Carambola opened its mouth, not knowing what to say. It was also at this time that she realized that Li Qingyan beside her was not a human, but a demon clan. If she didn't notice the bracelet on his wrist, she would often forget about it. Because even though he had shown terrible strength yesterday, it also made her feel like a human being—a person like a practitioner.

He has no fangs, no sharp horns, and is more handsome than most people. Gentle temperament and calm eyes...... It's not like the demons in the wasteland at all.

If those demon clans in the wasteland saw this kind of thing and encountered this kind of thing...... She didn't dare to imagine what the consequences would be.

But soon I thought of the demon clans I saw walking on the road when I entered the city.

Yesterday, Li Qingyan said to her, "Lions and sheep eat grass together", and she couldn't quite understand it at the time. Although I still can't fully understand this sentence now, I can understand it a little bit.

"It's pretty common in the future. Li Qingyan took her to walk past the front of the shop - star fruit saw that the name of the shop was "Veteran Xiaolongbao".

"Actually, I can understand it. The shop was run by veterans, and the whole family had been in the war. Look at which one you want to eat. ”

The expression on his face was still gentle and calm.

Star fruit only walked three or four steps before stopping in front of the noodle restaurant next door to "Veteran Xiaolongbao". I don't know what kind of psychology she wants to choose one that is closer to that house.

"Then this one. "We're sitting next to his house." ”

"Yes. Li Qingyan laughed.

The two chose a table next to the door and only ordered a bowl of noodles for star fruit to eat. Li Qingyan said that he has been taking Chinese patent medicine to regulate his body recently, so he should avoid eating and cannot eat in the morning.

Star fruit didn't know what medicine to avoid breakfast, and he didn't know what kind of body he needed to condition for a demon who could blow someone's head with a button. But after thinking about it, I felt that maybe I got up too late, and Li Qingyan had already eaten.

I ordered shredded chicken noodles. After it was served, it was a little hot, and the star fruit dipped some soup with chopsticks and tasted it - it was very fresh. She wanted to drink the soup first, but she didn't have a spoon. As soon as she looked up, Li Qingyan had already handed it to her.

Her heart warmed up again. Although there were still some doubts, the meticulous care of the person in front of him gently and domineeringly squeezed those things away.

"I want to tell you a little bit about the basics of my practice. Li Qingyan said as she took out a folded cotton handkerchief from her jacket pocket and placed it on the table on her side, with round pink wavy patterns on all sides.

"Do you usually have a practice class over there?"

Carambola realized that this handkerchief should be "compensated" for her. After Li Qingyan killed the green wolf in the car, he begged her handkerchief to wipe her hands.

...... He actually remembered.

"Ah...... the girl's heart was a little confused for a while, "...... Yes. But not much. The teachers told us to move freely. ”

"Hmm. That's nothing, just some common sense. I'll summarize it for you, and you can just remember it. Li Qingyan thought for a moment and spoke, "Let's start from the beginning." ”

"According to current research, in the beginning, neither humans nor animals had anything in their bodies that we now call souls. It's because there are 'ancestral souls' in the world - the name is easy to understand. Ancestral soul, ancestral soul. ”

"The ancestral soul exists in the heavens and the earth, and when it is attached to the animal, the animal has the spiritual intelligence to think like a human, which is enlightenment, and then there are some supernatural powers. Attached to people, people also have supernatural powers, can understand the aura of heaven and earth, and can practice. ”

"The time when the ancestral soul appeared was about 5,000 years ago. At that time, mankind already had civilization. Therefore, people with ancestral souls—also known as human ancestors—began to realize themselves, and slowly explored the method of cultivation. ”

"Some enlightened demons have also obtained the method of cultivation and cultivated their human bodies, and they have become demon ancestors. This is the key point during the exam - people who originally had ancestral souls in their bodies were called human ancestors. Those who have ancestral souls in their bodies and have cultivated human form are called demon ancestors. ”

“...... Exam?" Star fruit was stunned.

"Director Fang will test you. Li Qingyan smiled, "His habits are the people and things that pass through his hands." The old man is very principled. ”

“...... Well. Star fruit opened her eyes wide and listened more attentively.

"Then the original human ancestors didn't know that they had supernatural powers because of the ancestral soul. They thought it was a gift from the gods. So Renzu began to intermarry with ordinary people. But once the offspring is born, the ancestral soul in the body is divided, and some of them run away to the offspring. So at this time, the ancestor is not the ancestor. Human Ancestor - The one who lives in the body is the ancestral soul. This is not an honorary title. ”

"Hmm. ”

So this kind of intermarriage probably lasted for more than a thousand years. In this period of more than a thousand years, so many generations, the soul in the body has been diluted from generation to generation. But at the same time, at that time, there were very few soulless people in the body, that is, the soulless. ”

So that's why some people can practice and some people can't. It depends mainly on the strength of the soul in your body. On top of a certain strength, enough to reach that threshold, you can. Not the other way around. ”

Star fruit thought for a while: "Then it means that there will be a day...... No one can practice anymore. ”

Li Qingyan smiled: "Theoretically. But don't forget that the first people figured out how to practice. Cultivation can absorb the aura of heaven and earth into the body, and the soul will become stronger. Because there are some spiritual energy supplements, it doesn't come to that point. ”

Moreover, research in recent years has also shown that women, including demon clans, will absorb a small amount of heaven and earth aura during pregnancy, which can be regarded as spontaneous cultivation. This ensures that the soul of the offspring born is also likely to be stronger. ”

"Actually, practitioners more than 4,000 years ago were thinking of a way when they realized this. They intermarried among the monks, and were rarely married to mortals. ”

"In recent decades, the cultivation sect has been restructured, and there are many folk children who can get started, so the situation is a little better. In the old dynasty before the new society, and even earlier, almost all the people in the six sects and five factions were close to each other. ”

"So now the state is also vigorously promoting the popularization of cultivation for all people, just for your worry that the population will continue to grow, and one day no one will be able to practice. In fact, there are more contradictions in this question, but Director Fang will not test you so deeply, just stop here. The noodles are cold, so let's eat them. ”

Star fruit's mind was full of his words. Actually, some of the concepts were mentioned a little bit in the workshop on the farm. But in that kind of place, the teacher has no heart to teach - and if he does, he teaches in vain. There are very few people in the city who can take the advanced course, let alone a place like a farm. The students didn't bother to listen to it – they might as well run out and play freely. They are farm children, and it is difficult to enter the city, let alone fly on the branches and become phoenixes.

Now that she suddenly heard such a bunch, she felt a little dazed for a while. You can subconsciously pick up chopsticks and eat noodles. Absentmindedly, he ate two bites and thought of one thing: "What about the demon clan? And you said that the human ancestor had supernatural powers at the beginning—is it the kind of cultivator now?"

"Yes and no. Li Qingyan said patiently, "Human ancestors are born with supernatural powers, and there is no need to practice. It is now speculated that the next five or six generations were born with supernatural powers. But in the future, the soul is diluted to a certain extent, and the supernatural power is no longer visible. It's like a recessive gene. ”

"So now people have to cultivate—in essence, it's not about cultivating supernatural powers out of thin air, but about stimulating what they already have. Therefore, the exercises of one school can cultivate the supernatural powers of one school. You are the big and small Yuanshan, the real martial arts, you make flying swords. You are a void and a cave, and you have the strongest charms. ”

"Either in the past, it was said that cultivators can't worship the wrong master? Because from the perspective of modern genetics, the first human ancestors had different magical powers. Some are good at controlling things, and some are good at controlling qi. Whichever person in your bloodline has more souls inherited from ancestors, the better the effect of cultivating the exercises. ”

"But that's also for those who are incredibly talented. Modern people's souls are very mixed, and it doesn't matter anymore, they can all be cultivated. ”

Li Qingyan thought again: "As for the demon clan." In fact, it is based on the history of human monks. In the beginning, people had a society and civilization, and people came up with the cultivation method. Some monks accepted enlightened animals as pets or mountain beasts, and then passed on some methods, and the demon clan gradually appeared. ”

"In fact, until before the First World War, people and demons on our side got along quite well, and it was only after the Verdun massacre that the relationship slowly became tense. The demon clan has a long lifespan. In ancient times, the demon clan had a lifespan of six or seven hundred years at every turn, so the cultivation time was long and the soul was slowly diluted. Therefore, now the demon clan is still born with supernatural powers. It's the early days of mankind. ”

Star fruit frowned suspiciously: "Three or four hundred years? I haven't seen it......"

Li Qingyan smiled: "Today's demon clan doesn't have such a long lifespan. It's only one hundred and fifty or sixty years—about the same as a sixth-level monk. The demon clan that has lived for a long time is very rare now, and you can't talk about it in your history books. If you want to talk about this thing, you have to talk about the exorcism campaign in the middle of World War II. If you say that this is taboo, no one will test you. But you'll find out later as you want to know. ”

Star fruit has heard about the exorcism, and it is mentioned in recent history: "Between 1958 and 1962, the "exorcism" campaign was carried out within the Allied camp. The intention was to eliminate the internal threat, but this led to the defeat in the Pacific theater. ”

She didn't ask any more. At this time, the noodles were completely cold, and she ate a few more bites.

Then I heard a quarrel next door—at the door of the xiaolongbao shop where "demons and dogs are not allowed"—the voice of the quarreller was a little familiar.

For a moment, the star fruit wondered if there was really a demon clan going inside, but the people inside were not allowed. So she turned her face to look.

The moment she turned her face, she saw Li Qingyan's eyes—they became extremely sharp and vigilant. Even when he was being pursued by the green wolf, the black widow, and even the mandarin duck sister, I never saw him show such eyes.

She didn't have time to think before she turned her face away.

I saw a man in his forties and fifties, pointing like a knife, cutting into the gas tank that the xiaolongbao shop had placed at the door to steam the steamed buns!

It was also at this moment that she realized why the quarrel she had just heard felt so familiar—it was the sound of the old villa in the courtyard where they had passed!

Star fruit has heard of people in extreme danger situations for a moment, when things become extremely slow in view.

In this moment she experienced this feeling.

She could almost see the beautiful and deadly flames that erupted from the gas canister that had been cut open with her bare hands as it was ignited by an open flame - and her mind didn't even have time to think about what it was and what it meant.

She didn't remember the next second or two.

When she regained consciousness, her ears buzzed, and there was darkness and warmth in front of her—Li Qingyan's arms wrapped around her head and clamped her ears tightly. She was protected by him in his arms.

The whole world seems to have an echo. She realized that Li Qingyan was looking down at her, but she couldn't hear what he said—after two sentences he turned around, dust and gravel falling from his shoulders and back. The shirt behind him was torn and there were two light white marks on his body.

The five closest people to the gas tank — the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper, and the three customers — didn't know where they were. Perhaps there is theirs among the flesh and limbs scattered on the ground.

In the distance, a few pedestrians passing by were swept away on the other side of the street by the air waves, and their lives and deaths were unknown. And the shops over there were also affected, scattered.

Instead, the two of them were eating on the window side of the noodle shop, and the walls blocked a lot of things.

Li Qingyan let go of the girl and turned around, looking at anyone or demon clan who might go here—but near the breaking point, only the two of them were still standing.

In fact, just before the man could cut the gas canister, he suddenly had a strange instinct - as if a sharp knife had been inserted into his head in front of his forehead. At that moment, he subconsciously stared at the "luck" of star fruit, and found that among those "tentacles" that meant that she had various connections with people or things around her, there was suddenly a straight and sharp one-from somewhere, forcibly establishing contact with her!

However, he looked around at the people further away, and did not notice any abnormality in the "luck" of any of them.

It was an attack on star fruit. The other party's methods were extremely clever, and they also did not leave any remnants of spiritual power on the scene. Li Qingyan realized that the ominous feeling he felt after seeing the meteorite yesterday was not a delusion.

Just in Beishan, the person who wants the life of star fruit has already shot once yesterday.

Who is it that after he has announced the protection of this young girl in a more high-profile way, and those who dare to do so will not fail to find out his identity - what is the value of this young girl?

He realized that he had made a mistake before.

He thought that by bringing this girl to Beishan and sheltering her, the people who wanted to kill her might have to wait for a good time. Then he can have some time to find out what secrets are on the star fruit and then make a choice.

But now the people who want to kill her, whoever it is, don't want to give him face.

Li Qingyan let out a sigh of relief and sneered in his heart.

All right. Finally, there's another exciting thing.