Fortunately, Xue Ranran is not the only rookie apprentice who has just entered Lingxi Palace.

Although Xishan Lingxi Palace has not been open to accept disciples for a long time, it has relied on the reputation of the immortal doctor Su Yishui to recruit disciples and gain widespread support.

Although the scene of recruiting disciples was bustling with people, in the end, only three disciples were accepted.

Two of the boys were older than Ran Ran. The eldest brother was named Gao Cang. It was said that he was a martial arts student. He was tall and handsome, with thick eyebrows and big eyes.

The second senior brother's surname is Bai, and his name is Bai Baishan. Although he is a little thin, he exudes a gentle and elegant air.

In addition to the two senior brothers, Ran Ran also has a third senior sister named Qiu Xier. Like Ran Ran, she is a sickly person who cannot be cured by others. Her family cannot afford the medicine and originally wanted to let her wait for death. However, the master took pity on her and took her in to the mountain gate for treatment.

I heard that Qiu Xier suffers from chest pain, but she is actually plump and cute.

Xue Ranran was originally suspicious of why Mr. Su would collect such a sickly person like her. Now it seems that the master has a hobby of collecting sickly people, perhaps to improve his medical skills?

The three of them were divided into different generations according to their age, and they did not follow the order of entering the mountain gate. However, they were a little puzzled as to what to call Yu Chen and Yu Tong.

Su Yishui said: "They are both practicing Taoism with me, so they are my fellow disciples. They are your uncles."

The Yu brothers and sisters said that this was absolutely impossible. Even if they really ascended to heaven and became immortals one day, they still had to serve tea and water in front of Su Yishui. How could they disrupt the rules and call their master "mentor brothers"?

After arguing for a while, Su Yishui felt too lazy to talk about these mundane matters, so he waved his sleeves and went to the top of the mountain to meditate.

The rest of them, big and small, discussed and decided to go their separate ways. The younger generation called Yuchen and Yutong the Great Master Uncle and the Second Master Uncle; the Yu brothers and sisters still called Su Yishui the Master.

After choosing a day, the four young disciples knelt down together to serve tea and performed the ceremony of becoming disciples to the portrait of the founder of Lingxi Palace.

Although Lingxi Palace has changed hands, the portrait of the former master has not been removed.

While Xue Ranran was kowtowing, she secretly looked up at the portrait of her possessed master hanging high in the hall. She turned out to be a beautiful woman with an ethereal aura.

She was seen in a fiery red dress, riding on a white tiger, with her jade feet raised high, a pair of embroidered shoes half hanging from her, and a large wine gourd in her hand. No matter how you looked at her, her behavior was frivolous and dissolute.

How could such a female alcoholic teach a disciple as strict and methodical as Su Yishui?

Xue Ranran secretly felt that her master Su Yishui was so pure and simple that he was like a Buddhist monk, which was incompatible with the old rules and style of Lingxi Palace.

Having taught such an unsatisfactory disciple, and the founder of the temple becoming possessed by the devil and passing away early, it is no wonder that Lingxi Palace has been declining and getting worse with each passing year.

The three senior brothers and sisters were all new to the mountain gate. Although Xue Ranran was the youngest, she entered the mountain gate a few days earlier than them, so she took them to familiarize themselves with every corner of Lingxi Palace and emphasized the introduction of the shitty sect rules that covered the walls, so that the senior brothers and sisters would take it as a warning and never follow them.

Third Senior Sister Qiu Xier looked at the old rules with a look of regret, muttering, "Ah, I didn't catch up with the right time..."

The second senior brother, Bai Baishan, was quite knowledgeable. His family members had practiced Taoism and were familiar with the stories and legends of Xishan's past. At this time, he vividly described the dust in front of his sect to his fellow senior brothers and sisters.

It is said that the female devil is very powerful, but her desires are insatiable. She wants to dominate the three realms and secretly open the door to the devil world to bring in the devil to destroy the world.

This action was due to the suppression of the righteous. At that time, the battle in Xishan shocked the whole country. The three famous families joined forces with many righteous people and took great efforts to subdue the female demon.

Today, Lingxi Palace only retains its former name, but its interior has long been changed and has returned to the right path.

Qiu Xier sighed and said, "That was all 20 years ago. Mu Qingge is still our master after all. Even if she did something wrong, we should not be disrespectful to her."

The taciturn senior brother Gao Cang also nodded: "My mother said that we should not make irresponsible comments about our elders. We are here to learn skills. What is the righteous way or the evil way? Whatever way the master is, that is what we are!"

Xue Ranran also nodded immediately, although like Qiu Xier, she felt that the old rules were better.

But when Ran Ran accompanied his second uncle Yu Tong to go down the mountain to buy vegetables a few days ago, he saw his second uncle haggling with the vegetable vendor for a whole cup of tea just for a difference of three cents.

From this we can see that the style of the sect has been set, and now the first rule of Lingxi Palace is: save when you should.

For this reason, she didn't dare to eat too much at the table, fearing that she would be chased down the mountain for being too wasteful. At the same time, for the sake of her sensitive tongue, she also volunteered to take on the job of preparing three meals a day.

Yutong was originally impatient with these kitchen chores. In the past, she would just eat some coarse cakes with wild fruits to fill her stomach.

After all, we want to escape from this mortal body, so how can we indulge in our appetite?

Since Ranran likes to cook, let her cook her favorite dishes. In a few years, the children will probably have to start practicing fasting to cultivate their bodies and minds.

As for food, make your favorite food while you can!

After a new disciple enters the sect, he naturally has to choose the direction of his practice.

Generally speaking, whether you are cultivating immortals or demons, the beginning is no different; it all depends on the way you practice.

Most people practice the inner cultivation methods of building the foundation and forming the elixir, and the primordial infant's tribulation and ascension, but this one focuses on the innate constitution and opportunity.

If one is born with a genius physique, such as Su Yishui, then one can make rapid progress every day, and the path to ascension is not far away.

However, if one has an ordinary physique like Yuchen, he may be able to prolong his life by simply practicing hard, but in the end he will not be able to escape birth, aging, sickness and death.

Therefore, a small number of people took a different approach and took the path of practicing, refining instruments and taking elixirs, in order to refine elixirs to help themselves become immortals.

This type of training is usually not picky about physical condition, but the failure rate is very high, and one often has to wait until his beard turns grey before he can even get started. There are also people like the First Emperor, who practiced until his death without any clues.

Finally, there are the crooked ways similar to those of the devil. For example, using the spirit form to replenish the spirit form, relying on absorbing the foundation-building and elixir-forming energy of others to replenish one's own cultivation, and the so-called way of taking yin to replenish yang in folk culture is mostly of this kind.

However, there are also righteous people who practice this third method. They capture the evil cultivators who are harming the world and absorb their spiritual power to improve their own cultivation. This is also a just method.

Su Yishui adopted a "let the sheep" strategy towards the four new disciples, and just waited to see what they wanted to learn.

Two of the male disciples quickly figured out the way to practice Qi and build a foundation. They had good talent, so it was easier for them to take this path.

Third Senior Sister Qiu Xier's physique is slightly weaker, but she is also a talented person.

Only Xue Ranran had no affinity with the immortal path, and felt so empty and hollow inside that she could hear an echo. Even Yu Tong was surprised to find that there was someone with a useless physique that was even less suitable for immortal cultivation than her brother.

Yu Tong was very disappointed about this - after all, Ran Ran was a spirit child born from a spirit fruit, but she didn't expect her physique to be even weaker than Mu Ran Wu in her previous life, and she would probably remain mediocre in this life. Thinking that she was squeezed off the tree early, this emptiness was like taking root and could not be changed.

After some research, the two girls Ranran and Xier decided to go the route of refining weapons and taking pills.

At least Xue Ranran felt that it was quite pleasant to sit by the hot stove, fan herself, and doze off while refining the elixir. It was much better than meditating, fasting, or fighting.

Since you have decided to go the alchemy route, you have to know the furnace. Qiu Xier received a brand new copper furnace. It had a three-clawed golden lid and a copper turtle on top, which was very impressive.

But when it came to Xue Ranran, it seemed that her master's family fortune had been emptied, and she was only given an old black iron furnace.

Ran Ran suspected that the alchemy furnace had been damaged before, because there were obvious signs of repairs on the bottom of the furnace.

Qiu Xier felt embarrassed about her master's partiality and proposed to exchange with Ran Ran. However, Ran Ran felt that it didn't matter whether it was old or new. She was a piece of waste that had been judged anyway, and it was not good for her to occupy the new alchemy furnace and not do anything.

When it came time to test the furnace, the two of them refined the entry-level Qingxin Pill.

This type of medicine is very effective in removing the dryness generated during meditation, and the formula is simple. All you have to do is prepare the medicine according to the prescription and watch the fire.

After three days and three nights, Qiu Xier refined two shining pills.

Xue Ranran was also very attentive. She stared at the fire with her big eyes for three nights, until her eyes turned red. At dawn, she could finally open the furnace and take out the elixir.

However, when the stove was turned on, Qiu Xi, who was standing by, raised his nose to smell the hot air and asked in surprise, "It smells so good, why does it smell different from mine?"

Xue Ranran looked at the two pills that she had refined for the first time with love and pity, and said impatiently: "Our two pills are just right for the two brothers to take, to help them eliminate the fatigue of meditation."

The path of Qi training and foundation building is very arduous. The two brothers followed their great uncle Yuchen in meditating in the thatched cottage for three days and they just needed the benefits of the elixir pills.

Relying on her longer legs than Ranran's, Qiu Xier ran to Second Senior Brother Sven first and handed her pill to him attentively.

After Bai Baishan thanked his third junior sister, he took the pill and swallowed it with water.

Ran Ran, who arrived later, handed a pill from his medicine box to his senior brother Gao Cang.

Unlike the second brother who swallowed the medicine in one gulp, Gao Cang chewed the pill in big mouthfuls, and seemed reluctant to swallow it for a long time. Xue Ranran asked impatiently: "How is it? How do you feel?"

Gao Cang finally swallowed it reluctantly and said, "It has a fresh taste... a bit like a meat bun in soup..."

Xue Ranran's face was slightly relaxed - Qingxin Pills were supposed to calm the mind and help with fasting! How come Senior Brother was able to eat with an appetite?

Could it be that... because she was hungry while fanning herself, and was thinking about the juicy meat buns, the taste of the pill went awry?

When it was time for dinner in the evening, the second brother, who had just returned from meditating in the thatched cottage, just drank a bowl of porridge to calm his stomach.

But the eldest brother was like a hungry tiger. He ate all the dishes on the table and then kept shouting that he was hungry. Finally, he secretly got up in the middle of the night and stood in the corridor where the food was stored to eat the dried ham.

If the master had not discovered it in time and pressed the sleeping point, the eldest senior brother would probably have died from bloating due to not knowing how to be full.

Gao Cang's greed was obviously related to the Qingxin Pills that tasted like meat buns.

The results of three days of meditation were completely destroyed by the meat buns. Not only did Gao Cang fail to calm his worldly desires, but his craving for food was aroused and he couldn't control himself.

When Su Yishui asked Yuchen to carry Gao Cang away, Xue Ranran walked over with his head down and admitted his mistake to his master.

Su Yishui asked her for the remaining pill pill, twisted off a small piece, smelled it briefly, and then put it in her mouth. The pieces melted in the mouth, and Su Yishui suddenly stiffened slightly and threw the remaining pill far away.

Even though I couldn't see his facial features clearly, I could vaguely see that his forehead was protruding high. He must be... frowning, right?