Before leaving through the teleportation array, Huang Chang also unexpectedly ran into an acquaintance - to be precise, Ji Ruo had met. When Huang Chang went to remind her to prepare to leave, she saw Ji Ruo chatting happily with a girl.

Turning her head and seeing Huang Chang coming, Ji Ruo hadn't spoken yet, but the girl opposite her said hello to Huang Chang first:

"Immortal Master, Immortal Master, I met you again!"

"Uh...... It's you. ”

Huang Chang's memory has always been good, but he still recalled it a little before he remembered who this girl was - it was the "little junior sister" he saved when he formed a team to go down the mountain for the first time and killed the tiger spirit here in Qinshan County, and he was also an old man.

I haven't seen it for a while, but the youthfulness and timidity on this girl's body have all faded, and like the other warriors who have entered and exited here, her eyebrows are full of heroism. There was also a small scar on his face, which was rare among girls - even the women of the rivers and lakes.

Huang Chang noticed that the short sword hanging from the girl's waist was the one he had given him at the beginning, but the aura on it had long since dissipated, and it was just an ordinary mortal soldier. And there are notch scratches on the blade, which is obviously often used. It's just that the handle is wrapped with a cotton rope very finely, and a small jade pendant is hung, which can be seen from the owner's cherishment.

"You've finally made it this way......"

Huang Chang nodded at her, and Ji Ruo next to her also whispered about her situation—before Huang Chang came over, Ji Ruo had already talked to this girl named Qin Hu for a while.

Qin Hu's father has passed away, and the tragedy hit the old man too hard, and he vomited blood and fainted immediately after hearing the bad news, and he couldn't afford to be sick from then on, and finally went after a delay of half a year. was a lively little sect at the beginning, but now she is alone. If you don't enter the rivers and lakes, where can you go?

In fact, with Qin Hu's strength, he was not an innate martial artist, and he couldn't even enter this valley - he couldn't pass the maze of the valley at all, and he was not qualified to take on Kunlun's task. But the girl's luck was good—she had stumbled into a maze when she happened to run into a kind monk passing by, and took her with her.

After that, she wandered around the town in front of the Kunlun Lower Courtyard for a long time, and gradually learned the true situation of this Taoist temple and the existence of cross-border space. Later, I met another kind-hearted monk who entered the space to do a task and needed the assistance of his followers, but he couldn't find a master for a while, so he had to hire her temporarily and bring her into the cross-border space.

But she stayed when the monk left, and she never went out since—she couldn't get in when she went out. She can't take on Kunlun's task, so she can only help others work part-time here. Take on some chores such as short guides, caring for the wounded, sentry lookouts, etc. But he never went too far from the fortress, nor did he take the initiative to hunt demons.

There are few people in the space, and many things don't necessarily have to be done by innate martial artists, and the soldiers stationed in the Dao see her as a lonely girl, and they are usually willing to take care of one or two, so they actually let her gain a foothold here. The garrison mission issued by Xi Kunlun is one month, but this girl has been in it for more than half a year! Even the last time the demon clan fought under the fortress, she also participated in defensive battles, which can be regarded as some actual combat experience.

Such hard suffering, of course, is to improve one's own strength - the advantage of often dealing with high-level people such as immortal cultivators and innate martial artists is that you can get guidance from high-level people. Even a few casual words of advice will be extremely helpful to her, at least she can know how to strengthen herself.

Moreover, in this kind of place, it is also easy to collect cultivation resources. She helped those monks do chores that mortals can do, but most of the rewards they paid her were immortal things: pills, spirit stones, and demon spirit bodies, etc., of course, the amount was not much, but it was enough for her.

"I have now saved a lot of spiritual materials and elixirs, and it is estimated that in another half a year, it will be enough for me to forge my body for innate use!"

Hearing that Qin girl say this in a tone full of hope for the future, Ji Ruo's face couldn't help but show a hint of pity - using this method to rush the innate is the most stupid, the most dull, and the most wasteful of materials. And the road to ascension after that will be extremely difficult.

Of course, this does not mean that those who point at Qin Hu are malicious, they are just starting from the simplest and most practical point of view, and it is also the most suitable way for her - Qin Hu's family inheritance exercises are very ordinary, and they can't help her advance to the innate level, so she can only rely on external forces to strengthen her physique and use a lot of resources to rush hard. Even if Huang Chang or Ji Ruo came to instruct her, she could only use this way, unless she was willing to teach her another high-level exercise.

The monks before obviously didn't have this intention, after all, they were not related to her, and it was good to be willing to point out a path. But Ji Ruo's thoughts were different - she turned her head to look at Huang Chang, her eyes were shining. Although the two of them did not speak, the communication through divine thoughts was enough to be worth a thousand words.

Of course, Huang Chang immediately understood Ji Ruo's thoughts - as an immortal cultivator, one of the advantages of having divine sense sensing is that he will never misunderstand his sister's emotions, and there will be no small contradictions such as "I obviously gave you a hint but was indifferent, you definitely don't care about me". The exception, of course, is pretending to be stupid.

He was originally not optimistic about this Qin girl stepping into the rivers and lakes, but since people had already walked in, it was not difficult to give some help. And he's just setting up a new stall now, and he's going to need to fill it with manpower. Since this girl had received their favor at the beginning, it can be regarded as a fate between them, and it is more comfortable to use it.

After thinking about it for a while, Huang Chang slowly spoke:

"In this way, Miss Qin, you don't actually have a more reliable cultivation path at the moment, and you can only rely on these unstable ways to improve yourself?"

"Hmm......"

Qin Hu lowered her head slightly, with a somewhat embarrassed look on her face - in fact, compared to most casual cultivators, her current situation was already good, so she could finally find a way forward. Many people are desperate but they can't even see where the road ahead is, okay!

However, a Kunlun sect disciple was certainly qualified to despise the path she had taken. Moreover, Qin Hu has been in the rivers and lakes for so long, and his skills of observing words and colors have long been proficient, as soon as he heard this, he knew that people must still have a saying, so he quickly lowered his eyes and made a look of being taught with an open mind, waiting to see if there was a big gift package to take.

Huang Chang smiled when he saw this, the little girl was a little scheming, she was no longer the stupid girl who only knew how to cry her nose at the beginning, so it was okay, it met his needs. So he went on to say:

"That being the case, my junior sister and I have teamed up to open a small shop here, and we need someone to help take care of it, I don't know if Miss Qin is willing to help with this, it can be regarded as a long-term employment. ”

"Aha?"

Qin Huleng paused, first glanced around—there were no shops in the fortress, and then he came to his senses:

"Out in town?"

"Yes, if Miss Qin is willing to help, I can teach you a technique to help you accelerate your advancement to the Innate Realm. Including the subsequent cultivation paths, they can guide you, and if it goes well, it is not impossible to become a real monk. ”8)