When ten minutes passed, Mr. Lu'an finally couldn't bear it any longer and looked at Duobao lying lazily on the ground with a strange look on his face.
He raised his head and glanced at Lu'an. There seemed to be a trace of disdain in Duobao's eyes. If it weren't for the fact that it was the pill he gave him, Uncle Cat would have given him a paw immediately.
"This...this is impossible."
Master Lu'an was a little dumbfounded. Even if he took the Jingyuan Pill, he would have to spend several hours refining it, but...but this big cat actually ate it like a jelly bean.
Seeing the expression on Lu'an's face, Jing Shizhen said proudly: "Liu'an, let me just say, my disciple is a genius, and the cats he raises are naturally different, they are born extraordinary creatures!
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"Hey, blow it, it's an extraordinary creature."
"Is it an extraordinary creature raised by someone?"
"But this big cat does have the potential to evolve into an extraordinary creature."
As soon as Jing Shizhen said those words, there was a lot of discussion around him. They believed that the big cat was a bit special, but when he said it was an extraordinary creature, no one present bought it.
The discovery and study of restricted areas has actually been going on for more than a hundred years.
But so far, there is really no extraordinary creature that has been successfully raised by humans. At most, it has a good relationship with humans and will not kill them as soon as they meet, such as the one in the Qingcheng restricted area.
"Just be envious and jealous."
Jing Shizhen looked around and cursed with a smile. Most of the people around him were his old friends and they were used to making jokes.
Su Xiaofan didn't say anything about the master's words. Sometimes if a person told the truth, others might not believe it.
The more Jing Shizhen said he was a genius, the more others felt that Jing Shizhen was bragging. As for the tiger cat being an extraordinary creature? That was even more nonsense. Are there such obedient extraordinary creatures?
"Xiao Fan, this is your Uncle Dong. He is a rich man and his family owns a mine."
Jing Shizhen hadn't had time to finish introducing Su Xiaofan just now. If she missed it, it would be disrespectful to her friend.
"You're a good boy. Well, your cat is even better. You need to take good care of it and don't raise it to waste. Do you understand?"
Master Dong patted Su Xiaofan on the shoulder, but of course he didn't use much force. In his opinion, Su Xiaofan seemed to be an ordinary person with no strength.
"Understand!"
Hearing the last three words of Uncle Dong's words, Su Xiaofan tried not to laugh out loud. He knew who this person was.
"Dad, why are you with my brother..."
Before Uncle Dong could take off his hand from Su Xiaofan's shoulder, he saw his son and several young people coming over.
"When did he become your brother? Don't have any random relationships, do you understand?"
Master Dong scolded his son angrily: He is in his twenties and still jumping around when he walks, so he is nothing.
"Dad, you are really my brother!"
Dong Minghua said excitedly: "This is the tiger cat raised by my brother. What do you think, dad? Help him find a place and send him to the restricted area."
"The restricted area is opened by you, me and you? If you want to enter, you need to take an assessment. It must be fair and just. Do you understand?"
Uncle Dong glanced at the tiger cat on the ground and felt that it had a large potential to enter the restricted area. He didn't see that old boy from Lu'an was still doubting his life at this moment, and kept muttering why the cat didn't explode to death.
"Okay, you young people go and play."
Jing Shizhen waved her hand, indicating that Su Xiaofan could leave.
When he was in Xiangjiang before, Jing Shizhen, who had just been promoted, was excited for a moment and revealed that his disciples had similar cultivation levels to his own, but obviously no one believed it.
Later, Jing Shizhen thought about it and felt that it was better for Su Xiaofan to keep a low profile and take advantage of this opportunity to clear Su Xiaofan out.
"Brother, I just said you should go play with me."
Dong Bubai put his arm on Su Xiaofan's shoulder and said with a smile: "Let's go find a place to have a drink. Don't play with these old men."
"I think you deserve a beating, keep a low profile, do you understand?"
Master Dong kicked his son on the butt as soon as he woke up, but it was of no use at all. This was his old son who was only in his fifties. Although he usually taught him a lesson every day, the pain was excruciating.
"We won't go to the bar. I'll take Duobao for a walk."
Following Dong Bubai and others out of the hotel lobby, Su Xiaofan stood still.
Dong Wanwan is a nice person, straightforward in his actions, and more importantly, he has a very upright mind and doesn't have any evil intentions.
But the two people next to him made Su Xiaofan reluctant to associate with them.
The glances between the two of them just now were seen from Duobao to himself, but their eyes were full of malice.
Moreover, when Duobao took the Jingyuan Pill just now, these two people were watching in the crowd, and what they thought they were whispering was clearly heard by Su Xiaofan.
The two brothers were interested in Duobao, but they felt that they were not worthy enough, so they dragged Dong Buzhu, who had just come out of the elevator. Among the four of them, only Dong Buzhu was confused.
"Let's go together, we are all young people, let's socialize more."
Dong didn't know if he really wanted to invite Su Xiaofan, "In a few decades, we can have an iron-clad friendship like those old guys, how wonderful it would be!"
"Brother Dong, my cat has to digest after eating, so let's forget it for today."
Su Xiaofan shook his head. Dong didn't understand that he was willing to make this friend, but forget about the other two.
"Hey, brother, are you a bit disrespectful to Brother Dong?"
As soon as Su Xiaofan finished speaking, a young man, tall and thin, with a somewhat bitter face spoke.
"It's my fault. I'll invite Brother Dong some other time."
Su Xiaofan nodded repeatedly. He didn't want to have any bloody disputes with these people, mainly because he was afraid that if Duobao got angry and caught two of them to death, it would be a big trouble.
"Xiao Fan, I haven't introduced you yet, this is..."
"Brother Dong, I'll meet you some other time. Duobao is in a hurry now. I'll take him for a walk first."
Before Dong Huanwen could finish what he said, Su Xiaofan interrupted him. Why should he know the names of people he didn't even want to know?
After saying hello to Dong Wanshuang, Su Xiaofan walked away.
Not to mention that he looked down upon these two people based on his current cultivation status. Even when setting up a stall in the antique market, Su Xiaofan would stay away from such people.
"You're too crazy." Seeing Su Xiaofan was about to leave, the tall and thin man immediately became angry and reached out to grab Su Xiaofan's shoulder.
"Meow!"
Just when the tall and thin man took action, the originally lazy tiger cat suddenly let out a low roar, and a frightening killing intent came out of the tiger cat's body.
This kind of murderous intention also carries with it a kind of hierarchical suppression after the life jump.
At this moment, the hairs all over the tall and thin man's body stood up.
The big cat in front of him actually showed a power like the king of beasts. The tall and thin man stumbled in fear, but he didn't realize that his neck was leaning towards the tiger cat's raised paw.
"Duobao..."
Su Xiaofan's deep voice rang out, and every time Su Xiaofan called Duobao in this tone, it meant that he was angry.
"Meow..." Duobao growled, retracted his paw, and followed Su Xiaofan out.
"I...I, what's wrong with me?"
It wasn't until the figure of the man and the cat disappeared that the tall and thin man came back to his senses, but his whole body was completely soaked in cold sweat.
Just now he felt as if his heart was grabbed by a big hand. The suffocating feeling made the tall and thin man breathe desperately.
"I don't know, Daqi, I saw you squatting on the ground all of a sudden. What happened to you?"
Dong Bubu and the other young man stared at the tall and thin man without knowing why.
They were still wondering, Daqi had already taken action, but they didn't know that Su Xiaofan hadn't been caught yet, but they had squatted down first.
"I... maybe I've been practicing a lot recently, and I've become a little obsessed."
Daqi, a tall and thin man, wanted to save face and was embarrassed to say that he had just seen a tiger, and the tiger almost killed him with one claw.
"Forget it, Xiaofan doesn't want to go, let's go and play by ourselves."
Dong doesn't know how to make friends. In fact, he only met these two people today, so he might be closer to one of them.
"That kid is so crazy. If you don't show respect to anyone, it will be in vain for the big cat to follow him blindly."
Daqi cursed and muttered a few words, but his thoughts were revealed.
Dong Bai looked at him thoughtfully and said nothing more. Everyone had similar backgrounds and no one was really stupid.
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Su Xiaofan naturally had nothing to do with the affairs of the young men behind him. He was already using his skills to reach the famous Taoist mountain above the hotel.
Su Xiaofan said it was a lie to take a walk, but it was true that he came to see the terrain.
It seems that starting from the day after tomorrow, he will go to the main peak of Qingcheng for a meeting at 6:30. Su Xiaofan wants to go first and try how long it takes to climb to the top.
There are actually a lot of scenery along the way to the Taoist Holy Land, but it had already turned dark by now, so Su Xiaofan was not in the mood and went straight to the top of the main peak.
"Exert your body skills upwards, the speed is a little slower."
It took Su Xiaofan a little longer to get to the top of the peak, because there were many places where it was difficult to rely on strength. It took Su Xiaofan a few minutes to reach the top of the peak.
But if it were an ordinary person climbing to the top, it would probably take two or three hours if they were in good physical condition.
As for the cultivators, it will take more than an hour for the cultivators of the Little Zhoutian to climb up. As for the cultivators of the Great Zhoutian, it may take about ten minutes to climb up.
Standing on the open platform at the top of the peak, Su Xiaofan felt that the meeting time was set so early.
In Su Xiaofan's view, the relevant departments just want to dominate people like him.
Qingcheng can be accessed by cableway, but at 6:30, the cableway will undoubtedly not be open.
Depending on the level of cultivation, if you want to attend the meeting on time, your climbing time will naturally be different.
People like Dong Dong who are in the early stage of Qi training will probably have to get up at five o'clock to climb the mountain. Otherwise, according to the rules set by the relevant departments, if they are late that day, they will not be able to participate in the exchange that day.
At this moment, a venue has been set up on the main peak. There is a high platform that looks like a ring, and there are more than ten rows of seats guarding the high platform.
Su Xiaofan made a rough count and found that it could seat more than two hundred people. It seemed that this was the number of people attending this exchange meeting.
"The Qingcheng restricted area should be over there."
Su Xiaofan stood on the top of the peak and looked around, with a panoramic view of the surrounding scenes.
Tens of kilometers to the west from the main peak, there is a place where there are mountains of fog. If Su Xiaofan guessed correctly, that place should be the Qingcheng restricted area.
"Let's go..." Su Xiaofan called Duobao and left the main peak.
Before returning to the hotel, Su Xiaofan received a call from Master and asked for his room number.
"Master, Aunt Mei, and Uncle Liu'an are here too."
When Su Xiaofan returned to the hotel, he found several people waiting at the door of his room. He quickly swiped his card to open the door and let them in.
"You kid, your apartment is more spacious than mine."
Entering the suite, Jing Shizhen immediately expressed his dissatisfaction. The place where he and Aunt Mei lived was a one-bedroom and one-living room suite, but Su Xiaofan's place was actually a two-bedroom and one-living room.
"Master, I paid for it myself!"
Su Xiaofan smiled and brought bottles of water to several people, then returned to the sofa and sat down.
Duobao lay down next to Su Xiaofan, slapped the remote control of the TV, and then clicked the button with his little paw to change the channel.
"You...you tiger cat, are you already an extraordinary creature?"
Seeing Duobao's actions, Uncle Liu'an's eyes almost popped out of his head. This cat is so spiritual.
"Probably not yet, it's only been about half a year since it was born."
Su Xiaofan shook his head. Duobao now only possesses some characteristics of extraordinary creatures, but its overall strength is still far behind.
"Did you get it from Shuangmen Village?"
When Lu'an asked, his eyes turned to Jing Shizhen.
"Yeah, how about it? Do you still want to go back?"
Jing Shizhen curled her lips and said: "Who said there are no extraordinary creatures in Shuangmen Village? If you make a mistake, don't blame me for taking advantage."
"Okay, you old guy, I'm not here to quarrel with you."
Lu'an's fiery temper actually didn't get angry when he heard Jing Shizhen's push, which made Su Xiaofan quite interesting. The relationship between the two did not seem to be as tense as it appeared on the surface.
"Two old men have been arguing for a lifetime. Xiaofan, please don't laugh."
Aunt Mei came out to smooth things over and said with a smile: "Don't think they will quarrel as soon as they meet, but if something happens to one of them, the other one will be willing to risk his life to help."
"Bah, who would?"
Jing Shizhen and Lu'an stared at each other with disdain on their faces.
"Okay, just hold on."
Aunt Mei smiled, the two brothers quarreled as soon as they met, but they were true life-and-death friends.
Jing Shizhen is unwilling to join the relevant departments, but Lu'an has always been thinking about helping him get an inner elixir for extraordinary creatures. However, in recent years, the relevant departments have not been able to successfully hunt extraordinary creatures, so this matter has never been done.
success.
But what Aunt Mei knew was that Lu'an and Jing Shizhen went to the restricted area more than once in private. Once, Lu'an was seriously injured and almost lost half of his life. After returning, he spent two years recovering.
"Master, Uncle Liu'an..."
"Call me Uncle Master. He is three days older than me. What do you call me Uncle Master?"
"Isn't it big enough to be three days old? Who followed me and called me brother after me when I was a kid?"
Before Su Xiaofan could finish his sentence, the two of them started arguing again, and it sounded like Su Xiaofan's head was not as big as usual.
"Okay, Xiaofan is a junior, you don't mind being embarrassed." It was Aunt Mei's words that made both of them shut up.
"Ahem, I wonder, Master, why do you want to see me when you come here?"
Su Xiaofan finally said a complete sentence, "If you have anything to do, just call me and I'll be there, so there's no need for all the elders to come here."
‘I’m not looking for you, this old guy is looking for you.”
Jing Shizhen shook his head and pointed at Liu'an.
"Master, what's wrong?" Su Xiaofan looked at Lu'an.
"Well, Xiaofan, are you really a foundation-building cultivator?"
Lu'an said with a solemn expression: "This is your master's three-flower gathering state. Have you really reached it?"
The relationship between Lu'an and Jing Shizhen was different from others. He knew Su Xiaofan's true cultivation level, but during this meeting, Lu'an could not feel any fluctuations of true energy from Su Xiaofan.
This can only explain two problems. The first is Su Xiaofan's skill in practicing the breath gathering technique.
The second thing is that Su Xiaofan's cultivation level is still better than his own, otherwise the breath gathering technique alone would not be able to hide his cultivation level so deeply.
"Yes, uncle."
Su Xiaofan glanced at his master and released a bit of energy helplessly. The realm of three flowers gathering on top of the second layer of earth flowers was immediately revealed.
"Good boy, take it seriously!"
Lu'an protested, "Back then, your master and I were pretentious, but we were trapped in the realm of the Great Zhoutian for decades. I didn't expect you to break through at such a young age. This is really better than the master!"
Lu'an and Jing Shizhen are both the most dazzling geniuses of their generation. When they were in their twenties, they had already reached the Great Zhoutian realm.
However, the shackles of heaven and earth that prevented them from cultivating since the Ming Dynasty have kept the two from being able to break through.
In the end, Lu'an joined the relevant departments, completed many tasks, and obtained the inner elixir of extraordinary creatures twenty years ago, which was a breakthrough.
But with greater ability comes greater responsibility. After his breakthrough in cultivation, Lu'an was seriously injured in several subsequent missions, causing his cultivation to remain at the early stage of foundation building.
"How about it? Do you want to join the relevant department? The resource problem for your future cultivation will be solved."
Lu'an looked at Su Xiaofan eagerly. He was now one of the top decision-makers of the relevant departments. It was only natural to recruit Su Xiaofan for the department.
"Just join."
Su Xiaofan shook his head and said: "Uncle, Master and I have the same temperament. When the country calls for something, I have no obligation to refuse, but I am still used to being lazy..."
The resources Su Xiaofan needs are different from what others imagine. He does not need restricted areas to practice, nor does he need pill skills.
Su Xiaofan only needs cultivation points, or rare meteorites that can be recharged. As for other things, they are not of much help to Su Xiaofan.
"Lu'an, don't come here to confuse my disciples. I don't want to see what you are like now."
Jing Shizhen said angrily: "You have seven injuries and eight tuberculosis, and your cultivation level has almost fallen back to the Great Zhoutian. They are using you until you die, so you are stubborn!"
"Uncle's injuries are quite troublesome."
Su Xiaofan carefully looked at Lu'an using the technique of observing Qi, and found that the fluctuations of Qi on his body appeared to be very disordered, and his breathing was somewhat uneven. Logically speaking, these conditions should not appear in a high-level cultivator.
"Alas, there is no other way. There was a riot in the restricted area of Dayun Province some time ago. Extraordinary creatures came out and we could only fight for one."
Lu'an smiled bitterly, looked at Su Xiaofan and said: "Xiaofan, there is no such thing as peaceful years in this world. The reason why you think so is because someone is carrying a heavy burden..."
"Bah, you're uneducated and you still speak so politely."
Jing Shizhen didn't give Lu'an any face, "Did I just go on a trip when I was at the border? Who stopped those surrendering troops? Don't just take all the credit for yourself."
"Uncle, what happened to the riot in the restricted area? How could an extraordinary creature come up with it?"
Su Xiaofan had no interest in the chicken soup for the soul instilled by Master Lu'an. Every loss must be rewarded. Wang Yangming, the last sage in China, had died long ago.
The reason why Lu'an is so exhausted is that he certainly has a sense of responsibility, but the inner elixir he received back then was not for nothing. It was an exchange of equal value, but Lu'an had to pay a little more.
Su Xiaofan's focus is still on what Master Lu'an said above. It is a big deal for extraordinary creatures to riot in the restricted area and want to come out.
In 22 days, I wrote 250,000 words. I’m a little tired. I had insomnia and couldn’t sleep yesterday, and my head is buzzing today.