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When Shen Lan came back at night, she kicked the door open, and the voice came in before anyone came in: "Return to return, something big happened!"

Returning to the nerves stretched by the shout, he stood up and asked, "What's wrong?"

Shen Lan rushed in and closed the door behind her back, with a smile on her face, as if something serious had happened.

"Elder Pang is back, but he frightened all the disciples in the Xiaodong Pavilion. Guess what?"

Zhong Gui followed his words and said, "What's wrong?"

"He has become younger! His hair is black and black, his white beard is gone, and the creases on his face are gone! He's fat, and he doesn't look like an elder at all, but like our senior brother!"

Shen Lan's eyes were shining brightly: "I heard that the elders on the other peaks have become younger. I heard that Elder Zhaoyan is very beautiful! Many disciples secretly ran to see her."

"Elder Pang also told us that the master is out of seclusion, that is the person we met last night. It must be him, only he can make the elders rejuvenate, right? I guess the clouds on the mountain have something to do with him Relationship, tell me, how powerful is he?"

"I don't know." Returning said.

Shen Lan stepped on her boots and rolled onto the bed, as if she had completely forgotten the fear brought about by the ghost market Shanggong Wunian, and said: "I heard that there is a half-immortal venerable who has lived for hundreds of years on Mount Sumeru. Who is stronger than Shizu?"

"I don't know." Returning said.

"I also heard that there are many powerful monsters in Yaochuan, you say..." Before Shen Lan finished speaking, there was a knock on the door.

There is a restriction outside the door, and ordinary disciples are unable to knock on the door, who could be here?

Chong Gui walked over to open the door, but saw Elder Pang standing outside the door.At this time, Elder Pang looked like a good-tempered fat senior brother. When he met him at first sight, he was stunned for a moment. After all, he never knew that he would have the opportunity to see Elder Pang when he was young.

"Ahem." Elder Pang coughed lightly twice, then returned to his side, allowing Elder Pang to come in.

Shen Lan, who was lying on the bed lazily just now, hurriedly sat up cross-legged, and said with a sneer, "Elder, why are you here?"

"Come and see Chonggui." Elder Pang sat at the table and motioned for Chonggui to also sit down.

Chong Gui paused, stood still for a while, and said in a deep voice, "I have something to report."

He went to the main hall in the morning, but did not find Elder Pang.When she came back at noon, Shen Lan also mentioned that Elder Pang was not in the dojo. Remembering that Elder Pang left in a hurry that day, Huihui originally planned to wait until Elder Pang came back, but he did not expect that Elder Pang came to see him in person.

"speak."

What I want to talk about again is the matter of going down the mountain that day. Shen Lan's heart tightened when he heard it, but he didn't expect that after finishing speaking, Elder Pang just smiled and said something about the enchantment on the mountain, and the elders will deal with it later. Let them not be an example, and they will not be held accountable.

Shen Lan breathed a sigh of relief.

Elder Pang stretched out his hand to check Chonggui's pulse, and he stopped after confirming that he was safe. He pondered for a moment before speaking: "Chonggui, I was in a hurry the past two days, and there are many things that I haven't had time to tell you in detail."

Returning to the side, he quietly looked at Elder Pang.Sensing that the atmosphere was a bit stagnant, Shen Lan no longer had the playful smile just now, and looked at Zhonggui with some helplessness, and then at Elder Pang.

"Do you know how many elders agreed with you to worship the mountain gate after the six-fold assessment when you started?"

After thinking about it, Zhong Gui said, "Three."

In the six-level assessment, the seven elders pay attention to the movements of each student participating in the assessment from the beginning to the end. If at least three elders agree, the student can enter the mountain gate.

Elder Pang shook his head slightly. Looking at the handsome and indifferent face of the young man, he couldn't help stroking his beard, but his face was clean, so he had to put down his hands and said, "It's seven."

Chong Gui's eyes widened slightly, and Shen Lan couldn't help but open her mouth slightly: "It turned out to be seven?"

It is said that senior brother Xiaodongge had only six elders to support him during the assessment.

"Except for me, the six elders all think that you can enter the mountain, and they have their own reasons. They were worried that you would slack off because of this, and they were worried that you would be burdened, so they never told you."

"In the past two years, I have seen your hard work, and I feel more and more that the choice of the seven of us was not wrong."

Returning exhaled lightly.

As Elder Pang said, his eyes fell slightly, and he saw the unclosed book on the table, picked it up and took a look, it was a collection about worldly spells, and he looked at the book that he had finished reading next to him. Taking the brochure about Yaochuan Lingzhi, I took it over and flipped through it: "In these years, you have borrowed all the books in the Sutra Pavilion, and you are the only one who is willing to study them seriously."

In fact, every afternoon, the disciples would be called to the classroom to listen to the older brothers' lectures about Taoism, landforms, etc., but few of them would listen carefully.

Young disciples think that this is a side door, and that cultivation is the right way.They are all busy improving their cultivation, who has the time to listen to these miscellaneous things.Even if the brothers and sisters who have been there have told them the importance of the content of the lectures many times, few people listen to them and take them to heart.

But Lanke Mountain has never forced this statement, since it has already explained the key points, it is up to oneself whether to listen or not.

Among the disciples who have not gone down the mountain, the only one who is willing to listen is returning to one person.

Because of this, the brothers and sisters in the Xiaodong Pavilion have always been kinder than others when returning home.

Elder Pang changed the subject: "Return, how many years have you been on the mountain?"

Re-answer: "More than three years."

"Three years of enlightenment, how do you feel?"

"Forgive me for being stupid."

Elder Pang smiled and waved his hands: "It's okay." Then he asked: "After reading most of the books in the Sutra Pavilion, how do you feel?"

"From it, the disciple can glimpse the vastness of the world, and everything is unpredictable. The more I look... the more I realize that I am incomparably insignificant in this world, no different from an ant on the ground."

Shen Lan blinked her eyes in confusion, she read a lot, could she feel this way?Then he shouldn't read it, he doesn't want to be an ant.

Elder Pang was slightly taken aback when he heard Chong Gui's words.

After thinking about it, Zhong Gui added: "But I don't think it's all that."

Elder Pang: "Why?"

A trace of confusion flashed in Hui Gui's eyes: "I can't explain clearly. Although the world is big, as a mortal, I have many obstacles around me, but I can't only see the world in my eyes. In fact, I have teachers and friends, and there are many people who interact with me. People, there are many things waiting for me to do every day."

Elder Pang nodded, looking at the returning eyes with a little more meaning, he continued to ask: "After six years of cultivation on the mountain, you have to go down the mountain to practice, do you know this?"

"know."

"I have a plan to let you go down the mountain to practice in advance."

"what?!"

There was no response yet, Shen Lan jumped up from the bed excitedly.

Elder Pang looked serious: "I have been thinking about this matter for a long time. You have a clear and tenacious mind, strict self-discipline, and accumulated a lot of hard work in the past three years. The slow progress may be because the opportunity has not arrived. I think about it, maybe This opportunity is not on the mountain, but outside the mountain.”

"However, to return to the current situation, what if we encounter danger outside? I'm afraid it will be a bit difficult for him to deal with it alone?" Shen Lan was worried, but there was hope in his eyes.

Elder Pang looked slightly relieved seeing him like that: "Why, do you want to accompany him?"

"Thank you elder!"

Elder Pang had never seen someone who could climb up a stick like this, so he smiled helplessly: "You child, I didn't promise to let you go down the mountain."

"Don't, don't! I've been with Chongui ever since I went up the mountain. If I let him go down the mountain alone, I'd be worried about him every day and have no intention of practicing. It's better to go with him."

Elder Pang didn't say yes or no: "This matter is just a way I mentioned for the return. It's not yet decided whether to go down the mountain or not. You're just in such a hurry."

He looked at the pensive Zhonggui, stood up and patted Zhonggui on the shoulder: "Okay, I'll go back first. You should think about this slowly, don't rush."

"Yes."