Chapter 48: The Disciple of Cuigou

  Before long, it was August 16th, and the annual Tianhuang Festival arrived on schedule.

  The Hongchen Sword Sect originally arranged for Zhang Hao to represent the young disciples of the sect in attending the Tianhuang Festival, but due to the trial on September 9th, they let Xiaoyi replace him instead.

  The so-called Tian Huang Festival is just a competition among the cultivators within the Tian Huang realm, with a relatively low danger index, but there will be some fighting, however this seemingly harmless little girl doesn't look like someone who likes to compete at all!

  Xiaozi arrived early at the Tianhuang Rock's Tianhuang Platform, a place where Tianhuang cultivators competed. With her bright and curious eyes, she looked around at everything with interest. The surrounding cultivators also cast curious glances at a female cultivator who seemed like a child.

  However, the mount of this little girl looks like it's not easy to get close to. A huge golden toad with a back full of golden warts, strange whirlpools slowly rotating on the warts, looking somewhat mysterious and extraordinary.

  Xiaozi sat on the back of Jinchanchan, her apple-like face looked joyful, but Jinchanchan itself looked rather ugly. This lovely little loli paired with such an ugly mount soon attracted even more attention.

  There are always a few people who like to stir up trouble wherever they go, smiling and sizing up the cultivators around them. Suddenly, they heard the sound of several cultivators making lewd jokes not far away.

  Hey! Isn't that little girl Zhang Hao's former sidekick? How did she end up here too? Look at her, she still looks like she's on milk.

  A tall and slender figure wearing a blue Taoist robe gazed at Xiaozi, smiling softly as he spoke to a sturdy and majestic cultivator beside him.

  The tall and majestic cultivator sized up Xiaozi with a somewhat lewd gaze, his eyes emitting a light that made people extremely uncomfortable. His thick black eyebrows slightly raised, coldly smiling as he said: "In the Hongchen Sword Sect, apart from that icy Mu Rongxue, only this little girl looks pleasant to the eye. Don't look at her short stature, take a closer look?"

  As he spoke, his gaze lingered on Xiaozhi's emerald green silk blouse.

  "Wow! The tall and slender monk let out a sigh of admiration, followed by praise: "Big Brother Master really has good eyesight, you've even noticed this subtle detail!" The tall and slender man said, looking at Xiao Zhi's chest while rubbing his hands together.

  Xiao Ziling had been different from ordinary people since childhood, and she heard all the gossip around her.

  She was extremely innocent and didn't understand this kind of implicit teasing, but after being taught by Zhang Hao several times, she was so ashamed that she couldn't show her face. However, she also understood many men's crooked thoughts and lustful attitudes. If it were Zhang Hao who said these words, it would be fine, but when this guy said them, a nameless anger burned fiercely in her heart. A hint of resentment appeared on her apple-shaped face, her eyebrows furrowed, and her expression gradually turned cold. She turned around to look at the two cultivators, seeing that their clothes indicated they were disciples of the Dao De Sect.

  "Hmph!" he said in a low voice to his mount, "Xiao Jin, teach these two rascals a lesson!"

  The Golden Toad was originally squatting on the ground with its four limbs, closing its eyes and dozing off. But as soon as it heard Xiaozi's words, it suddenly opened its round and bulging eyes, and a golden light immediately floated out from its eyes. It quickly disappeared, but its body suddenly swelled up by more than twice its original size. It opened its huge mouth and let out a strange cry: "Wa!"

  Like a thunderclap on a clear day.

  The air around them suddenly burst open, and before they could see how the Golden Toad moved, it was standing in front of the two Taoist disciples. Its scarlet tongue, carrying a breath of grass and wood, swept past, and the two disciples only felt a red glow appear in front of their eyes. Before they could react, they were rolled up into the air, and the long tongue bound them together like a rope, throwing them down towards the stone steps at the foot of the mountain.

  Many disciples who came from all over and had not yet ascended to the Tianhuang Platform saw that there were suddenly two more figures on the stairs, which rolled down towards the foot of the mountain with a rumbling sound.

  The disciples of Shang Shan dodged one after another, letting them pass through unimpeded. The two of them rolled down the 3,863 steps like a wheel, swiftly and smoothly.

  Xiaozi watched as the two of them rolled down like a ball, and the anger in her heart slightly subsided.

  Two cultivators had a hard time speaking, this strange golden toad sprayed out a sticky substance that could temporarily seal the orifices of their bodies, making it impossible for them to circulate their spiritual energy. Although the two were not ordinary in body, they were still mortal flesh and blood after all. Along the way, they stumbled and fell, and their bodies were bruised and battered in countless places. The two were disciples from the Dao De Sect who came to gather information, not elite participants in the competition. After discussing at the foot of the mountain, they secretly returned to the Dao De Sect.

  Xiaozi gazed at the increasingly crowded gathering of cultivators on Tianhuangtai, recalling how Zhang Hao would often leer at her chest and say that once he mastered the profound laws and techniques, he could change his size at will.

  Xiaozi muttered a curse under her breath: "Scoundrel!"

  The monks standing beside her had just seen her display her divine might and immediately retreated in a flurry.

  The Red Dust Hall was extraordinarily lively at this moment.

  Inside Cuigou, more than a dozen outer disciples led by Hei Lao San stood in the square outside the main hall. Each of them held a jade slip containing Zhang Hao's cultivation experience and several basic spells selected by some outer disciples of Hongchen Sword Sect.

  "Fire Control Technique!" "Little Green Wood True Essence!" "Spirit Summoning Technique!" "Refining Tool Basic Hand Seal!" "Body Refining Ten Forms!" There are a total of twelve basic Fa Jue, all of which can be learned by cultivators who have refined their Qi to around the third layer.

  Zhang Hao looked at Hei Lao San's soot-covered face and smiled: "What level of cultivation are you now?"

  Hei Lao San bowed his hands respectfully and said: "Lao San is dull, only a cultivator of the third layer of Qi Refining. In Cuigu Valley, he can only be considered a bottom-tier character. The one with the most talent in cultivation is Mo Xiaoshi, who broke through to the sixth layer of Qi Refining, Huiyuan Boundary, and entered the seventh layer, Xiao Wuxing Boundary, last night!"

  "Not bad! Is he here today?" Zhang Hao's words had just fallen.

  A tall and somewhat frail-looking man walked out of the ranks and said: "I am Mo Xiaoqi, greetings to my senior brother!"

  His clothes were covered with weeds, his body was still sturdy, but his clothes were a bit big, hanging on his body looked empty, there was a three-inch long sword scar on the right side of his face, making his relatively fair face look somewhat ferocious.

  "What's with the scar on your face?" Zhang Hao asked, staring at the sword scar on his face.

  "Little one, before entering the Red Dust Sword Gate, you were once a sword slave. The scars on your face are from your master's sword practice!"

  "Jian Nu!" Zhang Hao's heart skipped a beat when he heard these two words.

  He had only seen the status of Jian Nu in the ancient book, and the usual fate of Jian Nu was to be killed by their master, then take the unyielding soul of Jian Nu as a sword spirit.

  Zhang Hao sank into thought for a moment before saying, "At present, the Red Dust Sword Sect is extremely weak in the Tian Huang realm. I have decided to recruit outer sect disciples with talent into the inner sect. As long as they reach the sixth layer of foundation building, they can enter the inner sect to cultivate. Today, I will take you in as an inner sect disciple. Are you willing?"

  Mo Xiaoqi immediately knelt down on the ground with a loud voice, "Disciple will definitely work hard to cultivate and absolutely not disappoint brother's kindness!"

  "Excellent!"

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