Asking about longevity

Chapter 744 Xiaomu (Additional update for the alliance leader Crazy Ye Weiyang~)

Afterwards, the two parties exchanged a few words and then separated.

After Mo Hua said goodbye to Ouyang Feng, he walked around in the mountains for a while, picked a goshawk, killed it with a flying sword, and then peeled off the materials.

When it gets dark, Mo Hua goes down the mountain and replaces the material with merit at the mountain gate.

Using a sword alone, he killed two birds and monsters, earning nearly 1,800 points of merit.

The ink painting is satisfying.

But when he was going down the mountain, he looked back at the Demon Refining Mountain and found that not only were people coming and going at the mountain gate, but there were also many more disciples hunting monster beasts inside the Demon Refining Mountain.

"It's getting more and more lively..."

Mo Hua smiled slightly and thought to himself.

After Mo Hua left, after a while, another figure appeared at the mountain gate.

When the disciple guarding the mountain gate saw this, he immediately raised his hands and said:

"Elder Xun."

"Um."

Xun Ziyou nodded.

Next to him, another Tai'amen elder who was in charge of the mountain gate was familiar with Xunzi You and had a good relationship with him on weekdays. Seeing this, he couldn't help but said strangely:

"Ziyou, why do you always run into the mountains when you have nothing to do during this period? This is not like you..."

He knew that Xun Ziyou was a lazy person.

On weekdays, I guard the mountain gate, drink tea, blow the wind, and chat. If there is nothing important, I am always too lazy to move.

Unexpectedly, he has recently changed his temper and is living in the mountains all day long.

Xun Ziyou sighed deeply, feeling helpless.

There is no other way, the "little ancestor" has entered the mountains, why should I follow him?

Even if his legs were broken, he would be fine.

But if that little ancestor breaks a hair, he will be in big trouble.

Xun Ziyou sat down helplessly, poured himself a cup of hot tea, and silently calmed down his shock.

For some reason, every time Mo Hua went into the mountains, he felt a little nervous.

Especially the sword-riding one, it made him tremble in his heart.

He didn't even expect that this "little ancestor" obviously didn't practice swordsmanship, and was not a swordsman, how on earth could he tinker with such a skill. It looked like a "half-baked" skill, and strictly speaking, it was also a "pseudo swordsmanship", but it was inexplicable. , comes from the "sword control technique" with extremely amazing effects.

Is this child too daring to think?

Or am I already old and my thinking is too conservative?

Especially this sword control technique, which is extremely fast and far away, does not consume much spiritual energy, and does not rely on sword energy skills.

It's actually a bit outrageous.

In the middle stage of foundation building, the distance of 1,780 feet is not attenuated at all, and the sword is fast and accurate. What is the concept of this? !

Xunzi You's eyelids twitched.

Fortunately, this little ancestor's spiritual sword and sword formation haven't been studied yet.

Otherwise, in the realm of foundation building, it would really be random killing.

If you have mastered this kind of sword-controlling skill to a great extent, your sword will fly away in the blink of an eye, and others may be dead before they even see your figure.

Xun Ziyou was surprised and sighed.

The ancestor is worthy of being an ancestor. He is really wise and far-sighted.

I can actually see the extraordinary ability of ink painting from the qualifications of a good-for-nothing with a low-level spiritual root. As expected, ginger is still spicy...

Xun Ziyou shook his head, sat down and took a sip of tea.

"There are too many Taixu Sect disciples in the mountain, I have to keep an eye on them."

He made a random excuse.

Elder Tai Amen did not doubt that he was there, nodded and said:

"That's true..."

In Demon Refining Mountain, the tops of several outer mountains are now all disciples of Taixu Sect.

He wanted to stare.

"Speaking of which," Elder Tai'amen said a little strangely, "your current generation of disciples is so weird. It looks completely different from the previous ones..."

Xun Ziyou held the tea cup and sighed in his heart without finishing a sip of tea:

This is all because of ink painting!

The painting style of the entire class of disciples has been led astray.

The former Taixu Sect disciples looked like this...

Although generally speaking, the atmosphere in the sect is quite peaceful.

But one or two of them are both family geniuses, and their eyes are higher than the top. No one will obey the other.

After entering Demon Refining Mountain, they also competed and compared with each other, not wanting to fall behind others.

Unlike now, everyone is extremely obedient, wearing the same armor, carrying the same spiritual weapon, holding the same "strategy", and neatly go into the mountains to hunt monsters.

Even the atmosphere in daily practice and work is much more harmonious and united because of this "little senior brother" who controls the situation and makes decisions.

On the contrary, other sects have not changed much.

The disciples in the sect basically still want to stand out, compete with the prodigies, and carve out a future for themselves.

Xunzi was startled for a moment, remembering the calm and friendly look of Mo Hua, and a sentence suddenly appeared in his mind:

"Water is good for all things without fighting. Because it doesn't fight, no one can fight with it..."

Killing like a sword, gentle like water.

Xun Ziyou pondered silently, feeling secretly shocked.

Seeing that Xunzi had been silent for a long time, Elder Tai'amen looked at him with some confusion.

Xun Ziyou noticed this look and said vaguely: "I don't know about that..."

"But speaking of it, this is also a good thing. Formations and spiritual weapons are meant to be used. It is also a skill to be able to make the most of things and make the most of the array."

Elder Tai Amen thought for a moment and nodded slightly:

"What you said makes sense."

Xun Ziyou suddenly thought of something and said to Elder Tai'amen:

"Some of your Tai Amen disciples seem to be getting a little close to Duanjinmen these days?"

Elder Tai Amen glanced at Xun Ziyou silently, with unclear meaning.

Xun Ziyou was startled and frowned: "What are your plans?"

Elder Tai Amen looked slightly sideways.

Xunzi understood it carefully.

The two got up, entered the secret room inside, and activated the soundproofing formation.

Elder Tai Amen looked around and lowered his voice:

"Ziyou, you and I have known each other for many years, and I won't hide it from you, but you can only listen to these words here and don't spread them outside."

Xun Ziyou's eyes darkened slightly and he nodded.

Elder Tai Amen said in a deep voice: "I, Tai Amen, want to go one step further!"

Xun Ziyou's eyes were slightly solemn and he nodded slightly, "You guys want to join the four major sects?"

Elder Tai Amen looked like it was natural.

Xun Ziyou frowned, "It's impossible. The four major sects and eight gates are all customized. It's impossible to easily tamper with the results of one or two Tao discussions."

Elder Tai Amen smiled slightly and said, "It's going to be reformed."

Xun Ziyou's eyes narrowed.

He had heard this news before, but he didn't take it seriously.

The restructuring of the sect is a major event, and if it is really to be implemented, there will be many obstacles.

In the past hundreds of years, it is not that no one mentioned it, but most of them were thunderous and rainy, and finally nothing happened.

"real?"

“It’s hard to say until the dust settles, but it’s said to be very likely.”

Elder Tai'amen added: "If the sects are really reorganized and the original structure of four major sects and eight gates is broken, then our Tai'amen's opportunity will come!"

"This opportunity is once in a lifetime!"

"As you said, the four major sects and eight gates are customized and will not change due to the temporary strength of the sect."

"I am too amen. Even if you are really stronger than the four major sects in terms of strength, you will not really be able to ascend to the top."

"But as long as the sect is reorganized, everything is possible!"

Xun Ziyou thought for a moment, then said in a deep voice: "So, you plan to collude with Duan Jinmen?"

"It's not 'collusion,'" Elder Tai'amen was a little speechless. "It's such an ugly thing to say... This is called supporting each other and helping each other."

"I'm so Amen. I want to go one step further and cross from the eight gates to the four major sects."

"He broke through the Golden Gate, so naturally he also wanted to make progress, from the Twelve Flows to the Eighth Gate."

"Although on the surface, there is no distinction between the Eighth Gate and the Twelfth Gate, there is still a big difference in the sect system and external reputation."

Xun Ziyou looked a little ugly and said helplessly:

"If someone makes progress, someone will inevitably regress..."

"He took a step forward from the Broken Golden Gate and entered the Eighth Gate. Then I, the Taixu Gate, will not take a step back and fall into the Twelfth Gate..."

Elder Tai'amen sighed, "It depends on you, Taixumen."

"When it comes to the interests of the sect, you can't rely on anyone else, you can only rely on yourself."

"Let me put it bluntly, if your Taixu Sect is really strong, you can take advantage of this opportunity and directly enter the four major sects."

"If you fail to live up to your expectations and fall from the Eight Gates, who can you blame?"

Xun Ziyou sighed slightly.

How can it be so easy to achieve success in Qianzhou discussions and competitions between geniuses...

Elder Tai Amen glanced at Xun Ziyou, took a sip of tea, and said slowly:

"I, the head of Tai'amen, have already talked with the great elder of Duanjinmen. I don't know exactly what they talked about, but I think it was about the restructuring of the sect and helping each other."

"Duan Jinmen's connections are quite extensive."

"There are some things that our three sects, Tai'a, Chongxu, and Taixu, which are all in the same line, don't have."

"The sect intends to make good friends, so there will naturally be more interactions between the disciples below."

He sighed again, "You and I have been friends for so many years. I won't hide it from you, but I also want to remind you that you'd better use some snacks at Taixu Gate."

"What is really important is the Dao Conference."

"Our three sects are of the same origin, and our ancestors are connected by the same spirit. I don't hope that when the time comes, our Tai'amen will be promoted to the fourth major sect, and we will take a step closer to the Xumen, and your Taixumen will fall down from the eighth gate..."

Elder Tai Amen looked at Xun Ziyou with a complicated expression.

Xun Ziyou looked serious, and finally sighed deeply:

"I see……"

…

The matter of restructuring has set off undercurrents among the top leaders of various sects.

But Mo Hua still knows nothing about it, and no one has mentioned it to his young disciple.

He still practices silently and attends classes every day.

At the same time, he also kept drawing formations day and night, hoping to break through the realm as soon as possible and reach the eighteen lines of spiritual consciousness, and then learn the formations of the eighteen lines.

But the limitations of the laws of heaven are still there.

His spiritual consciousness cannot grow.

When he has free time, he also studies ink painting. He knows the "laws of heaven" in the sea and wants to know its secrets.

Unfortunately, after thinking hard for a long time, I still found nothing.

After all, things at the level of "laws" were far away from a young monk like him who was in the foundation-building realm.

Only then did Mo Hua realize that he had been a little arrogant before.

He could only settle for the next best thing.

I don’t ask to understand the mystery of the law, I just ask it to get out of here as soon as it’s full, and don’t delay the breakthrough of my own spiritual realm.

As Mo Hua refines his spiritual consciousness, this law is gradually loosened.

I just don’t know when I can really feed it and relieve its limitations...

…

During the ten-day break, Mo Hua went to practice sword practice, kill eagles, and earn merit as usual.

As soon as the sword was drawn, the golden light flashed and the goshawk fell.

Mo Hua rushed over with a knife, bleeding, plucking hair, skinning, deboning, and taking various materials.

At noon, he was a little tired. After drinking some fruit wine and eating some spiritual meat, he climbed to a big tree, closed his eyes and rested, preparing to rest.

But he didn't rest long before he noticed some movement.

Mo Hua opened his eyes and looked down from among the dense forest leaves. He saw a group of five people fighting a monster.

These five people were wearing Tai'amen Taoist robes.

Mo Hua has never seen the other four people.

But one of them is an "acquaintance", it is the younger brother named "Ouyang Mu" whom Senior Brother Feng entrusted him to take care of.

He is completely different from the tall and heroic Senior Brother Feng, who has sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes.

This younger brother looks thin, with a bronzed complexion, and he really looks a bit like a "little piece of wood".

What they faced was a second-grade elementary monster.

It has red skin with flames, long fangs, black claws, brown eyes with fiery red, and traces of fire in its movements. It is a fire-based monster called the "Fire Demon Wolf".

The strength of the fire demon wolf, whether it is weak or strong, is quite satisfactory among the second-grade primary demon beasts.

In Mo Hua's eyes, it was nothing.

But it is extremely difficult for these novices to deal with Tai Amen.

There were five of them, including "Little Wood" Ouyang Mu, each holding a red-yellow spiritual sword and fighting the fire demon wolf at close range.

Tai Amen is good at sword-making, and his spiritual sword is of extremely high quality.

In conjunction with this sword-making technique, what they practice is also similar to physical sword-making techniques.

The physical body is strong, the spiritual sword is sharp, coupled with the strength of physical training and the sword energy of the sword, when it comes to real fighting, the strength is very strong.

Although it is not like spiritual training or sword-controlling swordsmanship, one can perform powerful superior Taoist techniques or sword-controlling techniques by accumulating energy.

But this kind of swordsmanship, which is similar to martial arts, is fast, flexible, and can advance and retreat freely.

In close combat, the advantage is huge, so it should not be underestimated.

Senior Brother Ouyang Fengfeng practices this type of swordsmanship.

When I was doing bounties before, I relied on Senior Brother Feng to combine offense and defense, and he was responsible for fighting the evil cultivators head-on.

Only Senior Sister Murong, including herself, had the space to cast spells calmly.

However, these Tai'amen "junior brothers" are completely incomparable to senior brother Feng.

Not only their personal cultivation, their swordsmanship, their fighting experience, but also the quality of the spiritual swords in their hands were all far behind.

Especially "Little Wood", he is so clumsy that he has no idea what he is doing when he fights.

When he shouldn't have taken action, he stepped forward and stabbed him, exposing his own flaw and giving the monster an opportunity.

When it was time for him to take action, he hesitated and did not dare to use his sword, thus wasting the opportunity.

The other Tai'amen disciples were okay.

But it's just "make do".

He just relied on his cultivation foundation and youthful spirit to dare to fight and kill.

There is no consideration between advancing and retreating, attacking and defending, and the timing is relatively rough.

It's far worse than Situ and the others.

Not even as clever as Hao Xuan.

With their level, they would definitely not be able to kill the Fire Demon Wolf.

Sure enough, after a few people fought for a while, the Fire Demon Wolf showed a flaw and attracted two Tai'amen disciples to take action.

It stimulated its demonic power and surged with fiery fire. Taking advantage of the gap between the two disciples who were eager to perform meritorious deeds and had no energy left to change their moves, it rushed out and turned into a flame, disappearing into the distance.

These Tai'amen disciples finally understood the principle of not chasing after poor bandits.

What's more, this is Demon Refining Mountain.

And their spiritual power is running out.

Several people meditated on the spot and recovered their spiritual power. At the same time, they complained:

"Let this beast escape again!"

"I've been here several times, but I can't get around you no matter what."

Someone complained about Ouyang Mu, "Mu Mu, you always make mistakes. You make too many mistakes. Otherwise, we would have killed this wolf demon long ago."

Someone else said: "Do you remember what we told you?"

"If you don't make any progress, how can we take you into the mountains in the future?"

Ouyang Mu lowered his head, a little ashamed, and said nothing.

A disciple looked angry and said, "You are talking!"

"If it weren't for your brother..."

"Okay!" a slightly older disciple said, "There's no point in talking about this now."

The disciple swallowed his words, but his anger was obviously still lingering.

"If this continues, you won't be able to catch a monster, and you won't be able to earn any merit. It's just a waste of time..."

Although he didn't say it explicitly, everyone knew who he was talking about.

The scene was a bit quiet.

Mo Hua shook his head slightly.

Although Xiaomu was indeed inexperienced and unfamiliar with swordsmanship, he also made many mistakes, which held him back.

But their team, with its own strength, has no way of hunting monsters. Even without Xiaomu, someone with the same strength as them would still be unable to kill the Fire Demon Wolf.

If the monster hunting fails, the little wood holding back the blame should take some of the blame.

But it's a bit unreasonable to blame it all on Xiaomu.

It is always easy for people to blame their own faults on others, thus failing to recognize their own shortcomings.

But this is Tai Amen's own business, and there is no need for Mo Hua to come forward.

After that, the five Tai Amen people searched the mountains for a while, but could not find any trace of the fire demon wolf. It was getting late, so they had no choice but to go back home.

On the way back, the other four people looked at Xiaomu with somewhat complaining eyes.

Ouyang Mu just lowered his head.

Mo Hua watched them go down the mountain without meddling in their own business.

The next day, Mo Hua went into the mountain to practice sword-wielding as usual.

About noon, Mo Hua rested on the big tree again, and after a while, as expected, he saw Ouyang Mu again.

Ouyang Mu and his party were still five people, but this time there were new people around him.

The four people he teamed up with were no longer the same ones as yesterday.

Somehow, Ouyang Mu was too embarrassed to trick them, so he changed teams.

It was the other four who disliked Ouyang Mu for holding him back, so they stopped playing with him.

Mo Hua sighed slightly.

Their target this time seems to be the Fire Demon Wolf.

But it is very difficult for such a novice demon hunting team to hunt down an early stage second-grade demon beast.

Not surprisingly, they failed.

Although all five of them are bad, the person who is the most bad must bear all the faults.

Ouyang Mu was criticized again.

But he has a dull personality and is not good at talking.

Several other people quarreled with each other, and then the team dispersed before they even got down the mountain.

Mo Hua could see that among the five people, Ouyang Mu was the weakest, but he was the one who wanted to hunt monsters the most.

The other four people were not so much hunting monsters as they were competing for performance and limelight, with almost no cooperation at all.

At this time, the other four people had left, and only Ouyang Mu remained.

He clenched the sword in his hand, looking determined, but looking around, he felt a little painful.

He seems to want to continue hunting monsters, but he also knows that his strength is low and he is no match for monsters.

But he was a little unwilling to go down the mountain like this.

Ouyang Mu stood there blankly, hesitating, looking a little confused, not knowing what to do...

Mo Hua looked at it and sighed, then shouted from the high branches of the big tree:

"Little wood!"

Ouyang Mu, who was in a daze, was stunned when he heard the sound. He looked up and saw a little monk not much older than him, with red lips and white teeth, standing on the big tree not far away, standing with his feet vertically on the big tree, walking step by step. down.

Ouyang Mu was stunned for a moment and then recognized it.

This is what I saw in the Demon Refining Mountain that day. The disciple of the Taixu Sect who was obviously about the same age as me, but could talk and laugh with his brother freely, his name seemed to be...

"ink painting".

"Mo...Hello, Senior Brother Mo!"

Ouyang Mu said cautiously but politely.

Mo Hua was a little surprised and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"I..." Ouyang said dullly, "I'm hunting monsters..."

He was a little embarrassed to say this.

Because his ability to hunt monsters is really a mess.

It's been two days and not a single monster has been killed.

Mo Hua asked again: "Your classmates have all left, aren't you going back?"

Ouyang Mu was stunned, and then he realized that Mo Hua had seen the process of hunting monsters by his group.

Ouyang Mu's expression dropped, but he still shook his head and said firmly:

"I won't leave, I will kill the fire demon wolf."

"Why?" Mo Hua didn't quite understand.

Ouyang Mu whispered: "I want the backbone of the fire demon wolf..."

"What do you want a spine for?"

"Forging swords..."

Mo Hua was startled for a moment, then his eyes suddenly sparkled and he said in surprise:

"You know how to forge a sword?!"

He has long heard people mention that the three sects of Tai'a, Chongxu and Taixu are closely related, and the most famous one of Tai'a is Tai'a's sword-making skills!

Ouyang Mu was a little flustered by Mo Hua and nodded numbly.

Mo Hua smiled brightly, "You just said, what do you want?"

Ouyang Mu was stunned for a moment and repeated in a low voice:

"The...spine of the fire demon wolf."

Mo Hua nodded and whistled.

After a while, there was a disciple of Taixu Sect in the distance, running over in a hurry and arriving in front of the ink painting:

"Little senior brother!"

Mo Hua said: "Kill a fire demon wolf and give me its spine."

"okay!"

The disciple ran away in a hurry again.

Then after a while, there was a commotion in the forest in the distance, followed by the explosion of formations, the shouts of monks and the roar of monsters.

Finally, after everything calmed down, the disciple ran back and handed a blood-stained, crimson, flame-filled spine to Mo Hua.

Ouyang Mu looked at the spine and slowly opened his mouth.

The backbone of the fire demon wolf!

During these days, he tried his best, begged many people, and went through a lot of hardships. He finally formed a team and fought against the monsters with great difficulty. However, even after the team was dispersed, he still could not get this spine. .

But in the end, he didn't even understand what happened for a moment.

A fresh fire wolf demon spine with blood and fire just placed in front of you?

Ouyang Mu looked in disbelief.

He slowly raised his head and stared blankly at the ink painting, feeling shocked:

Who is this Senior Brother Mo...