In that distant little black house

After Lu Guijiu's cultivation base reached the middle stage of the fifth level of the Qi refining period, his "Blood Prison Heavenly Book" also broke through the first level.

The flame that appeared on his body was the vision produced by the "Blood Hell Heavenly Book".

It took Lu Guijiu several months to grow that long black hair again, but during these few months, Zhang Jingmo became very interested in Lu Guijiu's head.

When Lu Guijiu had a bald head, it was smooth and round, so it felt good to the touch. When a layer of short stubble grew, it was a little bit thorny, but it was still very interesting to touch.If it grows longer, the hair will become softer. Zhang Jingmo is used to touching it, and he can't stop it.

Lu Guijiu is also used to Zhang Jingmo touching his head, and sometimes he would rub his head against his master's hand, but the fly in the ointment is that Lu Guijiu's height is rising slowly, but in four years, he has been with Zhang Jingmo Almost high.

Zhang Jingmo was not surprised by this, because Lu Guijiu was half a head taller than him back then, but even though he knew it a long time ago, he still felt a little uncomfortable.

The 15-year-old Lu Guijiu began to gradually lose his youthful youthfulness, the baby fat on his face disappeared, and the edges and corners became sharper.He was already tall, and with his tall and straight figure, standing beside Zhang Jingmo, he was not concealed by Zhang Jingmo's demeanor at all.

The face of Lu Guijiu in front of Zhang Jingmo's eyes has gradually grown into the appearance in his memory, and the feelings in his heart are also a bit complicated, but too much time has passed, and the memory of hatred has become blurred, but it is something Zhang Jingmo wants to forget The picture was firmly imprinted in his mind.

In the past few years, Lu Guijiu did not lose the sword skills taught to him by Bai Lingxiao. Under the supervision of Zhang Jingmo, he practiced sword while studying "Blood Prison Book of Heaven", and he has achieved small success in sword skills.

This is probably the difference between a genius and a mortal. Zhang Jingmo can't be surprised at all now, after all, Lu Guijiu has given him too many surprises, and he can't take it anymore.

During the few years when Lu Guijiu was practicing in Youdong, he killed seven or eight spirit beasts near Youdong.The poisonous soil in the secluded cave disappeared, and the ghost was caught by Lu Guijiu and fed to Zhu Yan.As a result, the overall environment has changed, and it is no longer the same as when Lu Guijiu and Zhang Jingmo came here.

Others didn't know the influence of Lu Guijiu and Zhang Jingmo on Youdong, they only thought that the spiritual grass produced in Youdong was getting less and less, and fewer and fewer sect disciples came.

This is also convenient for Lu Guijiu's cultivation. It took him three years to reach the fifth floor of the Qi Refining Stage, and then it took him a year to consolidate his cultivation base. At this time, he is already in the middle of the fifth floor.

Zhang Jingmo could no longer remember the cultivation of Daoist Cen's disciples back then, but he vaguely remembered that for hundreds of years, among the disciples who participated in the Xuanwu Conference, there were very few who had surpassed the fifth level of the Qi refining period.

The Xuanwu Conference is a very important competition for disciples.If he can win the jackpot at this conference, it means that there are countless martial arts resources for him to enjoy.

Zhang Jingmo forgot what Lu Guijiu chose back then, but this time, he already had a goal - he wanted to prepare for Lu Guijiu's foundation building.

Lu Guijiu didn't know what Zhang Jingmo was thinking, but in the past few years, Zhang Jingmo had always told him to do the best in everything, and he responded to them one by one.

And before leaving Youdong, Zhang Jingmo said to Lu Guijiu: "This time when I return to Lingxu Sect, I want you to promise me one thing."

Lu Guijiu said: "Master, please tell me."

Zhang Jingmo said: "I want you to win the first place when allocating funds."

Lu Guijiu said, "Yes." Even if Zhang Jingmo didn't tell him this, it was still his goal.

Zhang Jingmo said again: "There is one more thing."

Lu Guijiu cast a questioning look.

Zhang Jingmo's voice cooled down, and he said: "When raising funds, I want you to kill someone."

Lu Guijiu was stunned for a moment, and then responded softly.This was not the first time Zhang Jingmo asked him to kill someone. When Lu Guijiu was only six years old, Zhang Jingmo put a dagger in Lu Guijiu's hand, asking him to personally take the life of the evil person who killed his family.

Zhang Jingmo observed Lu Guijiu's expression, and saw that he was relaxed without any entanglement, and said, "Don't you want to ask me why?"

Lu Guijiu lowered his eyebrows and spoke softly, he said: "Whatever the master asks the apprentice to do, the apprentice will obediently do it."

Zhang Jingmo looked at Lu Guijiu, but felt that the hot spot in front of him was a little different from that disciple in the first life... Living with Zhang Jingmo for a long time, his family did not suffer the same brutal death as in the first life, and neither did Lu Guijiu. Struggling to survive in the Lingxu sect, he lost a lot of hostility, but seemed to be infected with the gentle side of Zhang Jingmo's temperament.The way he looks at Zhang Jingmo is always submissive, like a well-behaved child.

Zhang Jingmo said suddenly: "Guijiu, don't blame me." He pursed his lips after saying this, as if he didn't expect that he would say such a thing.

Lu Guijiu was also a little surprised, he said: "Master, how can I betray you."

Zhang Jingmo nodded, but he didn't want to say anything more, he said: "Have a good rest, we will return to Lingxu sect tomorrow."

Lu Guijiu responded.

After a good day's rest, Lu Guijiu and Zhang Jingmo embarked on the journey back together.

Different from the wind and snow when it came, it was in the height of spring, the sky was high and the air was crisp, and everything was recovering.

Zhang Jingmo and Lu Guijiu had been driving for more than ten days. Seeing that they were getting closer to the Lingxu Sect, Zhang Jingmo suddenly became interested. Together with Lu Guijiu, he turned into a mortal, found two horses, and started to play. while hurrying.

This is probably one of the reasons why Zhang Jingmo is not suitable for cultivation. He is too indifferent and doesn't have very strong desires.This may be a good thing for ordinary people, but for those who cultivate immortals, it is a fatal injury.

Without desire, it means that there is no motivation to move forward. In this world of immortal cultivators, if you don't fight or grab, you can only be swallowed by others.

Zhang Jingmo has experienced so many things, so naturally he has changed a lot of this personality, but perhaps he lived this life with a different mentality from the beginning, and the desireless side of his personality was exposed again.

Lu Guijiu didn't know why Zhang Jingmo liked this, but as long as he was with his master, he would feel happy, so he didn't bother to ask, just listened to what Zhang Jingmo said.

The two horses wobbled into the deep mountain where the Lingxu faction was located, and it took more than ten days to reach the halfway up the mountain.

The Lingxu faction is located in the deep mountains, and it is almost impossible for ordinary people to reach it unless they are cultivators.

According to common sense, mortals should not be seen on this halfway up the mountain, but Zhang Jingmo was very lucky. He met a person, a mortal in embarrassment.

That man was a teenage boy, and his appearance was a little immature, with a burden on his back, and he was in a mess.Like Zhang Jingmo, he didn't expect to see other people here, with a look of astonishment on his face.

Zhang Jingmo glanced at the young man, then asked, "Where did you go?"

The young man saw that Zhang Jingmo was neatly dressed and had a calm expression. He didn't look like someone who had climbed the mountain for so long. Moreover, Zhang Jingmo and Lu Guijiu didn't have any baggage on them, so they obviously came here empty-handed.

The young man knelt down and said, "I beg the immortal to accept me as a disciple!"

Zhang Jingmo said: "Get up."

The boy refused to get up, just knelt and kept kowtowing.

Zhang Jingmo said: "I can't accept you."——As soon as these words came out, the young man showed a desperate expression, but Lu Guijiu, who was standing behind Zhang Jingmo, heaved a sigh of relief. Accepting an apprentice is completely unbearable.

The young man was shaking violently, and he no longer begged, but only let out a small sob.

Zhang Jingmo stared at this person, and just wanted to sigh softly, who would have thought that Bai Lingxiao's most proud disciple in the future, the top few Candle Sky Masters of the Lingxu Sect... would be in such a mess.

Zhang Jingmo said: "Get up, I can't be your master, I'll find you another master."

From despair to hope, the young man showed an expression of ecstasy.

Zhang Jingmo said: "Let's go." After he finished speaking, he waved his hand and found a floating cloud, which wrapped up the young man, and after a few breaths, he arrived at the mountain gate of Lingxu Sect.

When the disciples guarding the mountain saw Zhang Jingmo coming back, they all called out respectfully: "Master Zhang."

Zhang Jingmo said: "Elder Bai came out of retreat?"

The disciple guarding the mountain said: "No."

Zhang Jingmo thought for a while, and then figured out the joint.Bai Lingxiao's future can be summed up in two results. One is to escape into the demon world and become a generation of demon cultivators, and the other is to fight against the demons. He chose to resist the demons because of his apprentice.

But whether Bai Lingxiao has this apprentice, the source is Zhang Jingmo.

If Zhang Jingmo had refined the Huorong Pill for Bai Lingxiao, then Bai Lingxiao would have retreated for a hundred years, and when he came out again, his beloved apprentice would have been turned into a handful of loess.And if Zhang Jingmo hadn't given Bai Lingxiao the Fire Melting Pill, Bai Lingxiao, who hadn't retreated, would have met his apprentice by accident, and only then would he have the great power of Zhutian...

Is this the cause and effect?Thinking of this, Zhang Jingmo took another look at Lu Guijiu who had been standing behind him.If he hadn't accepted Lu Guijiu as his apprentice, and hadn't taken Lu Guijiu to practice in Youdong, naturally he wouldn't have come back with Lu Guijiu at this time. He met Bai Lingxiao's apprentice and knew the reason for this.

Then, is this another cause and effect?

Zhang Jingmo smiled and said, "Let's go back to the cave first."

With that said, he brought Lu Guijiu and the boy back to his cave.

After arriving at the cave, Qingfengmingyue was already waiting at the door, and the two Taoist boys were still the same, Zhang Jingmo said: "Go and prepare some clean clothes."

Qingfeng Mingyue opened her mouth to agree, and then retreated.

The young man had just come down from the sky, and his legs were still weak. When he saw Zhang Jingmo standing in front of him, he said without turning his head, "After today, you will live here. When your master leaves the customs, I will take you to see him." he."

The young man trembled in thanks.

Zhang Jingmo just took two steps, and felt that something was wrong. After thinking about it for a while, he realized that he couldn't just leave this person here.Ordinary people don't cultivate for only a few decades, even if they eat Zhuyan Dan, they will only keep their face, but if he teaches, I'm afraid that this child's talent will be wasted...

Feeling more and more troublesome, Zhang Jingmo simply threw out a talisman.

As soon as the young man opened his mouth wide, the talisman stuck to his head. He was stunned, and then fell to the ground stiffly.

Lu Guijiu said in a daze, "Master, you are..."

Zhang Jingmo didn't answer, but waved his sleeves again, and Lu Guijiu saw that the man was lifted by a floating cloud, and went directly to the location of Zangbao Pavilion.

Lu Guijiu said: "..."

At this time, Qingfeng Mingyue came over with clean clothes. They looked around, as if they were looking for the young man just now.

Zhang Jingmo said: "The clothes are no longer needed."

Although Qingfeng didn't understand why, he still said yes.

Zhang Jingmo thought for a while and added: "When you leave Bai Lingxiao, remember to remind me that there is something in the Treasure Pavilion that you want to give him."

Qingfeng said hello again.

Only then did Zhang Jingmo nod in satisfaction, and took Lu Guijiu away.

Seeing Zhang Jingmo leaving, Qingfeng asked Mingyue in a low voice: "Do you think we want to tell the Palace Master about those things?"

Mingyue pouted: "Forget it, if that person comes again, the Palace Master will know, if he doesn't come... let's pretend we don't know about it."

Qingfeng sighed when he heard the words, but didn't say anything else, he only agreed with Mingyue's words.

After Lu Guijiu and Zhang Jingmo returned to Lingxu Sect, many people got the news.

Yu Fen, who came to the door first, brought a jug of high-quality spirit wine in his hand as usual, and asked Zhang Jingmo to have a few drinks.

After Zhang Jingmo agreed, the two drank some wine on the stone table.

Yu Fen said: "I haven't seen you for a few years, your hair hasn't turned black yet?"

Zhang Jingmo said: "It hurts the root, how can it be so easy to recover." The Huo Rong Pill is against the sky, and he has to pay some price to refine the Huo Rong Pill.

Yu Fen said: "You walked in a cool way, I really don't know, this Lingxu faction has fallen out of heaven because of you."

How could Zhang Jingmo not know that when he first refined the Huorong Pill, he had seen a grand occasion.Because of this elixir, the number of people who came to visit him was so numerous that it almost broke the threshold of Lingxu Sect.

Zhang Jingmo said: "I don't want to come back, but the Xuanwu Conference is coming..."

Hearing this, Yu Fen paused the hand holding the wine glass, and said, "Are you really planning to let Guijiu go to the Xuanwu Conference?"

Zhang Jingmo said: "Why not?"

Yu Fen struggled for a moment, but still said it out, he said, "The apprentice of Taoist Cen broke through the fifth layer of the Qi refining period a few days ago..."

Zhang Jingmo narrowed his eyes slightly, which was a bit unexpected.

Yu Fen said again: "You love your apprentice so much, isn't it dangerous to let him participate in this?"

After Zhang Jingmo returned to the Lingxu Sect, he took action to suppress Lu Guijiu's cultivation, making him look like he was only in the middle of the fourth level of the Qi refining period to outsiders, so it was naturally normal for Yu Fen to be so worried.

Zhang Jingmo said: "This is it?"

Yu Fen said: "Ai, ai, forget it, I don't bother to care about you." He shook his head, as if there was nothing he could do with Zhang Jingmo, the emperor was not in a hurry with the eunuchs, so what's the use of being in a hurry.

Zhang Jingmo said: "I have my own discretion in this matter, so you don't need to worry about it. It's your state of mind..."

Yu Fen said: "Let's let God take its course." He seemed to have broken the pot.

Zhang Jingmo shook his head. If Yu Fen encounters other obstacles, he can still help a little, but he really can't help with the problem of mood.

The two drank by themselves for a long time, and Yu Fen drank all the wine brought by Yu Fen before wandering away drunk.Zhang Jingmo also felt a little drunk, so he simply went to the pool in the cave, took off his clothes, and walked into the water, wanting to take a thorough bath.

Lu Guijiu was originally in the house and could hear Zhang Jingmo and Yu Fen chatting.Hearing that the two had had a good time drinking, his tone was a little drunk.

Then Yu Fen left, and when Lu Guijiu opened the door to look for Zhang Jingmo, he saw his master flying towards the Dongfu water pool.

Zhang Jingmo's cave is a treasured place, and the water in the pool is full of aura. Zhang Jingmo quickly took off his clothes and walked into the pool, as if he didn't notice Lu Guijiu following behind him.

Lu Guijiu stopped at the edge of the pool, and was about to step forward to call his master, but after seeing the scene in front of him clearly, he stopped in his tracks.

Zhang Jingmo's hair was already reaching his calves, and he usually tied it behind his head, and it would only loosen it when he was taking a bath.The wine that Yu Fenlai brought was a high-quality spiritual wine that was said to be able to get drunk even by gods. Zhang Jingmo drank it to his heart's content, and he was indeed a little drunk at the moment.He was lying on a big rock on the shore, his long silver hair was floating in the water, and his skin was like snow even more.

Lu Guijiu could vaguely see the looming white back in the silver-white hair, and Zhang Jingmo's graceful buttocks and two slender thighs could also be clearly seen in the clear pool water.Because he wanted to float in the water, Zhang Jingmo's two legs were slightly stepping on the water. From a distance, he looked like a mermaid in the sea, making it difficult for Lu Guijiu to even breathe.

He looked at it for a while, and then reluctantly called out: "Master."

Zhang Jingmo turned his head, his expression was a little confused, he said: "What's the matter."

Lu Guijiu saw that Zhang Jingmo's face was full of alcohol, but he opened his mouth and said, "Master, don't catch a cold."

"Catch a cold?" Hearing this, the drunkenness on Zhang Jingmo's face subsided a little, and he said with a smile: "Little brat, what are you thinking, don't I know?"

Lu Guijiu was stunned.

The smile on Zhang Jingmo's face faded, and he said, "Go away."

Lu Guijiu clenched the hand hanging by his side.

This was the first time that Lu Guijiu saw Zhang Jingmo who was so indifferent, and this was also the first time that Zhang Jingmo said to Lu Guijiu, "Go away."

After saying this, Zhang Jingmo also knew he had made a slip of the tongue. He wiped his face with his hand and said, "You go first, I'm a little drunk."

Lu Guijiu hummed lightly, then turned and left, but in his mind, Zhang Jingmo's indifferent expression was still lingering.

Zhang Jingmo looked at Lu Guijiu's leaving back, and knew that he was venting his anger. When he saw Yu Fen's drunken appearance, he thought of his friend's miserable end—and himself, the end of every death.