"Senior brother, where have you been in the past two days? I haven't seen you everywhere. Lin Xu asked Li Shiwei softly.

"I, I ......" Li Shiwei looked embarrassed, and it was difficult to speak.

"Senior brother, we are good brothers who can make friends, there is nothing you can't say, if you have any difficulties, just say it. Otherwise, they just don't see me as a brother. Lin Xu could only use a little threatening tone to force Li Shiwei to say what was in his heart.

"Alas, well, junior brother, I'll tell you. Li Shiwei sighed softly, and then told Lin Xu the reason why he had been out for the past two days.

It turned out that in the two days that Li Shiwei left the Medicine Valley, he had been asking for help from friends he knew who also belonged to the Thousand Ice Sword Sect. He really wanted to help Lin Xuan figure out the specific situation of the strange true qi in his body, whether it was harmful to his body, and whether it would affect his next step of cultivation.

However, most of these friends Li Shiwei knew were at the same level as him, that is, worse than Lin Xu's cultivation, so naturally they couldn't help much, even if Li Shiwei described it clearly, they were still puzzled.

Li Shiwei searched almost all the friends he knew, but he didn't help Lin Xu find an accurate answer. He had no choice but to give up.

However, among Li Shiwei's acquaintances, there was a person named Luo Kangshu who saw that Li Shiwei's cultivation had obviously improved a lot. He remembered that he and Li Shiwei had not been long apart from the last time they met, and in a short period of time, Li Shiwei had made such great progress.

Luo Kangshu immediately ignored Li Shiwei's original intention to ask for help, but kept asking Li Shiwei why his cultivation was improved. Since Li Shiwei still trusted Luo Kangshu, he gave Lin Xuan the Quenching Pill to himself, so that his body became strong and his cultivation was also enhanced.

What Li Shiwei never expected was that Luo Kangshu, a despicable villain, would actually have evil thoughts and want to get Lin Xu's quenching pill. He also asked Li Shiwei to take the opportunity of getting acquainted with Lin Xu to help him steal some quenching pills from Lin Xu. He even shamelessly said to Li Shiwei that the more he stole the better.

Of course, Li Shiwei couldn't agree to Luo Kangshu's despicable and shameless request, so he refused on the spot, and also taught him a hard lesson, so that he would die of this heart, and he would never do anything to hurt Lin Xu.

Li Shiwei has known Luo Kangshu for more than ten years, but it wasn't until he asked Li Shiwei to do the theft that Li Shiwei really knew this person's face.

Luo Kangshu saw that Li Shiwei was for Lin Xu, a young man who had only known each other for a short time, so he turned his face on the spot despite the many years of friendship that the two had had, and immediately started a fire, scolding Li Shiwei for not talking about friendship.

At that time, the two started to fight without accident. But Li Shiwei and Luo Kangshu's martial arts cultivation are generally the same, they are both swordsmen, and the result of the fight is that neither can defeat the other, and they end up defeated.

In this way, Li Shiwei and Luo Kangshu's friendship for more than ten years was also broken, and when they met in the future, they were enemies like mortal enemies, and they were no longer friends.

I wanted to ask an acquaintance and friend for help, but I didn't expect such a thing to happen, Li Shiwei suddenly felt disheartened, and his feelings were weak, so he didn't want to go to other friends. He no longer had illusions at all, knowing that he couldn't help Lin Xuan no matter what, so he returned to the Medicine Valley with a very sad heart.

"Senior brother, I'm so useless, I can't help you with anything. It seems that I only owe you a favor in this life. Li Shiwei said very sadly and frustratedly.

In fact, after Lin Xu listened to Li Shiwei's story, he was already very moved in his heart. No matter what the result is, at least Li Shiwei really wants to help himself. Just this love, Lin Xu felt that it was extremely precious.

So Lin Xu hurriedly comforted Li Shiwei and said, "Senior brother, don't say that, and don't have any psychological burden." If you have this heart, it is enough. I would also like to thank you for going out for two days of hard work for me. ”

After Lin Xu said that, he grinned at Li Shiwei, which made Li Shiwei's mood suddenly become relaxed and happy, and he smiled with Lin Xu.

Lin Xuan knew that there was a despicable villain like Luo Kangshu who secretly attacked his own elixir, so he became more cautious and cautious than before. Every time he went to the bazaar to sell elixirs in exchange for gold coins, he had to take great care to change his outfit so that others would not recognize him.

The purpose of this is to maintain a low-key posture so as not to cause trouble. Now he was at the critical juncture of cultivating the Blue Ice Heavenly Sword Duel, and if he could avoid trouble, it was better to avoid it as much as possible. In this way, he was able to have more time and at the same time be more quiet and focused on cultivating the sword duel.

However, there are always many people in this world who are greedy for money. Even if Lin Xuan was low-key, the fact that he sold pills and got a large amount of gold coins was still known by the people who lived near the Medicine Valley.

Of course, these people were inevitably envious and jealous of Lin Xu, and there were even people like Luo Kangshu who started Lin Xu's idea and had evil thoughts. Most of these people were the outer disciples of the Thousand Ice Sword Sect. Because according to the regulations of the Thousand Ice Sword Sect, only the inner disciples will be able to receive a sum of gold coins every month for expenses, while the outer disciples do not, and if they want to get the gold coins, they have to rely on themselves to find a way.

Some of these ill-intentioned people will naturally find a way to get a windfall from Lin Xu, so that they can get something for nothing and make a windfall. This made the medicine valley, which had always seemed particularly quiet, seem to have become extremely lively overnight, and many people would run here to take a look when they had nothing to do, and the place of special attention was naturally the hut where Lin Xu lived.

They also thought that Lin Xuan would not bring all the gold coins with him, and should hide some of them in the house. Then as long as they find an opportunity to sneak into the forest void house to find it, they should gain something. To put it bluntly, these people are nothing more than thieves who come to the medicine valley first to step on something, and then prepare to find a suitable time to do the theft.

That morning, after Lin Xu and Li Shiwei had breakfast, they went to the medicine field to remove grass and water. And a disciple of the Thousand Ice Sword Sect who lived in the village near the Medicine Valley named Wu Yongbin suddenly walked towards them.

Li Shiwei and Wu Yongbin were familiar with each other, so they greeted with a smile: "Senior Brother Wu, I haven't seen you come to my medicine valley all year round, do you have anything to inform you today?"

Wu Yongbin is several years younger than Li Shiwei, and the two are both outer disciples of the Thousand Ice Sword Sect, so Li Shiwei calls him a junior disciple according to convention.

"Hehe, it's okay, it's okay, I just happened to pass by the Medicine Valley, so I just wanted to walk in and have a look. Your medicine field is well cared for, and the growth of medicinal herbs is also very gratifying. Wu Yongbin deliberately praised Li Shiwei and smiled reluctantly, but he couldn't hide the hypocrisy in his heart at all.

"It's okay, I'm counting on these herbs to live, and I can't do it without a little effort. Otherwise, not to mention what swordsmanship you practice, even eating will be a problem. Li Shiwei seemed to have sensed Wu Yongbin's weakness, so he responded to him coldly, not showing much enthusiasm at all.

And after Lin Xu saw Wu Yongbin, he felt very familiar. He believed that it was definitely not the first time he had seen this person, but he had just not known each other before.

Lin Xuan thought about it carefully, and finally remembered that Wu Yongbin was one of the two men he saw passing under the tree when he was on the tree outside the medicine valley.

However, Lin Xu also remembered that when Wu Yongbin was talking about Li Shiwei's loan shark behind his back, both his expression and tone obviously revealed his disdain and ridicule for Li Shiwei, so Lin Xu didn't have a good impression of him.

When Wu Yongbin deliberately chatted with Li Shiwei without words, Lin Xu didn't go forward to greet him as if he didn't see him, and was still busy with his own work just now, giving the medicine field to get rid of weeds, so that the medicinal herbs could grow better.

However, Wu Yongbin seemed to be very unfamiliar with each other, and he was close to Lin Xutao. He deliberately bypassed Li Shiwei, walked to Lin Xu's side, and asked with a smile: "This young man is very quick to do his work, he should be the new junior brother, right?"

"Oh, I forgot to introduce you to you. His name is Lin Xu, and he is indeed a newcomer. When Li Shiwei heard Wu Yongbin ask, he hurriedly introduced the two of them, said to Wu Yongbin, and then said to Lin Xu: "His name is Wu Yongbin, he is older than you, you should be called senior brother." ”

Don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha. Even if Lin Xu was very disdainful of Wu Yongbin in his heart, since Li Shiwei had spoken, he still had to do some superficial work. He immediately reluctantly greeted Wu Yongbin and said, "Senior Brother Wu, hello!"

"Senior Brother Lin, hello!" Wu Yongbin said, while constantly looking Lin Xuan up and down, as if he wanted to see something, and said: "When I see Senior Brother Lin, he is not an ordinary person, although he is young, but he has a great ability, he can actually refine the pill directly with medicinal materials and sell it, he should have earned a lot of gold coins, right?"

Wu Yongbin didn't know the source of Lin Xu's elixir at all. He also thought that Lin Xuan was like an ordinary alchemist, and only medicinal materials could refine the elixir. But he didn't know that Lin Xuan had the ancient bronze mirror given by Bai Qing, and with only one pill, he could copy countless pills as they were.

Now Li Shiwei heard Wu Yongbin suddenly mention Lin Xuan's sale of pills, and he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart. He had been helping Lin Xu keep this secret before, and at the same time told Lin Xuan not to tell him about it, so as not to attract covetousness. But now it seems that this matter obviously can't be hidden, and it still spreads out in the end.

Li Shiwei was secretly worried about Lin Xuan in his heart, and couldn't help but panic for a while, and didn't come up with a better way to deal with Wu Yongbin. On the contrary, Lin Xuan seemed much calmer.

"Selling pills?" Lin pretended to be confused and said to Wu Yongbin: "You should be mistaken, I have never sold pills!"