After Waking up Beside the Villain

midnight.

The chirping of insects is hidden in the shadow of Lin Yi's wall.

A tall young man in a smoke-blue student uniform lowered his head and quickly walked around a row of alchemy rooms on Danfeng.

The patrolling disciples heard the movement, raised the glazed lamp to look over: "Who... Xiao Ni? You came back so late?"

When the dim light came on, Xiao Ni's walking figure paused, turned his tired face, glanced at the disciple with a slightly dark look, and said in a hoarse voice: "There are a lot of chores in Baiyue City."

The disciples on patrol at Danfeng were somewhat displeased with Xiao Ni's always gloomy gaze, but they didn't say much, and waved their hands: "Go back earlier, don't worry Elder Shan."

Xiao Ni nodded, turned around and continued walking.

As he stepped through a courtyard gate, the shadow of a swaying tree brushed across his face, revealing the mockery in his eyes in the thin moonlight.

That master of mine, is he really worried about me?

With a sneer in his mouth, Xiao Ni closed his eyes slightly, sensing the long-lost warmth and aura coming from the originally dilapidated and empty dantian, his heart was once again agitated, and his heart was surging.

He quickly returned to his small courtyard, and once he entered, he closed the door tightly. He didn't even bother to turn on the light, so he sat cross-legged on the bed and said in a low voice impatiently: "Qi Ling, I've arrived at the safe place." Here, you can start practicing."

As soon as Xiao Ni finished speaking, he saw a golden-red light ball phantom flying out of his dantian, hovering in front of his eyes.

The ball of light shook, as if looking around, and then a crisp childish voice came out of the ball of light, and said very old-fashionedly: "This cave is not bad, the protective magic circle and the spirit gathering circle are both top-notch, your master Zun treats you, a useless mortal, quite well."

Xiao Ni sneered and said, "I'm afraid he has ulterior motives. When my Xiao family was destroyed, he was the first one to arrive. Is it such a coincidence?"

Guangqiu said: "It seems that you suspect that your master was involved in the destruction of the Xiao family?"

Xiao Ni frowned: "I don't want to talk about this. Since you said that you are the Artifact Spirit of the Zhiyang Pearl, no matter whether you belonged to the great power to cross the tribulation in the past, or where you belonged to, it is now just a magic weapon inherited by my Xiao family. Just have more thoughts that you shouldn't have, and just help me in my cultivation."

Hearing Xiao Ni's arrogant words, the ball of light circled around, thinking about something, and then said directly without refuting: "Okay. But Zhiyang Pearl will reshape your spiritual root for you and assist you in your cultivation. I have already told you that you are not the most suitable body of pure yang to accommodate the yang beads, so absorbing the yang energy of the yang beads will generate yang fire, and that yang fire will accumulate as your cultivation level improves The more it happens, the more it happens from time to time, if you don't vent it in time, you will be in danger of exploding and dying, you have to remember."

"In addition, you and I have to sign a soul contract, I recognize you as the master, and help you to use [-]% or [-]% of the Zhiyang Pearl's ability, and you also have to work hard to collect the treasures of heaven and earth in the cultivation world here to help me recover. "

Xiao Ni was still a little suspicious at first, but when he heard Qi Ling talk about the soul contract and recognized him as the master, he let go of most of his heart.

With the soul contract, he is not afraid of Qi Ling's repentance. Violation of the soul contract will destroy the soul.Besides, he is a real useless person now, if he doesn't give it a try, is it possible that he will live under the fence and be pitied for the rest of his life?

Xiao Ni said in a deep voice, "Okay, I agree."

The ball of light flashed twice, and a ray of golden flame appeared. Xiao Ni also took out a drop of blood, and the two sides signed a master-servant contract with their souls as oaths.

Once the contract was completed, Xiao Ni felt that his dantian, which was slightly warm due to the activation of Zhiyang Pearl, suddenly became hot like fire.

He twisted his face slightly, and began to perform his exercises amidst the heat.

After a while, his body shook, and the spiritual energy around him quickly gathered towards his dantian.

At dawn, Xiao Ni's closed eyes slowly opened, and ecstasy and ambition swelled wildly in his eyes: "The second level of Qi refining! The spiritual root was reshaped overnight, and it was restored to the second level of Qi refining. Zhiyang Zhu is worthy of being a hidden tenth-order spirit treasure, it is really extraordinary!"

"After many years of silence, I, Xiao Ni, finally recovered!"

"Starting today, all those who have pitied me, despised me, and belittled me... will be trampled under my feet one by one! I, Xiao Ni, am the genius of this Danfeng!"

The light ball of Zhiyang Pearl attached to Xiao Ni's side, flashed twice, and the scattered halo arc seemed to be laughing silently.

After the plug-in was activated, Xiao Ni could not care about anything else in the next few days, directly closed the cave, and practiced frantically.

The yang energy of the zhiyang pearl draws the surrounding aura, continuously enters Xiao Ni's body, opens up the meridians of his whole body, condenses in his dantian, and surrounds a single fire spirit root that seems to be virtual but not real.

As for Yangzhu cultivation, Xiao Ni quickly felt what it meant to get twice the result with half the effort, and he improved rapidly. In less than ten days, he had quickly recovered his cultivation level of the fourth level of Qi refining before the Xiao family was destroyed, which filled Xiao Ni's heart. A high-spirited arrogance.

"That's why you had the fourth level of Qi Refining before your spiritual root was destroyed, that's why you recovered so quickly."

The Qi Ling of the Zhiyang Pearl explained: "After the fourth level of Qi refining, you will only be as fast as those geniuses with a single spiritual root, and the Qi of the Zhiyang Pearl is not inexhaustible, it is inexhaustible. We still need the treasures of heaven, material and earth to restore nourishment..."

"I know."

Xiao Nidao: "There is still more than a month to go before the opening of the trial secret realm. Shangqingshan will definitely lead the disciples there. I will sign up to follow at that time. I will find an opportunity to say that I have obtained the snow mountain jade pulp in the secret realm and restored my spiritual root. In the future Then you will be able to practice openly and aboveboard, and take up the mission... Naturally, the treasures of heaven, material and earth will be carefully searched for you."

After recovering his cultivation base and gaining real benefits, Xiao Ni became more cordial to the Zhiyang Orb Artifact Spirit, completely treating him as one of his own.

Qi Ling was also quite satisfied with this, and from time to time taught Xiao Ni some cultivation methods and told some secrets of the cultivation world, making Xiao Ni feel that his knowledge is extraordinary.

However, although Xiao Ni really wanted to hide in the cave and practice until the secret realm of the trial became a blockbuster, he hadn't been able to get rid of the five grains. Shangqingshan did not encourage taking Bigu Dan, and Xiao Ni didn't have any in stock. He gnawed on it for more than ten days After the dry food, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and planned to go to Zhenxie Pavilion for a change.

But as soon as Xiao Ni went out, he was stopped by a suave man waving a folding fan not far away.

"Junior Brother Xiao, stay here."

Xiao Ni frowned, looked at the person blocking the way, and recognized Wang Shi, another Jindan Elder's registered disciple of Danfeng, who usually likes to hang around Shan Rourou, and it's probably not a good person to stop him now.

Xiao Ni glanced at the other party's cultivation at the seventh level of Qi Refining, feeling a little disdainful in his heart, but now is not the time to reveal his cultivation, so he held back his breath and said as calmly as possible: "It's Senior Brother Wang, I don't know if you want to stop me. What's the matter?"

Wang Shi seemed not to want to talk nonsense, so he cut to the chase and said, "Since the junior brother asked directly, then the senior brother will also speak directly. As Junior Brother Xiao, you can become the registered disciple of Elder Shan and stay in Shangqingshan to help with some mundane affairs. It is already lucky to start some industries, so don’t even think about the extras.”

"People, it is important to have self-knowledge, and it is important to know how to repay your kindness."

"In the last half month, if Rourou invites you to the Lantern Festival, don't agree, you know?"

These high-ranking words fell into Xiao Ni's ears, full of sarcasm, which provoked his heart to burst into anger.

If he heard this before, he would just be incapable of getting angry, but now that he has recovered his cultivation and possesses such a world treasure as Zhiyang Pearl, why should he endure such humiliation?

Xiao Ni gritted his teeth, the contempt and humiliation of the past that had been forgotten these days filled his mind in an instant.

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, seeing Wang Shi turn around and leave after speaking, the empty door behind him was wide open, he finally couldn't bear it anymore, glanced around with gloomy eyes, and immediately took out a poisonous fine needle magic weapon.

This poisonous needle is a self-defense item he secretly bought in Baiyue City. The venom on it can damage the meridians to a certain extent, but it is difficult for monks with the fifth level of Qi refining in this poisonous needle to take effect immediately, and they all have to wait for a while .

This is exactly what Xiao Ni meant.

No matter how reckless he was, he didn't want to kill anyone here, so he just wanted to teach Wang Shi a little lesson and make him lose a leg.

Even if there is any elixir that can heal it, Wang Shi is a monk in the Qi refining period, and it is difficult to heal the damage to the meridians in his legs. I am afraid that he will have to pay a big discount in his practice in the future.

Xiao Ni squinted his eyes, flicked his wrist, borrowed the sun bead to cover up the fluctuation, and shot the poisonous needle towards Wang Shi's calf.

The distance between the two was very close, and as soon as the poisonous needle was shot, it was already behind Wang Shi. Even without the help of Zhiyang Pearl to cover it, Wang Shi could not react in time.

Xiao Ni watched the poisonous needle piercing Wang Shi's knee, and a silent smile slowly appeared on his face. He was about to turn around and leave, when he saw a golden light suddenly popping up from Wang Shi's body, and the poisonous needle flew away.

It is a third-order body protection magic weapon that is issued in response to stress!

Wang Shi, an outer disciple in the Qi refining period, can have such a magic weapon!

Xiao Ni's heart was filled with shock and jealousy for a moment.

At this time, Wang Shi, who saw the reaction of the protective magic weapon, also reacted, turned his head immediately, and saw the dropped poisonous needle and Xiao Ni with a cold and happy smile on his face at a glance. After being startled, he couldn't believe it Said: "Xiao Ni! How dare you sneak attack me!"

Xiao Ni didn't expect this kind of situation to happen, his heart was a little flustered, his murderous intent suddenly arose, he gritted his teeth and said secretly: "Qi Ling, can you lend me some strength to help me kill him!"

Qi Ling said in Xiao Ni's mind: "This is Pill Peak, there are formations everywhere, as well as Jindan and Yuanying, don't say that your current cultivation base can't exert the ability of Zhiyangzhu at all, even if you can, don't you? Do you want Shangqingshan to discover the secret that you are carrying the Zhiyang Pearl!"

"Then I..."

Xiao Ni was thinking, but saw Wang Shi directly grabbing him.

"At such a young age, you sneak up on your fellow disciples, and your attack is so vicious... Today you must go to the execution hall with me!" Wang Shi shouted angrily.

No matter how pretentious Xiao Ni is, he suffers greatly and hates deeply, but in the end he is only a teenager at this time, and his temperament is far from mature and stable. When he heard the word Xingtang, he immediately panicked, and his backhand was a fiery palm. out.

It was too late for the Zhiyang Pearl Artifact Spirit to stop him, he cursed inwardly for choosing a mindless waste, he thought quickly, and then calmed down slowly—according to what he knew about the attitudes of Shan Qianqiu and Shang Qingshan, Xiao Ni Maybe it's okay if the matter of restoring the spiritual root is exposed.

With such thoughts, Zhiyang Zhu fell silent, and let Xiao Ni and Wang Shi fight without making a sound.

Wang Shi didn't expect Xiao Ni to have cultivation. He only thought that Xiao Ni was still a mortal. Considering his mortal body, he didn't use his cultivation when he captured him. caught off guard.

"Xiao Ni! You have a cultivation base... Has your spiritual root recovered?"

Wang Shi was astonished, and while condensing a water wall to block Xiao Ni's fiery palm, he said in surprise, "The fourth level of Qi refining...you actually have the fourth level of Qi refining? How did you recover your spiritual roots? Or, yours?" The spiritual root has already recovered, but it was just deliberately concealed, with ulterior motives?"

Xiao Ni didn't answer, his mind was full of wanting to take down Wang Shi before anyone found out.

But Wang Shi is still at the sixth level of Qi Refining, and he is also a registered disciple with the same status as Xiao Ni, and there are many actual combats, so how could he be taken down by Xiao Ni, who has just recovered at the fourth level of Qi Refining?

Seeing that Xiao Ni was gradually losing ground, Wang Shi wanted to catch him at the right time.

But just when he was about to make a move, a big hand condensed by Qingfeng suddenly descended from the sky, annihilating all the magic fluctuations between the two of them.

Xiao Ni and Wang Shi suddenly felt a heavy weight on their backs, as if they were pressed down on the spot by a mountain, and they couldn't move at all.

A deep and gentle voice floated in the wind: "Wang Shi, Xiao Ni, come to Lihuo Palace."

"Elder Shan?" Wang Shi was shocked, and after the pressure on his body disappeared, he gave Xiao Ni a cold look, and walked quickly towards Lihuo Palace.

Xiao Ni lowered his head, stood there for a while, and then slowly followed with a sullen face.

"Qi Ling, Qi Ling! My master knows, what should I do? If he wants to ask why my spiritual root has recovered, how should I answer? Will he see your existence..."

While walking towards Lihuo Palace, Xiao Ni anxiously asked about Zhiyang Pearl Artifact Spirit.

Qi Ling didn't express his guess, but said: "Your master will never see that I am in your body, you can rest assured about this. As for the recovery of the spiritual root, you can just make up an adventure, your master is very good!" Suspect you more, observe you more, but don't ask the bottom line, every sect in the cultivation world allows disciples to have some secrets that will not cause harm to the sect..."

Xiao Ni's apprehensive and fearful mood was slightly soothed by the Zhiyang Pearl.

When he left the fire hall, he found that Wang Shi was not there, only Shan Qianqiu was sitting in front of a pill furnace.

He suppressed the emotions in his heart, walked in and saluted Shan Qianqiu: "The disciple has seen the master."

Shan Qianqiu's face was gentle, expressionless, just glanced at Xiao Ni, and said indifferently: "Fourth Qi Refining Level, your spiritual roots have recovered?"

"...Yes. This disciple bought an unknown elixir when he was wandering around the elixir shop in Baiyue City. He accidentally ate it, and recovered his spiritual root by accident. Now he has a single fire elixir." Xiao Ni spoke out the lame excuses he made up on the way.

Shan Qianqiu was silent for a moment, then nodded: "In the cultivation world, it is normal to have some chance encounters. Now that you have recovered, you will practice hard in the future."

Xiao Ni didn't expect that Shan Qianqiu really didn't pursue it, and was a little stunned for a while.

Then Shan Qianqiu said again: "Today you clashed with your brother Wang Shiwang. It was your fault. I prepared an apology for you for the teacher. After you go back, you will go to the door to apologize. You are young and frivolous, and you are angry for a while. Qingshan strictly forbids shooting at fellow sects without reason, you should have entered the torture hall, but if Wang Shi forgives you, this matter will be forgotten, do you understand?"

Although Xiao Ni felt that he was not at fault at all, but he also knew that if Wang Shi really went to the execution hall, he would definitely have no fruit to eat, so he reluctantly agreed: "Disciple understands."

Seeing that Shan Qianqiu really still had the same attitude as before, after Xiao Ni's previous panic was swept away, he couldn't help but think of Shan Qianqiu's promise from before.

When Shan Qianqiu first accepted him as a named disciple, he said that if he could find the snow mountain jade syrup or the spirit of Qi to restore his spiritual root in the future, he would definitely restore Xiao Ni's spiritual root and accept him as his personal disciple.

Now that his spiritual roots have recovered, he has become a genius with Shanhuo Linggen, and Shan Qianqiu doesn't care much about his secrets, so can he mention the matter of his personal disciples?

You must know that the registered disciples and direct disciples of the elders have completely different status.

Registered disciples are equivalent to outer disciples. Occasionally, they can enjoy some privileges of inner disciples with the help of their master, and they can also wear the smoky blue uniforms of inner disciples. , regardless of one's status, one can enter the inner sect only after the foundation has been formally established.

And once you become a direct disciple of an elder, you can enjoy all the rights of an inner disciple even if you don't have a foundation, the only difference is a title, and you can officially have it after the foundation is established.

Thinking about this, Xiao Ni couldn't help but said: "Master, you mentioned before that after I recover my spiritual roots, I will be accepted as a personal heir..."

Shan Qianqiu looked at the alchemy furnace slightly, and said: "Wait for you to build the foundation, and then mention this matter."

Hearing this, Xiao Ni's heart turned cold, he retreated honestly, and left the Lihuo Palace, but he couldn't help but think of the words he heard from Shan Rourou not long ago—it really was just empty words Is it so pitiful?

There was a soft sound of closing the door of Lihuo Palace.

Shan Qianqiu's eyes slowly moved away from the alchemy furnace, revealing a faint disappointment and sigh.

He sat quietly for a while, typed a message on the communication jade slip, and sent it to the task hall: "Elder Li, please pick out a task for the Qi refining period of guarding the island on the sea, as a fixed monthly task for disciples, and distribute it to Dan Rourou. "

Because of Xiao Ni's sudden recovery, Danfeng had a serious quarrel with Wang Shi, and within two days, it reached Chu Yunsheng's ears.

Feng Buyan, as the gossip master of the Refining Hall, and a friend of women who mingled with the maids of various mountain peaks, quickly figured out the ins and outs, and talked loudly to Chu Yunsheng and Duanmulian.

Compared with Feng Buyan's understanding, Chu Yunsheng, who knew the original plot, understood the reason why Xiao Ni recovered his spiritual roots better.

Contacting Feng Buyan's gossip and Duanmulian's and Shan Rourou's dissolution of engagement, Chu Yunsheng quickly guessed the reason why Xiao Ni's Zhiyang Pearl was activated in advance.

I didn't expect that his previous casual flicker would have such a chain reaction.

And Shan Qianqiu and Dan Feng's attitude towards this matter is also a bit strange. It seems that there are still many unknown things that have not been shown from Xiao Ni's perspective in the original plot.

But these are not what Chu Yunsheng cares too much about. Even if Xiao Ni has activated it at this time, it is only a few layers of Qi Refining at most, and he is still far away from Foundation Establishment. With it on his body, there is no need to worry about being left behind by Xiao Ni and killing him casually.

The only thing Chu Yunsheng is concerned about right now is the side effects of Xiao Ni's Zhiyang Pearl.

Thinking that Xiao Ni might harm countless girls from good or bad families in various ways in the future, Chu Yunsheng felt that it was necessary to curb his stud ability.

Since Xiao Ni hadn't done anything harmful to nature so far, Chu Yunsheng didn't plan to take any special measures, so he combined his newly learned weapon refining technology with the only little content in his mind about magic cultivation, bewitching and charming. , worked hard, carefully developed, and took many days——

Finally, he succeeded in refining a... maid doll that can do various sports for Xiao Ni.

It's just that Dr. Chu overestimated his handicraft and painting ability.

After the maid doll was refined, it didn't have the delicate features and real features he had imagined. On the contrary, her eyes were strangely large, her face was as pale as a ghost, and her small cherry mouth could reach behind her ears when she opened her mouth.

During refining, Feng Buyan accidentally saw it once in a daze, and he was so frightened that he thought he had encountered a ghost. He couldn't sleep for several nights and had nightmares again and again.

However, although the doll is ugly, it can be used anyway.

So, on the day of his birthday, Xiao Ni received a carefully packaged storage box at the entrance of his cave. According to the handyman disciple who sent it, it was a birthday gift from Baiyue City at the foot of the mountain.

Xiao Ni didn't notice any danger, so he opened it casually.

There was a flash of light in the box, and a body was thrown head-on.

Xiao Ni jumped in fright, and was about to kick it away, but his eyes happened to meet the two big black eyes of the maid doll.

Those big weird black eyes blinked lightly, as if releasing some kind of seductive charm.

Xiao Ni's heart stopped beating, and his mind was in a trance.

He stared at those big eyes for a moment, and slowly became obsessed.

The Zhiyang Bead Artifact, lying in Xiao Ni's dantian, sensed the strangeness of this scene, but strangely did not make a sound to remind him.