Li Xiuping helped the old man up and didn't know what to say for a moment because he had never encountered such a situation.
Afterwards, everyone had dinner and then went back to their houses to rest. Li Xiuping did not give the meat to the couple. It was not because he was reluctant. To him, giving two pieces of meat was nothing. It was just that the effect of this meat was too great, at least. This is true for ordinary people.
His master once said that if you give the old man a favor, you can only extend his life, but if you give it to two children, they can directly embark on the path of immortality. This is already considered a favor. If you give it to that person again, For couples, doing it wrong will be counterproductive, and going too far is not enough.
Neither the woman in green nor the girl in red said anything about Li Xiuping's decision.
They are not human beings, so they cannot be more understanding than Li Xiuping, a human being, when it comes to dealing with human beings.
In fact, this is also the reason why none of them interfered with Li Xiuping's decisions along the way. Li Xiuping was allowed to make his own decisions on almost all matters, big and small.
Early the next morning, Li Xiuping and others said goodbye and left, continuing their journey north.
After this night, the willow tree continued to recover, and Li Xiuping's injuries had improved a lot. Now the willow tree also began to restore the sword intent in his body. A two-pronged approach, the speed was much slower.
Li Xiuping discovered that the water monster's meat did have miraculous effects. He felt that his body was much stronger now than before. Even if he received a spiritual treasure with his bare hands, he felt that there was no problem. As for the jet black dragon, it was Nothing much has changed.
In fact, the benefits Li Xiuping has gained are far more than that. For example, deep down in his heart, his dependence on immortal treasures has been reduced a lot. If he had met a strong person in the Nascent Soul stage before, without the immortal treasures, he would definitely He chose to run away directly, but after this battle, he still had the courage to fight when he met a strong person in the Nascent Soul Stage even without the Immortal Treasure.
Courage is the best weapon. Few people understand this because most people cannot do it.
This is also the main reason why the woman in Tsing Yi wants to help Li Xiuping.
It is naturally best to have immortal treasures, but if a person wants to truly become a strong person and reach the top, he must have enough courage, and giving up weapons is the first courage to possess.
Li Xiuping should have such courage.
This invisible benefit is much greater than the benefits brought by the willow tree and the meat.
Only when a person does not rely on anything and is not afraid of anything can he truly reach the top. Just like the master of wine, he can even give up the artifact and give away the wine pot. It is because of his current state. No external force is needed anymore...
In addition, Li Xiuping discovered that after this battle and the effect of the meat, the seventh level of the spiritual sea had begun to crystallize, and there were faint signs of a breakthrough.
As long as you break through to the seventh level, at the current speed, it won't take long before you reach the late stage of foundation building, condense the golden elixir, and become a golden elixir stage monk.
If he can achieve the golden elixir, then even if he faces a strong person in the Nascent Soul stage, even if the woman in green and the little girl in red leave, he will be able to deal with it alone.
Li Xiuping knew that the woman in green and the little red girl would leave sooner or later. They could not stay with him forever, they were just waiting for him to lift the seal on the Xuanhuo Order.
It just so happens that he needs to reach the Golden Core stage to come into contact with the Mysterious Fire Order. After reaching the Golden Core stage, he can deal with the powerful Nascent Soul stage alone. Before that, he has the protection of the little red girl and the woman in green. As long as there are no people above the God Transformation stage. For a strong person, there is basically no need to worry about his safety.
It could be God's will, or it could just be coincidence.
All in all, so far, he, Li Xiuping, has been a very lucky person.
As the three of them continued to go north and began to deviate from the coast, the rumors about Penglai Immortal Boat began to decrease and were replaced by some more influential local things.
During this period, Li Xiuping also successfully entered the seventh floor of the foundation building, but the willow tree also grew a lot taller. Almost when Li Xiuping broke through to the seventh floor of the foundation building, the willow tree also destroyed the fourth floor. of spiritual crystals, reaching the fifth layer of spiritual crystals.
Every time the spiritual crystal was broken by the willow tree, Li Xiuping would be a little worried, worried that he would not be able to condense the golden elixir in the future.
The golden elixir requires ten layers of spiritual crystals to be completely integrated, but now his spiritual crystals have not been completely condensed, and four layers have been destroyed by the willow tree. According to the current trend, when he reaches the later stage of foundation building, I am afraid that the spiritual crystals in his body will be destroyed. There is not much crystal left.
Without enough spiritual crystals, how can we condense the golden elixir?
And Li Xiuping discovered that after the willow tree broke through the fifth layer of spiritual crystals, in addition to the willow tree becoming stronger, the sphere on the willow tree also changed a lot. Not only did the size become a lot larger, the light in it also It also became a lot more dazzling, and similarly, the number of six lines wrapped around the sphere also increased a lot, so even though the light tried its best to shine through, it was still blocked by those six lines.
Li Xiuping's consciousness still couldn't get close to the willow tree. It was as if there was an invisible barrier within the area covered by the willow branches, blocking his consciousness and preventing him from getting any closer.
This is his body, his own spiritual sea, but his consciousness is hindered by this power here, which naturally makes Li Xiuping even more worried.
According to common sense, his consciousness could flow unimpeded to every place on his body, but now it was blocked by an alien willow tree.
Since the willow tree wouldn't let him get close, it must be hostile to him.
A thing that is hostile to him appears in his body, in the depths of his most important spiritual sea. It is impossible for anyone to not be worried, even if this willow tree has not caused him any harm until now. The harm and threats, on the contrary, brought him a lot of benefits, but this was not enough to reassure Li Xiuping.
Therefore, condensing the golden elixir has become an urgent matter for Li Xiuping.
As long as it can condense the golden elixir, it means that this willow tree will not affect his practice, and his worries will be reduced a lot.
Similarly, if he can enter the Golden Core stage, he can face the powerful Nascent Soul stage alone, and then he will no longer have to rely on others for his own safety.
Don't say that he still doesn't have complete trust in the woman in green clothes. Even if he has complete trust in the woman in green clothes, the strength of the woman in green clothes is only her own after all. Only when she becomes stronger and has a higher realm, can she fully control the power. Only if it is your own can it bring you a real sense of security.
At this moment, Li Xiuping and others entered a restaurant.
Li Xiuping found a corner, used his spiritual thoughts to drive the bamboo slips, and took some words to suppress the Nascent Soul in the copper bowl.
Just before entering the restaurant, Li Xiuping discovered that the guy's energy that he had drained last time had actually recovered a lot. If he didn't restrain him, he might just break through the suppression of the copper bowl.
Although there is a strong person in the Nascent Soul Stage and a strong person in the Transformation Stage beside him, even if the Nascent Soul runs out, it is impossible to escape, but since this situation can be avoided, there is no need to let this happen.
Li Xiuping felt a little strange. The last time he was in Penglai Immortal Boat, he had drained nearly half of this guy's energy, but in just a few months, he had already recovered so much. At this speed, It's really appalling.
It was also the Nascent Soul stage, but the purple scorpion was different. After such a long time, the energy drained by Li Xiuping had recovered, but compared with the recovery speed of human monks, it was completely different.
Of course, it was impossible for Li Xiuping to understand the difference by himself, so he planned to find a suitable time to ask the woman in Tsing Yi for advice.
In the final analysis, the Nascent Soul stage was still too far away from him, and he had no idea about many things about the Nascent Soul stage.
At this moment, the people at the table next to him were discussing something, something somewhat related to Li Xiuping, because the object of their discussion was a place called "Guanchao Academy".
According to the latest map Li Xiuping purchased, Guanchao Academy is in the north, still some distance away from here.
Because the woman in green clothes said before that most of the immortal treasures on his body came from Confucianism, so once the Confucianists know about it, they will most likely come forward to take them back. Therefore, in order to avoid direct contact with Confucianism, Li Xiuping deliberately avoided the so-called Guanchao Academy.
Listening to those people discussing Guanchao Academy, the woman in Tsing Yi was also a little interested. She was very good at hiding her emotions, and Li Xiuping could see some clues at this moment.
There is no doubt that the so-called Guanchao Academy should be where her husband lived, which is the largest academy in Confucianism today.
Guanchao Academy alone does not have much to do with Li Xiuping. Just continue to avoid it. The further away, the better.
But from the conversations between those people, Li Xiuping heard two people.
Qi Wenxing, a clerk from Shuiyunjian.
In Li Xiuping's impression, the restaurant waiter dressed as a scholar had always been gentle and elegant. No matter what he did, he was almost spotless and always had a kind smile.
One is naturally the shopkeeper from Shuiyunjian, the old shopkeeper who sits on the street on a stool all year round to bask in the sun, and then always picks his feet.
The first thing these people discussed was Qi Wenxing. They said that Qi Wenxing, a Confucian disciple who suddenly appeared, went all the way north after leaving Yunzhou, and then found the sword master and fought with the sword master on his way back. After fighting for seven days and seven nights, the sword master was defeated in the end.
After the scholar defeated the sword master, he turned around and headed south. He returned to Guanchao Academy and never came out again.
According to rumors, it seemed that the scholar who could defeat the sword master was not happy, so he was punished to copy books in the library of Guanchao Academy. Some said he was punished for a hundred years, and some said it was more.
Li Xiuping was very familiar with who Qi Wenxing's husband was, so Li Xiuping felt that the old shopkeeper would definitely not be able to do such a thing.
Let's not talk about whether Qi Wenxing really went to the north and defeated the sword master. Even if it was true, given the character of the old shopkeeper, it would be good if he didn't publicize his apprentice's heroic deeds everywhere.
This can be seen from the fact that this old guy once learned a dish and spread it all over the street.
Some things cannot be changed just because you are older or have a higher level.
Then there are rumors about the old shopkeeper. It is said that after the old shopkeeper returned to Guanchao Academy, he directly became the mountain master of Guanchao Academy, became a Confucian saint, and took charge of the entire Confucian school.
Then there are rumors about Li Xiuping.
Some people say that the current master of Guanchao Academy actually has two apprentices, one is Qi Wenxing who defeated the Sword Master, and the other is a young man named Li Xiuping.
The rumors about Li Xiuping were very vague, but extremely exaggerated. They were so exaggerated that even Li Xiuping himself found them unbelievable.
The woman in green was also listening to those rumors at this moment, and gradually returned to her indifferent state.
At this moment, she was looking at Li Xiuping with a meaningful smile.
Li Xiuping stood still, feeling bored, so he looked away, and saw the woman in green staring at him. He couldn't help but frown and said, "What's wrong?"
The woman in green asked with a smile: "What do you think about this?"
Li Xiuping was stunned for a moment, and then said: "How else can I look at it? It must be fake."
The woman in green clothes smiled and shook her head and said: "Since these people can speak so clearly and clearly, it at least means that there are indeed rumors about you in Guanchao Academy. Otherwise, you would be Huayang Sect and Penglai all the way. In Xianzhou, except for the monks on the mountain, basically few people know about you, how come there are so many things related to you."
Li Xiuping couldn't help but fall into thinking.
The woman in green asked, "How about going to Guanchao Academy?"
Li Xiuping was stunned. He did not refuse or agree directly. Instead, he fell into thinking and weighed the pros and cons.
If the old shopkeeper really becomes the mountain master of Guanchao Academy, then he doesn't have to worry about going to Guanchao Academy. At least he still has some friendship with the old shopkeeper. The worst thing he can do is take over from himself. The fairy treasure related to Confucianism has just been retrieved, and there will be no real quarrel with Confucianism.
The good result is that he can continue to use these immortal treasures, and the entire Confucian family knows about his relationship with the mountain master and will not make things difficult for him anymore.
Li Xiuping asked: "Do you recognize the old shopkeeper?"
The woman in Tsing Yi had talked about the old shopkeeper before, so she must know something about it. Although he had known the old shopkeeper since he was a child and had been with each other for more than ten years, apart from knowing that the old shopkeeper was very powerful, he knew nothing else. He knew nothing about it, so much so that he didn't even know that the old shopkeeper was a Confucian saint.
In fact, even now, Li Xiuping finds it a bit unbelievable. It is really difficult to connect such a bad old man with the four words of a Confucian saint.
The woman in green clothes nodded and said: "We met three hundred years ago. They are my husband's fellow disciples. The reason why he left Guanchao Academy and appeared in your Yunzhou is actually because of the immortal treasures you have now."
Li Xiuping frowned and said, "What do you mean?"
The woman in Tsing Yi told everything about Guanchao Academy three hundred years ago...
