At this time, it was already dawn. Zhou Shaobai stood in the bamboo forest, listening to the breeze passing through the forest and seeing the light flowing bamboo shadows. He really felt that the bamboo leaves were bright green and dripping, and his mood became much brighter.

He looked back at his master and saw Chengyu sitting on the stone platform, looking calm, and a few cool breezes blew his sleeves and beards, which really made him feel like he was floating in the air.

Zhou Shaobai thought to himself: Senior brothers all say that Master is ninety years old this year, but looking at his prime at the age of forty, Xiyun’s Taoism practice is really magical. Even so, not everyone can practice to such an extent. The path of practice is dangerous step by step, and you can reach the level of Master, and you don’t have one ten. I really don’t know how Master practices hard to achieve today’s achievements.

He looked at the bamboo in a daze, really wondering what secrets there was hidden in this ordinary green bamboo.

While meditating, I walked slowly out of the bamboo forest and came to the stone road in the mountains. This was a distance from the stone platform and was close to the wing where the brothers lived.

Zhou Shaobai saw the fireworks in the kitchen working, so he walked over and saw that they were preparing the items needed for lunch, washing vegetables, and chopping firewood, and they were very busy.

One of them, holding a sharp axe, was splitting the bamboo into sections. Zhou Shaobai was surprised and went up to ask, "Is this good bamboo that is split like this but is it necessary to burn firewood?"

The man smiled and shook his head: "That's not the case. I want to make bamboo rice with it."

Zhou Shaobai had never heard of it and said strangely: "Bamboo rice? What is that? How can I cook with the bamboo tube so hard?"

The man couldn't help laughing, put down his axe, wiped his sweat and said, "The bamboo tube rice does not use the bamboo tube as rice, but uses the bamboo tube as a container for rice. Look, put the raw rice into the bamboo in this section. The rice made in this way has the fragrance of bamboo and is very delicious."

Zhou Shaobai heard it very interestingly and smiled: "This bamboo rice is novel. I really want to try it now..."

At this moment, he suddenly realized something, stopped talking, stood up and hurried towards the stone platform deep in the bamboo forest.

"Master, the disciples already know." Zhou Shaobai came to Chengyu and said politely.

Chengyu opened her eyes and nodded in praise: "It seems that she understands so confidently. It's not bad, it's faster than expected by her teacher. Tell me, what do you understand?"

Zhou Shaobai nodded: "Master, I understand that the reason why green bamboos can stand tall and straight, with a strong root, and a light cloud, is because the inside of the green bamboo is empty, and only by abandoning unnecessary burdens can you relax. For disciples, when practicing Taoism, you must truly empty distracting thoughts to achieve your goal."

Chengyu nodded: "You know indeed. Yesterday you went crazy because you couldn't let go of the distracting thoughts in your heart. If you were not mistaken for your master, it must be because of the girl named Qin Ziling."

Zhou Shaobai turned red and lowered his head and said, "Sure enough, nothing can be hidden from the master. When my disciple practiced yesterday, she always had her shadow in his heart, which made him fall into devils and disappointed his master."

Chengyu licked his beard and laughed: "What's the disappointment or not? You are a young man. If you know your lust, you will admire Shaoai. However, as a practitioner of Taoism, the empty heart is the foundation of Taoism. If you don't empty yourself, you will not be able to accept it. Do you understand?"

Zhou Shaobai heard what the master meant and nodded, "Don't worry, Master, when I practice, I will no longer dare to think about it."

Chengyu stood up and said, "It's so good. Then, you should continue to practice the "Chalcedony Sutra" with your teacher."

"Yes!" Zhou Shaobai answered neatly and simply, and he said to himself: "Mistress of the Qin family, since I promised you to protect you for the rest of your life in the future, I will definitely do it. The current practice can only be wronged. I will keep you in my heart for the time being. I will miss you again when I succeed...

So, Zhou Shaobai strengthened his belief and began to continue practicing the "Chalcedony Sutra" with his master.

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More than twenty days passed in a flash. Over the past few days, under the careful cultivation of Taoist Chengyu, Zhou Shaobai's cultivation has improved rapidly. Originally, he had a solid foundation and had developed a profound skill among the generation of young disciples. Now he has studied the Xiyun Sect Yunlong Thirteen Swords. The Yunlong Thirteen Swords is said to be the creation of Master Xiyun to subdue a man-devouring dragon that appeared in Bibo Lake. It has exquisite sword skills, profound Taoist techniques, sharp offensives, and strict defense.

Zhou Shaobai had only practiced some introductory sword skills before. As soon as he came into contact with this sword technique, he felt it was difficult. Cheng Yu was extremely strict with him. In addition to continuing to study the "Jade Chopstick", he also personally held the sword and explained it with Zhou Shaobai. After practicing every day, the moon was already on the east mountain and the stars floated in the south. Zhou Shaobai was so tired that he didn't even want to take a shower and fell asleep in his clothes. Seeing that he was really hard, Cheng Yu had to avoid the punishment of delivering food early.

As usual, Zhou Shaobai dragged his extremely tired body back to the wing room. He saw that almost everyone was asleep. He was sleepy and wanted to sleep with his clothes. At this time, a senior brother said to him: "Little brother, senior brother said he has not seen you for more than 20 days, so I miss you very much, so I'm sorry to send you food today?"

Zhou Shaobai was very surprised when he heard this: "Senior Brother wants to see me? This is really strange."

He was extremely tired today and really didn't want to go, but when he thought that the job of delivering food was originally punished by his master. The senior brother in front of him was the one who was implicated by him. After thinking about it, he felt embarrassed and had to say, "Okay, since the senior brother wants to see me, I'll go and deliver food."

"Then be careful on the way." The senior brother handed him the food box and yawned back to his bedding and fell asleep.

Zhou Shaobai packed up immediately and went out with the food box.

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Because of the recent harsh practice, Zhou Shaobai was exhausted. The road to Qingxin Platform was very slow, and it took more than half an hour more than usual. However, he finally passed Ying Jianchou safely and came to the stone cave.

"Senior Brother, I'm here to bring you food." Zhou Shaobai shouted several times at the entrance of the cave with angrily, but there was no answer inside.

He thought to himself: Could it be that I was walking too slowly today, my senior brother was tired and fell asleep? No matter what, I will go in first.

So Zhou Shaobai got into the cave, and it was still stuffy and hot. The sweat beads on his body suddenly came out, soaking his clothes that had been wet for several times.

I saw that the stone cave was much brighter than usual. It turned out that this time was different from last time. More than a dozen candles were lit, and there were swaying candles everywhere. Among the candlelight, I saw the eldest brother sitting at the stone table, motionless and not knowing what he was doing.

Zhou Shaobai shouted again, but the eldest brother still did not move. Zhou Shaobai felt strange. He walked over and took a look. He saw that the eldest brother's eyes were empty and stared at the stone wall in a daze, but he did not notice his arrival at all.

He shook his head and thought to himself: It must be because this place is too lonely, and thinking about mistakes has become such a virtue.

He put the lunch box on the stone table and said to the senior brother, "Senior Brother, I'm bringing you food, you can eat it quickly."

This time, the eldest brother blinked like he woke up from a dream. He saw clearly that it was Zhou Shaobai, and then he grinned: "Little brother, it turns out it is you."

Seeing that he was haggard, with his hair disheveled, his beard grew long, his clothes were dirty, and he seemed to have grown much older. He couldn't help but shake his head and push the food box in front of him: "It's me, senior brother, this is your meal today, let's have a meal soon."

The eldest brother asked straight in one fell swoop: "My younger brother, I heard that this time, Master is planning to let you fight?"

Zhou Shaobai thought to himself, this person who delivers food is quick-talking.

He nodded: "That's true. Although I tried to refuse, I could not violate the order of the master, so I could only bite the bullet and go to the spotlight."

The eldest brother smiled bitterly and said, "It seems that Master has finally started teaching you."

While saying that, he shook his head and laughed miserably. Later, he began to cover his face and burst into tears.

Zhou Shaobai naturally knew what was going on. The Master planned to take the senior brother to fight a few years ago. He had been carefully preparing for a long time, but on the eve of the discussion of Taoism, the senior brother accidentally broke his leg while practicing, and missed the discussion of Taoism. He gritted his teeth and vowed to live up to his master's high expectations in the next discussion of Taoism. As a result, he has now become like this.

Seeing that the eldest brother and a big man were crying so sadly, Zhou Shaobai couldn't help but feel compassionate. He said kindly: "Brother, you don't have to be too sad. Master said, as long as you sincerely regret and change your mind, he will give you a chance and will not drive you down the mountain."

The eldest brother wiped his tears and said, "If he doesn't send someone to participate in the Nine Meridians Discussion this time, I will believe your words, but now he actually wants you to fight, and I have given up."

It turned out that he wanted me to come here in person in order to verify the authenticity. Zhou Shaobai shook his head: "Last time you were injured and did not go to fight, and the other eight meridians joked that Yuping Peak was a turtle with a head-reducing turtle, and the master was always unhappy. This time something happened to you, but the master couldn't wait, so he drove the ducks on the shelves and must go on the fight. Senior brother, you have today, you have to harm yourself and you can't blame others. But you don't have to be discouraged, there is another time."

The eldest brother was stunned: "Next time?"

He frowned, stretched out his sleeves to wipe away the tears from his face, stood up and said gloomyly, "Little Junior Brother, are you pitying me? Haha, I didn't expect that I will have a day when you are so despised."

Zhou Shaobai was unhappy and immediately said, "I'm kind to enlighten you, but you treat it as a donkey's liver and lungs. It's better to think that I'm useless. Senior brother, I'm still saying that, you'll do it yourself and say goodbye."

As he said that, he stood up and turned to leave.

Unexpectedly, a strong wind came from the back of his head, and Zhou Shaobai felt a stern: Sneak attack!
Chapter completed!