what about the dead Yan Kangmen monk?"

"What else can I do?" Luo Hui said: "Collect the relics and send them to Yan Kangmen." ”

"This ...... Isn't that good? Why don't you give them a little pension or something......?

"Phew, what do you repair!" Luo Hui heard this, kicked the servant to the ground, and scolded angrily: "They themselves are not strong, and they were killed by spirits, what does it have to do with me? Do I have to send a team of guards to help them collect medicine? Hurry up and do as I say, even if Yan Kangmen is not convinced, what can they do with us." ”

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In the afternoon of the same day, Lin Yuan, who was meditating and cultivating in the main hall, got the relics of his two fellow disciples.

It's not much. One has no magic weapon, two has no talisman, three has no elixir, and four has no spirit stone, and even the body is not left. All they had was blood-stained clothes, boots, broken medicine hoes, and a mortal amulet.

The person who sent the relics watched Lin Yuan count from the side, and when the man saw that there was a talisman in the relic, he couldn't help laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Lin Yuan asked with a cold face, "Is there anything funny?" ”

The envoy of the Little Sword Sect is a cultivator of the sixth level of Qi training, he has already looked around in this small Yankang Gate, and he has not seen a single layer of Qi cultivation higher than him. In this case, the meaning of contempt naturally rose in this person's heart. Seeing that the young man in front of him actually lost his temper with himself, he really didn't plan to give face to this Yan Kangmen.

"I'm laughing at me, what's the matter with you? If you want to hear a story, you can go down the mountain and into the city, and go to those mortal storytellers to tell you. A monk who also wears a mortal amulet, doesn't it make people laugh?"

Lin Yuan nodded, didn't say anything, and personally sent the messenger down the mountain. When he returned to the mountain gate, a large number of people surrounded him, frowning and asking if there was anything wrong with him.

It's normal for everyone to be so nervous, after all, every time the Little Sword Sect comes, they have to make people unhappy.

Lin Yuan sighed and summoned the entire department to a meeting before the main hall. There are some things that it is better to explain them earlier.

Receiving the summons of the senior brother in the door, Yan Kangmen slowly gathered up and down towards the main hall. The last to arrive was Guan Qi and the brothers and sisters of the Kite family, the three of them were offering incense to more than a dozen of their classmates who had been killed by Lu Zhengxun before on the peak, and it was Qingming today.

She ran down from the peak in a hurry, saw Lin Yuan with a black face, and knew that something was wrong.

Seeing that the last people had arrived, Lin Yuan stood in front of the main hall and counted them one by one in front of the whole department. １，２，３，4...... The number eventually stopped at 44. The doormen looked at their senior brother with question marks and counted, not understanding what he was doing.

After counting, Lin Yuan said to everyone in a calm tone: "In our door, except for the ancestors who are currently wandering outside, there are only forty-four people left in you and me. ”

As soon as these words came out, a noisy discussion broke out outside the hall.

Lin Yuan continued: "When we stepped into the mountain gate that day, there were a total of sixty-two brothers and sisters. When we were attacked by the Masked Man, we lost sixteen of our brothers. There were only forty-six people left in the door. Just now I got the news that two more senior brothers died in the Little Sword Sect. ”

The people outside the hall counted the days with their fingers, and it was only a month's work for their family to enter the mountain, and the number of people had already decreased by one-third. Although everyone has advanced from mortals to monks in the past month, this joy cannot dilute the fear of death. Just looking at the death toll, no one knows how many people will be left in the door next month, and whether they will still be alive.

After getting the news of the death of the same door, there was not much sadness up and down Yan Kangmen, but more fear. Everyone knows that the so-called masked people are the people of the Lu family, and they are the enemies of their own slaughter and practice. The Luo family of the Little Sword Sect simply felt that their own sect was weak and could be bullied, so they had this matter today.

Seeing that the people were in a panic, Lin Yuan was very unkind and told the matter of the Yu Lu family's battle in the ring, and the outside of the hall immediately exploded.

"Seven-player ring battle?!"

"Aren't we going to lose?"

"Is my sister going to be snatched away in the morning?

In the past month, although Kite has been cultivating with Guan Qi at the peak in the early morning and has not had much contact with people, that quiet and shy appearance has still reaped the admiration of the few remaining male peers.

Lin Yuan, who had said this, beckoned everyone to line up to receive today's pill, and then they could disperse, without saying a word more.

It was announced to the doorman because he believed that everyone had the right to know the facts. He himself didn't know what to do at the moment, did he want to declare war on the Little Sword Sect, or continue to wait for the sect to grow?

Now there are only forty-four disciples left in the Qi cultivation period, which is not enough to cope with the sect review on the day of the summer solstice. If it is not reviewed, the ration of 10,000 spirit stones a year will not be obtained, and it will be difficult for this Yan Kangmen to continue.

That night, Lin Yuan called a few people with more combat effectiveness in the door to the main hall. Everyone sat in a circle around the round table, and the attendees were about the brothers and sisters of the Qihe Kite family, the father and daughter of the Tu family, Lin Yuan Lu Xian, and Duan Qing.

On the table, there were four body refining pills that had been bought at a large price from the trading house.

For a long time, the disciples of Yankangmen have always believed that their own sect is divided into 'inner and outer doors'. Those senior brothers and sisters who were included in the door by Patriarch Yan Kang, that is, Guan Qi, Lin Yuan and Lu Xian, belonged to the inner gate. Tu Xingbei and the brothers and sisters of the Kite family also seemed to reluctantly enter the inner door. The others are all outer disciples.

Duan Qing also thought so before, although the sect did not openly distinguish between disciples. Now she is also sitting in this circle of 'inner door' disciples, and the whole person is a little nervous.

'Could it be that I've also become an inner disciple?' she thought happily.

Lin Yuan explained the effect of the pill on the table, then looked at the others and asked a very sensitive question, "Everyone knows about the matter of the ring, as well as the conflict with the Little Sword Sect. Now there are four Body Refining Pills here, whoever wants to take them. But remember, after taking this elixir, you must take on the responsibility of maintaining the sect. ”

Tu Xingbei and Duan Qing are pure body refining cultivators, and they are ordinary in their own right, which is the level of ordinary people.

They had heard the name of the Body Refining Pill, and it was a well-known elixir among mortals. As long as you eat half of it, you can be free from illness for life, and your longevity will increase by at least ten years. On top of that, the user will become stronger, have a lot of strength, and have some benefits for skin and hair growth.

Duan Qing said before that there are many ways to improve the body, and this body refining pill is one of them.

Guan Qi was the first to raise his hand, indicating that he wanted to take this medicine and give it to his father. And complained to Lin Yuan vigorously, "If you have this kind of good medicine, you said it earlier, I will buy a few pills for my family when I have money." ”

For this application, Lin Yuan naturally did not approve it.

"I said Miss Seven, let's have a snack. Now that there are so many enemies in the gate, there is no room to allocate cultivation resources to places outside of combat power. You can buy the body refining pill again in the future, don't worry. ”

"Oh, that's it, then I don't want it yet. Guan Qi retracted his outstretched hand again.

She is a sword cultivator, controlling the golden crystal to kill the enemy, and most of the spells in the Broken Jade Heart Sutra do not need to fight with the monk, and most of them manipulate the golden crystal to form various formations, and they need multiple golden crystals to cast.

For example, the 'Ten Thousand Gold Array' recorded on the last page of the exercise requires thousands of monks to gather enough 10,000 gold crystals to arrange it. According to the book, it seems to be the only spell that can defeat Yuan Ying by relying on a large number of Qi cultivation period cultivators.

Tu Xingbei and Duan Qing then raised their hands, both of them were body refining cultivators, and they had good reasons to apply for this pill.

The application was submitted, and Lu Xian was the first to stand up and speak in support of it. "Just give them two, I don't need them anyway. At least not now. ”

Everyone at the table nodded, agreeing, so Tu Xingbei and Duan Qing took their pills with a blushing face with some embarrassment, and swallowed their stomachs very anxiously.

Then, everyone's eyes looked at the only remaining body refining cultivator on the table—Tu Nanshan.

Seeing this, Boss Tu hurriedly waved his hand, "I don't have any expectations for promotion at my age, so keep it for the young people." As he spoke, he pushed the pill in front of the kite's siblings.

The brother and sister said that the Broken Jade Sword Technique was a complete flying sword sword cultivation, and they didn't need these. Boss Tu rebuked 'stupid' with a black face.

"Although you don't have to fight in close quarters, you must also have a strong body to prevent the enemy from sneaking up on you. ”

The brother and sister thought about it for a while, but still felt that it was unnecessary.

Kite Qingkong explained: "There are so many senior brothers and sisters who cultivate the Beidou Jue in the door, if the Body Refining Pill is given to us as sword cultivators, what will others think if they know?"

Hearing this, Boss Tu shook his head with a wry smile, "My Beidou technique has no cultivation value, and it is useless to practice this exercise even if it is assisted by more medicines." ”

Tu Xingbei on the side had just taken the pill, and when he saw his father say this, he suddenly felt that the pill was stuck in his throat, and he was unspeakably uncomfortable.

Since the last time Lu Zhengxun attacked, Boss Tu has been showing an inferiority complex and melancholy, and has not been able to come out of the shadow of the death and injury of the doorman. After all, the enemy was brought in by him, and he blamed himself.

Lin Yuan saw that this elixir could not be distinguished, so he decisively threw the remaining two to Tu Xingbei and Duan Qing.

"Since no one wants it, you two can eat two each. Anyway, the more you eat this stuff, the better. ”

When Duan Qing heard this, she accepted it unceremoniously, wanting to swallow it. Tu Xingbei became lost because of her father's words, and just silently put away the pill. When Duan Qing saw it, she was not embarrassed to eat it, so she put the medicine in her arms.

Seeing that the atmosphere of the conversation was starting to be bad, Lu Xian proposed to break up the meeting, and then grabbed Lin Yuan by the neck and asked him to follow him to the back mountain.

"I have important things to say. ”