Ling Xiao knew in his heart that if Xu Ziyan had love for him and the intention of marrying him, Xu Ziyan would not be so calm at this time, and his eyes would not be so clear. Ling Xiao struggled to control himself, and he wanted to maintain the dignity of a man. But the sadness in his eyes spread uncontrollably. The corners of his mouth grinned, and he wanted to show a smile, but that smile was so bleak.

Xu Ziyan couldn't bear to turn his head slightly, and said softly: "Senior Brother Ling, let's not talk about this matter anymore, okay?" After we were still good friends, late at night, I was going back. ”

Xu Ziyan stood up, and this time Ling Xiao did not stretch out his hand to stop him. Xu Ziyan walked straight out of the tavern, didn't dare to look back, and disappeared into the rainy night. Even if Xu Ziyan didn't love Ling Xiao, she couldn't bear to look at a man's dream-shattering gaze.

Xu Ziyan walked for a long time before Ling Xiao slowly stood up and slowly walked out of the tavern, just letting the rain fall on his body, his eyes looked in the direction where Xu Ziyan left, and his eyes lost their lustre. Half ringing. He looked at the night sky again.

Sky

Shady Quadruple,

The rain is like tears......

Ling Xiao's face couldn't tell whether it was tears or rain, and he whispered, "Will I forget her?"

It was getting late, and Xu Ziyan did not return to the residence in the inner hall, but returned to his parents' house. Xu Haoguang saw Xu Ziyan coming back in the rain, and while complaining that Xu Ziyan didn't know how to use an umbrella, he made hot water for Xu Ziyan and asked Xu Ziyan to take a hot bath. The couple went to clean up Xu Ziyan's room.

I took a hot bath beautifully, said a few words to my parents, and then returned to the room prepared by my parents under the care of my parents, and fell asleep deeply.

Xu Ziyan slept soundly here, but Xu Haoguang and his wife were in the kitchen. Since Xu Ziyan fled and came back, they have not lived at home, and the old couple has always felt that their daughter has suffered greatly outside, and they have lost a lot of weight. Now that it is raining again, Xu Haoguang and his wife are heartbroken, so they turn out some of the precious supplements that the patriarch Xu Haoran gave to him and his wife. Xu Haoguang killed a chicken overnight, put those precious supplements in one place, and paused in the pot.

After a full pause in the middle of the night, the whole kitchen was filled with aroma. As soon as Xu Ziyan woke up, he sniffed and drooled. He rolled out of bed, got dressed, and ran to the kitchen, where he saw his parents sitting by the fire. I heard Xu Ziyan's footsteps. The two old men turned around and called with a kind smile:

"Yan'er, come over and drink a bowl of soup."

Xu Shi stood up as he spoke, picked up a bowl, opened the lid of the pot, took a soup spoon and filled the bowl, and handed it to Xu Ziyan. Xu Ziyan looked at her parents' red eyes, and her heart was touched, and her eyes became moist. Hurriedly took the soup bowl, hid the mist in his eyes, and drank the thick soup.

Xu Haoguang, the father on the side, saw that Xu Ziyan finished drinking, so he took the bowl, filled Xu Ziyan with another bowl, handed it over, and said softly:

"Yan'er, you've been in poor health since you were scared by the big yellow dog and fell into the water. Here, another bowl. ”

Since my mother has drunk all the soup, how can I not drink my father's soup? Thereupon. Xu Ziyan drank the second bowl of soup again. After that, her mother went to serve the soup again, Xu Ziyan drank four bowls, and she really couldn't drink it anymore, and after several shirks, Xu Haoguang and his wife let her go. When Xu Ziyan left home, he also told Xu Ziyan to remember to come back at noon to drink soup.

In early summer, the weather is at its most pleasant. Thousands of plants and trees have become verdant, and some branches have blossomed into delicate flowers.

Inner nave.

On the flat field, the disciples of the Xu family were practicing in the morning. The family has already notified that there are still three days left, which is the day of the big competition in the middle capital. Although the family did not say that this time the Central Capital City Competition was different from the previous time, nor did they announce the conspiracy of the City Lord's Mansion, the Xiao family and the Wu family, the atmosphere was obviously different from before, and the high-level members of the family showed great importance. Xu Haoliang personally went to the outer hall to train the disciples of the outer hall. And Xu Haoran, as the head of the clan, personally stood on the playground of the inner hall, urging all the inner hall disciples, and also answering all kinds of questions from the inner hall disciples.

Xu Ziyan was also familiar with the spells she knew on the side, and after the battle of Langya Town, she knew the importance of a monk's own combat power, and those talismans were used for light after all. At the end of the day, it still depends on its own combat power.

Combat power not only refers to one's own cultivation realm, but also to combat skills. For example, the speed at which the spell is released, the range of the release, and the strength of the release. It's not that the wider the range you unleash and the more powerful you release, it proves that your combat power is stronger. A monk's combat prowess is reflected in his control over his spells. It doesn't have to be wide, as long as you can envelop your enemies. It doesn't have to be powerful, just be stronger than your enemies. Otherwise, if you exert all your strength on an ant, then, it won't be long before you run out of mana and become a slain. Therefore, control is essential for a monk.

In the past three days, all the disciples have come to the square, practicing their own spells, or swordsmanship. No one goes to cultivate. Since there were only three days left, it was impossible to increase anything in cultivation, so proficiency in skills became crucial.

Xu Ziyan stood in a corner of the square, her hands kept turning in front of her chest, between her hands, a miniature water dragon kept circling, churning, and the clouds and mist loomed between her hands, and the miniature water dragon loomed between the clouds and mist, like a dragon.

Xu Ziyan frowned slightly, because she knew that the water dragon had not really taken shape. It's still the same as on the spider cave in the Endless Forest, with dragon bodies, horns, and claws, but no dragon scales. And even the dragon body, dragon horns, and dragon claws are like a dragon cub, without much power.

Xu Ziyan knew that if he released the water dragon in his hand, it would instantly absorb the water aura between heaven and earth, forming a huge water dragon. But there are still the same flaws. Such a spell water dragon is condensed by Xu Ziyan using the water dragon chant in the water ice recipe in the inheritance, and it already has the power of the dragon at the beginning.

Xu Ziyan estimated, don't look at the power of this spell water dragon, but it can only be terrifying. I'm afraid that even the monks of the twelfth layer of the foundation building period will be so frightened that they may not dare to fight against it when they face it, but Xu Ziyan knows that the magic water dragon he has condensed is only terrifying on the surface, and the real energy will probably be able to defeat the monks of the sixth layer of the foundation building period. However, whether he could win the monk of the sixth layer of the foundation building period was only Xu Ziyan's estimate.

looked up at Xu Haoran, who was standing in front of the square, and wanted to try the water dragon in his hand at him, but when he thought that Xu Haoran only had the cultivation of the third layer of the foundation building period, he shook his head, and the secret path in his heart was still forgotten.

Looking down at the spell water dragon between his hands, the light in his heart moved, and when his ten fingers flew, the water dragon in his hands was divided into ten, turning into ten miniature water dragons, coiled on Xu Ziyan's ten fingers. Xu Ziyan's ten fingers were like ten coiling dragon jade pillars, and ten miniature water dragons were hovering on them.

These ten miniature water dragons were still the same size as the one just now, but after sharing Xu Ziyan's mana, only one of the five claws remained, and the dragon horns on their heads also shrank into two just raised shapes, completely without the appearance of dragon horns.

Xu Ziyan was standing alone in the corner of the square at this time, no one seemed to notice her, everyone was familiar with their spells, and those trial stone walls were rumbling by the disciples of the Xu family.

Xu Haoran stood on the sidelines, behind him, the disciples of the inner hall had already moved a chair for him, but Xu Haoran did not sit and stood there all the time, he wanted to inspire the disciples of the Xu family with this attitude. Sure enough, those disciples saw that their patriarch had been standing there, and everyone had used their abilities to cultivate there desperately.

In fact. After Xu Haoran began to point out the disciples, his mind was no longer here. In the past few days, a lot of information has been passed to Xu Haoran one after another. After all, their Xu family is one of the four major families in the Northland, with a heritage of 10,000 years, and they are veritable head snakes in the middle capital. In the City Lord's Mansion, the Xiao family and the Wu family, how could there be no secret agents

Judging from the situation reflected in the intelligence, the City Lord's Mansion, the Xiao family, and the Wu family were indeed preparing to deal with the Xu family. But where exactly do the three of them rely on? How to deal with the Xu family did not find out secretly. It's just one thing that can be determined, that is, those three will do it on the day of the big competition in the middle capital.

Interestingly, judging from the information sent back, the City Lord's Mansion, the Xiao family and the Wu family do not seem to be monolithic, and each family seems to have its own small abacus. This made Xu Haoran look down on them very much in his heart, a small family is a small family, a pair of rat belly and chicken intestines, and they can't be on the stage at all.

Xu Ziyan stood in a corner, his ten fingers moved slightly, and the ten miniature water dragons circled around the ten fingers, occasionally with a small mouth, spewing out a thin cloud. Xu Ziyan silently checked the power of these ten spell water dragons, and felt that if he released a water dragon alone, that is, he could kill the monks of the first layer of the foundation building period, and the power of the monks of the second layer of the foundation building period, but if he released ten spell water dragons at the same time, he should be able to kill the monks of the fourth layer of the foundation building period, but he may not be able to defeat the monks of the fifth layer of the foundation building period.

Obviously, the power of condensing one spell water dragon is much stronger than the power of ten spell water dragons. But there are also ten advantages to being divided into ten, when dealing with monks who are the same as their own cultivation, or lower than their own cultivation, these smaller spell water dragons will save themselves a lot of mana. You must know that if you want to condense a five-claw spell water dragon, it will cost Xu Ziyan two layers of mana, and with Xu Ziyan's current cultivation, he can only condense five five-claw spell water dragons, and then he will completely lose his combat effectiveness.

Ten miniature spell water dragons kept circling between his fingers, Xu Ziyan raised his head again and looked at Xu Haoran on the sidelines, and said secretly in his heart:

"I really want to try it."