When Ning Du returned home, it was already late, and Hu Ran cooked a large pot of bone broth, which was topped with steamed eggplants.

"Young master, you're back!" Hu Ran was busy pounding garlic and mixing it on top of the eggplant.

"This is not the time to eat eggplant. "Ning Du habitually points out those trivial mistakes.

"Don't eat it!" Hu Ran put the garlic and eggplant on the table, and Gu Zisheng went to the soup.

Ning Du didn't go with Hu Ran to get angry, and ate the oil pancakes that had just come out of the pot.

"Don't say it, it's quite fragrant. ”

Hu Ran rolled his eyes, and didn't care about Ning Du. She had already figured out the young master's temper, and the more she said, the more she was ridiculed, but she ignored the young master, and the young master had nothing to say.

"By the way, what are the odds of buying me to win now?"

"The price offered by most casinos is one to ten for Li Xiu, young master, you are ten to one. "Hu Ran is like a skilled veteran, who stays at home and knows these things well. After all, there are many casinos, and she is a rich man, so there are always people who are willing to blow more with her.

"How much have you spent?"

"No more, no less, only six or seven thousand!" Hu Ranfeng said lightly. On weekdays, she cares about a few pennies, but she spends a lot of money in this regard. She said six or seven thousand, but in fact it was sixty or seventy million taels, which is definitely a jaw-dropping number.

Ning Du laughed and said, "If you win, won't you become the richest man in Tiandu?"

"It's okay. Hu Ran said casually, but the meat in his mouth was more fragrant.

"The richest man in Hu?"

"Oh, oh, that's a little meaning, young master, don't say that. ”

"The richest man in Hu. ”

"Hahahaha......" Hu Ran laughed comfortably, if she went out to walk now, she would never look down at the ground, and her head would be raised to the sky.

"Hu Shoufu!" Ning Du couldn't help laughing, of course he didn't want to puncture Hu Ran's dream, he wouldn't tell her that the illusory number couldn't turn into white silver, and he wouldn't tell her that it was his own money to win and win.

Hu Ran ignored the young master's initial picking, and happily went to clean up the dishes and chopsticks after eating.

Ning Du lay in the courtyard, looking at the night sky gradually darkening through the grape trellis.

"What happened in the Hundred Refining Tower should be known. Shenfeng Academy, is it still necessary to go?"

The sudden events of the last two days are enough to change fate, and it is too difficult to maintain a peaceful state of mind. And once it is affected and can't calm down and practice, there will be no possibility of winning in the next battle with Li Xiuxi.

"What does the Hundred Refining Vitality have to do with me, how could I absorb so many Hundred Refining Vitality at once?"

Ning Du could only talk to Shang Chonggu about this matter, and he could no longer discuss it with others. But wouldn't the people of the Shenfeng Academy know? Didn't they notice it at all? No, absolutely impossible!

A sense of crisis lingered in my heart.

"If you think about it carefully, your ability has been exposed too many times, leaving too many clues, and once someone checks it, you can definitely find out a lot of things. Not to mention the two old bastards, the events of the year were enough to make me the object of coveted by countless people,"

Ning Du remembered what Pang Jiushan said at this time, "It's not easy to concentrate on cultivation", and also understood why Shang Chonggu was not very happy to see him participate in the Wanguo Dynasty.

Now, he is far from being able to deal with what happened alone, and he is not capable of concentrating on his cultivation.

"At the end of the Dynasty of Nations, you must practice well in the Qingteng Garden for a period of time. ”

Ning Du made up his mind, and after Qingyun finished trying, he devoted himself to cultivation in the Qingteng Garden, and at least he had to step into the mountain realm before he could display his ability outside.

After thinking for a while, Ning Du decided not to go to Shenfeng Academy anymore. As for what he saw in the Hundred Refining Tower, he could only investigate it slowly, and this matter must not be known to anyone.

"Young master, this is the last bunch of grapes. Hu Ran washed the grapes he had picked and ate two for Ning Du.

"Hmm. Ning Du closed his eyes lightly and breathed slowly.

After Hu Ran finished eating, he picked up her peach wood. She had already carved out the six Spring Breeze Swords that the young master needed, but she felt that the young master would need more swords in the future, and if she carved a few more, she would always be prepared.

"I really don't need it, if I take it out and sell it, my sword will be worth a hundred taels of silver." Hu Ran thought like this, feeling that he also had a skill, and he would not starve to death in the future.

Streaming down.

With the fall of the sawdust, Hu Ran also entered the world of selflessness, and her realm rose rapidly unconsciously.

Difficult in the middle of the journey.

It's hard to go up.

The bottleneck between realms and realms seemed to exist here in Hu Ran, and she easily stepped into the upper realm of difficulty, which means that her current cultivation is already above Ning Du. It's just that she never exerts her vitality, and the flow of meridians is quite slow, and few people can detect it.

At this time, Ning Du was still struggling to move forward in the middle of difficulties.

The meridians are as hard as mountain stones, relying on the chiseling little by little, just a sheep intestine path is difficult enough, and at this time, it is necessary to carve out a broad road, and the time and effort required are unimaginable.

The snow on the Tianshan Mountains melted into pure vitality flowing through the meridians, and there was not the slightest sign of widening the meridians. As for the Hundred Refining Yuan Qi absorbed from the Hundred Refining Tower, it seemed as if it had completely disappeared, and it was not felt at all. Ning Du couldn't think of a reason for such a strange thing, he just felt that the power was hidden in his body.

Time is passing rapidly, Ning Du's realm is stagnant, but Hu Ran's realm is making rapid progress.

Gradually, when it was dawn, Ning Du opened his eyes, carried Hu Ran back to the house as usual, and went to the roof alone, looking at Tiandu, who was gradually waking up. Throughout the night, there was no substantial progress in his cultivation.

"I see a lot of dogs in the sky. ”

Thinking of his evaluation when he first entered the Heavenly Capital, Ning Du couldn't help but want to laugh at himself at that time. In just a few months, he realized how big a gap he had with his peers, whether it was Chen Nanping, Tie Lianhua, Jiang Bairen, or Li Xiuxi, they were all targets he should catch up, not to mention those seniors who had already stepped on the peak, and now he was just a cultivator at the bottom.

"There are many heroes in the sky. This is a fact that Ning Du has to admit, and it is also a fact that everyone in the world agrees with.

There had been so much that had happened in the last few days, and Ning Du became more and more aware of the lowliness of his realm. When Shang Chonggu couldn't shelter himself from the wind and rain, how could his weak self deal with these successive crises?

Among the things that happened one after another, in addition to ability, the most test was Ning Du's state of mind. There was still a day left before the battle with Li Xiuxi, and Ning Du still had too many things to prepare, but his realm was still stagnant. He wanted to win, but he couldn't afford to.

For Ning Du, this is really eventful.

The combination of fate-changing things and longed-for victories is enough to break the hearts of most people.

As soon as the cold wind rolled, the autumn rain fell again, delaying the dawn indefinitely.

Ning Du looked up at the rain that was rapidly magnifying in his field of vision, feeling the coldness on his face, and his mood changed slightly.

The rain was getting heavier, and a smile gradually appeared on Ning Du's face.

"There are many heroes in the sky. ”

"It's better than—"

"I was born out of nowhere!"

......

"Are you sure?" Zeng Mingkai asked again and again. If it weren't for the fact that it was too risky for him to go out at this time, he would have to go and confirm it himself. The last time it was used, and it lost most of its available power.

"That's right, it's him, Ning Du, who has been in the limelight in the Qingyun test recently!"

Zeng Mingkai was not overjoyed, he pondered intently, and pondered countless times whether there was a flaw in his plan.

"Have I done what I told you?" Zeng Mingkai suddenly asked.

"It's all explained to the brethren. ”

"Do it right now! Be sure to do exactly what I say, and there must not be the slightest sloppiness!" Zeng Mingkai said sharply, with the meaning of wanting to kill in his words.

"Yes!"

Zeng Mingkai paced in the room alone, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter, almost squeezing the blood from the center of his eyebrows.

"If you follow the original plan and calculate the time, it should be tomorrow. There are already people from Dongjin Palace all around, no matter whether the plan will succeed or not, Dongjin Palace will definitely not let me go. It would be too far-fetched to want to lead all the troubles to Ning Du. No matter how clever the plan is, with the ability of Dong Jin Palace, he will definitely be able to find out the problem. It's still impossible to completely erase my traces. What matters is how much time Ning Du can buy. ”

With Zeng Mingkai's keen sense of smell, he concluded that Dongjin Palace would arrest him tomorrow at the latest, and now that he was in such an isolated and helpless situation, there was almost no possibility of escaping with the resources in his hands, and the only possibility was the current plan. It's just that he didn't expect that the scourge of losing Sui Yuzhu would now become the only possibility of escaping. People have to sigh that Seong is not a blessing if he loses his horse.

There are too many unpredictable dangers, Zeng Mingkai's head is about to explode, and at this time, he can't help but think of the messenger who once came to lobby.

"Southland, Turi. Zeng Mingkai laughed at himself, laughing at himself for believing the other party's remarks when he was crazy. Now it seems that he is just a pathfinder stone, and hitting the iron plate and breaking his bones is the end he deserves.

"I thought I could become the promoter of the times, but I didn't want to be a gravel in the torrent of the times. Mole ants fight the sky, and they can't measure themselves. ”

Zeng Mingkai only sighed for a moment, and then forced himself to refine his plan again, now is not the time to feel sad.

"No one is a fool, it is definitely not okay to go to Dongjin Palace in a daze to expose Ning Du's rebellion against the enemy, you must lead Dongjin Palace over step by step, so that they think they have caught a big fish, so that they can be trusted. This plan must not show a little bit of horse's feet!"