Judging from the simple clothes and dark skin of these people, they were obviously villagers who came from a small mountain village.
Many inner disciples looked at them with contempt and disdain.
Working hard all year round dealing with horse dung and cow dung piled on the ground, one's body is inevitably stained with a stench that can be smelled from a long distance away.
Although they are not slaves, they are similar to slaves. Maybe their lives are not as good as those of slaves from big families.
If it weren't for the sect, these people would have no chance of contacting superior people like them.
The disciples in front moved back, for fear of being contaminated by the stench of these people, but after all, the elders of Dingwang Peak were here, so no one could get angry.
Although you don't need to be groveling when you have a family to support you, you still have to give face to others.
The old man waved his sleeves, walked forward, looked at the crowd and said solemnly: "We monks should take it as our duty to eliminate demons and protect the Tao, uphold justice, and defend the world!"
"You have also practiced in the sect for a long time. Although you have gained something, following the steps is not the best choice. Those who have achieved great success will eventually experience mental and physical hardships. Recently, the demons in the outside world have been raging, and the mortal world is suffering. That is you. Waiting for the great opportunity to leave the sect and go on a trial."
After the old man finished speaking, he looked at the dozen or so ordinary people. Some of them noticed his gaze and immediately took a step forward, bent their knees and knelt heavily on the ground!
This is a man who is about forty years old.
Tears flowed from his eyes, and he opened his bloodshot eyes wide and cried bitterly: "The villain's name is Wang Duotian. He comes from Ligou Village, thirty miles to the west. Six days ago, a demon entered the village and caused a disturbance in the whole village. Restless, the ground is full of corpses. In just one day, all my close relatives died here! In order to escape for his life, the villain had to abandon his little granddaughter who was under three years old, and then he escaped here... Wu..."
As he spoke, he choked up, raised his calloused hands, and slapped his face hard with a "pop" sound, his eyes full of regret.
Suddenly, his voice rose, with a strong tone of pleading.
"Please ask the master to come and slay demons! I'm so grateful!" As soon as he finished speaking, there was only a "bang" sound. Wang Duotian knocked his head on the ground with great force, and the sound he made was extremely dull. .
But no one responded to him. The disciples in front of him looked at me and I looked at you, with hesitation in their eyes.
Going out for a trial?
Are you kidding me?
There is a lot of chaos outside now, but anyone with some energy in the family behind them can find out. It is enough to guard the sect against plots from other peaks.
To plot, you have to find an opportunity to carry out the plot, and you have to worry about the sect.
But running outside is really a battle royale.
Someone wanted to ask something, but seeing those ordinary people, they couldn't lose face, so the elder didn't say anything.
This world values force. If you have high cultivation but no actual combat experience, you will easily be pulled down by others.
In the same way, you may be rich in knowledge, but the knowledge in your head is useless, so what is the point of learning it?
Just as the disciples' thoughts were turning, they saw Wang Duotian taking the lead, and the remaining villagers also followed suit, imitating his example and kneeling towards them.
"The villain's name is Liu Niu. He comes from Liujia Village in the upper reaches of Weixi River. Like Brother Wang, a demon came into the village twelve days ago, controlled my clan, killed my brothers, and demanded that five pairs of boys and girls be sacrificed every day. Now in the village All the children over ten years old have died, leaving only skeletons! Please ask the master to come out! After the incident is completed, my whole Liu family is willing to work for the master!"
"The villain's name is Mi Shisui, he comes from..."
"The villain's name is Bi Fan..."
"The villain's name is..."
"Villain..."
One after another, they announced their names and where they came from. After the last person finished speaking, none of the disciples in the hall responded, and the silence was terrifying.
Without exception, these people came to the Qingyuan Sect for help because of demon cultivators, monsters, or evil spirits appearing in their hometowns.
There was even a small town where all the people were massacred overnight, and the corpses were transformed into inferi by evil cultivators, turning it into a zombie town.
Time passed by, and no one responded to them. The faces of these more than ten ordinary people from various places gradually became desperate, and their eyes were dull.
I don’t know how much time had passed, but someone’s footsteps sounded from the side door of the lobby, and a sudden roar shook everyone’s bodies!
"As disciples of my Qingyuan Sect, you are hiding your head and showing off your tail, and are cowardly. You guys are embarrassing the sect, embarrassing me, the family behind you, and the whole world!"
Immediately, Qing Fengyu walked in, the anger on his face hard to dissipate!
Seeing this, the old elder lowered his head and stepped aside, making way for Qing Fengyu to be in the middle. When he spoke again, he gave an ultimatum.
"There has been a lot of chaos in the world recently. This is the best time to train you. Those of you who want to go must go! Those who don't want to go also have to go!"
"If anyone is dissatisfied, feel free to go to your family elders to argue with me!"
After saying that, Qing Fengyu walked to the armchair behind and sat down, with a gloomy face and stopped talking.
The disciples in front of them lowered their heads and did not speak. What Qing Fengyu said was correct. They were indeed timid and cowardly, but why would they run to commit suicide if they could not enjoy the glory and wealth?
Coming to the sect is just for profit.
But when you come to the sect, you have to accept the arrangements. As the master of Dingwang Peak, Qing Fengyu has put his words there, and they can't refute anything.
Training is what the family behind them wants to see. If they really want to go to the family elders to intercede for this matter, it is completely showing their incompetence.
Not long after Qing Fengyu sat down, a young disciple behind him got up from the futon, picked up the hair on his temples with his index finger, and walked forward leisurely. This person was Lu Qiu Ju Changsheng.
"Since Master has spoken, I will not embarrass you."
After speaking, he came to the man named Bi Fan.
"Liangquan Town? The one under Pigeon Mountain?"
Hearing someone asking himself, the man named Bi Fan quickly raised his head, his dull eyes burst into light, and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, that's Liangquan Town."
Lu Qiuju Changsheng nodded: "You go back first. I will be waiting for me at Qinghu Lake tomorrow at 10:00. Even if it is a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, I will go and have a try."
Hearing this, Bi Fan cried with joy, but before he could say the words of gratitude, other disciples saw Lu Qiu Ju Chang Sheng taking the lead, so they all stood up and rushed to his side.
"Senior Brother Ju Changsheng, I'll go with you!"
"Me too!"
"And I!"
"..."
Lu Qiuju Changsheng didn't reply. He glanced at Qing Fengyu and saw that he had no objection, so he nodded in agreement.
"Chu Yun!"
The pretty woman called out to Tsurumi Chuyun. She came back to her senses and turned around to look a little confused. Seeing the anxious look on her face, she realized what she was doing and stood up. The woman next to her followed closely. Stand up.
But soon she discovered something was wrong. She thought that Tsurumi Chuyun wanted to go to Liangquan Town with Lu Qiuju Changsheng. After all, it was safer with more people. As a disciple living in Zhide Garden on Dingwang Peak, his strength should not be underestimated. .
But she thought too much, and Tsurumi Chuyun didn't. She walked towards the man named Liu Niu.
"Chu Yun, what are you doing?"
Seeing this, the senior sister became anxious and wanted to stop her, but the other party turned around and smiled and said: "It's okay, senior sister, I'm sure."
After saying that, she walked towards Liu Niu without looking back.
The senior sister at the back was anxiously cutting her feet, but she could only go to Luqiu Ju Changsheng.
She really couldn't figure out Tsurumi Chuyun's behavior, but she didn't know that the other party also had his own plans.
On Liu Niu's side, after smelling the fragrance coming from Tsurumi Chuyun's body, he quickly raised his head. After seeing her appearance clearly, he was stunned for a few seconds, and then lowered his head in a hurry.
"Fairy……"
"Wait for me tomorrow at Qinghu."
Looking at him condescendingly, she only said this briefly, then saluted Qing Fengyu, turned around and left.
Although there were people following her after seeing her choice, she did not pay attention and continued to think about Xuan Li being a dragon.
But not long after she walked out of the lobby, Qing Fengyu's voice sounded behind her.
"Chu Yun."
She was stunned for a moment, then turned around and saw that her master had left at some point and appeared under a courtyard wall at the back right corner.
The other party waved her hand for her to follow. She said nothing, lowered her head and walked towards the exquisite pavilions in the backyard.
After stopping, she bowed slightly and said, "Master, why did you call me?"
Qing Fengyu looked at her with a complicated look in his eyes.
"You can sit down too."
Pick up the tea set and make a pot of tea for him.
"It's not that important. It's just that strange things have been happening recently, which is really abnormal. You should be more careful when you go out."
She didn't touch the tea in front of her, but the other party's words made her confused.
Did you say that you called me here just because you cared about a few words?
I don't know what she was thinking, but she soon nodded: "I will."
Qing Fengyu took a sip of tea and asked again: "Has your relationship with Xuan Li eased now?"
These words made Tsurumi Chuyun think for a while.
Is this detente?
She wasn't sure either, so she nodded, but then quickly shook her head.
"Maybe a little bit, or maybe not...Master, maybe I should accommodate him?"
"Um?"
Qing Fengyu was surprised by Hejian Chuyun's rhetorical question. He looked at her deeply and then put down the tea.
"This question should be answered by yourself. I can't answer it."
She stopped talking and lowered her head to think about something.
Her mood at the moment was extremely complicated.
After learning that Shen Yi was a dragon, she was the most difficult person to choose.
Surprise?
Yes, he is a dragon, a race that has been extinct for hundreds of thousands of years, a race that is born as a god!
Of course she was surprised!
When the Dragon Clan thinks, all the heaven and earth will turn into dust. It possesses unpredictable power, despises the world and is arrogant, and looks down upon everything. How can it be controlled by others?
Do you really want to worship him as a god and bow down to serve him?
He is his contracted beast and his life god, so how can he turn his back on himself?
She didn't have the confidence to ask him to obey her orders.
As for not prioritizing?
On an equal footing?
But that is her destiny, and it will be her destiny for the rest of her life!
How can there be no distinction between priorities?
No one would accept such a thing!
Perhaps sensing that something was wrong with her mood, Qing Fengyu quickly changed the topic: "The person who caused trouble in Liujiacun should be a demon cultivator, and his cultivation level has probably reached the stage of pure stage building. If you don't go here, If you take Xuan Li with you, there is a high possibility of an accident, so...don't go."
"..." Hejian Chuyun looked up at Qingfengyu, his eyes flashed, but he shook his head.
"Master, don't worry about me. I have a solution for Xuan Li."
"How sure are you that you can let him go out with you?" When asking this question, Qing Fengyu's eyes were a little deeper, staring at Tsurumi Chuyun's reaction.
She felt that the other party's words were a bit strange, but she couldn't explain why. She didn't react for the time being, and replied with some hesitation: "...Sixty percent."
"Sixty percent... Well, then you go back and prepare early." Qing Fengyu nodded, and He Jian Chuyun said "Hmm".
"Master, I'll take my leave now."
"Go ahead."
Tsurumi Chuyun turned around and left, and as soon as she left, Qing Fengyu began to think deeply, tapping his slender fingers on the table. The faster the speed, the more messy his thoughts became.
He murmured: "Dragon clan... Zhengguo Chaoyuan..."
…
Out of the barren mountains about five miles west of Qingyuan Sect's Dinglan Peak, Shen Yi walked back and forth in front of the alchemy furnace, his big eyes full of doubts.
"Why is there black smoke?"
There are wisps of smoke coming out from the top of the alchemy stove, but it would be nice if it was white.
This kind of black energy that seems to be absent always gives people a very evil feeling.
Shen Yi himself couldn't figure out the situation. In the past, the smoke from Bian Daoqing's alchemy was always clear white, and the black smoke was obviously abnormal.
But even if I knew what went wrong, I wouldn't be able to do anything about it.
After thinking about it, he added some dry firewood to the bottom of the alchemy furnace to make the flames below burn more vigorously.
Looking inside through the opening, there was a cloud of black smoke, making it impossible to see what the medicinal materials inside were like.
Unable to make up his mind, Shen Yi simply moved the alchemy furnace to one side, then flipped it over and put his claws in. After a while of groping, he actually found a few pills.
But the texture was wrong. It looked like it was made of sand and water, and it fell apart as soon as I applied force.
He threw part of the residue into his mouth and tasted it. The next second, Shen Yi bared his teeth and spat out.
"Fuck, what is this!"
He thought it was an elixir, but the color was wrong, but when he tasted it, he realized what kind of elixir it was.
It was just a ball of batter, and I don’t know how it was made like this. It tasted terribly bitter!
The red energy provided is so little that it is better to just eat the medicinal materials.
"It's useless."
The alchemy furnace was turned over and the residue inside was poured out. Shen Yi regained his confidence, piled the collected dry firewood, lit it with a breath of dragon's breath, and then put the alchemy furnace up.
Although it didn't succeed, it looks like a pill, so success shouldn't be too far away.
He thought this way, the reason for the explosion of alchemy in the alchemy hall was definitely because his dragon's breath was strong and not as gentle as the alchemist's elixir fire, but without elixir fire, he could only choose to use ordinary fire to refine it.
Nothing can be done.
In fact, Shen Yi thought alchemy was too simple. This was the first time he made an elixir that was not an elixir. He guessed that the heat was not enough.
Then I increased the firewood for the second time, but after twenty minutes, black smoke still came out of the alchemy furnace. I couldn't see what was going on inside the alchemy furnace at all. I had no choice but to interrupt, put down the alchemy furnace, put my paws in, and scratched. Let some black scum live here.
The third time, he put less firewood, but the result was that the medicinal materials inside did not liquefy. When he took it out, he found that it had carbonized...
The black smoke coming out covered his face.
The fourth and fifth times had similar results. Every time I opened the alchemy furnace to check, I was hit by the black smoke first.
In the evening, Shen Yiban was lying in the ditch, looking helpless. The area from his neck to his head was completely smoked to coal black.
(End of chapter)
