Seeking Immortality

Seeing the door of Ting'er's room slowly closing, Xu Qingfan put up several layers of defense and isolation barriers outside the house to prevent any unexpected situation from disturbing Ting'er who was in retreat.

When he turned around, he found Zhang Ningmei and Bai Yu looking at him silently. As for Xiaobi, the moment Ting'er's door closed, she crawled to the closest place to Ting'er's room, seeming to be silently waiting for Ting'er to come out again.

"Master, is it really okay to let Senior Sister Ting'er retreat like this?" Although the previous scene between Xu Qingfan and Ting'er made Zhang Ningmei feel warm, she still couldn't help but ask worriedly.

Xu Qingfan smiled slightly and turned his head again to look at Ting'er's room where the door was closed. It seemed that his eyes could penetrate the barrier and the wall of the room and saw Ting'er who was not meditating but sitting on the bedside in deep thought.

After a moment, Xu Qingfan finally turned around, with a distant voice, and said lightly: "Ting'er has lived in an extremely weird environment since she was a child. Her father and her tribe are busy killing people, and she witnessed me killing her father with my own eyes. Death, coupled with being transformed by the magic bead, all these have created her seemingly cold personality. But you only noticed her vulnerability and her indifference that night, but you never thought about it, a person less than ten years old. If it were someone else, I might not be able to believe that just these words could solve her inner demons, but for Ting'er, it was enough. Yes, what I said just now will make her figure it all out."

After Zhang Ningmei heard Xu Qingfan's words, she was thoughtful, and finally nodded slightly after a moment.

Only Bai Yu. Zhang Ningmei and Xu Qingfan were a little confused by the sudden words. After a moment, something suddenly appeared. They jumped up and shouted: "Master!! You said you killed Ting'er's father!!"

Regarding Bai Yu's slowness, Xu Qingfan and Zhang Ningmei looked at each other helplessly, shaking their heads involuntarily, but they couldn't laugh or cry.

In the end, Xu Qingfan was too lazy to explain to Bai Yu the grudges between him and Ting'er. But his face returned to seriousness, and he said calmly: "It took a lot of time, now let's start preaching."

With that said, Xu Qingfan walked slowly towards the position where the three masters and disciples usually preached and listened. On the other side, Zhang Ningmei also followed with a smile.

Only Bai Yu stood there, scratching his head and muttering to himself: "Did I hear it wrong? It seems that the master just said it more than once?"

In this way, Xu Qingfan's life returned to what it was before, sitting on the ground in the courtyard. Preaching to Zhang Ningmei and Bai Yu, or sitting quietly in his room to explore the way of heaven, or reading books and discussing playing chess with Zhang Ningmei. Of course, when playing chess with Zhang Ningmei, Xu Qingfan still failed miserably as usual. The only thing that made Xu Qingfan worthy of comfort was What's surprising is that his chess skills are gradually increasing, and Zhang Ningmei has changed from giving him three pieces to two pieces.

Reading, teaching, playing chess, drinking tea.

Xu Qingfan's life must be said to be very leisurely, and sometimes Xu Qingfan also thinks about it. Perhaps this is the life a cultivator should have. Quiet and distant.

However, sometimes after Xu Qingfan couldn't see Ting'er around, he would worry about whether Ting'er's inner demons would really be completely eradicated as he thought before, and if the inner demons suddenly invaded while in seclusion. That's not as simple as going crazy.

Only then. Only then did Xu Qingfan realize that perhaps because he cared too much about Ting'er, he was a little worried about gains and losses in his own judgment.

And Xu Qingfan suddenly discovered that he was really not used to not having Ting'er in this courtyard. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that every time she goes out of seclusion or returns from traveling down the mountain, Ting'er seems to be outside or in front of the door. Waiting quietly. It seems that as long as Xu Qingfan appears in this courtyard, Ting'er will follow behind him silently. But there has never been a situation where Xu Qingfan did not see Ting'er at first sight when he finished his retreat or returned from traveling.

Thinking of this, Xu Qingfan couldn't help but wonder, had Ting'er been waiting quietly in this courtyard while he was in retreat or traveling down the mountain?

It was as if Ting'er had never seriously thought about why Xu Qingfan accepted her as his disciple, but Xu Qingfan had never thought of this, and both of them took these things for granted.

And when one day, someone suddenly discovers the deeper meaning contained in this matter of course, the heart is moved even more profoundly.

In addition, in addition to doing these things, Xu Qingfan often went to Qianshan during this period, and sometimes helped Li Yuhan handle some things that he should have handled originally, but it surprised those who were familiar with Xu Qingfan's style. When did this happen? "The deacon elder who is the most secluded and the most difficult to meet in Jiuhua's history" has actually become so diligent?

In fact, Xu Qingfan often only met Zhang Hualing once when he went to Qianshan during this period, and then left quickly.

The reason why Xu Qingfan did this was that he was worried about Zhang Hualing, who was revising the secret method, and that one day he would be controlled by the evil energy contained in the secret method, so he would go to Qianshan from time to time to see Zhang Hualing and see how Zhang Hualing was doing.

The reason why Zhang Hualing continues to practice those evil secret methods is, firstly, to continue to extend his lifespan and wait for Xu Qingfan's character and reputation to reach a point where he can replace him; secondly, he also wants to find a way to restrain the lurking thoughts in his heart from the secret methods. Evil nature.

Later, even in some places where help was needed, Xu Qingfan also helped Zhang Hualing complete some secret experiments. Since he could not stop it, Xu Qingfan could only try his best to help Zhang Hualing not be harmed by the secret method.

In addition, the reason why Xu Qingfan met Zhang Hualing was to analyze with Zhang Hualing the various situations he encountered after going down the mountain this time and the situation of the world of cultivation. With the help of Zhang Hualing's insights, he could better see the future of the world of cultivation and the future response of Jiuhua Mountain.

Whether it was the battle of Tiansha or the battle of Qingxumen, Zhang Hualing was full of amazement. First, he did not expect Xu Qingfan to be able to do this, and second, he did not expect that the world of cultivation was so chaotic at this time.

After the analysis of the two, they felt that the two biggest things in the world of cultivation in recent years were not the changes of "Tiansha" and "Qingxumen", but the gradual activation of "Ming" and the emergence of the Righteous Alliance.

These two things made Xu Qingfan and Zhang Hualing have a kind of bad premonition. Judging from various signs, all the catastrophes in the world of immortal cultivation should be controlled by "Ming". What exactly is the purpose of "Ming" can be discussed for the time being, but in all the previous catastrophes, "Ming" disappeared and hid in the dark, but this time "Ming" came to the fore from behind and personally controlled the prelude of the catastrophe. Does this catastrophe have any special significance?

In addition, the establishment of the Righteous Alliance was such a big event, but it was silent, and it only united all the major sects and masters in the Righteous Alliance, but gave up a large number of small sects to strengthen its momentum. What was the reason? Could it be that the Righteous Alliance also knew something, but had no confidence in saving those small sects, so it could only give up?

As the analysis continued, Xu Qingfan and Zhang Hualing became more and more frightened.

The two were not worried about whether Jiuhua Mountain would be abandoned by the Righteous Alliance. After all, Jiuhua had recovered over the years and now had more than 40 Jindan-stage cultivators. Although most of them were young disciples who had just entered the Jindan stage a few years ago, the Righteous Alliance would never give up on such a strong force. Moreover, the Righteous Alliance was established because of the letter Liu Huaxiang sent to the Immortal Zizhen. The reason why Jiuhua did not receive an invitation from the Righteous Alliance at this time was probably because Jiuhua closed the mountain.

But even so, thinking of the various actions of the Righteous Alliance and "Ming", the two still felt that the future was confusing and dangerous.

Although he often met Zhang Hualing, most of the time, Xu Qingfan stayed in his cave, quietly waiting for Ting'er's retreat to end.

This time, the wait lasted for a full three months.

On this day, Xu Qingfan was preaching to Bai Yu and Zhang Ningmei, but he was suddenly stunned and looked towards Ting'er's room. As Xu Qingfan turned his head, a majestic aura suddenly came from Ting'er's room.