Qiao Yuan's face was already gloomy as water, his eyes were full of anger, and there was a murderous intent hidden in it, which made Zhao Xue shudder and retreat a little in fear.

"Brother Li, you ......"

Qiao Yuan heard the little girl's timid words, and then realized that he was too angry and showed a trace of coercion.

He hurriedly dispersed the coercion, smiled at Zhao Xue, and said apologetically.

"I'm just a little angry at what those people do, you don't have to worry. ”

"Brother Li, are you a senior in the foundation building period?"

Zhao Xue lowered her head, with a look of respect and awe on her face, and asked timidly.

Because of the coercion that had just been released, Zhao Xue saw that Qiao Yuan's cultivation was in the foundation building period, but she didn't know which realm it was in the foundation building period.

However, in her opinion, Qiao Yuan's coercion is more than a hundred times stronger than his grandfather's, and he thinks it is at least in the middle stage of foundation building.

Qiao Yuan nodded with a soft smile on his face, signaling her not to be afraid or restrained.

He still concealed his identity for the time being, but there was no need to hide it for Xiuwei, and now that this little girl saw it, it was impossible to hide it.

"Brother Li...... No, senior, the little woman didn't know the identity of her predecessor before, she was offended, and she hoped that her predecessor would forgive her sins. ”

Zhao Xue saw Qiao Yuan nodding, a pair of peach blossom eyes widened, and quickly stood up and bowed to Qiao Yuan, and said honestly.

Qiao Yuan stood up, helped her up, and said with an extremely soft expression.

"You still call me Brother Li, I'm three or four years older than you, and it always feels weird to call me senior. ”

"Ah, the senior is only eighteen years old......"

When Zhao Xue heard Qiao Yuan's words, she immediately looked at Qiao Yuan in shock and exclaimed, but before she finished speaking, she saw Qiao Yuan frowning and showing displeasure.

"Call me Brother Li, don't call me senior. ”

"Yes, senior, no...... Brother Li. ”

Zhao Xue lowered her head and hurriedly spoke, but this opening was another slip of the tongue, and then she changed her mouth with an embarrassed face.

Qiao Yuan smiled, touched Zhao Xue's head, and said softly.

"That's good. ”

Who knew that this touch of the head, as well as the ridiculous sentence, made the little girl's face suddenly turn red, and the whole person seemed to have fallen into the red dye vat.

In the days that followed, Qiao Yuan had been living in Zhao Xue's cave mansion, but in normal times, he was healed in the space beads, and only came out to chat with Zhao Xue in his spare time.

As the time spent getting along for more and more, the little girl lost that restraint, and she told Qiao Yuan the truth about everything, as if she regarded him as a real big brother.

On the one hand, Qiao Yuan wanted to repay the kindness, and on the other hand, he felt guilty about Grandpa Zhao Xue's death, and he was also very good to her, and some of the pills he took during the Qi refining period gave her a lot.

On this day, Qiao Yuan had just finished healing and came out of the space bead, ready to go outside to breathe.

But before he could get out of the stone house, he heard a cruel laugh outside, and the laughter was so harsh that people couldn't help but feel sick when they heard it.

"Look for death. ”

Qiao Yuan's face was instantly covered with a layer of frost, and he said coldly.

After saying that, he rushed out of the cave, only to see a young man in a colorful shirt chasing after a panicked little girl.

The young man in the flower-clad had a lustful light in his eyes, and he held a long sword in his hand, and when the tip of the sword was raised, he saw that the little girl's clothes in front of him had torn open, revealing a large area of snow-white skin.

"Little beauty, your grandfather is dead, it's better to follow Ben Gongzi, with Ben Gongzi here, you don't have to hide in this wilderness like a mouse all day long. ”

The young man in the flower dress looked at the large piece of snow-white jade-like skin exposed behind the little girl, swallowed his saliva, and said lewdly.

The little girl bit her lower lip tightly and ran towards the cave without saying a word, she knew that as long as she arrived at the cave mansion and there was Brother Li there, she would be fine.

At this moment, a gust of wind struck, and the little girl felt a flower in front of her, and then she saw a body that was not too tall, but solid and reliable, appeared in front of her.

Qiao Yuan took off his robe and draped it on Zhao Xue's body, and then he showed a gentle smile and said softly.

"You go back to the cave first. ”

Zhao Xue nodded stunned, looking at Qiao Yuan's back as he walked past him, two lines of tears unconsciously flowed from the corners of his eyes.

Her grandfather also protected her like this back then, but unfortunately since her grandfather's fall, Zhao Xue has been hiding in the mountains and living a trembling life.

No one knew how she spent the year, and it wasn't until Qiao Yuan appeared that Zhao Xue felt a trace of warmth that she hadn't felt for a long time.

"Who are you?"

When the young man in flower clothes saw Qiao Yuan who suddenly appeared, he was shocked, and hurriedly took a few steps back and shouted.

Qiao Yuan didn't reply, just stared at him coldly, looking at him like looking at a dead man.

"My father is a foundation building monk in Daihe City, if you dare to touch me, my father will never let you go. ”

The young man in the flower clothes felt Qiao Yuan's murderous intention, and his whole heart suddenly rose to his throat, and he pointed at Qiao Yuan and shouted loudly while retreating.

Not to mention that his father is just a foundation building period monk, even if it is a Jindan stage monk, Qiao Yuan will destroy this person today.

Otherwise, even if Qiao Yuan saved Zhao Xue this time, who would save her next time, it would definitely be the same as last time, just harming her.

"Humph!"

Qiao Yuan snorted coldly, and all the coercion in the later stage of foundation building was released, pressing towards the flower-clothed young man.

"Later stage of foundation building...... Former...... Seniors spare their lives. ”

The young man in flower clothes felt this coercion, only to feel that a big mountain was pressing on his body, so that his legs could not help trembling, knelt on the ground, his face showed a look of despair, and said in a trembling voice.

Qiao Yuan saw that Zhao Xue had returned to the cave mansion, so he stepped forward and asked, and the thing he asked was naturally why this young man in flower clothes would pursue Zhao Xue.

It turned out that when Zhao Xue was collecting dew at the foot of the mountain, she happened to be bumped into by this young man in flowery clothes.

The young man in Huayi already knew Zhao Xue and knew that her grandfather was dead, so he had the idea of taking her back to be a furnace.

When Qiao Yuan heard that this young man in flower clothes wanted to take Zhao Xue away as a furnace, his heart burned with anger, and he didn't allow him to say any more, so he killed him with one palm.

Then Qiao Yuan took his storage bag, burned his body, looked in the direction of Daihe City, and had a plan to go there.

"Brother Li, are you okay?"

As soon as Qiao Yuan walked into the cave, he saw Zhao Xue coming up and asked softly.

"Girl, do you think I'll be okay?"

Qiao Yuan smiled, touched her head, and said angrily.

Zhao Xue's face flushed, but she was not as shy as she was at the beginning, she nodded, and quickly praised Qiao Yuan.

"By the way, why are you collecting dew?"

Qiao Yuan couldn't stop laughing at Zhao Xue's praise, and secretly said in his heart that this girl's little mouth was sweet, and then he asked softly with a straight face.

Zhao Xue lowered her eyebrows, and carefully took out a bamboo tube from her arms, which contained a full bamboo tube of water.

"I knew that Brother Li liked to drink tea when he was fine, so I went to the foot of the mountain early to collect these dew, and the tea made from this dew was very mellow, and my grandfather used to like to drink tea made with dew. ”

Qiao Yuan smiled helplessly, and said angrily: "Silly girl, how can this little dew be enough to make tea?"

Zhao Xue pursed her lips and said playfully, "Then I'll collect some more tomorrow." ”

"I mean you don't need to collect dew, it's such a good time in the morning, you must hurry up and cultivate. ”

Qiao Yuan smiled even more helplessly, and he liked this little girl more and more in his heart, but he said seriously on his face.

Zhao Xue's qualifications are not too bad, she is a third-line spiritual root, but she stays in this mountain where spiritual energy is lacking all day long, and her cultivation speed is almost turtle speed.

When Qiao Yuan saw her a year ago, Zhao Xue was at the fifth level of qi refining, but after this year, her cultivation was still at the fifth level of qi refining, and there was almost no progress.

It's just that Qiao Yuan has given her a lot of pills these days, so her cultivation speed has accelerated a lot.

"Tell me about the situation in Daihe City, as well as the background of the person just now. ”

Qiao Yuan saw Zhao Xue bowing her head with an aggrieved expression, so he pulled her to sit on the chair and asked softly.

Three days later, Qiao Yuan quietly left the cave and came to Daihe City.

This Daihe City is not big, that is, it is only a hundred miles in radius, but the scattered cultivation that lives in it is said to have exceeded 10,000, so to speak, this is a small sect formed by casual cultivation, but it is just more free.

Most of the people in the city were Qi refining monks, and the foundation building monks were almost invisible, but according to Zhao Xue, there were at least dozens of foundation building period monks living in Daihe City all year round.

"Ten thousand scattered cultivators, only dozens of foundation building period monks, alas!"

Qiao Yuan walked in Daihe City, looking at the bustling cultivation on the street, and sighed in his heart.

Thinking that he was going to become a casual cultivator in the future, he couldn't help but feel more sympathy for these people.

Qiao Yuan didn't stay in the city for long, but just traveled to a few places, and after killing several monks who had a grudge against Zhao Xue, he left the city in a hurry.

As for the father of the young man in flower, Qiao Yuan did not kill him, not because Qiao Yuan was soft-hearted, but when he went to the man's house, he found that the father of the young man in flowery clothes did not realize that the young man in flowery clothes was dead at all.

And under Qiao Yuan's investigation, it was determined that this matter would not affect Zhao Xue, so Qiao Yuan spared that person's life.

As soon as Qiao Yuan returned to the cave, he shouted with a smile: "Girl, come out and have a look." ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw a little girl running out lively, and when she saw the jade hairpins and dresses on the table, her eyes were only shining, and she stepped forward and picked them up unceremoniously.

"Brother Li, you are so good to me. ”

Zhao Xue held jewelry in one hand and a pink dress in the other, and looked at Qiao Yuan with two big watery eyes, and was so moved that she was about to cry.

"I happened to go to Daihe City today, and I brought these things along the way, as long as you like it. ”

Qiao Yuan touched Zhao Xue's head and said with a smile on his face.

After saying that, he let Zhao Xue fiddle with those jewelry objects at will, turned around and returned to the stone room, and continued to recuperate.

Time flickered, it was a month, Qiao Yuan's injuries had already fully recovered, the reason why he stayed here was because he couldn't rest assured that Zhao Xue was a girl, and second, he heard a lot of news about the four major sects in Daihe City.

It is said that after the trial in the Grass Spirit Valley, the four major sects entered a state of martial law, and the disciples in the sect rarely went out, as if there was some kind of big action.

Qiao Yuan didn't know what the four major sects were doing, but if he didn't return to the sect, he would definitely attract the attention of Duan Tiangu and the others, and maybe someone would be looking for him everywhere now.

After staying in this mountain for more than a month, Qiao Yuan went to Daihe City many times to investigate, and estimated in his heart that the rumors should be relieved, so he thought that it was time to leave.

But Qiao stayed away and couldn't take Zhao Xue with him, after thinking about it, he decided to send Zhao Xue to Huayun City, and let the people of the Lin family find a way to inform Lin Wantian that Lin Wantian would take care of him, whether Zhao Xue entered the Yuehe Sect or stayed in Huayun City, Qiao Yuan was quite relieved.

Without further ado, three days later, Qiao Yuan left the cave with Zhao Xue and headed towards Huayun City.