After coming out of Yun Jing, Shang Xia also understood his responsibilities for a period of time in the future.

After Shang Bo was looking for a place to retreat and do penance, and Yun Jing had to retreat to recover from her injuries, all the affairs of the Tongyou Residency had to fall on Liu Qinglan's body.

Although everyone knew that the strongest person in the entire garrison at this time was actually Shang Xia, in terms of seniority and seniority, he was the lowest among everyone.

But Shang Xia also has his own duties, although it is the simplest, but also the most dangerous, that is, to get out of the garrison to protect the big array and restore the control of the original sphere of influence of the Tongyou lineage.

As for how Tongyou Academy controlled the surrounding sphere of influence, he had already received an answer from Chu Jia.

When Shang Xia saw Shang Ke again, the old man looked refreshed, where was there the slightest decadence caused by the severance of the martial arts path?

"What are you?"

Shang Xia looked at Shang Ke with some puzzlement, but he didn't know how to speak for a while.

"Healed from his injuries!"

Shang Ke smiled and said, "I can probably guess what Yun Jing is going to do, Fifth Grandfather, and I can help again now." ”

Shang Xia said guiltily: "I should have left a few more talismans, otherwise you wouldn't be ......."

"Hahahaha......"

Before Shang Xia finished speaking, he was interrupted by Shang Ke's loud voice, only to see him smile and wave his hand: "Boy, don't worry about this, this is a good thing for the fifth grandfather and me." ”

Seeing Shang Xia's puzzled expression, Shang Ke slowly put away his smile and sighed slightly: "Over the years, in order to keep up with Grandpa's footsteps and further expand the family, the old man has actually been holding on. ”

"In the early years, in order to support me, my grandfather used a lot of resources on me, but unfortunately my qualifications in martial arts are not satisfactory, whether it is cultivation or combat power, I have always been up to the bottom. ”

"I had the desire to give up many times, but at that time, my family was weak, even my uncle's generation, and most of them had not yet become talents, so in desperation, I could only hold on. ”

Shang Xia said: "No matter what happened in the past, but now that your cultivation has reached such a point, wouldn't it be a pity to give up again?"

Shang Ke still shook his head and smiled: "It's okay to drag grandpa before, at least I think it's my own brother, so I don't need to be too polite." But now that these juniors have begun to take care of me, the old man, doesn't that seem to be too useless?"

Shang Xia shook his head and said, "You can't say that, you have ...... all these years"

Shang Ke stretched out his hand again to stop Shang Xia's words, and said seriously: "Child, the merchant is not as good as before, except for me and my grandfather, the third aunt Shang Pei, and also, on the bright side, our merchant already has four fourth-order masters, but in terms of high-level combat power, it is not even weaker than the Zhu family in Youzhou back then." Besides, the second uncle is afraid that he has also advanced to the Quadruple Heaven success, but now that the situation is in this situation, he may secretly sit in Tongyou City for a while. ”

Shang Ke sighed lightly again, with a little guilt on his face, and said: "Child, the fifth grandfather is tired, and he is a little scared, rather than tiring everyone to fight for me for that illusory glimmer of possibility, it is better to simply completely break this thought, and it is time for me, as an elder, to fight for some benefits for the younger generations of the family." ”

Speaking of this, the heavy color on Shang Ke's face was swept away, and the whole person once again returned to the refreshed state at the beginning: "Say."

To tell the truth, when I learned that because of this damage to the source, the possibility of further cultivation was completely cut off, but my whole person suddenly relaxed, and the heavy feeling that had been tense before was suddenly unloaded. ”

After listening to Shang Ke's half-confessional, half-explaining, Shang Xia felt that he really shouldn't ask too much of his uncle.

Looking back now, my uncle is indeed a gentle man who is a little casual.

It's just that the situation of the family in the past did not allow him to be comfortable, and in order to share the pressure on Shang Bo, he had to forge ahead, but now the road ahead is cut off, but everything goes smoothly with his heart.

The grandfather and grandson chatted for a while, and Shang Xia suddenly remembered something and asked, "I didn't expect that there were other fourth-order martial artists in the Ji, Liu, and Yun families, do you know about this?"

Shang Ke shook his head and said, "I know all three of them, but I really didn't want to fight them, they are all alive, and they have all advanced to the Fourth Heaven." But Grandpa probably knew about it. ”

Shang Xia nodded and said, "This is the foundation of the three of them as the Youzhou family in the past?"

Shang Ke smiled: "Maybe, but today, our merchants are not inferior to these three." But ......"

Shang Xia asked, "But what?"

Shang Ke pondered for a moment and said, "Before Ji Wenlong advanced to the Fifth Heaven, without the support of the blessed land, the only way to enter the Heavenly Vault was to use the guidance of the Fifth Heaven Martial Artist. ”

Shang Xia followed Shang Ke's meaning and said, "Yes, these three people, plus Lu Siyuan and Fang Kewei, are obviously the Outer Heaven Dome brought by Kou Shanchang. ”

Shang Ke said: "Lu Siyuan and Fang Kewei are just two, but Yun Shu, Ji Wenbin, and Liu Jikun themselves do not belong to Tongyou Academy, why did Kou Chongxue take the three of them up?"

Shang Xia pondered: "Do you mean that these three families have any secret deals, or tacit understandings, with Kou Shanchang?" But these three people have now died two, and only Liu Jikun remains. ”

Shang Ke's expression was slightly solemn and said: "I'm not worried about what the three of them have to do with Kou Chongxue, I'm worried about my grandfather!"

Seeing Shang Xia's expression slightly stunned, Shang Ke continued: "Don't forget that twenty years ago, there were no four major families in Tongyou City, only three major families, and our merchant was just a medium force with relatively light losses after the catastrophe. Over the years, my grandfather's cultivation has soared, and of course there are his own opportunities and efforts, but it is undeniable that Kou Chongxue's strong support is equally important......

Shang Xia heard the unfinished meaning of Shang Ke's words, and said, "Are you saying that Kou Shan Chang may also let his grandfather do something that cannot be shirked, but is full of danger?"

Shang Ke patted him on the shoulder and said, "The most difficult thing in this world is human favor! Kou Chongxue may not have bad intentions, but who can say clearly in the future? Before Ji Wenlong advanced to the Fifth Heaven, only Kou Chongxue was qualified to be a chess player in the Cangyu and Cangling realms in the entire Youzhou, and all of us could only be his pawns. ”

Shang Xia knew that his uncle had always had the most basic vigilance against Kou Chongxue and Tongyou Academy from the standpoint of the family.

But today, Shang Xia could listen to what he said.

In fact, Kou Chongxue not only supported Shang Bo, but also cultivated a lot of Shang Xia.

Shang Ke is not to teach Shang Xia to be ungrateful, but more to see the relationship between him and the academy and the family separately.

In fact, Shang Ke didn't just say something like that to Shang Xia once.

After Shang Ke knew about the task that Yun Jing had assigned to Shang Xia, he volunteered to go out with him, but in the end Shang Xia politely refused.

Shang Ke probably understood that with Shang Xia's combat strength at this time, as long as he was not surrounded by several times the number of high-level martial artists of the Four Heavens, basically no one could help him on the land of Manyu Continent, and if he followed him, he would really encounter danger, but he would become a burden, so he was no longer reluctant.

"Oh, by the way, there's one more thing!"

Shang Ke patted his head, released a bunch of things from the Jinyun box, and said: "These things are all trophies collected from those dead aboriginal warriors before, and I have been cultivating before, so I put away the part that belongs to me first, and now it is considered to be returned to the original owner." ”

Shang Xia swept over the things on the ground, although there were a lot of them, but there were few that could enter his eyes, he picked up a few things that he might use, and pushed the rest back to Shang Ke, and said, "You should put it away first, and bring it back to the family in the future, maybe other people can use it." ”

Shang Ke also knew that his nephew and grandson had a lot of treasures on him, and he didn't care about idle items at all, so he also put them away casually and said, "These will be used as rewards for collecting all kinds of talisman spirit materials in the future." The hour is almost up, let's go, go out and have a look. ”

After saying that, Shang Ke got up directly and beckoned Shang Xia to go out with him.

Shang Xia didn't know why, and while following up, he asked, "But what happened?"

Shang Ke replied, "It's nothing, it's the Outer Heaven Dome that sent someone else over." ”

Shang Xia was surprised: "Didn't you say that this kind of void passage across the astral plane can only be restarted once in half a year?"

Shang Ke replied without replying: "Something so big, how could Kou Chongxue and Ji Wenlong not react back?" Besides, it takes a lot of heaven and earth origin to open the Astral Void Passage, and the reason why it is opened once every six months is because I don't want to attract attention because of the frequent opening, and now that the attack of the aboriginal high-level martial artist proves that we have already been exposed here, where is there still a need for secrecy?"

After Shang Xia came outside, Shang Xia saw that other people were also flying towards this side from mid-air.

Shang Xia also met several fourth-order martial artists for the first time, including Fang Kewei, Liu Jikun, and Liu Zhi.

Shang Lubing is still in retreat to heal his wounds, and it is said that this old fritter provoked too many opponents at the last moment, and was accidentally beaten by someone.

If Shang Xia and Yun Jing hadn't teamed up to kill Hu Wendao and Zhang Tianji in a row, and shocked the other aboriginal warriors to retreat, maybe he would have confessed on the spot.

At this moment, Shang Xia's divine consciousness suddenly sensed that in the sky above his head, there was a huge void fluctuation that was moving from far to near.

In just an instant, the clouds above the station flew back in all directions as if frightened.

Liu Qinglan suddenly raised her head and said, "It's here!"

As soon as the words fell, a vast and stable void fluctuation came, and a circular spatial portal opened above the station, and several figures suddenly fell out of it, and then as the portal gradually closed, these figures also stabilized their bodies in mid-air faster or slower.

"Bu Jingshuang, Zhang Haogu, Qian Sitong, Yuan Zhen, Kou Shanchang is pressing all the family foundations of Tongyou Academy in one breath!"

Shang Xia looked up at the four of them slowly falling from mid-air, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.