There were not many people in the inn early in the morning, so Qi Shu found a quiet seat in the back on the second floor, and leaned on the table, his cheeks were still a little hot.
Immortal Master Ling Xiao is worthy of being a senior expert who has lived for an unknown number of years. Faced with the situation in the morning, he could not change his expression. At that time, he just pulled Qi Shu out of his arms calmly, got out of bed and put on his clothes calmly, and said that he would go to the nearby area to check first and let Qi Shu rest for a while.
He didn't mention what happened at all, which gave Qi Shu enough face.
... It's embarrassing.
Qi Shu buried his face in his arms.
This day and day, why can't you control yourself, the master is also something you can treat lightly
Qi Shu thought angrily in his heart.
"Uncomfortable?" A cold voice suddenly rang in his ears, Qi Shu sat up slowly, and the master had come to him at some time.
Qi Shu: "No, no."
Gu Hanjiang bent down and touched Qi Shu's forehead with the back of his hand.
As he got closer, Qi Shu felt the dampness on his body.
Qi Shu asked: "Master has gone to the mountain stream?"
Gu Hanjiang paused, then withdrew his hand: "I just went to the waterfall."
Qi Shu said "Oh", thinking that the waterfall is some distance away from the town, and he might have to use his sword to go back and forth in such a short time.
He suddenly felt guilty.
This was originally a task assigned to him by the head of the sect, but now the master has to work hard to investigate it.
Qi Shu said seriously: "I know my mistake, I shouldn't let the master go alone, next time I won't be lazy."
"I didn't..." Gu Hanjiang paused for a moment, looking at Qi Shu with complicated eyes.
Qi Shu: "?"
Gu Hanjiang: "...it's okay."
He took out an oiled paper bag from his sleeve and said, "I bought some snacks for you on the way, eat them while they're hot."
Inside the oil paper is a soft, glutinous and delicious white sugar cake, pinched into the shape of a bunny, exquisite and cute.
When Qi Shu was a child, he loved sweets and cakes, and whenever he found a chance, he pestered Gu Hanjiang to buy them for him.
After so many years, he actually doesn't like to eat this food so much, not to mention that he has already cultivated the technique of fasting, so he can eat without drinking or eating.
But Qi Shu didn't say anything, but picked up a piece and bit it down: "It's so sweet."
After taking two bites, he thought of something again: "Master has taels of silver with him?"
Gu Hanjiang: "No."
"Then these..."
Gu Hanjiang said calmly: "I gave him a bag of high-grade spirit stones."
"—cough cough cough!"
This bag of snacks only cost a few copper coins at most, but the value of the high-grade spirit stones is far more than that. Even the inner disciples of Kunlun can only receive five pieces a month.
Qi Shu's expression was complicated, but Gu Hanjiang didn't care. He took a cup and poured water for him: "Eat slowly, if you don't have enough, just go buy it."
"Enough, enough, enough..."
How dare Qi Shu ask Master to buy it for him again, this level of prodigal, if Qinglan Xianzun knows, it may be heartbroken.
The master and apprentice ate some snacks, and after a while, the inn gradually became lively.
There are several caravans on their way.
This inn is located on the official road, which is the main road for commuting, and there are many motorcades on weekdays. A group of people bustled into the lobby of the inn, yelling at Xiaoer to serve tea.
That's what Qi Shu was waiting for.
"Are you going to Lingyang City?" Not long after, someone chatted, "Don't go, it's better to take a detour."
"What happened to Lingyang City?"
"You don't know yet, a strange thing happened in Lingyang City recently, about a dozen women went missing. Now the government is under martial law throughout the city, especially for foreign caravans like ours, it's very troublesome to go in and out of the city."
There are several convoys in this lobby who just came out of Lingyang City, and when they started talking, many people echoed.
"Yeah, we just came out of Lingyang City. Our convoy was originally only staying for three days. This toss, we were trapped in the city for five days, so much was delayed."
"Don't mention it, they have sealed the city and searched for so long, but they still haven't found anything. I heard that they have all gone to invite the immortal elders who practice Taoism."
"It's useless. I also heard this morning that the government invited the fairy elder to set up some kind of net and sword array in the city last night to catch the evil spirits alive. As a result, guess what, three women were lost last night." , and they live not far from the sword formation. This slap in the face is really loud."
Hearing this, Qi Shu couldn't hold back: "Pfft."
Gu Hanjiang glanced at him.
"I'm sorry, Master, I didn't do it on purpose." Qi Shu suppressed a smile and poured him a cup of tea, "Master, tell me, who was hired by the government? What's the difference between this and being slapped twice in the face?"
Gu Hanjiang said calmly: "That monster has practiced for a hundred years, and his Taoism is not low."
"That's what you say, but it doesn't make such an ugly mess." Qi Shu said, "That 'immortal elder' is probably a half-baked guy, and I don't know which school he belongs to. If it was me, I would definitely ask to leave the teacher immediately , so as not to embarrass the teacher."
Gu Hanjiang: "Don't talk nonsense."
Qi Shu closed his mouth, just as someone downstairs asked about the teacher of the immortal elder.
The man who mentioned this first touched his chin: "I heard... what is the Kunlun Sword School?"
Qi Shu stopped drinking tea.
"These immortal sects all claim to be orthodox, and the disciples they teach are not very good, and they even eliminate demons."
Qi Shu put down the teacup with a snap.
At this moment, a gust of wind suddenly swept in outside the inn. The gust of wind made people unable to open their eyes. After recovering, the person who spoke just now had a fairy sword that had not been unsheathed pressed against his neck, and he fell face up on the table.
In front of him stood a young man dressed in the uniform of a Kunlun disciple.
The young man was in his twenties, with long hair tied into a ponytail at the back of his head, quite heroic.
He kicked over the bench and stepped on it, holding a sword in one hand, and said in a cold voice, "I missed yesterday because I was not good at learning, but if you insult my teacher again, be careful that I will cut off your tongue."
The lobby was originally full of voices, but now they were all shocked by the scene in front of them, and they didn't dare to breathe.
The man who was restrained by the young man turned pale with fright, and hurriedly said: "No, no, don't dare, Immortal Elder, spare my life, Immortal Elder, spare my life!"
"That's enough, Ayuan, don't scare people." A clear voice sounded, the young man was startled for a moment, then suddenly turned around.
At the corner of the stairs leading to the second floor, one person walked down slowly.
With a smile on his face, Qi Shu walked up to the young man, gently pushed his sword away, and helped the frightened motorcade dealer up: "Don't be surprised, my junior is just joking with you."
"You, you..."
The businessman was so frightened that he couldn't understand what he said, Qi Shu condensed a bit of true energy in his palm, and helped him to calm down, his expression and tone were still kind: "Qi Shu, the great disciple of the Kunlun Sword Sect, has been ordered by the master to go down the mountain this time." Investigate the matter of Lingyang City. If you have any questions about our Kunlun, you are welcome to come to Kunlun to find me at any time, and I will accompany you to the end. As for now... "
"The monster is probably still nearby, please leave as soon as possible to avoid being affected. It's fine if you only suffer a little injury and lose some property, but if it hurts your life..."
"I'm going, I'm going!"
Before he could finish speaking, the businessman stumbled and ran out.
The rest of the people in the lobby were worried about causing trouble, so they also ran away without a trace.
After the person left, Qi Shu turned around and sighed leisurely: "I said, second child, why have you changed your temper after so many years?"
The person in front of him is called Lu Chengyuan, he is the eldest disciple of Qinglan Xianzun, and he ranks second among the disciples of Kunlun Sword Sect.
In fact, Lu Chengyuan is one year older than Qi Shu, and his background is much better than Qi Shu's.
Lu Chengyuan's parents are senior masters in the cultivation world. He practiced with his parents since he was a child, and was sent to Kunlun to learn as a teacher until he grew up.
It is said that he originally wanted to worship Immortal Ling Xiao as his teacher, but Gu Hanjiang refused to accept another apprentice no matter what, and after much deliberation, he finally worshiped under Immortal Qinglan. And because he started a few months later than Qi Shu, he can only be the second child in the school.
Lu Chengyuan was doted on by his parents since he was a child. He was young and vigorous, and he was unwilling to be inferior to Qi Shu, and even had conflicts with him several times.
The most serious one was when the two made an appointment to compete in the back mountain.
Lu Chengyuan, who practiced swordsmanship since he was a child, lost to Qi Shu, a half-way monk.
Although after that competition, Lu Chengyuan was punished by Ling Xiao Xianzun and imprisoned for half a year, but since then, his attitude towards Qi Shu has finally become better.
"Why are you here?" Lu Chengyuan asked him.
Qi Shu: "I still want to ask you this, how are your parents?"
Lu Chengyuan hadn't been on Kunlun Mountain these days. It was heard that his mother was not in good health recently, and he missed his only son, so Lu Chengyuan asked his master to allow him to go home and visit his parents.
When mentioning this matter, Lu Chengyuan seemed a little unhappy: "My father thought I was preventing him from being alone with my mother, so he kicked me out."
Qi Shu: "..."
Lu Chengyuan: "What are you laughing at?"
"Don't laugh, don't laugh." Qi Shu hooked his shoulders, and asked again, "Then why didn't you go back to Kunlun, why did you come here, and was asked by the government to remove the demon?"
Qi Shu thoughtfully didn't mention that he failed in the sword array and was slapped in the face by the evil spirits.
"The magistrate of Lingyang City has a relationship with my parents. After something happened, I wrote to him for help, but my father threw it to me."
Qi Shu nodded thoughtfully: "So did you meet that evil spirit face to face?"
"Of course!" Lu Chengyuan said displeasedly, "I have been fighting with that demon for an hour, but..."
"It's just that he ran away and kidnapped three innocent girls along the way." Qi Shu continued.
"Qi Shu!"
Lu Chengyuan would never be able to calmly chat with this person, just as he was about to raise his sword to beat him, footsteps came from behind him.
"Ling Xiao Immortal?" Lu Chengyuan was startled, and quickly knelt down on one knee, "I have seen the Immortal!"
Gu Hanjiang stood still in front of the two, said "Get up" coldly, and looked at Qi Shu again: "What are you talking about?"
He looked obviously displeased.
Qi Shu blinked his eyes, only thinking that it was Master who was a little displeased when someone said bad things about Kunlun.
"The disciple is talking to Junior Brother Lu about getting rid of the demon." Qi Shu thought for a while and said, "Don't worry, Master, Junior Brother Lu fought against the evil spirit last night. I will go out with him to investigate, and I will definitely be able to kill the evil spirit." , will not affect Kunlun's reputation."
Gu Hanjiang's expression didn't ease much, and he said in a low voice, "That's my teacher..."
Qi Shu said: "Master, let's rest at the inn. It's enough for the disciples to go with the younger brother."
Gu Hanjiang: "..."
Lu Chengyuan knelt on the ground, shivering for no reason.
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