On How the Phoenix Hanged on the Crooked Neck Tree

There was a blinding white light in front of his eyes, Qiao Yitong covered his eyes with his hands, opened them with difficulty, and saw the sun hanging high above the sky, obviously it was noon.

There was some dizziness in his head, and he couldn't tell where he was for a while.It wasn't until I recalled the young man in ocher clothes I met in the restaurant and the strange sneak attack afterwards that I realized that there was no pain in my body, so I closed my eyes and circulated my spiritual power around my body to see if I was injured. .

However, there were no injuries anywhere in the body, and Qiao Yitong even felt that his cultivation base seemed to have increased a lot?

What exactly is going on?Qiao Yitong is the kind of person who must find out everything, so he sat down cross-legged and carefully examined the inside of his body again.

This time it really made him discover something strange.In his dantian, there is a group of inconspicuous red substance emitting a soft halo.

Qiao Yitong stimulated the aura, and tentatively used it to touch the red halo.However, as soon as he touched the red light, he felt a burst of scorching heat, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly withdrew his aura.

Could it be that the ocher-clothed boy gave me something evil?

Qiao Yitong tried to recall the feeling just now, but found that although the red light was hot, when the spiritual power with his own consciousness approached, he did not suffer any substantial damage.Can't help being a little strange.

He used his spiritual power again, trying to get the red light out of his body, but he couldn't get close.

There is no other way for the time being, it is better to go back and look through the classics first.Maybe there are records about the solution to this thing in the Library Pavilion in Fengyundu.

Qiao Yitong took out the ink cloud fan and flew into the sky, and was about to return to Fengyundu, but saw a hill not far away, and couldn't help being stunned for a moment.

"Did you come here by accident?"

He turned around and came to the hill, halfway up the hill was a simple log cabin.Qiao Yitong's face was calm, and he stood quietly outside the door for a while, as if he wanted to open the door.But in the end, he just bowed three times to the door.

After worshiping, Qiao Yitong didn't miss her anymore, and went straight to Fengyundu.

Skillfully passing through the layers of restrictions, Qiao Yitong came to the outside of her own Fengming Tower.

Laixi was cleaning fallen flowers outside the courtyard with a small broom, when he saw him, his eyes lit up, he threw the small broom, and ran towards him.

"My lord, where have you been, my lord! Go back, my lord is back!"

"What!" Gui Gui rushed down the stairs in surprise.

The two little radish heads ran over excitedly, Qiao Yitong couldn't help laughing: "You two, I just went to the mortal world for a night, so there is no need to make such a fuss?"

"One night for what? It's been four days!" Laixi said.

Qiao Yitong was taken aback, he didn't expect that he had been in a coma for so long.

"My lord, Yixuan Daoist has come to look for you twice." Gui Qu said with a bitter face, "If you don't come back again, we won't be able to evade it."

"Why did he come to see me again?" Qiao Yitong wondered, "What happened recently?"

"We don't know about this," Gui Hui said, "You should take a look at his place some time."

Qiao Yitong said: "Okay. I'll go now." He thought of something, and took out a pack of pine nut cakes, a pack of pea yellow and two windmills made of paper from his Qiankun bag: "Take it, don't be on me every day. What did you say before, 'I almost lost my tongue feeling after eating Bigu Dan' or something like that."

"Thank you young master, young master loves us the most." Laixi and Guihui said in unison with smiles on their faces.

"Little devil." Qiao Yitong pursed his lips and smiled, then walked away.

"Young master is so pretty..." Laixi murmured.

"Yeah, obviously we've been watching it for so many years, but...forget it," Gui Hui shook his head and opened the greased paper bag in his hand, "Let's eat."

"okay!"

Qiao Yitong came to the other courtyard where Yixuan lived, ignored the surrounding restrictions, and walked in directly.There is no fluctuation in the restriction, and Yixuan's territory has always been open to him as a junior.

No one was found in the reception area or the bedroom, Qiao Yitong didn't even think about it, so he went directly to the quiet room.Sure enough, the door of the quiet room was tightly closed, and the formation protecting the quiet room was emitting bursts of halos.Qiao Yitong pushed the door tentatively, but the door opened directly.Yixuanzheng practiced sitting cross-legged on a cattail fan.

Qiao Yitong was speechless for a moment, picked a cattail fan next to Yixuan and sat down, waiting for him to finish his cultivation.

After three sticks of incense, Yixuan opened his eyes and looked at the uninvited junior.

Qiao Yitong moved his eyes away from the grain of the wood, and asked complicatedly: "Brother, why didn't you tell me that even the restrictions on the place where you practice are open to me?"

Yixuan was obviously stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, didn't we practice together when we were young? I'm already used to all restrictions being open to you."

"Aren't you afraid... what will I do to hurt you? For example, just now, if I had malicious intentions and attacked you, you might go mad if you don't die." Qiao Yitong said seriously.

"Are you my enemy?"

"What if I am?"

"If you become my enemy, it must be due to my ineffective discipline," Yixuan said, "At that time, there is no need for Master to speak, I will definitely teach you a good lesson."

Qiao Yitong curled her lips speechlessly: "Senior brother, I really admire you, I really want to roll your eyes."

"Why not?"

"A gentleman does not act indecently."

Yixuan said helplessly: "I don't know what made a mistake when I taught you before, which caused you to grow old in the mortal world and learn to be a 'gentleman' of their mortals."

"Senior brother, what did you seek me for?" Qiao Yitong didn't answer, but said bluntly.

Yixuan said: "In four or five days, there will be the selection meeting for inner disciples and core disciples. Originally, Yiqing and I were in charge of this matter, but unfortunately Yiqing happened to be on the day of retreat to attack the Golden Core. I won’t be able to come out for a month or two. I’m short of manpower here, so I want to invite you, junior brother, to help me.”

Yiqing is the true disciple of the head of the sect, and Yixuan and her have always been responsible for all the affairs of Fengyundu.

Qiao Yitong suddenly asked nonchalantly: "Brother, are the outer disciples of Lingzhi Garden also included in the selection?"

"There are no special circumstances, why should Lingzhi Garden be excluded?" Yixuan asked doubtfully.

"In this case, it's natural to help," Qiao Yitong said, "But brother, you know that I don't like to take care of these tedious chores. I'd better trouble you to find some less complicated matters for me."

"Don't worry, you don't need to do those etiquette things," Yi Xuandao said, "In this selection, true disciples must attend three people in order to select the best seedlings from among the selected inner disciples as core disciples. I I just want you, junior brother, to be one of the judges and select together with me."

Qiao Yitong said with a smile: "This job is fun and leisurely."

"Junior brother, although you are free, the selection of disciples is related to the future development of Fengyundu, it is not a joke, you need to take care of it." Yixuan was strict by nature, although he was at ease with Qiao Yitong, he still instructed.

Qiao Yitong responded without turning her head.

Seeing this, Yixuan couldn't help shaking his head and laughing.

Qiao Yitong took on an errand, but he didn't pay much attention to it. Instead, he lived in Fengyundu's Library Pavilion for several days, looking for books about the red light in his body.

He kept rummaging through the vast sea of ​​books, almost reading all the books on voodoo and parasitism, but found nothing.No book has ever explained this situation.Qiao Yitong suspected that he was looking in the wrong direction, but firstly, the disciple selection meeting was about to begin, secondly, the red light in his body did not change for the time being, and thirdly, because of his rebellious psychology, he didn't want to tell the experience what happened when he went down the mountain. The rich elders put this matter on hold first.

Tomorrow is the meeting, Qiao Yitong went back to his Fengming Tower to rest for a night, and flew to Fengyundu's Wuji Square full of energy the next day.

Promise Square is the largest square in Fengyundu, and it is generally used as a venue for large-scale competitions and lectures in Fengyundu.

At this moment, hundreds of disciples who are qualified to participate in the conference are nervously standing in their positions, repeatedly recalling the examination process over the years.Thousands of disciples who were not qualified for the competition crowded around the Tai Chi Square, discussing excitedly.

Xiao Qin is a disciple who is qualified to participate in the selection.According to the usual practice, outer disciples need to practice for at least three years before they have the chance to become inner disciples, but he has only entered Fengyundu for less than a year, but because of his high aptitude, hard work, and the top-quality anode grass planted in Lingzhi Garden, Exceptionally qualified for the competition.Therefore, he is very jealous of others, but he is determined and is not moved by other people's gossip.Even if the competition is approaching, he just silently recalls the knowledge he has already mastered in his heart, not as nervous as others.

But at this moment, the voices of some female disciples talking in his ears made him a little troubled.

"Ashu, do you think Master Qiao will come?"

"It will definitely be, I heard that he is also one of the judges of this selection meeting," Ashu said, "I have already asked about it."

"Ahhhhh," the female disciple screamed excitedly, "That's great, I don't usually see him. The last time I saw him was half a year ago."

"The only chance for us outer disciples to meet true disciples is in the morning. Other true disciples will come here occasionally, but Master Qiao is busy with cultivation, so he never shows up." Ah Shu also regretted. sighed.

Every day when the sun rises, all the disciples of Fengyundu will come here to listen to the Taoist scriptures, so as to help them understand the Tao and practice, and consolidate their own realm. This is called "morning reflection".However, true disciples and retreat disciples can choose not to come.

Xiao Qin listened silently to the praise of Qiao Yitong from the disciples around him, thinking how could Qiao Yitong, a pampered guy, endure the pain of getting up early every day, maybe because he didn't have enough time to sleep late every day, how could he practice every day?

But Xiao Qin's thoughts can't affect the girls' admiration for Qiao Yitong, who is "the first in birth", "the first in talent", "the first in appearance" and "the first in style", so they have to endure silently and pretend to listen not see.

I don't know how long it took, Yixuan and another true disciple, Yiyou, sat down on the seats of the judges, and all the young elders and core disciples of the other organizations in charge of the selection conference were all present, leaving only the three major judges One spot is still vacant.

"Senior Brother Yixuan, there is only one stick of incense left before the start of the competition. Why hasn't Senior Brother Yitong arrived yet? Could it be that something happened on the way." Yiyou said.

"It's okay." Yixuan said.

Although I believe that senior brother will not be so unreliable, Yiyou is still a little worried, "Could it be that senior brother overslept?"

At this moment, only a crisp sound of birdsong could be heard in the distance, and everyone raised their heads to look at the sky.The layers of clouds are haloed by the golden-red light, and gorgeous patterns like flowers are outlined on the edges.Above the sky, a person dressed in white races against the snow, stepping on a golden crow bird, as if a god came to the world.I don't know how many people stared blankly for a while.

When the Golden Crow approached the stands, Qiao Yitong jumped off the bird's back and lightly landed on his seat.

He glanced around, finally fixed his eyes on Yixuan, and said with a smile: "Brother, I shouldn't be too late."

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