Three years later...

"Brother Xiao, let's come back and eat when the meal is ready. A childish and innocent voice said.

"Okay, coming soon. A voice came, and the boy's voice was still a little immature because he had just changed his voice. In the distance, the boy was holding a pile of wood in one hand, the boy was dressed in gray and black cloth, his delicate face was well-defined, and his eyes were thorough, adding a bit of fortitude to his temperament. The boy has a large cloth coat on the upper half of his body, and a pair of short pants on the lower half of his body, which has several patches, and a yellow straw rope tied in the middle of his waist.

The sleeve of the boy's other hand was empty, and it appeared that the boy had a hand. The boy's right hand was wrapped in a long bandage. The boy was now fifteen years old, but his height was clearly not fifteen, and the bandaged arm contrasted sharply with his body.

Shi Xiao put the wood in his right hand next to the girl, the girl has not completely faded into immaturity, the girl is two years younger than Shi Xiao, the girl is thirteen years old this year. Shi Xiao is not happy when he calls "brother".

Shi Xiao has been cultivating in the sect since he was a child, and few people are willing to talk to him, in the eyes of others, Shi Xiao is like a piece of ice, and everyone who comes feels that he is "cold".

If you count your friends, Shi Xiao had a sister who took good care of him when he was in the sect. often makes something for Shi Xiao to eat, and some of the skills of cultivation also tell Shi Xiao, whether it is in cultivation or life, Shi Xiao is like an extra big sister.

The second is the boy's brother, and the boy's brother also belongs to the kind of meticulous care for the boy. Like Shi Xiao, Shi Xiao's senior brother is also an orphan. Shi Xiao's master sent his senior brother to the eastern border of the human race to investigate the harassment of foreign tribes, and his senior brother didn't even know about Shi Xiao's life and death.

Shi Xiao picked up the bowl, it was a bowl of white rice porridge, because the family's source of income depended on Shi Xiao to cut wood and sell it to those big families, the money earned in one day was just enough for three people to eat.

But this year, the girl's grandfather is not in very good health, and the girl's grandfather suffered from a cold disease in his legs last winter and has difficulty moving, so every time Shi Xiao and the girl take the wood to sell it together, the money from the sale will buy some medicine and come back to treat the girl's grandfather.

Because he didn't make much money, and he had to eat, every time he sold medicine to the girl's grandfather, it was just a slightly better medicine, and that kind of medicine could not be cured and was expensive, and the boy could only buy a day's amount at a time. Sometimes the girl's grandfather refused to take the medicine, because the old man was very strong, but every time he had to take the anti-cold medicine at the urging of the girl.

In the past few years, I also knew that the girl was an orphan, and the old man pulled the girl up, and before Shi Xiao came, the old man went up the mountain to cut wood, and then used the strongest labor force in the whole family (donkey) to pull the wood to the city.

"Ahem, Xiao'er, this is a good time for your development, let you eat white rice porridge every time, alas~ My old bones, if it weren't for this disease, alas~ I can still earn some money to buy you some good food. Ahem~" The old man said while lying on the bed facing Shi Xiao.

"It's okay grandpa, as long as you have a full stomach, grandpa takes good care of your body, and when I come back tonight, I will see if I can shoot a wild boar in the mountains or something to come back to make up for your body." Shi Xiao put down the bowl, wiped his mouth with his hand, and said with a smile.

"I won't eat it, get you two back to eat, I'm a dying person, what else do I need to eat!" the old man said weakly.

"Grandpa, don't let you say that. The girl ran to her grandfather's bedside and said angrily. The girl knew that her grandfather's illness was not serious, but that she had difficulty moving.

"That's it, old man, don't say that, I'm still waiting for you to take me deeper into the mountains to hunt and chop wood. The boy said. The boy knew that this was the old man's angry words, so he made a joke, and the boy had already run all over the mountain, because the boy's cultivation place was the top of the mountain.

"Okay!!Boy, I'll take you there when I'm better!" The old man's mood instantly improved.

"Brother Xiao, take this with you," the girl said. The girl picked up the freshly washed cloth towel and put it around Shi Xiao's neck. Although it was just late spring, the weather was still very hot in the afternoon, so the girl washed the cloth towel with water and brought it to Shixiao.

"Lin'er, thank you, I'm going up the mountain!" Shi Xiao touched the girl's head and said with a smile. The girl also looked at Shi Xiao with a smile, the big brother in front of her taught her a lot of things, in the eyes of the girl, Shi Xiao was like her own brother, she didn't know what Shi Xiao had experienced.

In short, Brother Shi Xiao taught her a lot of things she didn't know. Even girls can cultivate domain qi like those sect disciples.

In the past three years, Shi Xiao has also inquired about this place, but it is a place called Sunset City, because this place belongs to the western border of the human race, and the setting of the sun is very beautiful in this city, this city belongs to a big country in the western part of the human race, and the boy listened to the mythical beast brother who said that it used space magic to get here when he jumped off the cliff three years ago.

The boy didn't ask much, because all kinds of signs said that this self-proclaimed divine beast brother did not belong to that kind of ordinary character, so the divine beast brother couldn't ask these relatively low-end topics yet.

"Stinky boy, this divine beast taught you that cultivation method, you can try it again today. A voice suddenly popped out of Shi Xiao's head, and that voice was still milky, no different from three years ago.

"Okay brother," the boy said, sneering.

The boy sped up his speed, fortunately there was no one in the mountains and forests, otherwise I am afraid that people would think that the boy was a monster when they saw the boy "flying around" in the woods like this. In the past three years, Shi Xiao has not only learned the cultivation method taught to him by Brother Divine Beast, but also learned a kind of body quenching method taught by Brother Divine Beast, and has been exercising his body.

This brother taught him that his cultivation method and domain power were very different, or maybe they were two different things. The domain power only needs to be cultivated behind closed doors, but the things taught by the Divine Beast Brother must have a strong physical foundation to cultivate.

Brother Divine Beast said that this cultivation thing is called "aura", and when cultivating this aura, the premise is to have a strong physique. While Shi Xiao was exercising frantically, Brother Divine Beast also taught Shi Xiao some combat skills.

Brother Divine Beast said that these skills are the lowest level, and the advanced ones dare not teach them, for fear of damaging the boy's small body. The boy also asked how this divine beast's skill came about, and this divine beast casually perfunctory Shixiao, saying that it had nothing to do when it was cultivating at that time, and it was blindly figured out.

"Brother, I've always had a question for you!" said the boy.

"Say!" said the milky voice.

"How old are you?" the boy asked.

"Hmm," the milky voice thought.

"I don't know, I just remember the first time I opened my eyes, the world was in the midst of war, in this war I met a person who looked very similar to you, I can't remember what he looked like, he taught me how to cultivate, let me live well in that war era, as if he said something before leaving, as if he explained something, I didn't remember it very clearly at that time.

Then when I opened my eyes for the second time, I was in a place that had been affected by the war, and I got angry and fought with the people with masks, and then I was beaten by another group of people with the masks, and I fought with the people again, and then I was seriously injured, and just as I was about to find a place to recuperate, another group of people came out.

This time I didn't beat them, they didn't wear masks, they saw that I was so badly injured, and they kindly helped me heal and named me "Yuan", and told me the whole story of this god realm war, and then they sent me to the place where your sect is located, and I don't understand what to say about healing, and if the human race asks me for help in the future, I don't understand.

When I woke up for the third time, this place had completely changed and became your sect, and then I wanted to find another place to heal my wounds, and then I met you, a stinky boy. ”

"......" Shi Xiao was confused when he heard it, what kind of god realm war, what kind of healing, how did he feel that this divine beast brother was really a great character, who knew that he had been sleeping at all. "Haven't you been sleeping??" the boy asked.

"How do you speak, if I have been sleeping, how can I teach you the moves now? In short, I am an ancient divine beast, very old, and the stinky boy speaks with respect. The milky words in the milk said arrogantly.

"Okay... It's not good, just call you Yuanyuan, it's so familiar anyway," the boy smiled.

"You stinky boy has a pretty good mouth, when I go out one day, I have to cure you," said the milky voice in the milk angrily.

......

In a few minutes the boy had reached the top of the mountain. The boy found a large rock and sat cross-legged on his knees and began to absorb the aura. Shi Xiao finally figured out the truth of what Yuanyuan said. This aura cultivation is not like a domain force that can be cultivated directly in the body, the aura cultivation is based on the combination of all the elemental forces that exist in the natural world.

Therefore, spiritual energy cultivation must first absorb a little spiritual power, then cultivate, then enhance the body, then absorb, and then practice. Moreover, Yuan Yuan said that spiritual power cultivation and domain power cultivation came anyway, and the boy had already done it before, so this kind of cultivation was easy for the boy.

At first, the boy was also curious to practice the aura in reverse like a domain force, but he was scolded by Yuanyuan. Moreover, if the boy cultivates the aura on the contrary, he will not be able to gather in his body at all.

Several times he wanted to ask Yuanyuan, but Yuanyuan didn't tell him, saying that when he became stronger, he would naturally know, and said that he had seen a person who could practice the aura in reverse, and that it was the one who helped Yuanyuan heal his injuries at the beginning, and it looked like the boss of them had done it, and the boss vomited blood crazily when he cultivated like this.

Time passed very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the sun couldn't stop setting, and the boy felt that the time was not too early. The boy had just cultivated his aura to the limits of what his body could bear. The boy packed his things and prepared to go back, the basket on his back full of wood, and a pile of wood in his right hand.

Shi Xiao inserted the machete into the gap of the basket, and the machete was like new, because the boy didn't use a knife to cut wood at all, but used the aura that could just be condensed to cut wood, and the boy thought that this was also a matter of cultivation and strengthened his control over spiritual power.

Boys usually cut this bit of wood in the afternoon, because they cut a lot in the morning, and the afternoon is mainly based on cultivation, besides, if the boy cuts too hard, even if it is lucky, he has to spend effort to transport it back, plus pull it to the city to sell, this is not a small job.

After a few steps, he came to the road, and the boy walked slowly. It had been almost two years since he lived in this comfortable way, and the boy enjoyed it, but the boy knew that he still had something to do.

Even if you like this kind of life, the boy said to Yuanyuan, when will the aura be cultivated to the minimum standard of Yuanyuan, and when will he go to the continent in Yuanyuan's mouth to cultivate.

Although this human continent has aura, it is very thin, as if it has been absorbed by someone, and the thin aura is not enough for one's own cultivation.

Shi Xiao sped up his pace when he thought of this, "It's still inconvenient to have one hand." The boy thought. "If only Yuanyuan had one hand long," the boy looked at the bandaged right hand, which was very slender and blocked by the large sleeves of his coat.

"Yuanyuan is not there?" Shi Xiao asked.

"Why are you calling me?" said a milky voice.

"When will you be able to 'make' my left hand?" the boy asked with concern.

"Stinky boy, you are really like those people, that person is right, human beings are really greedy and can't be satisfied. Gave the good and immediately wanted the better. The milky voice in the milk said helplessly.

"I ......" the boy was also quite helpless.

"Forget it, for the sake of your cultivation aura for me to use, I'll help you do it when I can use your aura. The milky voice said.

"Yuanyuan, can you still use my aura?" the boy asked, puzzled.

"That's for sure, you don't look at who I am. Said proudly in a milky voice. "I told you a long time ago, I can only rely on absorbing your aura in your body to strengthen myself, you were still young at that time and only had domain power, I could only absorb the spiritual power of the outside world by myself, so my cultivation is very slow, but now it's different, you are also cultivating aura anyway, I'll just absorb yours." ”

"......" Shi Xiao was speechless, because he didn't expect that the reason why his cultivation was so slow was this, and every time he cultivated to the limit of his body, he slowly ran away, and he still wondered, he originally thought it was like this, who knew that it was sucked away by it. "Alas, who called people beasts!" the boy muttered with a sigh.

"What did you just say?" asked the milky voice.

"It's nothing, I said then I have to cultivate the aura to support you," Shi Xiao said with a smirk.

"Uh-huh, really?" the milky voice continued, for it didn't believe what the stinky boy was saying.

"It's true!, can I lie to you?!," the boy said wrongedly.

"Well, I'll trust you once!" the milky voice didn't ask much. The boy cultivated the aura to absorb it for himself, so as to avoid his frantic absorption of external spiritual power, one less step, which allowed him to absorb it for a while, and at the same time, he was not as tired as before, and he had to sleep and rest at every turn. Yuanyuan also has great hopes for this boy from the bottom of his heart. Yuan Yuan thought that maybe the boy would be able to fulfill the wish of the person at that time.

......

"I'm back, Brother Xiao. A voice came from afar, and the corners of Shi Xiao's mouth rose.

"Come back, Lin'er, I'll take you to the city to buy candy to eat. Shi Xiao responded.

"Uh-huh. The girl said happily.

"Brother Xiao, you see that I can cultivate domain power now. The girl said with her hands outstretched. The girl's palms were upward, and a milky white force appeared in the palms.

"???" Shi Xiao looked at the girl in surprise. Because counting this year, the girl has only been cultivating for a little more than two years and can use the domain solution, and this talent is many times higher than that of the land at that time. The boy learned domain power at the age of six, and barely understood the domain at the age of ten. Unexpectedly, the girl shortened the general time.

"Hmm... That's good!" Shi Xiao said as he looked at this pretending to be calm.

"This little Nier is not simple," Shi Xiao said in surprise in his mind.

"Ahem~ Pack up and take you to the city to reward you with candy!" the boy said as he touched the girl's head with his right hand.

The boy put the log on the cart, picked up the old donkey, and walked towards the city as usual.