Chapter 44: Audacious

"That should be Xu Zhiji and Xu Shisen. Let's not meet up with them, just pretend we got lost while fleeing, so we don't get grabbed for chores again." Liang Jingtang followed Xia Daoming's gaze, vaguely seeing those two figures, and said with a gloomy face.

"After being humiliated like this along the way, doesn't Master want to get back at them?" Xia Daoming narrowed his eyes, looking at Xu Zhiji and his grandson climbing higher and higher.

"You..." Liang Jingtang was so shocked by these words that his body swayed, almost falling off the cliff.

"With intent against the unintentional, and Xu Zhiji is old after all. As long as we take advantage of his lack of preparation to seriously injure him, he will have no way out.

As for Xu Shisen, I am afraid Master will need to entangle him first. When we return to Li Cheng, I estimate that even the Xu family will think the two died under the Rabbit King's claws, and absolutely no one will suspect us." Xia Daoming said calmly.

Liang Jingtang felt a chill down his back, looking at Xia Daoming as if looking at a complete stranger.

The worldly wisdom and courage of this disciple made even him, as a master, feel as if all his years had been lived in vain.

"Are you sure? That Xu Zhiji is an eighth-rank Great Wu Shi!" After a long time, Liang Jingtang swallowed hard and asked.

"If Xu Zhiji is on guard against me, I have some confidence in defeating him, but the confidence in killing him is relatively small.

But having been with him for so long, I have been showing weakness, and what I have shown is indeed the cultivation of a fifth-rank Great Wu Shi. He definitely won't be on guard against me.

As long as he is not on guard, I have the confidence to seriously injure him and ultimately leave him in the Cangmang Mountains." Xia Daoming said.

"Could it be that you are more than fifth-rank cultivation?" Liang Jingtang's heart jumped upon hearing this.

"Hehe, this disciple's true cultivation is sixth-rank, and as long as I seize that Ice Rabbit to brew into a medicinal soup with Jin Wu Grass, I will definitely be able to break through and become a seventh-rank. This disciple has Jin Wu Grass, but is still missing an Ice Rabbit." Xia Daoming said.

"Sixth-rank..." Liang Jingtang opened his mouth, stared at Xia Daoming for a long time, and said: "Actually, you already revealed it just now, it's just that the situation was perilous, and Master didn't pay attention or think much about it.

But Master heard that the medicinal soup brewed from Ice Rabbit and Jin Wu Grass is very fierce, and it requires a young seventh-rank Great Wu Shi with surging blood energy to withstand the medicinal power!"

"Hehe, Master, don't worry, I am naturally strong in physique, there won't be any problems, and just now when running, you should also be able to feel that my blood energy is far more surging than yours!" Xia Daoming said.

"That's right! Your blood energy is much more surging and powerful than mine, not inferior to a peak seventh-rank Great Wu Shi at all." Liang Jingtang nodded, then swallowed hard, moistened his dry throat, and said with a hint of ruthlessness in his eyes: "Since it can help you become a seventh-rank Great Wu Shi, damn it, let's do it!"

While the master and disciple were talking, they did not stop climbing.

By the time Liang Jingtang decided to take the risk, the two had already climbed to the steepest part of the cliff.

From here on, they needed vines or ropes to continue climbing up the mountain peak.

Just as the two were looking for vines, Xia Daoming's eyes suddenly lit up.

He saw a cluster of clouds and mist in the distance that did not disperse, and logically speaking, it was located at a high place, and with the sun shining, there should be no clouds and mist.

"Could it be Ice Purple Shouwu?" Xia Daoming's heart jumped, and he hurriedly moved horizontally.

After getting closer, through the clouds and mist that did not disperse, Xia Daoming vaguely saw purple vine leaves.

"It's Ice Purple Shouwu!" Liang Jingtang, who followed, said excitedly.

"That's right, I didn't expect our master and disciple's luck to be here!" Xia Daoming laughed, walked forward, and brushed away the clouds and mist, indeed revealing an Ice Purple Shouwu.

Where the Ice Purple Shouwu grew, there happened to be a crack, where some soil had accumulated, and the roots of the Ice Purple Shouwu were deeply rooted in it.

Xia Daoming took a small knife and carefully dug out the Ice Purple Shouwu, including the vine leaves and roots.

The purple Shouwu was faintly shaped like a human.

When it was dug out, the temperature in the surroundings seemed to drop quite a bit all at once.

"Gulp!" Liang Jingtang swallowed and said excitedly: "This, this should be at least four or five hundred years old."

"Four or five hundred years!" Xia Daoming's face showed excitement.

A hundred-year-old Ice Purple Shouwu had a great tonic effect on him, and previously it had helped him strengthen his meridians by almost one level.

A four or five hundred-year-old purple Shouwu would inevitably have a much more powerful effect.

"Master, let's go. Xu Zhiji will definitely be very happy to see this four or five hundred-year-old Ice Purple Shouwu." Xia Daoming calmed down quickly and smiled.

Liang Jingtang was stunned upon hearing this, and only then did he realize what Xia Daoming meant by these words.

"You... Master really misjudged you!" Liang Jingtang caught up with Xia Daoming and said with great emotion.

"Is it bad to misjudge?" Xia Daoming asked back.

"Good, of course good! Haha, the most correct thing I, Liang Jingtang, have done in this life is probably taking you as a disciple." Liang Jingtang was slightly startled upon hearing this, then laughed heartily.

At the peak of the mountain.

Xu Zhiji and Xu Shisen looked down with pale and ugly faces.

There was a shocking wound on Xu Zhiji's left arm, as if it had been cut by some sharp blade, the skin torn and flesh gaping, but the blood had already frozen.

"Grand-Uncle, are you okay?" Xu Shisen asked.

"I won't die! I really didn't expect that there would be a Rabbit King in this valley!" Xu Zhiji said, still having lingering fears.

"What should we do now?" Xu Shisen asked.

"Wait here first, and see if any of our Xu family members escape up." Xu Zhiji replied.

"What about the others?" Xu Shisen blurted out.

"Others? If it were you, would you still come to meet up with eyes wide open?" Xu Zhiji asked with a sneer.

Xu Shisen thought for a while, shook his head and said: "No, meeting up with us, on the return journey, there is definitely no escaping the fate of being cannon fodder.

It would be better to use the excuse of being chased by the Rabbit King and getting lost, and find a way to run back to Li Cheng by ourselves. In this way, it would be difficult for us to settle accounts with them later."

"You are not too stupid!" Xu Zhiji nodded.

Having said that, Xu Zhiji stopped talking, but sat leaning against the trunk of a towering giant tree, took out gold sore medicine, and applied it to his injured left arm.

Just now, he was carrying the Ice Rabbit's heart and Ice Purple Shouwu, and was focused on by the Rabbit King. Several ice arrows shot toward him in succession. If it weren't for his profound cultivation, he would have already died in the Cold Ice Valley.

But even so, he was still grazed on the arm by an ice arrow.

That sharp and cold ice arrow almost crippled his left arm.

"Grand-Uncle, let me help you apply the medicine!" Xu Shisen hurriedly said.

"No need, you watch below, see if anyone comes up, and also be on guard against the Rabbit King leaving the valley and killing its way up." Xu Zhiji said.

"Understood, Grand-Uncle!" Xu Shisen nodded.

Thus, the grandfather and grandson, one looked down, and one applied medicine to himself.

Soon, Xu Zhiji treated his arm injury and was about to stand up when he suddenly heard footsteps coming from the forest ahead, and then he saw Xia Daoming and Liang Jingtang, the master and disciple.

Seeing Xu Zhiji, the master and disciple's expressions changed significantly, and they hurriedly flashed behind a giant tree.

"Humph, Liang Jingtang, you two have quite a large life." Xu Zhiji sneered.

"Cough, cough, so the Elder and Young Master Shisen have already returned. We master and disciple were just preparing to find you to meet up!" Liang Jingtang walked out from behind the giant tree, his expression extremely unnatural.

"Is that so? I think you are trying to hide from us!" Xu Shisen sneered mockingly.

"How could that be!" Liang Jingtang said with a face full of "insincerity".

While Liang Jingtang was speaking, Xia Daoming had been hiding behind him, his hand quietly moving the bulging bundle on his shoulder to his back.

"Young man, what are you carrying in your bundle?" Xu Zhiji's eyes flashed with surprise, and he said indifferently.

"Nothing, nothing, just the Ice Purple Shouwu that the Elder gave this kid earlier in the valley." Xia Daoming said in a panic, his eyes dodging.

"Hehe, Xia Daoming, the Ice Purple Shouwu that Grand-Uncle gave you wasn't that big! Open the bundle!" Xu Shisen sneered sinisterly.

"It really is just..." Xia Daoming said stubbornly.

"Open it!" Xu Zhiji interrupted coldly, unquestionable.

"Yes!" Xia Daoming responded helplessly, then took off the bundle.

"Elder, you said before that for the Ice Purple Shouwu harvested, we only need to hand over half, and we can keep half. You are an eighth-rank Great Wu Shi, an Elder of the Xu family, your words must count, right!" After taking off the bundle, Xia Daoming hesitated for a moment, then looked up at Xu Zhiji and said.

"Of course! Open it quickly." Xu Zhiji said without thinking, his gaze toward the bundle in Xia Daoming's hand really showing a trace of curiosity.

"Fine!" Xia Daoming gritted his teeth and opened the bundle with trembling hands.

Immediately, cold air radiated out, and a layer of faint water mist actually formed near the bundle all at once.

"Half-human Ice Purple Shouwu, this, this should be at least four or five hundred years old!" Seeing this, Xu Zhiji couldn't help but stand up abruptly, his expression excited.

"Elder, your words must count!" Xia Daoming hugged the bundle tightly, with the posture of wanting to perish together if Xu Zhiji went back on his word.

"Don't worry, my words will definitely count. You quickly bring this Ice Purple Shouwu over, let me carefully identify it and see the specific age." Xu Zhiji said anxiously.

"Fine!" Xia Daoming walked toward Xu Zhiji step by step.

Xu Zhiji stared at the bundle in Xia Daoming's hand with burning eyes.

Xu Shisen was no exception.

PS: Yesterday, I quickly returned to the top of the Xianxia signed new book list again. I am truly very grateful for the strong support of all book friends. On a new day, I continue to ask for collections and follow-ups. If book friends who have book lists find it convenient, please collect and comment, thank you. ===== CHAPTER 45 =====