After Huo Xiaofan finished shouting, Qi Yuanshan, who he was expecting, did not come out, and a sloppy white-bearded old man who came out was another person he also wanted to see, the old man Tianqi. Huo Xiaofan was overjoyed and hurriedly went to bow down. The old man of Tianqi has not changed in the past two years, he does not look old at all, and he still looks red and happy. He gently helped Xiaofan to get up and said kindly: "You have cleaned this up well, it is much better than when Yuanshan lived by himself." ”

Huo Xiaofan said embarrassedly: "Thank you for the compliment, Xiaofan just wants to look forward to Uncle Qi coming back as soon as possible, and it will be good if he can be comfortable when he comes back." “

Tianqi Dao said: "Well, I asked him to pick you up here a few years ago, and now you have been in the mountain for several years, but he has not heard from him at all. ”

Huo Xiaofan hurriedly said: "Master Ancestor, please don't worry, Qi Erbo's martial arts are world-famous, and if he is benevolent, he will definitely have his own natural appearance." ”

Tianqi Dao Chang smiled slightly and said, "I didn't look at his face before, but the road to the west was extremely dangerous, and I don't know what he encountered, and it won't be every news for several years." ”

Huo Xiaofan felt the old Taoist's concern for his apprentice and said, "Master. Xiao Fan is willing to go to the West to inquire about the news of Uncle Qi, and ask for the permission of the ancestors. ”

Tianqi Dao said: "It's very good that you have this heart, your parents have forgotten that you should have the opportunity to be filial to your second uncle Qi in the future, but you haven't done it now, and it won't help if you go, so it's better to continue to practice on the mountain." I look at the astrological signs in the past few days, the entire west is shrouded in red, and there is a great momentum of eastward invasion, maybe it won't take a few years for those old devils who are dormant in the west to enter the Central Plains in the east, and the land of Shenzhou will be a bloody storm again. ”

Although Huo Xiaofan is a little arrogant, he said: "There is a master sitting in Shenzhou, and the disciples are willing to fight the people of the Demon Sect to the end and defend the righteous path to the death. ”

The old man of Tianqi smiled with relief and said: "Okay, your arrogance is quite similar to your father's, but you still have to cultivate well, the fifth child left me a letter mentioning that your martial arts progress is not bad, but you still have to step up." I'll give you another year to work hard to practice the Heavenly Cover Technique to the third level or above, and then come to Jiulong Peak to find me, and I will make other arrangements for you. ”

Xiao Fan asked curiously, "Master doesn't know what the arrangement is?"

Tianqi Dao Chang smiled and said, "Good thing, haha, go and complete what your father didn't finish back then, I have a wish." “

Huo Xiaofan understood that it should be a great thing, and kowtowed again to thank him, and after thanking him, he looked up and the old man of Tianqi was gone, and said in his heart: "Peerless masters come and go without a trace like this."

With the clear instructions of the old man Tianqi, Huo Xiaofan practiced martial arts more energetically, cultivating day and night, without slackening. Sometimes, when the progress of his skills was slow, he would run wildly on various peaks and peaks, on the one hand, to improve his light skills, and on the other hand, to distract his mind. By chance, he also picked up a little black dog, kept it by his side as a companion, and named it Erdan. Time flew by in Huo Xiaofan's cultivation day and night, and the years passed by in his wild running all over the mountains. During this time, not only Huo Xiaofan's internal strength had broken through the second-layer realm of Tianshu Gong, but he also almost ran all over the thirty-six peaks of Tianqi Mountain and the nine-song and eighteen pools, all of which left his practice footprints. The black dog grows very big unconsciously, it often helps Huo Xiaofan catch some hares and pheasants, Huo Xiaofan often runs outside and is used to carrying some salt, spices and flints and other things on his body, and when he catches wild meat, he directly sits on the ground and makes a fire to feast.

On this day, he took the two eggs to a deep pool that he had never set foot in, the water in this pool was bottomless, and the cold was pressing, and there was a trace of fishy smell in the faint water. Huo Xiaofan has not made any progress since he reached the second layer of the Heavenly Cover Technique, seeing that the one-year period is coming, he is often secretly anxious but there is really no way, this place today may be because of the particularly heavy cold, the Heavenly Cover Strength in his body suddenly has a strong reaction. He knew that there might be a great improvement in his cultivation at this time, so he sat cross-legged next to the deep pool. At first, the black dog was playing with his own reflection in the water, and he didn't know why he suddenly barked wildly, and then he stopped moving after hearing a scream. Huo Xiaofan, who was sitting not far away, felt a breath of evil coming out of the water, and when he ran to the edge of the pool, the second egg was gone, only to see the water circle swinging layer by layer. He knew that Erdan had been eaten by something in the water, and that he was angry and in pain, so he took out the bladeless sword he had obtained in Fuxiang Valley and observed it by the waterhole, wanting to see if there were any vicious big fish growing in the water.

At this moment, the water in the pool suddenly surged, and a large black snake about the thickness of a human leg burst out in it. The snake was extremely cunning, and he might have felt that Huo Xiaofan's breath was not good, so he didn't come over to bite him directly, but just spit out a mouthful of black gas at him, Huo Xiaofan was caught off guard, but the true qi in his body took his body and retreated backwards. How do you know that the area covered by the poisonous gas spewed out by this black snake is too large, and Huo Xiaofan has already been tricked. He only felt dizzy and nauseous, and the world was spinning, and he fell headlong to the end. In a drowsy state, he felt sick to death, but only the lower part of his neck remained a little cool. He suddenly remembered the red beads hanging around his neck, when Liu Mei'er gave it to him, he had said that this thing could cure all kinds of poisons, so he took the beads in his mouth with difficulty. Unexpectedly, the bead really had a miraculous effect, and he immediately felt better, staggering to his feet. At this time, the black snake had already pounced on it with its head shaking, and Huo Xiaofan tried his best to inject the tenacious sword into the big snake to stab the big snake, but the skin of the big snake was slippery and hard, and this sword, which could usually cut something, did no harm to the big snake at all. It was too late for Huo Xiaofan to dodge again, the black snake circled around his body a few times, suddenly tightened his body, and wrapped Huo Xiaofan in it and couldn't move, it didn't seem to want to eat the prey immediately, but wanted to slowly strangle the prey alive and enjoy it again.

Huo Xiaofan shouted red beads in his mouth, clutched the tenacious sword in his hand, and his body desperately wanted to struggle, but the more he struggled, the tighter the black snake was entangled. The black snake opened its bloody mouth and spit out the core, and its two yellow eyes cast infinite chill and murderous aura at Huo Xiaofan, as if there was still a hint of mockery. Huo Xiaofan could barely breathe, he felt that his eyes, tongue, and even his internal organs were about to be squeezed out, and he couldn't help but think that I would die here today before I avenged my revenge. Seeing the edge of life and death, the red beads that had been held in Xiao Fan's mouth had already detoxified Huo Xiaofan's poison, and the internal qi of the heavenly shield in Huo Xiaofan's body, who had fully recovered his consciousness, was mobilized and spread outward, he shouted, and all the true qi in his body was impacted outward, that is, under the powerful squeezing force of this black snake, Huo Xiaofan's internal force was forced to break through to the third-layer realm. The original sword in Huo Xiaofan's hand suddenly had a strange blue light, and the big snake jumped to the limit in order to strangle Huo Xiaofan to death, and the true qi in Huo Xiaofan's body could no longer be suppressed and let the big snake relax a little, Huo Xiaofan immediately stabbed the nearest snake body with his sword, just on the seven inches of the snake. The big snake hurt, and his whole body completely relaxed, Huo Xiaofan got out of the entanglement of the snake's body and didn't wait for it to fight back, and slashed at the snake's head with all his strength, at this time, the blue light flashed without tenacity The sword cut into the snake's body like cutting tofu, and the life of the evil beast was killed at once.