Chapter 26: First Encounter with the Hong Family
"Ji Xiaomei, you performed well today."
Ji Yuanjie slowed down, walked to Ji Qingling's side and patted her shoulder.
Ji Qingling raised his eyebrows, "It's just so-so."
Because Ji Qingyuan and Ji Qingling were very familiar with each other, they spoke more casually.
So the smug expressions of the two siblings would be the same?
Ji Yuanjie was amused. "I saw that you have made rapid progress since entering the second level of Qi Refining. How come you were able to weave a web like that just now?"
"I must make this clear. This web was woven by Sister Yuxue. I just added the Golden Armor Technique."
"Golden Armor Technique? The Golden Armor Technique can be used like this?" Ji Yuanjie was puzzled.
"Why can't I use it this way? Otherwise, can I weave a net with my gold-attributed spiritual power? What are you thinking? You just said that I'm only at the second level of Qi Refining."
She reached out and broke off a branch from the roadside and played with it in her hand, then with a thought she cast the golden armor spell.
He handed the golden branch to Ji Yuan Jie, "Here, this is for you."
Ji Yuanjie held the golden branch and said, "So it's really that simple. Ji Qingyuan wasn't exaggerating when he said you're smart."
But he didn't know that in order to attach such a net, it would be impossible to do so without extraordinary spiritual power and precise control of spiritual power.
~ By the time the team found the second cave, it was already dark.
Ji Yuanjie discussed with them and decided to camp nearby first and then explore the cave early tomorrow morning.
Although monks like to carry commonly used items with them, many of them only brought a little food.
Moreover, everyone just found out the test questions at the last minute. Practitioners in the Qi Refining Stage were not allowed to practice fasting, so food became a problem for the next few days.
On Jiyuanjie's day, he took people to hunt, intending to solve the food problem of the next few days at once.
Ji Yuxue was responsible for leading people to guard the camp, collecting everyone's food, and any elixirs and talismans that might be needed.
So when Ji Qingling took out her pile of food, drinks, fruits and snacks, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at her.
Ji Yuxue looked at the pile of meat patties and said hesitantly: "Well, I think we can call Yuanjie back. Qingling, these are enough for the eight of us to eat for a few days."
After saying that, he smiled at Ji Qingling embarrassedly.
Ji Qingling smiled at her embarrassedly. This cultivator's storage bag was a self-contained space. Food could be put in it without rotting or spoiling. It would remain the same as when you took it out.
That's why she bought so much iced fruit tea at one time, and she always had to queue up to buy the meat pies.
Ji Hui came over at this time and asked, "Is there anything else in your storage bag besides food?"
Ji Qingling replied: "Do you have food that you are reluctant to take out?"
When they came back from the Epoch Festival, they didn't encounter much prey just now, so they thought they should prepare some more for tomorrow's trip.
Seeing the food provided by Ji Qingling, he felt that Ji Xiaomei was really his lucky star.
"Ji Xiaomei, you are so capable!" she said in a strong and powerful voice.
While eating, I watched everyone eat her meat patties with barbecue and drink her fruit tea.
Ji Qingling suddenly felt that the food in his hand didn't smell good at all. Why did his heart hurt so much...
~ The next morning, everyone was ready and headed towards the second cave entrance.
This time they learned from yesterday's experience and lured out Xueling'e and eliminated her first. Sure enough, Xueling'e who had not lost her child was much easier to deal with.
The hunt was successful, and all team members went into the cave to collect insect eggs.
The same gloomy cave, with insect eggs hidden on the stone walls.
No one used cleaning techniques because they were worried that there might be other snow spirits hiding in the cave, and also because the spiritual power might destroy the insect eggs.
Everyone continued to explore and search along the sunstone.
The goddess of fortune did not visit this time, and only twenty-one were found in total.
Just as he was about to leave, Ji Qingling discovered a few insect pupae moving on the ground.
She squatted down and looked carefully. It was gray. What was this?
"Don't move. It's a pupa of the snow lily. It's poisonous. Be careful."
Ji Yuxue came over to remind her.
"Sister Yuxue, is this the pupa of Xueling'e? Why didn't you find the shell of the eggs on the stone wall?"
"I don't know either, but this pupa has no other function except being a little poisonous, so it's better not to touch it and let it grow and continue to lay eggs."
“…”
After leaving the second cave, Ji Qingling and her friends were not as lucky as before.
We didn't encounter Xueling'e again, but we encountered monsters several times. Fortunately, after two days of cooperation, the team members had better understanding of each other and successfully hunted it down.
After several rounds of siege, Ji Qingling finally confirmed that her spiritual power was indeed stronger than that of others.
Ji Hui had already taken three Qi-replenishing pills, but she felt that the spiritual power in her dantian was enough to fight two more monsters.
So far, the small sprouts have not brought any bad effects.
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She decided to wait and see.
Because it is the egg-laying season of the Snow Spirits recently, many more monks have come to Tianmu Lin.
Ji Qingling and his team had also encountered other cultivators, but the other parties saw the symbol of their Ji family and did not dare to provoke them.
But every family has a few enemies. Sometimes, the more you don’t want to meet someone, the more likely you are to meet them.
Ji Yuanjie looked at the people blocking the way. The highest level of cultivation was the eighth level of Qi Refining. They should also go into the mountains to look for insect eggs.
The most important thing is the mark on their clothes, Tongcheng Hong Family!
Ever since the Hong family failed to seize the tree last time, they destroyed the Qingmu Ding borrowed from the City Lord's Mansion.
The Hong family never received a good reception in the City Lord's Mansion again until they paid a compensation of spirit stones that was twice the value of the Qingmu Ding.
From then on, he hated the Ji family. Even though they had not gotten along well with each other before, they were not as irreconcilable as they are now.
Let’s look at the Ji family. The Hong family destroyed the thousand-year-old spiritual tree in the family. I’m afraid this hatred will never be resolved.
If he had not been afraid of other families taking advantage of the situation, the head of the Ji family would have brought his clansmen to the Hong family to fight to the death.
The apparent calm now is only because both families have been severely damaged and neither dares to act rashly for the time being.
"Isn't this the Jiyuan Festival? Are you taking some kids out for an outing?"
"Hong Shengan?" Ji Yuanjie didn't expect to meet this person here.
Hong Shengan from the Hong family is at the third level of Qi training like Ji Yuanjie, and he often has conflicts with them in Tongcheng.
Today he followed the tribe's team out to look for insect eggs, and saw that Ji Yuanjie came out with a group of people who were in the early stage of Qi Refining.
Thinking about how I was defeated by this kid last time in Tongcheng, I immediately made up my mind to give him a lesson today.
The lowest level of cultivation on his side is the third level of Qi Refining, but the highest level of cultivation on the other side is Jiyuanjie, also the third level of Qi Refining.
This is easy, hahahaha, God really helps him.
If I fall into his hands today, I will be skinned alive if I don't die.
Over there, Hong Shengan told his teammates about Ji Yuanjie and the others' identities, and sure enough, everyone looked at them with a little more hostility.
Ji Yuanjie was praying in his heart, hoping that there really were family elders protecting them in secret, otherwise these people would be beaten half to death.
It seemed like they had discussed something over there. Ji Qingling saw that Hong Shengan became more arrogant at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"There's nothing more to say. Jiyuanjie, let those of you hand over your storage bags first."
Ji Qingling subconsciously held her storage bag tightly, as it contained all her belongings.
"Hong Shengan, don't go too far."
(End of this chapter)