"Cultivating Taoism pays attention to cultivating one's body, cultivating one's spirit, and cultivating one's mind. Only when the three are brought together can one make progress."
"You who need to meditate and cultivate your nature, God will reward your hard work, and those who have perfect merits and virtues. Every time you break through the disaster, the difficulty will be reduced because of your merits. You should always maintain the heart of helping people in danger and rescuing those in need, and follow the right path and practice the path. Only then can the river be leveled, just like walking on flat ground!"
The elder of the lecture hall was teaching, and almost no one was absent. Every outer disciple listened attentively to the elder's teaching.
You must know that being able to have an elder teach a class is an opportunity that only comes once a month. Many outer disciples have sorted out their doubts about practice and are looking forward to the elder's answers after class.
The teaching is over and it’s time to answer questions.
The elders with sharp ears and eyes could naturally hear the whispers of the disciples below.
But at this time, his face was still a little ugly as before.
Because of one person, Zhang Chen!
"Zhang Chen is the same. He has been in the sect for more than half a year. He only attended one class and was absent from the remaining five classes."
"It is said that he used to be a well-known genius. As a result, he was found to have spiritual bone qualifications. Now he is nostalgic for the mortal world and has no intention of making progress."
"Yes, I heard that he often comes home drunk and gets extremely drunk as soon as he arrives at the dormitory. He was even thrown out of the dormitory by the steward."
"This person is already dead, so it's better to ignore him. Once we practice well, we might have a chance to be promoted to the inner sect and become an ordinary disciple."
"Yeah yeah."
The elder frowned. He had also heard about Zhang Chen's deeds. Now that he heard these remarks, he couldn't help but shake his head in disappointment. Not many people could bear the feeling of falling from a genius in the clouds to the mortal world, let alone a twelve-year-old boy. .
"Forget it, the one-year assessment period is coming soon. If he fails to officially enter the early stage of opening his veins, he will naturally be dismissed as an outer disciple."
"What a pity, what a pity."
…
At this time, Zhang Chen looked gloomy and was sitting in the cave. There were dark red beads at his feet.
The beads were covered with strange blood. Zhang Chen looked at these beads, his expression lost in thought.
In the outer sect, although there are fewer resources and fewer teaching opportunities, the degree of freedom is obviously much higher.
In addition, these days of "drunk life and dreaming", I have long been no longer noticed by others, and I have also been given many opportunities to do some things that are not allowed by the sect.
With his qualifications and regular practice of immortality, he has almost no chance of becoming a great person, and his luck has always been low but not high.
There are no adventures or anything like that, not even the memories of his past life can bring him any adventures.
It is a bit fragmented. In addition, I have never heard of any adventures in the sect. It is reasonable to not predict the adventure beforehand and take the lead. Generally, people who have adventures will not spread it around, let alone he suffered a lot in his previous life. Bullying, no news channel, and now he is an outer disciple. He can only take on some low-level chores, and he is just cleaning the mountain gate like a handyman disciple.
Without the favor of an expert, without the resources for adventure, and without the qualifications to practice, if you want to return to the top, or even surpass it, you can only resort to inhuman means.
Zhang Chen looked at the dark red blood beads next to him. Eight of them were very bright, emitting a strange light in the dark cave. These eight blood beads were his disciples who were in the early stage of opening the meridians. They were generally It was just that in the early stage of opening the pulse, the vigilance was not deep, and he also calculated every step. Because he chose the right time and opportunity, and killed few people, he did not attract the attention of the sect.
The remaining blood beads are some monsters.
He carefully arranged the death scene to look like a mission failure or an attack by a monster.
At this time, Zhang Chenjing concentrated on spreading the blood beads side by side, and an invisible devouring force emitted from his body, wrapping the blood beads together.
Then, Zhang Chen's eyes flashed, and the blood beads shattered and were absorbed into his body. Zhang Chen's face was rosy and his brows were lightly furrowed. He immediately started to use the Annihilation Demonic Skill. The magic skill was running and easily washed away the blood energy and miscellaneous energy in the blood beads that were not conducive to spiritual practice, turning it into the purest spiritual energy that circulated in the body.
Zhang Chen breathed a long sigh of relief, looked at the spiritual energy in his body, and sighed slightly, "Yunling Demon Technique is worthy of being the top skill of the Yinling Demon Lord. These days, I have been practicing and seizing the blood beads, and I have just stepped forward." It is in the middle stage of opening the meridians, but the handyman disciples are generally only in the early stage of opening the meridians, and if you try to murder mortals and the handyman disciples, you will not be able to improve your cultivation."
But at this time, Zhang Chen was deep in thought. The reason why he killed eight handyman disciples was that, firstly, the noise caused was small, and secondly, these people were not worthy of being set up by the sect, so they disappeared for a long time to arrange the scene. , to escape suspicion.
If you extend your hand into the outer disciples, the risk of exposure will be too great. Now I am far from being able to fight against the Lingxiao Sect.
"Leave Lingxiao Sect? Or just kill monsters?"
Zhang Chen was weighing the pros and cons of this choice, but soon he gave up the idea of leaving Lingxiao Sect.
Let’s not talk about the cruelty within the Demon Sect. His situation in the Demon Sect will only be more dangerous. The Demon Sect he knows is separated by thousands of mountains and rivers from here. It is difficult to just go there, let alone The dangers of joining the Demon Sect are enough to be daunting.
However, only killing monster beasts also has certain risks. To participate in the sect's mission of hunting monster beasts, he must at least be in the middle stage of opening his pulse to participate. Only with the help of the sect's magic weapon can he find a large number of monster beasts and take their inner elixirs to consolidate his cultivation. , Logically speaking, in my situation, under normal circumstances, it would take three years at the fastest to reach the middle stage of opening the meridians. I am just an outer disciple, "drunk and dreaming" every day. Moreover, I still have the qualifications of spiritual bones, and my state suddenly reaches the middle stage of opening the meridians, and I can only It makes people doubt that if someone with an intention finds out that he is related to the death of a mortal disciple, the consequences will be disastrous.
For the current plan, we can only resort to dangerous tactics.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chen decided to enter Tianbao Pavilion openly and retrieve all his parents' inheritance, so that he could possibly cover up his improvement in cultivation.
But entering Tianbao Pavilion in advance will inevitably attract more people to covet him.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chen destroyed the traces of his practice on the ground with his backhand, and then checked it to make sure that there was no legacy, and then left the place. Before leaving, he did not forget to sprinkle wine on his body and use the exercises to dry it briefly. , still going up the mountain drunk.
His purpose is to guard the Law Enforcement Pavilion that comes in and out of the Lingxiao Sect and monitors the sect's affairs.
There were many disciples talking in low voices on the way, and their words were mostly mocking and sarcastic.
Zhang Chen turned a blind eye and continued walking.
Seeing the deacon disciple of the Law Enforcement Pavilion this time, Zhang Chen swayed to himself, smelling of alcohol, and leaned forward, but was blocked by a sword in front of him.
"Junior Brother Zhang, please don't go beyond the distance." The voice was soft and sweet, but it still had an elegance.
This woman is sitting in front of the stage, with her delicate chin raised, elegant and cool. She is wearing an exquisite snow-white dress. The long dress covers her proud curves that cannot be ignored. The peaks on her chest are looming, making it difficult to take her eyes away.
Her facial features are exquisite and three-dimensional, and her eyes are clear and translucent, as if she can look directly into people's hearts.
Mo Wanqing, a cultivator at the peak of Qi Gathering, is also a well-known proud daughter of the Lingxiao Sect. It is said that she only had Taoist qualifications when she started, but her cultivation speed is not inferior to that of the disciples with the Immortal Bone qualifications. Later, Mo Wanqing was selected by the Lingxiao Sect Chang Yuefeng due to her special physique. The peak master made an exception and accepted her as her personal disciple.
Unexpectedly, this time the deacon disciple of the Law Enforcement Pavilion turned out to be her. Zhang Chen secretly thought that something was not right. This woman could not help but practice the Cold Moon Sword Art obtained by killing. Her eyes were emitting a light blue halo, and she had reached the realm of double moon pupils. Performance.
In front of her, if his body was not covered by the Annihilation Demonic Skill, Zhang Chen would be naked, with no secrets at all.
Mo Wanqing lightly frowned and said, "Junior brother Zhang, you haven't reached the early stage of pulse opening yet?"
"Senior Sister, my talent is not good and my Taoism is unstable, so I still have not made any progress. Please forgive me, Senior Sister." Zhang Chen gave a "wry smile", his face was as miserable as that day, and he was as dejected as ever.
Mo Wanqing sighed: "Did you know that Junior Sister Zhang and Junior Brother Lin have reached the middle stage of opening their pulses in the past six months?"
"Cousin and sister, I haven't seen each other for half a year." Zhang Chen replied with a smile, and the laughter was full of reluctance.
Mo Wanqing felt a pity in her heart, but she also felt sad for him. However, she had no intention of spending any more energy on this matter. She returned to her cold posture and said, "Junior brother, what is the purpose of coming here?"
"Senior sister, I am here this time to apply to go down the mountain and return to Jingdu City."
"You..." Mo Wanqing didn't know all his "misdeeds" and was about to go down the mountain again, most likely to get drunk and hang around in the world. However, with the idea of giving up helping others and respecting the fate of others, Mo Wanqing didn't bother to admonish him. What should be said, he must have been tired of hearing it in the past six months, "This is a token, it is limited to ten days, junior brother should understand the rules."
"I understand, I understand, thank you for your trouble, senior sister. Junior brother, please leave." Zhang Chen took the token and left the law enforcement pavilion. Just as he was about to step out, Mo Wanqing's voice sounded again behind him.
"Junior Brother Zhang has been careful lately."
"Huh?" Zhang Chen paused slightly, his expression unchanged.
"Sister, what do you mean by this?"
Mo Wanqing hesitated for a moment, but still said kindly: "Recently, it has been reported that many handyman disciples were killed. The Inspection Pavilion has sent people to step up patrols. Junior brother, please be more careful when going down the mountain this time."
Zhang Chen knew that the inspection pavilion was not the law enforcement pavilion. It seemed that the murder of these people had not yet been blamed on human beings. He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and said with a smile: "Thank you, senior sister, for reminding me."
…
Not long after, the old scene reappeared in front of his eyes, and Zhang Chen returned to Jingdu City again.
However, Zhang Chen dressed low-key this time, as usual, and did not attract much attention.
When he walked to the door of Tianbao Pavilion, he felt many eyes around him staring at him.
Zhang Chen sneered and took off his disguise. What he wanted was for the news to spread that he had entered Tianbao Pavilion, and what greeted him was a beautiful cultivator.
Zhang Chen could not see any look of contempt in her eyes. People in Tianbao Pavilion would never look down upon anyone they met, even a mortal.
This is also one of the reasons why Tianbao Pavilion can establish itself in Beiming and become known as the "Iron Treasury".
As for the Yuan Kingdom, only the capital Jingdu City has a branch of Tianbao Pavilion. The Tianbao Pavilion here is only three stories high. The first and second floors are the item trading area, and the third floor is the storage area. As for where the treasures are actually stored, Zhang Chen was lucky in his previous life. I "visited" and "borrowed" all the things inside, so I also had Tianbao's pursuit order on my back.
Now that he was here again, Zhang Chen felt a little turbulent.
The receptionist female cultivator looked at Zhang Chen, and while sizing her up, she smiled and said, "What are your plans this time, young master?"
Zhang Chen glanced at the woman and simply replied: "Get the things."
"Young Master, please move to the third floor."
"good."
Zhang Chen followed the female cultivator to the third floor and naturally sat on the mahogany chair. After the female cultivator prepared tea and drinks, she leaned over and said, "Young Master, please wait a moment."
Zhang Chen nodded, took a sip of the drink, and found that it was actually Tongluo tea. This tea can be regarded as the best in the world. It has a delicate fragrance and endless aftertaste. Use it to receive ordinary guests, haha... Zhang Chen is dumbfounded. No wonder Tianbao Pavilion is confused. The service is so good and the service attitude is outstanding!
After a while, a hale and hearty old man with slightly frosted temples came over. Zhang Chen's expression paused. This man's cultivation was unfathomable, but he still had a kind smile on his face. He sat in front of him, and the female cultivator at the side was holding a Jade screen.
"Young master, you just need to write the secret key to retrieve the object on this object and verify it."
Zhang Chen didn't act like a curious baby, and used his spiritual power to concentrate on his fingertips, drawing complex patterns on the jade screen. After a while, the jade screen shone brightly, and two words were written on it: "Three Seven."
"Wait a moment, young master, I will get it for you right now."
