who knows

A Niang told her about some strange beasts and spirits before, but the detailed introduction of this scale is still from the "Story and Monsters" left by her. Comparing the appearance of the scaly surface, it can be seen that the author's painting skills are also very superb, so vivid that Zhong Liqing can recognize it at a glance.

This "Zhiguai Jing" is a handwritten copy. I don't know where A Niang got it from. The inner layer of the title page is only marked with "Cen Yi" in ancient seal characters, which A Niang told her, which seems to be the author's name. It is also like writing the name of the giver casually, but the font is very handsome, which is different from the strict and strict in the catalog, as if it was written by a woman, which arouses infinite reverie.

Therefore, in the hands of Zhong Liqing, this book is more cherished than others, and the monsters recorded in it are even more impressive.

She cut open the scales, and there was indeed an inner cavity in her abdomen. With a backhand stroke, she immediately took a jade bottle with her free hand, picked up all the black liquid dripping from the inner cavity, and then took the knife The blade turned over, and quickly scraped off the scales covered with scales, and put them all on a clean towel.

Just about to carefully wrap the towel and put it in the jade box for storage, a gentle and delicate female voice suddenly said: "Your Excellency, take this scale, can you even it out for me?"

"Well, you want to use this entry pill? Breaking barrier pill?" Zhong Liqing raised her eyes and glanced at her, then pulled out another silk scarf, poured out half of the pile of scales, wrapped it up and handed it to the other party. She was surprised When he nodded, he kindly reminded, "This scale is fed with human corpses, and there is a layer of corpse gas attached to the scales. Remember to get rid of this corpse gas before entering the alchemy."

Zhong Liqing just reminded me casually out of morality, since this girl who is carrying a strange fire is probably an alchemist, and she knows the scales, and intends to use these scales to enter the alchemy, she should be a cautious person. This reminder of hers was presumptuous - after all, in the eyes of some arrogant alchemists, this reminder might be regarded as a provocation.

"So that's it, thank you for reminding me," the girl was gentle, she just smiled when she heard the words, then took the handkerchief Zhong Liqing handed over with both hands, and asked lightly, "I would like to offer three hundred spirit coins in exchange for these scales , I wonder what you think?"

Zhong Liqing paused with her fingers, and withdrew her hand after the other party took the handkerchief, and shook her head: "No need, you cleaned up that blind spot for me, this is my reward."

"Your Excellency, you misunderstood." The girl frowned, and without putting away the scarf, she looked at Zhong Liqing stubbornly, "Before you promised me twenty spirit coins and ten silver-level talismans, that's the reward for your blindness." , Now if I want to get the scales in your hand, that is another deal, and it should not be confused."

"...Okay, then twenty spirit coins." Seeing her insistence, Zhong Liqing sneered in her heart, but she didn't want to entangle her anymore, and said with a cold face, "That's the decision——I don't like taking advantage of women. .”

She has always been domineering, and she can't tolerate rejection from others. Those eyes that are still shining under the disguise are looking at each other steadily, making it difficult for others to say the slightest disagreement.

"Then I would like to thank you for your kindness." The girl was stunned for a moment, and she didn't know whether it was because of the masculine declaration or because of those amazingly beautiful eyes. In short, this handsome young man He was the first man who made her unable to say no, "It's late at night, please leave."

"Oh, by the way, my name is Qin Zhong, what's your name?" Before leaving Yuandu, she thought that the matter of coming to Zhongli's mansion hadn't completely quieted down, so she still made up a pseudonym—— It doesn't have to be like this, it's just that she suddenly became a little curious about this charming girl, and she had a hunch that the intersection between them was definitely more than that, "Neighbor?"

"My name is Xi Yuyan... my neighbor." The girl smiled at her, she didn't move up and down like when the Tathagata came, but opened the door leisurely, and retreated from the main entrance, as if she came to be a guest and left casually old friend.

——Xi Yuyan.

Zhong Liqing smiled, watched her go back to the opposite door, and then closed the courtyard door.

The appearance is as elegant as a fairy, but the name is menacing... She is an interesting girl.

Well, she seems to have forgotten the ten talismans that she said earlier.

Very good, let's just pretend nothing happened, ten silver talismans are worth hundreds of spirit coins.

After Xi Yuyan left, Zhong Liqing quickly tidied up the messy courtyard, burned the remaining scaly corpses to ashes, and burned up all the koi in the pond, and attracted them again. The clean well water in the backyard was poured into the pool, and watered the old banyan tree that lost its spirit, and then returned to the house.

There is something weird about this yard, she noticed it when she went to see the house with that man today. Although the spirits in this backyard are not too difficult to deal with, they are only for ordinary monks. Ordinary people, I'm afraid they will become the souls of this monster's mouth.

And even if this person is not the breeder of this spirit monster, he still cannot get rid of the relationship. I am afraid that he is using this spirit monster to take people's lives and collect those ill-gotten gains. If not, the water monster and the stone ghost will not be caged A layer of undissipated blood energy obviously had ingested fresh flesh and blood, and the time never exceeded three days.

It would be a joke to say that this person is half ignorant.

It's just that I didn't expect that this guy was so bold that he committed crimes repeatedly. Taking advantage of the middleman, he only stared at those foreigners who didn't know and had no backing. He was murdered by him.

Thinking about it this way, the waiter who recommended him can't get rid of the suspicion. Whether it's working for a tiger or working in collusion, in short, he has no good intentions.

But he was wrong this time, not to mention Zhong Liqing, who is vigilant and well-informed, that Xi Yuyan is the hard stubble who suppressed the foundation-building stage cultivation base in the Qi-refining stage. She is not inferior at all, even if she does not intervene, the middleman who thinks about it will never be able to please.

It is necessary to find his bad luck, but the premise is to raise one's own cultivation base first, otherwise, a trash with innate cultivation base will not be able to seek justice for himself no matter what.

Zhong Liqing sneered, and with her fingertips, she shot four breath-shielding talismans and pasted them in the four places of the room, forming a basic barrier, and then pasted nine talismans in the room to form a miniature spirit-gathering Formation, sit cross-legged, palms up, sink your heart and start practicing.

Back then, A Niang took her to escape to the lower realms, evading all the way, and she did not hesitate to waste most of her cultivation to cross the barrier of immortality, so when Zhong Liqing was born, A Niang only had the cultivation of the Transcendence Tribulation Stage. Compared to most of the cultivators in this group, they are already considered extremely powerful, but to those who pursue and kill them at all costs, they are like ants that can be easily crushed to death.

The newly born Zhong Liqing was naturally like all the newborns of her clan, she was born with the cultivation base of the Nascent Soul stage, but she made too much noise, and in an instant, all the auras of the ten miles and eight villages were sucked out - just imagine, in the East Lin, a barren land where qi refining monks can be kings and hegemony, isn't the Nascent Soul monk an existence like a god?

In order to prevent Zhong Liqing from unconsciously absorbing the surrounding aura and depriving other creatures of their vitality, and also to prevent those all-pervasive spies from tracking down their whereabouts, A Niang reluctantly used a heaven-defying secret method, insisting on her cultivation. Suppressing her into an ordinary mortal not only sealed her physique, but also dispersed her abundant aura since birth, filling every acupoint and sheath of her body—this is far better than directly abolishing her cultivation. In order to consume more mind and mind-and thus cause A Niang's body to suffer backlash, and her cultivation base will be greatly reduced.

Afterwards, she was attacked by her own clan again, which damaged her Dao foundation, and finally lost to those chasing soldiers, so she had to let Zhong Lixun take her away first, and she died with those people...

Although the method of breaking up the aura and sealing the physique consumes the mind of the caster and is very easy to backfire, it is more beneficial than harmful to the caster. Although the same level of cultivation takes more time and energy to complete, it is better than the same level of cultivation. Levels require several times more spiritual energy, and it is not difficult to challenge the level, but in the long run, it is a great benefit.

It's just that for Zhong Liqing, the price of this benefit is too heavy, so she can't escape the shackles full of memories. She misses A Niang and hates this world and her incompetent self until Zhong Lixun is also killed. , Zhong Li's family thought about her again, and she regained her senses and cheered up.

How about being down and out?So what about self-pity?Can Aniang come back?

It's just her self-deceiving escape.

Apart from revenge, she can't find a reason to live.

Thoughts for a moment, but quickly suppressed, get rid of all distracting thoughts.

She relaxed her mind, feeling the spiritual energy from the spirit-gathering array continuously pouring into this square inch that blocked the outside world from seeing. As time passed, the spiritual energy became more and more intense, and even condensed into strands of milky white. The mist slowly infiltrated with the relaxation of the myelin sheath in the acupuncture points of her whole body, washing away the impurities in her body.

This process was long and painful, as if a crochet needle was digging a spoon against the bone and blood, and the sharp pain penetrated into the bone marrow again and again, but Zhong Liqing endured it without changing his face, without showing the slightest difference, only a layer of cold sweat broke out slightly on his forehead , the lip color is also a little light.

What is this bit of physical pain compared to the pain in my heart that I experienced that day?

The moon is in the middle of the sky, the east is faint, and the moment when day and night alternate, is also the time when the spiritual energy is the most intense, but seeing the spiritual energy circulate crazily to form a cyclone, enveloping the old monk Zhong Liqing who is in meditation.

Not long after, the nine talismans that formed the formation were shattered into powder at the same time, and the spiritual energy in the room was also swept away, like a strong wind swept away, leaving nothing behind.

After a while, Zhong Liqing opened his eyes, and a flash of light flashed across those obsidian-black eyes, which was fleeting.

With palms together, the wind is coming!Momentum!

cause entry.

Refining Qi - done.

Feeling the aura flowing in her body that is more than several times richer than when she was born, and her heart is as calm as Zhong Liqing, she can't help being moved: this means that she is one step closer to her goal.

She raised her palms and clenched them into fists. She slowly evoked a smile, but the smile suddenly stiffened when she lowered her head to look at herself—almost forgot that the body would expel a lot of impurities after entering the body. Who is that person who is covered in black and yellow slime!

Suppressing the nausea, he didn't have time to go to the backyard to fetch water and start a fire, so he filled the tub with a water flushing talisman, heated the water with a fire talisman, checked the defensive and concealed talisman array, and quickly took off his clothes. Jumped into the tub and had a good time.

It took a full three times of changing the water to wash away all the mess and dross. It can be seen that the transformation of her body caused by this time is completely reborn.

The heat in the water had evaporated completely, and it had cooled down, but Zhong Liqing had no intention of leaving. She lowered her head to look at the reflection on the water surface, her eyes were a little downcast, she raised her hand suddenly, and waved off the disguise on her face, revealing the original elegant and exquisite face. face.

How beautiful that face is, how cold those eyes are.

She remembered that when she was still young, A Niang always hugged her and sat in the yard basking in the sun.

At that time, A Niang's backlash was already very serious, the muscles and bones of her whole body seemed to be torn apart inch by inch, she was in pain all the time, and if she wanted to move, it would be several times more painful.But even so, A Niang remained silent, making it hard to see that she was enduring unimaginable pain, and she still held her with a gentle smile: "My A-nan is really a beauty, and I don't know how much she will be when she grows up." Looks good—it’s up to your mother.”

As he spoke, he nodded in earnest.

Zhong Liqing couldn't help being held in her arms, so she rolled her eyes and said disgustedly: "Bah, it's so stinking."

"Oh, I'm telling the truth," she didn't care about being complained by her daughter, her watery eyes turned into crescent moons, she turned over the little man in her arms, put her forehead against her forehead, and pressed the tip of her nose against the tip of her nose After a while, looking at the little face that was blushing because of this intimacy, she couldn't help laughing even more, and joked, "Could it be that Ah Niang thinks Ah Niang is ugly?"

Forced to stare at the other party for a while, Zhong Liqing turned her face away awkwardly, and said reluctantly: "...It's not ugly."

——Not only is she not ugly, but a woman who can make Zhong Lixun die at the first sight is also a woman who is so beautiful and beautiful.

But ah, this beauty has never brought her luck, only endless troubles.

If it weren't for the fact that the three-point similarity with A Niang was a thought she left for herself, perhaps Zhong Liqing would not be able to bear the knife on this face of hers, instead of choosing to spend a lot of time maintaining it. The disguise that was dismantled.

Under the steaming of the hot water, the delicate but ordinary face underwent slight changes, and the dull complexion returned to its original fairness, like an egg with a cracked shell, slowly revealing the delicate and flawless protein inside.

Breaking out of a cocoon and becoming a butterfly?

No, it should be back to basics.

This crappy way of blinding one's eyes can be seen through as long as one has a cultivation level above qi refining; she believes that the reason why Xi Yuyan has not discovered her true face is not because of the other party's personality, and her demeanor will not take the initiative to use her cultivation level to spy on others. The other party had already seen through her disguise.

And no matter what it was, Zhong Liqing never cared - it was just because this person was Xi Yuyan.

If it is replaced by other people with ulterior motives, it will not be so simple.

If you want to keep your disguise from being discovered, there are two easiest ways. One is to cultivate far higher than others, so that people cannot see the illusions performed; the other is to have special treasures and skills that can conceal .

In a short period of time, Zhong Liqing's cultivation could not support her to change her face and completely deceive all cultivators in the world. As for the second method... How can this world's rare treasure be so good?

As for self-cultivation skills, they are even more illusory things, all of which are monopolized by some big clans or sects of self-cultivation, and they are rare.

However, it took no effort. She searched for a long time among the many ancient books and letters left by Zhong Lixun, and finally found a scattered prescription.

The paper pages are yellowed, with uneven marks on the edges. It seems that they were hastily torn from the bound book. There are only a few words on it, which records a silver-grade pill called Yi Rong Pill, which is built. The elixir could only be refined by monks in the basic period, but the effect was so good that even ordinary Mahayanas couldn't see the clues. It was what Zhong Liqing, who had just got rid of her status, needed most.

Those killers who crossed borders to chase her and A Niang were all suppressed below the Mahayana period, and even if they ordered the local minions, in this barren small border and barren country, Nascent Soul cultivators could almost be regarded as High-end combat power.

She is confident that with her acting skills and Yi Rongdan, she will never show her flaws.

When that time comes, she will not stand still, she is still a rookie who has just refined Qi.

She was destined to step on the bones of these people and climb up to the top one... She never doubted this.

The materials that Yi Rong Dan needs are not complicated, she also collected about them in the pharmacy along the way, only one of the firefly fruits is priceless and can't be found anywhere.

In the teahouse, she heard the waiter mentioning the Imperial Treasure Firm intentionally or unintentionally, and the auction that was about to be held in Yuandu, so she couldn't help but be moved.

This Royal Treasure Firm claims to "receive customers from all over the world and keep all treasures from all over the world", although its tone is arrogant, and there is a bit of inexplicable frivolity, but the unanimous evaluation of "there is no treasure that cannot be received, only one that cannot be afforded." The price" still made Zhong Liqing decide to go to the auction to have a look.

Even if you can't take pictures of what you want, it's good to keep your eyes open, and by the way, get rid of some unnecessary talismans left by Zhong Lixun.

These things have been tossed and turned many times in the end, and they will definitely flow into the hands of those who are interested, and they will be able to find her traces by following the vines... That's right, she deliberately let those chasing and killing people cut off her tracks, but she got some clues from time to time. As for giving up.

She just wants to put herself in crisis all the time, which can be regarded as an incentive.

More importantly, she wants to keep these minions and find the black hands behind the scenes.

This is a risky move. If she wins, her strength will increase and she will be able to dig out more information about the enemy. If she loses, she will just lose her life.

What is there to fear?

The author has something to say: I am going to be on duty at the company today, and I don’t get off work until [-] o’clock. I am unhappy and don’t want to code...Of course what you see is the caring man who saved the manuscript~~

I have an appointment with my best friend to go to the movies after get off work, so don’t miss me, just sauce, okay~~