Chapter 192

The spring rain was continuous and most nourishing. The green seedlings emerged from thousands of acres of fertile fields. The farmers wearing coir raincoats stood up from the fields, looking at the troops returning in a hurry with worry.

"My family's baby joined the army, I don't know if he was injured..."

"I have taught that baby for more than ten years, he shouldn't do such a thing!"

The muddy soil was crushed by the wheels, and the soldiers' armor flashing with cold light collided in the rain, making a clanging sound. The crystal clear raindrops dripped on the sharp long spear and split into two, rolling down and dripping on Xu Gongming's eyebrows.

Xu Gongming looked at the pitch-black carriage in front, carefully thought about the performance along the way, and determined that he had not failed the teachings of Xu Laoyezi. Only then did he feel relieved, and saw a person riding a horse coming from the front, looking at the flag inserted behind the person in the misty drizzle.

"Riding a horse in the rain... it seems there is an urgent letter!"

Xu Gongming cheered up, stepped forward quickly, saw that the person had the cultivation of the third layer of Fetal Breath, reined in the horse in front of the carriage, rolled off the horse, handed a bamboo tube with both hands, and said in a deep voice:

"A letter from Huaqian Mountain!"

Xu Gongming took it, stepped onto the carriage with one step, shook off the rain, and saw Li Pingyi lift the curtain and come out, take the bamboo tube, and bend back inside.

"The first pulse of the small sect..."

Xu Gongming looked at Li Pingyi with envy. Li Yesheng's branch had always been the confidant of the main family, quite respected among the various branches and the Wang surnames, always considering themselves the confidants of the main pulse, not interacting with ordinary small sects and branches, naturally making him envious.

"It is only hateful that the few elders were useless when Xuanxuan Gong, who took care of my Xu family the most, was in charge of the family, otherwise how could it be like this today..."

Xu Gongming jumped off the carriage, looked at the person riding the horse, and smiled:

"I wonder what your name is?"

"Tian Zhongqing."

The boy raised his wet eyebrows and answered politely.

"So it is a child of the Tian family."

Xu Gongming smiled slightly and terminated the topic in time. He remembered Xu Laoyezi's instruction not to associate with the Wang surnames, and shut his mouth without saying a word.

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"Young Family Head, a letter from Huaqian Mountain."

Li Pingyi took off the cloth cover on the wooden tube and walked to Li Yuanxiu's side. Li Yuanxiu withdrew his gaze from the wooden slip and said in a low voice:

"Huaqian Mountain? What can happen on Huaqian Mountain..."

Taking the wooden slip, he slapped the wax seal with a slap, Li Yuanxiu took out the white cloth inside and read it carefully. Only one sentence was written on it:

"Secret, a letter from the An family spy, An Jiyan spoke out after getting drunk, and it was found that An Jingming had broken through to the eighth layer of Qi Refining."

"Eighth layer of Qi Refining?!"

Li Yuanxiu was stunned, raised his head incredibly, and said softly:

"How is it possible! That An Jingming... he is only twenty-three or twenty-four, right? Could it be that he is going to break through to Foundation Establishment at the age of thirty?! What kind of talent is this!"

Li Pingyi was dumb and unable to answer. Li Yuanxiu frowned and thought for a breath, saying in a deep voice:

"Call that messenger in."

Li Pingyi nodded and went out. Before long, he led a person in. He took off the coir raincoat on his body, his tight clothes were slightly wet, he bowed his hands respectfully, and answered:

"Tian Zhongqing greets the Young Family Head."

"Tian Zhongqing..."

Li Yuanxiu felt the name was familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while, so he had to say softly:

"Which generation are you from?"

Tian Zhongqing saw Li Yuanxiu for the first time, but he was not timid. He raised his head and smiled:

"Tian Yun, the wife of Xiangping Gong, is my father's aunt, and is my aunt."

"Oh."

Li Yuanxiu saw that he was seventeen or eighteen years old, already had the cultivation of the third layer of Fetal Breath, and was calm and composed, with a certain bearing, so he kept this person in his heart, nodded and said:

"You send this letter to the back account of the army and hand it to my father."

"Yes."

Tian Zhongqing took the wooden slip, packed it in a cloth bag, and because there was no wax seal, he had to cover it with two layers of cloth, stepped down from the carriage, got on the horse, and walked west along the army formation.

"This person is the eldest grandson of Old Master Tian and the leader of the Tian family juniors."

Li Pingyi reminded him, Li Yuanxiu nodded and said:

"Not bad."

Rolling up the wooden slip in his hand lightly, Li Yuanxiu thought to himself:

"No wonder the surrounding families don't let the outsiders of the clan cultivate immortals. How can a family compare to the children of various families? If there are too many people, there will always be a few geniuses. When the outsiders become the top cultivators in the family, it is hard to say what the family name will be!"

"Fortunately, our family has the Dharma Mirror Talisman Seed, which can bless the speed of cultivation, so that the talent of the generations is not too bad, so we dare to use it with confidence..."

Withdrawing his thoughts, Li Yuanxiu picked up the wooden slip on the desk lightly and said in a low voice:

"An Jingming's talent and feelings... An Jiyan is a person who does things improperly and is rough, how can he live long."

Thinking carefully, Li Yuanxiu felt quite uneasy in his heart, put down the wooden slip in his hand, and said in a deep voice:

"No, I still have to find my father in person!"

After speaking, he put on the coir raincoat and walked quickly off the carriage to find Li Xuanxuan.

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Li Tongya slowly opened his eyes, waited for a few breaths, and the door of the carriage was knocked lightly. He spat out a breath of white Qi and said softly:

"Come in and speak!"

Li Xuanxuan pushed the door and entered. The rain outside the carriage was getting heavier, but he did not get any rain on his body. Li Xuanxuan was also forty years old. The white hair on his temples had disappeared a lot because of breaking through to Qi Refining. He looked to be in his early thirties, with a solemn expression, followed by Li Yuanxiu. His body was slightly wet with rain.

"Uncle, An Jingming has broken through to the eighth layer of Qi Refining."

Li Xuanxuan raised his head to look at Li Tongya, his expression serious, and said again:

"This matter is of great importance. I came to report as soon as I got the news."

Li Tongya raised his eyebrows, horrified in his heart. He had expected An Jingming's cultivation speed, but he did not expect it to be to this extent, and said in a deep voice:

"An Jingming is not yet thirty, right!"

"Twenty-three or twenty-four."

Li Tongya calculated the time. The last time he saw An Jingming was seven or eight years ago. At that time, this child was fifteen years old and had the cultivation of the third layer of Qi Refining. Now he was at the eighth layer of Qi Refining. Li Tongya said in a low voice:

"Counting fully, one layer a year..."

Li Tongya felt increasingly incredible in his heart. The time for a normal cultivator to break through a layer is more than five years. Three to five years is considered fast. If the talent is not good, it even takes seven or eight years... An Jingming actually broke through five layers within seven years, and two layers were the late stage of Qi Refining that required deep accumulation. It was almost catching up with Li Tongya!

You must know that if Li Tongya had not been taught the Heavy Sea Long Whale Record, his current cultivation would be at most the seventh layer of Qi Refining, or even lower than An Jingming.

Li Xuanxuan below had also just broken through to Qi Refining and practiced for a period of time, knowing the difficulty of cultivation. Seeing Li Tongya silent, he felt quite uneasy and said in a low voice:

"The spiritual veins of Huajia Mountain are shallow and the spiritual veins are not good, even worse than Huaqian Mountain, let alone that Qingchi Peak. I heard that those sect disciples who take genius treasures and soak in spiritual liquid are only one layer every two or three years! Where is the reason for one layer a year?"

Li Xuanxuan paused here and gritted his teeth:

"I have heard gossip from others in the market, saying that there is a saying that immortal cultivators reincarnate and re-cultivate, so the progress is rapid. Could this person be... some immortal god reincarnated..."

"Impossible."

Li Tongya was also shocked by this, shook his head, and said in a deep voice:

"If he were a great power above Golden Core reincarnated, we would have been swept away by him long ago. How could the Yu family still be jumping around here?"

(End of chapter)