Huayun City is only a thousand miles away from Daihe City, and it can be reached in less than a day at Qiao Yuan's full speed.

But in order to take care of Zhao Xue, he didn't fly to hurry, but traveled all the way with this little girl, and he could also guide her on cultivation on the way.

"Brother Li, you ...... Are you really leaving?"

Zhao Xue is smart and clever, and she has also seen some abnormalities these days, so she looked at Qiao Yuan and asked aggrievedly.

"Big brother still has very important things to do, you can't stay here for a long time, girl, you have to know that everyone's path needs to be walked by themselves. ”

Qiao Yuan sighed secretly, touched the little girl's head, and said earnestly.

The life of casual cultivation is extremely difficult, and because of this, Zhao Xue's mind is much more precocious than ordinary people, coupled with the unexpected fall of her grandfather, which makes Zhao Xue even stronger.

She understood that Qiao Yuan was going to leave sooner or later, and she was already prepared in her heart, but when it was time to leave, she found out how reluctant she was.

Ten days later, the two of them read all the scenery all the way and finally came to Huayun City.

Looking at the familiar city wall, Qiao Yuan felt a lot of emotion for a while, when he came here a year ago, he was only a ninth-level Qi refining monk, but now when he came back, he was already a late-stage foundation building monk.

Walking into Huayun City, along the familiar street, Qiao Yuan took Zhao Xue to the Lin family.

Because he was still a white-clothed young man from the Hehuan Sect, no one in the Lin family recognized him, but Qiao Yuan only showed his identity as a monk slightly, which made everyone in the Lin family extremely frightened.

"You don't have to be polite, Li has some friendship with Lin Wantian Lin Daoyou, this time I passed by Huayun City, so I came to Lin's house to take a look. ”

In the living room of the Lin family, Qiao Yuanda waved his sleeves, and a breeze blew, holding up everyone's bent bodies.

"It turns out that the immortal master and Xiao'er are friends, and in this case, the immortal master lives in the cold house, if you have any requirements, please feel free to speak. ”

The head of the Lin family stood in the lower position, with a smile on his face, and said cautiously.

"Huh...... , Li has no requirements, but I don't know if you can contact Lin Daoyou, my little sister has good qualifications, and I want to ask him to introduce my little sister into the Yuehe Sect. ”

Although the head of the Lin family had calculated himself, Qiao Yuan would never deal with a mortal, and this person was still Lin Wantian's father, so he had nothing to hide, and directly said what he thought in his heart.

"It turns out that this fairy wants to enter the Yuehe Sect, although Lin can't make the decision on this matter, but Lin will definitely send someone to the Yuehe Sect as soon as possible to inform Xiao'er and let him go home. ”

The head of the Lin family had a look of surprise on his face, obviously he didn't expect that the little girl who was standing silently behind Qiao Yuan was also a monk.

Qiao Yuan nodded and asked softly, "How long will this matter take?"

The head of the Lin family replied truthfully: "Immortal Master, it will be a month at the earliest. ”

Qiao Yuan didn't show any surprise, turned over and took out a jade slip and threw it to the head of the Lin family, and said slowly.

"This is my token, you can ask someone to hand it over to Lin Daoyou, he will definitely find a way to go back to the Lin family when he sees the token. ”

The head of the Lin family took the jade slip with a look of joy on his face.

Since Lin Wantian joined the Yuehe Sect, he has almost always come back once every three or five years, and more often than not, he has asked someone to bring back the news.

Now that he heard Qiao Yuan say that Lin Wantian would inevitably come back when he saw the token, as a father, he was naturally very happy.

In the days that followed, Qiao Yuan and Zhao Xue stayed in the guest room, and the people of the Lin family were all respectful and did not dare to disturb.

Qiao Yuan selected some spirit weapons, talismans, and pills, and left a lot of spirit stones, even if Lin Wantian had no way to let Zhao Xue enter the Moon River Sect, those resources were enough for Zhao Xue to cultivate for decades.

In addition, Qiao Yuan also refined a set of formations and let Zhao Xue put them on when she was practicing, so that even a foundation building consummation cultivator would not be able to hurt her.

After putting these things into a storage bag, Qiao Yuan left another jade slip and asked Zhao Xue to hand it over to Lin Wantian in the future, and after this arrangement was made, Qiao Yuan was ready to leave Huayun City.

Before leaving, Qiao Yuan also went to meet Lin Qing'er, Lin Wanyuan, Lin Wankang and Lin Yi, and left them with some health pills.

Three days later, Qiao Yuan had been thousands of miles away from Huayun City and entered the Hengshui Mountain Range.

This Hengshui Mountain Range belongs to the land of poor mountains and bad waters, and there are many monsters and beasts in it, not to mention that mortals dare not set foot easily, and even ordinary casual cultivation does not dare to enter.

If it weren't for Zhanyuan who sent him out back then, it would be extremely difficult for Qiao Yuan to walk through this Hengshui Mountain Range alone.

Sure enough, before he could go deep into the Hengshui Mountain Range, he encountered dozens of demon beasts, although those were all first-order demon beasts and had no threat to him, but for a long time, Qiao Yuan was very annoyed.

In desperation, Qiao Yuan had no choice but to take out the Jin Yao Sword, unseal the Jin Yao Sword, and emit the dazzling golden light on it, Qiao Yuan stood on it, and the imperial sword flew towards the Hengshui Mountain Range.

As long as Jin Yaojian is in the state of the sword, it will turn into an imposing golden dragon, which looks as if there is a golden dragon flying in the sky, and the people above are obscured by the golden light, and they can't see clearly.

In this way, whether it was a first-order demon beast or a second-order demon beast, when they saw the golden dragon in the sky, they would crawl on the ground, and they didn't dare to be presumptuous at all.

Even sometimes even some third-order demon beasts with low spiritual intelligence will avoid them in fear.

Traveling like this, although it is a bit too high-profile, but fortunately, it saves a lot of trouble, and there is no one in this Hengshui Mountain Range, Qiao Yuan does not have to worry about being targeted by other monks.

went all the way, and finally after more than 20 days, Qiao Yuan rushed to the small col where Zhan Yuan and Zhan Yao lived.

Qiao Yuan put away his flying sword, a bright smile appeared on his face, and hurriedly fell towards the ground.

At this moment, in front of the bamboo house below, there was a little girl with an excited face and crooked eyebrows, the little girl was wearing a white pleated skirt and two pigtails on her hair, and she was waving her hand to Qiao Yuan and shouting.

"Brother Joe. ”

"Hey...... Xiao Yao, you have grown taller again. ”

Qiao Yuan landed in front of Zhan Yao, reached out and touched Zhan Yao's head, and said with a smile.

"Brother Qiao, you have also grown taller, and you can still fly in the sky. ”

Zhan Yao blinked her big eyes with excitement and said with a smile, saying that she reached out and touched Qiao Yuan's head, but found that she could only touch her shoulder.

Qiao Yuan squatted down, looked at Zhan Yao's pure eyes, and asked softly, "Xiao Yao, do you want to fly?"

Seeing Zhan Yao nodding like a chicken pecking rice, Qiao Yuan smiled and said again: "It won't be long before you can fly." ”

"Really?"

Zhan Yao's big eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, and he asked excitedly.

Qiao Yuan stretched out his hand and scratched her delicate little Qiong's nose, and said with a smile: "Of course it's true, when did Big Brother Qiao lie to you." ”

"By the way, what about your grandfather?"

Qiao Yuan glanced around, saw that there was no one else, and continued to ask.

"Grandpa got up in the morning and said that Brother Qiao is coming back, let me wait for you here, Grandpa, he is fishing by the river now. ”

Zhan Yao blinked her eyes wide, and said with an incredulous expression, obviously she didn't expect her grandfather to speak so smartly.

"Brother Qiao will take you to Grandpa. ”

Qiao Yuan touched Zhan Yao's head dotingly, said with a chuckle, and after speaking, he picked up Zhan Yao, and then took off into the air and flew directly towards the river.

The little girl was obviously flying for the first time, and her expression was excited and flustered, but with Qiao Yuan protecting her, Zhan Yao was becoming more and more relaxed.

She hugged Qiao Yuan's arm tightly with her two small hands, and her big eyes looked curiously at the ant-like trees and houses on the ground, and her excitement was overflowing.

It didn't take long for a winding river to appear in front of the two, and Qiao Yuan's eyes flashed, and at a glance, he saw an old man sitting on the big rock by the river.

Without the slightest hesitation, Qiao Yuan took Zhan Yao and flew slowly towards the old man, and before he could get close, the old man turned his head to look at Qiao Yuan, with a kind smile on his face,

"Grandpa Zhan, I'm back. ”

The two fell to the ground, Qiao Yuan took a deep breath, suppressed the doubts in his heart, looked at Zhan Yuan and said with a smile.

Zhan Yuan was like a real old man, seeing his son and nephew come back, his face was full of relieved smiles, and he nodded and said.

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back. ”

After speaking, he pulled the fishing rod, lifted the fish basket placed in the water, waved his hand at the two, and said again.

"Let's go, today the old man will collect the rod in advance and go home to make fish soup for you to drink. ”

In the evening, facing the sunset, the three of them sat under a big tree, eating a hearty dinner, laughing and talking, looking extremely warm.

After dinner, Zhan Yuan asked Zhan Yao to go back to her room to rest, although Zhan Yao was very unhappy, but under Qiao Yuan's comfort, she had to go back to sleep obediently.

"Grandpa Zhan, this is the Seven-Star Soul Rejuvenation Flower. ”

Qiao Yuan sent Zhan Yao back to the room, and after coaxing her to sleep, Qiao Yuan walked out of the small bamboo house, sat next to Zhan Yuan, took out a jade box and said softly.

Zhan Yuan's dim eyes flashed a trace of essence, and he took the jade box without saying a word, and his divine sense swept inside, and then he laughed directly, and that smile was full of joy, as if the big stone that had been pressing on his heart for many years finally moved away, making him extremely relaxed.

"You're really good, kid. ”

After laughing, Zhan Yuan looked at Qiao Yuan more and more pleasing to the eye, and couldn't help but praise him.

Qiao Yuan smiled at the corner of his mouth, didn't say anything, and handed over the Seven-Star Soul Rejuvenation Flower to Zhanyuan, and he had already repaid their kindness to him, but he had a wish.

"Xiaoyuan, although the old man once saved your life, but that is nothing, it is just a gesture, and you took this seven-star soul rejuvenation flower, presumably after experiencing a lot of hardships and dangers, this matter can be regarded as the old man owes you a great favor. ”

Zhan Yuan seemed to see what Qiao Yuan was thinking, and put away the jade box with a wave of his hand, his face showed gratitude, and he said solemnly.

Although Qiao Yuan understood that this was the truth, kindness has always been only divided into large and small, regardless of whether the benefactor is a gesture or has experienced a lot of hardships.

Grandpa Zhan said seriously. ”

"In this way, if you like Yao'er, the old man will marry Xiao Yao to you, this time it is sincere. ”

Seeing Qiao Yuan like this, Zhan Yuan's heart moved, and he said with a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth.

But as soon as he finished speaking, he saw Qiao Yuan's face change, and then Zhan Yuan said again: "If you see that Yao'er is too young, you can also worship the old man as a teacher first, and the old man will not treat you badly." ”

This time Qiao Yuan fell into silence, worshipping Zhanyuan as a teacher is naturally a good choice, but he has already worshipped Duan Tiangu as a teacher, although he can't return to Yuehe Sect for the time being, it doesn't mean that the master-apprentice relationship between the two is broken.

If he had just left the Moon River Sect and worshipped another master, Qiao Yuan would really be unable to overcome this hurdle in his heart.

Zhan Yuan saw Qiao Yuan's face change, and he couldn't guess what he was thinking, so he hurriedly asked, "Xiaoyuan, what's wrong with you?"

Qiao Yuan hesitated for a moment and said softly, "Grandpa Zhan, I already have a master." ”

Zhan Yuan shook his head and smiled, waved his hand and said: "What a big deal does the old man think, the cultivation realm is different from the world, and accepting apprentices and apprentices is an extremely casual thing, if you want to, what's the harm in worshipping the two masters?"

After speaking, he saw that Qiao Yuan seemed to have a difficult choice, so he spoke again: "This matter is not urgent, you think about it for a while before giving an answer to the old man." ”

Then Zhan Yuan got up and walked into the house, leaving this place to Qiao Yuan alone.