Chapter Thirty-Nine: Return to the Teacher
As the days passed, the hundred-year period was getting closer and closer, but Ling Huayin did not have the joy of returning to the teacher, but became more and more preoccupied. Sometimes she would go to Yunmengtai alone, but every time she would return depressed. Ling Huayin couldn't help but think that Situ Yan might have forgotten the agreement with herself.
"The master must be thinking about that Situ Yan again, such a man who has no faith in his words, why does the master care about him?" Su Mu said to himself, but the words still fell into the ears of Eluo.
"Do you know that Situ Yan is a man of his word?"
Su Mu snorted coldly: "Didn't you say that Situ Yan told the master that when she returned to Xianze Palace, she would come back?" It's been a few days, and the shadow hasn't been seen, isn't it untrustworthy?"
E Luo covered her mouth and smiled: "I listen to what you mean, you want Situ Yan to come back, right?"
Su Mu turned his head away, looking disdainful, "I just don't want to see the master disappointed, isn't it enough to have a few of us to accompany the master?"
"That's different, I'm your master's friend or ally, and when your master relents and signs a demon contract with me, I'll be her weapon. You are her apprentice, sooner or later you will have to go down the mountain, and when the time comes, your master will find you a good girl's home, how many times can you see your master?"
"Even if I leave the master, I won't leave the master, and I'm not interested in the girl's family. Su Mu said coldly and left.
The night before returning to Xianze Palace, Ling Huayin called Su Mu to him and asked him: "This time you go back to Xianze Palace with me, it is not as hard as the Great Wilderness Mountain, the cultivation is hard, and there are many rules to follow, can you stand it?"
Su Mu smiled: "The master can stand it, how can I not stand it? As long as I can be by the master's side, I can suffer anything." ”
Ling Huayin smiled with satisfaction and instructed, "You pack up your important things, and we will go back to Xianze Palace tomorrow." ”
"Yes, master. ”
Ling Huayin told Su Mu some of the introductory rules of Xianze Palace one by one, then went back to the room to rest, sat for a while and then remembered something, took out the Xun from the bag on her waist, looked at it for a while, and then stuffed it back into the box where it was originally placed. Just as he was about to lock it, an unpleasant voice came from behind him.
"Put the Xun I gave you here, don't you plan to take it away?"
Ling Huayin squinted at it, and before she turned back, she pushed the box forward and said coldly: "What to do with these irrelevant old things, I don't know how to blow it, and it's useless to carry it." ”
Hearing Ling Huayin's cold tone, he must still be angry before, and Ying didn't expect Ling Huayin's temper to be so strong, so he reluctantly said: "Then I'll teach you to blow Xun." ”
Ling Huayin thought she had heard it wrong, turned around and raised her eyebrows and said with a slight sarcasm: "You didn't say that before, why are you suddenly willing to teach me again?"
"It's my business whether to teach or not, do you want to learn or not?" Shadow didn't want to be the one who bowed his head first, but he had already lost half of his momentum if he came here in person.
Ling Huayin saw that he looked like he was being dragged as if someone owed him money, and he was attached to the night demon she hated, so she was angry and continued to turn on the mockery mode: "What others don't know, they still think that you are a strong man! Besides, you and I don't have the same way. ”
Ei couldn't help but laugh, "Didn't I say this first? ”
"I advise you to get out of my room quickly, or I will be beaten if I am not happy to see this face. ”
Shadow Evil smiled, "I don't think you can beat it, okay girl, don't lose your temper, I'll teach you how to blow the horn, and we'll write off the matter of the perching beast." ”
Ling Huayin heard the shadow call her girl, felt kind, and was not so angry, so she said: "I will go back to Xianze Palace tomorrow, how can you teach me?"
"It's not easy, if you want to learn one day, come to the Valley of Gods and Demons to find me. ”
"Ling Huayin, are you talking to someone?" suddenly sounded outside the window.
Ling Huayin glanced at the shadow, only to see that he had gradually disappeared into air in the room, and Ling Huayin hurriedly got up and opened the door for Eluo. Oro looked around, the room was quiet, there were no outsiders.
"Don't look at it, no one, you just listened to my dreams. ”
E Luo glanced at her suspiciously, and Ling Huayin's face still did not change.
The next day, a woman wearing a Taoist crown rode the auspicious clouds to the Great Wilderness Mountain to greet Ling Huayin, Su Mu thought that it should be the person sent by Xianze Palace, so he went to pay tribute to the Dao Gu, and saw that the woman was similar in age to Ling Huayin, so he called that person a senior sister. But she didn't expect that Dao Gu was taken aback, so she smiled with Ling Huayin and said, "Senior sister, your apprentice knows how to be polite, but he can't figure it out in this generation." ”
Su Mu looked at Ling Huayin suspiciously, and Ling Huayin said, "This is my senior sister Bai Zhen, you should call her uncle." ”
Su Mu suddenly realized, and hurriedly changed his words: "Uncle Shi, Su Mu is rude, please forgive your sins." ”
Bai Zhen shook his hand, but said very casually: "Hey, it's okay, it's okay, those who don't know are not at fault." Xiao Mu, you really took advantage, you don't know that your master never accepts apprentices, how many people want to worship her, she refused, I didn't expect that this time she went out of the mountain and accepted an apprentice. ”
When Su Mu heard her say this, he felt that he was quite heavy in Ling Huayin's heart, and secretly rejoiced, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise a lot.
However, Ling Huayin was cold as usual, and said, "Senior Sister Hard is here to pick me up, Xiao Mu, let's go." ”
Su Mu saw that Bai Zhen was stepping on auspicious clouds and was about to go up, Ling Huayin said again: "Xiao Mu, this way." ”
Su Mu turned around to look, it turned out that Ling Huayin had also summoned an auspicious cloud, Su Mu jumped up happily, Bai Zhen smiled, and didn't say anything.
Su Mu saw that Bai Zhen was some distance away from them, and couldn't help but ask, "Master, why don't you ride with Bai Zhen's uncle?"
"I don't like to get too close to people. Ling Huayin replied expressionlessly.
Su Mu obediently said "oh", and deliberately stood beside Ling Huayin, snickering on his face.
Ling Huayin glanced at his small action and pretended not to see it.
Flying to an open place in the clouds, I saw the white and cold building on the top of the mountain in front of me towering majestically, thinking that it was Xianze Palace, one of the three palaces of Zhonghuang Mountain, surrounded by countless silver swords in the sky, forming a huge sword array, and many palace people in the sword array were flying in the sky. The three of them slowly landed on a flat ground, Su Mu looked up with a novel heart, and saw that the stone steps were carved with the patterns of several swords, all the way up to the mountain gate, there were two crossed stone swords hanging in the air on the mountain gate, and there was a stone door in the middle of the two swords, so he said casually: "Sure enough, it is a combination of two swords." ”
Bai Zhen smiled: "Xiao Mu is really smart, our Xianze Palace cultivates dual swords, but this double sword is not something that everyone can cultivate." ”
Su Mu felt curious, so he asked, "What do you mean?"
Bai Zhen glanced meaningfully at the saber on Su Mu's waist, and said with a smile: "Cultivating the double sword requires two people to cultivate together, the two swords check and balance each other, balance without disaster, and it takes two people who are familiar with each other and have the same mind to practice, but not everyone can realize the truth of the combination of these two swords." Just like the Earth Demon Sword you wear, it is a pair with your master's Tiangang, and without one of them, it is no different from an ordinary sword. ”
Su Mu looked at Ling Huayin in surprise, only to see Ling Huayin frowning slightly, didn't say anything, and walked up the steps.
Bai Zhen looked at Ling Huayin, and whispered to Su Mu: "Xianze Palace doesn't give swords casually, it can be seen that the junior sister is really good to you." ”
"Su Mu, let's go!" Ling Huayin didn't know if she heard it or not, so she suddenly turned around and shouted.
Su Mu saw that Ling Huayin's face was unhappy, and hurriedly responded: "Yes, master." ”
I saw Ling Huayin passing through the enchantment of the palace gate of Xianze Palace, and there was an extra immortal mark on her forehead as if she was doing a trick, which made Su Mu smack her tongue. Su Mu followed Ling Huayin, not daring to say much all the way, for fear of calling the wrong person again. Whenever they meet the disciples of Xianze Palace, they will attract a lot of attention, I think they don't know this elder who has been away from the sect for a hundred years, only a few people who seem to be of a higher rank will come over to salute Ling Huayin.
Ling Huayin wanted to go directly to the main hall, but Bai Zhen said: "Senior sister wants to see the master, let's go to the Tianji first, Elder Tianji noticed that there was something wrong with the sky, and he was discussing with an immortal who came from afar, my master should be there." ”
Ling Huayin was puzzled, and she didn't say anything, so she took Su Mu to the heavenly machine.
Su Mu guessed from Bai Zhen that this celestial machine should be related to divination celestial phenomena, so he thought that the celestial machine must be full of gossip arrays and astrological disks, but he didn't expect Ling Huayin to take him to a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, but this celestial machine was above Xianze Palace, and the white floor tiles extended all the way to a disc, and every time a disc arrived, a switch would be activated, and the disc would automatically take people to the next disc until it rose to the top.
Su Mu was surprised by the design of the Heavenly Machine, and at the same time thought to himself: It's so troublesome, don't the people of Xianze Palace know how to fly? Why don't you just fly up faster?
"There are many organs in the heavenly machine, don't walk around. Ling Huayin seemed to guess Su Mu's mind and said.
"Yes, master. ”
When I came to the top of the disc, I saw three people standing on the platform in front of me, talking, two of them were wearing the blue robes of Xianze Palace, and the other was facing away from them, dressed in snow, it should be the immortal who came from afar as Bai Zhen said.
Ling Huayin walked forward quickly, and a white-bearded but energetic Taoist saw her first, and said with a smile: "Linghua, you're back!"
The other person also turned around, and Ling Huayin made a salute to him, "Master." ”
"It's good to be back. "The voice is normal, not mixed with superfluous emotions. Su Mu raised his eyes and thought that this person turned out to be Shan Liqun, the head of Xianze Palace. I saw that he had eagle eyes and a high nose, a neatly trimmed beard, a dark complexion, and a majestic face, which could be regarded as a dignified appearance. And the other one......
Just as he looked at the man in white, he saw that the man slowly turned around, with a smile on his face, and said like a spring breeze: "Linghua, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”
It turned out to be him? Su Mu was shocked, and Ling Huayin also looked surprised.
Shan Liqun on the side looked at the reactions of the two of them, and said in surprise: "Could it be that the Qinghui Immortal and the Sword Elder are also old friends?"
Situ Yan looked at Ling Huayin with a smile and replied, "Yes, I met Ling Hua ten years ago. ”
"Since this is the case, it is very good, and the Qinghui Immortal will catch up with the Sword Elder about the past. By the way, who is this behind Elder Ling Hua?" Shan Liqun only noticed that there was another person behind Ling Huayin this time.
Su Mu hurriedly stepped forward obediently, and saluted Shan Liqun and Tianji Dao Chief: "Elder Linghua's disciple, disciple Su Mu visits the master, Elder Tianji. ”
Shan Liqun and Tianji Dao Elder looked at each other, almost in unison: "Elder Linghua, have you accepted an apprentice?"
Su Mu raised his eyes and secretly glanced at Ling Huayin, only to see that Ling Huayin had always been cold, and said nonchalantly: "After all, I am old, and I am lonely in the mountains, but there is no apprentice to take care of under my knees, so I simply accepted one." ”
The Daoist of Tianji laughed, touched a handful of beards and said, "You are called old, so what is the name of my old man?"
Shan Liqun knew that he was not speculative with them, and he didn't want to stay longer, so he hurriedly interrupted: "It's okay to accept the apprentices, since you have already seen them, then let him follow the disciples to the morning class tomorrow." ”
Ling Huayin nodded, and watched Shan Liqun leave with everyone.