Chapter 168

"Joining the Seven Sect Alliance is my dream!"

"Now everything is ready, only the resume is missing. I cannot give up halfway because of my own negligence."

"I took on sixteen tasks today, Senior Brother Xu. My aptitude is ordinary, so I must work harder. Even if I am injured, I cannot give up. What is this little injury!"

Ding Xue's eyes were firm.

"I cannot let my little aunt down!"

"Senior Brother Xu, can you help me complete the tasks today? Sorry to trouble you."

Ding Xue said this, her voice became slightly weak. After saying this, she wanted to bow, but her body went soft and she was about to fall. Xu Qing instinctively went up to support her.

Ding Xue's body fell into Xu Qing's arms, her eyelashes trembled, her breathing was obviously a bit rapid, and her small face was flushed.

Xu Qing was silent. He vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know how to refuse. After all, Ding Xue's injury was real, and it was really very serious.

Just like this, Xu Qing supported Ding Xue to complete those sixteen tasks that day, and although Ding Xue was weak, the excitement in her heart had reached the limit.

This was the result she wanted. This time she begged her little aunt to let Xu Qing protect her, just to have intimate contact with Xu Qing and produce deep-rooted feelings.

She knew very well that wanting to capture Xu Qing could not be rushed.

It needed to be done slowly, and it was the best policy to let feelings grow over time.

So she made herself into such an injury.

But she also understood that this plan could not be used every day. The sense of demand must not be exposed too obviously, so she returned to normal after recovering a bit the next day.

In the following days, Ding Xue counted the time in her heart, very excited every day, taking Xu Qing to run around on these four islands.

Until seven or eight days passed again, Ding Xue felt that the time was right, and was about to unfold her second plan.

For this plan, she had confidence that she could get closer to Xu Qing and understand him more deeply. After all, she had been preparing for this for several months.

But what made her extremely disappointed was that at this critical moment, an uninvited guest actually came.

It was Zhao Zhongheng.

I don't know why, but Zhao Zhongheng's cultivation speed suddenly accelerated after Xu Qing stepped into Foundation Establishment, and now he had reached the Great Perfection of Qi Condensation, and it was not far from trying to build a foundation.

According to reason, at this time he needed to go into seclusion to stabilize his Great Perfection realm, so as to start building a foundation.

But he clearly heard about the things here, so he resolutely chose to participate in the war and came to the Mermaid Island on the first day and shamelessly went to Ding Xue's side.

He wouldn't leave no matter what, and insisted on following.

Even after Ding Xue was annoyed, he took out the task jade slip.

He didn't know what method he used to get the same task as Ding Xue. In this way, Ding Xue was also quite helpless.

Xu Qing didn't care about this from beginning to end. It didn't matter who came. He calculated the time. At most, there would be a few more days, and the one-month deadline would be up.

"Zhao Zhongheng, if you insist on following, you must agree to two conditions!" Ding Xue looked at Zhao Zhongheng with great displeasure in front of Xu Qing.

"One, you cannot speak throughout the whole process!"

"Two, you must keep a distance of three zhang from me!"

"If you don't agree, leave! If you agree, stay!"

Zhao Zhongheng took a deep breath. He had already thought that it would be like this when he came. At this moment, he looked at the beautiful and curvy Ding Xue.

He also glanced quickly at Xu Qing, who seemed not to notice here, and then he hurriedly withdrew his gaze, and unprecedented firmness floated in his heart.

"Even if the cultivation is higher, how can it compare with my sincere heart? Chasing women is not fighting. What's the use of high cultivation? My grandfather's cultivation is higher, but wasn't he dumped by my grandmother? Seven Uncles are also alone in the Seventh Peak. This shows that high cultivation is useless!"

"My sincere heart is the key to obtaining final happiness. It is indestructible, heaven can testify, people and gods can distinguish, and even if the remnant face in the sky opens its eyes, it cannot destroy my sincere heart."

"So, if chasing women depends on cultivation, then wouldn't the Ancestor have many wives and concubines, and all the women in the sect would be his." Zhao Zhongheng felt that the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it was. His gaze became more firm, looking at his lifelong love Ding Xue, and spoke in a deep voice.

"Okay!!"

Zhao Zhongheng's joining made Ding Xue very unhappy, but for Xu Qing, there was no difference, although he found several times that Zhao Zhongheng was secretly looking at his forehead.

This made Xu Qing a bit strange, but he didn't pay too much attention to it, especially since the other party was very sensible and didn't come to provoke himself, so Xu Qing ignored him most of the time.

Until a few days later, when the three of them completed some small tasks and gathered again after a night's rest, Xu Qing scanned Zhao Zhongheng with a strange expression.

Ding Xue was also stunned after seeing Zhao Zhongheng.

She glanced at Zhao Zhongheng's eyebrows, then turned to look at Xu Qing, her expression slowly becoming strange.

Only Zhao Zhongheng's expression remained normal. He raised his head to show his eyebrows to Xu Qing and Ding Xue, full of pride in his heart.

And if there were other people here at this moment, they would definitely find that the shape of Zhao Zhongheng's eyebrows was almost exactly the same as Xu Qing's eyebrows.

Regardless of the height of the eyebrow peak, the length, or the width of the eyebrow tail, etc., they were consistent.

Xu Qing looked at Zhao Zhongheng. He suddenly knew why the other party had been peeking at his forehead for the past few days. He was looking at his eyebrows.

"Is this person sick?" Xu Qing remembered Elder Zhao's evaluation of his grandson and felt it made sense.

Ding Xue sighed.

She felt that Zhao Zhongheng was possessed. Some eyebrows were different on different people's faces. Naturally, Senior Brother Xu's were better the more he looked at them.

But this Zhao Zhongheng, she felt that it was actually okay before, but now it was incomparably strange no matter how she looked at it, just like a local chicken with two peacock feathers inserted.

But Zhao Zhongheng clearly didn't think so. He was very proud all the way. He felt that Ding Xue looked at him much more today than in the past.

So he began to stare at Xu Qing's nose.

Xu Qing was silent.

Just like this, the three of them lived in peace in the following days. Except for Zhao Zhongheng's appearance gradually having some minor adjustments, the traces were still a bit heavy, and Xu Qing was speechless in his heart.

At the same time, what surprised Xu Qing was that Zhao Zhongheng's change was not just these. He actually sent two copies when giving Ding Xue gifts.

Ding Xue was also very surprised by this point.

Looking at the expressions of Xu Qing and Ding Xue, Zhao Zhongheng was even more proud in his heart.

He felt that his seclusion this time was of far-reaching significance, because he figured out one thing.

Since you love someone, you must love the house and its crow.

Since you choose to pursue her for a lifetime, you must have enough tolerance to tolerate the passersby she has experienced.

So, why be so unpatterned and only send it to her.

Send, send her two copies!

Let her be able to send it to passersby, doesn't this also show his uniqueness.

Zhao Zhongheng felt that he was transparent.

So in this sublimation of his heart, on this day, when Ding Xue checked a secret passage permeated with heterogeneity and opened it, waiting for the heterogeneity to dissipate, Zhao Zhongheng to the side took out two medicine boxes from his arms and handed them to Ding Xue.

Ding Xue took it and opened it, a bit surprised.

"Alienation-Peeling Elixir, this is the secret elixir of the Second Peak of the Seven Blood Eyes, not sold outside, and rarely seen on weekdays."

Zhao Zhongheng nodded with a smile.

Ding Xue's expression was strange. Looking at the two elixirs in her hand, she looked at Xu Qing.

"Senior Brother Xu, thank you for helping me these days, and also for tutoring me in vegetation. I think Senior Brother doesn't need this elixir, but because it is rare, you can also use it for research."

Saying this, Ding Xue gave Xu Qing a sweet smile and gave the elixir to Xu Qing.

"Besides, this is also the reward that Senior Brother should get for taking care of Zhao Zhongheng these days."

Xu Qing thought about it and felt it made sense, so he took it.

Zhao Zhongheng's breathing became slightly rapid, but he quickly smiled again and nodded to Xu Qing to indicate that it was like this.

Xu Qing glanced at the elixir and was about to put it away, but suddenly his expression condensed, and he looked fiercely at the secret passage that had been opened, and took a step out to the side of the secret passage.

"You step back."

As soon as his words came out, Ding Xue reacted rapidly and retreated instantly, and Zhao Zhongheng also retreated hurriedly.

Seeing Ding Xue and Zhao Zhongheng move away, Xu Qing gazed at the secret passage in front of him, his eyes narrowed.

The location of this secret passage was under a collapsed house, and it was clearly dug out recently as a place to hide.

Some runes could be seen around, although they had lost their effect now, but I think they should be used for concealment.

And the tunnel was not big, only allowing one person to drill in. Inside, as it opened, a chill was emitted, merging with the warm current outside, forming some mist.

In this mist, besides thick heterogeneity, some corpse poison slowly drifted out.

Xu Qing was wary. This task was taken on by Ding Xue. The task description was to find the hiding place of the Sea Corpse Clan sneaking into the Mermaid Island. Before, they had looked for several places, and there was no harvest.

Now it was in a small town on the Youcang Island. Ding Xue used a special magic treasure to sense the fluctuation of heterogeneity increase.

Only then did they follow the trail here.

Xu Qing didn't care much originally. According to his experience of killing the Sea Corpse Clan, even if some Sea Corpse Clan members really hid on the Mermaid Island, it was not something that Ding Xue could find.

And the detection of special magic treasures was of little use. Unless this Sea Corpse Clan member deliberately emitted it, otherwise there were too many ways to restrain it without revealing any trace.

So in Xu Qing's view, the task given to the core disciples of Qi Condensation was actually just for show, letting them adapt to the rhythm of the war.

As for danger, there was not much.

But the moment Ding Xue opened this secret passage, as the heterogeneity drifted out one after another, Xu Qing soon noticed something wrong. The heterogeneity emitted inside possessed corpse poison.

"Could it be that Ding Xue really bumped into a Sea Corpse Clan member?"

Xu Qing's gaze was like electricity. He sprinkled some poison powder into the secret passage to neutralize the corpse poison inside, and at the same time, he also noticed that the corpse poison here seemed to have lost its activity, and the toxicity was greatly reduced.

And while Xu Qing was pondering here, suddenly, a faint sound came from the secret passage.

"Daddy, come home quickly..."

This sound was like the pleading of a little boy, carrying thick longing, incomparably real. The moment it entered Xu Qing's ears, he had a feeling as if he really saw a little boy.

This scene made Xu Qing's eyes shrink fiercely. Ding Xue and Zhao Zhongheng behind him also heard it, and their expressions changed instantly.

"Strange?" Zhao Zhongheng breathed rapidly.