After Mr. Gu Lin heard that Taoist Xuande had taken away more than a dozen pieces of spiritual jade, his face was filled with contempt.
Then he looked at Du Fang and said: "Disciple, Ye Yanggu established his sect with formations, and the way of formations is based on spiritual thoughts. With your current state, I can only accept you as a registered disciple. Wait until you reach the point of concentration.
Only then can you officially join my sect."
"Although I am also in the early stage of the Concentrated Soul Realm, and monks are classified according to their realm, but because of the consciousness of the Yang Awareness, we can be masters and disciples of the same realm."
"When you enter the Concentration Realm, I will personally teach you the art of formation. Our Yeyang Valley's reputation is not small in this Huoyue Mountain Range."
Mr. Gu Lin looked at Du Fang and said kindly.
Du Fang nodded after hearing this.
Mr. Gu Lin added: "You have not yet become an official disciple of Yeyang Valley. You can temporarily live in the three partial peaks next to the main peak. There are many caves on these three partial peaks, but they are uninhabited. You can choose any one."
It’s everywhere.”
Du Fang was a little surprised when he heard "uninhabited".
"Master, why is there no one living in Pianfeng?"
Mr. Gu Lin sighed and said, "Because besides you and me, there are only three other people in Yeyang Valley."
Having said this, Gu Linxian looked a little gloomy, looked outside the door of the mansion and sighed.
Although Du Fang had been mentally prepared, he was still surprised when he heard that there were only three people in the entire sect.
"Hmm, who are the other two?" Du Fang asked.
"You also have a senior uncle and a senior aunt. This senior uncle is just like a teacher, and he is also at the early stage of the Concentration Realm."
"And you, this senior sister, are one of the two middle-level Concentration Realm masters besides Master Ye Yang."
Mr. Gu Lin said that he seemed a little embarrassed here, and added.
"Although these two are not at a high level, they are very knowledgeable in the art of formation."
Du Fang nodded and responded: "The disciple will go to meet you two first, and then go to Pianfeng to find a place to stay."
Mr. Gu Lin nodded and said, "Go ahead."
At the same time, he took out a wooden box from the sleeve of Tongma Yi's Taoist robe and handed it to Du Fang.
Du Fang opened the wooden box and found ten low-grade spiritual stones inside.
"Master, so many spiritual stones!" Du Fang looked at Mr. Gu Lin with wide eyes.
Mr. Gu Lin smiled and said: "This spiritual stone is nothing to me, Ye Yanggu. My sect majors in formations. You will know the mystery of this formation in the future."
"Okay, go and do your thing. The caves of your uncle and aunt are on the main peak. You can find them by following the mountain road beside the stone steps."
Du Fang put away the wooden box, bowed to Master Gu Lin, then turned around and walked out of Ye Yang Mansion.
Not far from the stone steps going up the mountain, Du Fang found a winding path.
Du Fang was walking on the path around the mountain. As he walked, he looked through the spiritual stones in the wooden box. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Ten spiritual stones are nothing. When I see this Ye Yang Valley, there is indeed something."
After walking along the winding mountain road for a while, I saw a wooden two-story building.
When Du Fang saw this two-story building, he knew that someone lived here. He walked to the door, bent down, and bowed his hands in a salute: "Disciple Du Fang is a novice disciple of Master Gu Lin. I am here here.
See you."
After a while, I heard footsteps coming downstairs from the house.
With a creaking sound, the door of the small building was opened from the inside, and an old woman with a stooped body and wrinkles on her face walked out.
Du Fang took a closer look at the old woman. She was dressed in purple and had a silver bracelet on her hand. Her long hair was simply tied up on her head with a bamboo hairpin. She was no different from an ordinary old woman in the village.
Du Fang knew in his heart that this was his sister-in-law, so he quickly said: "Disciple Du Fang, I have met my sister-in-law."
Seeing Du Fang like this, the old woman smiled kindly.
"No need to be polite, kid, just go inside and do it." The old lady said kindly.
Then Du Fang followed his aunt into the house.
In the house, there is only a wooden table and two wooden chairs, and a simple wooden bed. These things are the same as the furniture in ordinary people's homes. The only thing that is a little special is that there are a few wooden chairs next to the wooden bed.
Big box.
"Son, wait a minute. I was reading an ancient book just now. I'm in a strange place. Come upstairs with me."
Du Fang walked slowly and followed the old woman up the stairs leading to the second floor.
This old woman has a slow figure, but she has no trace of a Taoist monk.
I saw her tremblingly walking up the stairs holding on to the handrail, and Du Fang followed behind without daring to be impatient.
When he got to the second floor, Du Fang was surprised by the scene in front of him.
Du Fang sighed in his heart: "How come there are so many books!"
There were more than a dozen wooden shelves on the second floor, and these shelves were densely packed with books. The old woman walked to the futon in the center of the bookshelf, sat down cross-legged, picked up an ancient book on the ground, and ignored Du Fang.
Du Fang saw the old woman immersed in ancient books, standing aside knowingly, with her hands hanging down, waiting silently.
Time passed unconsciously and it was already dusk.
The afterglow of the setting sun shines through the window onto the wrinkled face of the old woman. The old woman squinted her eyes and looked at the ancient book in her hand against the light, which seemed to be a bit kind to an old woman.
Although Du Fang had been waiting for a long time, when he saw the old woman's appearance, he couldn't help but feel a bit of kindness in his heart, and he didn't feel any irritation at all.
After a while, the sky became darker and darker.
The old woman blinked and shook off the ancient book in her hand. The candlesticks placed around the wooden frame lit up on their own, illuminating the room brightly.
The old woman turned her head, looked at Du Fang sideways, and said with a smile: "He is a polite boy."
Du Fang was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly handed over his hand and returned: "Sister-in-law has something to do, so it is reasonable for the disciple to wait."
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the old woman shook her head and said to Du Fang: "Don't call me aunt, just call me mother-in-law. Our Yeyang Valley is in such a state of desperation today, how can we still have the appearance of a sect.
"
After Du Fang heard this, he did not dare to say anything and could only stand there stupidly.
The old woman looked at Du Fang's look and her smile became even stronger: "Since the death of my master Ye Yang, this Ye Yang Valley has been getting worse from generation to generation. Now it only depends on the three of me to barely maintain it. I am now five years old."
He's over a hundred years old, so he's not far from his end."
After speaking, the old woman's tone was somewhat helpless, but also somewhat open-minded.
Du Fang hesitated for a moment, then Du Fang said: "Mother-in-law, are you over five hundred years old?"
"Haha, yes, it's only thanks to the Knowledge Yang Jue created by our master that we can survive in this world for a while longer." The old woman responded, looking at a candle next to the bookshelf.
Suddenly, the old woman looked at Du Fang and asked: "Son, I heard you shouting in the formation in front of the mountain gate. Did you say that Taoist Xuande recommended you to come here to find my junior brother?"
"Uh-huh, yes." Du Fang responded.
Immediately afterwards, Du Fang asked: "Mother-in-law, I wonder how this Taoist Xuande and my master, Mr. Gu Lin, met?"
At this moment, a sentence came out of the window: "Your master owed a lot of debts to Taoist Xuande in his previous life, and he is here to repay his debts in this life!"
When Du Fang heard the sound and looked around, he was so frightened that he shouted "Ah".
I saw an upside-down human face appearing outside the window, with wide eyes and a wide mouth. There were many missing teeth in twos and threes at the front of the mouth, and the hair was drooping. When illuminated by the candlelight in the room, it looked like the evil creature I had encountered in the ancient temple.