What's wrong with being a salted fish?

Lin Zhuo slumped lazily on his chair, staring boredly at the water mirror in the hall.

What appears on the water mirror are the cultivators participating in the selection.

The content of the selection is nothing more than testing talents, fighting spiritual beasts, accumulating points, and finally participating in the arena competition to select the top ten winners.

Lin Zhuo curled his lips, saying it was the same old thing, it had been such a long time, and he could only sit here so bored.

The other elders and venerables in the sect are having heated discussions about this year's contestants.

One moment it was heard that this kid was good at swinging the sword; the other was practicing the formation very well; this kid was very talented...all the sounds made Lin Zhuo's ears prick. .

The elders seemed to have chosen their favorite candidate, and Cang Yunze, who was sitting next to Lin Zhuo, was very interested in Su Ziqi and had great confidence in him.

"Junior brother, do you think the two people we met last time can win?" After all, he was the one who gave the clearance token, so don't slap him in the face.

"Probably." Lin Zhuo comforted him, but rolled his eyes inwardly. As long as Su Ziqi participated in this group competition, who else could be number one besides him?

"Ahem!" Their master, Venerable Taixu, coughed twice and signaled the two of them to stop chatting and ask them to chat in a lower voice.

Hearing the master's voice, Lin Zhuo silently sat upright. At the same time, he was still wondering: Is he a little too skilled? Shouldn't it be a conditioned reflex?

......

Su Ziqi, who was missed by the two of them, was anxiously waiting for the start of the arena match at the edge of the ring.

He must be number one so that Master can see him!

Su Ziqi firmly believed that it was an accident that Lin Zhuo ignored him last time in the secret realm. It was probably because he was not strong enough and therefore did not arouse his interest.

But Lu Mian, who was standing behind him, felt more and more displeased with Su Ziqi.

Lu Mian's previous feelings of gratitude and admiration for Su Ziqi were gradually suppressed by suspicion.

Lu Mian could understand Su Ziqi's yearning for the strong and his dream of becoming the disciple of Venerable Hai Qing, but he could not understand Su Ziqi's stalking or even plotting against others.

So far, Su Ziqi has not explained to him the purpose of the Wuhua Secret Realm in the past, nor has he mentioned how he was so sure that Venerable Hai Qing would go to the secret realm.

Lu Mian guessed that Su Ziqi might have obtained the information through some dishonorable means, and she became even more disdainful of him.

After that, Lu Mian not only became wary of Su Ziqi, but sometimes he even wondered whether saving himself from the monster was part of Su Ziqi's plan.

This thought made Lu Mian feel cold all over.

Now, because they have the token given by Cang Yunze, they only need to wait in the arena for others who have passed the previous test. This gives Lu Mian time to carefully observe Su Ziqi.

In the past, he was blinded by gratitude and had great trust in Su Ziqi, so he didn't notice anything strange about him. However, after his trip to the Wuhua Secret Realm, he felt like he could see the moon behind the clouds.

Su Ziqi seems to often go out at night, and she doesn't know where she goes.

Lu Mian also tried to follow Su Ziqi, but he always lost track of her, which made him even more weird.

......

A few days ago, the devil world.

"Tsk, useless thing." As Qi Zhixing raised his hand, the men kneeling in front of him disappeared.

"What's wrong?" Hong Yu leaned on the chair in an inelegant posture, with the spiritual fruit in his mouth.

"The supervision is not good, let's put a suspicious person in." Qi Zhixing said.

"North?" Lan Zhi, who was preparing medicine at the side, asked.

Qi Zhixing nodded. The northern part of the demon world has been restless in recent years. Recently, it seems that it has been provoked by others, and its actions have become more reckless, which made Qi Zhixing feel a little tired both physically and mentally.

This time, the soldiers from the north actually deliberately let in suspicious people, who were most likely bribed.

Qi Zhixing had a headache. He had to go to the cultivation world to seek medicine. He didn't know who to send to the north.

"I'm going! Let me go! I'm almost bored!" Hong Yu stood up from the chair and quickly stretched out his hand to indicate that he was going.

"Are you sure?" Qi Zhixing looked at Hong Yu. He always felt that this guy was unreliable.

"Uh-huh, I haven't had a fight in a long time, I can't wait!" Hongyu stretched his arms to show that he can set off now.

"Okay, do you need someone to accompany you?"

Before Qi Zhixing could list the people he could accompany Hong Yu, Lan Zhi said, "I'll accompany him."

"Stop! It's inconvenient for me to follow you!" Hong Yu immediately became furious and shook his head desperately to reject Lan Zhi.

"What's the inconvenience for you?" Lan Zhi had a look on his face that said, "Look, I'm listening."

Hong Yu was speechless: "Well...it's just inconvenient anyway! I don't want you, I don't want you!"

Hong Yu waved his hands wildly to reject Lan Zhi, but Lan Zhi grabbed his ears: "It's useless, look at you like this, you won't even know if you get hurt later, I have to go!"

"Then it's settled, Lan Zhi, you take Hong Yu to the north, and I'll go to the world of cultivation again." I hope I can talk to Hai Qing this time.

Lan Zhi nodded, holding Hong Yu's belt with his right hand to prevent him from moving: "Zhixing, be careful." After all, the world of cultivation is still extremely repulsive to their demon cultivators.

Qi Zhixing understood and reassured them both that he had his own sense of proportion.

......

Su Ziqi once again fell to the ring, rolling sideways in embarrassment to avoid the sword swung by the enemy. He half stood up and used his Qingyun to collide with the opponent, making a crisp sound.

what happened? Who attacked me?

Su Ziqi fell on the stage at least three times. Each time when he was about to fly up to give the opponent a good blow, something unknown hit him in the leg. Su Ziqi felt his knees go weak and knelt down on the stage.

Qi Zhixing was throwing pebbles in the dark. Every time he threw them, he would add demonic energy to them. After hitting them, they would immediately shatter into pieces, making Su Ziqi unable to find them.

hateful! Who is standing in his way?

Su Ziqi looked around and found nothing unusual.

"Where are you looking?" His opponent came over with his sword again.

Su Ziqi gritted his teeth and rolled over in the air to avoid the opponent's next sword attack. He raised his hand and Qingyun dispersed seven or eight sword shadows in the air towards the opponent, causing a huge wave of air to knock the opponent off the ring.

"I accept." Su Ziqi clasped his fists calmly on the surface, but in fact his legs were in great pain.

"Hmph!" You're lucky.

Qi Zhixing threw away the remaining stones in his hand. When he saw Su Ziqi's attitude towards Lin Zhuo from the Mystic Realm of Fog Flowers, Qi Zhixing disliked him; especially when he later recognized that the other party had caused harassment in the north, he wanted to get rid of him even more. Then quickly.

"Xiao Qi, is Su Ziqi lame? He was kneeling on the ground just now. I didn't know he thought he was cheating." Lin Zhuo looked at the situation on the ring in the water mirror and complained to 0617.

"Bah, bah, tui." 0617 was eating melon seeds: "I don't know, but it does feel like my limbs are uncoordinated."

"Can you please stop eating? I can't eat anything. I'm so sad." Lin Zhuo pretended to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes.

Master Lin Zhuo's eyes flickered back and forth over Lin Zhuo. He did not dare to slump on the chair, so he could only sit upright.

"It's pitiful, but I don't." As he said that, 0617 drank louder.

"..." Can you change this rebellious system?

Lin Zhuo had nothing to do but hold his face with his hands and stare at the game scene in the water mirror in a daze.

Suddenly, he felt something in his hand, which made his hair stand up in shock.

Damn it? ! what!

"What's wrong, junior brother? Do you like this person?" Seeing his big reaction, Cang Yunze thought that Lin Zhuo had taken a fancy to the cultivator who was now competing on the stage.

Cang Yunze took a closer look and found that the two people inside were ordinary in terms of talent and appearance. He didn't know what his junior brother liked about them.

Lin Zhuo shook his head: "No, it was just a bit tingling suddenly." He couldn't say that he seemed to have encountered a supernatural event, right?

Then Lin Zhuo looked at the thing in his hand and found that it seemed to be a bag of candy.

Lin Zhuo used his spiritual energy sense and found that the bag of candy seemed to have the scent of his lover on it.

Um? But where is this man?

Lin Zhuo looked around, even closing his eyes and trying to find the other party through his spiritual energy, but he couldn't find any clues.

Why are you still hiding from yourself?

"Xiao Qing, what's wrong?" Lord Taixu asked him as he saw his little apprentice looking around looking for something.

As soon as he spoke, everyone present looked at Lin Zhuo.

Lin Zhuo's scalp felt numb and his toes began to dig at the ground.

Master! You really don’t need to pay so much attention to him, okay?

"No, it's nothing." Lin Zhuo muttered softly, wishing he could find a crack to hide in.

Venerable Taixu just looked at him a few more times with loving eyes: "You are still as shy as when you first came here."

Master, is it possible that I am embarrassed?

What could Lin Zhuo say? He could only smile sheepishly, hoping everyone would quickly look away from him.

Fortunately, everyone paid more attention to the arena competition and quickly looked away, making Lin Zhuo breathe a sigh of relief.

Lin Zhuo secretly stuffed a piece of candy into his mouth. Well, it was very sweet, but because of the scene just now, his lover still couldn't escape the "pain of the flesh."

Qi Zhixing shivered on the eaves of the hall.

......

On the field, Lu Mian tied up his opponent with silk threads, causing him to lose his ability to fight, and thus won the victory.

Lu Mian jumped down from the ring, and now he was firmly in the top ten.

After he got off the stage, he found Su Ziqi beating his legs, and he was a little surprised for a moment.

He also watched Su Ziqi's battle just now and found that Su Ziqi seemed to be a little slow and even fell several times on the ring, but he still won. Lu Mian thought that Su Ziqi might have just had a minor accident, but looking at him like this, it might be a little serious.

But what does it have to do with myself? Lu Mian passed by him humming a tune.

In the past, when Lu Mian saw Su Ziqi like this, he would definitely come up to him and ask for help, but now, he was suspicious of Su Ziqi, and he couldn't help but sneer in his heart, scolding him as he deserved it.

However, Su Ziqi, who has the best luck in the world, still won the first place in the group competition even though he was injured. Lu Mian was not bad either, finishing fourth.

Lu Mian watched the award-giving elder pin the first-place badge on Su Ziqi, and couldn't help but think to herself that before, she would have died of joy for Su Ziqi.

Maybe it was because he had been with Su Ziqi for too long before, so Lu Mian could probably feel what Su Ziqi was thinking.

He looked at Su Ziqi who pretended to be calm on the surface, as if she didn't care, but actually had her hands clenched tightly in her sleeves. Lu Mian couldn't help but roll his eyes.

You are obviously very happy, why are you pretending?

Since Lu Mian seemed to have seen through Su Ziqi's disguise in the Mist Flower Secret Realm, he felt refreshed and enlightened.

But he had no evidence of Su Ziqi's ulterior motives, so he could only follow him to look for his flaws.

Afterwards, the award-giving elder led a group of people to the sect hall, where everyone had just observed them through the water mirror.

"Master, all the disciples who have passed the selection are here." The elder who presented the award bowed and said.

The disciples stood in several rows, and the best player in the group competition stood at the front.

"Let's take a look, are there any disciples you like?" Taixu said cheerfully. He could see that the elders couldn't wait.

As soon as these words came out, several respected elders took the lead in picking out the disciples they had just chosen, and it could be seen from their expressions that both parties were very satisfied.

"Junior brother, do you have a favorite candidate? I will never compete with you." Cang Yunze spoke quietly to Lin Zhuo again.

Lin Zhuo shook his head. He couldn't teach his apprentice well, so don't torment him.

"Is that so? Then I have taken a liking to that boy Su Ziqi. He is very good with the sword. Junior brother, please don't compete with me."

Cang Yunze smiled. He knew that Su Ziqi had good talent, and after discovering that the opponent was good at using swords, he felt that Su Ziqi was tailor-made for him.

Lin Zhuo admired his courage and thought that he would have to keep an eye on Cang Yun Ze in the future to avoid causing trouble.

"Senior brother, please, I will never compete with you!" I am not blessed to accept such a great gift.

Seeing that the other elders seemed to be preparing to choose Su Ziqi, Cang Yunze quickly asked him: "My little friend, I think you are good at using a sword, and I happen to be a swordsman as well. Why don't you worship me as your teacher and let's explore the way of swordsmanship together?" !”

At the end, he added: "Have you forgotten what we met last time?"

"Hey! Young man Cang! Why are you still acting like this? Junior, don't listen to him. Become my disciple. I'm much better than this boy Cang Yunze!" Another elder in the sect who is good at swordsmanship also asked Su Ziqi will.

Su Ziqi stood in the center of the hall, bending down and clasping his fists in a neither arrogant nor humble manner: "Thank you two venerables for your love, but I already have my favorite master."

Afterwards, Su Ziqi bowed deeply in the direction of Lin Zhuo: "Senior Haiqing! I hope to become your apprentice!"

As soon as he said these words, the entire hall fell silent, and everyone was quietly watching Lin Zhuo's reaction.

No, brother, these two people are vying for you here. You don’t even look at it. You are determined to become my disciple, right? Simply outrageous!

Lin Zhuo waved his hand quickly: "I study pharmacology and don't know swordsmanship. You'd better choose someone else."

Just kidding, I won’t teach you, okay?

Su Ziqi knew that this was Lin Zhuo's excuse.

After being reborn, he thought he knew Venerable Haiqing better than anyone else. He knew that Venerable Haiqing was not only good at pharmacology, but his swordsmanship was also among the best, and he was even proficient in formations. But why didn't he accept him as his disciple? only?

Su Ziqi couldn't help but look up, her eyes full of loss and a little shocked.

According to his opinion, after seeing his skills, Lin Zhuo should not reject him. Although he was a little embarrassed during the battle, is there any disciple who passed the selection who is better than him?

"Host, I bet, he's wondering why you don't accept him as your disciple." 0617 was still eating melon seeds, chirping, chirping, chirping, Lin Zhuo was used to it.

"I think I've lived too long, right? And the world has obviously changed. I didn't take him in even though he's not in trouble. Why on earth is he staring at me?" Lin Zhuo also wondered why the male protagonist was pestering him. Own.

"Xiao Qing, why don't you think about it? You don't have anyone else in your medicine mountain. Wouldn't it be good to recruit an apprentice to accompany you?" Taixu seemed not to notice the silent atmosphere in the hall and began to persuade Lin Zhuo.

Master! Am I your disciple? You tricked me like this! ?

Lin Zhuo was helpless. He looked around, clicked his tongue, and then said, "Then I'll choose the one that suits my eyes."

Lin Zhuo flew up from his seat and landed in front of Lu Mian: "It's you. I like you very much. Lu Mian, you are willing to become my disciple."

Let him take a close look at Lu Mian's love brain.

Lu Mian: Well, is there such a good thing? !