Chapter 14 Another year

  In the dead of night, Jing Jiu's small courtyard welcomed its first guest outside of Ryu Ten.   Knowing that the other party would come, he stood waiting in the courtyard in advance.   Not to show respect, but because he was not used to others entering his cave, although the cave room he was living in now was far from a cave.   Master Lu did not know this and was somewhat pleased with his intelligence and courtesy.   "Those explanations of doubts you gave to your fellow disciples in the morning were all correct."   Lu Shi took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and said, "It's just that you solved this last question wrongly."   Jing Jiu was a bit puzzled, thinking how could he be wrong, and took the piece of paper and looked at it before he roughly understood what was going on.   "The solution comes after the understanding, you failed to understand this passage in the spell, which is a new explanation of this book."   Master Lu looked at him with a gentle expression and said, "Of course this is not your fault, in fact for many years the Green Mountain Sect's understanding of this booklet was just wrong."   Jing Jiu said, "No, the sect's previous understanding was not wrong, but rather this solution is wrong."   Master Lu smiled and said, "This is the new solution that Senior Uncle personally made back then, how could it be wrong?"   There were two modifications to the current Castle Peak Sect's introductory method from back then, both of which were Jing Yang's handiwork.   Jing Jiu of course knew about this, and even more so, he knew that one of the modifications was wrong.   "Anyone can make a mistake, no matter if he is an outer disciple or a senior uncle."   Jing Jiu said.   Master Lu's expression changed slightly, thinking how absurd that was.   He then thought about the morning, when Jing Jiu said that the sect's method of educating outer disciples was wrong, and that the rules should be changed ......   "Your enlightenment and talent are indeed extremely good, and your thinking is even more meticulous, but this is not a reason for you to be reckless with your talent."   Lu Shi looked at him and said in a deep voice, "Be aware that my Castle Peak Sword Sect disciples must not be without pride, but must never have arrogance."   Pride?   Thinking about those two modifications on the introductory spell, Jing Jiu was a little emotional.   Back then, Jing Yang was indeed the most arrogant person in the world, which was why he made this and that mistake.   Seeing his silence, Master Lu thought that he had listened and said in a serious tone, "When wood shows in the forest, the wind will destroy it, when the sword comes out of the nine peaks, it will meet the astral wind, if you want to go farther on the cultivation avenue, you should learn how to restrain your pride, even if you want to help your fellow disciples, you can use other methods, but you can't break the rules."   "But this rule is indeed stupid." Jing Jiu said, "The one from Qing Rong Feng comes from the Southern Walled City, she doesn't know the Imperial Dynasty's script, she couldn't even read the introductory spells when she was in the outer sect back then, if no one teaches her to read and write, wouldn't the Castle Peak Sect miss out on this genius?"   Listening to his first sentence, Lu Shi was so annoyed, and was about to reprimand him, when he suddenly heard his later words, and could not help but be slightly shocked.   "How did you know that?"   This story about the current Qing Rong Peak's Peak Master was not considered a secret story, only an anonymous story, but Jing Jiu was just an outer disciple, where did he hear it from?   Well nine thought to myself personally watched that girl night and day practicing big words also want to tell you?   Lv Shi thought could it be that this young man and Zhuo Ru year and the two forget the peak of those young disciples, are the clan in advance of the deployment of the chess piece?   This time the chess fall, exactly which peak on the senior uncle master?   ......   ......   Time is like water.   In the blink of an eye, it was a year.   It was time for spring to deepen again.   Liu Shixue walked out of the Sword Hall and followed the stone path towards the depths of the woods.   The dozens of outer disciples between the cliff paddings were already accustomed to seeing this scene, and knowing where he was going, they didn't think it was strange and greeted him one after another.   Liu Shixue nodded and smiled in return.   He was now twelve years old, and in a sense, should be called a teenager.   His appearance is still that simple and relatable, only his eyes are calmer, his temperament has changed the most, smiling and walking, very calm.   Watching Liu Shiyou walk into that small courtyard, the disciples came together and once again discussed.   As the key cultivation object of the Green Mountain Sect, every move of Ten Liu was being watched.   Just after one night, everyone knew that he had applied for the inner sect examination.   Only with a perfect Clasping God realm could one sense each other with the Sword Fetus and be qualified to enter the inner sect.   The problem was that it had only been a year since Ryu entered the Green Mountain Sect at the age of ten.   For countless years, only the rumored senior uncle who had already ascended had used only half a year to enter the inner sect.   Zhuo Ruyue was the shut-in disciple of the Green Mountain Sect's headmaster, and was now in seclusion at the Heavenly Light Peak, and it took him a year and a half to enter the inner sect from the Northern Crane Xuan back then.   Geniuses such as Zhao La Yue had also used a whole year.   No one felt that Liu Shiyou would be able to pass this Inner Sect Examination, although he was also a one-in-a-million natural born Dao Seed, in the eyes of the disciples, he was always not as good as his senior sister.   There was an opinion that if Ten Year Old Liu wasn't too distracted by other things, or his chances of success should have been much higher.   The so-called other things were naturally those things in the courtyard of Jing Jiu.   Because of these things, many people were very dissatisfied with Jing Jiu, feeling that he was delaying Liu Shixue's cultivation, completely unaware of the importance of the matter, and even felt that he was jealous of Liu Shixue on purpose.   Of course, there were also some who didn't see it that way, and were very grateful to Jing Jiu, because Jing Jiu didn't listen to Master Lu's advice, and would still occasionally help those disciples solve some difficulties.   Master Lu also gradually gave up paying attention to Jing Jiu, no longer thinking that he was a disciple chosen in advance by a big shot on a certain peak.   Because Jing Jiu was really too lazy.   He had never participated in the routine inspections of the outer disciples on the outskirts of the Green Mountain, and he didn't even bother to find a reason to take a leave of absence, and every time, he had to trouble Liu Shiyou to plead for mercy.   Even more so, no one had ever seen him refining his body to cultivate his body.   Such a person, even how knowledgeable and enlightened he is, in the end, it is just the end.   ......   ......   Walking into the small courtyard, looking at Jing Jiu on the bamboo recliner, the calm smile on Liu Shixue's face turned into a helpless bitter smile.   This year he advised well nine many times, but well nine also do not listen, still lying in the bamboo chair every day sunbathing, daze.   Just don't know since when, beside the bamboo chair there was an additional porcelain plate, in which there were some clean grains of sand.   Willow ten years old carefully observed, the porcelain plate more and more grains of sand, to now has occupied one-third of the area.   Not knowing what this porcelain plate and these grains of sand were used for, Jing Jiu hadn't explained it, but it was obvious that he attached great importance to this thing, and even Ten-Year-Old wasn't allowed to touch it.   "Gongzi, I went to talk to Master Lu last night ...... to prepare to participate in the inner door examination."   Liu ten years old looked at Jing Jiu a little nervous and said, "I really think I can before I went to say it."   Jing Jiu looked at him and said, "If you still can't after more than a year, then there's a problem."   Liu Xiu woke up, back in the village the male had taught himself to breathe and exhale, which was equal to practicing before entering the Green Mountain Sect. He was vaguely disappointed, this would not be the fastest even if he could pass the inner sect examination, but immediately afterward he was happy again and felt much more confident.   Jing Jiu said, "Both are born with a Dao seed, you can t be worse than that ...... who."   Liu Shiyou said with some helplessness, "Senior Sister Zhao Layue."   Jing Jiu said, "Oh."   The air in the small courtyard was suddenly silent.   It wasn't because the conversation couldn't go on, but because Liu Shiyou thought of many other things.   It had already been a year since he came to the Green Mountain Sect, and having come into contact with many people and things that he couldn't imagine in the mountain village, he was growing at an unimaginable speed.   The more he knew, the more uneasy he became.   Whether it was the breathing in the mountain village or the many things that had happened since then, they all indicated that Jing Jiu had many secrets.   Would those secrets be a problem? Would it be just them or the Green Mountain Sect?   I don't know how long the silence lasted, but Liu Shixue finally asked in a low voice, "Gongzi, are you a spy from another sect?"