The sky was dark and the wind was biting.
There are overgrown weeds, crows crying, and jagged rocks.
Jiang Yuebai glared angrily at Lu Nanzhi, who had an expressionless and cold face. She was about to go back to Huaxi Valley after class today when she was stopped by Lu Nanzhi and ended up coming here.
Xie Jingshan squatted on the ground and scratched his head. "You two were fighting, and I was just passing by to watch the fun. Why was I also punished to go to Yinfengjian to face the wall with you for seven days? I feel wronged!"
Lu Nanzhi straightened his clothes and said, "I'm sorry for causing you trouble."
After saying that, he looked at Jiang Yuebai again, "If you had told me the secret of making ice out of water directly, I wouldn't have attacked you in a hurry."
"Why should I tell you just because you ask me? I'm in a bad mood and I don't want to tell you, okay? And you delayed my talisman making class, don't you even have an apology?"
Lu Nanzhi took a deep breath and bowed to Jiang Yuebai, "I'm sorry, I was wrong today."
Lu Nanzhi's sincerity made Jiang Yuebai so angry that he had no place to vent. He sat down in frustration and hugged his arms to resist the cold.
"The one who makes me most angry is Elder Li. He was talking and laughing with me yesterday, but today he punished me mercilessly!"
Xie Jingshan was indignant, "Yes, among all the uncles and elders in the entire Dharma Hall, he is the one who likes to punish people to face the wall in Yinfeng Gorge the most. I have been sent to prison twice!"
Lu Nanzhi had a handsome and indifferent face. At this moment, he drooped his eyelids and nodded slightly to show his agreement.
The three were thrown outside the Yinfeng Gorge. The law enforcement disciples were not worried that they would run around. The Yin wind was strong in the depths, and they had nowhere to go except the entrance they came from.
The wind was howling. Xie Jingshan found the cushion he had used as a straw mat last time and sat down obediently, rubbing his hands.
"Don't just stand there, find a place to sit down out of the wind. You have to endure seven days."
Jiang Yuebai raised his eyebrows, "You seem quite happy?"
Xie Jingshan did not hide anything, and said with his hands in his pockets: "Of course, last time I was alone here and was bored, I was worried that someone would take advantage of me being punished to secretly practice and surpass me. Now I feel at ease, no one here can practice, hahaha."
At this time, Lu Nanzhi was at the fourth level of Qi training, Jiang Yuebai was at the third level, and Xie Jingshan had just reached the third level of Qi training after his retreat until today.
Yin energy is cold and cannot be absorbed into the body through exercise.
Lu Nanzhi sat leaning against a strange rock, looking listless and lifeless.
Jiang Yuebai was worried about her grandfather at the moment. When she was escorted here, she asked the apprentice servant in Huaxi Valley to give a message to her grandfather.
In fact, it was a good thing for her to be punished, as it would allow her to avoid Jia Wei and save her grandfather from worrying about him taking revenge on her.
However, when she went out today, she did not notice Jia Wei following her. Perhaps Jia Wei did not take her worthiness seriously at all.
After calming herself down, Jiang Yuebai took out the book that Li Jiuchuan gave her from her storage bag and began to read it amid the howling of ghosts and wolves.
When they came in, the law enforcement disciple checked the storage bags and took away the elixirs and talismans that Lu Nanzhi and Xie Jingshan used to resist hunger and cold. She had nothing, so their things were confiscated.
Not far away, Xie Jingshan, who was holding a piece of dry grass in his mouth, was about to twist into a comfortable position to take a nap, when he suddenly saw Jiang Yuebai take out a book. The corner of his eye twitched and suddenly jumped up.
"Jiang Yuebai, what are you doing!"
Jiang Yuebai raised his eyebrows, "Reading, what's wrong?"
"Who allowed you to read?"
Jiang Yuebai rolled his eyes and continued to study hard, directing the dance while reading.
The green fingers were as sharp as knives and swords, stabbing into Xie Jingshan's fragile little heart again and again, drawing blood with every stroke.
Lu Nanzhi stared for a moment, then took out the "Five Elements Rotation Method" from his storage bag, and recited silently with an expressionless face.
Xie Jingshan felt flustered and short of breath, his hands were numb and sweaty, he spat out the dry grass in his mouth, gritted his teeth in hatred, took out a book from his storage bag, sat down and read it.
The wind is howling and the undercurrent is surging.
Now she needs to practice the Cloud and Rain Technique of circulating golden spiritual energy. The book compiled by Li Jiuchuan contains the evolution history of magic in the cultivation world from ancient times to the present, which can be used as a reference.
In ancient times, Qigong practitioners did not need any hand gestures to cast spells. Once a thought arose, the Tao was created. Even low-level cultivators could call the wind and rain just by chanting a spell.
But now, cultivators below the Jindan stage rely heavily on hand gestures to transfer spiritual energy, which has become extremely cumbersome.
Unable to figure it out, Lu Nanzhi suddenly sat down next to Jiang Yuebai and handed the book in his hand to him.
"Excuse me, sister, what does this sentence mean?"
Jiang Yuebai was stunned. Lu Nanzhi was the pride of her class, with unparalleled talent and comprehension. Why would he come to ask her questions
Besides, they had just had a fight, how could she be so calm and have no grudges
"Did I ask something wrong?" Lu Nanzhi wondered.
Thinking of what Lu Ying said that day, Jiang Yuebai bit his lip and asked, "Lu Nanzhi, don't you look down on me? I am a menial disciple, and you are the inner sect genius."
"I am in the inner sect because of the spiritual body gifted by God, not my own ability, so I don't think I am superior. If I exchanged bodies with you, I am afraid you would achieve more than me."
"Do you want to praise me to death?" Jiang Yuebai narrowed his eyes and was alert like a little fox.
"This is the truth. Otherwise, why would Elder Li ask me to ask you about the water-generated ice?"
Jiang Yuebai was moved, she really thought so!
"I understand Elder Li's painstaking efforts. He is afraid that I will be too proud of my spiritual body and look down on others, so he wants me to understand that there are people better than me. He is also afraid that you will underestimate yourself because of your talent, so he wants me to reassure you. Today, he punished you and me to face the wall together, and I am afraid he did it on purpose. Elder Li really values you."
"How can you be so... transparent?"
Jiang Yuebai was surprised and felt that compared to Lu Nanzhi, she did not understand human nature at all.
Lu Nanzhi's eyes flickered slightly, "There are many disciples from cultivation families who are more insightful than me. It's nothing else, only the understanding between life and death."
Jiang Yuebai used to think Lu Nanzhi was indifferent and thought she was arrogant, but now he realized that it was just the laziness that came from being so young and seeing through the world and human nature.
Too lazy to waste expressions and emotions on things that are meaningless to her.
"Senior Sister Lu, I went too far earlier."
Jiang Yuebai apologized sincerely. She was indeed in a bad mood at that time and deliberately made things difficult for Lu Nanzhi, and her words were not nice.
"It was my impatience, I'm really sorry for attacking you."
"But Senior Sister Lu, I don't think you are an impatient person. Why are you so eager to comprehend water-generated ice?"
Lu Nanzhi glanced at Xie Jingshan who was reading and falling asleep in the distance, and had something in mind, so she spoke it out slowly.
"My mother was born with a water spirit body and excellent aptitude for a furnace. She was a brilliant talent for half her life, but in the end she was tricked into the Lu family and became a stepping stone for my father to have a baby. In the end, her spirit body was completely wasted, and she could only give birth to children with excellent spiritual roots one after another, and they kept my father's endless supply of new lovers in the deep courtyard."
"When a water spirit body combines with a single spirit root, the chance of giving birth to a single spirit root or even a spirit body is very high. I have three brothers and two sisters. Except for my second sister who has two spirit roots and my fourth brother who has three spirit roots, all of them have single spirit roots."
"Unfortunately, I was born with a water spirit body just like my mother. I was betrothed when I was born. I will get married as soon as I reach the stage of forming an elixir, and have children and branches, consolidate the relationship between the two families, and maintain the prosperity of the two families. I don't want to follow in her footsteps, so I want to practice the way of killing and change my fate!"
Jiang Yuebai's pupils trembled. It turned out that there was pain and sorrow behind every person. She was not the only one who was fighting against the will of heaven. Everyone was resisting fate and trying to break free from the shackles of destiny.
Jiang Yuebai smiled frankly, moved closer to Lu Nanzhi, took the book from her hand and put it aside.
"Actually, I only discovered Water-Born Ice by accident, and I don't know how to use it yet. I can only tell you what I know. Watch me perform the Herbal Art first..."
In the weeds, Xie Jingshan was snoring with a book on his face.
The two people opposite huddled together, one with green light surrounding his fingertips, looking patient, while the other had a frown on his face, concentrating.
(End of this chapter)