Chapter 23: Retreat in the Bamboo House, the Ghost Lingers
The small wooden house of the Immortal Mansion Star Picking Cliff has the effect of storing spiritual things and not being bad for ten thousand years, Ye Ling stored these superb spiritual grasses in them so that they would not wither, and when they needed to be used, they were taken out of it as fresh as if they had just been picked from the spiritual field.
After everything was stored, Ye Ling's mind withdrew from the Immortal Mansion Jade Pendant.
At this time, the dawn in the east was dawning, the sky was slightly bright, Ye Ling looked out at the Nangu Medicine Garden, and saw that there were still most of the places that had not been picked, so he had to wait for the night!
Ye Ling returned to the Nangu Bamboo House, which was located in the spiritual vein, and the spiritual energy was abundant, even stronger than the spiritual energy of his cave mansion!
Because most of the spiritual field medicine gardens of the sect are opened on the spiritual veins, otherwise the field power is insufficient and it is impossible to cultivate many spiritual grasses.
In addition, there are endless spiritual grasses planted in the medicine garden, exuding all kinds of spiritual energy, which makes Ye Lingwen's heart feel relaxed and happy, it is indeed a good place to cultivate!
Ye Ling meditated cross-legged, swallowed a pill of Ruyi Turning Divine Pill, and carried out daily cultivation, the pill quenched the body, strengthened the foundation and cultivated the yuan, and at the same time, he was slowly recovering his mind.
Before the end of the day, Sun Erhu followed Ye Ling's instructions yesterday and brought ten outer disciples to serve Senior Brother Ye early.
Sun Erhu walked in front of him, and saw from a distance that in the bamboo house, Ye Ling was concentrating on cultivation.
He hurriedly waved his hand to stop the ten outer disciples behind him, and said in a low voice: "Senior Brother Ye is a disciple of the sect master, and his identity is extraordinary! You and I must not disturb Senior Brother Ye's meditation, just wait on the sidelines. ”
The ten newly selected outer disciples hurriedly nodded yes, stood beside the road, and respectfully waited for Senior Brother Ye to fall.
After all, Ye Ling was a mid-stage Qi cultivation cultivator, and whether it was his divine sense or senses, he was much more powerful than them! Ye Ling opened his star-like eyes and coldly swept over these people, seeing that they were all newly exchanged outer disciples of the first and second layers of Qi cultivation, and there was not a single familiar face, Ye Ling nodded with satisfaction.
Sun Erhu had a lot of eyesight, hurriedly trotted over, respectfully clasped his fist at Senior Brother Ye, and reported: "Back to Senior Brother Ye, my subordinates are fortunate to live up to their mission, and I went to the outer deacon's hall early in the morning to select ten hard-working outer disciples, and asked Senior Brother Ye to look at them! ”
Ye Ling's original intention was to exchange for a living, and he didn't care whether they were hard-working or clumsy, and nodded and said, "Well, I think a few of you are quite pleasing to the eye, so be it!"
The new outer disciple was overjoyed, working in the Nangu Medicine Garden, and earning several times more spirit stones than other places! Everyone looked at Senior Brother Ye with eager eyes, this senior brother who was once the top of the outer sect competition, was now getting taller and taller in their eyes.
Sun Erhu signaled: "Don't thank Senior Brother Ye yet!"
"Thank you, Senior Brother Ye, for taking you in!"
"We must be conscientious and conscientious, take care of the sect master's medicine garden, and ensure that Senior Brother Ye is satisfied. ”
"Yes, yes! What will Senior Brother Ye assign in the future, the wind will come and go in the rain, and there will be no complaints!"
Ye Ling stopped them and said lightly: "Okay, the ten of you will have to follow Senior Brother Sun Erhu to work hard in the future, watering when it is time to water, hoeing when it is time to hoe, and those dead branches and leaves will be cut and cleaned up at any time." ”
Speaking of this, the corners of Ye Ling's mouth curled up in an arc, and he smiled secretly in his heart. According to the usual practice, there was no one thing to clean up the dead branches and leaves, this was his rule!
Ye Ling then said: "In this month, the Nangu Bamboo House is my cultivation place. No one is allowed to disturb my retreat without my orders, understand?"
"Understood!"
"We will obey Senior Brother Ye's orders!"
Sun Erhu also nodded and said with a smile: "Your subordinates keep it in mind! You all listen carefully to me, the Nangu bamboo house is divided and belongs to the forbidden land." Without Senior Brother Ye's summons, no one can take a step!"
Ye Ling ordered Sun Erhu to send them to work in various spiritual fields, and then left him alone, and asked, "You went to the Outer Gate Deacon's Hall, have you ever seen Li Bao, the eldest disciple of the Outer Gate Deacon?"
Since beating the outer disciple Dabi, Ye Ling has not seen Li Bao for several days, except for studying the medicinal herb illustrated book, retreating and cultivating, and then practicing in the depths of the Shangchangxi Wilderness. Of course, in Ye Ling's opinion, no news is good news, and Li Bao didn't take the initiative to come to him, which shows that Zhou Chong, the old fox of Zhuji Elder Zhou Chong, didn't dare to act rashly against him.
Sun Erhu is born to be able to speak, and he likes to inquire about the news of the gossip the most, so as to show off in front of everyone. Now Senior Brother Ye asked, it was to give full play to his strengths that gave him a good opportunity to show, Sun Erhu hurriedly said: "Senior Brother Ye still doesn't know? Li Bao has long been out of charge at the outer gate! Since Li Bao was defeated by Senior Brother Ye in the outer gate competition, he was later accepted by Elder Zhou as a personal disciple, hehe, it can be regarded as a great future!"
"Elder Zhou, is it Senior Uncle Zhou Chong?" Ye Ling's star-like eyes flashed with coldness, and then disappeared in a flash, not letting Sun Erhu notice it, but respectfully addressed Senior Uncle Zhou Chong.
Sun Erhu said sourly: "It's not who he is! I heard that Elder Zhou has promised Li Bao that as long as Li Bao advances to the late stage of Qi cultivation, he will recommend it to the Tiandan Immortal Sect! Senior Brother Ye, think about it, how great is this! Our disciples of the Medicine Valley Sect will only have the opportunity to worship the Immortal Gate after they are expected to build a foundation in this life." Li Bao is a good guy, he has a good backer, just because Elder Zhou turned out to be a second-generation disciple of the Xianmen, and he was an elder sent to our Medicine Valley Sect for a few years, so that Li Bao's guy hugged his thick legs, and it was much less difficult to worship the Xianmen. ”
Ye Ling's expression became solemn, he was not jealous of Li Bao for having such a creation, but he was trying to figure out the deep meaning of Zhou Chong, the old fox, who vigorously promoted Li Bao!
"What is Zhou Chong, this old thief, deliberately cultivating Li Bao for? Definitely not because he took a fancy to Li Bao's spiritual root talent, I'm afraid that most of them are still coming for me! Could it be that after the passage of time, Zhou Chong still can't forget about the treasure light from the sky?"
Ye Ling pondered for a moment, and secretly said that Li Bao, a fool, might have been played by Zhou Chong.
Thinking of this, Ye Ling immediately raised his vigilance! He ordered: "Sun Erhu, go, quietly invite Li Bao to come to me! Just say that Ye has not visited him for many days, and today he specially invited him to come to Nangu Medicine Garden as a guest." ”
Ye Ling made up a reason at random, in short, no matter what the reason was, Li Bao heard the call of the master, and he didn't dare not come!
Sun Erhu was mistaken, thinking that Senior Brother Ye heard that Li Bao was expected to enter the Immortal Gate as soon as possible, and he intended to woo him.
"By the way, after informing Li Bao. You take a trip to the town of Maple Bridge and come back with some interesting and valuable news. ”
Ye Ling casually instructed again, he really wanted to know how much turmoil the death of the young sect master of the Southern Saint Sect had caused in the vicinity of Fengqiao Town! In particular, would Tang Xiong, who was the ninth layer of the old sect master, investigate this matter in detail? Will he ask a clue from the mouth of the scattered cultivator who fled yesterday, these are all of Ye Ling's concern.
But this matter is in the limelight, and Ye Ling can't go out to show up yet, so he just sent Sun Erhu to inquire.
Sun Erhu was slightly stunned, and asked curtly: "Senior Brother Ye, what do you mean by the interesting and valuable news? Is it about the female cultivators of the Fengchi Sect, or the beauties in Fengqiao Town? These subordinates are all familiar!"
"Phew!" Ye Ling was angry and funny, frowned and scolded Sun Erhu, and said coldly: "What I care about is what kind of big turmoil is there around Fengqiao Town? Where is there a treasure of heaven and earth coming to the world? Which big chamber of commerce is holding an auction, and which pharmacy has added a new batch of rare spirit grass? This is the direction you want to inquire!
"Understood! Understood! Subordinates understand, subordinates will go!"
Sun Erhu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and once again patted the horse on the horse's leg, but he could only consider himself unlucky. After Sun Erhu responded, he walked out of the Nangu Medicine Garden and went to do things according to Senior Brother Ye's instructions.
Ye Ling continued to meditate in the bamboo house, and he didn't wait long, it was not yet noon, and a thin and obscene figure hurriedly came and quietly stood in front of Ye Ling.
Li Baosheng was afraid that outsiders would find out, so he transmitted Ye Ling's divine sense, and asked weakly: "Master, I don't know what the matter is when I am called?"
Ye Ling sneered: "I heard that Zhou Chong's old guy promised you a lot of benefits?
Li Baocheng was terrified, his legs trembled in fright, and he swore an oath to justify: "This is indeed the case! But in Li Baocheng's mind, there is only the word master! I will never dare to do anything to betray my master." The little one was forced to worship Zhou Chong as a teacher, but secretly he had a lot of protection for the master, and dealt with a lot of troubles for the master, the world can be learned!"
Li Bao desperately showed his loyalty, knowing that the soul blood was in the hands of the master, and if the master's thought was eliminated, his soul would completely dissipate with the death of the soul blood!
Seeing that his expression didn't seem to be fake, Ye Ling nodded and said: "You are a smart person, you should know that betrayal is death!" On the one hand, Zhou Chong promised you benefits, and on the other hand, your life, which is more important, you weigh it yourself. ”
Li Bao hurriedly knelt on the ground, and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy: "The master is angry, what the little one said is true, and he doesn't dare to joke with his life." No matter how much my damn master coerces and seduces, the little one always disobeys the yang and the yin, and will never do anything unfavorable to the master. ”
"Get up! There are other outer disciples in the South Valley, beware of being noticed by others, and it has reached the ears of Zhou Chong's old thief. From now on, you will be careful with me in everything!"
When Li Bao heard this, his heart sank, and he immediately stood up straight, and finally pretended to be natural.
Ye Ling asked him about the situation of Zhou Chong's old thief in recent days, and Li Bao told him about it.
It turned out that during Ye Ling's retreat, Zhou Chong, the elder of Zhuji, had sent Li Bao to investigate and monitor near Ye Ling's cave mansion more than once, but Li Bao was just pretending to be a formality. Even when Ye Ling was training in the Changxi Plain, Zhou Chong also took care of Li Bao and ordered him to pay attention to Ye Ling's movements at all times, but Li Bao made up a set of nonsense and coaxed him over.