The five-day holiday passed quickly, and all the disciples returned to the Piao Miao Sect.
The most important event that will usher in the next year is the three major sects' fraternities.
It sounds good on the surface, but it is actually a competition between sects to compete for strength. Piao Miao sect has been sitting at the head of the three sects for too long, and the other two sects have long wanted to replace it.
Although Feng Tianhen, the number one in their inner sect, is not there, Luo Lanzhi, the third, and Su Limo, the fifth, are both staying this time. With these two masters in charge, it seems that this year's competition will have no victory or defeat. suspense.
The three major sects will each select 30 disciples with excellent talents and aptitudes to compete in the competition. This year, the venue for the competition is the Cloud Fortress in Xiaoyao Valley. , from which you can clearly see the scene in the sky, the clouds and mists are so beautiful.
Of course, there is also a certain degree of danger, if you accidentally fall from it, you will definitely fall to pieces.
"Fortress in the Sky sounds interesting." When Mu Lai heard what the instructor said, he touched his chin with interest.
She suddenly leaned towards Tan Linruo who was beside her, "Brother, do you want to participate?"
Tan Linruo looked a little unhappy, shook his head and said, "I won't participate."
"Why do you have such good medical skills and good cultivation, you don't want to show off." Mu Lai said with a teasing smile.
Tan Linruo smiled wryly, "Junior sister, don't make fun of me. In the past, I thought that no one in Misty Sect could surpass me in medical skills, but now, it's all right to have a junior sister like you who is a medical genius. Aren't I ashamed of that genius little junior sister in the department whose soul power is at full level?"
Mu Lai raised his eyebrows, "It's not like your usual style, Senior Brother, to be so self-deprecating."
Tan Lin Ruojun's face was a bit embarrassed, it seemed that he was a little bit hard to say, and it took him a long time to hold back a sentence, "Actually, I have a fear of heights."
Mu Lai was stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing with a "puchi" after a while, very unbelievable, "Brother, you are a big man, you are actually afraid of heights"
Tan Linruo sighed helplessly, "When I was young, I didn't know how to go up the mountain to collect medicine and fell from a high place. Since then, there have been shadows, not to mention the daunting height of Cloud Fortress, just staying outside in an inn. I dare not live upstairs."
"It's so serious." Mu Lai blinked in surprise, "You never thought about overcoming this fear of heights."
"I think so too, but it's useless." Tan Linruo said sadly.
Mu Lai put his finger on the corner of the table and tapped, then said, "You can't do this. Although our alchemist branch has a lot of people, it doesn't matter if you, a big brother, don't participate. We must find a way for you to overcome this weakness."
"Is there any way?" Tan Linruo looked at her expectantly.
Mu Lai smiled, "Of course there is a way."
For some reason, seeing her smile, Tan Linruo unconsciously shivered.
"Ah ah ah"
"Junior Sister, Junior Sister, quickly pull me up, Junior Sister, I'm so scared, Junior Sister"
"I'm dying, I'm really dying"
"It's too high, it's really too high, I don't want to cure it, at worst I won't participate in the friendship competition, you are enough for the alchemist branch"
"Junior Sister, did you hear that, quickly pull me up, I'm really scared to death"
In the back mountain of Piaomiaozong, the winter morning is cold and quiet, there is not even the sound of birds, only the howling of ghosts and wolves echoing round and round in the mountains.
Under that precipitous cliff, I saw a finger-thick rope tied to a tree trunk in the distance, and the long rope spread to the bottom of the cliff, hanging a person. It's Tan Linruo
He grabbed the rope tied around his waist and tried to climb up, but he was too scared at such a height, and he didn't dare to make big moves, so he could only ask the people above for help.
Mu Lai just sat on the cliff so leisurely, listening to the heart-piercing voice below, and said faintly, "Brother, I'm doing this for your own good, and I'll let you hang from this cliff for two hours every day from now on." , after a long time to get used to it, you will naturally not be afraid of heights."
"Junior Sister, can we change to a different method, a little more gentle?" Tan Linruo's voice trembled uncontrollably, and he felt that his body was already numb.
The body hanging in mid-air swayed from time to time with the wind blowing up from the bottom of the cliff, and the slender rope seemed to be broken from the middle at any time, which was terrifying no matter how you looked at it.
Hearing the man's trembling and hopeless voice, Mu Lai shook his head a little resentfully, "Senior brother, what are you worried about? Is it possible that I will still harm you? , Elder Jin’s favorite student, because he is afraid of heights, he gave up the friendship match of the three major sects, believe it or not, Elder Jin will be pissed off by you if he finds out.”
Hearing her words, Tan Linruo couldn't help feeling extremely ashamed, but the psychological fear was too much for him to control, so he swallowed, "Junior sister, this rope"
"You don't have to worry, my rope is not an ordinary rope. Don't look at it as thin. It's a magic weapon. It's so tough that a sword can't cut it. Unless you're unlucky and encounter a sawworm. Its teeth, no matter how good they are. Swords, guns, swords and halberds will become a pile of scrap metal in front of it.”
Tan Linruo's voice became even more fluttering, "Sawtooth worms are green and oval in shape, full of fangs?"
"Hey, how do you know?" Mu Lai poked his head in doubt and asked.
"I, I seem to see it biting." Tan Linruo's terrified voice stopped abruptly and turned into a high-decibel scream.
Mulai only felt that the rope tied to the tree was suddenly loosened, as if it was cut off in the middle, and her eyes tightened immediately, "Not good"
Then, her slender body jumped down to the bottom of the cliff, falling extremely fast. She grabbed the vines on the edge of the cliff with one hand, and pulled out the snake whip around her waist with the other hand. The frightened man lifted him up.
Tan Linruo almost passed out without foaming at the mouth, and just when he stabilized his body, he was lifted up, and he was so frightened that he almost didn't cry out.
Mulai's forehead twitched, and he whispered, "Shut up"
Stared at by the girl's sharp and bright eyes, Tan Linruo subconsciously closed his mouth obediently.
But the girl's cool and safe voice suddenly sounded, "Look down, look down."
Tan Linruo did as he was told, but when she saw the bottomless and misty cliff bottom, she immediately withdrew her gaze.
"Now stare at me for a quarter of an hour. If you don't listen to me, I'll let you go and throw you down immediately." Mu Lai said threateningly.
"Junior Sister"
"Not negotiable"
Tan Linruo was so wronged that he could only obey obediently. Why didn't he realize before that this junior sister who always had a smile on her face was actually such a terrifying witch, so cruel
The time passed by like this, and Tan Linruo felt a little uncomfortable being strangled by the whip around his waist, so he couldn't help moving, probably sensing his movement, Mu Lai threw a rattan stick at his hand to him and said, " Catch it yourself."
Tan Linruo subconsciously grabbed the cane, and then felt his waist loosen. Mu Lai had already retracted the whip and looped it around his waist again.
Holding the rough cane for such a long time, the palms of his hands were sweating unconsciously, Tan Linruo looked at the girl beside him and said, "Junior Sister, aren't you afraid?"
"There's nothing to be afraid of." Mu Lai sneered, "If you are afraid of heights, you will die. Are you still afraid if you think about it? I lost my life for nothing."
Tan Linruo was silent, and lowered his eyes to look at the bottom of the cliff. It seemed that the fear in his heart was not so strong for a while.
After an unknown amount of time, a girl's faint voice came from beside her, "Are you still afraid of heights?"
"It's better." Tan Linruo said.
"Then let's go up."
After saying that, Mu Lai immediately put his arms around Tan Linruo's waist, tapped his toes on the cliff, and returned to the ground.
After being a drug addict for twenty years, it was the first time that Tan Linruo was so intimate with a woman, his handsome face turned crimson, and he lowered his head in embarrassment, not daring to look at her.
"Okay, let's continue tomorrow, that's all for today, I'm leaving first." Mu Lai didn't notice his strangeness, left a word and left.
"Junior Sister"
The tall and slender figure of the woman gradually drifted away, but she just raised her arm and waved it without looking back.
"She helped me because she cared about the reputation of the pharmacist department." Tan Linruo looked at the gradually blurred shadow and murmured. For some reason, she felt a little inexplicably lost.
Xiaoyao Valley is hidden among the mountains, and the base camp is under the bottomless valley with cliffs.
Therefore, even if not all the people in Xiaoyao Valley are highly cultivated, everyone has a superb light kung fu that can fly over the eaves and walk over walls.
The choice of Xiaoyao Valley for the Zongmen Association this time will be a great test for the other two sects.
There is no other reason. Although Xiaoyaogu ranks at the bottom of the sect, its strength is definitely not weak, and it is famous in the Xuanji Continent for its assassination, and its secrecy is very strict.
It is conceivable how dangerous it is to be the base camp of Xiaoyao Valley. It is difficult to get down from the cliff full of traps and overgrown with poisonous flowers and weeds.
"Those old guys racked their brains this time. They want to give Piaomiaozong and Wujimen a blow. I guess all those things on the cliff have been opened." Feng Qi looked at the man sitting at the low table drinking tea, and smiled. Said.
The man closed his eyes slightly, took a sip of the tea in his cup, and did not answer.
Feng Qi is also used to his temperament, so he sat down on his own, poured a cup of tea and drank it down, "But I guess you must not be interested in this friendship match, and run out to hide every time."
While talking, the window suddenly slapped a few times, and then a white bird with a golden brow flew in and landed on the table, with a small bamboo tube tied to one side of its paw.
Feng Qi's eyes widened in surprise, "I've never seen this bird before."