Stars fall and locust trees grow

There was no doubt that the final winners of the alchemy competition were Zhu Ling and Gu Qi.

Except for the unlucky kids whose furnace exploded, all other disciples who participated in the competition finally succeeded in condensing the pills. Hu Di was very satisfied with this. After all, he was very talented in teaching.

Elder Shang Ming frowned and scratched on the Tianxuan Bi for a long time before reporting the list of ten selected disciples to the headquarters.

At this point, this year's inner disciple selection competition has come to an end.

"It's finally reported." Elder Shang Ming let out a long sigh.

"Next, we just have to wait for the elders from the headquarters to pick us up."

"Oh, then you are great." Hu Di slumped his upper body on the table, too lazy to even lift his eyelids, like a dead fish that had been dehydrated for many days.

Seeing the two junior brothers sitting across the table, one sitting upright and the other sitting rudely, Elder Shang Ming frowned and cleared his throat, "Don't you want to know who the elder sent by the headquarters is?"

The two brothers said in unison, surprisingly consistent: "No."

Elder Shang Ming was choked, stood up angrily, and punched both of them on the head.

"Look at how dead you two are all day long!"

"Especially you!" He stretched out his fingers and poked Hu Di's back of the head several times, wishing he could poke him under the table.

"Aren't you about to break through recently? Why don't you go back and make pills properly!"

Alchemy?!

No alchemist would like to make pills every day.

Unless he got kicked in the head by a donkey.

Reaching out to straighten his messed up hair, Hu Di slowly turned his head, "Ahhh! I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to make the elixir. Making the elixir will make me crazy."

Hu Tian said coldly: "If you don't want to make the elixir, then go find someone to fight. Why are you pretending here every day as a dual cultivator?"

"I just don't want to move!" Hu Di raised his eyelids, looking a little depressed, "Ah~ When I think about Xiao Lingling leaving me and entering the inner gate, I feel so reluctant!"

"I wonder if she will not have enough food to eat after entering the inner gate, if she will be bullied by bad people, if..."

Hu Tian's mouth twitched, and he interrupted him with a slap. "You're really sick."

At this moment, Zhu Ling, who was happily packing her bags, suddenly sneezed loudly.

Damn it, which idiot is talking about me behind my back?

Looking at these two junior brothers who were almost five hundred years old in total but still had not formed a proper shape, Elder Shang Ming sighed and brought the topic back to the main topic.

"The two elders sent this time are Elder Zhao who came last time, and Du Heng - Elder Du."

"Du Heng?!" Hu Di suddenly stood up in shock, "He was promoted to elder so quickly?!"

"I remember that when he left the branch, he was only at the fourth level of Xuan Gu Realm. I didn't expect that in just ten years, he has already reached the Dan Yuan Realm!"

Hu Tian frowned and said in a deep voice: "After the inner disciples enter the Danyuan realm, they can indeed compete for the position of sect elder. But..."

"It's just that his improvement is a bit too fast!" Elder Shang Ming said lightly, stroking his beard.

"During the last inner sect competition, I felt that there was something wrong with him." Hu Di turned to Shang Ming and said, "Brother, isn't he a disciple of your weapon cultivator? You should know him a little bit, right?"

Elder Shang Ming rubbed his palms and said, "I only remember that he was originally a disciple of Juyun Sect. His talent was not very high at the beginning, but later... he won the championship in the last inner disciple selection."

It's really like listening to your words.

Hu Tian raised his eyebrows and said coldly: "So, is there any difference between what you said and what you didn't say, Senior Brother?"

Hu Di curled his lips, "At least this old man still remembers that guy is from the Juyun Sect."

Hu Tian: "..."

Elder Shang Ming blew his beard and glared, "This old man of mine not only remembers that he is from Juyun Sect, but also remembers that Juyun Sect once left behind several lists of disciples, which are placed in our library."

Hu Di: "Why don't you ask the bookstore's steward Sun to send it over quickly? If it's any later, we won't be able to catch her!"

At that time, Manager Sun of the library had just finished cleaning and carefully checked the protective formation. He was happily preparing to lock the door and go home when he heard the call of that old man Shang Ming suddenly coming from his Tianxuan Bi.

How annoying!

Steward Sun quickly packed up the several volumes of the Juyun Sect directory, then locked the door of the library and rushed towards Elder Shang Ming's yard like a chirping chicken being chased by a mad dog.

"Bang!" After throwing the thing lightly on the table, Manager Sun smoothed his hair and tried to force an elegant smile on his face.

"Dear elders, the things have been delivered. Goodbye!"

"Little Sun..."

Before Elder Shang Ming could utter the word "hard work" , Steward Sun disappeared in an instant like a gust of wind.

No one can make me work overtime!

"..."

Elder Shang Ming: "Haha, Manager Sun is still as gentle as ever!"

……

There are three directories of the Juyun Sect, all of which were found during the "house raid".

The first one is a list of direct disciples, which records all the direct descendants of the Li family. However, all the people in this book have been slaughtered.

The second list contained no names.

Hu Di randomly opened one of the pages.

Li Chi, son of Li Qing, a branch of the Li family, had a top-grade wind spirit root. He entered the sect at the age of five, entered the mortal realm at the age of six, and entered the Xuangu realm at the age of twelve. His initial experiments went smoothly... He died at the age of seventeen after failing the experiment.

Qi Luoxing, a top-grade fire spirit root. He entered the realm at the age of four, entered the mortal realm at the age of five, and entered the mysterious valley realm at the age of eleven. The initial trials went smoothly...

Hu Di pushed the list in front of the two brothers, "This should be the list of forbidden techniques."

"Look!"

He tapped Qi Luoxing's name twice with his finger, "I remember that Qi Luoxing seemed to be the disciple who fell into the pond after the massacre of the sect."

Hu Tian glanced at the list and then pounded the table angrily, "A genius who can enter the Xuan Valley realm in his teens is actually being used by them for forbidden technique experiments?!"

“What a waste!”

Hu Di said: "The Juyun Sect's management must have their heads clogged with shit."

The third book was a list of outer disciples. Hu Di flipped through it for a while and finally found Du Heng's information, which was only a short ten-digit number.

Du Heng, a mid-level gold spiritual root, entered the sect at the age of fifteen and entered the mortal realm at the age of nineteen.

After closing the list, the three of them looked at each other.

Hu Di: "Du Heng should be in his seventies or eighties now..."

"His spiritual roots are of the middle grade, and his talent is average. It is normal for him to stay in the mortal realm for decades. However, who opened up his Ren and Du meridians, allowing him to surpass the latter?"

Elder Shang Ming: "It's not me! I didn't! I don't know anything!"

He is the greatest elder of the 29th Yue branch, with hundreds of disciples under him. How can he have so much time to pay attention to their daily lives one by one? So, of course, he has to hand it over to those who are in charge!

Hu Di: "So, there is a reason why you were sent to the branch, brother."

Shang Ming: "..."