Chapter 79: Strange Formation and Ancient Bamboo Forest For some reason, Lingxiang, this girl, actually asked the headmaster for Rendong to be her personal disciple in Wuji Palace that day. Long Qi was puzzled for a long time but still couldn't figure it out. Shouldn't he be sent to Qingwei Peak? Moreover, no one knew where she had gone these days. There was no one on Qingwei Peak. Even Rendong, who was accepted as a disciple by Lingxiang, had disappeared. Long Qi asked around but couldn't find out anything. Could it be that the little girl kidnapped Ren Dong and ran away down the mountain? Lingxiang did bring Rendong with her when she went down the mountain this time, and Shoucheng, the fourth disciple of Zhenren Qianyuan, also went with them. After the last incident at Yinyu Peak, the Yuanqing Sect had strengthened the mountain defense formations in various places and sent people to conduct secret investigations everywhere, but they had not found any trace of the demons. But Bai Wuchang would not appear for no reason, he must have his plans. The reason why the Demon Lord still has her mind is probably because Lingxiang used the life-extending elixir in Taishang Sect, and they found out about it. Lingxiang naturally knew the pros and cons of this, so she asked Zhenren Qianyuan to let Shoucheng go with her. Shoucheng practices the Ksitigarbha Earth Escape Method and is good at hiding and escaping underground, with extraordinary attainments. He can go to the Bamboo Forest Temple with Lingxiang and Honeysuckle.
The reason why Lingxiang wanted to bring Rendong with her was that she wanted to take him to meet the old man with the bamboo cane. The three of them used Shoucheng's method of escaping underground, walking and resting, and in just one day, they arrived at the ancient bamboo forest of Xianglin. The ancient bamboo forest is where the Taoist temple of the Old Man with Bamboo Stick is located. It has eighty-eight formations, and ordinary people cannot enter at all. Although Taoists can move forward a little, they cannot go deeper. The old man with the bamboo stick is a strange man. He has been practicing for hundreds of years, but has always lived alone in this ancient bamboo forest and has never come out. It was a coincidence that Lingxiang knew the old man with the bamboo stick. A few years ago, Lingxiang accidentally found a prescription from the pages of the medicine book left by the fairy Tumi. However, the prescription was incomplete and seemed to have been torn off intentionally. There were only a few herbs in the first half, one of which was Tianzhu Flower. However, the Tianzhu flower mentioned in the prescription is not the common bamboo flower such as the Arrow Bamboo that blooms once every forty years, but the Tianhui Bamboo in this ancient bamboo forest. This kind of bamboo will produce shoots in forty years, take root in forty years, and then grow into a towering bamboo in another twenty years. After it matures into a bamboo, it will bloom and produce grains in about ten years. In theory, bamboo rice is not only a good food for filling the stomach, but also a high-quality medicinal material, but this recipe calls for the bamboo flower of Bamboo Spathiphyllum. People in the world all say that bamboo blossoms are a bad omen. Since this recipe is called Huitian, how can it use such an object as an elixir? Lingxiang was also puzzled, so she broke into the ancient bamboo forest alone. At that time, she had not yet refined the life-extending elixir, and was only eleven years old, but she secretly came to Xianglin without the knowledge of the elders of the sect. Normally, a girl of her age, whose cultivation was not very advanced, should be helpless in the face of the eighty-eight strange formations in the ancient bamboo forest. However, strangely, these formations were useless to her at that time, and Lingxiang could enter and exit as if there was no one in the place. When the old man with the bamboo stick saw the spiritual incense, he was so frightened that his beard flew up immediately. But when he saw the silver bell on the spiritual incense bag, he immediately understood. I don't know where this silver bell incense came from, I just thought it was an ordinary little bell, I thought it was very cute, so I strung it on the Qiankun bag, but this bell is actually a Ming Dynasty bell, which is the magic weapon used by the Yuanqing ancestor Wuwei Laoxian. Although the Ming Dynasty bell is a silver bell, it is made of ore from Kunlun Mountain, and it is a fairyland. Although the Ming Dynasty bell can neither ring nor cast spells, it can save people from the magic of the illusion array, and its uses are more than that. This is a later story, so let's not talk about it for now. When the old man with the bamboo stick saw the Ming Dynasty bell, he recognized it immediately. A hundred years ago, he had practiced together with the Yuanqing Patriarch for several years. The two had a very close relationship. He had seen the immortal Wuwei wearing this bell. Later, after repeated questioning by the old man with the bamboo stick, he learned about Lingxiang's life experience. After a sigh, the two of them became close friends regardless of age difference. As to why the old man with the bamboo stick is so good to Lingxiang, it is probably because he sees his own shadow in her! In fact, Rendong never understood why Lingxiang would accept a person with fake spiritual roots like him as a disciple and even took him down the mountain the next day. Logically, his spiritual roots would not be taken seriously in most sects. However, at the Wuji Palace that day, Lingxiang actually said in the end that she wanted to accept him into Qingwei Peak. He thought about it all the way, but still had no idea what this so-called Elder Fu Cang was thinking. When the three of them arrived at the entrance of the ancient bamboo forest, Lingxiang asked Shoucheng to stop, then he played a trick and took out a jade flute from his Qiankun bag and started to play it.
The flute was indeed very beautiful with its emerald green color, but the rhythm of the tune played by the flute player was not very flattering, and sometimes the notes were even broken. Even Shoucheng, who had been very respectful to Lingxiang all the way, couldn't help but cover his ears after listening to a short passage. However, Lingxiang seemed not to care and continued to blow the air in ecstasy. Just when Rendong wondered whether Elder Fu Cang had brought him here on purpose to listen to him play the flute, he heard a rustling sound coming from the ancient bamboo forest. Soon it turned into a gurgling sound like rolling wheels, and after a while it turned into a sound like footsteps. Honeysuckle was very curious and looked towards the bamboo forest. She saw a tall figure walking out from the depths of the forest, with strange footsteps and the sound of banging on the ground. He was horrified and looked at Lingxiang hurriedly, but Lingxiang seemed unaware and continued to play the flute as if no one was around. Seeing her like this, Rendong turned to look at Shoucheng, but Shoucheng probably covered his ears and didn't hear anything, so he just stood far away with his back to them. Just when Honeysuckle was thinking about whether to draw her sword to protect herself, she heard the man speaking. "Alright, alright! I know it's you, stop bragging!" The voice was unusually shrill, which surprised Rendong greatly. However, just as he was still surprised, he heard another deep voice. "That's right! I really don't know why that guy with the bamboo stick gave you this flute. Every time you play it, the sound is so unbearable to the ears, like the howling of ghosts and wolves!" When the person came closer, Jin Dong was even more surprised - this person is not a person! This is clearly a monster! I saw that the "person" had five heads, but no hands or feet, just five round "heads" put together! Lingxiang finally stopped playing the flute and even closed her eyes to savor the moment. When she put the flute away, she smacked her lips and muttered, "After not using it for a long time, this Yuzhu flute is a little out of tune." Hearing this, Jin Dong was shocked: How could the flute be blamed for the poor sound?! Shoucheng on the side seemed not to hear it, but his flushed face betrayed him, it was obvious that he wanted to laugh but was trying hard to hold it back. When the "people" heard this, they were like fireworks, and all five heads shouted in unison: "Don't you always blow it like this? And you actually blame it on Lingbao!? How shameless! It's so embarrassing!" Ming Dynasty bell (End of this chapter)