Turned a corner while ascending

"Keep all the elders waiting for a long time." Kuisheng hurried in, followed by a few young men with their heads bowed fiercely, carrying food boxes.

They sat down at the table together, and the village chief led the people to set the dishes, but Jin noticed that one of the youngest villagers looked up at them quietly, with a smile on his mouth, and a little curiosity in his eyes, definitely not ordinary mortals The awe of practitioners.

"Several elders, it's going to be dark soon, why don't you rest for a night after eating, and then get rid of the wind beast tomorrow." Kuisheng waited for the other villagers to leave, and then told them again.

"Isn't there a slave who was driven up the mountain? Go earlier, or you can save him."

"Hey, I'm just a slave, how can I catch up with the immortal elders Jingui, you should rest more, the wind-born beast is extremely difficult to deal with, you need to cultivate enough energy." Kuisheng urged.

"Alright." Ye Nian finally nodded.

"Hehe, I won't bother those elders eating slowly. There are empty houses on the left and right sides of the ancestral hall. After cleaning, the elders will deal with it for one night first?"

"Well, we can do whatever we want." Ye Nian smiled slightly.

That Kuisheng thanked everyone with tears of gratitude, and hurried out.

"In this ancestral hall, this person is like a ghost chasing him, and he doesn't want to stay for a while longer." Someone said strangely.

Ye Nian also felt something was wrong.

Everyone in the room is from his own family, not to mention Ye Nian and his seven fellow disciples, but Jin is also a disciple of Kunyuan Jianmen. Although he has just started, he has a good face and looks very trustworthy, so everyone talks Do not shy away from doing things.

"I think it's a little weird here. Ordinary mortals encounter wind beasts, not to mention leaving their homeland and moving immediately. There is always fear and sorrow. No one else here has seen it, but the village chief is not worried at all. Instead, we are worried for him. .” Said the same disciple.

There are nine of them going out this time, Ye Nian is the leader, the first disciple of the head disciple, and the rest are disciples of Master Ye Nian.

Ye Nian's master uncle had just reached the level of being able to open mountains to accept disciples, and he took nine of them in one go. He said bluntly that he wanted to cultivate their tacit understanding in practicing Kunyuan Sword Formation from an early age. The boss of the last eight took Zhan Daoyuan back to the teacher's school, and there were still seven left, and the one who spoke was the second in line. If they were called "nine astrological signs", this person was the second astrological sign.

Once they noticed something different, no one moved the hot food on the table.

Ye Nian simply pulled some out, took it out and threw it away, pretending to eat food, but Bai Zhizhuo kept looking at the four statues in the middle of the ancestral hall in a daze.

"What? Fellow Daoist Bai discovered something?" Ye Nian asked curiously.

Bai Zhizhuo frowned. These four god statues were jet-black, which was different from Xing Chenjian's black. Under the light, there seemed to be some bloody gleam, and he always felt that the eyes of the god statues moved just now. After a while, but the spiritual sense sense past is not a living thing.

"This one looks familiar." Bai Zhizhuo pointed to the nine-headed bird beside him.

"This is the Tianxuan Nine Phoenixes. Today, Xuanzong also uses this as a symbol and regards it as a totem. It should be seen everywhere in the sacred mountain. It is normal to be familiar with it."

"Tianxuan Jiufeng?" Bai Zhizhuo recalled, "It doesn't seem to be all black?"

"Tianxuan Jiufeng is said to be one of the four guardian beasts of the Protoss. It has the attribute of wind and thunder. It should be blue-gold, and the purple feathers represent thunder. This black statue is not orthodox."

The sun was blocked by the mountain peaks, and the night in the mountain village came quickly. At this time, it was completely dark outside, and Bai Zhizhuo was about to ask again, but suddenly he moved his ears and pointed to his head.

Ye Nian understood, the two disappeared in place, and appeared above the ancestral hall in a flash.

In the dark night, a person rushed out of the village, all the way into the huge mountain behind the village, and soon disappeared under the cover of the trees.

It's so late, what are you doing in the mountains?

"That direction is exactly where the old nest of the wind-born beast is." Ye Nian seemed to understand something.

Behind the two of them, Jin was holding a gossip tracing disc, and after studying for a long time, he said: "It's okay, everyone, rest for a night, and go directly to clean up the wind beast tomorrow. After all, this village doesn't even have a Yuanshen stage, it's nothing." threaten."

Ye Nian nodded in agreement, and then they returned to the ancestral hall, no longer caring about the four statues enshrined in the center, and each of them prepared to find a room to rest.

When going out, Bai Zhizhuo, who was walking at the end, suddenly felt a chill in the back of his head at the moment he stepped out of the threshold, as if someone was staring at them viciously, he suddenly turned his head——

The ancestral hall was empty, and there was still nothing.

Jin was a little ahead of him, and smiled back at him: "Let's go, it's no big deal." After speaking, he blinked.

From this point of view, he was sure about this matter, Bai Zhizhuo didn't feel that there was any big threat, so he let this scene go.

The night passed and nothing happened.

In the early morning, Jin heard the voice of a child outside, so he went out to have a look.

The ancestral hall is located on a high place, and there are houses of the villagers below. At this time, next to a house, near the roadside, there are three children who are bullying a ragged "slave craftsman".

The children were three or four years old, innocent and innocent, laughing and dragging the slaver's withered hair to climb up, biting his ears, and scratching his arms and chests.

The slaveman squatted quietly, as if he had become used to it, and he tried hard to hold down the roll of firewood beside him, as if he was afraid that the child would break it up when he was playing.

After a while, the three children had had enough fun and jumped away. The servant stayed there for a while, slowly pulling firewood up the winding path.

In the morning light, there are many slave craftsmen like him carrying firewood and approaching the ancestral hall. They are silent and doing their jobs without complaint.

The first slave craftsman approached, raised his head, and saw Jin Que standing at the gate of the ancestral hall. He smiled instead of being surprised. It was the kind of grinning yellow teeth, with a face as thin as a skeleton, and those dull eyes suddenly The feeling of light being on, that light is definitely not joy, nor is it flattery, but a kind of mockery, a kind of complacency, and a kind of eagerness.

Jin shook his head, stopped looking at him, turned and entered the ancestral hall.

The sky is bright.

Kuisheng personally came to see the crowd out of the village. Ye Nian, who obviously knew the way, took the lead, stepped on the flying sword, and swished into the forest.

The rest of them followed suit.

Among the mountains, there is a mountain nest.

It looks like a small bench with four legs. The bench is turned upside down. The four-legged mountain is facing the sky, and the valley is concave in the middle. Several people are condescending. The valley is filled with clouds and mist, but it can still be clearly divided into two parts. Son.

With a large lake as the boundary, an island in the center of the lake is lush and green, surrounded by green trees, and the reddish-brown land can be vaguely seen. Outside the lake is a desert scene. No matter how you blow it, you can't cover the conspicuous bluestone brick road, which seems to be an entrance specially reserved for people.

Everyone was amazed by such a strange sight, Ye Nian said: "We have always wondered what is on the small island in the middle of the lake, but unfortunately we were hindered by the wind beast, so we couldn't get through."

But Jin looked at it, and said with a smile: "There is a road here, it must be expected that we will go to the windy and sandy part outside, the wind beast is the wind attribute, the wind belongs to the wood, and the native wood is not good for us, senior brother, why don't you directly How about going down here?"

"Of course." Ye Nian smiled at him, with a look of love, turned his head and said to Bai Zhizhuo, "Bai Zhizhuo, I will trouble you when the time comes."

Bai Zhizhuo said in his heart that this is the one who raised his son, look, this small group is clearly headed by Ye Nian, but now Jin Que's words can easily influence Ye Nian's decision.

It may be that the image of "Jin Que's follower/guard" that he had positioned himself before was too strong. Ye Nian pulled Jin Que along the way and asked about his health, and the cold blade also had a gentle expression, so the two of them took Bai Zhizhuo Put it aside with the other juniors.

Ye Nian's juniors are very obedient, and besides, they like this newcomer very much, and there is absolutely no dissatisfaction. Speaking of it, Ye Nian was always expressionless and concise when he didn't have Jin Que. Well, now it's a miracle.

So Bai Zhizhuo became the background along the way.

To be honest, I didn't think much of mixing together every day before, but now that there are a bunch of people standing between the two of them, I suddenly have the illusion that my beloved little friend is being snatched away...Of course it may be an illusion.

This mood is a bit young, the outer shell is fixed at the moment when the foundation is established, but in fact, Bai Zhizhuo, who is already a Nascent Soul monster in his heart, is a little inexplicable.

Of course, for a cultivator with good aptitude in the Qiongming Realm, it is really easy to reach the fourth-rank realm. For example, Ye Nian, according to the chat, this person is not yet 60 years old this year, and he is already at the peak of the fourth rank.

I pinch my fingers and calculate that I have a long life of more than 210, and I am a little envious.

While thinking in a mess, he summoned Xing Chen Jian handsomely, and stepped forward under the gazes of everyone, "Thank you! Fellow Daoist Bai", with a jump under his feet, a string of small circles with black and white yin and yang fish patterns appeared under his feet , He walked step by step, like a lotus growing in sync.

The conspicuous luck method of Zhaoxinzong is the only one, and there is no other semicolon. Ye Nian was shocked.

But at least he remembered that these two people were either from the Zhaoxin sect, or it was rumored that both of them knew the exercises of the Zhaoxin sect. According to the patriarchal law, the enmity for many generations is not just for fun, this feeling is a little second.

Bai Zhizhuo went down in a hurry, leaving behind everyone in white clothes and black hair, the Xingchen sword in his hand turned into a thin and long flying sword, surrounding him for vigilance.

The whole body of the wind beast is blue, and it is a very special spirit beast.

Although it is only the third grade, it possesses the supernatural power to turn into smoke as a whole. Fengdan is born in the body, which is also a rare refining material. If someone needs it, it can even be sold for a high price of a high-grade spirit stone.

However, the wind-born beast is extremely difficult to deal with. It cannot be killed by a sword, cannot be injured by a knife, and is finally imprisoned. It can be revived immediately by taking a breath of wind. There must be items that restrain this stubborn "life" attribute. "Emperor "Attribute swords and other sharp weapons have such characteristics, so several people can only hang in the sky and watch Bai Zhizhuo perform alone.

Sure enough, the air was already prepared.

Bai Zhizhuo fell straight down from the small island in the lake, and when he got close to the dense or light smoke clouds, suddenly a few clusters of smoke condensed and turned into small blue beasts, surrounding Bai Zhizhuo aggressively.

"One, two, three... Eleven, a little less than expected." But Jin didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement.

"Can Fellow Daoist Bai handle it? After all, you are only in the second-rank realm, and there are eleven third-rank spirit beasts here."

"No problem, just wait and see." Jin was full of confidence, and Ye Nian was not too worried. In his impression, this should be someone in the same realm as him, who had to keep up with the "little master" for some reason. A fourth-rank master in the same realm.

Sure enough, when the eleven wind beasts approached, Bai Zhizhuo danced on the spot, the sword moved with his heart, and he danced heartily, Xing Chen quickly left only a light, the black blade Dazed is dragging out the long white tail, the sharp blade is the natural nemesis of the wind-born beast, and it will be disintegrated at the touch of a touch, but the wind blade spit out by this small beast has no effect on Bai Zhizhuo, not only the snow-white cassock on his body There was no damage, and no marks were left on the bare cheeks and wrists.

Cyan thumb-sized beads appeared from where the Fengsheng Beast had scattered, and Bai Zhizhuo grabbed them one by one. They were trophies, and he should take them back into the storage bag.

Now there are two small bags hanging on Bai Zhizhuo's waist, one is the storage bag he bought before, and the other is the spirit beast bag gifted by Ye Nianyou. He put the spirit beast egg in the spirit beast bag.

"Wow." Everyone was stunned by this crisp and neat scene. They were all "young people" in the cultivation world. With Jin, they became younger and younger. Even Ye Nian became much more lively.

"Eldest brother, Bai Daoyou's fierce sword control skills."

"Yeah, what a beautiful posture, clean and neat!"

"Sword control is still secondary. You can see that his various moves are very similar to ordinary warriors, but he can soar into the sky with sword intent. The flying sword has half a foot of sword light, and he has reached the point where he needs to release his sword energy."

"Brother, you can't release your sword energy, can you?"

"Well, compared to Fellow Daoist Bai, it's a little short."

"..."

A group of people stood watching the show, discussing Bai Zhizhuo's swordsmanship, the one under discussion continued to walk down the Yin-Yang fish pattern, and did not sense any wind-born beasts, so he moved towards the sky wave.

So everyone stopped talking and jumped down.

But Jin flew to Bai Zhizhuo's side, and stretched out his hand to poke his waist.

Bai Zhizhuo was leading the way to the island, he stretched out his hand to touch the place where he was poked, and looked back at him with questioning eyes.

Jin turned his mouth into an ingot, like a real child, with unhappiness written on his face, but when he thought about it carefully, he seemed to be unable to explain why he was unhappy, so he became even more unhappy.

Bai Zhizhuo was puzzled, but even Jin grabbed his belt, and the two of them kept their feet on the ground together.

When it landed on the small island, a group of people were shocked again.

This place is like a paradise, south and north, in season and out of season, suitable and unsuitable flowers and trees are planted randomly, but they still grow quite well, there are shrubs among the trees, flowers and plants in the bushes, and the year is hidden in the flowers and plants There were quite a few elixir medicines, but Jin looked at them and recognized the common ones of Qianzhencao, Xuejianxi, Huiyangcao, and Yuechenxiang, which belonged to the main medicines of Huangfeng Pill and Xuexing Pill. But each plant has a drug age of more than a hundred years, which is very rare.

They shuttled among the grass and trees for a while, the place was extremely quiet, there was no chirping of birds, beasts or insects, no sound of wind and water, but Jin became more and more excited as he watched, and finally clapped his hands and said: "I know what the wind beast is guarding. There are meat celestial beings here, and there are more than one!"

His words seemed to be a switch. As soon as he finished his words, the wind and water blew up, and there was a big wave in the lake. The wind passed through the treetops, and the trunks were low, and the ear-piercing sound of "buzz, buzz" sounded like a wave. It seemed that a group of invisible spiritual beings were gradually approaching them.

A few people were waiting in full force, but Jin was holding a gossip tracing disk - ever since Mi Yunkuang quietly approached the crowd with the silver hidden talisman, Jin had become more and more careful, and he almost never left the gossip tracing disk.

There are three layers inside and outside the tracing disk. At this time, the center layer has two green dots representing the second rank, seven blue dots representing the third rank, and one yellow dot representing the fourth rank. Outside these poor dots , headed by a yellow dot, extending on both sides, like two arms, densely packed with almost all small blue dots, and occasionally a few green dots.

In comparison, the few dots in the center are pitifully few.

But Jin understood: "Eldest senior brother, the boss has appeared."

What he was talking about was the fourth-rank Fengsheng Beastmaster who had met Ye Nian.