Regarding Xia Haoran's worries, Ye Shanhe could only smile helplessly.

After all.

Xia Haoran's concerns are also a kind of actual status quo. It's just that fortunately, the marriage between the Ninth Bureau and the Ancient Martial Arts World has just begun, and presumably for their own purposes and interests, this situation will be improved in the future.

Confucianism uses literature to mess with the law, and chivalry uses martial arts to violate the ban.

Throughout history, literati have always relied on the pen to disrupt the legal system, and chivalrous men have always violated the law with violence. Therefore, every dynasty was very disgusted with literati and chivalrous people, and the accumulated grievances and hatreds between each other can be said to have a long history. Today, a situation of dialogue and cooperation has finally emerged, which is a great step forward.

And this can be regarded as Xia Haoran's last effort for the harmonious development of the two sides.

"Not bad!" Xia Haoran glanced at Ye Shanhe and said with a smile: "It's only been less than two months, and he has already refined the fifth layer of qi, and at this cultivation speed, it is just around the corner to return to the foundation building period." ”

"Uh......"

Ye Shanhe scratched his head, and said with a sneer: "I feel okay in the early stage!" However, it's really like what you said, brother, this cultivation of ancient martial arts and cultivation of truth can't be compared at all, just the Qi refining period, I feel that the heaven and earth aura required for promotion and breakthrough in the small realm is massive, if it weren't for the Great Spirit Gathering Array arranged with the help of Brother Haoran, as well as a large number of energy stones to support, I would not have recovered to the fifth layer of Qi refining so quickly." ”

Xia Haoran nodded and said, "Because the elder brother is originally in the late stage of the Heavenly Rank, when you change the True Heart Method, before the foundation building period, you can use all external forces such as pills, spirit fruits, spirit flesh, and spirit gathering formations to accelerate your cultivation, and you don't have to worry about the problem of unstable foundation." After speaking, Xia Haoran took out a storage bag and threw it to Ye Shanhe, and continued: "There are a few out-of-body demon beast bodies here, go back and share them privately with Zhang Lao and Brother Wang Zhen, eat more high-grade demon beast meat, which can accelerate the progress of your cultivation." But there is one thing to remember, this is an out-of-body demon beast, you should pay attention to moderation, if you accidentally light a firework, don't blame me!"

"Oh, this ...... This, then the old brother is not hypocritical!" Ye Shanhe took the storage bag, smiled awkwardly, and said: "I thanked the brothers on behalf of Zhang Lao and Xiao Wang, and in addition, I will strictly require them to do what they can." ”

Xia Haoran smiled and said, "By the way, the last time Brother Li came over, I was enlightened, and now he has officially embarked on the path of cultivation. It's just that his situation is different from the three of you, and there must not be the slightest bit of greed and opportunism, so pay more attention to it if it's okay, and mention it more. ”

"Understood!"

After sending Ye Shanhe away, Xia Haoran lay lazily on the sofa in the hall, holding a diamond the size of a turtledove egg in his hand and playing with it boringly.

Diamonds are not scarce on Earth, especially deep in the earth. And its current status is entirely due to the monopoly and speculation of certain unscrupulous capitalists. With the advertising phrase "diamonds are eternal, one will last forever", it has been forced to hype diamonds into high-end luxury goods in the minds of the public, and the price has been speculated to the sky, which makes people have to convince Westerners of their marketing methods.

It stands to reason that jadeite, known as the "treasure of the Orient", is far from being comparable to diamonds.

However.

Who would have thought that a well-planned diamond scam would make this originally worthless pure carbon crystal now overshadow the status of jadeite and Hetian jade, and it is sad to think about it.

"Yaoyao, do you think we should take out a large number of diamonds to mix them in the jewelry market and completely mess up this circle?" Xia Haoran looked at Li Mengyao beside him and said with a smile.

"Why?" Li Mengyao asked rhetorically.

"It's not nice to look at!"

Xia Haoran glanced at the diamond in his hand, and said angrily: "Have you read the report on the Internet? The birth of diamonds was originally just a scam used by some careerists to deceive the world. Pure carbon crystals like this don't have any real value, the only thing is that they are beautiful. If it is compared with jadeite, which is known as the "treasure of the Orient", and Hetian jade, diamonds are simply a slag, no! ”

"But it is this worthless garbage that is being hyped up by those capital consortia to be worth more than gold. And I also tell you that the reserves of pure carbon crystals like diamonds in the world are too large, so we only need to dig a few tons and dozens of tons at will, and we can turn the entire jewelry market upside down, and at the same time we can take the opportunity to make a profit. ”

"You kid......"

After listening to Xia Haoran's words, everyone in the hall couldn't help but laugh in unison.

"Haoran, you just said that there are a lot of diamonds?" Li Mengyao asked rhetorically.

"That's right!"

Xia Haoran nodded affirmatively and said, "This kind of pure carbon crystallization is very common on the earth, not to mention in the depths of the earth, where it almost abounds. And the high-end jewelry market like I just mentioned is nothing more than diamonds, gold, jadeite and pearls and other jewelry, and such mundane things, as long as we want, just look for a few veins to excavate. ”

"And,"

Speaking of this, Xia Haoran paused slightly, and continued: "Even if we don't dig an inverted bucket on the earth, we can go to the moon to do evil." The most important thing on the moon is all kinds of mineral resources, and you can have whatever you want. So, don't think how difficult it is to make money in business, in the eyes of us cultivators, as long as you want, you can grasp all the money and wealth in the world in a matter of minutes, so as to create one business empire after another. ”

Li Mengyao couldn't help but glance at Xia Haoran when she heard this, and said, "This matter will be discussed later." Isn't our company's science and technology project sector just launched, and you have also taken over the mess of ancient Chinese medicine, so in the next year or two, you don't want to be as easy and free as before. ”

"Uh...... Okay then!" Xia Haoran suddenly said with a lack of interest.

At the dinner party.

When Ning Rongrong rushed into Tingyuxuan, he threw himself into Xia Haoran's arms, his little face full of grievances and unhappiness.

"Girl, what's wrong with you?"

Xia Haoran stretched out his hand and took the little girl in his arms, and said with a smile: "Is that blind guy who provoked my precious apprentice?" Tell the master, for the master to help you clean him up, so that you can be angry!"

"Okay, okay, Master, you can quickly clean yourself up!" Ning Rongrong said with a wicked smile.

"Uh......"

Xia Haoran couldn't help but roll his eyes, he raised his hand and knocked on the little girl's head, and said angrily: "Apprentice, you're starting to be naughty again, aren't you?

"Hmph, Master, you take the cute little sister out to play without me, you are angry. ”

Seeing the little girl's expression full of urgency, Xia Haoran said angrily: "Master, didn't you take into account that you still have to go to school, do you think this is okay, after you have winter vacation, Master will take you there for a few days?"

"Oh yes!"

After hearing this, Nan Nan immediately jumped up happily, and said happily: "Master, then it's settled! Little aunt, little junior sister, and grandparents all help me testify!" After speaking, the little girl seemed to suddenly remember something, and said, "Master, I have informed the second senior sister, she should be there soon." ”

After the dinner.

In the study on the second floor of Tingyuxuan, Xia Haoran and Lin Jinxuan sat opposite each other.

After sitting quietly for a while, Xia Haoran looked at Lin Jinxuan opposite, rolled his eyes, and said angrily: "I said Lin girl, if there is anything, just say it." What the hell are you doing here? and you're so mysterious with me......"

"Master, Mo Fang, be calm!"

Lin Jinxuan looked at Xia Haoran who was full of confusion, and couldn't help laughing, she immediately took out a letter from her exquisite handbag and handed it to Xia Haoran, and said: "That's it, someone especially emphasized that I must hand it over to you by hand." ”

"It's really old-fashioned, what years have it been, and there are still people writing letters...... " Xia Haoran pursed his lips speechlessly, took the letter and opened it and looked at it.

"Uh......"

After just a general glance, Xia Haoran shifted his gaze from the letter to Lin Jinxuan's face, and hurriedly asked, "Are they already gone?"

"Sure!"

Lin Jinxuan nodded affirmatively and said, "On the sixth day of the National Day holiday, they found me after returning from a trip outside, and asked me to hand over this letter to Master with my own hands, and left the Tianyuan Clinic together in the early morning of the next day. ”

Xia Haoran was silent for a moment when he heard this, and once again cast his eyes on the letter in his hand.

There's not much content.

In the letter, the two little girls first expressed their heartfelt thanks for their care during this time, and then gave a general introduction to some of the secrets of the hidden door that they knew.

For example, the Hidden Door is actually just a collective term for many secret realms. Among them, not to mention the unknown secret worlds, the larger ones are Kunlun Secret Realm, Qinggu Secret Realm, Floating Secret Realm, and overseas Penglai Secret Realm.

These large-scale secret realms are the 'inner worlds' that connect to the main space. Just like the small worlds of the secret realm that Xia Haoran had discovered so far, these inner worlds were their own, and they did not have the slightest conflict with the main space. Ordinary people can't go in and out of the inner world and the main space freely, but there is a group of people who can master the space secret and open the portal between the inner world and the main space through an ancient sacrificial ritual, so that people can travel between the two worlds.

Seeing this, Xia Haoran couldn't help but pout, what kind of bullshit space secret order, what kind of sacrifice, it is clearly a formation token similar to a 'key', which is used to open the sealing array and let people enter and exit freely.

Merely.

According to the two little girls, every time you open this channel, you need to pay a great price. Otherwise, it would not be possible for this passage to be opened only once in fifty years, for people in the inner world to come out to experience or find something, and there is a limit to the number of people who come out each time, and the time limit must be set to return.