Peace in the fairyland (10): Exposed

Therefore, the Cheng family, who had not yet figured out the situation, went to the restaurant next door at the invitation of the Huang family. During the meal, the enthusiastic Huang family revealed the news they had heard from the children who had also entered the Qingyang Sect.

“My kid said that your Cheng Huaiqian is now one of the two best disciples in this group. He is so good that the immortals give him individual lessons!”

“Yes, yes. I heard that your child always ranks first or second in every assessment, and his talent in cultivation is even more amazing. Now he is already an immortal above the third level of the Qi training stage. My brat can’t compare with yours at all!”

“Brother Cheng, please tell me, how did you educate your children? Why are they so outstanding? If you see your child in the future, please mention our child’s name to him. If you can help him, we will be very grateful!”

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Uncle Cheng and Cheng Longhai, who were flattered by the Huang family in every way, had smiles on their faces, but their hearts were bleeding. While responding to the Huang family’s flattery, they also received a lot of information from them.

For example, the immortals would not restrict the number of times outer disciples could go down the mountain to meet their relatives. Even if a family member lived in Qingyang City, it was allowed for them to meet their children who were practicing in the mountains every day.

What’s more, as long as the immortal agreed, outer disciples could bring their families to Qingyang Mountain to experience the real Qingyang Sect.

“My child doesn’t have the nerve to ask the immortal for permission, but your child certainly can.

Well, unfortunately I have something to do at home and have to go back immediately, otherwise we must stay and listen carefully to your description of how magnificent the Qingyang Sect is. “

The Huang family was so envious that they sighed.

The Cheng family was so angry that they could hardly keep their smiles.

After finally dealing with the Huang family, they returned to the inn. All the Cheng family members were gathered in the same room. The air pressure in the room was so low that the younger generation didn’t even dare to breathe loudly.

“Go ahead, tell me all the details of your meeting yesterday, otherwise, hehe…”

The third uncle of the Cheng family stared at Cheng Longhai gloomily, forcing him to repeat everything Cheng Huaiqian had done and said the day before.

Cheng Longhai’s wife was filled with worry and couldn’t hold back her tears. Seeing the increasingly gloomy faces of the Cheng family elders, she had to help explain: “The child’s father was also afraid that the family would worry, so he just…”

“Shut up! You ignorant fool! You have the potential in your hands, but I hate you. It is definitely related to you, a vicious woman with a sweet mouth and a bitter heart!”

However, the third uncle of the Cheng family slammed the table, interrupted Mrs. Cheng’s words, pointed at her and shouted angrily.

Mrs. Cheng immediately covered her face and cried even more sadly, but no one came to comfort her.

After hearing what The Third Uncle of the Cheng family said, Cheng Longhai became angry with her. Even her two sons began to blame their mother for not controlling their fifth brother well, which led to his being so cruel to them.

While the Cheng family was in a mess, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian on Qingyang Mountain were following the immortal Zhao Xuhai from the weapon refining class to Fire Hammer Mountain.

Zhao Xuhai gave Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian two neatly arranged chairs to sit on. Probably the only one who was interested in refining magical weapons in the shape of chairs was the weapon refiner Zhao Xuhai.

Immortal Zhao Xuhai was different from others in that his cave was not built on the top of the Fire Hammer Mountain, which belonged to him alone, but at the foot of the mountain.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, sitting steadily on chairs, followed the immortal Zhao Xuhai in front of them and flew into a cave at the foot of Fire Hammer Mountain, and then flew all the way down along the cave. After flying for another incense stick of time, the three flew out of the narrow cave passage, and a spacious underground palace appeared in front of them.

The chair with dark patterns carved on it landed directly and steadily in front of a long table. Zhao Xu Haixian pressed his hands, indicating that Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian did not need to stand up and could just sit there and attend the class.

Although it was called a class, in fact, Immortal Zhao Xuhai directly handed each of them a jade tablet and arranged in a deep voice:

“These are the course contents. You can study on your own first. If you have any questions, write them down. You can ask me after you have finished learning everything.”

After saying that, Immortal Zhao Xuhai strode to other places in the underground palace to check the situation.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other and were not too surprised by Master Zhao Xuhai’s arrangement, because this was also how Master Zhao Xuhai usually taught.

A man sat on a high platform in the middle of the lecture hall, reading out the course content that had been prepared in advance and recorded on jade slips in a rigid and straight tone. He did not communicate with the young disciples below for most of the class.

When the class was about to end, Master Zhao would leave a stick of incense to ask the students if they had any questions. If a student asked a question, Master Zhao would answer it seriously. If the students had no questions, Master Zhao would leave directly.

Although Master Zhao Xuhai had always been serious and aloof, and seemed difficult to approach, based on Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian’s observations, Master Zhao Xuhai was very serious in preparing the content of his lectures, and the difficulty level and teaching speed took into account the acceptance capacity of most disciples.

They had previously thought that when Immortal Master Zhao Xuhai gave them private lessons, he would just give them jade slips and let them study on their own, and answer their questions when they had them, so they were not at all surprised at Immortal Master Zhao’s current arrangement.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian sat in front of a long table, studying the contents of the jade slips carefully. Both of them read through the jade slips very quickly, and they finished learning the contents of the two lessons recorded in the jade slips in half an hour. They also discussed some details with each other.

The contents of the jade slip were very detailed and comprehensive, and the two of them had no problem understanding anything. After learning, they relaxed and began to carefully observe this huge underground palace.

The reason why Immortal Zhao Xuhai built the palace deep underground was actually very obvious. There were more than a dozen magma pools of various sizes in this palace. In each magma pool, there was hot and boiling magma constantly rolling. Immortal Zhao Xuhai would throw some materials into the magma pool or take some materials out of the magma pool from time to time.

There was not only Immortal Master Zhao Xuhai in the hall, there were also three young brothers observing and recording the contents in various magma pools. Hearing them calling Immortal Master Zhao Xuhai “Master”, it could be seen that their identities were not only outer disciples, but also Immortal Master Zhao Xuhai’s registered disciples.

For an outer sect disciple, if he or she could gain the favor of an immortal and be accepted as a registered disciple by the immortal, it was a very honorable thing. Not only would he or she receive more teachings from the immortal, but he or she would also receive greater training from the sect.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at the four people’s actions with curiosity, observing what was going on in refining the weapon.

Soon, Master Zhao noticed that the two young people had stopped studying, so he walked over and asked, “Do you have any questions?”

Cheng Huaiqian shook his head. “We have already learned the contents of the jade slip. There is no problem.”

Immortal Master Zhao Xuhai was stunned, but did not say much. He took back the jade slips that he had previously given to the two people, and gave new jade slips to Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, allowing them to continue studying.

In this way, while giving the jade slips, they studied quickly. After an hour, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian had finished learning the content of a normal two-month class.

The main reason was that these contents were all theoretical knowledge and did not involve practical operations. The two of them only needed to memorize and understand them, so the learning speed was naturally very fast.

When Master Zhao Xuhai asked them again if they had any questions, Cheng Huaiqian took the initiative to ask Master Zhao Xuhai:

“Master Zhao, we want to test whether we have the talent to learn the refining skills in depth.”

This was actually an idea that Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian had long ago. Since Xia Ruize’s physique was suitable for refining pills, Cheng Huaiqian’s physique was likely suitable for refining weapons. The two of them could work together and each explore a field.

Zhao Xuhai looked at the two young men carefully, nodded in agreement, and took Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian to a magma pool and said seriously:

“The greatest pursuit of weapon refining is to create powerful weapons. Ultimately, this requires weapon refiners to have a deep understanding of various metal materials.

The first step for a metalsmith to process metal is to quench it. I will give you one hour to learn the “Tempering Technique” by yourselves, and then try to quench the original metal ore. The more impurities you quench, the more suitable you will be for this path.”

Each magma pool was restrained by a formation. If they didn’t get close to it, they wouldn’t feel too hot when standing in the underground hall, but it was also true that the temperature increased the closer they got to the magma pool.

Zhao Xuhai moved his fingers, and two exquisite chairs fell beside the magma pool. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian sat on the chairs. Because the temperature around them increased greatly, sweat began to appear on their foreheads when Master Zhao spoke.

Immortal Zhao Xuhai gave each of them a jade slip that recorded the Tempering Technique, then waved his hand and placed a pile of raw ore next to the two of them, and casually made a gesture to release an hourglass. He nodded at the two of them, indicating that they could start testing.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other, held their breath and began to read the magic formula on the jade slip.

Immortal Master Zhao Xuhai felt that standing by would affect the performance of the two, so he turned around and left. But in fact, both Immortal Master Zhao Xuhai and the other three brothers in the hall would cast concerned glances at them from time to time.

Among the new batch of outer disciples, there were two with extraordinary talents in their cultivation, and the immortals even gave them individual lessons. The news had long been heard by the senior brothers and sisters who had entered the sect earlier through conversations between the servants.

Everyone who heard the news couldn’t believe it, after all, this was a treatment they had never heard of before. But those who personally asked the immortals for confirmation received a positive answer. After realizing that this was true, the brothers and sisters in the outer sect couldn’t help but become curious about the two protagonists in the legend.

This was the case with Zhao Xuhai’s three registered disciples. They saw the legendary protagonist in their master’s presence today, and in spite of their busy schedules, they unconsciously paid him attention.

Although they didn’t know how those two people performed specifically, the fact that Master seemed to be in a good mood suggested that they did perform well.

At this time, seeing that the master arranged them to the side of the magma pool, it was obvious that he wanted to test the two people’s talent in refining weapons, so they couldn’t help but pay more attention.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian simply ignored the gazes directed at them and concentrated on practicing the techniques.

Soon, a difference appeared in their performance. Although their understanding of the techniques was not much different, Cheng Huaiqian was able to successfully perform the Tempering Technique very quickly and began to process a piece of raw ore.