Chapter 350: The Years in the Mountains

Duan Rong and his friends came out of the Sutra Repository.

Ximen Kankan, Xiao Yu and Shen Mizhi only exchanged for the first level of the martial arts.

There are four levels of martial arts in the Qi realm, and the points for each level are different. The higher the level, the more expensive it is!

Duan Rong looked at the points for exchanging the martial arts and smacked his lips slightly.

Fortunately, he directly obtained the martial arts realm by devouring the spirit of the weapon, otherwise, he would have to spend a lot of his contribution points just to exchange the martial arts.

Since then, Xiao Yu, Ximen Kankan, Shen Mizhi and the other three often come to Duan Rong's mountain to practice martial arts when they have free time.

Duan Rong would give them some pointers from time to time. At first, the three of them didn't care much, but as time went on, they found that although Duan Rong's words were very brief, they often hit the point. If they could think deeply and understand, it would always be of great benefit to their practice.

Gradually, they all began to ask Duan Rong questions on their own initiative.

Duan Rong had become their little teacher before they knew it...

Because Duan Rong's understanding of martial arts was not at the same level as theirs. Therefore, for Duan Rong, even very simple and clear questions were often difficult for the three people to understand after repeated explanations.

This made Duan Rong very crazy! He often had the illusion that he was tutoring primary school students to do homework in his previous life.

In the blink of an eye, several months had passed.

On this day, Duan Rong told them that he knew a pharmacist who could help refine pills and only needed to provide the raw materials.

After hearing this, the three looked at Duan Rong with strange eyes.

Shen Mizhi said: "Why only provide the raw materials? If it is refined, won't the pharmacist take a commission?"

Shen Mizhi felt that what Duan Rong said didn't seem very reasonable.

Duan Rong said: "This pharmacist is a novice. He refines medicine for people purely for practice and doesn't take a commission. However, there is no guarantee that it will be successful."

"No guarantee of success!" Shen Mizhi shouted.

Duan Rong nodded and said, "Yes, but I advise you to give it a try. As far as I know, the success rate is quite high."

"Really?" Shen Mizhi was skeptical.

However, Xiao Yu and Ximen Kankan both said that they would ask the pharmacist to help refine a furnace of Zhengyang Pills and give it a try.

After all, they still trusted Duan Rong more than Shen Mizhi.

Duan Rong handed them a prescription. He asked them to go to the medicine pavilion to exchange herbs.

Shen Mizhi saw that Xiao Yu and Ximen Kankan were both involved, so she also exchanged herbs and handed them to Duan Rong.

A few days later, each of them received a bottle of Zhengyang Pills.

The three of them were overjoyed.

Duan Rong specifically told them that this matter must not be leaked. It was against the rules of the sect for the pharmacist to refine medicine for others privately. If it was reported to the sect, the pharmacist would be punished.

The three of them kept it in mind.

If the pharmacist is punished, this way of business will be cut off in the future. Where can they find such cheap Zhengyang Pills?

Xiao Yu said: "Duan Rong, how do you know the pharmacist?"

Duan Rong smiled and said: "When Shang Xiangyu was here, I was a medicine boy. I met him when I went to their mountain to deliver medicine."

Xiao Yu's eyes moved, but he didn't say anything.

Shen Mizhi looked at Xiao Yu and smiled: "Sister Xiao is asking you, is the pharmacist a man or a woman?"

Xiao Yu pinched Shen Mizhi's arm when she heard it.

Shen Mizhi screamed exaggeratedly.

Duan Rong has refined the Zhengyang Pill many times, and he has almost never failed. Occasionally there are some deviations, but the quality is slightly worse and does not affect the use.

After several times, the three people have been very confident in the level of the pharmacist. They calculated that even if they occasionally made a mistake, they would still make a profit.

At noon that day, Duan Rong had just returned from Xia Honghua and saw a figure walking towards him from a distance while coughing.

The figure looked like Old Man Qin, but his back seemed to be more hunched, and the coughing sound had not stopped from a distance until it reached Duan Rong.

Duan Rong had devoured many of Gu Suxiu and Shen Ping's personal belongings in Xiangu County, and he also had some attainments in medical skills.

Old Man Qin's coughing sound obviously hurt the deep lung lobes.

It was no longer a cough around the throat. The sound vibration obviously affected the lung lobes.

Old Man Qin looked at Duan Rong and asked, "Master Shang... cough cough cough... haven't you come back yet?"

Duan Rong shook his head and looked at Old Man Qin with some concern.

"It's been... eight months... why haven't you come back yet..." Old Man Qin said intermittently while coughing.

Last time, Old Man Qin went to the Judgment and Clan Affairs Office to find Yang Yi. Yang Yi probably remembered what Yang Sixian said, that Old Man Qin was a relative of a historian in the Internal History Office, and he also asked the pharmacist to check, but no clues were found in the poisons and medicines in those cabinets.

Yang Yi did a favor and gave the remaining three bottles of Shuizhongyue to Old Man Qin.

It was with those three bottles of Shuizhongyue that Old Man Qin survived to this day.

Duan Rong felt a little bit of pity in his heart.

Shuizhongyue was Shang Xiangyu's unique formula. This medicine was quite suitable for Old Man Qin's symptoms, which could suppress his tuberculosis and let him live a few more years.

But Duan Rong still gave up the idea of ​​prescribing medicine for Old Man Qin.

He made pills for Xiao Yu, Ximen Kankan, Shen Mizhi and others, and also repeatedly told them to keep it secret.

And Old Man Qin was an outsider to him after all. The risk was too great.

Duan Rong said: "If Shangshi comes back, I will definitely go to the lower house to tell you."

Old Qin said: "Thank you."

After that, Old Qin walked away with a cough and a bleak look.

Two months later, one day Duan Rong was in the dense forest, instructing Ximen Kankan on a critical point in the air-splitting sword. Ximen Kankan suddenly said that he heard from their leader that the old man Qin from the lower courtyard was dead.

"Dead?"

"Yes. It is said that he has been dead for more than half a month."

Duan Rong looked at the vast twilight, and the last bleak look of the old man Qin flashed through his mind...

Although this matter made Duan Rong quite sad, he soon put it behind his mind...

That day, Duan Rong sat at the entrance of his cave, looking at the white valley in front of him.

The heavy snow like goose feathers was still falling densely from the gloomy clouds...

It was snowing.

The mountain was closed by heavy snow!

This was not the first time he had seen such heavy snow since he entered the mountain!

The years were unknown in the mountains. Before he knew it, he had been in the sect for three years!

And in another three months, it would be the day for their assessment to become outer disciples!

Xiao Yu and Shen Mizhi were all stepping up their training, but Duan Rong was not in a hurry. In three years, Duan Rong had already achieved the state of great perfection in the realm of true qi.

He picked up a dead branch and picked the fire in front of him. He saw that the pottery jar on the fire had begun to emit a slight white mist, and the faint aroma of wine had already jumped into Duan Rong's nose.

Duan Rong's nostrils moved.

Yes, the pottery jar warmed on the fire was filled with wine.

This was brewed by Ximen Kankan with fruits from the mountains a few months ago.

In the past three years, although Ximen Kankan didn't like to practice martial arts, he always tinkered with some messy things, but he still achieved the second level of the realm of true qi a few months ago.

Xiao Yu and Shen Mizhi were obviously more diligent than Ximen Kankan, and Duan Rong also gave them a lot of guidance, but according to Duan Rong's observation, they were still a long way from achieving the second level of the realm of true qi.

It has to be said that practicing martial arts really depends on talent.

Xiao Yu and Shen Mizhi were also worried. If they could not achieve the second level of the Qi Realm, it would be dangerous to advance to the outer sect disciple.

Ximen Kankan had already stopped practicing a few months ago. Because he heard from their supervisor that it was generally no problem to advance to the outer sect disciple after reaching the second level of the Qi Realm.

Once Ximen Kankan was free, he would play with Duan Rong every day.

Duan Rong had no time to care about him, but he had stopped practicing martial arts in the past few months.

In the past few months, Duan Rong suddenly became fascinated with the Jingzangyuan. He was not fascinated by the martial arts secrets in it, but also by the Taoist scriptures there.

Those things were all metaphysical books, covered with dust, and few people read them.

Perhaps Duan Rong had received a good second-class education in his previous life, where he skipped classes every day and failed exams.

At least he graduated successfully.

In short, he gradually saw some tastes when he looked at these things.

Duan Rong took the pottery jar off the fire and poured himself a half-bamboo tube of hot fruit wine.

Duan Rong drank the fruit wine while thinking about the contents of a Taoist book he read in the Sutra Collection Courtyard yesterday... The snow was falling outside the cave, and Duan Rong seemed to have realized something...

In a blink of an eye, it was already March, the snow had dissipated, and the earth was back to spring.

And this day was the day when Duan Rong and his friends went to participate in the assessment for advanced outer disciples.

It was a close call.

For Duan Rong, it was still quite a bit of twists and turns to be able to participate in this assessment.

For registered disciples to participate in the assessment, they need the approval of the lower house.

However, the approval of the lower house requires a direct manager to comment on the status of this registered disciple in the past three years, and to sign and seal it. In this way, the lower house can give the approval accordingly.

No mistakes in one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

Duan Rong's direct manager is Shang Xiangyu.

But Shang Xiangyu had left the sect for more than two years and there was no news. Where could Duan Rong find him to give a comment, and he also needed to sign and stamp.

Duan Rong told the manager of the lower courtyard about his situation.

The manager said that he had just taken over the business after Lao Qin died, and it was the first time he encountered the assessment of registered disciples.

He didn't know how to deal with this situation.

At that time, the lower courtyard was full of people who came to handle the review and approval, and the manager sent Duan Rong away with just one sentence.

Duan Rong was anxious, and suddenly he had an idea and thought of Xia Honghua.

Duan Rong found Xia Honghua and explained the situation. Xia Honghua was very straightforward and wrote a comment for him, signed it, and stamped it.

During the three years that Duan Rong was with her, he had a clear account of Xia Honghua, so that she received three consecutive years of rewards.

Xia Honghua also helped Duan Rong with this matter because of this.

Duan Rong took the comments signed and sealed by Xia Honghua and went to the lower house. He got the approval slip for the qualification review smoothly.

That morning, Duan Rong, Ximen Kankan, Xiao Yu, and Shen Mizhi took the sect cloud certificate and the approval slip and prepared to rush to the assessment site from Duan Rong's hill.

There were three assessments in total.

The first assessment site was in a valley. From the back mountain of the hill where Guangluyuan was located, go south. It is said that there are road signs along the way.

They came to the iron rope leading to Guangluyuan.

They suddenly found that the animal skin straps in the stone cave on the stone wall were gone.

Usually, there are too many animal skin straps in this stone cave to use up, and there are always returns. The animal skin straps they brought back will be brought back when they come back.

However, this day is the day for the examination of registered disciples to become outer disciples, and the first examination will start from the back mountain of Guangluyuan.

As you can imagine, many people are going to Guangluyuan. As a result, the animal skin straps are a bit tight.

They searched the caves in the stone wall nearby and found three animal skin straps.

Ximen Kankan's eyes dimmed and said, "You go first. I'll go back to Duan Rong's hill and bring some animal skin straps."

Among the three people, only he didn't find the animal skin straps.

Duan Rong suddenly smiled and slapped the animal skin strap in his hand into Ximen Kankan's hand. "Here, this is for you."

Ximen Kankan was slightly stunned. "What for? Give it to me, what do you use it for?"

Xiao Yu also looked at Duan Rong with suspicion.

Duan Rong looked at the three people, smiled and said, "I'll show you a show."

"Cross the cliff!"

After Duan Rong finished speaking, he suddenly leaped out from the edge of the cliff like a big bird.

"Ah!"

Xiao Yu was shocked, his whole body turned cold, and his face looked as if he was extremely frightened.

In mid-air, Duan Rong suddenly touched the iron rope hanging high in the valley with his toes. The iron rope shook violently when Duan Rong touched it. But Duan Rong was like a swallow skimming the water, and he really crossed to the other side of the cliff.

Xiao Yu's face was pale, and his heart almost rose to his throat.

Duan Rong landed steadily on the other side, smiling at the three people here.

Xiao Yu, Shen Mizhi, Ximen Kankan and others were so shocked that they couldn't speak for a long time.

Duan Rong's light body technique is called Yunya Liuxu Step, and he has achieved the great perfection of the true energy realm.

This was actually not the first time that Duan Rong had performed this light skill on the iron rope.

The first time he suddenly got excited and stepped on the rope to cross the cliff was on the morning three months ago.

At that time, dense goose feather snow was still falling between heaven and earth.

A layer of white snow fell on the iron rope, and the mountain was cold. After a winter, a layer of ice had already formed on the iron rope.

But at that time, Duan Rong was as light as a swallow and stepped on the rope to cross.

The shaking iron rope shook off a layer of silver, and the snow fell to the bottom of the cliff like smoke.

At that time, Duan Rong's mind flew and his eyes were happy, but it was a pity that he could not write poetry.

After holding it in for a long time, he couldn't even come up with a doggerel.

At this time, it was early spring, and the snow and thin ice had melted long ago, but the iron rope was rubbed year after year, and the surface was still very smooth. Duan Rong stepped on the rope to cross, and the difficulty was no less than winter.

But fortunately, this section of the iron rope was not too long.

Xiao Yu barely recovered, and looking at Duan Rong's grinning face opposite her, her face was extremely ugly.

Ximen Kankan was also frightened and stuck out his tongue.

Not to mention Xiao Yu, Shen Mizhi and the others, even if he had achieved the second level of the True Qi Realm, he would not dare to walk on the rope like Duan Rong.

The iron rope was so smooth and unstable that if you were not careful, you would fall to the bottom of the valley. At such a height, you would be crushed to pieces.

Xiao Yu, Ximen Kankan and the others crossed the iron rope and landed not far from Duan Rong.

Xiao Yu untied the animal skin strap tied around her waist, threw it on Duan Rong, and said angrily: "What are you doing? You missed a step and fell down. What should I do?"

Shen Mizhi saw that Xiao Yu was really angry, and patted Xiao Yu with her bare hands, while looking at Duan Rong complainingly and said: "You almost scared Sister Xiao's soul away just now! Why don't you apologize quickly!"

Duan Rong smiled innocently, put the animal skin strap into the stone cave beside him, and said: "I'm not afraid of going back there again to get the strap. What if I don't have enough time?"

"Okay, don't be angry!"

Xiao Yu looked at Duan Rong like that, and the anger in her heart was gone. With Shen Mizhi comforting her, Xiao Yu's expression gradually improved.

Although Duan Rong knew in his heart that he would not be in trouble.

But he did scare Xiao Yu a lot, no wonder Xiao Yu was so angry.

Several people walked from the top of the Guangluyuan mountain, through a dense forest, to the back mountain, and walked down the mountain road. After a while, they saw the intersection there, with a wooden sign pointing to the south.

In fact, when they got here, they no longer needed the wooden sign to point the way.

There were actually quite a few figures on the winding and rugged mountain road. A huge and intermittent dragon could be seen in the shadows of trees and stone walls.

"So there are so many registered disciples!"

These registered disciples were scattered in various corners of this endless mountain. Only on this assessment day could they gather together.

Duan Rong and his friends had been in this mountain for three years. Although they often saw other registered disciples, they were all unfamiliar faces and rarely greeted them.

Ximen Kankan and his friends worked everywhere and could still recognize a few people.

Duan Rong stayed alone on Shang Xiangyu's mountain. Except for Xiao Yu, Ximen Kankan and Shen Mizhi, he hardly knew other registered disciples.

Looking at the crowds of people filling the mountain road, Duan Rong felt dazed. He seemed to have come to a scenic spot during holidays in his previous life. The mountain road was crowded with people...