Stars fall and locust trees grow

"Cousin, why do you think this inner courtyard gives us such delicious food?!"

Qi Luoxing lay on the couch, blinking his eyes as he stared at the dark sky above him. "Now my breathing is smooth and I feel refreshed. I can't even fall asleep."

"Are they trying to torture us this way?!"

Li Chi, who was sleeping next to him, was also staring at him.

Ever since they took the nourishing pill for the first time on the day they entered the inner courtyard, neither of them had a full night's sleep since then.

Every time the elixir is catalyzed, the spiritual energy in the body will run autonomously, and even one's mental consciousness will become unusually clear.

During this month, Li Chi even felt that his spiritual awareness had improved slightly.

"Tomorrow we will have group training." He turned over and faced Qi Luoxing. "We will know what they are up to tomorrow."

"Cousin, do we need to make some preparations?!" Qi Luoxing said, "I see that old man Li Shang has a mysterious look on his face, and I always feel like there's something fishy going on."

Li Chi rolled his eyes and kicked him hard on the leg, "What preparations are you making?! With our lowly realms, can we really do something wrong under their noses?!"

Qi Luoxing grimaced in pain, turned over to face Li Chi, and said with a playful smile: "Don't worry, cousin! If anything really happens, I will definitely protect you!"

"..."

At 2:15 the next day, Li Chi and Qi Luoxing put on their new sect uniforms, packed everything, and were sitting at the table bored and dazed when the door of the room was suddenly opened from the outside.

The next second, the two people were taken out of the door by an invisible force and stopped in the yard.

Without thinking, you know it's the masterpiece of that old guy Li Shang.

It was the first time that Li Chi saw his senior brothers and sisters living in the same courtyard.

They lined up in two orderly rows, and at a glance there were nearly a hundred people.

Elder Li Shang and Li Jun led the way at the front of the team, and the group slowly moved towards the training hall.

Because Li Chi and Qi Luoxing were standing at the end of the team, and everyone was wearing the same sect uniform, all they could see were a bunch of dark silhouettes, so they couldn't tell which one was Bai Xin.

Li Chi touched his chin and instantly came up with an idea. He reached out and grabbed the sleeve of the senior brother walking in front of him, and whispered, "This senior brother..."

The man stopped and slowly turned around, revealing a listless and extremely pale face.

He stared at the two of them for a while, then asked in a strange tone: "You... are new here?!"

"Right, right, right!" Qi Luoxing also came forward and whispered, "So... could this senior brother tell us what exactly the secret technique we are going to practice is."

"Secret technique?!" The senior brother suddenly laughed contemptuously when he heard this.

He curled the corners of his mouth and stared at Li Chi and the other two with his lifeless eyes like dead fish. Then, his face suddenly turned ferocious and he started laughing wildly, "Hahahahahahaha..."

"You can't run away!"

"As long as we enter this inner courtyard, we will be tortured to death by them. We will all die here in the end!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

The more he laughed, the crazier he became. Later, he just sat on the ground holding his stomach, laughing until tears covered his face.

Li Chi and Qi Luoxing stood there and looked at each other, each more confused than the other.

Qi Luoxing said: "Cousin! Why am I becoming more and more unsure?!"

Just as Li Chi was about to say something, he saw Li Jun, who was originally walking in front of the team, suddenly appear behind the disciple who was sitting on the ground and going crazy, and knocked him out directly.

He looked at the stunned Li Chi and Qi Luoxing, smiled gently, and then explained: "Don't worry, two junior brothers. This junior brother must have too much pressure from practicing, so he suddenly went crazy. I will send him back to the dormitory first and catch up with him in a while."

After saying that, he took the fainted disciple away.

*

The group passed through countless courtyards and finally arrived at the training hall in the inner courtyard.

At the moment the door of the training hall opened, Li Chi suddenly smelled a strong fishy odor.

This taste is somewhat familiar.

It was exactly the same smell as the one that hit Elder Li Shang and Li Jun in the face when they opened the door on their first day in the inner courtyard.

He felt vaguely uneasy.

The interior of the training hall is circular in shape and about three meters high. After entering, there is a staircase leading directly to the underground. The further you go down, the stronger the smell becomes.

In the very center of the training hall, there stands a wooden pillar about as thick as an arm, directly connected between the roof and the ground, like the main pillar supporting the training hall.

When you reach the bottom floor, what comes into view are the training rooms arranged in a circle.

There are about fifty of them in total.

At this moment, the leader of Juyun Sect, Li Shi, and several elders were all gathered here, waiting for the arrival of Li Shang and his group.

When these disciples arrived at the bottom floor, they went directly into the training room in groups of two.

Li Chi and Qi Luoxing also followed their example and found an empty training room and sat on the floor.

Seeing that Li Shi and the elders were gathered together talking about something, Li Chi took the opportunity to look around.

The practice rooms here are not completely independent.

It has no roof and no doors, and is less than ten feet high.

The three bluestone walls on the left and right sides and behind were painted with strange and complex blood-red patterns, and the unpleasant smell came from them.

He sniffed and looked up at the rooftops.

The roof of the entire training hall was supported by the main pillar standing in the middle of the room and ten wooden beams extending from the top of the main pillar. The color of the roof was the same as the pattern on the wall of the training room where he was, which was also blood red.

The atmosphere here is very weird.

Afterwards, Li Chi turned his attention to several senior leaders of Juyun Sect.

Except for the sect leader Li Shi who looks relatively young, the other five elders all look like old men, the same style as Li Shang.

After they finished their conversation, they dispersed.

It seems that, except for the sect leader Li Shi, each of the other elders needs to be responsible for four to five training rooms.

Li Chi saw Elder Li Shang walking towards him and Qi Luoxing, and took a drop of blood from each of their eyebrows.

The other party used their blood to draw a glowing rune in the air, and then directly slapped the rune back onto their eyebrows.

After the blood-colored rune drilled into Li Chi's head, he felt as if his consciousness was suddenly impacted by something and was about to be dispersed. The spiritual energy in his body began to wander around frantically, and even his sea of ​​​​consciousness began to vibrate.

He held his head, feeling as if something was gnawing at his skull, trying to get out.

Not just the head.

At this moment, all the bones in his body were creaking and unbearable pain swept through his body, but his throat seemed to be strangled by an invisible hand and he could not make any sound.

At first, Li Chi could barely mobilize his spiritual consciousness to resist, but as time went on, the spiritual energy in his body was exhausted, and the blood rune instantly devoured all of his spiritual consciousness.

Li Chi's pupils turned gray and he stopped struggling.