Chapter 157 Guardian Spirit 25
The foolish Xie Yinian was checking the magic weapon.
The magic weapon he was assigned was a jade pendant.
The jade pendant was warm and smooth to the touch, with a clear texture, and it had the effect of calming the mind.
His shortcoming was that he had a short time to practice, and this jade pendant could increase the speed of entering into meditation during practice, which would promote his practice and was very suitable for him.
If Xie Yinian guessed correctly, this jade pendant magic weapon should have been specially chosen for him by Zhan Bingyun.
Xie Yinian found a rope and hung the jade pendant around his neck.
Two days later, Xie Zuo, who had recovered slightly from his injuries, and his party left the He family.
Zhan Bingyun invited Xie Yinian to visit a Taoist temple, and Xie Yinian gladly accepted the invitation.
A Taoist temple is located on Fengming Mountain.
Fengming Mountain is one of the most famous scenic spots in the area. After passing through a thousand-year-old canal and climbing up the steps along the foot of the mountain, you will see two pine trees that are so big that ten people can hug them. You will see a Taoist temple in front of you.
Many tourists come to visit this place and ask for some amulets to take back home.
Xie Yinian sensed from a distance that these amulets have the effect of exorcising evil spirits and avoiding disasters. If tourists wear them all year round, even if they cannot completely avoid the disaster of life and death, they can avoid being contaminated by some dirty things.
Tourists say that the incense in a certain Taoist temple is effective, in fact, it is because there are heavenly masters in these Taoist temples. The amulets they draw by mobilizing the spiritual power of heaven and earth will definitely be more effective than ordinary amulets.
Zhan Bingyun led Xie Yinian around the corridor of the front hall and came to the back mountain where the disciples
of the Taoist temple lived: "The front hall is no different from ordinary Taoist temples. We usually practice in the back hall." There were many young disciples wearing Taoist robes walking around. When they saw Zhan Bingyun and Xie Yinian from a distance, they all bowed to them.
Occasionally, some of them were lively and came to Zhan Bingyun and asked her with a smile whether her mission was smooth this time.
Zhan Bingyun sent them away and continued to visit with Xie Yinian.
"Sister Bingyun, where do you usually practice weapons?" Xie Yinian asked.
Zhan Bingyun limped and took Xie Yinian to the Refining Equipment Pavilion: "Do you know why this mountain is called Fengming Mountain?"
Xie Yinian gave a very conventional answer: "When we went up the mountain, I heard the tour guide of the tour group next to us say that there was a big fire on this mountain during the Tang Dynasty. The fire burned for ten days and ten nights and no one dared to approach. When the fire was extinguished, people who lived near the mountain came to check the situation. They were surprised to find that not only was there no trace of burning on the mountain, but every plant and tree was growing more lush than before."
"After the news spread, everyone thought that the fire was not an ordinary fire, but the fire of nirvana when the phoenix was reborn, so everyone called this mountain Fengming Mountain."
Zhan Bingyun was instantly amused: "This answer can't be considered wrong."
"The fire was real, but it had nothing to do with the phoenix. There is a spiritual fire vein under Fengming Mountain. Our ancestor discovered this spiritual fire vein a thousand years ago, and then decided to open a Taoist temple here and recruit disciples."
With the blessing of the spiritual fire vein, the disciples in the temple can draw the underground spiritual fire to refine weapons. Over time, the disciples in the temple are basically good at refining weapons.
Seeing that Xie Yinian was interested, Zhan Bingyun told the history of the Taoist temple.
Whenever there is a chaotic world, he will come out to save the world, and return to the mountains and forests until the prosperous times.
It has been like this for thousands of years.
"The reason why Yidao Temple has been passed down to this day is not because of its remoteness." Zhan Bingyun said seriously, with a strong and undisguised pride in his tone.
Xie Yinian could feel that Zhan Bingyun had a strong sense of belonging to Yidao Temple.
Her pride and confidence did not come from her natural yin and yang eyes, nor did it come from her innate talent for practicing Taoism, but because she was a person of Yidao Temple.
After visiting the Taoist temple, Zhan Bingyun took Xie Yinian to the guest room and asked his fellow disciples to arrange a room for Xie Yinian.
"The Tianshi League has gathered people to rush to Qinling. My master said that if everything goes well, the whereabouts of the imperial weapon can be found within seven days."
"My junior brother Ye and I have just finished our mission. You can stay in the temple with peace of mind. If you get bored, just tell us and we will take you to the city. When the Tianshi League finds the imperial weapon, we will rush to Qinling together."
Xie Yinian thanked her again.
He felt that he was really lucky to meet two friends, Ban Xi and Zhan Bingyun.
After resting in the temple for a night, at dawn the next day, junior brother Ye, junior sister Zhuo and others ran to the guest room to find Xie Yinian and took him to do morning exercises.
After the morning exercises, they shouted that they wanted to discuss Taoism with Xie Yinian.
Xie Yinian's foundation may not be as solid as that of Junior Brother Ye and Junior Sister Zhuo, but his personal understanding of Taoism is far beyond that of Junior Brother Ye and Junior Sister Zhuo.
Zhan Bingyun came to join in the fun at the beginning, but her face became more and more solemn as she listened. She lightly shook the hem of her Taoist robe, sat cross-legged on the futon, and started to discuss Taoism with Xie Yinian in person.
Half an hour later, Xie Yinian was defeated: "Sister Bingyun, your realm is much higher than mine, I lost." Zhan
Bingyun was not complacent at all: "I just studied many more years than you. With your understanding, I may not be able to beat you when we discuss Taoism again in a few years."
Junior Brother Ye and Junior Sister Zhuo looked at each other: Alas, I thought they were pretty good among their peers. As a result, there was Senior Sister Zhan above, and Xie Yinian, who was slightly younger than them, below. This was really Alexander.
In the next few days, Xie Yinian stayed in Yidao Temple with peace of mind, and from time to time he discussed with Zhan Bingyun, Junior Brother Ye and others to deepen his understanding of Taoism. However,
the Tianshi League's search for the imperial weapon was not smooth.
After getting the treasure map given by the He family and the investigation data submitted by the Xie family, the Tianshi League immediately locked the ghost king's lair.
Afterwards, the Tianshi League selected 20 guest elders to rush to Qinling and headed straight to the ghost king's lair.
However, they were too careless. Even if the ghost king had been killed for decades, the ghost king's lair was not so easy to break into.
The twenty guest elders were almost trapped to death by the backup plan left by the Ghost King, but the imperial weapon Zhaodan Sword sent out a vibration, which protected them at the last moment. They successfully escaped and followed the vibrations and the formation records in the data for two whole days before they found a valley.
The valley was covered with many formations. The guest elders confirmed it for a long time, and one of them breathed a sigh of relief: "Yes, it's the Yao family's formation."
The others were shocked and said in unison: "These formations must have been set up by the ancestors of the Yao family before they died, just to protect the Zhaodan Sword."
"He killed the Ghost King and the four guardians with his own strength, and he was able to put the Zhaodan Sword away with one breath left. He really deserves to be the first one."
"Let's start from the outermost circle to break the formation."
With the information as a reference, and many of the guest elders who came, there were very high formation skills.
With the joint efforts of all, they spent most of the day and finally broke all the formations.
When the formations dissipated, the white mist shrouding the valley also dissipated. In the huge stone, an ancient heavy sword was inserted across it, emitting a faint pressure, like a wandering dragon.
However, after going around, they did not find the corpse of the Yao family ancestor in the valley.
Some guest elders tried to approach the Zhaodan Sword, wanting to collect it and bring it back to the Tianshi League, but they were forced back by the pressure from the Zhaodan Sword and could not get within ten meters of the Zhaodan Sword.
They quickly reported the news to the Tianshi League, and then stayed at the entrance of the valley, not daring to leave.
The Tianshi League did not block the news, but directly posted the news on the Xuanjie Forum, saying that they would send Tianshis into the valley in a few days to try to let the imperial weapon choose a master.
As soon as the news came out, the Tianshi world was shaken.
Countless Tianshis poured into H City from all over the country.
The overwhelming momentum made all the ghosts and monsters dare not make trouble in H City during this period, and they even dared not show up in H City, for fear of accidentally running into a Tianshi and being taken away.
Of course, there are exceptions.
Yao Rong not only did not walk around the Taoist priests, she even sat in the first class cabin with seven Taoist priests.
According to her observation, there were five more Taoist priests in the economy cabin.
"Madam, what would you like to drink?" The stewardess tilted her head slightly and asked Yao Rong, who was sitting in the first class cabin, in a gentle voice.
"No thanks." Yao Rong, who was wearing a duckbill cap and a mask on her face, gently refused.
The stewardess asked the Taoist priest sitting next to Yao Rong: "Sir, what would you like to drink?" "
A glass of warm water."
The Taoist priest replied, and when he reached out to take the water, Yao Rong helped him hold the cup.
"Thank you." The Taoist priest said.
"You're welcome." Yao Rong said.
The plane descended and arrived in H City. When Yao Rong went to get her suitcase, she saw the Taoist priest sitting next to her again.
The fellow disciple of the Heavenly Master was complaining quietly: "Since that person appeared in the world, the alliance has issued a notice requiring us to patrol the station and find out his whereabouts. We couldn't find him, and the alliance criticized us for not doing our job well. This is really unfair."
The Heavenly Master echoed: "Isn't it true? We haven't done our best? Since I knew that person appeared in the world, I haven't slept well until now."
Yao Rong saw his suitcase, whispered to the two people, "Please make way", squeezed in from beside them, and took his suitcase away.
From beginning to end, the two Heavenly Masters didn't even glance at Yao Rong.
The system was lying on its back watching the show, and said with a click of the tongue: [So many young Heavenly Masters have come to H City. What if you suddenly went mad and killed them all in H City? The inheritance of the Heavenly Master world would definitely be interrupted, and it might not be able to recover even after a hundred years.]
Yao Rong: "Wow, I didn't expect you to be such a system. You are so murderous. If you had a body, wouldn't you become a big devil?"
The system said anxiously: [I was just joking with you!]
Yao Rong clicked his tongue twice, still looking very surprised: "I really should let the people from the Heavenly Master Alliance come and listen to what you said."
"But what you said reminded me. I suddenly thought of a good idea."
Yao Rong said excitedly: "Please help me send an email to the headquarters of the Heavenly Master Alliance to say hello to them and say that I came to H City for a trip. H City is very lively recently."
System:?
How can someone who openly sent a threatening letter to the Tianshi League have the qualifications to criticize this system?
[Will they be scared by you and dare not move?]
Yao Rong shook his head: "Probably not, otherwise if the news leaks out, what will happen to the prestige of the Tianshi League? At most, they will strengthen their vigilance and set up a net."
The system immediately responded happily: [Don't worry, I will take care of this matter.]
Seeing that it was having fun, Yao Rong mourned for the Tianshi League for three seconds without any emotion, dragged his suitcase, passed by several Tianshis, walked out of the airport, and was picked up by the secretary sent by Zhao Zhenghao.
An hour later, the plane carrying Xie Yinian and a group of spectators also arrived at the airport.
After getting the suitcase, Xie Yinian and his companions walked out of the airport and saw Ban Xi holding a card.
Xie Yinian and Zhan Bingyun walked over to greet him.
Ban Xi took a big sip of water and let out a long sigh, "Too many people have rushed to H City recently, so I was assigned to guard here. If I meet those respected elders, I have to send them to the hotel in person."
"Okay, I guess you still have something to do, so we won't disturb you at work for now." Zhan Bingyun said.
Ban Xi nodded: "See you in two days."
Zhan Bingyun turned to look at Xie Yinian: "Nianzi, do you want to go to the hotel with us?"
Xie Yinian: "No, I have disturbed you for a long time. I know someone in H City and I plan to live there."
"Okay, if there is any news, we will contact each other on WeChat." Zhan Bingyun waved to Xie Yinian and left the airport with the other people from Yidaoguan.
Xie Yinian looked down at the message and walked all the way to the parking lot.
As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the parking lot, Xie Yinian saw a familiar figure.
"Mom!" Xie Yinian said happily, "Have you been waiting for a long time?"
He hadn't seen Ms. Yao for more than a month.
That night at the He family didn't count. Ms. Yao was wearing a black robe and her skin was not exposed at all, so it definitely couldn't be considered as having met.
Yao Rong took him to find the car sent by the Zhao family: "I only arrived an hour earlier than you. Did you have fun in Yidaoguan?"
Xie Yinian enthusiastically talked to Yao Rong about the scenery of Yidaoguan.
When they were alone in private, Xie Yinian talked to Yao Rong about the matter of the Emperor's weapon. After
talking about this and that for a long time, Xie Yinian revealed his true purpose: "That... Mom, do you think it is possible for me to get the recognition of the Emperor's weapon?"
Yao Rong said, "Didn't you say before that it doesn't matter who gets the Zhaodan Sword, as long as it's not Xie Chuan? I thought you didn't care at all."
Xie Yinian looked up at the ceiling and said, "I still care a little bit."
As a heavenly master, who wouldn't want to be recognized by the emperor?
He was no exception.
Yao Rong chuckled, "The emperor has a spirit and will only choose the person it recognizes as the master. I haven't experienced the test of the emperor, but I think that as long as you keep your heart, understand what kind of person you are, and understand what you want, it's enough."
Xie Yinian lowered his eyes. It was both simple and difficult to do these things.
Yao Rong moved her wrist, and the Yinsha Sword appeared in front of her.
"The Imperial Weapon is extremely rare, but there is more than one Imperial Weapon in the world. You are worried about gains and losses because you want to own the Imperial Weapon, but don't forget that before you get it, you must first become a person who is good enough to wield the Imperial Weapon."
"No matter how powerful the weapon is, it is still people who control it and exert its power."
"As long as you become such a person, even if the Gallbladder Sword does not recognize you, it only means that you have no fate with it, not that you lack personal ability."
Xie Yinian's heart that was worried about gains and losses finally settled down.
It is human nature to hope that the Imperial Weapon will recognize its master.
But if you are too obsessed with this, it is easy to lose your normal mind.
He is worried about gains and losses and asks his mother such questions because he is not confident enough.
But think about it from another angle. If he is not confident enough and does not believe from the bottom of his heart that he is qualified to wield the imperial weapon, then on what basis would the imperial weapon choose him as its master?
Xie Yinian's eyes suddenly emitted a bright light.
The broken sunlight outside the window fell into his eyes, sparkling.
"Mom, you are right. I have figured it out."
"Of course it would be the best to be recognized by the Zhaodan Sword. But if I am not recognized by the Zhaodan Sword, I will not be discouraged. As long as I work hard as always and never slack off, I may encounter new imperial weapons again."
"Besides, no matter how heavy the weapon is, it cannot be heavier than the person himself."
"A ghost king without a ghost soldier is still a ghost king. Isn't the number one person in the world of heaven masters without an imperial weapon still the number one person in the world of heaven masters?"
***
After this conversation, the faint impetuous aura on Xie Yinian's body was swept away.
He calmed down completely and waited patiently for the notification from the Tianshi League.
Of course, the Tianshi League could not let all the Tianshi rush into the valley and try to bind the imperial weapon one by one. So they discussed for a long time and finally came up with a specific process -
the Tianshi League would take out a mirror and put a Taoist technique in it.
Only Tianshis under the age of 40 who passed the test of the mirror within two hours and successfully comprehended this Taoist technique could obtain the qualification to enter the valley.
Those who obtained the qualification would be ranked according to their contribution to the Tianshi League and enter the valley in turn.
As soon as this process was announced in the Xuanjie forum, Zhan Bingyun immediately called Xie Yinian: "Is your contribution to the Tianshi League very low?"
Xie Yinian: "Yes."
Zhan Bingyun, Xie Chuan, Ban Xi and others have already joined the Tianshi League.
Every time they kill a powerful ghost, they can go to the Tianshi League to apply and receive the corresponding contribution.
Xie Yinian does not have this convenience.
However, Xie Yinian is very calm: "There is no absolutely fair rule. Sister Bingyun, your contribution to the Tianshi League is higher than Xie Chuan, so don't you have to rank behind Xie Chuan?"
Zhan Bingyun laughed dumbly: "That's right."
Zhan Bingyun is not worried about the examination of the mirror of conscience at all. If she and Xie Yinian failed the test, she would never doubt herself and Xie Yinian, but would question whether the Tianshi League was involved in the shady business.
So she skipped this step when she spoke: "Maybe when it's my turn, I will have successfully made the imperial weapon recognize its master. Then no matter whether you are ranked first or last, you will not have a chance."
Xie Yinian sincerely wished: "Good luck, Sister Bingyun."
Soon, the Xuanjie Forum opened the registration page for the "Mirror of the Heart Trial".
Xie Yinian entered the page, filled in the information, and clicked submit.
A pop-up box of "Registration Successful" popped up, Xie Yinian closed the pop-up box, and checked when he was scheduled for the trial.
The mobile phone screen lit up at the right time, and Xie Yinian moved his eyes away from the computer screen and clicked on the chat message.
[Danhua Temple Ban Banxi: Have you registered? ]
[Ban Banxi from Danhua Temple: I clicked on the registration page as soon as it was released. Hey, it's the first match tomorrow morning. ]
[Zhan Bingyun from Yidao Temple: How come your hand speed is so fast? I'm in the first match this afternoon. ]
[Xie Yinian: We didn't run into each other. I'm in the second match this afternoon. ]
[Ban Banxi from Danhua Temple: So annoying. I saw someone in the forum saying that Xie Chuan is also in the first match tomorrow morning. ]
[Zhan Bingyun from Yidao Temple: Ban Banxi, go ahead and defeat Xie Chuan. I wonder if he dares to act arrogantly in front of us in the future. ]
[Ban Banxi from Danhua Temple: ...You really think highly of me. I'm glad I can pass the test successfully. ]
[Zhan Bingyun from Yidao Temple: You're too scared. 】
【Ban Banxi from Danhua Temple: This is called self-awareness. Well, a bold lunatic like Xie Chuan will of course be left to you and Nianzi to teach a lesson. I will be responsible for waving flags and shouting and throwing flowers for you. 】
The group was noisy for a while, and then it became quiet again.
Xie Yinian packed up the things he would take tomorrow, and sat down at the desk, reviewing over and over again a Taoist technique that Yao Rong had taught him two days ago.
By the time he set out for the trial the next day, his seal-making technique had gone from rudimentary practice to a very proficient level.
He put on a black shoulder bag and came to the living room, and saw Yao Rong walking in from outside the villa with an oil-paper umbrella in one hand and a flower in the other.
"Hyacinth?"
Yao Ronghe held up an oil-paper umbrella and handed the yellow hyacinth, which was still covered with morning dew, to Xie Yinian. "Yes, when I was out for a walk, I saw the beautiful hyacinths planted in that villa, so I knocked on the door and asked the owner if I could pick one."
Xie Yinian complained: "This is too much of a selfless act. I heard that other people's children go to take exams and eat a piece of sausage and two eggs, why did I only receive hyacinths?"
"You don't like it?"
Xie Yinian quickly took the yellow hyacinth and pinned it on his shoulder bag, expressing his love with his actions: "This is the first time I have received flowers from someone else."
"That's a pity. The first person to send you flowers was not someone else, but your own mother."
"Flowers from others are not as rare as those from your own mother."
Yao Rong curled the corners of his lips: "Okay, stop being so smug, let's go. The driver is waiting outside."
Xie Yinian put the bag on his back again, waved to Yao Rong, took two steps at a time, stepped over the threshold of the villa, and strode towards the black car waiting at the door.
The shoulder bag bounced as he walked.
The yellow hyacinth pinned to the shoulder bag stretched out in the gentle breeze, and the crystal dew reflected the spring sunshine into Yao Rong's eyes.
Yao Rong was like all ordinary mothers in the secular world, standing there and watching Xie Yinian rush to the examination room and rush to his life.