In the outer city of Donglifang City, Zhou Qing closed the door of the grocery store with a little tiredness, and as in the past three years, he took a pot of wine, fried two side dishes, and poured himself a drink in the back room.

On the other side of the table, Zhou Qing had already set up another pair of dishes and chopsticks, which had not changed for three years.

"Xiaofan, move the chopsticks, let's go one"

Zhou Qing, who was over seventy years old, stared at the empty dishes and chopsticks, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, sighed lightly, raised his glass and drank it all in one gulp, and seemed to have infinite melancholy in his heart.

"You must have been delayed by something, Uncle Zhou believes that you will be fine. ”

"Take a look, this is your favorite dish, Uncle Zhou has already prepared it for you, you can eat it hot when you come back, and see if Uncle Zhou's craftsmanship has improved." ”

Three years ago, after Xiao Yufan poured everything he had into the Spirit Devouring Array, he entered the Blood Wasteland alone.

According to his explanation to Zhou Qing before leaving, he should have returned in as little as ten days or as many as a month, but he went for three years.

During this time, Zhou Qing successively asked more than 100 monks who were about to enter the Blood Wasteland to find out Xiao Yufan's whereabouts, and paid a lot of money for it.

But three years have passed, Xiao Yufan seems to have evaporated, and the news that he is still alive cannot be confirmed even if he died in the Blood Wasteland.

After drinking several glasses of liquor in a row, Zhou Qing muttered to himself with red eyes: "If Uncle Zhou hadn't given you that jade pupil, you wouldn't have disappeared for three years, and Uncle Zhou was not good." ”

"Uncle Zhou is old, Xiaofan, Uncle Zhou can wait for you here for half a year, and the shop will be almost untenable."

In the past three years, in order to find out Xiao Yufan's news, Zhou Qing has almost scattered all his family wealth, if it weren't for his business for more than ten years and some savings, I'm afraid his grocery store wouldn't last for three years.

In addition, Zhou Qing's cultivation in the past three years has still not made any progress, and he has always stagnated in the early stage of gathering qi, with his nearly eighty years old, there is no possibility of a breakthrough in cultivating immortals in this life.

If it weren't for Xiao Yufan's life and death, I'm afraid Zhou Qing would have sold everything the year before last and found a remote place to retire.

The night is dark, and the outer city mixed with dragons and snakes is rarely clean.

In the inner room, Zhou Qing, who drank the last drop of wine in the pot, was already a little drunk, and was about to clean up when he heard two slight knocks on the door.

In a place like the outer city, which is not very peaceful, someone actually knocked on the door at this time period, which immediately made Zhou Qing's heart tighten, pinched these two fireball talismans in his hand, and walked to the outhouse.

With vigilance in his eyes, he said: "The shop has closed, if you want to buy something, please hurry up tomorrow." ”

"Old man, it's me!"

There was a soft call from outside the door, and Zhou Qing, who was in a nervous state, suddenly heard this, and froze in place like a clay wood carving, his lips trembled slightly, and it took a while for a while to spit out a sentence from his mouth.

"Is Xiao Fan really really you?"

The voice outside the door, which was all too familiar to Zhou Qing, sounded again, accompanied by laughter.

"Old man, I smelled the smell of food, and hurriedly opened the door, for three years, I have been thinking about your old good food all the time. ”

In front of the dining table in the back room, Xiao Yufan, who was already much taller and nearly 1.9 meters tall, devoured the delicious food that Zhou Qing had just cooked, which was no different from the appearance of eating here in the past, which almost made Zhou Qing have the illusion that Xiao Yufan's disappearance in the past three years was just a dream of his Nanke.

"Uncle Zhou, I'm full!"

After killing the eight bowls of fragrant rice, Xiao Yufan put down the dishes and chopsticks, burped contentedly, and grinned at Zhou Qing, who was already in tears.

"Uncle Zhou, I know that you must have a lot of questions to ask, we have been separated for three years, and we will have a good chat tonight, in fact, so many things have happened in the past three years, and I can't find anyone who can talk about my heart, so I can't hold it anymore. ”

Xiao Yufan got up from himself, picked up a jar of spirits stacked in the corner of the inner room, and first poured himself a big sip, and then said: "This matter has to start with my decision to enter the inner circle of the wasteland."

It was a sleepless night, Zhou Qing was silent in Xiao Yufan's three years of personal experience as if he heard the Arabian Nights, if he wasn't very sure that Xiao Yufan would never deceive himself, and if someone else told such an unbelievable story, Zhou Qing would never be able to accept all this.

Because all this is too mysterious.

For him, a grocery store owner at the bottom of the Demon Realm, there were too many more than he knew.

"Then your cultivation strength now?" Zhou Qing couldn't help but take the initiative to ask a question.

"The foundation has not yet been built, and it can barely be regarded as a half-step foundation. Xiao Yufan shrugged his shoulders noncommittally and smiled.

"Xiao Fan, but when you broke through the Demon Transformation Dao three years ago, you were already a half-step foundation builder. Zhou Qing said with incomprehensible doubts.

In his concept, Xiao Yufan broke through the Demon Transformation Path, so as to obtain the inheritance of the most holy in the human world, after three years of tempering, in terms of cultivation to the realm, how should he not stand still.

Xiao Yufan didn't open his mouth to answer Zhou Qing's doubts, and gently patted the wine jar that was still half in his hand, and suddenly a clear wine spring shot out from the mouth of the altar.

At the same time, Xiao Yufan's fingertips pinched a decisive seal, and the wine spring seemed to be given life, and with Xiao Yufan's drive, it condensed into a suspended water column in mid-air, and in an instant, it actually showed the shape of a dragon.

"Transformation in the water spell?!"

Seeing Xiao Yufan's understatement, Zhou Qing's eyes were straight.

The shock given to him by this scene was definitely no less than the moment when he saw Xiao Yufan at first glance.

"Isn't this a spell that can only be used by monks in the foundation building period?"

"Xiao Fan, you are really just half-step foundation building, but how is this possible?"

After building the foundation, it is considered to really set foot on the road of cultivating immortals, and being able to sacrifice spells has also become one of the important symbols after stepping into the foundation building period.

Although there are also three or two spells in the Qi Gathering Period, it is better to call it a trick than a spell, but I am afraid that it is not even a "chicken rib".

When the foundation building period is reached, the spell becomes a means that the monk can use in the true sense, and the "Transformation Technique" is the most common type of spell used by the foundation building monk.

The power of the Condensation Jiao is comparable to that of the Seven-Rank Attack Spirit Rune, but if you want to use the "Jiao Transformation Technique" to the point where Xiao Yufan is so easy and casual today, the vast majority of early foundation building monks will never be able to do it.

Seeing Zhou Qing's surprised expression, Xiao Yufan said, "Uncle Zhou, don't you wonder why my cultivation has not improved in the slightest in the past three years? This is the reason. ”

As he spoke, Xiao Yufan took the Jiao Transformation Technique, and a raging flame suddenly rose in his palm, which instantly raised the temperature in the room a lot, and beads of sweat the size of beans flowed down Zhou Qing's forehead, and he said even more in shock: "This is the "Fire Condensation Technique"!"

Then, Xiao Yufan used the "Earth Thorn Technique" and the "Wind Feather Technique" respectively, and used the four spells of earth, fire, wind, and water that were most commonly used by the foundation building monks.