Hearing that Ai Zhongwen recommended one person who could beat Mo Yuan, Zheng Xun looked happy and said, "I don't know which junior brother Ai is talking about, where is it now?"

Ai Zhongwen replied: "This person's name is Zhang Yan, he is a disciple of Shanyuanguan, because he has been practicing in retreat recently, he has never come to the Dharma meeting, he must still be cultivating in his residence at this time, and I hope that my senior brother will give him the Xiaoze Golden Sword and invite this person." ”

Xiao Ze Golden Sword is a kind of Five Elements Golden Sword, which can be used by cultivators to transmit information remotely, and is a common means of contact for disciples in the upper court, but there are also some in the lower court, but they are all in the hands of the eldest disciple Zheng Xun, and they are generally not used in an emergency.

Zheng Xun was a little strange, and said: "I know that most of the disciples of Shanyuanguan live in the Catching Moon Peak, and there are three cableways connected to the Dangyun Peak, which is only a quarter of a minute away, so why use the golden sword?"

Ai Zhongwen said again: "First, this person lives in the fifteenth peak and looks at the star peak, and calls someone to invite him, and it may take a few hours to come and go to Dangyun Peak, I am afraid that it will be delayed until tomorrow, and secondly, this person is not comparable to ordinary disciples, and he can't call and drink at will, and use the golden sword to show solemnity, hoping that he will interrupt the retreat and come quickly." ”

Zheng Xun looked puzzled, although the fifteenth peak Wangxing Peak was also under the name of Shanyuanguan, it was usually some disciples who had no foundation to cultivate there, how could the people recommended by Ai Zhongwen live there?

He pondered for a moment, and then asked, "This disciple's surname is Zhang, I don't know if it is the Fengyan Zhang clan, or the Qiankun Zhang clan, or the Mianze Zhang clan?"

Ai Zhongwen shook his head slowly.

He didn't know Zhang Yan's true background, although he knew that he was the son-in-law of the Zhou family, but Zhang Yan didn't seem to want to publicize his background, and he didn't want to publicize it everywhere, so that his friends couldn't do it and became enemies, so he couldn't answer this question.

When Zheng Xun wanted to ask something, someone suddenly interjected: "This person is from my Xuanmen family?"

Ai Zhongwen couldn't say it clearly, so he had to say euphemistically: "Senior brothers, don't be suspicious, this person has an extraordinary background, and you can't be reasonable." ”

The man sneered and said, "What can't be done with common sense, it's just a so-called registered disciple who doesn't know what, and he actually uses a golden sword to invite, I think Senior Brother Ai has been in the sludge pond for a long time, forgetting his original background, and the one who is close to ink is black." He arched his hand to Zheng Xun and said, "Senior Brother Zheng, I know this Zhang Yan, about half a day ago, he humiliated Senior Brother Hu's steward, and cheated a page of scriptures and poems during the gambling fight, Senior Brother Hu, I don't know if I'm right?"

He turned his gaze to Hu Shengyu, and there was a hint of ridicule in his eyes.

Sitting first on Zheng Xun's left side was Shanyuanguan Lin Yuan, who said leisurely: "I also heard my clan brother Lin Tong talk about this person, it is rumored that he is just a named disciple with no roots, and he just relies on the etching deduction method that I don't know where I learned it to confuse some ignorant people. ”

The disciples on both sides are arranged according to cultivation, Hu Shengyu also sits in the front position on the right side, he has a gloomy personality, he is arrogant, he has not much contact with the disciples, and he doesn't know about Bian Qiao and Zhang Yan, after hearing this, his face suddenly became cloudy, and there was a faint murderous flash in his eyes.

Ai Zhongwen secretly screamed, he originally wanted to raise Zhang Yan to win Mo Yuan, but he didn't expect to get into trouble instead, after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't help but regret it, and he also cared about it, knowing that these people only care about their own reputation, why should he do more?

When Zheng Xun heard this, he immediately showed disappointment, shook his head and stopped talking.

The disciples below were even more disapproving, they were not originally disciples of the family, and they were not in their eyes at all, and some people even made sneering remarks about Ai Zhongwen ignoring his own identity and making friends with inferior people.

Originally, Ai Zhongwen came out to speak only for the sake of the reputation of the sect, and the proprietors of the Dharma Festival had always arrived at the peak first, but he heard that the disciples of the Guangyuan Sect and the Nanhua Sect had already arrived at the foot of Cangwu Mountain and were coming together.

Unexpectedly, a piece of kindness and kindness, but was humiliated by words, everyone present did not take the honor and disgrace of the sect to heart, only cared about the identity of the family, he was slightly annoyed, and said: "Senior brother, I am also a registered disciple, it seems that I am also a superfluous person?

Walking to the door of the side hall, he looked up at the pine and cypress on both sides of the lush, arrogant, thinking that I, Ai Zhongwen, is also good at eroding literature, can I not succeed without this group of short-sighted people? ,

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After Zhang Yan walked less than a hundred steps, his pace couldn't help slowing down, and he pondered: "What does that Dao Gu mean by that sentence?"

After Zhuyuan, he was smart with ears and eyes, and of course he could hear the conversation between Dao Gu and Zhao Ying clearly, and those words were ...... It seems that it was meant to be told to him?

The other party looked like he was deliberately provoking, but Zhang Yan intuitively thought that the other party would not be so superficial, and he came to ask himself for such a sentence for no reason, there must be some reason.

"Like a river, like a river, if you cross it, it will overflow, and if you are less, it will be round......"

Zhang Yan frowned and pondered, pondering repeatedly, suddenly, he was stunned, and thought of a possibility, could it be that she said her own cultivation?

Thinking of this, the more he thought about it, the more likely it became.

It stands to reason that with the "Linyao Questioning Method" in hand, even if the cultivation is not as smooth as before, it should be improved. But he felt that although he was strong in his heart, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't go further and step into the threshold of "Yuan Cheng Zhen". He originally thought that his merit had not arrived, but now thinking about what the Taoist aunt said, and then looking back at his body, he couldn't help but have a trace of realization in his heart, it seems that it is not that the merit has not arrived, but too much!

The problem lies in the words "too much"!

As if a flash of lightning flashed in front of him, Zhang Yan suddenly realized, the obstacle in front of him was dissipated for a while, and he couldn't help but let out a loud voice, and said, "I see, so it is!"

He turned around and bowed in the direction of Dao Gu.

Although everyone knows the realm level of the Xuanmen Dao Method, there are actually hidden pits.

For example, in the step of building the yuan, it is clearly said that there are two realms, namely "condensing the yuan manifesting meaning" and "yuan becoming true", but in fact, there is another level in it, called "quenching the yuan to go to the wu".

After "condensing the essence of the sense", if you want to go further, the vitality hidden in the inner body is not the quantity, but whether it is pure or not.

Cultivators who do not understand the key will often spend several years or even more than ten years immersed in penance, and with the passage of time, the fiery irritability in the vitality will gradually disappear by itself, and finally condense as one, stepping into the realm of "Yuan Cheng into Truth", and then ascend to the level and open the pulse.

It's just that in this way, it takes more time, and it is invisibly left behind by those disciples who know the trick.

You must know that the method practiced after opening the pulse is different from before the opening of the pulse, and there is no way to calculate between the top and the bottom, and if you take a slow step, you will take a slow step, and if you don't have a great opportunity or outstanding qualifications, then you have almost no hope of catching up with your peers who are one step ahead.

If it is not a Xuanmen family, it is impossible to know the secret.

The step of "quenching the yuan to go to the wu" was only secretly taught between the master and apprentice, passed on by word of mouth, and never written in the Taoist book, even if there was, this kind of book was sealed and destroyed by the Xuanmen family for thousands of years.

It is precisely because of this deliberate and tacit control of each other that the major families have been able to control the path of cultivation in one sect after another.

In fact, the Xuanmen family's hands and feet in this area are far more than this, not a cultivator from a family, the path of cultivation is really like walking on thin ice, and there is no turning back if you make a mistake.

Zhang Yan has his own city government in his chest, and after a little thought, he vaguely guessed the possible reason.

That Dao Gu must have seen that her cultivation was at this threshold, and it was not good to say it directly, so she woke herself up through an allusion, although she didn't know that the other party weishenme did this, but he wrote down this favor.

Although Zhang Yan didn't know how to refine his vitality, he used to read through the Xuandian and roughly deduced what problems he had encountered, and he already had some ideas in his heart, and he was confident that with the residual jade in his hands, as long as he knew where the reason was, as long as he tried many times, he could always find the right way.

Thinking of this, he couldn't wait to find a place to meditate and take a closer look.

At this moment, he looked back as if he was aware of it, but saw an acquaintance figure walking into his eyes.

Ai Zhongwen was walking indignantly on the mountain road, and when he looked up, he unexpectedly saw Zhang Yan, his eyebrows suddenly appeared happy, he hurriedly took a few steps forward, and arched his hand: "Senior Brother Zhang has already arrived here, but he also heard about Mo Yuan's matter, so did he rush here?"

Zhang Yan was puzzled: "Senior Brother Ai, what's the matter?"

Seeing that Zhang Yan didn't seem to know, Ai Zhongwen sighed and said, "Alas, it's hard to say, Senior Brother Zhang come with me, I'll talk to you slowly." ”

The two walked all the way forward, talking as they walked, and after walking about a thousand steps, Zhang Yan figured out the reason. ,

However, it was not that Mo Yuan that interested Zhang Yan, but that Senior Brother Chen Feng Chen.

"Senior Brother Ai is saying that Senior Brother Chen and I were also ordinary cultivators that day, but he showed his might at the Fa meeting, and soon after he came back, he opened his pulse and ascended the customs?"

Ai Zhongwen's eyes showed admiration, and he said, "Exactly." Speaking of which, although he ordered the disciples of the two factions to come to the door to take revenge now because of this Senior Brother Chen, he still admired the arrogance of preventing the disciples of the two factions from reaching the peak with the strength of one person.

Zhang Yan's eyes flashed, and he was faintly sure in his heart, and asked again: "How many disciples of the Sixteen Sects are there on the peak now?"

Ai Zhongwen shook his head and said: "After all, my Mingcang faction is the proprietor, and the disciples of other factions always have to take care of our faces, so they are all waiting and watching, and they have never made any moves, but I heard that the disciples of the Guangyuan faction and the Nanhua faction have reached the foot of the mountain, and I am afraid that they will reach the peak today." ”

At this time, he looked up and said, "It's here." ”

Zhang Yan raised his eyes and looked, not far away was a three-story stone platform that could stand on a hundred people, on the highest stone platform, a copper incense burner was emitting curling green smoke, a beam structure of the attic was half embedded in the mountain wall, about a hundred Sanguan disciples gathered there, the scene was extremely quiet.

Coincidentally, Min Lou, who had never been seen since Yue Qiongfeng said goodbye before, was also in the crowd, and his eyes were staring at the middle of the field at this time, his hands were clenched into fists, and he looked nervous.

Zhang Yan and Ai Zhongwen stepped onto the stone platform in a few steps, only to see that in the middle of the platform, there were two people sitting opposite each other in front of a desk, and a middle-aged man in a Taoist robe was holding a bamboo chip in his hand, and he was carefully deducing the etching text in front of him, but there was already a slight sweat on his forehead.

Ai Zhongwen said in a low voice: "This is Senior Brother Cheng of the Virtue Cultivation Concept, although he is also a registered disciple, but he was born in the Hengchang Cheng clan, and he is also quite good at the Eclipse Text. ”

Opposite Senior Brother Cheng was a young man, presumably that Mo Yuan, he was about thirteen or fourteen years old, with a faint hairy hair on his lips, and his eyebrows were full of arrogance.

Both of them have good eyesight, and they can clearly see the etching on the page between the two, Zhang Yan looked at the scattered bamboo chips in Mo Yuan's hand, and couldn't help but smile slightly.

Ai Zhongwen looked at it carefully, he frowned, and said, "It's not good." ”

Sure enough, after a while, Senior Brother Cheng's face was gloomy, he pushed the plate up, shook his head, and sighed: "Senior brother is smart, senior brother admits defeat." ”

As soon as these words came out, Min Lou, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but stumble, as if he had lost.

The corners of Mo Yuan's mouth curled, he snorted, and said, "Mingcang faction, but that's it!"

The contempt and contempt in his words made the surrounding Mingcang Sect disciples feel that they had lost face, and many of them immediately turned angry.

Since Senior Brother Cheng admitted defeat, he naturally didn't say anything more to bring humiliation on himself, took out a small cloth bag and threw it in front of the young man, and left with his hands casually.

Zhang Yan was puzzled: "What does this mean?"

Ai Zhongwen explained the reason and said: "That's the sinking sand, that Senior Brother Mo came alone, afraid that all the disciples would come forward to invite the fight, it was to make a bet, not a beginner disciple, no matter who stepped forward, they had to take a pound of sinking sand as a color head." ”

The sinking sand is a kind of five elements of divine sand, which can only be produced in the place where the river is turbulent, and the longer the time of siltation in the stone crevice of the river core stone, it is rare, and the production is more in the Mingcang faction, Zhang Yan said that this is also a good calculation, not only blocking the disciples to go to the road, but also making a small profit from this reason.

Seeing that there were already five small cloth bags piled up on the table, this Mo Yuan had won at least five times.

A few more people came on the field, and they all lost without exception.

Ai Zhongwen sighed and said, "I'm not such a person. ”

Min Lou in the crowd stomped his feet angrily and said, "Don't mention all the junior brothers, it's just that Senior Brother Zhang Yan and Zhang are here, and they will definitely be able to win this kid!" Although Min Lou also had a monk with great magical powers, but now that the family has long since declined, he only values Zhang Yan's background like the beginner disciples.

As soon as they heard this, everyone who was originally a little depressed seemed to be awakened, as if they had caught a life-saving straw, and whether they knew Zhang Yan or not, they all nodded yes, they couldn't tell Mo Yuan to take it seriously No one in the Mingcang faction.

After Mo Yuan heard this, he raised his eyebrows and sneered: "What Senior Brother Zhang, dare to come out and see it?"

Ai Zhongwen, who was standing beside Zhang Yan, suddenly turned his head to look at him, and there was a little more expectation in his eyes.

But then he was disappointed.

Instead of stepping forward, Zhang Yan glanced at Ai Zhongwen and turned to leave. ,

Ai Zhongwen was stunned, hesitated for a moment, and then stepped up to follow.

After walking hundreds of steps, Zhang Yan suddenly stopped, looked back and smiled: "Senior Brother Ai, but do you think I, Zhang Yan, are retreating?"

Ai Zhongwen smiled reluctantly and said, "Senior Brother Zhang's move must have a deep meaning. ”

Zhang Yan smiled and said: "Actually, it is not difficult to win. ”

"Oh?" Ai Zhongwen was stunned.

Zhang Yan smiled confidently and said: "It's not that I am talking big about my junior brother, I am far away, although he is quite proficient in etching, but every time he is difficult, he still needs to use bamboo chips to deduce, and he is still far inferior to mine when he wants to compete in the power of calculation." ”

Ai Zhongwen couldn't help but nod, don't say it, Zhang Yan never used bamboo chips to interpret etching texts, not to mention that he was ashamed of himself, who among the disciples of the Three Views of the Lower Court dared to say that he could do it? But in this way, he didn't understand even more, Zhang Yan obviously had strength, but Weishenme didn't get it? Could it be that there was something unspeakable?

"Senior brother is puzzled that I have a chance to win, why don't I compare?" Zhang Yan said with a smile: "Senior Brother Ai, if I go up, I won't win, but I will only provoke a shameful laugh, if I win, all the senior brothers will hate me, but I may lose my life." ”

Ai Zhongwen was stunned at first, then thought about it carefully, and had to admit that Zhang Yan was right!

All the beginner disciples are blocked at the bottom of the mountain, and you can win even one of the registered disciples, so doesn't that mean that we, the beginner disciples, are no match for you? Although there is a discrepancy in the real internal situation, as long as it is rumored, it is tantamount to sweeping the face of these people in disguise, and there is no benefit not to mention, but to be hated by others.

Ai Zhongwen arched his hand and said apologetically: "Senior Brother Zhang, blame me for not figuring out this section. ”

He thought of Hu Shengyu's gloomy face in the side hall again, and was about to remind Zhang Yan to be careful, but he heard Zhang Yan's words turn around and said: "However, I am also a disciple of the Mingcang faction, so naturally I can't sit back and watch his disciples wantonly come to the door to bully!"

Ai Zhongwen perked up when he heard this, and said, "What are you going to do with Senior Brother?"

Zhang Yan smiled faintly and said, "Blocking the way of the disciples, since the Guangyuan Sect has done it, why can't we do it?"

"Senior Brother Zhang, do you mean ......" Ai Zhongwen stared at Zhang Yan with both eyes, his expression was slightly excited, there was an indescribable and inexplicable thought in his heart at this time, but he couldn't say it when it came to his mouth.

"I heard that three years ago, Senior Brother Chen Feng and Chen blocked the disciples of the two factions with the power of one person, so that none of them could reach the top, Zhang longed for it and intended to follow suit, if they stopped me from sending disciples for a day, I would also stop them for a day. Zhang Yan's back straightened, Ling Ran was mighty in his eyes, and said loudly: "Senior Brother Ai, dare you go with me?"

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PS: Two chapters in one, and there will be one more later in the evening.