Chapter 184: Up the Mountain
"You are Xue Chang, who passed the military service examination last year and established the Xiaoyao Sect?" The host of the Goddess Temple was a little surprised. Compared to other disciples of the Goddess Palace who often lived in the mountains, she could see people from time to time in the town. The news was very well-informed, but she didn't expect that the head of the Xiaoyao Sect would be so young.
"Yes." Xue Chang took out the waist card again, and now he found that this thing works quite well.
The host of the Goddess Temple looked carefully, returned the waist card to Xue Chang, and then said seriously: "Is there anything wrong with the Master Xue coming to my Goddess Temple today?"
"During the Pingqiang War last year, I made an agreement with the Palace Master Gu of your family that I will come to the appointment today." Xue Chang said seriously.
"What agreement?" The host of the Goddess Temple looked surprised.
"Have you ever given instructions to you?" Xue Chang was a little surprised.
"Never." The answer from the host of the Goddess Temple was very straightforward.
Xue Chang felt something was wrong: no matter whether the other party pretended not to know or Gu Shijing did not tell her, it showed that the Goddess Palace did not care about the original agreement!
Just as Xue Chang was in a state of turmoil, the host of the Goddess Temple looked at him with interest and said, "President Xue, my Senior Sister Gu, I have never told me that she had an agreement with you. Of course, she is lazy by nature and forgot that the invitation has happened. Maybe this matter does not exist at all. You are just lying. I am the host of the Goddess Temple. Only I have the right to decide whether you can go up the mountain and enter the palace. So you must tell me the content of the agreement so that I can judge whether you need to return the matter you want to visit the mountain to the Senior Sister Gu. If you don't agree, please go back."
Xue Chang felt that he had been fooled by the Goddess Palace, but he had already arrived in front of the mountain gate. It was impossible for anyone to turn around and return before he saw it. So he suppressed the anger that arose in his heart and told the Goddess Temple in a stiff tone that what he agreed with Gu Shijing.
After hearing that the other party and Luo Lanmeng had made a lifelong decision, and this time they came to propose, the host of the Goddess Temple showed a complicated expression. She stared at Xue Chang for a long time and said quietly: "No wonder Lanmeng, the child, came back, was very different from before. It turned out that he had someone he liked... It's a pity!"
"What a pity?" Xue Chang asked hurriedly when he heard the other party's words.
"Nothing." The host of the Goddess Temple shook his head, suddenly thought of something, and asked: "I remember that the Pingqiang War ended in May last year. When did President Xue pass the opening assessment?"
“Last June.”
“What did you do before?”
"Barely considered a stooge."
"No wonder-" The host of the Goddess Temple understood in his heart: his snobbish senior sister didn't take this young man seriously at all, so the agreement at that time was probably just perfunctory, and she didn't think the other party could really implement it, so she forgot about it after she came back. But unexpectedly, she passed the sect assessment in a blink of an eye and established a sect. Now she really fulfilled the agreement. This matter is interesting!
Thinking of this, the host's mouth curled slightly and asked curiously: "President Xue, are you confident than my senior sister?"
Xue Chang said calmly: "I have to give it a try."
"It seems you have confidence! However, I want to remind you that my senior sister is not an ordinary sect leader. Her skills are not much weaker than that Dugu Zhenren who claims to be the number one in the Bashu martial arts world." The host said seriously.
"I know." Xue Chang's expression was still calm.
"Oh? Have you ever had any action with her?" the host asked.
"That's right." Xue Chang replied frankly.
Haha, this is a bit interesting... A smile appeared on the host's face, and a hint of cunning appeared in his eyes that were not bright, which was somewhat inconsistent with her age: "President Xue, since you are so honest, then I agree to let you enter the Goddess Palace. But it's too late today. You come here early tomorrow morning and I will take you up the mountain, but you are the only one."
Xue Chang didn't expect the other party to agree so readily. She was stunned for a moment and said casually: "But I also brought a lot of betrothal gifts, and I can't get so many by myself."
After hearing this, the host looked at Xue Chang again with a complicated expression and said softly: "Young people should not be so anxious when doing things. When my senior sister... agrees to your proposal, it is not too late for you to come down the mountain to get the betrothal gift."
Xue Chang thought about it and bowed and said, "Okay, I'll come back tomorrow morning. Thank you for your care!"
Xue Chang left the Goddess Temple. The team of officers and soldiers learned that he was allowed to enter the Goddess Palace and no longer forced him to leave Wushan Town. The master and apprentice successfully returned to the Feiyu Gang station at the dock to meet with Guo Huaishou.
At the banquet arranged by Feiyu to help Wushan Town resident in the evening, Xue Chang entrusted Guo Huaishou to help take care of his apprentice while he went to the Goddess Palace.
Guo Huaishou agreed without hesitation.
In the early morning of the next day, Xue Chang came to the Goddess Temple.
The host of the Goddess Palace was indeed waiting in the wing room as promised. As soon as she saw Xue Chang, she asked directly: "How is Master Xue's light skills?"
"It's okay." Xue Chang said this, not humble, because he had seen the distance between the Goddess Palace, which is indeed a great masterpiece in the martial arts world today.
"Then you have to follow me, the mountains are foggy, and the ancestors of my Goddess Palace have used rocks and trees to set up multiple mazes around the Goddess Palace. If they are lost, they will be trapped in the mountains and cannot get out." The host half-joking and half-seriously said: "This happened often in the past. When my Goddess Palace disciples rescued the visitors, most of them were already thin and out of shape."
"This is conducive to weight loss." Xue Chang teased her in a casual way.
"President Xue, you are very brave and interesting. I believe that Lan Meng will not feel too boring when she is with you." The host looked at him with a smile and said, "Let's go." After that, she took a light step and quickly passed through the courtyard wall more than ten feet high.
Xue Chang didn't expect the other party to leave as soon as he said he could leave, so he was half a step slower.
The two of them walked in straight lines, so they stepped on the house and wall from time to time, and soon crossed the entire town and came to the west bank of the Daling River.
The host kept walking and stepped directly by the river. When his toes touched the river surface, he saw small ripples without splashes.
Xue Chang followed the same trick, climbed the duckweed and crossed the water without making any sound.
After crossing the river, the host subconsciously wanted to look back at the situation, but when he turned around, he found Xue Chang was behind him and immediately accelerated to run forward.
Xue Chang quickly followed, fearing that he would fall, because the fog here was really big, and the thicker it became into the mountains. Even if he had achieved great success in the Nine Yang Divine Art and had a sharp eye, he could only see the scene within five meters. So he had to follow and preside over to avoid losing the other person and being trapped in the mountains. That would be embarrassing.
Now Xue Chang regretted too much and agreed to the host of the Goddess Temple. If he had known that there would be such a thick fog in Wushan in the early morning, he would have gone up the mountain later, so that he would not have been as white as it is now. Apart from knowing that he was running towards a high place, he would not know anything about other terrain, roads, marks...
Xue Chang didn't know that the Goddess Peak and its surrounding mountains were covered with clouds and mist all day long, otherwise how could the saying of morning clouds and evening rain come.
Although he is not like the presiding of the Goddess Temple, his entire body function has been fully adapted to this long-distance and vigorous exercise, in this world, internal strength is a very magical thing. It can not only improve a person's physical fitness, but also greatly enhance the body function. Therefore, Xue Chang, who has extremely deep internal strength, uses the Fengfeng Zhuyue Light Art without any scruples without knowing where the destination is. He also pays attention to some special techniques used by the presiding in the rapid movement of the mountain. One method is clear and a hundred methods are clear. He quickly tried to use it, and he became more and more proficient in using it.
I don’t know how long it took, but the host’s speed slowed down. She looked back and saw Xue Chang still following her, and she was calm and relaxed. She was shocked: This young leader had good light skills, and she knew it when she crossed the Daling River. But the next period of time was not only light skills, but also internal strength. Long-term use of light skills consumed internal strength, and this fashion is early spring, and it is still cold and Wushan is even more wet and cold. Because she has adapted to this climate, and the skills of the Goddess Palace are also designed for this, so the internal strength consumption is relatively small. For a new arrival like Xue Chang, to resist this dampness and cold, the internal strength consumption will inevitably increase, but the other party seems to be fine, which shows how deep the other party’s internal strength is!
The host pressed the horror in his heart and said with a little breath: "President Xue... do you know who was the person I took up the mountain last time?"
"I don't know." Xue Chang's breath was very stable when he spoke.
It was indeed not pretending!... The host looked at the other party's young face, sighed in his heart, but said, "The leader of Meishan Village, Jiang Shenghuo... Because Meishan Village has a connection with this sect, I took him up the mountain in person. He only crossed the Daling River with me, and not long after he started going up the mountain... I couldn't keep up with me anymore. I had to slow down and take him on the mountain for a while and run... That time I was so uncomfortable. You are much better than him! You are the second person who is so relaxed... to come here with me."
"Can you tell me who the first one is?" Xue Chang asked curiously.
"The Dugu Zhenren, who claims to be the best martial arts in Bashu, was not as good as it is now..." When the host said this, his face was a little sad, as if he was thinking about the past, but she quickly calmed down and asked, "Do you know what this Jiangzhaizhu is doing when he visits this sect?"
"have no idea."
"He is here to propose." The host stared at Xue Chang and said in a deep voice: "His son fell in love with my niece Luo Lanmeng. It is said that because of the rebellion of the Tiejianmen, Lanmeng, saved his life and made him fall in love with Lanmeng at first sight. In the past, Lanmeng rarely appeared in Wushan Town, but even so, her beauty spread throughout Bashu. This time she disguised herself on the battlefield, which was to reduce trouble, but she didn't expect that she could still escape the eyes of those who were interested..."
Chapter completed!