This is Ning Xiaoling's first time coming to Fairy Mountain.
As soon as she stepped off the blue and white sedan, she felt that the wind between heaven and earth was flowing like real water, but it was much lighter, like a gentle hand caressing herself.
It is the wind brought by the strong flow of spiritual power. When it passes through the body, the spring breeze ruffles the flower bells, bringing about the mysterious harmony of the ears, eyes and mind.
Ning Xiaoling carefully raised her head and looked around.
The peak that originally looked like a sharp corner at the bottom of the mountain now seemed so wide that it was difficult to see the edge at a glance. If the clouds hadn't obscured her eyes, she would have thought it was an open and flat valley.
What surprised her most was that there were countless stones floating on the top of the mountain.
The shapes of those stones are like prismatic and polygonal crystals, floating silently above the Tianku Peak like stars, sinking and floating in the strong wind of flowing spiritual power.
And in the center of the Tianku Peak, the layout of the sword hall is even more square and grand.
Among the steep mountains, the sword halls are built against the mountain. The main hall is on the flat surface, while some of the side halls are close to the cliff. On the towering mountains, the angles of several sword halls are almost perpendicular to the ground, but they are There is no sign of collapse or overturning at all, just like a green pine growing steadily among the rocks.
Ning Xiaoling carefully looked at everything she could see, and finally she cast her eyes on the senior brother beside her. She saw Ning Jiujiu just standing calmly, with the sun falling on his cheeks and his white robe fluttering in the breeze. Everything around him seemed indifferent.
With the arrival of Lu Yuanjie, the dozen or so disciples in white also stopped holding their swords and saluted together.
Those who can reach the Sword Peak to practice are all the best in this generation in terms of talent.
But when they saw their acting leader returning from traveling and taking advantage of the situation to bring back two disciples, everyone's faces still looked different.
The assessment for the outer peak to enter the inner peak is very strict. Although there are rules and precedents for directly accepting disciples into the inner sect, it is rare after all, and it is very unfair to many people who have practiced hard at the foot of the mountain for several years.
So at this moment, the eyes looking at them were not only curious, but also quite hostile.
Yazhu and Lu Jiumei were practicing at the same time and were her junior sisters.
At this time, Yazhu's realm has reached the first stage of longevity, and he is definitely the best in the Tianku Peak lineage.
"I wonder which one Senior Sister will accept as the inner sect and which one will be accepted as the registered disciple?"
Yazhu couldn't tell the difference between the boy and the girl for a short period of time. He only felt that the girl was cute, cute and smart. The young man was even more as pure as water, and at such a young age he looked like an immortal.
Lu Marry said: "This little girl's name is Ning Xiaoling, and I will accept her as my inner disciple. This young man's name is Ning Changjiu, and I will accept her as my registered disciple."
Yazhu was slightly surprised: "Are they a brother and sister?"
Lu Married said: "Yes or no, they were all bought by their previous master and took the master's surname. Now that their master is dead, these brothers and sisters are helpless, so I will take them with me." Come to the sect to practice temporarily."
Yazhu nodded and said: "They all seem to be lovable and good-natured people. I wonder what is so special about this little sister that she is so favored by senior sister?"
As she spoke, she looked at Ning Xiaoling with a hint of spiritual energy in her eyes, as if her sword eyes were used to spy on spiritual veins.
When Ning Xiaoling saw this heroic sister staring at her, she couldn't help but become nervous, "Um... I..."
Lu Marion patted her back gently and said, "She has an innate spirit and is of good quality."
Hearing the words "Innate Spirit", Yazhu's eyes trembled slightly, and he could not hide the surprise in his eyes. He smiled and said: "Where did Senior Sister find the cultivation seeds? Such a girl with the qualifications of the Innate Spirit can be used by those visiting immortals. Leaked?"
Of course, the more than ten sword training disciples all have sharp ears and eyes. When the word "Xiantian Ling" came into their ears, they all had different expressions. They were all practitioners, so of course they knew what it meant.
Lu Marion smiled and said: "Our lineage has been severely suppressed in recent years, and now it can be regarded as a kind of reward."
Ning Xiaoling swallowed her saliva and moved closer to Ning Jiujiu fearfully. However, Ning Jiujiu didn't seem to listen to their conversation seriously. He looked at the sea of clouds outside the fairy peak, as if he was reminiscing about something. Trance.
Yazhu joked: "Then we have to keep this matter a secret. If people from Xuanri Peak find out, I'm afraid they will come to rob people again."
Lu Marry smiled slightly and glanced at Ning Xiaoling.
Ning Xiaoling understood and said plausibly: "Xiaoling must follow Sister Lu wholeheartedly and cannot take her away!"
Yazhu also smiled, thinking that this little girl was so cute. She thought that she would be a lot more lively on Tianku Peak in the future.
With a faint smile, she moved her eyes slightly to look at the boy next to Ning Xiaoling.
This young man was born and raised well. He was dressed in white and had a cool temperament. He should have attracted a lot of attention originally, but after learning that Ning Xiaoling had an innate spirit, the attention naturally stopped falling on him.
"His name is... Ning Jiujiu? Everlasting Jiujiu?" Yazhu asked.
Ning Jiujiu came back to his senses slightly, looked at Yazhu, nodded and said: "A long look makes a long life."
Yazhu was stunned, nodded and said with a smile: "A cultivator should seek long-term vision and a good name."
Lu Marian glanced at him, clasping her fingers in her palms and twirling them kissingly. Although she remained cold and calm on the outside, she felt very troubled about the placement of this young man in her heart.
Lu Marian said: "After you pay homage to the sword hall, I will arrange a quiet room for you at the foot of the mountain."
Ning Jiujiu nodded and said, "Thank you, Miss Lu."
Ning Xiaoling asked: "What about me?"
Lu Marian said: "As my direct disciple, I also have high hopes for you. You should live on the mountain and practice with me."
Ning Xiaoling frowned and said, "Wouldn't it be necessary to separate from senior brother?"
Lu Marry thought, how about you persuade your senior brother to become an inner disciple together
Of course, as the acting head, she couldn't say this in public. She smiled softly and said in a soft tone: "There is nothing we can do about it. I know that you and your senior brother are dependent on each other and have a deep relationship, but the rules of the sect are In this way, even I cannot modify it without authorization."
Ning Xiaoling said: "Then I won't be an inner disciple anymore. I will move down the mountain to live with my senior brother."
Yazhu looked at the scene in front of her, but she was not too surprised. It was not that such a thing had never happened before, but she knew that even if they were in a good relationship now, as time went by, the huge gap in talent would become an insurmountable gap. The road will eventually drift away.
That is the destined separation between ascetics and mortals.
Lu Marry said helplessly: "If a disciple from the mountain wants to become an inner sect, he also needs to be assessed. Xiaoling, with your talent, it is just a matter of time. Going down the mountain to practice is too much of a waste of time."
Ning thought for a long time and suddenly said: "Then I'll just move up the mountain."
"How does this work?"
Yazhu was slightly shocked when he heard this, and looked at Ning Changjiu with a strange look in his eyes. He thought that this young man seemed to be calm and calm, but in fact he was very scheming. He actually wanted to use the light of his junior sister to sneak into the inner door.
Thinking of this, Yazhu's initially good impression of him was immediately wiped away.
But to her surprise, Lu Marian agreed, "There are many empty rooms on the mountain. If you are willing, I have no problem. It's just that the teachings of the disciples down the mountain are completely different from those on the mountain. Your current talent is not suitable."
Yazhu nodded lightly at the side. In fact, she had just quietly explored the young man's body. Apart from the fact that his skin was acceptable, his qualifications were really mediocre.
Now that she heard what Lu Marian said, she just felt that this girl named Ning Xiaoling was of great weight and could actually make her senior sister make such a concession.
Ning Jiujiu nodded gently: "I just don't listen to the classes on the mountain and down the mountain."
He said it very naturally and lightly, but when the words fell into everyone's ears, they carried different meanings.
Among the people who were practicing swordsmanship, a young man wearing sword clothes immediately frowned. He was the first to speak: "If you don't even listen to the lessons, what kind of practice are you doing?"
Another person echoed: "If you are not talented enough, you should be more diligent. How can you be so decadent? Master, you must not let him spoil you!"
A little girl looked at Ning seriously for a long time and said weakly: "I think what he said is fine. He can't listen to the class anyway, so of course it's better not to listen. Why waste time?"
The disciple next to him sneered: "Junior sister Lerou, don't talk about your nonsense. Last year, the eldest disciple of Shouxiao Peak was provocative. You didn't know whether it was because of the family's good upbringing or something, but you actually criticized him and said that he was reasonable. This matter Now it has become a joke in Sifeng.”
The little girl named Le Rou said angrily: "Since you love listening to classes so much, then why did you ask me to help cover up the last time you skipped class and had a private meeting with Junior Sister Xuan Rifeng?"
"Lerou, you..." The young man looked embarrassed.
Lu Marry pressed her hands to signal them to be quiet.
Lu Marry looked at Ning Changjiu and said, "I can promise you everything you said. I only have one request, just don't get into trouble."
Ning Jiujiu nodded and said, "I've always been law-abiding, and Miss Lu knows that."
"..." Lu Marry took a deep breath and said, "Then follow me to the hall to become a disciple."
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Deep in the sword hall, there are three sword steles standing. On the sword steles are the names of the third generation patriarch of Yujian Tianzong and the inner disciples.
In front of the three sword monuments, there stood an ancient and rusty sword. It was said that it was the sword of the founding father. However, no matter how sharp the sword in the world is, it cannot withstand the passage of time and has been stained with rust due to hundreds of years of erosion. .
Lu married with a silver crown and jade hairpin, and a snow-white sword. One hand was behind her back, and the other hand held the ancient sword Minglan. She stood silently in front of three stone tablets with a solemn expression.
"It has only been four hundred years since the Yujian Tianzong was founded, and the lineage of the sect leader has only been passed down to three generations, but each generation of masters has been a hero who has slain countless demons." Lu Marian looked at the three stone tablets and said in a cold voice: "So from now on, no matter how talented or successful you are, you should all have awe in your hearts. This will be even more true after Xiaoling makes a contract with Tianbei later. You must not touch those evil demons and outsiders. Practitioners should defend the Tao."
Ning Xiaoling was infected by the solemn sword intent emanating from the decayed sword and nodded vigorously.
Ning Changjiu on the side was holding a scroll of bamboo slips and reading it carefully.
What he held in his hand were the rules and regulations for Ning Xiaoling's inner disciples. Because Ning Xiaoling was not literate yet, Ning Jiujiu read it for her.
Seeing that Ning Jiujiu had been reading a simple letter with his head down, Lu Marian asked, "What about you? Do you understand?"
Ning Jiujiu came to his senses and said hum.
Seeing that he was so perfunctory, Lu Marian was a little angry and asked, "You looked at it so seriously, but what did you see?"
Ning Jiujiu thought seriously for a while and said:
"I think this rule is not good. Why are people on the mountain not allowed to go down the mountain at will, and why are people at the foot of the mountain not allowed to go up the mountain at will? Only secular dynasties pay attention to these hierarchies, and cultivators should be more free."
"This rule doesn't make any sense. Why is it only allowed to practice the inner sect's mental method of Tianzong? If there is a ancestral method, should it be abandoned from now on?"
"One more thing, why will you be punished by the sect's rules if you don't practice diligently? People who practice Taoism are not actors, so they need to work hard to stand up for the sect."
"Especially this one. The peak master can freely modify the sect rules. So what should I do if there are so many things written in front..."
"Shut up!" Lu Marian couldn't bear it anymore and said with a stern face: "This is the sect's rule. I'm just showing it to you, it's not your turn to change it."
Ning Xiaoling was so frightened when she saw the sudden fierce look on her face that she quickly took the note from her senior brother and handed it back to Lu Marian, saying, "Thank you, Sister Lu. Don't worry, I will abide by the rules."
Lu Marian's face softened and she said: "Actually, I have made an exception for allowing you to stay in the mountain. Please be more peaceful in the future. This is not the imperial city of Zhao State, and it cannot withstand the torment."
Ning Jiujiu nodded and said, "Don't worry, Miss Lu."
Lu Marian said without saying anything more, "In that case, Xiaoling will follow me to become a disciple. You... go to the sword hall and ask the grandpa at the gate for a plaque, engrave your name on it, and bring it with you in the future." With him, he is considered a registered disciple."
Ning Jiujiu hummed and said, "Then please ask Miss Lu to take good care of junior sister from now on."
Lu Marry said: "Although you are a registered disciple, I am also your master in name. From now on, please do not call me by my name outside, otherwise it will attract criticism."
Ning Jiujiu said calmly: "Don't worry, disciples always respect their teachers."
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