Xiaoao Palace defeated the Ouyang family, but they didn't have half a sense of joy here.

Whether it is inside the Xiaoao Palace or outside Fengyun City, everyone is dressed in white and wearing a white headscarf, with a sad atmosphere of holding a funeral.

A total of more than 20,000 people were dispatched, but nearly 20,000 died, and only more than 4,000 returned alive.

It was an absolute pyrrhic victory, and there was nothing to be happy about at all.

Ling Xiao took the lead and held a grand funeral in the palace to give sacrifices to all the dead.

The master of ceremonies was quite grand.

Ling Xiao also personally bowed to many of the dead to show respect and mourning for their heroic sacrifices for the palace gate.

Ling Xiao also explained that Xuan Yao must arrange the relatives of those dead elders or deacons, so that they can have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives, and those who want to cultivate can directly become outer disciples in the palace, and those who have Tianbin can become inner disciples.

This can be regarded as a kind of appeasement to the families of the victims.

At the same time, it can be regarded as a means to win people's hearts, otherwise who will work hard for him in the future.

The funeral took three days and three nights before it ended.

And everyone must wear linen and filial piety for three months, and at that time, Ling Xiao will personally go to destroy the Ouyang family.

At the same time, he also asked people to announce his identity as a holy medicine master to the world, and anyone who wanted to join their Xiaoao Palace could come and join, provided that they were loyal enough.

With so many people dying this time, we must do our best to recruit masters and enrich our strength in order to withstand the pressure of other forces.

In addition, Ling Xiao had already asked the Remnant Leopard to take people to the Liuyang Sect and the many forces that had announced their escape from the Xiaoao Palace, and all of them were bloodied to honor Youyou.

This is the end of choosing betrayal, and there will be no mercy at all.

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In the Xiaoao Palace, Ling Xiao was wearing a white robe, holding a pot of century-old wine, and drinking with the two brothers Hua Xiaogui and Tang Gangling in front of him.

It's been more than ten years, and the three of them really don't know where to start, but they are drinking stuffy wine.

In the end, Hua Xiaogui took a sip of wine very unhappily and smiled at Ling, "Boss, I'm not doing it, I want to stay by your side and live and die with you!"

"What kind of life and death, are you trying to curse the boss to die early?" Ling Xiao said lightly.

For some reason, after only ten years, I felt a little estranged from the two.

But as Hua Xiaogui's words came out, this point was instantly diluted a lot, at least Hua Xiaogui's temperament was still the same.

Hua Xiaogui said embarrassedly, "Boss, I didn't mean that, I just wanted to stay and create a hegemony with the boss, and I didn't want to go back to Lingwu Pavilion."

Tang Gangzhi also spoke, "Well, let's stay and help you."

Ling Xiao took a sip of wine and shook his head and said, "When the Divine Stick asked you to go to the Lingwu Pavilion, it was to know that you would have a chance, and you would definitely go out of your own way, this time you can come over, I am very grateful, at least you have me as the boss in your heart, now it's not that the boss doesn't want you to stay, but it's not the time, you are now in the stage of learning and promotion, or stay in the Lingwu Pavilion is more promising."

"But these old guys are so annoying, they don't have to do a little favor, if they are willing to make a move, they will definitely make those people pay a lot of price!" Hua Xiaogui said quite unwillingly.

"What do you think?" Ling Xiao didn't answer, but looked at Tang Gang with a sideways face.

Psychologically, Tang Gangling is more mature and stable than Hua Xiaogui.

Tang Gangling hesitated for a moment and said, "They have their concerns, if they really forcibly intervene, it will not only be their business, but the matter of planting a martial pavilion, which will involve a lot of things."

Ling Xiao nodded lightly and sighed, "Yes, after all, you have just entered the Lingwu Pavilion not long ago, if you can become an indispensable saint master of the Lingwu Pavilion one day, then the events of the day will not happen, so it is better to rely on others than on yourself!"

These words are also a summary of Ling Xiao's many years of life experience.

With the successive departures of the loser boy and the dragon girl, Ling Xiao lacked helpers around Yan Zòng, and without their help, it was indeed much more difficult to survive.

If it weren't for the dragon scales and the Zhentian Drum given by the old dragon king, I am afraid that he would have been wiped out by the sage long ago.

Don't expect anyone to save him when he's in danger.

That's why he was moved to say such things.

He also wanted Hua Xiaogui and Tang Gangling to stay, but this would hinder their progress.

Ling Xiao is very selfish about many things, but she can see things in this regard.

At the beginning, he brought them to Zhongyu because he wanted everyone to grow up, not just because he could be strong and let them not get better development.

"However, if something big happens again, and we can't help the boss, it makes us unhappy and uncomfortable!" Hua Xiaogui said.

"I know your intentions, so you have to do your best to become stronger, and when you reach a higher level, even the people in the pavilion can't hold you, and it's not up to you what you want to do when the time comes" Ling Xiao replied, and then he said, "No matter."

Where you are, as long as you remember me as the boss, you are my brother, and when you need the boss's help, the boss will definitely be duty-bound."

"The boss is right, I must become a seventh-order refiner as soon as possible, no, an eighth-order refiner, and then the resources in the pavilion will not all be at our own disposal," Tang Gang replied confidently.

"I just want to stay with the boss, not to mention that the boss is now an eight-rank alchemist, he must be better taught than my old ghost master" Hua Xiaogui said with some anger.

"Don't say anything, we won't get drunk today" Ling Xiao didn't want to pull it any further, picked up the wine jug and clinked glasses and drank booze.

"Yes, we don't get drunk and don't return, tomorrow we have to return to the Martial Pavilion and I don't know when we will be able to meet, I hope our brothers can all be famous in the Central Domain!" Tang Gangling took the lead in lifting the wine jug and clinking glasses with Ling Xiao.

Hua Xiaogui sighed lightly, didn't say anything more, raised his neck and drank bitterly.

He was just making up his mind in his heart that he must do his best to catch up with the boss and help the boss in the future.

The three of them didn't know when they drank, and finally they all indulged themselves and fell down.

After waking up drunk, the two had to leave.

Before leaving, Hua Xiaogui was still preparing to take Wu Sixue to Lingwu Pavilion.

However, this time he was stopped by Ling Xiao.

"Boss, why?" asked Hua Xiaogui puzzled.

Wu Sixue on the side also looked at Ling Xiao nervously, not understanding why he wanted to stop him.

At the beginning, didn't he bring her to Zhongyu just to be with Hua Xiaogui?

Ling Xiao shook his head and said to Hua Xiaogui, "Now that you are the true disciple of the Holy Master, your identity has been completed, and your marriage is not up to you to decide, besides, Xiaoxue's strength is still too poor now, if I go back with you, I am afraid that I will not be treated well, have you thought about this?"

The more powerful the force, the more popular marriage is, or the prospects for its development.

Hua Xiaogui is already a low-level Tianzun strength, and he is also a sixth-grade alchemist, this identity is enough to be proud of many of his peers.

Now Wu Sixue's strength is only a middle-level king, and it is only the strength of an ordinary martial artist in the middle domain, and it is simply a fantasy to let her enter the eyes of those old guys in the Lingwu Pavilion.

Hua Xiaogui glanced at Wu Sixue and said, "Boss, you can rest assured, my old ghost master shouldn't care about me."

Ling smiled and said, "Little Turtle, your thoughts are still a little naïve, maybe he will let Xiao Xue stay in Lingwu Pavilion, but he will definitely not let you really be together, maybe he will harm Xiao Xue because of this!"

Wu Sixue is a smart girl, she instantly understood what Ling Xiao meant, and her expression became pale.

Could it be that her fate with Hua Xiaogui ended here?

"Boss, what do you say, I won't give up Xiaoxue!" Hua Xiaogui said.

While speaking, he still mustered up the courage to hold Wu Sixue's hand and comfort her.

"Well, I just knew that you were a person who values love and righteousness, otherwise I wouldn't have brought Xiaoxue to the Central Domain" Ling Xiao was very relieved to hear Hua Xiaogui say this, and paused before he said. Xiaoxue really can't go to Lingwu Pavilion with you now, but it doesn't mean that you can't marry her in the future, I decided to accept Xiaoxue as a righteous sister from today, I will do my best to help her improve her strength as soon as possible, it should not be ten years, when you come to marry her, Lingwu Pavilion should have nothing to say, after all, your boss is also a hegemon, my righteous sister's identity is naturally different, and I am also a holy medicine master now, even if I meet your master, I have a chance to be on an equal footing with him."

"This ...... Can this really work?" Before Hua Xiaogui could speak, Wu Sixue first exclaimed.

In the northwest, her cultivation Tianbin was good, but after coming to the Central Domain, she found that she was like a frog at the bottom of a well, and her Tianbin and strength were not worth mentioning at all.

If it weren't for Ling Xiao's elixir, she wouldn't have been able to go from a high-level spirit master to a middle-level king in three years.

When she saw Hua Xiaogui again, she really felt inferior in her heart.

I think she once disliked Hua Xiaogui at the beginning, but now it's okay, she is not worthy of others.

"There's nothing impossible, as long as you can endure hardships, even if I can't let you reach the Xuan Emperor level within ten years, I can still raise you to the strength of Tianzun!" Ling Xiao said with an oath.

With his identity as a holy pharmacist today, and the memory inherited by the god of medicine, there are countless pills for various improvements, among which there are some more anti-heaven pills in the eight-rank pills, which can make people explode the storage of two or three orders of strength at a time.

However, this is only relative to those martial artists with low strength.

Of course, every eighth-order spirit grass is not so easy to find, except in various dangerous forbidden places, it is impossible to store zài in other places.

Fortunately, Wu Sixue is a water-attribute physique, and Ling Xiao is not short of water-attribute eighth-order spirit grass, so he is not worried about not being able to improve Wu Sixue's strength.

"With the boss's guarantee, I am naturally relieved, but I have to wait for ten years!" Hua Xiaogui never doubted Ling Xiao's words.

Wu Sixue also showed joy, for cultivators, ten years is not too long, it should be able to wait.