In Lao Mai's eyes, this person was the middle-aged man in the early stage of foundation building who was on the fourth floor of the wooden tower in the valley that day, dressed as Yu Mu in his hair, and was forced by the strong aura of the old Mai Jindan period of spiritual pressure, and fell backwards to the ground, and instantly saw his appearance.

After repeatedly reading and confirming that it was correct, Lao Mai took this sketch portrait and asked Yu Mu: "Sister Miki, have you ever learned Photoshop?"

"PS I learned it when I was in college," Yu Mu took the portrait curiously, blinked and asked, "Who is this?"

Lao Mai didn't want Yu Mu to recall the kidnapping in the past, so he said vaguely: "A stranger I want to find is like this, and I want to restore him to a colorful real person." ”

Yu Mu agreed easily: "Tomorrow, I will take it to the computer company where I worked before, and find a master to help you restore it, ensuring that it is exactly the same, similar to the photo." ”

A few days later, Lao Mai got a color portrait of a person printed on photographic paper, which looked like an enlarged color photo of the thin and pale middle-aged man on the fourth floor of the tower.

Yu Mu smiled and said: "In the past, the master brothers in the company were very helpful to me, when I was their little sister, they took this job, it took two days, and it was carefully crafted, Brother Mai looked at it, just like a real photo." ”

Lao Mai looked at the realistic portrait, reached out and touched her little head and said, "Then do you thank people?"

Yu Mu smiled: "Of course thank you, I invited them to a seafood dinner." ”

She herself likes to eat seafood, and she naturally chooses her favorite way to eat it when she treats her, which is purely a little girl's style, not at all like a millionaire sister.

Lao Mai found Ah Guang and ordered this portrait to be colored, and then assigned it as a sect task among the outer disciples, mainly in the Sichuan and Shaanxi areas, and found this person and confirmed it, and personally guided the cultivation once, and rewarded six pills of Yinyuan Dan.

The reason why this task is only released among the outer disciples is because there are not many second-generation disciples in the foundation building period, and the third-generation disciples, regardless of the early stage of foundation building or the Great Perfection of Qi cultivation, are basically hiding and concentrating on cultivation, and those who run the rivers and lakes in the secular world are all outer disciples, and their levels are uneven, and they rarely get the help of the Yinyuan Pill in their cultivation, let alone the guidance of the sect master.

As soon as this task was issued in the sect system, the outer disciples felt novel, there had never been this way of issuing tasks, those who had the ability to track and find people, everyone took the task and wanted to give it a try, so this Jinshi Sect's first task was successfully released, of course, it was only secretly released within the sect, and it should not be said to outsiders, otherwise it would be punished by the door rules.

Since Mu Qingzi announced his retreat and cultivation in the sect, he basically ignored foreign affairs, and all sect affairs were handed over to Lao Mai, the de facto executive deputy sect master, to handle them with full authority.

Lao Mai also knew that Mu Qingzi did not have much longevity, except for concentrating on cultivation in order to fight for the later stage of advanced foundation building, he had no intention of managing the sect anymore, and the sect was actually in charge of himself.

He himself has a set of ideas about the management of the secular world outside the sect, but he is still immature, and he does not want to overthrow the old system and reform it vigorously, so he only does some institutional dismantling and management personnel changes.

First of all, the establishment of the board of directors of Jinshi Company, so that Liu Zhongming, the nephew of the third division who successfully advanced to the middle stage of foundation building, is named the chairman of the board of directors, and is the convener of the clay carving wood sculpture model, and the boss behind the scenes is still Lao Mai himself, anyway, Liu Zhong will be nearly 100 years old next year, except for cultivation, he has no interest in other things, just because he has just stabilized his cultivation to the realm, there is no risk of rushing through the pass in a short period of time, and it is also beneficial to enter the WTO to practice.

Fang Zhonghua, the nephew of the fourth division, and Xu Zhongxian, the nephew of the fifth division, were originally the vice president of the Jinshi Group, overseeing all the industries in the world.

Secondly, after the sect was managed by Lao Mai, the old was changed to the new four major pavilions, one was the monastic pavilion, which was in charge of the inner sect affairs, the second was the Jingshi Pavilion, which was in charge of the outer gate secular affairs, the third was the law enforcement pavilion, which was in charge of the sect's execution, and the fourth was the Sanqing Pavilion, which was in charge of the sect's scriptures and classics.

Xu Zhongxian is the master of the Taoist Pavilion, Liu Zhongming is the master of the Jingshi Pavilion, Fang Zhonghua is the master of the Ruling Pavilion, and the Sanqing Pavilion and the Wuxiang Taoist Temple of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion are combined, and the original pavilion master is Mu Qingzi's cronies who are placed in the Taoist Temple, named An Xuzi, is a Taoist priest with the identity of the Wuxiang Taoist Temple, and is also a newly advanced person in the early stage of the foundation building, and he is the new Sanqing Pavilion Master, but Lao Mai can't control him.

The rest of the disciples who entered the foundation building period were all promoted to the elders of each pavilion, such as the inner gate elder in the monastic pavilion, the outer gate elder in the Jingshi Pavilion, the law enforcement elder in the law enforcement pavilion, and the old Mai in the Sanqing Pavilion didn't know how to call it, so they were all called the pavilion elders, anyway, there were few people in it, and in the end, even the other pavilion elders were referred to as "pavilion elders".

In fact, the management of the entire Jinshi sect is very loose, except for the Sanqing Pavilion and the Wuxiang Taoist Temple, the villa villa where the sect assembly is located, Mu Qingzi has a small valley to cultivate, and the rest of the industries are all settled in the large and medium-sized cities in the south of the world.

Lao Mai has the intention to change the status quo of the sect that is not conducive to centralized management, and he has to wait for the old Taoist Mu Qingzi to officially step down from the position of sect master to him, but unfortunately Mu Qingzi is so obsessed with cultivation that he completely forgets that there is still this stubble, so he can only wait quietly for the day when Senior Brother Cheap remembers the specific matters of the handover.

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One day before the Mid-Autumn Festival of the National Day in 2001, when the old Daomu Qingzi, who was almost in retreat, called Lao Mai to groom his body as usual, he took Yu Mu with him by the way.

The organs in Yu Mu's body were malformed and could not form the foundation of cultivating the Dao Method, Mu Qingzi had always paid little attention to her, and now he suddenly asked him to take Yu Mu with him, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange.

Yu Mu heard that she was going to visit the old Taoist chief in the small valley of Wuxiang Taoist Temple again, and she was also a little excited, and the attraction of the strange tree bonsai that was sealed in the ancient tree still existed for her.

Lao Mai asked her to close her eyes and coaxed her to say, "Old Dao Elder is now making great progress in his cultivation skills, and he can cast spells like monsters and take the two of us over." ”

Then, put on her own True Yuan Force Gang Qi Imperial Body Shield, and after many research experiments, he now doesn't need to do physical destructive shuttles, and he can lead people away.

The two of them escaped into the small valley where Mu Qingzi was staying in a moment, and Mu Qingzi had already opened the partition protection ban of the small valley and was waiting for them to come.

Yu Mu kept his eyes closed, and it didn't take long for him to feel that his feet were soft, and the wooden floor that seemed to be standing just now had turned into a woolen carpet, and he heard Lao Mai say in his ears: "When you arrive, you can open your eyes." ”

She hurriedly opened her eyes and saw that she was stepping on the green grass under her feet, and there were already reckless trees and grass paths in the small valley in front of her, and she looked at Lao Mai excitedly and smiled: "Wow, Brother Mai, the old Taoist is so amazing, Shi Faye, it will be there in a while, and you don't need to carry me up the mountain yet." ”

Mu Qingzi stood in front of the door of the cabin with a smile to greet the two of them, it seemed that his retreat and cultivation during this period of time had no effect, and the description was even more dry, but his spirit was still good, which could only be said to be Lao Mai's monthly grooming.

After Lao Maihua finished helping Lao Dao Mu Qingzi to recuperate his body for ten minutes, he saw Mu Qingzi smile and said, "Senior brother, can you let Brother Yu talk to Little Miss Yu Mu alone." ”

"Senior brother, please," Lao Mai naturally agreed, took Yu Mu's hand, and motioned for her to go into the cabin with Mu Qingzi to sit down and talk, but there was always a little doubt in her heart, and she left at will and walked among the trees.

After about half an hour, Mu Qingzi sent Yu Mu out of the cabin with a smile and asked her to go back with Lao Mai.

After bidding farewell to Mu Qingzi, Lao Mai still used the excuse that the old Taoist was casting a spell to send a ride, and used the true yuan power to form a soil gang to wrap Yu Mu and escape back to the villa.

Looking at Lao Mai's face full of doubts, Yu Mu couldn't help but tell him: "Old Dao...... The elder brother just asked me in detail how it felt to approach the bonsai sealed in the ancient tree. ”

Lao Mai frowned and said, "Just ask these?"

Yu Mu said: "Well, I also said that on the day he ran out of life and returned to the sky, he gave me that bonsai." ”

Lao Mai nodded gloomily, and suddenly turned to ask, "What did you just say, call him Senior Brother? Isn't it Old Dao Master?"

Yu Mu smiled: "The old Taoist asked me to call him that, he said that because you are his junior brother, I should also call him senior brother, senior brother is what I call him." ”

Lao Mai then laughed at it, but it was inevitable that there was still a little doubt in her heart, but it was not good to ask Yu Mu again, she didn't know anything about the way of cultivation, and she couldn't ask anything famous.

A few days later, on the same day of the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, Lao Mai had already agreed with Yu Mu's parents and invited their family to go to the old house in their hometown town to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival, and by the way, they met their sister and brother-in-law and had a reunion dinner together.

That afternoon, Lao Mai was about to go out, when he suddenly listened to something, and then hurried downstairs.

Ah Guang was waiting at the bottom of the hall on the first floor, it was the sound he transmitted just now, he had recently advanced to the sixth stage of qi refining and was close to the fusion stage, and it was also trivial to transmit a sound at a short distance.

Seeing Lao Mai coming downstairs, Ah Guang bowed down excitedly and said: "Seventh Ancestor, it is the outer disciple of Xi'an who has sent back the news, and he has found that thin man, with long hair and a vulgar dress, confirmed that he is the person on the color picture portrait, and the description is exactly right." ”

Lao Mai asked, "Is the thin man staying in Xi'an temporarily, or staying there for a long time, do you know what?"

Ah Guang replied: "Returning to the Seventh Ancestor, it has been confirmed that the person is back to Xi'an for the Mid-Autumn Festival, his family lives on the outskirts of the city, and the disciple who found him is estimated to not leave in a short time." ”

Lao Mai said: "Tell him to keep an eye on it, be careful yourself, that thin man is already in the early stage of foundation building, a person in the innate realm, if he doesn't get it, he will be noticed, hmm, what kind of cultivation does that disciple have?"

Ah Guang said: "He is also a cultivator of the sixth stage of qi refining, and he has the ability to be a chicken and a dog thief, especially good at tracking techniques. ”

Lao Mai took out his and Yu Mu's ID cards and handed them to Ah Guang, telling him to book a round-trip ticket to Xi'an tomorrow, planning to take Yu Mu to play in Xi'an by the way, see the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit, and taste the authentic mutton steamed buns.