Three years ago, in June, it was a hot summer.

In a dark alley in the north of Xiaoshan County, a middle-aged man in a wide coat is angrily scolding the little boy in front of him, who is squatting by the wall shirtless, and next to the little boy is a little girl who is protecting him in thin clothes.

"You stinky boy, you starve to death, you can't practice martial arts, you can't even steal something, how can I take you in this waste, you know how to eat all day long, you won't do anything!"

The middle-aged man looked at the little boy curled up in the corner, scolded and kicked directly at the little boy's stomach, and at this moment, the little girl, who was a little shorter than the little boy, went straight forward and stretched out her hands to block the middle-aged man's attack.

"Uncle Wang, just forgive Ye Fan again, I'll go hunt a few fierce beasts and come back later. ”

Uncle Wang snorted coldly, but looked at the little girl's tone and said a little softly: "Xiao Yaxi, you also know that the frequency of the county hunter team hunting and killing fierce beasts is getting faster and faster, although you are extraordinary, but it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and now the fierce beasts in the mountains next to Xiaoshan County have been almost killed." ”

Su Yaxi: "Uncle Wang, don't worry, if you can't catch the fierce beast on the outside, I will try my luck in the inner circle." ”

"Haha, okay, don't forget what you said, it's better to kill a few powerful beasts, you know?" said Uncle Wang and a few other little beggars around him walked towards the outside of the alley, and left satisfied.

Su Yaxi watched everyone leave, then took out the steamed bun that was as hard as a stone from her arms and handed it to Ye Fan, and whispered: "Come, Brother Ye Fan, you eat this steamed bun, it won't be painful to eat." ”

Ye Fan looked at Su Yaxi, who was handed to him full of hair, his big black eyes were indescribably bright in his dirty cheeks, and his sincere and gentle tone made Ye Fan's heart warm, looking at the steamed buns, there was mist in his eyes but he didn't move.

Seeing that Ye Fan was indifferent, Su Yaxi asked softly: "What's wrong with Brother Ye Fan, why don't you eat steamed buns, do you want me to put your chest to warm you again?"

Ye Fan sobbed a few times when he heard this, and asked, "Yaxi, why are you so good to me?"

Su Yaxi smiled when she heard this: "Brother Ye Fan, have you forgotten, if it weren't for you, I would have passed out on the street, and now that you are my dearest person in the world, I will definitely not let others bully you." ”

According to Su Yaxi, when she was dying on the street, it was Ye Fan who brought her into the beggar's nest, but he couldn't remember anything about the previous incident, so he could only sigh.

Su Yaxi suddenly became extremely serious at this time, and replied word by word: "Brother Ye Fan, you have to remember that I Su Yaxi is your wife, and I will be for the rest of my life, do you know?"

"What's a wife?"

"You'll know in the future, eat the steamed buns in your hand, I'm going to the mountains to kill the beasts, so that you won't be beaten by Uncle Wang." ”

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Ye Fan, who was sitting at the head of the bed, was full of thoughts, this was the earliest memory in his mind, the beggar's nest in the hot summer was full of the coldness of human affection and the gloom of life, but because of a little girl named Su Yaxi, Ye Fan's life was bright.

"I don't know what happened to Yaxi, the three-year period is almost up, can she still find me? But even if she finds me, what can I do now?"

Ye Fan looked at his empty dantian, his heart was full of melancholy, soon, the snow outside stopped again, Ye Fan put aside his thoughts and came to the courtyard, life has to go on, Ye Fan is also going to start preparing lunch.

Sitting in the courtyard, Ye Fan cleanly broke the skin and bones of the demon beast's flesh and blood, and then inserted it on the clean wooden branch, his movements were extremely skillful. The tiger meat is grilled on the fire, and the aroma is permeating, and it is cooked after a quarter of an hour.

Ye Fan picked up the roasted tiger meat and sniffed it gently, put some commonly used ingredients, and then came to the house, and slowly fed the tiger meat into Wang Yuting's body.

Wang Yuting is still in a coma, but with the flesh and blood of Tianyao Tiger, Ye Fan is not worried about Wang Yuting's physical energy.

Time passes quickly.

Because there are demon beasts in the Black Wind Mountain Range, Ye Fan will go deep to hunt demon beasts every day after cultivating in the mountain range, and Ye Fan does not dare to go deep in the area that is too infraged, so he can only wander around the periphery, and if he is lucky, he can touch one, and sometimes he can't touch one.

On the seventh day, Ye Fan carried a mouthful of marijuana leather bag and walked towards Qingyang Town next to the Black Wind Mountain Range.

There is a Fang City in Qingyang Town, and the shops in this Fang City are generally not large, but it is the most prosperous area in the entire Qingyang Town, because most of them sell medicinal materials or pills that are assisted in the cultivation of martial artists.

As we all know, the most profitable people in this world are martial artists, and they will definitely not feel distressed about buying cultivation resources, after all, they can earn it again when the money is gone, but the improvement of cultivation is unattainable.

Entering the market, Ye Fan saw a bustling crowd, some of them were martial artists wearing strong suits, some young masters of rich and noble families, and even some martial artists of the Ning Dan Realm with strong true qi.

Seeing a medicinal herb shop, Ye Fan walked in and said, "The shopkeeper sells demon beast materials." ”

The shopkeeper was a slightly chubby middle-aged man, who came to Ye Fan's side and smiled slightly, then opened the belt to count the materials.

"The Tianyao Tiger material is worth four hundred taels, the yak material is three hundred taels, and the Flame Rat material is two hundred taels, totaling nine hundred taels of silver. ”

Ye Fan nodded and said lightly: "Help me change it to a golden ticket, it's inconvenient to hold the silver." ”

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "It's natural. ”

instructed his subordinates to put away the demon beast materials, and then took out a few golden silver tickets from the safe and handed them to Ye Fan neatly.

Shopkeeper: "Nine hundred taels of golden tickets, you count." ”

Ye Fan glanced at the golden ticket casually, then put away the golden ticket and looked at the commodity counter.

There are all kinds of cultivation materials, but the elixir about refining the body often costs five thousand taels, and the cheapest one also costs two thousand taels of gold.

The shopkeeper was naturally good at observing words and pleasant feelings, and when he saw that Ye Fan still wanted to buy materials, he immediately said, "This young man, do you need any help?"

Ye Fan didn't directly ask about the body refining materials, he thought for a while and said, "Shopkeeper, I don't know if you have some information about this City Genius Battle?"

"Shaoxia, you are asking the right person, you don't inquire about the title of know-it-all Liu in Qingyang Town, first give you a list of the top ten most likely to hit this year, there is a brief introduction behind each person's name, of course, if you want to know their detailed information, or even their martial arts comprehension, as long as you can pay the price marked above, we will give them one by one. ”

"Okay, I'll take a look first. ”

Picking up the piece of paper about the city genius battle, he swept Ye Fan's heart a little heavier at a glance, this year's competition is really extremely fierce, there are a total of thirty people on this list, and the worst cultivators have the strength of the Eight Realms of the Qi Refining Realm.

"Huh, why is it that this person is only ranked tenth in the eighth level of the Qi Refining Realm, and this martial artist is only ranked twenty-third in the tenth level of the Qi Refining Realm?"

The shopkeeper smiled when he heard this: "Hehe, little brother, you don't know." ”

"That Qi Refining Realm Ten Martial Artist is a loose cultivator, he is twenty-three years old this year, although this casual cultivation is very high, but because he is not a disciple of the sect, he naturally does not have any good cultivation techniques, and he can't enter the sect, and his general talent is not much better, so basically the disciples of the martial arts sect of the same level are all killed in seconds. ”

Ye Fan nodded in a daze, as if he had thought of something: "By the way, shopkeeper, I heard that four years ago, there was a scattered cultivator who was very strong, and finally won the top spot in the battle for the city of Luoyang City, I don't know if it's true?"

The shopkeeper's pupils shrank when he heard this, and then he whispered: "You stupid boy, don't you know that this matter is taboo?

Ye Fan looked at it and thought that this matter was just a legend, but he didn't expect it to be true, so he immediately asked again. However, the shopkeeper seemed to be extremely jealous of this matter, no matter how Ye Fan asked, he didn't say a word.

Ye Fan seemed to feel that there was no hope, and when he thought about it, he said, "By the way, shopkeeper, do you have some cheaper body refining materials here?"

The shopkeeper saw that there was a business, so he took care of Ye Fan again, took out a small porcelain bottle and said: "Look at how this refining oil is?" It is made of six kinds of materials, and applying the refining oil on the body has a miraculous effect on improving the strength of the body, and a bottle only costs one hundred taels of gold. ”

Ye Fan exhaled lightly, although these nine hundred taels of gold were a huge wealth for ordinary people, but if it was used for cultivation, it would be too shabby, and with a helpless sigh, Ye Fan raised his head and said, "Then take nine small bottles of body refining oil." ”

The shopkeeper nodded, and then ordered his subordinates to pack the refining oil into a box.

Seeing that there were not many people around at this time, the shopkeeper whispered to Ye Fan: "Shaoxia, see that you are an honest man, I can tell you about that matter, but you have to pay attention to confidentiality"

Ye Fan was overjoyed when he heard this, and then nodded heavily.

Shopkeeper: "Actually, the reason why that loose cultivation is so powerful is actually because of the use of the Blood Yuan Pill of the Demon Yuan Sect!"

Ye Fan was puzzled: "Blood Yuan Dan?"

The shopkeeper nodded: "That's right, it was precisely because of that incident that three years ago, the two major forces of the Qingyun Kingdom royal family and Tianyin Temple joined forces to crusade against the Demon Yuan Sect, which led to the Battle of Zhongzhou, and finally the entire Qingyun Kingdom fell into war." ”

Ye Fan nodded when he heard this, and said secretly: "Blood Yuan Dan?

Shopkeeper: "The Blood Yuan Pill actually starts from the heart, through the flow of the heart, the blood power of the people becomes extremely strong, and finally condenses the blood element in the dantian, and through the evolution of the blood element, the cultivation of the person advances rapidly, and the faster the cultivation progresses, and there is no bottleneck of advancement!"

Ye Fan seemed to think of something when he heard this, and exclaimed, "Are you saying that you don't need to refine true qi to cultivate the blood element?

The shopkeeper nodded: "That's right, but the mortality rate of the Blood Yuan Pill is extremely high, plus after the Battle of Zhongzhou, this kind of thing has become a taboo in Qingyun Country, and now it is no longer seen, and the cultivation of the Blood Yuan depends on devouring essence blood, which is cruel." ”

Ye Fan sighed when he heard this, and his heart was a little gloomy: "If this Blood Yuan Pill can be given to him, maybe it will really work, after all, he has a problem with his dantian, and his heart is still normal, but it's a pity ......"

However, Ye Fan was not too low, and then he was ruthless in his heart: "Even if I don't have the Blood Yuan Pill, I can reach the peak of the Quenching Body Realm through external cultivation, and even if I am a martial artist in the Ning Dan Realm, I will have the strength to fight, and it is not impossible to win the top spot in the city genius battle!"

With a decision in his heart, Ye Fan paid the money to say goodbye to the shopkeeper, and then walked towards the Qingyang Inn with the wooden box containing the refining oil.