Refusing to work overtime for the teacher

Xie Ling and Xiao Xun walked back to the previous place, and took out the hole flute they used often.This flute is made of purple bamboo, the texture is very picturesque, and the tone is crisp.Xie Ling held the flute with both hands, put it in front of her lips, exhaled slowly, and began to play.He didn't press the hole with his finger, it was an empty blow.

He thought that there are seven holes in the stone wall, and there are also seven kinds of marks. If you want to explain it by music, it should be related to the tone.

The air blowing is also tuned, and its sound echoes in the empty mountains and dense forests.

A stone with engraved marks trembled on the ground, as if struggling to rise into the air. Xie Ling noticed this and stopped playing. Sure enough, the stone stopped struggling.

He continued the sound of the flute, and in a long sound, the stone slowly rose into the air.But its posture is always trembling, making Xie Ling extremely worried that it will collapse in the middle of its great career.

... This is completely a test of breath.Xie Ling was very fortunate that he inherited a tuba, with a deep breath.But even so, it was a bit uncomfortable, after blowing, his breathing was no longer as steady as it was at the beginning, and the stone also rose and fell.The sound of the flute is even less pleasant, like the cry of a dying female ghost.

Xiao Xun heard this, held back his laughter for a while, and called Xie Ling: "Master."

Xie Ling raised her eyebrows lightly, meaning to tell him what to do.

Xiao Xun said earnestly: "This skill, let's practice after going out."

Xie Ling rolled his eyes at him, and said in his heart that you can do what you want.

The sound of the flute paused, and the stone froze.Xiao Xun let out a loud "Hey" and shouted: "Stones, stones are about to fall!"

After he finished speaking, he saw the suspended stone falling down, and the moment it hit the ground, it turned into dust.

Xie Ling did it on purpose, he didn't think he could send the stone into the stone hole at one time, and wanted to see the consequences of failure, but he didn't expect that the consequences would be dire, he really collapsed.

Xiao Xun immediately looked at the other stones, and after counting them, he said in a deep voice, "There are three or four pieces of each stone, which means you can try it at most three or four times."

Xie Ling held Xiao in his hand, his expression couldn't be better or worse: "Compared to the rule that if you make a wrong move, you lose everything, the fault tolerance rate of this test is not low."

"Drink some water." Xiao Xun took a cup of tea and brought it to Xie Ling.

Xie Ling drank half a cup of tea, walked to the stones, and knocked them one by one.Stones with different marks produced different tones. Xie Ling made a note, picked up the hole flute and played short notes one after another, trying out the sounds each of them represented.

The hole flute has eight holes, plus the empty pipe, there are nine tones, which cannot be completely matched with the seven holes on the wall.

He tried nine tones, and one of the seven marked stones remained motionless.Xie Ling thought about it for a while, and switched to a flute in another mode.The sound audition again, Shi Shi listened to his command.

Xie Ling returned to the position just now, drank the remaining half cup of tea, and played a long note.

The timbres of Xiao and Xiao are different, this one is more ethereal, but Xie Ling has only studied the rhythm for three months, and in these three months, he has not practiced daily, his level is limited, the long notes are difficult to talk about the timbre, and he can barely maintain it.Fortunately, the stone finally fell into the stone hole, and the effort was not in vain.

Xiao Xun served tea for Xie Ling.

At this time, there was a change on the wall, and there was an additional pattern of an hourglass—fine sand in the leak, continuously flowing down.

"This is still a time-limited question!" Xiao Xun was surprised.

Xie Ling also noticed, how could he have time to drink tea, and immediately played the next note.

Once raw and second cooked, this is the third time.There is a trick to manipulating these stones, Xie Ling touched some.

The second, third, and fourth stones all fell steadily into the stone hole. Xie Ling's mouth was too dry, so he finally took a sip of tea.

The hourglass on the wall was running a little faster at this moment, Xie Ling hurriedly brought the hole flute to his lips to play, and the thing returned to its original speed.

He took a breath just now, but nothing like this happened. Is this secret realm just for fun?Can it be so smart that it detects what he's doing?Or is there...someone behind Stonewall?

For a moment, many thoughts flooded Xie Ling's mind, but it didn't affect his performance, and Xiao Sheng walked fairly steadily.

The fifth and sixth stones entered the stone hole, and there was still some sand on the top of the hourglass. Xie Ling didn't drink any water, took a little breath, and continued to play the seventh note.The hourglass speeds up, as if racing against time.Xie Ling rolled her eyes again when she saw it, and was so angry that she wanted to laugh.

Xiao Xun smiled coldly beside him, and shouted at the stone wall: "Hello."

There was no discernible emotion from this sound, and after a moment, the hourglass stopped, and then slowed down.

Xie Ling kept marveling in his heart, and put the seventh stone into the stone hole without any risk.

click.

After a soft sound, there was music in the forest. The tune was the same as Xie Ling just played, but the tempo and interval were changed.

After the song falls, the stone wall blocking the way disappears, and the forest path returns to sight.

Xie Ling slowly drank a cup of tea, and then went deeper into the dense forest with Xiao Xun.

Xie Ling walked behind Xiao Xun, when Xiao Xun was unprepared, he raised the flute, and aimed at his ear, whistling randomly.

Xiao Xun let out a howl, covered his ears, and ran forward like a rabbit, and turned around a few feet away, "You're holding a grudge."

"I hold grudges very much." Xie Ling corrected him.

After walking for a while, they came across the third layer of formation, just like the previous layer, the last link of the formation is the Tao test.Xie Lingxin said that this is like peeling bamboo shoots, one layer after another is peeled off to get the bamboo shoots.

This time, what appeared in front of the two of them was also a stone wall, with nineteen latitudes and longitudes intersecting each other, and more than ten black and white stones each falling, it was an end game.

"Play chess." Xiao Xun raised the corners of his lips, "I can do this."

There is a basket of white stones in front of the stone wall, Xiao Xun picked up one and dropped it on the chessboard.

His move seemed random, and he turned to Xie Ling and said: "I have the piano, I have the chess, will it be books and paintings next?" Then he looked back at the chessboard and asked, "Would you like to light a stick of incense, or do it again?" An hourglass, turned into a time-limited challenge?"

After these words, Shiqiang had no other response except for a sunspot walking out.

In this game of chess, the final winner is Xiao Xun, and the opponent's plan is not as good as him.And the later test was really like Xiao Xun's guess, it was books and paintings.Xie Ling is good at calligraphy and painting, and can solve problems easily.

There is no obstacle in the way ahead, and after another quarter or two, the entrance of the cave appears in front of you.

The green pines on both sides are emerald, the shallow grass is unrestrained, the sunlight swirls and falls, and the snow has never been disturbed here.

The cave was surrounded by mist, and it was pitch black. It was hard to tell what was going on inside the cave. Xie Ling lost his spiritual sense and went out, but he couldn't find anything here without prying eyes.

Xiao Xun was playing with Xie Ling's purple bamboo flute, looked into the cave twice, but didn't move, as if he had no intention of going in.

"You don't want to break in?" Xie Ling looked at him in surprise.

"That's not the case." Xiao Xun lifted Xie Ling's chin with the flute, turned his wrist again, and pointed to the cave, "This cave looks dark, and there are traps in it, and it has set up so many formations and tests for us before, Shouldn't there be courtesy?"

It was the first time that Xie Ling saw someone dare to exchange courtesy with the secret realm. He took the flute from this guy's hand and knocked on his head. After knocking, he smiled and said, "Speak directly, what do you want to do?"

"Give it a formation as well." Xiao Xun stroked his chin and thought for a moment, then took out an astrolabe.

He walked towards the entrance of the cave.But I saw a change in the cave, the fog that was as thick as a curtain dissipated, and the skylight fell in, illuminating the stone path in the cave.

Xie Ling's expression became strange.When Xiao Xun played the flute earlier, Xiao Xun gave a "hey", and the hourglass for timekeeping stopped acting strangely. He thought it was a coincidence, but now this...how can it not be a coincidence?

"Don't you think that some of what you said recently is very clever." Xie Ling looked at Xiao Xun several times,

Xiao Xun raised his hand and raised his chin again: "It seems to be true, but I don't feel that I have changed from before..."

Xie Ling also didn't notice any difference in him from before, except for his realm.

"Leave me alone, go to the cave and have a look." After thinking about it but couldn't get an answer, Xiao Xun put the matter aside, took Xie Ling's hand and walked into the cave.

The cave is narrow at first, and gradually widens as it goes. It is not too deep, and it is not tortuous. It reaches the bottom after tens of feet.The sky light falls from the crevices of the stones, and it is not too confusing here. There are moss growing on the stones, weeds grow sporadically on the ground, and there is a shallow gully along the stone wall.

"There's a box over there." Xie Ling's gaze fell to the place where a ray of skylight just happened to shine. There was a square, flat stone with a lacquer box on it.

Xiao Xun exchanged glances with him, and stepped forward.

A figure suddenly appeared, sitting on the stone, covering the lacquer box.

This man has white hair and chicken skin, his eyes are tightly closed, he is wearing a dark red monk's robe, and he holds a string of rosary beads in his hand.

It's a Tantric monk—to be precise, the remnant soul of a Tantric monk. His original realm should be so high that even Xie Ling couldn't see it clearly.

The two stopped.

Remnant Soul opened his eyes.He looked at Xiao Xun first, his eyes were full of inquiry, and after a while, he seemed to discover something, showing a look of surprise.He looked at Xie Ling again, looked at it, frowned, and let out a sigh.

Xie Ling was very confused, exchanged glances with Xiao Xun, took a step towards him, and asked, "What did senior see?"

"You..." Remnant Soul couldn't help shaking his head, "The world...is like a firefly, whatever, whatever."

He couldn't speak clearly, but the two "no matter" were heavy, Xie Lingxin said that this was probably a riddler, and he didn't want to solve it anymore.

Remnant Soul didn't want to mention this matter too much, so he changed the subject and said: "You two are good at chess, painting and calligraphy, but the rhythm is really difficult to listen to."

"..."

I'm really sorry.Xie Ling didn't expect this person to comment, and was quite speechless.

The remnant soul flicked the rosary in his hand, looked past the two people, looked at the way they came, and asked after a long time: "What's the situation outside the mountain?"

"Xueyu is headed by Tantra, everything is fine." The person who answered was Xiao Xun.

The remnant soul asked again: "What's the situation in the world?"

Xiao Xun smiled: "In this world, isn't there all those dramas going back and forth?"

"Oh?" Remnant Soul seemed to be interested in what he said, and his eyes lit up a little.

"Some people fight for fame, power, and profit, and go to war in the Jianghu. Some people hide from the world, do not contend with the world, and enjoy themselves happily." Xiao Xun spread his hands.

The remnant soul was thoughtful: "Then you two, which one do you belong to?"

Xiao Xun said: "It's in the middle." He and Xie Ling didn't want to participate in the disputes in this world, but the disputes are always disturbing.

Remnant Soul laughed, raised his hands and fluttered his sleeves, and said in a casual tone, "I'm done asking, do you have any questions?"

Xie Ling raised her eyes and cast a glance at him.

What kind of Q&A session is this?Ask him if his injury can be healed?But he just spoke in a twist and turn, unlike someone who would give an answer directly.Xie Ling also didn't want to put herself in a disadvantaged position and asked for help directly.

Xie Ling thought for a while, and simply asked the doubts that had been lingering in his heart since entering the secret realm: "This secret realm needs to use a nirvana realm as the key of the sacrifice, but the secret realm suppresses the realm of those who come, why?"

"Using the Nirvana Realm as the key is because I don't want too many people to disturb it; to suppress your realm, naturally I don't like to see other people's realm surpassing mine." Remnant Soul replied.

"I didn't expect you to care about a lot." Xiao Xun answered with a smile, "You were the one who played against me in the previous game."

Remnant Soul was noncommittal, and only said: "Your chess skills may not be considered top-notch, but your computing power is amazing." When he said the word "computing power", his eyes darkened.

This is not the first time someone has praised Xiao Xun's good computing power. Xie Ling's intuition is the key point, but there is too little known information to piece together a complete pattern.

Hearing this, Xiao Xun asked again: "What realm are you in?"

The remnant soul glanced at Xie Ling: "Taller than him."

Xiao Xun had a guess in his mind: "Above the realm of extinction?"

The remnant soul nodded: "Above the realm of extinction."

In today's world, the highest realm a monk can reach is the realm of extinction, but according to ancient records, hundreds of years ago, the realm of extinction could also be broken through.Among the changes, one is that the aura on the mainland is decreasing day by day, and the other is that many exercises and classics have passed away in the long river of time, and it is difficult to knock on the door to the upward.

Now that he has embarked on the road of practice, who doesn't want to enjoy the scenery of higher places?Xiao Xun finally became interested in the question-and-answer session. He took a step forward and asked curiously, "What is the realm above the realm of extinction?"

"Above the realm of extinction, isn't it just above the realm of extinction?" Remnant soul threw the question back to him, then seemed to think of something, and said with emotion: "Isn't it still trapped in this world, asking for something, but asking for something? No... since you can't ask for it, what's the use of a longer lifespan and a higher level of cultivation?"

Xiao Xun laughed when he heard it: "This is not something that Buddhists would say."

The remnant soul also laughed: "Even the Buddha has to suffer seven hardships."

"I played chess, and read books and paintings. I had a great time... Whether what you are looking for is the same thing as what you are looking for, you can judge for yourself." Get up and fly away.

The lacquer box was exposed in the sight of the two.Xiao Xun glanced in the direction where he was leaving, and muttered softly: "I seem to have seen him somewhere." He shook his head again: "It should be an illusion, he was a person hundreds of years ago, how could I have seen him."

Xiao Xun fetched the lacquer box from the air.There is no organ array spell on it, and it will be opened with a light touch.There is a book lying in the box, the cover page has not left the name, it is very well preserved, and there is no damage inside.

"This is a book of exercises..." Xiao Xun quickly flipped through it, and handed it to Xie Ling, "It's what we're looking for, it can be used to qi and blood, shape bones, and strengthen meridians."

"Oh?" Xie Ling raised her eyebrows halfway, she always felt that the process of obtaining this exercise was too smooth, and it should be followed by the word "but".

He opened it up and took a closer look.

Sure enough, this was followed by a turning point.This set of exercises has an extraordinary tempering of the meridians. To use Xie Ling's words to describe it, it breaks a person's veins and veins and reconnects them to complete the transformation and achieve super evolution.

It is indeed possible to reshape meridians, but he——cannot practice.

"Although Master's meridians have been repaired to a certain extent, there is still no way to practice this kind of exercises that require a lot of real energy." Xiao Xun pursed his lower lip and said with downcast eyes.

It is useless to get it, so it is still impossible to ask for it.

Xie Ling sighed inwardly.

"Let it be." Xie Ling put the exercise book back into the lacquer box and put it into Xiao Xun's hands, smiling at him, "It's not a small gain, this is a good exercise book, although I can't practice, but you can."

There was an exit at the end of the cave, and the white snow field and the bright sunshine could be seen at a glance. Xie Ling walked out slowly, walked into the bright sky, and looked around.

Birds chirped and chirped, and the forest layer upon layer rustled like music.Xiao Xun walked behind Xie Ling, put his forehead on his shoulder, and said in a low voice: "I have let you down again."

Xie Ling shook her head.

"I let you have hope time and time again, and time and time again I made hope come to naught, you must..." Xiao Xun raised his hand, clasped Xie Ling's waist with one hand, and clasped his shoulder with the other hand, his voice became more muffled, Full of self-blame.

"Didn't I say it before, there's nothing wrong with the way it is now." Xie Ling interrupted him, hooking his hand with his fingers, "Besides, it's better than before."

Xiao Xun raised his head a little, and hugged Xie Ling tightly: "Do you really like this now?"

"It's nothing inconvenient. If there is... isn't there you?" Xie Ling glanced at the white snow in the distance, and landed on Xiao Xun's hand holding him, and said softly, tilting his head, A kiss was imprinted on the corner of Xiao Xun's lips.

"Don't tease me - I will practice diligently and pay close attention to my medical skills. When I get out of the secret realm, I will definitely..." Xiao Xun said firmly, but when he was speaking, his voice stopped abruptly.

Xie Ling was amused when he heard it, and his eyebrows and eyes were slightly curved: "Little boy, are you afraid to make a promise?"

"Who is the young boy? Who dares!" Xiao Xun half-closed his eyes, first took a bite on Xie Ling's chin, and then turned him away so that he was facing him, and kissed the back of his head forcefully.

This kiss was ruthless at first, but gradually became lingering. After a long time, Xie Ling was pushed against the mountain wall by Xiao Xun, her temple hair and clothes were all messed up.

Xie Ling leaned against the mountain wall to pant, Xiao Xun put his hand on the side of his face, pecked and kissed the corners of his red eyes from time to time, and asked: "Let's talk about something serious. We haven't finished exploring this secret place yet, do we want to continue exploring?"

Xie Ling counted the time: "You are very energetic? This pass, plus before...you haven't rested for nearly thirty hours."

Xiao Xun couldn't help laughing: "Then back to the camp?"

Xie Ling nodded.

The return journey was faster than when we came. When we arrived at the camp, we didn't want to smell a burnt smell. When we glanced around, we found that the strange smell was a casserole.

Xie Ling remembered that when he came out, the pot was stewing bones.

"Your pot is burnt through." Xie Ling raised his chin towards the casserole.

"It's just a pot, you can wear it when you wear it." Xiao Xun didn't care, he flicked his sleeves to clean it up, seeing Xie Ling walking towards the tent, a flash of light flashed in his mind.

"I have an idea!" Xiao Xun hurried over.

Xie Ling raised the curtain to wait for him, and asked, "What?"

The tent was covered with a layer of velvet blanket, which was soft and thick when stepped on, so that it could barely get into the tent, wrapping around Xie Ling's waist and dragging him down, and fell to the ground together with him.Xie Ling's black hair was scattered, Xiao Xun put his hands on his neck, and smiled in his eyes: "I will practice that exercise, and I will give it to you after I practice it."

Xie Ling was stunned for a moment: "How will you give it to me?"

Xiao Xun: "Double cultivation."

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【Ten years later, Xiao Xun's cultivation method was completed】