Cultivation is worse than brushing goodwill

Upper Zongzhong.

Shen Yu stared coldly at the picture displayed in the water mirror in front of him. Although he didn't go to the scene of the outer gate competition, he had been paying attention to Shen Shao's situation. After learning the news that Shen Shao and Xiahou Hui were going out together, he immediately I was ecstatic.

"Originally, I was worried that it would be difficult to find a chance to strike in the inner sect, but I didn't expect that this time the opportunity would come directly to my door. He really deserves to be my good nephew." Shen Yu suddenly smashed the porcelain cup in his hand, and said coldly Said: "Since you have left, don't try to come back again."

Although the matter of Shen Jue's entry into the Linghua Sect was settled, he still wanted to cut off the source of all threats.

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After dealing with the matter of the sect, Shen Shao and Xiahou Hui went down the mountain together.The purpose is to go to an aristocratic cultivation family to retrieve something that Daoist Taiheng lent them in the past. This is also Shen Shao's final test for apprenticeship.

Shen Shao was quite relieved that Shen Yuan would stay in the inner sect, at least he was much more at ease than when he was in the outer sect, at least the inner sect had never seen anyone who dared to behave like Tian Qing.

Walking with Xiahouhui in the sect, no one who came and went was surprised when they saw Xiahouhui's face. Even the guards guarding the gate of the sect forgot to speak when they looked at his face, and it took a long time before they realized it. In the end what happened.Only Shen Shao didn't feel too much pressure standing beside him, because he had been baptized by all kinds of eyes in the past, and Shen Shao had already fully cultivated the skill of ignoring other people's eyes.

It's just that after the two left the sect, many people mistakenly thought that the meeting with Xiahou Hui just now was just a dream, and they lost their minds for a long time. This incident even became a legend of Fangfangzong later.

This is also the first time Shen Shao went down the mountain after apprenticeship. He was still somewhat curious about the town at the foot of the mountain, and turned his head to look at Xiahou Hui next to him: "Senior brother..."

Xia Houhui looked at the town with disgust: "There is nothing to see." As he said that, he avoided the small town with people and took Shen Shao Yujian away from the barren mountains and mountains. It is said that it was for the sake of purity or something.

Seeing that he was so afraid of the troubles caused by his appearance, Shen Shao thought about it seriously, and then said: "Senior brother, why don't you tolerate it easily." This will solve many problems.

Xia Houhui responded coldly: "Trouble, why don't you let me cut this face right now." He actually took out the knife seriously.

Unexpectedly, it would be such a development, Shen Shao hurriedly stopped him: "...Brother, calm down."

"I'm calm." Xia Houhui seemed to have figured it out, and put the knife away.

Shen Shao: "..." He wanted to take back his previous evaluation of his senior brother's character.

On the way, Xia Houhui has been instructing Shen Shao to work and do things, because thinking that the other party is a senior, Shen Shao has no objection, but sometimes he feels that this senior is really difficult to serve, and he has done so many bad things, and his favorability has not increased at all. , I don't even know who this senior brother is.

Obviously in the suburbs, Xiahou Huiti also has a lot of requests, as if the two are still in the inner sect, the key is that he still has a cleanliness habit, every time Shen Shao touches him accidentally, although he doesn't just throw his hands away Yes, but his eyes were gloomy as if he was about to kill someone on the spot.

But one time he accidentally got a good opinion of his senior brother, and Shen Shao discovered something.Xia Houhui's cultivation was actually not the middle stage of foundation establishment as he originally thought, but the early stage of Jindan.The points obtained by brushing favorability are double that of senior brother Yu Qing's foundation building period.

After knowing this, Shen Shao was really happy for a while, and felt that there was hope for him to accumulate points, but after spending a few days with senior brother Xiahouhui, he stopped again. He had that time to brush Xiahouhui's favor, he might as well Forget the goodwill of ten fellow students in the foundation building period.

Whether he was happy or bored, Shen Shao didn't show it on his face. When he faced Xiahou Hui, he always had a very serious and boring expression, so Xia Houhui didn't realize that Shen Shao wanted to brush him off. The idea of ​​favorability.

But putting aside these things, Xia Houhui is still a competent senior brother. Although he always looks lazy, he will give him a few pointers when Shen Shao is practicing swords on the road, and he will tell Shen Shao some things in practice on weekdays. experience.

In fact, most of the time, Shen Shao felt that this senior brother acted as if he hadn't had much contact with people, and some actions were hard for him to understand.

But the strange thing about cultivators is that Xia Houhui is not particularly unusual among this group of people.

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After a few days of driving, they were finally not far from their destination.

Since they couldn't avoid it, the two had no choice but to enter a bustling town in front of them.

This town belongs to the mortal world, and the pedestrians coming and going are ordinary people. When they saw the two of them, they almost immediately worshiped them as immortals, which made Shen Shao feel a little helpless.

Xia Houhui didn't know if he had seen too much, and he didn't respond too enthusiastically at all. He just collected the tributes from everyone and asked Shen Shao to help him put them away.

Shen Shao complied helplessly, and suddenly he felt something was wrong, and suddenly turned his head to look at Xia Houhui, and sure enough, the other party also looked towards him coolly.

The two of them didn't care about that much, and left the town quickly. After arriving in the wilderness, it didn't take long for a few people to come from the direction of the town. It seemed that they had been following them since just now. over here.

The lives of these few people are very ordinary, and they can't see anything unusual among a bunch of mortals just pretending to be, but the trace of murderous intent still leaked their existence.

"It seems that you have noticed. It's good to come out, at least you don't have to worry about tying your hands and feet in the town and accidentally hurting those mortals. It will damage your practice." The aura of several people soared, and among the four There is also a cultivator at the golden core stage, and the remaining three are also at the foundation stage.

Looking coldly at the people opposite, Shen Shao said, "What are you going to do?"

"Little brother, can't you see it? Of course we are going to kill you." The man in the lead had a scar on his face, and he licked the long sword in his hand with a sneer: "But the two of you are quite tall. It’s all good, if you please us brothers well, maybe you can let you go, hahahahahahaha.”

With Scarface laughing wildly, the three people behind also laughed one after another, and suddenly a cold light brushed past Shen Shao's cheeks, and plunged straight into the middle of the four of them.

It was a long sword with an icy air lingering all over its body, its momentum was astonishing, the laughter stopped abruptly, and the four of them dispersed in embarrassment, only then did they escape the blow.

Scarface was extremely annoyed: "Why don't you just do it without saying anything!"

Xiahou Huiqing said coldly: "There is no need to say anything to deal with you people."

"Hmph." Dao Scarface consciously lost face, and immediately wanted to get back the place, so he rushed over with a big knife in his hand, and his three younger brothers also rushed over, Xia Houhui's face became serious, and he immediately lit up Defensive magic weapon, all kinds of magic weapons lit up with colorful light for a while.

Only Shen Shao stood aside, could it be that he was the only one without any magic weapon?

There are four people on the other side, but there are only two people on this side. One can imagine how one-sided the battle will be. Although Xia Houhui can barely deal with a Jindan stage practitioner and a Foundation Establishment stage practitioner, only one of them is needed It would be a big problem for the practitioners to distract and attack Shen Shao, so he still has to take care of Shen Shao's safety.

Shen Shao also tried his best. Although it was just an extravagant wish, he didn't want to drag others down.It's just that the strength difference between the Golden Core Stage and the Foundation Establishment Stage was too great, and Shen Shao gradually suffered some injuries.

Suddenly, one of the opponents restrained Shen Shao, and the other held a poisoned dagger and was about to take the opportunity to attack Xia Houhui from behind.

Shen Shao was startled, although Senior Brother Xiahou had so many troubles on the road, he did protect himself in the battle just now, and could he just watch Senior Brother Xiahou succeed in being attacked like this?

I don't know where the strength came from, Shen Shao suddenly pushed away the opponent's sword in front of him, and then stabbed the sneak attacker's back with a sword.

This strike really made Shen Shao succeed, the long sword pierced deeply into the opponent's body, the man seemed to have never thought that he was going to sneak attack but was successfully attacked by others, his face was very shocked, but his hands subconsciously moved The dagger was thrown towards Shen Shao.

Shen Shao was dodged all of a sudden, and was directly stabbed in the arm by the dagger. Almost in an instant, his body was trembling, and he felt that everything in front of him was like a double shadow.

Now I'm in trouble... I don't know what Senior Brother Xiahou should do...

With such thoughts in mind, Shen Shao fell into a coma.

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When Shen Shao woke up, he found himself lying in a cave with a fire burning beside him, which made him feel very comfortable.

"Are you awake?" Xia Houhui's cold voice came: "How do you feel?"

His questioning voice was a little awkward, probably because he had never cared so much about others before.

"I'm fine." Shen Shao looked inside his body and found that there was no toxin left in his body. He raised his head and looked at Xia Houhui: "Brother, is this poison?"

Xia Houhui said: "The poison is actually not very powerful. I have already forced it out of your body when you were unconscious." After speaking, he added uncomfortably: "You just need to rest for a while. One day is almost enough."

"En." Shen Shao nodded.

"You just..." Xia Houhui's beautiful face rarely showed a trace of confusion: "Why did you help me? Originally, I was the one who was supposed to be pierced by this dagger."

Shen Shao was also a little surprised that Xia Houhui would say such words, and replied bluntly: "Brother, aren't you also protecting me?"

"But it was told by Master." Xia Houhui said: "Since Master told me, I did it. But what are you doing for it?"

Shen Shao said: "If you do it, you will do it. How could you think so much at that time."

Xia Houhui seemed a little troubled: "Obviously my attitude was so cold all the way, I thought you should also want me to die."

Listening to his natural tone, Shen Shao wondered for a moment whether it was his own thoughts or that of Senior Brother Xiahou. In the end, he still felt that he was a normal person, "Even if Senior Brother, you and I don't get along very well... ...but I can't possibly wish you to die."

"Really." Xia Houhui seemed to understand something, and reached out to touch Shen Shao's forehead: "It's because you are an idiot."

Shen Shao: "Brother..." How did you come to such a conclusion?

"Sleep well, everything will be fine when you wake up." Xia Houhui said softly.

His voice was very pleasant, speaking in such a soft tone, Shen Shao, who was not very energetic, suddenly fell into a deep sleep.

"Have you fallen asleep yet?" Xia Houhui retracted his hand, looked at the forest outside the cave, his eyes suddenly became very cold: "Take a good rest. Brother is going to avenge you now."

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In the forest not far away, those few people were lighting a fire and eating meat just now.

Scar's face was not very good-looking: "Under the circumstances at that time, people could run away. How did you look at it!"

"Brother, how can you blame us for this." "Yes, isn't it you, brother, who has been fighting with him before?" The younger brothers were also very wronged.

"Now the third child was tricked and injured by that little boy." Scarface looked at the third child who was wrapped in gauze, "If those two boys are not caught and killed, it will be hard to understand the hatred in my heart. "

"I'm here." A light voice came from the side, and Xia Houhui had appeared beside the fire at some point, and stood beside them casually. Against the background of the fire, his face looked even brighter than the stars all over the sky. How dazzling.

"You!" "You dare to send it to your door!" Several people looked at Xia Houhui in astonishment, and then picked up their weapons one by one, looking at him with a sneer on a scarred face: "Little white face, I didn't expect you to seek your own death!" , then if I don’t see you off, grandpa, your hard work will be in vain.”

After fighting for only a moment, Scarface showed a horrified expression, looking at Xia Houhui as if looking at a monster: "You, who are you?!"

It's just that I haven't seen him in one afternoon. Xia Houhui, who was on the same level or even weaker than him before, has soared to the point where he can't see through it. What happened in between?Or has he always been hiding his strength in the past? !

The next moment, an inch of cold light flashed by, and Scarface's head was cut off neatly, and his body that was still holding the sword fell to the ground unwillingly, and his terrified terror was reflected in the mirror-smooth sword. head.

"It's your turn." Xia Houhui looked at the remaining three and said softly, "How do you want to die?"

At this moment, in the eyes of the remaining three people, the young man with a refined appearance in front of him didn't look like a banished fairy at all, more like an evil ghost who came to ask for his life from hell.

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Shen Shao was awakened by Xia Houhui.

He woke up in a daze, still a little dazed: "Brother, where did those people who chased and killed us go?" Now that his mind is much clearer, he finally remembered the most important thing.

Xia Houhui said lightly: "Who knows, maybe they all left."