Mortal Bones

"Why are these guys so chattering like the women on the street? Taiping, don't be sad. Just do your best in the competition tomorrow."

Old Eight glared at the chattering people, and then comforted Xu Taiping.

Wu Liang is a typical person who is cowardly at home and arrogant outside. He is honest when he is in the Seven Peaks, but once he leaves the Seven Peaks, he is like a honey badger. Whoever provokes him, he will bite and not let go.

If Xu Taiping hadn't been here, he would have gone up to argue with those disciples.

"Thank you, Brother Eight. I won't care about these words."

Xu Taiping smiled and nodded.

This level of ridicule, whether it was during the years when he was an outer disciple or when he was in the secular world, he had heard too much, and now it has no effect on him.

The only way to shut them up is to use your performance to make them speechless.

"By the way, the topic of tomorrow's game is to engrave words on hanging objects, right?"

Xu Taiping asked Old Eight.

"Yes." Lao Ba nodded, and then explained to Xu Taiping:

"Hang a weight on the flying sword, and then carve the complete Qingxuan Seven Laws on the cliff. You can challenge different weights. In the end, the side with the heavier weight hanging on the flying sword will win."

Xu Taiping nodded.

It was not difficult for him to fly the sword and carve words, but he had never tried to hang a weight below.

"Big sister, second brother!"

As soon as they went downstairs, they saw Big sister and Qingxiao and their group.

"Eighth brother, ninth brother."

"Go back, today's competition is over."

Having just lost the competition and suffered a crushing defeat, Big sister Jiang Zhi and second brother Qingxiao were not in a very good mood. They smiled reluctantly at the two and nodded.

Not only them, but even Zhao Linglong, who has always been very optimistic, looked depressed.

"Big sister, drink some water."

Xu Taiping handed a water bag that had been prepared long ago to Zhao Linglong.

Zhao Linglong took the water bag and took a few gulps, then stamped her feet and said:

"It's just that little bit!"

Hearing this, the senior sister reached out and patted Linglong's head, smiling and comforting:

"Linglong, you performed very well this time, it was the elder sister who held you back."

At this time, Jiang Zhi's face was pale, obviously a sign of a relapse of the old illness.

"Senior sister, how can I blame you."

Zhao Linglong hugged Jiang Zhi's arm with a distressed look, and then said with a pout:

"Senior sister, you should have rested and recovered. If we were not useless, there would be no need for you to go on the court with injuries."

"It's okay for me..."

Jiang Zhi gently patted the back of Zhao Linglong's hand.

"Senior sister, don't go up tomorrow, let the eighth junior brother go up."

Qingxiao, who was walking in the front, also turned around at this time and looked at Jiang Zhi with concern.

"I, your senior sister, haven't reached that point yet. At least in this fourth competition, I must win for Qifeng."

Jiang Zhi shook her head stubbornly.

When Xu Taiping heard this, he suddenly felt confused. He wondered why the senior sister was so obsessed with the outcome of this competition.

"Senior sister, if we don't win a single match in this competition, will there be any punishment?"

He tried to send a telepathic message to Zhao Linglong and expressed his confusion.

Zhao Linglong was silent for a while, and then sent a telepathic message to Xu Taiping:

"If we don't win a single match, the Seventh Peak will have many fairy fields and medicine gardens taken back by the Qingxuan Sect, and the expenses of the sect will become stretched in the next six years. And the senior sister is in charge of these things in the Seventh Peak. She doesn't want to see everyone tightening their belts, so she must participate in this competition."

Hearing this, Xu Taiping immediately understood.

The senior sister is actually the housekeeper in the Seventh Peak, and she manages the expenses of the peak.

If the Seventh Peak loses a few more fairy fields and medicine gardens, she, as the housekeeper, will naturally be unable to cook without rice, and the elixirs and medicinal materials for the disciples in the peak will have to be reduced.

Not everyone is like Xu Taiping. With treasures like Dragon Gall Wine and the supply of elixirs in the sect, their progress in cultivation is directly affected.

"By the way."

At this moment, Senior Sister Jiang Zhi suddenly turned around and looked at everyone.

"You should have heard about the murder of Wufeng Lu Chen, right?"

She asked everyone.

Upon hearing this, Xu Taiping couldn't help but feel nervous, but he nodded with everyone and said:

"I heard about it."

The news of Lu Chen's murder had spread in Qingxuan Sect yesterday afternoon, and all the disciples of each peak were questioned by the Seven Laws Hall without exception.

Xu Taiping was no exception.

However, he had perfect alibi, and the people of the Seven Laws Department asked a few questions and let him go.

"I received news from the people of the Seven Laws Hall this morning, saying that Lu Chen's death was most likely related to the Red-haired Knife Ghost, and the fourth junior brother was also injured by the Red-haired Knife Ghost before. We now suspect that the Red-haired Knife Ghost has indeed awakened. You, you must not go out before dark these days."

Jiang Zhi reminded everyone as she walked.

Hearing this, Xu Taiping secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He thought that the last arrangement seemed to have worked.

"I have to inconvenience you this time, Brother Daogui."

He teased in his heart.

"Taiping, you practice swordsmanship these days, try to go back as early as possible. If it really doesn't work, I'll ask the peak master to say hello to Elder Sansan."

Qingxiao looked at Xu Taiping at this time.

He knew that Xu Taiping had been practicing swordsmanship at Laoyuetan recently, sometimes even until midnight, so he specifically reminded him.

"Don't worry, senior brother, I've been going down the mountain and going home before dark recently."

Xu Taiping nodded.

Although he knew that Lu Chen was not killed by the red-haired knife ghost, he did not relax his precautions against the red-haired knife ghost.

Although he still practiced swordsmanship on time in recent days, because his sword-controlling skills have become more and more proficient, it often only takes two hours to write 3,000 words according to the revision suggestions of Elder Sansan.

In addition to continuing to find faults every day, Elder Sansan did not ask him to practice more, so he often went down the mountain before dark now.

"That's good."

Qingxiao nodded.

"By the way, the fourth competition will be held in three days. Here are the details of the fourth competition. Take some time to read it carefully in the next few days."

"You don't need to feel too much pressure in this competition. If you don't make any mistakes, you will have completed the task. Leave the rest to me and the senior sister."

He then handed Xu Taiping an envelope and gave another earnest instruction.