This breakthrough took too long.

At first, Hua Ying thought that it would only take one month, and at most two months. I never thought that this was almost the end of the year, and I had only taken the Qi Induction Pill for a few days in a row and ascended to the fifth-level realm of Qi training.

"Alas, the influence of the spiritual root qualification on cultivation is too great, and it is even more difficult than expected."

She sighed softly, got out of bed, walked to the window, and pushed it open.

Outside the window, snow blew by, and a cold wind howled in.

Hua Ying shuddered, only glanced twice, and closed the window again.

There is no time for cultivating immortals, and there is no year for the cold.

After months of retreat, time passed in the blink of an eye.

Hua Ying unconsciously sighed the loss of time, since she left home, five or six years have passed, and she has already reached the age of fifteen.

At such an age, most of the elders in the girl's family are going to start arranging for their marriage.

From a nine-year-old girl in a mountain village to the present, Hua Ying has experienced too much, how many joys and sorrows, and in the end, she is still alone.

"I don't know if there is a New Year in this fairy city." After a moment of melancholy, Hua Ying shook her head silently and muttered to herself.

She hadn't been out for a long time, and she couldn't wait to go outside to get some air.

I closed the circle, took some things, and left the room.

The city was covered with snow, and at least as you walked, you could see some monks clearing the snow and piling it up on both sides of the road.

In such a cold weather, even immortal cultivators could not help but wear thick clothes to resist the wind and cold.

Hua Ying rubbed her hands together while trotting down the road. She breathed in the cold air, her nose and mouth were red from the cold.

Perhaps because of the cold weather, there are not many monks on the streets of the city today, and along the way, Hua Ying only met a few scattered, and they all looked in a hurry, as if they were going somewhere.

She didn't care, and went straight to the stall market.

There are not many monks in the market, only less than half of the usual number, and even fewer buyers come to the market, and they are almost impossible to see.

As soon as Hua Ying walked in, she saw that the monks who meditated here all the year round and never left the stalls were already covered with thick snow. At first glance, she thought it was someone who was idle and bored and built rows of snowmen here, which was weird.

When the stall owners heard someone coming, they quickly shook their bodies, and the snowflakes fell with a clatter.

Through the cries of selling to her, Hua Ying went straight into the market, however, after searching for a long time, she did not find the monk named Meng Bu.

"It's weird, didn't he come out of the stall today?"

I thought about going to the other party's stall to find some more spirit grass seeds to come back, but I never thought that I wouldn't even see the person's figure, and this hope was disappointed.

However, although Meng Bu did not find it, he met another acquaintance.

Hua Ying caught a glimpse of the familiar young figure from a distance, stepped forward with a smile, and asked:

"Sister Yuling, why did you come out of the stall on such a cold day?"

I haven't seen each other for months, and I miss it very much.

As one of the few friends Hua Ying knew in this Guyue Immortal City, Liao Yuling, who was only twelve years old, was as shy as the two of them when they first met, and the little girl looked at it when she heard it, and after seeing that the person who came was her good sister, she called out happily for a while:

"Sister Ying, I haven't seen you for a long time, I can't find you wherever you have been in the past few months."

Hua Ying approached, first glanced at the few talismans placed on the other party's stall, and then smiled: "I didn't go anywhere, I just practiced in retreat for a while." ”

During the time when Hua Ying set up a stall to sell Lingcao and Bigu Dan before, the two of them had met a lot, and they were already very familiar, and they didn't do much greetings at the moment, and they chatted cordially like sisters.

"By the way, is your father back? I've always heard you talk about him earlier, but I haven't seen him yet."

"My dad came back once, and he didn't stay for a few days and went to the mountains to collect medicine, and he said that he would try to come back before the New Year."

Speaking of his father, Liao Yuling's mood instantly fell, and her young little face was full of depression, "Sister Ying, it's so boring to be alone in the city, I want my father to take me to collect medicine, but he refused, and reprimanded me a few words."

Hua Ying squatted down, pinched her face, and comforted: "Your father is also for your good, the mountains are so dangerous, wouldn't it hurt you to take you with me?" ”

"However, I'm already a third-level Qi cultivator, even if I encounter a demon beast, I can help!"

Liao Yuling clenched his fists, looking unwilling.

Seeing this little girl's stubborn appearance, Hua Ying only felt funny, shook her head and said, "Okay, you can also help your father by selling spirit talismans in the city." How's it going, how has business been going lately? ”

"Woo, no one has bought the talisman this month, it seems that a total of one has been sold. Two Sheets"

Liao Yuling crooked his little brain and counted with his fingers, "Three. Well. A total of three talismans were sold, all of which were bought by the same monk uncle. The monk came three times, and each time he only bought a talisman. He was very chubby and kind, and he was very kind to me, and he would stand here and look at me with a smile every time he bought the talisman before leaving. By the way, Uncle Monk also said that he would invite me to his house next time."

“.”

The more Hua Ying listened, the more she felt that something was wrong, and after thinking about it for a while, she seemed to realize something, and said eagerly, "Don't go, children can't just go home with people they don't know, do you hear?" ”

Liao Yuling raised her innocent face, blinked her eyes and asked, "What do you mean, Sister Ying, is that monk uncle a bad person?" ”

"I don't know if it's a bad guy."

Hua Ying didn't explain so much to her, and said with a depressed face: "Anyway, if you feel bored, go to your sister's place to play, and you must not go home with people you don't know, understand?" ”

Really, this stupid girl's father is too irresponsible, and he doesn't ask for anything if he leaves his child in the city, so he doesn't worry about being abducted by traffickers?

"Oh, I see, Sister Ying, I listen to you."

Liao Yuling nodded as if he didn't understand and agreed.

Seeing that she was so well-behaved and obedient, Hua Ying nodded with satisfaction, then stood up, looked around, and said after a moment of silence:

"Sister Yuling, let's close the stall today, I don't think anyone will come to buy talismans on such a cold day."

"Wow, wow, wow."

Liao Yuling agreed so quickly, Hua Ying couldn't help but wonder, "Let's go, go to your house, my sister planted some food, and I just used your stove to cook some food." ”

"Uh-huh."

The two quickly put away their stalls and walked together in the direction of the west of the city.

After they had gone far, a short time later, a fat middle-aged monk suddenly came to the place, and he looked at the empty stall, standing there, not knowing what was in his mind.

(End of chapter)