"Anyone else?"

Ming Feng frowned suspiciously for a while, then his eyes lit up, and he guessed who it was in his heart. couldn't help but subconsciously reached out and touched a palm-sized token in his arms that was made of gold and non-gold, jade and non-jade.

But then his face unconsciously turned bitter melon color again, and he only felt a sense of shame surging from the soles of his feet rushing to his head, and his face suddenly became hot.

"Alas, it seems that this time I have lost face in front of this girl!" Ming Xuan shook his head in annoyance.

Then Ming Xuan turned around and glanced at the surrounding bamboo forest, and saw that he didn't find any figure, so he had to clear his throat, pretending to be old and calm: "Okay, Lian'er! Come out, don't hide! Big brother has already told me that you have been here since yesterday." ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw a bamboo leaf not far away swaying slightly, and then a figure wearing an emerald green tulle dress walked out of the back of the bamboo forest with light steps.

The girl looks no more than fourteen or fifteen years old, with a delicate melon seed face, clear eyebrows, and a small cherry mouth, and the whole person exudes a sense of freshness and refinement, and at the same time her face reveals a bit of playfulness. The figure looks even more concave and convex, revealing a hint of hotness, a beautiful embryo alive.

For a moment, Ming Xuan was stunned in place!

After the girl Lianbu walked gracefully to the front and smiled sweetly at Ming Xuan, Ming Xuan came back to his senses. I can't help but feel that my face is getting hotter and hotter, and my eyes are even more erratic, and I don't dare to look at the girl.

However, on the other hand, the girl stared at Ming Xuan affectionately with a pair of bright eyes, and her face was only full of caring love.

The girl is none other than her sister who is two years younger than Ming Xuan, Ming Li'er.

However, Ming Li'er is not Ming Xuan's own sister, to be precise, Ming Li'er does not have any Ming family blood, but an orphan entrusted to Ming Xuan by a dying person.

Ten years ago, the Ming family had just established a firm foundation in the northwest of the Barbarian Spirit Continent, and once when Ming Xuan was hiding in the back mountain of Mingjiazhuang in a daze, a seriously injured and bloodied person suddenly fell from the sky, holding a three-year-old girl with the same bloodstained face in his arms.

"Little brother, uncle has something to do and needs to leave for a while, can you help me take care of my little sister?" The young and middle-aged man put the little girl beside Ming Xuan and asked with a smile on his face.

Ming Xuan looked at the little girl beside him who was staring at him with a pair of dark eyes, and couldn't help but feel pity, and agreed without thinking about it: "Okay! Uncle, don't worry, I will take care of my sister!"

As he spoke, he stretched out his little hand and grabbed Ming Li'er's little hand beside him.

Looking at Ming Xuan's actions, the young and middle-aged people couldn't help but smile. Then, after pondering for a moment, he flipped over with one hand, took out a brand that looked like gold but not gold, jade and not jade, and a scroll that looked very simple on the outside and handed it to Ming Xuan.

"Little brother, these two things are useless to me, and giving them to you will be your reward for helping me take care of my child!"

Although the young and middle-aged man spoke in a gentle tone, there was an unquestionable meaning, so that Ming Xuan had no way to refuse if he wanted to refuse, so he accepted the thing.

"Remember, little brother! These two things must not be known to anyone but you, not even those closest to you. Otherwise, it will be a disaster of extermination!" the young and middle-aged man continued to admonish Ming Xuan with an unquestionable tone.

Ming Xuan didn't speak when he heard this, he just nodded with a serious and firm face, which was regarded as a response to the advice of the young and middle-aged people.

Then, the young and middle-aged man looked at Ming Li'er again with a look of pity for a moment, and then he toed a little to the ground, and the whole person volleyed into the air, and disappeared into the sky in a blink of an eye.

"Daddy... Daddy... Don't leave your poor children behind! Daddy... Daddy......" Ming Li'er's heart-rending cry echoed in the secluded bamboo forest.

On that day, Ming Li'er cried for a long, long time. Ming Xuan didn't say a word of persuasion, just sat next to Ming Li'er and accompanied her, until Ming Li'er fell asleep in his arms after she was tired of crying.

After that day, Ming Xuan would take Ming Li'er every day to wait for him to return at the place where the young and middle-aged people left.

One day... Two days... January... Two months... One year... Two years......

This wait is five years, and it will not end until Ming Xuan starts cultivating at the age of ten!

Because Ming Li'er didn't know her surname, she only knew that her name was Li'er, and later she used the surname "Ming" and officially became a member of the Ming family. Under the expiration of the joint efforts of Ming Xuan and Ming Feng, she became the third daughter of Ming Zhanhao, the "third lady" of the Ming family.

In the early days, the elders of the Ming family had always had a questioning attitude towards Ming Li'er's identity, and they never really recognized her identity as the "third lady" of the Ming family. It wasn't until Ming Li'er was ten years old when she tested the spiritual veins that she detected the "Eight Spiritual Veins", and her identity and status were completely affirmed by everyone in the Ming family.

You must know that the previous head of the Ming family, Ming Zhanhao, is only a six-spirit vein, and what an eight-spirit vein means for the future development of the Ming family, the elders of the Ming family know it well. Therefore, even if they knew that there was a problem with Ming Li'er's identity, everyone would not say anything more, after all, a genius of the Eight Spirit Veins would be accepted as a descendant of the family by making an exception no matter which family he entered.

After staring at Ming Xuan affectionately for a moment, Ming Li'er directly reached forward and grabbed Ming Xuan's arm, just like when she was a child, it didn't seem unnatural at all.

"Brother Mingxuan, have you finally figured it out?" Ming'er's tone was full of excitement.

Hearing this, Ming Xuan couldn't help but smile bitterly, and then stretched out his right hand and gently scraped the bridge of Ming Li'er's high nose like five years ago. However, his movements are no longer as natural as they were five years ago, and they seem very raw and uncoordinated.

"Li'er, Brother Mingxuan is sorry for you! In the past five years, you have been worried and troubled by my affairs, and you have even been ostracized by your family. But I promise you that in the future, I will not let you and my eldest brother worry about me anymore, and I will not let you be excluded from the family because of me!"

"Hmph, Brother Mingxuan, don't worry, no one in the family will dare to say that you are not in the future, if anyone dares to say more, Li'er will definitely beat him all over the ground looking for teeth!" Ming Li'er said and couldn't help but wave her small fist domineeringly.

Looking at Ming Li'er's movements, Ming Xuan couldn't help but feel a warmth in his heart. In the entire Ming family, the only people who can really make him feel warm are the eldest brother and the Li'er in front of him. He also knew that what Ming Li'er said was "looking for teeth all over the ground" was not just words, and everyone in the family who was heard by Ming Li'er to explain Xuan's bad words was taught by Ming Li'er.

Of course, Ming Li'er does have the strength to teach people. Don't look at her cultivation for more than two years, but her strength has already reached the peak of the spirit disciple, and she is only one foot away from stepping into the realm of the spirit person, and she deserves to be the first person in the strength of the three generations of disciples of the Ming family. The three generations of disciples of the Ming family who have been taught by him are not ninety percent, and there are also eight layers. Except for the more than ten second-generation disciples of the Ming family, all the third-generation disciples of the Ming family only had to take a detour when they saw her, and they didn't dare to explain the slightest ill word about Xuan in front of her.

Within the Ming family, there is a clear distinction of identity and status, the spirit is below the third generation of disciples, and the spirit is the second generation of disciples, and when you step into the realm of the spirit master, you are qualified to enter the elders' council, become a generation of disciples, and become one of the members of the elders' council.

The three generations of disciples of the Ming family, who were taught by Ming Li'er in the early stage, were not convinced by Ming Li'er's domineering behavior, and repeatedly asked the Council of Elders to punish Ming Li'er on the charge of "prohibiting fighting within the family". However, the response from the Council of Elders was that any of the three generations of disciples in the future were not allowed to make a move against Ming Li'er, otherwise they would be expelled from the Ming family.

As soon as this order came out, the disciples of the Ming family couldn't help but be confused, and they couldn't understand how the elders could give such a nonsensical order. But as soon as this order came out, it undoubtedly gave the green light to Ming Li'er. What's even more hateful is that in the future, you can only be beaten passively, and you can't fight back. Therefore, all the three generations of disciples of the Ming family could only hide when they saw Ming Li'er, and they didn't dare to talk more.

As for the second-generation disciples of the Ming family, they all roughly know the identity of Ming Li'er. Although they were given a gag order and were not allowed to spread the word, as long as they knew this identity, it was enough, so they naturally did not want to come forward to fight with Ming Li'er for any war of words.

"Alas, you, don't think that when you reach the peak of the spirit disciples, and the elders have issued orders not to attack you, you can do whatever you want. Beware of someone stumbling on you behind your back, or really provoking some people with a backstage behind you, provoking the second-generation disciples or elders to teach you a lesson, then you will be ugly!" Ming Xuan shook his head slightly, staring at Ming Li'er and half-jokingly.

"Hmph, I wish they were stumbling behind my back, so that I would have an excuse to teach those bastards a lesson!"

"A year and a half ago, that group of old stubborn people saw that they had stepped into the realm of spirits, and they were afraid that I would kill them too hard, so they issued an order not to let the three generations of disciples provoke me again. It's because of this rotten order, I don't even have an excuse to make a move now, you run away as soon as you hit them, or you just beg for mercy, it's really boring! As for the group of second-generation disciples, although they all deal with me, they don't deliberately provoke me, and I haven't seen them say anything bad about Brother Mingxuan, so ......"

"Wait, what? You said earlier that you had already stepped into the spirit realm and become a second-generation disciple before the first class?, so what realm are you now?" Ming Xuan, who didn't take Ming Li'er's witty words to heart, couldn't help but interrupt Ming Li'er with a shocked expression.

Looking at Ming Xuan, who was shocked, Ming Li'er was stunned for a moment, and then said with a little hesitation: "Brother Mingxuan, Li'er didn't mean to expire your term, but those old stubborn people said that they couldn't spread the news that I had stepped into the spirit, and that once it was spread, it would cause death, so... So ......?"

In the end, Ming Li'er had already lowered her head in shame, tears rolling in her eyes.