Chapter 91 Chaos on the First Day

In addition to Xiaoqiu, there were thirteen disciples of Zhiyong Institute who agreed to practice together. However, only eight people came the next morning.

Guan Shenyue arrived first. As a disciple of Huotong Santian, this distance was no problem for him. He nodded to Xiaoqiu and walked to the open space in front of the house. He found several straw mats on the ground. There was a table next to it, on which was a bottle of elixir and two short and thick incense sticks inserted in a small pile of earth. He was not polite and first smeared 1.5 sections of green wood incense paste on the philtrum between the nose and lips, and sat on the straw mat to practice.

Before the second disciple arrived, Guan Shenyue had already entered the state of meditation. The two incense sticks were automatically lit, and two faint smoke drifted towards the practitioner and entered his nostrils with his breath.

Not long after, the second and third disciples arrived at the same time. They were all members of Guan Shenyue's small group. They performed the Taoist ritual to Xiaoqiu, called him "Brother Xiaoqiu", and also smeared the incense paste and sat on the straw mat to meditate and practice.

The two burning incense sticks were divided into three strands, each for the three disciples. The smoke did not weaken, but the burning speed was slightly faster.

A quarter of an hour later, Xin Youtao and Zhou Ping arrived. The two seemed to be competing, blushing and panting. Zhou Ping greeted him and went to practice. Xin Youtao stayed and questioned Xiaoqiu breathlessly: "This, is this your way to help me? Find a group of... trash to practice with me? Waste the pills my sister sent. Do you know how much they are worth?"

"Are you distressed?"

"How can I not be distressed?" Xin Youtao looked at Xiaoqiu angrily, wanting to get angry, but not daring to go too far.

"Then go practice quickly and earn more good things from your family."

Xin Youtao snorted. He knew that this was Mu Xingqiu's method of provoking him, but he still fell for it. He hurried to the open space in front of the house, wishing to drive away all the people sitting on the straw mat. The five-section green wood incense paste, the concentration incense and the communication incense were all his, but now they were shared by others, and the object of these people's gratitude was not him!

Xin Youtao hurriedly applied the ointment. He sat upright on the straw mat closest to the table, and it took him a while to clear his mind and enter the state of meditation. He breathed harder than the others unconsciously, hoping to inhale more concentration incense and spiritual incense.

The next to come were Daliang and the other three. They were nearly half an hour late, and everyone was panting. The other two were so tired that they fell directly on the straw mat. Daliang leaned a little, supported his knees and said, "Brother Xiaoqiu... I... Tomorrow..."

"Well, you don't have to come tomorrow. I will find a way to let you plant flowers and plants."

Daliang nodded gratefully. He agreed to practice purely to support his friends. He couldn't stand it after a day, "Don't wait. Brother Xiaoqiu, there is no one behind. As soon as they left the village, they turned back.

They said they didn't have energy because they didn't eat breakfast, but in fact they were afraid of cold and tiredness."

The two came to the open space together. Xiaoqiu also sat down to practice. Daliang went directly to the house to lie down for a while, then got up to wash rice and cook. He was starving.

When the incense for concentrating the mind and the incense for communicating with the mind on the table were about to burn out, an accident happened - someone suddenly shouted loudly.

The shout resounded through the sky, rumbling like thunder, and the echo continued. Even the horses grazing in the distance were frightened and looked around in fear. The brown foal ran quickly to the side of the mare, with its tail tucked tightly; Daliang, who had finished cooking and was resting in the house, was startled and fell off the bed.

This was not a calamity, but the sound of a person who had opened his mouth and shouted with extraordinary ability.

All the people who were meditating were awakened. Xiaoqiu was shocked and reversed in one breath. His legs actually lost consciousness. He hurriedly adjusted his breath and stood up after seven breaths. The others were still panicked and tried to return to normal.

People who were meditating can be awakened, but being awakened suddenly like this is a taboo. Fortunately, no one had condensed their qi into pills, so this shout did not cause serious consequences, but the meditating of this morning was wasted.

Xiao was furious and looked around for the person who made the noise.

Among the disciples, only Guan Shenyue was missing.

Daliang stood at the door and pointed at the entrance of the valley in surprise, "He ran over there."

Xiaoqiu chased him out quickly, but he ran too fast and almost missed Guan Shenyue.

Guan Shenyue squatted in the snow outside the valley, holding his head with both hands, shaking his body back and forth, repeating the three words "I'm sorry" in a low voice.

Xiaoqiu suppressed his anger, walked to Guan Shenyue, and stretched out his hand to pull him up.

Guan Shenyue resisted very much, but he couldn't win against Xiaoqiu. After being forced to stand up, he shrank into a ball and became half a head shorter. "Beat me, beat me hard, I'm so sorry, I... I can't help it.

"What's going on?" Xiaoqiu tried to soften his voice. Guan Shenyue's behavior was a bit weird, and he had to find out the reason.

"I just can't help it. "At this time, Guan Shenyue looked pitiful, without the aura of the bullying elder brother in the past.

"I... I always want to know what it would be like to shout when I was thinking... I had this impulse when I was still in Yangshen Peak, and later in Laozu Peak I also... couldn't forget this idea. Several failures in condensing pills were related to this. Later, the head monk said that I might... be possessed by a demon, so I should not take risks again..."

Xiao Qiu really wanted to punch him, but she held back, "Why didn't you say it earlier?"

"I haven't had this idea since I came to Zhiyong Institute. I thought it was okay, but I didn't expect that it would be like this when I practiced." Guan Shenyue said embarrassedly.

Almost no one in Zhiyong Institute still maintained the habit of practicing, so of course he didn't have the urge to shout.

Xiaoqiu was both angry and disappointed. Guan Shenyue was Xiaoqiu’s favorite person. Unexpectedly, something went wrong on the first day. Even the leader of the Five Elements Department couldn’t correct the problem. Xiaoqiu didn’t think she had any solution, “Go further.” , never come here again.”

Guan Shen jumped up and ran towards Zhi Yong as if he had received a general amnesty.

Xiaoqiu returned to the valley and found that Xin Youtao and others were in trouble. They were surrounded by horses and had nowhere to escape.

Guan Shenyue's sound annoyed the grazing horses, and they came to take revenge on humans.

Xiaoqiu hurriedly ran over and yelled, pushing and pulling, and finally managed to get the angry horses away. Zhou Ping and others were so frightened that their faces turned pale and they no longer wanted to stay in the valley for a long time. They didn't even ask what the scream was about. It’s about business, I hurriedly said goodbye.

Daliang also came out of the house, "I've prepared the meal... I won't come tomorrow." After that, he ran away.

Xin Youtao was the only one left. When he saw the horses walking away, he sneered, "The first day. Oh, what a good start. Do you want to continue tomorrow?"

"Of course." Xiaoqiu said lightly, "Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, until you condense your energy into a pill."

"You're crazy." Xin Youtao took a step forward. "Let's be honest. This place is not suitable for practice at all. It is a group of lunatics. If we make trouble a few more times, we will not be able to condense the elixir, and we will become useless first. I know your intention in calling everyone here, isn't it just for you? Stimulate me and encourage me? If I work hard, why... waste the elixir on others?"

Xiaoqiu stared at Xin Youtao and suddenly understood a truth, it was not just Guan Shenyue. Everyone in Zhiyongsuo may have a knot in their mind that makes them fail in practice, "Why do you like to use talismans so much?"

Xin Youtao blushed, then showed a confused expression, "talismans are good things, everyone uses them."

"I never have to."

"Because you are poor. Rich and noble people all use talismans. Doesn't the Nine Dao Tradition have a talisman branch? I really don't understand why Taoist priests don't like to use talismans."

"There is a talisman in Pangshan. It has been used by the Mengdu Sect, but the practicing disciples cannot use it."

Of course Xin Youtao understood this rule and curled his lips without saying anything else, but Xiaoqiu still stared at her, making him feel uneasy. "What else do you want to do? My sister has taken all my talismans away, and I can't use them even if I want to. Now I am just like you, a 'poor' without talismans."

"You still haven't handed over the talisman." Xiao Qiu said firmly.

"All handed in, not a single one left." Xin Youtao also said firmly without blinking.

"It doesn't matter. I remember that everyone who can use the talisman has a Fire Sacrifice Seal on their body."

"Not everyone." Xin Youtao corrected immediately. He knew the talismans well. "Only when using advanced talismans, or if you want the talismans to be more effective, you need to sacrifice the Fire God Seal. This is the prerogative of the talisman master and the royal family. Ordinary people don’t have it. It is said that the inner elixir can also replace the divine seal, but I don’t think the effect is very good, why, because..."

"Remove the Fire Sacrifice Seal from your body."

"Remove the divine seal."

Xin Youtao took two steps back and said with an unprecedented firmness: "No, never, unless you kill me...then you won't be allowed to remove my Fire Sacrifice Seal."

Xiaoqiu finally determined what Xin Youtao's knot was, "Okay, let's not get rid of it yet. Come with me to the Immortal Collection, and I want to write a letter to your sister."

"Why are you writing a letter?" Xin Youtao asked warily.

"I want more pills, but this is not enough?"

"I can guarantee that I will be the only one who can continue to practice tomorrow. These pills..."

"That's not enough." Xiaoqiu shook his head, "And I also need better pills."

"You... are too cruel. This is the price for keeping the divine seal, right?" Xin Youtao was very angry, but had to follow Xiaoqiu out of the valley, "Why does my sister think you can do it? You haven't condensed yourself yet. Qi becomes elixir."

The two walked in silence for a while, and Xin Youtao suddenly laughed, "Qin Lingshuang is actually the first disciple to be selected this year. It's really unexpected. She must have something special to be chosen by the Forbidden Secret Department. Listen, It is said that Zuo Liuying is a very picky leader."

Xiaoqiu did not answer, and Xin Youtao continued: "'Once you enter the Yangshen Peak, you will not leave the valley for three years.' In fact, there are two more sentences after it, 'If you accidentally enter the Old Ancestor Peak, wkashｃcomｍ ten years will be like one day', which means that the life span of the Taoist priests It means that cultivation is difficult and there may not be much progress in ten years. Mu Xingqiu, aren't you worried that when you are old and Qin Lingshuang is still cultivating at the Ancestor Peak, you will have no chance to get married? "

"Everyone has his own way." Xiaoqiu remained unmoved.

Xin Youtao snorted. He wanted to verbally retaliate against Mu Xingqiu, but he didn't expect this kid to be more ruthless than he thought.

The subordinates left behind by the princess lived in an inn at the north end of Xianrenji. Xiaoqiu wrote a letter in his own handwriting and made a list. Xin Youtao wanted to take a look, but he pushed him away rudely, "My writing is ugly."

Xin Youtao leaned against the window and looked out boredly. He suddenly retracted his head and whispered: "Zhang Lingsheng is outside, don't let him see me. He has been chasing me for five knots of green wood ointment these two days."

Xiaoqiu put down the brush and said, "I'm here to deal with him. I just want to talk to him about a few things."

"Strange, why isn't he wearing a Taoist robe?" Xin Youtao raised his finger and hissed at Xiaoqiu, then pointed out the window, obviously seeing an even stranger scene.

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