Chapter 73: I am just concerned about the young lady. I hope Master Jianzun will not be angry...

The atmosphere in the car was already strange.

Hearing the servant's question, Xie Yanyu pulled his hand away again.

She used quite a bit of strength.

Li Xun first pinched her wrist and let her pull it out twice, but failed. When she pulled it out a third time with more force, he suddenly let go.

Seeing her lean back due to inertia, he smiled. He no longer had the paranoia and madness that had forced her to cover his mouth earlier. He was completely relaxed. "I was just trying to scare you. Why are you so scared?"

He was like crazy one second, and then calm and peaceful the next, so normal.

But this only made him look sicker.

Xie Yanyu rubbed his wrist and was too lazy to pay attention to him.

She turned to look at the attendant: "What's the matter?"

Chen Lang said half-truthfully, "I thought I heard some noise in the car just now. I was worried something might be wrong, so I came in to ask."

As soon as these words fell,

Before Xie Yanyu could speak,

Li Xun spoke first, smiling, almost teasingly: "Why does that sound like a hidden needle in a cotton ball, huh? Scolding me isn't fun, is it? What do you think can happen to her? Do you think I can kill her?"

Chen Lang tightened his grip on his side, leaving finger marks on his palms.

After a long while, he feigned surprise and asked, "Why would Lord Sword Master think so?"

He addressed the question to Li Xun, but his eyes remained fixed on Xie Yanyu, their gleaming light shining. "I am merely concerned for the young lady. The master has assigned me to look after you. If anything were to happen to you, I would be at a loss as to how to explain it to the master."

After saying this,

He finally turned his gaze to Li Xun.

Under Li Xun's gaze, he smiled apologetically, his tone gentle but not flattering, neither humble nor arrogant, very generous: "Did my behavior make Master Jian Zun unhappy?"

Li Xun stared at him, his eyes becoming gloomy.

He always felt that these words were strange and even more pointed than the previous ones, leaving him in a dilemma.

If he said he wasn't angry, he would feel inexplicably irritated and wanted to skin the guard alive. If he said he was angry, the other party's words were reasonable and well-founded. If he got angry, it would seem that he was very sick.

Although he is really sick and everyone calls him a mad dog behind his back,

But what’s the big deal about being angry like this?

*

Over here,

Li Xun and Shen Lang were in a stalemate here.

One thought the other was pretentious and annoying and not a good person, while the other thought the other was a bitch for seducing Xie Yanyu. Both of them wanted to tear each other's faces apart, but one smiled gently and generously, while the other just stared at the other with cold eyes. To outsiders, the atmosphere between them seemed awkward and they couldn't really see any undercurrents.

So they were stuck here,

On the other side,

Xie Yanyu had already taken out a piece of paper and was staring at it, thinking.

She had originally been riding in the same car with Li Xun, intending to advance the plot along the way, but just now she suddenly remembered that there was something more important she had forgotten to do—

To join the Shangqing Immortal Palace, a letter of recommendation alone is not enough.

In addition to the letter of recommendation, she also needed to prepare a letter of apprenticeship, which stated her basic information, such as her spiritual roots, cultivation level, and her proficiency in magic. According to the rules of Shangqing Immortal Palace, if someone wanted to become a disciple, they had to complete this letter before arriving at the palace. If they didn't, they wouldn't be able to enter the palace.

I don't know why there is such a rule.

But Xie Yanyu didn't want to explore it.

She took the paper and planned to write the letter of apprenticeship first and then consider the plot later, so she took out the ink stick and pen from the mustard bag.

Next to her,

Chen Lang saw her holding the pen and ink,

So he stopped arguing with Li Xun and asked her gently, "Miss, do you want to write your letter of apprenticeship now?"

He took the pen and ink: "Let me help Miss with the pen and ink."

Xie Yanyu: "Yeah."

Chen Lang was used to serving Xie Yanyu. This was the thing that made him feel the most happy. Although he had not been following her as a guard for a long time, he had already made her accustomed to being served. So at this time, the conversation between them was very natural.

Li Xun's expression became even gloomier.

Chen Lang seemed to sense something and looked back at Li Xun.

Then he pretended to hesitate and asked Xie Yanyu, "Master Jianzun, I hope I won't be angry with you for doing this, right?"

As soon as these words fell,

Xie Yanyu originally felt that something was strange and wrong.

But when she looked up and saw Li Xun's expression, she felt that there was nothing wrong with the question.

Li Xun had a gloomy face, and anyone who saw him like that would think he was unhappy.

But this man is like a mad dog, with all kinds of strange reasons for going crazy. Who knows why he has this expression?

Xie Yanyu was too lazy to care about him and replied to Chen Lang: "Don't worry about him, he is just like that."

As soon as these words fell,

Shen Lang turned around and glanced at Li Xun again.

As if he couldn't see Li Xun's expression, he gave a gentle, apologetic smile, then squeezed in between Li Xun and Xie Yanyu, separating them, and sat down next to Xie Yanyu: "I'll grind the ink."

Li Xun looked at them.

The feeling that something was wrong was getting stronger and stronger, almost ready to burst out.

It was hard to tell what was wrong, but it was wrong, just wrong, as if a barrier had risen between them, they were inside the barrier, and he was separated from the outside.

After a long while,

Li Xun's face turned pale as he pulled out the letter of apprenticeship that Xie Yanyu had just written with a few words on it.

Before Xie Yanyu got angry, he picked up a pen, dipped it in ink, and started writing for Xie Yanyu as if to vent his anger.

*

After nightfall,

The group arrived at Shangqing Immortal Palace.

Shangqing Fairy Palace is located on a fairy mountain with continuous peaks towering into the clouds.

Xie Yanyu lifted the carriage curtain and saw that they were at the mountain gate.

The driver drove the carriage and continued driving, and soon entered the mountain. However, at the moment of entering the mountain, the apprenticeship letter and recommendation letter in Xie Yanyu's hand suddenly disappeared.

Not long after,

Then I heard the driver outside say, "After entering the mountain gate, there is a village, but no matter how you walk on the mountain road in the village, you can't go up the mountain. No matter which way you walk, you will always return to the village entrance. Moreover, there seems to be no living people in this village. Miss, what should we do?"

*

The other side.

Shangqing Immortal Palace, meeting hall.

A water curtain was suspended in the air, and the scene at the foot of the mountain at this moment was being broadcasted in real time.

Can see in the picture,

Two carriages drove through the mountain gate one after the other. After entering the mountain village, they circled back and forth twice, unable to find the mountain road, and kept going back to the starting point, so they stopped temporarily. In the carriage in front, the driver was looking back to ask the people in the carriage what to do next.

In front of the water curtain,

Several elders of Shangqing Immortal Palace gathered together and looked at the two pieces of paper that appeared out of thin air in the master's hand.

One is a letter of recommendation, and the other is a letter of apprenticeship—

Different from public selection of disciples.

Shangqing Immortal Palace publicly recruits disciples every five years, and there is a mountain trial. Candidates for the public selection only need to pass the mountain trial to become disciples of the master. Then the elders of the sect choose their favorite disciples based on their respective strengths, thereby distinguishing whether they are menial disciples, outer disciples, inner disciples, or direct disciples.

Those who apply for the discipleship with a letter of recommendation will be assessed in a different way.

If you come to Shangqing Fairy Palace with a letter of recommendation to become a disciple, you must prepare the letter of apprenticeship before entering the mountain gate, because the entrance examination has begun the moment you enter the mountain gate.

There is a maze at the mountain gate. Based on the information on the apprenticeship letter, a maze will be generated specifically to trap the apprentice and trap them at the foot of the mountain.

The elders of the sect evaluated their strength based on how and when they came out.

This assessment is actually more difficult than the normal public disciple selection trial.

Because the apprentices did not know the purpose of the apprenticeship letter, and did not know that the assessment would begin the moment they entered the mountain gate.

Besides that, they also didn't know that the sect leader and elders would be in the meeting hall, watching the entire trial.

Such an assessment is useless no matter how prominent one's family background is. There are many children from noble families who come with servants. After discovering that the assessment is a maze, they try to ask the servants to help them get out of the maze, but the elders only evaluate the performance of the apprentice through the water curtain.

If they are mediocre, they will be beaten without mercy and made into menial apprentices.

If one has average talent, he will be an outer disciple.

If he is a genius, perhaps the elders will rush to accept him as an inner disciple or a personal disciple.

At this time,

The head of the sect first glanced at the letter of recommendation, then opened the letter of apprenticeship and took a closer look. "Oh? The Xie family of Tiandu?"

The headmaster muttered, then sent a message to Helan Wei: [The person you recommended has entered the mountain and is undergoing assessment. Would you like to come and take a look?]

On the other side,

Helan Wei received the summons.

He held the communication talisman and glanced out the window, his face expressionless.

After a long while, he replied with two words: [No.]

*

at the same time.

Xie Yanyu was sitting in the carriage and was a little confused when he heard the driver's words.

In an uninhabited village, you always take the wrong path. No matter how you look at it, it seems like you have come to the wrong place. Shangqing Immortal Palace is a legitimate immortal sect, so how could it be so gloomy? In this situation, it is reasonable to say that you have walked into a place where demons are rampant.

But the system rarely works.

It found some information from the corners of the original text.

In the original plot,

Xie Yanyu is just a supporting role, so many plots are glossed over.

But Xie Yanyu only read her own part of the plot. There was no such detailed description in the plot related to her. Therefore, the plot of her entering Shangqing Immortal Palace was also glossed over. In the previous scene, she just snatched the recommendation letter, and the next scene described her miserable situation of being a menial disciple in Shangqing Immortal Palace and being looked down upon.

Search the system,

Xie Yanyu realized that she had not come to the wrong place.

This place is the maze of Shangqing Fairy Palace, and this is the test before entry.

But it was night.

If you want to pass the trial and collect information, it would be better to wait until daytime.

So she said directly to the driver, "Don't worry, this is my test to enter the mountain. We are now in a maze. You continue driving and find a place to rest. Tomorrow morning I will find clues and solve the maze myself."

*

Xie Yanyu's words also fell into the ears of the elders in the sect.

The group watched the trial through the water curtain and were surprised when they heard her words: "How did you find out so quickly?"

The head of the sect was also a little surprised: "If it were Helan, he might not be able to realize that it is a maze the moment he entered it."

Helan Wei is already a rare genius.

When he first became a disciple, the master took a liking to him at first sight and accepted him as his personal disciple.

He is the first disciple of the sect leader. If nothing unexpected happens, he will inherit the sect leader's mantle and become the next sect leader of Shangqing Immortal Palace. He is already an existence that no one can match.

The maze at the gate of Shangqing Palace is extremely mysterious.

But even a genius like Helan Wei, when he was going through the trial, had to look around for the terrain and it took him half an hour to realize that he was in a maze.

An elder was shocked and said, "But she didn't even get out of the car!"

After these words fell,

Then I heard footsteps outside the door.

The elders looked back and saw that it was Helan Wei coming.

He greeted the elders one by one in a gentle manner, looking no different from usual.

The headmaster asked, "Aren't you going to come?"

Helan Wei said: "Disciple can't sleep, come and take a look."

The headmaster laughed heartily and patted him on the shoulder: "This Miss Xie is quite capable. She discovered the trial as soon as she entered the mountain. She discovered it even faster than you did back then."

Helan Wei heard this,

For some strange reason, although Xie Yanyu was clearly being praised, he felt a strange and subtle sense of pleasure in his heart. The feeling was fleeting, and he didn't have time to notice it. His smile just softened, and then he looked in the direction of the water curtain.

At this time, Xie Yanyu and his group were seen driving a carriage and finding a place to live.

She got out of the carriage,

But besides her, her guard was also there.

Besides the guard, Li Xun was also there—

The three of them were traveling together.

Xie Yanyu came down with the two of them!

The gentle expression on Helan Wei's face twisted in an instant.