Who taught him to practice swordsmanship like this?

On the rugged and muddy road, an ox cart shook.

It had just rained, everything seemed so clear and clear, and there was a peaceful fragrance in the air.

The man driving the ox cart was an old man of half a century, and sitting on the ox cart were six boys and girls aged from 8 to 12 years old.

"Don't run around when you arrive in the town. Follow me to see the immortal master. Whether you can succeed or not depends on this time."

"If any of you are really taken back by the immortal master from Changchun Palace to practice, it is your fate and the fate of our Sujia Village."

The old man said with some expectancy in his tone.

Su Baichen is one of the people sitting on the bullock cart. He is only eight years old and is the youngest one.

Although he looks as dark and dirty as other children, his eyes are the brightest and his expression is the calmest.

"Second Uncle, is the Changchun Palace you are talking about a serious Taoist temple?"

Second Uncle immediately said seriously: "That is natural. Our three towns in Jiuxiang, Xianyou County can only live safely under the protection of Changchun Palace, otherwise Then you little babies would have been taken away by monsters and eaten as "baby vegetables"!"

Su Baichen said angrily: "Second uncle, don't tell us such stories to deceive children at this time!"

The second uncle was talking enthusiastically, but he couldn't help but curl his lips when he heard it: "You kid is the most boring... But the second uncle is telling you seriously, this immortal master of Changchun Palace is really capable."

"What are the specifics, please tell me."

Su Baichen asked again.

His mood is quite complicated now.

It has been eight years since I traveled to this world. At first he thought he was reborn in a certain dynasty, but it turned out that this was a different world that had nothing to do with the original history.

He is ready. When he grows up, he will start to show his intelligence so that the clan can send him to study to change his destiny.

However...

Before he was about to implement the plan, he was actually told that there was such an opportunity to cultivate immortality...

He now had an unreal sense of trance.

"Chen baby, your second uncle doesn't have that much knowledge, so he can't tell you the reason. Children, you just need to know that if the immortal master asks you something later, you should answer it properly, understand?"

My second uncle, who had always been smiling playfully with the younger generation, suddenly became serious.

Su Baichen and the children in Sujia Village quickly agreed together.

Everyone seemed preoccupied along the way and didn’t say anything more.

The ox cart drove slowly, and it took two hours to finally reach Hekou Town at noon.

The town is already very lively, and the only street is full of vendors selling goods.

This Hekou Town is located next to a waterway hub. There are many business trips and it is quite prosperous.

The kids in Sujia Village had never seen such a bustling market before, and they were dazzled for a while.

Su Baichen just glanced at it casually and stopped paying attention. He was still thinking about the so-called Immortal Master of Changchun Palace...

After chatting with his second uncle earlier, he already knew that such a thing would actually happen every ten years, and that all children aged 6 to 16 everywhere could participate in this selection.

Of course, the second uncle has no idea what will happen specifically.

As he admitted himself, he is just an old man from the country after all, and does not have much relevant information at all.

However, the ox cart still moved forward slowly until it reached a Taoist temple in the corner of the town.

The plaque on this Taoist temple reads "Xuanmiao Temple". Some people have gathered in the open space in front of the door, but the number is not as large as Su Baichen guessed.

There were no wealthy families as he thought. Basically, they were all from poor backgrounds similar to his, and most of them were girls.

He blinked strangely, and then he realized: Who in a normal family would be willing to send their children to so-called spiritual practice?

For ordinary people, the most simple wish is of course that the children should stay with them, and they would only be sent out when the family has difficulties and cannot afford it.

At the same time, there are some orphans in the open space of the Taoist temple, who are also here to try their luck.

The sound of sobbing could be heard from time to time in the open space, and the whole place was filled with sadness, which made the newly arrived children of Sujia Village feel a little uneasy.

Maybe they finally remembered that if they were selected, they might never be able to go home again... In this way, each of them had red eyes and began to cry.

"Hey, you kids, why are you still crying here? Didn't you talk well along the way?"

The second uncle said in a panic.

He was worried that the immortal master in the temple would be unhappy when he saw it.

Su Baichen comforted and said: "Second uncle, it's okay, everyone is crying."

Second uncle's face fell, and he could only take out the welding smoke and slurp it while waiting.

After a while, the door opened, and a middle-aged Taoist with sword-eye eyebrows and star eyes came out.

He looked at the people in the open space in front of the door and said in a very friendly tone: "Are all the folks here to send off your children?"

As soon as this man appeared, he became the focus of the audience. No one would interrupt him when he spoke. After listening to his questions, everyone subconsciously responded... The parents and elders who sent their children all nodded subconsciously.

He nodded when he saw this, and then introduced himself: "Pindao Fenglinzi, the folks can also call me by my common name Lin Zifeng... After all, Pindao entered the Changchun Palace here forty years ago. I wonder if there are any folks here who remember Pindao?"

He said a little disappointed, obviously not expecting to get a definite answer.

This Feng Linzi looks like he is only in his early thirties. It is hard to imagine that he walked out of here forty years ago... If you calculate it this way, he must be sixty or seventy years old, right?

And his words were very contagious, making everyone feel his melancholy at once.

Then, he said earnestly: "As the villagers have seen, separation may last forever. After all, there is no time to practice. Villagers and children, are you really willing to be separated from your relatives forever?"

After the words fell, some emotional children cried out "Wow".

"No, no, I don't want to be separated from my parents..."

Such crying seems to make some parents feel the same and hesitate.

And Na Fenglinzi said: "Yes, it is so painful to say goodbye to your loved ones. The road to spiritual practice is long and difficult. It is better to reunite with your family and spend your life, don't you think?"

"Go back, I will only be happy because of your reunion."

Parents were reluctant to leave, children were crying, and after a while, nearly half of the people chose to quit.

Su Baichen watched in stunned silence as many people exited, and then suddenly realized: the screening has already begun!

And he never expected that the selection and inspection of Changchun Palace would be conducted like this.