Originated from mountains and seas, life never ends

Chapter 179

"Please, don't hand me over."

Qin Xiao heard these words as soon as he stepped into Qiu Puyue's residence.

Looking closely, he saw that the monster he had picked up was kneeling on the ground, begging Qiu Puyue in a very humble manner.

"...What's going on?" Mo Hanyu, who came in with them, was also stunned for a moment and asked.

"You...you stand up first." Qiu Puryue was at a loss. She looked at the monster in front of her and didn't know what to do with her hands. When she heard the two people's voices, her eyes lit up instantly as if she had heard a savior.

Yin Xihui, who was drinking tea leisurely beside him, raised his eyes, glanced at him lightly, and said slowly: "Yu Yunhao seemed to come here yesterday to take him away. He didn't want to, so he hid."

"How do you know that I am going to take you away?" Qin Xiao asked the monster.

"Taotie was here yesterday." Before the demon beast could speak, Yin Xihui said, "Yu Yunhao ran into Taotie, and after he explained his purpose, Taotie told him to get lost."

"He just left quietly?" Mo Hanyu raised his eyebrows, took the tea he handed over, and sat next to him.

"Of course I was unwilling at the beginning." Yin Xihui chuckled.

"What if he doesn't want to?"

Taotie's voice came. Looking up, I saw him sitting on the fence on the second floor with his legs crossed, looking down leisurely.

"I remember that you didn't seem to like him?" Mo Hanyu asked.

"What is there for me to like about him?" Taotie snorted coldly.

Qin Xiao looked at Taotie, then at the still kneeling demon beast, met Qiu Puyue's embarrassed look, and sighed: "What? Is Yu Yunhao not good to you?"

"Is there any need to ask? If the situation is good, who wouldn't want to go back?" Taotie's sneering voice came faintly.

Qin Xiao: ...

Qin Xiao closed his eyes and rubbed his eyebrows.

"Come on." In the end, Qin Xiao decided not to get involved in this mess.

Qiu Puryue: ...

"...So you stand up first." Qiu Puryue said helplessly.

The monster looked at her expression and slowly stood up: "I can give you the crystal core, and I will never--"

“Stop, stop, stop.” Qiu Puryue stopped and frowned in confusion, “Why do I need your crystal core? And I don’t have—”

"What is a crystal core?" Qin Xiao sat next to Mo Hanyu and turned his head to ask.

He has been curious about this question for a long time.

"In the head of a demon beast, there is a crystalline substance. This is their crystal core, also called a magic core." Mo Hanyu explained to him, "The magic core contains the magic beast's lifelong cultivation and energy. It can not only be used to make medicine, but also absorb it to improve cultivation."

"Oh..." Qin Xiao nodded thoughtfully, turned around and said to Qiu Puyue, "Then this is quite useful--"

"When the magic core is taken out, the monster will die." Yin Xihui slowly completed the second half of the sentence.

Qin Xiao paused, then raised his eyebrows as he looked at the monster.

Would you rather die than go back?

"Oh, why bother with so much trouble?" Taotie couldn't help but said, "Since you can't stand that human, why don't you just run away? Why do you have to find another human to stay with?"

Taotie didn't understand his behavior: "You don't have to follow humans. Anyway, your collar is gone now. Wouldn't it be better to return to the mountains and forests and be the king of the land?"

"I..." The monster seemed to have never thought of this option. "I have been around people since I became conscious, without..."

"How old are you this year?" Taotie asked him.

"I..." The beast thought for a moment, "Twelve——"

"A little kid who's over a hundred thousand years old?" Taotie exclaimed, "That's too——"

“——years old.” The Warcraft uttered the last word weakly.

Taotie: ...?

Everyone:? ? ?

"How many?!" Taotie was shocked. "Twelve years old?"

Taotie looked him up and down carefully again and said, "Oh, you must have eaten something."

"Hmm..." The tall monster counted on his fingers like a child, "They fed me magic cores and some strange balls, and I grew very fast."

"It's just a matter of forcing things to grow." Taotie quickly calmed down and said lightly.

"Only, only 12 years old?" Qiu Puyue was a little dazed, "About the same age as me..."

Qin Xiao didn't say anything. He stared at the monster for a long time and then turned his eyes away.

"Tsk, I just don't like him." Taotie thought about the Gu Diao from before, and his eyes were filled with some disgust.

"Are you going to take him in?" Qin Xiao looked at him.

"...Forget it, I'll take two or three." Taotie raised his eyebrows at the monster and smiled playfully, "You'll just follow me from now on."

"Do you have a name?" Taotie said, and then he said "tsk", "Forget it, I'll give you a name, Twelve."

"Oh." Twelve nodded honestly.

Qin Xiao: ...

This name is too random.

But since Taotie said so, the few of them stopped talking and continued to discuss where to go for fun.

After Qiu Puyue withdrew from the competition, he stopped paying attention to it, and only occasionally heard that a few famous people won again. The schedule for the following competitions became more and more tight, and the contact with Liu Qingfeng faded.

During this period, one night, Qin Xiuyun waited for Qin Xiao to come back and asked him about his recent situation. Qin Xiao did not hide anything and told him what had happened recently, but he only skipped the matter of Meng Liyun and Pei Zhixing.

Meng Liyun had selfish motives and didn't want Qin Xiuyun to know, but Pei Zhixing didn't need to. After all, the man didn't say hello to him, he was just a passerby.

After hearing this, Qin Xiuyun nodded slowly to show that he understood, his eyelids drooped slightly, as if he was worried about something.

"What's wrong?" Qin Xiao asked directly when he saw this.

"That's it..." Qin Xiuyun hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand slightly, and the ring on his middle finger flashed with light, revealing a scroll. "I recently participated in an auction. This is a scroll of exercises from an evil cultivation organization that was wiped out. I saw that it was of thunder attribute, so I bought it."

Qin Xiao was stunned, took the scroll, pulled it, and found that it could not be opened.

"This type of scroll needs to be infused with enough Qi. Once opened, it will emit a fluorescent light that will penetrate into your brain and emerge on your soul sea. By the way, the soul sea is..."

"I know." Qin Xiao interrupted him. Mang Ling had told him this.

Qin Xiuyun was stunned for a moment, then lowered his eyes: "Oh...that's good."

Qin Xiuyun pursed his lips, frowned slightly, and looked hesitant, obviously not finishing what he wanted to say.

Qin Xiao was not in a hurry. He just looked at him quietly, waiting for him to say the second half.

"...I didn't want you to practice before, so I didn't prepare these for you...Now that I think about it, it was my fault. I apologize to you."

"No need to be like this." Qin Xiao was stunned, a little surprised, and a little at a loss, "I've been doing fine these past few years--"

"Actually, think about it. Although I seem to care about you over the years, I haven't actually done anything for you." Qin Xiuyun laughed at himself. "So if you want to leave the Qin family in the future, that's it—"

"father?"

Qin Xiao frowned and looked at him in confusion.

Qin Xiuyun was interrupted again, but he was not angry. He opened his mouth, but he couldn't finish the last sentence.

"What happened?" Qin Xiuyun looked like something must have happened that he didn't know about.

Qin Xiao stared at Qin Xiuyun, his eyes darkening: "Why are you suddenly saying this? Why should I leave the Qin family?"

Qin Xiuyun seemed a little nervous. He licked his lips unconsciously, looked left and right but didn't look at him. He even smiled and said, "Didn't I say, if..."

"The Qin family is going to kick me out?" Qin Xiao nodded, "That's a bit..."

"Who said I'm going to kick you out?!" Qin Xiuyun said angrily without hesitation, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"What do you mean by that?" Qin Xiao crossed his arms, his eyes sharp, "What happened?"

"Nothing." Qin Xiuyun rubbed his brows with a headache, closed his eyes, and said helplessly, "What I mean is that your talent will take you to higher peaks and see a wider world... and the Qin family is too small for the scenery you will see in the future."

"You will pursue higher goals and a more distant future... If one day a better and more powerful family extends an olive branch to you, you don't have to worry about the Qin family."

Qin Xiuyun paused and raised his voice, as if he was gritting his teeth. "The resources I can give you are limited, far less than those of the big families... You are also mature, unlike those ordinary children, you should understand this. So... you should choose a family that is more useful to you."

Qin Xiuyun spoke for a long time, but Qin Xiao did not say anything.

Qin Xiuyun lowered his eyes, said nothing, and waited for his reaction.

Qin Xiao looked at him quietly, his eyes sliding over his body, as if he was observing him, as if he was thinking.

"..."

It was quiet all around, with only the sound of rapid and slow breathing.

"You're not going to sell me out, are you?"

After a while, Qin Xiao asked hesitantly.

Qin Xiuyun: ...

When Qin Xiuyun heard this question, his first reaction was that he had heard it wrong.

It was not until he stared at Qin Xiao for a long time that he realized that this sentence was indeed said by Qin Xiao.

"...How is that possible?" Qin Xiuyun was both angry and amused. "What on earth are you thinking about?"

"Shouldn't I be the one asking this?" Qin Xiao seemed even more confused than him. "What do you mean by choosing a better family? It sounds like my bloodline can be changed at any time. You didn't pick me up on the street. I am a descendant of the Qin family. What choice do I have?"

"I--" Qin Xiuyun choked, as if he wanted to say something.

"As for the higher vision and wider world... If I have this ability, I can see it naturally. If not, it's my own fault. What does it have to do with the so-called family?"

Qin Xiao didn't understand. In his opinion, the secret manuals and crystal cores he needed for his cultivation were what he needed, so naturally he should find them by himself. If the family could provide them, that would be great, but if not, there was nothing to complain about.

"...This is different." Qin Xiuyun saw what he was thinking at a glance, smiled helplessly, and decided to make it clear with Qin Xiao, "You have met a lot of people these days. Let's not talk about other things. Xu Junyi from the Xu family, his talent in Qi cultivation can be regarded as a leader among geniuses, but he chose the path of a demon tamer."

"You have to know that ordinary people, or ordinary families, don't have this choice, because taming monsters is very expensive. A slightly better intermediate monster costs a hundred gold coins, and this is only a small part. Ordinary families can't afford such expenses. Xu Junyi's confidence in taking this path comes from the rich heritage of the Xu family. Because the Xu family has broad resources, they can give their descendants more choices."

"I understand what you mean." Qin Xiao nodded, "but I won't change my opinion."

"In fact, I am not very talented. I was born with a different physique from ordinary people. Coupled with my experience in my previous life, I look very talented now, but I am not." Qin Xiao said frankly, "All of this is just a trick. I believe that if Qin Jinyi and Qin Jichen were given an extra lifetime of memory, they would be like me, or even better than me."

"There's nothing to be proud of. My talent is not as high as you think, and there's no need to feel pressured about it." Qin Xiao thought for a moment and said, "What I want to do is my own business. I chose Qi cultivation, and naturally I'm prepared to work hard for it. You don't have to worry about it, and you don't have to feel guilty about it."

Qin Xiuyun was stunned, and met Qin Xiao's clear and penetrating gaze, with an unknown feeling in his chest.

That day, the girl named Qian asked him about Qin Xiao's past six years, and asked him what he thought of Qin Xiao. After he answered truthfully, the girl's eyes moved slightly, and she seemed a little relieved, and then she told him about Qin Xiao's past life.

After listening to the grievances between Qin Xiao's parents in his previous life, Qin Xiuyun felt complicated. At the same time, he also understood why Qin Xiao's attitude and feelings towards his family were so stiff and distant.

But he also knew how Qin Xiao viewed him and how important he was in Qin Xiao's heart.

After knowing this, he was relieved at first, happy about his position, but then he became worried.

He was afraid that he would disappoint Qin Xiao and let him down.

It was really a coincidence that he had just taken a photo of a technique suitable for Qin Xiao to practice, thinking of making up for the bad treatment he had received during his practice. Then the people of the Pei family came to Luoyun and found him for the first time to talk to him about something.

Thinking of what the Pei family had told him, and looking at Qin Xiao in front of him, who had a young appearance but an extremely steady look, Qin Xiuyun closed his eyes.

He selfishly did not want Qin Xiao to agree to this matter, and even did not want Qin Xiao to know about it, but he was afraid that if Qin Xiao knew about it after he concealed it, he would be disappointed in him.

So he hesitated for a long time, but finally walked in. He wanted to explain the matter clearly, but after talking for a long time, he was dragged around in circles by Qin Xiao and finally got himself trapped.

Looking at Qin Xiao's indifferent eyes, Qin Xiuyun forgot about that matter for a moment, and nodded inexplicably to indicate that he understood.

After Qin Xiuyun left, Qin Xiao's face became gloomy.

Is he from the Pei family?

Qin Xiao turned on the shower, lowered his head, and let the water droplets wet his hair.

Although Qin Xiuyun did not explain it, he had already heard the general idea.

The Pei family wanted to recruit him? Or something else?

It is not something a normal person can do to recruit a child, and the Pei family is not involved in any charity.

It must not be a trivial matter that could make Qin Xiuyun so uneasy.

Thinking of this, Qin Xiao couldn't help but "tsk", feeling a little annoyed.

Pei Family...

Thinking about the story Meng Liyun told him, his eyes became somewhat complicated.

My mother's tribe?