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Chapter 173 Throbbing

"Your Majesty, please don't always use me as a shield."

The Imperial Master looked helplessly at the emperor who was rummaging around in his room and said.

Nangong Huaxue ran out of the palace and went straight to his residence. Now she is searching for something in his room.

"Don't say that. I have no one else to talk to except you." Nangong Huaxue didn't even raise her head as she searched among the various medicines in his collection. "You know Wang Ji's character. He is suspicious and sensitive. You can't just go against his will."

Nangong Huaxue puffed up half of his cheeks as he spoke, looking a little annoyed: "It's just a competition, but there are so many things to do..."

"Your Majesty, what are you looking for?" The Imperial Master saw that she had smashed a lot of things, and although there was no damage, he still felt a little distressed.

"Can't you calculate? Try it." Nangong Huaxue said unhappily.

"..." Seeing that she was in a bad mood, the Imperial Master sighed helplessly, "Mo Jian came to me a few days ago."

"Oh? About his youngest son?" Nangong Huaxue said casually.

"Yes." The Imperial Master watched her pick up a handful of priceless precious herbs, looked them over, and threw them on the ground like trash. "I want to ask if he is Mo Ze's reincarnation."

"What's your answer?" Nangong Huaxue looked at the strange-shaped ghost grass in his hand, recalled its appearance, and threw it into the pile of herbs next to him.

"Of course." The national teacher smiled.

"Oh? Are you so sure?" Nangong Huaxue finally found what he wanted. After taking a look at it, he put it aside and started looking for the second one.

"You have also seen his portrait, haven't you? What do you want this Huihezi for?"

"An acquaintance wanted it." Nangong Huaxue dug out another one and put it together with the previous one. "So if they look exactly the same, can we be sure?"

"Is there any better and more powerful evidence?" Seeing that he could not stop her, the Imperial Master simply sat back on the couch, half lying down and looking at her.

It seemed that because he had just taken off his hat, the Imperial Master dressed differently in front of her. He was no longer as secretive as before. He took off his airtight black robe and put on a slim black robe. His snow-white hair fell down, scattered on his body in strands, as smooth as a mountain stream.

Nangong Huaxue only left him one plant. He wanted to take it and run away, but then he remembered something and restored the room to its original state for the national teacher, and then left happily.

"...Fools have their own luck." The national teacher seemed to sigh, chuckle, and shook his head.

Nangong Huaxue sent someone to send Huihezi over that night, but unexpectedly the secret guard brought back a letter, saying that it was from Qingyi.

After opening the envelope, I could tell from the words that it was indeed written by Qing Yi. I was somewhat surprised at his beautiful handwriting. After taking a closer look, I discovered that it was Zhang Yumian's instructions for use.

It records in detail the production and use of Yumian, and even specifies how much to use under what circumstances.

At the end of the letter, he told her that if she ever wanted to have a Gu, she could find him, and even clearly marked the prices for each item.

Nangong Huaxue: ...

Nangong Huaxue had a complicated expression as he stared at the long string of numbers at the end of the letter with indescribable expression. After a moment of silence, he burned it.

"……I see."

Qin Xiao looked at Nangong Huaxue opposite him and asked, "Why do you look so unhappy?"

"No." Nangong Huaxue held his forehead and sighed, "It's just that using my brain is too tiring."

Qin Xiao: ...

"You'll get used to it." Qin Xiao shook his head.

"Anyway, you better be careful recently." Nangong Huaxue closed her eyes tiredly, "I'll rest first."

"Yeah." Qin Xiao responded, and after thinking for a while, he thanked her, "Thank you."

"Oh my..." Nangong Huaxue waved her hands as if she couldn't bear it anymore. "What's the big deal? Why are we being polite to each other?"

Qin Xiao smiled and watched her hang up the phone.

"So, he's in trouble?" The Qiongqi on the bed next to him curled his tail and looked playful.

"Didn't you hear everything?" Qin Xiao glanced at him with a calm look, "What are you going to do?"

"What do you mean by that?" Qiongqi showed a puzzled expression, with a smile on his face, "This is your business, what does it have to do with me?"

Qin Xiao looked at him deeply and said nothing more.

The next morning, Mo Hanyu knocked on his door.

"The weather is nice today. Shall we go out for a walk again?" Mo Hanyu sat down in front of Qin Xiao's bed, looked at Qin Xiao who was still curled up in the quilt, and asked him with a smile.

"No." Qin Xiao raised his eyes slightly, "I have an appointment with my eldest brother to spar today."

"Oh?" Mo Hanyu was surprised. "You want to spar with your elder brother? The kind of physical skills?"

"...Probably not." Qin Xiao recalled Qin Jichen's expression, scratched his head helplessly, lowered his head, paused for a moment, raised his eyelids and looked at him, "What are your plans?"

"Me?" Mo Hanyu was stunned. "I was thinking we could go out and play together...but aren't you busy?"

"Maybe I can ask my brother." Qin Xiao looked away, his chin gently resting on the slightly elastic pillow. His jet-black hair fell on his shoulders, half covering his well-developed muscular features.

Qin Xiao was not wearing a shirt. He just lay on the bed with his bare back, exuding a lazy aura, like a cat that was sleeping in the afternoon.

Mo Hanyu was stunned. He had never seen Qin Xiao like this before.

Looking at those eyes without a trace of cold hostility, Mo Hanyu didn't know why he felt as if his heart was pricked by a needle. It didn't hurt much, but rather a little itchy.

As if bewitched by something, Mo Hanyu slowly approached and stretched out his fingers as if possessed by a ghost. Just as he touched the soft hair, he was suddenly struck by lightning and came to his senses.

Qin Xiao waited for a long time without any answer from Mo Hanyu, and couldn't help feeling a little confused, so he turned his head to look at him.

"Okay, okay." For some reason, Mo Hanyu stuttered.

Looking at Qin Xiao's puzzled eyes, Mo Hanyu lowered his eyes and avoided them. He threw himself on his back as if to cover himself, hugged him tightly, and buried his face in his neck.

Qin Xiao was caught off guard and was suddenly hugged tightly. His body froze. He instinctively wanted to throw the person off him, but he resisted the urge and pressed down: "Why are you acting so coquettish? Get down."

As he said this, he propped himself up and tried to pull him down.

Without waiting for Qin Xiao to make a move, Mo Hanyu slid down and sat down, looking at him with a pout.

"But speaking of it... aren't we evil cultivators? Your family doesn't know about your method. If you use it in front of so many people in the training ground, won't there be trouble?" Mo Hanyu asked hesitantly, lowering his eyelids to hide his pupils.

"I'm not sure either." Qin Xiao didn't know what Qin Jichen was thinking, but he believed that Qin Jichen knew the importance of the matter. "But since he said that, he must have some plans."

Mo Hanyu pursed his lips and said nothing.

What was he trying to do just now?

Mo Hanyu was confused by his actions just now. He looked at his fingers, and there seemed to be some warmth left on his fingertips.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Qin Xiao didn't think much about it. He glanced at the clock on the table and prepared to get up and wash up.

After putting on a short-sleeved shirt, he rubbed Mo Hanyu's head and got up to go to the bathroom to wash up.

"Follow me recently and don't run around." Qin Xiao looked at Mo Hanyu who followed him in, raised his eyes and glanced at him in the mirror, and said, "You may be in trouble."

"Oh?" Mo Hanyu was slightly stunned. "What trouble?"

"I don't know the details, but be careful." Qin Xiao still remembered the accident on the training ground before, and his eyes darkened. "If I'm not by your side and I'm in danger, you must tell me."

Mo Hanyu stared at Qin Xiao's solemn expression and nodded: "I understand."

After breakfast, Qin Xiao found out that Qin Jichen had borrowed their family's private competition arena from Xu Junyi in the afternoon, and in the morning he agreed to be Xu Junyi's sparring partner.

After asking Xu Junyi, Qin Jichen agreed to let Mo Hanyu follow them. The two happened to have nothing to do in the morning, so they followed Qin Jichen to Xu's house and watched the two compete.

The Xu family is worthy of being a large Qi cultivation family. It is located in the suburbs of Luoyun. The family is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the buildings are magnificent and solemn, and the training ground is large enough to accommodate more than a hundred people.

Qin Xiao and Mo Hanyu were sitting in the audience, looking at the two people fighting fiercely below.

Mo Hanyu was observing intently, while Qin Xiao tilted his body and squinted his eyes, almost falling asleep.

"Just don't sleep." Mo Hanyu pushed him helplessly, asking him to be more serious. "Every time you sleep, your brother is sparring with others down below, don't you care about him?"

"There's nothing to worry about..." Qin Xiao muttered in his heart, glancing lazily at the two people fighting below.

Although it looked tense and anxious, they were not attacking the opponent's weak points, but more of a collision of strength, with big moves and no fancy techniques. In general, it was just a stone hitting a stone, and it was just a matter of seeing which one broke first.

"This is different from what we've seen before." Mo Hanyu said softly, listening to Yi's thoughts and asking him to imitate this fighting style. "Whether it's in the mountains or this competition, the purposefulness of what we've seen is too strong. You might as well watch more fights like this. This is called sparring."

Purpose? Is it to kill the opponent with one punch?

Qin Xiao pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled: "I know."

Although he said so, Mo Hanyu saw that he was still listless, so he knew that he didn't take it to heart at all, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Are you Mo Hanyu?"

A voice suddenly came from behind. Mo Hanyu turned around and saw a young man standing behind him. He had a slender figure and a cold and aloof temperament.

Xu Qingyun.

Mo Hanyu paused as the name of the person popped up in his mind, then replied with a smile: "Yes, you are?"

"Xu Qingyun." Xu Qingyun sat down behind the two of them. "Are you here to spar as well?"

"I came here to accompany him." Mo Hanyu glanced at Qin Xiao beside him.

"Are you also an evil cultivator?" Xu Qingyun blurted out.

"……Yes."

Xu Qingyun's eyes wandered between the two of them. After a moment, he retracted his gaze and looked back at the stage.

At this time, the table surface had been destroyed beyond recognition, with deep, charred grooves spreading across the entire competition stage. The wind blades swept across, leaving scars on the table surface.

Looking at Qin Jichen who was trapped in the thunder and lightning storm, Qin Xiao frowned slightly.

"Your elder brother is very talented." Xu Qingyun glanced at him, "He is very famous in our school."

"Really?" Qin Xiao was not interested in these.

He could see that Qin Jichen's strength was among the best even in that forest. If he had encountered such a person at that time, it would have been really troublesome.

but……

Qin Xiao's eyes deepened slightly, and he looked down, staring at Qin Jichen who was concentrating all his strength on the field but hitting his opponent in the abdomen, and frowned.

Maybe it was just because they were sparring, the two of them were fighting head-on, very brightly, which made Qin Xiao, who was used to using any means necessary in life-and-death duels, feel a little awkward.

Mo Hanyu beside him understood his complicated expression, chuckled, and asked teasingly: "What's wrong?"

Qin Xiao glanced at the little brat who was asking questions even though he knew the answer, and turned his head away, ignoring him.

Seeing this, Mo Hanyu was not annoyed and just laughed twice.

The two men off the court stopped fighting and neither of them suffered serious injuries.

"How does it look?"

Qin Jichen looked at Qin Xiao with shining eyes, and seemed to want to get some reward.

Qin Xiao vaguely felt that he was very similar to the big furry dog ​​he had seen before.

Qin Xiao: ...

For a moment, Qin Xiao also wanted to know what was going on in his mind.

Qin Xiao turned his head and responded softly: "Very impressive."

Hearing Mo Hanyu's chuckle beside his ear, Qin Xiao gave him a grim look.

Mo Hanyu immediately stopped laughing and nodded at him seriously: "Yeah, that's really amazing."

Qin Xiao: ...

Facing Mo Hanyu's smiling eyes, Qin Xiao pulled the corner of his mouth and couldn't help but let out a sneer.

"What's wrong?" Qin Jichen keenly noticed that the atmosphere between the two was not right and asked.

"Nothing." Qin Xiao took out a hand towel and handed it to Qin Jichen to wipe his sweat. "Take a break. Are you guys still going to fight?"

"No more fighting." Xu Junyi sat down next to Xu Qingyun, flicked his hand, and patted Qin Jichen's shoulder, "Blow some air for me."

Qin Jichen looked at him helplessly, raised his hand, and a small whirlwind passed through Xu Junyi's collar, making his hair swirl.

"Well, I have to say that this attribute of yours is quite convenient." Xu Junyi narrowed his eyes comfortably and smiled.

Qin Jichen smiled, blew the sweat off his body, turned around and asked Qin Xiao: "What do you think? We want to compete, how far can you go?"

"I can't say for sure." Qin Xiao said truthfully, "I haven't had this kind of competition yet."

Whether in the mountains or during previous training with Yu Jin and the others, he would always attack the opponent's weak points and aim to kill them. The only difference was whether he would hold back in the end.

Including the training he had with Mo Hanyu and Yin Xihui before. Just like Mo Hanyu said, they all had a strong purpose in attacking, which was to make the opponent lose combat effectiveness in the shortest time, and they would use any means to achieve this. There had never been such a fight that was all head-on.

"Oh? What were you like before?" Qin Jichen was a little curious.

"Actually, it's pretty much the same as you guys." Qin Xiao felt that the difference wasn't that big, "It's just that I'm a little more ruthless."

"Oh? How cruel?" Xu Junyi, who was standing next to him, heard it and slapped Qin Jichen on the shoulder without waiting for his reaction. He half leaned over and asked playfully.

"...Nothing." Qin Xiao felt a little awkward. He always felt that it was embarrassing to explain such things in detail, so he shook his head.

Unexpectedly, Xu Junyi smiled happily after hearing this, his eyes narrowed into slits: "What's wrong? Tell me, if you feel embarrassed, then I'll ask it another way. What do you think of the fight between me and Bai Shuheng?"

"Very exciting." Qin Xiao glanced at him.

"What about the competition between you two?" Xu Junyi raised his eyebrows and smiled.

"Of course we can't compare." Qin Xiao doesn't have the habit of bragging.

"Stop teasing him." Qin Jichen shook his shoulders and squinted at him.