Chapter 20: Sword Fighting Between the Two Houses
The sky finally brightened, and the morning light penetrated the thick white mist at the edge of the Snake Demon Valley, and the twin snakes that had been entangled all night slowly retreated, one left and one right, and slowly moved away from Qin Xuan's sight.
Qin Xuan was also so tired that he collapsed, and he was already dazed after struggling to support himself by breaking the magic all night.
He immediately left this strange valley and returned to the nameless cave to recover, but he was very unwilling in his heart.
At noon, he went to Linghe City to find a pill shop with a good business to ask for the elixir that specializes in antidote to snake venom, and the female shopkeeper was still a forging monk of the Xingchen lineage.
After asking about the appearance of the snake demon, the female shopkeeper took out a cyan pill bottle with a sly smile and asked, "Does the junior brother live in Nanqiling?"
Seeing her smile strangely, Qin Xuan groaned, "Senior Sister Hui, I am indeed temporarily living in a small cave forty miles south of the city. ”
"Sure enough, it's from the South Seven Mountains! This bottle of Star Spirit Transformation Poison Pill is a unique antidote to this sect, and it may not specialize in detoxifying snake venom, but it has a miraculous effect on our disciples of the Star Lineage. This bottle is a gift from my senior sister. ”
"How embarrassing is this?" Qin Xuan accepted the pill bottle and thanked her, and asked her again: "Do you still want to ask the teacher's sister to be named?"
"The surname is Wei, and he was admitted to the Evergreen Academy in the year of Yi You. ”
"It turned out to be Senior Sister Lingwei, the younger brother's surname is Qin Mingxuan, and he enrolled in Jumu Academy in the year of Gengzi. ”
Qin Xuan put his palms together and made a compilation, performing the rites of the master, and estimated in his heart that this Senior Sister Qi Wei was almost twenty years old, because the average Taoist disciple entered the school at the age of nine or ten, and it was too small to be undisciplined, and too big was not conducive to studying.
Qi Wei pondered for a moment with a smile, and asked Qin Xuandao: "I heard that in the past few days, there are juniors and disciples who are going to fight swords in the Yuequan Cave and compete for the cave, and half of them are your junior disciples from the Jumu Academy, so there won't be you, right?"
"No, it didn't feel like a good place, so I ran first. Qin Xuan replied truthfully disapprovingly, he had saved Shi Ma three times but was guarded against and excluded once, and there was no reason to help again, and said: "Although the place is good, it's a pity that there are too many rights and wrongs." ”
Qi Wei looked at Qin Xuan with interest, glanced up and down, and said with a smile: "Senior brother is a smart person, since you have a little affection there, you are familiar with the way, and you are in the same vein as Jumu, can you help send a letter to Senior Sister?" I don't have any requirements, I just hope that your senior brothers in Jumu Academy will wait until the end of this year's big exam to hold a sword fight." ”
"Don't dare to refuse!"
Qin Xuan could only take orders with short hands, and he also wanted to see the situation in his heart.
"Then thank Senior Brother Qin. Qi Wei laughed, handed the medicine bottle and a codex to Qin Xuan Zuoji to see him off, "Senior brother may wish to come to my Lingwei inn more in the future, if you have any questions about your cultivation, you can also come and ask me." Studying in the same school, we should help each other. ”
Qin Xuan nodded silently and left, speeding all the way south.
In general, there are rules and rules for fighting with the same door, and there will be no fatalities, after all, it is just a fight for territory, and the brothers of the same sect on both sides can't fight with their lives.
Qin Xuan didn't have the reason to help Shi Ma with three guns, although he owed Shi Huan a favor to lead the way, after careful comparison, the other party owed him a life-saving favor is a great favor.
There were other disciples on this path of Jiuzhang Stream, and everyone rushed to Yuequan Cave.
Qin Xuan paid a little attention, only to find that they were all brothers of the Jumu Dao Academy and the Evergreen Dao Academy, there were some differences between the two sects' waist cards, which were easy to distinguish, and the two sides were hurrying away and glared at their opponents.
"Senior Brother Qin Xuan?"
Someone behind Qin Xuan suddenly shouted at him, and when he turned around, he saw Senior Sister Lan Ying and immediately stopped.
This senior sister is seventeen or eighteen years old cardamom years, her skin is as white as snow, and she looks tall in a blue skirt, she has been proud to be the first seat in the Jumu Daoist Academy for two consecutive years, and there is already a dignified woman's heroic spirit between her eyebrows.
Qin Xuan has a little relationship with this senior sister, the source is the Xiang Toad Draft, Qin Yan used the Xiang Toad Grass to poison Qin Xuan, luring two highly poisonous black blood vipers to attack Qin Xuan, if she really succeeds that day, Lan Ying, who is in charge of the night, will not escape the blame.
Lan Ying is the kind of female disciple who concentrates on cultivation and never asks others about their affairs, but after all, she is a child of the Seventy-Seven Sect, and her qualifications are high, and she is known as the "Iron Princess" in Jumu Courtyard, and it is very terrible to be really provoked.
She caught Qin Yan that night, forced Qin Yan to drink a bowl of fragrant toad grass soup and locked it in the room, and asked Qin Xuan and dozens of junior brothers and sisters to catch snakes everywhere, and threw a sack of poisonous snakes through the window every half an hour.
This move was so ruthless that it directly changed Qin Yan's entire life, and many of the junior brothers and sisters in Jumu Academy also trembled with their legs when they saw Lan Ying, for fear of angering her.
Although Qin Xuan and this Senior Sister Lan Ying have not had much contact with each other since then, it is rare to say a few words a year, but they will still prepare some gift money for her every year and pay protection fees regularly.
This kind of thing is the same in every Taoist Academy, otherwise Qin Xuan would not be able to deal with Qin Chuan and Qin Yan's various tricks.
"Senior Sister Lan!" Qin Xuan said with a respectful attitude, after all, he was a pawn under someone else's command.
"Sure enough, it's Senior Brother Qin Xuan, I said why didn't I see you when I returned to the hospital this year. Lan Ying smiled and teased, "What, you don't want to continue to pay me gift money?"
"Senior sister said and laughed, we little junior brothers don't have much else, and the gift money must be prepared every year. Qin Xuan also felt interesting when he thought of the previous embarrassment, so he took out a hundred spirit jade and sent it away, "Senior Sister Lan, it's another year of spring, and Senior Brother congratulates you on being the new champion in high school again." ”
"Then I must borrow your good words. Lan Ying laughed out loud, but pushed Lingyu back, "I know you won't go back to the Dao Academy, why bother to give gift money, when I am really admitted to the Xingchen Dao Academy, it's not too late for you to give some gift money." It's just that this year's posture is too bad, not to mention that the champion is impossible, and whether I can be admitted or not is a question. ”
"Senior sister, you have to have confidence, I will also accompany you to the exam once, just to save experience!" Qin Xuan smiled and sighed in his heart, if he failed the exam this time, I am afraid that he will not have the opportunity to see this beautiful iron princess again in the future.
"You're going to help, too?"
"No, that senior sister from Lingwei Xiaozhan asked me to deliver the letter, I don't know who I want to send it to now, I guess it's which senior brother from our side, right?" Qin Xuan pinched his chin and asked Lan Ying, "Senior sister, what is the specific situation?"
"It is said to be a new hatred and an old hatred, and the two sides have tossed several times, let's talk while walking!"
"It's good!"
The two of them galloped all the way.
Between the walks, Lan Ying thought that Qin Xuan had not yet condensed the blood seed, and deliberately slowed down his pace and waited for him, Qin Xuan did not want her to see that her strength had surged, and she did not expose her strength.
The two walked side by side, and the speed was not too fast.
Lan Ying also just heard about the Yuequan Cave in the past two days, she was the chief disciple of the Jumu Academy for the past two years, and the senior brother who came to ask for help was eager to ask for help, and explained the matter very clearly.
It turned out that a few years ago, the group of disciples who occupied the Yuequan Cave were Changqing and Jumu, the Evergreen Academy was headed by a Senior Brother Luo, and the Jumu Academy was headed by Senior Brother Guo Dai.
As a result, it was unfortunate that Senior Brother Guo Dai lost.
In the past few years, the Evergreen Academy has only left the stone horse three guns to guard the cave, and the senior brother Luo who really mastered the Yuequan Cave is now a spiritual forging monk in the Xingchen Dao Academy, and his status is quite high.
There are fights between the two sides almost once or twice a year, and the formation is quite large.
This year coincided with the introductory trial of the Xingchen Dao Academy, and the disciples of the two academies gathered in Linghe City, and even more disciples came to participate in the sword fight, and even Lan Ying, the iron princess who had always concentrated on cultivation and did not care about idle matters, was invited over.
"It's complicated!"
Qin Xuan sighed with emotion, and when he looked up, he already saw the Yuequan Cave, and there were hundreds of people in the open space outside the cave divided into two camps, with the Seven Star Spirit Vine Banner of the Evergreen Courtyard on one side, and the towering Ancient Tree Flag of the Giant Wood Courtyard on the other side, dozens of senior brothers and sisters laughed and scolded each other through the wooden fence.
Qin Xuan couldn't help but regret it for a while, and it was difficult to get out of sending the letter to the thief's den.
He and Senior Sister Lan Ying glanced at each other, and when their eyes met, they both felt the same way, and they didn't want to participate in this kind of thing at this time.
The two don't have much contact in the Taoist Academy, mainly because Senior Sister Lan Ying doesn't cause trouble, and she doesn't form gangs, and she has always been alone to have the nickname of "Iron Princess".
There are not many juniors and sisters under her command, unlike Qin Chuan and Song Qi who have competed against each other in the past two years, and each has more than 100 juniors and brothers to help.
Qin Yan was very stimulated by the Xiang Toad draft, and she also managed to win over a group of people, surrounded by senior brothers with a little strength, and the disciples in the Taoist Academy laughed and scolded her for being a senior sister who slept out.
Inside and outside the hospital are all kinds of life, and this is the case.