Chapter 5: Creepy Uncle [Thanks to Alliance Leader Xiao Hehe]

"I don't know either!" Ji Wenyue looked around and said.

"What? You don't know? How can you not know? Since you don't know, couldn't you have left a living mouth?" Xia Daoming was dumbfounded this time, his mouth already reprimanding like a machine gun.

"I, I..." Ji Wenyue didn't expect Xia Daoming to be quite friendly before, and his gaze was also very "kind", but in the blink of an eye, he reprimanded her repeatedly, and she was so startled that she lowered her head aggrievedly.

"You, what about you?" Xia Daoming said unhappily.

Originally, he was lost alone, and now it was good, he had to take care of a young lady from a wealthy family.

What's the use of being aggressively well-endowed? It's not as good as an extra bag of water.

Thinking of water, Xia Daoming hurriedly ran towards the earthen mound.

"I, I was panicked when I was being pursued, so I didn't know where I ran to at all, and just now I was worried that Uncle wouldn't be able to beat Liao Min, so I hurriedly killed him without thinking too much." Ji Wenyue said while raising her head, her eyes watery, wanting to win some sympathy.

There was no other way. The desert was vast, and seeing the sun was about to set, if this creepy uncle in front of her abandoned her, she would be miserable.

Having been exposed to the wind and dew in the desert for more than thirty days, Xia Daoming's hair was messy, his beard was unshaven, and although his voice sounded young, he looked quite old and weathered.

Especially that gaze, which was even more seasoned.

As a result, when Ji Wenyue raised her head, the chest heaved violently.

It turned out that Xia Daoming wasn't listening to her at all, but was reaching out and fumbling on Liao Min's body.

After finishing with Liao Min, he went to touch the other five corpses.

Finally, Xia Daoming went to lead all six horses over.

At this time, Ji Wenyue had also calmed down and took the initiative to take the horse bag hanging on her dead horse.

"Uncle, where should we go now?" Ji Wenyue asked.

"How old are you?" Xia Daoming asked instead of answering.

"Ah, um, I'm seventeen this year." Ji Wenyue was stunned for a moment, then answered honestly.

"Only seventeen? Sure enough, the nutrition of a wealthy family is good!" Xia Daoming was taken aback, his gaze came back to look at the chest again, and he said with great emotion.

"Uncle, the sun is about to set, where should we go now?" Ji Wenyue looked at Xia Daoming helplessly and asked again.

She had now adapted somewhat to Xia Daoming's jumping way of speaking and his seasoned gaze.

"Uncle is twenty-four this year!" Xia Daoming answered the question irrelevantly.

"What, Uncle is only twenty-four this year?" This time it was Ji Wenyue's turn to be taken aback.

Because apart from the young voice, Ji Wenyue couldn't see that Xia Daoming looked like he was twenty-four.

"Do you think it's appropriate to call a twenty-four-year-old man Uncle?" Xia Daoming was speechless at Ji Wenyue's slow reaction.

"Ah!" Ji Wenyue finally reacted and hurriedly said: "Oh, then I'll call you Big Brother."

"Sigh, speaking of which, I haven't heard a young and beautiful girl like you call me Big Brother for many years." Xia Daoming suddenly became weathered and sentimental.

"Ah!" Even though Ji Wenyue was born into a big family and had seen many scenes, being praised as young and beautiful by a man like Xia Daoming to her face, she blushed instantly.

In the sunset, Ji Wenyue's cheeks were flushed, her legs were slender, and her chest was upright, making Xia Daoming's heart surge.

Youth is good!

The setting sun was like blood.

A young man and a young woman, two young people, each riding a horse, walked towards the direction where the outline of the mountain range could be faintly seen.

The man was also leading a horse in his hand.

Several horse bags were hanging on the horse's back.

This man and woman were naturally Xia Daoming and Ji Wenyue.

Ma Pi need grain and water.

The road ahead was confusing, Xia Daoming only kept two horses for transport, one horse to carry supplies and luggage, and the other three were set free.

As for the final outcome, whether they lived or died, it could only depend on their own good fortune.

On the way, Xia Daoming had roughly understood Ji Wenyue's situation.

She came from the Ji family, a large medicinal herb merchant in Li Cheng.

Although she was just a woman, she had shown amazing talent in medicine refining since she was a child.

Many incomplete ancient prescriptions left by the Ji family were brought back to light through her hands.

The Changchun Hall of the Ji family was also flourishing because of her.

Therefore, although she was only a seventeen-year-old woman, her status in the family was very important.

This time, the Ji family received news from the branch store in Eya City in the north, saying that someone had brought a five-hundred-year-old Phoenix Jade Grass for sale.

A five-hundred-year-old Phoenix Jade Grass is no small matter. The branch manager's ability to identify medicinal herbs was limited, and he was afraid of making a mistake, and the price of the Phoenix Jade Grass was extremely expensive, which was not something he could decide, so he sent someone to report to the proprietor.

The Ji family attached great importance to the five-hundred-year-old Phoenix Jade Grass, so they immediately sent a clan elder at the level of a fifth-rank Wu Shi to accompany Ji Wenyue to Eya City.

As a result, the two encountered an ambush and assassination by the Hundred Medicine Hall, a northern competitor, halfway there.

Ji Wenyue escaped with the desperate containment of the clan elder, but was eventually caught up. If she hadn't met Xia Daoming, not only would many of the Ji family's medicine refining secrets have fallen into the hands of the Hundred Medicine Hall, but Ji Wenyue would also have been placed under house arrest by the Hundred Medicine Hall to work as free labor for them.

"Where did you get this magical amulet?" Xia Daoming took out the talisman that looked like paper but wasn't paper, and asked with a grave expression.

"This amulet was passed down by our Ji family ancestors, and there aren't many left now. Because I have a special status in the family, I was bestowed two." Ji Wenyue said, her eyes fixed on the talisman in Xia Daoming's hand.

Xia Daoming very decisively put the talisman away, hid it close to his body, and continued to ask: "Then where did your Ji family get this amulet? Could it be that there are gods, immortals, and demons in this world?"

"I don't know if there are any, but there are definitely cultivators."

"Cultivators?" Xia Daoming's heart skipped a beat, and his mood became exceptionally heavy.

He once yearned for the free and easy life of an immortal who "travels to the North Sea in the morning and the Cangwu in the evening".

But this world was dangerous enough, and now he had finally possessed some self-protection strength, and with the system by his side, as long as he didn't make trouble or court death, and developed solidly step by step, not to mention a Great Wu Shi, even a Martial Dao Grandmaster was not a dream.

Once he became a Martial Dao Grandmaster, in this chaotic world, dominating one side would definitely not be a problem.

By then, he could hold feasts at home every day, and if he was happy, he could throw out a few small goals. Just thinking about this life made it very promising.

But once this world contained terrifying existences like cultivators, even if he became a Martial Dao Grandmaster, he would still be a mortal, and others could crush him with a single spell.

This contrast was simply a plummet!

"That's right, it is rumored that cultivators are a group of mysterious figures who possess very magical, near-immortal means. Our Ji family ancestors once befriended a cultivator.

Many medicine prescriptions of the Ji family's Changchun Hall are said to have been passed down from this cultivator, and of course, that amulet was also bestowed by that cultivator, but after several generations of consumption, there are not many left." Ji Wenyue said, looking at Xia Daoming with a trace of resentment.

Xia Daoming ignored it and asked: "What happened to that cultivator later?"

"Later, for some reason, that cultivator stopped appearing, and there was not even a trace of news." Ji Wenyue said.

"Are there cultivators in Li Cheng?" Xia Daoming asked.

"Cultivators are extraordinary and refined, mysterious and ethereal, and usually do not appear in the secular world at all. Even if there are, it is not something someone at my level can know." Ji Wenyue said, with a trace of awe and yearning in her eyes.

"Hmm." Xia Daoming nodded, his mood contradictory.

On one hand, he didn't hope there were cultivators in Li Cheng, which would greatly increase unknown dangers; on the other hand, he hoped there were cultivators in Li Cheng, so that perhaps he would have a chance to embark on the path of cultivation.

However, Xia Daoming soon mocked himself and shook his head.

Why think so much?

His greatest reliance now is the system and martial arts, so naturally, he must find a way to improve his martial arts cultivation and make full use of the system.

In this way, regardless of whether there is a chance to cultivate, at least he can protect himself and stand firm in this secular world, rather than being like his master Qiu Zhiheng, who was killed by others due to a moment of carelessness.

"By the way, when I fought with Elder Liao just now, his force was very special, actually able to penetrate through my palm. What is going on?" Xia Daoming quickly turned to ask about Elder Liao.

This was what he needed to pay attention to and understand most urgently right now. ===== CHAPTER 6 =====