Chapter 12: Shedding Snake and Transforming into Dragon (Part )

Watching Qingsong's figure gradually walking away, Ding Hai and the other four also returned to their residences.

The five of them had no previous friendship, but instead had some minor disputes because of the competition in the ring just now.

Now that we are together, I really don’t know what to talk about.

Rather than staying in Chongshou Temple and staring at each other awkwardly, it would be better to disperse on the spot.

Ding Hai returned to the temporary disciple dormitory and began to make his bed.

The sect provided the five heroes with many invisible favorable benefits, including a small courtyard filled with natural spiritual energy.

According to the arrangement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, his courtyard was not far from the courtyard where his master, Taoist Qingyun, lived.

When he came back, Taoist Huogong was already waiting outside the disciple's courtyard. He handed him the key and told him that the courtyard had been roughly cleaned and he could move in directly if he didn't mind the simple living conditions.

Ding Hai had been used to a hard life since he was a child, so the simplicity of the courtyard had little impact on him, so after he took the key, he decided to move in immediately.

The disciple courtyard where he currently lives was originally a farmhouse built on a Feng Shui cave, with three main rooms and one ear room.

If only he and Qianhe lived there, except that the spiritual energy was a little thin, everything else was pretty good.

But now, there are seven new disciples living in this small courtyard, including their two brothers.

In order not to affect others, nor be affected by others, these two days, let alone meditation, even to do morning and evening exercises, Ding Hai can only find a quiet place outside, which is really inconvenient.

Because they had not been living there for long, Ding Hai and Chizuru had not yet spread out all their luggage. After simply packing, Ding Hai carried their luggage and headed to the new courtyard assigned to him.

The five disciples who had been secretly observing the movements in the courtyard were filled with mixed emotions when they saw Ding Hai packing up his bed and leaving.

Intellectually, they hoped that Ding Hai and his partner could stay and live under the same roof. They would see each other every day and would inevitably have some interactions. Once they became friends, they would be able to benefit from Ding Hai in the future.

But emotionally, they are unwilling to be neighbors with a demon like Ding Hai.

As both of them are newly initiated disciples, the gap between them is so great that it is unbearable. If they really have to see each other and compare themselves with each other every day, they will eventually feel uncomfortable in their hearts. How should they cope with the situation then?
Therefore, until Ding Hai carried his luggage out of the gate, no disciple came forward to stop him.

Ding Hai was unaware of the inner struggles of his temporary neighbors. After leaving the disciple courtyard, he hurriedly put his luggage in the small courtyard assigned to him, and then walked towards the small courtyard where his master lived not far away.

If it was as he expected, Qianhe should be standing in front of her master, describing her performance today with gestures and excitement.

When they met their master before, although Taoist Qingyun said that this competition had little to do with them, Ding Hai and Qianhe both saw the expectation that flashed in his eyes.

So, knowing that Ding Hai had the ability to win the championship, Qianhe talked to Ding Hai about winning the championship after she went out.

His words and deeds were all meant to encourage Ding Hai to not hide his shortcomings and hold back, so as to give his master a surprise.

Although Ding Hai did not win the championship, he was tied for first place with Shi Jian. Naturally, he wanted to share this honor with people close to him.

The headmaster summoned Ding Hai to discuss something. Qian He didn't know when he would return, so she came on his behalf to share the joy with the master. This was normal.

However, the scene that Ding Hai saw when he stepped into the courtyard where his master lived alone was completely different from what he had expected.

Qianhe stood beside her master, looking at Ding Hai who came in at a loss, with guilt and anxiety mixed on her face.

Seeing this, Ding Hai raised his eyebrows and looked at his master and said, "Master, I am lucky to have fulfilled your orders. I have not disgraced the reputation of the Zhanxie lineage and am now tied with Shi Jian for first place."

Although he was wondering what his master had said to Chizuru, which made her look guilty, Ding Hai still reported the good news to his master first, as it was his duty as a disciple.

Taoist Qingyun looked at his senior disciple, who was already a head taller than him, with a complicated look.

To be honest, the scene before him was far from what he had originally imagined.

If he didn't know that Qianhe would not lie, he would have suspected that he had heard it wrongly.

The eldest disciple, who had just reached the first level of submission after nine years of cultivation, was actually on par with Shi Jian, a talented disciple of the Demon-Suppressing lineage who was born with a thunder spirit body.

God of the Three Pure Ones, is this world too magical? Or am I already behind the times?
This time when he went south to slay demons and eliminate evil, he often joined forces with his fellow disciples of the Demon-Suppressing Clan to kill the enemies. During their conversations, he often heard of the name of Shi Jian, the pride of the Demon-Suppressing Clan.

In his understanding, Shi Jian not only possesses a thunder spirit body that is rarely seen in the spiritual world in a hundred years, but his talent in Taoism is also far beyond that of ordinary people.

Although it may be a bit of an exaggeration to call him a natural born Taoist, but as long as he is carefully cultivated, he may be able to knock on the door of Yangshen in the future, observe the changes in the world and watch the ups and downs of life.

If you are lucky enough to get the favor of the ancestors in the blessed land, and enter the blessed land with your body in harmony with the earth's veins, perhaps you can really stay in the world for eight hundred years like Peng Zu and enjoy all the beauty of the world.

But such a genius figure was actually ranked first with his taciturn eldest disciple.

According to Qianhe, if the space on the ring was not limited, which restricted the performance of the eldest disciple Ding Hai, it would be hard to predict who would win or lose.

"Boss, you did a great job. The master is just not used to you suddenly becoming a genius." Taoist Qingyun said with emotion.

During this trip to the south, he exchanged a lot of experiences on teaching disciples with fellow disciples from other lineages.

Although his teaching method is not the best among the twelve Dharma lineages, it is still regarded by his fellow disciples as being among the top three.

Who wouldn't admire the ability of a disciple with inferior aptitude to reach the state of submission at the age of Wushao without consuming too many resources? You know, with the current cultivation environment in the spiritual world, except for the evil heretics who practice "cultivation by eating people" like the Yinshan Dao, most of the Dharma lines are unwilling to accept disciples with inferior qualifications.

It’s not discrimination due to legal connections, but the cost-effectiveness is too low.

With normal training, disciples with good bones and mediocre physiques can basically pass the level of submission and officially enter the Dao at the age of dancing elephants.

If disciples with inferior physiques want to cross this hurdle in the Dancing Elephant Year, the resources required are at least ten times more than the former, and there is no guarantee that they can successfully enter the Tao.

Taoist Qingyun asked himself that he had never treated his two disciples badly and taught them wholeheartedly.

However, what is puzzling is that during his teaching, Ding Hai and the other two were mediocre in qualifications, even worse than Wan Shi.

But less than three years after he left, one of them had become like an unpolished jade, hiding its brilliance; while the other had revealed his potential and became a favored child of heaven.

Facing the sigh of Master Qingyun, Ding Hai said frankly: "It's all thanks to the good foundation laid by Master."

He was not refusing, but was sincere.

In his opinion, if his master had not carefully taken care of his body when he was young and strengthened his fragile foundation.

Even if he had more brilliant ideas, it would be difficult for him to achieve what he has today in three years.

Taoist Qingyun could tell that Ding Hai was not insincere, so he laughed happily.

Although the eldest disciple has become successful, he still maintains that familiar look.

After a while, Taoist Qingyun stopped laughing and started talking about business: "Boss, there is something I want to confirm with you.

Is your ability to appear and disappear without a trace the magical movement technique that all the ancestors in the ancestors' notes have failed to learn?"

“Yes, a year ago when I was killing a group of evildoers near Jinmen, I found a broken set of magic horse riding skills from their lair.

At first, I didn't take it seriously, thinking it was just a piece of horse riding technique that was circulating in the martial arts world. But when I accidentally read it, I realized that I was wrong.

This magical skill should be created by a Taoist master who found it difficult for his disciples to comprehend the magic of speed, so he simplified it based on his own experience."

“That martial art of horse riding cannot be practiced because it lacks some key points, but the Taoist master’s simplified thinking still remains.

I reverse-engineered the master's thinking and gradually comprehended some key points of the practice of the art of speed.

After a year of hard work, I have managed to master the art of speed. Now, the only bottleneck that can limit my speed is my physical strength and the amount of my magic power. "

Ding Hai frankly explained why he was able to learn the magical skill of walking that had puzzled all the ancestors of the evil-slaying lineage.

After listening to Ding Hai's explanation, the Taoist priest Qingyun, who was sitting at the head of the group, breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The magic of speed is one of the 72 magics of the Earthly Fiends. The fact that you can master this magic shows that your ability is no less than that of the ancestors of previous generations."

"In that case, Boss, I have something I want to discuss with you. Can our Xie Zhan lineage bypass you and hand it over to Qianhe?"

After saying this, Taoist Qingyun looked at Ding Hai cautiously and waited for his reply.

Logically speaking, Ding Hai is not only his top disciple, but also the disciple he raised personally. The responsibility of slaying evil should not fall on his second disciple Qianhe.

Usually, after a hundred years, Ding Hai only needs to give Qianhe some money and property to allow Qianhe to separate and set up her own business.

At that time, all the family assets of the Zhanxie lineage will belong to Ding Hai.

This is no small sum.

The Zhanxie lineage does have some difficulties in terms of worldly money, but in terms of magical instruments and talismans, they can easily secure fifth and strive for fourth place among the twelve magical lineages that have returned to the mountain gate this time.

If we include unique inherited spells like the Divine Movement Technique, it wouldn't be difficult to rank third.

However, seeing that Ding Hai could still thrive in the spiritual world even if he did not inherit the legacy of the Xie-slaying lineage, Taoist Qingyun couldn't help but worry about Qianhe.

"Bypass me and hand over our Xie-Zhan lineage to Qianhe?" Ding Hai, who has always regarded himself as the future leader of the Beimao Xie-Zhan lineage, was stunned when he heard this.

Ever since he could remember, he silently vowed in his heart to do his best to repay his master for saving his life and raising him.

After learning that his master's greatest wish is to carry forward the evil-slaying lineage, Ding Hai also regards this as his lifelong pursuit.

However, now his master wants him to give up the lineage of killing evil.

With Ding Hai's personality, he couldn't help but feel confused at this moment.

No wonder Chizuru's face was full of guilt and anxiety when she looked at him before. It turned out that this was the root cause.

　I originally wanted to try to see if releasing the chapters separately could attract more exposure, but I just checked the daily report of my work and found that none of the data has increased. I'd better release two chapters at a time in the future so that you can enjoy it.

　　In addition, I have to say something old-fashioned. I beg for all kinds of things, such as recommendation tickets, monthly tickets, and follow-up reading. I, a loser, beg for them all.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)