Tantai Mingyue came to the grassland for the first time. After a hard day's running with five people, they finally brought back fourteen wild wolves before dark.

In her words, Baili Yunyan, who was staying in the camp to recover from his injuries, was also a member of her seven people and could not be left behind.

Li Xiuyuan looked at the two girls who jumped off the horse and said with a smile: "How was your harvest today? Did you encounter any accidents?"

Handing the reins to Wang Yijian behind him, Tantai Mingyue looked at the young man beside the fire quietly and said proudly: "We won, it's time for you to fulfill your promise."

Li Xiuyuan watched Feng Yun and others throw the wild wolves they brought on the ground. After a moment of silence, he said calmly: "Good job. Let's deal with these wolves first. If we can't finish today, we will continue tomorrow."

Murong Zhilan, who was leading the horse, looked at Li Xiuyuan and frowned and asked, "Shura, didn't you make a bet with me this morning? Where's the agreed bet?"

"Do I look like a deadbeat?" Li Xiuyuan casually dragged the two wolves towards the river and replied casually: "No matter how urgent it is, we have to finish this matter first and fill our stomachs before talking.

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"For the sake of my hard work, bring out your spiritual wine tonight." Murong Zhilan followed him and shouted.

"Not tonight." Li Xiuyuan threw the wild wolf by the river, took out the knife, looked at her and said: "Tomorrow, I will let you have a good drink tomorrow..."

"But I worked very hard today to kill two wild wolves, and I almost got bitten. Can't I take a sip of wine to calm down the shock?"

Murong Zhilan squatted by the river, watching Li Xiuyuan skillfully cut open the wolf skin, and asked with a frown: "Looking at your technique, this is not the first time you have done such a thing."

"Sometimes, it's not surprising that you will do more things to survive." Li Xiuyuan replied, but he showed no intention of stopping in his hands.

The four Fengyun people behind them also led three people to the river. Seeing Li Xiuyuan who was more skilled than them, they couldn't help but sigh.

I wonder how many wild wolves have to be killed to be able to move so skillfully?

Murong Zhilan looked at him seriously and said: "It's really boring for you to say this, knowing that I have never left the Holy Land."

Li Xiuyuan did not say anything this time and nodded to express his acquiescence.

In less than a quarter of an hour, he had skillfully handled a wild wolf and threw all its internal organs into the water to feed the fish.

He carried the processed wolf meat back to the fire and began to marinate it with salt and spices.

Murong Zhilan shook her head and followed him and asked: "Let me tell you, in your eyes, all the monks except you are fools?"

Baili Yunyan on the side was busy lighting a fire and preparing to barbecue. He looked at the two people and smiled without saying a word.

Tantai Mingyue also sat lazily aside, holding a cup of spiritual tea in a daze. Junior Sister Xindao knew about the quarrel and seemed to be slowly coming out of the shadow of yesterday's death.

Li Xiuyuan cut the salted wolf meat into several pieces and put them in a wooden basin aside, waiting for the fire to start roasting.

Looking at the girl chattering away, he thought seriously and sighed after a long time.

Looking at her, he replied: "You said the problem is not with me. Believe me, the powerful guys in this world have long disdained to travel around the world, such as your master. If you don't understand, you are an idiot."

Murong Zhilan was furious, pointed at senior sister Tantai Mingyue and asked: "In your eyes, senior sister is also an idiot?"

Li Xiuyuan put down what he was doing, turned around and went to the river to wash his hands. As he walked, he replied: "When you come out of the snow mountain ruins, you will naturally have an answer to this question."

Tantai Mingyue, who was sitting by the fire, also heard these words and couldn't help but frown slightly for a moment.

Just when she was about to open her mouth to argue with Li Xiuyuan, Baili Yunyan, who was sitting by the fire, said softly: "That makes sense. Let's discuss right and wrong after we come out."

After hearing this, Li Xiuyuan washed his hands and returned to the fire, looked at the three women, waved his hands and said: "There is no right or wrong in this world, only whether you are willing or not."

...

By the time Li Xiuyuan and the three women finished patiently explaining the meaning of willingness and unwillingness, Fengyun and the other four had already dealt with half of the wild wolves.

He brought it over and hung it on a shelf made of branches. He cut it into small pieces with a knife, sprinkled it with salt, and waited for dinner to be smoked into dried meat.

Baili Yunyan put down what she was doing and went to help, but she seemed a little struggling as her injury had not yet healed.

Fengyun looked at it and scolded angrily: "You are too slow. Hurry up and sit back and make tea. Just roast the meat for us to eat later!"

Li Xiuyuan, who was sitting in front of the fire, felt a little sleepy at this time. His body shook a little, which made Murong Zhilan sitting beside him unable to help but sit up.

Li Xiuyuan glanced at her and said nothing.

Baili Yunyan walked back, wiped the sweat on his forehead, sighed, and said quietly: "Senior sister, I seem to be disliked by my junior brothers."

"What are you talking about? They feel sorry for you because you are still injured. Let them do the work."

Tantai Mingyue pulled her to sit next to her and comforted her softly.

Li Xiuyuan closed his eyes, thinking about the disappeared grassland bandits and dead killers. He didn't know when those crises hidden in the darkness would come again.

But now I can't leave these seven guys alone, so it seems I can only wait until Tagge Snow Mountain.

At least before entering the snow mountain ruins, these guys can't be remembered by the bandits because of themselves.

Murong Zhilan, who was sitting aside, looked at Li Xiuyuan's sleepy appearance and couldn't help but stretch out her hand and poke him.

He said: "You and senior sister will be tired just by staying in the camp, drinking, cooking and chatting?"

Li Xiuyuan sighed, opened his eyes and said with a smile: "I am resting my mind. How can I barbecue if I am not energetic?"

He was thinking about his journey along the way. He had already reached the three passes of southern Xinjiang and was just shy of commanding the grasslands. However, due to the chaos in the imperial city, he did not get to see Yeluqi's hometown in the end.

The grassland in his mind had always seemed so dreamy, with wind-blown grass and cows and sheep visible, but it was not real at the moment.

This place is close to the depths of the Snowy Mountains, and ordinary prairie families would not live here.

He even wondered whether the original town of Tower Bridge Snow Mountain where he was going had become a ghost town.

After all, the power of a volcanic eruption was beyond what he could imagine at the moment. Danger he had never seen before could not be called danger in his eyes.

Li Xiuyuan, who always considered himself very sober, looked at the girl's profile and smiled.

He said calmly: "It should be a good weather tonight."

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Although Li Xiuyuan did not take out his own spiritual wine, the seven people who finally brought back more than a dozen wild wolves could not help but drink two glasses of the spiritual wine they brought from Yinchuan City.

The corners of Li Xiuyuan's mouth moved, but in the end he didn't stop him.

A pot of broth was cooked and a whole wolf was roasted. Eight people had a sumptuous dinner. Seven people gnawed on the meat and drank wine until they were sweating profusely and screaming with joy.

Li Xiudi looked at the scene in front of him and said with a smile: "Looking at the way you are eating, those who don't know may think that the food in Wuji Holy Land is too bad. If your master sees it, I wonder if he will be angry?"

"I know you dislike our wine, but with wine and meat, who cares about you..." Murong Zhilan said: "Have you never been hungry?"

Li Xiudi scratched his head and said, "It seems not."

When asked by the girl in front of him, he suddenly remembered those past events in Tianshan Mountain. Since he had always been in the habit of saving food and dried meat, he had never seriously suffered from hunger.

After that, he didn't think too much and regarded hunting and drying meat as a daily practice habit, just like he couldn't eat without swinging his sword ten thousand times a day.

Tantai Mingyue listened to the conversation between the two and said gently: "That's really not easy. After all, you are out alone all year round. If you don't want to go hungry, you have to work harder than others."

Baili Yunyan sitting aside was silent. Like Murong Zhilan, she only drank two glasses of wine, and her whole face turned red and cute.

Fengyun listened to Li Xiuyuan's persuasion and only drank two drinks tonight.

Putting down the wine glass in his hand, he looked at him and said with a smile: "You saved seven of us. If we hadn't gone to the ruins together, I would have invited you to live in Wuji Holy Land for a year and a half."

Seeing the sincerity on Fengyun's face, it was Li Xiuyuan's turn to be in trouble this time, because he knew that he would probably stay in Loulan City for a long time after returning from the ruins.

Maybe, by the time he returns, the yard that Situ Tianxing built for him will be completed and ready for him to live in.

It is also possible that he has to secretly follow his teacher back to Tianyun Mountain and complete his fourth turn of Nirvana on the Bamboo Peak.

Anyway, I don’t know when I came back.

Seeing the troubled look on Li Xiuyuan's face, Feng Yun couldn't help but ask: "Is there anything difficult for you, Master?"

Li Xiuyuan smiled and replied: "I'm thinking, where will I go when we come out?"

"You don't have any plans to go home? Aren't your family worried about you?" This time it was Tantai Mingyue's turn to be surprised and looked at him and asked.

"I told my family when I came out that I will read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles during this trip. I have no plans to go home yet." Li Xiuyuan looked at her and replied calmly.

Go home? Which home?

Li Xiuyuan had mixed feelings at the moment, thinking that the old Taoist priest wanted to stay here for ten years. After returning, he would go to the wild world or the Asura Heaven.

His first consideration was not Xinghua Valley, but Fengyun City in the Five Domains.

He wants to return to the place where he was born and spend ten or fifty years to complete his journey of becoming a mortal.

The seven people sitting by the fire were shocked by Li Xiuyuan's answer. Even before the boy in front of them, who was about thirteen years old, he had already made up his mind to walk thousands of miles.

Thinking back to the seven of them, they were hiding under the wings of their master before.

"Your courage puts us to shame! It seems we all have to work harder." Tantai Mingyue looked at him and said quietly.

Looking at the seven people in front of him, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but sigh, smiled slightly and said: "You have eaten enough meat and drank wine. You go and wash up, and I will cook you a spiritual tea to sober up."

After saying that, he closed his eyes, quietly feeling the fragrance of flowers blowing in the night wind, and temporarily put the thought of going home behind him.

The bright moon in Tantai was stunned. She didn't expect that the young man in front of her was so strange tonight. In order to make a spiritual tea, he actually asked seven people to wash themselves.

After thinking for a while, he looked at the six people and said, "Then let's go wash up together. This whole body smells like wine and meat. It's unpleasant."

Li Xiuyuan, who had his eyes closed, shook his head and said softly: "When you ate meat and drank wine, you never disliked them."

He didn't say anything yet, give me some time to complete my agreement with you.

"Ouch, it stinks so much. Senior sister, I have to go wash it off too..." Murong Zhilan stood up and clapped her hands, pulling Baili Yunyan to stand up as well, looking at Tantai Mingyue and said

Tantai Mingyue didn't know what Li Xiuyuan was thinking, so she followed the two girls to the river.

Seeing that the senior sisters were all gone, Fengyun had no choice but to call Wang Yijian and the three of them followed him and also got up and left. He planned to wash up and come back and have a good discussion with the young man in front of him.

What kind of spiritual tea should I drink? The three of us need to wash ourselves, just take a shower and change clothes.

It wasn't until the seven people left that Li Xiuyuan gently opened his eyes, took out a jade bottle, carefully picked up two pieces of spiritual tea, and dropped them into the previously washed and warmed purple clay pot.

Looking at the boiling snow water on the fire, he murmured to himself: "The flying flowers in spring, the rain in summer, the fallen leaves in autumn, and the snow in winter are nothing compared to this pot of snow water boiling you..."
Chapter completed!