out of time

Chapter 170 The pattern is open

"Joining the Seven Sects Alliance is my dream!"

"Everything is just short of experience now, and I can't let my previous efforts go to waste because of my negligence."

"I have accepted sixteen missions today. Brother Xu, I have ordinary aptitude. I have to work harder. Even if I get injured, I can't give up. What does this injury mean?"

Ding Xue's gaze was firm.

"I can't let my aunt down!"

"Brother Xu, can you help me complete the task today, please."

When Ding Xue said this, her voice was a little weaker, and she wanted to bow her body after she finished speaking, but she was about to fall when her body weakened, so Xu Qing instinctively went up to help her.

Ding Xue's body fell into Xu Qing's arms, her eyelashes trembled slightly, her breathing was obviously short of breath, and her face was blushing.

Xu Qing was silent. He faintly felt something was wrong, but he didn't know how to refuse. After all, Ding Xue's injury was real, and it was really serious.

In this way, Xu Qing supported Ding Xue to complete the sixteen tasks that day. Although Ding Xue was weak, the excitement in her heart had reached its limit.

This is the result she wanted. This time, she begged her aunt to let Xu Qing come to guard the way, in order to get in touch with Xu Qing and develop a deep-rooted friendship.

She knew very well that if she wanted to attack Xu Qing, she should not act too hastily.

It needs to be figured out slowly, and it is best to make love for a long time, which is the best policy.

That's why she got herself hurt like this.

But she also understands that this strategy cannot be used every day, and the sense of need must not be exposed too much, so she recovered a little the next day and everything went on as usual.

In the following days, Ding Xue counted the time in her heart and was very excited every day, leading Xu Qing to run around the four islands.

Until another seven or eight days passed, Ding Xue felt that the time had come and she was about to launch her second plan.

For this plan, she is confident that she can have a further in-depth understanding with Xu Qing, after all, she has been preparing for this for several months.

But what made her extremely disappointed was that at this critical moment, an uninvited guest unexpectedly came.

It was Zhao Zhongheng.

Zhao Zhongheng didn't know why, but the speed of cultivation suddenly accelerated after Xu Qing stepped into the Foundation Establishment, and now he had reached the level of Qi Condensation Great Consummation, and he was not far away from trying to establish the Foundation.

Logically speaking, what he needs at this time is to retreat and stabilize his Dzogchen realm, so as to start building the foundation.

But he obviously heard about the things here, so he resolutely chose to join the war, and on the first day he came to the mermaid island, he went to Ding Xue's side with a shameless face.

If you don't go, you must follow.

Even after Ding Xue got annoyed, he took out the task jade slip.

He did not know how to get the same task as Ding Xue, so Ding Xue was quite helpless.

Xu Qing didn't care about this matter from the beginning to the end, it doesn't matter who comes, he calculated the time, at most a few more days, and the one-month deadline will be up.

"Zhao Zhongheng, if you insist on following, you must agree to two rules!" Ding Xue looked at Zhao Zhongheng in front of Xu Qing, feeling very unhappy from the bottom of her heart.

"One, you can't speak the whole time!"

"Second, you have to keep a distance of three feet from me!"

"Leave if you don't agree, stay if you agree!"

Zhao Zhongheng took a deep breath, he had already thought about this when he came, and now he looked at Ding Xue, who was extremely beautiful and had a bumpy figure.

He quickly glanced at Xu Qing who didn't seem to be paying attention here, and then quickly withdrew his gaze, with an unprecedented firmness in his heart.

"No matter how high your cultivation is, how can you compare it with my sincerity? Chasing a girl is not a fight. High cultivation has its uses. My grandfather has a higher cultivation. Didn't he get dumped by my grandma just the same? Also alone in Qifeng, which shows that the cultivation base is high, it is useless!"

"My sincerity is the key to ultimate happiness. It is indestructible. The heavens can learn from it, and the gods can be distinguished. Even the crippled face in the sky can't destroy my sincerity."

"So, if chasing a woman depends on cultivation, then the ancestor has a group of wives and concubines, and all the daughters of the clan belong to him." The more Zhao Zhongheng thought about it, the more reasonable he became, his eyes became firmer, and he looked at Ding Xue, whom he loved all his life. , said in a deep voice.

"Row!!"

Zhao Zhongheng's joining made Ding Xue very unhappy, but it was no different to Xu Qing, although he found Zhao Zhongheng secretly looking at his forehead several times.

This made Xu Qing a little strange, but he didn't pay much attention to it, especially since the other party was very sensible and didn't come to provoke him, so Xu Qing ignored him most of the time.

A few days later, when the three of them completed some small tasks and reunited after a night of rest, Xu Qing glanced at Zhao Zhongheng with a strange expression.

Ding Xue was also taken aback when she saw Zhao Zhongheng.

She glanced at Zhao Zhongheng's eyebrows, then turned to look at Xu Qing, her expression gradually became strange.

Only Zhao Zhongheng looked as usual, raised his head and showed Xu Qing and Ding Xue his eyebrows, full of pride in his heart.

And if there are other people here at this moment, they will definitely find that the shape of Zhao Zhongheng's eyebrows is almost exactly the same as Xu Qing's.

No matter the height, length of eyebrow peak, or the width of eyebrow tail, etc., they are all the same.

Xu Qing looked at Zhao Zhongheng, he suddenly knew why the other party kept peeking at his forehead a few days ago, he was looking at his eyebrows.

"Is this person sick?" Xu Qing thought of Elder Zhao's evaluation of his grandson, and thought it made sense.

Ding Xue sighed.

She felt that Zhao Zhongheng was stunned, some eyebrows were different on different people's faces, so Senior Brother Xu naturally looked better the more he looked at them.

But this Zhao Zhongheng, she felt that he was fine before, but now he looked extremely weird, like a native chicken with two peacock feathers.

But Zhao Zhongheng obviously didn't think so, he was very proud all the way, he felt that Ding Xue looked at him much more today than before.

So he started staring at Xu Qing's nose.

Xu Qing was silent.

In this way, the three of them lived in peace in the following days, except that Zhao Zhongheng's appearance gradually changed a little bit, but the traces were still a bit heavy, and Xu Qing was speechless in his heart.

What surprised Xu Qing at the same time was that Zhao Zhongheng's transformation was not limited to these, he actually gave Ding Xue a gift in two at the same time.

Ding Xue was also surprised by this.

Looking at the expressions of Xu Qing and Ding Xue, Zhao Zhongheng felt even more proud.

He felt that his retreat this time was of far-reaching significance, because he wanted to understand one thing.

Since you love someone, you must love the house and the crow.

Since you have chosen to pursue her all your life, you must be tolerant enough to tolerate the passing things she has experienced.

So, why do you want to send her with such no pattern?

Give her two copies!

Allowing her to give it to passers-by, doesn't it just show that she is different.

Zhao Zhongheng felt that he was transparent.

So in this sublimation of the heart, on this day Ding Xue checked a secret passage filled with heterogeneity and opened it. While waiting for the heterogeneity to dissipate, Zhao Zhongheng handed the two medicine boxes in his arms to Ding Xue. .

Ding Xue took it and opened it, a little surprised.

"Peel Yield, this is the secret pill of the second peak of the Seven Blood Eyes, it is not available for takeaway, and it is rarely seen on weekdays."

Zhao Zhongheng nodded with a smile.

Ding Xue looked strange, looked at the two pills in her hand, then looked at Xu Qing.

"Senior brother Xu Qing, thank you for helping me these few days, and also giving me tutoring on vegetation. I don't think I will need this pill, but because it is rare, I can let my brother do research."

Saying that, Ding Xue smiled sweetly at Xu Qing, and gave Xu Qing the pill.

"Besides, this is also the reward you should get for taking care of Zhao Zhongheng these days, senior brother."

Xu Qing thought about it and felt it made sense, so he took it.

Zhao Zhongheng's breathing was a little short, but he soon smiled again, and nodded to Xu Qing to indicate that it was like this.

Xu Qing glanced at the pill and was about to put it away, but suddenly his expression froze, he looked at the opened secret passage, and stepped out to the side of the secret passage.

"You step back."

As soon as his words came out, Ding Xue quickly backed away, and Zhao Zhongheng also quickly backed away.

Seeing that Ding Xue and Zhao Zhongheng were far away, Xu Qing stared at the secret passage in front of him, narrowing his eyes.

The location of this secret passage is under a collapsed house, and it was obviously recently dug out for shelter.

Some rune layouts can be seen around. Although they have lost their effect now, they should be used for concealment.

But the tunnel is not big, only one person can get in. As the inside opened, a chill came out, blending with the warm current from the outside, forming some mist.

In this mist, apart from the thick heterogeneity, some corpse poison slowly floated out.

Xu Qing was vigilant, Ding Xue took over the task this time. The task description was to find the hiding place where the sea corpses sneaked into the island of the mermaids. They had searched several places before but found nothing.

Now in a small town on Youzang Island, Ding Xue sensed the fluctuation of heterogeneous promotion with a special magic weapon.

Only then did he find his way.

Xu Qing didn't pay much attention to it at first. According to his experience of killing the sea corpse clan, even if some members of the sea corpse clan were hidden on the island of the mermaid clan, they could not be found by a condensed energy like Ding Xue.

And the detection of the special magic weapon is even less effective, unless the sea corpse tribe deliberately disperses, otherwise there are too many ways to be restrained and not reveal the slightest.

So in Xu Qing's view, the mission of the sect for the core disciples of Qi Condensation is actually to put on a show so that they can adapt to the rhythm of the war.

As for danger, not much.

But at that moment after Ding Xue opened the secret passage, Xu Qing quickly noticed that something was wrong as the foreign matter was released one after another. The foreign matter released from it contained corpse poison.

"Could it be that Ding Xue really bumped into a sea corpse?"

Xu Qing's gaze was like lightning, and he sprayed some poisonous powder into the secret passage to neutralize the corpse poison inside. At the same time, he also noticed that the corpse poison here seemed to have lost its activity, and the toxicity was greatly reduced.

While Xu Qing was meditating here, suddenly a weak voice came from the secret passage.

"Daddy, hurry home..."

The voice was like a little boy's begging, full of longing, and extremely real. The moment it reached Xu Qing's ears, he felt as if he had really seen a little boy.

This scene made Xu Qing's eyes shrink suddenly. Ding Xue and Zhao Zhongheng who were behind him heard the same thing, and their expressions changed instantly.

"Strange?" Zhao Zhongheng breathed heavily.

(End of this chapter)