Chapter 1028: Encounter
"Haha, it's interesting!" Xiao Hua tried to step on it a few times, leaving a string of footprints behind him, which looked quite interesting. Moreover, the falling snowflakes were very dense, but they covered the footprints in a short time and disappeared! But the snow on the street did not increase, and it was still four or five fingers deep.
Xiao Hua's body was originally protected by the aura, which blocked the snowflakes from his body! At this time, he was interested again, and he actually removed the protective aura, but felt that the snowflakes fell on his eyebrows and cheeks, and soon turned into water droplets. The trace of coolness came from his face and neck, which made Xiao Hua feel very close!
"Alas, I have been a cultivator for a long time, and I only know how to use magic, but I have lost this fun! It's really boring!" Xiao Hua took a deep breath of the refreshing air, and the damp cold air came into his mouth. He looked at the many cultivators next to him who were slightly suspended in the air and did not see their feet on the snow at all, thinking to himself.
And he himself walked aimlessly along the street, step by step!
Xiao Hua was so free from his restraints, and he was free and easy, just like a secular person walking on the roadside, releasing his mind and enjoying himself, but it was very strange in the eyes of others! Many cultivators who passed by him looked at him with contempt, thinking that Xiao Hua's magic power was shallow and he was reluctant to waste his magic power, so he took such a desperate measure!
Xiao Hua was naturally aware of it, but he didn't care. The tens of thousands of years of suffering of the ghost cultivator Huang Yi had gradually taken effect. Xiao Hua had become indifferent to these so-called views. He felt that he was doing his own thing and didn't change because of what others thought.
He walked like this for half a day. Along the way, Xiao Hua also saw many yellow talisman shops, magic weapon shops and elixir shops, but Xiao Hua didn't stop. He wanted to find out by his own feelings and see what his soul in the hand of cause and effect had found!
But just when he reached an intersection and was about to turn around and walk in another direction, a voice came from the opposite side: "This fellow Taoist walking alone. Can you stop your lonely steps?"
"Me?" Xiao Hua was slightly stunned, and looked up, but saw that there was a rather large teahouse opposite. Just outside the teahouse, a short, brocade-dressed, handsome scholar was talking to him with a smile.
Xiao Hua looked around, and for the time being, he was the only one on this snowy street, and no other cultivators flew by.
Helpless, Xiao Hua walked over slowly and bowed, saying, "Fellow Daoist, what's the matter with you?"
"Haha, fellow Daoist is very interesting!" The man did not put down his hand, but waved it twice in front of his chest, saying, "In such a snowy scene, I saw fellow Daoist walking from a distance. It really makes my heart move! It has been a long time since I have seen such a touching scene, so. I ask fellow Daoist to wait for a moment. Can you follow me upstairs?
I will sweep the couch to invite fellow Daoist?"
"Puff!" Xiao Hua immediately covered his mouth and laughed. The scholar's tone was really gentle, and his words were elegant. It was quite strenuous to listen at first, but it was comfortable to listen carefully.
"What's so funny about fellow Daoist? Could it be that I am being presumptuous?" The scholar's face was slightly red, and he felt a little unnatural.
Xiao Hua said anxiously: "Fellow Daoist, please don't blame me. I have always been a layman, far from being as refined as you think. I just heard what you said... and felt a little ashamed, so I couldn't help but cover it up!"
How could the scholar not hear it? His face was quite flushed, and he said awkwardly: "I always speak like this! Please forgive me!"
Then, the scholar looked up at Xiao Hua's hair and shoulders that had been covered by snowflakes for a long time, and the snow that was still falling, and said a little lonely: "Alas, I pay attention to the refinement of my words, but I am inferior to you. Compared with fellow Daoist, who is unruly in behavior and spiritual sublimation, I am far behind! My cultivation..."
"Oh?" Xiao Hua was puzzled. His Confucian cultivation method now also has the Yuanshen to comprehend. Although it has not been successful yet, he knows a little bit. He has never heard of practicing in behavior!
However, Xiao Hua rolled his eyes and smiled; "Daoyou care so much, isn't it inferior again?"
"Great!" The scholar heard it, as if he had been enlightened, clasped his hands, and said with surprise in his eyes, "Really a strange man, please accept my bow!"
"Don't" Xiao Hua hurriedly stretched out his hand to block the scholar, and smiled, "You just woke up, why are you showing traces now? Isn't it better to be unruly, unrestrained, rude, and unconventional!"
The scholar was really surprised, not only because he couldn't bow, but also because Xiao Hua's words really touched his heart.
"Please~" The scholar really didn't say anything, but just raised his hand and motioned Xiao Hua to enter the restaurant.
"Damn it!" Xiao Hua was speechless. He wanted to use this to get rid of the scholar. He was doing it for cause and effect. Why waste time here for no reason? But seeing that the scholar actually invited himself with his own words, he really had to smile bitterly!
Xiao Hua turned his head to look at the Xuntian City in the snow. The magic array in the city did not cover the sky. The gloomy dark clouds pressed on the top of the city, just like pressing on people's hearts. The snowflakes were like the sadness of the dark clouds. Even though they were pure white, they were gloomy. This gloom covered the entire Xuntian City, as if it was endless!
"Forget it!" Xiao Hua's heart moved again, "I ran into this scholar for no reason. I'm afraid he is the source of the cause and effect?"
"Please!" So Xiao Hua said nothing more, bowed his hands, shrugged his shoulders, and the light around him flashed slightly, and all the snowflakes disappeared. This teahouse is very clean. If he went in with snow on his body, wouldn't he be driven out?
Outside the teahouse, Xiao Hua felt that the world was so quiet and his mind was very pure, but as soon as he stepped into the teahouse and entered the forbidden area, he heard a slight noise. Although the noise was not as messy as the wine shop in the mortal world, Xiao Hua still frowned when he came here from the quiet place!
The scholar was very perceptive. Seeing Xiao Hua frowning, he was even more delighted and whispered; "Daoyou, please follow me. There are vulgar people below this teahouse, but there is a quiet place above the teahouse!"
As he said, he took a few steps ahead and led Xiao Hua to the stairs of the teahouse.
"Vulgar people? I'm afraid I'm the most vulgar one!" Xiao Hua smiled secretly, looking around, but saw that this teahouse occupied a large area, and there were probably dozens of tea seats within his sight. Now there were people on each tea seat, either drinking tea or whispering, with all kinds of expressions!
Xiao Hua immediately understood that as far as the war was concerned, this Xuntian City was also the location of the Three Kingdoms Conference Hall of Cultivation. All kinds of people gathered here, wanting to get some opportunities. Even cultivators who did not participate in the war were willing to come here, nothing more than spiritual stones, flying swords and other things! After a fierce battle, as long as you can survive, you will have some gains. Of course, you can get the Yi Ji of Xuntian City to exchange for the elixir you want! And these cultivators provide elixir, spiritual herbs or yellow talismans here, which are several times the price of other places. How could there be no one in such a profit-seeking place? And this teahouse is a gathering place for news, so there are even more people!
"Friend Kuang, the Council Hall just issued a bounty three days ago, and it's the first one this time. Have you heard about it?" Xiao Hua had just taken two steps when an old man in the foundation-building stage said to a thin middle-aged cultivator on a tea seat next to him.
"Nonsense, of course I know about the bounty three days ago!" The thin middle-aged cultivator was also in the middle stage of the foundation-building stage, with a look of disdain on his face, as if he was very unhappy to be looked down upon. "And it's the first bounty, who in Xuntian City doesn't know about it?"
"Sweat, I don't know!" Xiao Hua was sweating slightly, just paying attention to what the two said.
"How about it? Are you interested?" The old man said with a smile, "This bounty has not announced the number of spirit stones! However, as far as I know, the number of spirit stones is extremely large, and there are also some magic tools, etc."
"Si~Really?" The middle-aged cultivator took a breath and frowned, "How large is it?"
"That is the secret of the meeting hall, I don't know!" The old man had a sullen look on his face; "However, this bounty is jointly issued by all the cultivation sects, how can the number be small?"
The money-loving Xiao Hua's eyes lit up even more.
"Alas, I am interested! However, I don't have that much courage! Qin Jian is a swordsman of the third rank of the illusion sword, and his attack power is comparable to that of the Nascent Soul! I claim that I can't compare with him even if I practice for another hundred years!" The middle-aged cultivator sighed and shook his head slightly.
"Tsk, how do you know if you don't try?" The old man took a sip of spiritual tea and smiled, "Liao Ping and others have gathered hundreds of people two days ago and went to Fengmeng Mountains..."
"This guy is really bold!" The middle-aged cultivator said in surprise, "He is only at the peak of the middle stage of foundation building, only a little higher than me, and he dares to go?"
"Fishing in troubled waters? Who knows? If you want to go, Jiang can invite a few more Taoist friends..." The old man's voice became smaller and smaller! It seems that he is watching the expression of the middle-aged cultivator.
Since he heard that it was a swordsman of the third level of the illusion sword, Xiao Hua's heart immediately lost interest. He was interested in spirit stones, but he was not interested in swordsmen comparable to Yuanying!
"Please come this way, Taoist friend!" The handsome scholar had already walked to the stairs and said softly and respectfully.
"Haha, this little guy!" Xiao Hua looked up and felt a little funny in his heart. This scholar is not without cultivation, but it is pitifully low, only about the tenth level of Qi Refining, so Xiao Hua didn't take him to heart. But ordinary Qi Refining disciples should call him "senior" when they see him, but this one directly called him "fellow Taoist". But thinking about the scholar's slightly pedantic conversation, Xiao Hua felt relieved. There are too many people who have died differently in the world, and he may not be much better than others, so he has no right to criticize others.