He drank the tea with a smile. Konghou saw that the Sect Master of Shuangqing looked at her with gentle eyes and even more doubts in his heart. She remembered that before entering the secret realm, the Sect Master with square face was still superficially polite to her, but now he is so big now. Transformation, which made her have to think more.
"The sect master is very polite." In front of the others, Konghou couldn't ask what the other party wanted to thank her for, and he smiled vaguely and thought it was over.
The Sect Master of Shuangqing did not seem to intend to explain. After the banquet was over, Konghou was about to leave, and the disciples of Yuanji Sect came to invite her, saying that the Sect Master had something important to discuss with her. Konghou is even weirder. She is a young disciple who has not seen much of the world, so she can discuss any important matters with a suzerain
Yuanjimen is not like the small schools of Wuweizhuang and Jixiangge, and many things can be settled after discussion.
Although he didn't understand Shuangqing's behavior, but the other party was polite, Konghou couldn't refuse, so he agreed.
"I wonder if the Sect Master of Shuangqing would mind if I accompany the girl Konghou?" Huan Zong looked at the disciple who passed the message, "Konghou is young and the girl is timid. I'm afraid that she may speak inappropriately and offend the sect master."
The disciple who passed the message did not expect that the frost-faced Zhenren Huan Zong would suddenly speak, what a girl but small, what words should not be offensive, there are a few timid women in the cultivation world, as for offending...
Where is this gesture because he is afraid that Fairy Konghou will offend the sect master, but he is clearly worried that Fairy Konghou will pass by alone. After seeing the indifference of the Glazed Light Sect's sword cultivators, suddenly there is a real person who likes to "mind their own business", and the disciples are not used to it.
"It is an honor for the sect to go with the real person." The disciple who sent the message thought for a while, and then responded.
On this occasion, he couldn't say anything that would not welcome other people.
After the guests were gone, the lively Yuanji Gate looked much deserted. Occasionally, disciples with swords in their hands passed by, bowed to them from a distance, and then stepped aside.
"Real man, fairy, please come this way."
Passing through a lotus pond, Konghou saw Shuangqing sitting on the water pavilion in the river pond.
"Fairy, real person, please get on the boat." The disciple who spread the message threw a jade boat out of his sleeve and made a gesture of invitation.
Huan Zong jumped onto the boat first, looked inside the boat with a quick glance, and stepped aside with his hands behind. Kong Hou jumped beside him and smiled at the disciple who was passing the message.
The jade boat was automatic without oars, carrying Konghou and Huan Zong towards the water pavilion.
"Can you tell how many formations there are in the pond?" Huan Zong admired the lotus flowers blooming in the pond and asked Konghou next to him.
"Hmm..." Konghou looked at it seriously for a long time, "I can only see three types, the spirit-invigorating formation, the five-element formation, and the ringing formation." Both the formation and formation are designed for the lotus in the pond, and the ringing formation The formation is to protect the water pavilion and prevent others from breaking into it easily. The jade boat she stepped on is the key to breaking the formation. Without this jade boat, if you are close to the water pavilion, you will be attacked by the formation.
"In just a few days, you have already recognized these formations, which is very good." It should not be the season of lotus flowers, but the lotus flowers inside are blooming brilliantly. The pool water that should have been turbid was crystal clear, so clear that the golden koi swaying in the water could be clearly seen. When the water is clear, there are no fish, but the fish in it live recklessly with the rich spiritual energy.
"Then did I guess right?" Kong Hou looked at Huan Zong with wide eyes.
"There are indeed three kinds of magic circles under the water, but these three kinds of magic circles only flow on the surface. What is really powerful is the use of the flowing circles formed by koi and lotus flowers, the soul-devouring circle." There is a hazy mist floating on the water surface, and the whole picture It looks beautiful, but these hazy fogs are sharp weapons for killing people.
"Soul Devouring Formation?" Konghou has heard of this name, and heard that anyone caught in this formation will lose their minds. If someone with malicious intentions breaks in, and if they cannot resist the power of the formation, they will fall into crazy chaos. In the end, he even blew himself up and died.
There are various protective formations inside and outside each sect, and the disciples under the sect wear life cards with them to avoid accidentally stepping on the wrong place and being killed by their own formations.
She observed on the water for a long time, and she didn't see any clues when she knew that the jade boat stopped beside the steps of the water pavilion. She sighed secretly, she really is still not good at learning, such things as magic arrays, really can't be learned in a day or two.
Shuangqing saw that the real person of Huan Zong was also following, and was slightly surprised, and invited the two to sit down: "The real person, fairy, please take a seat."
Kong Hou sat down with Huan Zong, and saw an old man with a kind face pouring tea for her, and took it with both hands: "Thank you, senior."
"Fairy doesn't have to be so polite, the old man is only the servant of the sect master, he can't be a senior." The servant smiled and placed a few snacks in front of Konghou.
"The master is the elder, and the older is the elder. If you take up both, in front of the juniors, you are the seniors." Konghou replied earnestly, "I also ask the seniors not to humble themselves."
The aged servant smiled even more kindly and stepped back behind Shuangqing.
"I invited the fairy to come here today because I want to thank the fairy again." Shuangqing didn't say too many polite words to Konghou, and said straight to the point, "The bad apprentice Xu Feng is the first apprentice I took, and he was taken from the mortal world. When the world brought him back, he was only five or six years old. At that time, the emperors of the two dynasties in the mortal world overlapped, and the people were struggling. Countless people changed their sons for food to survive. Xu Feng's mother did not want him to be exchanged for food by his husband, and he Unable to resist her husband's authority, they took advantage of his sickness and threw him beside an inaccessible pool of water."
For a timid woman who is attached to a man's wings and cannot control her life and death, secretly throwing her child into a place where others have not found it is already the most daring thing she has ever done. If Xu Feng was not sick, she would be noisy and noisy. Maybe she was afraid that her husband would find out and did not dare to do it.
A child with a high fever is thrown out, how likely is it to survive? She may know, or she may not know, or she may want to feel at ease, but no matter what, this is the only thing she can do for this child.
For young Xu Feng, treating his best mother and abandoning him while he was seriously ill was something he would never forget.
"Decades ago, I discovered that he had a heart for his biological mother and took him to the mortal world. But more than a hundred years later, even if his biological mother did not die in the war, she had already died." Shuang Qing With a sigh, the square head and face that looked a bit ridiculous, became more human at this moment, "If I hadn't read about him when he was young and ate it without his knowledge, maybe he wouldn't be like this today. ."
"The sect master's words are bad. If you tell him about this, Xu Gongzi may eat his food because his father changed his son, and he can't solve the happy knot." The two dynasties alternated that year, it should be the ancestor of the old Ji family who overthrew the tyranny of the Chu Dynasty. when.
Unexpectedly, this past also involves the ancestors of the Lao Ji family.
"Anyway, since Xu Feng talked to Fairy that night, he doesn't like to run around anymore, so he can calm down and listen to me." Shuangqing smiled bitterly, "I don't want him to rise up, I just want him to live a good life. As a person, I am satisfied."
After saying these words, he took out an ebony wood carved flower box and put it in front of Konghou: "The grace of the fairy, I am very grateful, and I hope that the fairy can accept it."
"Young Master Xu Feng is well, the younger generation is very happy, but the younger generation can't accept this gift." Kong Hou shook his head and refused, "To tell the truth, my ancestors have some origins with that civil misery. Because of that misery, Young Master Xu Feng and The separation of relatives, I just said a few words with him, it is really not a kind of kindness."
"The fairy's bone age is only seventeen. Even if the events of two hundred years ago have something to do with your ancestors, it has nothing to do with you." Shuangqing said, "Fairy does not accept this gift, is it disgusting?"
"The sect master's words are serious, and the younger generation doesn't mean it." Seeing Shuangqing's insistence, Konghou had no choice but to accept the ceremony and bid farewell to Shuangqing.
This time, Shuangqingren did not keep them, and asked the servants to send them out in person.
When the servants came back after sending them off, Shuangqing was still sitting in the pavilion drinking tea. Seeing him coming back, he said lightly, "They left?"
"We've already left, depending on the direction they left, they should be heading east." The servant exchanged a pot of tea for Shuangqing, "Sect Master, the magic weapons you gave Fairy Konghou have powerful defensive capabilities, you are worried Did she encounter danger along the way?"
Shuangqing sneered: "She is a disciple of Yunhuamen, why should I worry about her?" Putting down the teacup, he was a little unhappy, "I just don't want to owe her favors, so that when I pull down the ranking of Yunhuamen later, I will see She feels wronged."
"So that's the case." The servant said suddenly, "I saw the sect master that you put all the dharma rings you made by yourself, so I thought that the sect master admired the younger generation like Konghou girl, and asked the sect master to forgive me."
"Forget it, I'm too lazy to care about you." Shuangqing emphasized, "But as the head of the sect, I won't have any extraneous feelings for those who have nothing to do. Besides, the apprentice of Yunhua Sect, why should I appreciate it?"
Back then, when he traveled through mountains and rivers to reach the foot of Yunhua Mountain, he was able to successfully complete the journey of asking immortals in just one stick of incense. No matter how much he pleaded, the Yunhuamen were unwilling to give him a chance, and they also said that his temperament was not suitable for Yunhuamen.
Now that he is the head of Yuanji Sect, I wonder if the old antiques who said he was not suitable to enter Yunhua Sect regretted it
After coming out of Yuanji Gate and getting on the carriage, Konghou handed the box to Huan Zong and asked him to help him check if there was anything wrong with the contents. It's not that she likes to speculate about others with the heart of a villain. It's just that the attitude of the Shuangqing Sect Master before and after is too different, and she inevitably thinks a lot.
Huan Zong took the box and opened it to take a look. This is a storage box with its own storage array. It contains all kinds of magic weapons, large and small. The most precious one is a top-quality defense magic ring. The ring is small in size and could not have many magic patterns attached to it, but this ring has countless magic circles attached, and its preciousness can only be described as invaluable.
Rubbing the Dharma ring, Huan Zong was a little puzzled. What did Shuangqing want to do when he sent the precious Dharma tool to Konghou? Seeing that Konghou's qualifications are good, do you want to send her to Yuanji
"It's all good stuff." Huan Zong put the Dharma ring back in the box and handed the box back to Konghou, "You can keep it."
"I thought there were hidden weapons or something in it." Konghou put the box on the grid in the carriage and muttered, "Although this Fang Sect Master... No, Shuangqing Sect Master has a strange personality, but right The apprentice is very good."
"You are a direct disciple of Yunhuamen. If he really dares to put a hidden weapon in the gift box given to you when other people are present, then he will not want to be the suzerain." Huan Zong said, "Not only him, but also the whole Yuanjimen will be implicated."
As the head of the sect, it is something that the entire cultivation world cannot tolerate.
"That's true." Kong Hou nodded, "With you present, he definitely wouldn't dare to do these things."
Huan Zong laughed, this was his reason. Shuangqing has ambitions, but he is not suffering from madness. He should be very clear about what things can never be done.
"Oops, I almost forgot." Konghou took out the unknown spirit grass planted in the flowerpot from the storage ring. Seeing that their leaves looked a little unnerving, he poured a few drops of spirit liquid into the small flowerpot. Then put the flower pot in the carriage.
Seeing that Konghou was still raising these few grasses, Huan Zong took out a bottle of medicinal dew suitable for watering flowers from the storage ring, and put a few drops into it, imitating Konghou.
"What is this?" Konghou smelled a faint fragrance.
"It's the medicinal dew refined by an elder in the sect, which can enhance the vitality of flowers and plants." Huan Zong put the medicinal dew on the grid next to the flower tray, so that he could remember to pour it every day.
"Then why don't you water it more?" Konghou stared at the uninspired leaves of the spirit grass, "These spirit grasses have been in the storage ring for so long, they must be short of fertilizer."
"Pour more?" Huan Zong turned to look at her, hesitating whether to do the same.
"Mmmm." Konghou nodded, "a little more."
Huan Zong poured a lot more according to his words.
Dendrobium Lin outside the carriage shook his head, a drop of medicinal dew was enough to revive a century-old tree, these two prodigals used the medicinal dew as water to water the spirit grass, not only wasting good things, but also watering the spirit grass to death.
Soon after, there was the sound of drinking tea and eating snacks in the car. Lin Hu leaned against the car door and patted the horse's back lightly with his horsewhip.
"Huan Zong, let's double cultivation."
"it is good."
When a young girl speaks, how can she omit the first two words casually, such words are too easy to cause misunderstanding.
Lin Hu shook his head. Anyway, the son-in-law is also going to be the son-in-law of the door, so let them toss.
The night passed, and when Konghou woke up from meditation, she yawned and kicked her stiff legs. She lifted the curtains of the car and looked at it. It was cloudy and foggy outside, and they were still in the sky.
She patted her face and leaned over the door curtain: "Senior Lin, haven't we arrived yet?"
"There's still a while." Lin Hu said, "There's a meadow below, I'll let the horses go down to rest for a while and feed them some fodder."
In the three places of Wuwanghai, Tingfeng Valley, and Mortal World, Tingfeng Valley is the closest to Kuicheng. Therefore, after leaving Kuicheng, Miss Konghou decided to set out for Tingfenggu. The son is the girl who listens to what Konghou says, so he, the coachman, simply does everything according to Miss Konghou's wishes.
When the carriage landed, Huan Zong got out of the carriage and asked Konghou to change clothes and wash in the carriage. He got off the carriage and took a few steps when he heard Konghou suddenly calling him loudly.
"Huanzong, Huanzong!"
Huan Zong flew back to the carriage and opened the curtain: "What happened?"
"The fruit on the spirit grass is gone!" Konghou pointed to the place where the spirit grass originally bore fruit. The fruit had disappeared, but a long and slender branch had grown there. The white branch was green and looked particularly fragile. , as if the breath could be broken.
The same is true for the other two spirit grasses. The three delicate branches are as fragile as a newborn baby.
"This is not something that the spirit grass itself has." Huan Zong observed carefully for a while, "The red vermilion fruit before is not a fruit at all, but something that grows on the spirit grass in a parasitic way."
No wonder when he first saw it, he thought that these spirit grasses were migratory grasses that could move, but after a few days he thought it was a mistake. After the migratory grass is parasitized, the parasite will change the shape of the migratory grass according to its instinct.
The parasite suddenly grew from the body of the parasitic grass, because he absorbed enough aura, and he no longer needed to be parasitized on the migrating grass.
wrong.
Huan Zong found that this kind of parasite was very strange. Although he had borrowed the migratory grass to grow branches, he did not grow his own roots.
"Huanzong, what kind of grass is this?" Kong Hou held his breath, afraid that he would be breathing too hard and blow off the delicate and tender branches.
Huan Zong shook his head: "I have never seen it before, and there is no relevant record in the book."
Konghou got up and picked up the spiritual liquid and medicinal dew on the shelf, and poured half a bottle of each into the flowerpot: "Drink more spiritual liquid and grow up quickly."
I don't know if she's overthinking, but she felt that the leaves on the twigs that were so young that they could barely make out their appearance seemed to have been seen somewhere.
"Master, Miss Konghou, I saw someone outside..."
Lin Hu lifted the curtain, the wind blew in from the outside, and a delicate branch snapped against the wind.
"Ah, ah, ah!" Konghou threw himself on Huan Zong and closed the curtain to prevent the wind from blowing in. "It's broken, it's broken."
"Be careful, don't fall." Huan Zong held her shoulders and stretched out his hand to help her pull the curtain, lest Konghou be lying in the carriage with such awkward support.
Konghou sat up and looked at the slender branches resting on the leaves of the spirit grass after blowing them off. With an inexplicable pity, he found an inconspicuous jade box in the storage ring and put the branches in the jade box.
Either way... let it die and have a burial place.
Dendrobium Lin outside the curtain: "..."
When I go out next time, the young master may not be able to use his coachman.
He confessed that he had found a burial place for Xiaozhi, and after looking at the remaining two branches, Konghou finally felt no guilt in his heart. He built a windproof, rainproof and sunscreen barrier outside the flowerpot before he dared to open the curtain. , "Senior Lin, what did you just say?"
Smelling the strong smell of medicinal dew in the carriage, Lin Hu did not ask what the two of them were doing in the carriage: "There is a water pool in front of me, I have tested it with my instrument, and there is no problem with the water. We can use a water storage instrument. Put some on your body and wait until the bottom of Tingfeng Valley, even if the water source is scarce, it will not affect our washing."
"That's right." Konghou nodded again and again, "It's still Senior Lin, you are very thoughtful." She picked up her skirt and jumped out of the carriage, looked at the water pool not far ahead, and turned to Huan Zong and said, "I'll go take a look."
"Be careful with your feet." Huan Zong was very relieved that there was no aura of monks and monsters around.
After Konghou ran to the pool to fill up the water, Lin Hu looked at Huan Zong with a serious expression: "Young Master, Miss Konghou is still a month away from turning seventeen."
"I know." Huan Zong stepped out of the carriage with a calm expression.
"It's good to know." Lin Hu glanced at Huan Zong's long legs, "I don't want to be disrespectful, I always interfere in the private affairs of the son, but Miss Konghou is still young, and the son is too close to her, which is not good for her. , it's not good for you either."
"I respect her, respect her, pity her, and I won't do anything unhelpful to her." Huan Zong looked at the girl squatting by the pool with a gentle expression, "Lin Hu, no one is willing to hurt a beautiful person."
Lin Hu moved his lips, and finally asked the words hidden in his heart: "Just because she is beautiful."
"No." Huan Zong shook his head and strode towards Konghou.
Konghou threw the water-storing instrument into the pool, and after it was filled with water, he picked up the magic trick to summon the instrument back. Turning her head, she saw Huan Zong came to her side, and put the water storage instrument into the storage ring: "Huan Zong, do you want to pack water?"
"No, I still have water hyacinth in my water hyacinth." Huan Zong took out a handkerchief and wiped off the water stains on Konghou's face, "Listen to the wind in the Valley of Winds."
"I have already prepared for this, even the gauze hat." Konghou was proud, she was not someone who was unprepared.
The little girl who had to rub several layers of skin care cream beside the refining furnace, in order to accompany him to find medicine, was not even afraid of the wind that could blow her skin. Huan Zong laughed lightly, "Konghou, you can't be so nice to me all the time."
"Why not?" Kong Hou stared, "Do you still want to break up with me?"
"No." Huan Zong took her hand, "It is my great fortune to meet Konghou in this life."
"This..." Konghou's ears turned red, "it's numb."
"Really?" Huan Zong stepped forward and turned to look at her with gentle eyes like the spring breeze.
"Yeah, it's alright." Kong Hou's entire auricle is red, and a good-looking person sounds nice even when he says nauseous words.
Huan Zong laughed again, his low and deep laughter was like the most beautiful music, which made Konghou walk behind him for a long distance before he remembered that they were still holding hands: "Huan Zong, Did you develop a habit in the secret realm? There are no succubus and phantom demons here, so you don’t have to be burdened to protect me.”
The smile at the corner of Huan Zong's mouth faded slightly, he slowly released his hand, and said in a hoarse voice, "Yeah, habit... I forgot to change it."