From the next day, Zheng Qiu's hard days began.

Every morning after washing his face, Master Mingzong would bring three large bowls of herbs to Fangcao Pavilion. Zheng Qiu must finish the morning portion under his supervision.

Afterwards, he would take Zheng Qiu to the front mountain of Fangcao Peak and let Zheng Qiu lie on the grass beside the mountain to bask in the sun. According to him, this is not called basking in the sun, but absorbing the essence of heaven and earth.

The weather is now at the end of spring, and the sun is getting hotter day by day. Especially at noon, Zheng Qiu will definitely be sweating. But Master Ming Zong does not allow Zheng Qiu to drink anything else. The only thing he can drink is that

Plant water in a porcelain bottle.

Unpalatable herbs and unpleasant-to-drink water. In the first few days, Zheng Qiu vomited after eating them. He didn’t even know if these things had entered his stomach. He ate these things as food every day, making Zheng Qiu unable to sleep.

Well, most of the night I dream about eating grass.

So he stuck out his tongue and drooped his head all day long, looking depressed. However, his complexion was quite good, his cheeks were white and rosy, and he didn't feel as powerless as he didn't eat when he was climbing the mountain. I don't know what Master Mingzong was.

Whatever is added to the herbal medicine, I guess it is a great supplement.

Although the herbs were unpalatable, he got used to them after spitting them out. On the fifth day, Zheng Qiu was finally able to finish the entire bowl of herbs. He still couldn't accept the water in the porcelain bottle, and drank it every time.

Hold your nose and pour it in all at once.

Gradually, the bitter, astringent, and sour tastes were no longer obvious. Sometimes Zheng Qiu suspected that his tongue was broken.

The number of times that Master Mingzong supervised his eating was also reduced, but he had no intention of teaching him knowledge. He still let him lie down on the grass and bask in the sun every day.

About the fourteenth day, someone came to Fangcao Peak.

On this day, Zheng Qiu was lying on the grass as usual, when suddenly there was the sound of a streamer flying above his head.

He turned over and looked up towards the sky. He saw a man wearing a white robe with blue stripes. The man was holding a large box in his hand. Perhaps it was too heavy. The flying speed was very slow and the light was faint.

.

That man also spotted Zheng Qiu and slowly dropped down here. After getting closer, Zheng Qiu discovered that the man holding the box was the young man who picked them up at the mountain gate that day.

The young man put the box on the ground. With a thud, Zheng Qiu felt the ground beneath his body jump. Oh my God, is it so heavy?

When the young man saw Zheng Qiu lying on the ground, he tilted his head and thought for a moment. Then he showed a look of understanding, but soon turned to doubt. "Aren't you the kid who came to see Elder Ming Zong that day? Why are you still here?

Fangcao Peak, the elder didn’t drive you away?”

Zheng Qiu shook his head: "No, I now worship Elder Ming Zong as my teacher."

"What? Elder Mingzong accepts you as his disciple?" The young man looked in disbelief. He looked up and down at the child in front of him again, "Don't lie to me. You don't even wear a sect uniform. How do I know you are a disciple?"

Not lying."

"I'm not lying. I have a religious uniform, but the clothes are too big for me to wear."

"Oh? What color is it?"

Zheng Qiu pointed to the young man's chest: "It's the same as yours, with blue patterns."

The young man smiled happily: "Haha, it seems to be true, so from now on I have to call you junior brother. By the way, what is your name?"

"My name is Zheng Qiu."

"My name is Shao Wei, you have to call me Senior Brother Shao Wei, please do it quickly."

"Yes, senior brother Shao Wei."

"Haha, hey, why are you lying on the ground all the time?"

"I am absorbing the essence of heaven and earth." Zheng Qiu twisted his body, changed to a more comfortable position, raised his neck, and repeated what Master Ming Zong said to him.

"Hahaha, hahaha!" Shao Wei covered his stomach and laughed so hard that he couldn't stand upright.

"Senior brother, why are you laughing?"

"Hahaha..." Shao Wei tried his best to hold back his laughter, "How can anyone absorb the essence of heaven and earth like this? If it could be done like this, wouldn't it mean that all the pigs and dogs in the world could cultivate?"

"But the master said..."

"Elder Mingzong is playing with you, get up quickly."

Zheng Qiu shook his head: "No, the master must have a reason for saying this. I can't get up."

Shao Wei shrugged and picked up the box: "That's up to you, I'm leaving."

"Hey, wait!" Seeing Shao Wei about to leave, Zheng Qiu waved his hand to stop him, "I have a question for you, senior brother."

"Ask quickly, I have to deliver something."

"Well, why are the colors of the religious uniforms different? Is there anything special about them?"

Shao Wei pointed to the blue cloud pattern on his chest and replied: "Is this it? Then I'll explain it briefly, so you don't have to rush into others."

Shao Wei told Zheng Qiu that the Qianyun Sect distinguished status by the color of clothes, and seniority was limited to ordinary titles.

In the Qianyun Sect, those with green patterns are all disciples of the outer sect. Disciples of the outer sect are also called temporary disciples. They do not have a special master. They can only come back to select exercises and listen to the elders' lectures when there is a grand ceremony in the sect.

In fact, many of the disciples of the outer sect are original practitioners from various places, but they just took refuge under the name of Qianyun Sect.

Those in blue patterned clothes are real disciples of the Qianyun Sect. They all have their own masters, can participate in most activities in the sect, enjoy the benefits of freely choosing exercises, and doing business with other sects.

Those who wear purple clothes are elders, or people with the same status as elders. In Qianyun Sect, except for the sect leader who wears gold-patterned clothes, he is the biggest elder.

However, there are exceptions. Shao Wei said that he once saw someone wearing a red patterned religious uniform, but Zongli never mentioned what the people wearing this color of religious uniform did.

He told Zheng Qiu that there are actually differences between the sect uniforms of the same color. Because they are more complicated, everyone generally ignores them. If Zheng Qiu wants to know the specific content, he can go to the Huisi Book Hall in the sect, where there are

Many common sense books.

After Shao Wei finished speaking, he carried the box and flew away from Fangcao Peak.

Zheng Qiu lay down until noon, then got up and ran back to Fangcao Pavilion to eat the second bowl of herbs, and then continued back to the grassland on the side of the mountain to absorb the essence of heaven and earth.

The sun was tilting little by little, and in the evening, Master Mingzong flew down from Fangcao Tower.

"master!"

"Well," Master Ming Zong saw a big square mark on the edge of the grass where Zheng Qiu was lying, and asked, "Who has been here?"

"It's Senior Brother Shao Wei, he was the one who sent me to Fangcao Peak that day."

"Oh, it turns out it's him."

"Master," Zheng Qiu raised his head and asked doubtfully, "Senior Brother Shao Wei said that lying on the ground cannot absorb the essence of heaven and earth. Is that true?"

Master Ming Zong did not answer Zheng Qiu. He asked instead: "Since you know that you cannot absorb the essence of heaven and earth, why are you still lying on the ground?"

Zheng Qiu scratched his head: "But master, you said that lying on the ground can absorb the essence of heaven and earth. Maybe senior brother was wrong. And master, you didn't say that you can get up without lying down, so how can you stop halfway."

"Get up, the sun is going down soon," Master Mingzong nodded, with a happy smile on his old face: "You won't come here starting tomorrow."

"Not coming? Where to go?"
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