Outside of Time

At this moment, the night wind blows, and the sea water flows, gently lapping around the black-topped boat, and squeezing out a lot of gray-black water foam along the hull.

It also caused the boat to shake slightly and make a creaking sound.

Inside the awning, Xu Qing was refining elixirs seriously.

As he took out the herbs one by one, either picking the leaves, squeezing the juice, or removing the pistils, he cooked them with ease. Gradually, more and more medicinal liquids filled the stone bowl.

After checking the proportion and adjusting it, Xu Qing began to put in the seven-leaf clover. Just like that, when midnight came, Xu Qing carefully dripped the juice of the Ningling Leaf into the black liquid.

Bursts of harsh sizzling sounds came out, and green smoke spread out. Xu Qing waved his sleeves to disperse it. The medicinal liquid in the stone bowl turned directly into a white semi-solid, and there was still a faint smoke inside. A flash of light.

One-time success.

After careful inspection, Xu Qing took out the medicinal liquids, kneaded them one by one and turned them into elixirs, and set them aside to dry in the shade. Looking at these elixirs, his eyes showed satisfaction.

"Finally the white elixir was refined!"

Xu Qing murmured, scenes of studying with Master Bai emerged in his mind, and the scene of the scavenger camp also appeared in his mind.

All this made the young man's heart gradually become a little restless on this special day.

After a while, Xu Qing sighed softly and looked outside the boat, which was completely dark.

Only the bright moon hanging high reflected on the sea with sparkling light.

There was silence all around, and the sea breeze blew, with a hint of coolness in the humidity, making his hair float.

"Master Bai should have returned to Purple Earth long ago."

"Cross and Luanya, I don't know what to do now..."

"And in front of Captain Lei's tomb, are there any weeds..." Xu Qing whispered softly.

"And I haven't found the Destiny Flower yet."

Even if he is used to loneliness, even if he has adapted to the new environment, Xu Qing is just a teenager after all. He sat there silently, returning to his residence in the scavenger camp in his memory, eating snake meat with a familiar old man. .

Listening to what the other party said about the trivial things in the scavenger camp, watching the other party smoking a pipe and drinking wine.

The memory picture is very clear.

Xu Qing's eyes drooped slightly.

"The teacher in the slums said that when a person starts to recall the past, it means that he is growing older..." Xu Qing murmured and took out a bottle of wine from his leather bag.

He bought this during his patrol during the day.

Holding the wine bottle, Xu Qing looked up at the bright moon in the sky. He slowly raised it for a long time, paid a slight respect to the bright moon, and drank it in one gulp.

Looking from a distance, the young man on the boat is toasting the moon with a glass of wine and drinking a glass of wine alone.

The wine in the main city was stronger than that in the scavenger camp. It was hot in the mouth and melted into the abdomen as if there was a flame, burning the whole body. Xu Qing's breathing was slightly rapid. After a while, he took another big sip.

"I wish Team Lei, the spirit in heaven, a good journey."

"Master Bai, I wish you good health and a long life."

"Happy birthday to myself too..."

Xu Qing murmured and drank again.

Today is a special day, it's his birthday.

Xu Qing, who looks sixteen or seventeen years old, is actually just fifteen at the moment, but compared with other peers who grew up safely, his experience has forced him to mature.

Today, like every year for many years, he was alone, silently blessing himself.

Only this year, there’s more wine.

So, after drinking a pot, Xu Qing thought of his relatives.

The memory of them, even if he tried very hard to recall it, was still blurry. This blurring made Xu Qing uncomfortable. He didn't want to be blurry, but... some things were beyond his control.

A long time, a long time.

"Are you okay..." Xu Qing lowered his head and whispered.

The sea breeze blew up, lifting his hair and blowing on his face, blowing away everything. The slight coolness gradually pulled Xu Qing back from his memories, making his eyes sharp again and the expression on his face again. indifferent.

"Stay alive."

"It would be better if I could live a better life and have the opportunity to see my parents..."

"So, I want to become stronger!" Xu Qing slowly raised his head, and the young man's figure under the moonlight stared into the distance like a lone wolf.

After a while, he turned around and walked back to the cabin, sat down cross-legged, and began to practice.

time flies.

After his birthday, Xu Qing's life got back on track. In the next few days, in addition to patrolling, he would make alchemy and practice every day.

Although the practice of Huahai Jing was blessed with spirit stones, the practice has gradually slowed down. Now it has just broken through from the sixth level to the seventh level.

The farther back you go, the slower your cultivation becomes, but this is only a relative term. In fact, compared with others, Xu Qing's cultivation speed is already extremely astonishing.

At the same time, after Huahai Jing reached the seventh level, Xu Qing could clearly feel that his combat power was almost as big as before. Now he is fully confident that facing himself who did not come to the Seven Blood Pupils, the three Within ten breaths, kill him directly.

Although there is still a gap compared with the ancestor of the King Kong Sect, Xu Qing is confident that he can deal with him head-on.

"When I get stronger, I will kill the ancestor of the Vajra Sect." If he does not kill the ancestor of the Vajra Sect, Xu Qing feels thorny in his heart and is always uneasy. He feels that although the other party cannot deal with him personally due to the rules of the Seven Blood Pupils, But killing someone with a borrowed knife is inevitable, so you must hurry up and improve your cultivation to get rid of this threat.

In addition, Xu Qing's research on Fazhou was also extremely thorough. He analyzed the contents of the jade slips comprehensively and understood them thoroughly. His control over Fazhou was also extremely flexible.

As for the direction, he also made a decision and chose to be strong!

He wants to start with the strength and protection to improve the level of the Dharma Ark. The reason for this is that on the one hand, the strength and protection are improved so that it is not easily worn out. If it is not worn out, it means that it does not need to be repaired and the cost is reduced.

On the other hand, in the main city of Seven Blood Pupils, which is full of dangers, Fa Zhou is the only relatively safe place for Xu Qing. He needs such a place to practice, rest, and refine elixirs.

Therefore, such a place must also have adequate protection.

At the same time, Xu Qing has also refined a lot of elixirs these days, both white elixirs and black elixirs.

Following the same method as before, he not only refined the black elixir, but also refined many poisonous powders that had been used before.

Xu Qing was extremely focused every time he made alchemy. Herbal medicine was a survival skill that he learned very seriously. He cherished what he learned and had already engraved it in his bones.

As for the remaining herbs after each refining, he carefully sorted them into categories and placed them in the cabin. This made his small black-topped boat filled with dense grids and piles of various herbs.

Among them, the poisonous erysipelas powder was inconvenient for him to try to innovate due to the crowds in the main city, so Xu Qing never refined a new poison, but he accumulated a lot of materials.

He planned to find an opportunity to go out and find a secret place to refine together.

As for the work of the Crime Hunting Division, Xu Qing gradually became familiar with it as he went there for several days. In the past few days, the entire Crime Hunting Division was still searching for Nightingale's stronghold, and a large number of clues were reported every day.

Xu Qing could feel that Si Li was not far away from closing the net.

Today was not originally a day for him to be on duty at night, but Xu Qing chose to apply proactively and replaced him with someone else.

The duties of the Murder Division include patrolling at night, and every disciple will have a turn. However, whenever they are on duty at night, everyone will be extremely vigilant.

So, as the outside sky darkened, Xu Qing tidied his clothes, put the poison powder in his sleeve pocket, placed the dagger and iron stick, and walked out of the Dharma Ark.

The sun has set outside, dusk is about to dissipate, and the earth has lost its light in the darkness of the sky. Drops of rain slowly fall on the main city.

Xu Qing's figure was walking in the dark. In the rain, his whole person seemed to be integrated with the night, speeding forward.

At this moment, the wind blew and fell on Xu Qing's robe, making a rustling sound. The wind was cold, and it was very refreshing to take a breath.

It also dissipated the hot flashes in the city, but it could not dissipate some special smell in the air.

As he galloped, his clean boots stepped on the rain-splattered bluestone, making a series of rapid sounds. From a distance, it seemed that with every step he took, the water stains on the ground would ripple like flowers, as if Lotus grows at every step.

Soon the sky was completely dark and the rain was getting heavier. Xu Qing's figure quickly passed through alleys and closed shops, avoiding some killing scenes, until at midnight, he came to Banquan Road.

Looking at the open inn in the distance, Xu Qing stood in a corner under the eaves in the rain, waiting silently.

A few days ago, his informant told him about a wanted criminal named Qingyunzi.

The wanted jade slip marked that this person was born in the Qingyun Sect, a small sect attached to Zitu. He was at the ninth level of Qi Condensation. He was ruthless and lustful. He tortured and killed several female sect members in his sect and was hunted down all the way. Many villages were massacred, raped and plundered.

But Xu Qing did not choose to arrest him because he had no grudge against him.

In this cruel and troubled world, everyone has their own way of living, and Xu Qing can't control that much.

But the other party did one thing wrong.

Xu Qing's informant was supposed to have appeared in the busy city where the two met for the second time two days ago to find him to detoxify, but he has not shown up until today.

So Xu Qing went to look for it during the day.

Although the wind was strong, it could not dissipate the unique smell of the poisonous powder on the spirit coins, so Xu Qing easily found the woman's residence and saw traces of a fight inside. Following the traces of the poisonous powder, he found This inn.

After waiting all afternoon, he saw someone with a strong smell of poisonous powder entering the inn.

The other party's appearance is consistent with that on the wanted jade slip, it is Qingyunzi.

So today, Xu Qing changed the night shift with others, came here, and waited silently.

Naturally, you have to take care of your own informants.