Old Man Bai looked at Xue An with a very calm gaze, as if he was simply facing a friend's grandson, and there was no change because he saw through Xue An's disguise or discovered that Xue An had infiltrated the Bai family. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Xue An nodded, and he handed the hundred-faced iron back to Xue An.

"This thing works very well, as long as you wear it, you shouldn't be seen by anyone. ”

After speaking, Old Man Bai didn't ask anything more, turned around and left. Before leaving, he looked at Xue An with a very soft look, as if he was reassuring Xue An and telling him not to worry.

Xue An sat back on the bed with apprehension and cultivated until dawn.

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In the days that followed, Old Man Bai acted as if nothing had happened that night, and had trained Xue An every day according to the previous plan. The only change is that his teaching of Xue An's mechanism technique has been strengthened.

Old Man Bai didn't follow the method of accumulation and thinness of the usual mechanical technique practice to let Xue An practice a large number of basic movements, because he felt that there was not enough time. He chose to pick out the more practical and simple tricks summed up in his experience, and used intensive training methods to let Xue An learn them by rote.

But even that took almost a month.

Old Man Bai took Xue An out of the city for the last time, and this time, on the way, he didn't make a move, and he was watching Xue An deal with those fierce beasts from the sidelines.

Xue An has been cultivating diligently for the soul bones these days, and under the protection of the ancestors of the Xue family, he has entered the realm very quickly, and his internal qi and soul power have been enriched a lot, and he is a lot easier against small fierce beasts like giant rats, but with a short knife, he can kill them in a very short time.

On the way, he only encountered a lone green-skinned wolf, which was considered a threatening beast, and was trapped by Xue An with a falling stone trap and killed, and took out five soul jades from its body. Old Man Bai looked at it from the side and nodded, Xue An's comprehension is very good, although he is not very skilled in trap making, but he is very spiritual in the timing of inducing traps. He was very satisfied with his choice to accept the apprentice, even if Xue An did not have the weird ability to directly kill the fierce beast, he could be regarded as a good successor of his tricks.

There are fewer and fewer fierce beasts north of Drifting Snow City, and they seem to have disappeared in the past two days, until noon, Xue An has only killed five or six fierce beasts, and he has not exhausted his physical strength. His cultivation these days had nearly doubled the number of fierce beasts he was able to kill, but he didn't expect that the daily harvest was getting smaller and smaller.

Old Man Bai didn't delay any longer, and took Xue An back to the city on time.

In the afternoon, when it was supposed to be the time to train the machine technique, Old Man Bai called Xue An to his room. He had set a dense trap around the house to prevent anyone from approaching his hut.

He asked Xue An to sit at the table, and he brought a small stool to sit opposite Xue An, everything was done slowly, and his face was a little comfortable, like a grandfather who wanted to tell his grandson a story.

"Xue An, you can't stay in the White Mansion any longer, you should go back to the Xue Mansion. This is the first time in so many days that Old Man Bai has called Xue An's real name, and he is afraid that the people in the Bai Mansion will find out about Xue An, so he has been calling that Meng Changsheng's fake name.

"Why?" Xue An knew that Old Man Bai would not harm him, but he still had some doubts.

"These days, I've been trying to figure out why the city lord wants to deal with your Xue family, but I didn't expect to be discovered by someone very cautiously. You have been by my side these days, and they will also be eyeing you, although those juniors in my Bai Mansion dare not do anything to me openly, but it is not easy to say it secretly, I can't protect you in the Bai family. ”

Xue An's eyes widened like beads, he didn't expect the matter to be so serious. The family of the city lord's line is really ruthless this time, and even a person with a transcendent status like Old Man Bai Changgeng will be implicated.

"A few days ago, the Lord of Drifting Snow City personally came to invite me to participate in this year's pilgrimage. I haven't participated in the pilgrimage group for more than ten years, and I wanted to refuse, but I didn't expect the juniors in the family to come together to persuade me to agree, and I don't know if these dogs recognized the city lord as their master!"

Old Man Bai is also solemn, the younger generations of the Bai family have been completely tied to the city lord, and they are becoming more and more unruly, he is afraid that this will lead the Bai family to destruction.

The Pilgrimage is a special operation that takes place every summer in Snowdrifter, where a selected team sets out in a southbound direction, carefully passing through the gap between the Sea of Wailing Bones and the Bloodthirsty Mountains to reach the Holy City, located in the center of the continent.

The Holy City is the only city among the Thirteen Cities of Divine Blessing that is still controlled by the Holy Court, as a religious organization, the Holy Court has the deepest understanding of the true gods, and every year those priests who concentrate on research will improve some blood jade-related spells to increase the utilization rate of blood jade. It is precisely because of this that compared to today, when it was more and more difficult to collect blood jade six hundred years ago, the Thirteen Cities of Divine Blessing were still able to maintain it hard, because the spell of ripening food was dozens of times more efficient than back then.

The Thirteen Cities of Divine Blessing, which are surrounded by fierce beasts, are like thirteen paths scattered on the sea, and there is little communication between them on weekdays. That is why the Thirteen Cities of Divine Blessing have set the day for each of them to go to the Holy City to learn the improvement spell in the summer, so that every year the Thirteen Cities can also exchange information in the Holy City, and learn about each other's migration trends and emerging methods of searching for blood jade.

This year, the city lord invited Old Man Bai to join the pilgrimage group on the grounds that the tide of fierce beasts was rising and the difficulty of the pilgrimage had increased, but who knew if he wanted to use this to get rid of Old Man Bai Changgeng, after all, Old Man Bai was the elder figure in the largest family under him, but he was inextricably linked with the ancient family, and he had always been a thorn in his side.

In addition, Old Man Bai was blocking the way for the City Lord to level the Xue family, which made the Drifting Snow City Lord make up his mind to get rid of Old Man Bai Changgeng.

Xue An looked at Old Man Bai worriedly, but he didn't speak, he knew that his Xue family was already in trouble for himself, even if he asked Old Man Bai what difficulties he had, he couldn't help.

Old Man Bai suddenly laughed, lit a cigarette for himself, and smoked it clean.

"Actually, I don't want to tell you this, I want to tell you a story. I've been alone for decades, and now that I think about it, I'm a little lonely, so I want to tell you my story. "Old Man Bai has already thought of this pilgrimage road, and it will definitely be a life of nine deaths, so he is almost explaining the aftermath to Xue An, the only personal disciple.

"Say, I'll listen. Xue An looked at Old Man Bai admittedly.

"Well, let's start with you. Do you know why I didn't let you marry and have children?"

"I remember you said that women are more terrible than beasts, so it's because you once met a terrible woman?" Xue An said.

"No, I have never met a terrible woman, but I have had a very beautiful and gentle wife, and I have had an obedient and sensible son. It's just that they're all dead. ”