Outside of Time

"It is my dream to join the Seven Sects Alliance!"

"Now I have everything but my resume. I can't let all my achievements go to waste because of my negligence."

"I took on sixteen tasks today. Senior Brother Xu, my qualifications are average and I have to work harder. Even if I am injured, I can't give up. This injury doesn't matter!"

Ding Xue's eyes were firm.

"I can't let my aunt down!"

"Senior Brother Xu, can you help me complete the task today? I'm sorry to bother you."

Ding Xue said this, her voice was slightly weak. After saying this, she wanted to bow down, but when her body went limp, she was about to fall. Xu Qing instinctively went up to help her.

Ding Xue's body fell into Xu Qing's arms, her eyelashes trembled slightly, her breathing was obviously hurried, and her face was flushed.

Xu Qing was silent. He vaguely felt something was wrong, but he didn't know how to refuse. After all, Ding Xue's injury was real and serious.

In this way, Xu Qing helped Ding Xue complete the sixteen tasks on this day. Although Ding Xue was weak, the excitement in her heart had reached its limit.

This was the result she wanted. This time she begged her aunt to let Xu Qing come to protect the Tao, in order to have close contact with Xu Qing and develop a deep-rooted friendship.

She knew very well that if she wanted to conquer Xu Qing, she shouldn't act too hastily.

It is necessary to figure it out slowly. It is best to be in love for a long time.

That's why she got herself so injured.

But she also understood that this strategy could not be used every day, and her sense of need must not be too exposed, so she recovered a little the next day and everything was as usual.

In the following days, Ding Xue counted the time in her heart and was very excited every day, running around the four islands with Xu Qing.

Until another seven or eight days passed, Ding Xue felt that the time had come and was about to launch her second plan.

With this plan, she was confident that she could get to know Xu Qing further. After all, she had been preparing for this for several months.

But what made her extremely disappointed was that at this critical moment, an unexpected guest came.

It was Zhao Zhongheng.

Zhao Zhongheng didn't know why, but the speed of his cultivation suddenly accelerated after Xu Qing stepped into the foundation building. Now he has reached the level of Qi Condensation and is not far away from trying to build the foundation.

Logically speaking, what he needs at this time is to go into retreat to stabilize his Dzogchen realm and then start building the foundation.

But he obviously heard about what happened here, so he resolutely chose to join the war. On the first day he came to the mermaid island, he shamelessly came to Ding Xue's side.

Don't leave anyway, insist on following.

Even after Ding Xue got annoyed, he even took out the mission jade slip.

He didn't know how to get the same task as Ding Xue. As a result, Ding Xue was quite helpless.

Xu Qing didn't pay attention to this matter from beginning to end. It didn't matter who came. He calculated the time. In a few days at most, the one-month deadline would be up.

"Zhao Zhongheng, if you insist on following, you must make an agreement!" Ding Xue looked at Zhao Zhongheng in front of Xu Qing, feeling very unhappy in her heart.

"One, you can't talk the whole time!"

"Two, you have to keep a distance of three feet from me!"

"If you don't agree, leave; if you agree, stay!"

Zhao Zhongheng took a deep breath. He had already thought about this when he came. Now he looked at Ding Xue, who was extremely beautiful and had a curvy figure.

He quickly glanced at Xu Qing, who didn't seem to be paying attention here, and then quickly looked away, with an unprecedented determination in his heart.

"No matter how high your cultivation level is, how can it be compared with my sincerity? Chasing a girl is not a fight. High cultivation level is of no use. My grandpa's cultivation level is even higher. He was dumped by my grandma. Isn't it the seventh master?" He is also alone in Qifeng, which shows that his cultivation level is high and useless! "

"My sincerity is the key to ultimate happiness. It is indestructible. It can be learned from the sky and judged by humans and gods. Even if the broken face in the sky opens its eyes, it cannot destroy my sincerity."

"So, if the pursuit of a woman depends on your cultivation, then wouldn't it be true that the ancestor has a group of wives and concubines, and all the daughters of the clan are his?" The more Zhao Zhongheng thought about it, the more reasonable he became, and his eyes became firmer, looking at the love of his life, Ding Xue , spoke in a deep voice.

"OK!!"

Zhao Zhongheng's joining made Ding Xue very unhappy, but it was no different to Xu Qing, although he found Zhao Zhongheng secretly looking at his forehead several times.

This made Xu Qing a little strange, but he didn't pay much attention to it, especially since the other party was smart enough not to provoke him, so Xu Qing ignored him most of the time.

It wasn't until a few days later that the three of them completed some small tasks and reunited after a night's rest, Xu Qing glanced at Zhao Zhongheng with a strange expression.

Ding Xue was also stunned for a moment after seeing Zhao Zhongheng.

She glanced at Zhao Zhongheng's eyebrows, then turned to look at Xu Qing, her expression slowly becoming strange.

Only Zhao Zhongheng looked normal, raised his head and showed his eyebrows to Xu Qing and Ding Xue, feeling full of pride in his heart.

And if anyone else is here at this moment, they will definitely find that the shape of Zhao Zhongheng's eyebrows is almost exactly the same as Xu Qing's eyebrows.

Regardless of the height, length of the eyebrow peak, or the width of the eyebrow tail, etc., they are all the same.

Xu Qing looked at Zhao Zhongheng, and he suddenly understood why the other person kept peeking at his forehead in the past few days. What he was looking at was his eyebrows.

"Is this man sick?" Xu Qing thought of Elder Zhao's evaluation of his grandson and thought it made sense.

Ding Xue sighed.

She felt that Zhao Zhongheng was stunned. Some eyebrows looked different on different people's faces. Naturally, Senior Brother Xu's eyebrows looked better and better as they looked at them.

But this Zhao Zhongheng, she thought, was actually fine before, but now he looked extremely weird, like a native chicken with two peacock feathers.

But Zhao Zhongheng obviously didn't think so. He was very proud of himself all the way. He felt that Ding Xue looked at him much more today than before.

So he started staring at Xu Qing's nose.

Xu Qing was silent.

In this way, the three of them got along well in the following days, except that Zhao Zhongheng's appearance gradually improved a little, but the traces were still a bit heavy, and Xu Qing was speechless in his heart.

At the same time, what surprised Xu Qing was that Zhao Zhongheng's transformation was not just that. He actually gave two gifts to Ding Xue at the same time.

Ding Xue was also surprised by this.

Looking at the expressions of Xu Qing and Ding Xue, Zhao Zhongheng felt even more proud.

He felt that his retreat this time was of profound significance because he wanted to understand one thing.

Since you love someone, you must love the house and the bird.

Since you have chosen to pursue her throughout your life, you must be tolerant enough to tolerate the passers-by she has experienced.

So, why should I just give it to her in such an unstructured way?

Give it away, give her two copies!

Let her give it to passers-by, doesn't this show that she is different?

Zhao Zhongheng felt that he was enlightened.

So in this inner sublimation, on this day, Ding Xue inspected a secret passage filled with strangeness and opened it. While waiting for the strangeness to dissipate, Zhao Zhongheng on the side handed Ding Xue the two medicine boxes in his arms. .

Ding Xue took it and opened it, a little surprised.

"Peeling Yidan, this is the secret elixir from the second peak of the Seven Blood Boys. It is not sold for sale. It is rare to see it on weekdays."

Zhao Zhongheng nodded with a smile.

Ding Xue looked strange, looking at the two pills in her hand, and then looked at Xu Qing.

"Senior Brother Xu Qing, thank you for helping me these past few days and for teaching me about grass and trees. I don't think I will have any use for this elixir, but because it is rare, I can let him do research on it."

With that said, Ding Xue smiled sweetly at Xu Qing and gave the elixir to Xu Qing.

"Besides, this is the reward you should get for taking care of Zhao Zhongheng these days, senior brother."

Xu Qing thought about it and felt it made sense, so he took it.

Zhao Zhongheng's breathing became slightly faster, but he quickly smiled again and nodded to Xu Qing to indicate that this was the case.

Xu Qing glanced at the elixir and was about to put it away, but suddenly his expression froze, he suddenly looked at the secret passage that was opened, and stepped to the side of the secret passage.

"You guys stand back."

As soon as he spoke, Ding Xue reacted quickly and retreated instantly, and Zhao Zhongheng also quickly retreated.

Seeing Ding Xue and Zhao Zhongheng moving away, Xu Qing stared at the secret passage in front of him and narrowed his eyes.

This secret passage is located under a collapsed house, and it was obviously dug out recently as a shelter.

There are some runes arranged around. Although they have lost their effect now, they are probably used for concealment.

The tunnel is not big, and can only fit one person into it. As it opens, a chill comes out, which blends with the warm current from the outside to form some mist.

In this mist, in addition to the thick foreign matter, some corpse poison slowly floated out.

Xu Qing was alert. The mission this time was taken over by Ding Xue. The mission description was to find the hiding place where the Sea Corpse Clan had sneaked into the Mermaid Island. They had already searched several places before, but had gained nothing.

Now in a small city on Youzang Island, Ding Xue used a special magic weapon to sense the fluctuations of heterogeneous improvement.

Only then did he find traces.

Xu Qing didn't pay much attention at first. According to his experience in killing the Sea Corpse Clan, even if there were some members of the Sea Corpse Clan hidden on the Mermaid Island, it would not be possible for people like Ding Xue to condense their energy to find them.

And the detection of special magic weapons is of little use. Unless the Sea Corpse Clan deliberately disperses, there are many ways to be restrained and not reveal anything.

Therefore, in Xu Qing's view, the mission given by the sect to the Qi Ning core disciples is actually just to show off and let them adapt to the rhythm of war.

As for danger, there isn't much.

But at that moment, after Ding Xue opened the secret passage, Xu Qing quickly realized that something was wrong as the aliens released one after another, and the aliens released inside contained corpse poison.

"Did Ding Xue really hit a sea zombie?"

Xu Qing's eyes were like lightning, and he spat out some poisonous powder and fell into the secret passage to neutralize the corpse poison inside. At the same time, he also noticed that the corpse poison here seemed to have lost its activity and its toxicity was greatly reduced.

While Xu Qing was meditating here, a faint voice suddenly came from the secret passage.

"Dad, come home quickly..."

This voice was like the pleading of a little boy, full of longing and extremely real. The moment it reached Xu Qing's ears, he felt as if he had really seen a little boy.

This scene made Xu Qing's eyes shrink violently. Ding Xue and Zhao Zhongheng behind him also heard it, and their expressions changed instantly.

"Weird?" Zhao Zhongheng breathed rapidly.