I want to go back to my original world and live an ordinary life.

After hearing Mu Qingxue's question, the Lord of the West did not beat around the bush, but directly said to Mu Qingxue, "The person you have to protect is called Qiu Yan, a junior fellow of mine. You have to protect him until he grows into a fifth-rank great spiritual master, and then your mission will be over." The Lord of the West did not introduce Qiu Yan as Master Hong's apprentice, but as his master, because he trusted Mu Qingxue enough, so even if he told Mu Qingxue some truth, Mu Qingxue would not tell anyone else.

"Your junior brother!" Hearing the Lord of the West Heaven say this, Mu Qingxue was a little dumbfounded for a moment, because she had followed her master for more than ten years, and she had never heard that her master had any junior brothers? Moreover, even if her master had a junior brother, it was impossible for her to protect her master's master, right? You know, although she was considered a genius in cultivation, she was only a second-level great spiritual master after all. Although a second-level great spiritual master was already very strong in the eyes of ordinary practitioners, it was still not enough in front of her master, so she was very curious about what kind of person her master's junior brother was, and he actually needed her protection. After thinking about it, Mu Qingxue did not hide her curiosity, but asked her master, "Master, who exactly is the junior brother you are talking about? Why do you need your disciple to protect him?" Mu Qingxue did not ask her master where the junior brother came from, but asked this question directly, because Mu Qingxue felt that since her master had said that he had a junior brother, then he must have one, so Mu Qingxue felt that there was no need to ask more.

After hearing Mu Qingxue's curiosity, the Lord of the West Heaven smiled. She did not hide anything from Mu Qingxue and directly explained to her, "This junior brother of mine is actually the new disciple of Master Hong. Because I worshipped Master Hong as my master, he became my junior brother, and he is also your uncle."

After listening to the words of the Lord of the West, Mu Qingxue understood. Although not many people in the West knew about the matter of Master Hong's apprentice, she had always been with the Lord of the West, so she knew that Master Hong had accepted an apprentice three years ago, but she didn't know much, so Mu Qingxue asked again, "Master, how is my uncle's cultivation now?" Mu Qingxue paused when she said the word uncle, as if she didn't want to call Qiu Yan uncle, because she knew that Qiu Yan was about the same age as her, and his cultivation was obviously not as high as hers, so it would take some time for her to get used to calling Qiu Yan uncle, but because the master had already acknowledged Qiu Yan as his apprentice, so even if she didn't want to, she had to call Qiu Yan uncle.

Hearing Mu Qingxue's words, the Lord of the West smiled first, and then said to Mu Qingxue, "Although Qiu Yan is my junior brother, you don't have to call him uncle, and you don't have to treat him as a master. You can just get along with each other as peers." At this point, the Lord of the West smiled at Mu Qingxue, and then continued, "Qiu Yan's current strength is a first-level great spiritual master, which is much worse than yours, so he has to go out for training, and your task is to hide your identity during his training and protect him secretly. However, unless his life is in danger, you don't have to help him, just report his situation to me regularly."

After hearing what the Lord of the West Heaven said, Mu Qingxue suddenly felt relieved, because if she had to call a weaker peer "Uncle Master" all day long, she really couldn't stand it. Thinking about what the master had just said, Mu Qingxue asked again, "Master, if I only help him when his life is in danger, then I don't need to have direct contact with him, I just need to hide beside him and secretly monitor him, and then report to you regularly, that's all?"

"In fact, it's not surveillance, it's just regular reporting of some situations. As long as you can keep him alive, it doesn't matter whether you have direct contact with him or not. It's up to you." The Lord of the West said lightly.

"Yes, I understand! Master, when will the mission begin?" Mu Qingxue asked calmly.

After listening to Mu Qingxue's words, the Lord of the West thought for a while, and then said to Mu Qingxue, "Let's start from now! He is now in Mr. Hong's wooden house, from now on you just keep an eye on him!"

"Yes, Master! Then I will take my leave!" Mu Qingxue said as she bowed to the Lord of the West, and was about to turn around and leave. At this moment, the Lord of the West called Mu Qingxue and said, "Wait a moment"

Hearing the master's words, Mu Qingxue stopped and turned around and asked respectfully, "Master, do you have any other instructions?"

"I didn't give any orders. I just wanted to tell you that this trip is both a mission and an experience for you. So you don't have to focus all your attention on the mission, and there's no need to stare at him every day. It's enough as long as you can grasp his general situation. The main thing is to improve your own cultivation. Do you understand?" The Lord of the West was very lenient about the content of Mu Qingxue's mission, for fear that Mu Qingxue would care too much about the mission and slack off in her cultivation. After all, Qiu Yan was not a child anymore. After all, he was a first-class great spiritual master. There was no need to follow him and protect him every day. What's more, he had already given the jade of consciousness to Qiu Yan. Even if Qiu Yan encountered any danger, he would just need to break the jade pendant and he would go to help him. So letting Mu Qingxue follow Qiu Yan was just to add a layer of insurance, and by the way, he could also let Mu Qingxue go out for some experience. Or it could be said that letting Mu Qingxue go out for experience was the real thing, and protecting Qiu Yan was just a side job.

"Yes, Master, I understand!" Mu Qingxue has followed the Lord of the West for more than ten years. She can be said to know her master quite well, so she understands what he means.

"Okay, I'm glad you understand. Go ahead!" Seeing that Mu Qingxue understood, the Lord of the West did not say anything more. He waved his hand and let Mu Qingxue leave.

After Mu Qingxue left, the Lord of the West Heaven called Xia Tianhu, also known as Sister Tiger, and the Lord of the West Heaven called Sister Tiger for no other reason than to talk to Sister Tiger about letting her enter the Ten Thousand Beasts Tower for cultivation. The Ten Thousand Beasts Tower was a holy place for cultivation created by the ancient beastmen. It could not only improve the cultivation of spiritual power, but also temper the strength of the physical body. It was a place that every beastman yearned for, but due to the limited spiritual power in the holy place, it was impossible for every beastman to enter for cultivation. Therefore, the beastmen who could enter the Ten Thousand Beasts Tower for cultivation were generally beastmen elites above level 100, so Sister Beast was very much looking forward to and excited about being able to enter the Ten Thousand Beasts Tower for cultivation.

However, the Lord of the West had a purpose in letting her enter the Ten Thousand Beasts Tower to practice, and that was to let her participate in the Three Clans Competition three years later. So this time, the Lord of the West also set a goal for Sister Hu, which was to let Sister Hu enter the Ten Thousand Beasts Tower for three years of seclusion, and after three years, Sister Hu had to reach the level of a second-level great spiritual master. Although it was difficult to advance from level 130 to level 200 in three years, the Lord of the West said that Sister Hu had received seven Heavenly Spirit Pills from Qiu Yan, and if she could not reach level 200 in three years, she would have to compensate Qiu Yan with seven Heavenly Spirit Pills. Sister Hu definitely didn't have the money to compensate for the Tianling Pill, let alone seven pills. She didn't even have the money for one. But even so, Sister Hu readily agreed to the Lord of the West's request. Although Sister Hu felt it was a bit difficult to advance from level 130 to level 200 in three years, in order to enter the Tower of Ten Thousand Beasts and become the strongest elite of the beast clan, Sister Hu had to agree despite herself. At worst, if she failed to achieve her goal, she would become Qiu Yan's servant and serve him by serving him tea and water for a few years. It was with this idea in mind that Sister Hu entered the Tower of Ten Thousand Beasts to practice without any hesitation.

After arranging the affairs of Mu Qingxue and Sister Tiger, the Lord of the West Heaven temporarily handed over the management of the West Heaven Mountains to an elder, and then left the West Heaven Mountains to do his own things. As for Qiu Yan, although he had decided to leave, he did not slack off in his cultivation, but practiced every day as before, but since the battle with Sister Tiger, no one has conducted actual combat training with Qiu Yan anymore. Not only did the little civet cat deliver the meals on time every day.

Just like that, Qiu Yan practiced for another five days. During these five days, Qiu Yan completed the second level of the Soul Locking Binding, absorbed the water-attributed elixir, and raised his water-attributed spiritual power to the forty-ninth level. He also practiced a water-attributed technique called Thousand Layers of Waves. This technique was left by Qiu Yan's master in Qiu Yan's space jade. Although Qiu Yan's master left more than one water-attributed technique for Qiu Yan, Qiu Yan liked this technique very much, because when performing this technique, water waves would appear, Qiu Yan thought it was very cool, so Qiu Yan chose this technique to practice.

After practicing the second level of Soul Binding, absorbing the water-attributed elixir and practicing a water-attributed technique, Qiu Yan was ready to go out for training, so on the morning of the sixth day, Qiu Yan stopped practicing and began to pick the spiritual peaches on the trees to prepare to leave the Xitian Mountains. There were many spiritual peaches in the spiritual peach garden, a thousand spiritual peach trees and thousands of spiritual peaches. Qiu Yan couldn't pick them all at once, because Qiu Yan didn't know how to use the method of controlling spiritual power to pick spiritual peaches, and he didn't dare to use spiritual power to attack the spiritual peach tree to make the spiritual peaches fall, so Qiu Yan could only pick them one by one and put them into the space jade.

However, although Qiu Yan couldn't pick all the peaches at once, with the blessing of spiritual power and swift body movements, Qiu Yan picked all the peaches in the entire peach garden in just one morning. At this time, the civet cat that had always brought him food came to bring him food again. Qiu Yan was very happy to see the civet cat coming. He stood up and greeted the civet cat, then touched the civet cat's head and said, "You came at the right time, I'm just hungry!" After that, Qiu Yan picked up the civet cat and prepared to go back to the house to let the civet cat take out his food to eat. But at this moment, the civet cat suddenly broke away from Qiu Yan, ran directly to the side of the peach tree and meowed.