A middle-aged man in red dress raised a fiery red gourd and took a big sip of wine, wiped the corners of his mouth with his sleeve, looked at Meng Xiang with a slightly drunken eyes, and said, "So, Meng Xiang, you worshipped me in Lieyang Peak to obtain the follow-up skills of "The Suzaku Fire God Art"?"

"Yes." Meng Xiang looked straight into the middle-aged man's eyes, looking calm.

Meng Xiang has been in the Lieyang Peak of the Five Elements Sect for three months, but this is the first time he has met his nominal master, Qin Luochuan, the actual host of Lieyang Peak.

Of course, Qin Luochuan is not the highest-ranking person in Lieyang Peak. The highest-ranking person is Qin Luochuan's master, namely Meng Xiang's master, Fire Dragon Real Man - Cao Dabing. However, he has been in seclusion, and the specific affairs of Lieyang Peak are basically presided over by Qin Luochuan.

However, according to Bai Zhanpeng, there is also an Supreme Elder on Lieyang Peak who is higher than Cao Dabing's seniority, but most people on Lieyang Peak think that he does not exist because no one has seen him in hundreds of years.

On Lieyang Peak, there is another person of the same generation as Cao Dabing, who is his younger brother named Cao Dayan. However, because he is obsessed with refining weapons, he has no official disciple except a registered disciple who is responsible for helping him.

Cao Dabing himself accepted four apprentices, but except for Qin Luochuan and another apprentice named Hua Jiu, the other two, one died, and the other was traveling abroad. They have not come back for many years. There were rumors that he was missing, but no one can tell.

Cao Dabing's dead apprentice was named An Yuan-Jie, the youngest of his four apprentices, leaving only one apprentice named Lu Xiaochuan, obsessed with talismans and often locked himself in a secret room. Often, he could not meet him once every ten days or half a month.

The apprentice who likes to be free and is rumored to have disappeared is Qin You, the third brother. Because he likes to be free, he stays at Lieyang Peak for very little time, so he did not accept his apprentice.

The remaining Hua Jiu is the eldest among the four disciples, but he is also a fool, with a deep preference for alchemy and spends almost all his time in the alchemy room. He takes in a pair of twin apprenticeships - Hua An Huaquan. However, they also seem to be infected by his master and spends most of his time with their master in the alchemy room. In addition to collecting various alchemy materials, he rarely shows up.

The second apprentice Qin Luochuan is not like his fellow disciples. It is normal and he is willing to accept disciples, but he has to handle all the affairs of Lieyang Peak, which is very busy, so he doesn't have many apprentices. If Meng Xiang is not included, there are only three in total.

Bai Zhanpeng is his third disciple. The eldest disciple is named Li Yi, but he is not on the mountain, so he goes out to prepare spirit stones. The second disciple is named Zhang Heng, and he is also outside, doing tasks issued by the sect and preparing to exchange for some things with the sect contribution.

After understanding the entire composition of Lieyang Peak and their respective personalities, Meng Xiang finally understood why Lieyang Peak declined. It was either a weird person who was obsessed with various things or a master who gave up his picks and ran around. There were almost no normal people, and there were so few people, so it was not enough to not decline.

Of course, the decline of Lieyang Peak is also related to the allocation of resources in the Five Elements Sect. In fact, this is also the way most immortal sects in the tree world allocate resources.

Every once in a while, a competition is held between the five peaks. Although this means testing the cultivation of disciples of each peak, the more important thing is to determine the resource allocation within the sect. If you can achieve good results in the competition, the peak they are located in can be allocated more shares of resources before the next competition, and vice versa.

Because Lieyang Peak has few disciples and is not very strong, the results of each competition are not ideal, so naturally there are very few resources that can be allocated. To improve strength and expand enrollment of disciples, a large amount of resources are required.

If you have weak strength and few disciples, you cannot achieve good results, and you will get few resources. If you have few resources, you will not be able to improve your strength and expand your strength. If you cannot quickly improve your strength, you will not be able to achieve good results... Over time, a vicious cycle will be formed at Lieyang Peak, which will lead to the Lieyang Peak becoming weaker and weaker.

Of course, the matter is due to humans. If one or two amazing genius disciples can appear on Lieyang Peak and get the top three in the competition, the resource quota that Lieyang Peak can obtain will not be less.

But the problem is that the other four peaks are not willing to give them a strong opportunity. As long as good seedlings appear, they will fight for them desperately, and those good seedlings are not fools. After understanding the actual situation of each peak, they naturally do not want to choose the Flame Peak with no future at a glance.

Qin Luochuan looked at the new disciple in front of him who was about to join his name. For some reason, his heart suddenly moved. He had a premonition for no reason, as if Meng Xiang would bring some changes to Lieyang Peak.

After taking a big sip of wine again, Qin Luochuan said: "Meng Xiang, can you tell me that you have obtained the first few levels of "The Suzaku Fire God"?"

Because he looked straight into Qin Luochuan's eyes, Meng Xiang saw something he wanted to hide. Although he tried his best to act calmly, he still found that he seemed very nervous.

Is my answer important? However, Meng Xiang did not waste much effort on this question and gave the answer very simply: "Report to Senior Qin, I have obtained the first three levels of the "Suhu Bird Fire God"."

"What? The first three levels?" Qin Luochuan stood up suddenly, and the wine in the red wine gourd flowed out without realizing it.

Why did Qin Luochuan react like this? Is there any question in my answer? Meng Xiang's thoughts were echoed, but he still looked puzzled: "Senior Qin, did I say something wrong?"

"No, no." Qin Luochuan seemed to realize his disobedience, restrained his expression, and straightened the wine gourd, "Meng Xiang, you... can you tell me how you obtained the martial arts of "The Suzaku Fire God"?"

Meng Xiang naturally couldn't tell the truth, but he had already thought of the words: "I was still young at that time. Once I went to the river to fish and found a small red stone, and I brought it back." Then, he described the appearance and characteristics of the Yu Tongjian who recorded the "Suhuo Fire God Art".

"River? Meng Xiang, do you still remember what river it is?"

"Qingyuan River."

"Qingyuan River?" Qin Luochuan frowned and thought for a while, but his face soon showed a confused expression. "I almost remember all famous rivers, why can't I remember which Qingyuan River is?"

Qin Luochuan turned his head, looked at Bai Zhanpeng, and asked, "Zhanpeng, have you heard of Qingyuan River?"

"I don't know." Bai Zhanpeng shook his head unexpectedly, "Master, I think you may be thinking awkward. The Qingyuan River that Brother Meng mentioned is probably not a famous river. Are I talking about, Brother Meng?"

"Brother Bai, you are right. Qingyuan River is just a small river next to our village, less than two meters wide, and it only has water in summer and will dry up in winter. However, before our village was destroyed by the beast tide, it was filled with mudslides that broke out in the summer."

"Oh, that's it." Qin Luochuan nodded, and then hesitated for a moment, "Meng Xiang, can you show me the Yutong Jian who records "The Suzaku Fire God"?"

"Yu Tongjian? Senior Qin, are you talking about this?" Meng Xiang deliberately pretended not to know Yu Tongjian, while taking out Yu Tongjian from his arms and handing them over.

"This is..." Qin Luochuan shook his whole body when he saw Yu Tongjian's appearance. He reached out to come and pick it up, but found that he was still holding the wine gourd in his hand. He shook his hand and fortunately threw it aside.

At this time, Bai Zhanpeng, who was standing aside, also discovered the abnormality of his master. You must know that the wine gourd in his hand is his treasure, and even if he is his apprentice, he cannot take it at will.

Now he actually threw it aside in order to take the Yutong Jian. Is that Yutong Jian anything special? If that is the case, then wouldn't this Brother Meng, who holds Yutong Jian, also have a reputation? Then what's the secret about him? Is it...

Just as Bai Zhanpeng was thinking about it, Qin Luochuan jumped up from the chair again, his face flushed with excitement. After quickly explaining, "You are waiting for me", it turned into a red light and flew out of the window, disappearing.

Although Meng Xiang knew that the problem might be on the jade pupil, in order not to reveal the flaws, he turned his head to Bai Zhanpeng and asked in a pretentious manner: "Brother Bai, what's wrong with Senior Qin?"

Bai Zhanpeng shook his head and said, "I don't know either. But it happened after he saw your Yutong Shop, so the problem must have occurred on the Yutong Shop. Oh, by the way, Brother Meng, what else does the Yutong Shop you gave to your master have except for the "Surprising Bird Fire God" recorded?"

"No. I have read Yutong Jian many times, and there is nothing else in it except "The Suzaku Fire God"."

"This is strange." Bai Zhanpeng scratched his scalp.

Next, Meng Xiang and Bai Zhanpeng will no longer worry about the Jade Tongjian. Anyway, the answer will always be revealed. They began to discuss some fire-type Taoist techniques.

Although Qin Luochuan has not officially accepted Meng Xiang as his disciple, he is considered a member of Lieyang Peak, so Bai Zhanpeng passed on some relatively basic and simple Taoist techniques to him and let him practice it himself.

After all, Meng Xiang is a beginner who is a beginner and does not know much about some Taoist techniques. Now he meets Bai Zhanpeng and just comes up with something he doesn't understand. Bai Zhanpeng did not hide his own personal experiences and gave all his experiences.

Just when Meng Xiang and Bai Zhanpeng were having a good chat, a red light suddenly rushed into the room. Before they could react, the red light swept them out of the room and flew towards the back mountain of Lieyang Peak.

Meng Xiang was startled at first, but he quickly calmed down and prepared to attack, but was stopped by Bai Zhanpeng. He felt it for a moment and found that the red light did not mean to hurt him, so he stopped moving. However, he was still vigilant and ready to deal with the accident at any time.

Soon, the red light of Meng Xiang and Bai Zhanpeng flew into a tall cave. When they landed, they immediately felt something was wrong. Not only were almost everyone on Lieyang Peak on the scene, but there were two old men with a few similar appearances sitting side by side.

Although they didn't know them, judging from the restraint and respect that Qin Luochuan and Hua Jiu showed in front of them, their identities must be not simple.

Almost at the same time, a question came to Meng Xiang and Bai Zhanpeng's minds: What happened so hard that the train was so hard? You should know that some people on Lieyang Peak are unstoppable.
Chapter completed!