Si Lei Zhenjun

The morning light just broke through, and the faint glow fell on the quaint wooden house, reflecting strands of golden light.

Chu Xing lay quietly on a simple but warm wooden bed, his long eyelashes trembling like a fan, and his deep eyes gradually opened. He raised his eyes and glanced out the window, and found that it was already bright outside.

He quickly put on his outer clothes, shoes and socks, performed a "dust removal technique" on his entire body, and then went straight to the side room next door.

"Get up, Xiaoli, Daibao!"

Chu Xing looked at the man and the beast sleeping soundly and said softly.

When he returned to the courtyard last night, he found that Jiang Xiaoli and Daibao, a man and a beast, were obviously tired from playing and were sleeping soundly on the grass, so he carried them into the side room.

“Master…Senior Brother!”

Jiang Xiaoli rubbed her sleepy eyes and sat up from the bed, a blush flashed across her face. She didn't dare to look directly into Chu Xing's eyes, and shouted in a voice as thin as a mosquito.

"Dumb, dumb."

Seeing that Daibao had not woken up, Chu Xing walked to the bed and wanted to shake him awake. As soon as he touched him, he felt a burning sensation, as if his hand had touched boiling magma. Not only that, there were also tiny beads of blood oozing out of his body surface.

"Senior brother,"

Jiang Xiaoli pulled Chu Xing's sleeve and asked with a worried expression:

"Is Daibao sick?"

"I don't know what's going on with it."

Chu Xing shook his head, picked up Dai Bao, and strode out of the house:

"I can only go find Master and let her take a look."

……

The sunlight penetrates the mist of Piaomiao Peak and falls into the courtyard. The surface of the pond is quiet, and occasionally a few fallen leaves float down, stirring up ripples.

Beside the pond, a row of willow trees hang down their green silks, which seem to add a touch of tenderness to the quiet pond. A woman in a red and white brocade moon-length skirt is lying comfortably on a rocking chair. She holds a storybook in her fair and delicate hands, flipping the pages from time to time and occasionally letting out a few giggles.

The woman was about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a slim and graceful figure, a slender waist, a beautiful face, and a pair of beautiful eyes like autumn water that were full of charm as they moved around.

"Master, Master!"

Chu Xing and Jiang Xiaoli were flying in the sky on a sword, and before they landed, Jiang Xiaoli was already waving her hands and shouting.

Qi Shunan had sensed the presence of Chu Xing and the other person early on. Seeing them approaching, she sat up slightly, put away the storybook, crossed her long legs, and said with a smile:

"Little Chu Xing, Little Jiang Li, how come you have time to come and see Master today?"

"Master, next time when you call my name, could you please not add the word 'Xiao' in front of it?"

Chu Xing had a helpless look on his face. He admitted that he was indeed short and thin when he first arrived at Piaomiao Peak. After all, he had been a beggar for several years at that time. Now he had grown up completely and was still a handsome young man with a clear face and a good appearance.

Qi Shunan pulled Jiang Xiaoli to sit on her lap, touched Jiang Xiaoli's head, looked at Chu Xing and said:

"Hehe, when Master brought you back, you were not as tall as Xiaoli is now!"

"Master, let's not talk about this," Chu Xing coughed dryly, handed Dai Bao to Qi Shunan, and said:

"Help me see what's going on with Daibao?"

Qi Shunan then noticed the unconscious little fox in his hand, raised her hand to take it, and then stretched out a slender jade finger to press against Dai Bao's forehead.

After a while, Qi Shunan withdrew her fingers, a look of surprise flashed in her eyes, and said:

"Ah, I usually don't pay attention to it, but this little fox you raised is actually a spirit beast, and it is currently in the process of forming a pill."

"But I read in a book that spirit beasts are as intelligent as children, and Daibao is usually silly and stupid."

Chu Xing was stunned. This little fox looked stupid and silly. Apart from being able to eat, there was nothing magical about it. How could it be a spiritual beast, and it could form a pill before him?

Qi Shunan gently stroked Dai Bao with her delicate and beautiful hand, and her tight and small lotus feet exposed outside the skirt swayed gently, saying:

"When I used my spiritual sense to investigate, I discovered that its soul was somewhat confused. It must have been damaged. However, I see that its bloodline is extraordinary. As its realm improves, this injury to its soul should slowly heal."

"That's good!"

Chu Xing secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It came to his side soon after he arrived at Yunxiao Sect. Although its intelligence was not high, it added a lot of color to his idle and boring days.

Qi Shunan handed the little fox in her hand to Chu Xing and instructed:

"Remember to go to the Beast Hall in the Forest of Myriad Beasts and buy a spirit beast ring for it, otherwise it will be mistaken for an ownerless monster and killed by fellow disciples."

"Okay, Master. I'll go to the Forest of Ten Thousand Beasts later."

Chu Xing took the Daibao handed to him by Qi Shunan, kept the matter in mind, and responded.

Suddenly, Chu Xing remembered that this was a good opportunity to ask about his Dan-forming matter, and said:

"Oh, Master, I'm about to reach the stage of forming a core. After consulting the sect's classics, I'm finally planning to consume some spiritual objects that will form a core..."

"No need to say it, apprentice."

Qi Shunan waved her hand and said:

"I don't understand these things either. My cultivation method is different from yours. You see, I never give you any guidance on your cultivation, do I?"

Chu Xing curled his lips and said:

"Isn't it because Master is lazy?"

Qi Shunan glared at Chu Xing, as if to say, "If you say anything nonsense again, I'm going to hit you."

Chu Xing smiled and handed the little fox in his arms to Jiang Xiaoli. He then walked behind Qi Shunan, gently pinched her shoulders, and said, "Master, tell us how you became the master of Piaomiao Peak?"

Qi Shunan nodded slightly, a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and her cherry lips opened slightly:

"A hundred years ago, my master, Du Tingguang, the former master of Piaomiao Peak, took me back to Piaomiao Peak. I have lived with my master on Piaomiao Peak ever since."

"So, the way we pick up people at Piaomiao Peak is a tradition?"

Qi Shunan glanced at him sideways and continued:

"My master never taught me how to practice after bringing me back. He basically ignored me. He only came to my aid when I was... ahem... bullied in the sect."

So free-range farming is also a tradition, right?

Chu Xing really wanted to say this, but he held back.

"I don't usually practice much, I just focus on doing what I like, but my cultivation has improved rapidly."

"About thirty years passed like this. One day, Master suddenly told me that I had the 'Heavenly Heart Body' and told me to follow my heart in everything I do. Then he left the sect."

After saying this, a look of reminiscence appeared on Qi Shunan's pretty face.

"What happens next?"

Chu Xing suddenly realized. No wonder he didn't see his master practicing on weekdays. He had seen this physique when he was reading the classics in the sect. It was said that as long as one maintained a "pure heart", one could make rapid progress in cultivation. But he was also a little curious about the follow-up of the matter.

"Then my master disappeared. Not long after, there were rumors that someone had seen my master in the sect, but my master never returned."

Having said this, a rare trace of sadness flashed across Qi Shunan's face, and her bright eyes dimmed a lot.

"Then how did you become the master of Piaomiao Peak, Master?"

Chu Xing had heard that the nine elders and the seven sect leaders were all cultivators at the Hedao realm, and the sect leader was even a legendary cultivator at the Dujie realm. Immortals had not appeared on this continent for tens of thousands of years. No matter how monstrous Qi Shunan was, it was impossible for him to reach the Hedao realm in just thirty years.

Qi Shunan raised her delicate and beautiful chin slightly, clenched her hands into a fist in the air and waved towards Chu Xing. Her face instantly brightened like the weather turning from cloudy to sunny, and she said proudly:

"Ten years later, when the sect saw that my master hadn't returned yet, they wanted to choose a new person to be the leader of Piaomiao Peak. Of course, I refused to accept that, so I beat up everyone who had run for the position."

"Then Master, what was your cultivation level at that time?"

"Oh, it seems like he's just entering the Dharma Realm."

"All the candidates should be Hedao cultivators, right? Master, how did you manage to beat them all?"

"Hehe, that's of course because I'm gifted and have incredible fighting power!"

"Speak human language, Master!"

"Haha, when I first entered the Dharma Realm, a wheel suddenly flew over and kept flying around me. I reached out and grabbed it, and it automatically recognized its master.

Later, when I heard that the sect was selecting a leader for Piaomiao Peak, I thought, "Isn't this just stealing my territory? I grabbed the wheel and beat them up one by one!"

Chu Xing: “…”

The next moment, the exquisite communication jade slip on Qi Shunan's waist flashed twice.

Qi Shunan's delicate hand touched it lightly, her pink little tongue licked the corner of her mouth, her eyes shining as she said:

"My best friend wrote to say that top-tier immortal chefs Chen Zhiwei and Xue Yi are going to have a cooking competition in Liyang Immortal City, the capital of the Dali Dynasty, and invited me to go and watch!"