Chapter 25: Mysterious Disappearance

In fact, at the beginning, the girl's cultivation time was not fixed.

However, as they became familiar, Seeing Ji You found that the chances of the two meeting were becoming more and more frequent.

He suspected that the girl seemed to be cooperating with his time. The reason was very simple, because his own cultivation time was fixed: practicing martial arts during the day and seeking the Dao in the evening. If she didn't want to see him, she could avoid him.

And so the two maintained this tacit understanding, sitting on two black stones and cultivating separately.

Cultivation is originally a boring thing, but it seems that having a tacit Daoist friend is also an excellent thing.

However, in the past seven or eight days, the girl had always been unhappy, a bit inexplicably irritable, and would get angry if he looked at her two more times.

The advantage was that the irritable girl was no longer satisfied with swinging her sleeves, but kicked him out directly with those snow-white feet.

Isn't this a kind of reward?

"Nineteen breaths..."

"If this continues, I should be able to gather seven streaks of profound light before the year ends..."

After being kicked away, Seeing Ji You slowly opened his eyes, his eyes full of golden clouds.

At this moment, the fifth streak of profound light condensed!

Having a strong spiritual sense has another advantage, which is that his five senses can reach an unprecedented height, even observing the flapping of flying insects in detail.

Some women in the courtyard, like the Yunzhou young lady Lu Qingqiu, want style but not temperature, so even if it's cold, they only wear gauze skirts, using spiritual energy to resist the cold.

Every time they met in the Enlightenment Field, Seeing Ji You even felt a bit embarrassed to watch carefully, and stopped after a dozen glances.

No calendar days in the mountains, don't know the year when the cold is over.

Seeing Ji You opened his eyes again, the sky was vast, the cold air in the distant mountains was drifting, and the harsh winter had arrived.

He reached out and took out his coin purse, weighed it, and decided to go to the Immortal Dining Hall to fill his stomach.

Xiang Kuangcheng came over a few days ago, saying he had taken a position in the Immortal Supervision, with a monthly salary of fifteen taels, and split seven taels to him.

This Immortal Supervision is a new government office set up by the Emperor, which is said to be specially serving the Immortal Sects. It doesn't look like it wants to revitalize imperial power, but rather like it wants to be a lickspittle of the Immortal Sects.

But from Seeing Ji You's point of view, this might be showing weakness to the enemy, indicating that the Great Xia Emperor is not without brains.

Seeing Ji You walked toward the Bai Yu Platform while practicing the Mountain-Shaking Fist.

He is a dual cultivator of martial arts and Dao. Although it is said that martial arts are ultimately minor skills, he has never fallen behind.

It's just that he doesn't go to the Sword-Testing Forest very often now, because he has basically mastered the foundations of sword techniques, spear techniques, and fist techniques, and can perform a set of moves while walking or sitting.

In addition, Wang Xinan also begged him not to go, saying that he was very relaxed as a martial arts instructor before, and he has never been happy since he came.

He also said that as long as he went a few times less, he wouldn't want that tael of silver.

This matter made the bandit feel embarrassed, so he gladly agreed.

Walking to the Bai Yu Platform for ascending immortals, Seeing Ji You suddenly saw thirteen instructors, including Cao Jiaoxi, just returning from outside, dusty and with deeply furrowed brows.

It seems that since the beginning of winter, the outer courtyard has been a bit messy, and Shengjing City has also been a bit messy.

"Cao Jiaoxi!"

"Ah? Oh, Seeing Ji You."

Cao Jingsong stopped at the Bai Yu Platform, said goodbye to other instructors, and walked toward Seeing Ji You: "Is cultivation going smoothly?"

Seeing Ji You released his spiritual light, and five streaks of spiritual light appeared on his forehead.

"My goodness, you are extraordinary. Could it be that you will enter the Upper Five Realms before the end of the year?"

"No, I still plan to stabilize, not wanting to be too anxious."

Seeing Ji You was a bit worried about his broken spiritual spring, so he left a pretext here.

"Stabilizing is also fine. After all, Chu He is now behind closed doors, afraid that his Dao heart is completely broken, and Lu Qingqiu has only gathered two streaks of profound light, so there is no need to be too anxious."

Cao Jingsong thought of one thing after saying this: "By the way, have you seen Zhang Congzhi and Cai Ziyao?"

"I've seen Cai Ziyao, probably before the beginning of winter. She's quite good, wearing a plain snow thousand-water skirt, with big eyes. As for Zhang Congzhi..."

Seeing Ji You furrowed his brows for a long while: "Who is he?"

"Zhang Congzhi is in the same period as you, often seeking the Dao in the Enlightenment Field. You don't recognize him, but you recognize Cai Ziyao who doesn't often go to the Enlightenment Field?"

"That Zhang Congzhi must have no features."

Cao Jingsong waved his hand: "But this is not important. What is important is that these two have disappeared since the beginning of winter, and I and other instructors have gone out to search for three days without a trace."

Seeing Ji You was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself that it was rare for cultivators to disappear.

He seemed to smell a trace of bad taste, but couldn't say where the problem was.

"Were there any signs before they left, such as 'Junior Sister, I want to see if your Dao heart is accessible'?"

Cao Jiaoxi spat: "The two of them didn't disappear at the same time, separated by seven days."

Seeing Ji You pondered for a long while: "Perhaps they didn't disappear for the same reason."

"Whether it is or not, people are gone, and the clothes they often wear and the valuable pills and spirit stones were not brought with them. They shouldn't have left for so long."

"Could it be that they encountered some misfortune?"

"Who dares to attack Heavenly Tian Shuyuan disciples under the nose of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan? I don't think so."

Cao Jiaoxi said, and then advised him to cultivate the Dao well, and then left in a hurry.

Seeing Ji You watched him disappear, and then walked back to the Bishui Lake Garden while practicing fist techniques.

However, before he could enter his door, he saw a group of fellow cultivators coming toward him.

There were two in the Upper Realm of Condensation and Transformation, Bai Rulong and Qian Yunxiao, and three female cultivators, Lu Qingqiu, Sun Zhiqiao, and Lou Siyi.

"Young Master Ji."

"What's the matter, everyone?"

Lu Qingqiu smiled faintly: "Today is the Winter Solstice. Qingqiu is the host, inviting the young master to gather at Hongding Restaurant. I wonder if you can give me some face?"

Since meeting in the Immortal Dining Hall last time, she had repeatedly shown the intention of making friends.

This is the young lady of a great family. Even if it is a rival in cultivation, once she sees that the other party has a bright future, she will immediately change her mind.

"Good!"

"Since that's the case, let's meet at the Divine Gate and Divine Dao at the hour of 3:00 PM."

Seeing Ji You glanced: "Who else?"

Lu Qingqiu nodded slightly: "Young Master Bai went to call Chu He earlier, but he was not in the room."

"Then let's meet at 3:00 PM."

Seeing Ji You bowed to the crowd, then entered the door, and took out a letter from the drawer.

This was sent from Yuyang County. He hadn't had time to read it when he was cultivating the Dao earlier. He thought it must be Old Qiu asking him for peace.

Sure enough, the letter started with Old Qiu asking him if he was doing well, and also saying that Qiu Ru had grown half a head taller and was always nagging about when the young master would return.

In addition, Fang Zhongzheng went to the Qiu family and said that Old Qiu had been quite agile in doing things for the Ji family back then, so he asked him to be an official in the county government.

In addition, Old Qiu also mentioned one thing, to be precise, a strange thing.

He said that there seemed to be evil spirits near the Thirty-Mile Shop, which caused livestock to disappear frequently in the few days after he left.

Seeing Ji You finished reading the letter, thinking to himself, strange, how come he only encountered things that disappeared.

The Heavenly Tian Shuyuan lost disciples, and Old Qiu wrote to say that the Thirty-Mile Shop lost livestock...

(The follow-up will connect the foreshadowing bit by bit, ask for monthly tickets and follow-up reading.)

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