Among these two people, there was one who was known to Gu Xiaoxing. She was the second elder of the sect. In fact, she could be considered half-master of Dongfang Yu!
As for the other person, he was a middle-aged man with a kind face and a gentle smile. He looked like an ordinary person, but if you felt carefully, you would find that his aura was even more amazing than Master Bai.
Although Gu Xiaoxing had never seen this person, he could guess who he was. He quickly bowed and said, "Inner sect disciple Gu Xiaoxing, greetings to the sect master. "
Afterwards, he bowed to the first elder and the second elder respectively, like a disciple of the sect who abides by the rules and etiquette, and looked particularly sincere.
The sect leader and the second elder couldn't help but smile, but the first elder Bai was the only one who shook his head and smiled bitterly.
The sect master personally stepped forward, helped Gu Xiaoxing up, and said with a smile: "Since the master is willing to accept you as a disciple, you can just call me senior brother from now on. Although the three of us are much older than you, the seniority cannot be messed up."
This is the treatment?
Gu Xiaoxing widened his eyes, then blinked and looked at Master Bai, but seeing Master Bai nod helplessly, he hurriedly saluted again.
"Hello, Senior Brother, I've met Senior Brother Nanhe, I've met... um, I've met Uncle Bai!"
Gu Xiaoxing subconsciously wanted to call him Senior Brother Bai, but then he thought it was inappropriate. He had always regarded Master Bai as his elder, and Master Bai had done him a favor, so after thinking about it, he finally called him Uncle Bai.
As for Nan He, that is the name of the second elder of the sect, and he is also one of the only three people who have reached the Jindan stage in the sect.
But as soon as Gu Xiaoxing said this, the three Jindan powerhouses all changed their expressions and showed strange expressions.
Especially the Sect Master, he not only looked at Gu Xiaoxing, but also glanced at Master Bai, his eyes seemed to say, "He calls me Senior Brother, but calls you Uncle, then isn't this Sect Master a generation lower than you?"
However, facing the sect leader's gaze, Master Bai remained calm and composed.
Even Gu Xiaoxing secretly sighed in his heart, "As expected of Master Bai, he is indeed someone that I, Gu Xiaoxing, want to worship and emulate. He is truly great!"
Gu Xiaoxing naturally knew that the atmosphere was a little weird, but he thought it was nothing to talk about their seniority.
"Cough... cough!" The second elder Nanhe suddenly coughed twice.
The sect leader smiled awkwardly, then realized what was happening, and continued, "Haha... Junior Brother Gu, you have won the championship, but I didn't have the time to give you anything. So, I have a purple sword that is just right for you, so I'll give it to you as a gift."
After he finished speaking, a purple sword flew over and landed in front of Gu Xiaoxing . Although he had not seen many high-grade magical weapons, he was sure that the Zi Ming sword was a top-grade one among them, so he "shyly" accepted it.
"Boy, I still say the same thing, you are very good!" said the second elder Nan He, and waved his sleeves at Gu Xiaoxing with a smile.
After taking it and taking a look, he found that they were three spirit essences. Although not as good as high-grade magic weapons, they were worth about 40,000 spirit stones, which could buy a very good medium-grade magic weapon.
Of course, Gu Xiaoxing would not really exchange them for spirit stones. He would rather keep them for his own practice.
After expressing his gratitude, Master Bai took Gu Xiaoxing directly down the mountain.
“Xiao Xing, a big change is about to happen. You can only protect yourself after you reach the foundation-building stage. There will be a foundation-building opportunity in a year. You must try your best to improve your cultivation to the perfection of Qi Condensation before that.” After saying this, Master Bai also left.
Gu Xiaoxing walked alone in the mountains of the sect. He first went to Gongshan Pavilion and received a Yuanling Pill before returning to his own cave for practice.
Time flies, rabbits move and crows fly. Two months have passed in the blink of an eye, and it has been half a year since Gu Xiaoxing came to the Soul-Devouring Sect.
Inside the cave, Gu Xiaoxing frowned. After two months of exploration, he had studied the sutra of rebirth from his previous life thoroughly in his mind and could see every character clearly, but there was no so-called magical power at all.
He felt that it was just an ordinary scripture. There was no mystery or previous life involved. It was purely made up by others.
"I was deceived by that broken coffin?" Gu Xiaoxing suddenly thought, and then he became angry, "This... is simply shameless. In order to burn incense, they actually deceived a simple boy like me?"
"Sure enough, none of the spiritual treasures are good things. They broke the alchemy furnace to steal my Earthly Immortal Spring, broke the coffin to steal my Taoist incense, and even made up some magical power to cheat me. They also gave me the Sutra of Rebirth in the Previous Life. Bah! They should call it a wasted life in the previous life!" Gu Xiaoxing gritted his teeth. He hated the spiritual treasures to the core.
"I can't afford to offend the broken coffin for now. As for the broken alchemy furnace, hum! I can't afford to offend it either, but I can collect some interest first!" Gu Xiaoxing had a ferocious look on his face, and he stood up and flew out of the cave.
After two months of practice, Gu Xiaoxing had not only been pondering the Rebirth Sutra of his previous life, but also completely refined the three spiritual marrows. Now, his cultivation had reached the eighth level of Qi Condensation. It was true that the higher one went, the more spiritual energy was needed to break through. Back then, one piece of spiritual marrow allowed him to break through from the sixth level to the seventh level, but now it took him three pieces to break through to the eighth level.
As for the Yuanling Pill, Gu Xiaoxing planned to wait until his cultivation was more stable before taking it. Even with his solid foundation, he felt a little dizzy after taking three pieces of spiritual marrow in a row.
After leaving the sect's mountain and arriving at the foot of Shiling Peak, Gu Xiaoxing quietly took out a breath-concealing talisman and stuck it on himself. Even though he hadn't used this skill for a long time, he didn't seem unfamiliar with it at all and soon disappeared into the night.
That night, the moonlight was clear. In a spiritual pond on the Shiling Peak, a fish occasionally wagged its tail, causing ripples on the water. The moon in the water was ashamed and covered with a hazy veil, which made the green lotus in the pond sway gracefully, looking very comfortable.
Beside the spirit pond, there was a young man sitting cross-legged. He was basking in the bright moonlight, listening to the clear waves of the green water, and feeling contented and sleepy. But suddenly, his heart tightened and he inexplicably developed a very unpleasant feeling.
But before the young man could react, he felt a black screen in front of his eyes, as if he had lost all control of his body. He was not unconscious, but he could not see, hear or smell, and even his sense of taste, touch, and even perception suddenly disappeared.
He was in a daze and didn't even know how much time had passed. When his body gradually recovered and his vision slowly became clear, he froze there as if he had been struck by lightning.
It was seen that compared with before, the water level of the huge spiritual pond had dropped by half. That would have been fine, but the most important thing was that not only was half of the pond water missing, but also most of the fish in the pond, and even a few green lotuses were missing.
The young man looked at the green lotus, the spirit fish, and the pond water. He was stunned. He had been leisurely and contented the moment before, but now it was as if he had lost his dream.
On the other side, Gu Xiaoxing, who was returning to the sect's mountain, touched the purple gourd on his waist, suppressed his inner excitement, and said secretly : "This Sealing Dust Technique can really be used like this!"
Fengchen Jue is a magic technique that Gu Xiaoxing learned in the Inner Gate Transmission Pavilion after he entered the Inner Gate. In fact, it is not an attacking technique, but a cultivation technique that most people in the Inner Gate know.
The so-called sealing off the dust means sealing off the six dusts of the human body. The six dusts refer to the six senses that people can come into contact with, namely color, body, smell, taste, touch, and dharma. However, for practitioners, this is actually a kind of pollution. Dust itself means pollution. The six dusts pollute the six senses!
And to put it simply, Fengchen means trying to temporarily avoid these six kinds of pollution, allowing oneself to enter an empty state of no sight, no hearing, no smell, no taste, no feeling, and no knowledge, so as to enter a deep meditation and allow oneself to practice more effectively!
It sounds complicated, but it is easy to understand when it is summarized. This Fengchen Jue is a method of cultivation that allows one to concentrate on one's practice. However, this method is mostly used in seclusion, and basically no one uses it for normal practice.
What Gu Xiaoxing wants to do is to do the opposite. Not to close his own six senses, but to close those of others!
When he first came up with this idea, even Gu Xiaoxing himself felt that it was not possible. After all, this was equivalent to creating a magic spell on his own, so how could it be that simple? Until he accidentally used the green smoke in his body to perform this spell... something was different.
After countless attempts at deduction, he finally succeeded on his first try! Using the green smoke from burning incense to perform this method could actually seal off the six dusts of others!
Although the closure time was very short, and because the outer disciple who was guarding the spirit pool had a cultivation level of only the fifth level of Qi Condensation, which was much lower than Gu Xiaoxing's, this was enough to make him excited!
This is his unique technique, almost like a magical power!
At the same time, Gu Xiaoxing felt more and more that the origin of Ran Daoxiang was extraordinary. When he thought of this, he became angry again.
"Damn it! Broken coffin, I'll make you return it sooner or later!"
Soon he returned to his own cave for practice. Gu Xiaoxing used the cave formation to seal the door tightly. Then he took out the purple gourd and licked his lips as he felt it.
"What a great harvest!"
There are two spaces, one big and one small, in the purple gourd. At this moment, the small one is full of water. Dozens of spirit fish are struggling and swimming around in it. The unfamiliar environment makes them uneasy.
The top-grade storage device can already store living things for a short period of time.
There were not only spirit fish, but also several green lotuses swaying among them. Gu Xiaoxing even collected the roots and lotus roots.
Soon, the long-lost firelight appeared in the cave...
Outside, before dawn, a shrill scream of Lu was heard from the sect's mountain. Lu had obviously received the news, and in a few jumps he had appeared beside the spirit pool of Shi Ling Peak. Seeing the scene in front of him, the Sanyang Spirit Refining Furnace exploded with a "bang", and violent flames spewed out from the furnace mouth, lifting the furnace cover high. He was really furious!
The last time a spiritual fish was stolen, the Fifth Elder fought a battle of wits and courage with the air for more than a month in order to catch the fish thief. In the end, there was nothing he could do and the matter was left unresolved. He just became more vigilant and sprinkled medicinal powder around, and would occasionally come to patrol in person.
But he never expected that after several months, the fish thief would appear again, and become even more aggressive. He swaggered and knocked out all the disciples guarding the spirit pool, which made the medicinal powder he sprinkled useless!
This time, not only the fish was lost, but also the green lotus, and even half of the water in the pond was lost.
“This is too much!” Lu gnashed his teeth, feeling provoked. Although he had turned into a furnace, the spirit pond was still his hard work. Finally, he roared to the sky, “You bastard fish thief, don’t let me catch you!”
This sound... spread throughout the entire sect!