Gu Xiaowu has a cultivation method and a large number of elixir ores, and he doesn't need to rely on the power of the family, and he also has to guard against the prying eyes of others, so Kou Yuhuan took into account his situation and gave the most reliable advice, in her opinion, Gu Xiaowu's qualifications are average, and bringing them back to the Zhang family can only be treated as an ordinary peripheral disciple, it is better to use the resources in his hands to cultivate to a certain stage, maybe he can have a chance to advance to a solid foundation, and then he can have a certain status in the family. Therefore, when Kou Yuhuan left, he left a large pile of elixir ores in Xiao Wu's house, and by the time Xiao Wu woke up and found it, it was already noon the next day.

He had practiced all night after reading the bamboo slips last night, and it was close to morning that he finished his cultivation and rested, and he planned to wake up after sleeping for an hour, but he didn't expect to oversleep. Seeing the elixir and ore left in the house, he ran next door and didn't find a figure, he already understood in his heart, after putting away the elixir and ore, he didn't dare to continue to stay in the inn, and left the county alone after packing up everything, and the carriage and Ah Sanzhi were given to the innkeeper by Xiao Wu, in Xiao Wu's opinion, the innkeeper was very enthusiastic, and he would not be bad to Ah San.

Zhao Jiaji is the village where Xiao Wu was born, it is a relatively large village, the scale is not much smaller than the general town, because next to the famous Nanli River, so most people live by fishing, most of the people in the village are surnamed Zhao, which is a very old village.

When Xiao Wu arrived at the village, he found that this place was not affected by the war, and he was very puzzled for a while, many villages he had traveled along the way were in a mess, although they had begun to recover slowly, they could still see the aftermath of the war, but there was no trace of any battle here. It was already evening, and there were few villagers on the road, and his family lived at the entrance of the village, with a relatively large yard, and the family was relatively wealthy, but it was only later that his parents died, and he fell into that situation.

Xiao Wu ran to the door excitedly and knocked on it. Soon an old woman of fifty years old opened the door and asked him with a cautious look on her face. Xiao Wu was also stunned, the person in front of him was a family surnamed Zhao in the village, how could she be at the eldest brother's house? He didn't dare to report his door, only said that he was here to find Gu Dalang. The woman was stunned when she heard this: "Gu Dalang's family has already moved out of here, and now this is my house." ”

"Gu Erlang, what about Gu Saburo? also moved away? Do you know where to move to?"

"It's all gone, and you haven't told me where you moved, so you can ask somewhere else. The old woman replied impatiently, the young man in front of her wearing a hat was dressed in coarse cloth and rags, and it seemed that he had come to join the Gu family, and she didn't recognize that the young man in front of her was the thin Gu Xiaowu half a year ago. And after half a year of growth, Gu Xiaowu has not only changed a lot in size but also in temperament.

Xiao Wu saw that there was no way to ask anything now, so he left. He did not leave the village far, but stayed at the edge of the village for three days. After three days of investigation and covert visits, he had figured out that the village was not damaged because the Zhao family, a big family in the village, led the villagers to surrender first, and offered a lot of gold and silver and a daughter, and finally exchanged for the peace of the village. And his three elder brothers sold everything in the family as early as after he left home, and left with his wife and children, and he didn't tell anyone where he went, but according to the villagers, he went to Jiangnan. In fact, not only their family, but also many other families in the village, there are also those who have abandoned this place and fled to the south, after all, they are about to destroy their families and the country, and many people have fled in advance.

Xiao Wu finally gave up the idea of looking for them, after all, there was a vast sea of people, and he didn't know where his brothers and sisters-in-law had moved, but as long as they went to the south, there shouldn't be any danger. He thought about it for a while and was going to find a safe place to cultivate first. It doesn't need to be how strong the aura of that place is, as long as it's hidden enough. I thought about it and finally

I thought of a more hidden place, which was actually not far from the village, on a hill to the east of the village. The hill was overgrown with low shrubs, and there was nothing to hide, but there was a big hole under the water on one side of the river, and the hole was not big, but there was something else inside, and part of it was above the water, and his eldest brother had accidentally broken into it once when he was greedy to catch a fish, and finally he was beaten up when he told his father, so that they would never dare to go down the river to play in the water again, and now they could go down to see if it could be used as a hiding place.

Xiao Wu thought of it and immediately walked towards the hill, and when he got to the neighborhood, he took off his clothes and put them in the storage bag when he saw that there was no one around, and after leaving only a pair of shorts, he tied the storage bag to his wrist with a rope, and jumped into the river with a puff, and changed his breath three times before he found the hole and drilled in. Inside, as his eldest brother said, there was a lot of space inside, and there was still a part of the space above that was empty, and there was still a trace of light leaking through the crack in the cliff on one side. Xiao Wu climbed onto a smooth stone protruding from the water, took out the moonstone, and carefully examined it with the help of the faint light on the stone, although this thing can emit bright moonlight, it is obviously not as good as the headband he got before, but unfortunately the headband was forgotten by him in the grass hole to shelter from the rain. Finally, he inlaid the moonstone in his hand around the cave, and finally illuminated the inside. On the whole, it feels like half of the hill has been hollowed out by the water, most of it is underwater, only one zhang high on the water, the air inside is very fresh, and the cracks in the cliffs are also very hidden.

Xiao Wu was very satisfied with this place, he immediately took out some items from the storage bag and repaired the water hole a little, and finally had a place to cultivate. Xiao Wu didn't start cultivating immediately, but swam back outside to another place to go ashore, he needed to buy some daily necessities, although he could buy them in a nearby village, but he was afraid that he would be recognized by the villagers after a long time, so he had to go to a small town far away from here to buy a wooden bed and enough food for about ten days, and push all the items to a place where no one dared to use a storage bag to put them up. He returned to his cave and fixed the wooden bed to the stone, and sat on it and began to plan his cultivation.

Gu Xiaowu, who was concentrating on cultivation, didn't know that the outside immortal cultivation world was discussing the big events that had happened in the past half a year, and the first thing was that Mingya Valley suddenly collapsed into a fire pit, and Duan Gu Master had to lead his disciples to give up the rich blackstone mine. The second thing is that the red-clothed ancestor has given up business for a period of time and the finger peak has disappeared, and some people suspect that the red-clothed ancestor has been killed. The third thing is even more sensational, He Chen of Huangmeiling and Li He of Gravel Cliff have fallen one after another, the reason seems to be related to Mingya Valley, Mingya Valley Duan Gu Lord sent four disciples to apologize but was killed by the other two families, for a while, everyone in the Immortal Cultivation Realm of the Northern Kingdom was in danger, and in the end, it was the northernmost Great Elder of the Heshan Family who came forward to calm the anger of the two parties. However, after these events, Beibei's combat strength was greatly damaged, and there was a possibility that it would be beaten back by Nanfu.

And today, Duan Hai, who did not give up tracking down the whereabouts of the red-clothed ancestor, finally found the village of those children, and coerced and lured Gu Xiaowu and Kou Yuhuan to ask about the identity and appearance of Gu Xiaowu and Kou Yuhuan. Although he was very remorseful, he couldn't do anything about it, after such a long time, the two of them had already left their control, and they had broken the clues, if they let him know that the other two things were also related to Gu Xiaowu, I don't know how he would feel.

Xiao Wu naturally didn't know that the matter of Yizhifeng had been exposed, and he had become the target of Duan Hai's secret search, at this time, he had eaten and drunk enough, and with Rong Yuandu in his hand, he silently read a few mantras. Thinking that he has entered the best state, he has begun to enter the cultivation of self-forgetfulness.