Because of Lu Pingchuan's proposal and invitation, several people made an appointment last time to go to Lu Pingchuan's place to get together next time.
Neither Li Jian nor Yanxuan have been to Houtu Temple. Yanxuan is fine. Tang Ping is with him so there is no need to worry. Qian Chao went to find Li Jian early, and then Li Jian and Qian Chao came to Houtu Temple together.
Although Kangfu's cave seems a bit rough, it is still very atmospheric. It is a huge mountain with lush trees. The steepest part of the stone wall at the foot of the mountain has been cut straight up and down by some magic weapon. It is extremely smooth. A cave like a city gate was dug there, and inside was Kang Fu's cave.
There are two heavy wooden doors at the entrance of the cave covered with unknown metal. The wooden doors are painted with unknown paint and how many times, and the wooden texture is glowing with purple light. Under the door is a stone staircase. There is a carved stone plaque above the doorway, with a large word "Kang" carved in Yang characters only.
There is a soaring stone archway about 20 feet along the road in front of the cave gate. The plaque in the middle of the archway is also carved, with four simple and powerful characters on it, "Thick soil carries things".
When Qian Chao and Li Jian knew that they had arrived at Kangfu's cave, they did not dare to make any mistakes, so they fell from the sky far away and walked through the archway. Qian Chao also paid attention to the intricately carved patterns on the pillars of the archway.
After passing the archway, there were several small buildings on both sides of the mountain wall, and Lu Pingchuan must have lived in one of them. As soon as the two of them passed there, Lu Pingchuan was coming out of a small building closest to the entrance of the cave. When he saw the two of them, he immediately greeted them happily.
"Brother Qian and Brother Li, you are here early." Lu Pingchuan greeted them both with a smile.
"Brother Lu, this Houtu Temple is not small. Why do the disciples of your Houtu Temple have to live with their masters?" Li Jian asked.
"Yes, the disciples of Houtu are still different from you Mu Xiufeng. Speaking of it, the disciples of Houtu are always accompanied by their masters as soon as they start. For the convenience of disciples, they usually live near the master's cave like me. , Alas, speaking of which, I snore a little too loudly, otherwise I would still be able to live in my master’s cave.”
"Hmph! It's good for you kid to know."
Just as Lu Pingchuan finished speaking, Kang Fu walked out of his cave. He happened to hear his apprentice's words and answered. Qian Chao and Li Jian saw the master who knew it was Lu Pingchuan and hurriedly saluted.
"Well, you guys have fun, I happen to have to go out for something today."
Just as he was talking, Tang Ping arrived with Yanxuan. Yanxuan knew he was a senior and hurriedly saluted. Tang Ping also heard what Kang Fu said and said, "Uncle Kang, why do you have to run away as soon as we come?"
"Well, if I'm not afraid of others, I'm afraid of you. When you come, I have to take all my possessions and hide far away, haha."
"Hmph! You don't look like an elder. Let's go. I'll clear out all the furniture in your cave later!"
"Hahahaha, okay, then I'll find Mr. Tang to get a new set." Then he said to Lu Pingchuan, "If I come back a few days later, your senior brother will take you out. Girl, as long as you don't set fire to Shan, you can play freely here."
After saying that, Kang Fu jumped up and flew away as fast as he could.
Everyone bowed and presented Kang Fu with a gift. The others didn't care what Kang Fu said just now. Only Qian Chao was moved after hearing this.
After Kang Fu disappeared, Qian Chao asked Lu Pingchuan: "Brother Lu, do you have a senior brother here?"
"Yes, my senior brother Xi is back. If something happens to master, senior brother Xi will take me out. Speaking of which, I have several senior brothers, but I have only seen this senior brother Xi. The others are still outside."
"Then...has your senior brother Xi taken you out before?" Qian Chao asked.
"I've been out before, eh! Speaking of which, the last time Senior Brother Xi took me out, something funny happened. A few blind guys tried to rob me, but in the end, my Senior Brother gave me a lesson. By the way, this is for you. , it also belonged to that gang of boys, and my senior brother took it away. He also said that the sword was well made. Sister Yan, I will give you this spiritual grass. My senior brother said that this spiritual grass is not bad."
Several people were very curious when they heard that Lu Pingchuan could still be robbed outside, especially Tang Ping, who asked Lu Pingchuan to tell him quickly.
Lu Pingchuan then told the story of how he found the Qianpo Jiao outside that day, how he killed the beast, and how those boys later tried to rob him.
After hearing this, Yanxuan said: "Is there really such a hateful person? It's unlucky for them to meet Brother Lu and Brother Xi."
Tang Ping said, "Unlucky? Lucky for them, Senior Brother Xi seems to have a good temper, otherwise it would be a matter of doubt whether those guys could return to the sect!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Qian Chao holding back a smile and handing over the spirit sword in his hand.
"What, what happened to this sword?"
"You'll know just by looking at it," Qian Chao said.
Tang Ping saw the strange look on Qian Chao's face, so she took a closer look at the sword. The sword looked familiar. After a closer look, she saw that there was a seal on the sword.
"Fang Yan, is this... the one you refined? Is it the one that your inner court senior brother Fang appraised in public and asked that boy named Du to buy it?"
In fact, when Qian Chao got his hands on this sword, he immediately recognized that it was made by himself. When he saw the seal on the sword, he confirmed it was correct, and he knew who the guys Lu Pingchuan met outside were.
"Yes, this sword is the one that Dusha gave me trouble that day and was taught a lesson by Brother Fang and finally bought it. Speaking of which, this is the first spiritual sword I sold. No. The thought came back again.”
"Ah! It means that the people who are causing trouble for me are the same group of people who are causing trouble for you, Brother Qian. Hey! If I had known it, I would have asked Brother Xi to teach them a lesson. You don't know how arrogant those guys were at that time. When I was a little bit You came to rob me when you had no strength left, how shameful!"
"What a coincidence!" Li Jian and Yan Xuan were both surprised and funny after hearing this. After all, Du Sha failed in his robbery and was severely punished by Brother Xi.
"There is no need to teach you any more. Dusha has lost his power now. The trees have fallen and the hozens have scattered. The few people who followed him think that Dusha is a bad star. If they continue to follow him, they will only suffer. They will abandon him one by one. He is gone, and now he is alone and impoverished, unable to cause any trouble."
Tang Ping said: "This is what you deserve!"
"Well, this sword is worth keeping. It can be regarded as a spiritual weapon with a story."
"Hey, Brother Lu, you got so many good things that time, you are going to treat me today." Tang Ping suddenly thought that Lu Pingchuan had picked up the storage bags of those boys. There must be a lot of them. Spiritual stone.
"Please, please, I'll treat you this afternoon. Let's go to the Crane Tower. I remember last time that Miss Tang thought the snacks there were very good. Let's go there again in the afternoon and eat as much as we can!"
Lu Pingchuan had put a lot of thought into getting a few people together at his place today, and had already found a forest and decorated it. This Houtu Temple is not a place like Youming Valley. Although the mountains and forests are vast, you can't see any ordinary pheasants and rabbits, they are all big ones. After estimating the food intake of several people, Lu Pingchuan hunted a wood deer in the forest.
Speaking of which, the Wuzhi deer is also a kind of unclassified monster. Wuzhi refers to the horns on the head of this kind of deer. This kind of deer is not very big, but it is naturally aggressive, and the horns on its head are not small. , like the branches on a small tree, are generally stretched forward. The texture of the antlers is tough and is the main means for this deer to resist foreign enemies.
Qian Chao saw that the antlers looked good, symmetrical and intact, so he asked for them. When he was ready to go back, he added a base under the antlers to make a display that could be used as a shelf to place the spiritual sword.
Lu Pingchuan said while skinning and gutting the dead deer: "The really aggressive Wuzhi deer have incomplete horns on their heads. They fight with each other, and the horns on their heads are worn out." , this one is pretty good, it’s still complete.”
Tang Ping and Yanxuan didn't want to go around the forest to see if they could find some fruit. Although Xiaobai could fly, he was held by Yanxuan.
Qian Chao used his blue eye technique to look at the surrounding trees and found that although the trees here were thick and strong, they were all ordinary trees. Seeing this reminded me of Li Jian's bamboo forest, so I took out a young bamboo that I took away from Li Jian's forest last time from the storage bag.
"Brother Li, look."
"Is this the bamboo you took away last time?" Li Jian looked at it and saw that the young bamboo taken out by Qian Chao had lost its moisture, was much lighter, and had gradually dried up. The original green bamboo branches had changed color. .
"Yes, this bamboo has become like this since I took it away last time. How about the two bamboos you used?"
"Still the same as before." Li Jian said and took out the two bamboo branches he used to tease the wild bees and showed them to Qian Chao.
"Well, it took a lot longer to remove your bamboo than this one, but this one is no longer good, and your two bamboos are still as fresh as when they were taken out, which is strange." Qian Chao said. He said while thinking, "Brother Li, do you still use this bamboo branch to fight the bees every day?"
"Yeah" Li Jian nodded.
"I have a few ideas, and I don't know if they are right or not. The first is that Brother Li has wood spirit roots. Maybe your wood spirit roots are naturally nourishing to these spiritual bamboos and spiritual trees, so in your hands Although the bamboo branches have been used for a long time, they will not wither. The second is that Brother Li's sword energy is often poured into your bamboo branches. Maybe your sword energy has some effect on the bamboo branches to keep them like this. Or maybe this Zijun Young Bamboo is originally a spiritual bamboo, and it may have changed under your sword energy."
Li Jian listened and looked at the bamboo branch in his hand. It was still as cool and green as if it had just been chopped off.
"Speaking of materials in the art of refining weapons, metal, stone, leather, armor, and silk are all dead. The only difference is that wood and bamboo are different. Some spiritual bamboo and spiritual wood are still in use. It is still considered alive, if it can be simply made into a box for Sister Yan to hold spiritual herbs. That one is very simple, but it is very difficult to make a spiritual sword out of spiritual bamboo and spiritual wood. Even if it is a high-level refinement It’s because this material is so special that there is no senior brother in the Chengqi Hall who is good at refining wooden and bamboo spiritual weapons.”
Taking a bamboo branch from Li Jian, Qian Chao looked at it carefully using his blue eye technique, but couldn't find any clues, so he returned it to Li Jian.
"Brother Li, this bamboo branch of yours can be used forever. I always feel that although this bamboo has been chopped off by you, it is still alive and alive. There may be some surprises in the future."
Qian Chao said this because he had used the Blue Eyes Technique to look at the bamboo several times. The young Zijun bamboo had not grown yet and was almost solid. The veins inside the bamboo were interconnected vertically and horizontally. When Li Jian poured sword energy into the bamboo branch, he It felt like the sword energy was following the veins inside. Qian Chao couldn't understand those intricate veins, so he could only think it was very magical. But although the young bamboo he took away was almost the same as the one in Li Jian's hand, the inner veins were much simpler than that in Li Jian's hand, so he let Li Jian keep using it and prepare to take a look at it again later.
"Yes." Li Jian nodded again and suddenly said, "Brother Qian, after so long, I feel that although the appearance of this bamboo has not changed, it seems to be a little heavier."
"Yes, that's why I say the bamboo is still alive."
