Li Yan noticed the word "soul lamp". What is this? When he was about to ask about the soul lamp, Lin Daqiao spoke again.
"Junior brother, the place where we live is not far ahead. I heard that there were many houses here in the past.
But a hundred years ago, some disciples who joined Xiaozhu Peak only wanted to obtain the cultivation resources of Xiaozhu Peak. Once they had made some achievements, they were no longer willing to do such miscellaneous tasks of Xiaozhu Peak.
Later, they all went to the other four peaks to specialize in practicing spirit insects, formations, and alchemy. The master was so angry that he closed the peaks and only occasionally accepted disciples.
As a result, the original houses here seemed to be too many, and Master later used his magic power to demolish as much as 70% to 80% of them. Now those places are used to cultivate spiritual plants or other purposes, leaving only 20% to 30% of the houses. "
Before Li Yan asked, Lin Daqiao slowed down his pace and pointed to a group of houses in front and said.
Li Yan then realized that they had unknowingly arrived in front of a house, and the spiritual energy here was incredibly rich, and the air felt faintly heavy. It was several times denser than the place they had just come from down the mountain.
This house is also built entirely of black bamboo, and looks like an independent small courtyard.
"Junior brother, there are about fifty empty courtyards here. You can pick any one. From now on, you will live in that courtyard alone. The distance between each courtyard is about a thousand feet, so you won't disturb each other."
Li Yan looked up, but could only see this single courtyard. According to Lin Daqiao, these adjacent courtyards were all planted with dark green plants swaying in the wind.
The green crystal points on the black bamboo flowed and flickered slowly, making it impossible for people outside the courtyard to see clearly what was happening inside. The courtyard seemed so quiet, secluded and profound, and some places were shrouded in mist, covering up that space.
Li Yan was surrounded by bamboo forests and couldn't help feeling relaxed and happy, as if his heart was swaying with the bamboo waves.
Lin Daqiao's words broke the silence here and helped Li Yan come back to his senses.
"Oh, okay, okay. Then I'll have to trouble Senior Brother Seven." Li Yan replied quickly.
So the two of them said no more and started walking through the dark bamboo forest, opening a gate from time to time and going in to take a look.
About a cup of tea later, Li Yan and Lin Daqiao were standing in a courtyard again. This was a very remote place in the entire complex of houses, and it was the most northwest-facing part of the complex.
Although each courtyard was several miles apart, and blocked by the dark bamboo forest in the middle, making it difficult to see each other, Li Yan still chose a very remote courtyard.
There was no one else living nearby. The right side was the edge of the group of houses, and outside the courtyard was an endless sea of black bamboo. He liked the quietness of this place very much.
Li Yan looked around at everything in the courtyard and was very satisfied. He decided to live here. He thought that after he made this decision, the seventh senior brother would say a few words because his choice was too biased.
But Lin Daqiao didn't show any surprise, which surprised him a little.
Later he found out that most immortal cultivators did not like to be too close to others. The other peaks only had too many disciples, and only disciples above the Foundation Establishment Stage had the right to live in such private courtyards.
The other Qi Condensation disciples can only live in a single room adjacent to each other. This is also a clear difference between Xiaozhu Peak and the disciples of other peaks.
However, a hundred years ago, Xiaozhu Peak also had a large building complex specially for the disciples in the Qi Condensation Stage to live in. It was just that the great peak master Wei later demolished all those houses and only left dozens of such courtyards.
The courtyard that Li Yan chose covers an area of about sixty zhang, which is quite spacious. The courtyard wall is made up of densely woven bamboo fences several zhang high. The houses are also built with black bamboo, with a total of five rooms.
The yard was spacious and quiet, with only a stone table and four stone benches in the middle. The sky above was half-obscured and half-exposed by bamboo leaves extending in from outside the yard.
A small spiritual plant garden was cultivated at the southwest corner of the courtyard wall, with many blue flowers that Li Yan did not recognize. The flowers were about one foot tall, with slender green leaves, and the flowers exuded a clear orchid fragrance, which added a hint of quiet orchid flavor to the air here.
Li Yan was looking around the bamboo courtyard, while Lin Daqiao reached out to take Li Yan's storage bag. He slapped it and a white light flashed. There was an object in his hand, which was the waist badge that looked like neither gold nor iron.
He just chanted a spell and shook the badge in his hand. A black light came out from the badge and landed on the bamboo fence wall.
Suddenly, a mist rose from the bamboo fence. The mist continued to roll and spread, but it only formed a circle along the fence. It did not seep into the courtyard at all. In a short while, it enveloped the bamboo courtyard.
Li Yan stared at the scene blankly. He didn't know what his seventh senior brother was doing.
"Okay, you just need to drip blood on this badge to recognize its owner!"
Looking at Li Yan's dazed look, Lin Daqiao patted him on the shoulder.
"Each bamboo courtyard is protected by a formation. This waist badge is engraved with the magic to control this formation. As long as you drip blood on the waist badge to recognize the owner, you can control this protective formation.
One waist badge can only activate one set of formations. For example, although the waist badge on me also has the magic power to control the bamboo courtyard, it can only control the set of formations it has activated, which is the bamboo courtyard where I live.
The waist badge has other uses as well. It is engraved with the entry identification mark of the entire sect's protective formation. Otherwise, if you rashly break into the sect, the formation will automatically launch an attack.
Our sect protection formation is not like other sects, which only have the means of illusion, protection, and direct attack. The hidden unknown poisonous insects, poisonous gas, and poisonous fog are the most terrifying. Even the ancestors in the Nascent Soul stage are afraid of them. "
At this point, Lin Daqiao seemed to remember something, and her originally dark skin suddenly turned pale.
"Ahem, anyway, you have to keep this badge well. If you lose it, you will be punished if you go to the Deacon Hall to get a replacement.
Well, our bamboo courtyard protection formations are just ordinary formations. They prevent others from rashly breaking in during normal practice and serve as early warning and protection.
Its defensive capability can probably withstand a full-strength attack from an expert in the early stage of foundation building, which is also extremely powerful. A full-strength attack from an expert in the early stage of foundation building would probably almost destroy a small mortal town.
However, in this sect, there is no Foundation Establishment Stage expert who has the time to attack other people's defensive formations, so it is more than enough.
Well, if you feel that it is not enough in the future, you can go to Sixth Senior Sister or the uncles and uncles of Four Elephants Peak and ask them to set up a new formation for you, which is much better than this one."
Lin Daqiao briefly introduced the protective formation and the sect's protective formation. When Li Yan finally heard him mention Sixth Senior Sister, he couldn't help but think of the tall, wheat-skinned, short-haired cold beauty, and couldn't help but ask.
"Sixth Senior Sister also knows formations?"
Lin Daqiao patted Li Fang on the shoulder again, which made Li Yan speechless and he muttered to himself.
"We just met, why do you keep hitting me?" "Junior brother, our Xiaozhufeng is a grocery store. Although we do miscellaneous things within the sect, the skills we learn are also diverse.
Not only is Sixth Senior Sister good at formations, her personal strength is also strong. Even Second Senior Brother is unwilling to fight with her too much.
As far as the formation is concerned, the uncles and aunts from the Four Symbols Peak wanted her to pass more than once, but she didn't want to be like those peaks and only focus on one thing.
She was afraid that if she went to the Four Symbols Peak, her other skills would be delayed. Although the formations were also unpredictable against the enemy, the Sixth Senior Sister was more willing to strengthen herself in multiple directions."
"Strong personal strength? Second Senior Brother is the one who has strong fighting power."
Although Li Yan remembered the explosive figure hidden under the long robe of the short-haired beauty, he still couldn't imagine the scene of her competing with the bear-like figure of his second senior brother.
"Little Junior Brother, let's go in. I have a lot to tell you."
Lin Daqiao didn't seem to want to say much. She walked towards the houses, pointing at them and introducing them as she walked.
"These rooms are usually large enough for you to use. They are divided into a lounge, a training room, a breeding room, an alchemy room, and a living room. Unless you have more interests and hobbies, you will need to build a bamboo house in this yard by yourself.
Building a house is not very difficult. You can learn it in half a day. But you need to be careful about the materials used for building the house. Not all bamboo can be used to build a house.
Although there are servants who come to clean and take care of the spiritual plants in this uninhabited courtyard, they don't come here very often. You can see there is still some dust. I will clean it up for you."
Lin Daqiao was talking to himself. Seeing that the bamboo courtyard was not very clean, he waved his sleeves forward, and the doors of several houses opened at the same time as if they were pushed by an invisible big hand.
Then, he quickly formed a seal with his hands in front of his chest and gave a light scolding.
"go!"
A white light flashed and immediately turned into several wet whirlwinds, which swept towards several rooms and the stone tables and benches in the courtyard. The movements were light and casual, and even had a sense of otherworldliness.
A soft "woooo" sound suddenly came from the yard, and after a few breaths, it disappeared.
"Okay, hehe..."
Lin Daqiao clapped her hands and laughed, then walked towards a room in the middle.
Li Yan's eyes suddenly lit up when he looked at the stone table and stone bench in the yard. The little bit of dust on them just now had long disappeared, and they were even scrubbed to a shiny color.
"This is the magic of immortality. It can be used for more than just flying and killing people."
Li Yan became even more curious about the magic. When he turned around, Lin Daqiao had already walked into the middle house, so he hurriedly followed.
This is a room about five or six meters wide, which seems very spacious. There is a bamboo table with a set of tea sets on it, and several tall bamboo chairs. The four walls are all blue and white in color, and there are no decorations hanging. There are two wide bamboo windows opening outwards, and the furnishings are extremely simple.
"This is the living room. The other rooms are also simply furnished, with beds and futons. We monks don't have high requirements for material possessions, and the master doesn't like those luxurious things."
As Lin Daqiao spoke, he pulled a chair and sat down.
At the same time, in a room in another bamboo courtyard dozens of miles away from this bamboo forest, a young man and woman were talking.
"Your new disciple is not honest. He is very careful in doing things. He mostly attributed the matter of killing the military advisor to the marshal and his junior brother. I deliberately asked a few questions, and he obviously answered after careful consideration."
The beautiful woman in white palace dress looked at the fat young man, her big eyes flickering with a hint of cunning.
This young man and woman were the master and his wife whom Li Yang had just worshipped.
"Well, yes, judging from the investigation results of the disciples of Lingchong Peak and the investigation of his background by the subordinate sects, most of the ambushes were set by him, including the final blow.
But today he didn't tell the truth, and attributed all these actions to others. A young man would have such thoughts. I thought it might be related to what he had experienced. He already had distrust and wariness towards others in his heart."
Wei Chongran shook his head helplessly.
"So how much of what he said about cultivation is true? How much is false? Is there something hidden or is it all lies?"
The woman blinked her beautiful eyes and looked at her husband.
"It is estimated that there will be some reservations, and even most of them are fake, but does it make a difference? It has been hundreds of millions of years, and the sect has been studying for so long, generation after generation, but still can't figure out the reason for the formation of this physique
If I use soul-searching technique, I can get some information from his mind, but this is not the result I want. Everyone has his own opportunity.
He is just a mortal boy, and he risked his life to gain a glimmer of hope, why should it be taken away by others? So I have to accept him, otherwise his fate may be very miserable. When he feels a sense of belonging to the sect in the future, I think he will tell you. "
Having said that, a bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth again.
"To my sister, maybe I am not suitable for cultivating immortals. My master entrusted this huge Xiaozhu Peak to me, and I ended up managing it like this. Seeing what this child has gone through, I actually felt compassion for him.
Cultivating immortality, cultivating immortality, I really can’t take that step of cutting off worldly feelings, maybe I won’t be able to have a baby in this life.”
A white, soft hand slowly reached out and held the chubby hand.
"That's why I like you, because you are affectionate and you have your own principles."
There was a gleam of tenderness in the woman's eyes, and the next moment she hummed softly, like a playful girl.
"Humph, besides, you weren't a pushover back then. You also had your senior sister back then."
The woman held her chin with her other hand, and seemed to be lost in memories for a moment.