Lu Ting stood up and touched the small knot on Shi Yingxue's head, then turned his head and looked at the still silent young man next to him, and introduced to Shi Yingxue: "Yingxue, this is Senior Brother Xie Ning."
"Hello, Senior Brother Xie Ning." Shi Yingxue obediently raised her fists and saluted the boy, but Xie Ning just raised his eyelids and glanced at Shi Yingxue calmly, nodded, and stopped talking.
In the Zangfeng Valley, in addition to the personal disciples accepted by the Taoist sects, there are also many inner disciples. However, they do not have a fixed master and only practice with the monks in the Jingshi Hall.
The most famous among them is probably Senior Brother Xie Ning.
His life experience can be said to be very legendary. Xie Ning, like Tao Rou, comes from a family of cultivators. However, he is not the child of the first wife, but a child of seven branches. He cannot be a side branch, and his qualifications are only four.
It's a pseudo-spiritual root, so it's pretty bad.
Every year, the aristocratic families near Mount Zhongnan send their children to Zangfeng Valley to measure their spiritual roots. However, they say they are just testing their spiritual roots. In fact, these children have already had their spiritual roots measured at home. Only those who are good will be sent.
He came here in order to stay in Zangfeng Valley, but Xie Ning was not even qualified to be sent to measure his spiritual roots.
However, Xie Ning was high-spirited and the Xie family looked down upon him. When he was thirteen years old, he walked from the Xie family to Zhongnan Mountain step by step with dry food and participated in the opening ceremony of the Zangfeng Valley. He did not even finish the bluestone steps.
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He built a hut by himself at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain and lived at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain. He got up before dawn every day, tied heavy sandbags to his legs, and ran around Zhongnan Mountain in circles.
After repeating this for three years, Xie Ning was finally able to successfully complete the bluestone steps and became an outer disciple.
He practices hard, and even many inner disciples are not as good as him.
During the day, Xie Ning did various menial tasks for the master, and at night he practiced secretly in his dormitory. Finally, after four months of being an outer disciple, he successfully introduced Qi into his body.
Xie Ning's hard work really attracted the attention of Zangfeng Valley, who even ignored his fourth-line pseudo-spiritual roots and promoted Xie Ning to become an inner disciple.
Taoist Ziluan even promised him that if Xie Ning could break through the foundation building before the age of fifty, he would ask the ancestor to perform the great gift of heaven and earth and accept Xie Ning as his direct disciple.
After Xie Ning became an inner disciple, he did not slack off and continued to practice hard every day. Now he is eighteen years old and has reached the fourth level of Qi refining. For the pseudo-spiritual roots of the fourth system, his cultivation speed is already very fast.
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Shi Yingxue has always respected those who practice hard. Even if Xie Ning ignored her, she didn't have any anger or contempt in her heart, she still respected her very much.
"Junior brother Xie Ning has always had this temper, so don't take it to heart."
Lu Ting probably didn't like Xie Ning's arrogant look, so he frowned. He was afraid that Shi Yingxue had a grudge in his heart, so he lowered his voice and spoke to Shi Yingxue quietly.
Shi Yingxue smiled and nodded, and was about to say something when a cough suddenly came from the door. Shi Yingxue turned her head to look, and it was a monk with a fluttering beard, dressed in an immortal style, floating out of the dust.
"Meet the teacher!"
Shi Yingxue immediately suppressed the smile on her face and saluted the monk respectfully.
A look of surprise appeared on Lu Ting's face, but he adjusted the surprise in a moment and saluted the visitor with the same respect. Even the aloof Xie Ning stood up and bowed.
The monk's eyes turned around the crowd, and he probably noticed that Taorou was not there. He frowned and then relaxed, raised his hand weakly, and said gently: "Okay, everyone, sit down."
After Shi Yingxue and others sat down on the futon, Lu Ting couldn't suppress the confusion in his eyes. He stood up and asked, "Senior Fang, why are you here to teach here today?"
"Your former teacher had something happen at home. He wanted to go home and asked me to help take care of you. I happened to have nothing to do, so I came over to see you juniors. I have taken most of the courses this month.
There is no need to be so formal in class, and there is no need for these red tapes." With luck in his hands, the monk surnamed Fang gently pushed Lu Ting back.
"Yes." Lu Ting responded, and Brother Fang stopped looking at him, turning to fall on Shi Yingxue: "Are you Yingxue, the young disciple of Senior Brother Tianxing?"
Shi Yingxue was about to stand up and reply when the monk used his spiritual energy and gently pushed Shi Yingxue back onto the futon: "No need to be polite, there is no need for these red tapes in my class."
Seeing his gentle expression, Shi Yingxue was a little uncertain in her heart whether she should stand or not. The monk suddenly winked at Shi Yingxue slyly: "Okay, okay, if I say no, I won't, please be pretentious."
Yes, your master and I used to be very close. If you don’t believe that I am easy-going, just go back and ask your master. From now on, just call me Uncle Fang. Calling me teacher would be too alienating."
Hmm...if what he said was true, Shi Yingxue thought about Baili Jian's usual carefree and informal manner, and felt that this statement still had some credibility.
The monk coughed and instantly changed back to his immortal appearance, as if the person who winked slyly just now was not him.
"Senior Brother Tianxing always treasures his disciples. I think he has also told you these basic things. I think you have successfully introduced Qi into your body, so I won't explain it anymore." Brother Fang could tell at a glance.
Yingxue had just succeeded in drawing Qi into her body, and she stroked her beautiful beard with a smile, admiring it with her eyes.
After looking at Shi Yingxue, his eyes fell on Lu Ting and Xie Ning. He glanced at them lightly and praised: "Well, very good. You two have also made great progress."
Xie Ning still nodded lightly. He was so cold, and Brother Fang didn't say much to him. He just focused his eyes on Lu Ting.
Lu Ting was a little embarrassed. Senior Fang had a very good relationship with Baili Jian and they had the same preferences as him. He really disliked his master, Taoist Jingbai. Today, Senior Fang praised him like this. Lu Ting felt very flattered and hurriedly replied
Said: "Senior Xie Fang praised me, but I don't dare to accept it."
Lu Tingyu paused and then said: "I haven't seen my senior for two years. I dare to ask, is everything going well for my senior during this retreat?"
Shi Yingxue had never heard of this, so she had to listen carefully to what the two of them said.
Senior Fang waved his hand and said it was not worth mentioning. Lu Ting had no choice but to ask in various ways, wanting to know the effectiveness of Senior Fang's retreat. Then Senior Fang slowly released his Taoist pattern.
I saw a circle of light blue light slowly appearing under Senior Fang's feet, rotating at an extremely slow speed, about two feet.
Shi Yingxue still doesn't know how to identify the Dao pattern, so she can only stare at the Dao pattern with big eyes and small eyes.