"What are you dancing, you don't want me?" Meng Xueli said to the koi in the pond.
He turned and instructed Daotong: "In the past two days, you have finished buying and buying things. After I go to the secret realm, you should try not to go out."
Daotong lives at the foot of Changchun Peak, not far from the suspension bridge at the entrance, and has a separate small courtyard. He didn't ask why, just nodded solemnly and agreed: "Elder Meng, two senior brothers and I are waiting for you to come back."
The koi suddenly slapped the water surface, the water splashed, and Xiao Huai let out a soft cry and stepped back.
Meng Xueli is very skilled in training mice and fish: "Jump again?! Do you want to go to heaven?"
Meng Xueli once asked his eldest apprentice to feed the fish for him, and since then, the three-tailed koi in the pond have become abnormal. Whoever got a little closer to the edge of the pool, they flicked their tails bravely, splashing clusters of water, as if they were panicking and afraid of something, trying to escape.
Meng Xueli couldn't figure out the reason, it was a trivial matter anyway, and it was interesting to throw food from a distance.
Speaking of which, although the koi were fed by him, he did not know their species and origin. Ji Xiao brought it back from outside, and the real owner should be Ji Xiao.
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In the early spring of Hanshan, it starts from the foot of the mountain.
On the Law Hall, the grass and trees are reborn, and the fine wild flowers are blooming everywhere. If you look from here, behind the red flowers and green leaves, under the blue sky, the snow-capped mountains are rolling up and down, and the clouds are shrouded in mist.
In the lower part of the mountain, the ice and snow melted, and a layer of ice floated on the river surface, undulating with the current.
After dormant throughout the long winter, the birds and beasts in the mountains and forests emerge from their nests, leaving rows of footprints on the soft snow.
The mountain road was slippery, and there were no children who were busy shoveling snow in the middle of winter, and there were no longer half-person-high snowdrifts on the side of the road.
Along with the lively sounds of insects and birds in the forest, the Changchun Peak master and apprentice three walked on the mountain road to the main hall of the main peak to participate in the conference held by the master.
The young man is just about to stalk, like a willow that is drawn in spring, one day at a time.
Only Elder Meng doesn't seem to be long enough, and is a little shorter than his apprentice. He was wearing a gleaming silver cloak, and he embraced a delicate and beautiful small hand stove.
The three of them looked from a distance, like the young son of a big family, walking out with two nursing homes.
Meng Xueli turned back and said, "After entering the hall, if someone asks you a question, I'll just answer it. You two just salute and smile."
Ji Xiao smiled: "Well."
Yu Qishu: "Okay Brother Meng."
Meng Xueli: "Can't you call Brother Meng and Xueli later, call me Master!"
Meng Xueli didn't plan to bring his apprentices, especially Xiao Tingyun.
Unlike his reputation in the world of practice, Xiao Tingyun has received special attention since he entered Hanshan.
Because of Hu Si's 'sage's order', everyone knows about this 'the future successor of the real person Ji Xiao'.
Fame is a double-edged sword. If you do well and meet the expectations of others, you will be called a worthy reputation, and there is no false person under your reputation. If you are a little lacking, you will become famous, and it is difficult to match your reputation.
Ji Xiao thinks this is normal, and it doesn't matter what people say.
As a master, Meng Xueli was worried for him and did not want him to be exposed too early and too many inquiring eyes.
But the two apprentices showed a positive attitude and strongly requested to go together.
Ji Xiao: "This is the first time you have participated in a sect assembly after accepting your apprentices. In a formal assembly of this scale, no elder will lead the Daotong, and everyone else has their own disciples to serve. You want to be alone?"
Yu Qishu: "That's right, we can't have a queue at Changchun Peak."
Meng Xueli thought to himself, the other elders chose a few disciples to follow, I can only take you two, and there is still no line.
On the square outside the hall, more than a hundred disciples lined up neatly, dressed in Hanshan Taoist robes, with their backs straight, looking forward to the start of the conference. They are about to represent Hanshan and participate in the secret realm competition.
Meng Xueli passed by the crowd and was taken into the hall by the deacon. The Sect Master and the Peak Masters had already arrived and saw him smiling lovingly.
"Here comes Xue Li, sit here."
"how are things?"
"Very good! Breakthrough?"
Although they were peers in terms of seniority, emotionally they felt that Meng Xueli was still young.
Meng Xueli answered each one seriously. Ji Xiao felt helpless when he heard it, as if he was a generation shorter too.
Not long after, the elders took their seats one after another, or two or three, or seven or eight direct disciples, standing behind them. They each sent their disciples to participate in the competition, one or two, standing outside the hall waiting at this time.
The more people in the hall, the less chatter and chatter, and the more serious the atmosphere.
Meng Xueli observed secretly and found that this time was very different from the year-end assessment. The elder sitting next to the peak master of Wufeng, and the elder with the surname Zhou, or the elder related to the Zhou family, seldom talked to each other, as if there was an invisible dividing line.
Others are also looking at the three masters and apprentices at Changchun Peak, and they are in shock and privately voiced:
"Meng Xueli broke through? Concentration?"
"If he retreats to advance, he must find someone to protect the law, and he can only go outside Changchun Peak to find it. But no one has heard the news."
"I heard that he went to see Qian Yuzhi. Could it be that he went to ask for a magic pill?"
Two months ago, Meng Xueli was successfully refining his Qi, and there was never any news that he was going to retreat. Some time ago, there were people in Hanmen City who met him with his apprentices shopping at roadside stalls, so it was obvious that he did not retreat. This time we meet again in a state of concentration.
He can fight across borders and break through easily. Could it be that Meng Xueli is a genius
This is the exact opposite of his inherent impression in people's minds. Some people are more willing to believe that Meng Xueli is a great contestant in the secret realm of the vast sea, and has taken the precious elixir that forcibly improved his realm and caused endless troubles.
- He swore an oath to Ji Xiao's tablet in front of everyone's eyes. It turned out that he was not impulsive, but really wanted to do his best to win the 'beginning of nothingness'. So sad indeed.
With Meng Xueli's accident attracting attention, although Xiao Tingyun entered the country quickly, he was already in the late stage of qi refining, and he only got a few words, "As expected, it is worthy of being the body of the innate sword spirit, and it is the same as the real Jixiao back then" and so on. Evaluation.
When all the elders arrived, the head signalled the chief deacon to pass the order. The disciples lined up to enter the hall and stood neatly in the center of the hall.
The Sect Master stood up and glanced at these faces. Every 20 years, there are such a group of outstanding juniors standing here, suppressing their excitement, their faces are full of ambition and confidence, as if they can't wait to set off immediately.
Some of them, however, will not come back.
The Vast Sea Secret Realm is opened every 20 years. According to Dabi's rules, only young monks under the age of 30 are allowed to participate.
Everyone is entering the secret realm for the first time, and can only act according to the experience taught by the seniors and the map drawn from memory.
This is a young man's adventure, and everyone is expected to make a name for himself or be buried in yellow sand.
The Sect Master said slowly:
"Everyone, you are the younger generation of Hanshan, the most outstanding disciples. I believe you will win honor for my Hanshan!"
More than a hundred people responded loudly, and their voices echoed in the high and broad hall: "I will live up to the trust of the teacher-"
Hearing that, Meng Xueli wanted to shout a few words together, but he was an elder, so he had to send a voice transmission in private and shout to his two apprentices.
Yu Qishu's voice transmission sighed: "I really want to go to the secret realm! I'm not born at the right time, I have no fate."
Meng Xueli comforted him, mainly to comfort the eldest apprentice: "Learning to travel down the mountain, the world is vast, the three worlds travel, what is a mere secret realm?"
The head said solemnly: "The meaning of the secret realm is to try, not to kill endlessly. I hope you can abide by the rules." One of the rules is not to hurt those who abstain.
The disciples replied, "Remember the teaching—"
In any struggle, there is bound to be damage, but this level of damage is much less than before, allowing the world of human practice to recuperate, leaving spare power to resist the demon and demon worlds.
Abstentions are allowed in the secret realm. As long as you wait for seven days, you can leave the secret realm through the teleportation array. This was also the plan originally arranged for Meng Xueli by the Sect Master and the Peak Masters.
When there is no Vast Sea Secret Realm Grand Competition, the powerhouses of various sects compete for unowned resources, each showing their magical powers, and they are often divided into mountains and seas, with great momentum. Inevitably blood flowed into rivers, hurting mortals.
The real person in charge nodded and signaled the deacon to issue a jade talisman.
The eyes of the disciples became brighter.
The jade talisman is the pass to enter the secret realm. The number of places in the secret realm is limited, with a total of 2,000 jade talismans, one per person.
At that time, the real person Ji Xiao took the lead and discussed with the representatives of various sects to decide how to allocate the quota.
The six sects with huge roots each have 150 people, and the rest of the middle sects and aristocratic families in the human world get even fewer places. In some remote small sects, there are only a hundred people in the entire sect, and only one place is allowed, and they often have to give up because there are no suitable disciples of the right age to participate. Just hang the jade talisman in the business and resell it, and you can also get a lot of money.
The head once again encouraged everyone, emphasizing the rules, and finally announced:
"Five days later, we will gather at the square outside the hall at 3 o'clock, and take the flying instrument to the 'Hanhai'. The Master of Ziyan Peak and the Elder Meng of Changchun Peak will walk together as the leader of the leader."
Although Meng Xueli was about to become the only leader in history to enter the secret realm with his disciples.
Meng Xueli was a little lost, and said to the two apprentices through voice transmission, "Alas, I wanted to go there by myself.
Ji Xiao's voice transmission reassured him: "The rules are always like this."
Meng Xueli: "Who makes such boring rules. Who cares about the sky and the earth, and how others go about it? Crazy."
Ji Xiao's expression was complicated: "...It should be your Taoist companion. To prevent someone from being single and being robbed of the jade talisman."
When Yu Qishu heard this, she quickly persuaded: "Forget it, forget it, Brother Meng."
Meng Xueli thought about it for a while, too, "Who made the rules?" As long as he scolds it, he will probably scold his Taoist companion.
Can't say it later.