"What?" Wu Jie was stunned and couldn't help but ask, "What are you talking about? Are you confused?"
"Disciple is not confused. What happened this time has made me think a lot..." Qiao Feng lowered his head. Although he was very respectful, his tone was firm, "After the disciple was injured, thanks to the master who spared no effort to save him, he was able to recover."
During the time when I was recovering from my injuries, I calmed down and kept thinking.
"Since I was a child, I have dreamed of becoming a knight-errant who fights injustices with justice and wealth. Later, by chance, I was favored by the master, became his disciple, and was taught the supreme skills. I knew that I was stupid, so I practiced hard every day and did not dare to slack off. Finally, I got it.
What he has achieved is that he has become a well-known figure in the world, which can be regarded as fulfilling his lifelong wish."
"Over the years, my disciples' cultivation has become deeper and deeper, their abilities have become stronger and bigger, and the things they have done have become bigger and bigger. At first, they just took care of local ruffians, then they took care of villains and bandits, and then they took care of corrupt officials...
In the end, I even care about the rise and fall of the country..." Qiao Feng sighed deeply, "When I am busy, I don't feel tired. But after taking a rest these days, looking back, I feel very tired."
"I have taken care of too many things, which have far exceeded my original ideal. When you taught me, master, you once said, 'Too far is not enough. People who practice Taoism should not be impatient or greedy... When I looked back, I felt that I
I am too impatient and greedy, and I have reached a height that I originally did not want to reach."
Wu Jie sat there without speaking, quietly listening to what he said.
In so many years, this was the first time that his eldest apprentice complained to his master and confessed his fatigue and uneasiness.
The relic exudes a soft light on the table next to him. It is the crystallization of a Buddhist monk's lifelong cultivation. It has incredible miraculous effects. Even Qiao Feng, who has destroyed his Taoist foundation, can replenish his origin.
It can even increase a lot of cultivation level.
As long as he takes the relic and refines it, Qiao Feng can directly become a great master at the Yuan Condensation level and step into a realm that he could not otherwise reach.
But Qiao Feng was unwilling. His choice was unexpected. He actually decided to quit the path and end his life as an ordinary martial arts master.
"I thought a lot and thought for a long time. Finally, I figured it out. I didn't intend to become an immortal, nor did I want to live forever. I just wanted to be a warrior who fights injustices in the world. Even if I can't step into the innate
The realm doesn’t matter.”
Qiao Feng raised his head and smiled. His smile was as warm as the sunshine in winter: "My power as a monk is gone, but my power as a warrior is still there. This kind of power is enough."
Wu Jie was silent for a while and asked: "Are you planning to return to Zhaoyang County? The current Zhaoyang County is no longer the Zhaoyang County you are familiar with."
"No, I'd better go to Nanping County." Qiao Feng said with a smile, "With my current ability, it's no problem to be a hero in Nanping County."
Wu Jie nodded, stood up silently, put away the relics, and led Qiao Feng to the corner of the Qingyang Mountain Mountain Protection Formation.
This is the place where Qingyang Guanquan serves as a prison cell. Many people are imprisoned, including Lin Xiao.
"Ah Xiao, your senior brother plans to quit the path and become a mortal." He did not give Lin Xiao a chance to ask in surprise, and said seriously, "It just so happens that you are going to the human world to be a mortal for a period of time. I will send you to Nanping County.
By the way, I’ll help you change your appearance.”
Lin Xiao already knew the punishment he would receive. He had no objections. On the contrary, he regretted it.
If he hadn't been unable to help himself, the senior brother wouldn't have been hurt so badly and the master wouldn't have gotten into huge trouble.
Although the master had great powers and solved the trouble, it did not alleviate his self-blame.
"Disciple, I will take good care of my senior brother."
Wu Jie nodded, brought Lin Xiao out, rode a cloud of fire, and carried the master and apprentice to Nanping County in an instant.
Since the relocation of people, the land of Nanping County has become larger and the population has increased a lot. But for this large county with a vast land and sparsely populated areas, the population is far from enough to fill its needs. Many people
The place still looked desolate.
But being in the cloud sky, Wu Jie could clearly see strands of vigorous vitality rising from the human world and forming white clouds over Nanping County.
This is a prosperous trend. In the next hundred years or so, Nanping County will prosper and prosper, and it can be called a peaceful and prosperous age.
Wu Jie believes that even if there is any war in the outside world in the future, it will be difficult to affect the isolated Nanping County. This land surrounded by mountains has become like the Taoyuan Township in ancient Chinese legends, becoming a place to escape war.
A place of peace.
He took his two apprentices and quietly landed in the corner of Zhendongguan, next to the big leafless tree.
The location here is very good, just on a small mountain peak, and you can see the scenery far away. If you have good eyesight and the weather is clear like today, without a sea of clouds, you can even overlook the thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in Nanping County.
, it can truly be called a scenic spot on earth.
"Where are you going?" he asked.
"It doesn't make any difference to me where I work as a waiter. I will go wherever my senior brother goes." Lin Xiao shrugged and said casually.
Wu Jie looked at Qiao Feng again. Qiao Feng's eyes swept across Nanping County, and finally pointed to a nearby place at random.
"There seems to be a small town over there, I think it's quite suitable."
Wu Jie nodded and led them to the small town.
There are not many residents in the town, but the location is good. It is not far from Zhendongguan. However, after looking around the town, there is only a small teahouse, neither an inn nor a restaurant.
I think this town must have suffered from the fact that bustling towns were not allowed near the pass. In addition, Nanping County itself had a small population, so it did not develop. Now this restriction has naturally disappeared, and the population of Nanping County is increasing again. It should be
It will gradually become more prosperous.
After Wu Jie observed it carefully, he approached the town officials and said that he wanted to buy a piece of land and build a restaurant.
The official smiled bitterly when he heard this and asked: "I usually welcome distinguished guests who want to buy land. But now, even if you have paid the money, where can I go to get you a document?"
"Huh? Isn't the Emperor here?"
"A few days ago, the emperor had issued an edict to abdicate. The edict stated that from now on, Nanping will only have the Xiong family working together with everyone, and there will no longer be a court, leaving each place to do its own thing." The official shook his head repeatedly, "Suddenly it became a party.
Sir, it seems good. But I don’t know what to do anymore... With the imperial court gone, there is no need to collect taxes, and of course there is no need to send out servants. All kinds of documents and contracts... I don’t know how to issue them..."
"Haha, there are really few officials like you."
"Well, I have seen the scene when Ji Shihou moved the mountain. The glory and wealth in the world, the grudges and grudges, what do they mean?" The official was not old, but his tone was quite mature, as if he had a way of seeing through the world.
Indifferently, "There is no owner of that place. If you want to build a restaurant, you can build it yourself. I will record it for you here, and there is no other handling fee. But in front of me, I can't get the document from the court."
"
Of course Wu Jie didn't need any paperwork, so he came to the town, hired some workers, and started building a restaurant.
It is said to be a "restaurant", but it is actually just a house with three rooms inside and outside. The inner room is the bedroom; the middle room is the kitchen, and the outermost room is the store.
The room is not big, and there is barely room for four small square tables in the store. Although each square table can theoretically seat four people, if sixteen people are seated, they will definitely bump into each other, and the table will probably be too crowded.
There is no room for so much food and wine.
"Not bad, from now on you will be the boss of this restaurant." When the restaurant was completed, Wu Jie brought Qiao Feng and Lin Xiao over and said to Lin Xiao, "Uncle Li Xiaoyao was the waiter back then, you can just become the boss of this restaurant."
Being the boss is much more advanced than him."
"...What kind of waiter does this small shop need..." Lin Xiao sighed, "The waiter of the boss's chef's shop, I will take care of everything by myself, master, is this what you mean?"
"Yes, do good work and be a good person."
Lin Xiao, who had been sealed as a cultivator, sighed helplessly, put on the linen clothes that were no different from those of the townspeople, and went to the kitchen to get busy.
He is naturally arrogant. Even if he runs such a small restaurant, he still has to do it well. The most important thing is his cooking skills.
"Junior brother, can he... know how to cook?" Qiao Feng asked worriedly as he followed Wu Jie on the road leading out of the town.
"Isn't he very good at making tea? The truth should be similar."
Qiao Feng couldn't help but laugh when his master compared the elegance of literati with the cooking of ordinary people.
"Then, I will live here." He looked around and saw the spacious terrain, and nodded with satisfaction, "There are trees and water here, and no one seems to be cultivating nearby. I just happened to build a hut to live in.
- Anyway, I will probably be wandering around all year round, this house is just a mark, there is no need to pay attention to it."
Wu Jie was silent for a moment, waved his hand, and the mana flowed. In an instant, a sturdy wooden house was built in the forest on the roadside. Even all the utensils in the house were ready. However, these cannot be made with mana alone.
It was bought by him alone in the mortal world these days.
Seeing Qiao Feng say goodbye and leave, he was silent for a long time. Finally, with a flick of his fingers, the relic fell silently and was picked up by a big red cat that suddenly appeared next to him and swallowed.
"Help me take care of him."
The big cat showed a personalized smile on his face, nodded, and ran away. His movements were vigorous and agile, and every ounce of strength was used just right.
If any martial arts master sees this scene, he will definitely be shocked by this cat. He may even bow his head and shout "Master". Of course, it is indeed qualified to be a master. After all, in terms of age in this world, it is...
Among the great immortals and demons, few are older than him.
"First you were a lion, then you were a tiger... Now it seems that being a cat is the most suitable for you." Watching Chiya follow Qiao Feng from a distance, Wu Jie smiled, no longer worried, and flew towards the east on the fire cloud.
go.
When arranging things for Qiao Feng and Lin Xiao, he naturally thought of his second apprentice Qin Jing whose whereabouts were unknown. Now that things for Qiao Feng and Lin Xiao have been arranged, his cultivation at this moment has reached a bottleneck again, so he takes advantage of this opportunity.
Take this opportunity to go again and try to find news about Qin Jing.
Xiao Buyi and Su Lin both made calculations for Qin Jing back then, and the results were very strange. It was not life or death that could not be calculated, but the results were hazy, as if they were covered by something.
Naturally, Qin Jing cannot have the ability to hide the secrets of heaven, so he may be somewhere isolated from the world.
Wu Jie is not good at divination, but he has a stupid method. It requires long-term preparation and powerful supernatural powers. It needs to be tried and tested.
He flew to the sea east of Changning City and took out a portrait.
This is Qin Jing’s portrait. In the past few years, his wife, children and juniors have all been silently thinking about it every day under Wu Jie’s instructions.
The blood and breath are connected, and over the years, this portrait has gained a mysterious vitality. Wu Jie used his cultivation at the peak of Ning Yuan to use the most powerful magical power to refine it into a magical weapon.
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This magical weapon can neither be used in combat nor in practice. Its only purpose is to sense Qin Jing's aura. No matter how long ago, some of the aura can be found.
Of course...the longer he searches for the breath from the past, the more mana he will consume. If Wu Jie hadn't gone through the mountain-moving move and used the true fire body to practice and catalyze it, he would continue to absorb and fuse the true mana that he had accumulated in the world of the Book of Heaven for many years.
, and gained endless power from the creation of heaven and earth, and rushed to the peak of Ningyuan in one fell swoop. I'm afraid I still don't have the confidence to use it well.
But now he is already a top figure comparable to Huandan Patriarch. Although using this magic weapon consumes a lot of money, it is no longer a problem for him.
Standing on the sea, Wu Jie closed his eyes, concentrated, and urged the image to cast spells silently, looking for the remaining breath of Qin Jing.
Time passed little by little, and the sun, which had risen not long ago, gradually reached the top of the head and gradually turned to the west.
When night fell and the sky was filled with stars, Wu Jie suddenly opened his eyes and smiled.
I found this is the aura left by Qin Jing fighting the sea monster here more than 40 years ago.
He just smiled, then regained control of his breath, concentrated his mind, and pursued the direction of the wisp of breath. His pace was not fast, and it was even slower than ordinary Taoist monks running on the ground.
But even this pace was a little too fast. So he soon found that he had lost the clue to the breath, and had to go back to the place where he found the breath before and search again.
This kind of thing happened several times. Fortunately, he gradually got used to this kind of thing. Although he couldn't speed up the pace, the cases where he lost his breath became less and less.
Days passed by, and before we knew it, the weather gradually turned cooler, and then finally one day, it started to snow.
"Is it winter in the world?" During his break, he would come to the Nether World to meet Yin Shuang. Yin Shuang often chatted with him about the affairs of Heaven and Earth - ever since Han De led Yu Zong to annex the Blood Sect, the affairs of Heaven and Earth were
The atmosphere was a bit tense, and the Demon Sect's failure in refining the twelve gods and demons for the second time not long ago only made this tense atmosphere even more intense.
"Yes, it's snowing. But on the vast sea, snowflakes cannot accumulate. You can only see them falling silently and then disappearing into the sea. There is also a quiet feeling." Wu Jie didn't care about the twelve gods.
Demon, he is full of confidence at the moment. He believes that as long as he cultivates the Nine-turn Golden Pill, no matter whether it is the Twelve Gods and Demons, the Black Robe of the Heavenly Demon, or Han De, who is known as the strongest man in the Demon Sect, he will never be his opponent.
Seeing how relaxed Wu Jie was, Yin Shuang stopped mentioning those disappointing things and leaned gently into his arms.
"I have completely refined the blood orb left to me by the former sect leader. Now I am also a great master in the late stage of Yuan Condensation."
"Haha, then I'll be waiting for you to succeed in returning the elixir."
"However... Sect Master Han said that I'd better not rush to achieve the Returning Pill, because there is a problem with our blood sect's technique. If we achieve the Returning Pill, we will fundamentally change ourselves and gradually move closer to the demon outside the territory."
"Huh? Aren't your techniques closer to the demons outside the territory?"
"I also have this question, but Sect Master Han said that the Shenmen Cultivation Technique was originally supposed to be a nine-turn pill that ascended to the upper world. The reason why it gradually turned into an extraterrestrial demon was because there were hidden dangers within the Cultivation Technique. He has modified Yu Zong's
The next step is to modify the skills of the Blood Sect... He plans to spend hundreds of years revising all the skills of the Shenmen to recreate the style of the ancient Shenmen."
Wu Jie was stunned for a moment and frowned.
Even Jasmine can't do this kind of thing
"Humph, I just didn't spend any time to think about this." Jasmine was immediately furious, "Master, just wait, just give me ten days... No, just give me five days and I will use the old ghost with the Sky Eyes as a test subject.
You can transform a blood sect technique that will not turn you into an extraterrestrial demon."
"...Since you have this ability, why didn't you do it before?"
"Master, those who pursue the supreme road should not be greedy for women. In the future, she will become a demon and go to the devil world. You ascend to the upper world and never see each other again. You only leave a beautiful memory in your heart. Isn't it good?
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"...It's not easy to do things quickly." Wu Jie yelled, and Jasmine walked to the research room dejectedly, and with one move, she grabbed the old man with Sky Eyes from the torture chamber who had been tortured by her to the point where he had completely lost his former composure.
"Damn old ghost, you caused me to be trained by my master," she yelled viciously, "I will definitely retaliate ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, just wait and see
The sky-eyed old man's eyes were full of despair and helplessness, and now he didn't even bother to scream.
As the saying goes, there is no greater sorrow than death.
After returning to the human world from the netherworld again, Wu Jie took a short rest and continued to look for the aura left by Qin Jing.
The strange thing is that this time, the breath went towards the deep sea. No matter how he dived, it became deeper and deeper, as if he had entered a bottomless abyss.
Wu Jie continued to dive in search of the direction of the breath, and finally saw a strange whirlpool on the endless seabed.
