Wang Dazhu, Zhao Xianchuan and others said goodbye and left.
Chen Cheng got the foundation-building pill and was ready to leave with joy, but Mu Qingwan said, "My husband, go first. I have a few words to say to fellow Daoist Li."
Chen Cheng frowned slightly, but went out immediately.
Only Mu Qingwan and Li An were left in the room.
Li An looked at the pregnant Mu Qingwan calmly.
Mu Qingwan gently put her delicate hands on her bulging belly, tried to get up, and bowed to Li An with difficulty.
"Fellow Daoist Mu, you don't have to do this. I'm sorry for Li An--"
Mu Qingwan's eyes were a little complicated, with a deep apology, "Fellow Daoist Li, this time... We are sorry for you, my husband and I."
"To be honest with you, fellow Daoist Li, in fact, my husband married me because he wanted to use me as a furnace to improve his spiritual roots."
She suddenly mentioned this matter, and Li An didn't say anything, just listened silently.
"Although my husband is the grandson of Elder Yu Hui, his spiritual roots are only slightly better than mixed spiritual roots, and are considered the worst gold spiritual roots. After many years of marriage, his spiritual roots are indeed growing slowly, and even have a tendency to approach the middle-grade yellow spiritual roots." She spoke, her beautiful eyes seemed to be filled with gratitude: "But at this time, he stopped and told me about the spiritual roots..." "If he was more selfish, I might have died, and his spiritual roots would have been promoted..." "It was then that I was sure that my husband loved me deeply!" "But later, my husband failed to break through the foundation twice, and I felt deeply guilty. If he hadn't loved me, it wouldn't have been so difficult to break through the foundation after his spiritual roots were promoted." She seemed to choke up a little as she spoke: "Fellow Daoist Li should be able to see that my husband is already in decline, and his blood and qi are beginning to deteriorate. If he can't After breaking through the foundation-building stage, the life span will probably be much shorter than that of ordinary cultivators, and may not live more than a hundred years. "
"By then, I and the child in my belly will be orphans and widows, helpless and helpless..."
Li An said at the right time: "Daoyou Chen is a lucky man, and he will definitely break through the foundation-building stage."
Mu Qingwan looked at Li An dimly and said: "Daoyou Li, I tell you this... just to ask you not to hate Chen Cheng!"
"Please look at Qingwan and the child in my belly... don't hate him!"
Li An suddenly said: "What's the point of hating, Daoyou Mu, you overestimate me, my qualifications are worse than Daoyou Chen, let alone breaking through the foundation-building stage in this life, I haven't even broken through the sixth level of Qi training..."
"Besides, I will go back to Qingyang Market, and from now on, I should never return to the inner gate again."
Mu Qingwan was slightly stunned, but couldn't help but sigh softly. "Friend Li, please don't blame Qingwan for being cruel. If your beloved's life is at stake and Qingwan has something you need... you should make the same choice as Qingwan." After saying that, she finally got up and left. Everyone had already left. Li An's expression remained unchanged, but he couldn't help but feel a little sarcastic in his heart. What do you say about not holding grudges? Ha, this is just a gesture made by the superior to the inferior. What does it matter how touching the love story between Chen Cheng and Mu Qingwan is? What does it matter how beautifully she tells it? She has a story and loves something, so she can take away other people's opportunities, just to give Chen Cheng that slim chance. Has anyone ever cared about what Li An loves and wants? The dreams of the weak are not worth mentioning, and the strong can deprive the weak of everything with just one word. This is the cold reality. "Yu Hui, Chen Cheng..." He whispered in his heart and remembered it. Yu Hui is just a fake pill expert. She should only have a few decades left to live. She can be outlasted.
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Li An stayed in the sect for a few more days. During this time, he stayed indoors and refused to see anyone.
The news about his foundation pill spread throughout the sect. According to rumors, it was a good thing: Li An and Mu Qingwan had a deep friendship and exchanged gifts. They made a simple exchange.
On the surface, there would definitely be no information or traces of Yu Hui's coercion.
This was Yu Hui's method. From beginning to end, she just came out and said a few words. Everything was done by the younger generation.
On the third day, Li An bid farewell to the sect.
He was the hero who killed the life-seeking horse-faced monster. Therefore, the sect tried every means to keep him, and even promised him the status of a formal disciple, but Li An declined, claiming that he only wanted to grow old with Tan Qingxue in the market.
The sect sent someone to escort him back to Qingyang market. ...
In the past ten days, the Qingyang market has been rebuilt.
The collapsed buildings are standing again, and it is even more lively than before.
The death of the soul-seeking horse-faced demon who had been harassing for many years has greatly increased the fame of this market, so the flow of people is unprecedentedly large, and there is a tendency to surpass the other two markets and become the first market of Xuanyang Sect.
Li An's return has also caused a heated discussion in this market.
"The black-hearted talisman master is powerful..."
"What black-hearted talisman master? This is a demon-slaying hero!"
"Master Li is invincible!"
Many people shouted, very enthusiastically.
But Li An just smiled, bowed to everyone, said a few polite words like good luck, and returned to the talisman shop.
The talisman shop has also been rebuilt, and the area is even twice as large as before, but the plaque has been changed. The original "Xuanyang Talisman" has become "Xuanyang Li An Talisman".
This is unexpected to Li An.
"Li Lang, you are finally back!"
Tan Qingxue came out in a hurry, tears of joy in her eyes, and threw herself into Li An's arms: "I thought I would never see you again..."
Li An gently patted her shoulder, and the two of them naturally talked again.
It turned out that when Xu Qiuhui took Tan Qingxue away that day, she settled Tan Qingxue dozens of miles away from the market and did not allow her to go out, so she did not run out until the end of the war.
Li An did not want to ask whether she was stopped by Xu Qiuhui from going out, or she chose to stay there herself?
It didn't matter.
Having lived two lives, he knew that human nature could not stand the test.
Husband and wife are birds of the same forest. When disaster strikes, they fly away separately. Sharing life and death together is often just a beautiful imagination.
"Li Lang, your name has spread all over the market. Everyone wants to add your name to their shops. Even Zhang Zhong, a new master of the foundation-building period who has just come to guard the market, said that this is a good idea, saying that it will show the world your heroic deeds... You won't blame me, right?"
Tan Qingxue's tears had dried. When she talked about this, a hint of pride emerged on her face. Li An's fame greatly satisfied her vanity.
"No problem."
Li An didn't think there was anything wrong. In this way, his reputation as a black-hearted talisman master could be washed clean, and there would be many benefits for doing business in the future.
"Li Lang, I have heard about your affairs in the sect. You don't want to stay in the sect, but only want to grow old with Qingxue in this market... Qingxue really has nothing to repay you."
As she spoke, she suddenly knelt gently in front of Li An's knees, raised her face and looked at Li An with admiration and love, her charming and mature beautiful face was as beautiful as peach blossoms.
Then she buried her head.
...
In the blink of an eye.
A year passed.
In one year, Li An finally broke through to the sixth level of Qi Refining! Before the war, he had already reached the peak of the fifth level of Qi Refining, and it took another year just to break through. Then, he spent another two years to consolidate his cultivation. The third year. "The flesh training part of the Iron Tree Art has been perfected!" Li An was quite satisfied! At present, he has iron skin and silver flesh, and can withstand the attack of the first-level middle-grade magic weapon with his flesh alone. The next step is to practice bone training! On this day, he finally walked out of the talisman shop. In the past three years, Li An rarely went out. The excitement of the war three years ago finally subsided with the passage of time. Although many people knew Li An when he went out, he would no longer attract onlookers like before. After all, there are new things in the world of immortal cultivation every day, and Li An was just a sensation. He wandered along the way, went to several magic weapon shops, and bought the "molten gold liquid" he needed. These things are necessary for the bone refining realm and are quite rare. Even though he had asked several magic weapon shops to search for them three years ago, he only bought about fifty kilograms now.
It cost nearly a thousand spirit stones!
This made Li An feel very painful. The reason why the path of physical cultivation is difficult is that it is difficult to refine the materials!
Many things are too rare, so they are also very expensive.
The later the stage, the more so.
However, Li An would not be stingy because of this. The body is the capital of cultivating immortals. In fact, in the battle three years ago, if his physical body was not stronger than that of ordinary people and he had the life seed as a supplement, the palm of the life-demanding horse-faced man might not have knocked him unconscious, but killed him!
At dusk, there was gradually no one in the market. Li An found a deserted place, operated the Yin and Yang magic energy, changed his face, and quickly arrived at the ancient well on the edge of the market!
For three years, in order to prevent anyone from peeping, he never came to take a look, until today, he finally came to take it!
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