Chapter 97 Cold War
Her hands were cold and she gently touched Jiang He's cheek.

The innocence and childishness that were often on his little face since he lost his memory suddenly faded away the moment the golden flame ignited deep in his pupils.

The black lines on the face seemed to be alive, spreading to the pupils and connecting with the golden flame.

Her dignified temperament was stained with some stains, like moonlight falling into a quagmire.

monkey?

Jiang He grabbed from his mind the crazy memories that he once thought were "Old Jiang He".

The memories are disorganized and fragmented, but some stand out.

After Bai Minxin woke up from the Chenyan Mountains, he was often accompanied by several animal friends.

These animals are her only friends. They have been with her since she was a child and are very close to her. They are like family members.

However, these animals were fed to her by Jiang He himself, and some were even forced to be eaten by her.

Among them was a monkey.
"Master, why are you silent?"

The fire in Bai Minxin's pupils was about to crumble, and finally dissipated along with the stern and cold temperament.

Confusion appeared on his little face and he blinked nervously.

It was as if the expression just now was just Jiang He’s illusion.

"Minxin, have all your memories been awakened?"

Jiang He avoided her question and asked back.

He didn't want to escape from the past, but now was not the right time. He didn't know what happened to his other two disciples and they were lost in different places.

If he revealed everything to Bai Minxin, including the fact that he was Lao Jiang He, the two of them would undoubtedly become enemies.

This affected the subsequent search for two other apprentices.

What he fears most now is that Bai Minxin's memory will gradually recover from the past to the past, causing her memory to remain before she believed in Jiang He again.

In this way, no matter what Jiang He said, she would have a deep hatred for herself and would not believe anything she said.

We had experienced countless life-and-death crises together before, and only then did we gradually gain her trust.
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Bai Minxin's eyes changed, and her intuition told her that her master must have hidden something from her.

What do those memories mean?
She bit her lips tightly, thinking that her master would never hurt her.

She broke free from Jiang He's arms and turned away from his gaze:

"I just remembered some of my memories. Do I have a little monkey?"

She didn't dare to ask why her master hung her up with a bloodstained whip in his hand.

"Well, there was indeed a little monkey in the past. It..."

Jiang He licked his dry lips and didn't know where to start for a moment. Should he say that the monkey entered her stomach?

"Master, would you lie to me?"

The girl suddenly interrupted him and asked, staring at her own toes that were twisting restlessly.

".Won't"

"Then they must have gotten separated. Master, I want to rest now, ni..."

She hesitated to speak, but Jiang He had already understood her implication.

He smiled dryly:

"Then Minxin, you should take a rest first. I'll be leaving first."

With stiff steps, she lifted the car curtain and walked out. One could faintly hear her sigh of relief.

There was dead silence outside. Even though so many homeless people gathered together, it was difficult to hear much sound.

Most of them spoke in low voices, with sad faces.

The carriages in the distance were also deliberately parked together with the vagrants.

The owner of the carriage had the same destination as these vagrants?
Jiang He took out a fish from the stockpiled fish and waved to a young man not far away, "Little brother, could you please come over here?"

The young man hesitated for a moment, his eyes fell on the fish in Jiang He's hand, and finally he couldn't resist the temptation and slowly approached him.

In this cold season, although the glacier is close at hand, fishing is still as difficult as ascending to heaven for these ordinary people.

The boy swallowed his saliva and asked hesitantly, "Is this fish for me?"

This young man was the one carefully selected by Jiang He. He was wearing a long blue cloth robe, which was a bit old but washed cleanly, and exuded a scholarly air.

Scholars among mortals may know more about this place.

"Little brother, where are you going?"

Jiang He asked directly and threw the fish to him.

The young man took it in a hurry and looked at Jiang He's slightly tattered clothes, and the broken cart behind him.

He couldn't help but frown. If it were usual, he wouldn't even look at these rude peasants.

But now the world is in chaos and I have fallen to this point. These people can order me around by relying on their skills.

Jiang He looked at the young man with a puzzled look on his face, not knowing that there were so many things going on in his mind.

He asked again as a reminder: "Little brother?"

He came back to his senses and politely bowed:

"I am planning to go and seek refuge with my uncle, who is the chief clerk in Shangqing County, Hezhou."

The word "Zhubu" was vaguely emphasized.

Jiang He didn't see his expectant look, and thought to himself:

It turns out it's here now.
His original location was Dajin in Pingzhou, and Shangqing County in Hezhou was the closest mortal city to Pingzhou.

During the four years that Bai Minxin took him on the run, they only managed to cross one state.

However, given the vastness of this world, if Bai Minxin had not turned into a dragon, she would have already crossed most of the state by walking on her own two legs.

I'm afraid even if I walk for ten years I won't be able to get out of Dajin.

"Could it be that you are not a citizen of Dayan?"

The young man looked at Jiang He again and asked in confusion,
"This group of people all came from Jihe County on the border of Dayan. The people there were attacked by monsters and beasts and were living in poverty. They fled to Shangqing County. Hmm, you don't even know these things. It seems that you are a wild man in the mountains and forests?"

Dayan is the country closest to Hezhou in Pingzhou, which was also within Jiang He's expectations.

These place names are the places where Lin Chi developed in his early stage in the original text.

Jiang He did not refute:

"Well, I've always lived in the mountains and forests, and I don't know much about the outside world."

"No wonder you don't know the chief clerk of Shangqing County."

The young man nodded as expected. He had accidentally seen this man secretly bringing back a large bunch of fish.

They guessed that he was a savage who had lived in the wild since childhood and had skilled hunting skills.

So he wanted to recruit him, but even though he had relatives who were high-ranking officials, they could not help him at all.

He deliberately wandered around him, but before he started to recruit him, he didn't expect that this person would take the initiative to find him.

He said with some complacency:

"My surname is Long and my name is Tao. Are you willing to be my follower? When we arrive in Shangqing County, my uncle will give you a generous gift."

His uncle is the chief clerk of Shangqing County?
Jiang He burst out laughing when he heard this. What was Long Tao thinking? He actually wrote a blank check to him as a mortal official.

He waved his hand: "That's not necessary, I'm used to being idle, thank you for your kindness, little brother." "You! You really don't know what's good for you, do you know that?"

Long Tao wanted to say something, but he caught a glimpse of Jiang He's seemingly gentle eyes and his tall stature.

This man is tall and strong, in this lawless wilderness
He swallowed his words immediately, flicked his sleeves and walked back, leaving the fish on the ground.

After a while, he picked up the fish with a flushed face.

This little episode did not affect Jiang He's state. He continued to practice with his eyes closed. The fluctuations from the Xuanhuang Pearl became stronger and stronger, and the day of his revival was not far away.

Since the Xuanhuang Pearl was revived, Jiang He could get feedback from it: at least before the massive amount of dragon blood was refined, it would not make him unable to control his desire.

This also made him feel a little relieved and avoided hurting Min Xin.

I just don’t know what the current condition of Zhao Qiujun and Ming Kangwen who are in the Xuanhuang Pearl is.

Thinking of Zhao Qiujun, Jiang He felt complicated.

She had indeed humiliated herself before, and it was her idea that Jin'er was kidnapped by Wuyamen.

The humiliation at that time was just throwing spirit stones on the ground, which actually alleviated his shortage of spirit stones at that time.

As for taking away disciples, to some extent, perhaps it is also out of kindness?

From an observer's perspective, Jin'er was ravaged so miserably that it was a good thing that she was taken away.

She also didn't know that Master Ming was secretly performing blood sacrifices.

Specifically after killing her with a hammer, I found a bunch of dolls in her storage bag, plus her words and actions.

Only then did I realize that this young lady had become stupid due to her practice and had no idea how to behave in society.

Jiang He felt a little regretful, but he did not regret killing her. At that time, he could only kill Zhao Qiujun to take Jin'er away.

Even if she is a truly good person, she is not as good as a strand of Jin'er's hair.
"It's time to train my spiritual sense, otherwise it will be difficult to activate the Xuanhuang Pearl, and I will lose a big trump card."

"It's a pity that the space in the Xuanhuang Pearl cannot be used yet, otherwise I could draw talismans to practice."

Jiang He suppressed the pain in his sea of ​​consciousness and mobilized his spiritual sense.

The current degree of damage to his sea of ​​consciousness requires relevant natural treasures to repair.

But you can practice and try to use more spiritual awareness.

Jiang He was moved when he saw the surrounding trees.

Instead of mobilizing the spiritual consciousness for nothing, it is better to use it to make some wood carvings.

The next day, morning frost stained my hair.

Jiang He boosted his spiritual power, and the moisture on his body immediately turned into hot smoke and dissipated.

He looked at the wood carving in his hand with satisfaction. It was a lifelike monkey.

He spent the entire night carving it carefully using his spiritual sense to achieve this level of quality.

Originally, he just wanted to use his spiritual consciousness to carve a wood sculpture, but before he knew it, he had spent the entire night carving a monkey.

"Ah~"

Jiang He took the wood carving into his arms and sighed softly.

Giving this to Bai Minxin? That would be a bit of a self-deception.

Just like the story picture book I gave Jin'er on the day she was kidnapped by Wuyamen, it was just self-consolation.

That day, Jin'er raised her little face and looked at him with tearful eyes, as if it was yesterday.

Is she a grown-up girl now? Is she in the Shengan Sect, twisted into a madman by them?

When I was still very small, I liked to follow him holding my little finger, liked to listen to him tell stories, and liked to draw on paper.

If such a Jin'er turned into the man-eating monster in the original text, Jiang He would feel a throbbing pain in his heart.

Must find her back
"Master."

Bai Minxin's voice came from behind. She seemed to have not slept all night and her face looked haggard.

"Good morning"

Jiang He suppressed the sadness on his face, smiled and reached out to touch her little head:
"Minxin, you got up so early today."

The girl tilted her head slightly to avoid his hand. Jiang He's hand froze in the air for a moment, and he pulled it back awkwardly. She lowered her head and dared not look at Jiang He's expression:
"Master, I want to go out and take a look. I will be back soon."

The monkey eagle in his arms made Jiang He feel uncomfortable. He pretended not to care and smiled:
"Be careful."

"Yeah." The girl responded woodenly, tugging at the corner of her clothes with her fingers.

Jiang He looked at her fleeing back, feeling an inexplicable resentment building up in his chest.

Min Xin may seem like just an ordinary girl, but she shouldn't be in any danger.
If I really lost all my strength, I would never be able to walk this long and difficult road.

Just at this moment, the Xuanhuang Pearl trembled slightly, and the blood color that was shrouded outside, like a blood cocoon, was absorbed into the pearl.

Only dense golden threads remained, covering the copper-yellow body of the sphere.

The majestic blood and energy flowed back from it, cleansing Jiang He's body.

He did not have time to explore the many differences that occurred in the Xuanhuang Pearl after its transformation, so he first tried to mobilize the essence within it.

At this time, Jiang He's sea of ​​consciousness was broken, and he could only mobilize one spirit.

Zhao Qiujun and Ming Kangwen, who were inside the Xuanhuang Pearl, became much stronger after experiencing the blood sacrifice of the Yuhua Array.

Especially Zhao Qiujun, who is already at the eighth level of Qi training and now has the aura of a foundation-building stage.

Once her master Jiang He uses the Xuanhuang Pearl to help her, she will be able to advance to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

If she had not been restricted by the Xuanhuang Pearl, she would have entered the Foundation Establishment Stage in a blood sacrifice of this scale.

Ming Kangwen also has the strength of the ninth level of Qi training, but his talent is not on the same level as Zhao Qiujun's, and he is still a long way from building a foundation.

What surprised Jiang He the most was that the spirits of these two people were very different from before after the blood sacrifice.

In the past, their spirits were illusory. Once their spiritual power was not replenished and was exhausted, it would dissipate in this world.

But now it has become much more condensed and can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on its own. Although the speed is slower than that of a normal cultivator, it is no longer a rootless duckweed.

Jiang He called out Zhao Qiujun, the stronger of the two. At this time, Zhao Qiujun looked very depressed and saw Jiang He.

It seemed like he had a lot to say. Jiang He could guess that it was about the Zhao family, but he was not in the mood to chat now, so he said directly:

"Keep an eye on Bai Minxin and don't let her get hurt. Keep an eye on that carriage, there are foundation-building monks inside."

Zhao Qiujun looked at him indignantly, but under the control of the Xuanhuang Pearl, he said nothing.

Hide your body and follow Bai Minxin.

A thought suddenly flashed through Jiang He's mind: Could it be that Min Xin had recovered her memory and wanted to escape?

No, no, if I could recover my memory, I would definitely not be as childish as I am now.
Jiang He continued to probe his spiritual consciousness into the Xuanhuang Pearl, and the dense golden color was constantly merging into the Xuanhuang Pearl.

In the past, Lin Chi killed the seriously injured Bai Minxin, seized his essence and blood to forge a holy body, and entered the Nascent Soul stage.

Although Bai Minxin had already reached the awakened state of the Nascent Soul stage at that time, all his flesh and blood could help Lin Chi enter the Nascent Soul stage.

But these dragon blood, combined with the blood energy left over from the previous Yuhua Formation, are enough for him to enter the foundation-building stage.

If I hadn't been hit by the secret technique of the Snake Lord, most of my blood and energy would have been used to rebuild my body, otherwise I would have been in the late stage of foundation building by now.
A blessing in disguise.
This doubly reborn body has much greater potential than the previous ordinary body.

Jiang He continued to refine the blood and energy that emerged from it.

The vigorous blood rushed madly to his weak new body, and the familiar feeling of strength returned to him.

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　　Transition, describe the current situation of strength
　　
　
(End of this chapter)