ah?The palace fighting system can also cultivate immortality

Chapter 176 Mist
"I, I will take you as my master?"

Shujiuqing unconsciously repeated the words of the person in front of him.

Du Xinghe nodded: "Or, although you are a casual cultivator, you already have a master who can guide you? That was rude of me. Don't worry, even if you don't take me as your master, I won't do anything to you. I just want to chat with you. Or..."

She paused, and turned her face slightly. Her face was as bright as the moon. She was obviously very beautiful, but she gave people a sense of distance that could not be profaned, just like the statue in the shrine, which could only be worshipped from a distance, and could not be approached to argue about its length:
"You do not want?"

Before she could ponder the intention behind Du Xinghe's words, Shu Jiuqing knelt down again at the speed of light: "I want to, I want to, I want to! But the matter of becoming a disciple..." She looked embarrassed: "I did have a master before, but he passed away two years ago. Since then, I have been traveling alone in Pingyun Continent. However, my aptitude is average, so I don't think I can learn to use a sword."

She stretched out her hand and let Du Xinghe look at her right hand.

It turned out that her little finger was only half.

The little finger may seem the least noticeable of the five fingers, but when holding a sword, most of the force comes from it.

"The bone-growing pill is useless. I guess it's the karma from my previous life." When talking about his own imperfections, Shujiuqing didn't care at all.

Du Xinghe pondered: "Have you ever thought about finding a sect to rely on?"

"The big sects don't think highly of my qualifications, and the small sects haven't met anyone suitable. It's fine to just stay alone."

Du Xinghe took a quick glance and realized that what she said about her poor qualifications was not just a humble statement.

Shu Jiuqing has cultivated a complicated technique from nowhere, and has the worst five spiritual roots in the eyes of the world, but...

Du Xinghe wondered:
"You are so young, and you have cultivated to the stage of Dan with five spiritual roots. Don't they think you are a genius?"

"What kind of genius is a Jindan cultivator who is destined to never achieve Jindan?"

Shu Jiuqing said calmly, "Since I became Master's disciple, outsiders who came to ask Master about his magic always looked down upon me after hearing about my five spiritual roots. If I become Master's disciple again, it would only be a smear campaign."

Although she said so, Du Xinghe could sense the disapproval in her words.

It is already the limit for a cultivator with five spiritual roots to be able to form a pill.

This shows the wisdom of the Nine Emotions.

But anyone who has created a secondary gaming account knows that no matter how good the remaining random values ​​are, there will always be one key value that goes awry and ruins the game.

Even if he had four spiritual roots, or three spiritual roots, the Nine Emotions would not be so desperate.

There are always rumors that the five spiritual roots are difficult at the beginning, but will become perfect later on.

But even building the foundation is difficult, let alone the future?
Moreover, this rumor is only popular among people with five spiritual roots - they urgently need a beautiful rumor to serve as a hope. The mainstream view in Pingyun Continent is that a single spiritual root is the best qualification, regarded as a "heavenly spiritual root" and loved by heaven. That is the genius that should be invested with resources and effort to cultivate.

As if thinking that Du Xinghe's silence came from his unwillingness, Shu Jiuqing smiled and said:
"After forming the elixir, my life span increased to 500 years, which gave me a longer life to study the immortal formation. I am already very satisfied."

"My master accepted me as his disciple at the request of my mother. After testing my spiritual roots, he felt that building a foundation was an impossible task for me. He asked me to meditate and practice martial arts every day, just to strengthen my body and heal my weak body. When I grow up, I can go down the mountain to get married and have children."

She refused to do so, and despite having five spiritual roots, she successfully established her foundation.

The master stared at her and sighed for a long time.

She knew that her master despised her qualifications and did not really want to take her as his apprentice. He just owed her mother a favor, and since the benefactor came to entrust her with the care of her child, he had no choice but to take over this hot potato and accept her as his apprentice.

But her master really took care of her and raised her, and taught her the cultivation techniques sincerely. She was extremely grateful to her master, and it was she who buried him and built his tomb.

Du Xinghe looked at her with a clear gaze: "But you are now a Jindan cultivator."

A ray of sunlight passed through the leaves and fell on Jiuqing's forehead. She nodded calmly:

"I want to use my body to measure the limits of the five spiritual roots cultivators on the road to immortality."

Shu Jiuqing was wondering why he would say so much to someone he had just met.

Maybe both of them are rebellious cultivators.

She changed the subject: "Senior, you came to me, is it because of Yuanzhou's matter?"

Using the excuse of recruiting a disciple is really a bit lame.

But who can blame them for being so powerful?
A Jindan cultivator does not really need to be very eloquent.

After all, if reason doesn't make sense, she does know a little about swordsmanship.

"Yes, can you tell me what happened?"

Du Xinghe waved his hand and cleared a clearing from the branches and rubble. A thin layer of mist gathered into clouds, and everyone sat down to talk. Being caught by Jindan Zhenren, Shu Jiuqing knew that whether he would be eliminated or not was just a matter of a moment, so he naturally told everything he knew, but: "I only arranged an escape route for the other eleven people. Calculating the time, I can't say for sure where they are now."

First, she didn’t want to betray her past partners, and second, she really didn’t know.

Du Xinghe hummed: "It's okay, you're the only one I'm looking for."

She clearly spoke in a cold and indifferent tone to everyone, but at this moment she expressed her appreciation for Shu Jiuqing.

Because of her talent and family background, Shu Jiuqing often had to belittle herself, but a smart person like her would always be proud of herself. Now that she had been recognized by Jindan Zhenren, her heart couldn't help but beat faster.

Another person whose heart was beating faster at the scene was Xinyue.

Shenshui looked at Shujiuqing, then at his senior sister, and couldn't help but take out a handful of melon seeds from his storage ring, peeling them while looking at them. He was an expert at eating melon seeds, and he could peel a large handful in a few seconds, and even share some with the anxious Jingxin.

wonderful!

Just for this Shura Field, we have to join their Xinghe Sect!

"A trifling skill, is it worthy of such attention from the senior?" Shu Jiuqing held her face tightly, and managed not to laugh. Her eyes fell on Du Xinghe's hand: "I spent a lot of time and effort preparing for several days, but the amount I got is far less than what the senior got."

On the back of Du Xinghe's hand, thousands of soul flowers bloomed quietly.

This is an absolute crushing of strength.

The description of Shujiuqing is not far from Du Xinghe's conjecture.

After activating the Purple Wisdom Pupil to check the remaining spiritual power of the array in Yuanzhou, she discovered that the source was not only the spiritual power of one cultivator.

But I didn't expect that the whole thing was planned by one person.

"A trifle? I think you are amazing."

Du Xinghe stared at her.

Even though she was very emotional, she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed by Jindan Zhenren's repeated praise. She asked, "Senior, is there anything else you want to know? If you can use me, I will cooperate."

Du Xinghe thought for a moment and said, "Leave me the jade certificate number and we'll contact you when we get out."

The other party had no intention of becoming his disciple, but Du Xinghe was thinking of the kindness of Master Rong Yu, so he could no longer casually become his disciple to someone else. Even though he was envious of the other party's talent, he could only stop here with regret.

Shu Jiuqing readily agreed to have a good relationship with Jindan Zhenren.

Du Xinghe looked at her again: "Why don't you join us so we can look after each other. This is the last minute, don't let it go to waste."

Shujiuqing was stunned at first, and then she was ecstatic.

Du Xinghe certainly has no shortage of soul flowers, as the backs of the hands of her two disciples are also filled with flowers.

Although he was the poorest one, with what he had plundered in Yuanzhou this time, he could at least rank among the top in the Immortal Alliance Competition.

The number of soul flowers she has obtained now is definitely not commensurate with her own strength.

Being able to stay safely by Du Xinghe's side until the last moment is a complete benefit to Shu Jiuqing.

"Then I will respectfully obey your orders!"

Shujiuqing followed happily.

"Senior Sister, would you like some melon seeds?" Shenshui handed a handful of melon seeds to Xinyue. Xinyue saw Shujiuqing moving closer to her master, so she clenched her fists. When she opened her hands again, the melon seeds in her palms had turned into powder.

Ginshui: "..."

It’s not that bad that you don’t like eating melon seeds.

……

Du Xinghe wanted to recruit the talented Shu Jiuqing, so he showed off his skills in front of her.

As long as the soul beasts are within sight, they will be killed.

Du Xinghe himself had no shortage of soul flowers, so he distributed the soul flowers he obtained from the soul beasts he killed in order, one to each person.

Shu Jiuqing declined: "How can this be possible?"

"My two disciples have already surpassed you in the number of soul flowers. This little bit will help you to distance yourself from the others."

"But we are not related..."

Hearing this, Du Xinghe cast a calm glance and said, "I like it, what's wrong?"

So domineering, I like it very much.

She traveled alone and met all kinds of people, including many disciples from large sects. However, she had rarely seen a Jindan Zhenren... Her master was very famous in the villages and towns, but he was just a Jindan cultivator who lived in seclusion in the mountains waiting to die.

Having luckily made it into the top 300 in the Immortal Alliance competition, Shu Jiuqing knew that there was a huge gap between him and the top three on the Prodigy List.

But now, Du Xinghe, who is ranked first on the Tianjiao list, is protecting her in the secret realm.

He also shared the soul flowers he obtained with her.

When there was only half an hour left before being safely sent out of the secret realm, Shu Jiuqing's favorability towards Du Xinghe was almost maxed out.

Comparatively, her reputation with Xinyue also fell to the bottom.

Shenshui comforted Xinyue privately: "Don't be afraid, Senior Sister. You and Master have known each other for such a long time, and you have a natural spiritual root..." He remembered that Senior Sister didn't like others mentioning her natural spiritual root for some reason, so he said: "You can heal injuries! Yes, yes, yes, we don't know how to do that, and Master likes to take risks so much, he really can't do without you!"

Hearing this, Xinyue's expression eased slightly.

The light of the campfire illuminated her face. The disguise charm given by her master was a mask, and her habitual cold face was another mask, sealing her heart tightly and opening it only to her master.

She clenched her fists and whispered, "As long as Master can still use me one day, I will be happy to work for him..."

Before Xinyue finished speaking, Du Xinghe's voice could be heard from the river not far away: "It turns out that you can draw a healing array on your body in advance and activate it directly with spiritual power during battle? This is so convenient! It's like having your own mobile recovery fountain!"

Shu Jiuqing didn't understand the meaning of her last sentence, but it didn't stop her from continuing to share the magical uses of the magic circle with Jindan Zhenren.

And Shanshui looked at the river, then looked at his sister:

"Uh, it's okay, it's okay!"

Xinyue stared at the campfire: "I want to kill a lone Jindan cultivator, it shouldn't be difficult... Hahaha... Don't worry, I'm fine..."

Shenshui trembled as he held Jingxin, who had turned into a jade shield.

While the two were talking, Du Xinghe also came over and sat down next to Xinyue: "Do you remember? The artificial eye that Cang Hengzi prepared for you was made of the Ice Mysterious Pearl. The Ice Mysterious Pearl is an extremely cold object. Although it is highly compatible with the water spirit root and can help you practice, before you broke through the Nascent Soul stage, you were always disturbed by the cold air of the Ice Mysterious Pearl. This is due to the endless ice veins in the Ice Mysterious Pearl, and it cannot be changed by adding any other materials."

"I remember,"

Xinyue was stunned for a moment, and whispered, "But it doesn't matter, I'm used to it, Master, don't worry."

How can I get used to it?

The face is a place with dense nerves, and many important acupuncture points in the meridians are also on the head. It is like putting a piece of dry ice that never melts in the eye sockets. How can you bear it? Only Xinyue can endure the discomfort and say a habit.

Du Xinghe was too lazy to argue with her about whether to worry or not, she said directly: "I discussed it with Shu Jiuqing. In this case, she can draw a miniature magic circle around your right eye to reconcile the cold air seeping out of the Ice Mysterious Pearl. I don't know how much of an impact it will have, but it will definitely be better than the current situation. What do you think?"

After hearing this, Shu Jiuqing also came over, sat down and asked with great interest: "When will the painting start?"

She had no good feelings towards this male cultivator who kept glaring at her with hatred.

However, Jindan Zhenren had something to ask for and also gave her so many soul flowers. Since she was grateful for the favor, she readily agreed to Du Xinghe's request.

Xinyue was stunned.

She didn't expect that her master and that Shu Jiu Qing were actually discussing her affairs. The Mysterious Ice Pearl was indeed torturing her day and night, but at the same time, the benefits it brought to her cultivation were not to be underestimated.

Xinyue really likes this kind of thing of using pain in exchange for training efficiency.

It will give her a sense of security that "everything she earns depends on herself".

"Everything is up to Master," Xinyue said softly, turning to give Shujiuqing her first polite smile since they met: "Then thank you for your help, fellow Taoist."

Shu Jiuqing said that it was not a problem, but he was thinking, how could this weapon cultivator actually laugh?
The word "qi" in "qixiu" means stingy!

I heard that Du Xinyue was a rare person with natural spiritual roots. It was really God's fault that she had such a great talent and wasted it with a sullen face every day. If she was the one with natural spiritual roots, her mouth would definitely be cracked all the way to her ears every day.

The two of them had no idea of ​​each other's past difficulties and both disliked each other.

The stranger's hand touched her face, and Xinyue couldn't help but frown slightly.

Shu Jiuqing moved quickly. She took out a second-hand cinnabar pen and gold lacquer that she had bought at the monks' market from her storage ring. Holding Xinyue's face, she began to trace the area around her right eye. Every time she put down a stroke, the tip of the pen flashed with star-like light, and a faint spiritual energy escaped from it, only to be locked back by the gold lacquer.

Du Xinghe opened his eyes and watched without hesitation.

After a while, Shu Jiuqing let go and put away the brush and ink: "Okay, the materials I used here are relatively inferior, not worthy of the disciple of Jindan Zhenren. When I go out and have the conditions, I can change to better materials and redraw it."

Du Xinghe blinked, closed his eyes, and asked, "Xinyue, how do you feel?"

Xinyue took a look and felt that the Ice Mysterious Pearl that had corroded the surrounding meridians in the past was still slowly emitting cold air in her eye sockets, but was trapped in the magic circle drawn around her eyes and tempered with a gentler cool breeze.

Not only is it painless, it is also very comfortable.

"Thank you, Master Lao, for your worry. Now it doesn't hurt at all." Xinyue lowered her eyes and added in a low voice: "Thank you, fellow Taoist Shu, too."

"It's nothing. You just didn't think that magic arrays could solve such trivial problems before. When you mention magic arrays, do you have to draw a big circle with monks standing in it to cast spells? In fact, there are many places in life where magic arrays are applied..."

Shu Jiuqing paused, and said, "But it's normal that you didn't expect it. In the eyes of serious cultivators, I am a heretic. I didn't join a sect. I learned by myself from the introductory teaching books on magic arrays bought from the second-hand market stalls of those cultivators' markets. Almost every time I draw a magic array, it is completely different, and I will make a small change every time."

Hearing this, Du Xinghe slowly turned his head.

There is no way to deal with this kind of skill that requires a lot of creativity and needs to be fine-tuned every time, such as stealing eyes.

I can’t steal it, damn it.

Shu Jiuqing thought she was an unorthodox person, but she didn't know that outside the water mirror, the judges had already considered her to be the real pearl hidden in the dust in this Immortal Alliance competition.

Like Du Xinghe, she has always been a swordsman, her cultivation level is there, it is impossible for her to be unappreciated.

Everyone who meets her knows that she is very strong, there is no room for doubt!

But, Shu Jiuqing, a cultivator with five spiritual roots who could create and fine-tune formations by herself, had at least one miracle happen to her. That’s why she could stand out in the eyes of the judges of the Immortal Alliance Competition and all the sects with her Jindan cultivation!

"This may be the significance of the Immortal Alliance holding a competition every five years. At least it will not let the real geniuses be buried."

One of the judges laughed and said:
"When they come out of the Ten States Secret Realm later, I'm afraid this young man will be fought over by all the major sects."

……

In the Ten States Secret Realm, Du Xinghe looked up: "Speaking of which, how are we going to get out later?"

In a normal secret realm, you usually have to go back to the entrance to get out.

But the three hundred people were randomly dropped into ten states, and they had no idea where the real entrance was.

"It should have been teleported out directly."

The Nine-Day Love Talk.

Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.

There was no movement in the secret realm. The wind was still blowing as usual. The person outside the water mirror urged, "Is it time? Why haven't you come out yet?"

In the judging panel, Chi Wenxing's expression changed slightly.

"Oh no, there is something wrong with the Ten States Secret Realm!"

She placed an extremely delicate hourglass on the table. If you look closely, you will find that the things in the hourglass are not sand, but every miniature particle of the Ten States Secret Realm - this is the latest large-scale space magic weapon secretly developed by the Immortal Alliance. It is the first artificial secret realm test point led by Chi Wenxing and created by the combined efforts of seven powerful people. Every time the hourglass is turned over, the secret realm is restarted.

Everything can be restored.

Therefore, when Chi Wenxing saw Shu Jiuqing blowing up Yuanzhou, his expression did not change much.

It exploded, and it can be restored with one click.

"What happened in Shizhouli?" Others also gathered around.

Everything in the hourglass was normal, and there was nothing wrong.

"The principle of the secret realm hourglass is, just like other natural secret realms, it cuts out a portion of time and space from the real world and puts it in another dimension. It is independent of the real world. Except for the owner of the secret realm, no third party should be able to affect it, but..."

Chi Wenxing's expression was solemn: "There is another force that is connected to it."

At the same time, a huge hole appeared in the night sky above the Ten States Secret Realm.

The entrance to the cave was covered by clouds and mist, with faint light shining through.

All the cultivators who were still in the secret realm looked up at the same time. Shu Jiuqing was shocked: "Is this the exit? The Immortal Alliance is so generous! Are we going to fly up? But I can't fly! Or will there be a mysterious force that will suck us up?"

Du Xinghe was also looking at the hole in the sky.

In the dark night, both humans and animals are attracted to light and yearn for bright and warm places.

It didn't take long before some monks were seen flying into the sky on their swords impatiently.

Unlike Du Xinghe who was able to handle things with ease, every time they stayed in the secret realm, they were afraid of accidents that might cause the soul flower petals they had collected with great difficulty to be snatched away. They worked hard for several days, only to end up making wedding dresses for others.

Du Xinghe did not have this psychological pressure, and was not confused instead.

"I'll have to do some divination," she said.

Shenshui wondered: "When did Master learn divination?"

Du Xinghe: "When we were in the Wanfa Temple."

"Oh, so it's in the Wanfa Temple... Wanfa Temple... Wait!!!"

Shenshui hugged Yudun, horrified.

There is only one method of divination in the Wanfa Temple, and that is tortoise divination.

First kill the turtle, then take its flat plastron, pray and ask questions, use fire to burn the small holes drilled on the plastron, and interpret the future from the cracked texture.

The antiquity of this divination method can be seen from the fact that the pronunciation of the word "卜" (divination) comes from the crackling sound made when a tortoise shell is burned.

And it was obvious that the only turtle present was Jingxin.

"Master, there must be other ways, right? How about we use the pen fairy? Tarot? Counting petals is also fine!" Shenshui was so panicked that he spoke without thinking.

Jingxin also shed tears silently.

The journey out of the Wanfa Temple was like walking on thin ice.

Today, Turtle finally reached the end, didn’t he?
The bonfire stretched Du Xinghe's shadow very long, and it danced with the flames like a devil dancing madly.

Du Xinghe: "The riverside is full of turtles, just catch one and bring it back."

After hearing the master's answer, Chanshui wiped away his tears and said, "Aren't you going to break off the shell of Jingxin?"

Du Xinghe: "Huh?"

Just as the two were thanking Du Xinghe for not being a real devil, she picked up Jingxin and threw him into the bonfire.

Jingxin was thrown into the bonfire and was about to let out a scream like a turtle being killed, but then he found that the fire around him was warm and he felt very reassured.

Along with the white noise of burning firewood, it heard Du Xinghe say:

"It is a hundred-year-old sea monk. Even if I don't activate the Zhenwu Incarnation Technique, ordinary fire can't hurt it at all. Where can I find the earth fire to burn its shell? Stop talking nonsense, go catch two river turtles!"

"Order!"

After receiving the order from his master, Shenshui immediately went to catch the river turtle with his tail between his legs.

The river turtles were slow and soon one was caught.

It was not just an ordinary turtle, but a weak kind of river water spirit beast. Du Xinghe had to spend a lot of effort to use the turtle shell divination method on it, but the result was a bad fortune.

When monks do divination, they are communicating with the heavens by using the spiritual energy of heaven and earth; it is not simply a superstitious activity.

If there is no third party influence, then this hole in the sky would probably be very dangerous.

"This is the eighth cultivator who has flown into the cave behind the fog." Xinyue, who had been looking up, said softly.

"There are also some people who, like us, want to observe the situation first before making a decision."

What if I miss the time to leave and get disqualified?

Or is flying or not flying also part of the assessment?

Not only Du Xinghe, almost all the cultivators were upset. They didn't expect that in the end, they would have to face a decision between two options.

"Give me some hints——"

Shenshui raised his head to the sky and howled: "My brain doesn't work well anyway—"

Before he could finish howling, he was hit on the head by his master. Du Xinghe said: "We should just keep the fact that you are not smart enough to ourselves. Don't tell others about it. It will have a bad influence."

Shenshui covered the place where he was hit and answered yes obediently.

Du Xinghe thought for a moment, then turned to look at Shu Jiuqing: "What do you think?"

"I think..." Shu Jiuqing pondered and made a suggestion: "This big hole in the sky must be visible to all the cultivators in the Ten States Secret Realm, which is equivalent to the only notification to all members. Since we have no clues, and you are powerful and not afraid of being plotted against by others, why don't we fly to the sky but not into the fog and see what others say? Maybe among your acquaintances, there are people who know the solution."

In fact, she was not familiar with Du Xinghe and his group, so even though she was sure that this was the best solution, she said it very tactfully, breaking down the logic into pieces and analyzing it for her seniors, fearing that they would not accept her advice.

After Shu Jiuqing finished speaking, Du Xinghe thought of a name——

Ji Wuhuo.

As the direct descendant of the Ji family, the resources and intelligence he possesses are unmatched by others.

It would be better to ask him in person than to tell fortunes or guess blindly here.

"Well, let's go."

Du Xinghe nodded, unsheathed his heavy sword, and asked the three of them to stand on the sword at the same time.

Sword Spirit: "Have you ever considered my feelings? Overload!

Sword Spirit: "Xinyue, you can also use a sword, right? I remember you can fly with a sword!"

Xinyue turned her face away and hugged her master's waist tightly: "I can't."

Sword Spirit: "Who are you kidding? You definitely will!"

Xinyue stopped talking, buried her face in her master's back and pretended to be dead.

Du Xinghe asked the sword spirit to be quiet, thinking that this heavy sword was really well made. How many people could she carry to the sky? "If I only had a light sword, I'm afraid Xinyue would have to ride on my shoulders."

She was just joking, but Xinyue behind her couldn't help but imagine it.

Okay, it seems pretty good...?
Du Xinghe had no idea what her little disciple was thinking. When she flew into the sky, the first familiar person she saw was not Master Ji.

Instead, it was a face full of subtle brightness.