At the foot of Qingzhu Mountain, in the courtyard of the miscellaneous servants, accompanied by bamboo waves, insects and birds chirping in spring, quiet and natural, Lu Xia stayed at home, concentrated on cultivation, and reached the third layer of qi refining, he was already able to refine spiritual energy to offset the consumption of the body, Lu Xia naturally did not need to go out to eat and drink, he meditated in the room for half a month, and only then could he consolidate the cultivation of the third layer of qi refining.

However, the people in the miscellaneous courtyard still go out early and return late every day, repeating every day, just wanting to complete the work in hand as soon as possible so that they can go back to cultivation.

The only thing worth mentioning is that the original benevolent Uncle Song suddenly disappeared from everyone's sight, and a middle-aged man was newly ushered in in the Miscellaneous Servant Academy, who took over Song Shichao's work, but this peripheral disciple lived in the largest wing to the west of the Miscellaneous Servant Courtyard by himself, and the bamboo building where Song Shichao originally lived was vacant, and no one dared to trespass in.

On the peak of the road, the cliff of the preaching.

In the early morning, the morning glow is brilliant, like flowing gold sprinkled on the mountain cliff, several stone cliffs are connected, as if being cut into five platforms by life, two by two, ghostly workmanship.

At this time, many young peripheral disciples gathered on the five platforms, and they were separated from the five layers according to the Qi refining layer, and they walked to the corresponding platforms for their current cultivation, quietly waiting for the elders to pass on the Xuanfa.

The reason why there are only five platforms here is because in the Qingyang Sect, the first to fifth layers of the qi refining period is a stage, and after breaking through to the sixth layer of qi refining, it is a new world, and the disciples of the sixth layer of qi refining can already participate in the selection of inner disciples, naturally there is another place to practice, and the sixth layer of qi refining is also a big watershed, countless disciples are stuck in the bottleneck of the fifth layer of qi refining and cannot break through for life, and finally end up depressed.

The most important thing is that the sixth layer of qi refining can practice the art of the sword, the sword starry sky, and step on the top of the green clouds, which is what many people dream of.

Lu Xia also rushed to the preaching cliff very early, and the reason why he has not come to listen to the Fa for half a month is because of the cruel rules rumored in the door: if you do not become a disciple of the inner door, you will live and die, and the immortal fate is in the sky!

Originally, it was a good thing that peripheral disciples could receive a primary-level spirit stone and a Qi Yuan Pill every month after listening to the Fa, but greed is human nature, especially such a spirit stone pill that is directly related to cultivation, who doesn't want to have a few more spirit stones and a few more pills, so the peripheral disciples with low cultivation either obediently hand over to some strong people and beg to retreat, or they are besieged and killed outside the preaching cliff, which is extremely cruel.

"If you don't have strong strength, you don't deserve to have cultivation resources!"

This sentence has almost formed an unwritten rule among the peripheral disciples, except for those newcomers who have a backstage and backing, other newly promoted peripheral disciples are equivalent to fragrant buns, which is a provider of cultivation resources, once a month.

The most terrible thing is that even if you are humiliated, as long as you are not robbed and killed, then you must come to the Preaching Cliff every month to listen to the Fa and receive the benefits of your disciples, so most of the newcomers to the Preaching Cliff are sad, for fear that they will accidentally offend the powerful senior brother who has cultivated and will be killed.

Although Qingyang Sect is one of the four super sects in Donglin, although this practice in the door is to motivate low-level disciples, it is rumored that Qingyang Sect is already crazy.

It was out of all kinds of concerns that Lu Xia had been practicing for half a month, and he didn't get out of the customs until the day of listening to the Fa came, the newcomer was already in a weak position, and he still had a notoriously ruthless enemy like Lin Chenghong, so he couldn't help but be low-key and troubled.

"Panning for gold in the waves, cultivating elite disciples with the most iron-blooded means, it seems that this is how the factional struggle within the Qingyang Sect came about, alas, take one step at a time. Lu Xia was silent, there was a hint of bitterness at the corner of his mouth, then he shook his head and walked towards the last stone platform, which was the stone platform corresponding to the first layer of qi refining, and it was also the place that was jokingly called the "resource library" by high-level disciples.

When Lu Xia stepped on the stone platform, there were already a lot of people gathered here, there were men and women, there were as many as fifty or sixty people, all of them were young people, except for a limited number of people with faint excitement in their eyes, everyone else was like a walking corpse, with sadness and helplessness in their eyes, giving people a sense of sadness, and the whole platform seemed to have a sense of desolation.

Lu Xia frowned slightly, and sighed secretly: "Sure enough, it is not far from the legend, they were bullied when they were newcomers, and when these people become stronger in cultivation, they will naturally double down on bullying the next batch, does the sect want to cultivate a group of wolves?"

Lu Xia, who lowered his head, went straight to a stone platform where no one was around, sat on it, and changed into a brocade suit of a peripheral disciple, he had a faint heroic spirit, his knife-like face was clearly lined, in addition to the fact that his body still looked thin, he already had a bit of the free and easy temperament of an immortal cultivator.

However, Lu Xia's appearance did not cause the slightest commotion, and even a few slightly sarcastic and sympathetic eyes were projected, making his face slightly stiff, and Lu Xia also took the opportunity to sweep the people on the stone platform, suddenly, his eyes were fixed on a corner in the southeast, the killing intent in his eyes flashed, and he said to himself: "Zhang Yiba, I, Lu Xia is back!"

Zhang Yiba was chatting happily with a few of his fellow students, and the slightly respectful looks of several people around him made him feel refreshed, and suddenly he felt that someone was watching him in the distance, and that gaze made his body chill for a while, and then he looked up, only to see Lu Xia's eyes cold, staring at him fiercely. Zhang Yiba's eyes widened, his heart was cold, and his heart was full of scheming: "This kid is not dead, has he become a peripheral disciple? What happened in the middle?"

Just as Zhang Yiba's mind was circulating, Lu Xia smiled disdainfully and withdrew his gaze.

At this time, with a sound of "brush", five divine rainbows flashed in the sky, and then each landed on the five stone platforms.

Lu Xia saw a flash of light, a long rainbow broke through the air, and landed on a high platform in the middle of the stone platform, the rainbow disappeared, revealing a white-haired old man sitting cross-legged on the futon of the high platform, his eyes were like electricity, he swept everyone lightly, stopped on Lu Xia's body for a moment, and then said: "Old man Jiang Bowen, what I will explain to you today is the specific cultivation method within the fifth layer of qi refining and a brief analysis of the path of cultivating immortals. Then he began to explain.

Although the listener is still numb, his eyes have regained a trace of vitality and desire, and he listens quietly, only by constantly understanding the cultivation can he practice better, and only by practicing can he become stronger and not be oppressed.

Jiang Bowen's voice was calm, but it was like a thunderbolt, which made people feel like they were being drunk, and he briefly talked about the attention and avenue of cultivation in all aspects, preaching and solving doubts, and everyone and his body confirmed each other, and he benefited a lot.

Lu Xia was also intoxicated, and after a long time, after an hour of preaching, Jiang Bowen glanced down lightly, and asked: "Today's preaching and teaching is over, if you have any doubts about cultivation that you can raise, the old man will definitely answer them one by one." ”

At this moment, the most important thing is naturally to learn more, but no one cares about the spirit stones and elixirs that can not be used when they are in hand, so the old man's voice fell, and more than a dozen people stepped forward, including men and women, who raised their confusion and bottlenecks in cultivation, and Jiang Bowen also patiently answered them one by one.

Lu Xia had already recovered, his expression was calm, although he had been unable to practice for seven years, he had studied the introductory method day and night, his foundation was already extremely solid and deep, naturally there was no doubt, watching the questions and answers in front of him, he was also happy, and slowly confirmed what he heard today and what he had studied.

"If no one asks, then the old man will start distributing your cultivation resources for this month. I don't know how long it took, Jiang Bowen's voice resounded on the stone platform, waking up Lu Xia who was in deep thought.

As soon as these words fell, the entire stone platform seemed to blow a gust of cold wind, and it was quiet in an instant, and the eyes of everyone suddenly appeared sad and helpless, and the atmosphere on the stone platform was a little weird for a while, it was supposed to be a festive thing, but now it has become like this, I don't know if it is the luck or misfortune of the Qingyang Sect.

There was a hint of discoloration in Jiang Bowen's eyes, and then he seemed to think of something, his eyes were extremely calm, and with a wave of his big hand, dozens of spirit stones and pills flew out of his storage bag.

I saw that he pinched the trick with his right hand, and the elixir spirit stones in the air scattered in all directions, and immediately came towards everyone, and there was no difference in the slightest cuò appeared in front of everyone as if he had eyes.

Lu Xia looked at the elixir and spirit stone floating in front of him, his expression was excited, this was the first time he had seen the elixir and spirit stone, could this finger-sized spirit stone really withstand seven days of penance?

The fragrance of the medicine is refreshing and intoxicating, and the spirit stone is crystal clear, the light is shining, making people dizzy, and the faint aura attracts the vitality in Lu Xia's body to move and run on its own.

Lu Xia stretched out his hand and grabbed the pill and spirit stone in the palm of his hand, his heart was beating fast, as if blood was pouring into his brain, and he said secretly: "As long as you keep having this, you may not need a year to be able to step into the peak of the ninth layer of qi refining!"

Immediately flipped over his hand and put the spirit stone and pill into the storage bag, the spirit stone just flashed, and disappeared in his hand, but there was a silver rune on the spirit pill, and he actually resisted the pull of the storage bag, which made him feel shocked, Lu Xia glanced around, only to see that everyone also grabbed the pill in their hands, and their faces were gloomy.

"I think it's this silver rune that's doing tricks, no wonder it's robbed, put it on your body like this, such a strong medicinal fragrance, can it not attract greedy people?" Lu Xia muttered, smiling bitterly.

"My Qingyang Sect has a new peripheral disciple, congratulations, according to the rules, this Jingyuan Dan ...... Naturally, it also has to be sent to new disciples. Jiang Bowen's expression was calm, and he said lightly, a white pill appeared in his hand, the medicinal fragrance was even richer than the Qi Yuan Pill, and even the Yuan Qi in some disciples' bodies operated on their own, and they couldn't help but sit down.

"There's a new guy again?

"Where's the newcomer?"

"I haven't seen the Jingyuan Pill for several months, it's a second-grade pill that can be used in the fifth layer of Qi refining!"

"The newcomer will be unlucky, I hope he knows the times, otherwise...... Hey hey"

"We'll inform the boss in a moment, presumably this is a one-man job, and we have a lot of shares. ”

Zhang Yiba had a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and glanced at Lu Xia lightly, although he didn't know why Lu Xia, who originally thought he would die, not only did not die, but also promoted, but this did not prevent him from taking this opportunity to completely kill Lu Xia, and muttered: "Last time, you were fated, but this time, hmph, Lao Tzu wants you to know the gap between the two of us, even if you become a peripheral disciple, killing you is still like playing!"

“......”

There are many discussions around, ridiculers, schadenfreude, sympathizers have spoken, as if the suppression of many days has been vented, and sometimes there are many people who look at others unlucky and seek balance in their hearts.

Jiang Bowen ignored the discussion in the audience, suddenly turned his head, focused his gaze on Lu Xia's body, and asked lightly, "What is your name?"

"Back to Elder Jiang, disciple Qingzhu Mountain, Lu Xia!"