Lingzhi begged his brother to take Qiao Weiwei away too: "...you don't have to feed her, she can eat mine, and you don't have to give her a place to live alone, she can sleep with me... She is very obedient and never causes trouble."
The senior brother regretfully refused: "But, she doesn't have spiritual roots, I can't take such a disciple back home, the master will scold me if he finds out."
"Don't all direct disciples have maids? You asked her younger sister to be her little maid!" The fat boy with candied haws came behind the crowd at some point, listened to them, and couldn't help murmuring a few words.
Senior brother gave him a hard look, boy, you are the only one who talks too much!
But Mr. Fatty is right, the core disciples will indeed be equipped with one or two serving maids, and with the talent of Shui Linggen, which is rare in thousands of years, it is impossible not to become a direct disciple of a certain master after returning to the Qianlan Sect, even if the senior brother brings Qiao Weiwei. I went to Qian Lanzong, and there was nothing wrong with the rules.
But senior brother is really good for Ganoderma lucidum. A cultivator is the most taboo about entanglements in the world. Only by practicing without distraction can he attain Taoism and ascend to heaven as soon as possible. With a small oil bottle by his side, he has to be distracted to take care of it. It is difficult to guarantee that her cultivation speed will not be slow. will slow down.
"I... can I bring a maid?" Lingzhi asked beggingly.
The senior brother looked at Qiao Weiwei, Qiao Weiwei raised her eyes, opened a pair of big innocent eyes, and looked back at him without blinking.
The senior brother suddenly found it hard to look directly at that gaze, he looked away, cleared his throat, and said to Lingzhi: "Let's say it first, if you are distracted by her..."
Lingzhi said without thinking: "No, no, I promise not!"
Qiao Weiwei then followed Ganoderma lucidum to Qian Lanzong.
There are as many as a thousand secular disciples who came to participate in the election this time, but less than a hundred were actually selected. Among these hundred people, less than ten have cultivated a complete spiritual root. Among them, there is only Ganoderma lucidum and a water spiritual root. .
It is no exaggeration to say that apart from the Tianlinggen girl, Ganoderma lucidum has the best aptitude.
The little chubby boy was also selected, he was the bottom of the hundred people, he only grew one-third of his spiritual roots, Qian Lanzong gave him a three-month deadline, if after three months he If you can grow the other two-thirds, you stay; if you can't, you go home.
"Hey, my surname is Rong. My family owns a restaurant, Rong Ji, have you heard of it?" On the way to Qianlanzong, the chubby young man smiled and said to Qiao Weiwei that he actually wanted to talk to Shuilingen Miaozi, but that's good Miaozi was surrounded by several senior sisters, so he had no choice but to talk to her sister.
There were no more candied haws, Qiao Weiwei didn't bother to look at him anymore.
Young Master Rong scratched his head, didn't this little fellow keep sneaking glances at him just now? Is this enough for a short while? No, he is so handsome!
…
After all, Qiao Weiwei was young, she began to doze off after walking for a while, Lingzhi picked her up, and she fell asleep deeply in Lingzhi's arms.
When she woke up, she was already at Yaoyue Peak of Qianlanzong.
Qian Lanzong is very big, Yaoyue Peak is only one of them, and it is the only one that Qiao Weiwei and her party can climb with their current qualifications. Even if they want to go to other peaks, they are not qualified.
Seeing that Qiao Weiwei woke up, Ling Zhi put Qiao Weiwei under a big tree, found a stone for her to sit on, and said, "Don't run around, I'll go back as soon as I go."
Qiao Weiwei really didn't run around.
Ganoderma lucidum followed her senior brother to meet the protector of Qian Lanzong.
The Qianlan Sect hadn't encountered such a successful recruit in hundreds of years. One Tianlinggen and one Waterlinggen, it's just a stroke of luck, okay
Water spirit roots are actually not too rare in the family of immortal cultivators. After all, spirit roots can be inherited. The descendants of immortals with water spirit roots can often inherit the same spirit roots, but it is different in the secular world.
The spiritual roots of the secular world are all formed through gathering spirits. The water spirit root is the most difficult kind of spiritual root to gather, and the people who can gather it show that their aptitude is no worse than the innate spirit body.
Therefore, Qian Lanzong also places great importance on Ganoderma lucidum.
Ganoderma lucidum worshiped under the seat of the Great Protector and became the direct disciple of the Great Protector, while the Tianlinggen girl became the direct disciple of the Second Protector.
It stands to reason that the Tianlinggen girl is an innate spiritual body after all, and has a father who is an immortal. She is still better than Ganoderma lucidum in rankings, so she should be a disciple of the Great Protector, but it is said that she is the second protector in the folk She found it, and the second protector was kind to her, so she worshiped the second protector as her teacher.
The rest of them were all sent to the New Disciple Academy, where the masters there gave them systematic lectures and training.
Ganoderma lucidum and the Tianlinggen girl were assigned to their own residences.
The Tianlinggen girl went up the mountain early, and she has already taken care of it. The senior brother only needs to help the Ganoderma lucidum to take care of it.
"This way." The senior brother politely opened the door, and led Ganoderma lucidum and Qiao Weiwei into an elegant small courtyard, "From now on, this will be your residence, so I won't go in, so farewell."
"Senior brother Yu, thank you." Lingzhi had already found out his surname.
Senior Brother Yu smiled sheepishly: "Don't, you are now a direct disciple of the Great Protector, and belong to the same generation as my master. You call me senior brother, you are breaking my heart."
Lingzhi had no choice but to thank her briefly, took Qiao Weiwei's hand, and walked towards the steps.
Just halfway there, Qiao Weiwei turned her head.
Ganoderma lucidum looked in the direction she was looking at, and saw a maid in pink clothes taking the Qianlanzong's imperial uniform from a disciple in the courtyard next door.
The maid thanked him with a smile, and gave him something.
Lingzhi was ashamed, she and Weiwei were too poor, Senior Brother Yu ran all the way sweating profusely, she couldn't even come up with a thank you gift.
However, since then, has she been the neighbor of that Shangxian's daughter
Lingzhi took another look at the yard next door, and found that the yard was twice as big as her own.
When entering the room, Qiao Weiwei turned her head again and looked behind her.
Two female disciples were passing by the gate of the courtyard with food boxes, but they didn't notice that the two little girls had already moved in.
"Have you heard? She is Tianlinggen."
"Why haven't you heard of it? The entire Qianlan sect has spread, and I also heard that her father is real Qingshui, is it true or not?"
"Of course it's true. It's just that we haven't met each other yet. Master Qingshui is in seclusion. After leaving the seclusion, he should come to take her back."
"Master Qing Shui will thank Qian Lanzong, right?"
"of course?"
A celestial thank you is not cheap, Qian Lanzong is going to be lucky.
Qiao Weiwei followed the food boxes in their hands, drooling.
Ganoderma lucidum was a little unhappy.
"Ganoderma lucidum?" Qiao Weiwei looked at her puzzled.
Ganoderma lucidum sighed: "I am a direct disciple of the Great Protector, so I should live in the big courtyard. This small courtyard belongs to her."
Qiao Weiwei: "Oh."
Lingzhi patted her head and said, "I'm sorry, I'm useless and didn't give you a bigger place."
Qiao Weiwei said, "I don't want it."
She just needs to eat.
Lingzhi didn't look at Qiao Weiwei's hungry little eyes, but stared resolutely at a wall in front of her, and said solemnly: "But I've heard people say that my aptitude is no worse than hers, and I'm a spiritual root gathered by myself. It is the spiritual root inherited by blood, without blood inheritance, she is not as good as me, as long as I work harder, I will definitely be able to surpass her!"
Qiao Weiwei: "Oh."
This night, Qiao Weiwei finally had a full meal, but because the food was all prepared according to the body of Ganoderma lucidum, the food for cultivators was light, mainly vegetarian, and the portions were delicate, so Qiao Weiwei was not full.
On the second day, the newly recruited disciples began a difficult and assiduous training.
Qiao Weiwei didn't need training, she only needed to clean up the fallen leaves in the courtyard, and Ganoderma lucidum did the rest of the work by herself, and Ganoderma lucidum was the only one left for her to show the passing disciples.
Qiao Weiwei swept up the fallen leaves earnestly. The yard was not big, so she finished sweeping in a short while.
When Qiao Weiwei was working, the yard next door was also working, but it wasn't just the one maid from yesterday, but three or four.
Several people were sweeping, watering, and trimming potted plants and flowering branches with scissors. It was so lively.
Qiao Weiwei only had herself and a few pots of dying bluegrass here.
Qiao Weiwei watered the orchid grass.
Afterwards, she had nothing else to do, and sat obediently on the steps under the porch, resting her chin on her hands, waiting for Ganoderma lucidum to come back.
Halfway through, she sniffed, stood up, and walked out of the yard.
Qiao Weiwei smelled a strong aroma and came to the back hill of the kitchen. There was a small abandoned firewood house under the hillside. Inside, Young Master Rong was setting up a simple barbecue grill with a brazier, grilling meat sizzling.
This meat is a bit like the braised pork eaten at the bottom of the mountain. It has been marinated, sauce-colored, shiny, and the fat part is roasted until it sizzles and oily.
Young Master Rong saw that it was almost roasted, so he grabbed a handful of chopped green onions from a small pot beside him and sprinkled it on.
A mouth-watering aroma filled the whole room, and Qiao Weiwei's stomach growled.
"Who is it?" Young Master Rong turned around vigilantly, only to see that it was the little girl he met yesterday. The little girl had changed into Qian Lanzong's clothes, and she looked serious but drooling. She was cuter than yesterday some.
Young Master Rong was caught eating alone, afraid that she would tell the truth, so he simply handed her the freshly roasted meat, "Do you want to eat?"
"Eat." Qiao Weiwei took the big meat.
Young Master Rong reminded lightly: "Be careful it's hot."
The meat is skewered on wooden sticks, and she uses wooden sticks, not hot.
Seeing that she was eating deliciously, Young Master Rong guessed that she would not go to inform her, so he hurriedly picked up another piece of meat that was also grilled, and ate it with big mouthfuls.
After taking a few bites, he suddenly laughed at himself and said, "You're wondering why I don't go to training, right?"
Qiao Weiwei eats meat.
"Do you think I don't want to go? No one has ever grown a spiritual root like me. In fact, it is a waste. I can't keep it. Master thought so too, so I was sent to work in the kitchen .”
Qiao Weiwei eats meat.
"It's nice to say, go to training when you're done, but there's so much work, how can I finish it?"
Qiao Weiwei looked at Young Master Rong.
Young Master Rong laughed at himself: "You think I'm unlucky too, right? If I knew I shouldn't be going up the mountain, it would be nice to be my little boss in Rongji."
Qiao Weiwei handed him the clean wooden stick: "More."
Young Master Rong: "Uh..."
…
The training of Ganoderma lucidum became more and more difficult day by day. In fact, the guardian did not have such strict requirements on her, but she wanted to surpass her neighbors, so it took twice as long to train.
She spent less time in the yard, so she didn't notice that Qiao Weiwei spent less time in the yard.
But Qiao Weiwei never complained about being hungry again, and she felt that Qian Lanzong's life was pretty good.
Qiao Weiwei also felt very good.
Qiao Weiwei, who was gnawing on the big braised elbow, breathed a sigh of satisfaction after decisively taking a mouthful of the soft and tasty elbow skin.
"I plan to tell Master tomorrow that I am no longer in Qianlanzong, and I am going down the mountain."
Qiao Weiwei grabbed him: "Don't go down the mountain."
After going down the mountain, she had no meat to eat.
Time always flies by in Qianlanzong, and it is the end of the month in a blink of an eye.
Recruiting new disciples needs to test the spiritual roots once a month to ensure the stability and various changes of the spiritual roots. There were once disciples who had intact spiritual roots when they went up the mountain, but after a month, they degenerated into half spiritual roots.
The reason for this is that when the spiritual root was formed, everyone took Juling powder, and after going up the mountain, no medicine was allowed, and they had to absorb the aura of heaven and earth by themselves.
A group of rookies, inhaling by themselves, of course, it is not as fast as drugs.
Generally speaking, in the first month, disciples who can maintain their original spiritual roots are considered qualified, and those who have not degraded much can be retained. If they have retreated to half spiritual roots or below, they have to pack up and leave.
Young Master Rong seemed to be leaving, after all, he hadn't practiced at all this month.
The ranking is in no particular order, first come first served.
Young Master Rong has already conducted a wave of tests before, and eliminated several disciples with complete spiritual roots and a dozen disciples with half spiritual roots.
Soon it was Young Master Rong's turn. He was fatter recently, and the people around him looked at him mockingly. No matter how bad they are, at least there is someone at the bottom, right
"What are you doing in a daze?" the invigilator brother reminded impatiently.
Listening to everyone's ridicule, young master Rong looked at his senior brother's face, wiped the sweat from his forehead in embarrassment, raised his hand, closed his eyes, and slowly placed it on the spirit stone.
"ah-"
Behind him, there was a sound of screams and gasps.
Even if the spirit root is completely gone, don't be so surprised, right? I was originally a piece of trash.
"Brother Rong!" It was the first time that the invigilator used such an intimate address.
Young Master Rong thought it was over, and finally wanted to drive him out of Qian Lanzong.
The invigilator brother asked in disbelief: "Your spiritual root has grown! How did you do it?!"