After briefly welcoming the more than one hundred new disciples, the apprenticeship ceremony officially began.
"I am your master, Taoist Qingyun." The old man introduced himself at the end.
After hearing him reveal his identity, several people standing next to Liang Xi whispered to each other.
Liang Xi listened attentively and learned that Taoist Qingyun was the deputy headmaster of Tianlingmen. There were two deputy headmasters in Tianlingmen. In addition to Taoist Qingyun, there was also Taoist Ningshui. However, Taoist Ningshui was not present today. It was really disappointing.
People feel strange.
The headmaster of Tianling Sect, Taoist Qingmu, started to practice in seclusion more than a year ago. This is not a secret in Tianling Sect, so all matters are now managed by Taoist Qingyun.
The three masters, the Headmaster and the Deputy Headmaster, are not responsible for teaching their disciples. This time, the people who accepted Liang Xi and the others as their disciples were their twelve disciples, both male and female.
Liang Xi was wondering how her new disciples could find a suitable master for her. At this time, she saw the girl she had bet with walking out holding a wooden plate, which was covered tightly with a thick cloth.
Taoist Qingyun smiled and opened the piece of cloth, and saw that there were transparent sticks with scales neatly marked on them.
Each new disciple was given a small stick. When it was given to Liang Xi, Xue Yurou had a stern face without even looking at him, which made Liang Xi lose interest in teasing her.
"Please hold the stick in your palm, put your thumb on one end of the stick, and then stand on the stage here one by one." Taoist Qingyun ordered, "Start from the person standing at the front."
There was a lotus-shaped stone platform between the new disciples and Taoist Qingyun. The first disciple stood on the platform tremblingly and held the small stick in the palm of his hand according to Taoist Qingyun's instructions.
After a while, a flash of light emitted from the stick, and it started to grow one grid at a time from the bottom.
The disciple opened his eyes wide in surprise and looked at the small stick in his hand. Finally, the flashes of light stopped at the twelve mark.
Taoist Qingyun nodded and motioned to those around him to record it.
"This is a spirit-testing stick to measure your current strength, so that the qualifications of the disciples accepted by your master can be more even." Taoist Qingyun saw the confusion on the faces of these new disciples, so he explained.
The new disciples looked enlightened, and began to compete secretly, hoping that their qualifications would be better than others.
Chen Shuci's score of 18 square meters made Master Qingyun's eyes flash with a glimmer of light, and his twelve disciples all whispered to each other, hoping that they could teach this highly qualified disciple.
You know, the previous highest score was only thirteen, and Chen Shuci's eighteen is almost a perfect score!
The new disciples looked at Chen Shuci with envy in their eyes.
Chen Shuci smiled and saluted Taoist Qingyun, and returned to the team with the admiring eyes of everyone, holding the eighteen-grid spiritual stick in his hand.
Liang Xi observed carefully and found that ordinary disciples were generally ten or eleven, and their qualifications were basically mediocre. There were only a few who were above thirteen.
What surprised Liang Xi was that yesterday's self-righteous Junior Sister Xue actually had an extremely high score of 17. This showed that she was a good candidate for cultivation.
Junior Sister Xue was very satisfied with this result. After all, this was the second highest result so far. She glanced at Taoist Qingyun, then turned around and returned to the new disciples very proudly. Of course, she received a lot of praise.
People's pursuit and disgusting flattery.
Someone whispered something in Taoist Qingyun's ear. Taoist Qingyun smiled slightly and nodded as if he had expected it.
When it was Liang Xi's turn, he felt at least three eyes staring at him.
One was from Chen Shuci, I don’t know what this kid paid attention to; the second was from Junior Sister Xue, she was a little nervous, fearing that Liang Xi’s would be taller than her, the third made Liang Xi a little surprised, it was actually Master Qingyun
Taoist.
"What an ambiguous look in the old man's eyes, it really makes people's balls hurt..." Liang Xi muttered and walked to the stone platform, carelessly pressing her thumb on a section of the spirit-detecting stick.
The surrounding air seemed to be stagnant for a moment, and then quickly returned to smoothness, and a lilac light began to slowly rise.
one grid
two squares
Three squares...
Finally, it stopped at the seven-digit scale.
Junior Sister Xue first let out a long sigh of relief, then looked at Liang Xi with eyes full of contempt. Seven points, this is the lowest result so far.
A look of confusion flashed in Chen Shuci's eyes, but he quickly covered it up.
The new disciples looked at Liang Xi standing on the stage, with some pity, some with contempt, most of them with disdain. The seven grids can only show that this person's qualifications are too mediocre and mediocre. It's a pity that he is still a
With a beaming look on his face, I really don't know how he beat those old disciples to the ground yesterday.
Liang Xi walked off the stage nonchalantly. If anyone around him dared to look at him, he would glare back at them one by one, his eyes even more sinister than others.
Liang Xi stood at the back of the team. After he finished the test, there were not many people left, but at the end he still got two relatively high scores. One was Yuan Shuang, with fifteen points, which was quite high. He
Smiling sincerely at Liang Xi, Liang Xi waved her hands to express congratulations.
There was also a girl with a rather delicate appearance. Liang Xi didn't catch her name clearly. Her score was seventeen squares, which was tied for second among the new disciples in this class.
Beautiful women are more likely to attract attention from others, especially girls with good looks. It is easier for this girl to attract the attention of others. This girl screamed under the burning eyes of so many people and actually ran away with a blushing face.
It made everyone smile.
After a while, everyone's results for the day were tallied up. Taoist Qingyun pressed his hands slightly, and when the silence calmed down, he said loudly: "I will tell everyone who their masters are later, but now I would like to ask all the new disciples to go ahead.
Let’s go have a meal. I’m afraid I’m tired after climbing so many stairs today. I’ll invite these four disciples to come with me: Chen Shuci, Xue Yuning, Liang Xi, and Lin Xianer.”
It's just a matter of looking for those three people. Looking for Liang Xi, today's low-scoring winner, is really confusing.
Some people maliciously speculated that the deputy headmaster might be planning to persuade Liang Xi not to stay in Tianling Mountain, lest he accomplish nothing and lose the face of Tianling Sect, so he should pack up his bed and go home to sell sweet potatoes.
Liang Xi herself didn't understand why Taoist Qingyun was looking for her, but the old boy looked at her with a particularly ambiguous look from beginning to end, so maybe it was nothing good.
Yuan Shuang squeezed through the crowd and came over, patted Liang Xi on the shoulder, and comforted him: "It's okay. The Taoist priest may have something to explain to you. You don't need to take that grade to heart. That's because their grades are good.
I used to have people at home who taught me how to practice."
Liang Xi heard that he was sincerely comforting her and nodded: "I'll go first then, see you later."
Farewell to Yuan Shuang, Liang Xi and Chen Shuci, led by a young disciple, walked to the side room on the side of the main hall.
Liang Xi just found out today that Junior Sister Xue's name is Xue Yuning. The little girl suffered a big loss from him yesterday. She was thinking of using his embarrassing results today to stimulate him to regain his place, but was frightened by Liang Xi's fierce expression and was stunned.
I didn't dare to say anything at the same place.
Lin Xianer is the girl who tied for second place with Xue Yuning. She has long hair shawl and a long braid on the back of her head. She is playful but also well-behaved. Her expression is very docile, but she exudes a noble temperament.
But it's impossible to ignore her.
The four of them were led into the side room. Chen Shuci grabbed the young disciple, cupped his hands and said, "Brother Dare, what is this place?"
The young disciple smiled and said, "This is where Master usually entertains guests. Please wait a moment, Master will be here shortly."
There were many calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls of the house, and Liang Xi and the others looked around curiously.
Chen Shuci was the first to react and exclaimed: "This is an authentic work by the master of ink painting Xie Zihui!"
Lin Xian'er immediately covered her mouth in surprise: "These words are the wild words of King Shirasaki!"
The two people they were talking about were both famous masters on the mainland. Then the four of them discovered that none of the things hanging in the house were ordinary. Just taking any one and selling it would be enough to make a family of five prosperous and wealthy for a lifetime.
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Chen Shuci's face was full of admiration: "Tianlingmen really deserves its reputation."
Lin Xian'er and Xue Yuning nodded in agreement. Even the Chu Palace might not be able to collect the authentic works of so many famous people from all over the continent. This shows that Tianlingmen's family has great achievements.
Liang Xi took a sip of tea and snorted coldly: "That's all."
Finally seizing an opportunity to ridicule Liang Xi, Xue Yuning naturally would not give up, and immediately sarcastically said: "If you don't understand, don't comment casually. Which of these people can you judge? Be careful to make people laugh."
Naturally, Liang Xi would not let the little girl suppress it for so long. She drank the tea in one breath and said unceremoniously: "Everyone carries a head on one shoulder. They don't have anything more than me. Why can't I evaluate them? Let's talk about them."
Since I dare to write and draw, why can’t I criticize you? No one is born who is timid. Anyone who dares to be born is not afraid of death."
Liang Xi's grab for the spot left Xue Yuning speechless, and then continued: "I see that Master hangs these so-called paintings outside instead of collecting them. It shows that these famous calligraphers and painters are not very important in Master's eyes.
As the saying goes, you have all the acquaintances in the world, but no one has a close friend. This is what it means."
As soon as he finished speaking, the disciple who had just left opened the door and came in: "Master, please invite Chen Shuci, Xue Yuning, and Lin Xianer to wait in the wing on the other side."
Not long after the three people left, Taoist Qingyun's hearty laughter came to mind in the room: "I have such an acquaintance and no one has a close friend in the world. Liang Xi, can you let Master see what your real achievements are?"