Time flies, and two years have passed in a blink of an eye. Except for the hot business, the Xuanhua Lingxiang Shop was as calm as before, what Yuan Ming was worried about did not happen, and the people of Zhenling Sect did not find it here. In the secret room of the No. 86 residence, Yuan Ming sat cross-legged, his whole body with a faint blue light. With the income of the Lingxiang Shop, he is also equivalent to having an almost endless supply of cultivation pills, from the beginning of just taking the Four Spirit Pills, and then simply adding the Liquid Pill, which is more effective and worth close to a bottle of four hundred spirit stones. It is said that this is the best cultivation pill suitable for taking in the early stage of foundation building, and it is equivalent to the treatment given to the disciples of a sect like Changchun Guan. At the same time, with the assistance of Zixuan Lingxiang, his cultivation has improved quite quickly, and now he has reached the peak of the early stage of foundation building.

Yuan Ming opened his eyes, the divine light in his eyes was faint, and he slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity from his mouth. After he settled down, he turned over and took out a white pill and took it, and the blue light on his body quickly became bright. This white pill is called Ning Hua Dan, which has the effect of assisting in breaking through the bottleneck of cultivation in the foundation building period. Yuan Ming closed his eyes again, exhaled the aura of heaven and earth, and operated the Nine Yuan Jue to refine the Ning Hua Dan, trying to impact the bottleneck in the early stage of foundation building. Not long after, powerful mana fluctuations suddenly burst out in his body, spreading outward like a tide. The surrounding area of the secret room was shrouded in a silver light curtain formed by silver tokens, and all mana fluctuations were stopped. This situation lasted for a full quarter of an hour, and the blue light on Yuan Ming's body suddenly dimmed, and the turbulent mana fluctuations also returned to calm. The cultivation in the foundation building period is really far more difficult than the qi refining period. He opened his eyes helplessly and muttered to himself. This is the third time in more than a month that he has tried to break through the bottleneck. Yuan Ming did not continue the retreat, looked at the time, got up and left the Lingxiang Shop, drove the magic weapon out of the city, and returned to Leizhou City. He found a teahouse and sat down, and along the way, a soul crow had been secretly released to monitor the surroundings.

Soon, a short figure in a gray robe walked into the teahouse, glanced at the guests in the building casually, and then also found a window seat and sat down, asking for a pot of tea. When he went to the gray-robed man, he asked tentatively: Grandma, I haven't seen you for a long time, and I still see it when I was a child. The gray-robed man looked up and saw that it was Yuan Ming, and immediately rejoiced with a little love, and said: You child, you are so old, and you look exactly like your mother. She lifted her hood, revealing the appearance of a middle-aged woman in her forties, with slight fine lines between her eyebrows and curly hair, but her eyes looked bright and bright, looking at Yuan Ming's appearance carefully. But soon, she pretended to be annoyed again: I didn't come to me when I came to Leizhou, so I was worried for a long time. Isn't this worried about getting into trouble for grandma? Yuan Ming replied. Grandma is afraid of anything, she is old.

I heard that you are coming to Leizhou, and I will leave the customs immediately. Waiting left and right, I just can't wait for you, I'm in a hurry. Besides, if Changchun Guan retaliates against you, they will be shameless. Grandma said. I still have to be careful, it's hard to guard against hidden arrows. Yuan Ming said. In the past few years, he felt that his life in Xiaohu City was quite stable, and the soul crows he sent to patrol the city from time to time did not notice anything unusual, so he often sent several letters to his parents to report his safety, but the specific location was not revealed. Not long ago, I contacted my grandmother, so my grandmother asked him to meet at the Leizhou City Teahouse at this time, saying that he had something to entrust. Alas, Ming'er, you are really a young man, if your cousin has your half-distraction, I will be relieved even if I die. Originally, I didn't want to trouble you, but in a few days, your cousin Xu Tian was going to go out to practice, but recently there was a murderer near Leizhou who specialized in hunting and killing qi refining cultivators, and many people have been killed, I really can't rest assured, but the head of the sect happened to arrange for me to leave the sect and couldn't shirk it, so I can only ask you. Grandma sighed, her face full of apologies.

Yuan Ming hadn't opened his mouth yet, but he heard his grandmother say again: Grandma also knows your difficulties, if you can't spare your hand, can you introduce a reliable friend on your behalf? Your vision, grandma can trust. Grandma was too worried, and I happened to be free during this time, but I couldn't get close, so I could escort secretly. Yuan Ming thought for a moment and agreed. You don't have to worry about this, every year for the training task, the sect will issue a solicitation task in the casual cultivation meeting, as long as it is a qualified casual cultivation, you can participate, Ming'er, you can participate in it under a pseudonym at that time. Grandma said overjoyed. Later, Yuan Ming asked his grandmother about the details of some tasks, and politely refused the pills and spirit stones that his grandmother brought him, and only took a new robe, but instead gave a lot of cultivation pills and spiritual incense as filial piety. After all, before setting foot on the fairy road, grandma loved her mother a lot, and took care of her own family, and even when she offended Changchun Guan and fled, she was willing to take her in.

It's just that he didn't go to the front.

While grandma was happy, she also asked Yuan Ming to be careful at all times. Yuan Ming separated from her and returned to Xiaohu City. A few days later, the mission hall of the Scattered Order was particularly lively, with groups of monks dressed in various colors and decorations, talking a little noisy, and behind the counter, the men in charge of the reception were busy with their feet on the ground, and the number seemed to be much larger than usual. Yuan Ming saw that the guys were so busy, so he asked them for a jade slip with a task list printed on it, and looked at it carefully. There are hundreds of tasks on the list, with different types of tasks and very different conditions and rewards. Simple tasks such as escorting monks and escorting goods, although the pay is not high, is better because the danger is low, and the time spent is not long, but there are certain requirements for the credibility and cultivation of the receiver. Expedition missions, on the other hand, have little to no threshold for acceptance, and the rewards are quite substantial.

However, these tasks are followed by two notes, one explaining the possible danger and making the recipient think twice, while the other records the number of monks who took the task but did not return within the specified time limit. For example, a mission to explore a secret realm in the territory of Zhao Kingdom will reward 1,000 spirit stones, but the dangers that may be encountered are unknown, and the number of monks who have not recovered is as many as thirteen. It is also because of the high difficulty and low completion rate of adventure tasks that the number of such tasks accounted for a large proportion of the past task list. And the simple tasks of escorts, which are picked up almost soon after they appear, are rarely on the list for a long time. However, Yuan Ming found that on today's task list, there were surprisingly many escort tasks, and most of the escorts were still Qi refining stage cultivators.

He remembered what his grandmother said about the murderer who hunted the Qi Refining Cultivator, so he called a guy and asked him a side knock. There has been a turmoil recently, but it shouldn't be a big deal for the seniors, it's just that there is a nameless monk in Leizhou who loves to kill, and he picks out a lone Qi refining monk to attack, and so far more than a dozen monks have been killed. The guy replied. Yuan Ming pretended to be surprised: There is such a thing? Can anyone find out the details of him? This person's means of hiding are quite superb, Xiaohu City has organized many manpower investigations, but in vain, and now there are affected sects to stand up and take the lead, rewarding this person's information, if the seniors are interested, they can also participate in the investigation, if they can go further and capture this person, this association will also have another heavy reward. The guy said respectfully. Yuan Ming nodded noncommittally, and seeing that he was not interested, the guy also retired with interest, leaving him alone, and continued to check the task list.

But not long after the man left, suddenly two monks walked up to Yuan Ming and arched their hands at him. Take the liberty to disturb, and I hope that Taoist friends will forgive me. The one who spoke was a strong man with a height of eight feet and a beard, who looked like a rough man, but spoke extremely politely. The other monk was dressed in a green cloth robe, holding a whisk in his hand, his eyes narrowed slightly, and a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, looking kind. I don't know what advice you have for me? Yuan Ming looked at the other party and asked. When he was talking to his buddy just now, he noticed that someone was secretly observing him, and when he saw the two of them coming, he was inevitably a little polite when he spoke, judging from the aura of the other party, it was like two foundation building period monks who cultivated similar to himself.

Hehe, the advice is not counted, but the two of us see that the Taoist friendship is extraordinary, I think there must be some magical powers, and we also happen to have a task that lacks some manpower, I don't know if you are interested? The beard boasted. I'm sorry, I'm used to being alone, and I don't want to walk with people for a while. Yuan Ming refused without hesitation, and wanted to turn around and leave. Hey, don't worry, it's not too late to listen to me before making a decision. He laughed. Yuan Ming stopped, looked back, with a trace of alienation on his face, but the beard didn't care, and continued, just now Daoyou should have also heard from the people of the Sanxiu Society, as long as you catch the murderer who attacked the Qi Refining Cultivator, there will be a heavy reward in the meeting, it is not a secret, this Liao Daoyou next to me has a unique trick to be able to lock the location of the murderer, it was enough to have the two of us, but I thought that the murderer was quite cunning, in order to prevent him from escaping, I invited the Daoist to go with him, and of course he caught this fang, and the reward he got afterwards, It will also be distributed to Taoist friends, I don't know what the friendship will be?

Yuan Ming frowned, a little unconvinced: That murderer only picked off a single qi refining cultivator, which shows that his strength is limited, and you two are both building a foundation, and you are afraid that he will escape? This statement is not true, not to mention that among the teams that the Scattered Cultivators organized to arrest this fang before, there were also participants in the foundation building period, and they also failed to find his traces, just talking about another matter, Daoist friends may not feel that that person's strength is limited. Look left and right, God

Secretly lowered his voice. Just two years ago, an elder of the Zhenling Sect was killed in the wilderness near Xiaohu City, and the Zhenling Sect was furious and spent a lot of effort to find the murderer, and then also posted a high bounty task, but until today, the bounty is still on the list, and there is no news about the murderer. Bearded said. Yuan Ming was slightly shocked in his heart, but he still nodded quietly on his face, and asked, "Oh, I have also heard about this matter, but what does this have to do with intercepting and killing the murderer of the Qi Refining Cultivator."