Chapter 934 Do You Recognize Gao Shuxian?

The old disciple from the inner courtyard is named Hou Ziping. He is about forty years old. He has a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, and is thin. The green shirt that looks elegant and free on others looks a bit nondescript when worn on him, as if he is wearing a robe. The monkey in human clothes looks a little funny.

Hou Ziping seemed to be an honest man, and he didn't seem to be doing well in the inner courtyard. When some of the inner courtyard disciples along the way saw him, their expressions showed contempt, as if they were dismissive of him.

Even some of the inner court disciples who started later than him didn't have any respect for him, and didn't even bother to call him senior brother.

There were several inner court disciples who were older than Hou Ziping. After meeting Hou Ziping, they jokingly called him "monkey", with an obvious hint of insult in their tone.

Hou Ziping seemed to be accustomed to this and was not angry. Instead, he greeted everyone with a smile and was extremely polite.

But Fang Bai caught a trace of silence and helplessness from the depths of Hou Ziping's eyes.

There are hundreds of inner court disciples of Bitao Martial Arts Academy. Their living and training area is in a mountain with a radius of tens of miles. There are hundreds of antique houses and courtyards built there for the inner court disciples to live.

Fang Bai is quite satisfied with the living environment here. There are mountains, water, flowers, plants and trees. The environment is quiet and the vitality of heaven and earth is stronger than other places.

What made Fang Bai even more delighted was that there were many elixirs planted nearby, some of which were hundreds of years old. If he wanted to make elixirs in the future, he would not be short of resources.

Fang Bai asked Hou Ziping and found out that most of these elixirs would be harvested in the future. Some would be handed over to a certain third-grade sect as "protection money", while others would be handed over to a certain alchemist. An alchemist refines elixirs.

The refined elixirs are naturally distributed to the disciples of Bitao Martial Arts Academy for their training.

"Junior Brother Fang, this will be your residence from now on."

Hou Ziping took Fang Bai to a small courtyard. With a somewhat flattering smile on his face, he introduced Fang Bai: "A house with a courtyard like this can only be used by those with higher qualifications and those who will be on the road to martial arts in the future." Only disciples of the inner courtyard with promising development are eligible to live there. Junior Brother Fang has just entered Bitao Martial Arts Academy and has been assigned such a house, which shows that the senior officials of the martial arts academy value you!"

After a pause, he continued: "Junior Brother Fang has dual-attribute innate spiritual roots. This is unique in the history of our martial arts academy. His future is limitless. I feel like I have wronged Junior Brother Fang by living here!"

Fang Bai smiled calmly and was noncommittal.

"Junior Brother Fang, please rest for now, I won't disturb you!"

Hou Ziping and Fang Fang looked at the room together. They wanted to chat with Fang Bai for a while, but were afraid of annoying Fang Bai, so they decided to leave.

Fang Bai said with a smile: "Senior Brother Hou, if you have nothing important to do, you might as well sit here for a while. I am new here, and I imagined learning more about the martial arts academy from Senior Brother Hou!"

Hou Ziping was overjoyed and nodded: "Okay! Then I will sit for a while and chat with Junior Brother Fang!"

The two sat down at the stone table in the small courtyard. Fang Bai asked with a smile: "How many years has Senior Brother Hou been in Bitao Martial Academy?"

Hou Ziping thought for a moment and said, "It's been twenty years."

There was a look of nostalgia on his face, and he said with emotion: "Twenty years ago, I stood out among tens of thousands of warriors and became a handyman disciple of Bitao Martial Academy. At that time, I was high-spirited and full of ambitions, thinking that I could succeed in If you achieve great achievements in martial arts, you will enter the outer courtyard, the inner courtyard, and even become a core disciple or a direct disciple..."

When he said this, he sighed lightly and said with a wry smile: "Although my thoughts were beautiful, the reality gave me a ruthless blow. In the twenty years since I entered the martial arts academy, my progress was obvious at the beginning. It took three years to switch from a handyman disciple to an outer court disciple, and then it took another five years to switch from an outer court disciple to an inner court disciple. However..."

His expression dimmed, and his expression changed from depressed to painful, and he added: "However, during the twelve years since I entered the inner courtyard, no matter how hard I tried, my cultivation has stagnated and I have made no progress. So the senior officials of the martial arts academy gave up on me, and the inner courtyard's senior officials gave up on me. My fellow disciples in the academy also started to treat me with all kinds of cynicism and ridicule... Although I was very distressed, what could I do? The world is like this. If you are strong, you will naturally gain the respect of others; if you are weak, you will be stepped on by others. Underfoot.”

As soon as he opened his mouth, he seemed to be unable to hold back his words and poured out his bitterness to Fang Bai.

Fang Bai consoled him: "Senior Brother Hou is only forty years old this year. For us warriors, he is still very young, so there is no need to belittle ourselves."

Hou Ziping sighed: "It's not that I'm underestimating myself. It's actually that the hard work in the past twelve years has not brought me the rewards I deserve, which makes me feel discouraged and completely desperate. Maybe it's because my qualifications are average, and the path to martial arts can only go to That’s it!”

Fang Bai said sternly: "The road to martial arts does not rely solely on hard work, but also requires a certain amount of opportunity. Senior Brother Hou has not advanced to the next level, perhaps because the opportunity has not arrived!"

Hou Ziping smiled bitterly and said: "Junior brother Fang is thinking the same thing as me. Over the years, I have been paralyzing myself with 'the opportunity has not come yet'."

Fang Bai said: "I believe that Senior Brother Hou will definitely become a core disciple of the Martial Arts Academy."

In Bitao Martial Arts Academy, above the inner courtyard disciples, there are the core disciples, and the core disciples' cultivation is at the high level of heaven level.

In other words, only when the disciples of the inner courtyard reach the high level of heaven can they be promoted to core disciples.

After Hou Ziping entered the inner court twelve years ago, his cultivation has been lingering in the middle-level realm of heaven. He has been unable to reach the high-level heaven level, and he has been unable to become the core disciple that the inner court disciples dream of.

Hou Ziping himself was already in despair, but seeing that Fang Bai had full confidence in him, he felt somewhat grateful and said, "Junior Brother Fang, thank you for your kind words!"

Fang Bai then asked some questions about Bitao Martial Arts Academy. Hou Ziping had been in Bitao Martial Arts Academy for twenty years and was very familiar with everything here. He told everything he knew and the other party rolled his eyes without hiding anything.

Although Fang Bai has unparalleled qualifications and a promising future, he showed enough respect for his senior brother Hou Ziping and did not look down upon Hou Ziping because of his mediocrity. This made Hou Ziping have a great impression of him. There was a kind of encounter. The feeling of a confidant.

"Anyway, I have nothing to do, so I'll just accompany Junior Brother Fang around the Bitao Martial Arts Academy!"

Hou Ziping asked Fang Bai to change into the uniform of a disciple of the inner court of Bitao Martial Arts Academy, and then walked out of the courtyard side by side with him and walked slowly along the mountain path.

"Senior Brother Hou, do you recognize an outer courtyard disciple named Gao Shuxian?"

Walking to a deserted place, Fang Bai suddenly asked.

When Hou Ziping heard the words "Gao Shuxian", his face changed slightly, and a trace of hatred disappeared in his eyes. Then he looked at Fang Bai warily and asked, "How did Junior Brother Fang recognize Gao Shuxian?"