Turned a corner while ascending

The cave chosen by Bai Zhizhuo is at a single peak, already out of the first layer of Zongmen formation, and close to the edge of the second layer of formation.

This mountain is so high that it can even face Jintangya far away, but the mountain is much thinner. There is a big tree on the top of the peak, which is more than ten feet high. The trunk cannot be hugged by 20 people. The trunk is very short. There are countless branches, thick and thin, spreading wantonly, and the pavilion is like a cover. From a distance, it looks like a huge mushroom growing on a long stone pillar.

The growth state of this big tree is just like the Ruomu sacred tree on Yuqiong Mountain, but Jin felt kind to him when he saw it.

The leaves of the big tree are small and dense, with yellow-green leaves. It is in the flowering period at this time, and the tree is full of white trumpet-shaped single flowers. There is also a piece of flowers under the tree, but Jin picked up one and looked closely. The calyx is yellow and the petals are white. There were thin red lines, which I had never seen before, so I couldn't help asking: "What kind of tree is this?"

Bai Zhizhuo took the flower, looked at it carefully for a while, then raised his hand to touch the small but firm leaves of the big tree, and replied: "This is the iron head tung tree. It is evergreen in four seasons, and its branches are unusual. Fantie is difficult to hurt, this plant is so huge, it must have grown here for more than 5000 years."

Jin thought that Xiao Jiu must like this big tree very much, and looked around again. The three of them didn't stay for long before going down to the cave.

The real cave is of course not on the mountain peak, but one-third of the distance from the peak, the spiritual veins follow the mountain, and most practitioners live in the mountains. On the one hand, it is stronger, and on the other hand, it is to get closer to the spiritual veins .

This is inside the Kunyuan Sword Gate, which is very safe, so there is only a simple "closed-door formation" guarding outside the cave, and the waist cards of the two are the keys to the closed-door formation. case is inaccessible.

The cave is very large, divided into three floors, and the inside is not empty. You can still see the traces left by the previous owner, such as a clear water formation that can surge flowing water in the bottom floor is still in operation, and there are stone tables arranged in the cave. Stone benches, and many long chopping boards with no apparent use.

Walking around, Ye Nian couldn't help persuading: "You must also know that spiritual power is the lifeblood of cultivation, this place is so barren, it is not suitable for long-term living, and those who were assigned here before all left early without saving enough contribution points. With my relationship, even if I can't get the best outer door cave, the middle one is still no problem, do you really not think about it anymore?"

"Thank you, big brother, but there is no need." Jin thought about it carefully. The concentration of spiritual power is indeed a big problem, but there is no way to solve the problem of spiritual veins. He can understand the purpose of Bai Zhizhuo's choice here, let alone the pile The Meat Fairy is so eye-catching, Xiao Jiu's food alone is a big problem.

This place is close to the edge of the sect's great formation, and there are countless spirit beasts and wild beasts outside. They can go out to hunt for them anytime and anywhere conveniently. Xiao Jiu is the biggest reliance of the two of them. If possible, it is better to improve their strength as soon as possible.

As for Bai Zhizhuo, the longer he gets along, the more he understands Jin Que's character.Regardless of his harmless appearance, in fact he can't bear loneliness the most. Once he has been free for a long time, he can't help but want to go out and do something. For the sake of harmony and friendship among the disciples of the sect, he also has to put the cave in a place far away from him. other people's place.

Seeing that Ye Nian couldn't be persuaded, he gave up and helped cast a few dust-removing spells. After the cave was clean, he took clear water from the living spring to make tea, and the three of them sat down to talk.

Ye Nian, as the second-generation disciple under the head of the sect, must practice very hard. He will go back to practice in a while, so he cut straight to the point and took out a small head with delicate patterns embroidered on it from his storage bag. The storage bag was placed on the table.

Ye Nian: "Junior Brother Jin Que must still have an impression of this storage bag?"

But Jin picked it up and looked at it, and suddenly said, "This is a bow... Then who, it's a storage bag of a friend of mine, that is, his concubine likes to embroider flowers on the storage bag."

Ye Nian nodded: "Sure enough, the flowers are fake, right? So, there is something hidden about Mi Yunkuang's death?"

Jin was puzzled, looked at Ye Nian carefully, and couldn't believe that he could think of this, Ye Nian really looked very shrewd at this time.

Feeling his surprised gaze, Ye Nian felt depressed, and said: "Junior Brother Jin Que, I'm not stupid, this is so conspicuous, I can't think of such a thing.

I take this matter to ask you not to pursue anything.You probably don't know that Mi Yunkuang comes from the Mi family in Jingshan, which is also very famous. Mi Yunkuang is also the most promising disciple in the family. Of course, his death cannot be let go lightly.The Patriarch of the Mi family once came to visit me at Shimen, and wanted to ask me to help talk and go to Zhaoxinzong to find Hua Diefang to ask the truth, but unfortunately Zhaoxinzong has been banned and failed to make the trip. "

But Jin hurriedly said: "That can't be agreed, if you go to Zhao Xinzong, you may not be able to come back."

Ye Nian said: "What are you talking about, but of course I can't go to the Zhaoxin Sect, so I refused straight away. But I found out that the Mi family and the head of the Yan family in Liangzhou had joined hands to go to the Zhaoxin Sect. Do you know that the Yan family was sent by your friend? One of the disciples recruited by Zhao Xinzong was the Yan family. But they went for nothing. Zhao Xinzong said that all the disciples recruited by Qianlonghui were lost on the way back to the sect. This matter, no one dares to do it."

Jin nodded, breathed a sigh of relief, and asked, "Then where did you get this storage bag?"

Ye Nian said with some embarrassment: "When I first heard that that person was Hua Chengxi's younger brother, I was a little...so I picked up this storage bag and didn't return it. No, if this person is Jin Que Junior brother’s friend, it’s better to return the property to the original owner.”

Jin was speechless, the storage bag is the property and life of a cultivator, is it so easy to pick it up? It seems that this senior brother has also been infected by the head of the sect, and his inner mischievous and lively temper has been suppressed so hard that he can actually make a stealing storage bag. bag thing.

But Jin pushed the storage bag towards Ye Nianchu: "Elder brother, don't worry about putting it away, my friend has disappeared since we left. If this thing is really that important, he would have killed Kunyuan Jianmen a long time ago." I'm looking for you."

Ye Nian said: "Okay, I'll keep it for now, and I'll talk about it when I meet this person. But Junior Brother Jin Que, there is one more thing today. Back then, Zhan Daoyuan was also offered an olive branch by your friend, but I cut him off. Does this person have any knowledge?" What's wrong?"

Jin thought to himself, who said that Ye Nian was so stupid and innocent that he could be easily deceived, so he sorted out everything clearly, so he also said seriously: "Speaking of this, how is Zhan Daoyuan's reputation at the gate of the sect?"

"He has high qualifications. He was accepted by the junior master uncle, and now he is the true disciple of Zhuang Ren master uncle. He is humble and polite, and does not bully others, so he has a good reputation both inside and outside."

But Jin sighed: "Brother, you must have felt something about our experience when we went to Daze. There are not many human races in Daze that were polluted and enslaved by ancient beast races, turning into villains to catch the blood of comprehension practitioners for food." , but I didn’t know that some places outside of Daze were also controlled by the ancient beast clan. I accidentally found out about this, so I wanted to find a friend to help me pretend to be a disciple of the Zhaoxin Sect, and weeded out a few ancient beast clan insiders at the Qianlong meeting. , this Zhan Daoyuan should be one of them."

Ye Nian was shocked: "Really?"

But Jin nodded: "Those who are going to enter the major sects are basically good seedlings that are rare to see. After growing up for hundreds of years, they may have the same prestige in the sect as the senior brother. Don't say goodbye." Yes, it is always necessary to lead a team down the mountain to practice, and when the time comes to go out with a group of people, and a few come back alive, it is not difficult to infer that the other few were all killed when they were attacked by spirit beasts."

This method is simple and rude, and it is a common method used by various sects to provide blood food for the ancient orcs. There are too many dangerous places in the sacred mountain, and it is really difficult to distinguish the truth from these excuses.

Ye Nian suddenly stood up: "Junior Brother Jin Que, I have to tell Master about this matter. If what you said is not necessary, then the ambition of the ancient beast clan can be seen. Such a military strategy is dangerous, and there may be big moves if you can't wait."

Jin is very satisfied that Ye Nian can figure this out. From the time when the ancient beast race appeared in the Northern Wilderness, to the arrangement of Qianlonghui, and what Daze saw and heard, Ye Nian finally realized the possible threat of the ancient beast race. He paid attention to it, maybe Fan He Daosheng also paid attention to it, which is not bad.

But Jin said happily: "Senior brother is really far-sighted and extremely smart. I really misunderstood senior brother before."

Ye Nian nodded at him, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Don't argue with you, I'm leaving, and I'll send someone to bring over two summons disks later, just send me a message if you need anything."

After sending Ye Nian away, Jin sighed to the mountains: "The matter of eliminating demons and defending the Tao is really a long way to go. It should be done by gathering people and gathering everyone's strength."

Bai Zhizhuo stood side by side with him, looking at the blue tiles and white walls of the main hall in the distance, nodded in approval and said, "It's really not easy for you to realize this."

But Jin opened his mouth, wanting to refute, but found no answer, so he changed the subject and greeted: "Let's go, let your flower hen out first, let's get something to eat first, and then tidy up the cave when we come back. "

The Kunyuan Sword Gate Mountain Guard Array has three layers, like three big circles inside a small circle, and the layer near the center of the circle is the first layer.Their cave is between the first floor and the second floor.

The outermost layer is the third layer, and its function is to resist spirit beasts above the fourth rank.High and low-level spirit beasts coexist with human cultivators in the sacred mountain, and many of them are big monsters who have been hidden for a long time. The outermost layer of the mountain protection array is a warning and a demonstration, warning high-level spirit beasts not to cross this line and invade the sect. .

Between the third floor and the second floor is the hunting place for Zongmen disciples. Some of them are wild low-level spirit beasts, and more are edible spirit beasts specially raised here. The waist badge of identity allows you to receive different specifications of delicacies every day, all of which are good for cultivation after being prepared by immortal chefs.

However, Jin and Bai Zhizhuo had just arrived and decided to do it by themselves at the first meal. Bai Zhizhuo was responsible for finding the target, but Jin took out the jade slips and read to him the school rules recorded in it.

The outer door of Kunyuan Sword Sect has a grading system, which is divided into grades based on cultivation. The allocation of all resources is linked to cultivation. When they settle down, they have to test their cultivation and receive their own grades.

In addition to this, the most important points are: first, the sect must never fight against each other privately, and any conflicts and conflicts must be held under the witness of the elders of the sect. respect and follow.A very cruel rule, if you are not careful, you can lose your wife and lose your army.

The second is that outer disciples have an opportunity to go out for training once a year.This experience task can be collected in the Zhangshitang, and half of the proceeds will be handed over to the sect, and half can be exchanged for contribution points. In addition, whenever there are special circumstances, the sect will also issue mandatory experience tasks. Both internal and external disciples must participate.

Apart from these two points, the sect does not force disciples to stay in the mountain protection formation. As long as you have the ability, it doesn't matter if you go out to play casually.However, the four major sects all occupy the strongest spiritual veins, like Jin Que and Bai Zhizhuo's small cave that was imprisoned by Yunluo before, the concentration of spiritual power is quite high, but it is still not as good as the two in the current Dumu Peak cave. One-tenth, so basically no fool would think of running out after entering the sect with great effort.If it weren't for the need to get more contribution points, they wished they could stay in their own small territory for the rest of their lives.

There are also many other messy rules and regulations, but Jin roughly sweeps them away and thinks they are not too important, so I will leave them for later.

The two caught the spirit beast, went back and roasted it by themselves under the big tree at the top of the peak, except for Xiaojiu who devoured it happily, both of them felt that it was not very tasty. The difference is too much.

Helplessly, both of them didn't light up their talent as a fairy chef, so they had to deal with it first.

After hastily filling his stomach, the little Taoist boy sent by Ye Nian came to deliver the so-called "communication tray".

This thing is the size of a palm, pure white, half of it is a perfect semicircle, and the other half is carved with complex patterns, with small holes on the side, the whole is very exquisite.

There was a small sword the size of a hair on the plate, and Xiao Daotong explained the usage of this plate with a smile. He said that it was a communication plate, but it was better called a sword symbol. The function is more powerful. It can put the human spirit into the plate and turn it into a small sword. Marking each other can send messages to each other very quickly.

This is the standard equipment for the inner disciples of Kunyuan Sword Sect. The outer disciples have a crude version of the real flying sword biography, but Jin read it strangely. At present, he condensed two small swords according to Xiaodaotong's guidance, and one was carried by Xiaodaotong. Go back and give it to Ye Nian, and one of them wanders around in the communication disk.

Bai Zhizhuo followed suit calmly, after exchanging the small swords, Xiao Daotong went back.

But Jin looked at the cave where he might live for a long time in the future, and said, "Come on, it's time for us to show our talents."