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Ever since Zhong Liqing's mahogany sword was broken after the lecture, those disciples who complained about her never troubled her again, not because of their conscience or being warned by some mysterious big man... In the magic class, when I witnessed someone casually draw up a ten-foot-long fire dragon to turn a piece of land into coke, those disciples who had found fault with each other put their tails together and walked away from her. Far away, for fear that she would remember Qiu and come to trouble them.

It was also in the spell class that the disciples realized that the rumored disciple valued by Deacon Zheng actually had Actually, moreover, it was the one they had offended so badly.

——Well, the swordsmanship is no match for others, and even the art skills are far behind, so why don't you hide far away?

Therefore, Zhong Liqing lived very peacefully during this period of time.

Practicing swordsmanship in the morning, studying spells in the afternoon, and the rest of the time was spent on refining alchemy, making talismans and researching formations. The life was particularly fulfilling, and I only wished that I could use 24 hours instead of twelve hours a day.

There are five instructors in Qingyun Academy who teach spells, corresponding to the five elements spells, and Zhong Liqing, in addition to pretending to go to the instructor of the fire department to listen to a few lessons, sometimes pretends to pass by to listen to the others If you are interested in the lectures you teach, you will definitely find that she has appeared in every class you teach.

When people were in front of her, she didn't show any abnormality, as if she was just a very talented fire cultivator, but after closing the door and setting up a spiritual shelter, she would practice the five elements spells learned in class one by one .

Zhong Liqing discovered that, according to what the coach said, the rules of the spells taught by Chong Hua were to mobilize the spiritual power of the five elements between the heaven and the earth, and to activate them with runes and spells to form spells.Although the power is huge, the disadvantages are also obvious: it needs to set aside time to recite the spell, and it is limited by the terrain - if you use water-based spells in the desert, the effect will be greatly reduced.

But the spells she tries are different, because she has all the attributes of the five elements, and she is not limited to one kind of spiritual power, so as long as there is spiritual energy, it can be used by her and transformed into any kind of spiritual power she needs Strength—the limit is that the speed of converting spiritual power depends on the amount of her spiritual power and the degree of widening of her meridians.

If the meridian in the Qi refining period is just a hair, then after the foundation is established, it will be as thick as an oxtail, and when it is formed into a golden core, it may be able to reach a trickle. Another one is in the sky and the other is on the ground.

However, it is not difficult for Zhong Liqing to learn those difficult and obscure spells in a short period of time, and it is not difficult to mobilize the spiritual power of the world for her own use. The difficulty lies in that Zhong Liqing's current meridians are not strong enough to support her casting For a slightly more powerful technique, even if it is simply to imitate a fire dragon, it will take a third of her spiritual power to maintain the realistic form for half an hour, let alone control the fire dragon's attack. After serving a cup of tea, I lost my strength.

At this level, it would be fine to participate in some quick fights, but once in a critical moment, it would be a burden, and it would be more practical to use those spiritual powers to urge the flying sword to escape.

After much deliberation, Zhong Liqing asked Senior Mu Ye, who seemed to her almost omniscient and omnipotent, on the question of "how to quickly increase spiritual power".

"It's not that there is no solution, but I don't know if you girl can bear it." The Zipao man was obviously satisfied with Zhong Liqing's filial and improved tea, but it didn't show on his face, and he still looked careless. Leaning on the edge of the stone table, propping his chin, he smiled meaningfully.

"Senior, it's okay to say." Zhong Liqing knelt upright on one side, filled the teacup, and looked over with a firm expression.

——As long as you can become stronger, what is there to be impatient?

"According to this prescription, prepare these medicinal materials, find a pool and soak them for 49 days, wash the marrow and cut the veins, and broaden the strength. If you can persist, then your spiritual power will at least triple." The purple-robed man stretched his hands With a wave, there was an additional letter on the stone table filled with hairpin small letters.

Zhong Liqing took it and glanced at it: Although there are a lot of medicinal materials, they are within her tolerance range. Looking closely, they are all ordinary medicinal materials that can be gathered together, and there are no rare treasures that are hard to find in the world. Treasure—does such a prescription really have the ability to wash the marrow and cut the veins?

However, Zhong Liqing never dared to question this senior Mu Ye, or she never thought of questioning him... There is no doubt about this senior's ability and means.

"Is it enough to add these herbs when taking a bath every day?" Zhong Liqing heard her say that she would soak for seven to forty-nine days, and asked casually, but got a blank stare and a jade slip.

"Temperature, water quality, and even the weight of the medicinal materials must not be bad at all, and when you take a medicinal bath, you must calm down, run your spiritual power, and resist pain, otherwise you may run the risk of cutting off your meridians—if you treat it like a joke, stop this as soon as possible." Thoughts! The way of cultivation lies in being down-to-earth... don't you think the shortcut is so easy?" Seeing her casual attitude, the purple-robed man couldn't help reprimanding her.

"Senior reminded me that the disciple has been taught." Zhong Liqing pursed the corners of her lips and sincerely admitted her mistake.

Seeing her sincerity, the purple-robed man snorted softly and waved his hand to signal her to leave: "This is the entrance guard of Yun Yinju, go quietly in the dark, don't let anyone see you...Be smarter, you know?"

"I understand." Zhong Liqing replied obediently while holding the jade slip tightly.

According to the list listed by Senior Mu Ye, she sorted out the medicinal materials needed, and taking advantage of the darkening sky, Zhong Liqing carefully found out the Yunlanju, and searched around for a long time according to the location she dictated, avoiding it. After calling several groups of disciples who came out to practice at night, they finally found the courtyard - the mottled words "Yun Yinju" on the plaque were almost unreadable, and the two stone lions guarding the gate, the one on the right was missing a paw, but it was Matched the description.

Zhong Liqing swiped the jade slip, and the door with the peeling red paint opened by itself.

Seeing that there was no one around, she quickly entered the inner courtyard, turned around and closed the door, and then went straight to the backyard——as Senior Mu Ye said, there was a big pit several feet square in the backyard, and a pool was built with white jade. The depth is approximately below the ribs in an adult.

She leaned over the edge of the pool and groped a few times, touched a mechanism, pressed it hard, and four spouts protruded from both sides of the pool, pouring hot water into the bottom of the pit until the pool was filled with water, then The four nozzles also stopped working, and they retracted themselves - I don't know how this mechanism works, it's really novel to watch.

Putting aside the idea of ​​studying the automatic water spray device, Zhong Liqing poured out the prepared medicinal materials from the Qiankun bag, and put the changed clothes and clean bath towels aside, thought for a while, and took a breath outside the pool A three-layer spirit-avoidance array was laid, and three layers of phantom formations were interspersed inside and outside the spirit-avoidance formation—with the double protection of the spirit-avoidance formation and the phantom formation, he slowly took off his outer robe, wrapped only in the Wearing the most close-fitting little bottoming coat, the upper part cannot cover the chest, and the lower part cannot cover the legs, and there is a psychological comfort, which can't be regarded as a bare body in the open air.

The tip of the toe was dipped in the water temperature, the temperature was high, just right for taking a bath, and the medicinal materials thrown in dyed the water surface into a light brown bitter concoction, even the taste was bitter, Zhong Liqing Taking a deep breath, he stepped in slowly.

The comfort of being wrapped in warm water at the beginning faded away in an instant, and turned into steel knives scraping bones, sharp pains from needles piercing acupuncture points, and the pervasive hot water turned out to be the main culprit that made her suffer so much. Gritting your teeth and enduring it, you have no choice.

Zhong Liqing sighed, and leaned back against the pool wall with some loss of strength. The cold touch awakened her mind, which had been a little confused by the severe pain, and stabilized her body that was about to sink into the pool. , She closed her eyes, put on a five-hearted meditation posture, endured the pain, and silently circulated the spiritual power in her body.

If it is said that just soaking in this potion is a heavy pain, then exercising spiritual power in this potion is ten times more painful. When the spiritual power just gathered in the dantian, Zhong Liqing couldn't help biting it Lips——If it weren't for the extraordinary perseverance, I'm afraid I would give up at the first moment.

When she tried her best to transfer her spiritual power from her dantian to the Tanzhong acupoint on her chest, it seemed as if a huge ax was slashing towards her chest, hitting the softest part of her chest and lungs again and again, flattening and rubbing , beat the hammer and press her, and ponder her internal organs one by one—too bored to speak, too heavy to breathe, and can only rely on a stubborn will to pull and transfer the spiritual power to other places little by little.

I don't know how long it has passed, Zhong Liqing let out a sharp breath, only to feel the oppressive pain cleared, followed by a sharp and unbearable itching in the meridians - this pain is worse than the previous one It was different, as if someone took an awl and chiselled bit by bit in her stagnant meridians, chiseling away the blocked impurities and digging through the tiny meridians.

The pain went deep into the bone marrow, Zhong Liqing wanted to scream, wanted to shout, but could only block everything in her throat, her face flushed red for a while, then turned pale for a while, and finally the disguise on her face It was cracked piece by piece, and was wiped clean by the rampant spiritual power.

After a long time, the pain that hit the myelin sheath subsided a little, and the blurred mind gradually returned. Zhong Liqing breathed a sigh of relief, opened her eyes, and looked down at the water—the light brown water had already gotten deeper. times, there are even some black and yellow impurities floating on it, exuding an unpleasant smell.

Zhong Liqing frowned, groped with her backhand for a while, found another mechanism, and pressed it hard.There was a hole in the bottom of the pool, and the sewage was quickly sucked away.

He lowered his head and looked at himself, his skin was as bright as jade, and could be broken by blowing bombs, without even a single pore visible on it, it seemed to be more translucent than when he first established the foundation, and the spiritual power in his dantian was also more abundant—feeling his own With the obvious change, Zhong Liqing suddenly felt that the pain at that moment was not so unbearable anymore.

However, no matter how smooth my skin feels, it can't change the fact that I just forced out a lot of impurities. The most urgent thing is to clean my body—even though I know intellectually that I haven't been contaminated by any dust, I still can't bear it psychologically. Staying in a hot bath is the only way to really clean yourself.

Thinking of this, Zhong Liqing pressed the mechanism that was activated first, refilled the pool with hot water, then leaned against the wall of the pool, closed her eyes and took a rest in a relaxed manner.

This time, she also activated her spiritual power, which was much smoother than the stagnation before, which shows the effect of this medicinal bath.

Letting the spiritual power flow through her body faster and faster, Zhong Liqing raised her lips, and her false sleep almost became real sleep.

In the haze, Zhong Liqing's expression froze suddenly, and his eyes looked through the layers of phantom formations, looking at the front yard - there, there was a person dressed in white, holding a piano in his hand, coming leisurely.

Taking a closer look, it turned out to be Lu Xianrou.

Why is she here?

If she saw her like this... Zhong Liqing's heart was already in a mess, but she didn't dare to make any movement on her face, she even slowed down her breathing, and stood still in the distance, not daring to move.

She didn't know if her phantom formation and spirit avoidance formation could hide it from Lu Xianrou in the late Yuanying period, so she didn't dare to show her air, for fear that a flaw would expose herself.

Fortunately, Lu Xianrou seemed to be immersed in her own thoughts, and she did not expect that someone was taking a bath in the backyard. Therefore, even though it was only a few feet away, she did not notice at all that in the backyard not far away, the illusion In the loess pit, there is a pool of clear water rippling, and a naked girl is curled up in the dense water vapor.

Zhong Liqing watched Lu Xianrou sitting on the ground in the front yard with the guqin on her knees, looking at the situation, as if she was about to play the qin to the moon—what she wanted to know was the reason for the melancholy look on Lu Xianrou's face, Or...for whom?

Hearing a soft sigh, Lu Xianrou lightly tapped her fingertips and began to play.

One journey in the mountains, one journey in the water.

Walking towards Yuguan, thousands of lanterns in the middle of the night.

The wind changes, the snow changes.

Noisy broken homesickness, dreams can't come true, there is no such sound in the hometown. (Note)

The sound of the qin was like weeping and complaining, singing a heartfelt song that no one knew, and it made lovesickness to the bone, and the people who taught and listened to the song couldn't help but feel sad.

The sound of the piano gradually died down, and Lu Xianrou sighed again, then put away the piano, flicked his sleeves, looked at the empty courtyard again, and then left Shi Shiran.

From the beginning to the end, he never glanced at Zhong Liqing's place.

After her figure disappeared for a long time, Zhong Liqing let herself let out a long breath.

But she couldn't help but think: Could it be that she also has a wishful thinking in her heart?

Zhong Liqing lowered her head and looked at the water. The woman in the reflection had a beautiful face. Her shoulders were shaved and her waist was plain. There was nothing that was not perfect. Shaken?

She is as strong-willed as herself, but she is always confused by this appearance. She just thinks that she will never tire of seeing her, and loves her more and more... But no matter how beautiful she is, what if Lu Xianrou already has someone he likes?

Hate only hate - the king was born and I was not born, and the king was old when I was born.

Zhong Liqing was fantasizing about her own reflection like a Xizi holding her heart, but a cold female voice laughed softly: "Tsk, it's nothing special, what's there to see? Fortunately, you have been intoxicated for a long time by yourself."

"Mu, Senior Mu Ye..." Zhong Liqing quickly turned her back, and said in shame and annoyance, "My disciple's clothes are disheveled, please..."

Before the words fell, the man snorted coldly, the voice came from far and near, but it appeared behind her, and said with a condescending smile: "This is the only face I can see."

"..." Zhong Liqing took a deep breath and told herself to calm down and not to get angry with Senior Mu Ye because of this kind of thing. The other party is the same as herself, she is also a woman, and she has helped her a lot... Read it silently several times With Qingxin's incantation, Zhong Liqing finally calmed down, changed her embarrassment just now, and looked at her calmly, "Senior, can you let this disciple put on his clothes first?"

"You mean, do you want me to carry it on your back?" The purple-robed man folded his arms and stared at Zhong Liqing with interest.

"That's right." Facing those playful eyes, Zhong Liqing felt that her self-cultivation was running out bit by bit.

"That's fine, as long as you promise me one condition." A cunning flashed across Hu Po's pupils, and the purple-robed man took a step forward, and bent over to get closer. The aggressive aura gave Zhong Liqing a great shock. The sense of oppression made her ask involuntarily, "What condition?"

"It's very simple, this month's challenge, I want you to win a hundred games in a row." She clapped her hands and smiled.

"...Okay." Zhong Liqing pondered for a moment, but gritted her teeth and agreed, regardless of whether it was because of the ridiculous shame or the competitive spirit.

——Isn’t it just winning a hundred games in a row?Not bad.

Besides, she also really wants to know how far her strength is now.

Only by testing your own limits can you challenge your limits and break through yourself.

She will never forget her original intention of coming to Chonghua, which is to become stronger... the sooner the better.

The author has something to say: Note: From Nalan Xingde's "Long Lovesickness Mountain Journey"

Zhong Liqing: My God, why am I so good-looking!Can't help but fall in love with how much I sent!

Lu Xianrou: The moonlight is so beautiful tonight, and the person I miss, where are you?

Man in purple robe: One is stupid and one is blind, one is narcissistic and one is stupid, that's enough.

Zhong Liqing: Turn around!If you look at me again, it will be called indecent!

Purple-robed man: I'm 36D, why don't you see me?If you have the ability to stand up, if you look at you more, I will beat you!

Zhong Liqing: Crying TvT

The above are all scenes added randomly by the director, and have nothing to do with the character design, please don't take it seriously.

Well, finally I wish Moshanghuakai baby a happy birthday, please~