After a few days, Xiao Jingyan brought back quite bad news from outside.

"I can already see the monks returning from the Netherworld." When Xiao Jingyan said this, he looked quite worried, and even the perennial stretched eyebrows were tightened. Nuomi has known him for so long, and she has never seen him so sad.

Even that year, when the two of them went to the top of Qingquan Peak, facing the blood of Manxian Peak flowing into a river of corpses all over the field, Xiao Jingyan was still able to comfort him with a smile.

Maybe Xiao Jingyan at that time is no longer there, or Xiao Jingyan has really learned to worry now.

At that time, Xiao Jingyan was only himself, but now Xiao Jingyan has to carry a whole sect. If you lose your life, you don't have anything to complain about, but if you hurt others and lose your life, it is naturally another demon.

"It's okay, for a while, it won't hinder us." Qin Guanglan is a person who can see clearly, "By the time they come over, our side has already built the outer wall and the sect, and it doesn't matter what they look like outside." ”

Xiao Jingyan nodded, but shook his head again, and said, "But they are also rushing to pick up things." ”

Rushing to pick things up. Xiao Jingyan recounted this incident very calmly, even if he was doing it himself, he couldn't hear how much trouble he felt in this matter. But since he had already proposed to talk to Qin Guanglan and Nuomi, he thought that he had really encountered some obstacles.

Qin Guanglan clicked his mouth, thought for a while, and asked, "Are they hindering you from doing things?" ”

"They're going to chase people. Not only the people of our sect, but anyone who is close to Xianyi City, they will be driven away. Xiao Jingyan said lightly.

At this moment, even the glutinous rice frowned on that thin brow.

Although she had also thought that when the monks came back from the Netherworld across the boundary river one after another, the human world would give birth to endless variables and chaos, but she never thought that those monks would be so domineering as a matter of course. It's as if there is no justice in this human world. In their hearts, I am afraid that they look down on other monks. And they don't care about the lives or deaths of the other monks. As long as they want, they want to occupy all the resources.

"Xianyi City is so big" Nuomi lowered her head slightly.

She remembered her time in Xianyi City earlier. The surviving monk who met them and quietly retreated, and thought of Xiao Jingyan's once said that he couldn't like the monk who came out of the gate sect no matter what.

Qin Guanglan narrowed her eyes and clicked her mouth again.

He didn't know when he had started smoking dry tobacco. But now in these years, there is naturally no dry tobacco for him to smoke, and he can only fantasize about the taste by himself.

"You lead the people to see it again. If you can pick up more, pick up more. If you can't, then just come back and don't get into trouble with those people. I estimate that the stones you picked up earlier are sufficient. Even if it's not enough. Chop some more spiritual wood to make up for it, it's all the same, don't give your life just to be greedy for a little thing. Qin Guanglan said slowly.

The glutinous rice was a little surprised.

She found that even Qin Guanglan seemed to have undergone some changes.

If he was still the Qin Guanglan who fought the sword world when he was young, I am afraid that he would have gone to Xianyi City with his sword without asking questions at this time. As long as someone dares to look down on his sect and dare to do something unfavorable to his sect, even if it is chasing to the edge of the sky, even if it is losing his life. He will seek it back.

But now, he has really calmed down a lot. The choice made is not the most exciting, but it must be the most in line with the interests of the entire sect. Such a small concession, in the current view, naturally feels aggrieved, but if it is because of such a small concession. Being able to make the entire sect develop rapidly and gain a firm foothold in the human world is not a matter of courage.

Nuomi thought that she needed to persuade Qin Guanglan so that he would not be so impulsive, but she didn't expect that Qin Guanglan seemed to be calmer than her now.

Xiao Jingyan didn't feel so emotional. Regarding Qin Guanglan's words, he just nodded in agreement.

He didn't take many disciples out. After all, this time I'm here to see if I can get into a loophole. There are a lot of people with you, but it's too conspicuous, so it's better to pick a few spiritual ones and see if you can steal any opportunities when the time comes.

However, it was not long after Xiao Jingyan left. Soon he returned to the sect. Nuomi only felt as if he had just sailed the ark out of sight, and after only a stick of incense, he had already seen the flying boat come back again. Even if he hadn't heard Xiao Jingyan speak, Nuomi already knew the result in his heart.

She was just curious, Xiao Jingyan didn't seem to have given up without trying.

After Xiao Jingyan got down from the flying boat, he only shook his head and said a word, and the glutinous rice already understood. Qin Guanglan sighed and said, "Impossible. The outside is already covered with a shield. ”

Aside from Lu Xianxian, Nuomi had never seen a second monk who could sneak in and out of the shield without being detected. She had never asked Lu Xianxian how she did it, it was nothing more than some evil and crooked kung fu, she was not interested in learning, and naturally she would not ask anything more. Even if it is an evil cultivator, each monk will have his own set of kung fu, and he will never tell others, let alone let others learn it secretly. If you ask rashly, it's quite unfriendly.

Qin Guanglan didn't show any surprise as if he had expected this to be the result, but instead asked, "Can you recognize which sect of monk it is?" ”

"I don't recognize it, and they don't have the banner of their own sect. Still, they must have come back from the Netherworld, I recognize that. I suspect that they are not the same sect, but they got together when they were in the Netherworld, and now that they find that the human world is so chaotic, they decided to join forces to shake those scattered cultivators around Xianyi City. Xiao Jingyan said while recalling the situation in Xianyi City.

He remembered the monks he had seen. The qualities that emanated from those monks always made him feel very different. Ordinary in the same sect, even if the cultivation is not the same kind of exercise, as long as they live together on the same immortal peak for a long time, there will be some similarities in the aura. It's like people who always grow up in the same place, and they are always similar in appearance.

But among those monks, Xiao Jingyan felt at least four distinct aura.

"There are quite a lot of them." Xiao Jingyan continued to recall, "The situation was so chaotic at that time that I couldn't count them for a while. There were no less than thirty of them who came to drive us away. There are also quite a few who drive away other loose cultivators in droves. With the size of the place in Xianyi City, if the number of people is small, I am afraid it will be impossible to suppress it. ”

"Well, besides, it's not easy to cast a shield that wraps around Xianyi City." Glutinous rice whispered.

Even if it was a demon cultivator, maybe there would be no way to use such a huge shield with a single force. Seeing that Xiao Jingyan gave up his plan to exploit the loophole so simply, and didn't even stop the flying boat on the ground, he had already turned back to the sea, and the shield must have been quite huge.

Xiao Jingyan also nodded, and said, "I suspect that among those monks, there are monks who used to serve as guards and patrols in Xianyi City. I heard that among that group of monks, there was also a young alchemy apprentice. The furnace has been opened to refine the pharmaceutical liquid. When they drove the people away, they also said that if they were willing to pay the price, they could ask the apprentice to help make the liquid. ”

"Apprentice potion? Can it only be used to make medicinal liquids? When Nuomi heard Xiao Jingyan's words, her heart moved somehow, and she couldn't help but ask.

Xiao Jingyan was stunned, and tried hard to recall the original words of those monks at that time. It's a pity that the situation was a bit chaotic at the beginning, and he still had to appease those angry disciples of the Thousand Thousand Sect, and the sect definitely didn't need to go to an alchemy apprentice, so he didn't pay much attention to what those monks said.

He recalled it very seriously, and found that he really couldn't recall the details, so he had to say to Nuomi apologetically, "I'm sorry, I really don't care." But don't worry, even if that apprentice can refine the elixir, there is definitely no way to compare it with you. ”

Nuomi was stunned, and then burst out laughing, "What are you talking about, where am I worried about this." I'm nothing. I'm just curious to ask. ”

No one outside knew that she was already a mid-level alchemist.

That alchemy apprentice is refining the pill for another lifetime, and I'm afraid he may not be able to catch up with her. She never thought of fighting the world by opening the furnace alchemy in this troubled world, where was she worried that others would come to steal her job. She would be curious, but it was just a little light in her heart.

- An alchemist who was able to refine medicinal liquid at a young age, she also knew one.

When she left Xianyi City, she already felt a little guilty in her heart. Later, when I received a letter from the other party, she didn't even reply.

Until she was in the Netherworld, she would occasionally think of the first inexplicable disciple in her life.

"I don't know, could it be him. If he were still alive, he would be a young man by now. ”

Glutinous rice whispered to herself, and a shallow smile appeared on her lips.

She didn't care much about what kind of realm Zhou Buyun's alchemy had reached now. But if she could know that Zhou Buyun was still alive in this world, she would already be quite happy. In the end, it is an old man, and it is a comfortable thing to be able to keep his life.