Practice begins with collecting character cards

Chapter 181 The Duan Family and Qualifications
A few days later, that night.

Xu Gu'an took out the secret beast egg to observe the hatching situation.

The warmth on the egg is more sufficient, but other than that, there are no other obvious changes.

"It seems that the hatching process is not a one-time event." Xu Guan judged and put the egg back.

Just as he was about to rest after practicing some more, suddenly there was a slight sound from the corridor outside the house.

His residence was on the top floor, and few students could go in and out here, let alone in the dead of night.

The sound of footsteps gradually approached, and then stopped quickly.

Xu Guan frowned slightly, looked outside the door, he could feel a person standing there!
Then there was a light knock on the door, and a soft voice.

"Young Master Xu, can I meet with you?"

Xu Gu'an only felt that the voice was a little familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere before.

After thinking about it for a while, I got the impression that it was the oiran of Spring Breeze Yayuan back then, but now Lu Liang's nightmare, the snow picking girl.

Xu Gu An's hand had already touched the knife, and the purpose of the other party's coming was unknown, but it was definitely not a good thing.

After all, the other party had already been determined to be from the side of the defeated camp, and staying in the town was only as an internal response.

Xu Guan was speechless and did not respond to him.

"Master?" Caixue's voice sounded again, and then pushed open the door.

There was a sharp knife light splashing in front of him.

Originally, she already had a charming smile on her face, and she was about to salute.

The next moment, she changed her face in a wave of Sichuan opera, and her eyes instantly darkened.

"Sir, you are so rude!" Caixue said coldly, a narrow sword emerged from her sleeve, facing the sharp light of the sword.

boom!
In the confrontation of swords and swords, the door of this room was directly hit, and it was smashed to pieces as soon as they met each other.

Xu Gu'an's face froze, and the opponent's sword had a red light of blood rising, which proved that the opponent was a fourth-order blood refiner!
This former oiran really hides deeply and has a mysterious origin.

From the opponent, Xu Gu'an felt a threatening breath.

"Miss Picking Snow, what do you want to do when you come here tonight?" Xu Gu An didn't succeed in one blow, so he opened his mouth and said.

He has released the blue bird just now, and I believe that the support from the old dean will arrive soon.

After all, the other party was a blood refiner with unknown strength, so he didn't dare to be careless.

"Today, my concubine wants to give the young master a future, but how could the young master treat me like this." Caixue's voice slowed down a bit, but she was still not very friendly.

"What's the future? Could it be that the forces of the defeated army haven't dissipated?" Xu Gu'an continued to ask.

He wanted to stall for time, and by the way, he also wanted to talk a little bit.

Caixue saw Xu Gu'an's intentions at a glance, but she didn't care, and said disdainfully: "Those remnant soldiers are just used as waste.

The future I am talking about comes from the big city and the master! "

"Grandmaster?" Xu Guan frowned slightly.

The name of the master was so resounding that he couldn't help but think about it after hearing it.

He couldn't judge the truth of what the woman in front of him said, but if the backer behind the other party was really a grand master, then he had to pay more attention to the other party's identity.

"That's right, with the young master's talent and aptitude, staying in this remote town is really buried, if you don't follow me to the big city, my family is eager for talents, and will definitely use you.

At that time, all kinds of martial arts and martial arts can be acquired by young masters, and the innate realm can also be obtained at your fingertips, and the power and status are beautiful."

Caixue suppressed the temper in her heart, did not forget the purpose of today, and invited Xu Gu'an.

Xu Guan had a headache when he heard about painting cakes.

In his previous life, he ate enough cakes, but he never expected to be fed cakes again in this life.

However, although he has long been immune to this pie-painting kung fu, if it were any other aspiring young man, he might really be persuaded.

Everyone yearns for the master.

Otherwise, the Grandmaster Martial Academy wouldn't be so famous, and people from all over the world wanted to squeeze their heads in.

If the other party mentions the name of the master, it will make people think about it.

"I want to ask, which big city did you go to, and which great master did you seek refuge in?" Xu Gu'an asked again directly.

He wanted to know the real details of the other party.

Caixue covered her mouth and smiled lightly, "Young master, why don't you follow me, you will know when the time comes, and you will definitely not be disappointed."

"Is this how Weng Yan was taken away by you?" Xu Guan suddenly asked again.

"No, the disappearance of the son of the Weng family has nothing to do with me." Caixue answered positively this time.

"If he hasn't disappeared yet, maybe the concubine will go to visit him."

Xu Guan wanted to ask something more, but Caixue threw an embroidered sachet over.

"If the young master agrees, send me this sachet, and I will take the young master there."

After saying that, she flickered, rolled onto the roof, blended into the night, and disappeared without a trace.

The speed was so fast that Xu Gu'an didn't even have time to try to 'retain'.

In the sachet in his hand, there was a special aroma of rouge.

He only needs to let the blue bird smell the scent of the sachet, and then he can communicate with the other party.

The blue bird itself has a super ability to track smells and search.

Not a moment after Caixue left, the Niu Lao next to the old dean appeared in front of Xu Gu'an's broken door and looked at Xu Gu'an.

"I've already run away." Xu Gu'an told about the snow picking.

"Go and search." Niu Yichen ordered the two people who followed behind him.

Then the two climbed up to the roof and disappeared into the night.

"Follow me to the old dean tonight." Niu Yichen said to ensure Xu Gu'an's safety.

Xu Gu'an nodded in response, and he didn't want the other party to shoot back and disturb his rest.

When he arrived at the dean's residence, Xu Gu'an explained the matter, and he even told about the cakes painted by the other party.

Bituminous Cloud narrowed his eyes slightly, and seemed to understand something in his heart.

Seeing him like this, Xu Guan couldn't help asking: "Is there really a master behind the other party?"

"Well, it shouldn't be wrong." Pi Qingyun nodded, but didn't hide it from Xu Gu'an, and continued with a soft sigh.

"I know that you will definitely go to the land of the big city to do something in the future, but I don't want you to get in touch with that level too early.

It would be better to wait until the time is right, it would be too dangerous for you to get caught up in the dispute over there. "

This is what he has always thought, not only for Xu Gu'an, but also for other martial arts students.

He must be patient with the growth of the students and not be too utilitarian and impatient. He is more worried about the students dying halfway than the success of the students.

"Don't worry, I won't go to this matter." Xu Gu'an said, as a promise.

He didn't have much idea about Caixue's picture cake, even if the other party really had a master as his backer, he didn't have much interest.

Compared with others, his admiration for that master is not so strong.

In his eyes, a grand master is a cultivator with a high level of cultivation, and has no other special meaning.

Moreover, there is not only the one behind Caixue as the master in the world, there is no need to be so anxious to find a master backer.

God knows what character and what kind of person that master is.

"So who is the master behind that person?" Xu Guan asked.

"Since this incident happened, it's okay to tell you now," said Bituminous Cloud.

No matter how reluctant, Xu Gu'an has already been implicated, and he doesn't intend to hide some things from Xu Gu'an.

"I have investigated that the defeated army in the past belonged to Lancheng, and the Duan family was in charge behind it. From this, it is not difficult to deduce who is the master behind the woman." Bit Qingyun said.

"Lancheng? Duan's family?" Xu Guan murmured, this was something he had never been in contact with before.

"Well, there is one and only one Grandmaster of the Duan family, named Duan Suyun. If my information is correct, it can be said that the current war started because of him." Bitin Yun said with a hint of memory on his face.

He had actually dealt with this grandmaster back then, and knew many things about him.

"Why did he start a war and seize the land?" Xu Gu'an was puzzled.

Bitumen Yun shook his head, "A strong man at his level must focus on his own cultivation, and won't pay too much attention to worldly affairs.

Money, status and even honor and fame are all dispensable things for them.

What they pursue must be other things. As for the war, it is only done by those families under their command. "

If the masters don't care about power disputes, their descendants may not.

Once a Grandmaster is born, naturally he wants to give birth to a second, third, and even more.

To this end, they need to strengthen the strength of the family and seize more material resources.

Talent is also an important strategic resource, so Xu Gu'an was targeted and approached.

And once Xu Gu'an goes, there is no doubt that he will be involved in this war launched in the name of the master.

It will be impossible to be so quiet in the town in the future.

Bitumen Yun didn't go into too much detail on this matter, and after letting Xu Gu'an know something about it, he asked him to stay with him temporarily to avoid being harassed again.

After Xu Gu'an left, the asphalt cloud became more solemn, "Yichen, the town is a little bit uneven, let's calm down as soon as possible."

Niu Yichen nodded, "I already have some clues about the cult matter, and I should be able to deal with it soon. As for the member of the Duan family."

"You don't need to kill her, and you don't need to arrest her. Just drive her away, so as not to cause trouble." Pi Qingyun instructed.

Obviously, he didn't want to offend the Duan family, the master.

He knew that this kind of talent recruitment, including instigating the defeated army to attack Donglan Town, was basically operated by people under the Duan family.

If it was someone from the Duan family's family, it would have been impossible for Donglan Town to be able to keep it at the beginning, and this time, even if he stepped forward, it would be impossible to keep Xu Gu'an's matter.

He can only do this at most, and can't cross the line.

Even though the other party may be just a servant of the Duan family, if he captures Caixue alive or kills Caixue, the nature of it will be different.

If the Duan family doesn't care about the life and death of this servant, then that's fine. If they do, the result will be hard to say.

Asphalt cloud is well aware of the risks here, so he needs to be careful with one of them.

He was not afraid of Caixue, and he knew that the master standing above the clouds would not care about such trivial matters, but he was afraid of the Duan family behind Caixue.

"You should also rest earlier." Niu Yichen nodded in response, and walked away quickly.

In the following days, Xu Gu'an stayed at Li Qingyun's place, and occasionally went to the Martial Arts Academy to see Qin Sanli and listen to lectures.

For that snow picking, he didn't pay any attention to it, just pretending that it never happened.

In the town, as the dean and the Weng and Chen families stepped up their investigation, the cultists and lunatics in the town were soon wiped out.

Although most of the bewitched students and others were rescued, they seemed to have been completely possessed.

Both the mind and the body have been distorted to varying degrees, and it is difficult to return to their original appearance.

They can't even be released from prison, otherwise they can even kill their blood relatives, which shows that these cults have done a lot of harm to people.

But no matter what, the wave of panic in the town has gradually dissipated, and the peace of the past has gradually returned.

In September, the dry season is gradually over.

Xu Gu'an's cultivation progress is still advancing by leaps and bounds, but after more than three months, he touched the bottleneck of the third stage of Yi Jin again.

If you want to break through to the fourth stage of Yijin, you need a medicinal bath and decoction.

This time, he had already collected all the necessary medicinal materials in advance. There was no surprise, and Xu Gu'an successfully broke through to the strength of the fourth stage of Yijin.

"According to this speed, it is expected to step into the blood refining realm in the first half of next year!" Xu Gu'an wiped his breakthrough body, predicting in his heart.

He is naturally satisfied with this cultivation speed.

In reality, Shen Xike, who has a B+ aptitude, has just stepped into Yijin Stage [-] realm not long ago.

That's it, the outside world has been praised by all the people in the town.

And Xu Gu'an has been practicing in a low-key way. Even the big exam at the beginning of this year, Xu Gu'an never made a move.

The outside world's progress in his cultivation is still stagnant at the stage where he was still at the Bone Strengthening level last year.

His current cultivation level has become a mystery to the outside world.

Some people speculate that he has already stepped into the stage of Yijin, and some people say that the reason why Xu Gu'an is so calm is because his cultivation has fallen into a bottleneck and stagnated for a long time.

What's more, they think that Shen Xi's cultivation has completely surpassed Xu Gu'an's strength, and he will change his place at the top of the list just waiting for the big exam next year.

There are different opinions, and there are all kinds of opinions.

Xu Gu'an didn't care about this at all, he didn't need to please everyone.

It has been his style to practice in a low-key manner for the past two years, so as not to cause trouble.

Even the old dean made an exception for Xu Gu'an after learning about his progress in cultivation. He didn't have to waste time taking the quiz in September this year.

Anyway, such an assessment is meaningless to him.

Xu Gu'an is also happy to do so.

"Really, have you reached the fourth section of Yijin?" Qin Sanli, who was watering and fertilizing the flowers in the garden, looked at Xu Gu'an in surprise when he heard the news.

No matter how many times, Xu Gu'an can always exceed the speed he thought and complete the goal of cultivation.

"Yes, teacher, as you mentioned before, I will notify you after breaking through to the fourth stage of Yijin." Xu Guan nodded.

In fact, what Qin Sanli said at the beginning was that if he was still alive, Xu Guan would come to him and tell him the day he broke through the fourth stage of Yijin.

At that time, Xu Gu'an had just broken through the Yijin Realm.

The reason why he said this was also because he knew that he didn't have a few years to live, and if he wanted to wait until Xu Guan broke through to the fourth stage of Yijin, it could almost be regarded as a matter of his lifetime.

Who would have thought that in the second year, Xu Gu'an would have accomplished the goal he had set.

"Xiao'an, you really are a genius in cultivation." Qin Sanli sighed again.

"It's just hard work." Xu Guan shook his head and said.

He knew that he was indeed not a genius, but that he had a super-limit-level cultivation method.

Of course, in the eyes of others, he is just self-effacing.

"Teacher, I specially told you that day, what should I say now?" Xu Gu'an asked.

He asked before, but Qin Sanli acted as a riddle and never explained why.

Qin Sanli nodded, put down the shower in his hand, walked to the side of the stone table and sat down, made a cup of tea for himself and Xu Gu'an before speaking.

"This matter should be regarded as the biggest secret I have practiced for most of my life, and I have never mentioned it to anyone."

When Xu Gu An heard this, he immediately sat up straight, knowing that this should be no small matter.

"In fact, in my early years, my aptitude was very ordinary. Compared with you, it was a thousand miles away. It was only because of my obsession and hard work that I barely reached the bone-strengthening state when I was 30 years old. Dzogchen.

But that is also my limit, limited by my aptitude, even if I get the Yijin method later and master it, it will still be difficult for me to make progress.

It was so difficult for me at that time to step into Yijin Realm, let alone Blood Refining Realm or even Xiantian Realm.
At that time, I knew that if I did not make changes, this would be the same in this life. I was not convinced, and since that day I have traveled around alone, searched for various methods, and tried a lot.

In the end, I found some fragments of words in an ancient book catalog, describing a kind of fruit, which can increase the success rate of breaking through the tendon-yielding realm.

For this, I searched for three years."

Xu Gu listened quietly, while Qin Sanli fell into the memories of the past, talking about the past.

In the end, Huangtian paid off, he really found the fruit, and with the help of this rare treasure, he successfully broke through the limit of his own aptitude and stepped into the tendon-changing realm!
This can be regarded as a change of fate.

According to Qin Sanli's description, Xu Gu'an can roughly infer that the other party's aptitude at that time was probably only E grade, which is similar to him now.

Theoretically, it is the limit to be able to train the Bone Strengthening Realm to the level of Dzogchen.

At least this is the case in his character card. After reaching the limit of personal qualifications, no matter how much experience energy is accumulated, it will not be able to break through the final bottleneck of qualifications.

"The changes after eating that fruit don't stop there." Qin Sanli continued to tell.

"The description in that ancient book atlas was actually not accurate, or it was outrageously wrong. Looking back now, I was desperate at the time."

Qin Sanli shook his head and laughed, laughing at himself that he was almost obsessed at the time.

If that fruit was a poisonous fruit, I am afraid that he would have paid the price with his life for his reckless behavior at that time.

Xu Guan continued to listen.

The fruit is not a poisonous fruit. At that time, Qin Sanli did break through the muscle-changing state because of that fruit, but the real effect of the fruit was not limited to this, and even breaking through the muscle-changing state was just a by-product of eating the fruit.

Its real purpose is to wash the marrow and cut the veins!Change your innate physique with extremely strong medicinal power!
That's right, this is the legendary supernatural fruit that can improve one's innate aptitude!

For Qin Sanli, this is naturally a great opportunity.

But Qin Sanli's body training was not enough at that time, under the impact of this extremely strong medicine, he was directly seriously injured and barely survived.

After recuperating for nearly a year, I just got over it.

And it was not until Qin Sanli, who survived this catastrophe, that he really rode the wind and traveled between heaven and earth.

His aptitude has been modified, and his cultivation in the Yijin Realm has become easier, and he has gradually made a name for himself.

Afterwards, he crossed the Yijin Realm smoothly, became a blood refiner, and was appreciated by a big man, and had a chance to jump into the dragon's gate and step into the innate world!
Life can be described as earth-shaking changes.

It's a pity that just when he was full of vigor and talent, his blood relatives were wiped out by his enemies, causing him to fall into the valley again.

After wasting away for many years, with the growth of age, his peak is not there, the knot in his heart is hard to get rid of, and it is even more difficult to make progress in cultivation.

In the end, he could only regret to return to the border of Donglan Mountains and come to the Martial Academy to spend his old age in peace.

If you look closely at Qin Sanli's life, it will definitely make people sigh and regret.

The great opportunity of washing the marrow and cutting the veins did not come from the sky, but Qin Sanli fought for it with all his might by relying on his persistent will and disobedience to the arrangement of the heavens.

This firm will and mind alone are not possessed by most people in this world.

In the end, Qin Sanli also completed this wave of life-defying changes, but unfortunately it didn't end well.

"What a pity." Xu Guan shook his head.

He had heard the old dean mention Qin Sanli's past before, but it was definitely not as detailed as Qin Sanli himself said today.

His teacher could have gone further, but in the end it ended in a hasty way, which made him a little uncomfortable.

Qin Sanli, on the other hand, had already looked away, and talked about the past indifferently.

"The past is like smoke, and I bring it up again today, just to give you this opportunity to change my life." Qin Sanli smiled lightly.

When Xu Guan heard this, his heart moved and his face changed color, "Teacher, what do you mean by that fruit?"

Qin Sanli nodded and stroked his beard and said, "You think right, there is only one fruit left, and I sealed it on an iceberg that will not melt for a hundred years, and I haven't taken it out for so many years."

In fact, there were three such fruits at first, and he ate one and sealed up two of them.

When the injury was almost healed, he tried to eat the second one.

As a result, this gem had no effect on him.

In this way, he also understood that this fruit can only be eaten by one person, and it is useless to eat more.

So this last one, he didn't touch it anymore.

In the early years, he originally wanted to leave this last fruit to his grandson to eat when he grew up, but before his grandson grew up, a tragedy happened.

Since the grandson disappeared, the fruit has been kept until now.

Until Xu Gu'an appeared, Qin Sanli had the idea of ​​giving fruit again.

Although in his eyes, Xu Guan's aptitude level must be extremely high, far better than him back then.

Perhaps the effect of this fruit on Xu Gu'an is not ideal, but no matter what, it is still worth trying.

Even if it's just icing on the cake, it would be great to make Xu Gu'an's already strong aptitude to a higher level.

And the reason why Xu Guan was informed of this when he broke through to the fourth stage of Yijin.

One is that I don't want him to think about this matter early, which will lead to distraction in practice.

The second is that he knows that the medicinal power of the fruit is extremely strong, and he has estimated that if he does not have the body-refining practice of Yi Jin Stage [-] or above, his body may still not be able to withstand the medicinal power of the fruit.

With his own lessons learned, he naturally didn't want Xu Gu An to be injured again because of this, and this would not be able to exert the maximum medicinal power of the fruit.

(End of this chapter)