At the end of the year, it is snowing heavily.
After two years on the mountain, Lin Jingzhe saw such heavy snow for the first time.
Early in the morning, there was already knee-deep snow outside the dormitory.
Pushing open the dormitory, Lin Jingzhe borrowed a broom and cleared the snow in front of the door.
"I haven't seen him for a year. I don't know how Xiao Wu is doing. There is also Winter Solstice. I haven't seen him for a year and a half."
Looking at the white sky and earth in front of him, Lin Jingzhe felt melancholy.
I have worked hard and diligently in seclusion for two years, and my cultivation is still at the second level of Qi training.
After standing in the snow for a long time, he didn't see the person he wanted to see. He was a little disappointed. When he was about to return to the dormitory, a familiar figure appeared in front of him.
"It's the winter solstice, why did he appear in the back mountain?"
Lin Jingzhe thought about it and decided to follow.
Although the back mountain is a restricted area, it does not refer to the entire back mountain, but to the cemetery in the back mountain.
The cemetery is said to be the place where the body of the senior Sanmon was buried after his death.
Winter Solstice did not break into the forbidden area, but stopped when it was still half a mile away from the forbidden area.
"What are Brother Dongzhi doing there?"
Lin Jingzhe took a few steps faster, thinking of walking to the front to meet Dong Zhi.
However, a sudden scene made him stop abruptly.
"Brother Dongzhi is dating a woman there?"
Li Jingzhe rubbed his eyes to confirm that he had seen correctly. The figure with a good figure and smooth curves was that of a woman.
"When did that woman show up? She was already waiting for Brother Dongzhi there?"
Lin Jingzhe watched from a distance as the two figures hugged each other and even started to nibble on each other.
Although he was only thirteen, he knew a little bit about the affairs between men and women, and he knew that they would take off each other's clothes and warm each other up.
"Since Brother Dongzhi has his own heart, I won't disturb them."
Lin Jingzhe sighed and left the back mountain feeling lost.
Returning to the dormitory, Xiao Wu has been waiting here for a long time.
"Little Jingzhe, where have you been? I've been knocking on the door for a long time, and I thought you were asleep."
"Brother Xiao Wu."
Seeing that the visitor was Xiao Wu, whom he had not seen for a year, Li Jingzhe excitedly greeted him.
"Hey, you kid has grown so tall."
"It's been a year since I've seen him."
"Yeah, I haven't seen him for a year. If it weren't for the New Year's Eve, I wouldn't be ready to leave seclusion yet." Xiao Wu patted him on the shoulder and followed him into the dormitory.
"We haven't seen each other for a year, and you haven't broken through to the second level of Qi training yet?" Xiao Wu sat on the dormitory bed, holding Lin Jingzhe's pulse gate, with a strange and serious look on his face.
"My Dantian is like a bottomless pit." Li Jingzhe said with a bitter smile.
"He broke through the fifth level of Qi training half a year ago during the winter solstice." Xiao Wu said earnestly: "He has already realized that he has reached the sixth level of Qi training."
"Have you met?"
"I live a few rooms away from him." Xiao Wu added: "I originally wanted to invite him to celebrate the New Year with us. But he refused. He said that he would go into seclusion for the next few days and break through to the sixth level of Qi training."
Retreat?
Lin Jingzhe looked a little strange. If he hadn't witnessed Dongzhi and the woman dating on the snow with his own eyes, he would have really believed that he had been in seclusion.
Wait, retreat, woman, practice?
"What's wrong with you?" Xiao Wu stared at the sad Jing Zhe and said, "Don't be sad, we all come from the same village. If we go ahead of you and become immortals, we will definitely take good care of you." "
"I'm not sad. It's still a long time before I become an immortal." Lin Jingzhe continued: "Brother Xiao Wu, I want to ask you something. Does Brother Dongzhi have a sister-in-law?"
"Ah? How do you know?" Xiao Wu was taken aback and said, "There is indeed a senior sister who became his partner. Have you ever seen them?"
"No." Lin Jingzhe changed the topic, "Brother Xiao Wu, do you think Brother Dongzhi's cultivation so fast has something to do with women."
"It's related to women, what do you mean?" Xiao Wu didn't understand what he meant.
"Mr. Village Jiao once said that there are many ways to cultivate immortality in the world, but there is also a method called Shuangxiu Technique, which uses yin to replenish yang and strengthen cultivation."
"Are you saying that Winter Solstice practiced the Double Rest Technique?" Xiao Wu said decisively: "That's impossible. Both the Winter Solstice and we practice the New Sun-rising Yang Technique. If you want to harvest Yin and replenish Yang, you also need to practice another Double Rest Technique. "
"I asked if it is possible." Lin Jingzhe said: "The master does not explicitly prohibit disciples from falling in love, nor does it openly encourage everyone to fall in love."
"What does this have to do with anything?"
"Brother Xiao Wu, let me ask you something. Do all of us disciples ranked in the top ten have partners?"
"Well, they are all there, what's so strange about that."
"Have any of the female disciples who have followed the senior brother stayed at the mountain gate, or followed the senior brother and returned to secular life?"
"I find your question a bit strange. Our sect has a total of twenty-six senior brothers who have returned to the secular world, but I have never heard of any senior sisters who have returned to the secular world."
"Women in the world are so heartless."
"If senior sisters are ruthless, then what do they want from senior brother?"
"Little Jingzhe, what do you want to say?"
"These are just conjectures on my part." Lin Jingzhe waved her hand and added: "Among the new disciples recruited recently, there seems to be no female disciple."
"I have noticed your reminder, but what does this have to do with the senior brother who has returned to secular life?"
"I don't know if it's related, it's just a guess." Li Jingzhe spread his hands and said.
"Okay, tell me, do you have confidence in the three-year competition?"
"Confidence?" Lin Jingzhe smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Xiao Wu, if I can rise one rank in the half-year competition, it would be good to receive a spirit stone."
"Are you so hopeless?"
"There's nothing I can do, my Dantian is just a bottomless pit."
"This is a difficult problem. When I become senior brother, I will ask Master to give you a Qi Gathering Pill."
"Thank you, Brother Wu."
...
As the new year comes to an end, everyone has entered into hard training, preparing to compete for the top spot in the three-year competition and receive generous rewards.
The sun and the moon fly by, yin and yang alternate, and in the blink of an eye, another half a year has passed.
On this day, Lin Jingzhe had a feeling and finally broke through to the third level of Qi training.
By the way, I took part in a small competition for half a year. I won the small competition and climbed up two rankings in a row.
During half a year, I didn’t see Xiao Wu anymore, nor did I see Winter Solstice appearing in the back mountains...
The three-year competition was about to come, and Lin Jingzhe left seclusion half a month early because there was a knock on his dormitory door.
When he opened the door of the dormitory, what appeared was not Xiao Wu, whom he had not seen for half a year, but Dong Zhi, whom he had not seen for almost three years.
"Brother Dongzhi!" Lin Jingzhe was delighted. Dongzhi, whom he hadn't seen for three years, was actually higher than Xiao Wu.
"You haven't changed a bit."
Standing in front of the door in the winter solstice, facing the cold wind, under the sharp-cut face, there is no trace of the youthfulness of the past.
"Would you like to come in and sit down?"
"No need. I just came here to tell you one thing."
"What's the matter, Brother Dongzhi?"
"I thought you shouldn't mention me to others, or say you know me." Dongzhi said a word, then turned and left.
