Chapter 168 Accepting Xiao Ling as a Disciple

Time flies, and more than four months have passed in a blink of an eye.

August 7th.

On the official road outside the north gate of Luoyun City, a small black dot was slowly enlarging. When it got closer, the soldiers guarding the city found that it was a dusty black carriage.

The strong one-horned horse stopped outside the city gate with a long neigh, and the passers-by moved to the side, fearing that they would disturb the people in the carriage.

The captain of the guards with a knife was just a secular warrior. Seeing this, he respectfully stepped forward and saluted the young man driving the carriage: "Senior, according to the rules of Luoyun City, foreign carriages are not allowed to enter the city. Please arrange your carriage."

Such a secular warrior dared to talk to a cultivator like this, he must have something to rely on.

Lu Li glanced at the three vicissitudes of life characters "Luoyunbei" hanging high on the city wall, turned his head and said to the car, "Miss Ling'er, get off."

After the voice fell, a girl in a pink skirt and a light veil poked her head out: "Brother Lu, is this Luoyun City?"

Lu Li nodded, and waited until Xiao Ling got off the car, then looked at the captain of the guards, smiled and said, "The carriage is for you." Then he took Xiao Ling to the city.

The captain of the guards was stunned at first, and then he was overjoyed, and saluted from a distance to Lu Li's back: "Thank you for the reward, senior!"

Such a strong horse and such a luxurious carriage must be worth a lot of silver.

After entering the city, Lu Li found that Luoyun City was not ordinary. The streets inside were five or six feet wide, and the bluestone tiles on the ground were very solid and looked quite old.

The buildings on both sides of the street were also different from those of ordinary secular cities. Each one was very magnificent. The pillars that occasionally appeared almost required three people to hug them together, and they looked quite solid.

There were both practitioners and laymen in the crowded streets.

These people may have been used to seeing practitioners, or they may not know that the people around them were the "immortals" they longed for. The arrival of these practitioners did not cause any sensation in the city.

The two had just arrived and did not know much about the Blood Evil Alliance's recruitment of new members. So when Lu Li was strolling around, he deliberately followed behind those practitioners in order to hear some useful information.

It's true that after a while, he heard the news he wanted from the people walking in front of them.

First, what Xiao Hanlin said before was not wrong. The Blood Evil Alliance's recruitment was on the first day of September, which was the first day of next month, and there were still more than 20 days from now.

Second, this was not the real location of the Blood Evil Alliance, but just an office of the Blood Evil Alliance.

Third, the rules for the Blood Evil Alliance's recruitment had not been issued yet, and no one knew what conditions were required to enter the Blood Evil Alliance.

In addition, there was another piece of news that made Lu Li feel a little unusual.

That is, in addition to the Blood Evil Alliance, the Qingyang Sect in Liangzhou, the Xuanjian Sect in Yunzhou, the Shendao Sect in Lingzhou, the Wanshou Sect in Qingzhou, the Guiyuan Sect in Chongzhou, and the Tiandao Alliance in Beizhou, all released news at the same time that they would select new people from the scattered cultivators on the first day of September.

This is a bit strange.

For a long time, scattered cultivators and sect forces have been playing their own games. Casual cultivators don't like to be bound by the rules of the sect, and the sect also looks down on these unruly mountain village wilds. They would rather select young children from the secular world to train them than to the scattered cultivators who have already achieved something.

So what happened that made the sect abandon the old ideas and be willing to spend resources to train scattered cultivators?

In addition, the five major forces and the two alliances set the day for recruiting new people on the first day of September. Is there something fishy about this? Or is the first day of September an auspicious day?

After thinking about it, Lu Li was puzzled and shook his head, and took Xiao Ling to an inn.

After asking for two guest rooms, he followed the waiter upstairs.

"Sir, these two rooms are next to each other. What do you think?" The waiter said enthusiastically at the door of the room with the door wide open on the far right of the corridor on the fourth floor.

Lu Li took a look inside and found that the layout inside was not bad. He nodded and said, "These two rooms are fine." Then he threw a silver ingot to the waiter, "Send a table of good wine and food to my room later."

The waiter hurriedly caught the silver and weighed it. His face was immediately overjoyed, "Sir, wait a moment, I will arrange it for you right away."

After the waiter left, Xiao Ling glanced at his room and said, "Then I will go back to my room to rest."

Lu Li's eyes flashed slightly, and he said, "Wait, after all this journey, you must be tired of the fasting pills. It's not too late to eat first and then rest. Come with me, I have something to give you."

Xiao Ling glanced at Lu Li's room, her face slightly red, and said "hmm" lightly and then nothing else.

After entering the room, the two sat at the table. Lu Li tapped the table lightly with his fingers, as if in deep thought. Xiao Ling held her chin with one hand, staring at Lu Li quietly, wondering what she was thinking.

The atmosphere in the room seemed a little strange.

After a while, Lu Li's fingers finally stopped tapping. He tilted his head to look at Xiao Ling and said seriously: "Miss Xiao Ling, are you willing to worship me as your master and never betray me for the rest of your life?"

"Ah?"

Seeing Lu Li looking at her, Xiao Ling was about to dodge involuntarily, but was stunned when she heard the following words.

Lu Li sighed and said, "You have the ambition to learn the way of talismans, and I also want to help you, but my knowledge of the way of talismans is a bit special and cannot be easily passed on..."

"If you are willing to worship me as your master and swear not to pass on what I have taught to others without my consent, I will teach you the way of talismans and help you reach a higher level..."

"But if you don't agree, I can't help you. You decide for yourself."

The help Lu Li mentioned refers to the Talisman Taboo of the Great Evolution Forbidden Technique. There is a lot of Talisman knowledge in it that ordinary people cannot access. As long as you learn this knowledge, even if you don't use the runes in the Great Evolution Forbidden Technique, your success rate will definitely be much higher than that of ordinary people.

After hearing this, Xiao Ling couldn't help but show a look of hesitation and entanglement. Suddenly, he gritted his teeth and knelt on his knees with a plop:

"Master, please accept the worship of your disciple Xiao Ling! Xiao Ling swears that he will never pass on what he has learned without the master's permission... He will never betray the master for the rest of his life. If he breaks this oath, heaven and earth will punish him!"

As a wisp of gray air entered Xiao Ling's brow, Lu Li nodded with satisfaction and helped him up. "According to morality, I shouldn't force you to swear, but I also have my own difficulties. I hope you can understand."

"Tsk, hindsight."

Xiao Ling curled his lips and said angrily, "Are you satisfied now, Master?"

"Hehe, just keep the master in mind. I don't care about these empty things. You can still call me Brother Lu." Lu Li said this, but he was still a little proud in his heart.

It's really a great pleasure in life to have an apprentice at such a young age.

"Humph, I don't want it." Xiao Ling blinked his eyes and stretched out his hand mischievously, "Where is the apprenticeship gift?"