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It was dawn when Ming Xia woke up.

In early spring, the snow has not disappeared and the chill is severe.However, in the leeward place, in the bushes under the trees, fresh light green has appeared in the gaps between the stones.

Ming Xia got up from the sleeping bag in a daze, and as soon as he unzipped the zipper, a gust of cold wind rushed in, instantly waking him up.

Not right.

Ming Xia suddenly realized that he passed out last night, didn't he? !

What about Qingqiu?

Qingqiu is cooking roast chicken.

It puts a layer of seasoning on the cleaned pheasant and wraps it in dried leaves.Then dig a hole and bury it, and then bring a bunch of dry branches, and start a fire.

When Ming Xia got out of the tent, it had just run back from the pool, with Ming Xia's water bottle strap dangling from its mouth.The aluminum outdoor jug ​​has been filled with fresh spring water, and it stumbles and drags behind me, dragging it all the way back.

Ming Xia, "..."

Ming Xia didn't know whether to feel sorry for his outdoor water bottle bought several hundred dollars, or this little fox stumbling back with a water bottle bigger than its body in its mouth.

Seeing him, Qingqiu dropped the water bottle and ran back quickly, hugging his legs and running up to his shoulders, "Mingxia, are you awake?"

Ming Xia touched it, "I fainted? Where's the big witch?"

"He's gone." Qingqiu was fighting fiercely in his heart, it thought that some things had to be kept from Ming Xia, but if everything was kept from him...

Ming Xia felt a little melancholy.At such a critical moment, why did the big witch knock him out.He also has a heart of gossip, and he really wants to know what kind of person Wu Luo is.

Qingqiu lay on his shoulders, scratching his collar with two paws.

"If you dig it again, it will rot." Ming Xia felt helpless, and reached out to touch it, "What's the matter? What's on your mind? Or what did the great witch say? Does he not know your senior brother's whereabouts?"

Qingqiu was so entangled, "I saw my brother."

Ming Xia, "..."

Such an important thing happened while he was in a coma? !

He brought the little fox to his eyes and looked at it, "Qingtan has been here?"

"He's always been there." Qingqiu waved his paw pitifully, "Do you still remember the red bead that the fox left you when you were young? That's Qingtan."

Ming Xia was dumbfounded.

"He was injured, and the main body was taken into the wood life world by the great witch. The one in the demon core is only the spirit body."

Ming Xia thought of the water lily and the beautiful pine in the Xishan Great Formation.To be honest, he really doesn't know the difference between the monster's body and the spirit body, because from his experience, just the spirit body is also very powerful.

It's like meeting water slugs in the old city back then. If it wasn't for their early age, the spirit body of water slugs alone was enough to kill them several times.Also, after entering the Xishan formation, the body of the beauty pine was sealed on the pine cliff, but the spirit body of the beauty pine was also very powerful.

And Zhu Huai...

"The main body doesn't seem to be that important."

Qingqiu nodded unexpectedly, "In the words of Nanjiang and the others, the spirit body is actually the energy collected from the demon core. It's like... like..."

Qingqiu searched in its little head, and finally found the original words of Nanjiang at that time, "The human body is composed of cells..."

What is a cell?Ming Xia seems to have said...

Boom, I forgot again.

Ming Xia could tell what it was thinking just by looking at its expression, and touched its small head, dumbfounded, "What did he say?"

Qingqiu acted as a recorder with a bitter face, "The human body is made up of cells, and the body of an animal is the same. The spirit body is still the monster himself, but every cell is replaced by energy components."

Ming Xia understood a little bit, "It's like the one written in the novel about cultivating immortals. It attracts the spiritual energy from the heaven and the earth, washes away the impurities in the body, and at the end of the cultivation, the body of the cultivator is full of spiritual energy."

Qingqiu half-understood, "It seems to be the case... right?"

"In the body of an ordinary person, the smallest unit is a cell, and the smallest unit in the body of a person who has become a fairy is an energy group. Is this what you mean?" The more Ming Xia thought about it, the more enviable the race of monsters was. If you can do the same thing, wouldn't you be on the road to cultivating immortality?

With great difficulty, Qingqiu dragged the topic back to the category it could understand, "Yes! Energy clusters! The body composed of energy clusters is what we often call spirit bodies."

Ming Xia consciously understood the relationship between the spirit body and the main body of the Yaozu according to the "Layer Theory" that Nan Jiang said.The first layer is the body of the fox, and then practice to attract the energy from the world, and the energy is superimposed on the body of the fox to form the second layer, which is the spirit body of the demon clan.

Ming Xia thought, maybe that's what it means?

"A monster who has cultivated to a certain level can refine the body and let it replenish the aura in the body. But most monsters will not do this."

"why?"

Qingqiu shook his fur tail hesitantly, "My senior brother said that the body is the monster's escape route. If you encounter a strong opponent, the demon core that carries the energy may be broken. Once the demon core is broken, the energy will be scattered. , the monster will die."

Ming Xia was taken aback again, Yaodan is so important? !

What does it mean that Qingtan left his demon pill?

"But if you keep the body, even if there is only a ray of remnant soul, a fragment of the demon pill, the monster can possess the body back to the body. It's better to be an animal again than to die, right? Maybe it can be repaired by chance in the future Yaodan, start the road of cultivation again."

As Qingqiu spoke, he felt a little proud again, "Qingtan's body was injured, and the demon core was also shattered. But his body was well taken care of, and the body and spirit body echoed each other, and the body recovered. Well done, it will also be of great help to the spirit body.”

Ming Xia reached out and rubbed his stomach, "Do you know where Qing Tan is hiding?"

Qingqiu shook his head regretfully.

"Yes...I'm sorry..." Qingqiu buried his head in Ming Xia's arms and apologized softly, "Brother, he did this without saying anything beforehand, he made his own decision..."

Ming Xia sighed.He thought he was only three years old at that time, what could a big monster discuss with him?

Come, give you a candy, let me rest in your belly?

With his IQ at the time, he would probably choose to eat candy cheerfully, right?

"There's nothing to apologize for." Ming Xia stroked it, "Besides, it has nothing to do with you."

Qingqiu learned what the great witch said that Qingtan and Jiuxiao can check and balance each other.He sneakily looked at Ming Xia's face again and again, and spoke softly for Qing Tan again and again, "Brother said he owed you a favor, and he will pay it back in the future."

Ming Xia didn't feel Qingtan's existence at all, so he didn't care much about favors, but knowing that Qingtan's existence had a suppressive effect on Jiuxiao was really a surprise.

He felt that he was just a child cast by the storage box. In his belly, besides Qingtan's demon pill, there was also Jiuxiao's... remnant soul?But if Jiuxiao's remnant soul is also an energy body, what is it attached to?

Or the so-called protective shield is also a part of Jiuxiao's demon pill?

For some unknown reason, the explanation about Jiuxiao's protective shield became more and more blurred in Ming Xia's memory.It seems that the information is time-limited.

But through Qingqiu's explanation, Ming Xia vaguely understands that Jiuxiao's situation should be similar to Qingtan's. After being seriously injured, he hid his body and recuperated secretly, while his spirit body followed the shattered demon body. Dan possesses different people...

Ming Xia was stunned, and suddenly thought of another possibility: Could it be that in another place, on someone he didn't know, there was also a piece of Jiuxiao's broken demon core hidden?

He was chosen by the blood, so what about the other one or several people?And why was it chosen?

What will happen to these chosen puppets?

Will Jiu Xiao choose the most satisfying one?Or will he remotely control each fragment to drain the energy of the host, and then rejoin his body?

The more Ming Xia thought about it, the more frightened she became, and her hair stood on end for a while.

Qingqiu used his claws to pull and pull Ming Xia's arm, "Ming Xia, the great witch said that there are people following us along the way. However, it seems that they have no ill intentions towards us. Besides, with the great witch here, they cannot enter Wufeng Ridge."

Ming Xia's thoughts were pulled back, he thought for a while, "Those guys from the old town?"

Qingqiu didn't know.However, even if these people followed, they didn't bring them any real trouble, and Qingqiu Mountain had an enchantment, and Wu Fengling couldn't get in, and they couldn't touch the key things, so it didn't care.

It's thinking about other things.

Ming Xia is not a particularly shrewd person, but he gets along with Qingqiu day and night, and he knows its character very well. Seeing its slightly guilty eyes, he can guess that there are some secrets between the brothers and sisters that cannot be told to outsiders.

Ming Xia can understand.No matter how close he is to Qingqiu and how much he likes it, can he tell it all the bank card passwords at home?

Everyone needs privacy, it has nothing to do with affection and trust.

Ming Xia touched Qingqiu, "No matter what he said, just remember it. Don't tell outsiders."

Qingqiu nodded embarrassedly.

Ming Xia said again: "Qingtan's Yaodan is in my body, so I can't talk about it. I can't talk about it when I go back to the 'sixth group'. Only the two of us know."

The "Sixth Group" is a disciplined force, but who can guarantee that everyone who enters and exits here is loyal and reliable?No matter people or monsters, they all have their own selfishness and standpoint.

There are so many people looking for Qingtan now, there must be something very important about him.Or it also affects the interests of many people or demons.

Ming Xia doesn't want to get into trouble.

Qingqiu nodded obediently, "Only the two of us know, no one will tell." He paused and said emphatically, "No one will tell, and neither can Nanjiang."

Ming Xia was amused by its serious expression, "Don't say it."

If Nanjiang knew about it, he probably wouldn't hide it from Mr. Hu, and Mr. Hu would most likely report it.Who knows if the news will leak out during the reporting process?

Unless the situation is urgent, or there is something important related to Qingtan, Ming Xia does not plan to disclose this news to anyone for the time being.

The goal of one person, one fox has been achieved, and there is no need to continue to stay.They packed their luggage, dug out the pheasant that Qingqiu had painstakingly roasted, and after a hearty meal, they set off for Yaozhou.

Along the way, they made up all the things they should say when they got home, saying that they entered Qingqiu Mountain, but they didn't find Qingtan.Then he took a detour to Qinling to look for Ming Xia's adoptive father, and found nothing special.

Although Wu Luo didn't ask him to keep a secret, when Ming Xia thought that he was a wizard that even monster races were afraid of, he felt that he couldn't be too cautious with such a person.

On the way home, Ming Xia fell into another trouble, and was full of worries along the way.

He has something on his mind, Qingqiu can naturally feel it too.But Ming Xia doesn’t say anything, and it begins to suspect that he’s upset that Wu Luo knocked him out.

Qingqiu thought, it's obvious that everyone doesn't trust Ming Xia, no wonder he's happy.Also, who would like to have other monsters living in their bodies.And it's an uninvited monster.

Thinking of this, the little fox also became deeply depressed.