Xu Zhongda almost dragged Gong Huaiming to the ancestral house to meet the ancestor Xu Gengyang.

When Gong Huaiming saw Xu Gengyang, he felt a little incredible, he had already heard that Xu Gengyang was an old man in his eighties and nearly ninety, in his imagination, such a long-lived old man should be old, but what he saw Xu Gengyang, except for a head of silver hair, there was no other sign of aging, the skin on the back of his hands, face and other body parts exposed was delicate and tight, ruddy, and there was no sign of aging at all. If you don't look at Xu Gengyang's silver hair, if you say that he is a young and vigorous man, I believe no one will doubt it.

Under the eaves, Gong Huaiming had to show his respect for Xu Gengyang, and he bowed to Xu Gengyang without being humble or arrogant, "The junior Gong Huaiming has seen Mr. Xu." ”

Xu Gengyang first asked Gong Huaiming to sit down, and then talked to him. Gong Huaiming has been an emperor for more than three months, although he is a puppet at the mercy of others, but the experience of more than three months has been extremely effective in shaping his temperament and conversation, and Xu Gengyang quickly noticed this.

After more than half an hour, Xu Gengyang had a rough judgment of Gong Huaiming, so he went straight to the point: "Huaiming, the man is alive, when there is something to do, I take the liberty of asking, do you plan to be a martial artist for the rest of your life? Or do you have any special plans?"

Gong Huaiming couldn't guess why Xu Gengyang would ask such a question, Xu's firm was the haven he chose, for the time being, he didn't want to leave here, so naturally he didn't want to stiffen his relationship with Xu's firm, he picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and with this action, sorted out his thoughts, and then said carefully: "Mr. Xu, no one is willing to be plain, if there is a chance, who doesn't want to be prosperous and rich." But I have self-knowledge, and I just want to live a safe life. ”

Xu Gengyang smiled, "Huaiming's words are not true. I've got a chance here to get you out of the blandness, I wonder if you'd like to try?"

Gong Huaiming's heart moved, and he said urgently: "What chance?"

Xu Gengyang smiled: "I know Huaiming, you are not willing to be bland, let me guess it." Hey, you don't have to rush to explain anything to me, I don't blame you, when you were your age, your heart was bigger than yours, and it's a good thing that young people are ambitious, and if you don't have some ideas, I, an old man, may not be able to afford you. Hehe, don't talk about this, Huaiming, I'll introduce you to two people. ”

Xu Gengyang slapped his face, and after a while, two young men walked in from outside the hall, one of these two people looked a little similar to Xu Zhongda, he was Xu Zhongda's eldest brother Xu Boda, and the other looked arrogant, nostrils to the sky, as if the whole world owed him an account.

Xu Gengyang got up and arched his hand towards the man with an arrogant expression, "Immortal Master Niu, this is Huaiming, a distant relative of our old Xu family. I'm sorry for you. ”

Those who can be worthy of the title of "Immortal Master" are all cultivators, Gong Huaiming hurriedly got up and bowed to Niu Immortal Master, "Gong Huaiming greets Immortal Master." ”

Immortal Master Niu still held his head high, squinted his eyes, his eyes moved up and down, and he looked at Gong Huaiming, "Is he the one who wants to measure the spiritual root?" ”

Gong Huaiming didn't know what the other party meant, Xu Zhongda hurriedly signaled to him and asked him to step forward. Gong Huaiming took a few steps forward as he said and handed his hand to the Niu Immortal Master.

Niu Xianshi grabbed Gong Huaiming's wrist, put his fingers on his wrist, and then closed his eyes, and after a while, a bright light began to flash on Niu Xianshi's body, and after about half a bag of cigarettes (a bag of cigarettes for five minutes), he opened his eyes and shook his head.

"Brother Niu, how is it?" asked Xu Boda.

"Not good. Immortal Master Niu said.

"Brother Niu, you can see it. Xu Boda said busily.

The Ox Immortal Master snorted, "I have a bone thaumaturgy, and I have measured the spiritual root of hundreds of people, but none of them have been accurately measured. If you don't believe me, then forget it, I'll leave now. ”

Xu Gengyang hurriedly said: "Niu Daoyou, don't be angry, you still have to drive, and then carefully check to see how my distant relative is?"

Immortal Master Niu hesitated for a moment, "Okay, for the sake of the two Daoists, I'll make an exception for you." I have a bottle of fixed root lotion here, which is made by a secret method, which can cut off the spiritual root of a person, and the test results are extremely accurate, if you are willing to spend another five thousand taels of silver, I will use a bottle for this little friend. ”

Xu Boda and Xu Zhongda looked at Xu Gengyang together, five thousand taels of silver is not a decimal number, whether it is worth spending such a big investment on an outsider like Gong Huaiming, this has to be decided by the ancestors.

Xu Gengyang stopped talking, he muttered for almost a bag of cigarettes, he didn't know how many times he thought about it in his mind, and gritted his teeth, "Use it." ”

Niu Xianshi took out an extremely delicate jade box, opened the jade box, the jade box was half empty, and there were five porcelain bottles the size of a baby's fist inside, and the mouth of the bottle was blocked with a red cloth wrapped in a wooden stopper.

Niu Xianshi took out another white jade jade dish, opened a porcelain bottle, poured the fixed root lotion inside into the white jade jade dish, and then grabbed Gong Huaiming's hand, stabbed his finger with a needle, and squeezed a few drops of blood into the fixed root lotion. In the blink of an eye, the fixed root emulsion dissolves into the fixed root emulsion, and the color of the fixed root emulsion does not change at all.

Immortal Master Niu shook his head, "The result is out, I just used the phase bone thaumaturgy to break his spiritual root, and there is nothing wrong." This relative of yours has an unknown spiritual root and unclear talent, and is not suitable for cultivating the truth and learning the Tao at all. ”

Xu Gengyang and the Xu brothers couldn't hide their disappointment when they heard this, Gong Huaiming was even more like a thunderbolt, and the whole person almost fainted, if he was not suitable for cultivation, how could he become a cultivator, and how could he wash away the humiliation imposed on him by Emperor Chenghua?

Xu Gengyang sighed, "Immortal Master Niu, I'm sorry for you." Boda, you take the Ox Immortal Master to the account room and settle the cost of the Spirit Measuring Root for the Ox Immortal Master. ”

"Yes. Xu Boda retreated from the hall with Niu Immortal Master.

Gong Huaiming's face was pale, his soul was lost, like a mourning woman, and the conclusion of "unable to cultivate" hit him too hard. He once thought that one day he would be able to ride the clouds, drink the mist and eat the mist, and be free between heaven and earth, how carefree and comfortable it was. However, this made the Niu Immortal Master ruthlessly punctured.

Xu Zhongda looked at Gong Huaiming's appearance, he felt a little unbearable, he still had a good impression of Gong Huaiming, he walked to the old ancestor's side, and whispered: "Grandpa, do you want to give Huaiming the recommended quota? In addition to the inner disciples, doesn't the Shenfu Sect also recruit outer disciples? Huaiming can't be an inner disciple, but with his ability, it's more than enough to be an outer disciple." ”

Xu Gengyang pondered for a long time and nodded, "Huaiming, I originally wanted to promote you and recommend you to participate in the disciple selection meeting of this sect. But I didn't expect you to have an unknown spiritual root and an unclear talent. Alas, creation makes people. This life is unsatisfactory in ten **, you don't have to be discouraged, I still have a spare recommendation here, I can give it to you, so that you can participate in the disciple selection meeting. As for me, I will write a letter to Chen Sicheng and Chen Xianshi, the deputy chief deacon of the Outer Gate Cluster Peak Hall, and recommend you to him and let you become an outer disciple. I wonder what you think?"

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