Just after Youshi, before the moon climbed over the treetops, Li Xiuyuan had already knocked on the dean's door.

As if they had made an appointment, three familiar elders were sitting under the flower stand on the terrace.

Chu Feng's uncle, the fat elder in the kitchen, accompanied the dean.

It seemed that when Li Xiuyuan pushed in the door, the dean couldn't help but ask: "When you left, your eyes were still blind. How many years have you been away?"

Li Xiuyuan looked at him and smiled: "I am relatively lucky. I have met the two elders and the dean."

After bowing hands with the three old people in greeting, Li Xiuyuan came to the table and sat down, quietly looking at the old people in front of him.

It seemed like I was back to yesterday in an instant. The young man returned with a changed appearance, but the state of his appearance deeply shocked the three old people.

Elder Huangfu looked at him and murmured: "Didn't I say that when you left Moyan City, you were still in the state of distraction? How long has it been? It's less than a year, right?"

When the fat elder heard this, he was even more frightened and screamed: "Li Xiuyuan, are you a monster incarnate? Do you want to scare us to death?"

Only the dean quietly poured a cup of tea for Li Xiuyuan and looked at him with a smile.

Li Xiuyuan looked at the three old people and sighed, and replied leisurely: "Since this matter has passed, there is no harm in talking about it. In fact, when Chu Feng and I went to deal with that troublesome matter, I was already at the third level of Poxu.

..."

"It's just that for some special reasons, my realm was stuck in the realm of distraction... I happened to figure out something at Tianmen Pass a few days ago, and I broke through."

Li Xiuyuan did not say anything about the Tianmen Gate. In his opinion, this matter had nothing to do with a few old people. It was just a shame for the Tianfeng Kingdom and the Dachu Kingdom.

This made Elder Huangfu startled. He looked at him and asked, "Back then, when you came back to my family, Chu Feng, were you already at a higher level than him?"

Li Xiuyuan did not answer him immediately, but looked at the three old men quietly and said: "I have something to say to the three elders and the dean, but I don't want this matter to spread."

When the fat elder heard this, he patted his chest and said, "I won't tell you even if you kill me!"

Elder Huangfu also replied solemnly: "Don't worry, neither the dean nor I will tell anyone."

The dean nodded to him and agreed.

Li Xiuyuan looked at him and laughed: "Even Chu Feng doesn't know what I said... because I owe the dean my life, and the teacher owes the dean a promise, so...

"

The fat elder trembled and quickly replied: "Don't worry."

When Li Xiuyuan said this, he sighed softly, looked at the three of them and asked: "If there is an opportunity to leave Shura Heaven now, do you plan to leave immediately, or choose to wait?"

When Elder Huangfu heard this, he replied without even thinking about it: "Of course I left immediately. I have stayed here enough?"

The dean naturally understood what Li Xiuyuan meant. He looked at the two elders and said, "You can leave with a slap on your butt. Who will take over your mess, your Chu Feng? I know he is a disciple of Jiange."

Only the fat elder shook his head and sighed: "I can leave at will, but I know that no matter where I go, it will be difficult..."

Li Xiuyuan looked at the dean and asked: "Dean, what about you?"

The dean looked at him and shook his head, and said helplessly: "Can I leave? What level is Wei Qing in now? Who can take over this huge academy? You can't just leave it alone, right?"

Li Xiuyuan nodded when he heard this, took out the three-space ring and put it on the table, and said quietly: "One for each person, it is my little thought, I don't know what will happen in the future."

Elder Huangfu picked up the space ring on the table, flicked his hand, and a spiritual stone appeared in his palm. The three of them looked at it again and again, and after a while they murmured: "What the hell is this? Is it a spiritual stone? Why?"

No spirit?"

The dean also took one and played with it in his hand. After looking at it again and again, he asked the same question: "What kind of treasure is this?"

Li Xiuyuan did not speak, but stretched out his palm, and saw a ball of cyan spiritual energy surging between his fingers, like a dream, which startled the three of them.

"You can't sense spiritual energy because you can't refine it... After you ascend, you will be able to sense this kind of spiritual energy, and your future practice and life will be inseparable from it... That

Local gold coins are basically useless."

There was a roar, like a thunder striking on the heads of the three old people...

The three of them looked at each other, and they were speechless for a long time.

Li Xiuyuan ignored the shock of the three people, but continued: "The Shura battlefield is about to open. In fact, it is not a real Shura battlefield. It just allows the monks from the Shura Heaven to gather in one place, and then..."

"Chu Feng has never been to that place. I stayed there for more than two years... That's why my realm is much higher than Chu Feng's. It's just because a master I met there restricted my cultivation.

, so what you see of me is only distracted."

"Actually, that's right. I have been distracted all these years, including when I went to the Nine Heavens... I started practicing again from the Qi Refining Realm... In order to find my

Memories, for Xiaoqing and others, I came back..."

After spending half an hour, Li Xiuyuan told the three of them his simple experience. Finally, he took a small jar of wine and put it on the table, looking at the three of them quietly.

With a rumble, another thunder struck the heads of the three old men...

The fat worker asked in disbelief: "You actually went to the Nine Heavens as a blessing in disguise. You are so stupid. Why are you coming back? Xiaoqing can practice in the academy. She is the master's disciple, and we will all teach her...

..."

Elder Huangfu also looked at him and sighed, and said: "You are confused. You have already left and you have cultivated to such a state. Is that easy?"

Only the dean remained silent. After the two of them finished speaking, he asked: "Since you have gone somewhere, have you seen the Master?"

When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he couldn't help but laugh: "I'm just a scumbag in that place. I don't even dare to go to the wilderness. How can I meet the teacher? It's much bigger than the Shura Heaven..."

"I spent most of my time practicing in the master's yard. I relied on brewing wine to exchange for some spiritual stones to practice... If you want to go, these spiritual stones can help people overcome the difficulties when they first go there.

, you have to find a way to make money."

Li Xiuyuan only gave each of the three old men two hundred spirit stones, which was already a large amount of money in Tianxiang City. He did not want the three of them to rely too much on him.

That will only harm them.

When the dean heard this, he couldn't help but sigh heavily, and said quietly: "It seems that Master had to suffer a lot when he went up there."

Upon hearing this, the fat elder temporarily gave up the idea and just silently put away the space ring.

Upon hearing this, Elder Huangfu said thoughtfully: "This matter must be considered in the long run, and we cannot make a decision lightly."

Li Xiuyuan continued: "This is the medicinal wine I brewed for my teacher. It was only after he drank this wine that he realized the opportunity to ascend... Three cups per person. This should be enough for at least ten people. If it's yours

The realm has reached beyond the extraordinary..."

"My earliest master was an old Taoist priest from Luoxia Mountain. As you all know, he left me in less than half a day after drinking this wine. I didn't want to stay alone on the mountain. I wanted to come out and see the world.

..."

"Under some circumstances, I was rescued by the dean and returned to the academy. Only then did I meet the Master who became my teacher and taught me to continue practicing."

Along the way, Li Xiuyuan told the three old people some of his past.

Now that he could enter the cave at any time, he was no longer afraid that people from the Shura Heaven would plot against him, so he naturally told some of his experiences to the three old people in front of him.

The three of them were considered the closest people to him in the academy, and they all gave him a lot of help.

What I said today is just to repay the kindness I received back then.

The dean put away the medicinal wine on the table, looked at the two elders and said, "Don't tell anyone about this. Let's wait. Even if you want to leave, you have to wait until the incident on the Shura battlefield is over."

The fat elder breathed a sigh of relief and patted Li Xiuyuan gently on the shoulder: "Now that we have hope, we will definitely not be anxious. There have been two successful examples before."

Elder Huangfu thought for a while, looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked: "Since you can brew such spiritual wine, wouldn't you be able to return to some place in the future?"

Li Xiuyuan looked up at the bright moon in the sky and smiled bitterly: "I am a person abandoned by the heavens. No matter where I am, I can't sense the opportunity to ascend. There is only one way to go."

Speaking of this, Li Xiuyuan was also very depressed. No matter what he did, he only benefited others, but he couldn't enjoy it, not even a glimmer of possibility.

Looking at the distant night sky and thinking about the small wine shop on Tianjie Street, Li Xiuyuan said with a smile: "I know my fate, you have to protect me from returning to that place safely. At most, I won't scold you again after I find my parents."

There was no thunder in the sky in response to him, but a thin cloud suddenly drifted across, covering the rising moon. Suddenly there was a hint of haze in the sky, which made people feel what it means to have a moon that waxes and wanes.

.

The three deans didn't understand what Li Xiuyuan meant by talking to himself, and they just thought about what was in their hearts.

The fat old man patted the table, took two plates of snacks and placed them on the table. He said with a smile: "Today, when the moon is full, bring out your good wine and let us have a taste."

Li Xiuyuan looked at the three of them and smiled, then took a jar of wine and placed it on the table. Suddenly, a strong aroma of wine and a light fragrance of flowers filled the air.

"This is the wine I made from apricot flowers on Luoxia Mountain. I can't buy it outside. Please give it a try."

Li Xiuyuan poured four glasses into the wine glass that the fat elder took out, looked at the three of them and smiled.

The fat elder looked at him and sighed, and asked: "How many apricot blossoms are needed to make this wine?"

"It's okay, I planted apricot flowers on that mountain... The apricot flowers on this mountain are in bloom, and they smell so fragrant in the entire Luoxia Mountain. It's a pity that I haven't eaten spring apricots this year.

"

Li Xiuyuan looked at the three of them and smiled lightly.

The dean picked up the wine glass, put it under his nose, sniffed it, and took a shallow sip.

After a long time, he burst into laughter: "Let the fat elder send you some brewing ingredients tomorrow, and brew some for us old men, so that we can taste it slowly later."

Elder Huangfu also took a sip, and then said like the dean: "Even if there is no floral fragrance, it is still delicious in the world. This wine must be brewed more."

The fat elder drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, poured another full glass, and then said with a satisfied smile: "No problem."

The dean thought for a while, looked at Li Xiuyuan, sighed, and said quietly: "We haven't heard you play the piano for a long time. You are going to the Shura battlefield in the blink of an eye. Please play a song for us tonight."

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To be continued...