Chapter 305: Going Against the Grain

Although he had been mentally prepared, Xiao Mian's hair stood up when Li Mudao's sigh passed through the air, and he almost jumped up from his chair.

Is this going to be haunted?

Fortunately, Xiao Mian quickly realized that this sigh was probably sealed inside the sachet by Li Mudao using a magic tool such as a branding stone. Now that Li Qingping has successfully activated the sachet, the first thing to be affected is naturally Li Mudao's preserved last words.

For a moment, only Li Mudao's slightly vicissitudes of life sounded faintly in the room. Xiao Mian and Li Qingping did not dare to speak easily, lest there be any mistakes.

After a long time, Li Mudao's voice stopped abruptly.

After a long time, Xiao Mian sighed.

"The dead cannot be resurrected. Senior Li's last words were sealed several years ago. Now I'm afraid he has been reincarnated. Miss Li, please accept my condolences!"

Seeing that Li Qingping did not cry bitterly, but her eyes were slightly red, Xiao Mian could not help but persuade her kindly. Li Mudao's last words just now clearly stated that Li Qingping was not allowed to marry into the Bai family. Judging from Li Qingping's grief expression now, Li Mudao holds a very high position in her mind. I think Li Qingping should be shaken about marrying into the Bai family now? As long as Li Qingping does not marry into the Bai family, Lingcaotang, which originally belonged to Li Mudao and now belongs to Li Qingping, will not be incorporated into the Bai family.

By then, it will not be so easy for the Bai family to swallow up the Nong family...

"Thank you for bringing me my father's last words. I guess you are Brother Xiao Mian from the Five Elements Sect who is doing well these days, right?" After collecting her thoughts, seeing Xiao Mian nod slightly, Li Qingping sighed softly: "Qingping is unfilial and will disappoint my father!"

"What!? You..."

"Although I don't know why Brother Xiao wants to help the Nong family to deal with the Bai family, I am not completely ignorant of the dirty things between the Bai family and the Nong family. The Bai family is ambitious and wants to swallow up the Nong family, but they use me as a shield. It's really hateful!" Li Qingping's jade face was full of anger while speaking, but before Xiao Mian could be happy for a while, Li Qingping changed the subject: "But knowing this, I have to marry into the Bai family!"

Having to marry into the Bai family, these seven simple words fully show Li Qingping's helplessness.

Xiao Mian was speechless after hearing this, but he didn't know what to say. He originally thought that as long as he got in touch with Li Qingping and handed the sachet to her, after triggering the restriction left by Li Mudao, Li Qingping would definitely wake up and refuse to marry into the Bai family. At that time, the Bai family would have no excuse to occupy the Lingcao Hall under Li Mudao's name. Although it was not enough to make the Bai family give up their original plan, it could also buy time for the Nongjia stream.

Unexpectedly, from the sentence "I have to marry into the Bai family" just now, Li Qingping didn't want to marry into the Bai family at all, but she had a hardship.

"May I ask Miss Li, do you have any hardship?"

"..., of course there is hardship, but it is really not worth telling to outsiders!"

Li Qingping's words were equivalent to rejecting people thousands of miles away. Before Xiao Mian could think about it and continue to persuade Li Qingping, the other party had already thrown the sachet to Xiao Mian.

"This..., what does Miss Li mean?"

"The reason why I came to Tianyi Pavilion today is that I said I was trying on my wedding dress. If I go back with an extra sachet on my body, it will attract attention. Although the Bai family only has one Yuanying cultivator, the ancestor, there are many Jindan strongmen in the descendants. If they find out the origin of the four-leaf green lotus sachet, it will be inappropriate." At this point, Li Qingping stood up and bowed to Xiao Mian: "Since Brother Xiao has kept this thing for many years, please keep it for me for a while! Maybe it won't be long..."

Li Qingping's words made Xiao Mian frown again. Obviously, Li Qingping's situation in the Bai family was very unsatisfactory. Although she did not lose her ability to move, she was guarded very strictly. Even having an extra sachet on her body might attract criticism.

What puzzled Xiao Mian even more was that since the Bai family disliked Li Qingping so much, why did she rush to marry Bai Jintang?

It seems that Li Qingping's so-called forced marriage into the Bai family is not a lie. Obviously, for Li Qingping, there must be unspeakable difficulties, and seeing that Li Qingping kept her mouth shut, she probably didn't intend to tell Xiao Mian everything.

After that, Li Qingping left first. After waiting for a while, Xiao Mian left Tianyi Pavilion under the guidance of the girl. But before leaving, Xiao Mian inconspicuously stuffed a storage bag into the girl's hand and nodded slightly.

The girl was indeed smart, smiling and silent, just watching Xiao Mian go farther and farther.

In fact, Li Qingping had already given her a bag of spirit stones of considerable value before she left. Together with Xiao Mian's bag, it was enough for the girl to cultivate to the top level of the foundation-building period. Therefore, the girl did not think about Xiao's true identity and the relationship between him and Li Qingping. She quit her temporary job at Tianyi Pavilion that day, and after leaving the troubled Tianmen District, she found a spiritual inn with abundant spiritual energy. The girl cultivated with peace of mind and no longer cared about the ups and downs of the outside world.

The so-called cultivation inns are those inns specially provided for casual cultivators to practice and retreat. These inns are often engraved with huge spirit gathering arrays, which make the spiritual energy concentration inside the inns far better than the outside world, providing casual cultivators with no backing with a place for cultivation that can barely be compared with the disciples of the sect.

Let's not talk about how Li Qingping behaved after returning to the Bai family. Let's just talk about Xiao Mian. This time, the journey back to the courtyard of the old ancestor Yu Chu was calm and there were no twists and turns.

After entering his own quiet room, Xiao Mian recalled the scenes of his meeting with Li Qingping one by one, but still did not understand what Li Qingping's difficulties were.

With a sigh, Xiao Mian took out the sachet and played with it carefully in his hand.

After Guitou pointed out that this small sachet was a high-grade storage magic weapon, Xiao Mian had thought about how to open the sachet more than once. But no matter how hard Xiao Mian tried, he failed. After seeing the whole process of Li Qingping opening the sachet easily today, Xiao Mian followed the steps and tried to absorb the true energy from the sachet. However, the sachet did not move at all, which made Xiao Mian frown. After carefully recalling the whole process of Li Qingping opening the sachet, Xiao Mian vaguely grasped a clue.

Li Qingping, it is clear that she is a dual-attribute spiritual root of water and wood. Could it be...

With this thought, Xiao Mian immediately operated the heart formula and converted all his true energy into the dual-attribute true energy of water and wood. Then he tried again, and the sachet opened with a sound!

Senior Li, Senior Li, you have really put a lot of thought into it!

Thinking of this, Xiao Mian suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind.

His face changed, and Xiao Mian didn't have time to check what treasures were in the sachet. He just held the sachet and sat there in a daze.

After a long time, Xiao Mian suddenly shook his body and came back to his senses.

"Gui Lao, do you think it's feasible?"

"Who knows! Anyway, you are now at your wits' end, so let's give it a try, just as a last resort! But what do you plan to use to store the true qi you release? You know, you who practice the "Three Pure Ones Bible" have a huge amount of true qi in your body. It's not easy to find a container of this capacity!"

"I don't know if that thing can store true qi..."

"That thing? You kid, are you talking about - the fairy stone!?"

Just as Gui Tou exclaimed, Xiao Mian casually set up a soul-sealing formation, and then stretched out his right hand and summoned the fairy stone of unknown origin in his palm.

"Since this thing can warm the soul, it should be able to store true energy, right?" While talking to himself, Xiao Mian had already tried to input a trace of true energy into the immortal stone. After the true energy entered the immortal stone, it flowed slowly inside the immortal stone like an invisible thread. Seeing this, Xiao Mian put half of his heart at ease. After putting the immortal stone back into his body, Xiao Mian interpreted his idea again, and then whispered: "Tomorrow is the day for the duel between the Jade Chu Patriarch and the God of Death..."

"Time flies, day and night!"

It was rare that Guitou, who always liked to argue with Xiao Mian, said a Confucian classic. Xiao Mian was stunned, and then he made up his mind and began to try his own ideas.

Xiao Mian's idea, which could be called a wild idea, was completely realized from the process of Li Qingping opening the Four-Leaf Green Water Chestnut Bag. When the true energy in the body was full, Xiao Mian could no longer generate more true energy, but if the true energy in the body was scarce, this situation would naturally not exist. Therefore, Xiao Mian had a fantastic idea to first transfer his own true qi into a container, then run the "Three Pure Ones Bible" to make up for the missing true qi in his body, and then pour the true qi stored in the container back into his body, forcibly increase the total amount of true qi in his body, and force it to transform into true essence.

The overall idea is not complicated, but from ancient times to the present, I am afraid that no cultivator who is about to break through would think of this idea. Cultivators often use any means to increase the amount of true qi or true essence in their bodies, so how could they think of doing the opposite?

More importantly, among so many cultivators from ancient times to the present, only Xiao Mian got a fairy stone that can warm the soul and store true qi!