Just as Zhou Huan returned to the inn to rest, Liu Ruling also quietly returned to where she lived.

"Ling'er, where did you run today?" A gentle and helpless voice came, as if he had become accustomed to it.

"Uncle, today Ling'er is just a little bored from her cultivation, go out for a walk." Liu Ruling heard the gentle woman approaching say a little playfully.

"How many times have I said it. It's safe in the city, but it's hard to say to the monks outside. You just have to walk around the market, you can't run outside the mountains and forests all day long. The gentle woman said to Liu Ruling with some doting.

"Uncle, don't worry, I will be fine with the talisman bracelet you gave, besides, my cultivation also has the third layer of qi refining, and others may not be able to beat me."

"Did you go out to find Drip grass again? I told you before, even if Ling'er is extremely talented in alchemy, he is not in a hurry. ”

"I know, uncle. But this time, I'm going out to find the spirit grass for you. Liu Ruling replied with some betrayal.

"Huh? What the hell is the idea of what the hell is going on this girl? The woman smiled.

"Dingyan Dan, have you ever heard of it?"

Although it has no other effect, it is more attractive to female monks than most elixirs, and it is a kind of elixir that female nuns are eager to follow.

The largest Wanbao Pavilion in Changqingfang City also sells this elixir every few years, but the selling price is not affordable for ordinary monks.

"Ling'er, can you really refine this pill?" The gentle woman was a little anxious at this time, she knew her niece's talent, and she might really be a little sure.

"Isn't this collecting the spirit grass needed for refining?" Liu Ruling replied as a matter of course.

"That's it, then when you go out to look for the spirit grass, bring this hairpin with you, and your uncle will rest assured." The desire for Dingyan Dan still had a small upper hand, and the gentle woman took off one of her hairpins and handed it to Liu Ruling.

Just as the two daughters were talking, a middle-aged man walked out of the room in the courtyard, dressed in green clothes and with a long sword at his waist.

"Okay, okay, Ling'er, what your uncle says, you just listen." The middle-aged man said with some fuss.

"Liu Yuan, I haven't talked about you yet, I know that cultivation doesn't matter all day long." The woman turned her head and replied, feigning annoyance.

The middle-aged man smiled and sued again and again.

"By the way, Ling'er, who are the two teenagers who went to Lishui Stream with you this morning?"

"Uncle, how do you know?"

"It was your Uncle Chen who saw it this morning and told me."

"You and Uncle Chen don't worry, Ling'er won't be bullied." Uncle and nephew, you say a word, I say a word.

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Zhou Huan Fangzheng rested for one night, got up early the next day, and continued to go to Lishuijian to collect demon beast materials, but this time he didn't meet Liu Ruling.

In the next 20 days, Zhou Huan and Fang Zheng traveled back and forth between Fang City and Lishuijian day after day, and they also met many other low-level monks during the process, but in order not to cause unnecessary trouble, they did not communicate too much.

Most of the monks who come to Lishuijian are scattered cultivators, and there are not many resources from the outside world, so their cultivation is not very high, and the second and third layers of qi refining abound, Zhou Huan has seen the highest few, but there are about four layers of qi refining.

"Shopkeeper, do you accept these materials?" As before, Zhou Huan and the others came to Jubaozhai for the second time to exchange for spirit stones.

The fat shopkeeper looked into the storage bag handed over by Zhou Huan, and said with a smile: "Accept it, little friend." ”

He thought to himself, it has only been less than a month, and this young man has collected such a number of low-level materials, it seems that last time he inquired about the location of the demon beast, I am afraid that he is there these days, he is really motivated, and he has the style of the old man.

After that, Fang Zheng also exchanged the materials collected this month for spirit stones, and the two walked out of Jubao Zhai.

Zhou Huan estimated in his heart that the spirit stones exchanged for this time plus the first one would add up to almost fifty low-level spirit stones, and it seemed that they could support his cultivation for more than half a year.

"Senior brother, this month is about to end soon, and it will be my turn to supervise the mining area, and I will go back. Are you planning to stay in Fang Market for another month, or do you want to go back together? Zhou Huan asked Fang Zheng.

"Then I'll go back with Senior Brother, I haven't cultivated well for a month, so let's go back first." Fang Zheng thought for a while and said.

Then the two of them left Changqingfang City and walked back to the mining area. Soon, Zhou Huan and the others walked to the side of the official road in Ningchuan, thought silently for a while, and then walked along the official road towards Fuliu Town with a wry smile.

The last time I came to Fang City, I came to this vicinity by horse-drawn carriage, but the carriage from Fuliu Town to Xilan City only travels once a day, and I am afraid that it will not be the right time to go back.

Fortunately, they met a good Samaritan on the way, and the two of them took a carriage from other towns to Fuliu Town, and arrived in the town two hours later. After thanking the well-wishers, the two continued to walk back, and returned to Xiaoyanfeng in the Nanqing mining area at an early time.

Zhou Huan lay on the wooden bed that he hadn't seen for more than a month, stretched his waist, and recalled what he had gained this month.

Although there has not been much change in cultivation these days, the use of his own spells and true qi has become more and more proficient, and he used to have to run for a while to urge the golden sword technique, but now it is much faster, and the hydrotherapy technique has been healed many times to himself, and the same is true.

During this period, he also saw many different low-level demon beasts, and Zhou Huan had only read about them in the books on introducing low-level demon beasts in the sect before, which was an eye-opener.

Then he took out the gourd from the corner of the stone house and looked at it, Zhou Huan decided that in the next few months, half of the time would be spent tinkering with the gourd to produce ash liquid, and half of the time would be spent cultivating the spirit stone in exchange to improve his cultivation.

Time passed quickly, and in the next month, Zhou Huan practiced in the courtyard every day during the day, listened to the daily report of the manager of the mining area, and took out a few hours to tinker with gourds after night, which was very diligent.

Towards the end of this month, Zhou Huan received a big surprise, one of the eggs of the Red Snake that he had forgotten hatched.

Early in the morning, Zhou Huan was about to go out to the courtyard to practice as before, when he saw a small pale red snake appearing by the window, slowly swimming on the dead branches of plants and trees in the sand basin.

Zhou Huan took a closer look, the little snake was not big, the pale red scales on its body were faint, and it was looking at himself curiously with big pale red eyes.

Zhou Huan cautiously stretched out his hand, only to see the little snake slowly wrapping up, gently patting his arm with a small tongue. Touching the little snake with his divine sense, he felt a sense of closeness coming, and Zhou Huan understood that the little snake might regard himself as its parents.

Then Zhou Huan looked at the inside of the sand basin, a snake egg was broken, that is, the little snake that was now wrapped around the body, and there was no movement, and he sensed the snake egg with his divine sense, and there was no sign of vitality inside.

"Hey, hatching snake eggs isn't that easy, but luckily there's one that succeeds." Zhou Huan remembered that he had used sperm blood to drip on the snake eggs before, and he didn't know what it looked like in the book, and he heard that spirit beasts need to recognize the master like this, and now he feels that he is really lucky this time.

Zhou Huan cleaned the pot, re-attached some grass and branches, used as a nest for the little snake, put the little snake back into the pot, and then went out to catch a few pheasants in the nearby mountains and forests, and made meat strips to feed the little snake.

Watching the little snake slowly swallow the minced meat, Zhou Huan said to himself: "Seeing that you are red, I don't know how to choose a name, so let's call you Xiaohong." ”

After Pang Zhengyuan and Fang Zheng also knew the news of the snake egg hatching, Pang Zhengyuan felt very interesting, and often came to the yard to find Zhou Huan and the little snake to play, during which he also fed the little red snake and ate a lot of fish, while Fang Zheng silently continued to improve his cultivation.

After this incident, Zhou Huan diligently cultivated the basic five elements, day after day. Slowly, the little snake began to grow, and Zhou Huan's cultivation gradually improved with the double blessing of gray qi and spirit stones.

Spring went to autumn, the fifth year in the Nanqing Mining Area finally passed, and Zhou Huan also came to the age of twenty-one.

"Whew." With a long breath exhaled, the low-level spirit stone in his hand turned into powder, and after Zhou Huanyun finished a big week, he put away the basic five elements technique.

Then Zhou Huan felt the true qi cyclone in his body, and his cultivation should have been around the late stage of the third layer of qi refining, and he was not far from consummation.

Looking at the gourd on the wooden table in front of him, Zhou Huan sighed that if it weren't for the help of this gourd, I am afraid that his cultivation would still be spinning in place now. Then he carefully hid the gourd in a corner of the house and went out.

In the yard today, Pang Zhengyuan supervised the mining area, and he was playing with Xiaohong at this time.

At this time, Xiaohong is also the Red Snake, which is already nine months in size, and his body is much thicker than before, and his breath is about the level of a monk's Qi refining level.

A few months ago, Zhou Huan moved Xiaohong's nest to the corner of the yard in front of the house, and let it go out to forage for food by itself, plus Pang Zhengyuan often fed it food, and over time, he and Pang Zhengyuan became a lot closer, and they grew much faster than ordinary red snakes.

"Senior Brother Pang, it's early, and I'm playing with Xiaohong again." Zhou Huan smiled and walked towards Pang Zhengyuan.

"Yes, when I got up early and was just about to cultivate, Xiaohong came to ask for food." Pang Zhengyuan joked, "It's too stingy for you to choose a name, if you want me to say that it should be called warm smoke." ”

Pang Zhengyuan joked about his naming ability more than once, Zhou Huan was used to it, and then chatted with Pang Zhengyuan with a smile.

After a while, Fang Zheng walked out of the stone house, said hello to Pang Zhengyuan, and said to Zhou Huan, "Senior brother, let's go." ”

At this time, Fang Zheng had already broken through to the fourth layer of qi refining more than ten days ago. The purpose of going to Fang City this time was to accumulate spirit stones and see if they could buy a flying magic weapon, so that the two of them could quickly travel back and forth between Fang City and the mining area.