Chapter 45: Grandpa Xiao's Story
Now he still didn't feel the slightest bit of cultivation from this old man, which gave him a new definition of a Supreme Realm powerhouse.
It was a small wooden house, surrounded by a peculiar patch of trees, and it was not because of the trees. Those trees are just ordinary weeping willows. However, the willow branch swaying has a very unique rhythm, and if someone enters it, they are afraid that they will get lost in it. Yes, these willows are forming a wonderful spiritual array.
Apparently this is where the old man lived.
"Sit down. I know you have a lot of questions, and if I know anything, I'll tell you. The old man pointed to the wooden chair in the room and said to Xiao Che.
The decoration in the house is very simple, a table, a chair, a bed and a bookshelf. Xiao Che sat on the chair, and saw the old man take out the tea out of nowhere and hand it to Xiao Che.
This cup of tea has a light fragrance that makes people feel refreshed.
The old man made himself a cup too. I saw that the old man didn't know how to do it, only to see a willow branch emerge from the ground, forming a chair opposite Xiao Che. The old man sat down opposite Xiao Che.
"Old gentleman, I'm ......" Xiao Che didn't know what to say for a while.
"I remember that many years ago, Hua Feng, the valley master of the Medicine King Valley, had three sons. The eldest Hua Yun, the second Hua Tian, and the third Hua Wuya. All three sons were extremely gifted. At a young age, he became a master of alchemy. This makes Huafeng proud. The old man talked about something that had nothing to do with Xiao Che unhappily.
This made Xiao Che also confused, he knew that the old man would never tell this matter for no reason, he did not make a sound, but listened quietly.
The boss Hua Yun has a calm personality and has the demeanor of everyone. The second Huatian is flamboyant, but he is very capable. Among the three brothers, the one with the best talent for refining medicine is Lao Sanhua Wuyan. At that time, in addition to the Medicine King Gu Hua family, the Xiao family of the royal family also produced an amazingly talented alchemist, and it was a woman, named Xiao Xue. She was the little princess of the empire at that time, and his father was the previous generation of Emperor Qingxuan.
Because of her rare talent for alchemy, she has been practicing in the Medicine King Valley since she was a child. And her identity was only known to Hua Feng, the valley master of the Medicine King Valley at that time. In this way, Xiao Xue and Hua Feng's three sons learned alchemy together since childhood. It can be described as a childhood sweetheart.
As the days passed, these four people went from teenagers to young adults, and the four of them at this time all reached the age of the beginning of love. As a result, the eldest Hua Yun and the second Hua Tian both fell in love with the young and beautiful Xiao Xue. But Xiao Xue is obsessed with Lao Sanhua Wuwu.
This made it difficult for the two brothers Hua Yun and Hua Tian to accept. Hua Wuya was the youngest at the time, half a year younger than Xiao Xuedu. Moreover, Hua Wuya has been extremely obsessed with alchemy since he was a child, and he has not yet had the mind to do so. I don't know what Xiao Xue likes about him.
But his two older brothers didn't think so.
At that time, the Empire was holding the once-in-a-decade Alchemist Conference. Several people went to participate. From Yaowang Valley to Qingxuan City, the road was far away, and several people did not take transportation. Because the departure time is early, it is a tour of the mountains and rivers all the way.
Young people have righteousness in their hearts, and they love to fight unevenly. I don't know how many things I caused along the way, and I also made a lot of friends. Among them is the purple-clothed supreme white purple who is now world-shattering, but at that time, his cultivation was only the first to enter the Hetian realm. Despite this, Bai Ziyi was a rare genius, but at that time, although he had some fame, it was only within the scope of the Heavenly Sword Sect's influence.
Bai Ziyi was the son of the Sect Master of the Heavenly Sword Sect at that time, and there was also a young man from the Heavenly Sword Sect who was traveling with him at that time, Yi Chen, the son of the Great Elder of the Heavenly Sword Sect at that time. Yi Chen is a few years older than Bai Ziyi, and his cultivation is also above Bai Ziyi. That time I walked with Bai Ziyi, not only for experience, but also to take care of each other.
In this way, Bai Ziyi, Yi Chen, the Hua family brothers and Xiao Xue soon became friends. Six people walked together. Along the way, the six of them experienced battles again and again, and their feelings for each other grew stronger and stronger.
Most of these troubles are caused by Xiao Xue's beauty. Young people do not know the greed of human nature. Finally, Xiao Xue's beauty caused more trouble. When they arrived in Xiangcheng, the six of them killed a son-in-law who spoke foul language to Xiao Xue and molested in public during the battle. I didn't expect to cause big trouble now. This son-in-law is none other than the son of Xiangguo at that time.
Xiao Xue's identity was rarely known at the time. Because he didn't grow up in the palace since he was a child, few people know Xiao Xue. I only know that there is a little princess in the empire, but I don't know what it's called, and I don't know what it looks like.
Even the Hua brothers didn't know Xiao Xue's identity as a princess.
At that time, it seemed that a few people were just killing a gentleman. But they didn't know that Xiangguo was such a son at that time, and it was because of his doting that he ended up like this. The killing of Xiangguo's only son was a major event within the empire. At that time, Emperor Qingxuan came forward in person.
But when the results of the investigation were put in front of everyone's eyes, it made it difficult for everyone. Especially after learning the identity of the little princess of the Xiao Xue Empire, it made Emperor Qingxuan and Xiangguo very embarrassed.
The other few people are not small people with no background, the Medicine King Valley, the Heavenly Sword Sect, are all sects that have a close relationship with the royal family. And it's not an ordinary sectarian force, not to mention that it suddenly involves the royal family, the Prime Minister's Mansion, the Medicine King Valley, and the Quartet of the Heavenly Sword Sect. If one is not solved well, it will be a disaster for the empire.
But when the emperor learned that the son of Xiangguo dared to flirt with his most beloved daughter, he insisted on suppressing the matter. This was supposed to be the end of the matter. It was originally the son of Xiangguo who was at fault first. This result is also deserved.
But Xiangguo at that time was not a generous person. As a result, he ostensibly accepted the results of the royal family's handling of the matter. However, secretly he used all means to instigate Hua Yun Huatian to pursue Xiao Xue, he knew that he could not kill Xiao Xue directly, but he also had to make her pay the price. When he learned that Xiao Xue's loved one was Hua Wuya. A conspiracy was born in his head.
First of all, he made an appointment with Xiao Xue after the final in the name of Hua Wuya, and then deliberately told Hua Yun Huatian that Hua Wuya wanted to kill Xiao Xue in order to win the championship of the Alchemist Competition. Originally, the two brothers couldn't believe it. But under a series of traps in Xiangguo, the two brothers really believed Xiangguo's nonsense.
When Hua Wuya, who won the championship, met Xiao Xue, they made a decisive move and abolished Hua Wuya's spiritual vein, thinking that this move was to save Xiao Xue. However, Xiao Xue saw that they were making a move on Hua Wuya, but she hated the two of them very much. Under the resoluteness, she used the protective things that the emperor gave her to severely damage the Hua brothers.
He fell into a coma. As a result, Bai Ziyi rushed here to save Hua Wuya and Xiao Xue, but did not care about the two brothers Hua Yun and Hua Tian. Maybe the two of them didn't deserve to die, they didn't die, they were just seriously injured.
Just when Bai Ziyi was healing Xiao Xue and Hua Wuya, people from Xiangguo suddenly appeared, and what made Bai Ziyi even more unexpected was that it was Yi Chen who brought people from Xiangguo here. This shocked and furious him. Fierce battles ensued.
The white and purple clothes are one against ten. The purple rainbow sword dance is impenetrable. In the end, he used a strange secret technique to cultivate himself to the strength of the Venerable Realm at once, and killed the other nine people, leaving only Yi Chen, but at this moment, the emperor came in person. It turned out that he sensed that the protection on Xiao Xue's body was used. Then he followed the breath and hurried. I saw this scene in front of me.
With the wisdom of the emperor, how can I not know the reason for this. However, Xiao Xue has been in a coma. It didn't take long for him to pass away. The matter finally came to light, and the Hua brothers regretted it. Hua Wuya won the championship of that alchemist competition. As a result, his spiritual power was wasted. Since then, he has been incognito, changed his name to Xiao Yao, and practiced medicine in the world.
Huatian Huayun also felt deeply guilty, and never took a step out of the Medicine King Valley. They are the current Medicine King Valley Lord and Great Elder. And Xiangguo disappeared after this incident, and no one knew his whereabouts. I don't know if it's life or death. Some people suspect that he was secretly removed by the old emperor, and others say that he escaped from the Qingxuan Empire. This has remained a mystery to this day.
Xiao Yao is Hua Wuya, who is Xiao Che's Grandpa Xiao.
Yi Chen didn't receive any punishment for some reason, but returned to the Heavenly Sword Sect, and finally became the sect master of the previous generation of the Heavenly Sword Sect. Now he has retired as the Supreme Elder of the Heavenly Sword Sect.
Bai Ziyi also lived in seclusion in Huacheng because of this matter, and did not step into the Heavenly Sword Sect one step. But in recent years, it has been rumored that he has become the Supreme Elder of the Heavenly Sword Sect again, but I don't know if it's true or not.
After hearing the old man's story, Xiao Che also knew about Grandpa Xiao. It turned out that Grandpa Xiao's fate was so bumpy. Although the old man will be very clear. But Xiao Che still felt that there was something strange that could not be said.
And I am afraid that I don't know much about these old things, who is this old man? How can he know so clearly.
"Old man, please forgive me for taking the liberty of asking, how do you know these things?" Xiao Che directly asked his doubts.
"Little guy, you are cautious and forgot to tell you that the old man's surname is Xiao. The old man said no more explanations.
Could it be that he is a member of the royal family? Xiao Che was also secretly puzzled.
"Xiao Yao and I became acquainted later, and later became friends, and one day Xiao Yao sent me a message saying that he had picked up a baby. But this baby is born with all the attributes of the spirit vein. It is the rarest cultivation waste. Even if you don't use medicine to regulate, you won't live long. He knew my cultivation and asked me to help see if there was anything I could do. That's right, this baby is you, Xiao Che. Immediately afterwards, the old man said something that surprised Xiao Che.
"The first time I saw you, I was sure that you were born with the all-round attribute. And the spiritual veins are very irregular for some reason. As we all know, although the spiritual veins in each person's body are different, the most fundamental veins are the same. And your spiritual veins are the most unique I have ever seen, even different from those in this world. I even suspected at one point that you weren't human. But after much inquiry, you are human. This strikes me as very strange. But it can only be attributed to the fact that you are born with all attributes. The old man continued.
"This attribute is not a good thing for a martial artist, it means that if you want to cultivate, you have to put in a hundred times more effort than others to be like an ordinary martial artist. And this kind of constitution is beyond the limit of the human body. That is, the lifespan will be significantly shortened. Unless your cultivation speed can keep up with the rate of life loss. In this way, we can have a normal human lifespan. ”
These words made Xiao Che even more shocked. It's no wonder that his previous cultivation was so slow, it turned out to be because of his physique. His body can last for so many years, it must be because of the elixir that Grandpa Xiao used for him.
"At that time, I tried to sort out the meridians in your body with spiritual power, but it didn't work, and if you continue, I'm afraid it will hurt your life. So I had to give up. In the end, Xiao Yao was given the most stupid way, which was to use the natural treasure to renew your life. Try to be as peaceful as possible. You should know what happened after that, since then Xiao Yao has been taking you to practice medicine, in fact, to find the elixir. Hearing the old man talk about this, Xiao Che couldn't help but feel that his nose was sour.
It turned out that in those years, Grandpa Xiao practiced medicine in order to find an elixir for him. What I eat every day is not a tonic at all, but an elixir, but I don't know how Grandpa Xiao reconciled it, and the taste was almost the same as the dish. Now that I think about it, it must have been a special means to cover up the properties of the medicine. Otherwise, with his mastery of elixir, how could he not feel the slightest.
It's a pity that he didn't repay Grandpa Xiao yet, and he passed away.
"It's a pity that Grandpa Xiao is no longer there. Xiao Che sighed and said subconsciously.
"What are you talking about? Xiao Yao is gone, tell me what's going on?" Hearing Xiao Che say this, the old man's mood suddenly changed drastically. That feeling made Xiao Che feel a little suffocated. Apparently the old man did not know the news yet.
"Well, old man, I'm out of breath. Under the old man's mood swings, Xiao Che's throat seemed to be strangled by a pair of invisible big hands.
The next moment, the old man Xiao Che suddenly felt that there was no pressure at all, this Supreme Realm powerhouse was really terrifying.
"Grandpa Xiao passed away a few years ago. After I was fifteen years old, Grandpa Siu let me practice medicine on my own. When I came back from a medical trip that day, I found Grandpa Xiao lying quietly on the bed, silent, and even had no heartbeat. Only then did I know that Grandpa Xiao was gone, and he walked very peacefully. I have been studying medicine with Grandpa Xiao since I was a child, and I naturally know that Grandpa Xiao is at the end of his life. Speaking of Grandpa Xiao, Xiao Che looked very sad.
"Then where did you bury him?" Hearing Xiao Che say this, the old man didn't seem to have the fierce emotions just now, but asked calmly but with a hint of doubt.
"Grandpa Xiao has a crystal coffin, he carries it with him, I took it out, and I put Grandpa Xiao in it and buried it in Black Rock City. Xiao Che also heard the old man's doubts, and replied with confusion in his tone.
"Oh? And so it was. The old man seemed to be talking to himself, and he seemed to let go of the worries in his heart. This made Xiao Che even more confused.
"Sir, did you think of something? What is going on?" Xiao Che also felt that something was wrong.
Could it be that Grandpa Xiao, he is not dead? This is impossible? Xiao Che couldn't believe it. But now he is not a kid who knew nothing and cultivated lowly. There are all kinds of wonderful things in this world. Maybe it's an exercise, maybe it's a panacea. can put a person in a death-like state, but still alive. He didn't dare to imagine, he was afraid that his guess was wrong. He hoped his guess was true.
"Hehe, Xiao Che, you did the right thing. Maybe it won't be long before you can see your Grandpa Xiao again. The old man's words were like sunshine dispelling dark clouds to Xiao Che. It makes him feel good.
"What you said is true?" Xiao Che wanted to be more sure, as if he wanted to catch something.
"Your Grandpa Xiao's spiritual power was abolished back then, but it is not irreversible. My family has a collection of peculiar exercises that can only be practiced by people who have the attributes of wood but have no spiritual power. Since this kind of exercise has been stored in my family, no one has practiced it at all. Because there are simply no people who meet such conditions. As long as there is a martial artist with wood attributes, he can cultivate, and once he cultivates, he will have spiritual power, and this exercise requires no spiritual power, which is very contradictory. And your Grandpa Xiao just met this condition because of the abolition of spiritual power. So I gave it to him. The old man was also a little excited, as if he had done something amazing.
"The person who practices this exercise does not have any spiritual power, but the attribute talent is extremely powerful, especially the wood attribute warrior, who can prolong life, among all the attributes, the wood attribute is called the life attribute. The old man said that Xiao Che also felt very magical when he heard it.
"When this exercise is about to be cultivated to its fullest, the practitioner will enter a dormant state for a period of time. In this state, all vital signs cease, and it looks as if it were dead. However, this is only because the martial artist's own wood attribute characteristics have been brought to the extreme. As the saying goes, the extreme must be the opposite. This is a process of nourishment and transformation for the warrior. No one has practiced this exercise before, so I don't know what it will be like after I cultivate it, but it will never be weak. The more the old man spoke, the happier he became, and Xiao Che couldn't even shout when he heard it.
What made Xiao Che happiest was the news that his Grandpa Xiao was still alive. Xiao Che decided that after the trip to Qingxuan City was over, he would immediately rush to the place where Grandpa Xiao was buried in Black Rock City. Blackstone is located in the southern part of the Empire. Passing through Qingxuan City is the nearest route. This made Xiao Che a little impatient.
Seeing Xiao Che's anxious appearance, the old man became happier the more he looked at it. Xiao Che is really a lover. The old man loved Xiao Che more and more in his heart.
"Xiao Che, you don't have to be excited, it's best for you to bury the crystal coffin in Black Rock City. In fact, your Grandpa Xiao found a spiritual source stone mine of not weak quality under the Black Rock City. With the help of this place to cultivate, he can get out of the customs faster, and because of this exercise, your Grandpa Xiao will condense into a pure wood attribute body, which is extremely beneficial to him. You don't have to worry about it at all. All you have to do now is improve your strength. I was also very surprised to see your current martial arts realm. Presumably, you have had your own adventures over the years. Seeing Xiao Che's anxious look, the old man also comforted.
"Thank you so much, sir. Knowing about Grandpa Xiao made Xiao Che grateful to the old man.