Surprised me into a goddess of light

"If you take elixir, there will be no erysipelas or something?"

"I don't know, maybe Bigu Dan has less toxins."

The two chatted while walking, and arrived at the square after eating the cake.

It is a little surprising that the number of sword cultivators in the square is much more than I expected. Looking around, there are at least 100 people, wearing uniform light blue sword robes of ordinary disciples. a small part.

"It seems that it hasn't started yet, let's find a shady place and wait."

I looked around the square, but I didn't see any figures like elders other than ordinary disciples, so I took Xiao Ye to a big tree beside the square, spread out a picnic mat, and was about to sit down when I suddenly smelled a strong and attractive smell of cumin Meaty.

"Xiaoye, do you smell anything?"

Sixteen nights nodded: "Someone is grilling."

The two looked at each other, and walked towards the back of the big tree together. After walking more than ten meters, they saw an old man with gray clothes and white hair and a long beard, squatting behind the tree, muttering to himself, with a very serious look on his face. Facing a Dan furnace with exquisite shape and dense runes... barbecue.

On the fire wire, rows of barbecued meats smeared with pepper, salt and chili sauce are bright, sizzling and fragrant.

Seeing this scene, I was immediately attracted, and my eyes were fixed on the tumbling barbecue on the fire. I haven't eaten this stuff since I left Valoran...

The old man in gray looked slightly surprised, and raised his head from the fire: "Who are you?"

I quickly came back to my senses: "Old man, we are here to travel in Shushan. We came to the square to stroll around when we heard about the ceremony of inheriting the sword, and happened to meet you here... Uh, barbecue, may I ask, do you sell barbecue? "

This question seemed to be beyond the expectation of the old man in gray clothes, he paused for a second and said bluntly: "Not for sale."

I said: "Your barbecue is very good, I can pay a lot of money."

"The little girl has some eyesight."

The old man snorted softly, showing a little pride: "The barbecue I cook is worth thousands of gold, the tenderest tenderloin of the small green cattle in Fenghuifeng, and 38 kinds of fairy grasses and spiritual plants in Qingzhufeng in sauce are prepared according to the amount It takes 28 processes, and the fire is perfect..."

Before he finished speaking, I put down a bulging bag of gold coins: "Are these enough?"

The gold coins landed next to the alchemy furnace and made a crackling sound, which was crisp and pleasant.

The gray-clothed old man's eyes stared straight at the bag of gold coins, and he slowly reached out to pick it up and weighed it: "Hiss...it's about the same, just barely..."

"You don't have to force it."

I took out two more bags of gold coins, put them in front of him, and said sincerely: "I heard that you used a lot of spiritual plants. This barbecue must be worth a lot. I want to buy more."

The old man's eyes were bright, like a sharp sword radiating light, he clapped his hands and said, "deal! You can eat whatever is in the stove!"

With so many gold coins, not to mention a stove of barbecue, you can even buy several pill stoves... The old man was very happy.

I was also very happy and said, "Are these baked?"

"It's all good, I'll pack it up for you..."

The old man took out a wooden box with a smile on his face, and pointed like a sword in the air, picked up strips of barbecue into the box, and handed it to me.

This scene was within my expectation. As early as the first time I saw the old man, I realized that he was extraordinary, probably in the realm of gods.

I took it with a smile, combining the elements of feng shui in my palm, and reduced the temperature of the barbecue in the box to slightly hot in a second, then took out a pair of chopsticks, and handed a knife and fork to Xiao Ye: "Let's eat together."

Of course I use the chopsticks, and Saya uses the knife and fork.

The two tasted it carefully, and the taste of the barbecue was indeed very good. It was not purely due to the heavy flavor of the seasoning, but it had a slight freshness, tenderness, fragrance and crispness. This was never tasted in any major barbecue restaurant in Valoran. of.

Not long after, a box of barbecue was divided between the two of them. I took out another bottle of iced Coke, unscrewed the cap and took a sip, and handed it to Xiao Ye.

The old man didn't take a bite of the meat, so he naturally raised the pill fire and started the second round of grilling. During the process, he saw Shiliuye drinking the ice-brown liquid, and asked suspiciously, "What is this?"

"Cola."

I replied, but I didn't mean to give the old man a bottle... I forgot to buy more when I left Tianqi before, and there was not much stock in the ring, only a dozen bottles left.

The old man stroked his beard and said: "I see that the spiritual energy of this thing rises, it must be extraordinary. I would like to exchange the spiritual grass for a bottle of Coke. I wonder if the girl can..."

"No." I refused directly.

The old man choked for a moment, and became more curious about Coke, and said, "Then... a Nine-Turn Qi Gathering Pill, can I?"

I didn't understand Shenzhou pills at all, so I asked, "What is Qi Gathering Pill?"

"The girl doesn't even know about Qi Gathering Pill?"

The old man was surprised for a second, and said: "This is an important basis for breaking through the extraordinary realm for the first time. The quality of rank nine is enough to triple the chance of breaking through. The value of one coin is not much lower than your three bags of gold coins."

"But I am not in the state of initial knowledge, I am in the state of Nirvana."

I thought for a while and asked, "Old man, is there any elixir that can make Nirvana break through the realm, or... break through to the realm of the gods? I want to change it."

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"Little girl, you really know how to joke."

The old man was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "What kind of person is in the Nirvana state? If you want to break through the pill, you have to start at least the third rank, and each one is worth ten thousand gold. Don't say that this 'Coke' is just a little spiritual, it can be regarded as a real Dao Palace spiritual brew." I can't exchange for a third-grade pill."

"As long as you have it, I can exchange it for other things, which are much more precious than Coke."

As I said that, I became a little interested in the level of the pill that the old man said, and asked: "What does the third-grade pill mean, can it break through the nirvana state and reach the gods?"

The old man immediately shook his head: "Impossible, there is a huge gap between the Nirvana realms. The third-grade lower-grade pill is the lowest grade that works on the Nirvana realm. It is generally used by monks who are below the fourth level of Nirvana, and those who are above the fifth level of Nirvana have to use two High-grade pills, and the pills that help Nirvana to break through to the gods like you said, must be at least first-grade, and they are top-grade."

The lower the number the better...

I said: "According to this, the first-grade elixir is the best elixir? Then what grade is used above the realm of gods?"

The old man said: "There are nine grades of pills in the world, the ninth grade is the second, and the first grade is the best, but this is for monks below Linshen. The pills that can work when they cultivate to Linshen can no longer be measured by grades. We generally call it the 'elixir'."

My eyes lighted slightly: "Do you have any elixir? First-grade elixir is also fine."

The old man couldn't help laughing: "The elixir has been lost for thousands of years, let alone me, I have never heard of anyone who has an elixir formula in the huge Shushan Mountains or even in the whole of China. The Qi Gathering Pill I promised you just now, although it is only a sixth-grade elixir, However, countless monks can't ask for it."

"As for the first-grade pill..."

The old man paused, stroked his beard and said, "Although it is extremely rare, the old man happens to have it in his hand, but what treasure do you have that can be exchanged for a first-grade pill?"

I thought about it, took out a silver magic phone, turned on the front camera to take a picture, and handed it to the old man: "Is this okay?"

The old man looked at the selfie picture and asked in surprise, "What is this?"

"Moxun Machine, you can play games, read the calendar, record video and sound, etc., and also have some remote messaging, data query, and weather forecast functions, but there is no Internet here, so it can't be used."

The old man didn't quite understand, but he was also amazed, and played with the camera for a while and said: "This thing is indeed a strange thing, but at most, I can change a few Qi-gathering pills, first-grade pills... Hehe, it's still a lot worse. .”

I said, "What about the two Moxun machines, two bottles of Coke, and one hundred bags of gold coins?"

The old man's breathing was slightly stagnant, and his expression was vaguely moved.

I took the opportunity to increase the price: "Three Moxun machines, three bottles of Coke, and one thousand bags of gold coins."

The old man froze.

Property has long been meaningless to me, so I continued: "Three Moxun machines, three bottles of Coke, plus [-] bags of gold coins!"

"stop!"

The old man yelled and looked at me helplessly: "The girl seems to have a lot of gold coins?"

I nodded: "A lot."

The old man sighed and shook his head: "Thousands of bags of gold coins are indeed enough to buy a first-grade elixir, but no matter how good gold and silver are, they are things outside the body after all. Compared with piled up gold coins, the old man wants to exchange some rare treasures, and the first-grade elixir of the old man is mainly Neither Yunjian Pill nor Ice Soul Cold Condensing Pill has the effect of helping breakthrough..."

Hearing this, my enthusiasm for exchanging elixirs suddenly dropped a lot, but the old man changed the subject: "However, it's not that the elixirs that help advance to Linshen are not at all."

I said seriously: "Please advise."

The old man chuckled: "I have limited medicines, but there are outstanding people in Shushan Mountain, and there are countless treasures. If you want to talk about the medicines that help you advance to Linshen, there should be some medicines in the fourth peak of Shushan Mountain, Zhemo Peak. Hidden in the depths of the Pill Pavilion, rarely appearing in the world."

I tentatively said: "Zhe Mofeng... I can't help it, I can't go there and grab it."

The old man snorted: "Of course, who in the world would dare to snatch something from Shushan? But this time there is just an opportunity... In nine days, Shushan will hold a demon-slaying and sword-slaying conference. The rewards for this session can be described as extremely rich. The leader gave a top-level immortal weapon, and No.2 is a rare medicine that is close to the immortal grade, and then I don’t know how many practitioners will pretend to be sword cultivators to participate in the meeting.”

"Slaying demons and talking about swords..."

I have heard of this event before. Xie Minyun took the leader back then, and I thought it would take some time before it was held, but since the old man said so, it should be true. I guess he himself is one of the top executives in Shushan.

"Then we just need to get No.2?"

The old man nodded: "That's right, No. 2 can get the pill, but this is not a trivial matter that can be done by talking about it. Shushan has very strict restrictions on the age of the participants, and the requirement must be under 20." Only sword cultivators under the age of [-] and at least in the Transcendent realm can participate, but the top three winners every year are all sword cultivators at the Upper Realm of Nirvana, or even Perfect Nirvana."

"As for Linshen, there is no restriction in Mount Shu. After all, there are no Linshen monks under the age of 20 in Shenzhou... There is some hope for the peerless genius and the fairy Lingxu who have just been recruited by the head." The old man added.

I glanced at Xiaoye, and noticed a trace of interest in her eyes. This event is tailor-made for her...Of course, I can also participate. As long as I win the top two at that time, there will be fairy weapons and elixir .

However, according to the old man, the head of Shushan seems to have accepted a peerless genius who is about to enter the gods. If he breaks through the fourth level and participates in Demon Slaying and Swordsmanship, it will be a bit troublesome... I don’t use [killing] in Xiaoye, I don’t use the premise of divine power In this situation, there is no certainty of winning Tier [-].

"Thank you for letting me know." I said.

The old man waved his hand: "It's okay, Shushan will issue an announcement to all parts of China in two days, and you will know it even if I don't tell you."

At this time, there was a clear sound of fencing in the square in the distance.

The two turned their heads and saw dozens of Shushan elders in white robes standing around the square, and those ordinary disciples were fighting each other, showing off their talents... oh no, swordsmanship, attracting the elders to take disciples.

"Chengjian has begun."

I hurriedly said goodbye, and dragged Xiao Ye over to watch the excitement, while the old man continued to stare at the barbecue in his Dan stove, concentrating on controlling the heat.

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According to the requirements of the elders, the swordsmanship practice in the square is divided into two parts, one is self-performation, which is to practice a set of swordsmanship that one is best at in the open space, and the other is mutual performance, where two disciples hold swords to learn from each other without using the vitality of heaven and earth , dismantling each other's sword moves, so as to compete whose sword skills are more subtle.

This kind of sword move competition is the most basic step in Shushan practice. Although sword repairers master the "sword control technique" and use the vitality of heaven and earth to control flying swords, they will rarely use this basic sword move. Skill sparring is the key means to exercise the sword master's touch and judge the talent of swordsmanship.

Xiao Ye and I stood under the big tree, quietly watching the steps of the disciples swinging their swords and jumping.

In my eyes, Shushan disciples performed very well in swordsmanship, such as swimming dragons and swaying clothes. Even the worst performer was at the level of a professional sword dancer in his previous life.

However, "a layman watches the fun, an insider watches the doorway", in the eyes of the Shushan elders, these disciples' sword moves are very crude, and soon several disciples were pointed out that their sword skills were too poor, and they lost their qualifications to inherit the sword.

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Sword Consciousness Among the hundreds of disciples practicing sword moves, the one I paid the most attention to was Gu Zaoli.

This is not to admire the beautiful girl among a group of men... After all, she is too well disguised, or her development is too flat, and she can't see the slightest hint of protruding.

The reason why I looked at her at first was out of curiosity, but after observing for more than ten seconds, I found that her sword skills are indeed very good... It should be said that she is unexpectedly strong.

Although her level is only at the first level, her swordsmanship is quite superb, far surpassing her age group, including many young swordsmen who are not as good as her. When two people performed swords, they defeated three opponents in a row, so that not only me, but also many elders His gaze was fixed on her, with undisguised appreciation.

In terms of sword skills alone, any move must have flaws, but in the battle, the two sides are as fast as lightning, and the flaws are fleeting. By the time they are noticed, the flaws have already disappeared. However, Gu Zaoli seems to have a kind of anticipation of the enemy. The ability to see through the flaws in the moves, so he can take advantage of the gap and win with one blow.

This ability is undoubtedly a talent.

Gu Zaoli's sword skills performance has already shown a talent for swordsmanship that far exceeds that of her peers, so all the elders looked at her with eyes like jade, silently thinking about how to compete with the elders of Zhufeng and accept her as their apprentice.

There are seven peaks in Shu Mountain. Although the seven peaks and seven swords are all flying swords, they each perform their duties and practice in different directions.

For example, the main peak, Tongtian Peak, teaches [Sword of Chengtian], which means the great mission of inheriting the sky; the second peak, Longxia Peak, is in charge of the sword law of Shushan Mountain, and imparts [Sword of Zhanlong], which has the strongest killing breath; the third peak, Fenghui Feng majored in Fu Jian Dao and taught [Qi Qi 49 Hand Hui Feng Wu Liu Jian]; the fourth peak Zhe Mo Feng majored in Dan Jian Dao and taught [Dan Huo Jian]; [Sitting Forget Sword Art], there are many female disciples in the peak...

This is like a graduate student looking for a mentor. For a student with poor performance, as long as he succeeds in inheriting the sword, no matter which elder accepts him, he will be satisfied. At that time, it will depend on which sword technique the disciple wants to learn and whose sect he is willing to worship.

During the sword competition rehearsal, from time to time, the elders would yell at them, and each sentence pronounced that a disciple was "poor in sword skills".

Half an hour passed, the first round of sword skills test was over, and there were less than a hundred disciples left in the square.

Lu Ren, Xiao Han and others who came at the same time as Gu Zaoli were basically there... For the new disciples who have just arrived in Shushan, it often takes two or three years of hard work to pass the Sword Inheritance Conference, but this group of sword repairers is in a special situation. Ben is a genius of all major sword sects, with a good foundation, and he often passes it in one go.

The disciples in the square are relaxed. Before mastering the Flying Sword Art, sword skills are the most important foundation for a sword repairer. As long as the sword skills pass the test, the elders will basically accept them in the future. However, which peak to go to depends on luck up.

Xiaoye and I, as melon eaters, are also discussing which peak Gu Zaoli will go to. At present, it seems that there are elders in the seven peaks who want to take her as an apprentice. Given her gender, it seems good to go to Qingzhufeng...

While chatting, a piercing roar suddenly sounded in the sky.

A white-robed middle-aged swordsman descended from the sky stepping on a huge black black iron pillar and landed in the center of the square.

"Examination of sword knowledge, all disciples, please show your swords."

Everyone looked intently, and found that the so-called giant pillar of black iron was actually a slightly sword-shaped giant sword tire that had not been fully forged. It was more than two meters high, and its surface was full of uneven bumps and lines.

The middle-aged sword cultivator can fly, at least in the realm of the gods, and the peak master of which peak seems to be a special trip to deliver the sword fetus. After saying a word, he flew up and disappeared in the sight of all the sword cultivators.

Only I can perceive that he didn't actually leave, but hid in the sky in the clouds and mist, overlooking the square, and the main thing he was observing was Gu Zaoli... After all, this kid was obviously the one with the best sword skills before.

The elders saluted Gao Kong, and then asked the disciples to take turns to draw their swords towards the black sword embryo.

A group of disciples didn't understand what the elders meant, but they still obeyed obediently, lined up in a single file, walked up to the black sword tires in turn, and stabbed with force.

There was a clang.

The black sword embryo was stabbed by the sword, the sword body remained motionless, but the surface suddenly brightened.

In those uneven shadows and lines, there are layers of scorching red light, as if a fire is about to burst out.