"Senior Brother Lou, I don't know how to start talking about this catastrophe."
Lou Zhizheng smiled slightly:
"Junior Brother Ling, do you know that your master who was in seclusion returned home from a serious injury and was in solitary confinement?"
Ling Yun's pupils shrank slightly.
In fact, Su Jian, the Master of the Seven Kills, had been in seclusion for so long. He probably guessed some clues, but he never thought that he was in seclusion because of a serious injury.
The so-called life-and-death barrier means closing the barrier with the highest level of cultivation before seclusion.
Because with the same skill, it is easy to close a barrier but difficult to break through it, so you must break through to the next level and increase your cultivation level significantly before you can break through the barrier.
The restrictions of doing so are so great that only people who are about to end their lifespan and have to make a desperate move, or people who are seriously injured and dying and need to use secret methods to survive, will choose to use the life and death barrier to seal themselves off.
To put it harshly, it means a narrow escape from death. Don’t say when we will be released from seclusion, it is still unknown whether we can come out of seclusion alive!
"Junior brother Ling, you were too hasty when you became a disciple at Qingluo Peak. Didn't you ask other senior brothers and sisters in advance?" Lou Zhizheng said heartbrokenly, "Who in this Shu Mountain doesn't know that Su Jian suffered a very serious injury back then?
If you are injured, you will die immediately if you don’t retreat into seclusion?”
"According to the concept of Nascent Soul monks, such injuries would require at least hundreds of years of seclusion to repair. Which Qi refining monk can afford to wait for such a long time?"
"If it fails to become a golden elixir, your lifespan will only last more than two hundred years. By the time your master comes out of seclusion, you will have long been turned into a pile of bones!"
Ling Yun broke the silence for a moment and said:
"Thanks for the reminder, senior brother, it's just..."
"Listen to me." Lou Zhizheng interrupted him and said sincerely, "Junior brother Ling, you have been practicing Taoism for a short time and you don't know how hard it is."
"This Sword Immortal's journey of cultivation is filled with countless difficulties and obstacles. Without anyone's guidance, it will be almost impossible for him to make any progress!"
"I'm not being alarmist. Just think about it, if your mental skills are obscure and incomprehensible, who can teach you? If your sword skills are not working well, who can teach you?"
"Even if you have a great adventure and successfully cleanse the marrow palace, when it comes to the final golden elixir heavenly tribulation, who can protect you and resist it?"
Ling Yunpo was speechless by what he said.
He couldn't tell Lou Zhizheng that you don't need to worry about this matter. Qiu Changtian worshiped Master Ziwei as his teacher in Kunlun. There should be someone to take care of Taoism, mental skills, sword techniques and golden elixirs.
Seeing that he was speechless, Lou Zhizheng thought he had been persuaded and continued to incite:
"You see, your senior sister An is the disciple Su Jian adopted privately from outside. When she returns to the mountain, she will be on the Huafu level."
"Half a century has passed, but the result is still Huafu level!"
"Ask the other senior brothers and sisters, who would dare to enter Qingluo Peak as a casual cultivator if they know the pros and cons?"
"That is to say, Senior Sister An, who regards Elder Su Jian as a father, would rather work hard for many years and barely maintain Qingluo Peak than switch to another division."
"We at Ziyun Peak cannot bear to sit back and watch you ruin your future, so Master asked the leader to allow you another chance to choose."
"When you enter my peak and practice hard for a while under the guidance of Master, you may have already surpassed Senior Sister An and entered the Golden Core realm in advance!"
Ling Yun listened in silence and probably understood what was going on.
Oh, the headhunter is here to poach someone.
What he said is indeed true. Everything else here at Qingluo Peak is good, but having "no master" is really hurtful. Cultivation here is basically the same as casual cultivation.
If it were a normal Shushan Lingyunpo, then although Senior Sister An was as gentle as water and had been caring and considerate to his junior brother since she started, but after all, it involves the Taoist Immortality...
Sorry, I have to leave. I wish senior sister a happy life in the future. Goodbye.
However, as luck would have it, Ling Yunpo is not an ordinary person, but an undercover agent who wants to break into the upper echelons of the sect.
The key to being an undercover agent is that you cannot be suspected of being a young person.
If he betrays his master and moves to another place not long after he joins the profession, even if the master of Ziyun Peak is willing to take him in, what will the senior brothers and sisters of Ziyun Peak think of him?
Look, the guy named Ling Yunpo is the guy who betrayed Qingluo Peak before. With such a criminal record, it shows that he has no loyalty at all. It is not impossible for him to betray Ziyun Peak in the future...
How can he still mess around in the future?
Whether you want to trade your reputation with others in exchange for a better cultivation environment may be a choice worthy of careful consideration.
But here in Lingyunpo, there is no need to think about it.
After Lou Zhizheng finished speaking, Ling Yunpo showed a determined expression and said in a deep voice:
"Thank you Ziyun Peak for your kindness. However, I have entered the sect of Qingluo Peak and worshiped Master Su Jian as my teacher."
"You are a teacher for one day and you will be a teacher for life. How can you betray me so easily?"
"I, Ling Yunpo, am not such a disloyal and unjust person! I will bear all the dangers and difficulties in the future!"
[Unyielding character, the synchronization rate has increased, currently 76%.]
After he finished speaking in an impassioned tone, he heard Senior Sister An behind him shouting excitedly:
"Junior brother!"
Ling Yunpo turned around and saw An Zhisu running out of the back door and hugging his arm excitedly.
As early as when Lou Zhizheng said, "Your master has closed the barrier of life and death," she happened to return to Qingluo Peak with her sword from behind. When she saw her junior brother and a strange boy talking in front of the Taoist temple, she quietly hid behind the main entrance and listened.
Hearing Lou Zhizheng say "Who dares to enter Qingluo Peak as a casual cultivator", An Zhisu looked cold at first, then fell silent, and finally his expression darkened.
Without the guidance of the master, this is the biggest flaw of Qingluo Peak itself. As long as the opponent kills this point, it will be invincible.
Therefore, in these years, except for Lingyun Po, no disciple of Qingluo Peak has received it, and it has become more and more dilapidated and decayed.
I remember that before her master went into retreat, she once told her: "Su'er, Qingluo Peak will be left to you."
She didn't know the benefits at the time, so she just accepted it innocently.
Then he experienced the ups and downs of the world, and was looked down upon by others; his cultivation reached a bottleneck and stagnated for many years, and he was ridiculed and scorned by others; and even now, his monthly salary is being withheld, and he doesn't even have enough spiritual stones for cultivation...
No matter how lonely and helpless she was, she still remembered her master's instructions and her voice was in her ears, so she always worked hard on her own and refused to admit defeat.
When her monthly salary was withheld, she went to the political hall to argue; when someone broke into Qingluo Peak to provoke someone, she picked up a sword and beat him until he couldn't take care of himself.
Anyway, according to the rules of the sect, Master Jin Dan was not allowed to deal with disciples in the Foundation Establishment stage, so she practiced the art of sword control day and night, and now she has become the number one person under Jin Dan.
The Qingluo Peak family was barely able to survive due to her efforts.
The only thing to do is to recruit apprentices. After all, the current situation of Qingluo Peak is here. It is not easy to ask others to sacrifice their own path and force them to stay in Qingluo Peak - so they have never been able to recruit junior brothers and sisters.
Because of this, when Ling Yunpo came to Qingluo Peak, she showed all kinds of love and care to him, as if he was her biological brother.
Now that Junior Brother Ling actually refused Ziyunfeng's solicitation for her own sake, and what she just said was very emotional, and the look on her face didn't seem to be fake, she felt warm in her heart and said softly:
"Junior brother, do you really mean what you say?"
"That's natural!" Ling Yunpo said decisively.
[Unyielding character, the synchronization rate has increased, currently 77%.]
An Zhisu's eyes became gentler and asked again:
"Master may have to remain in seclusion from now on, and will not have time to come out to guide us in our cultivation. We must do everything by ourselves. Can you accept this?"
Ling Yunpo said solemnly:
"If we don't have a master, what's the problem? From now on, my senior sister and I will support each other and keep this Qingluo Peak going!"
[Unyielding character, the synchronization rate has increased, currently 79%.]
The synchronization rate of this unyielding character is a bit difficult to increase!
"Junior brother..." An Zhisu was deeply moved, his eyes suddenly filled with tears, his eyes were wandering, he bit his lower lip and was speechless.
Lou Zhizheng, who was opposite, had been stunned for a long time. He came back to his senses after a while, waved his robe sleeves angrily, and said angrily:
"Stubborn!"
"In this case, I, Ziyunfeng, don't have to be merciful!"
After saying that, he dropped a sword talisman and left with his sword light.
An Zhisu had quick eyes and quick hands, and the Frostfall Sword turned into a stream of light. He rolled the sword talisman back before it hit the ground. When he saw the words on it, his expression immediately changed.
I saw it clearly written above:
Shushan Luling Hall approved Ziyun Peak disciple Lou Zhizheng to challenge Qingluo Peak disciple Ling Yunpo to initiate a sword duel under the notarization of the deacons and elders.