"Later, we learned that the two sides of the fight were the Xu family and the Yuan family. It was said that it was because of what... er, what mine? Anyway, I can't tell a woman. In short, the Xu family and the Yuan family fought. Mo Xincheng is not at peace. And looking at the situation, the Xu family doesn't seem to be doing well. I heard that the head of the Xu family has been injured. Tsk tsk, it's really pitiful, the people of the Xu family are so good, why can't they beat those outsiders What!" The aunt's tone was still a little angry.
"Thank you aunt, we got it."
"Well, since you are passing by, let's hurry up. It seems that these two days are going to change. Since the two sides fought a big fight three days ago, the Yuan family has become more and more arrogant. I think the Xu family has become more and more arrogant. It seems to be unfortunate, you monks who pass by don't be caught by the Yuan family."
"Catch the strong man?" Xu Ziyan's eyes flashed: "Auntie, what's the matter with catching the strong man?"
The aunt looked around carefully and lowered her voice: "This is what my son saw with his own eyes. Some monks who passed by were taken away by the Yuan family. Later, I don't know what benefits they gave them. , just look at those cultivators helping them to fight the Xu family. Otherwise, the Xu family would not have lost so quickly. You should be careful, this cultivator fights, it is really going to die at any time, this is for no reason. Forced to fight for life and death with others, no one will be happy in their turn. I advise you to leave as soon as possible."
"Auntie, thank you for your reminder, we will definitely be careful." Xu Ziyan comforted the aunty with a smile, and then gave her a low-grade spirit stone.
The aunt walked away with two spirit stones with a wide-eyed smile. These are two spiritual stones. If they were changed into silver, it would be enough for their family to live for two years! Got it just by answering a few questions, what a bargain!
"Brother Ziyan..." Jiang Ying felt the chill on his back as soon as he said those words. This title was set by Xu Ziyan, and he didn't want Jiang Ying to call him 'master's brother'. But Xu Zirong didn't seem to like this title, but under the pressure of Xu Ziyan, he could only recognize it by touching his nose, and then turned his head like Jiang Ying exerting pressure...
Jiang Ying analyzed the pros and cons and decided to use this title. Being hated by the master is bad, but if he offends Xu Ziyan, he will be hated twice, and the master will hate him even more...
_(:з"∠)_, Emma is not a good little brother these days.
Jiang Ying's reaction fell into Xu Ziyan's eyes, and he immediately cast a threatening look at Xu Zirong.
Xu Zirong:…
"Zi Yan, are we going back to your house now or?"
"We won't go back for now. Now the enemy is out in the open and I'm in the dark. Let's take a look at it first. At night, Zirong and I will quietly circle back from the back mountain."
"Alright, then let's go to the inn now?"
Xu Ziyan thought for a while: "Forget it, listen to the aunt's tone, this Yuan family is about to fight our family. At this time, once the cultivator progresses, it will definitely attract the attention of the two families." After speaking, he looked at Look at Zirong.
Xu Zirong shook his head: "No one is staring at us. Maybe the two sides are evenly matched now, so no one dares to come out alone, for fear of being attacked. But if we live in an inn, it will be difficult to hide."
"Since that's the case... Then we'd better go out of the city first, find a quiet place to wait for a while, and then go home and have a look at it at night."
"good."
After negotiating, everyone went back along the way they came. When passing by the city gate, Xu Zirong frowned slightly, flicked his fingertips, and a drop of blood shot at a skylark in mid-air, the skylark fell in response, and in a large courtyard in the east of the city, a middle-aged man groaned. , spit out a mouthful of blood.
"What's going on?" The injury of the middle-aged man was quickly reported to the patriarch of the Yuan family, and an old man with silver hair quickly rushed over and asked the middle-aged man.
"Elder Qi, I sent a skylark out to patrol the city today, but I didn't expect to see a few strange monks at the city gate. Those people are not low-level, and one of them quickly discovered me, my The lark was killed." The middle-aged man said respectfully.
"Huh? Unfamiliar cultivator? Could it be that he came to help the Xu family?" The old man's eyes flashed, and a stern look appeared in his eyes.
"I don't know, my skylark only saw that there were about four of them, and the cultivation base couldn't tell, but they were walking out of the city, and they might have heard of what happened here, so they wanted to avoid it."
"Hmph, no matter if you're passing by, since you've come to this Moxincheng and you don't come to my Yuan family as a guest, don't you look down on my Yuan family!" Those guests, please come back."
The middle-aged man looked at the old man hesitantly, and finally sighed silently without saying a word. He didn't agree with the old man forcibly arresting the monks, but in the Yuan family, he was just a worshiper, and there was no comparison with the elders of the Yuan family's own clan.
The middle-aged man silently watched a burly man bring four monks in the condensing stage to give orders to the old man. Most of the people who haunted around this Mo Xincheng were loose cultivators with cultivation levels below the foundation. Yuan Qi did the work. This kind of thing is already very skilled, but he still remains vigilant, and even took four cultivators of the pulse condensation stage to take action.
The silver-haired old man was very satisfied with Yuanqi's cautious attitude. After all, the battle was imminent, and if the foundation-building cultivators were to leave the city, there might be a danger of being ambushed by the Xu family. However, there is nothing wrong with the cultivators in the condensing stage. After all, there are only two Jindan cultivators in the Xu family. One of them is the head of the Xu family who has just broken through the Jindan for two years. He is unlikely to go out and attack the Yuan family cultivators.
"Go." The silver-haired old man waved his hand: "Let the monks in these small places see the style of my Yuan family and serve my Yuan family, which is a blessing they have cultivated in their lifetimes!"
Yuan Qi cupped his hands and left with the four cultivators.
The silver-haired old man encouraged the middle-aged man a few more words before leaving. The middle-aged man looked at the back of the silver-haired old man, and couldn't help but secretly smiled bitterly. Did he choose Yuan's house as his place of residence? Did he choose the wrong one
***
"Someone is chasing after them." Xu Ziyan had the widest consciousness, and soon discovered the cultivator of the Yuan family following them.
"This Yuan family is really rampant. We all acted like we were about to leave, but they still had to chase after them?" Jiang Ying rubbed his chin, slightly surprised.
Xu Zirong sneered: "Since they are willing to come, let's come, just to get rid of them in advance."
Xu Ziyan didn't say anything, but judging from his expression, he clearly agreed with what Xu Zirong meant. He and Xu Xiao may not have a father-son relationship, but the other party has never lacked anything from him materially. Even if he doesn't care about the relationship between father and son, he is grateful to the Xu family, and naturally cannot tolerate others bullying the Xu family at will.
Yuan Qi took the cultivators and chased Yujian in the direction where the unfamiliar cultivators left.
His two bushy eyebrows were very close together. Now that the battle with the Xu family was imminent, but the elder let them out to carry out such a task, he could not help but feel resentment in his heart.
As one of the descendants of the Yuan family, he also has the right to inherit the Yuan family. Nowadays, who doesn't know that the direct son of the main line is a waste whose spiritual roots have been destroyed. Almost every young disciple of these branches is eager to try and make no secret own ambitions.
Yuan Qi was naturally one of them, and he also knew that the elder's nephew was his competitor. Now that the elder sent him out to carry out such a task, it seems that he wanted to use the Xu family to kill him.
"Hmph." Yuan Qi snorted coldly and stopped flying abruptly.
The four monks also stopped behind him, looking at Yuanqi in confusion.
"Master, what's the matter?" The man who was able to follow Yuanqi out to carry out the mission was naturally his confidant, and the man in the lead asked in a low voice.
"I'm just unhappy that the old man sent us out." Yuan Qi did not hide his dissatisfaction with the silver-haired old man, and cursed carelessly.
The man at the head was silent for a moment: "Young master wants to open up, after all, he is the confidant of the patriarch, and the order to arrest the loose cultivator was given by the ancestors."
When mentioning the old ancestor, Yuanqi's face showed a look of fear: "But the old ancestor asked us to arrest the loose cultivators in the city, that is to prevent those loose cultivators from being used by the Xu family, but these people are obviously going to leave. , why do you have to trouble them?"
The leading man gave a wry smile, touched his nose and said nothing.
Yuanqi couldn't help but spit bitterness: "It was their main line back then, who offended the young master of the Luoyu Sect and lost most of our Yuan family's savings, and now we have come to this Moxincheng, if we develop well, we can do it again. After decades, it may not be able to develop, but I don’t know what the patriarch thinks, what is there to fight with the Xu family here? Such a big brother Xiaocheng, can my Yuan family still live here forever?”
"Maybe... the patriarch has his own considerations." The leading man whispered.
"Fucking consideration, it's not because he heard that there is something in the Xu family... er, what... what is it?"
"Climbing to the Immortal Rank."
"Right, right, I don't know which bastard spread the word about ascending the immortal rank, saying that if the immortal rank is climbed by someone who has no spiritual roots, it will give birth to spiritual roots. I bah, if this thing has such a thing. Amazing, how can the Xu family live in such an indeterminate small town? If such a baby is known to those big sects, they will either try their best to win over the Xu family, or they will directly destroy their family and snatch the things away, neither of which is true. It happened, obviously that thing was a lie."
Yuanqi looked depressed, and he wondered, where is the wise and courageous patriarch? Now, for his stupid son, even believe such outrageous news
Besides, his stupid son was abolished with spiritual roots, but it is not that he did not have spiritual roots, even if he found the immortal rank, it would be useless.
Yuan Qi sighed, scratched his hair angrily, squatted on Feijian without making a sound, didn't say anything back, and didn't continue chasing.
One of the monks who followed him asked in a low voice, "Master, are we still chasing it?"
"Chasing, chasing, chasing, chasing a fart. I'm not in the mood. This is not very far from the Xu family. If the Xu family is disturbed by a fight, we all have to stay here. I'm just perfunctory. Look at that old thing, and tell him when you go back, that group of monks ran into Xu's house, and we can't catch up." Yuan Qi said with a displeased expression.
The other monks and cultivators looked at each other in dismay, and did not make a sound. They are all monks from Yuanqi's lineage. Although they are not Yuan's surname, they have long been marked with Yuanqi's brand. If Yuanqi is good, they are good. If Yuanqi is bad, they must not have a good life. Don't worry about someone going to tell you.
"Huh? They stopped." In the distance, Xu Ziyan saw in his consciousness that several of them suddenly stopped, and after saying something, they stopped chasing, and suddenly felt a little puzzled.
"What did they say?" Jiang Ying asked curiously.
Xu Ziyan shook his head. His consciousness was only observing from a distance, and he didn't dare to get too close. After all, the other party was also a cultivator at the pulse condensation stage, so it would be bad if he was discovered.
After waiting for a while, the other party was still hovering there, neither leaving nor approaching.
"Did they find us?" Xu Ziyan looked at Xu Zirong suspiciously.
Xu Zirong thought for a while, then shook his head gently: "It's unlikely."
He made such a judgment based on the other party's cultivation. The other party was just a cultivator in the early stage of condensing the veins, and the strength of his spiritual consciousness was far inferior to them. Coupled with the deliberate concealment of Xu Ziyan and others, they were unlikely to find them.
Besides, even if some of them really had any special skills and discovered their ambush ahead of time, if that was the case, they would either pretend to be ignorant, turn the trick against them, or just retreat. If you don't do both, what does it mean to waste your spiritual power circling in vain
"They... gone?" Xu Ziyan said, dumbfounded.
The other three couldn't help but look at each other, what does the Yuan family mean? Get a bunch of people to chase them out, then don't come forward, and finally go back without leaving a word
I really can't think of anything...
"Forget it, don't care, who knows what the Yuan family is up to, let's find a place to rest, and we'll see when we go home at night." Xu Ziyan said helplessly.
He was too lazy to guess what the Yuan family was thinking, and now he just wanted to know what happened. He couldn't be sure whether the news he got from the aunt was true or not. The only thing he could be sure of was that the Xu family and the Yuan family were fighting. No matter what the reason for the fight was, he always had to consider it from the perspective of the Xu family.
Xu Ziyan wouldn't talk about peaceful coexistence, sharing resources or anything. In this world of cultivation, a good mineral vein is just as attractive to a cultivation family as those treasures of heaven and earth are to monks.
He hadn't heard of any cultivator who could take the initiative to give away any treasures.
Of course, if the strength of the two sides is equal, it is not a bad idea to share it together, but the Yuan family has only been in Moxincheng for a year, and they want to take away the mines of the Xu family. If they succeed this time, the next time he comes back, this will Is the new city about to change hands
So this is absolutely unbearable!
***
The short day passed quickly, and when night fell, Xu Ziyan led Jiang Ying and others into the back mountain of Xu's house quietly.
The back mountain of the Xu family is adjacent to a forest, and that forest is a good place for the children of the Xu family to experience.
Xu Ziyan had also been in and out of this forest many times, and he was naturally very familiar with it.
Looking at the towering rock wall, Xu Ziyan couldn't help but sigh with emotion, thinking that when he and Zirong slid down the rope for the first time, it seemed that they were only twelve years old. In a blink of an eye, more than nine years have passed. The eight-year-old Zirong is now an adult, and time flies so fast.
Taking Jiang Ying and the others around the cliff and following the path to the back door of Xu's house, Xu Ziyan moved in his heart and stopped the hand that was about to knock on the door.
"What's wrong?" Xu Zirong asked.
Xu Ziyan touched his chin: "Almost one acre of land around Moxincheng is under our Xu family's control. It stands to reason that if a ore vein is discovered, there is no reason for the Yuan family to know about it. How could it be so coincidental that they knew about our Xu family's ore veins?"
Xu Zirong's eyes flickered: "Is there a traitor?"
"Who knows, be careful not to make a big mistake." Xu Ziyan shrugged and told Jiang Ying and the others to hide to the side, and then he quietly climbed the wall and entered the Xu family compound under the cover of Fang Gejun.
Familiar environment, different atmosphere. Today's Xu family compound is very nervous because of the upcoming war. Almost every few steps, the monks were guarding in the dark. It seemed that the Xu family was very afraid of the Yuan family's power, otherwise they would not have launched so many people to guard against the opponent's sneak attack.
Xu Ziyan sneaked into Xu Xiao's courtyard quietly, and he didn't come back for more than six years, so he felt a sense of trance.
"Who!" With a loud shout, a golden light burst out the window.
Xu Ziyan was startled, and quickly turned sideways to dodge, and whispered, "Father, it's me."
"Zi Yan?" Xu Xiao walked out of the study, looking around with a pair of sharp eagle eyes.
Seeing his son appear in front of him like this, Xu Xiao felt like he was in a dream. Shouldn't he be cultivating in the Streaming Light Sect? Why did you come back suddenly
"You!" After only a few glances, Xu Xiao's expression changed drastically, he walked over quickly, raised his hand and grabbed Xu Ziyan's vein gate.
Xu Ziyan forcibly restrained the urge to fight back, and kept telling himself in his heart that this is your father, ahem, at least the father of your body. Maybe he doesn't have a father-son relationship with you, but at least he is in charge. And he couldn't possibly harm his own son, so - don't be nervous, don't overreact, don't let out a purple night thunder, then the fun will be great.
Repeating it over and over again, he finally didn't really shoot Xu Xiao to fly. Don't look at Xu Xiao's cultivation in the early stage of Jindan, but against Xu Ziyan, I'm afraid he won't get any benefits.
Xu Xiao's spiritual power swam along the meridians in Xu Ziyan's body, until it was confirmed that there were no hidden dangers in his body, and then he pulled it out.
He looked at Xu Ziyan with an unbelievable look: "You're already in the late stage of condensing veins? How come your cultivation has improved so quickly?" Just after he finished speaking, before Xu Ziyan could answer, his face suddenly sank again: "I caught him just now. Why don't you resist when you are in the pulse gate?"
Xu Ziyan:…
Xu Xiao's face was cold: "You know, Maimen is the lifeblood of a cultivator, even if I am your father, I can't touch it easily! You know how many people in this world of self-cultivation betray each other for a little benefit, how can you? Guarantee that father will not plot against you?"
Xu Ziyan:…
Xu Xiao continued to blame: "Even if Dad doesn't want to hurt you, how can you not be defensive? What if Dad is controlled? You know there are many ways to control people in this world. Conspiracy, how can you afford to be the head of the Xu family?"
He said earnestly, "Zi Yan, you are not too young, why are you still as unguarded as you were when you were young? Remember, from now on, no matter if it's your father or anyone else, you must not let anyone easily pinch your pulse. Door, you know!" At the end, Xu Xiao's tone had become very sharp.
Xu Ziyan had no choice but to nod silently.
Well, although Xu Xiao is not a good father, at least he is a responsible father.
He didn't even want to look for any kind of cuddling, he even doubted whether Xu Xiao knew what emotion was
After admonishing Xu Ziyan, Xu Xiao frowned: "Why did you come back from the Streaming Light Sect? But what happened?"
Xu Ziyan shook his head, and only said that he led the teacher to Wuti City to congratulate the clansmen of his friend's friend, and came back to have a look.
Xu Xiao's heart moved: "Wuti City? But Wuti City where monster beasts attacked the city some time ago?"
Xu Ziyan suddenly realized that several months had passed since they were dragged into the Flame Prison Demon Realm. This monster attacking the city was no trivial matter, and the news must have spread.
He nodded, Xu Xiao's eyes flashed with worry, but there was no sign of it on his face: "Is there any injury?"
"No." Xu Ziyan shook his head.
Xu Xiao nodded: "Since you're back, why haven't you seen your brother?" He still remembered the child who had a cold face all day, but liked to pester Zirong. Speaking of which, he wanted that child to be Zirong's whetstone at the beginning, but now it seems that it has become Zirong's help.
Anyway, although the child did not please him, and even disliked him a little because of his mother, but after all, he also has his own blood in him, so I have to ask a question.
"Zirong is outside the door, and there are two of our friends." Xu Ziyan explained.