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Chapter 421 Auspicious Offering of Pearls (asking for monthly tickets)
Dark eye sockets, huge body, but black and white in color.

Although he possesses extremely powerful physical combat abilities, he gives people a naive feeling.

Li Guanyi stared at the guy in front of him, grinned, and said, "Panda?"

The dazed auspicious signs saw that they were not that group of monsters, there was no Jiuli, no red dragon or the strong man who killed Qiongqi in hand-to-hand combat. The three auspicious signs were stunned for a moment, looked around, and then relaxed again, and the Sun Bird flew up.

Xuanhu fell to the ground.

Xiangrui stared at Li Guanyi, thinking that this guy was very rude, and spoke in human language:

"cat?"

"What cat!"

"You are the cat!"

Li Guanyi said: "Me? Cat?"

After deep thought, he seemed to realize something and said with a smile:

"Well, it's not that wrong."

"Just barely, it's considered a cat."

There was no sight of Jiuli or Chilong, only a gentle and amiable-looking man. The iron-eating beast breathed a sigh of relief, and the Sun Bird also felt at ease. Only the youngest Xuanhu was still on guard against Li Guanyi and had not completely let his guard down.

The hair exploded.

Li Guanyi looked at the auspicious sign of divine power and the roar of the Nine Cauldrons. He confirmed that it was "Him". Li Guanyi smiled and said, "So, you are not a panda?"

"I don't know what to call you."

The auspicious sign raised his head and said, "Hmph, I will not change my name or surname. I am the lord of thousands of miles in the southwest. I control weapons of metal and iron. I have the strength to destroy mountains and my teeth can swallow gold and iron. This is an auspicious sign."

"But the real auspicious sign is not a cat."

"I am a majestic beast, you must respect me."

"Offer bamboo shoots, bamboo, meat, and large basins of animal milk as offerings."

Earned with pride.

Li Guanyi's right hand felt like petting the cat.

It's like the huge difference between a white tiger and the ordinary tigers you saw in your previous life.

This mythical beast is different from the panda I saw in my previous life. It is much bigger, its fur seems softer, and it feels very good to the touch. It also has a smug look on its face, and it looks very nice to touch.

Hold it, hold it.

This is not the influence of the previous life.

It must be the Jiuli Qi that had the opposite effect.

Li Guanyi restrained himself.

Looking at this majestic and solemn auspicious sign, standing tall and solemn, with hair slightly ruffled, its eyes are filled with divinity, majesty, and an attitude that says "good to touch, good to touch, very good to touch."

Li Guanyi thought about it, stretched out his hand, and the Qilin cat on his shoulder took out a bamboo shoot from somewhere. Li Guanyi looked at the huge auspicious iron-eating beast, pondered for a moment, and pinched the bamboo shoot with his right hand and pulled it to the left.

Xiangrui's gaze moved to the left.

Li Guanyi's palm moved to the right.

Xiangrui's gaze moved to the right.

"........."

"With this state, this character, and this appearance, there's no way it can be wrong."

Li Guanyi picked up the bamboo shoot and suddenly threw it. The bamboo shoot rolled in the air. Xiangrui's body reacted faster than his brain. He pounced and opened his mouth to bite the bamboo shoot.

He fell to the ground with a thud, his body stiffening.

Oh no, the secret is exposed!

Li Guanyi also pounced and rushed directly to the back of the giant iron-eating beast. It was auspicious and pure, but instead it was a fresh air of the mountains and forests. Li Guanyi felt a soft touch as if his body was sunk into the fur of a giant panda.

Duang!

Li Guanyi was bounced up on the back of the iron-eating beast, and then his back sank into the beast's back and bounced again.

The iron-eating beast was furious: "I am a good omen."

Li Guanyi snapped his fingers.

The little Qilin took out some bamboo shoots from somewhere.

Iron-eating beast: “…………”

"But it's not impossible for you to lie down for a while."

The little Qilin used the little tricks he learned in the academy to take out more bamboo shoots and fruits.

Iron-eating beast: “…………”

Without changing one's expression:

"Ahem, um, is my back comfortable? Is it a bit too soft?"

Li Guanyi laughed out loud, and the Lord of Xuanhu Mountain became angry: "Have you been bribed by him? What are you doing here as a human? There are many dangerous things here, leave quickly!"

It roared like a tiger and stared at Li Guanyi with its claws and fangs bared.

Li Guanyi propped himself up and looked at her with a smile.

Ripples appeared in the void, and the boy's hair rose and fell with a faint silver color. A huge and vast White Tiger Dharma Image with divinity and domineering White Emperor level appeared behind Li Guanyi, and a pair of golden pupils looked down at the black tiger indifferently.

Even Li Guanyi, who seemed to be in a good mood, had a smile that was tainted with a hint of White Tiger White Emperor's arrogance and indifference.

Xuanhu's body stiffened and his hair exploded.

Li Guanyi stretched out his hand.

The Chen family's Six Voids and Four Combinations magical power was exerted, and the black tiger was lifted up. He held it in his arms and petted the cat for a while. It was a black cat, a big cat, but it was still a cat. He felt very happy, and finally got rid of a lot of the frustration from searching all the way.

The iron-eating beasts munched on the bamboo shoots and sighed, "It tastes so good."

"It's just like the treasures hidden in my cave!"

The little Qilin looked away without changing his expression.

The iron-eating beast shook its body, and Li Guanyi fell from the air. He saw this auspicious sign sitting up, leaning against the cliff, and stuffing the big bamboo shoots into his mouth like a snack. He asked, "Who are you? Why did you have so many scary auras just now?"

Li Guanyi's gaze fell on the side.

Mu Taihong took a slap from the fully-powered Auspicious Iron-eating Beast on his own face.

After performing an act that even the Jiuli clan thousands of years ago would admire and call him a warrior, he fell into a sweet sleep.

But Li Guanyi saw the auspicious sign, the bright pearl, and Mu Taihong.

Because of what Mr. Wen He had heard and seen, he was able to guess the general situation immediately. It turned out that the incident of the lost pearl was indeed directed and acted by this person himself, probably in order to subvert the reputation of the King of Southwest.

Li Guanyi withdrew his gaze and looked at the wooden box next to Xiangrui.

Even when eating, Xiangrui kept the box beside him. Li Guanyi pointed at the box and said with a smile: "I gave you so many bamboo shoots, can you give me this box?"

Xiangrui immediately became alert and asked, "What are you going to do!!"

"I can't give this to you."

"This is my meal ticket for the next few hundred or thousand years. I can't give it to you."

Li Guanyi: "What?"

Xiangrui said proudly, "A little human girl asked me to take care of a guy named Li Guanyi. I think giving this thing to him is definitely a favor. This way, all my bamboo shoots and food will be covered. No matter spring, summer, autumn or winter, I will have three large bowls of beast milk a day."

"That little girl is much more generous than you."

"This little bit of bamboo shoots is not enough."

Li Guan was stunned, then laughed: "Then do you know who I am?"

Xiangrui looked at Li Guanyi. He was young and didn't look like the guy from the Jiuli clan who could run a horse on his arm, so he calmed down and said, "I don't know."

Li Guanyi pointed at himself and said with a smile: "I am Li Guanyi."

That auspicious sign suddenly widened his eyes and protruded his neck. He looked at Li Guanyi, then looked at the box, and then looked at Li Guanyi again. He wanted to threaten him, but didn't know how. So he recalled how Jiuli taught him how to eat bamboo.

So he finally forced himself to show a threatening expression with bared teeth and said:

"You're bluffing me!"

"You can't be Li Guanyi's."

"You and Jiuli are just like me. You both think I'm stupid and foolish."

Li Guanyi grinned and asked, "Then she didn't leave any method for you to confirm whether the person who came was Li Guanyi?"

Xiangrui pondered for a long time, and Xuanhu could not bear to watch and said:
"Li Guanyi, listen carefully."

"What did you do before you met Xue Shuangtao? How much did you earn per month?!"

Li Guanyi said, "A little pharmacist at Huichun Hall, one tael per month."

"But because the economy of Chen State was not good and taxes were heavy, copper coins were often used instead of silver. And because it was not enough, the converted amount was only eight or nine hundred coins."

Xuan Hu was puzzled and said, "...It seems to be right."

"What's the second question?"

The Sun Bird pondered and said, "Stupid cat, watch me!"

He circled around and landed on a branch. He looked at Li Guanyi, cleared his throat, and said, "So, Miss Xue asked, you just went into the Xue family and did something very rude to Miss Xue. Do you remember?"

Li Guanyi was stunned and replied: "...I accidentally caught the young lady's feet."

The Sun Bird didn't quite understand the meaning of this question, and just said, "I see, that's right, it was just a scratch, why are you and that little girl so shy?"

“Her face turned red at that time.”

"Then one last question."

At this time, Xiangrui thought for a long time, and finally remembered it. He slapped his forehead and said, "Ah, I remember it!"

With a bear roar, it was quite majestic. Xiangrui landed on all fours, looked at Li Guanyi with huge eyes, and said slowly: "She asked, do you still remember the agreement you made with her when you left Chen State?"

Li Guan, who was wondering what the young lady would ask, was slightly stunned.

As soon as these words were spoken, it seemed as if he was brought back to three or four years ago. It seemed as if all the battles and the years of war in the past few years had become vague, including the escape from Guanyi City and the army that besieged him.

Before that, he was just a poor young pharmacist. After being fired, he walked on the road holding his stomach, worrying about where he would have food to eat in the future and that he couldn't even buy a roast goose for his aunt.

At that time, he only felt that the world was vast, Guanyi City of Chen State was prosperous, and the coming and going of people, heroes, celebrities, beauties and talented men had nothing to do with him, so he went to the private school to try his luck.

Then he saw the young but beautiful girl in green clothes reaching out her hand. Li Guanyi sat cross-legged beside the stone and said:

"I said, I will go back."

He stretched out his hand and picked up a bamboo leaf, saying:
"At that time, I told her to remember that I would definitely come back. When I come back, I will have thousands of troops behind me. I will become a hero of the world. I will take up arms, lead thousands of troops, and then come back!"

"I want her to wait for me."

When Xiangrui was overjoyed, the black tiger finally froze, and then couldn't help swinging its tiger claws and hitting Xiangrui, gritting its teeth and saying, "That Miss Xue clearly said later that you shouldn't ask him this question!"

"Why did you say it anyway?!"

Xiangrui was stunned, and Xuanhu Mountain Lord raised his tiger claws to cover his cheeks.

Xiangrui had been pursued for more than ten days, and only now was he feeling dizzy. Recalling that, after the eldest daughter of the Xue family, who was dressed in men's clothing, asked this question, her face turned slightly red, and she waved her hands in a panic, saying, "Don't ask this."

Xiangrui lowered his head and gulped down the milk.

Even the Sun Bird was eating the food happily.

Only Xuan Hu was puzzled and asked: "Why don't you ask?"

The girl carefully reached out her hand and stroked Xuanhu's back, and whispered: "I want to ask him, but he is too tired and too busy, fighting all over the world, so I can't ask."

Xuan Hu was even more confused: "Isn't this your agreement?"

The girl smiled and said, "Yes, but I am the only one who remembers this agreement. He should be the one to bring it up. Isn't it like forcing him to ask this?"

"I don't want this..."

"Then let's change the question."

Xuanhu didn't understand the question, he just felt that the girl's palms were delicate and warm, like precious jade stored in the mountains and rivers, very comfortable. The girl stood up, put her hands behind her back, put her fingers together, and stood on tiptoe.

The southwest wind blew past, lifting her black hair slightly.

Xuan Hu asked: "What do you want to ask?"

The girl closed her eyes, hooked her fingers together, stepped back, turned around and asked cunningly: "Then ask him if he still needs money?"

At this moment, Xuanhu was so disappointed that he slapped Xiangrui with his tiger claws that were enough to easily break armor, but it seemed that he couldn't even break his defense. He just gritted his teeth and said, "You, you, you, the question just now doesn't count!"

"One last question, are you still short of money?!"

Li Guanyi lowered his eyes. He understood the girl's restrained emotions and laughed softly, "Missing!"

Xuan Hu nodded: "That's you."

Li Guanyi grinned. For some reason, Xuanhu's final recognition made him feel a little unhappy.

Why am I the only one who is short of money?
But when he thought about the plan for the city in the Western Region, the popularization of the thirty-six parts of written education, and the infrastructure construction of Jiangnan Road, Li Guanyi's forehead began to sweat a little, and then he decisively agreed.

Xiangrui was slapped many times by Xuanhushanjun, but nothing happened to him. Anyway, it was done in the end, so he shook his head in joy: "Ahahaha, that's you, ah."

"Great! After hiding for so long, I finally found you. Here, this is my food... I mean, this is my promise."

"Don't forget!"

Xiangrui stretched out his claws solemnly, trying hard to present three claws.

"Three meals a day, with a big basin of milk."

“This is indispensable!”

Li Guanyi laughed: "Okay!"

Xiangrui was overjoyed: "You are a good person!"

Li Guanyi grinned, thinking that this guy was too greedy. He was a little worried that he would be cheated. He took the wooden box, stroked it, and moved his fingers. Twenty-four pearls appeared in it, each of which was very large and exuded charm.

It is a material that is sufficient to be used to forge magical weapons. Even if it falls on a robe, it is probably enough to be immune to the observation and divination of the three secular sects and can avoid the methods of sorcerers like Hou Zhongyu.

Even the sound of my aunt Murong Qiu Shui's piano could not be hurt.

But Li Guanyi suddenly looked at these pearls and they looked familiar...

Hmm? This is...

He looked at it carefully and suddenly understood.

These pearls seemed, as if, slightly similar to the pearls that were used for lighting in Xue Lao's yard.

This is a little bit, and it's still a little bit big.

Li Guanyi looked at it for a long time. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that this thing was the same as the old man's things in his memory. He grinned and understood. He knew that the eldest lady must have taken advantage of the old man's absence to go through all of his collection.

At least those beads didn't escape.

...I wonder what the old man’s expression was when he came back and saw that his small yard had been demolished.

Li Guanyi had a strange expression on his face. As his palm brushed across the pearls, he suddenly sensed something different. His soul seemed to sense a slight imprint hidden on these pearls.

These twenty-four pearls are the national treasures of Southwest China.

If it were not for its uniqueness, it would not be qualified to be compared with the Jiuli Divine Weapons of Gold and Iron. It is similar to the Jiuzhou Ding, which can retain its charm.

Thus, the figure of the girl seemed to be reflected on the pearl, sometimes talking and laughing, sometimes being surrounded by swords, sometimes free and easy and calm, sometimes with a tense face, sometimes in the south, sometimes in the Central Plains, sometimes autumn wind blows up falling leaves, and sometimes fine snow falls on winter plums.

The last afterimage seemed to be the girl taking good care of the beads before she came to the southwest. She smiled and said to the person beside her: "Well, leave the files there. I will take a good look at them today."

"Thank you."

Then he picked up the beads one by one and gently placed them in the wooden box:
"This one comes from the Princess of Ying State..."

"These three are from the tent of the Turkic king of the grassland..."

"This one is..."

Li Guanyi seemed to be able to hear the girl's whisper, and his expression suddenly became complicated.

The world is so big that the State of Chen, the State of Ying, the Western Regions, and the grasslands are all tens of thousands of miles in radius. Even if you ride the best dragon horse, it will take a lot of time to gallop from one end of the mountain to the other end of the world.

Many treasures are in the hands of powerful people or masters of the martial arts world.

Li Guanyi didn't know how the girl collected these pearls one by one and then packed them up. She was obviously being watched by millions of eyes in the State of Chen, but she still came here in the troubled times.

More than twenty years ago, his father scattered twenty-four pearls across the world for his mother.

More than 20 years later, someone went to collect these pearls scattered all over the world bit by bit in exchange for a promise from the King of Southwest.

But in the end, after all was said and done, all that came out was a chuckle.

I still don’t ask…

The mighty Qin Wuhou held the wooden box in his hand. For some reason, he felt that the twenty-four pearls seemed to be heavier than the Tiger Roaring Sky Halberd used by the overlord eight hundred years ago, making him seem a little unsteady.

Xiangrui stretched out his claws for Li Guanyi to take, his face tense:
"Take it, take it!"

"Don't fall down, I, I said it in advance."

"Even if you fell, you can't break the rules. At least, you have to have a basin of milk every day, no less."

Li Guan put the box away and nodded slightly.

I had originally planned to bring Xiangrui back with me, and now I have the pearl in my hand.

The power to change the situation in the southwest is already in our hands.

Xuanhu licked his paws and looked at the Qilin cat on Li Guanyi's shoulder with confusion. He always felt that this cat looked weird, but it was obviously a top-notch auspicious cat, second only to those special and unique mythical beasts.

But looking at this strange cat, I always feel a little scared.

Watching Li Guanyi take back the box, Xuanhu remembered that when he sent the little girl away, Xiangrui was immersed in a large basin of milk. He shook his head and sighed that this guy was still as greedy as ever.

Although she was reincarnated, she was one of the year gods, the King of Southwest Mountain, and knew etiquette. When she sent Xue Shuangtao out, she thought about it and asked doubtfully: "That question, what if he doesn't come to find you?"

Master Xue thought for a moment and said, "Then I will wait."

"Still waiting?"

"Why would you keep waiting? I would be angry too."

The girl put her hands behind her back and smiled, "I want to live my own life, too. If he doesn't come, I want to get married, have children, and live a very good life."

"I'm so mad at him!"

"Tell him not to come to me!"

The black tiger's tail drooped a little.

The voice paused, Xue Shuangtao lowered his eyes and smiled softly:

“…I was thinking of doing this.”

"But, as expected, such words make me unhappy even when I say them, let alone think about them."

"So, I should wait."

"Whenever I get angry or scared, I think about him not coming. But if I think about it again, even if he doesn't come, I will definitely think about him at that time. Maybe he will come after a while, or maybe he will come next year."

"Just like that, even if he doesn't come, I can use the illusory dream to lead me forward."

"Day after day, year after year."

"Until my own face has wrinkles and my hair has turned grey."

"I would be so angry that I would scold him."

"I know he won't come back."

Xuan Hu muttered a few words and said, "How silly! You should have rushed over to question him! He clearly promised, so why didn't you come?"

Xue Shuangtao couldn't help laughing, her laughter was like a silver bell. She reached out and rubbed Xuanhu's head, and Xuanhu also enjoyed it. Xue Shuangtao thought about it and smiled: "It's very silly, but..."

She smiled and said, "But what I'm waiting for is that young hero who, even if surrounded by the world and besieged by the country, will still point his halberd at the sky and say he will come to find me."

"If he doesn't come, it means that the man who promised me to conquer the world has been killed by himself in this chaotic world. Then..."

Xuan Hu tilted his head: "So, you won't wait for him?"

The girl kicked the stones on the road and said with a smile:

"Then, it means that he can't come to see me, and I will fulfill the next part of the promise I made that year. Perhaps it is a happy thing to have such an experience in this life. At that time, I did get the promise of this life."

“Then we just need to execute it.”

"I will always wait for that boy to find me."

"Wait until I'm an old lady."

"When death comes, perhaps I will see him again."

"I will wait."

(End of this chapter)