In a lotus pond that is one and a half acres in size, the lotus flowers are in full bloom, and the water is filled with smoke. Large golden-red carp swim in groups under the lotus leaves.
There is a pavilion in the center of the lotus pond. In the pavilion, there is a tea table. There is a celadon tea set on the tea table, an incense burner is burning, and two cups filled with tea are steaming.
Two people were sitting opposite each other, playing chess. One of them was an old man wearing a brocade robe, with a majestic face. Sitting opposite the old man was a middle-aged Taoist with a handsome appearance and a yellow robe.
After a while, the old man in brocade robes grabbed a chess piece with a solemn expression. But at this moment, a crane suddenly came from outside the pavilion. The old man frowned and was about to drop his hand.
Just as the chess pieces were about to fall onto the chessboard, several more cranes were heard.
The middle-aged Taoist opposite smiled slightly, picked up the teacup, blew on it, and said: "Elder Lin, you'd better go to work first. This game is considered a draw."
"nonsense!"
The old man looked displeased, glared and said, "I've obviously forced you to a dead end. If you lose a few more stones, you will definitely lose!"
"Haha~ Please forgive me, junior, for disagreeing."
When the middle-aged Taoist saw the old man's position, his eyes lit up, he raised his hand and put a piece on the chessboard with a "pop" sound. He smiled and said, "Elder, do you want to take a look now?"
"Um?"
The old man looked at the chessboard, his expression slightly changed, and coincidentally the sound of cranes outside the pavilion came again. He waved his sleeves, stood up and nodded, saying: "You are right, it is indeed a draw."
"I'm going to take care of some chores first. Don't leave. Wait for me to come back and kill another round."
After saying that, regardless of whether the middle-aged Taoist answered or not, he turned around and stepped towards the lotus pond. He stepped on the smoke rising from the water and took a few steps to reach the shore.
The middle-aged Taoist shook his head, stood up and walked to the pavilion, took out a big gourd from his waist, poured a handful of thin pills into the pond water, and soon a group of carps surrounded him.
On the other side, the old man walked ashore and walked into a courtyard. People saluted him from time to time along the way, and finally he stopped in a quiet bamboo garden.
As soon as the old man entered the bamboo garden, a young man in white came forward and bowed: "Uncle Six!"
"What happened?"
The old man glanced at the young man, walked to a bamboo chair and sat down and asked.
The young man lowered his head and followed him, saying in a panic: "Uncle Six, I got into trouble."
"Getting into trouble?"
The old man's expression condensed and he said: "What did you do?"
The young man raised his head slightly and said cautiously: "A month ago, I made friends with four senior brothers of the Wu family and told them that a branch of the Wu family outside the mountain gate had worshiped in Qianming Palace."
The old man's face softened, and then his tone became serious, and he said: "What's the matter? Even if you don't say it, the Wu family will know about it sooner or later. Why do you use the flying crane in the deacon's courtyard to transmit information for such a trivial matter?"
"That's not what happened!"
The young man gritted his teeth, knelt down on the ground, and said, "The four senior brothers went to Qianming Palace two days ago, and then...just..."
Seeing that the young man looked wrong, the old man was shocked and shouted: "That's it!"
"There's no trace of it!"
The young man trembled all over and said: "I have been inquiring about the Wu clan for the past two days. At the same time, I sent people to search all the places in the sect where they might go. In the end, I even asked about all the ferries out of the mountain gate. I only knew that they were the last ones.
I said a few words to someone in Qianming Palace and then left, and I couldn't find anyone again after that."
After hearing this, the old man stood up suddenly, walked back and forth a few steps, and asked, "Do you know who the person who came down from Qianming Palace is?"
The young man buried his head in silence.
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Yuandu Palace.
Zhong Shiji invited a simple-looking young man into his small courtyard. After sitting down around a stone table, he personally brewed a pot of fragrant tea.
The honest young man glanced at the teapot, shook his head and said: "Senior Brother Zhong, I immediately went down the mountain to report the news to the four boys after I received your news. I've waited for two days and you didn't come to Qianming Palace to say thank you. I'll forget it." , you come to my door in person and you invite me to drink tea like this?"
"Haha~ Junior Brother Lu, don't worry!"
Zhong Shiji smiled and clapped his hands gently, and immediately two boys walked in from the door of the small courtyard. One boy held a blue porcelain plate in his hands, which was filled with green fruits the size of grapes. The other boy was holding a boy bigger than himself. A wine jar with a big head.
The honest young man known as Junior Brother Lu's eyes lit up. After the two boys approached, he grabbed the wine jar, opened the seal, smelled it, and said with a smile: "Haha! I knew Senior Brother Zhong wouldn't be like this. Stingy! You are actually willing to give me a nice bowl of 'Liu Xia Zui'!"
Zhong Shiji took the porcelain plate from the boy's hand, then waved, and the two boys each melted into his sleeves, ate a red date, and said: "Speaking of which, you should actually invite me to drink. After all, I That junior brother helped his senior brother Wu solve four problems."
"oh?"
Junior Brother Lu, who was holding the wine jar, his eyes lit up and said, "What do you mean, none of the four Wu family disciples ran away?"
Zhong Shiji nodded with a smile and responded: "That's right, and he also got a magic weapon."
Junior Brother Lu looked surprised and asked: "Is it really a magic weapon?"
Zhong Shiji swallowed another green fruit and replied: "Yes, and it is at least a protective magic weapon containing seven levels of restrictions."
"Then you are a bit stingy! If I had known, I would have taken action myself!"
Junior Brother Lu sealed the wine jar again, and then said with a regretful tone.
"It's against the rules for you to take action."
Zhong Shiji handed him a green fruit and said, "Aren't I going to treat you to the 'Yu Yuanzi' that I planted myself? This fruit only matures once every thirty years. Do you still think I'm stingy?"
"Since you are inviting me to eat, I won't be polite!"
After Junior Brother Lu finished speaking, he directly stuffed the wine jar into his sleeve, then took out a jade bottle and pointed it at the porcelain plate. The next moment, the 'Jade Yuanzi' in the porcelain plate flew up and shrank one by one and drilled into the jade bottle. go.
The porcelain plate was empty in the blink of an eye. Junior Brother Lu smiled with satisfaction and said: "By the way, I haven't met that Junior Brother Wang yet! Why didn't you take him to visit our Qianming Palace after he came out of seclusion? And he Aren't you just at the sixth level of Qi Entrainment? How can you deal with those four guys? Not to mention that those four people also have a magic weapon for self-protection."
Zhong Shiji looked at the empty porcelain plate with a speechless expression. He got himself a cup of tea and said, "Because I made a bet with Master Zhang, I recorded it with photo beads. You can see for yourself."
After he finished speaking, he faced the air a little, and a crystal bead flew out from his sleeve, hanging in the air, shooting out a beam of light and spreading out into a light curtain. As a rainbow appeared, Wang Li's figure appeared in the light. On the screen.
After about a stick of incense, the light curtain disappeared and Zhong Shiji took back the crystal bead.
"Uncle Zhang actually gave him the Wind and Fire Qi Mask to defend himself. No wonder he can kill people and seize treasures."
Junior Brother Lu, who was sitting opposite him, said something, and then joked: "Tsk tsk~ This little junior brother is very smart. It seems that he had already guessed that it was your senior brother's fault before he took action."
Zhong Shiji shook his head and said: "When I went up the mountain before, I asked my junior brother if he knew how to deal with this kind of trouble. He said he knew. Later when he was in retreat, Qin Hong and Wu Yu came to him and talked about his ruthless killing. I heard something interesting about a group of barbarian monks, and it happened that four boys wanted to cause trouble for Wu Yu, so I made some arrangements and made a bet with Uncle Zhang."
Junior Brother Lu shook his eyebrows and said, "It seems you lost!"
Listening to his strange tone, Zhong Shiji smiled and said: "Don't be too happy. My junior brother waited for others to leave the pier before setting off for the final blow. There were no traces of his actions on the pier, and no one saw him move. hand."
"Wu will definitely find trouble with you at Qianming Palace after investigating. After all, those four boys have been guarding the foot of Qianming Palace for a month. I don't know if the two junior brothers can withstand it."
Junior Brother Lu said with an indifferent expression: "As long as Wu follows the rules, those two boys won't suffer. If they don't follow the rules, that's just what I want."
"It's boring to be a senior brother sitting on the mountain. I wish they would immediately invite the experts from Jiuhua Palace to fight with me!"
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Lianbao Pavilion.
Wang Li sat cross-legged on the futon, with two golden flying knives in front of him circling back and forth, one wide and one narrow. The wide flying knife was as long as the index finger, and the narrow one followed the wide flying knife. Less than one-third of it.
The fire crow stood on his shoulder, jumping back and forth with its two paws, looking a little anxious.
Wang Li looked at the two knives and pointed at them. The two flying knives immediately merged into one flying knife. A look of satisfaction appeared on his face. Fire Crow actually helped him refine two seventh-level magic weapons. Moreover, after the two swords are combined, their quality is enough to be regarded as an eighth-level magic weapon.
Looking at the flying knives that merged into one, Wang Li raised his hand and pinched a spell. At this moment, Huo Ya made a sound.
"Hey, what kind of powerful magic are you going to show me? It's been a while, and I haven't seen you take action yet!"
Wang Li smiled calmly and said: "Watch carefully, if this method is useful, maybe I can try to refine the Wind and Fire Qi Shield without waiting for the teacher to return to the mountain!"
The fire crow raised its beak: "Really?"
Wang Li's eyes twitched and he said, "What's the benefit of lying to you and me?"
After saying that, he ignored the fire crow. He fired the magic spell in his hand and turned into a strange rune that floated towards the flying knife. When the rune got close to the flying knife, it immediately shrank and instantly became the size of a tadpole and burrowed into the flying knife. Wang Li's eyes lit up when he saw it, and soon the runes flew out of his hand one by one.
Half a month later~
Wang Li walked out of the Lianbao Pavilion hall.
To be precise, he was kicked out of the Treasure Refining Pavilion. Beginner disciples are entitled to receive materials for free once and use the quiet room to refine treasures free of charge, but it can only occupy half a month of the quiet room at most.
Strictly speaking, he was still two days overtime.
But at this moment, Wang Li felt very comfortable, because he had successfully used the Yuan Talisman to refine the green lantern and the jade pendant that he had captured. Both magic weapons had been covered with runes and refined to a level of prohibition.
However, with his current cultivation level, he can only refine one level of prohibition each, and the difficulty of refining the jade pendant is far more difficult than that of Qingdeng.
It probably has something to do with the material and grade of the magic weapon. It only took Qingdeng three days to complete the first level of restraint, but it took him more than ten days to successfully refine the first level of restraint for the jade pendant.
There was still an endless stream of people on the ropeway going down the mountain. Wang Li soon passed by the smooth cliff with the word "廲LU峰" engraved on it. However, when he came to the dock and was about to board the ship, he was unexpectedly beaten by someone.
Stopped.
A handsome young man with a golden crown and ten warriors wearing golden armor blocked him at the pier and drove away all the ferries that came to entertain passengers, leaving only a four-foot-tall ornate building.
The boat was at the dock, and the sound of women singing and dancing could be heard faintly from above.
The young man looked at Wang Li with a cold look on his face and asked, "Are you Wang Li of Yuandu Palace?"
This scene looks so familiar.
Wang Li's expression did not change, and he immediately raised his hands and said, "Your Excellency, you have admitted the wrong person."
When the young man heard his denial, his cold expression paused for a moment, but then he immediately said, "Tell me your name!"
Wang Li smiled and said, "I'm Li Juqian."
"you are lying!"
After the young man reported his name, an angry look appeared on his face instantly: "You must be Wang Li!"
Wang Li couldn't help but be stunned. He gave the name of the person who was doing salesmanship when he went up the mountain. It seemed that he had made a mistake.