Elder Shoushan stood aside quietly, waiting for Zhang Zheng to come to his senses.

Recalling that he had just inspected this place and saw the strange appearance of this disciple, his eyebrows almost knitted into a straight line.

After a long while, Zhang Zheng recovered from the near-death situation. His still dull eyes touched the elder beside him, and he suddenly sobered up a lot.

"Thank you, elder, for saving me."

If he hadn't yelled, Zhang Zheng could not imagine what he would have become, whether he would be dominated by extreme guilt and self-hatred, and eventually self-destruct.

Elder Shoushan frowned slightly, but still warned: "You have an inner demon."

"What exactly did you see in Xiaoyin Mountain?"

The traces of Cao Ran's existence had completely disappeared, so Elder Shoushan naturally thought that her situation was due to Xiaoyin Mountain.

Zhang Zheng looked stunned.

It's hard to tell the sect about Cao Ran's coming here, as it would involve too many things, related to a mysterious thing in her body, something that the demon cultivator tried every means to get.

Seeing that she seemed to have something to hide, the elder Shoushan stopped pressing her and sighed.

"That's all, if you don't want to say it, don't say it. However, the demon in your heart is a big problem after all, so you can take care of it yourself."

After saying that, he rolled his sleeves and left the place.

Inner demons...

Although many monks face the threat of inner demons on the path of spiritual practice, with the process of enlightenment, inner demons are often resolved before they are revealed.

Zhang Zheng never thought that she would encounter inner demons.

After standing blankly for a long time, Zhang Zheng suddenly moved and buried a few broken black stone tokens on the ground not far away under the thick soil.

Afterwards, she left Thirteen Mountains.

She has too many distracting thoughts and too many worries. It is not suitable for her to enter Xiaoyin Mountain again. She should go back to the cave to calm down.

…

Faming Mountain, on a steep mountain wall, the vegetation is extremely tall, lush and lush.

Occasionally, there are birds chirping and insects chirping, accompanied by red and white wild flowers, which makes people feel happy just looking at it.

Suddenly, the grass and trees shook, and the next moment, a disciple struggled to open the dense weeds and got his head out of it.

He glanced at the cave that was covered by weeds, and then opened up the weeds that grew wantonly in front of the cave.

He reached out and carefully touched the forbidden area of ​​the cave. After waiting for a long time, there was no movement in the cave.

He let out a long sigh and simply sat on the ground, "Why is this Senior Sister Zhang still in retreat!"

It's been two years.

Two years ago, Wanxuanmen caused another sensation when Fahua Peak disciple Zhang Zheng successfully built a ninth-level spiritual platform.

When he heard the news, he was envious and felt proud. After all, he was also a disciple of the Lotus family.

In this generation, before Zhang Zheng, there were four people in the sect who built a nine-level spiritual platform, but none of them were from their Fahua lineage.

Seeing the arrogant and showy expressions of those disciples, as if they had built a ninth-level spiritual platform themselves, although he seemed not to care on the surface, he was actually envious and jealous in his heart.

When will they be able to build a ninth-level spiritual platform so that he can show off arrogantly?

No, God was so blessed that his wish came true.

The excitement reached its climax when Elder Duan ordered him to find Zhang Zheng and tell her that the elder wanted to accept her as his direct disciple.

With uncontrollable excitement, he anxiously approached Senior Sister Zhang's cave. Thinking that he would be in close contact with the genius soon, he felt nervous and excited.

But the cave was closed, and Senior Sister Zhang did not respond. She seemed to be in retreat.

After that day, he came many times, and each time he came with great joy and returned with great disappointment.

The initial high excitement had long since died down.

Alas, this is the ninth time that his trip has been in vain, and he will never come to visit again.

Before leaving, the disciple looked back at the still closed cave, and couldn't help but complain silently, "Senior Sister Zhang, I'm afraid she didn't go into seclusion to hide from the elders and recruit disciples."

He didn't expect that his casual guess would turn out to be as accurate as a god. If Zhang Zheng knew about it, he would probably be surprised.

It's a pity that Zhang Zheng is currently obsessed with practicing and enlightening, so he really doesn't know what he thinks.

Inside the cave.

Zhang Zheng maintains a posture with five hearts pointing toward the sky, and her whole body is full of aura, and her aura is compelling.

But if you take a closer look, you will find that the full spiritual energy is only floating on the surface of her body and does not go inside.

In the past few years, she has read through the replicas of Dao-related jade slips, but unfortunately, the content described in them was far from what she expected.

Although it is a bit regretful, after all, I had expected it, how could enlightenment be so easy.

Huaifeng Continent is already experiencing a decline in aura, and the world of cultivation has refocused on cultivation and neglected the cultivation of Taoist heart. As a result, even the Wanxuan Sect, which is number one in the Xichuan world, has difficulty finding orthodox Taoist scriptures.

Sighing, it was not like he had gained nothing. At least from a travel journal, Zhang Zheng knew that there were some heavenly and earthly treasures in this world that even if he got them, he couldn't use them without special conditions.

This is somewhat consistent with the ugly fire stick in her hand now.

Unfortunately, although it is known that special conditions must be met to use it, it is still a mystery why these special conditions are met.

Of course, what worried her most now was not the fire stick, but the strange jasper in her pubic area.

Because Jasper could not absorb spiritual energy, Zhang Zheng did not dare to use more spiritual energy in order to save her life in the future.

This also resulted in her being unable to practice even though she held several magic books in her hand. She could only read and ponder it several times in order to understand it thoroughly and become better at practicing in the future.

There was no point in staying in the cave any longer, so Zhang Zheng simply lifted the restriction and left the cave.

As soon as she left the cave, several messenger talismans that had been waiting outside flew toward her.

Zhang Zheng has read them all.

Two of them were specifically to congratulate her on building the ninth-level spiritual platform.

One letter was from Lin Yihan, which was expected. The other letter surprised her, and it was signed by Lin Xiaoxiao.

Zhang Zheng recalled her experiences in the first half of her life. She seemed to have little interaction with Senior Sister Lin.

If we have to talk about the intersection, it is nothing more than the meeting in the meeting hall when we entered the inner gate that day.

I couldn't think of it, so I didn't bother to think about it. I just thought that I was so charming that I fell in love with the most beautiful woman in the sect that day.

Zhang Zheng was amused by her inexplicable thoughts and laughed for a while.

There are also two communication charms, one is signed Ye Qinghuan, the other is Duan Wuwei.

Ye Qinghuan first congratulated her on establishing the foundation, and then asked her to fight, saying that he would accompany her at any time, and the time and place would be decided by her.

Zhang Zheng held Ye Qinghuan's communication talisman and looked at the distant mountains with an incomprehensible expression.

What does this Senior Sister Ye mean?

For no reason, she thought of the gossip at the outer gate a long time ago, of Senior Sister Ye's ridicule and contempt for her, and of the healing elixir that Senior Sister Ye roughly poured into her mouth.

This Senior Sister Ye seems to have changed a bit too much, but she is not annoying at all.

Putting the three communication talismans into the storage bag, Zhang Zheng looked at the last communication talisman from Elder Duan Wuwei.

She almost held her forehead and sighed. Sure enough, the troubles of the elders recruiting disciples could not be avoided.

Wouldn't it be a bit too obvious if she pretended not to see it?

never mind.

Zhang Zheng also threw this communication talisman into the storage bag, and thought to himself that if the soldiers come to block it, the water will cover it, and the elders will come to urge him again, so he will not bother him again.

As the saying goes, if you have wine today, you will be drunk today, and you will be worried tomorrow...


Chapter completed!