Chapter 255: The shared love between master and disciple
After killing the third-level monster, the leader put some materials into a storage ring and waited to return to the sect to fill the warehouse. Then the group returned to the town to inform the town of the incident.
These towns in the low spiritual realm are controlled by some small families, who are responsible for communicating with the major forces.
Lin Zhi and his friends were welcomed into an elegantly decorated hall. The one who came out to thank them was a young man, who was also the current leader of a small family in this town. His surname was Sun.
Lin Zhi stood in the team. Although he couldn't judge the man's level of cultivation with his current cultivation level, he could feel that he should not have reached the Golden Core Stage yet, and he must be not young.
Even though his appearance remained at the Foundation Establishment stage, the aura around him was already too turbid, like a pool of stagnant water, without the slightest sign of life.
"Thank you for your hard work. You are indeed the young talents of Guiyi Sect. You have eliminated this monster so quickly. I will definitely host a banquet for you tonight. Please do not refuse."
The man started with a round of greetings, then glanced at everyone with a happy smile.
Lin Zhi noticed that he spent more time looking at herself and Yuan Zhi. It is common for people to be attracted to people with outstanding looks, but that look in his eyes did not seem simple. However, since he was not an important person, Lin Zhi did not intend to delve into it further.
After hearing what the man said, the boss did not refuse. The banquet was secondary. Offerings and intelligence were what he wanted. In order to get these things, he was naturally willing to give some face.
"Father, everything is ready, we can start the feast."
A young man in fancy clothes walked in from the door, holding a folding fan in his hand. He bowed to everyone in the room and then gestured to the man.
His cultivation level was probably at the seventh level of Qi training. Lin Zhi took one look at him and had the answer in her mind.
When Lin Zhi withdrew his gaze, he exclaimed in his heart and looked at the young man again.
The pendant on the folding fan in the young man's hand looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.
Since practicing Taoism, Lin Zhi's memory has become better than before, and he quickly remembered where he had seen it.
When he came from the mortal realm, there was a rich young man named Gao Tongdao sitting next to him. He was very talkative and was the first person he met after coming to this world. However, the other person had five spiritual roots and was destined to have no chance of practicing Taoism, so they parted ways.
Gao Qu was young, and on the way there he fantasized about his future enlightenment, often fanning himself as he talked.
His fan pendant shook because of his movements. It was a piece of excellent quality Dragon Hidden Auspicious Cloud Jade, carrying his expectations for the future.
The memory of Gao Qu proudly stating that the jade embryo contained spiritual stone components was still fresh in Lin Zhi's mind. Lin Zhi couldn't help but look at the young man again.
Someone gently tugged at his sleeve, and Lin Zhi tilted his head to meet a pair of dark eyes.
"Brother, why are you looking at him?"
Yuan Zhi knew that this was something that could not be said in front of others, so he asked in a low voice in Lin Zhi's ear.
Before Lin Zhi could answer, everyone walked out.
He and Yuan Zhi were walking at the end of the team. The young man was behind them and caught up with them in a few steps.
"Friend Daoist, my name is Sun Chenhua, may I know your name?"
Sun Chenhua noticed Lin Zhi in the crowd at first sight. Although he was wearing the same moon-white Guiyi Sect uniform as everyone else, he was different from everyone else, making it hard to take his eyes off him.
As for the young man in black next to the young man, Sun Chenhua ignored him intentionally or unintentionally. Although the young man's appearance was also very outstanding, his aura was particularly cold and stern.
Lin Zhi gave her last name: "My last name is Lin."
"Just now I saw Fellow Daoist Lin look at me twice, and I thought he had something to tell me, but now it seems that I misunderstood."
Sun Chenhua smiled heartily while waving a fan, and stated his purpose in a frank manner.
"It was just that I saw that your fan pendant had a nice style, so I took a closer look."
Lin Zhi didn't suspect anything. Maybe it was just jade of the same type. Even if it was Gao Qu's jade, he might have given it to someone else or sold it for other reasons.
"Fellow Daoist Lin, you have good taste. I also like this pendant very much and enjoy it day and night. Since you like it, I will give it to you."
Sun Chenhua closed the fan and handed it forward together with the fan.
Lin Zhi shook his head: "You don't need to give up your love."
"You're welcome."
Sun Chenhua was very enthusiastic, and looked like he would ask Lin Zhi to accept it no matter what he said, but then he froze.
The sword flashed like ink, leaving a glaring mark on the white paper, stretching across his body.
Yuan Zhi's eyes were stern: "My senior brother said no."
His meaning was very clear, go back to where you came from.
Sun Chenhua withdrew his hand embarrassedly. Lin Zhi nodded slightly to him and continued to move forward with Yuan Zhi.
Yuan Zhi put away his sword and said to Lin Zhi seriously, "Brother, that person gives me a bad feeling. I don't like him. Don't take his things."
Shui Jing Qianting Yan shook his head almost imperceptibly. Such a low-level xenophobic method only showed his excessive jealousy and was likely to arouse disgust.
Then he saw Lin Zhi nodded, and couldn't help covering his lips and coughing.
Maybe he regretted it too early. He really didn't seem to understand love.
Lin Zhi looked at Yuan Zhi, who was particularly happy because of his nod, and the corners of his lips raised slightly.
He was not purely relying on Yuan Zhi, but Yuan Zhi's feeling was not wrong. Sun Chenhua's ability to hide his emotions was far worse than his father's, and what was hidden under his hospitality was about to overflow.
"Brother, when are we going to get rid of them?"
Yuan Zhi asked expectantly, he just wanted to be alone with Lin Zhi.
Lin Zhi smiled and said, "Now."
Lin Zhi called out to the senior sister in front of her and asked her to help inform the person in charge that they wanted to go for a walk around.
The senior sister had no time to stop them. She watched Lin Zhi taking Yuan Zhi away and helplessly informed the person in charge.
The person in charge thought about it and felt that it was okay. After all, this was the first time for the disciples to come out for training, so they were inevitably curious about the outside world. This was not a dangerous place. Besides, Yuan Zhi was the disciple of Sword Master, so if there was any trouble, he could report his master's name, and no one would be so blind as to cause trouble.
Yuan Zhi was pulled out of the door by Lin Zhi. When the touch on his hand disappeared, he was still a little reluctant. He unconsciously clenched his hands hanging by his side into fists, as if this would slow down the dissipation of the warmth in his palms.
The town is not deserted, because it is located in the low spiritual realm, and you can see the mixed scenes of mortal realm and cultivation realm everywhere.
Next to the shop where you buy fasting pills is a restaurant. It doesn't serve special spiritual food, but just common food. The aroma of roasted and braised meat is overbearing, and the people who buy fasting pills look increasingly heavy-hearted.
"Brother, do you want to eat?" Yuan Zhi asked after seeing Lin Zhi looking at him for a few more times, and then said, "But mortal food contains impurities, which is not good for cultivation. If you want to eat, I will treat you to spiritual food."
Without waiting for Lin Zhi to refuse, Yuan Zhi pulled Lin Zhi forward.
Yuan Zhi's idea was very simple. He thought that he should give Lin Zhi all the good things he wanted. He didn't want Lin Zhi to say anything like "no merit, no reward". He wanted to give everything he had to his senior brother, as long as he could hold his hand more.
The senior brother’s hands were not as big as his, so he could easily wrap them in his palms, and they felt soft and comfortable.
Lin Zhi was brought to the Lingshi Restaurant. The waiters there all had the third level of Qi training. They smiled when they saw Lin Zhi and the others, and when they recognized the sect uniform on Lin Zhi, they became even more respectful.
Spiritual food contains absorbable spiritual energy. Although not much, it is delicious and does not affect spiritual practice. It is beautiful in appearance and, of course, very affordable.
Yuan Zhi ordered a lot of things, which required a lot of spirit stones, but Lin Zhi did not ask, nor did he care whether Yuan Zhi could afford it.
Yuan Zhi liked him and wanted to please him, so his agreement was just a way to help him. If he still needed to worry about this matter, then it could only be said that Yuan Zhi and Ting Yan were both unqualified.
While enjoying the food, Lin Zhi saw a familiar figure on the street. It was none other than Gao Qu, whom he had just remembered today.
Gao Qu didn’t return to the mortal realm and is still here?
The other party was in a hurry, as if avoiding something, and disappeared from Lin Zhi's sight in a short while.
Lin Zhi didn't intend to explore it. Their friendship had not reached that level yet. Besides, no matter why Gao Qu was still here, it was his own choice.
But not long after, Gao Qu reappeared on the street in an unconscious state, with someone supporting or dragging him forward.
Lin Zhi put down his chopsticks. This situation was a different matter.
Perhaps influenced by his lover, now that he has this kind thought, his first reaction is not to think about the benefits that will come later.
"Junior brother, my friend seems to be in danger."
After briefly explaining the situation to Yuan Zhi, Lin Zhi wrote a short message and left a mark on it, and asked the people in the restaurant to deliver it to the Sun family to the head of Guiyi Sect, and then immediately went to track Gao Qu.
The people leading Gao Qu were walking very fast. Lin Zhi and Yuan Zhi had to use the Wind Control Technique to barely see each other's backs. Yuan Zhi was about to draw his sword to ask them to stop, but when he turned around, the people were gone.
There is a road in front of you that branches into two directions, and it is difficult to tell which road the other person is taking.
Yuan Zhi used his spiritual sense, but after all, he was only in the initial stage of foundation building, and the range of his investigation was limited, so he found no trace.
The two forks in the road seemed like a quick way to split up the troops, but at this moment, going their separate ways with insufficient numbers would be tantamount to taking risks alone, so neither Lin Zhi nor Yuan Zhi considered splitting up.
Lin Zhi opened the map in his mind and reached out to stop Yuan Zhi from exploring.
"Junior brother, this seems to be a formation."
The 01 card map was absolutely accurate, but on the map, there was a small building in front of him, and there was no such fork in the road at all.
In this kind of maze, one must either follow a specific pattern or find the center of the formation and destroy it.
Yuan Zhi felt it carefully and seemed to sense a faint fluctuation of spiritual energy.
"So should we retreat now, or look for clues to the formation?"
The formations are varied and it is difficult to know the specific rules, but if you can find clues, it will be feasible to attack the center of the formation or to use intelligence to infer the steps.
But Yuan Zhi didn't understand any of this, so he proposed a way to retreat.
Lin Zhi turned around and was still on the way he came. He thought for a while and said, "Let's go back first."
Lin Zhi has never been a brave person, and acting rashly when one is not strong enough is not a good choice.
Comparing the map in his mind, Lin Zhi started walking back.
After taking a fork in the road, he felt there was no need for comparison.
Yuan Zhi held the sword in his hand and looked around, "Are we going to enter the formation now? There is actually such a hidden formation in this place."
Lin Zhi thought more deeply than Yuan Zhi. Guiyi Sect probably didn’t know about this thing, otherwise the leader would have reminded them.
There is a maze formation in this place that the Guiyi Sect is unknown to. The location is not hidden or remote. It is intriguing to know whether the Sun family, who controls this place, knows about it.
Lin Zhi observed the surroundings and asked, "Does Junior Brother have any magical weapon to protect himself?"
"Yes," Yuan Zhi nodded, taking things out as he spoke, "Which one do you want, brother?"
Yuan Zhi was holding a variety of things, including seven or eight kinds of talismans and magical instruments, and his hands were almost full.
"The clothes I'm wearing have the same effect."
Yuan Zhi remembered that after he was injured while killing the twin snakes, Ting Yan gave him this defensive robe that could change its appearance.
Yuan Zhi looked at Lin Zhi and took off his clothes when he gave the order.
Lin Zhi chuckled and coaxed, "Put it away. I just wanted to ask about your situation so that you won't be in danger later. If you don't have it, I'll give it to you. It's good if you have it."
Yuan Zhi looked a little disappointed, but he didn't give up and said, "Brother, you really don't need it? My clothes can be changed. You can wear them now and return them to me later."
01Silence, the abacus was listening, and the abacus beads were falling on its face.
Lin Zhi declined, so Yuan Zhi stuffed all the things back to her.
"I have sent a message to the person in charge. They should come looking for us. Let's look around first to see if there are any clues to the center of the formation."
Lin Zhi is not the kind of person who would sit and wait for death, but he will not take excessive risks either. Although the person in charge said that the highest level of cultivation in this place is only in the late foundation building stage, he cannot underestimate it. If there is really danger, even if there are no golden elixir stage cultivators, the piles of foundation building stage cultivators will be enough for him, who is in the Qi training stage.
Yuan Zhi had no objection and just kept moving forward, even if it meant reaching the enemy's lair, he would just fight.
Lin Zhi's understanding of the formation was not particularly deep. He only learned the basics and checked it very carefully.
The area of the small town seemed to become infinite in the formation, but after walking along one path, the front and back were completely different.
Yuan Zhi tried to break through the wall, but he still could not get out of the formation, and he didn't know where the destroyed wall went.
There was another fork in the road, and Lin Zhi walked to the right as before.
[Host, how come you are separated from the mission target! 】
01 exclaimed and showed Lin Zhi the distance map, which showed that the black dot representing Yuan Zhi was indeed not far away, but not next to Lin Zhi.
Lin Zhi suddenly came back to his senses and turned his head to look beside him. As expected, it was empty. He looked in the direction of Yuan Zhi and saw a wall.
"This formation can interfere with people's consciousness."
Lin Zhi rubbed his eyebrows. He thought Yuan Zhi was by his side until 01 spoke.
Lin Zhi did not go back. Without the key to the formation, they would never be reunited. Moreover, this formation intentionally separated people, which meant that the person who set up the formation must have his purpose. If they looked forward, they would know. Compared to being trapped here, at least there was hope of breaking the impasse.
Keep going along the road, and after crossing a small bridge, a dreamy albizzia forest appears before your eyes.
The sturdy albizzia trees seem to block out the sky, plunging the world into a pink ocean.
Lin Zhi's abdomen began to feel hot, causing his eyes to darken slightly.
Since he entered this world, he has not met anyone from the Hehuan Sect, but the shadow of the Hehuan Sect is everywhere.
Among the evil sects in the realm of cultivation, the Hehuan Sect is considered to be a relatively large force. Desire is the origin of human beings. To cultivate the Tao, one needs to purify the six senses, but it is very difficult to get rid of human nature. Compared with other evil cultivators who are bloodthirsty, lust is something softer and more difficult to resist.
This is the case for some high-level practitioners, let alone disciples who have just started practicing Taoism, let alone ordinary people.
The sweet fragrance rushes to cover people, as if to keep people in the hazy spring day, dancing with all things.
"Hey... why is there a lost beauty?"
Someone walked out of the Albizia forest and was a little surprised when he saw Lin Zhi.
She was a female cultivator in pink, with a gauze skirt wrapped around her plump and beautiful body, like a fairy transformed from a cassia flower.
The female cultivator was obviously not an ignorant follower. When she saw Lin Zhi wearing the uniform of a Guiyi Sect disciple, she hesitated for a moment, but the hesitation soon disappeared.
"I don't know where you are from, young master, but since you are a guest, why don't you come in and have a seat?"
The female cultivator raised her hand gently, and the fragrance was like a veil, wrapping Lin Zhi in her direction.
Lin Zhi was not disturbed by her, but the crescent moon on his abdomen was getting hotter and hotter, making him feel uncomfortable.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt you. I fell in love with you the moment I saw you. I held your hand and felt so distressed that I couldn't wait."
The female cultivator raised her hand and made a gesture, and a water snake came towards Lin Zhi.
Lin Zhi used her magic to fight back, and the green aura surprised the female cultivator for a moment, and then she laughed even more happily.
"You actually fought back with wood spirit energy. I guess you are a medicine cultivator. Why bother to fight? Wouldn't it be better if wood and water blend together? I promise that I will not absorb your cultivation and let you leave here in peace."
The female cultivator approached and smelled a familiar scent on Lin Zhi's body, but she did not think much about it, thinking that it was the forest that infected Lin Zhi.
"Really?"
There was a slight mist in Lin Zhi's eyes, and he seemed a little dazed.
The female cultivator bent her lips. She was just a disciple in the Qi training stage. Even if she was from a famous and upright sect, how long could she last in this acacia forest?
She walked towards the young man, and when she was about to touch his clothes, she suddenly dodged to the side.
Vines suddenly emerged from the ground, and branches and leaves that broke through the soil grew rapidly, heading towards her position.
The water snake was entangled with the leaf. The female cultivator looked at Lin Zhi in doubt and did not take any more action. She planned to wait until his spiritual energy was exhausted before taking him away.
At this time, the albizzia flowers in the forest fell one after another and withered at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The female cultivator touched the tree trunk, feeling a little flustered.
"What did you do with them?"
The benefits of these Hehuan flowers to them are self-evident. The female cultivator attacked Lin Zhi to stop him from harming the forest again.
The attack she launched on Lin Zhi did not cause any harm. She knew that Lin Zhi's defensive magic weapon must be able to at least withstand the attack of a Jindan cultivator, otherwise her cultivation level in the late foundation building stage would not be unable to teach a Qi training stage a lesson.
The female cultivator made some hand gestures and used a water snake to wrap around Lin Zhi not far away, sending a message to the forest.
Lin Zhi felt his body getting hotter and hotter, and his thoughts became more and more fuzzy. If it weren't for his strong soul power and 01 singing in his mind, he might not have been able to think clearly.
The flowers of Albizia Julibrissin fell all over the ground, like a pink rain, turning into a thick carpet on the ground.
The bare branches looked abrupt and ugly. When the female cultivator was furious and extremely distressed, the acacia forest came back to life.
She breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the young man whose face was lightly blushed, and smiled again.
It was not the gentle or bewitching smile like before, but the gesture of a winner.
"Your spiritual energy is about to be exhausted, young master. Why bother holding on? We in the Hehuan Sect never force anyone to do anything. I'm just trying. If you don't want to, I won't force you."
Rather than resorting to force and plunder, she still prefers to go along with what people want. What's more, this man is a medicine practitioner from the Guiyi Sect. As long as she can control him, she will be able to gain many benefits in the future.
Lin Zhi said nothing, but quietly controlled the plant roots beneath the soil.
Lin Zhi thought of many ways to use the wood spiritual root to kill people, but no matter what method he used, it was inseparable from one principle.
A single tree cannot make a forest unless it is big enough.
A single weed poses no threat to humans, but a patch of corrosive weeds can. People have to stand on the ground. Even if they can float in the air for a short time, they can use branches to block it. Sometimes there is no need for too much soil. Plants can continue to spread to the sky and underground.
Therefore, Lin Zhi would let the spiritual energy contact with as many plants as possible, absorb their vitality as a replenishment, and twist their root systems in the process of releasing them back to make them become one, obtain the seeds of various plants, and graft them during their growth process to allow one plant to have the ability of another plant.
Seven or eight disciples of the Hehuan Sect walked out of the forest. Before they had even passed through the Hehuan forest, something strange happened.
The unsuspecting Qi training disciple of the Hehuan Sect was instantly entangled by the vines and hung on the Hehuan tree.
The people nearby were shocked and tried to save him by casting spells, but it was too late.
New buds sprouted from the branches and leaves and penetrated into the disciple's body. Soon, albizzia flowers blossomed in the disciple's mouth and eyes. Branches kept sprouting from his skin, and pale pink fluffy flowers devoured his body like a hanging honeycomb.
At the same time, someone cut off the branches of the Albizia Julibrissin tree, and the branches and human-shaped flowers fell to the ground, turning into a field of fallen flowers. One could vaguely make out the human skin that held them together between the flower stems, but soon, those were also corroded away, leaving only the fallen petals.
The pink-clothed female cultivator was stunned. Not only did the disciple next to her feel like vomiting, she also felt a little nauseous just looking at it.
The others didn't know what was going on, but she thought of the vines that had just broken through the ground and the flowers that had withered and revived, and quickly understood who was behind it.
This is almost comparable to those disgusting guys in Gu Sect. How can someone from a famous and upright family with wood spiritual roots have this thing?
The face of the young man in front of him was already covered with blush, making him look even gentler and harmless. His innocent eyes looked even softer under the light mist, and his red lips were naturally upturned even without a smile. But even with this look, thinking about the death of that man just now, it made people even more chilling.
At this moment, he is like the most gorgeous Albizia Julibrissin, which uses its roots to parasitize, devour and strangle people when they are unprepared, and finally turns into flower mud that no one can see.
In this case, she couldn't let him go. The female cultivator had a premonition that if she didn't control him and kill him, she might be the one to die in the future.
It’s just a pity that such a beautiful woman with such a good appearance and such a ruthless beauty is not from her Hehuan Sect.
Being besieged by several Foundation Establishment cultivators, cracks began to appear on Lin Zhi's magical weapon that could defend against attacks from Golden Core cultivators.
Lin Zhi felt hotter and hotter, the heat spreading from his inner organs upwards, burning all his internal organs.
The secret and unbridled desires of the world formed a devouring abyss in his body, forcing him to degenerate.
This is the Hehuan Sect's punishment for the traitors, combined with the effect of this Hehuan forest and the methods used by the Hehuan Sect's disciples.
The Hehuan Sect is known for its beauties. The musicians play soft and melodious music, the talisman practitioners draw spells that can make people bewildered, and the sword practitioners all use swords of romance and love.
Lin Zhi was a little shaky. He took the Bu Yuan Dan and Qing Xin Dan, and attacked with the Thunder and Fire Curse and talismans. He stood in the center of the Qianxin Flower, and the vines covered with white flowers were waving continuously.
The beautiful flowers emit a nerve-numbing fragrance that penetrates into people's bodies when they are slow to move.
The female cultivator in pink had not taken action for a long time. After accumulating spiritual power, she formed seals with her hands and poured out spiritual power.
This strike, which condensed most of her spiritual power, would surely shatter the defensive magic weapon on the young man. There was no time to delay and a quick victory was necessary.
The huge water python with its mouth wide open moved towards Lin Zhi and swallowed him into its stomach.
Lin Zhi was just about to break open the snake's belly when the restraints on his body suddenly disappeared.
The surroundings became very quiet, as silent as a snowflake falling to the ground.
There was confusion in the eyes of the pink-clothed female cultivator. She didn't even see the sword clearly, nor did she see who was coming. She only saw a piece of white cloth, and then she lost consciousness forever.
It was an extremely gentle snow, making people feel no pain of death.
In this silence, Lin Zhi knew that the person he was waiting for had arrived.
The time didn't seem long, in fact it passed very quickly. 01 kept telling him in his mind that Ting Yan was approaching.
Lin Zhi closed his eyes and was completely engulfed by the heat.
Good and hot.
It seems to be melting.
Ting Yan looked at the wet young man in his arms and tried to input spiritual energy into him to help him keep his mind clear, but it had no effect and made the young man feel even worse.
The young man's spiritual energy became very chaotic, and Ting Yan did not make it worse.
Ting Yan had heard a little about the medicine of the Hehuan Sect. He hugged the young man with a frown on his face, looking for the location of the split soul.
After Ting Yan couldn't see Lin Zhi in the water mirror, he knew something had happened. He didn't want any trouble, so he simply came here and happened to save the person. If it had been any later, it would have been terrible.
This was a good opportunity, but he didn't know where his split soul was. Because Yuan Zhi was separated into an independent body, he could only see his location through the water mirror but could not perceive it clearly.
The young man's body was very hot and he kept struggling in his arms. Ting Yan had no choice but to put him down for the time being and go find the beads he had given them earlier to send a message to Yuan Zhi.
There is a spiritual mark on Lin Zhi's jade pendant. According to his level of cultivation, he can easily erase this mark and take out the item.
Ting Yan did the same, but encountered an obstacle. He couldn't erase Lin Zhi's soul imprint?
Ting Yan leaned over, held Lin Zhi's jade pendant, and planned to try again.
The young man's warm hand suddenly touched his cheek, then slid to his neck, bringing an unspeakable shudder.
Tingyan was slightly startled. The young man approached with misty eyes, and his lips were covered with a thin layer of vapor because of the heat of his breath.
Because he has been ill for many years, Tingyan's body temperature is very low.
Lin Zhi sighed comfortably and pressed against the coolness that provided him relief.
Lin Zhi was very unhappy with the hot and stuffy feeling because his clothes were wet and stuck to his body. The crescent moon on his abdomen did not become softer due to the closeness. Instead, it seemed to be even hotter, to the point of being painful, urging him to take a step closer to the snow.
Tingyan woke up as if from a dream. He didn't want to complicate things, and was about to push the young man away when soft and warm lips gently kissed his lips.
"You won't kiss me?"
The young man had a confused look on his face, his eyes blurred by the high temperature.
He murmured, his tone was too soft, but it became hoarse at the end.
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