who knows

After that day, Zhong Liqing stayed in Yuandu for another five days, and left regardless of Xi Yuyan's persuasion—before leaving, she didn't forget to take the pill that Xi Yuyan worked tirelessly for her to refine. She left behind a large number of talismans that she had refined in the past few days—although Xi Yuyan was asked to make alchemy for her as a reward, but it was just a quick trial—to be fair, Zhong Liqing didn't like to accept favors from others in vain.

Helping Xi Yuyan was just a whim, and she did it on purpose, but it was definitely not a request for gratitude.

Here the cause and effect are one, and the two do not owe each other.

After her continuation, Xi Yuyan's five-element meridian has been connected again. As long as he rests for a while, he can return to his previous appearance. Not only is there no obstacle in alchemy, but his cultivation speed is also fast. She has been trapped in the late stage of foundation establishment for a long time, and she has enough mental experience. I believe she will be able to form a golden core in a short time.

And if it wasn't for ensuring that her spiritual root had been completely repaired, and also for waiting for the elixir she promised, Zhong Liqing might not even be willing to stay for those five days.

She doesn't know where she came from for her leisure and kindness. She spent such thankless hard work. According to her usual practice, helping others is also following the trend. So far, how can she worry about this and that for her like an old woman? ... Later, Zhong Liqing also reflected on herself on the road, probably because this girl looks so good, and she has the spirit of saving people to the end and sending Buddha to the West.

Although she didn't know if she would have the chance to meet again in the future, Zhong Liqing still gave her a copy of the "Dan Jing" and named the above rare and difficult panacea, asking for the reward when they meet next time.

After all, I have spent a lot of effort to save her, and I haven't waited to take back the favor. If something goes wrong with this girl, or if someone cuts her off, she will die of depression. But there was no way to fulfill it.

Thinking of it this way, Zhong Liqing felt relieved, and stopped thinking about Xi Yuyan's matter, and instead considered the key to the starting point.

——After all, she ruthlessly eliminated a concubine of Danyang County King, even if she was ignored, she would never just let him die outside without knowing why.

Cao Qian also said that within five days at the most, people from the Prince's Mansion of Danyang County will check here. If she doesn't leave, I'm afraid she won't be able to leave even if she wants to leave after Yuandu is blocked.

After accepting the jade slip that Xi Yuyan had engraved the alchemy method and the hundreds of spirit stones that she forced to fortify, Zhong Liqing took Ying Xi and left the small courtyard, heading towards the place where riding beasts were sold.

She originally intended to take Ying Xi directly to leave Yuandu with the Yukong Talisman, but then changed her mind and decided to buy a riding beast as a means of transportation.

Although the Yukong Talisman is convenient and fast, it is used in this Yuandu under the watchful eyes of the public, and it will attract people's attention. It is not beautiful to be discovered by those who are interested in the direction they left: and she was in a hurry and never Wait patiently for an extra day, and use it at night; and the Yukong Talisman is scarce, and Zhong Lixun only left a dozen or so, so she doesn't want to use it unless it is absolutely necessary—if she really wants to refine it, she still needs to search for it. Several rare materials are out of date at this time.

Switching to riding a beast, although it seems that it will consume more time, but riding a beast is safe and affordable, and this yuan has to deal with hundreds of beasts every day, either running a business or traveling , Three teachings and nine streams, countless, but will not be noticed.

With this in mind, Zhong Liqing took Ying Xi to a beast riding firm in the south of Yuandu City.

While Ying Xi, who was specially dressed by her as an ordinary girl, was curiously looking at the super-brilliant hybrid beast in the animal pen, Zhong Liqing weighed the spirit coins in her hand, and after repeated selection, she finally chose a fat and strong beast. horned bull.

This kind of riding beast looks honest and has a docile temperament. It is known for its hard work and hard work. It is mostly used by business travelers as a means of transportation. If it runs at full speed, its speed is no less than that of a BMW of good blood, but it is relatively low among monsters. It exists, even the monster blood in the bloodline is so scarce that it can be ignored, if not for the small extra horn on the forehead, I am afraid that it is no different from ordinary farm cattle.

Arguing with the seller for a few words, he quickly bought the elderly horned bull at the price of [-] spirit coins. Zhong Liqing knew that the horned bull was too old and its figure was slightly out of shape. , the price is no more than twenty spirit coins, this unscrupulous seller thinks he has slaughtered a fat sheep, and is complacent, but he doesn't know that this half-year-old boy who seems to have been taken advantage of is casually throwing the spirit at him during the transaction. Sprinkle a lot of croton powder on the coins and the fodder for the riding beast—it won't take long for his riding beast to vomit and diarrhea.

After letting Ying Xi sit in the carriage pulled by the horned bull, Zhong Liqing lightly jumped onto the crossbar in front of the carriage, flicked the reins, and urged the horned bull to trot all the way.

Along with the people coming and going who also drove all kinds of chariots and horses and beasts, they left the city unhurriedly.

When they were about ten feet away from the city gate, they saw a group of tall black wolf and silver armored knights rushing towards the gate of Yuandu.

Those black wolves were as tall as a person, although they didn't hurt anyone under the control of those silver armored knights, but there was a sense of bloodthirsty and savagery in their glowing green eyes, which made people seep in their bones. with the chill.

It seems that this is Hei Langqi, the mansion soldier of Danyang County Prince's Mansion.

The monsters driven by each of these black wolf knights are blue-eyed black-backed wolves in the Qi refining stage, and each black wolf knight is a monk in the foundation stage, and the captain is a real person in the golden core stage. , I am afraid that the news of Luo Mengjie's death has already reached the county palace.

Zhong Liqing withdrew her gaze without changing her expression, and shook the reins again, urging the horned bull to speed up its pace, and galloped on the road leading to another city.

After driving for a while, he stuck a light-weight talisman on the four hooves of the horned bull, and drove the ox cart steadily. go.

"My dear, how can his horned bull run so fast?"

"Tsk, this beast is more deadly than a beast, and you have to throw it away when you compare goods!"

"I might have bought a fake horned bull..."

A few days later, with the horned bull beast driven by Zhong Liqing driving non-stop on the road, he finally got rid of the crisis of being discovered by the pursuers of the Danyang County Prince's Mansion, and the other party would not have guessed that it was a black hand that killed him. The villain of the concubine of the Wangfu was running happily to Xinyuan College in Xindu, the prefecture, intending to linger under the nose of the Wangfu.

As the school of Danyang County, Xinyuan College is only at the bottom of the entire Tianhua Kingdom, but there are still countless monks who want to join it, and among them, the descendants of the Xiuzhen family are the most enthusiastic.

Without him, most of the children of these cultivation families are not so outstanding in talent and aptitude. They are neither qualified to be listed as key training targets by the family, nor can they be trained by a steady stream of natural materials and treasures, nor do they have the great opportunity to be trained by the Quartet. The elders of the traveling sects fancy bringing back the sect, and they have neither the time nor the patience to wait for the day when the gate of the mountain is opened once in a century and the day of the world's general election arrives.

You must know that these cultivators with ordinary qualifications can only cultivate to the late stage of Qi refining with the help of the family or their own efforts at most. Even the foundation-building monks are pitifully few. That's all.

Calculated according to the common lifespan in the cultivation world, although the lifespan of a monk in the Qi refining period is far longer than that of ordinary people who have never practiced body exercises, they will not exceed three hundred years old at most. Entering the door of self-cultivation and becoming a monk who can use the aura of heaven and earth to practice, he has a lifespan of 800 to 1000 years. Those monks who have advanced cultivation or have taken life-prolonging elixir can even live for [-] years. time.

And in this long period of thousands of years, as long as these monks in the foundation building period can meet great opportunities, or have a chance to realize a little power of law, and successfully form a golden core, then they will have another 1000 years of life, and extremely Among the hundreds of millions of monks in the world, only a few monks with great fortune can become Nascent Soul monks.

Ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators can live to be three thousand years old casually, and as for the realm after that, they have almost realized the prestige of long live that mortals call.

It can be seen that the saying that cultivation has no time is not groundless and groundless.

And the goal of Zhong Liqing, who has just joined the ranks of Qi refining monks, is Shenyuan College, one of the five great colleges of Tianhua Kingdom.

Tianhua Kingdom has a total of ten counties and hundreds of capitals, tens of billions of people, and more than one million monks, big and small. However, only the top five counties are qualified to establish academies. In the eyes of the monks in Yuandu, they are far away. And Xinyuan College is just the bottom of the five colleges.

Danyang County is located in the eastern part of Tianhua Kingdom. With its rich natural minerals and easy-to-defend terrain, it could have become the third largest county in the world. The ranking of the entire Danyang County also dropped to fifth.

Despite this, the young people in Danyang County are still proud to join the academy, and the students of Xinyuan Academy are still the envy and admiration of the entire county.

Zhong Liqing also inquired on the road before, why the Xinyuan Academy is at the bottom, a large part of it is that the dean of the academy is only a powerful person in the early stage of the Nascent Soul, while the deans of other colleges are all in the middle or late stage of the Nascent Soul , even decades ago, the strongest dean among them had touched the threshold of the late Yuanying stage.

The later stage of this practice, the more difficult it is to advance. For Nascent Soul monks, it often takes hundreds or even hundreds of years to improve a small realm. After success, they are complacent, but they are stuck in the small realm from the early Yuanying to the late Yuanying. One card is a thousand years.

Therefore, for monks, the right time, place and people are indispensable, as well as understanding and hard work. Even so, it is extremely difficult to improve every small realm, let alone the promotion of a large realm.

It took nearly 300 years to find out why the dean of Xinyuan Academy was inferior to others, and he was still stuck in the early stage of Yuanying. I am afraid that a large part of the reason was that he was eager for success when he was in the golden elixir. A large number of natural materials and earth treasures were used to resist the thunder calamity, and the Yingying Pill was taken to increase the probability of success.

Although this Yingying Pill can increase the chance of conceiving a baby, and the most effective pill can even increase it to [-]%, but everything has advantages and disadvantages. The monks who take the Yingying Pill will lag behind the monks of the same level in the subsequent cultivation and entry , if the state of mind and comprehension has not kept up, it is almost hopeless to advance.

This is also a conjecture that has only been discovered and confirmed in the past hundred years-relying on the accumulation of drugs is not the right path after all, the way of cultivation still needs to be down-to-earth to gain and achieve.

Apart from Xinyuan College, the other four colleges are Weihu College in Yidu, Zhengyang County in the north, Tiangang College in Yongdu, Chunyang County in the west, Lingxi College in Rendu, Hengyang County in the south, and Zhongzhou District of Tianhua Kingdom. Mingfang Academy, which belongs to Wangzhidu, Qiyang County.

It is still more than a year before the internal selection of the five colleges to recommend talents to the sect, but Zhong Liqing's target Xinyuan College has less than half a month to recruit students.

So these days, she spent all her time on the road, ignoring Ying Xi's resentful eyes, and sped up the process of driving again, and finally arrived at Xindu, the prefecture of Danyang County, the day before the college began to enroll candidates. .

There are not a few candidates who are as ambitious as her in the college. Apart from the locals of Xindu, most of them are from the outer cities of Danyang County; but there are not many people like Zhong Liqing who are rushing to the last day. So I came to snatch the residence, inquire about the news, and prepare for the exam.

After taking Ying Xi to the third overcrowded inn, Zhong Liqing shook her head and smiled wryly: This reminded her of a certain exam that attracted the attention of the whole country when she was still a Shuilan star. Housing is hard to find and crowds are crowded.

Zhong Liqing, whose memories were brought back, looked at Ying Xi, who was following closely by her side, and sighed in her heart: Compared with the time when she was referring alone, this time is different after all—it wasn't that she went to the exam alone, It's not bad to have someone to accompany you.

However, it is not a long-term solution to take this girl with her. She has her own affairs, and they will always be separated.

No one can accompany her to the end, this point, she has already understood.

……nobody.

The author has something to say: the next chapter will continue to flirt with the new sister hehehe (mud