Jiang Shinian was silent, he knew that Yanju would not tell lies, it seemed that he had really underestimated Chi You before. But now is not the time to worry, wait for the battle with Xuanyuan before thinking about how to deal with Chiyou.

Even though I thought so, I was a little lost in my heart. The palm of his hand subconsciously clenched his fist, not noticing that there was something in his hand, and with his grip, his fingers hurt. Jiang Shinian paused for a moment before realizing that he was holding the piece of dark iron sent by Ding Cong in his hand. During this time, he pondered the meaning every day, but he couldn't figure it out.

When I took a look at it, I found that the dark iron seemed to have changed somewhat, and a trace of white cracks appeared on the dark surface. This has never appeared before, Jiang Shinian thought for a while before he understood, when he heard Yanju say how Chi You was just now, in order to show his strength, he forgot the dark iron in his hand and burned it with all his strength, and these white cracks were produced in this way.

Looking at the crack Jiang Shinian laughed, he said in his heart Master, master, you are really bad enough, saying that this thing is extremely valuable, I don't dare to use extraordinary means, and now it seems that this thing will only change if it is burned with all its strength.

Yan Ju saw Jiang Shinian smirking at an inconspicuous black stone, and stepped forward with some puzzlement and asked, "Emperor Yan, what is this?"

Seeing Yan Ju asking, Jiang Shinian handed the Xuan Tie to him, Yan Ju reached out to pick it up, but he didn't expect his palm to sink, and he almost dropped the Xuan Tie to the ground. Yan Ju's face turned red, and he hurriedly grasped it hard, feeling a little surprised in his heart, how could such an inconspicuous little thing be so heavy?

Jiang Shinian looked at Yan Ju's somewhat embarrassed expression, laughed, and said, "It's a gift from an elder, I don't know what it is, let me find out the secret." ”

Yan Ju held the Xuantie in his hand and looked at it carefully, and then asked, "The cracks on it are so weird, why do they seem to be slowly disappearing?"

Hearing this, Jiang Shinian snatched the dark iron and looked carefully at the white cracks on it. I found that as Yan Ju said, the crack was disappearing, or the crack was healing automatically, although it was a little slow, but it was returning to its original appearance.

Jiang Shinian summoned the flames again after the dark iron had fully recovered, only this time he gathered the flames in the palm of his hand, and the golden flames completely wrapped the swarthy dark iron. As Jiang Shinian made every effort to raise his anger, the temperature of the flame became higher and higher, and when the golden flame turned white gold, white cracks appeared on the surface of the black iron inside, and at the same time, it slowly changed shape. The black black iron block, which was not smooth, gradually smoothed out the edges and corners, began to be rounded, and the cracks on the surface gradually widened. At this time, the black iron ball is like a lychee that has been slowly peeled off, the white and tender flesh has a moist watery glow, and when the black shell recedes, a smooth and flawless white bead appears in the flames.

The seemingly simple process lasted for half an hour, Jiang Shinian was drenched with all his strength, and the temperature in the room was surprisingly high. Fortunately, Yanju is also a fire practice method, otherwise he really can't bear such a high temperature.

After Jiang Shinian slowly put away the flames, he closed his eyes and felt the white beads.

Yan Ju also took a step closer curiously and wanted to take a closer look, but before Yan Ju could stand firm, the white beads fell into the desert like water droplets, and disappeared into Jiang Shinian's hands in an instant. Yan Ju was taken aback when he saw it, and subconsciously wanted to reach out to hit Jiang Shinian's palm, but before his hand fell, he was grabbed by a white palm on his wrist.

Yan Ju was shocked, he didn't expect that there was a third person in the house at this time, and he didn't feel it. didn't see who the other party was, so he slapped his palm on the hand that grabbed him, and at the same time, he quickly raised his spiritual power to condense flame concrets on his arm.

At this time, the white palm that grabbed him suddenly loosened, and then Yan Ju felt a pain in his cheeks, a crisp slap sounded, and then he heard a coquettish shout: "Looking for death, dare to spill in front of me?"

When the voice sounded, Yan Ju was dizzy from this slap, and he knew from the voice that the master was coming. Hurriedly bowed to the ground, knocked in the direction of the voice, and didn't dare to say anything.

Lao Li ignored Yanju, looked at Jiang Shinian carefully, nodded slowly, and then reached out and volleyed out, hitting several joints on Jiang Shinian's body, making him into a cultivation posture, and then turned around to look at Yanju who was lying on the ground.

A faint "get up" came out of Lao Li's mouth, and then he floated into the soft collapse not far from him, and lay down very comfortably. Yan Ju followed and walked in front of him, standing aside with his hands down.

Lao Li casually picked up the wild fruits placed on the plate on the side, and ate them slowly, as if he was disgusted with Yanju's eyesore, he frowned and said, "What are you still doing here?" Go out and guard the door, don't let people in." ”

Yan Ju hurriedly answered and ran out of the house. Then he honestly stood at the door, motionless. The clansmen who were in charge of guarding outside the gate all felt strange when they looked at Lord Yanju's appearance, and thought to themselves what was wrong?

After Lao Li drove away Yanju, he ate wild fruits by himself, and had a discussion with Ding Cong in his heart, obviously wanting to pass on something to Jiang Shinian, but he made such a come.

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Early summer is approaching, and the mountains outside are full of life, birds and beasts are gradually going out to forage, and the hunters in the mountains also put away their bows and arrows and turn to farming. No one cares if the prey in the nearby mountains and forests will be hunted by foreign tribes, and no one cares if these foreign tribes will take over their homes. Because everyone has a consensus that this season should be resting, should be busy farming, and all those troubles will not come until the middle of summer, otherwise no tribe will survive the winter of lack of food.

Whether it is the Yellow Emperor tribe or the Yandi tribe, even the Jiuli tribe, which is the best at fighting. Even if there are mountains of corn in their barns, and the cellars in each clan's house, the winter is still difficult, and the storage of food is always a big problem.

In their respective alliances, Xuanyuan and Jiang Shinian have extremely strict management systems for warehouses, but there are still many times that will cause problems in grain storage. Although Ding Cong knew a lot of good methods, he never said it. The main reason is that Ding Cong believes that the changes in these things represent the progress of mankind and the crystallization of wisdom, so he does not interfere. And Lao Li didn't know anything about this, not to mention that a cultivator didn't care about these things.

Of course, not all traversers have Ding Cong's consciousness.

The storage method of the Jiuli tribe was changed after the mining of ore, and Shen Gongke asked Chiyou to store the grain in the low-temperature and dry mine cave, and domesticated wolves to guard the cave where the grain was stored, to prevent some small animals from stealing food, and then the winter life of the Jiuli tribe was better.

Ding Cong and Lao Li didn't mention these things, but it was impossible for Xuanyuan and Jiang Shinian, who were the leaders, not to think about these things. Although they are also cultivators, cultivators can indeed open the valley after reaching a certain level, but they still have to eat when they reach that point, not to mention that they can't make all the clansmen become cultivators.

The cold of spring at the beginning of the year completely subverted everyone's perception of solar terms, which of course were set by priests. But this year, when the seeds were still warm, they were killed by the cold shortly after the crops appeared. It has already passed the best time to plant, and if you continue to plant it, you will have a harvest, but it will be much less. At this point, in order to survive the huge group, Xuanyuan and Jiang Shinian, as the leaders, invariably set their eyes on each other.

His own food was not enough to feed so many people, so he naturally had to find a way to get more food. The best thing to do is to conquer other tribes and grab the necessary resources. At this time, the two leaders understood why the people of the Jiuli tribe were so good at it, or so keen on conquest.

The Yellow Emperor Department is better, after all, it has a home advantage, even if the harvest is insufficient, it is not too much of a problem to survive until the second year. But the biggest crisis now is that if Jiang Shinian wants more clansmen to live, he can only lead his troops to cut down this road. But Xuanyuan used all his deployments to defend the Jiuli Clan, and he didn't expect such a thing to happen at all.

Because of the ginger water where Jiang Shinian lives, the climate by Yingshui comes later, and the crops are relatively cold-tolerant. Although I was well prepared before I came, I didn't expect that the seeds I brought could not adapt to the land and climate here in the outer mountains, and most of them did not emerge at all, and the crops that emerged were too weak, and they all froze to death after a cold wind. Without spring crops, it is impossible to replenish grain for the winter. If you can't solve the question of food, I'm afraid that under the stalemate with the Yellow Emperor's department, your own people won't be able to survive the winter at all.

Now there are only two ways in front of Jiang Shinian, one is to retreat to Jiang Shui's bank and wait for the opportunity, and the other is to grab the grain of the Yellow Emperor after the autumn harvest.

Xuanyuan and Jiang Shinian each have their own troubles, one went to ask Lao Li for help, and the other went to consult Ding Cong. But the attitude of these two is very consistent, that is, we don't care if you two brothers fight, but if you attack each other, then, I'm sorry, no one wants to please!

At night, Xuanyuan sat alone outside the house, looking at the starry sky in the sky, and his heart really couldn't be quiet. After sitting for a while, the irritability became even stronger, so he summoned the Xuanyuan Sword and flew away, wanting to find a quiet place to vent a thing or two.

At this time, Jiang Shinian was also depressed and speechless, and the master was lying on the soft collapse of the house eating wild fruits, but he didn't give himself ideas, so he had no choice but to go out to watch the moon and calm the dissatisfaction in his heart. But he didn't expect to see a figure in the eastern sky in the extreme distance, and he saw that the direction was actually flying towards the north, Jiang Shinian was bored, and he jumped up and chased after him without thinking deeply.

In this way, the two flew far away from each other, one after the other, to the north.

Xuanyuan very casually found a mountain top to drop the flying sword, condescendingly looking into the distance, looking at the ups and downs of the mountains in all directions, although it was night, but with the light of the stars and the moon, it also had a unique flavor. The irritability in my heart has also calmed down a lot.

It didn't take long for Xuanyuan to notice a person flying behind him, and his breath was somewhat familiar, but he was sure that it was not an acquaintance he knew. Turning to look, he found a figure flying quickly in the distance, and the fire flickered all over his body.

Jiang Shinian came to Xuanyuan's side not long after, and saw the young man with a seven-foot sword hanging in the air under his feet. Although I don't know who this person is, I have heard the master say that the long sword has also been condensed with flames, but I am still a little amazed when I see the real thing.

Xuanyuan saw that the person who came did not speak, but just stared at his Xuanyuan sword, with a look of envy in his eyes, so he smiled and spoke first: "Interested in my long sword?"

Jiang Shinian came back to his senses and knew that staring at other people's things like this had already made a taboo, and it was easy to be mistaken for snatching things. Hearing Xuanyuan's question, he smiled a little embarrassedly: "Don't get me wrong, it's the first time I've seen it, and I thought it was novel, so I took a few more looks." ”

Xuanyuan is not a stingy person, not to mention that no one else can snatch this Xuanyuan sword except himself, so he simply took the Xuanyuan sword in his hand and handed it to Jiang Shinian to watch.

Jiang Shinian didn't expect the person in front of him to be so generous, and he liked it in his heart, so he reached out and took the long sword. It's okay not to pick it up, as soon as the long sword is in his hand, Jiang Shinian feels that his hand is like a mountain, and the whole person is driven by the sword to descend rapidly from the air.

Fortunately, Jiang Shinian reacted to his speed, and instantly used his anger to his whole body to stabilize the downward trend, but he wanted to raise the long sword flat in front of him to watch, but he couldn't do it no matter what.

At this time, Xuanyuan also flew in front of him, looked at him with some surprise and said, "It's okay, you are the first person to hold this sword besides my master, I don't know how it happened, is it heavy?"

Jiang Shinian reluctantly handed the sword back to Xuanyuan, seeing that his expression when he spoke did not look like a fake, and he also knew that he had not deceived himself, and said with a smile: "It's really heavy, it's ugly." ”

Xuanyuan put away the long sword and looked at the young man opposite, although the clothes were simple, he looked unique when he wore them, wearing a jade plaque on his chest, and a jade pendant on his waist, but for some reason he had a large piece of linen wrapped in a bulging head, covering his forehead and bun. Looking at this costume, I secretly guessed his origin in my heart, but I didn't know which tribe had the habit of Baotou.

Jiang Shinian also looked at Xuanyuan, although this very generous young man did not have any valuables on his body, the clothes he was wearing were very special, they looked so soft and thin, I don't know what they were made of.

The two sides were silent and guessed each other's identities, and they both had a feeling that they couldn't touch the edge.

may have felt that Xuanyuan first took out his long sword unreservedly to show himself, which made Jiang Shinian a little touched, so he stretched out his hand and pointed to the top of the mountain below and said, "Let's stop here, go sit down there and talk." It just so happens that I have some food with me here, so let's talk while eating. After saying that, he turned around and flew down.

Xuanyuan didn't have an opinion, smiled softly and followed Jiang Shinian to the top of the mountain.

The two found a flat place to sit down, Jiang Shinian took off the storage jue on his ears, and took out a lot of dried meat and other food from it and gave it to Xuanyuan.

After Xuanyuan saw him take out something from Jue, he was shocked in his heart, and stared at it carefully for a long time, just like Jiang Shinian looked at his Xuanyuan sword.

At this time, Jiang Shinian was also a little proud in his heart, and when he was about to show Xuanyuan the storage Jue, he found that Xuanyuan slowly took out an object from his arms, the shape and size were so familiar, and it was exactly the same as his storage Jue.

Jiang Shinian was silent.

Xuanyuan was also silent.