Chapter 1: Homesickness
Time flies, and more than three years have passed in a blink of an eye.
In Tao Ranju's garden, it is now fragrant with peaches and plums, and the garden is full of melons and fruits.
Yiyi sat on the swing frame in the orchard, swinging freely, a few years have passed, Yiyi's image has not changed at all, even if she has entered the wisdom, she is still the same as the original little girl. Due to the essence of plants and trees, the essence has a long life and a very long maturity period. Therefore, after a certain period of growth, the rate of continued growth will slow down significantly. A few years is just a snap of time for fine things.
In contrast, it is the little tiger that is getting fatter and stronger.
It is now an official adult, it is already the pinnacle of the top grade, and it has not yet awakened its bloodline, let alone entered the enlightenment, so it is still muddy every day, living a life of eating and opening its mouth.
Yi Yi on the swing, wearing a flower crown woven by herself, swayed her little feet on the swing while tapping the branches and buds in the distance with her fingers. Fresh grass sprouted out of the soil under her guidance, giving birth to patches of green leaves, and soon forming a green meadow, which was quite a bit of pulling out the seedlings to help them grow.
This is an ability that Yi has mastered since his enlightenment, which can make plants grow quickly. However, the quick is extremely damaging to the spirit plant, and if it is used on valuable spirit plants, it will only spoil good things, and it is only suitable for some ordinary plants to be fed as forage.
A few bighorn oxen were greedily nibbling on the evergreen grass that had just grown in the field, while the little tiger was watching from the sidelines.
These bighorn cattle were brought from the Tiger Roaring Valley by Tang and raised here as food for the little tigers, which is much better than buying them outside. After all, food with spirituality is not cheap, and the little tiger's appetite is not small, and Tang Zheng can't let it go out hunting all day long, so he can only raise a few in his own garden as a meat source. These bighorn cattle were scared enough by the little tiger at first, but as the days went by, they got used to it and got along.
What Tang Zheng couldn't figure out was also here, this little guy had eaten so much spiritual food, why hadn't he advanced yet?
For this reason, he specially asked Wang Poguan, but he didn't expect Wang Poguan to be overjoyed after hearing it, and only said that the later the better, and he wished that it would not be enlightened for a hundred years.
A demon beast has not been enlightened for a hundred years, and it is basically synonymous with no future in the cultivation world, but Wang Poguan said it so excitedly that even Tang Zheng didn't know what to do. Tang Zheng didn't believe that Wang Poguan would have the idea of "just let the child be an ordinary person and spend his life in peace", coupled with the origin of the Tiger Roaring Mountain Wind Tiger Clan is obviously different from other Tiger Clans, Tang Zheng understands a little.
I'm afraid that this is where the talent of Wang Poguan's clan lies, and it needs a relatively long period of growth.
Tang Zheng remembered that in the primeval and ancient periods, there were some big demons with extremely long growth periods, even if they were juvenile, it would take a hundred years, and once they were grown, they would at least be the great power of the Zifu Sendai level. He didn't expect Xiaohu to have this kind of bloodline, but considering that this little guy had three talent spells before the bloodline was awakened, he really couldn't say how big it was.
After the evergreen grass in the field was raised, Yiyi did not stop casting spells, but controlled some plants to continue to grow, growing higher and higher, entangled with each other, and gradually formed a grass hut.
This is a typical waste, the evergreen grass grows so tall, it does not do any good, but instead squanders what little spiritual energy there is, and becomes a complete weed. Yiyi didn't care, he just commanded the grass to grow with great interest, built a grass house, not only built the house, but also extended it in all directions, forming a platform, and building a pavilion and pavilion.
Unfortunately, this work failed only halfway through, and the grass hut in the process of generating suddenly collapsed, turning into large blades of grass and flying away.
Angry, Yiyi jumped to his feet and shouted: "I hate it!"
"What, failed again?" Tang Zheng walked out of the house.
Four years have passed, and Tang Zheng looks more mature than he did at the beginning. Wearing a robe, there is a sense of majesty in his gestures.
This is the prestige that cultivators naturally possess after reaching a certain realm, such as the coercion of the realm of blue jade, which comes from this, and now it is finally reflected in Tang Zheng's body. It's just that compared to the flying of blue jade, Tang Zheng's momentum is much more restrained.
At this moment, he came behind Yiyi, Tang Zheng looked at Yiyi with a smile, and the little guy was sulking at himself.
Ever since she opened her mind, she has always fantasized about using plants to make a palace like the ice and snow elves, so that she can live in the palace and be the queen of nature.
However, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't create a palace like the ice and snow elves.
Seeing Yi Yi's puffed appearance, Tang Zai smiled and said: "Every essence has its own specialty, why do you have to learn from her? You can't build a flower palace, how can the ice spirit know your Qiluo Tianweaving?"
Qiluo Tianweaving is a spell mastered by Yi Yi after he advanced to the rank of enlightenment, and it is a super-large range of group attack spells, which is so powerful that even Tang Zheng is difficult to resist with a peerless slash.
"But people just like the Flower Palace. In a girl's characteristic way, Yi replied, "I don't believe I can't do this spell...... Emerald Flower Palace. ”
In the whisper, another piece of grass rose from the ground.
Seeing Yiyi's serious appearance, Tang Zheng didn't persuade her again.
In Tang Zai's opinion, the current Yi Yi is still too far away from creating his own spells, and doing this is just a waste of time, but Tang Zai knows better that there are some things that cannot be purely based on gains and losses.
In the process of focusing on pursuing a certain goal, people are often able to burst out with great enthusiasm, a high degree of concentration, and profound wisdom.
Yi Yi is still young, and the self-created spells she pursues are like a fantasy bubble, but in the process of this pursuit, she can benefit mentally from it. Because of this, he only persuaded Yiyi, and Tang Zheng went with her.
Without bothering with Yiyi anymore, Tang Zheng left the house and walked around the academy at will, but along the way, many familiar faces were no longer there.
Four years have been like lightning in an instant.
Peng Yaolong, Ye Tianyan They have already graduated, as leading students, and they have had an extraordinary appearance at the Immortal Yuan Meeting, so they have joined the Moon Washing Sect and become official disciples.
Peng Yaolong entered the Blood Battle Hall of the War Department, Ye Tianyan entered the Offering Hall and became Yan Changfeng's subordinate, and Long Tao followed his father Long Ruohai and entered the Fengtang.
Fengtang is the department of the Moon Washing Sect that is responsible for receiving offerings in various places.
Different from Fengtang, the offering hall is to provide force protection, charge additional expenses, and the nature is more similar to the bodyguard business, except that the bodyguard's shelf is larger, the qualifications are higher, and the fees are more expensive, while the Fengtang is specifically responsible for the management of various regional dedications, especially some important mining areas, planting areas, etc., are all in charge of Fengtang.
If it is said that the temple is an arms dealer specializing in selling weapons to the outside world, then the temple is the tax department, and together with the state-owned enterprise Shangtang, the three are combined into the three pillars of the moon washing faction, which is also a big fat shortage.
Qi Shaoming is still studying under Li Hongyang, and the news that came two years ago is that he has also entered the mortal world, and is quickly catching up with and closing the gap with Tang Zheng with his talent.
Wei Tianchong just got out of the ordinary at the beginning of this year, although his qualifications are average, but with the identity of the Xianyuan Society, the true legend of Changfeng, Wei Tianchong has also successfully advanced in eight years, and finally lives up to the trust of the Wei family. On the contrary, his eldest brother Wei Tianzhi finally failed to get out of the ordinary at the end of the ten years, and now he has returned home, studying business and preparing to inherit the family business. Wu Xing, like Wei Tianzhi, was not able to escape the ordinary in the end, but his mood was very calm, and after returning home, he followed the eldest young master and took charge of the business of the Wei Mansion, and was responsible for the business dealings with Shouwangchuan - after returning from Hongmeiling, Wei Tianchong built a communication line between Lingzhou and Shouwangchuan to traffic goods.
Tang Zheng also broke away from the status of a servant, but he still belonged to the Wei family, and his status was equivalent to that of the young master of the Wei family.
Shi Meng is still worse, his talent is low, he has no resources, and now he is hovering between success and failure like Wei Tianzhi, but fortunately, Tang Zheng comforted him and promised to ensure that he would be out of the ordinary within ten years, so that Shi Meng could breathe a sigh of relief.
Cai Junyang has never heard from him, this guy has not been in the academy for many years, he is always wandering on the rivers and lakes, no one knows when he will come back once, and he doesn't know if he has entered the world. But with his qualifications, there should be no problem.
As for Tang Zheng himself, he is now out of the embarrassment of entering the mortal world for the first time, and is in the period of refinement, and every muscle and bone in his body is in the process of refining, which is also the first transformation of a cultivator from a mortal body to a spirit body.
In the cultivation world, many people think that from this step onwards, a cultivator can be regarded as a cultivator in the true sense, and as for the previous ones, they are just wandering in front of the cultivation gate. When a cultivator reaches this point, many things can no longer be solved by the accumulation of aura, and the perceptions, experiences, cultivations, aura, secret methods, elixirs, all kinds of requirements come one after another, the requirements are complex, the changes are complicated, and they are no longer ordinary and solvable.
At this moment, walking on the forest path in the academy, before he knew it, Tang Zheng had arrived at the hanging platform.
After coming back, Tang Zheng also frequently went in and out of this place for a period of time, taking on a lot of tasks in exchange for some resources.
With the help of these cultivation resources, as well as the gains he had obtained at the Immortal Yuan Meeting, Tang Zheng once again improved his physique to the initial stage of the jade body. However, it was at that time that Tang Zheng found that it was difficult for his physique to improve.
Whether his current body is made of secret methods, in fact, there are still some hidden flaws, the biggest problem is that it is difficult for the physical body to continue to be strong, but there is no obstacle in cultivation. However, as he entered the Hundred Refining, aura was no longer the only criterion for promotion, money could no longer solve all problems, and under the effect of the two phases, Tang Zheng gradually came less.
When the students saw Tang Zheng, they all saluted respectfully and shouted, "Senior brother!"
Now Tang Zheng has also become a senior brother level figure in this Moon Washing Academy, not to mention him, even Wei Tianchong is also called senior brother by everyone.
Thinking about entering the academy at the beginning of the year, the stinky boy was ignorant and lazy, but now he is also a senior brother like a dog, even Tang Zheng had to shake his head and smile bitterly, and said, "The sea is not mulberry, and the personnel are still wrong." ”
When these words came out, Tang Zheng remembered the second elder of the Wu family again.
A few years ago, when Tang Zheng was on a mission, he went to see them a few times, and after taking the medicine sent by Wu Xing, the two old people were in good health and in good spirits. However, Tang Zheng's methods failed to deceive the two old men, and the two old people actually guessed that Tang Zheng bought them. After accompanying the second elder in Lingzhou for a while, Tang Zheng continued to cultivate after coming back, but he didn't expect that two years would pass in a blink of an eye.
Thinking of this moment, I already had an inexplicable feeling in my heart, and I wanted to go back to see the second elder.
The thought in his heart could no longer be stopped. At this time, he was on the hanging platform again, so he simply walked to a student on duty in front of the stage.
When the student saw Tang Zheng coming, he respectfully shouted, "Hello, senior brother." ”
Tang Zai turned his head and asked directly, "Is there a mission in Lingzhou?"
The student looked at it, shook his head, and said, "Not really." ”
When students go out, the college has rules for everything, and they can't go out if they have nothing to do, so the task of the college is the best opportunity to go out. Whenever you want to go out to visit your ancestors, you basically have to take on a task first. If Cai Junyang is training outside, he also has a task on his body. It's just that this guy is shameless enough, he never completes the task by hanging on to it, but just takes the opportunity to break outside. The academy doesn't care, anyway, just keep the rules of Mingli.
Because of this, even if Tang Zheng wants to go back to his hometown to visit relatives, he has to take the task first, otherwise his vacation of one day a month is really not enough to toss back and forth.
Hearing that there was no at this moment, Tang Zai was very disappointed in his heart, and was thinking about whether to go directly to Xie Fengtang to formally ask for leave, so he heard the student say: "However, there is one of the tasks of the C-level sect that belongs to Lingzhou." ”
"C-level sect mission?" Tang Zheng immediately became interested when he heard this.
This C-level sect task is sent from the Moon Washing Sect, and it can be taken by the preparatory disciples, as for the more advanced ones, even the preparatory disciples cannot receive it, because it is a sect task, the reward is also a sect contribution.
Tang Zheng has long been a preparatory disciple because of the recommendation of the bright night sky, and he has also received a lot of sect tasks in the past few years, and the sect's contributions have been accumulated, and the debts have been paid off.
At this moment, I heard that there was a C-level sect mission that was going to Lingzhou, Tang Zheng was overjoyed and asked, "Take it and let me take a look." ”
The student gave the article to Tang Zheng.
Tang Zheng took a look and found that it was actually a spirit stone mine exploration mission.
There is a mountain in the north of Lingzhou called Yongsui Mountain.
Thirty years ago, someone discovered a vein of spirit stone in Yongsui Mountain. Spirit stones are energy resources in the cultivation world, and their value may not be very high, but their significance is extremely heavy.
After the Lingshi vein was discovered, there was no incident of the purple gold vein in the territory of Li Kingdom, and the local small sect Shimen faction announced that it would be handed over to the Moon Washing Sect as soon as possible.
After sending someone to investigate, the Moon Washing faction confirmed that this was a small spiritual stone mine, so they ordered the local branch to be responsible for supervision, and the Shimen faction was responsible for mining.
The vein has been mined for 30 years now. As a small spiritual stone mine, the Yongsui mine is gradually depleted.
Not long ago, the Shimen faction sent someone to pass on the news, saying that the Yongsui mine was basically out of minerals, and asked the Xiyue faction to send someone to inspect and confirm that the mineral source was exhausted, and they would continue to hand in the spirit stones, and life would be sad.
Since the ore vein has been mined for thirty years, it is time to dry up, and there will basically be no problems, so the Moon Washing Sect directly issued this matter in the form of a task, giving some low-level disciples the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. There are not many contribution points, and there are only two sect contributions, but for Tang Zheng, the important thing is not the contribution points, but the opportunity to return to his hometown.
Yongsui Mountain is not very far from Canglong Mansion, and it only takes an hour to fly with a sword.
After looking at the task at this moment, Tang Zheng nodded and said, "Then I will take this task." ”
"In this case, the junior brother sealed this task for the senior brother. Senior brother must remember that this matter must be completed by the end of next month. The student replied with a grin.
Tang Zheng responded: "Thank you for the reminder, by the way, give me two more mission certificates, and I invite Wei Tianchong to complete the dream together." ”
Those who are invited to assist by Tang Zheng will not have a mission to contribute. However, what Tang Zheng wanted was just proof. Wei Tianchong has been away from home for a long time, and he is homesick when he thinks about it.
Holding the certificate and leaving, the student looked at Tang Zheng's back, and suddenly took out a talisman in the middle of the sound, writing "Tang Zheng took the Yongsui mine mission", and then burned it down, turning into a wisp of green smoke in the air and dissipating.