(This is the newly revised chapter 42, please take a look at ---- brothers and sisters)

The temperature of the hot water in the pot is still rising, and Xue Liji closed his eyes and meditated in the hot water, regulating his luck, and the qi in his body circulated in the body.

It turned out that he was not taking a hot bath, but practicing a special exercise.

When the water temperature was about to reach the boiling point, he suddenly jumped out of the big iron pot, and his whole body had become red and red, like a boiled lobster.

After Xue Lijian jumped out of the iron pot, he turned over and jumped over the lake, and slapped the ice on the lake with a palm.

I saw countless cracks on the ice, and the cracks extended into the distance, and I heard a "crackling" sound, and in an instant, the ice surface of the entire lake was completely shattered.

Xue Li jumped into the lake full of broken ice, soaked his body in the icy water, and continued to breathe his luck, and soon, his hot red body gradually turned white, and then turned pale cyan.

At this moment, Steward Liu appeared by the big iron cauldron, he glanced at the broken ice all over the lake, nodded, and said, "Well, Xiao Xue, the power of your 'wolf tooth splitting empty palm' has increased a little, and the shock wave generated by a palm split can shatter all the ice on the lake, it seems that your martial arts cultivation has also improved a lot." ”

Xue Li saw that it was Steward Liu, and hurriedly jumped out of the ice, he said respectfully while wiping his body with the towel he had prepared a long time ago: "This is all thanks to the special cultivation method called 'Ice and Fire Poles' taught by you, Old Liu, it is really good, and the subordinates have practiced every day with this method of extremely hot and cold for a while during this time, plus the assistance of the second-level elixir, it is really effective." For such a long time, students have been stuck in the late stage of the Bone Forging Realm, and it is difficult to make progress, and after using this method you taught, now they have finally broken through the bottleneck and entered the peak stage. ”

Steward Liu stroked his long beard under his chin and nodded with satisfaction: "It's good to make progress, and it will be more convenient to do things for the third prince in the future. ”

Xue Li was overjoyed when he heard this, and said with a sneer: "The subordinates can have today because of the cultivation of the third prince and Liu Lao, and the current nursing hall has been made into a miasma by Tie Song and Lu Zhan, and the subordinates think that they have to rectify these guys who don't know what to do, and also teach them to know that only our third prince has the final say in the Lu Mansion." ”

Steward Liu said "um", "I came to you today for the sake of Lu Zhan'er." ”

Xue Liji's face was overjoyed: "Old Liu, are you going to kill him today?"

"yes. Steward Liu said sadly: "Our third young master is about to return to the house, I can't let him go back to the house and find that there is a hidden danger in the house that has not been removed." Alas, I don't know if that kid was particularly lucky or somehow, he was allowed to live until now. In the past, because I was busy with the extremely important things that the third young master had explained, I didn't have time to pay attention to him personally. However, the two groups of people sent before were too poor in their ability to do things, and they were all gone. By the way, I asked you to secretly find out if there was anyone behind the kid surnamed Lu who was secretly helping, did you find out the result?"

"The student checked. Xue Li quickly bowed and replied: "But I haven't seen any eye-catching characters around him." ”

"There is no one to help him, how can his martial arts attainments improve so quickly?" Steward Liu looked at Xue Liji, and asked with a cruel smile: "I heard that you had a competition with a kid surnamed Lu some time ago, and you completely lost to him. ”

Xue Liji's face suddenly turned red, and he muttered curtly: "My subordinates were a little careless that time, and they just lost a little bit, but now that I have the help of the ice and fire pole exercises, let me compare with him, and he will definitely lose." ”

Steward Liu said: "A few days ago, the old man secretly observed him, and it can be seen from the spirit emanating from his body that although this kid is at most at the peak stage of the bone forging realm. However, the rate of progress he has made is quite impressive, and I can't believe that this man has no superior people behind him. But I can't care so much now, this kid must die today, and I personally took action to end his life. ”

Xue Liji hurriedly patted his chest and said, "Where can you use a knife to kill chickens." Liu Lao, you just have to watch from the sidelines, and your subordinates will dismantle that kid into eight pieces. ”

Last time in front of many nurses in the training ground, he lost to Lu Zhan, thus losing face, which made him stubborn and grudgeful until now.

At this moment, seeing that his martial arts cultivation had made great progress, he decided that he should have the strength to kill Lu Zhan, so he was very determined to invite Steward Liu to fight, so he could take this opportunity to perform well in front of Steward Liu, and lay the foundation for standing out in front of the third young master in the future.

"That's fine. Steward Liu nodded: "Then I'll watch Xiao Xue from the sidelines, how you kill that little bastard." ”

In fact, Steward Liu didn't think that Xue Liji could really kill Lu Zhan, but he had always had doubts about whether there was a mysterious master behind Lu Zhan, so he wanted to stand aside and take a closer look to see if anyone was secretly protecting Lu Zhan.

Seeing that Steward Liu agreed to let him be the vanguard, Xue Lijian ran to get dressed excitedly, and said loudly while wearing: "That kid should be patrolling the mansion at this time, and his subordinates will go and slaughter that kid." ”

"Wait. Steward Liu stopped him: "Don't kill him in the Lu Mansion, it's not good to be deaf to people, especially don't let Lu Bufan and other reclusive old things direct." We took him to the abandoned pavilion in the eastern suburbs, which was sparsely populated and would not attract attention. ”

Xue Liji felt that Steward Liu was too careful, and there was no need to kill a child like Lu Zhan for fear of falling into people's eyes. But since Steward Liu said so, he couldn't refute anything.

So he put on his clothes and walked to the Lu Mansion with Steward Liu one after the other.

Lu Zhan took several nurses to inspect the Lu Mansion, returned to the nursing hall to hand over the errand, and was walking out of the nursing hall to go home, when he saw Xue Li walking towards him.

"Hey, kid surnamed Lu. Xue Liji beckoned to him and shouted: "Come here, come here." ”

Looking at Xue Liji's posture, and then at Steward Liu standing behind him, Lu Zhan knew in his heart that what should have happened was finally going to happen.

He took a deep breath, held his head high, walked towards the two of them, and asked calmly, "What's the matter?"

Steward Liu smiled and said to him: "In a few days, our third young master will go back to the house, and then we will all go to the long pavilion in the eastern suburbs to greet his old man. With that, he turned around and walked out of the house.

Lu Zhan did not hesitate at all, and walked out of the Lu Mansion after him.

Lu Zhan followed behind Steward Liu, and Xue Li walked in the rear, forming a situation of flanking back and forth.

The three of them didn't say a word, and walked briskly.

As Lu Zhan walked, he silently counted the equipment he was carrying in his heart.

Because he had already expected a head-to-head confrontation with Steward Liu, he had already prepared for this duel in advance.

First of all, he wore a sixth-level Mithril heart guard on his chest from the collection of General Duobao (he still remembered the credit for the heart guard that saved him twice), but also put on the seventh-level soft armor "Rhino Moon Gazetteer".

The second is the Qiankun bag, which is also an important line he carries with him, which is full of pills, more than a dozen weapons above level 5, and even the yellow paper that he got from Lu Xuan during the "martial arts examination" was stuffed into it.

This war is a matter of life and death, and of course the best must be brought with you.

There is a three-way intersection in the eastern suburbs of Yunmeng City, one of the three forks leads to the ferry of the Yiyang River, one leads to the neighboring city of Lanshui City, and one leads to Hongzhou City.

At the intersection of the three forks, there is a stone pavilion for people to rest, because people often send each other off in front of this pavilion, so this pavilion is called "long pavilion", quite has the artistic conception of "wounded parting, Sauvignon Blanc" sung by the literati and scholars in the past.

It's just that with the prosperity of the Yunmeng City ferry port and the construction of new access roads, the pedestrians here are becoming scarce, and even the long pavilion has been dilapidated and almost abandoned

At this time, there is no trace of the intersection, only a few old trees are lying on the side of the ancient road, and a lonely pavilion stands in the west wind; the snow is sprinkled all over the sky, and the color in the field of vision, except for the three black figures, there is only the world full of Qiong Yao.

Steward Liu walked into the long pavilion, stopped, shook the snowflakes condensed on the cloak, turned his head, and looked at Lu Zhan with a pair of corpse-like eagle-like eyes.

Standing in this position gave him an excellent vision, and no matter what was going on around him, he couldn't escape his eyes, which was also the main reason why he chose this place, because he wanted to see if there were any masters behind Lu Zhan who were secretly helping.

Lu Zhan stood still about three zhang away from the Long Pavilion, turned sideways, and half faced Steward Liu, and at the same time let Xue Lijian fall into his sight.

He was under attack at this time, so he had to keep a little distance from the enemy and not create too many opportunities for them to flank him back and forth.

Xue Li chuckled strangely: "Stinky boy, you don't look surprised or scared at all, you seem to have a premonition, right?" ”

"yes. Lu Zhan stretched his brows and patted the snowflakes on his shoulders: "I have long had a premonition that this long pavilion will be the burial place for the two of you." ”

This sentence was originally a line that Xue Liji had thought of, but he didn't expect to be preempted by Lu Zhan, and he was so angry that he shouted: "You fart, stinky boy, even if you kneel on the ground and kowtow and beg, Lao Tzu will not let you die so easily today, Lao Tzu will pick your skin, pump your tendons, and then break your body into ten thousand pieces, and throw you into the Yiyang River to feed Wang Ba." ”

Lu Zhan didn't bother to talk to him, he turned his gaze to Steward Liu in the pavilion, and asked loudly: "Liu Dagu, what kind of grudge do our father and son have against you, and you want to kill them all like this?"

Steward Liu showed a sweet smile and replied sharply: "This question, boy, you can stay in the underworld to ask your dead ghost father." This Liu Dagu has a beautiful beard and looks very heroic, but his voice is shrill and soft, which sounds particularly harsh.

Lu Zhan took a long breath and said, "Liu Laogou, I am most concerned about this issue, and the rest of what I say is all nonsense." Since you don't want to say it, let's do it. ”

Steward Liu didn't rush to make a move, but asked leisurely outside the wind and snow: "Oh, before killing you, I want to ask you how old you are this year." ”

A hint of arrogance hung on Lu Zhan's lips, and he puffed up his chest and replied proudly: "Liu Laogou, listen up - it's really a coincidence, today, it is my sixteen-year-old birthday. ”

Steward Liu let out an "oh" and said with a sneer: "At the age of sixteen, when the year is blooming, I set foot on the road of no return to Huangquan like your father, and it is estimated that I have never even touched a woman's hand." It's a pity, it's a pity!"

"Nothing to be sorry for. Lu Zhan said proudly: "Sixteen years old, revenge is the right year." Old dog, you have lived to such an old age, but you have not lived a wonderful life. will only nod and be the third young master's lackey minion, killing people and setting fires, that is a real pity, I have lived on a dog all my life. ”

Steward Liu obviously didn't want this young man who was about to be killed in his eyes to make a big fuss;

Originally, he seduced this arrogant young man to say these words, wanting to lure out the mysterious master he imagined who was secretly helping Lu Zhan. But to his disappointment, the other party never showed up.

So, between gritting his teeth, he gave Xue Li a "hands-on" look.