Heavenly Dao Formula

Working with the best of the Luo family's new generation of disciples... sounds like a good idea.

Not only is Luo Qingqing capable, but her appearance is also a good choice. With such an outstanding woman by her side, the future work must be very interesting, right?

"Hey, what are you giggling about?" A voice full of disgust interrupted Xia Fan's thoughts.

"Uh," he came back to his senses, scooped up a spoonful of broth and brought it to the fox demon's mouth, "I'm thinking about the future... What do you think about Gyeonggi?"

Thanks to the fact that few people set foot in Qingshan, the hunting team gained a lot in one afternoon. Under the leadership of "Yandi" who was born as a hunter, they not only brought back more than ten hares and deer, but also lucky enough to catch a pair of mountain deer. Dinner for the rest of the candidates. This bowl of minced venison stew was specially prepared by him for the recovering fox demon. Considering that the other party was inconvenient to move, and eating by himself would easily tear the wound, he ignored Li's protest and simply fed the other party mouthful.

The fox demon grinned after touching the spoon, as if being scalded.

"Ah... I'm sorry," Xia Fan took it back and bragged, "It should be fine now."

Unexpectedly, Li looked at him even more strangely, as if he was looking at an abnormal person. After a while, she drank the broth slowly, "Why did you suddenly ask about Shang Yuan?"

Shangyuan City is the capital of Qi State, and it is also the location of the important place of Gyeonggi in people's mouth.

"It's nothing, I just think about what will happen if I go there in the future." Xia Fan stirred the minced meat in the bowl, "Someone told me that the candidates who ranked top in the scholar's examination will be assigned to the Privy Council in Gyeonggi, but As a royal capital, there should be very few evil phenomena there, right? There are a lot of alchemists, are you usually idle?"

"I haven't been there, but I heard from my master that Shangyuan looks magnificent and prosperous, but it is full of dangers in the dark. It is not easy for all the alchemists who can take root there."

"Dangerous?" Xia Fan asked in surprise.

"You don't think that the Privy Council is specially used to deal with evil spirits, do you?" Li said with a sarcasm smile, and this expression seemed familiar——Xia Fan vaguely remembered that she mentioned before that "the Privy Council is far more powerful than evil." You imagine the dreadful 'time when it's the same smile. "That's right, there are no mass graves in big cities, and the order is much better than in small places, but as the place where Daqi's power is concentrated, how can Shangyuan be calm? According to my master, there are not only many alchemists there, but also Many capable people and strangers from other places, such as Buddhist scriptures from across the ocean, missionaries from the West Pole, and visiting missions from neighboring countries... Just monitoring them is enough to make the Privy Council feel devastated gone."

"What's the meaning?"

"When the enemy uses spells to plot evil, if the superior is not prepared accordingly, wouldn't there be no room for resistance?"

Xia Fan couldn't help being taken aback.

"Having power that ordinary people don't have, but only using it to deal with evil spirits is too wasteful." Li narrowed his eyes and said, "It is a fact that monsters harm people, but the number is only a fraction. The ones who really kill more are always you. Human beings, but you don’t know it yourself. Since alchemists can become sharp blades, how to use weapons in normal times and how to use them now, isn’t this a very simple truth?”

"Before you didn't have time to ask me how I got hurt, I'll tell you now." She recounted the whole process of fighting Ba Xingtian, "This person is what I call a 'weapon', I can feel him The strong evil spirit on his body means that the lives lost in his hands are not a thousand, but hundreds. And this person is only a guard of the Privy Council. He has more. As for how many evil spirits have been killed, do the officials sitting in Shangyuan City really care? Let me say..."

Li suddenly stopped, because Xia Fan had brought a new spoonful of soup to her mouth.

She glared at him angrily, and finally opened her mouth obediently.

"I thought it was a bit simple just now, but this situation should not be regarded as normal." Xia Fan defended his ethnic group, "People always want to live a good life. As long as someone takes the lead, the world will always change. Get better and better. At that time, even if you have a powerful weapon in your hand, you will not use it easily because of restraint."

Nonsense. Although the fox demon thought so in her heart, the inexplicable confidence revealed in the other party's words made her take it back, and finally just snorted softly, "It sounds like you have seen it before."

"Didn't we all come here like this? If there is no progress, humans should still be drinking blood from trees."

"I hope you can still think like this in the future." Li shrugged disapprovingly.

"If I go to Gyeonggi..." Xia Fan paused, "Will you go with me?"

The fox demon was silent for a while, and then shook his ears, "Don't worry, I don't have the habit of reneging on debts. Although there is a lot of risk for the demon, the opportunity is also not small - if there is a place that is most suitable to detain a Qingjian, I'm afraid there is only the Privy Council in Dadu. It's just..."

"Just what?"

"Do you really think you can rank among the best in the scholar's examination?" Li rolled his eyes, "Forgive me, with your strength, I can knock you down with one tail before I get hurt, but being eloquent is not enough to destroy Sha Yezhong I told you not to force it before, and it’s okay to wait another three years, but in the end, you were lucky, not only did you not run away, but you also wanted to get a first name? Think about how to save your life in the wild night!"

...

By the time Xia Fan fell asleep, it was already half an hour.

But Li didn't fall asleep - this was the first time she spent the night in a small room with a human while awake.

The other party re-laid blankets and quilts on the floor, which can be regarded as non-interference, but considering that she is a demon, such a small distance is already considered inconceivable.

Li doesn't care about the red tape of human beings. It's all prudence whether a man and a woman give or take a kiss. The key lies in the difference in identity between her and the other party. Master didn't mind her approaching, it was based on the difference in strength between the two sides, but the person in front of him didn't have the strength to stabilize his head, yet he slept quite peacefully, it was a bit inconceivable.

But when it comes to unbelievable, why isn't she herself? Determined to avenge the Privy Council, but shared the same room with the alchemist who was determined to be admitted to the Privy Council, and accepted the other party's care openly.

What exactly went wrong?

She couldn't figure it out for a while.

When the moonlight outside the window shone on the empty porridge bowl, the fox demon's eyes also froze.

What emerged in my mind was the scene of Xia Fan blowing on the spoon.

Can anyone really do this to a demon?

No... No one would do that, unless the other party didn't treat her as a demon, or a different kind.

An answer suddenly appeared in Li's heart.

She was surprised to find that from the first time she met Xia Fan until now, he didn't seem to show any sense of rejection, as if he was not fundamentally different from herself.

This is also the reason why she felt that the other party was "abnormal" at that time - even the master would not do this. At least she could feel that in Master's eyes, she was still a foreigner, a human being, and a world of difference from human beings, so she repeatedly taught herself not to get close to other people easily.

But Xia Fan didn't. His eyes were always ordinary. This "ordinary" even gave Li the illusion that he was being ignored, so that he briefly ignored its irrationality. When she thinks back, she realizes how rare it was.

It seems that the other party is not getting along with the demon for the first time, but has experienced similar scenes thousands of times.

But in his mouth, he was clearly the first monster he saw.

I have never been in contact with it, but I am used to it, which is somewhat similar to knowing it from birth. It's just...does such a thing really exist in the world?

...

Two days is not a long time. At 1:00 PM on the seventh day, the rest of the candidates had gathered in the center of Qingshan Town, ready to face the last hurdle of the doctoral examination.

Xia Fan climbed to the top floor of the hotel——the number one wing here was changed into a "defense command post" because of its excellent view. Standing by the window, he could have a panoramic view of the town.

It was about six o'clock at this time, just as the sun was setting, and its red-orange afterglow had dyed half of the sky red. The green hills stretching as far as the eye can see are no longer lush and green, and large shadows are scattered at the foot of the hills, as if reminding the arrival of night; with the birds returning to their nests in the distance and the chirping insects, everything seems to be no different from usual.

"Looking at this peaceful beauty, sometimes I really feel that my deduction is wrong." Luo Qingqing was the first to notice Xia Fan's arrival, put down the file in his hand and walked over and said.

He always felt that since the speech that day, the attitude of the Luo family genius towards him had become much more active.

"Isn't it better to be wrong? Holding the source of the spiritual fire in your hand is already equivalent to being qualified, so you can wait until tomorrow." Xia Fan pretended to be relaxed, "As for this town—with the power of the Privy Council, it should not Let us compensate for the demolition damage?"

The so-called ordinary does not include the town itself.

After some renovations, the inner circle of Qingshan Town has been integrated into one. Compared with ordinary fortresses, it doesn't even have a "city gate" - the only entrance and exit channel was completely sealed off after the hunting team finished the last hunt , theoretically put an end to the possibility of the enemy swarming in. Of course, from another aspect, it also cuts off the idea of ​​candidates fleeing the battle.

On the other hand, the houses in the outer ring were demolished to such an extent that it would not be an exaggeration to describe it as a mess.

Hearing the claim of compensation for the loss, Luo Qingqing couldn't help but smile.

"I have to admit, your plan is very good." Following Luo gently came Fei Nian. As the leader of the Fei family's children, his attitude towards the stay-at-home plan was completely different from the Fang family's - perhaps because of the other party's family. Dissatisfied with occupying the shaft first, or wanting to show the strength of the Fei family in front of the proctors, he not only actively participated in the defensive decision-making, but also took on many defensive tasks. "Although the well will restrict the evil spirits, it will also restrict us. Now that they are placed on the ground, everyone can not only commandeer and occupy the superior location, but also can rotate flexibly to attack the strong. No matter from any aspect, it is better than shrinking underground. many."

"You can wait until tomorrow to praise me," Xia Fan smiled. "I have some experience in arranging people to repair things, but leading a team to face the enemy is not what I am good at. The key to whether you can survive until tomorrow morning Look at the two conductors."

"Don't worry, this is what the Fei family is good at." When Fei Nian was about to say something more, a short exclamation interrupted the conversation of the three.

"Look in the direction of Qingshan!"

This reminder immediately drew the attention of everyone in the wing room to the window.

Xia Fan is no exception.

I saw layers of white mist rising in the mountains at some point, just like the water vapor rising from the woods after a heavy rain—but it doesn’t feel light at all, and it doesn’t reflect the afterglow of the evening, as if it has nothing to do with this world.

Under the spread of the fog, the outline of the green hills quickly became blurred, followed by the dense forests and mountain roads, thatched houses and streets in the distance.

In just a few quarters of an hour, the area around the center of the town was covered in whiteness, and even the dilapidated houses that were a hundred paces away became faintly visible.