Xia Jiang put away the complicated expression on his face, reached out and touched her head, and sighed: "Who else is there besides him?" In order to force me away, he even disregarded the reputation of the family business, this family master ...... If the old ancestor is here, how dare he come so nonsense?"

"But now that the ancestors are in retreat, I don't know when I will be able to come out and administer justice. Xia Jiao was also very troubled.

One of the important reasons why the head of the family does not want to see Grandpa Jiang is her.

Her father, Xia Ren, and the head of the family, Xia Gu, are cousins.

At that time, Xia Ren was extremely talented, and his brilliance surpassed all the brothers of the same generation in the Xia family. The head of the family is also one of the people who has been overshadowed, and he has always been very jealous in his heart.

In the past, Xia Gu's strength was far inferior to Xia Ren's, even if he hated it, he could only hide it in his heart, but now that Xia Ren is dead, he doesn't know where the bones are, leaving only an only daughter with an unknown biological mother with extremely poor talent, Xia Gu will naturally not be polite anymore.

He transferred all his resentment and dissatisfaction with his cousins to Xia Jiao, a little girl, and looked at her in every way unpleasant.

Xia Jiang thought very openly: "It's a big deal that I don't want to be the shopkeeper of this Xia Ji firm, they like to fight, let them fight, I don't believe it, there is no way to live without the Xia family, but it just hurts you." ”

The position of the shopkeeper of Xia Ji was personally assigned to Xia Jiang by the ancestor of the Xia family, and the head of the family, Xia Gu, coveted this oily position very much, and used a lot of means openly and secretly.

Over the years, Xia Jiang has relied on this position as a shopkeeper to collect a lot of pills for Xia Jiao to strengthen his physique and improve his cultivation.

He attached more importance to Xia Jiao than to himself, so he strictly guarded and firmly grasped this position, and did not give the head of the family a chance to interfere.

The old ancestor had been in retreat for many years, and Xia Gu finally couldn't help it, and he didn't know what conditions to use to move Master Qin, so he turned to them, and it seemed that he was planning to tear his face publicly.

Tomorrow, when the guests come to the door, Xia Jiang can't hand over enough spirit runes, so he can only lose money. What's even more troublesome is that the business in the shop will inevitably plummet because of Master Qin's departure, and then the head of the family will be able to seize this handle and summon the elders of the clan to remove him on the grounds that Xia Jiang's poor management has damaged the reputation of the family business.

Xia Jiang didn't care about the so-called authority and oil and water, he was only worried that if he couldn't provide Xia Jiao with pills in the future, her cultivation would be even more difficult.

Xia Jiao's cultivation was extremely slow, not because of his poor innate qualifications, but because he was too seriously injured when he was a child. Xia Jiang knew that he didn't have the ability to restore her to her original state, as long as she could be healthier, he would be satisfied.

He never minded Xia Jiao's slow cultivation progression, and it was also because he didn't expect anything to be achieved with her physique.

"What do I have to work for? People who are too perfect will be jealous, I'm so smart, it's not strange that my body is weaker, it's always good to take care of it slowly. "Xia Jiao's self-feeling has always been surprisingly good.

Hearing this, Xia Jiang didn't know whether to praise her optimism and confidence, or sigh for her calmness.

"Grandpa Jiang, painting talismans...... Is it difficult? Is it only possible for people who are very good at cultivating to do it?" Xia Jiao asked innocently, this was what she was really concerned about.

Ever since she heard that there is such a thing as a spirit rune in this world, she has always had a whimsical idea, but because she is too young, she has not had the opportunity to really contact things related to spirit runes, and no matter how many thoughts she has, she can only be stuffed in her heart and cannot be verified.

Xia Jiang was asked by her, as if he thought of something, he glanced at her with some emotion, and said with a wry smile: "It's difficult! If you are not a spirit master, even if you cultivate to reach the earth-level nine-layer Great Perfection realm, you can't draw it. If you are a spiritual master...... The low-level spirit rune drawn by the surname Qin, hey, put it in the upper realm or even the holy realm, it is nothing at all. ”

Back then, in the Holy Realm, he had even seen a heaven-level spirit master, so he naturally looked down on a so-called spirit master like Master Qin, who had not yet entered the rank.

Xia Jiao's mother is a human-level high-level spiritual master, and Xia Jiao ...... If she hadn't gone through such a calamity, she should have had a great chance to become the legendary Holy Spirit Master.

Pity...... The more Xia Jiang thought about it, the more sad he became, and he couldn't bear to talk to Xia Jiao anymore, shook his head and stood up, under the pretext that the store had something to deal with, and walked out with a depressed expression.

Xia Jiao saw that all the people in the courtyard were gone, raised her beautiful eyebrows, looked left and right to make sure that there was no one, jumped up and covered the gate, and walked to the only small building in the middle of the courtyard.

That bold idea in her heart, maybe she can try it today!

Master Qin left in a hurry in anger, but he had already made preparations, he had the most important items with him, and there were only some ordinary daily necessities left in the room.

Xia Jiao walked up and down in the small building, and soon found the quiet room where Master Qin painted the spirit runes, she touched it and took a closer look, and couldn't help but be overjoyed.

The quiet room was empty, except for a set of stone tables and chairs polished from a single piece of rough stone.

On the stone table, there were several bottles of ink, a stack of blank rune paper, and a jade box, as well as three jade slabs the size of an adult's palm, lined up in the upper left corner of the stone table.

Xia Jiao had long heard that painting talismans required the use of special pen, ink and paper, and she originally just wanted to try her luck and see if she could find them in the building.

She didn't expect them to be all available here, and there were many more than she had imagined!

It's like it's just for her, how can you not be happy?!

For a while, she was a little grateful to the Master Qin who deliberately threw away the mess and ran away.

Xia Jiao unscrewed a few small bottles one by one, the ink in them had a faint smell of blood and strange medicinal smell, she heard the little two or eight taels in the store mention that the ink for painting spirit runes was made of some special animal blood, mixed with herbs and ore powder.

There were fifteen sheets of rune paper in that stack, and the texture was different from ordinary paper, which was made of specially refined animal skins, or the slurry of several kinds of plants.

Rune paper is much tougher than ordinary paper, so that it can carry the abundant spiritual power contained in the preservation rune.

There are two jade tube brushes side by side in the jade box, the tip of the pen is made of animal hair, it looks very beautiful silver purple in the sun, the pen tip is flexible and sharp, and the texture is very unique, which is quite different from the brush used by Xia Jiao on weekdays.

This should be the legendary spirit master when drawing the spirit rune, the special painting pen.

What surprised Xia Jiao the most were the three jade slabs.

On each jade slab, a special red pigment is used to paint a strange pattern formed by the twisting and winding of complex lines.

If you look closely, that strange pattern is actually just a coherent stroke from beginning to end, but those lines are of different thicknesses and meandering, and ordinary people don't know how many times they have to practice before they can draw a rune with similar shapes and lines in one stroke.