Brief introduction
Chen Huaisheng had long known that he couldn't hide from the other party's eyes and ears.
The other party is a cultivator, and there are also qi refiners, who are deaf and clear-sighted, and no matter how much they hold their minds, they can't escape the perception of these people.
He didn't plan to hide anything, either.
It's just that the pain on his body still makes him a little difficult to move, although it seems that the other party is not as vicious as he is, but he still doesn't dare to be careless when he sails the ship carefully.
"Chen Huaisheng of Tatexian County has seen you, this girl is right, this is indeed a statue of Wuzhiqi, I occasionally see it in the remote countryside on our side, and the government will never come over. ”
Chen Huaisheng limped, walked out of the left side hall, clasped his fists, and saluted.
At this time, Chen Huaisheng noticed that the other party was nine people, four women and five men, but the leaders should be the two women in the middle, no, it should be a woman in her early twenties and a girl in her twelve-year-olds.
Nine eyes fell on Chen Huaisheng's face, some surprised, some surprised, some regretful, and some indifferent.
"Brother Huaisheng?!" There was a little more surprise and joy in his clear tone, "Brother Huaisheng, is it really you?"
Chen Huaisheng was stunned for a moment, and his eyes fell on the girl who came out of the crowd.
About twelve or thirteen years old, with a small face, a dimple on the left cheek, handsome and slender.
Dressed in a moon-white Luo shirt, the black bun is tight, a hosta is inserted horizontally, and a pair of purple printed runes are stepped on.
There was still a little disbelief in his eyes, and he walked out a few steps before he was sure: "Brother Huaisheng, don't you recognize me? ”
Chen Huaisheng had a vague memory at this time, and he was quite surprised and said: "Ah, Qi Mei, it's been five or six years, you have changed too much, I really don't recognize it, you are ......"
Luo Hamburg, Heimu Cliff, Yuanbao Village, Guzhenyi, Beetongling, these are the five largest villages in Guzhen, each village has a population of about three to five thousand.
And the remaining dozen or so small villages, more than three or five hundred people, less than one hundred and ten people, are scattered in the southeast corner of the three thousand miles of Yu Mountain.
The people next to them all looked at the girl in surprise, although most of them were thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys, but they had a look of reverence for this girl who was younger than them.
It's hard to say whether this girl who will be called Senior Sister or Senior Uncle in the future, but they all know that she is a rare genius in the Nine Lotus Sect who has broken through the dual level of Qi cultivation in less than four years, and what is even more rare is that this woman is not yet thirteen years old.
Along the way, several people changed their ways to attract each other's attention, but they only needed the other party's cold gaze to glance at them, and all the careful thinking tricks came to an abrupt end.
It's just that this attraction is too great, and after a while, you have to find an opportunity to show yourself without interest, of course, it is boring.
Fortunately, this one didn't care about himself, he just ignored it.
I never thought that this guy who was in his early twenties but had not yet entered the Tao was very close, and it was really resentful.
Could it be a relative?
"My little sister visited the Nine Lotus Sect four years ago, and this time I accompanied my senior sister to Yi County to bring a few disciples to the entrance, and I also went home to see ,......"
The girl smiled, dignified as a white lotus, and Chen Huaisheng was also suffocated, and quickly settled down, and even shouted sins and sins in her heart.
"Nine Lotus Sect?"
Chen Huaisheng has been away from his hometown for six years, but he didn't expect that not long after he left, this little girl who was saved from the water by herself actually worshiped under the Nine Lotus Sect.
A wave of envy and jealousy for no reason surged in my heart, is this the distance between heaven and man?
He has also visited these big sects, to be precise, it is not a big sect, but a side branch, subsidiary or lower door of these big sects.
But either they are rejected, or they are directly sent to do the hardest, most tiring and dangerous work, which is called tempering.
If you want to do it, you can do it, and if you don't do it, the key is how hard you try to show it during this period, but you don't have the opportunity to contact the Tao at all.
Thousands of Dao species pour in every year, and there is no shortage of people seeking Taoism in these big sects, so they naturally have to choose from thousands of people.
The major sects generally do not accept direct worship, either the door is self-searching, selecting, excavating, and leading, or it is the side branch affiliated sect that stands out and is recommended.
A person like Chen Huaisheng, who has no connections, can only go to the side to support the opportunity to fight, but that opportunity is too slim.
In the past few years, he has worshiped the side branch sects of two major sects.
After planting Lingtian in a family for two years, except for tiredness, there is nothing to gain, if you learn to plant Yumai and Jiahe, it is also considered a skill, it can barely be counted.
The other is to be a "hunter", that is, the so-called miscellaneous servants in the gang who specialize in hunting low-level demon beasts, specializing in hunting auxiliary work.
I can learn some fighting experience, but it's too dangerous.
Of the nine people who started together, seven went to work as hunters, but in more than two years, three died, one was disabled, and he and another person left the door, while the other person was still holding on, and I don't know what the final outcome would be.
also went to a small sect, but in less than three months, the small sect caught fire with the neighboring sects.
These disciples who had never entered the Dao were useless at all, so they hurriedly scattered and fled for their lives, so as not to become pond fish.
"Nine Lotus Sect, I haven't congratulated the sister yet, this is a great sect of the first rank of Da Zhao, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,......"
Seeing Chen Huaisheng's strange face and muttering to herself, the girl smiled and said: "Thanks to the sect's guidance of the immortal master, the little sister remembers that Brother Huaisheng was also a Taoist talent, and he was better than the little sister, and he has ...... in the past few years."
The girl has the impression that this life-saving benefactor is also a rare Taoist species in Yuanbao Village, and Linggen will go out to travel as soon as he sees it, and he has been out for the past few years, but he doesn't know what the situation is.
The woman on the side has been through ups and downs for a long time, and knows that although this little junior sister is talented in cultivation, she is too young after all, and she is still a child in terms of human feelings, so she can't see the cramped and embarrassed appearance of the young man in front of her.
She hurriedly said: "Qi Mei, everyone's situation may not be the same, your brother should go home after a trip at the moment, and he must also be ambitious,......"
Chen Huai Shengye knew that the woman in front of him was looking for steps for himself to play a round, and he was secretly grateful in his heart.
In this group of people, he could see that the other party and Xuan Qimei were already figures at the level of entering the Dao and practicing qi, and the other boys and girls should be the preferred disciples that Xuan Qimei said.
The major sects have their own channels for recruiting disciples, and generally do not accept people who worship directly, but screen and recommend them through their introductions in various places.
This kind of inductor generally has a special relationship with the big sects.
Either they are the personal disciples of the big sects who are too old to advance and have no hope of returning to their hometowns to enjoy their old age in peace, or they are local big families who are related to important people in the big sects, or they are important members of the local government.
As an usher, there must be some privileges, but there will also be considerable responsibilities and obligations, that is, to select and find the best Dao talents for the sect, and there will be fierce competition in each place.
The Nine Lotus Sect used to be the leading major sect in the Great Zhao Territory, but it has declined in recent decades due to internal strife, and has been surpassed by several newly rising major sects.
But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, not to mention that the Nine Lotus Sect has not yet reached the point of emaciation, but it has declined more than when the family was dominant, but it is still the top five major sects in the territory of Dazhao.
Coughing dryly, Chen Huaisheng was about to explain a few sentences, but saw the girl raise her eyebrows in surprise: "Does Brother Huaisheng also know about the changes in the township?"
Chen Huaisheng was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "What happened?"
Seeing Chen Huaisheng's dazed look, the girl hurriedly asked, "Brother Huaisheng has traveled abroad and has not been in contact with his family?"
Chen Huaisheng said: "I have been traveling in Jijun, Qiaojun and Sui County in the past few years, and I have never returned home,......
"That's it,......" Before the girl could say anything, the woman in purple on the side diverted the topic: "Looking at the appearance of Brother Shi, it seems that he is not in good health, and when I first entered the courtyard gate, I found that there seemed to be some breath left by the spiritual power in the courtyard, I wonder if Brother Shi knew what happened here before?"
Sensing that the other party seemed to be deliberately avoiding the question he had just asked, Chen Huaisheng was a little puzzled.
But the other party is obviously the leading role of this group, and he is not easy to slacken, so he can only talk to him.
"I don't know. I was supposed to rest in this ruined temple for the night, and I planned to return home early tomorrow morning, but it seemed that there were demon beasts in the mountains to break into each other's fights, and I was injured in the side hall, and my internal organs were also injured, and I passed out, I don't know how long I was unconscious, or I was awakened by the sound of your horses' hooves,......"
In front of the other party, Chen Huaisheng did not hide anything.
He has no grievances with the Nine Lotus Sect, and he has nothing to do with it, and he has a relationship with Xuan Qimei, so he is not safe.
It's also telling the truth.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the bearded man transform into a tiger, but the other figure didn't see clearly, and he didn't know what it was.
But if you can fight with a tiger that has transformed into a human form, although you don't know what the final result will be, you can imagine that it must be an extraordinary monster.
"Demon beast?!" Everyone was taken aback, and several teenagers and girls couldn't help but draw their swords and look around.
The woman in purple was also stunned for a moment, and then calmly probed, searching within a radius of ten zhang, and found nothing abnormal, so she was a little relieved.
"Brother Shi, are you sure it's a demon beast?What is that?" The woman in purple didn't wait for the girl to ask, and asked a series of questions, "Where did the demon beast come from?"
Chen Huaisheng briefly recounted what he had seen and heard.
Half-truths and half-truths, he didn't say that the other party was transformed, only the image of the tiger.
If you don't see it, or if you think it will bring more trouble, you don't bother to say it.
The woman in purple took a few disciples to the courtyard and went inside and outside the courtyard to investigate carefully, and the situation she got also proved that what Chen Huaisheng said was true.
The small pavilion on the well was overturned, the courtyard wall was shaken, and even the stone wall of the side hall was knocked out of a pit by Chen Huaisheng, and there were even blood stains on the ground, which were very consistent with what Chen Huaisheng said.
"Tiger Demon or Demon Tiger?" the woman in purple muttered to herself, "Why did you appear here, and what kind of monster is fighting with it?"
Tiger Demon and Demon Tiger are two completely different concepts.
The tiger demon is a tiger beast that has attained the essence of the Tao, and has the power of spiritual wisdom and transformation, in a sense, it is equivalent to the current mortal enlightenment.
The demon tiger is an alienated tiger beast, to be precise, the beasts that have grown up in a specific environment and have special abilities are collectively referred to as demon beasts, which can have no spiritual intelligence, or they may be half-open.
This is not uncommon in the Three Thousand Miles Yu Mountain, especially in the Forbidden Land in the depths of the mountain.
The woman in purple tended to be the latter, which coincided with some of the information she had received.
If it's the former, it's a bit unthinkable.
The shape-shifting tiger demon can completely hide and travel to the places where mortals live to cultivate, as long as they are careful, even monks will be difficult to discover.
Why do you have to go to this mountain obscenity to fight with monsters?
And although there is still some distance from the forbidden land in the mountains of Yushan, it is not uncommon for this kind of demon beast to be affected by some unexpected factors, and it has increased day by day over the years.
It's just that as Chen Huaisheng said, the spiritual power of the demon beast fighting alone shocked him in the side hall across a small courtyard, which was too terrifying.
There are many levels of demon beasts, and there are several tiger monsters, and the grades are also different.
According to what he said, this power is at least above the third-order demon beasts.
Not to mention that a character like her who has a triple qi training is powerless in front of this third-order demon beast, and when the first stage of foundation building comes, I am afraid that it will be difficult to escape the poisonous hands.
Thinking of this, the woman in purple was also a little nervous, and even wanted to leave quickly.
But it's coming, there really have to be demon beasts watching on the side, and if you want to escape at this time, you can't escape, and you go out and be ambushed by demon beasts, and you will be sent to death.
Moreover, demon beasts have always liked to devour cultivators with Dao Qi spiritual power.
Although this Chen Huaisheng has not yet entered the Dao, he is also an innate Dao species, why didn't he eat the other party?
This is also a mystery.
Could it be that the two demon beasts fought and both were defeated, so they each fled?
The woman in purple didn't dare to slack off.
"Ling Fan, Yao Wenzhong, Zhang Zhizhen, Xu Beihuai, the four of you go out with me and set up a guard ,......"
Several young men and girls who were named by the woman in purple all came out in high spirits, but the woman in purple had a heavy face, "Take out the Shenmu talisman in the baggage,......"
Several people were taken aback.
When they left home, they were specially given a divine wood talisman in the door, just for fear of encountering something unexpected on the road, which was used to save their lives.
Although everyone thinks that there is no need for it, the Nine Lotus Sect is also among the top few major sects in the Great Zhao Cultivation Sect, and the strength is particularly strong in the eastern counties, although this is already in the Yu Mountain, but after all, it still belongs to the boundary of Yi County, is there really someone who can't open his eyes to provoke?
However, thinking of the demon tiger that Chen Huaisheng said, several people felt cold down their spines, this is a demon beast, where will it matter where you belong here?
Looking at the evil god who dares to worship Wuzhiqi in this obscenity, you can imagine that the emperor is far away, and it is really uneasy here.
Seeing that several people were shocked, the woman in purple said in a deep voice: "Don't make a fuss, you always have to be cautious when you go out, I will arrange a formation outside the temple, even if there is a demon beast breaking in, it can be called back and forth, but you need your Shenmu talisman to use." ”
When the woman in purple said this, the other people naturally didn't say anything, and they all took out the Divine Wood Talisman and handed it to each other.
Chen Huaisheng looked at the so-called Divine Wood Rune from afar, and the style was also very ordinary, but there was a faint flame on the rune material, which should be outlined and infused with spiritual power.
saw the woman in purple go straight out, and several people followed out.