Peace in the fairyland (9): Follow-up

Xia Ruize was not panicked when being stared at, and even smiled at Immortal Luo Qi.

Immortal Luo Qi was secretly confused for a while, but in the end he said nothing, just sighed again, waved his hand and handed the jade slip with the fire control technique to Cheng Huaiqian, and also only gave him a short time to practice, and then said to Cheng Huaiqian: “Come on, try it on the stove.”

Then he threw some materials into the alchemy furnace, and Immortal Luo Qi ignited the fire under the alchemy furnace, and then handed the alchemy furnace over to Cheng Huaiqian.

Cheng Huaiqian tried to use the Fire Controlling Technique, but he failed the first time and the flame under the alchemy furnace suddenly became smaller.

Fortunately, before the flames were completely extinguished, Cheng Huaiqian performed a successful fire-controlling technique. However, for some reason, his fire-controlling technique lost its effect very quickly, and he needed to constantly practice the technique to replenish it.

Moreover, the flame under Cheng Huaiqian’s control was less than half the height of the alchemy furnace wall at its highest point, and was very unstable, sometimes large and sometimes small, due to the constant switching of fire controlling techniques.

Cheng Huaiqian raised his eyebrows, not feeling frustrated. He just focused on continuously casting the Fire Controlling Technique. After about three minutes, Cheng Huaiqian stopped and looked at Immortal Luo Qi.

Immortal Luo Qi, who was standing by, looked at Cheng Huaiqian’s performance with an expression that seemed both happy and regretful. He seemed to want to laugh but was forcing himself to remain serious. In short, it was very twisted, and his white beard kept shaking.

Xia Ruize felt conflicted feelings from him.

Immortal Luo Qi’s mood was really complicated. When he first discovered that Cheng Huaiqian’s performance was far inferior to Xia Ruize, his first reaction was relief and happiness. Sure enough, Xia Ruize’s kind of evil talent was extremely rare! This was the performance of a normal person!

Then he suddenly realized that something was wrong, because Cheng Huaiqian was also able to successfully perform the Fire Controlling Technique and successfully keep the flame burning for a period of time, which meant that he also had the talent for alchemy. This realization immediately confused Immortal Luo Qi.

According to experience, among the thousands of new disciples, it would be very good if more than ten disciples with alchemy talent could be tested. The vast majority of ordinary disciples did not have alchemy talent, which was reflected in their inability to perform the Fire Controlling Technique in a short period of time.

Therefore, if Cheng Huaiqian, who was able to display the fire control technique and hold on for several minutes, had been in previous sessions, he would actually have been a good talent that would have impressed Immortal Luo Qi. However, because Xia Ruize was sitting next to him, Cheng Huaiqian’s performance was completely overshadowed.

You know, before Immortal Luo Qi reacted, he was actually planning to tease Cheng Huaiqian a few words…

The complicated thoughts made Luo Qixian look a little strange, but after regaining his senses, his expression also returned to calm. He stood up and sat up straight, and said to Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian earnestly:

“Both of you have a talent for alchemy. If you wish, you can practice alchemy while also practicing.

Of course, whether or not to embark on the path of alchemy depends mainly on your thoughts. This jade slip contains more detailed introductions. You can go back and study it on your own. It won’t be too late to give me the answer during the next class.”

After sending the jade slips, Immortal Luo Qi waved his hand to indicate that today’s class was over, and asked the two little guys to disappear quickly.

After thanking him, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian took the jade slip and left Luo Qixian’s White Head Peak.

Luo Qi absentmindedly continued to cast spells at the alchemy furnaces around him, while in his mind he was thinking about how to train the two young men, especially Xia Ruize.

Xia Ruize’s talent in alchemy was unprecedented in his life. He wanted to force them to stay, but after thinking it over again and again, he decided to send the two guys away first. They needed more time to think about this decision carefully.

After all, the mainstream view in the fairyland was that cultivation and ascension was the right path, and other minor paths were only taken when one had reached the top of the main path and saw no hope of further improvement and had the leisure to delve into and develop. Or, one’s own cultivation talent was too ordinary, and one could not achieve much success by taking the main path, so one simply takes the minor paths to gain a foothold.

Immortal Luo Qi himself made up his mind to delve into the study of alchemy when he was over a hundred years old and his cultivation progress was too slow.

However, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were different. Both of them had amazing talents in practicing the right way. If he dared to detain people and force Xia Ruize to learn to make pills, the dean would probably beat him directly to the death.

Immortal Luo Qi, who was both happy and worried, suddenly remembered something. His eyes rolled, and he took out a paper crane and began to take credit for himself in front of the crane. He kept saying that he was so caring and responsible for the two young guys, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian.

The paper crane carried the weight of the words and flew to the Jade Peak where the Immortal Song Fengyu was. It accurately found the sleeping Immortal Song Fengyu in the endless sea of ​​flowers and trees, and used its small paper beak to peck at the Immortal Song Fengyu’s face repeatedly until he woke up.

Song Fengyu listened to Luo Qi’s nagging voice, flicked the paper crane away impatiently, then turned over and continued to sleep.

A shameless old white-head, who didn’t know him? He must have taken the initiative to work hard to teach the two young boys, and now he wanted to get benefits from him? He thought so beautiful that his beard had fallen off!

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, unaware that the two immortals were arguing with each other via paper cranes, walked down White Head Peak on their own. White Head Peak was very close to Qingyang Mountain where the outer courtyard was located. The two practiced and communicated at the same time, and soon walked back. As a result, as soon as they entered the courtyard, they saw Wu Wei waiting in front of their door.

When Wu Wei saw Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian coming back, he quickly opened the door and followed them into the room, then said to Cheng Huaiqian:

“Brother Cheng, we got a message from the office down the mountain that your family has sent someone to visit you.”

Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize looked at each other, quite surprised.

Although previous missions gave them identities, those identities only existed in words. This was the first time that the so-called “family” really emerged.

“Does the sect have any rules about this?”

Cheng Huaiqian poured a glass of water for himself and Xia Ruize, and asked Wu Wei with interest.

Wu Wei immediately explained:

“Qingyang Sect does not restrict the relatives of outer disciples from visiting, but it restricts outer disciples from leaving Qingyang Mountain without permission. Therefore, a pavilion was built at the foot of Qingyang Mountain. If relatives come to visit, they can reunite with their relatives in the pavilion.

If you want to meet, you can send a message down the mountain to arrange a meeting time.”

“I want to go and have a look, what do you think?”

Cheng Huaiqian twirled the teacup with his fingers and asked Xia Ruize in his mind.

Xia Ruize nodded in agreement. It was interesting that the servant who was sent away last time still had a follow-up.

Cheng Huaiqian said that it would be better to meet today than to wait for another day, so they would arrange the meeting for this afternoon. Wu Wei hurried to deliver the message.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian closed the door and continued to concentrate on their cultivation. The result of the immortal teaching them alone was that they had more content to master. The two of them would only feel that time was not enough and would not waste time on irrelevant people.

The two of them practiced until a quarter of an hour before the scheduled meeting time, and then they walked out of the room, practiced the Light Body Technique, and ran quickly down the mountain path.

Without opening the “The Path to Self-Reflection” formation, the mountain road seemed much shorter. Because they ran fast, the two of them reached the bottom of the mountain a few minutes earlier.

There was a small pavilion at the foot of the mountain, where a large group of people were already waiting.

Before Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian could get close, a middle-aged man walked out of the pavilion, walked towards Cheng Huaiqian with an excited look, and shouted, “My son, you have suffered!”

Cheng Huaiqian raised his eyebrows and took a big step to the side to avoid the other party’s enthusiasm, making the other party’s hand that wanted to hug him fall in vain, and he could only withdraw his hand awkwardly.

Now the middle-aged man had time to look at Cheng Huaiqian carefully. He couldn’t say the words “you’ve suffered” and “you’ve lost weight” that he had originally wanted to say, because he found that the “my son” he was talking about was very different from what he had in mind.

The fifth son of a concubine, who was always seen as hunched over, timid and cowardly, now stood tall, full of vigor and self-assured, completely different from before. If it weren’t for the fact that his face was somewhat similar to his own when he was young, the middle-aged man would have suspected that he had recognized the wrong person.

The middle-aged man was so shocked that he was speechless for a moment and almost forgot what he was doing here.

At this time, the people behind the middle-aged man came over one after another. A woman who pretended to be gentle and kind took the initiative to greet them: “Xiao Wu, have you become estranged from your father and mother? Why don’t you call anyone?”

Cheng Huaiqian looked up at the sky with a half-smile on his face and replied, “I have to get back to the sect before the sun sets. Tell me what’s going on as soon as possible.”

The woman secretly hated this little bastard for becoming so powerful now that he was in power and had such an arrogant attitude. He was completely different from the man who had been living in fear under her before.

But no matter how much she hated him, the handkerchief in her hand was almost torn to pieces. Thinking of the purpose of this visit, the woman still had to try her best to maintain a smile on her face, and even said in a slightly flattering tone:

“Xiao Wu has really made it big. He has become an outer disciple of Qingyang Sect. Your family members miss you very much. Look, your eldest brother and third brother have come to visit you with your father and mother.”

Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize looked back as the woman said, and there were indeed two gentlemen in fine clothes standing behind them, but their eyes were full of jealousy, and they stared at Cheng Huaiqian as if they wanted to replace him, but they didn’t look like they “missed him very much”.

“Oh, and then?” Cheng Huaiqian withdrew his gaze without interest and asked casually.

The woman choked and her face turned even paler. She looked at the man next to her for help.

Cheng Longhai, the father of “Cheng Huaiqian” in the mission world, coughed lightly. His wife, who had been trying to sow discord between him and his concubine son for many years, had made it a habit for him to teach him a lesson as soon as he received her gaze:

“How can you be disrespectful to the head mistress? You must not act unruly and arrogant just because you entered the Qingyang Sect, and be disrespectful to your elders and unfriendly to your peers. If you do so, the Qingyang Sect will definitely not be willing to continue to train you.”

Is this a threat? Cheng Huaiqian sneered in his heart and responded directly with an “Oh” to show that he was listening.

His expression was calm and composed, but it made the visitor very angry.

Cheng Longhai’s temper flared up all of a sudden, and he was about to scold this unfilial son. The woman next to him saw that something was wrong, so she quickly pulled Cheng Longhai’s sleeve and pointed at his two sons who followed him from behind, indicating that business was more important.

Cheng Longhai managed to suppress his temper, but his tone became even harsher, and he said in an imperative tone:

“We are worried about you staying alone in Qingyang Sect. Bring your eldest and third brothers to Qingyang Sect. You brothers can take care of each other, and your family can feel more at ease.”

Cheng Huaiqian was curious this time, “How to bring people into Qingyang Sect?”

This made Cheng Longhai feel angry again. The woman next to him thought about her son’s future and quickly reached out to hold the man down, smiling and explaining:

“Xiao Wu, mother heard that the outer disciples of Qingyang Sect can bring their own servants, and also heard that the servants of Qingyang Sect can also take classes and practice. You are the only one who can make a difference, and it is difficult for you to do it alone. It is better for you to bring your eldest brother and third brother with you, so that the three of you brothers can support each other!”

Cheng Huaiqian turned his head and looked at Xia Ruize. They had never heard of this rule, and it seemed that they had never seen anyone bring two more servants?

“Oh, I remember now.” Xia Ruize flipped through his memory and suddenly said, “I seem to have heard an outer sect disciple mention once that he had a servant that he had been using since he was a child. Without that person, his life was inconvenient in every way, so he applied to the outer sect manager to bring the servant into the Qingyang Sect.

The person was indeed brought in, but the servant was treated completely differently from the servants hired by Qingyang Sect. He could not attend classes and practice with the disciple, and could not even leave the disciple’s courtyard. “

Xia Ruize’s words instantly made Cheng Longhai and his wife, as well as the two young men behind them, look unhappy. The woman who had been trying to maintain a kind smile could no longer hold it in and immediately started to mock:

“Xiao Wu, why haven’t your father and I heard of this? I’m afraid you didn’t want to bring up this excuse your brother made up. It’s hard for you to find someone to cooperate with you in lying, it’s really…”

For the past twenty years or so, the woman had been scolding “Cheng Huaiqian” like this. Previously, she had been pretending to be kind and generous because they had not seen each other for many days and she had something to ask of him, but when she got angry, her true colors were revealed.

“Cheng Huaiqian! I think you are too bold to listen to your parents. Look at what you are like now. How could you get such an opportunity without your family’s training? Not only are you ungrateful, but you also use lowly means to plot against your brother. You are unworthy of being his brother!”

Without his wife’s coordination, Cheng Longhai immediately lost control of his temper and started to scold loudly.

“You two should be careful with your words. You can eat more, but you should not talk too much. I heard that it is not a big deal for the people in the fairyland to accidentally hurt a few ordinary people, and there is no punishment. It is dark and the dew is heavy, so be careful where you step.”

Xia Ruize said this with a smile on his face, as if he was not making threats but chatting about the weather.

For a long time, when people from the Fairyland went out to train, if they accidentally hurt ordinary people, giving compensation was out of kindness on the part of the Fairyland disciples, and no one cared about anything else and no one could seek justice.

Therefore, children in the secular world grow up listening to stories about how they must never anger people from the fairyland.

Everyone yearned for but feared the Fairyland. As soon as Xia Ruize made the threat, the long-standing fear of the Fairyland frightened the four members of the Cheng family. The two young men couldn’t help but step back a few steps, staring at Xia Ruize in fear, fearing that he would attack them directly.

After all, Cheng Huaiqian was their family member, and he had always been the one being bullied. They were used to looking down on Cheng Huaiqian. Xia Ruize was a stranger from the fairyland. Before, the woman dared to mock him in person when she was angry, but now she was threatened and sobered up instantly, and quickly hid behind her husband.

The fake smile on Cheng Huaiqian’s face disappeared when the woman spoke. He looked at them coldly and rejected them directly:

“I will not bring them into Qingyang Sect. If you have nothing else to do, you can leave. Don’t come to me in the future and delay my cultivation.”

Hearing Cheng Huaiqian’s blunt words, Cheng Longhai felt flustered. He had a feeling that he was about to lose his son. This feeling made him even angrier. He stared at Cheng Huaiqian and asked in a sharp voice:

“Listen to what you are saying. I’m going to go to Qingyang Sect and ask them if they want to recruit people like you who abandon their relatives and are ungrateful when they become successful.

If you still consider yourself a member of the Cheng family, then bring your two brothers in. Your mother and I are your family and can forgive you for being successful and frivolous, but you must not be so rude and unreasonable when dealing with outsiders.”

Cheng Huaishen was completely impatient, frowned, sneered and said:

“When you accuse me of something like this, have you ever thought about what would happen if the immortals of Qingyang Sect heard about it and really kicked me out of the sect?

If you want no one from your Cheng family to get in the fairyland, go ahead and spread the word everywhere.”

After saying that, Cheng Huaiqian took Xia Ruize and turned away.