Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 18: Testing

When he arrived at Tang Jie's residence, Shi Jingzhai found that Tang Jie was not in the house. After asking the maid, he found out that he had gone fishing at Jinchi Peak.

Jinchi Peak is a peak on the west side of Yongsui Mountain. This place is not called Jinchi Peak, but Jinding Peak. More than a thousand years ago, Master Tianxin fought at Jinding Summit. The battle was so dark that even the top of the mountain was flattened and the terrain was sunken, eventually forming a lake. Because the sun shines on the top of the mountain, the lake turns into a golden glow, so it is named Jinchi. Later, the golden peak became Jinchi Peak.

However, although there is a lake on Jinchi Peak, there are no fish. I don’t know what kind of thoughts Tang Jiecun had in mind to go fishing in Jinchi. Fortunately, there are many unimaginable things in the way of immortal cultivators. As long as you have the intention, it doesn't matter if you make the golden pond full of fish.

At this moment, knowing that Tang Jie was on Jinchi Peak, Shi Jingzhai flew to find him.

The top of Jinchi Peak is covered with white snow, and there are thousands of rays of light on the lake. Two incompatible scenery appear in one place at the same time, strange and harmonious, showing a different kind of scenery.

In the middle of the lake, a row of rafts drifted leisurely.

Tang Jie sat leisurely on the raft holding a hanging pole, looking like a wandering crane enjoying the fairyland. Under the water, large groups of koi carp were swimming around, and a slender sewing needle hung among the fish. It was Tang Jie's fishhook.

With such a hook, it was naturally impossible to catch any fish, but Tang Jie didn't care at all and just waited quietly.

When Shi Jingzhai flew from the distant sky, the sound of "Little friend Tang Jie" finally made a smile appear on Tang Jie's face.

The fish is hooked.

He raised his head and looked at the sky: "It turns out that Master Shi is here. Why don't we come down together, grab a few poles and have a drink?"

As he spoke, he raised the wine bottle beside him and invited him into the air.

Shi Jingzhai laughed loudly: "My little friend is really in a good mood, so why not accompany me."

It sounded like I was just passing by.

As he said this, he took out a piece of paper from the mustard bag, and folded it in two or three to become a paper boat. Then he blew on the paper boat, and the paper boat expanded in the air, and finally became like It floats on the water like a real boat.

Shi Jingzhai then descended from the sky and landed on the bow of the boat. He waved to Tang Jie and said, "Little friend, why don't you come on my boat? Your place is a little small."

Tang Jie couldn't help but admire this.

Although Shi Jingzhai's use of paper as a boat may seem simple, it is a real ability to transform things, and it is a skill that can only be mastered by entering the heart of heaven. Xu Muyang used the same method to send him away with a paper horse.

At this moment, after hearing what Shi Jingzhai said, Tang Jie jumped onto Shi Jingzhai's boat, praised "The real man has good skills", took out a cup from his bag, filled it with a wine bottle for Shi Jingzhai, and sent it to him.

Shi Jingzhai took the wine and smelled it carefully, then laughed and said: "Twenty years of apricot blossom wine, Tang Jie, you must have robbed the old Chen's family at the foot of the mountain to get this only fine wine in Yongsui Mountain. And The fish in this lake, this is obviously the gold-embroidered carp from Yaocheng Jingwang Palace, but you actually got it here. I didn’t see you yesterday, and you went to Qiongzhou."

"The real person's discernment is like a torch, powerful, powerful!" Tang Jie cupped his hands and smiled: "Tang Jie's little tricks can't hide the real person's discernment."

Shi Jingzhai looked at the large group of gold-embroidered carp in the lake, and couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "It is said that these gold-embroidered carps are delicious, and every one of them is the best in the world. Prince Jing's Mansion has only raised nearly a thousand of them so far. , but you got so much in one fell swoop, are you afraid that you’ve drained all of his family’s pond?”

Tang Jie smiled and said: "Prince Jing was so stingy that I asked him for a hundred pieces, but he refused. He said he would sell me ten pieces at most. In a fit of anger, he sneaked in and took his pond. I’ve touched all the fish in the bag, I’m afraid that Prince Jing will be furious.”

Shi Jingzhai frowned and said: "I know that my little friend is also highly regarded in the Xiyue Sect, and he was the one who personally issued the recommendation order from the leader of the Ming Dynasty. Logically speaking, a mere mortal like King Jing would not be able to take a few fish from him. What a big deal. However, Xiyue Sect has long had rules, and only real people can be equal to the mortal king. I am only a spiritual master after all, so I am afraid that such behavior is a bit too much."

Tang Jie said calmly: "It doesn't matter, it's just a crime of disrespect and should not be treated as a big deal. Making some small mistakes is not harmful, as long as you control the big problems, it will be a big deal that will destroy your family and destroy your family."

Shi Jingzhai was shocked when he heard this.

What kind of thing can destroy a family?

Speaking of which, there is one now.

Did Tang Jie say this unintentionally or did he mean something else?

Shi Jingzhai didn't know, but he became more and more fearful.

At this moment, he laughed a few times and said: "What I am saying is that as long as you focus on the big things, some small details are insignificant."

Tang Jie had already sat down on the bow of the boat, threw the fishing rod into the lake again and said, "Master, do you want to come fishing together?"

Shi Jingzhai looked at his straight hook and said with a smile: "My little friend, fishing with a straight hook is so new."

Tang Jie replied: "I have nothing to do, just teasing. Don't underestimate these gold-embroidered carps that appear to be ignorant, but they are actually very alert. If I really want to catch one, they will I'm afraid they will disperse immediately, and the sight of this group of carps guarding us will never be seen again."

Shi Jingzhai said regretfully: "Then I won't be able to eat this golden carp."

Tang Jie laughed: "Since the real person said that, then Tang Jie would have caught a few fish even if he burned the harp and boiled the crane."

As he spoke, he swung the fishing rod, and the straight hook passed through the bodies of more than ten gold-embroidered carp in a row, and fell on the deck in a row, fluttering and jumping. The remaining gold-embroidered carp saw this As expected, the situation suddenly dispersed at the same time. Even with Shi Jingzhai's eyesight, he couldn't see clearly where the fish swam to.

Tang Jie said: "That's enough."

As he spoke, he took out a knife and started scraping the scales on the boat.

When Shi Jingzhai saw him taking action, he had already made a small stove to boil water. Tang Jie washed the killed fish with lake water and threw it into the pot. Cultivators usually carry a seasoning bottle with them, so you put some chopped green onion. I put some **** slices, and the old man and the young man started making fish soup on the lake. From time to time, they would also come up with dishes such as "Don't make all the soup, there are more than ten, leave some for braised and steamed", "If you don't have a wok, you can change it, we are immortal cultivators", "If you don't have soy sauce? Can you make it?" "If you can't, forget it, Bai Stir-fry it, it's delicious too." "You don't know what a steamer is? I'll make the basics and you can change it." "No, the fire is big here, Lao Shi, why is this pot of yours so bad? It'll break when you poke it. I know it's Made of paper..."

Most of the time, Tang Jie spoke and Shi Jingzhai listened. Tang Jie's family background and past experience made Tang Jie qualified to be Shi Jingzhai's teacher at least in terms of cooking. As soon as I got busy, a feast of whole fish gradually came into being.

Looking at this sumptuous fish feast, even Shi Jingzhai was moved. Tang Jie was also satisfied and said: "Yes, today is a blessing. By the way, why don't Master Qiu, Master Liang, and Master Yu also Call us together, I’m afraid it wouldn’t be appropriate for you and me to share this rare gold-embroidered carp.”

Hearing what he said, Shi Jingzhai had no choice but to say: "Old Liang has something to do, and we can't leave him for the time being. As for Wan Niang, who is not in the sect now, I can't call her. I'd better send a letter to the leader and invite him to come. ”

"Oh, has Lady Yu traveled far away?" Following Shi Jingzhai's words, Tang Jie said casually: "That's such a pity. The Jin family's account may be fine in a few days. I don't know if Lady Yu will come back before she comes back. Can I see her again?"

Shi Jingzhai smiled and said: "She is just visiting a few friends. She will come back tomorrow night. She should have time to eat your gold-embroidered carp."

"That's good." Tang Jie smiled and nodded.

Liang and Yu couldn't come, and the head Qiu also wrote back saying that he had something to deal with and was temporarily unavailable. In the end, none of the three came, but the two of them had a great meal here.

After he had had enough wine and food, Shi Jingzhai excused himself and left. Although he was asked to monitor Tang Jie, it was impossible for him to stay with him for twelve hours. Anyway, as long as Tang Jie did not leave the Shimen Sect, nothing would happen, so there was no need to pay too much attention to it.

Tang Jie watched Shi Jingzhai leave with a smile. It wasn't until his figure disappeared that his eyes became sharp.

With a gentle wave of his hand, the fish that had escaped earlier swam back one after another, still circling around Tang Jie's small raft.

Tang Jie casually pointed his finger, and a carp suddenly made a soft sound and turned into bubbles and exploded. It was a swimming fish created using the copying technique. Then there was a crisp sound, and the countless gold-embroidered carps in the water exploded and disappeared, eventually becoming nothing. The nearly a thousand fish here are all copied. No wonder their actions are so unified.

Fortunately, it was a fish. If it were a human, Shi Jingzhai would have seen it.

He never imagined that except for the dozen or so items they ate, the rest were all fake. Tang Jie did go to Prince Jing's Mansion and bought more than ten gold-embroidered carps, but he was not so arrogant as to take them all away.

The reason why he did this was actually to test whether Shi Jingzhai could see through his own copying technique.

Last night he attacked and killed Lu Dong's men. Although he deceived two maids with the cloning technique, he did not dare to deceive them with this technique because he had no confidence, so he disappeared during the day. After today's test, Shi Jingzhai didn't find any problems with the fish. Tang Jie finally felt confident, which greatly guaranteed his future actions.

For example, if Tang Jie wants to go somewhere again, he can use his clone to accompany Shi Jingzhai to drink and chat, and no one will be able to doubt him.

But in addition, Tang Jie also had a bigger gain.

At this moment, he lowered his head and murmured: "Come back tomorrow night, come and go, if you fly at full speed..."

Tang Jie did the math and estimated the approximate distance that Yu Wanniang could fly. He took out Zhang Qixia's map and looked at it carefully.

Wenxin is surrounded by the sea on both sides to the southeast. It is basically impossible to fly here. To the north is to go in the direction of Xiyue Sect. If you get close to here, you are courting death. So the only choice Yu Wanniang can make is to go west. Since it was only a day's journey, the destination was exactly... Li Country.

He finally knew who these people were selling to.

"Qi Jue Sect!" Tang Jie spat out these three words coldly.

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The mine is still busy at night.

This is a world without day or night, or in other words, there has never been light in the world from the beginning.

It describes the haggard miners carrying heavy ore baskets on their backs, wandering around the cave. They carry pickaxes, looking for every possible mining site, and then dig out with all their strength. Occasionally, when they get a stone with a flash of inspiration, they don't shout loudly with joy, but immediately rush to cover it carefully, lest others find it.

As the ore veins gradually dry up, the ore sources gradually become less and less, and it becomes increasingly difficult to obtain high-quality ore. Sometimes digging for a day may not yield any benefit. So as the mines became depressed, there were more fights and killings.

From time to time, you can see a black shadow running past in a hurry. Behind this rush is a body lying on the ground and an empty mining basket.

Tang Jie walked in this dark and chaotic world, but no one noticed his existence.

He was like a ghost, walking in the mine, walking deeper step by step.

Compared with last time, at least this time he no longer needs a guide.

As we go deeper, miners become scarce again.

After arriving at the place where they met the Earth Demon Ape last time, Tang Jie stood still.

It shows that some silver sand was taken out from the mustard bag, rubbed and sprinkled on the ground. Then he took out some more materials and arranged them according to their positions. He actually put more than ten kinds in one breath.

Compared with last time, Tang Jie was much more prepared this time.

As the material was laid down, his fingertips drew lines of spiritual energy, forming lines of spiritual patterns. Finally, Tang Jie punched into the rock wall, opened up a large piece of ore and rummaged through it carefully, and after a while he found a few pieces of raw ore. After rubbing it, he got a small piece of spiritual stone, which Tang Jie placed on the ground.

I saw a brilliance on the ground, and dots of silver light danced in the air, spreading to all directions. In the blink of an eye, the entire mine and the cliff were under a shining star.

Tang Jie's brows raised his eyebrows again, and combined with those starlights, they showed a strange light, like searchlights, looking straight towards the bottom of the cliff.

With the help of the magic circle, Tang Jie's eyesight was particularly powerful this time. His eyes penetrated the darkness and reached the bottom, finally seeing the existence deep in the cliff.

At the bottom is a large piece of humus forest. The purple-black land is full of dead trees, and the dry branches are covered with Jedi poisonous moths. They perched on those dead trees, quietly and motionless, as if sleeping.

The entire land was shrouded in the dust of these poisonous moths, reflecting a purple death aura.

These highly poisonous things that can kill even real people are lying quietly at the bottom of the mine. As long as their rest is not disturbed, they will not move easily. This is perhaps the only better thing about this poison.

Looking over the rotten ground, Tang Jie searched patiently. If the place where the lugworms are produced is really near the territory of the poisonous moth, then there must be a way to enter.

Tang Jie believed that he would be able to find it.

It is a pity that in this highly toxic place, apart from poisonous moths and dead trees, there is only the underground river that is still flowing. Because of the toxins, the underground river has turned into a green patch.

Then Tang Jie was shocked.

He suddenly jumped up and flew downwards, not stopping until he reached the edge of the starlight. You can still use the magic circle effect here, but you can get closer to the underground river. The closer distance allowed Tang Jie to see more and more clearly that on a large stone near the underground river, there were several marks that were different from others.

The marks are not clear, but they look like they were stepped on.

There are not many places to stay in the entire humic forest. If there are, then this big rock at the edge is indeed a good choice.

As soon as he saw this stone, a thought suddenly came to Tang Jie's mind: Could it be that they came down from this river?

Tang Jie immediately realized that this might not be impossible!

The underground river is flowing, which means it is not subject to long-term poisonous infestations like other places. There are two types of poisonous moth poisons, one is dust and the other is venom. Its venom is highly toxic, while its dust is chronically poisonous.

The humic forest is caused by the dust of poisonous moths. As for the underground river, even though it is green, it is completely different from the venom in the poisonous moths. It is basically a weakened dust toxin.

This kind of poison can definitely be resisted by Tianxin's strength.

But then again, if you swim in this underground river for a long time, and there is no good detoxification method, those chronic poisons will accumulate rapidly, which will seriously affect your physical condition.

In this regard, Tang Jie can only say that people die for money and birds die for food.

Compared to the huge wealth that is about to be obtained, two years of hard work is nothing.

Thinking of this, Tang Jie also sighed and looked down.

This time he was much more careful, flying all the way until he landed on the big rock, not daring to make a sound for fear of disturbing the poisonous creatures.

Then he gently took off his clothes and slowly stepped into the water.

Although he has not entered the Tianxin level, the body of the Hundred Refiners and Jade is not necessarily worse than the ordinary Tianxin level in terms of resistance to poison. Besides, he does not have to enter for a long time, so he has nothing to worry about.

After entering the water, Tang Jie felt a chill all over his body, and his skin was numb and itchy, as if there were millions of insects and ants biting him. He knew it was a toxin reaction, so he could only endure it. Fortunately, after a while, the skin gradually adapted to the highly corrosive river water, and the itching was greatly reduced.

Tang Jie then followed the river downstream.

He originally had a pair of underwear on him, but now he was swimming, but when his legs moved, he saw that the underwear had been torn apart. After touching it, I discovered that under the poisonous water, the fabric became brittle and rotted when touched.

It’s not that Tang Jie was not a human being. Most people would die immediately if they rolled a few times in this water. Although it was said to be a weakened toxin, its power was still extraordinary.

Tang Jie couldn't help but shake his head in surprise, and then simply continued to sneak under the water naked.

After walking forward for a while, a slender pipe appeared in front of it, with a dark hole at the end, and nothing could be seen clearly. Without the help of the magic circle, Tang Jie could not see what was going on inside~IndoMTL.com~ This made Tang Jie feel hesitant and wondered whether he should move on.

Because the tunnel is too narrow, even fatter people cannot get in. Tang Jie could enter, but once he entered, it was difficult to even turn around. If he wanted to go back, he could only move slowly bit by bit. If there is any danger, being in such a long and narrow corridor will basically lead to death.

Tang Jie did not make a decision immediately, but first looked at the surrounding environment to confirm that there were traces of people coming here. Then he thought of Shi Jingzhai's slender body, and gradually understood, so he no longer hesitated and drilled into the pipe.

I don’t know how long it took to move forward bit by bit in the tunnel. Fortunately, the cultivator was very good at holding his breath, and it was okay to not breathe for a while. Finally, Tang Jie got out of the tunnel and heard a crash. He actually fell into a large pond.

Only then did he see that the pipeline was a mountain wall hanging above, and there was actually a cave below.

Compared with the humic forest occupied by the Jedi poisonous moths, this place has gurgling water and numerous strange rocks. It is simply a rare fairy cave. What is even more rare is that the poisonous moths are guarding the outside. It is simply a natural danger that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. land.

But when he looked inside the cave the next time, Tang Jie was completely shocked.