"Is this Boss Luo outside? Why don't you come in and sit down?"
Xiang Shu's voice came from inside the house.
Luo Hai immediately became energetic and hurriedly walked to the door.
As soon as he stepped into the threshold, he saw Xiang Shenzheng pressing his hand on Black Tiger's face, letting the latter scratch his claws in the air.
When Luo Hai saw this scene, he was so frightened that he immediately looked away and looked up at the sky.
If you accidentally see Senior Tiger in embarrassment, you won't be killed and silenced, right?
Xiang Shu looked interesting, "What does Boss Luo mean by this?"
Luo Hai laughed dryly, "No... nothing, just that my neck is a little tired. Look up."
Wang Tuo broke away the hand on his face and turned to look at Luo Hai, his face a little ugly: "What did you see?"
"I didn't see anything!"
Luo Hai denied it, immediately put down the wine jar, ran away without saying a word, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Wang Tuo couldn't help laughing when he saw it, "This coward, I don't know where he got the courage to go out and kill demon cultivators."
Xiang Shu raised an eyebrow slightly: "Slaying Demon Xiu?"
"Um."
Wang Tuo nodded lightly: "After this kid broke through to the late stage of foundation building, he joined the human network as a casual cultivator and stayed in Dushuicheng. Occasionally, he would go on long trips when he received orders to assist in killings."
"Later stage of foundation building?"
Xiang Shen smiled half-heartedly, "He broke through two small realms in three consecutive years. How many top-quality elixirs did you give him?"
Wang Tuo coughed dryly, "The things he gave me at the beginning were all given to him later..."
After saying a few words, Wang Tuo suddenly stopped talking and looked up at the door, only to see Luo Hai leaving and returning with a serious look on his face.
"Senior Tiger, I just received a report from the human network that a powerful demon cultivator was found near Shisha City. His cultivation is unfathomable.
Two months ago, the ninth city under the jurisdiction of Guimu Valley was massacred by this person and the city lord's mansion was killed! "
There are nine city lords under the jurisdiction of Guimu Valley, and the ones with the lowest cultivation level are in the early stage of pill formation.
Wang Tuo rubbed his chin with his paw. If he had heard this before today, he might have been a little more cautious, but now...
He waved his paws and said casually, "I know."
Seeing Wang Tuo's confident look, Luo Hai breathed a sigh of relief and left with peace of mind.
Little did he know that as soon as he left, Wang Tuo immediately raised his head and said, "Mei Shu, did you hear that?"
"I'm not deaf, but you, brother..."
Xiang Shen chuckled and looked Wang Tuo up and down, "How much has your cultivation level recovered in three years? Has the demon elixir been condensed again? You can't even defeat a demon cultivator, right?"
"How talented is your elder brother? Naturally, the demon elixir has already been condensed."
Wang Tuo grinned, "According to your human race, I'm almost in the late stage of forming pills now, but I have to be careful to sail the ten-thousand-year ship. It took three years for the human net to be cleared before that demonic cultivator emerged. He must not be the same generation as Yi Yi." , your move is the safest."
Xiang Shen's eyes flashed and he chuckled: "Brother, this is not like your style."
Wang Tuo clicked his tongue, "People change, and demons are no exception."
"I don't care about this..."
Xiang Shen's tone softened slightly: "The demon elixir has been completed, brother, why haven't you transformed yet?"
Wang Tuo's expression was slightly stagnant, and then he returned to smiling: "I am a demon, and my true form is the most comfortable. Why should I stick to the human form?"
Xiang Shu took a deep look at Wang Tuo and said nothing more.
Don’t want to eat meat, don’t want to transform…
She understood that the memory of a hundred years of madness still existed in the depths of Wang Tuo's sea of consciousness, and the influence was not so easy to remove. No amount of words of comfort were in vain.
Time is the best medicine.
The painting of the black cat lying on its nest was quickly produced. He learned his lesson from Shi and dried the ink with a flick of his sleeves. Then he took out some materials from the storage ring, framed it, and hung it on the wall.
Wang Tuo grabbed the picture frame twice with his claws and claws, and grinned in pain: "Using core rock to make a picture frame, I'm sorry you can think of it!"
"It's all my elder brother who taught me well."
After speaking to Shu, he raised his eyes and saw a slim figure.
The girl stood at the door, her eyes red.
She smiled happily: "Fengfeng, I haven't seen you for three years, you are already a big girl."
"Aunt..."
Fengfeng's mouth tightened, but she still used her childhood name. Without saying a word, she ran over and hugged Xiang Shen, her tears unstoppable.
In her mind, everything started with Aunt Chu's arrival.
After Aunt Shen came, her father became better. She no longer had to go to Aunt Lu's house to wash and cook, and she also ate many, many good things that she had never eaten before.
The days when she was fostered in Zifang were the happiest times of her childhood.
The meaning of Aunt Shen was extraordinary to her.
"You are a grown-up girl, it's so ugly to cry." Xiang Shu comforted softly, his tone as soft as water.
If the monks who had experienced the decisive battle in the underworld saw this scene, they would probably not believe that the ruthless man who killed everyone underground and had his hands full of blood could have such a gentle side.
Fengfeng quickly wiped away her tears and smiled so hard that she showed two little tiger teeth, "Auntie, I'm just so happy. You've been gone for three years without any news. I thought you would never come back."
"It's just that something delayed."
Xiang Shen said and glanced at Wang Tuo, "Your Uncle Wang is still here, how could I not come back?"
Only then did Fengfeng see Wang Tuo lying in the cat's nest at the back, and she suddenly shouted in surprise: "Uncle Wang!"
She opened her hands and ran over, scaring Wang Tuo and jumping away immediately.
Fengfeng looked disappointed when she saw this, "Auntie, Uncle Wang is too naive. After you left, he hid in the tavern and you can't see him often.
Uncle Luo also said that he had never touched Uncle Wang once, and he was always sad. "
As soon as these words came out, Luo Hai, who was sitting behind the counter next door, suddenly lost his footing and almost fell over.
He slowly got up, looking a little sad and angry.
Silly girl, I give you snacks every day. Is this how you repay me?
He waited for a moment and saw that there was no movement next door. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and respectfully clasped his fists in the air: "Senior Tiger is magnanimous, and I greatly admire this junior."
Wang Tuo jumped onto the beam and flicked his ears. He pretended not to hear Luo Hai's words and squinted his eyes to sleep. The conversation below continued.
"Auntie, dad sent me to a private school..."
"I also know a lot of words now. I can help my aunt in the future."
"Daddy was scolded by Aunt Wang again today, but it costs a lot of money to go to private school, and daddy doesn't have any money left to hire help..."
"Daddy has not paid back the money he owes Grandpa at the medical clinic..."
The girl was chattering. It wasn't until Blacksmith Chen came to find her that she realized it was getting late and quickly left.
Tiejiang Chen was naturally very happy to see Xiang Shen back, and immediately wanted to use money to pay off Xiang Shen's old debt for taking care of Fengfeng three years ago.
But when I thought that he was now covered in the smell of fire and iron, dirty and smelly, which really didn't match the smell of books and ink in the calligraphy workshop, I immediately gave up and took Fengfeng back, preparing to come back in two days.
As night falls, East Street returns to peace.
Xiang Shen hung up the last calligraphy, stood up and went to the back room, waved his sleeves and put up a barrier. The gentleness on his face disappeared and turned into a cold look.
She made a secret with her hands, and the clear energy flowing in her meridians immediately moved with her. The sword intent grew, and a continuous trembling and oppressive force was heard.
Under the pressure of the tremor, the massive resentment trapped in the body suddenly became denser at an extremely slow speed. Occasionally, if it rebounded and overflowed, it would be immediately intercepted by the clear air in the body, without any leakage. .
This method of trembling and oppression is exactly the tempering method taught by Jianfeng.
She stayed underground for an extra year, half of it was because of Li Changting, and the other half was spent adjusting the tempering method.
Although the sword wind tempering method is good, it is not completely suitable for resentment. Sword Qi comes from the body. If it is not condensed properly, there is a risk that the sword Qi will injure itself. However, the degree of risk is far less than that of resentment.
Half a year ago, she took the sea of resentment into her body and suffered a big loss when she tried to temper it for the first time.
When resentment comes from outside, it can only be cleared away
The Qi drove her away, and the frequency of rebellion was extremely high. She was caught off guard by the repeated attacks, and the resentment broke through the blockade of Qi and contaminated her internal organs.
The taste... was really a hundred times more sour than the decisive battle underground.
With the support of Qingqi and Yuanquan, she quickly adjusted the tempering method and soon found a way to block the resentment.
Otherwise, let alone half a year, she would not dare to return to Dushuicheng even if she was given another three years. Z.br>
Her grievances leaked out, and she had Qing Qi to protect her. At most, she would suffer some pain but not die. But if it were Wang Tuo who was contaminated, he would either die or be seriously injured, not to mention the large number of mortals in the city.
The news of the return of the owner of Zhuge quickly spread throughout the neighborhood, and the impact was only that Zifang received a few more letter-writing commissions, and did not cause any splash.
In addition to the occasional business visits, Xiang Shuo practiced continuously every day. While tempering his resentment, his control over the sword intention was also steadily increasing. In less than half a month, the realm of swordsmanship had improved, reaching the middle stage of 30% sword intention.
This speed is not unpleasant.
Four years ago, her sword intention was still stuck at the peak of 20%. With her sword intention alone against people, regardless of their cultivation level, she could dominate among the alchemy monks.
Then in the underground battle, the sword's power broke through to 30%, its power increased greatly, and it was able to fight against the Nascent Soul monks.
After refining the Qi of the Earth Spirit, Xiang Shuo focused solely on his resentment and did not cultivate deliberately.
However, Qing Qi itself has various magical qualities, which makes Xiang Shu's understanding increase and his state of mind become clear. Even if he does not deliberately practice swordsmanship, his sword intention is slowly increasing.
After practicing the tempering method, it was expected that the swordsmanship would break through a small bottleneck.
As for my own cultivation...
In the back room, Xiang Shu woke up from his trance, his eyes opened and closed, and a gleam of light flashed through his eyes.
Since the refining of Shen Qing Qi, the power of the golden elixir in her body has long been assimilated by the Qing Qi, and the realm is blurred and cannot be defined.
The degradation of Dongzhou's spiritual energy had no effect on her at all.
When Jianfeng borrows the energy of the earth's gods to control the way of heaven, if she settles down in Dongzhou, she will be called invincible in the world! Even if the Pantheon comes out in full force, they will not be her opponent.
But Pantheon is not that stupid. At most two more groups of people will definitely arouse vigilance later.
and……
Xiang Yu raised his eyelids slightly and looked through the roof to the sky, his eyes calm and firm.
How could she be willing to be trapped here after finally surviving another life?
Even if there is no Si Wujue outside this cultivation star, she still wants to get out of here and experience this huge world of cultivation!
