A Niang said to be careful of those fairies!

Monks absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth into their bodies and refine their magic power, which is often mixed with a lot of impurities. Removing the impurities and retaining the essence is the practice, and it is also the principle of the refining of Qi. It first purifies the spiritual energy outside the body, which not only speeds up the practice, but also protects the monk's meridians.

"Brother Lin's skills are much more sophisticated. Those old guys in the outer sect are slightly inferior to you."

"Brother Fatty, you are embarrassing me. I am focused on practicing the Qi Gathering and Dispersing Technique, so it is understandable that I have made rapid progress. Compared with the old seniors, I am far behind in many areas."

After exchanging a few compliments, Lin Xuan turned around and went back to his cave abode. He would leave the outer gate the day after tomorrow. Today and tomorrow he would refine the Qi Gathering Powder for his own use. It would be difficult for him to concentrate on refining pills when he is away from home.

Fat Xi was filled with emotion, having witnessed the growth of a monster with his own eyes. Last year he just felt that the pressure was a little too great, but just now, he clearly smelled several wisps of extremely dangerous aura. He was a genius in the field of fighting and believed in his intuition very much. He thought that Lin Xuan might be stronger than himself.

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As night falls, the boy and girl are bold and reckless, their skin touches each other, and the dragon and the phoenix appear auspicious.

"Brother will leave the sect's mountain the day after tomorrow? Just like we said last year, will you take your sister with you?" The two of them leaned against the wooden edge of the bathtub, and Zhang Miaotong took the initiative to move closer and act like a little bird.

She still remembered what Lin Xuan said last year, that he wanted to see the world outside the sect. It seemed that he had lived in the sect since he was a child, so even if he just wandered around the sect, it would be of great significance.

"Well, I want to witness certain things. I should be able to find what I want in the Mortal Dynasty." Lin Xuan dug out buried memories. Last year, Ling Huaiyin said that there were still some key steps away from becoming his own person. He happened to read the sequel to "The Record of Fengqing Xianhua" and saw the ceremony of getting married.

In fact, the signs of a relationship had already been brewing between me and my sisters, but it was still a mystery.

"Call your biological brother. He was probably the one who introduced you to the outer sect, but you didn't recognize him. I guess he hasn't been home to visit you for many years?" Lin Xuan mentioned Zhang Lai.

Hearing Lin Xuan mention Zhang Lai, Zhang Miaotong frowned. Although she had been indifferent to Zhang Lai, who was also an outer sect member, for nearly a year, she actually had a lot of complaints. There were two deep reasons for this. First, he had not been home to visit for many years, which made his parents worried about him.

Secondly, when she entered the outer gate and courtyard, he came over to see her but did not recognize her. She was deceived!

"Your brother and I will take you back to the family first. I will travel around and then formally visit your home a few days before returning to the sect." Lin Xuan muttered to himself with his hands on the edge of the bucket.

When Zhang Miaotong heard this, she was happy at first, but then her expression became complicated. How would her parents view her brother?

Two days later, Lin Xuan first gave Ling Huaiyin a batch of spirit stones for her to use, and then returned to the Yichangshan Mountain. After waiting for a long time but not seeing his mother, he felt a little disappointed.

"Forget it, maybe mother is preparing for something, so she left the cave. I'll talk to her about it when I come back." They left the cave and finally found Zhang Lai. Lin Xuan still had Zhang Lai's identity token in his hand, which had the ability to communicate.

After hearing Lin Xuan's intention, Fatty Zhang was silent for a while. He actually wanted to go home to see his parents, but then he thought that it had been decades since he went back. He was afraid that his parents would kick him out of the house after he went back.

"Okay, I'll go back with you!" In the end, Zhang Lai was hurt by Zhang Miaotong's cold expression, so he decided to go back and take a look. Decades had passed like water, but he still missed his parents.

Chapter 92: Crossing the River

The monks absorb the essence of heaven and earth, the spiritual energy of the sun and the moon into their bodies to cleanse their precious bodies. Their bodies and orifices are transformed to generate endogenous magic power. They are reborn from mortals, with sharp five senses, able to see a different world.

However, three young cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage passed through the checkpoint and went outside the sect's formation. They were unaware of anything when they lived inside the sect, but once they left the sect, they saw the inverted, hazy, invisible ripples.

Due to limited vision, the young cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage could only vaguely see an invisible large bowl upside down.

"Wow! So the sect's mountain protection formation looks like this, covering an area of ​​hundreds of miles. It must have been set up by a great formation master. I wonder if we have a chance to reach that level?"

The girl exclaimed, her beautiful eyes shining with excitement. Next to her were a tall, fat young man and a handsome boy. The boy had a gleam in his eyes, but he just looked deeply at the sect. He had lived there for more than ten years, and now it was his first time stepping out of the mountain gate. He felt complicated, confused and nervous.

"Let's go to your family first." The young man calmed down and said, the girl and the young man were from the same family, which was located thousands of miles west of Xuannv Palace, but was actually quite close.

The distance of about 1,600 miles is no different from home compared to the sect’s territory of 20,000 miles.

The mountain gate of the Jiu Tian Xuan Nu Palace is located at the eastern end of the Dong Ling Domain, and the Zhang family is 1,600 miles west of the mountain gate of the Xuan Nu Palace, so the three of them changed direction after walking out of the mountain gate.

The distance is one thousand six hundred miles. Considering the need to take care of the girl's cultivation, speed, and magic power, and to rest in the middle, it will take several hours to fly, a little longer than three hours.

If the young boys and young men were to fly at full strength, they would be able to cross the river in half an hour.

In fact, after flying for half an hour and covering more than three hundred miles, some unexpected events occurred and they were forced to stop for a while.

Within the 20,000-mile territory of the Xuannv Palace, apart from the human imperial kingdom, there are mostly mountains and rivers. The mountains are rolling and uneven, with gurgling streams, rushing rivers, rugged and dark green, rich in spiritual vitality, outstanding people, and all living things flourishing. In addition, according to the ideas of the elders of the Xuannv Palace, they have never taken action to eliminate monsters.

Therefore, there are countless monsters and strange creatures lurking in the mountains, fields and swamps. It's okay if they stay in their nests honestly and obediently on weekdays, but if they come out to harm people, they will easily be strangled to death by the monks of the sect.

The sect issues missions to exorcise demons with the intention of training disciples, but this method is bound to fail to completely kill the demons and monsters that like to cause trouble, and it often takes a long time before they attract the sect's attention.

There are also some aliens who are born extremely intelligent and have figured out the underlying rules of the sect's elimination of the monster race.

For example, the three people who left the mountain gate base and headed in the predetermined direction encountered trouble at a river more than three hundred miles away. The river was long and boundless. When the three people flew over the river, the water suddenly exploded, and a huge object rose into the air at an incredible speed.

With a snap, a black shadow flashed, and the boy was hit all over the body, and he quickly retreated hundreds of feet away.

"Puh, puh, puh!" The young man retreated a long way, but he was not seriously injured. It was just that the fishy smell on his body was very annoying.

"Good brother!" the girl screamed and flew back quickly to check if the boy was injured. The fat young man was silent for a moment, then as if facing a formidable enemy, he retreated more than ten feet and stared at the thing flying up from the river.

That thing was really too fast, and its power must be very high, far beyond their ability to handle!

However, they saw a fish monster with a yellow body and a milky white belly rising up from the river below to the same height as them! It had no scales, was slippery, had a big belly, had six whiskers, and its eyes were full of wisdom.

The fat young man calmed down and asked, "Who are you and why are you stopping us?"

He has determined that this fat fish monster has reached the Yongquan stage of cultivation and has awakened its intelligence, so he will first test its thoughts with words, and then make plans after knowing its thoughts, and finally be able to talk to people.

The fish demon rolled his eyes and spoke in human language, "I am the demon king of this area, Huang Ji, the river god of Changxu River! If you three want to pass through my territory, you need to pay tribute to me!"

Hearing this, Zhang Lai's face darkened. How could he be robbed by a beast so close to the mountain gate? How could this beast be so intelligent? Wasn't he afraid of being hunted by human cultivators?

"You fat fish, do you know that the area of ​​20,000 miles is the holy land of the human race?" Zhang Lai tried to use the name of the sect to force back this ungrateful fat fish and remind it who is the master here.

"I know that," Huang Ji Feiyu said, waving his fins. "I am only asking for tribute, not taking human lives. If you give me some money, I will let you go. I have not touched the bottom line of the sect."

"You Purple Mansion Stage people are unlikely to come. If you do, I will just run away. What are you afraid of?"

Fatty Huang Ji is very sensible. He collects a little money from the passing monks in the name of tribute and has the power to let them pass. It's okay if you don't want to pay. Just take a detour. I won't do anything to you. God is merciful and this little matter doesn't deserve bloodshed.

Later, when some cultivators did come back to seek revenge after their cultivation level had improved, it would find a place to hide and wait until the storm had passed before coming out again. It wisely avoided the Yongquan Stage and the higher Zifu Stage, so it was able to thrive.

Zhang Lai's eyelids twitched. This fat fish had reached the Yongquan stage, and was definitely at one or two levels higher. With the strength of the three of them, they could either pay the money honestly or take a detour. The Changxu River was hundreds of miles long, and taking a detour would be a waste of time.

During the confrontation, Lin Xuan and Zhang Miaotong flew back. Zhang Miaotong's eyes were extremely interesting. She had heard the elders of the family talking about river gods before. Could it be this kind of river fish that was causing trouble?

Lin Xuan secretly compared them and found that he could not defeat them, but he also did not want to pay tribute. He had to pay money to cross the river. Was he crazy? So he asked, "If we want to cross the river, how much tribute should we pay?"

"The money is calculated based on the head, five spirit stones per person." The fish demon Huang Ji started to say a number.

"No way, it's so dark! It's almost as long as half a month's monthly tribute for outer disciples. Besides, we have to come back later. Do we have to pay tribute twice?" Hearing this, Zhang Miaotong said angrily with a pouting lips.

The fish demon grinned like a businessman: "Don't worry, it's counted as one round trip, and I only charge one trip price."

Half a month's monthly salary sounds like a lot, and it's like scraping the bone, but it knows well that the disciples of the human sect do not live on monthly salary, and most of them have means to make a living. Five spirit stones are not expensive. Otherwise, it would just stare at the few spirit stones issued by the sect every month and go home as soon as possible. How can it be enough to cultivate immortality?

Lin Xuan narrowed his eyes. Since the name of the sect couldn't scare this fat fish, how about a more detailed explanation? He immediately took out the token and said, "What if I say that I know a lot of the elders in the sect?"

Hearing this, the fish demon Huang Ji's tail flapped restlessly, staring straight at the token floating above the boy's head. He was experienced and had already formed a clear understanding of high-level cultivators in his mind.

It was not a big grudge originally, and those in the Purple Mansion Stage and the Core Formation Stage did not need to strangle it personally. If they knew that it was a token of trust bestowed by someone else, and still offended that person, they would be seeking their own death.

Huang Ji, who was only at the Yongquan stage, was obviously intelligent enough to distinguish the superficial interests.

"It is my fault for being reckless and offending you all! Please pass through! I will inform fellow demon king Changxujiang later that you can cross the river at will in the future!" Huang Ji immediately sank into the river. As the saying goes, a man who knows the times is a hero.

"You dare to call yourself the Demon King when you are only in the Yongquan Stage." Zhang Lai complained.

Chapter 93: Zhang Family; Farewell

Ignorance is bliss and knowingly committing a crime, the latter is a very serious crime. The fish monster Huang Ji is a fish monster of a director.

Similarly, on the contrary, it is good to sit under a big tree for shade, and relationships make people easier to talk to. Afterwards, the three of them did the same thing, and all the big monsters along the way let them go. Only Huang Ji was reckless and arrogant, and he would whack people with his tail before talking, which led to him having the most enemies in the circle.

It had been caught by a senior in the Purple Mansion Stage before, and it lost a lot of spirit stones and was beaten several times, but it was lucky that it survived.

After hurrying, they finally arrived at the edge of the empire. There was a vast plain and a sentry post set up at regular intervals. After going deep into the plain for more than ten miles, they finally saw a small border town. The three of them did not stop and flew over the city.

The monk serving in the City Lord's Mansion felt something and ran out to take a look, but unfortunately the person had gone far away.

"Which country is this?" Lin Xuan knew very little about the world outside the sect. He only had a vague glimpse of it through books. As for the ordinary countries and small sects within the sect's territory, his knowledge was completely blank.

The border is desolate and bleak, far away from prosperity, deserted and dilapidated, with only important border towns standing there. After crossing the border and going deep into the country for dozens of miles, you can finally see sparsely scattered towns.

There are scattered villages outside the town walls, with smoke rising from chimneys. It is still more than half a month before the spring, so there is no farm work in the countryside during this half month. Only some odd jobs in towns have started, such as tailor shops in the city recruiting female workers and jewelry stores opening their doors to attract customers.

"In reply to my brother, the empire where our Zhang family lives is called Tang Kingdom. The number of households in the empire exceeds 10 million. It is ruled by the Zhou Dynasty and has been in existence for hundreds of years. In addition to the Dynasty, there are four other families that co-govern, namely the Zhang Family, the Wu Family, the Zhao Family, and the Yun Family. The four major families all have ancestors in the Yongquan Stage."

Zhang Miaotong personally explained to Lin Xuan the internal power structure of Tang State. If those princes knew that the eldest daughter of the Zhang family was so arrogant, they would be shocked.

"Among the four great families, our Zhang family's land is very close to the capital, only a hundred miles away. Therefore, our Zhang family's relationship with the Zhou royal family is closer than that of the other three families."

After entering the territory of Tang Kingdom from the border, the three flew straight to the imperial city, or to be more precise, the Zhang family's land adjacent to the imperial city. Along the way, Lin Xuan paid more attention to the mortal cities. Although they were far above the sky, he could see clearly that most of the people living in the towns of Tang Kingdom were mortals.

In other words, they are small cultivators at the first or second level of Qi Refining. Due to their limited qualifications, it is a great blessing for them to be able to cultivate to the Qi Refining stage. Most of them can only be mortal warriors who are strengthening their Qi, blood, and physique.

Lin Xuan discovered that the proportion of mortal men was more than twice that of disciples in Xuannv Palace.

The closer to the imperial city, the more prosperous the city is. When flying to the center, one can already see that the town has grown in size and there are more people. When flying over a major town, one is finally stopped by a middle-aged monk who is at the ninth level of Qi Refining.

"Who are you coming? Where are you going after passing this city?" The old man with white hair and beard asked in a full-bodied manner. The cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage are still troubled by aging, which often occurs 10 to 20 years before the end of their lives.

"We are descendants of the Zhang family. We are returning home from Xuannv Palace to visit our relatives. Please let us go quickly, old man!"

After hearing the girl's words, the old monk guarding the city was shocked and wanted to keep the three people as guests. It was not because of the Zhang family's face, but because he wanted to take the opportunity to curry favor with the disciples of such a huge organization as Xuannv Palace.

"Since you have come from afar, why not come to my City Lord's Mansion to be my guests? I will treat you well." The old man asked, twirling his beard and looking at the three strong young men carefully, guessing who was the leader.

"No need, old man. We are in a hurry. We will visit you another day." The three men declined the old man and walked past him to go deeper into the imperial city. Seeing this, the old man's wrinkled face was full of disappointment.

Outside the mountain gate of Xuannv Palace are all poor places. In their eyes, everyone in Xuannv Palace is a wealthy man, and it is always easier to make some money than to attack the poor outside. However, their calculations failed before they even started.

After crossing the important town and several large cities, he was interrogated by the monks guarding the city every time. Although it was a bit troublesome, fortunately he was not troubled by anyone, unless some people were crazy. In this way, Lin Xuan had a rough idea of ​​the defense along the way in his mind, with various cities guarding the hinterland.

After walking for another hundred miles, we finally saw the capital of Tang State, Fengdu! Surrounded by mountains on three sides and covered with forests, I guess in late autumn, the mountains must be covered with golden leaves, right?

Lin Xuan noticed that there were palaces built on the top of several hills surrounding the imperial city, which seemed to serve some purpose.

The imperial city of Tang State was full of prosperity, and there was something indescribable about it. It stretched for dozens of miles from left to right and front to back, covering an area of ​​more than 2,000 miles in radius, which was different from the Xuannv Palace's area of ​​more than 20,000 miles. The former referred to the area, while the latter described the vastness of the territory.

Then they turned around and rushed a hundred miles away. Lin Xuan saw a smaller town, which he thought was the Zhang family's territory. The size and scale of a family would naturally be smaller than the imperial city of the same country.

Seeing the Zhang family's land with his own eyes, Lin Xuan stopped in the distant sky and said goodbye to Zhang Miaotong: "Sister, you and your biological brother should go home to visit your parents. I will say goodbye to you two for the time being and will find an opportunity to visit you later."

"Ah? Brother, are you determined to leave? Can't you go visit my parents and family elders first?" Zhang Miaotong's face fell when she heard this, and she suddenly felt that going home to visit her relatives was a little less interesting.

Zhang Lai glanced at her, and the fat man was silent, then looked towards the family territory again.

A sense of familiarity came over him. When he was a kid, he was a bully in the neighborhood.

"You guys go back. I will definitely visit you in the last few days. The territory is 20,000 miles, and I want to travel around. You take your brother home to recognize your relatives." Lin Xuan waved his hand and left.

"Goodbye, brother." Zhang Miaotong was reluctant to let him go and insisted on waiting for him to come back and visit her in ten days.

After the people disappeared from sight, the two of them said little. Zhang Miaotong glanced at Fatty Zhang, opened her mouth, and said calmly, "Come with me. Dad and mom have moved to a new place."

Among the four major families of Tang Kingdom and even the Zhou royal family, only a few ancestors in the Yongquan period know how to enjoy the caves for cultivation. Most of the ordinary disciples and descendants build secret rooms near their houses and practice in seclusion inside.

For example, Zhang Miaotong and Zhang Lai's parents, since they moved to a new house, they also rebuilt their secret training room at a new location.

Fatty Zhang lacked his usual fiery temperament and was taciturn. He crossed the street with his sister at a low altitude, sighing inwardly. Who of his childhood playmates, his familiar uncles and aunts, his uncles and grandpas had passed away, who had left their homeland? In short, decades of separation had washed away many things.

He followed his strange sister to a yard in the southeast corner. There was a fence for raising livestock next to it. The atmosphere was full of life. Compared with his memory, this place was thousands of feet away.

"Mom and Dad! I'm back. Come out and see who I brought back." After arriving at the doorstep of her home, Zhang Miaotong completely let go of her temper. She was less suppressed and yelled at the top of her voice, causing the neighbors to stick their heads out to watch. In fact, there were only a few members of the Zhang family who could cultivate to the Qi Refining Stage.

Zhang Lai opened his thick lips and looked towards the messy paw prints of poultry on the mud on the right, wondering, would my parents recognize me now?

Because of his wrong practice, the tall and thin young man turned into a fat man.

Chapter 94: My son is coming; martial arts competition to find a bride

The Zhang family's secret room was built in the basement of the courtyard. Zhang's father and mother hid in the secret room and did extremely shameful things in the room.

"Hey, old man, I seem to hear our daughter's voice." Zhang's mother patted the strong tendon muscles of Zhang's father, who was working diligently and as strong as an ox. Zhang's father was sweating profusely. He slowly stopped and lay on top of him, breathing heavily.

"What? The daughter is back? Could she have committed a crime and been kicked out of the sect?" Zhang's father was full of suspicion. His daughter returned home after one year of joining the sect, so the possibility of her being kicked out was naturally very high.

"You old man, you keep saying nonsense. That's your daughter, can't you just hope for the best for her?" Zhang's mother scolded Zhang's father and slapped him in the face to wake him up. He shook his head twice and felt much better.

The old couple is in their eighties, but they still enjoy youth and energy. After sending their daughter to Xuannv Palace, they start planning to have children. Zhang's father works hard for half a year like an old farmer, hoping that the seeds will sprout soon.

"I seemed to hear that my daughter not only returned home, but also brought someone back with her and asked us to go out and take a look." Zhang's mother breathed softly.

"Who?" Zhang's father frowned immediately, his heart tightened, and he felt embarrassed. His daughter had been pursued by a young man from a wealthy family before. In the past two years, when she was at home, matchmakers often came to propose marriage, but he declined them all, also to comply with his daughter's wishes. She didn't like these young men.

The Zhang family is powerful, and their daughter is a legitimate child. Every person who comes to propose marriage has his or her own agenda!

Now, hearing that his daughter had brought someone back, Zhang's father instinctively frowned. Even if it was a young talent from the Xuannv Palace, he was coveting his daughter's body! The Zhang family was not worth much for the disciples of the Holy Land to plot against. He and his wife immediately packed up their clothes and went out to welcome their daughter.

Zhang's mother's thoughts were much simpler. She was happy from the bottom of her heart that her daughter was filial and missed her parents. She would also take the opportunity to see who her daughter brought home. If it was someone she liked, she would definitely screen them for her daughter.

"Look! I told you my daughter is back, but you, an old man, were so busy farming that you almost messed up everything."