Whether it is the majestic Great Wall, or the vast and classical Forbidden City, or the desolate and reckless Summer Palace, there are Jiang An's family of three, they stop in the magnificent Chang'anmen Square, and visit in the pleasant Beihai Park, there is no work, no struggle, only a family of three, eating, drinking, and enjoying a rare warm moment.

This period of time before and after the Chinese New Year is the happiest time for Xixi, there are new expectations every day, fun, delicious, overwhelmed, all day long is laughing, an angelic beautiful porcelain doll is running crazy in front, followed by a cute little yellow dog, this scene makes many people smile.

Happy times always pass quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the year is over.

"Dad, come and see, Xiaohu is sick!"

Early in the morning, Jiang An was gently combing Song Wanshuang's hair, when Xiao Xixi suddenly ran in, hugged his thighs, looked up with his little face, and his big eyes were full of anxiety.

"Don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry," Jiang An comforted.

"Dad, hurry up, Xiaohu is so pitiful" Xixi didn't care about this, pulled Jiang Anyi and walked out, she only knew her best partner, Xiaohu seemed to have something wrong, and he didn't move.

Jiang An picked up her daughter, gave Song Wanshuang an apologetic look, and then came to Xixi's room.

One corner of the room is the tiger's nest, many times it sleeps with Xixi, usually, when Xixi opens his eyes, he always sees the tiger's chubby face and gentle smile, but today is different, she woke up and didn't see Xiaohu, Xiaohu slept very quietly in the nest, but what made Xixi afraid was that no matter how she called or even shook, the tiger didn't react at all, and the naïve little girl naturally thought that Xiaohu was sick, and her first reaction was to cry and find her father.

But the real situation is that last night Jiang An injected the life essence of the big black tiger collected with the Nixia technique into the body of the little tiger, this life essence is too large for the little tiger, but this is its opportunity, if it can completely absorb this life essence successfully, not only the physical fitness will be greatly improved, but also the hope of blood mutation, from now on it will no longer be an ordinary puppy, but become the existence of a demon beast.

But this process is a bit slow, if according to Xiaohu's usual absorption ability, this life essence has to be absorbed for more than a year or two, and these two years are spent in dormancy, now even with the help of Jiang An's mana and sealing a part of the essence, Xiaohu has to sleep for more than half a month, and the rest of the essence is kept to absorb slowly.

Jiang An was embarrassed, how to explain to Xixi, it was too complicated for her to understand, she thought about it, and said: "Xiaohu is not sick, it is just sleeping, but this time it sleeps for a longer time"

"How long?"

"Well, about twenty days."

The little girl didn't have a specific concept of this time, she just thought it was so long, and pouted and said, "It's too long, Xixi wants Xiaohu, Dad, you don't want it to sleep so long, okay?"

"Well, sleeping this time is very important to Xiaohu, when you wake up, Xiaohu will grow up and become taller, if you don't let it sleep, Xiaohu will get sick and feel uncomfortable, Xixi doesn't want Xiaohu to grow up?" Jiang An coaxed again.

Xixi tilted his little head and thought about it, struggled for a long time, and said: "Xixi doesn't want the little tiger to be sick and uncomfortable, I hope it grows up with Xixi"

"That's right!"

Jiang An breathed a sigh of relief, who knew that Xixi's next sentence would make him even more embarrassed.

"When the little tiger sleeps, Dad has to stay with Xixi all the time, Xixi likes Dad the most," the little girl put her arms around her father's neck and said softly.

Can Jiang An say that he is about to retreat and cultivate, and the time is longer than Xiaohu's? I'm afraid Xixi will cry immediately.

"Okay, Daddy has always been there."

Jiang An was helpless, thinking that children were easily distracted, so he would deal with the past first.

On this day, Jiang An was attentive to her daughter, and she didn't have to go out, she just played some small games, and even if you just sat on the side and answered from time to time, she would play her own.

In the evening, Jiang An discussed the retreat with Song Wanshuang.

"Xiaoshuang, you know, there is still more than a month, that is, when I am fighting against the Japanese people, before that, I need to make some preparations, and I have to retreat for a while" Jiang An caressed Song Wanshuang's satin-like smooth waist and said in her ear.

"Since this stop is unavoidable, we naturally have to prepare more, haven't we discussed this," Song Wanshuang said with big eyes.

"The key is my daughter's business..."Jiang An said today's events with a wry smile, and then sighed: "I want to be by Xixi's side all the time, watching her change little by little, growing up little by little, but things often can't help themselves."

"However, no father can be by his daughter's side around the clock, yes, we love her and always want to follow her and protect her, but she will grow up one day and walk alone, is it possible that you want to raise her into a gnawing old clan who doesn't know anything?"

"But I promised her today"

"Speaking of which, I feel even more guilty, I promised her many times, and I broke my promise many times, so let's do it, you can retreat with peace of mind, I and Qiuke's sister will coax her, and ensure that your daughter will forget you soon"

"Haha, she won't forget her dad."

So it was decided.

In fact, there are other ways, for example, Jiang An can use the doppelganger technique to accompany Xixi every day, but his current cultivation and divine sense are not enough, and the doppelganger can't last too long, not to mention, and he can't do complicated things, after all, it's not a great supernatural power like an out-of-body incarnation with independent thinking.

Originally, Jiang An had one more important thing to do before the retreat, and that was Song Wanshuang's cultivation.

Cultivating immortals requires qualifications, that is, spiritual roots, unfortunately, Song Wanshuang's qualifications are very poor, even if she is a beautiful immortal, but it is the worst of the five elements of the spiritual root, chaotic, the quality of the spiritual root lies in the efficiency of refining the spiritual energy and the proportion of preserving spiritual power, take a single spiritual root, that is, the heavenly spiritual root and the five elements spiritual root to compare, refining aura, the heavenly spiritual root is four or five times that of the five elements spiritual root, and the spiritual power obtained after the refining of the spiritual energy still has a problem of loss, the heavenly spiritual root is basically not lost, the double spiritual root is about ten percent lost, to the five elements spiritual root, about half of the loss, such a gap is cumulative, the result of one day of cultivation of the heavenly spiritual root is equal to one or two months of the five elements spiritual root！

Losing too far on the starting line, so it is basically useless for the Five Elements Spirit Root to cultivate immortals, and it is difficult to reach the middle stage of Qi refining in his life.

The fairy world is infinitely vast, and all kinds of immortal magic secret methods are as vast as the stars, and there are naturally ways to solve the qualifications, such as high-level monks can use great mana to refine other spiritual roots for the five elements spiritual roots, although it hurts the original, or use some kind of five elements treasure instead of the innate spiritual root to refine the spiritual energy, or Jiang An can use the magic and earth-breaking art to reopen a spiritual root for it, there are many ways, but these methods must have a premise, and there must be a high level of cultivation.

Obviously, Jiang An, who was in the middle stage of Qi refining, was still far from high and profound cultivation.

But who called him the top group of monks, even if he no longer cultivated, he quickly thought of a way.

As I said before, as long as a martial artist becomes a master of the Grandmaster, he has the qualification to cultivate immortals, this is because, even if a person does not have a spiritual root, after he has been conceived and nurtured by the true qi of the inner family, his body will be familiar with the existence of this energy, and after successfully crossing the threshold of the grandmaster, the body's perception of external energy will be greatly improved, and the acquired "spiritual root" will be produced, after all, mana is essentially a higher level of energy than internal force.

In response to this situation, Jiang An realized that even if Song Wanshuang could not become a martial arts master, there was only one pure power to warm her body, so that her meridians and dantian could stimulate their potential and gradually adapt, there was a great chance that their own Five Elements Spirit Root would evolve and combine again, and produce a mutated Spirit Root, the most important thing is that this energy must be pure and pure enough, and ordinary energy is useless.

It just so happened that Jiang An, the body of the immortal, his Yuanyang Qi can be said to be one of the most quintessential energies between heaven and earth, and after the merger, he consciously transferred all this Yuanyang Qi to Song Wanshuang's body, improving her physique little by little.

Originally, Jiang An wanted to speed up the process of this improvement, but now it seems that it will be later, otherwise as soon as he retreats, Song Wanshuang will start cultivating again, and the girl will not have anyone to accompany her?

Fortunately, he has successfully cultivated the Tribulation Sutra, and now he is just recovering his cultivation, otherwise it is not the body of Yuanyang, and this great divine power technique cannot be cultivated.

So, after arranging everything, Jiang An retreated ruthlessly, and there was still more than a month to go, which should be enough.

A few hundred spirit stones, if it is an ordinary cultivator, this wealth can allow him to cultivate from the early stage of qi refining to the peak of qi refining and even the foundation building period, but for Jiang An, who is cultivating through difficulties, even if he completely absorbs these spirit stones, it will not enable him to step from the middle stage of qi refining to the late stage of qi refining.

In the early stage of qi refining before, he could rely on Qingyuan liquid to refine mana, and at the end, he relied on dozens of spirit stones to use the spirit gathering magic array to advance to the middle stage of qi refining, but now Qingyuan liquid is useless, plus the gap between each small realm in the future has increased by orders of magnitude, and hundreds of spirit stones are still a little worse, and the most important thing is that the consumption of the first layer of the law body is too great.

Therefore, the goal of Jiang An's retreat was to refine and compress these spirit stones into mana crystals.