It's December and the weather is already very cold.
Although the mountain gate of Haoyang Immortal Sect is covered by a mountain protection formation and can be like spring all year round, but... that does not include the outer area where Xu Ke and the others are located.
Just like the ancient city, the annexes outside the city wall are not protected.
This peripheral area of Xu Ke's group is equivalent to the annex of Haoyang Immortal Sect. They cannot enjoy the protection of the mountain guard formation at all, nor can they enjoy the benefits of spring all year round.
On the third day of the twelfth lunar month, it snowed.
The cold wind is howling, snowflakes are all over the sky, and it is already very cold.
In fact, the essence of life of practitioners in the early stage of Qi training has not been sublimated, and they are not much different from ordinary people. They are still cold.
Fortunately, Xu Ke's cultivation level is good. He has reached the fourth level of Qi training, and the first level of the Yellow Turban Body Training Technique is about to be completed. He has a strong body, is immune to cold and heat, and does not feel much about changes in the weather.
Those hard-working farming disciples who are still in the early stages of Qi training and lack warm clothing may not feel comfortable.
Of course, it is still rare for someone to freeze to death.
Unless you are seriously ill or seriously injured, no matter how poor your cultivation is, you still have the ability to use your spiritual power to keep out the cold. However, whatever should be cold will still be cold.
Purple skylarks are also afraid of the cold.
After the weather turned cold, the purple skylarks were not as active as before. Now that it's snowing, it got directly into Xu Ke's clothes and rubbed against Xu Ke's body temperature.
"Haha! You know how to find a place."
Xu Ke laughed and said, "Is this considered taking advantage of others? Spiritual birds can also be cultivated, and they can also transform into human beings if their cultivation level is high. When you transform into human beings in the future, will you be embarrassed when you find out about this? Uh... By the way, are you a male or a female?"
If it's a male, wouldn't I suffer a loss?
Just as Xu Ke was teasing Purple Skylark, there was a sound of footsteps walking on the snow outside.
The distance was still far, but Xu Ke could hear it very clearly with his "listening to the wind" technique.
The rhythm of this footsteps is a bit like that of Senior Brother Wang who "sells insurance"?
It was so windy and snowy, what was he doing here?
After a while, Senior Brother Wang arrived at the door of Xu Ke's house.
"Xu Ke, Junior Brother Xu, open the door quickly. It's freezing to death!"
Senior Brother Wang banged the door and shouted.
"Senior Brother Wang, why are you here?"
Xu Ke stood up and opened the door, looked at Senior Brother Wang who was dressed in snow and wind, and asked in surprise.
"Oh! Don't mention it!"
Senior Brother Wang had a depressed face, walked into the door, sat down in the main room, glanced around, and said to Xu Ke: "Where is the fire? Didn't you light a fire?"
"My family is poor and has no firewood."
Xu Ke spread his hands, "To keep out the cold, you basically rely on shivering, and to travel, you basically rely on walking. Under these conditions, there's nothing we can do."
In fact, Xu Ke was immune to the cold and heat, and his qi and blood were so strong that he didn't feel cold at all. It's just that it's hard to tell Senior Brother Wang clearly, so I can only talk nonsense.
"Okay, okay, stop talking nonsense!"
Senior Brother Wang waved his hand, "I am here this time to take over Fangzheng's mission and inform all the disciples of 'Hedongfang' to gather at 'Hedongfang City' tomorrow morning and go to Haoyang City, Dafang City, Zongmen. Participate in the Sinong Hall assessment."
"Huh? Wait! Who is Fangzheng? Where is Fangshi in Hedong?"
Xu Ke was confused and a little confused about the situation.
"Hedongfang is our area, and Hedongfang City is Jizhenfang City. These are the names in the sect's documents. No one here usually cares about place names. Don't worry about it, it doesn't matter."
Senior Brother Wang answered casually, still shivering from the cold, "This damn weather is so cold. In order to earn a few spiritual stones, I braved the wind and snow and ran from house to house. Now that I think about it, I've lost a lot."
"really!"
Xu Ke nodded, "It's really hard to run around in the wind and snow."
"No! I mean, it's less money."
Senior Brother Wang did his exercises once to drive away the cold, then stood up and walked out again, "I'm leaving, there are still many people who have to leave!"
With that said, Senior Brother Wang walked out of the room and continued to move forward despite the wind and snow.
Life is not easy!
Xu Ke couldn't help but sigh when he saw Senior Brother Wang walking forward in the snow.
The world says that cultivating immortals is good, but they don’t know that cultivating immortals is also very difficult!
Old monks like Senior Brother Wang have been unable to make breakthroughs in cultivation. They can only struggle in the early stages of Qi training and struggle at the bottom. It is really difficult.
Seeing Senior Brother Wang's situation strengthened Xu Ke's idea of promotion.
Tomorrow we will set off for Sinong Palace.
I have made all the preparations, and I am bound to win the promotion this time!
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Early the next morning.
Xu Ke got up, washed up, finished breakfast, and put on the standard robe of an outer disciple of the Haoyang Immortal Sect, which he didn't usually use.
In fact, it is a set of dark blue Taoist robes, with the Great Sun and Golden Crow pattern embroidered on it with gold-red silk thread. It is not a robe at all, just ordinary clothes.
In the market, one spirit stone can buy ten sets of such clothes.
After putting on the robe of an outer disciple, hanging up the long sword, putting the storage bag into the underground cave, and sealing the entrance of the underground cave several layers with "concrete as stone", Xu Ke got up and went out.
It's still snowy outside.
Walking into the wind and snow, the purple skylark hidden in the skirt of his clothes was so cold that it "chirped" a few times. Xu Ke shook his head helplessly. With a thought, the golden light spell was activated, and a faint golden light film enveloped the whole body. The wind and snow were no longer there. Unable to get close.
Anyway, Xu Ke wanted to be in the spotlight this time when he went to the Sinong Hall to take the assessment. Now that he had revealed a golden light spell, it was not too ostentatious.
After all... the senior brother walking on the road ahead was also using the Golden Light Spell!
It was such a windy and snowy day, and if I didn't cast a golden light spell, when I walked to the market town, my clothes would be soaked by the melted snow water on my body.
As we continue to advance along the road, more and more people gather on the road ahead.
There is Senior Brother Wang who "sells insurance", Gao Lei who is a thief, Mr. Hu who is a mixed society, etc. Farming disciples scattered in various places are all gathering in the direction of the market town.
Xu Ke didn't know many people, and he only had interactions with a few people. He just said hello to Senior Brother Wang and others along the way, and then went straight on his way.
Of course, it was such a windy and snowy day, so no one was in the mood to talk, and they were all in a hurry.
Most of the farming disciples in this area are "senior brothers", but there are not many young disciples like Xu Ke.
These "senior brothers" were very dissatisfied with braving the wind and snow to take part in some kind of assessment. They cursed and cursed while walking, which seemed very unserious and seriously ruined the atmosphere of the sect competition.
When everyone came to the market town of Fangshi, Xu Ke finally knew who the Fangzheng of "Hedongfang" was.
The so-called Fangzheng was actually the boss of Baibaozhai, that skinny old man whose name Xu Ke didn't even know.
"My name is Liu Yongtian, and our place is called Hedongfang. If you want to seek promotion, remember this. When you go to Sinong Hall to take the assessment, you have to report your origins. You will need these. If you don't want to be promoted, you can ignore it. "
After the skinny old man said this, he waved his hand and said, "Let's go! We still have to walk a hundred miles!"
Therefore, under the leadership of Fangzheng Liu Yongtian, a group of outer disciples from Hedongfang headed towards Haoyang City.
A group of people were walking sparsely on the road, like a rabble.
Are you going to participate in the sect competition?
I knew that the farming disciples in this area were depressed, but I didn't expect them to be depressed to this extent.
If the real head master saw this situation, would he be so angry that he vomited blood? Or slap them over and kill all these embarrassing things?
Xu Ke couldn't help but shook his head.
The only good news is that there should be no competitors here in Hedongfang.
