doomed in dream

Yan Ning was putting his sword behind his back, and was practically planning to build a camp and heat up some dry food. When he heard Xiangmu's words, he raised his voice from a distance and said, "I am not a Taoist priest who seeks Taoism from the Immortal Gate. Your tone is also very strange. Stay calm and don't mess with us!"

Xiangmu asked, "What's so strange?"

"Yan Ning is still young, don't tease her." Chen Jiuqi decided to change the subject to answer her question, so he thought about what to look for, uh

Chen Jiuqi didn't look for anything. If he had money, he would take some out. Finding one's position in this dream world was much more important than natural resources and earthly treasures.

Although she practiced diligently to prepare for emergencies, she did not have an excessive pursuit of cultivation itself, so after thinking for a while, she said: "Follow the fate, maybe I am looking for someone."

"Chen Jiu is called Jiujiu, isn't Jiujiu very young? At the age of thirteen or fourteen, he ran down the mountain to become an adult, isn't he asking for danger?" At this time, Xiangmu seemed not at all interested in the answer to his previous question.

"Sixteen, thank you." Chen Jiuqi glanced at her with a headache. It seems that the overall age growth of the monks is relatively slow after the establishment of the foundation. The senior sister at Shantou persuaded Chen Jiuqi to say that those who swore that the elder's Shantou had already formed alchemy were "the dying outer sect can't surpass her", which means that these people with poor qualifications and reluctantly form alchemy will have no future.

Thinking about it, Chen Jiuqi in the early stage of foundation building now has a stature and face similar to that of a 13-year-old in the real world, and it is the time when he is "skinny".She herself didn't feel it when she was reforming in the door, and she didn't feel it when she came out to arrange accommodation for boats and horses, but after Xiangmu found out, she looked at the familiar Yujie opposite and her cool curve with capital, and then looked at Yan Ning's His muscles were bulging, and Chen Jiuqi suddenly felt that he didn't have enough confidence to speak with this body.

"Sixteen is still very young, so you should rely on adults more at this age." Xiangmu planned to pat Chen Jiuqi on the head.

Of course, Chen Jiuqi avoided it: "Then do I want to call you Auntie Xiangmu?"

"You don't mind calling me."

After the gag, Chen Jiuqi went to help Yan Ning set up a camp. This time, Xiangmu came to contribute honestly and didn't say anything strange. For a while, Chen Jiuqi took out a pen and paper and roughly drew the road that had already been explored. , and circled the next direction, and asked the two for their opinions, of course there was no objection.

"Then let's go west first. If it's within ten miles, return to this camp before dark regardless of success or failure. Because compared with the market map, judging from the direction of the markers when we came in, the current position is already westward. It's a bit too close to the edge to stay there, and going straight in from there is blocked by the ridge and it's hard to get around."

"So that's the case, no problem." Yan Ning was the first to support.

There is nothing wrong with getting along with each other, sometimes Chen Jiuqi thinks that she came here specially to be a bodyguard, why are you looking for medicinal materials, Danxiu? things", but the acting skills are equivalent to non-existent.

Therefore, when the ore that Yan Ning wanted was found to be guarded by a monster at the peak of Jindan, Yan Ning frowned and thought about how to defeat it. Chen Jiuqi was very relieved of the heroine, so he should be busy thinking about self-protection and watching from the sidelines. It seems calm, not to mention that it is absolutely impossible to see that it is a team with others.

Yan Ning has slashed a sword that surpasses the strength of Jindan, but it is the explosive seed of various blessings such as the confinement valley, her epiphany breakthrough, etc., and the suppression of a single sword alone cannot defeat a stable Jindan peak opponent.

"Warcraft guarding the Huoyun concentrate must have a fire-loving nature. I can try to harass it with water, but with my level, I'm afraid I can't do much. Maybe Xiangmu has any medicine to weaken the other party?" Chen Jiuqi finally didn't Resisting the worries about Yan Ning's "fighting the big with small things", she put aside the consideration of self-protection, and turned to ask Xiangmu for help on her behalf.

Xiangmu was standing on the side with his hands behind his back, but he hesitated when he heard Chen Jiuqi's question, then stretched out his right hand and pointed at the protruding rocks in the east: "Let's go to the commanding heights, if the wind direction is right, when Yan Ning fights with the monster, I will Add some ingredients to your spell, if it can penetrate through the skin, it will not be difficult to achieve weakening effect."

Went to the commanding heights, but actually retreated a lot from the battlefield, so Chen Jiuqi's own accuracy was a problem. In short, none of them seemed to touch the monster in the first wave, but it just made it a little more irritated. Fortunately, Yan Ning Zhanshang was very Gao, seeing that the situation was not good, he launched a kite tactic. Anyway, the monsters did not dare to leave the mine they were guarding, and it was easy to beat the stillness with movement.

By the time Yan Ning launched the second wave of attack, Chen Jiuqi was able to harass and trouble the monster more accurately. Some passed by its eyes, some splashed water at its feet, and some hit its tail. Yes, and Xiangmu's strength is obviously higher than that of Chen Jiuqi. She can even predict the hit situation of spells issued by Chen Jiuqi.

After the final battle, the harvest was complete, Chen Jiuqi's actual combat control was greatly enhanced, and Yan Ning naturally experienced the sword intent that surpassed Jindan once again.

Back at the camp that night, Yan Ning smelted the ore directly in the tent to upgrade her sword, while Chen Jiuqi and Xiangmu sat outside and roasted the monster meat——

Although the monk's appetite is not too heavy, he can still consume more if he has a good energy source.

Although monsters and Moxiu both carry "demons", only Moxiu, who is a human being who does not practice the Dao and acts close to evil spirits, will be contaminated with karma and pollute the fairy power on his body into magic power.

As wild beasts, monsters have not developed their spiritual intelligence, and it is their nature to eat the weak and the strong. They will not be considered guilty by the Dao of Heaven before their cultivation is completed. Therefore, they still have flesh and blood and spiritual power. will fall into magic;

But those monsters who can return to the shore and practice atonement will be closer to ordinary monks. Transformed monsters without magic power will be regarded as fairy beasts and auspicious beasts.

Naturally, the Warcraft in the Jindan period has not yet reached the stage of transformation, and the whole body is a good energy source, so everyone worked tirelessly to bring it back.

Moreover, Chen Jiuqi had already expected that this kind of prey could be grilled, and he brought a lot of seasonings.

"What's in your oil? It's quite spicy." Xiangmu's eyes lit up.

Chen Jiuqi was about to answer, but the answer almost slipped out of his mouth, and suddenly turned a corner: "Guess?"

"I don't know, anyway, it's not onion, garlic or chili pepper."

Chen Jiuqi raised his eyes and looked at her again: "It's cornel, pounded and filtered to get the juice, and mixed with lime to make moxa oil. It has always been used to drive away fishy smell."

Xiangmu said "oh", and reached out to Chen Jiuqi: "Understood, let me roast, you can't control the heat of the campfire well."

She turned the wooden stick to the middle, and the timing of turning it was indeed a lot more skillful. When the monster meat was roasted and tightened, she first brushed the oil, and then applied the moxa oil. The amount was also very good. Will not drip, issued a tempting fragrance and sound.

When Xiangmu asked about the ingredients before, she instinctively turned a corner and buried a small pit. Now that Chen Jiuqi, who was "on the sidelines", had nothing to do, she naturally had her mind free, and her tentative thoughts were about to move again: "Speaking "

"Ok?"

"Xiangmu's name, what are the two characters?"

Xiangmu paused for a moment: "'Xiang' of 'Meeting Hate Late', 'Mu' of ''Harmony'."

The conjecture was once again confirmed. As usual, when she successfully revealed a predetermined situation through side-talking, Chen Jiuqi would naturally feel a sense of satisfaction and excitement. This feeling of superiority was even a bit addictive, which made her more willing to trust her intuition And judging, like doing investigations by mediating with Tai Chi.

How should I put it, the appearance of this kind of behavior is a kind of behavior that does not violate morality. It can be called the performance of a "smart person" in possible work or even in situations that often have unrealistic elements like dream worlds. It is understood as the practical application of financial people's instinctive aversion to "information asymmetry".It's just that in an emotional relationship, can you still have to grasp higher-quality information than the other party?

Chen Jiuqi's psychiatrist hinted that her answer was "shouldn't", but she was slightly apologetic at the time, saying that she seemed unlikely to overcome this desire for control, so she also accepted the negative impact of being such a "smart person", That is to say, under the condition of insufficient information, they will only become extremely anxious, want to grab information more and more, but can't get it more and more, and finally fall into a vicious circle.

"Why sigh?" Xiangmu asked her when she heard Chen Jiuqi's "ah".

"Can you soundproof? Let's have a chat."

Xiangmu put down the oil brush, set a barrier with his right hand corresponding to Yan Ning's cultivation level, and nodded to signal that she could speak.

"Xiangmu has two 'eyes' and two 'soil', and there is an extra 'wood' radical, which makes people feel very similar to the structure of a name." Chen Jiuqi didn't look at her, and fiddled with the remaining monster meat with his head down. , "Really, Qu Fengyang?"

Xiangmu looked at her in astonishment, and quickly calmed down again: "Yes, indeed, how did you find out?"

"You didn't hide it too much, did you? Anyone will find doubts about your attitude and behavior."

Chen Jiuqi complained first, mainly because she didn't think much about the specific situation of meeting Qu Fengyang in the dream. She didn't think about what to say in the chat so that it would look natural and not awkward. Avoid the indulgent story of the last dream.

"But there was no communication with the outside world in the secret realm in the past few days. How did you suddenly figure out my identity? Or did you see it at the inn, but you just didn't reveal it?"

Chen Jiuqi felt that her question was a bit strange as if she missed the point, and her reaction seemed to be a little too calm. Both intuition and logic told Chen Jiuqi that something was wrong: "Uh, tell me first, is there anything you want to tell me?"

"It's rude to conceal my name. I'm sorry. Well, although I'm the Lord of Nancheng, I don't have any special intentions to come here. I'm just interested in you."

Ah, does this guy think I'm just exposing her lay name as a monk?

Chen Jiuqi felt that if she continued to point out that everyone was here in reality, the scene would be very embarrassing, but she couldn't make up an explanation to explain how she recognized her as the city lord—some ordinary dilemmas were born .