Unexpected

The ten days before the first year were the busiest days for every household in the whole year, and Shi Xun and Lingyi, as the guests of Yaowang Valley, happened to be the most leisurely.Not to mention that these two people are used to being stable in Cang Zhujie, and they don't take time to live their lives. Besides, although they know about these Valentine's Days, they don't have such a busy atmosphere on weekdays.What's more, the master's family will not let them be busy, so they can't be busy even if they want to.

So the two of them were like little Buddhas enshrined in front of the incense table, eating and drinking every day, wandering in the valley, having nothing serious to do, whenever they needed help, they went to help, but it was only time for a few cups of tea.Or, Shi Xun would sneak into Guiyingu's wooden house in the dark of night, and read enough books while he was sleeping, but he didn't know that his master had already discovered it.The rest just sat in the guest courtyard in a daze all day long, very leisurely all day long.

The [-]th day after the new year is also the day when various families pay New Year's greetings and visits.

Yaowang Valley's famous sect is upright, and most of them are family sects who need to visit. The disciples and elders in the valley can't wait for all the members to dispatch. Those who are close to each other go out early and return late every day, and those who are far away never come back for many days.

As more people leave the valley, there will be fewer housekeepers inside the valley.

Of the three elders, the only one left in the valley was Yao Yuanxing who was making jokes. The servant girl, and the rest went out in a mighty way, running around.

Gu Yao Ling Xiao was even busier, running back and forth between immortals and immortals, most of them were human elders, they couldn't be negligent at all, even Shi Xun and Yutu had no one to take care of them.

Yao Yuanxing's Wan Yao Peak usually doesn't like servants and maids, there are only seven disciples under Yao Yuanxing, but now all six of Yao Yuanxing's disciples have gone out to show respect to their master, leaving him alone in the peak. On the road, we need to sort out the medicinal materials and take care of the medicinal gardens, and patrol the mountain at Wanyao Peak from time to time to ensure the growth of wild medicinal materials in the mountain.

Although Yao Yuanxing is a stubborn old man with strong muscles and bones, these things are easy to grasp after getting used to them, and at most it takes a little effort, but he can't resist his urchin-like laziness.

That old bone, just got lazy after working alone for half a day, and ran to Shi Xun and Ling Yi to cry bitterly and tiredly. When he saw these two idlers, he would naturally babble: "Ignorant Little guy, I don’t come to help me when I’m old, hehe, old man, I’ve been working hard day and night for half a month, and the lively guy doesn’t help me, it’s hard, hard..."

It's been less than half a month, and the exhaustion of half a day at most made him lose his old face, and he hummed for less than half an hour.

Shi Xun couldn't deal with such a naughty elder at all, so he only asked Yao Yuanxing to howl twice, and he spontaneously went to help. Wearing sloppy arrow sleeves, she put on a blouse and went out to help, oh, naturally she also had to bring Lingyi.

Shi Xun took over the work of taking care of the medicine garden and patrolling the mountains, and lost Lingyi to help Yao Yuanxing organize the medicinal materials in the medicine storehouse.But Lingyi is not a stable guy, he provoked Yao Yuanxing's anger before working for an hour, so he found an excuse to send him to the kitchen, and replaced him with another nimble and meticulous boy. .

The kapok in the kitchen is happy and at ease, she has no dissatisfaction with the addition of such a clever and lively dish tester.

Shi Xun took care of the medicine garden diligently for several days, but he didn't find anything good, but it made him see something was wrong.

He started to take over the medicine garden and the entire Wanyao Peak in the afternoon of the first day of the new year. At first, the medicinal materials in the winter season were growing considerably, and the medicinal materials that had sprouted were very fresh and tender. Although the leaves and roots were immature, they were still growing in an orderly manner. , the mature medicinal materials also have a fresh breath, those that should grow flowers have sprouted, and those that do not grow flowers are also green and beautiful, but now it is only half a month old, and the medicinal materials that had sprouted out of the buds are now wilting, If it stays there for a long time, there is not even a slight change in half a month, but the mature green leaves gradually wither and wither, the aura is stagnant, and even the medicinal power gradually becomes a floating spirit with the overflow of aura.

Shi Xun hastily blocked the seemingly invisible suction, and was lucky enough to keep the medicinal materials in the entire medicinal garden from being overturned.

In contrast, the wild medicinal materials in Wanyao Peak are even more serious. Maybe there is no special care, so they can be seen everywhere, and some of them even have withered roots.Such a scene is really a very bad sign.

Shi Xun had no choice but to suspect that the indistinct energy of the Immortal Realm to extract aura was more domineering than before.

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In the afternoon of the Lantern Festival, all the talents in the valley rushed back one after another. Shi Xun was no longer as indifferent and alienated from Gu Yao as before. Whenever he saw him, he couldn't help but smile.

Fifteen days of ups and downs, bumpy journeys, and a stomach full of meat and fish, my spirit and brain have long since stopped working.Fortunately, Kapok made a big pot of glutinous rice balls in advance, boiled red bean, lily and barley porridge to reward everyone, and everyone guessed lantern riddles with papaya wine.

The whole night of cultivation seemed to be effective. After lunch on the second day, seeing the spirits of everyone, they also recovered.Everyone was talking about their own things in the hall, but it happened that a distinguished guest arrived.

The young servant in the valley stepped forward and passed on a message: "Mr. Bailiwen, the immortal disciple of Ruan Ting, brought the messenger of the Guo family in Pingyang for this immortal family meeting to ask for an audience."

The first time he heard the Guo family, he let the smile on Shi Xun's face disappear a bit, and he only said something to Gu Yao to divert his attention: "Isn't your master listening to Xiao Shangxian?"

Before Gu Yao could reply, Yao Yuanzhou had already sent a message: "Please come in."

Before I saw him, I heard his voice first, and only heard a man's voice full of aura coming over: "In the next hundred miles, I heard the medicine, old man, please be safe, is your body still strong? I came here uninvited, don't you?" Blame me!" The man's words were very casual, but it was not difficult to see the respect in them.

Yao Yuanxing joked when he heard the words: "Boy Baili, you haven't visited us for so long, you should be punished! You should be punished!"

I saw a man about 30 years old approaching outside the entrance hall. This man was wearing a sea pine-colored robe and a light-colored willow dye at the neckline around his waist. He had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he was upright.

From the moment he entered the door, the man's smiling face remained unchanged. Hearing Yao Yuanxing's words, he was not in a hurry, and joked with him: "Didn't you come here as soon as you got a chance? Don't be angry with me." ah."

Gu Yao, who had been sitting before, got up to greet the visitor when the voice of the visitor came in. After the disciples saluted, he saluted Bailiwen as a junior: "Why is senior brother Baili here? Ruan Ting Shangxian Can you let me go?"

Bailiwen shook his hand and smiled, "Shangxian misses you very much. I went to the fairyland in a hurry a few days ago, and I have never even seen Shangxian's face. Master himself has hidden a lot of things to say. Let me tell you, if you don’t hurry, I will send you to catch you back. Hey, I really don’t know how you got his heart like this. A formal disciple like me is not as favored as you. Zun really wants to come to listen to Xiao Shangxian robbing people." After saying that, he smiled happily again.

Gu Yao had a bright smile on his face, and his tone was warm and pleasant, "I don't want to accept this blow of senior brother's 'Praise and Kill', I didn't provoke you for no reason."

When Shi Xun looked at Gu Yao's serious appearance, he couldn't help but be surprised. After all, he never had this personality before. After all, this is probably the most upright and clear moment for him since he met Gu Yao.

But Bailiwen inadvertently looked at the disciples of Yaowanggu in the hall when he was talking, out of habit, when he touched the strange image of Lingyi, he naturally added a bit of vigilance.It seemed to be casual, and it naturally brought them into a common topic: "I have never seen this brother and Xiaowa before. Why, are they new disciples?"

Gu Yao replied: "These two are guests from Guzhong, and they are fellow Taoists who happened to meet when I went out to practice medicine a few years ago. They are really like-minded, so I invite them back to Guzhong."

Baili Wen was very shrewd, he knew that Gu Yao was just making a few statements, coaxing him with an official tone, and he had seen countless people, so there was nothing he couldn't see.

Although the spiritual energy around this young master is too strong, but he doesn't have any spiritual energy himself, he must be a scattered spirit like his junior brother, presumably, so is the six or seven-year-old boy.

To be able to gather such a strong aura, he would not believe that he was an ordinary cultivator. If he didn't have any good teachers or famous families, how could he be able to achieve such a cultivation level.

"This fellow Taoist is extraordinary to me. I don't know where the teacher of Sanling with such a high talent is? I really want to pay a visit to the elder who has taught such an outstanding disciple." The meaning is indeed the meaning of temptation.

Gu Yao was a little dissatisfied, and was about to answer for Shi Xun, but Shi Xun, who didn't care too much, didn't have any thoughts, and gently stopped Gu Yao with the hand hidden in his sleeve, and replied: "I didn't learn from anywhere, the right is just unintentional." It’s all about cultivating in the middle of the day, thanks to this fairy friend who values ​​it.” It does have his own sense of alienation.

Baili heard that the three elders of Yaowanggu were vaguely dissatisfied, so he didn't dare to provoke him openly, so he hurriedly put a smile on his face and went down the steps: "I'm so arrogant, I can't blame this fellow Taoist for apologizing!" "Turning to Yao Yuanzhou to get in touch, to ease the wave of anger, "Seeing that this Taoist friend is really outstanding, I can't help but want to make friends. This, on the contrary, has offended everyone. Why don't I replace wine with tea? I hope the owner of the valley will forgive me, boy." After that, he was unambiguous and drank three cups of tea.

How could the old urchin of Yaoyuanxing let him go so easily? He greeted Xin Yi and brought his medicinal wine. As soon as he got up, he clamored to let the elder and younger sister pour water with him for a day and a night.

Although Yao Jianjia was not as old as Baili Wen, her seniority was much higher than him, no matter how hard Bailiwen dared to accept this provocation.Besides, although Yao Jianjia is cold, he is really a drunkard, and he can drink a lot. At this moment, his usually cold eyes are also shining with a different kind of brilliance.

Bailiwen really didn't know what to do now.He looked at Yao Jianjia's cold gaze, as if his blood was covered with ice from inside to outside, and hurriedly cast a look of help to Gu Yao: Gu Yao, in this situation, hurry up and save your senior brother!What are you doing in a daze!

Gu Yao didn't care about him, he winked and stared back: What can I do to save you!Look at how you bullied Shi Xun just now, making you deserve it, go drink yourself to death!

The corner of Bailiwen's mouth twitched, and his facial features moved again: Hmph, senior brother who is so protective of his weaknesses, I won't help you play sloppy in front of the gods in the future, let's see how you are!

Gu Yao was taken aback when he heard the words, as if someone had caught his pigtail, and when he sneaked a glance at Shi Xun, seeing that he had no intention of obstructing him, he hurriedly said to stop the farce: "Master, he already knew he was wrong. , why bother him like this, we know you love Auntie, don’t find any excuses for her to drink, you just drink it for her.” After finishing speaking, he took several jars of medicinal wine and stuffed them into the hands of Kikyo, “Hurry up , and hide in my aunt's house."

Yao Jianjia didn't care about their verbal quarrel, she stared at the wine jars from beginning to end, and she never forgot to praise Gu Yao: "Gu Yao is still cute." After saying that, she followed the wine jars back to her residence .

It seems to have solved a problem, but almost forgot the business: "Brother Baili, this time I'm afraid it's not just to pick me up, the servant just sent a message, and the messenger also came, what's the matter in the fairy world."

Seeing that the quarrel was over, Yao Yuanzhou and Yao Yuanxing knew that they were going to talk about business, so they also recruited their disciples back. But after a while, only Gu Yao, Baili Wen, Ling Xiao and others were left in the hall. Yu Yan in his arms asked Ling Yi in time.

When Shi Xun saw this, he was about to resign, but Gu Yao stopped him, took his arm and whispered softly: "You keep it for yourself, anyway, I'm not afraid of you listening." A knife eye.

At this moment, Bailiwen became serious: "But there is business, do you still remember the Guo family in Pingyang, Zuzhou?"

Gu Yao had an impression of the Guo family, so he only said, "How is the Guo family?"

The Guo family is a powerful cultivating family in the fairy world, and among the Guo family's elders there is a very senior Mohu Shangxian.With the family advantage, it is inevitable that they are dominant, supervising Cifen Mountain Immortal Barrier, and the Guo family has many spiritual talents, so that the number of immortals is beyond the reach of ordinary families, and the Bada Mountain School can only be compared.

I only heard Bailiwen slowly explain what the Guo family did this time: "This session of the Fairy Family Conference and the subsequent Artifact Refining Competition are hosted by the Guo Family. For some reason, the Guo Family is extremely abnormal this time. The time is half a year earlier than usual, so it will start as soon as the [-]th of the Ganxiang month arrives. Earlier, the Guo family had sent the post of the immortal family meeting to the four great immortals, the eight great mountain sects and the other two The main city is here, and now I am delivering the post for the Artifact Refining Competition, I will come with the messenger and pick you up."

"Half a year earlier? The Guo family did this, and the other mountain sects agreed?" It's not surprising that Gu Yao asked this.

In the fairy world, Mo Hu Shangxian has lived in seclusion for decades, and has not been born for a long time.The Four Great Immortals are responsible for cultivating and teaching disciples, and they never participate in the organization of such gatherings. The quota for the Immortal Clan Conference is also what the Bada Mountain Sect and the three main city family owners tried their best to persuade. Only then reluctantly joined.Therefore, the right to assemble is determined through consultation between the Patriarchs of the three main cities and the Badashan faction.

Bailiwen frowned and explained: "You also know that the Guo family has never been short of talented people, and there are not a few people who have cultivated to great success. In just five years, the head of the Guo family, Guo Mian, has already cultivated from the status of Dacheng Loose Immortal to Dacheng. With Dacheng Taixian, the strength of the Guo family has become stronger and stronger, far surpassing the Bada Mountain School, and no one is willing to stroke his beard." Now carefully recalling the strength of the Patriarch of the Guo family, it is really frightening.

Shi Xun, who had been listening quietly all this time, indeed frowned when he heard this, pursed the corners of his mouth, and said in a calm voice: "Ordinary cultivators have limited spiritual energy in their bodies. It is absolutely impossible to cultivate from the beginning of Xuanxian to the realm of Dacheng Taixian in just five years through remodeling or divine weapon blessing."

There are three levels of immortality, small success, middle success, and great success; there are five levels of immortals, high immortals, great immortals, loose immortals, mysterious immortals, and human immortals.

Bailiwen was indeed extremely puzzled: "Although I said so, I have seen the way the Patriarch of the Guo family used his spirit. Whether it was the magic formula or the magic weapon, the spiritual energy was thick and strong, and it was accumulated overnight. It’s not like a quick fix.”

Hearing this, Shi Xun stopped talking, then the Guo family would never be so simple.He was more or less influenced by the previous life, and he had seen the temptation of the Ominous Beast before, so maybe someone else would fall in like Guo Mo and imprison the scattered spirits for him to practice.It's just that his words and words are really not convincing, and now you can only know if you go to the fairyland and really see it.

There was really no clue, so Gu Yao asked the servant to call Guo Jiaxin who had been waiting all this time.The Guo family messenger wore standard Du Ruo color arrow sleeves, and the cuffs and collars were covered with the Guo family's family crest "Jiuxia". It is a top-grade magic weapon, so the Guo family's family crest is engraved in the shape of this Bing dagger.

The messenger put his palms up, and a famous post slowly appeared: "Respect Xiaoyao Sanxian, I submit a greeting card by the order of the Patriarch, and sincerely invite Xiaoyao Sanxian to participate in the craft refining meeting on the [-]th day of the Ganxiang month."

And Gu Yao seemed to have been affected by something, his left hand gently clasped the accessories made of Baibaoge around his waist, and he controlled his beating eyelids in time, and his right hand accepted the messenger's greeting card as if nothing had happened: "I know, Tell your Patriarch that Gu will be at the meeting on time. If you have nothing to do, go back."

"Xiaoyao Sanxian, farewell."

Only Xuanxian's messenger might not be aware of the fleeting fluctuation just now, but everyone else present felt Gu Yao's fluctuation.

Bailiwen was very confused: "What's the matter? Why did it fluctuate so much?"

Gu Yao didn't answer, but Shi Xun on the side said something surprising, every word and every word fluctuated, as if the next words had no lethality, but in fact, Baili heard a lot Stunned: "When the person came to submit the post, the aura used was not unique to the fairy world. It was mixed with the aura of the human world, and it seemed to have the aura of black barriers. If this is the case, it must not be obtained through proper cultivation." It was really a trick of the beast.

Baili Wen obviously didn't believe it: "How do fellow Taoists see?"

Shi Xun said nothing, just stood quietly.

Gu Yao tightly held the letter in his hand, with complete trust in his heart: "The drop of blood collected a year ago, when that person used the spiritual energy, there was a strong fluctuation just now, Shi Xun said it was good, but the Guo family had something abnormal. "

During the discussion, Gu Yao mentioned the matter of the water source in the catecha village, and after some discussion, everyone decided to set off for the fairyland as soon as possible.

At this moment, the seeds of doubt about the Guo family have been planted. Whether the result will germinate or it will be found that it is just a ripe seed, everything can only be concluded in the future.

After Baili Wen and Ling Xiao left, Shi Xun went uncharacteristically, approached Gu Yao, tugged at his sleeve, and said in a low voice, "Immortal World, can you take me there?" Without sincerity, thinking about the previous Lingyi, he softened a bit, "Gu Yao, take me with you."

Yu Gong, he really wants to find out the difference in spiritual energy, Yu private, just like what he said on New Year's Eve, will never leave.

Gu Yao looked at his unnatural attitude and thought it was funny. When he sneaked into the room in the middle of the night before, this person was not ashamed, but now he just made a small request, but he became shy again.

"The food is cooked for Ling Yi, and my little brothers and sisters have some time to accompany him. How can I forget your serious business? Don't worry, I will never forget you." He will not be like this person before. , leave yourself behind.

The author has something to say:

At this time, Shi Xun didn't know that the Mohu Shangxian with a very high seniority in the Guo family was Guo Mo. In his previous life, Guo Mo rebelled against the teacher's school and had no name.

small theater:

Yao Jianjia: Come on, family members, give me a drink!

Gu Yao and Shi Xun: (holding up the wine bowl) Brother Baili, do it!

Bailiwen: What are you doing to me? !

Gu Yao: Let's drink, family members!