The sun sets, and the mountains are dyed.

Taiqiu Mountain is distributed with different colors from top to bottom, and when viewed from a distance, it is like a colorful dyed cloth directly draped on the mountain.

The mountains in the distance blocked most of the light of the remnant sun, and by the time the remaining pale golden afterglow fell to the top of Taiqiu Mountain, it already looked a little dim.

It was from this dusk that Li Xuangang appeared, and when he passed through the thin clouds and landed beside Li Changqing, the latter withdrew his gaze to the east.

"Xuan Gang has seen the fifth uncle. ”

His black shirt had not completely stopped in the wind, so he bowed slightly.

The evening breeze is light, the clouds have dispersed, and the top of Taiqiu Mountain is covered with peach blossoms.

Li Changqing walked to the stone table and sat down from the side, and stretched out his hand to let Li Xuangang come over.

The latter straightened up, his eyes wandering around the top of the mountain. There was some surprise when he took it back, because he didn't notice the breath of Eighth Uncle Li Changji here.

When he also sat down opposite Li Changqing, Li Xuangang asked softly:

"The fifth uncle has something to do with Xuangang?"

Li Changqing rested his right hand on the stone table, and his bony fingers tapped the table a few times, looking at him.

After a while, he spoke:

"I may have to go to Hengduanfang City in a month, and I will not be able to return to the family for nearly two years after that, so during this time, some things in the family, Xuangang, you will be in charge, if there is anything that is not sure, you can also discuss it with your seventh uncle. ”

The tone is soft, not impatient, and it seems to be an extremely ordinary small talk between the elders and the juniors.

But this is such a passage that made Li Xuangang feel a little surprised, he thought that the fifth uncle called him up this time to ask about his breakthrough to the third-order alchemist, but he didn't expect that he would be in charge of the family affairs for two years.

This responsibility is too great, and Li Xuangang didn't dare to open his mouth for a while, his throat stirred a few times, and he stopped talking.

As if seeing his doubts and worries, Li Changqing's face softened slightly, and he began to explain the reason for his words.

"The family has received an edict from the Ghoul Sect and needs me as an Elder of Keqing to go to Hengduanfang City to assist them in a mission, which will take about two years. ”

"Not long ago, your eighth uncle was sent by me to Wanxingfang City to take charge of other matters, and he won't be able to come back in a short time. ”

"Xuan Yuan is carrying out the family mission in Mangshanfang City, and he will not return to the family until he completes it. ”

"As soon as I leave, only your cultivation is the highest on Taiqiu Mountain, so I may have to work hard for you. ”

After speaking, Li Changqing stopped speaking, and Li Xuangang also nodded after a short silence.

Opening:

"Fifth Uncle rest assured, before you or Eighth Uncle come back, I will definitely take care of all the family affairs properly. ”

After saying that, he stood up solemnly from the stone bench and bowed again.

Some of the peach blossom petals on the ground have withered, and they are unusually soft to step on.

Li Changqing raised his hand to signal him to get up, then took out a black token from the storage bag and handed it over, and said:

"This is the treasury token of the Family Benevolence Hall, and it will be kept by you for the next two years. ”

Li Xuangang looked at it and reached out to take it.

In fact, he had seen this token in the hands of the eighth uncle, but this was the first time he had gotten it in his own hands.

The first feeling of the token was a little heavy, Li Xuangang flipped a side and looked at it carefully, but he didn't see what kind of material this token was made of.

The treasury token of this charity hall is not large, only about the size of a palm, and one side is engraved with the word "Taiqiu", and the other side is covered with mysterious black lines.

And whether it is the font on it, or the lines engraved on it, they are all black gilt, reflecting a slightly deeper color under the reflection of the afterglow of the sun.

Li Xuangang rubbed the token in his hand a few times, knowing the "weight" that this token represented, so after making a promise to the fifth uncle, he cautiously put it into his storage bag.

.......

After explaining the matter, Li Changqing did not let Li Xuangang leave, but asked him about the progress of his cultivation again.

And the latter also took this opportunity to raise some of the problems he had encountered in his cultivation.

It wasn't until night began to cover from the east that Li Xuangang said goodbye to his fifth uncle Li Changqing, left from the top of the mountain, and returned to his cave.

......

On the last day, when Li Xuangang was still cultivating in the cave, a cave on Taiqiu Mountain was opened.

A black figure walked out of it, his body was wide and fat, his face was kind, and the black black clothes on his body did not show any sense of uprightness, but looked a little bloated.

This figure is none other than Li Xuanshan, who has completely stabilized his realm in the early stage of foundation building.

Li Xuanshan walked out of the cave, turned his head left and right to look at the surrounding scenery, and then stretched his waist greatly.

After stretching his body, he turned around and closed the gate of his cave with his sleeves, turned into a light and flew to the top of the mountain.

"Xuanshan has seen the fifth uncle. ”

Seeing Li Changqing coming out of the cave, Li Xuanshan hurriedly bowed and saluted.

Sensing his current cultivation and finding that the condensation was not bad, Li Changqing showed a hint of a smile, so that he didn't have to be polite.

And Li Xuanshan straightened up, his somewhat plump face was full of smiles, and his eyes flashed, and he followed behind Li Changqing, and before the latter could sit down, he said:

"Fifth uncle, how did you think about the incident I mentioned earlier?"

The tone was hurried, and there was a little wistfulness in the apprehension.

So Li Changqing turned to look at him and said:

"This matter is a family matter, and I have already handed it over to your ninth brother yesterday, you can just ask his opinion. ”

Hearing this, Li Xuanshan's eyes first changed, and then a stunned look appeared on his face.

"What does Fifth Uncle mean by this, does he want Brother Jiu to take over the family affairs?"

didn't have time to think about it, anyway, this matter had little to do with him, so after making sure that what he wanted was now decided by the ninth brother Li Xuangang, he immediately surrendered to his fifth uncle Li Changqing.

And when the other party nodded, he fled away from the top of the mountain.

When he reappeared, he had already appeared at the door of Li Xuangang's cave.

Tidy up my clothes that looked a little messy because of my hurry, and then practice my expression again.

In the end, he felt that it was almost enough, so he released a paper crane for communication into Li Xuangang's cave mansion.

Waiting respectfully in front of the door of the cave, when the guardian prohibition of the cave disappeared and Li Xuangang's figure was not completely revealed, Li Xuanshan dodged and stepped into the cave.

"Brother Jiu. ”

......

Li Xuangang hadn't seen him since Li Xuanshan had been in retreat, and this time Li Xuanshan came a little abruptly, which made him feel a little surprised.

However, his surprise did not last long, and after a simple salute, Li Xuanshan made his intention clear.

"Brother Jiu, how about you let me take charge of the family treasure ship instead of Sixth Uncle?"

......

About half an hour later, Li Xuanshan left Li Xuangang's cave with satisfaction, his chubby face full of smiles.

Obviously, under his soft grinding and hard bubbles, Li Xuangang agreed to his request.

Of course, the latter did not agree to this matter just because of his single request.

The treasure ship is an important property of the family, and since the fifth uncle has handed over the family's affairs to himself, he naturally has to be concerned about it, and there can be no mistakes.

For the fifteenth brother Li Xuanshan, Li Xuangang knows that he seems to be rough, but in fact he is extremely delicate, and since he was a child, he has been able to meet the source left and right in the family's caravan transactions.

If he was to take charge of the family treasure ship in place of the sixth uncle, he would definitely be competent, and maybe he would be able to better complete the trade tasks assigned by the family to the treasure ship every year.

It's just that there is one bad thing, that is, although Li Xuanshan has stabilized his cultivation now, after all, he is only a monk who has just entered the early stage of foundation building, and his strength to control the entire treasure ship is still a little insufficient.

Therefore, after Li Xuangang's consideration, he finally decided to let Li Xuanshan select a group of clansmen in the late stage of qi refining in the family to board the treasure ship, and then let the sixth uncle Li Qingshu take him for a while, and after he was familiar with the various affairs of the treasure ship, he would hand over the treasure ship to him to take charge.

This plan is feasible, Li Xuangang didn't pay attention to Li Xuanshan's broken mouth, but considered his plan in his mind when he kept asking for it.

It wasn't until the end that he relented and agreed to Li Xuanshan and gave him a detailed explanation.

The latter saw that Brother Jiu was relieved, so he hurriedly stopped nagging, but looked at Li Xuangang with extremely sincere eyes.

And no matter what he said, he responded in one gulp, patting his chest again and again as a reassurance.

......

Seeing Li Xuanshan go away, Li Xuangang stood at the door of the cave for a while, paused for a moment before turning around and walking into the cave, sitting cross-legged on the stone bed, and once again took out the treasury token of the Good Gong Hall from the storage bag.

He stared at the token with a complicated expression, rubbing it in his hand as he muttered to himself:

"The fifth uncle deliberately took the eighth uncle and Xuan Yuan away...... Give me this token to keep in charge for two years......"

His expression changed from complex to profound, and the tone of his mouth changed:

"I don't know if this is the fifth uncle's personal meaning...... Well...... Or is it the meaning of the family? Do the seventh uncle and the eighth uncle know about this decision?"

After thinking about it for a while, he didn't come up with any results, but since the fifth uncle had already handed over the token to himself, he had no choice but to continue in the next two years.

Flipping his hand and putting away the token in his hand, when Li Xuangang raised his head again, the doubt in his eyes had completely disappeared for a short time, and was replaced by a firmness that he had never felt before.

.......

On the second day after Li Xuanshan left from his ninth brother Li Xuangang, he began to issue a mission in the Shangong Hall in the name of the family elder, summoning the clansmen above the late stage of qi refining to board the family's treasure ship with him.

Through some "stalking" and "coercion and temptation" on the clansmen who were still in the family in the past few days, when he finally left Taiqiu Mountain and was about to go to the port of Tianhefang City to board the family treasure ship, he actually gathered seven clansmen in the late stage of qi refining.

Among them, Li Xuanting, who even continued to comprehend the puppet technique on the puppet peak, was also forcibly pulled down by him and joined this task.

I don't know what Li Xuanshan said to him, Li Xuanting will agree to transfer himself from the cave on the puppet peak to the cabin on the treasure ship.

......

Not far from Tianhefang City, a team of monks dressed in black robes was walking between the mountains.

Li Xuanting, who ranked twenty-seventh in the Li family Xuanzi generation in Taiqiu Mountain, walked at the back of the line, he was tall and big, and his body exuded a quality that was completely different from Li Xuanshan.

If Li Xuanshan is a member of the Taiqiu Li clan in the dark night, then Li Xuanting is a member of the Li clan who is completely exposed to the bright sun.

Li Xuanting looked at the fifteenth brother who was walking at the front of the team, and then thought back to the promise he made to himself a few days ago.

Although he still has some doubts about whether the fifteenth brother's promise can be fulfilled, if it can really be realized, then his trip this time will still have some meaning.

Everyone hurried silently, only Li Xuanshan kept talking in front of him, drawing a big cake for the seven clansmen behind him.

Twenty days after leaving Taiqiu Mountain, Li Xuanshan successfully led the seven people to Tianhefang City, and settled down in the family's shop in Fangfang.

They are waiting for the arrival of the family treasure ship!

......

With the passage of time, Li Xuangang officially accepted the family from his fifth uncle Li Changqing, and the deadline for taking charge of various affairs in the clan was getting closer and closer.

According to the fifth uncle's own arrangement, he will leave for Hengduanfang City tomorrow to participate in this mission of the Ghoul Sect as an elder of Keqing.

Estimating this time, Li Xuangang woke up from the cave under the rock wall in time, and after a few words of instructions to Zhuangda, he left the boundary source space and returned to his own cave on Taiqiu Mountain.

However, he didn't stay in the cave for long, he casually put away the boundary source beads, and then opened the gate of the cave and walked towards the good gong hall on the mountainside.

After entering the Hall of Good Works, he took out the token and opened the guardian prohibition in the innermost side room, and moved to a wooden table and sat down.

It is the position that the eighth uncle Li Changji does on weekdays!

Li Xuangang took out one of the books from a stack of classics, opened it casually and began to browse.

Tomorrow, when the fifth uncle leaves, he will officially take over the affairs of the family, although it is only two years, but he must also be cautious, so he wants to come here to sort out the various arrangements of the family in the next two years, as well as his future cultivation plan.

......

Through the sorting of the classics on the wooden table, he learned the whereabouts of most of the clansmen in the family:

The fifth uncle is going to carry out the mission of the Ghoul Sect, and the time is about two years.

The Seventh Uncle has been staying on the Instrument Peak, focusing on the construction of the Refining Pavilion and the cultivation of the younger generations of the clan in the refining of the Instrument Peak.

The eighth uncle went to Wanxingfang City to implement the layout of the fifth uncle over there, accompanied by the second uncle Li Qingyang and the seventeenth uncle Li Qingshui. According to the inference, the eighth uncle should stay there for a short time until everything is on track.

The third uncle, Li Qinghuan, took turns in Tianhefang City, and while cultivating, he guarded Fang City.

The fourth uncle, Li Qingjing, gathered in Lingshan and managed the family income over there.

The sixth uncle, Li Qingshu, is in charge of the treasure ship and has been carrying out the tasks assigned by the family. Now that Xuanshan has also climbed up, after he is familiar with the operation of the treasure ship, the sixth uncle can replace him and return to the family to make other arrangements.

The thirteenth brother, Li Xuanyuan, is on a family mission in Mangshanfang City, and he doesn't know how long it will take to complete it.

The twelfth brother Li Xuanyu is still in retreat in the cave to stabilize the realm, but since Xuanshan has already come out, it won't be long before he comes.

......

......

Li Yuheng broke through the realm of foundation building in retreat.

Li Xuankun is active in the Hengduan Mountains.

Li Xuanting followed Li Xuanshan to board the treasure ship.

Li Yuxian continued to improve his alchemy while cultivating on Dan Peak.

Most of the clansmen in the middle and late stages of Qi refining were scattered around to carry out family tasks.

A small number of clansmen in the middle and late stages of Qi refining stayed in the family to retreat and cultivate.

......

After understanding the general distribution of the family's personnel at this stage, as well as the planning and arrangement, Li Xuangang has a relatively clear context for the next two years to be in charge of family affairs.

So after a simple summary, he put the classics in his hand back and began to think about his cultivation plan.

More than two years had passed since the five-year agreement he had made with the Ghoul Sect Du, and if he didn't want the Eight Spider Blue Light Sword to be reduced to scrap metal, he would have to consider the matter of the Third-Order Venom Spider King.

In addition, there is also a task he issued in the Good Gong Hall about the essence blood of the third-order high-grade demon beast......

After thinking about it, Li Xuangang made a rough arrangement for his cultivation in the next two years.

In addition to the normal handling of the family's affairs and the two tasks he issued, he also had to cultivate the Qingling Transformation Demon Skill, refine the third-order elixir Wanqi Pill for the family, and most importantly, maintain cultivation and improve realm cultivation!

......

A crescent moon hangs in the sky, dotted with countless stars.

After Li Xuangang sorted out the affairs of the family and his own affairs, he left the Shangong Hall and returned to his cave mansion.

He sat cross-legged on the stone bed, immersed in cultivation, while waiting for the next day to come.

It's just that he never expected that in the middle of the night, a light galloped out from the north, instantly passed through the mountain protection light curtain of Taiqiu Mountain, and fell on the mountain.

Li Xuanyuan is ranked thirteenth, and Li Xuanyuan, who has the cultivation in the late stage of foundation building, completed the task ahead of schedule and is back!