Chapter 48: Peers
On the second day, Zhang Yan got up early and left the inn, but did not immediately go to the agreed place.
In order to avoid suspicion and not attract people's attention unexpectedly, he walked around Su Mu City in a big circle, and then came back to the restaurant where he and Cheng Wushuang agreed to meet yesterday.
Early in the morning, the streets are sparsely populated, and the morning fog makes the whole city feel a sense of malaise.
The business of the restaurant was also quite deserted, Zhang Yan went straight to the window where he was sitting yesterday, asked for morning tea, drank alone, and quietly waited for Cheng Wushuang and the two to arrive.
After about a stick of incense, there was a sound of footsteps on the wooden stairs of the restaurant.
Zhang Yan followed the prestige, but only saw Cheng Wushuang alone, and there was no figure of the little monk.
"Hehe, let Zhang Xiaodaoyou wait for a long time!" Cheng Wushuang lowered his voice, and then seemed to see Zhang Yan's doubts, and said, "Master Instinct is already waiting for us with others in the north of the city, and our boss is here, so I hurried here alone." ”
"I see, let's go. ”
Zhang Yan didn't talk nonsense, followed Cheng Wushuang down the restaurant, passed through the center of Sumu City and those Sumu forests that were as high as city walls, and went out of the city.
After half a cup of tea, Zhang Yan followed Cheng Wushuang to a dense forest.
There were already four people standing there, none of whom they had seen at all, except for the young monk Master Instinct whom he had seen yesterday.
Zhang Yan looked at the three of them, his eyes were slightly condensed, and he was secretly vigilant, and said to Cheng Wushuang: "Cheng Daoyou, can you introduce a few Daoyou?"
"It's okay, I'm about to introduce it to Zhang Xiaodaoyou. ”
Cheng Wushuang chuckled, pointed to a young man who was gently shaking a folding fan, and said: "This is the sixth Dao friend, a disciple of the sixth family of the Song Kingdom, but because of the family, he ran out and made a name for casual cultivation, don't look at his current gentleness, in fact, he is the most insidious, so our brothers call him the sixth yin man......!"
As soon as Cheng Wushuang said this, Zhang Yan deliberately looked at the young man who was shaking the folding fan, which made his eyes shake past the appearance of the little operator's senior brother back then.
But the next moment, he was surprised to find that the young man actually blushed, a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said to Zhang Yan: "That, don't listen to Cheng Sange's nonsense, I am the youngest of them, and I have been buried by them. ”
The young man was afraid that Zhang Yan would misunderstand, so he hurriedly waved his hand and explained his name, making him even more at a loss.
Zhang Yan couldn't help but smile, this young man was also shy, looking at the other party's helpless appearance, Zhang Yan pretended not to see it, and returned the salute respectfully and friendly.
When the young man saw this, he returned the salute again and again.
"Ha Lu Ha ......" Cheng Wushuang saw this scene, seemed to be in a good mood, Da Lu smiled and pointed to another person, "This is the fourth, the real person of the insect, is an orphan, since he was a child, he wandered with the boss, when he and the boss were in a great drought in the world, they ate tree bark and pulled dry grass and boiled human flesh. ”
"Third brother, my soul eater, why did you become a jumping sao in your mouth, hmph, I have time to let you understand and comprehend the fourth brother's 'jumping sao'. ”
It was a young man of about thirty years old, but there was a scar on his face, which spread from the corner of his eyes to the corner of his mouth, like a hideous centipede.
When the man spoke, he shook and trembled, as if a live centipede was crawling on it, which was very scary.
Moreover, Zhang Yan also felt a terrifying aura from the other party's body, if it weren't for his strong divine sense, his divine soul would have been affected.
Zhang Yan took a deep breath and saluted the other party, but the real person who was the insect only nodded slightly and ignored it.
Standing behind the crowd was a tall and thin man who couldn't see his face clearly, not because he couldn't see clearly, but because he felt like he was in a trance, and he was about to disappear from sight at any time.
Zhang Yan slightly sensed the other party's cultivation, it was actually the peak of the early stage of the foundation building period, and his heart was awe-inspiring, thinking that this person was the boss in Cheng Wushuang's mouth.
"This is our boss, the real person of the stubborn stone, ahem, because the boss crawled out of the pile of dead people, and his life is like a stubborn stone, so he ......" Cheng Wushuang's face was flushed, as if he wanted to laugh but didn't dare.
"Humph!"
The stubborn stone real person snorted coldly, but ignored everyone and Zhang Yan.
And the sixth eyed of the young man who was shaking the folding fan had already turned around and secretly chuckled.
It was the real person who was the insect, and the "centipede" on his face couldn't help but tremble.
"I've seen the naughty ...... Fellow Daoists!" Zhang Yan's face was as usual, but when he said the stubborn stone, he still stopped stiffly.
"The fifth instinct, I won't introduce it, Ha Lu Ha!"
The instinctive monk on the side looked as usual, with a solemn face. This made Zhang Yan secretly muttered for a while.
After Cheng Wushuang introduced everyone, he was in a good mood, and pointed to Zhang Yan and said: "This is a little Taoist friend that I met unexpectedly with Lao Wu yesterday, and I also want to go to the place where the ancient sword gate accepts apprentices and try my luck, so I invite him to go with us, and there are many people to take care of it." ”
The others were noncommittal and only nodded slightly.
"Then when will you set off, how many of you are going to participate in the test of the Ancient Sword Sect?" Zhang Yan asked suspiciously, he guessed that it was impossible for the few people here to become disciples of the Ancient Sword Sect.
"Where, this time, only me and the sixth try their luck, the fifth and the eldest are not interested in the way of the sword, and the fourth is cultivating the way of insects, let alone participate. Cheng Wushuang explained and said, "As for the departure, I still bother the little Taoist friends to wait for a while, I also have a cousin who came from the Song Kingdom, who happened to be here for the Gujian Gate, and wanted to go with us, so I can take care of it." ”
"In that case, it doesn't hurt to wait a little longer. ”
Hearing Cheng Wushuang say this, Zhang Yan became relaxed.
Since Cheng Wushuang has invited his cousin to accompany him, there is really no malice in these people, otherwise Cheng Wushuang would not have pushed his cousin into the fire pit, thinking of this, Zhang Yan simply sat down on the side.
Seeing this, Cheng Wushuang smiled indifferently and didn't care.
However, the young man's sixth eye, seeing Zhang Que working so hard, he held the folding fan in his embarrassed hand, put it away with a flushed face, and his face showed a look of shame, and he also learned to sit cross-legged and cultivate.
When the real person of the insect saw this, the "centipede" on his face trembled again, rolled his eyes, and turned away.
Soon after, two figures finally swept outside the dense forest, and after a dozen breaths, they came to the dense forest.
"Cousin, Steward Liu. ”
Cheng Wushuang said with surprise on his face when he saw the person coming.
"Cousin, are these your friends?"
A girl in a long violet dress who spoke, with eyes and eyebrows like daisies, goose egg face, lips like cherries, slender figure, chest and hips, slim, saw everyone at this moment, and couldn't help but be curious.
Zhang Yan opened his eyes, but was taken aback.
He hadn't seen this girl, and she and the former senior sister of the Beiyuan Gate also had their own appearances, but they couldn't cause him any fluctuations.
What surprised him was that this Steward Liu had seen it, wasn't it the old man he saw in the convoy when he entered the city yesterday?
"Huh, this little guy is actually an immortal cultivator, and yesterday the old decay actually passed away. ”
When Steward Liu saw Zhang Yan, he was also surprised, and couldn't help but speak.
"I've seen my predecessors, but the juniors are just a scattered cultivator, practicing alone outside, for the sake of safety, I have no choice but to take the pill of respiration, hiding my cultivation, and I hope that the seniors are not strange. ”
Zhang Yan's whole body sank, and he said respectfully to Steward Liu, because he sensed that Steward Liu's cultivation was stronger than that stubborn real person, and it was actually a cultivation in the middle of the foundation building period.
"It's okay, this time I'm just escorting the young lady to participate in the test of the Ancient Sword Gate. Steward Liu waved his hand and ignored Zhang Yan anymore.
"Amitabha, I don't know what the name of this female benefactor is? The little monk Guan female benefactor Yin Tang is black, her eyes are blank, and she will definitely be unlucky today, and everything will not go well, and there will be a disaster of blood and light. ”
At this time, the instinctive master, who had never spoken, suddenly folded his hands and came to the girl with a solemn face, looking like a monk who had attained the Tao, and said in a deep voice.
"Ah, little woman Liu Xiaoguo, I wonder if the master can tell me what disaster is about to befall me?
Liu Xiaoguo's face was slightly pale with fright from the instinctive words, and he was at a loss, and his two slender jade hands couldn't help touching his face.
"Hmph, you little bald donkey, don't scare Miss, otherwise you will use your bald head as a gourd scoop!"
Steward Liu turned sideways at this time, flashed to Liu Xiaoguo, with a gloomy face, and said coldly to instinct.
"Ha Luha, cousin, don't blame me, Steward Liu doesn't need to be angry. Cheng Wushuang hurriedly stepped forward at this time and said, "This is my brother sixth, who cultivates the Dharma of Wuwei and is free and easy, just a joke." ”
"Hehe, seniors are not strange, it's just a little joke, it's just a little joke. Instinctively pulled up the robe, touched the bald head, and smiled quite awkwardly.
"Let's go now, go directly to the north, that is Xujiafang City, which is the closest place to recruit apprentices from the Ancient Sword Gate. ”
The voice was very hoarse, but it was the stubborn real person who opened his mouth and said to everyone, and after speaking, he flew up ahead of everyone and flew north along a mountain road.
The others didn't talk nonsense, and they used the light body spell one after another, flying to keep up.
But along the way, Zhang Yan followed behind everyone, frowning slightly, he faintly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say why.
Zhang Yan looked at the stubborn stone real person in front and the housekeeper Liu who was closely following Liu Xiaoguo, and then lowered his head slightly, his eyes flashed, and he groaned slightly.