After coming out of Yun Jing, Shang Xia probably understood his responsibilities for the next period of time.
After Shang Bo found a place to retreat and practice, and Yun Jing had to retreat to recover from her injuries, all the affairs of the Tongyou station had to fall on Liu Qinglan.
Although everyone knew that the person with the strongest combat power in the entire garrison at this time was actually Shang Xia, in terms of seniority and seniority, he was the lowest among everyone.
But Shang Xia himself also had a duty, although it was the simplest, but it was also the most dangerous, that is, to get out of the garrison guard formation and restore the control of the Tongyou lineage over the original sphere of influence.
As for how Tongyou Academy controls the surrounding sphere of influence, he has already gotten the answer from Chu Jia.
When Shang Xia saw Shang Ke again, the old man looked refreshed, where was the slightest decline caused by the severance of the martial arts path?
"What are you?"
Shang Xia looked at Shang Ke with some confusion, but didn't know how to speak for a while.
"All injuries have recovered!"
Shang Ke smiled and said: "I can probably guess what Yun Jing is going to do for you, and I can help you again now, Fifth Grandpa."
Shang Xia said guiltily: "I should leave a few more talismans for you, otherwise you won't be ......."
"Hahahaha......"
Before Shang Xia finished speaking, he was interrupted by Shang Ke's loud voice, only to see him waving his hand while smiling: "Boy, you don't have to worry about this, this is a good thing for Grandpa Wu and me."
Seeing Shang Xia's puzzled expression, Shang Ke slowly put away his smile and sighed slightly: "Over the years, in order to keep up with your grandfather's footsteps and to further grow the family, I have actually been holding on."
"In the early years, in order to support me, your grandfather used a lot of resources on me, but unfortunately my qualifications in martial arts are not satisfactory, and I have always been unable to get up or down in terms of cultivation and combat power."
"I gave up my obsession many times back then, but the family was weak at that time, even your uncle's generation, and most of them were not yet talented.
Shang Xia said: "No matter what happened in the past, but now that your cultivation has reached this point, wouldn't it be a pity to give up again?"
Shang Ke still shook his head and smiled: "It was enough to drag down your grandfather before, at least I still feel that he is also my brother, so I don't need to be too polite. But now you juniors have started to take care of me, an old man, wouldn't that seem too useless?"
Shang Xia shook his head and said, "You can't say that, you have ...... all these years."
Shang Ke stretched out his hand again to stop Shang Xia's words, and said seriously: "Child, the merchant is no longer as good as before, except for me and your grandfather, your third aunt Shang Pei, and you, on the surface, our merchant already has four fourth-order masters, but in terms of high-level combat power, it is not even weaker than the Zhu family in Youzhou back then. Besides, your second uncle is afraid that he has successfully advanced to the fourth heaven now, but in this situation, he may secretly sit in Tongyou City for a while."
Shang Ke sighed lightly again, with a little guilt on his face, and said: "Child, Grandpa Wu is tired and a little scared, instead of being tired of everyone rushing to fight for the ethereal glimmer of possibility for me, it is better to simply cut off this idea completely.
Speaking of this, the heavy color on Shang Ke's face was swept away, and the whole person returned to the refreshed state he had at the beginning: "Say
To be honest, when I learned that because of this damage to the origin, I completely ruined the possibility of further cultivation, but my whole body suddenly relaxed, and most of the heavy feeling that had been tense before was suddenly removed."
After listening to Shang Ke's half-confession and half-explanation, Shang Xia felt that he really shouldn't ask too much of his uncle.
Looking back now, my uncle did have a somewhat easygoing and gentle temperament.
In order to share the pressure on Shang Bo, he had to bite the bullet and move forward.
The grandfather and grandson chatted for a while, and Shang Xia suddenly remembered something and asked: "I didn't expect that Ji, Liu, and Yun had other fourth-order warriors in their families, do you know about this?"
Shang Ke shook his head and said: "I know all three of them, but I really didn't want to fight them, they are all alive, and they have all advanced to the fourth heaven. But your grandfather may know about this."
Shang Xia nodded and said, "This is the heritage of the three of them as the Youzhou family in the past?"
Shang Ke smiled and said: "Maybe, but to this day, our merchants are not bad about these three. But ......
Shang Xia asked: "But what?"
Shang Ke pondered for a moment and said, "Before Ji Wenlong advanced to the Fifth Heaven, without the support of the blessed land, if he wanted to enter the Outer Heaven Vault, he could only rely on the guidance of the Five Heavenly Warriors."
Shang Xia followed Shang Ke's intention and said: "Yes, these three plus Lu Siyuan and Fang Kewei are obviously all in the outer dome brought by Kou Shan Chang."
Shang Ke said: "Lu Siyuan and Fang Kewei are fine, but Yun Shu, Ji Wenbin, and Liu Jikun themselves do not belong to Tongyou Academy, so why did Kou Chongxue take the three of them up?"
Shang Xia thought for a moment: "What do you mean by saying that these three families have some deals or tacit understanding with Kou Shanchang secretly? But now two of these three people have died, leaving only Liu Jikun."
Shang Ke looked slightly solemn and said: "I'm not worried about what the three of them are secretly doing with Kou Chongxue, I'm worried about your grandfather!"
Seeing Shang Xia's expression slightly stunned, Shang Ke continued: "Don't forget that twenty years ago, there were no four major families in Tongyou City, only three major families, and our merchants were just a medium force with light losses after the catastrophe. Your grandfather's cultivation has soared all the way over the years, and this is certainly due to his own chance and hard work, but it is undeniable that Kou Chongxue's strong support is equally important......"
Shang Xia heard the unfinished meaning in Shang Ke's words, and said: "Are you saying that Kou Shanchang may also let his grandfather do something unshirkable but full of danger in the future?"
Shang Ke patted him on the shoulder and said, "The most difficult thing in this world is to repay a favor! Kou Chongxue may not have any ill intentions, but who can say clearly in the future? Before Ji Wenlong advanced to the fifth heaven, only Kou Chongxue was qualified to be a chess player in the two realms of Cangyu and Cangling in the entire Youzhou, and all of us could only be his pawns."
Shang Xia knew that his uncle, standing in the family's position, had always been the most basic wary of Kou Chongxue and Tongyou Academy.
But Shang Xia could listen to his words today.
In fact, speaking of which, Kou Chongxue not only supported Shang Bo, but also cultivated a lot of Shang Xia.
Shang Ke didn't teach Shang Xia to be ungrateful, but more wanted him to look at the relationship with the academy and the family separately.
In fact, Shang Ke has said similar words to Shang Xia more than once.
After Shang Ke learned about the task assigned by Yun Jing to Shang Xia, he volunteered to go out with him, but in the end Shang Xia politely refused.
Shang Ke roughly understood that with Shang Xia's combat power at this time, as long as he was not surrounded by several times the high-level warriors of the Four Heavens, basically no one could help him on the land of Manyuzhou.
"Oh, by the way, there's one more thing!"
Shang Ke patted his head, released a bunch of things from the Jinyun box, and said: "These things are all the loot collected from those dead aboriginal warriors last time.
Shang Xia swept the things on the ground with his eyes, although there were a lot, but there were only a few that caught his eye, so he casually picked up a few things that he might use, and pushed the rest back to Shang Ke, saying: "You should put it away first and bring it back to the family in the future, maybe others can use it."
Shang Ke also knew that his nephew and grandson had a lot of treasures, and he didn't pay attention to idle items at all, so he put them away casually and said, "In the future, I will use them as rewards for collecting all kinds of talisman spiritual materials for you. It's almost time, let's go, go out and take a look."
After that, Shang Ke got up directly and greeted Shang Xia to go out with him.
Shang Xia didn't know why, so he followed and asked: "But what happened?"
Shang Ke replied: "It's nothing, it's the outer dome that sent others over."
Shang Xia was surprised: "Didn't you say that this kind of void channel across the astral realm can only be restarted once in half a year?"
Shang Ke replied without looking back: "Such a big thing happened, how could Kou Chongxue and Ji Wenlong not respond? The reason why it is opened once every six months is because it does not want to attract attention because of the frequent opening.
After Shang Xia came outside, Shang Xia was seeing other people also flying towards this side from mid-air.
Shang Xia also met several fourth-order warriors he had never met for the first time, including Fang Kewei, Liu Jikun, and Liu Zhi.
It is said that this old fritter was at the last moment, provoked too many opponents, and was accidentally beaten.
If Shang Xia and Yun Jing hadn't teamed up to kill Hu Wendao and Zhang Tianji in a row, causing the other aboriginal warriors to retreat, maybe he would have to explain on the spot.
At this moment, Shang Xia's divine will suddenly sensed that there was a huge void fluctuation in the sky above his head, from far to near.
In just an instant, the clouds above the ground flew back towards the surroundings as if frightened.
Liu Qinglan suddenly looked up and said: "It's here!"
As soon as the words fell, a huge and stable void fluctuation came, a circular space portal opened above the station, and several figures suddenly fell out of it, and then as the portals gradually closed, these figures also stabilized their figures in mid-air, either quickly or slowly.
"Bu Jingshuang, Zhang Haogu, Qian Sitong, Yuan Zhen, Kou Shanchang has suppressed all the family backgrounds of Tongyou Academy in one go!"
Shang Xia looked up at the four people slowly falling from mid-air, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.