Chapter 30

"You should have begged for mercy earlier, it's too late now! You were already injured, you shouldn't have made a move. But you insisted on being brave and making a move against me just now. My dark force is even stronger than my master's."

"So, your little heart probably won't last long! I'm really sorry, I can't do anything about it now," Xia Daoming said with an "apologetic" face.

But his "apologetic" expression was no different from the smile of a soul-snatching messenger in Shi Yingdeng's eyes.

"My father will definitely investigate it, he will definitely kill you and avenge me." Seeing that there was no hope of survival, Shi Yingdeng finally became ferocious, staring at Xia Daoming with hatred in his eyes.

"You really are scum, are you looking forward to your father finding you underground?" Xia Daoming smiled, narrowing his eyes.

Shi Yingdeng was stunned for a moment, suddenly realizing that Xia Daoming's combat power was already no less than a seventh-rank Great Wu Shi, while his father was only sixth-rank, and he was old.

"No! No!"

Shi Yingdeng's heart fell into an bottomless abyss instantly, filled with fear.

"But to be able to raise a scum son like you, your father must also be scum. It's better to go down and find you early, so as not to harm good people," Xia Daoming smiled coldly and poked his toe at Shi Yingdeng's caved-in chest.

"Ah!" Shi Yingdeng screamed and died with his eyes bulging.

Although she had long known that her master was powerful and couldn't be viewed with common sense, seeing two fifth-rank Great Martial Masters easily killed by Xia Daoming in the blink of an eye, Liu Qiaolian was still stunned and couldn't come back to her senses for a long time.

Dongfang Tieshi Town was just as Liu Qiaolian said, the conditions for food and lodging were very average.

There was only one inn in the whole Dongfang Tieshi Town.

The guest room gave off bursts of damp and moldy smell, and the bedding looked a bit dirty and messy.

How could Liu Qiaolian let her master live in such a dirty and messy room? As soon as she entered the room, she personally tidied up and cleaned it.

Xia Daoming told her not to bother, just give the shopkeeper more money to find someone to clean it up again, but Liu Qiaolian thought they wouldn't clean it thoroughly and still wanted to do it herself.

Looking at Liu Qiaolian, who was graceful, plump, and beautiful, and who could easily be chosen as a beauty in the world he came from, busy in the room, putting new sheets on the bed, Xia Daoming was full of mixed feelings.

In his previous life, with his conditions, no matter how humble he licked, people probably wouldn't look at him more, and if one day they really looked at him differently, it must be to make him a stepfather.

But in this life!

Can't compare, can't compare!

Xia Daoming sighed in his heart and took out a small bottle from his bosom.

Uncorking the bottle, it contained half a bottle of green liquid droplets, and a fragrance drifted out, refreshing and invigorating.

This small bottle was searched by Xia Daoming from Lin Lu's bosom.

Besides this small bottle, Lin Lu and Shi Yingdeng actually carried a huge sum of more than ten thousand taels with them, which gave Xia Daoming a surprise.

"What exactly is this? Lin Lu hid it in his bosom, it must be a precious thing. And the feeling Lin Lu gave me was not like the decline of qi, blood, and force of the Wu Clan Fortress manager Jing Xuanying. After bearing my sudden full-strength blow, he was actually able to escape quickly."

"Lin Lu is in his sixties, yet he still has such vigorous vitality. Could it be related to the green liquid droplets in this small bottle?" Xia Daoming turned the small bottle, his nose twitched slightly, and a look of thought appeared in his eyes.

"Lian'er, come here," Xia Daoming called to Liu Qiaolian.

"What are Master's orders?" Liu Qiaolian came to Xia Daoming and asked with a bow.

"Do you recognize this liquid?" Xia Daoming handed over the small bottle.

Liu Qiaolian looked at the small bottle, her nose twitched slightly, and a look of surprise appeared in her eyes: "The aura of this liquid is very fragrant and refreshing, but I don't know what it is."

"If you don't know, then forget it," Xia Daoming said, putting away the small bottle and no longer thinking about it.

Anyway, just consult Ji Wenyue when he goes back.

Liu Qiaolian finally cleaned the room.

The room was not only brand new, but the moldy smell was also swept away, very fresh and tidy.

After tidying the room, Liu Qiaolian quickly asked the shop assistant to fill the wooden tub in the room with water, then closed the door tightly and served Xia Daoming to bathe.

Washing away the dust of the journey, throwing a few pills into his mouth, Xia Daoming sat cross-legged on the bed, refreshed, and operated the Dragon-Snake Art.

In the room, Liu Qiaolian stared at Xia Daoming intently for a long time, then took out a Green Lotus Strength-Replenishing Pill, put it into her mouth, sat cross-legged, and operated the Dragon-Snake Art.

The market price of a Green Lotus Strength-Replenishing Pill is one hundred and fifty taels.

If it were before, Liu Qiaolian would never have been willing to take it, but now she takes a pill of this level every ten or eight days.

This is because her cultivation is low, and taking it too frequently would be unbearable for her meridians and body, otherwise Xia Daoming would let her take it every day.

After about an hour and a half, Liu Qiaolian felt pain in her meridians, so she slowly opened her eyes and stopped operating her qi, blood, and force, while Xia Daoming was still meditating.

Seeing that Xia Daoming was still meditating, Liu Qiaolian took out a yellowed book from the bundle beside her, then got up and sat down at the table where the candlestick was placed.

She lowered her head to read the book, sometimes frowning, sometimes thinking, sometimes her fingers were drawing on the table in a seemingly disorganized way, and sometimes she looked up at Xia Daoming, and as she looked, a blush flew onto her pretty face unconsciously.

I don't know how long it had been.

Xia Daoming opened his eyes and saw Liu Qiaolian reading the yellowed book intently again, so he couldn't help but smile knowingly and got out of bed lightly.

"Master, your homework is done, I will serve you to sleep."

Just as Xia Daoming's feet landed, Liu Qiaolian had already noticed and hurriedly got up.

"It's already the third watch! My cultivation time is long, you don't have to wait for me in the future, just go to sleep first," Xia Daoming said.

"Master hasn't slept, how can I sleep first? Besides, I'm not sleepy when I read," Liu Qiaolian said.

"This book is like ghost symbols, I feel dizzy and my head hurts after reading it for a few times, you have read it over and over again, how can you still read it with such interest?" Xia Daoming said.

"I don't know why, anyway, this book is very interesting. It's a pity that I tried to make and tinker with formations according to this book at home, and there was no change at all."

"Otherwise, if it were really as written in this book, just insert a few formation flags, and people outside wouldn't be able to see the people inside, or wouldn't be able to attack, or if they entered, they would be like entering a maze and couldn't get out... that would be great!" Liu Qiaolian said with longing.

"Hehe, what kind of formation is so magical! Even if there is, that is the art of gods, how could your book, which you picked up at a market, record it?" Xia Daoming said disapprovingly.

Ever since Xia Daoming lived with Liu Qiaolian, he would see her reading this yellowed book intently from time to time.

Out of curiosity, he took it and saw that it was full of ghost symbols, some patterns like the Eight Trigrams and Nine Palaces he saw in his previous world, and some miscellaneous ancient texts related to this content.

Xia Daoming saw that the book looked a bit old and thought it was passed down from Liu Qiaolian's ancestors, so he studied it specifically, but his head hurt, and the things in the book were still ghost symbols in his eyes, messy and disorganized, with no rules at all.

Later, Xia Daoming asked and found out that this yellowed book was bought by Liu Qiaolian at a street stall in a northern market when she was a traveling merchant.

This made Xia Daoming laugh and cry for a while.

However, Liu Qiaolian was fascinated by it and would take it out to read from time to time.

Xia Daoming got used to it after seeing it too much.

It was just that the two were traveling far away tonight, alone in a room, and it was already the third watch, and Liu Qiaolian was still reading this book, so he said a few more words.

"Hmm! Master is right," Liu Qiaolian nodded in frustration, but still carefully rolled up the book and put it in the bundle.

Seeing that Liu Qiaolian was obviously frustrated, Xia Daoming felt a bit sorry, so he hurriedly smiled: "I was just saying it casually, don't take it to heart. Everyone's hobbies and interests are different, as long as you like it."

"Hmm, thank you, Master, I understand." Liu Qiaolian saw Xia Daoming persuading her, her mood obviously improved, she smoothed her hair and smiled sweetly at him.

"Then let's sleep, if we don't sleep, it will be dawn." Xia Daoming looked at the delicate and dripping Liu Qiaolian, his heart moved slightly, and he reached out to pull her into his arms.

That night, the two stayed in the small inn, embracing each other.

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