The Tao is far away

Wang Chi gently pushed open the bamboo door, and saw dust flying all over the sky, rushing towards him. The strong smell of dust made it almost impossible for him to breathe. It took him two full hours to clean up the dust in the room.

Wang Chi looked around and found that the bamboo house had fallen into disrepair and was in a dilapidated state. Some places were so dilapidated that there were several large holes on the roof.

He shook his head helplessly and had to cut some bamboo and try to repair the gaps. Fortunately, he was quite good at hands-on work. After some repairs, although those places were not perfect, they were still acceptable.

Wang Chi looked at the ridiculously broken furniture in the house and sighed inwardly, knowing that he could only burn them and make new ones.

Qing Luan, who was in the second-floor bamboo building in the distance, watched Wang Chi's busy figure and murmured to himself, "Yellow Patterned Cauldron, I never thought His Highness Xiao would be willing to give you this."

"You seem to be His Highness's confidant."

……

Ten days passed in a flash. Wang Chi looked at the "extremely smooth" table and the "neat and uniform" chairs, and a sense of pride arose in his heart.

“It’s really me!”

"Wow, silly boy, you have such skills!" The door was wide open, Qingluan leaned on the door frame and said with a smile.

Wang Chi quickly bowed and said, "Master, please stop making fun of me."

Qingluan walked into the room, pulled out a chair and sat down.

With a "crack", the chair leg broke. Qingluan was caught off guard and fell on her butt on the ground.

Wang Chi was shocked and thought to himself that it was not good...

Qingluan stood up by herself, her eyes full of anger: "You did this on purpose, kid!"

"Do you want to be beaten?"

Although she said so, Qingluan only grumbled a few words, and then said: "No matter how you got the Yellow-Patterned Cauldron, use it less in the future, understand?"

Although Wang Chi was confused, was it because of Li Xiaoxiao? But he still replied, "I know."

"Then what do I use?"

Qingluan smiled slightly, but did not answer. Instead, he said, "Let's go to the valley. Today is the day for new disciples to enter the sect. Although you are my disciple, you have not officially become my disciple yet. You should go and go through the formalities."

Just like ten days ago, Qingluan carried Wang Chi with the scented silk and flew into the valley between the nine peaks like a bird.

……

The valley is where menial disciples live. Normally, the Nine Peaks disciples rarely come here. However, when new disciples are admitted, the Nine Peaks disciples will sneak down the peak.

In front of the headmaster's hall, there is an extremely wide square, which is large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people.

At this moment, the masters or elders of the nine peaks sat on the stone chairs, gazing at these new disciples with joy.

These vigorous new forces are like the light of hope for the sect’s future.

Among the new disciples, some have outstanding spiritual roots and are gifted, while others are slightly inferior. Some of them will become the backbone of the sect, while others can only do menial work in the valley.

Those disciples with outstanding qualifications were fought over by all the major peaks like the moon surrounded by stars, or were directly chosen by an elder to become inner disciples; while the disciples with less qualifications had also found satisfying menial jobs in the valley, and after putting on new clothes, their faces were filled with happy smiles.

Everyone has a bright future.

Wang Chi was like a headless fly, running around in all directions. He really had no interest in the initiation scenes of these new disciples. This was not much different from the scenes before he went to school in his previous life.

He had originally imagined that new disciples would choose Qingzhu Peak, but in the end, no one was interested. After asking Qingluan, he learned that Qingzhu Peak had never participated, and only disciples who were favored by her could enter.

Even if you are interested, you still have to go through some tests and have to have an extraordinary character to enter Qingzhu Peak.

Therefore, Qingzhu Peak has the least number of people. Even with the peak master Qingluan, there are only five people. Compared with other big peaks, it is simply a dwarf.

But even so, Qingzhu Peak still ranks among the top nine peaks. The reason is that except for the new disciple Wang Chi, the others are all Jindan cultivators, and the peak master Qingluan is a Jindan mid-stage cultivator.

This kind of strength is absolutely incomparable to those mountains that only have one or two Jindan cultivators.

Wang Chi suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure, tiptoed up behind her, raised his hand and patted her shoulder, then took the opportunity when the person turned his head to dodge and hide aside.

Xu Qianyu was extremely depressed at the moment. She heard from her senior sisters at Tianqin Peak that there was another reason why Tianqin accepted her as a disciple. She couldn't tell whether it was true or not. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the new disciple's induction, she came to the valley to relieve her sorrow.

Xu Qianyu only felt someone patting her shoulder. She turned around and saw only a new disciple looking at her blankly and pointing behind her.

"You are so boring!" Xu Qianyu turned her head and found Wang Chi looking at her with a mean look on his face. Although she said this in anger, she was somewhat happy in her heart because Wang Chi was her only friend in Tianjimen.

Wang Chi raised his lips, twisted his nose, and said, "It's been so long since we last met, it feels like a lifetime ago!"

"Boring, isn't it just ten days?"

The two found a pavilion and sat down one after another.

"By the way, which peak did you enter?" Xu Qianyu asked.

"Qingzhu Peak."

"How about it? Does Tianqin Peak catch your eye?" Wang Chi asked with a smile.

Xu Qianyu knew that Wang Chi was trying to cheer her up, but for some reason, she just couldn't muster up interest and her expression became increasingly gloomy.

"It's okay, much better than being a killer before," Xu Qianyu said without emotion.

"By the way, hearing what you said, I would like to ask, who issued the mission to assassinate me?" Wang Chi asked. Previously, he went deep into the Baishatang branch alone, but was unable to find out the truth.

Xu Qianyu shook her head gently and said, "The Hundred Killing Hall has its own set of confidentiality measures. We assassins are just taking on missions. As for the names of our employers, we have no way of knowing them."

"But..." Xu Qianyu changed the subject.

"When accepting this mission, our helmsman lamented that it was another family feud."

"Family infighting?"

Wang Chi fell into deep thought. Could it really be that beastly Wang Heng who had undue ambitions for his descendants? It didn't make sense. Why would he want to kill me? Did he already know that I was a fake?

Wang Chi thought of Wang Buyan again, and the string in his heart was plucked again. He seemed to have lost all his strength and sat limply on the stone bench.

He was too lazy to pursue the matter of who wanted to kill him.

Seeing this, Xu Qianyu tactfully shut her mouth and stopped talking.

Wang Chi's thoughts drifted back to the day when he rescued Wang Buyan from the bandits. He also thought of her gentle body leaning on his shoulder in the ruined temple on that snowy night, and her tears falling like pearls when they said goodbye at the Beijing Medical Clinic.

"Yan'er, are you... okay now?"

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