Seeking Immortality

The look of loss on Ting'er's face was only a flash, and at this time Xu Qingfan had already turned around and walked towards his house, so he did not notice these abnormalities.

On the contrary, Zhang Ningmei, who was standing next to Ting'er, keenly noticed Ting'er's loss, and showed some thoughtful expressions in her eyes, but did not say much, just silently followed Xu Qingfan into the house.

In the house, Xu Qingfan sat cross-legged on the bed, while Ting'er, Zhang Ningmei, and Bai Yu stood respectfully in front of Xu Qingfan, waiting for Xu Qingfan's lecture.

Xu Qingfan pondered for a while, but first said to Zhang Ningmei and Bai Yu: "Because I went down the mountain this time without telling everyone in Jiuhua, your identities are not suitable to be exposed now, so in the thirteen years before the end of the mountain closure, you two are now practicing in my cave, don't go out, and after the mountain closure is over, I will naturally let you officially become Jiuhua disciples."

Ningmei and Bai Yu bowed and said. Among them, Zhang Ningmei's expression was as calm as ever, but Bai Yu felt a little bitter. To him, Xu Qingfan's cave was beautiful, but staying there for thirteen years was hardship.

Seeing the bitterness on Bai Yu's face, Xu Qingfan said slowly: "During the first ten years of cultivation, I never left the cave. The beginning of cultivation is the time to lay the foundation, which is the most important. You must devote all your energy. Otherwise, if you have no intention to practice at the beginning and only want to play, you will never achieve great success. What's more, the purpose of cultivation is to live forever. In the eyes of me, a cultivator, a life in the mortal world is just a time of meditation, which may be boring or full of joy. Whether it is boring or full of joy depends on your mentality. If you can't even get through the hardships of the initial foundation-building stage, how can you talk about immortality? This request of the master is certainly for confidentiality, but most of all it is for your good. If you can't do it, the master will erase your memory and send you back to the mortal world. Remember it?"

As he said, Xu Qingfan glanced at Bai Yu intentionally or unintentionally.

Seeing Xu Qingfan's calm and distant eyes. Bai Yu was shocked, knowing that Xu Qingfan did not speak, and these words were directed at him, so he quickly put away his mentality of wanting to play first, and bowed with Zhang Ningmei to respond.

Xu Qingfan nodded slightly. Although Zhang Ningmei and Bai Yu were both his new disciples, Xu Qingfan had to use different methods to educate them in view of their different personalities and minds.

Zhang Ningmei was mature, thoughtful, steady, self-disciplined, and spiritual. Xu Qingfan was most assured of her. To be honest, putting aside blood ties and Liu Huaxiang's last wish, although Zhang Ningmei was the worst among the three disciples, Xu Qingfan valued Zhang Ningmei the most, and Zhang Ningmei was also the most similar to him in terms of personality and mind among the three disciples.

It can be said that if Ting'er was not Xu Qingfan's only relative in the world, no matter how high Ting'er's qualifications were, Xu Qingfan had no intention of accepting Ting'er as his disciple. If it weren't for Liu Huaxiang's last wish, no matter how magical Bai Yu's bloodline was, Xu Qingfan would not have accepted Bai Yu as his disciple, but Zhang Ningmei, Xu Qingfan was moved to accept her as his disciple from the first sight.

For Xu Qingfan, Zhang Ningmei is the kind of person who can let go and feel at ease after telling her what to do. If there is a problem, she will naturally come back to ask you, and if there is no problem, she will practice with peace of mind. Ting'er is the kind of person who can let go but cannot feel at ease after telling her what to do, because although Ting'er practices diligently, when encountering problems, Ting'er will only hold them in her heart, and she will not ask you unless you ask her if there is a problem.

As for Bai Yu, he is the kind of person who can neither let go nor rest assured. Although he is not inferior to Ting'er in terms of qualifications, he has lived in the general's mansion since he was a child and has been spoiled by everyone around him. Although he has not developed any bad habits, he still maintains a rare sincerity in the official family, which can be seen from his previous care for Zhang Ningmei. But because of this, Bai Yu is like an ordinary teenager, with a very wild mind, which is much worse than the mature minds of Ting'er and Zhang Ningmei. Therefore, Xu Qingfan must knock him from time to time to make him practice hard under awe. Otherwise, if he is a little more tolerant, Bai Yu will immediately become wild.

Sure enough, after hearing Xu Qingfan's words, Bai Yu was silent for a moment, but immediately asked Xu Qingfan: "Then Master, are you going to teach us to cultivate immortals now?" Xu Qingfan nodded slightly, but his brows could not help but frowned.

Thinking about it, it is helpless. None of the three apprentices he accepted is normal. Ting'er had been transformed by the magic beads, and any Taoist magic she performed was full of demonic energy, which was even more powerful than cultivating magic. Zhang Ningmei was weak and sickly since childhood, but her spiritual consciousness was far stronger than that of ordinary people. As for Bai Yu, he even had the blood of the ancient demon beast "Qiongqi".

Although they were gifted, Xu Qingfan had a headache when teaching them, because the method of teaching ordinary people was useless to the three of them, and it might even harm them, so he had to find another way.

Seeing Xu Qingfan frowning and thinking, everyone knew that Xu Qingfan was thinking about how to teach them to cultivate immortals, so they all held their breath and dared not disturb him. During this period, Bai Yu seemed to want to ask more questions, but was stopped by Zhang Ningmei's eyes.

After a long time, Xu Qingfan took out a green scroll from his sleeve and put it in front of Zhang Ningmei. After Zhang Ningmei stretched out her hands to receive it, Xu Qingfan slowly said: "What is recorded here is a method called "The Art of Destroying Gods", which was taken from an evil cultivator by my master before, but it is not an orthodox Jiuhua method. Unlike most of the methods in the world of immortal cultivation, this method is used to cultivate immortal consciousness. With your current strength of consciousness, you can already see the contents recorded in the green scroll. Get familiar with it after you go down, and then I will answer your questions one by one. However, you should not read the contents of cultivating and enhancing consciousness and the methods of using consciousness to attack. Instead, learn the contents about condensing consciousness first. As long as your consciousness is condensed to a certain degree, your powerful consciousness will not overdraw the energy in your body. Then I will teach you the orthodox method of cultivating immortals."

After hearing Xu Qingfan's words. Zhang Ningmei bowed obediently.

Seeing that Zhang Ningmei didn't say much, Xu Qingfan nodded with satisfaction. As long as Zhang Ningmei condensed her consciousness first, her stubborn illness would be cured. Although she might practice immortality later than others, when her consciousness was condensed, she could catch up with others at a speed far beyond that of ordinary people with her powerful consciousness.

After settling Zhang Ningmei, Xu Qingfan turned his gaze to Bai Yu again. After a slight hesitation, he took out another green slip without any information recorded, and then recorded some information and skills in it, and then handed it to Bai Yu. He said: "Practice according to the method recorded in the green slip every day. It may be a little slow at the beginning, but you must persist."

Bai Yu also took the green slip with both hands like Zhang Ningmei and responded respectfully.

The "divine beast family" that was once prosperous has disappeared at this time, except for the Feng family. Although Bai Yu has the "Qiongqi" bloodline, the secret method of the Bai family has been lost for many years, so how to teach Bai Yu is the most headache for Xu Qingfan.

Fortunately, Xu Qingfan accidentally learned all the Feng family's skills. Although he couldn't and wasn't suitable to teach Bai Yu, Xu Qingfan thought that the skills of these "divine beast families" should be the same in essence, all of which were to activate the power of their own blood to perform magical powers different from ordinary people. So the skills that Xu Qingfan gave Bai Yu were the skills that Xu Qingfan summarized from the Feng family's skills to sense and activate blood energy, but as for how much Bai Yu could understand and whether he could create a skill suitable for him to perform, it depended on his own efforts and opportunities.

After settling Zhang Ningmei and Bai Yu. Xu Qingfan answered some questions about Ting'er's practice over the years, and then taught Zhang Ningmei and Bai Yu some of the most basic knowledge of cultivating immortals, and let them retreat.

And Xu Qingfan, not long after the three retreated, pushed the door open, opened the protective formation outside the cave, and flew towards the front mountain.

In Jiuhua Mountain. There is a special "Refining Hall". Xu Qingfan came to the front mountain this time to find Quan Huayuan, the person in charge of the "Refining Hall". He asked him to help refine and fuse "topaz".

Hearing that Xu Qingfan wanted to refine "topaz", Quan Huayuan was slightly stunned. First, he didn't know what Xu Qingfan wanted to do with such a rare material as "topaz", and second, he didn't expect Xu Qingfan to have so many topaz in his hands, but he didn't ask much, just asked Xu Qingfan to come back in three months.

After that, Xu Qingfan dealt with the things that the deacons and elders should be responsible for in the front mountain, learned about the situation of the three courtyards at this time from Li Yuhan, and then went back to the back mountain. However, before leaving, Li Yuhan called him "the most diligent deacon elder who can practice in seclusion in the history of Jiuhua Mountain", but he didn't know whether he was praising Xu Qingfan for his diligence in practice, or complaining that Xu Qingfan threw all the things to him. But it also made Xu Qingfan smile awkwardly.

In the following three months, Xu Qingfan guided Ting'er and the other three in cultivating immortals, while thinking about the perfection of "The Wind of Desolation" and "The Secret of Life and Death". He occasionally had a leisurely chat with Zhang Ningmei.

Although Zhang Ningmei's knowledge was far inferior to Xu Qingfan's during the chat, her vision was high. Xu Qingfan often spoke while Zhang Ningmei listened. However, Zhang Ningmei's occasional comments were just right, which made Xu Qingfan feel that "he was deeply in my heart".

In addition, Zhang Ningmei was also very interested in the large number of books collected by Xu Qingfan. In the mortal world, when she was sick and could not go out, she would read books to relieve her boredom. At this time, she was very interested in the large number of books in Xu Qingfan's room. Xu Qingfan's room was often very quiet. When she went in, she saw that Xu Qingfan and Zhang Ningmei, one big and one small, were silent, buried in their studies, and immersed in the sea of ​​books.

As their knowledge increased, Zhang Ningmei and Xu Qingfan gradually talked more.

It is worth mentioning that Zhang Ningmei's chess skills are more than one level higher than Xu Qingfan's. After giving Xu Qingfan three pieces, Xu Qingfan struggled to hold on and then lost miserably due to the numerical disadvantage, just like the scene when Xu Qingfan played chess with Liu Huaxiang before. Bai Yu, who was always watching the game, didn't understand chess and didn't dare to ridicule Xu Qingfan for being a master and asking his disciple to give up three pieces, and finally couldn't win. But he could praise Zhang Ningmei's chess skills again and again to vent the pain of Xu Qingfan for forcing him to practice hard.

However, as Zhang Ningmei once said to Bai Yu, playing chess is only for meditation, not for career, and winning or losing is not important.

And Xu Qingfan didn't care, he fought and lost again and again, and fought again and again.

Zhang Ningmei and Bai Yu's cultivation was also very gratifying. In just over a month, Zhang Ningmei mastered the method of condensing her spiritual consciousness. It was only a matter of time for her to condense her spiritual consciousness to a level that was balanced with her own energy.

On the other hand, Bai Yu also sensed the energy in his blood soon after. On that day, Xu Qingfan told him about his origins and handed him a lot of books about the "Qiongqi" beast and the "Qiongqi family", asking him to understand it on his own and ask questions if he had any. For Bai Yu, Xu Qingfan could only do this.

However, what made Xu Qingfan happy was that after knowing his origins, Bai Yu suddenly became enthusiastic about cultivating immortals. It seemed that he thought of the grand occasion when the "Qiongqi family" reappeared in his hands.

Among them, the only thing that made Xu Qingfan dissatisfied and puzzled was that since that day, Ting'er gradually became silent again, and she was no longer as friendly to Zhang Ningmei and Bai Yu as before, especially to Zhang Ningmei, who was with Xu Qingfan almost day and night, and she never said a word to him again. When cultivating immortals, he also became anxious, as if he wanted to prove something, but he almost went crazy.

After noticing these situations, Xu Qingfan asked Ting'er what was wrong, but Ting'er just remained silent.

In the end, it was Zhang Ningmei's words that explained Xu Qingfan's doubts.

"Master wants me and Bai Yu to feel that you treat us equally, which is of course well-intentioned, but Master, you have never thought that Senior Sister Ting'er is your blood relative and has been with you for the longest time. She deserves more care, and treating her equally is unfair."

Hearing Zhang Ningmei's words, Xu Qingfan suddenly realized that Ting'er actually cared so much about his attitude. He was very happy in his heart. After several private talks with Ting'er, Ting'er finally returned to normal. However, after knowing Zhang Ningmei's words, he still didn't know how to get along with Zhang Ningmei.

But Xu Qingfan believed that Zhang Ningmei could handle it.

Three months later, Xu Qingfan obtained the purified and fused "Topaz". After he dealt with the mundane affairs and the cultivation matters of Ting'er and the other three, he settled Ting'er and the other three. He then asked Zhang Ningmei to help him keep Bai Yu under control, and then he went into seclusion again.