Outside of Time

On this day, Tingyu, who had lived in the purple soil since she was a child and had difficulty knowing the sufferings of the world, had a dream.

In the dream, Chen Feiyuan was making things difficult for Xu Qing, and she was very angry.

Until early in the morning, Tingyu woke up from her dream, and her mood was a little different from before. After arriving at Master Bai's tent, she was a little absent-minded while sitting there reciting the pharmacopoeia, and looked up from time to time outside the tent.

Until I saw... Chen Feiyuan.

Tingyu rolled her eyelids and remembered yesterday's dream.

Chen Feiyuan breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed his eyes and opened the tent. He sat down and was about to sit next to Tingyu. The next moment, the futon was moved away by Tingyu.

Chen Feiyuan was stunned and looked at Tingyu.

"What are you doing?"

"Where are you sitting?" Tingyu was too lazy to pay attention to Chen Feiyuan and pointed to where Xu Qing usually sat.

"Why!" Chen Feiyuan suddenly stopped and his eyes widened.

"Just because you don't study hard, and because you often ask for leave during this period, I'm annoyed by you sitting here. Is that enough?"

Tingyu's eyes widened and she spoke very quickly. Chen Feiyuan was stunned again. After a while, she muttered a few words, as if she didn't dare to provoke him, and sat down at Xu Qing's seat with depression.

"Oh, Tingyu, you..." Chen Feiyuan just started to speak after sitting down, but before he could finish speaking, Tingyu's eyes showed evil.

"Don't say the word alas. What if someone hears you and misunderstands you?"

"Ah? What's wrong with the word alas?" When Chen Feiyuan looked confused, the door of the tent was opened and Xu Qing walked in.

Seeing Xu Qing, Tingyu had two shallow dimples on her face, smiled, and patted the futon next to her that originally belonged to Chen Feiyuan.

"Junior brother, sit here."

Xu Qing was startled, and Chen Feiyuan was stunned for a moment.

"What are you still doing? The teacher is coming. Come here quickly." Tingyu urged.

Xu Qing hesitated, looked at Tingyu, and then at Chen Feiyuan, who was sitting in his seat and staying there.

It was indeed the time for Master Bai to come, so Xu Qing could only walk to Tingyu and sit in the seat that used to belong to Chen Feiyuan.

Chen Feiyuan was stunned. He pointed at Xu Qing and was about to speak. Tingyu turned around and glared at him fiercely.

"Shut up!"

"I haven't spoken yet." Chen Feiyuan was about to cry. He felt it was unfair. Just as he was about to continue talking, the tent door opened and Master Bai walked in.

Chen Feiyuan could only hold back what he wanted to say, and sat there angrily. Tingyu on the other side seemed very comfortable, but Xu Qing felt a little uncomfortable, as if he was sitting on pins and needles.

Master Bai, who walked in, saw where Xu Qing was sitting, then looked at Tingyu and Chen Feiyuan, who was like a doormat. A smile appeared on his face, and he did not interfere and started the assessment.

As always, Chen Feiyuan stuttered and was scolded, while Tingyu completed the assessment proudly and looked at Xu Qing with expectation.

Xu Qing's answer was even more perfect, and he even asked some of his own questions during the assessment.

The whole process made Chen Feiyuan's depression reach the extreme.

So when the day's class ended, he was the first to run out of the tent. He felt that he had been discriminated against today.

Xu Qing felt uncomfortable sitting there in this class. Now he stood up, bowed to Master Bai and was about to leave, but was stopped by Tingyu.

"Junior brother, why is your face dirty again?"

Tingyu took out the handkerchief and was eager to try it. Xu Qing frowned slightly, immediately avoided it, and left in a hurry.

Until he left, Tingyu looked a little aggrieved and looked at Master Bai who was watching the excitement.

"Teacher, why is this child so dirty every day? I have good intentions in helping him."

Master Bai laughed, touched the girl's head dotingly, and spoke softly.

"Because, for people who live in pain and danger, being too conspicuous is not a good thing."

Tingyu nodded thoughtfully.

Xu Qing didn't hear what Master Bai said, but what he was thinking was the same as what Master Bai said.

Growing up in a slum, he knew very well that the less noticeable he was, the safer he was. Most of the people around him were dirty. If he stood out, he would be like a torch in the night, adding to the danger.

This has been his survival rule since childhood. As for those who have not done this, unless they are extremely powerful, most of them will not survive for long.

Because of this, Xu Qing developed the habit of not cleaning. He needed to blend into the environment and make himself inconspicuous.

Like a hunter hiding in hiding, only when he takes action is the moment when his sharp edge is revealed.

At this moment, Xu Qing, who left the camp and reached the boundary of the restricted area, was also like this. He picked up some rotten leaves from the jungle, crushed them and smeared them on his body, trying to integrate himself into nature as much as possible, and slowly entered the restricted area.

Although Team Lei went to live in the city, Xu Qing did not give up looking for the Destiny Flower.

The improvement of his cultivation and strength, coupled with his now richer experience, knowledge of vegetation, and his usual vigilance, have made him encounter less danger on the periphery of this restricted jungle.

As a result, the scope of Xu Qing's exploration gradually no longer stopped at the temple, but slowly explored deeper.

Although the crisis is greater, this kind of tempering has also made his combat power continue to improve, and the harvest of vegetation has become richer.

However, just like the outer area, although there are more herbs in the depths, most of them are still evil poisonous herbs.

There are mostly poisonous weeds, which makes Xu Qing's knowledge of plants mostly focus on the preparation of poisons. As he became more diligent, he also had more poisonous powders.

To this end, he went to a clothing store and bought a coat full of pockets, with different poisons in each pocket.

As for the black gloves obtained from Captain Blood Shadow's leather bag, they were also put on by Xu Qing, and they gradually became more comfortable.

This glove not only makes his fists more lethal, but also protects against poison, so together with the dagger given by Cross, it has become his daily weapon like the iron stick.

Now, as the sun was setting, Xu Qing, who had finished a day of training and developing poisons, walked out of the small pharmacy in the canyon, sorted out his weapons and poison powder, swayed his waist, and went straight to the temple.

Every time before leaving the restricted area, he would go to the temple to look for the scar removal stone.

Although he had gone there many times before without success, he had explored this kind of stone and knew that it was naturally occurring, colorful and occasionally visible, so he persisted until this time...

After he arrived at the temple, under the afterglow of the setting sun, he saw a colorful light shining between the eyebrows of the stone head in the distance.

Xu Qing's eyes narrowed and he quickly looked around, then checked his previous hiding arrangement. After finding that it was intact, he jumped to the top of a temple and squatted down to observe again.

After finally confirming that there was really no danger here, he headed straight to the place where the stone head was.

When he arrived, he saw a colorful stone growing out of the crack between his eyebrows.

This stone should have been ordinary once, but in this mysterious temple, washed by the years, it has become different on this day.

Xu Qing quickly took it off and searched around quickly until he searched the entire temple complex. He found six such stones.

Looking at the stone in his hand, Xu Qing breathed a sigh of relief. He finally found one of these two items, the Destiny Flower and the Scar Removal Stone.

After carefully putting away the six small stones, Xu Qing took a deep look at the temple complex, bent down and bowed before quickly leaving and disappearing into the distant jungle.

Speeding all the way, Xu Qing's figure jumped up and down on the tree crowns everywhere.

As the night fell and the roar of the ferocious beasts echoed, his pace remained unchanged, sometimes faster and sometimes slower, getting closer and closer to the edge of the jungle.

Not long after, when Xu Qing jumped onto a tree trunk and tried to use his strength to move forward, suddenly the mud on the ground next to him exploded, and a giant horned python rushed out, opened its mouth and swallowed him suddenly.

Its body was larger than what he had encountered in the camp that day.

Facing this kind of surprise attack, Xu Qing's expression did not change at all. He just raised a finger with his right hand and pointed it at the head of the swallowing giant horned python.

The giant horned python couldn't bear the bang, and its shrill roar stopped abruptly as soon as it came out. Its tough skin could not stop the power from Xu Qing, its head was torn apart, and its flesh and blood collapsed.

This collapse spread throughout the body in the blink of an eye, until it turned into a ball of blood mist.

Only his courage... remained unscathed, falling from the blood mist, and was caught by Xu Qing in his hand, and he swung away.

In this way, at dawn, Xu Qing walked out of the jungle and returned to the camp.

Xu Qing walked in the dark camp, with few lights at this time, and his mood for getting the small stone became darker as he got closer to his residence.

His residence was also dark, except for the dozen or so wild dogs that lay on the ground and wagged their tails after noticing his return.

Xu Qing walked into the courtyard, glanced at Captain Lei's former room out of habit, and walked into the kitchen silently.

He heated up yesterday's leftovers and swallowed them as if to fill his stomach. After cleaning up and returning to the room, he sighed softly.

"I don't know how Captain Lei is doing in the city. He should be doing very well. If he still doesn't find the Destiny Flower in the end, I'll save some more spiritual coins and buy a place."

Xu Qing murmured, closed his eyes, and let himself sink into practice.

The next day, Xu Qing went to class as usual.

Tingyu became normal, but the seat was still reserved for him, and Chen Feiyuan also accepted his fate and watched Xu Qing sitting in his original seat.

As the class ended, Tingyu stopped wiping his face, and there was more understanding in her eyes.

Xu Qing felt this understanding. He bowed his head slightly and said goodbye to Master Bai.

When leaving the tent, Xu Qing touched the small stone in the leather bag and walked towards the grocery store where the little girl was.

But before he could get closer, he saw a group of strangers outside the grocery store from a distance!

Their clothes were very special, with a bloody sun embroidered on their black robes, and a sense of killing and bloodshed was also particularly evident on them.

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I would like to share with you a true experience of my childhood. I don’t know why, but I still remember this incident. Maybe it was because I was confused for too long, and I even went home and asked my parents...

That was when I was in the fourth grade of elementary school. My deskmate was a girl. One morning, for some reason, she looked at me very unpleasantly. I remember it deeply. I said to her at that time: "Hey, so-and-so, please do your homework Lend me a moment."

Then she looked at me fiercely and said to me: "Don't say the word "alas", what if others hear it and misunderstand it?" After saying that, she seemed to turn her head and quickly glance at a man in the front row of us. classmate……

This is a real experience. When I got older, I laughed about it when we were reunited with classmates, but my old classmate refused to admit it...