Chapter 50 Going Down the Mountain
The master and the apprentice went out and came to the grass outside, only to suddenly discover a very important question...
"Master, when we go to forge the sword, should we fly or walk?" Li Shiyin asked.
This question stumped Qin Ran all of a sudden. He stood still, not knowing how to answer.
In order to forge a good enough natal sword for Li Shiyin, he made a lot of plans, but... he didn't seem to have thought about it yet.
He was afraid of heights and didn't dare to fly too high. He preferred to run on the ground with the God Step, but the silly apprentice didn't know how to walk, so she could only fly.
Imagine that picture, he was running on the ground, and the silly apprentice was flying in the sky. He was like a sheep, and the silly apprentice was a sheepdog. God, that picture was too beautiful.
After thinking for a while, Qin Ran still said, "Let's go down the mountain first. There are people selling fairy horses at the mountain gate. We can go there on horseback."
"Okay!" Li Shiyin nodded and asked, "How do we go down the mountain?"
Qin Ran opened his mouth and replied, "I will perform the magic step, and you can fly down on the sword."
So, Li Shiyin summoned the Qingxing Sword, jumped on it lightly, and the magic power in her body was running.
She stood on the sword, turned back and smiled at Qin Ran, "Master, then I will go first! Wait for you at the mountain gate..."
After saying that, without waiting for Qin Ran to reply, she flew up to the sky with a "Wuhu" sound, and the light of the star magic power around her body shone. She drew an arc and flew down the mountain like a meteor.
"Be careful..." Qin Ran hadn't said the word "all" yet, and Li Shiyin had disappeared. He sighed, what a wild child, so tired.
He turned around and shouted into the house: "Zhuifeng, take care of the house, we will be back in a few days."
For some reason, Zhuifeng did not come out to see them off. When Qin Ran called out, Zhuifeng only responded with a vague "good meow", as if something was stuffed in his mouth.
Another worry, Qin Ran wondered if Zhuifeng would be the most dangerous person for this family...
But before leaving, he did not want to go back to check again.
"I am so tired!!"
Qin Ran sighed to the sky, then performed the Divine Walking Step and went down the mountain along the stone road.
There are five hills in Daojianmen, all of which are surrounded by a mountain protection formation. In front of these five hills, the mountain protection formation reveals a small hole, which serves as the mountain gate of Daojianmen.
Although for high-level cultivators, the mountain gate is just a decoration. They like to go high and high, always entering and exiting from somewhere in the air with identity tokens, or some sneaky people like Qin Ran like to sneak in and out from some deserted place. It seems that the gate of the immortal sect is like taking off pants to fart, which is unnecessary. But in fact, there are very few high-level cultivators and sneaky people. In a large sect like Daojianmen, there are more ordinary disciples inside the gate, and entering and exiting from the mountain gate is a daily routine.
There are people entering and exiting the mountain gate of Daojianmen all the time, and there will be many people gathering and staying inside and outside the mountain gate.
The disciples either gather together to chat, or rush to and fro, or quarrel with grievances, or go in and out of the mountain gate. In short, the mountain gate is a lively scene inside and outside.
Wang Ren, an outer disciple, just went through the test last month and was able to join Daojianmen and had the honor of stepping into the immortal way.
At this time, he was discussing with his companions how to bypass the damn bird and steal the spiritual medicine. As he was talking, he looked up by chance and suddenly saw a stream of light coming towards him from the mountain gate.
"Flying with a sword! Brother from the inner sect?" Wang Ren's eyes were full of envy.
To achieve flying with a sword, cultivation, skills and sword are indispensable.
He, Wang Ren, has been in Daojianmen for more than a month, but now he has not even found the sense of qi... This time he went to collect herbs to honor his master, so that the master can teach him about the Dao again and find the sense of qi as soon as possible.
As for flying with a sword, when will he be able to fly with a sword?
"I'm afraid it will take decades..." Wang Ren thought, "The person flying with a sword is just a few decades earlier than me."
The stream of light in the distant sky drew an arc and fell to the ground in front of him. The dreamy magic light like the stars dissipated, revealing a tall female figure.
The woman was dressed in white with long hair, tall and graceful, with a cold temperament like a lotus. She stepped on the stars and had her back against the galaxy. She was indeed a female sword fairy.
She raised her hand, and the long sword flew back to her hand like a swimming fish. The long sword returned to the sheath, and she stood still, like a green lotus left in the world, waiting for something.
What is she waiting for? Wang Ren thought, subconsciously feeling that there might be no one in this world worth waiting for.
He secretly looked at her face:
That cold and delicate face...
Wait!
Wang Ren was suddenly stunned, and then looked at the face carefully. He felt familiar. That... That's not, that seems to be, is that Li Shiyin who attended the disciple-taking ceremony with them last month?
"Ah... Ah!" He groaned meaninglessly, and his eyes were retracted as if pricked by a needle.
He remembered that at the disciple-taking ceremony, when he was sure that he was accepted by Daojianmen, he thought his future was bright and he would soon become an immortal and ask for the way.
Among the people who came to worship together, Li Shiyin and Tian Wenjin were the most beautiful. He thought, should he accept Li Shiyin as his Taoist partner or Tian Wenjin as his Taoist partner? Perhaps, if they begged, he could accept both of them reluctantly.
But now...
"What's wrong with you?" asked his fellow senior brother.
"Nothing." He shook his head.
"Do you know that inner sect senior sister?"
"No!"
"That's right..." said the senior brother, "How could you possibly know someone like that? He might not be an inner sect disciple, but a direct disciple."
"Direct disciple?" Wang Ren was completely stunned.
Li Shiyin landed, put away her sword, and glanced at the crowd. She didn't recognize anyone and felt bored. She sighed in her heart: "Master is too slow!"
The master is obviously very strong, but he can't fly. She has to think of a way to cure his fear of heights.
As she was planning in her mind, Qin Ran finally came running. She saw Qin Ran from a distance, waved her hand hurriedly, indicated her position, and shouted: "Master!"
Qin Ran walked slowly towards her.
"Master, you are so slow!" she complained.
Qin Ran glanced at her and didn't answer.
Wang Ren was not far away, and was secretly paying attention to Li Shiyin. When he saw that Li Shiyin's cold image instantly turned into attentiveness, and then saw that Qin Ran was young, he couldn't help but curse in his heart: "No wonder she can fly the sword so quickly. It turns out that she is a slut who curries favor with the inner sect senior brother! Disgusting!!"
However, no one noticed him in the crowd.
Qin Ran took Li Shiyin through the crowd and out of the mountain gate. He bought two fairy horses at the small market outside the mountain gate.
As the saying goes, where there are people, there is the world; where there is demand, there is supply; where there is buying and selling, there is killing.
In places like outside the mountain gate, people who go out need means of transportation, elixirs, magic tools, talismans and other things, so there are people who specialize in selling them;
People who come back need to sell monster inner elixirs, refining materials, skills, herbs and other things, so there are people who specialize in purchasing them.
Some sects want to save face, so such places are far away, while some sects don’t care, so such places are right at the mountain gate. But there will always be such places.
Two fairy horses cost more than a hundred spirit stones. Qin Ran and Li Shiyin each led one, walked through the market, and came to the main road outside. Li Shiyin touched the fairy horse’s snow-white fur and smiled, "So beautiful!"
As she talked and laughed, she jumped on the horse.
Qin Ran saw Li Shiyin on the horse, and suddenly realized something, so he asked Li Shiyin calmly: "Can you ride a horse?"
"Hehe! Master, I grew up on horseback, so I am proficient in archery and horse riding..." Li Shiyin was quite proud, "In terms of horsemanship, Li Shiwen's horsemanship may not be as good as mine!"
Second-It's forced, how could a daughter of a general not know how to ride a horse? Qin Ran was a little panicked.
After Li Shiyin finished speaking, she also reacted. She looked at Qin Ran, her big eyes curved into crescents, and she asked: "Master, don't you know how to ride a horse?!"
"Ahem!" Qin Ran didn't answer, and climbed on the horse in the same posture as Li Shiyin just now. He thought to himself, with his physical fitness, a small fairy horse should be easy to catch? How could riding a horse be difficult for him!
He remained calm and said, "What's so difficult about riding a horse? How could I not know how to do it?"
"Master, there are many techniques for riding a horse..." Li Shiyin blinked her big eyes and kindly reminded him, but she looked like she was not kind, but mean.
"Heh!" Qin Ran sneered.
"Master..." Li Shiyin skillfully rode the horse and circled around Qin Ran, showing off a bit. She smiled wickedly, "Do you want me to teach you?"
"Hmph! No need!"
I, Qin Ran, have a backbone. Even if I can't ride a horse for my whole life, fall off the horse and die in the wilderness, I don't need an apprentice to teach me how to ride a horse...