Chapter 31: Returning home

Xu Mu was stunned by his words, he didn't think Liu Yan would let him go to the Spirit Trial Gathering alone, even though Liu Yan would be there, but he had never travelled far alone before.

From childhood to adulthood, I'm afraid the longest distance he'd travelled on his own was from the east end of the village to the west end of the village.

Seeing this, Liu Yan also understood Xu Mu's thoughts and laughed, "People in martial arts can still travel the world, don't you dare as a cultivator? Besides, it's time for you to go out and travel, burying your head in cultivation all the time might not be beneficial.

Hearing this, Xu Mu knew that his master had already made up his mind, so he immediately stopped talking and respectfully said, "Disciple obeys!"

"That's what my disciple looks like!" Liu Yan smiled at his words and pulled out a storage bag from his pocket, "This storage bag you are holding should be enough for you to use on the way. You must remember that the Jianghu is dangerous and the cultivation world even more so!"

"Yes, disciple, remember!" Xu Mu took the storage bag and said respectfully.

Not long after, Xu Mu left the mountain gate and flew straight down the mountain.To fly faster, he did not use the Fire Cloud Sword that was commonly used for imperial sword flying in the past, but the Golden Thread Sword!

Flying with an extremely high-level magic weapon consumed a lot of spiritual energy, but at this moment, Xu Mu didn't care.

In less than half an hour, Xu Mu passed through the mountain protection formation, and at a glance, he saw the familiar sight of the mountain village, and his heart couldn't help but twitch as if he was afraid of something, and his flying speed instantly slowed down.

Although Xu Mu was a cultivator, he was still very excited at the moment.After all, it had been almost five years since he had returned home.

At that time, it was the middle of winter, and although the weather was cold, it was already close to the time of the New Year in the secular world, and the village looked very busy, with many people coming and going, and seemed very lively.

Many of the villagers had already begun to buy items for the New Year, and playful children had also begun to set off firecrackers in the corners of the village, with the occasional scolding from the adults at home.

After a short while, Xu Mu arrived at the front door of his house, which he said was the front door of his house, in fact, Xu Mu almost didn't recognise it.

Compared to when he left, the door of his home was too big, or rather, this door was completely out of tune with this mountain village.

A ten-foot wooden door, painted bright red and more than an inch thick, people who didn't know better would be afraid to think that they had entered the residence of a certain prince.

If you put two teams of stone lions at the door to guard it, it would be really decent.

If it weren't for the 'Xu Residence' sign on the door, Xu Mu wouldn't even dare to recognise it.This time, Xu Mu went home wearing only his usual clothes, not a Taoist robe, of course, the clothes he wore when he went to the mountain then did not fit the next year.

Later, Liu Yan asked Fatty Zhao to bring a lot of clothes to the mountain so that Xu Mu would not have to wear a robe every day.

After half a day of watching his own door, Xu Mu froze and didn't dare to go in, or finally heard shouting from inside, and an obese man came out.

Xu Mu glanced at the man and saw that he was Fatty Zhao, the man who had brought him to the mountain.

He now knew Fatty Zhao's name, Zhao Fu Manchu, a man with his name.

Zhao Fu Manchu walked out of the Xu Clan and seemed to say something to the person behind him, and when he stepped out and saw Xu Mu, he did not immediately recognise him.

"Who are you? Why do you look so familiar?" asked Zhao Fulai curiously.

Xu Mu laughed, "Uncle Zhao, you don't recognise me after not seeing me for so long?"

Zhao Fulai was even more puzzled by his words, and after looking at Xu Mu for half a day, he couldn't tell who he was.Since Xu Mu went to the mountain, the two of them have not seen each other again, but Zhao Fu Manchu has seen Liu Yan several times, he was basically called to command things related to Xu Mu.

Zhao Fumang was confused when the person he was talking to came out behind him, it was Xu Mu's father, Xu Baoshan.

As soon as Xu Baoshan saw Xu Mu, he immediately froze for a moment, and then tentatively shouted, "Mu'er? Is that you?"

Xu Mu looked at his father and noticed that he had a lot more white hair than when he left home, but he looked much better.

Apparently, the Xu family was doing well under Liu Yan's care, and Xu Baoshan, a man who had toiled for half his life, was vaguely blossoming.

Xu Mu's voice was slightly choked, but he finally called out, "Father! It's me!"

"Mu'er! It's really you!" Xu Baoshan immediately let out a cry of surprise, then let out a loud laugh, causing the whole street to look sideways at the neighbours.

"Quick! Come inside!" Xu Baoshan grabbed Xu Mu's wrist and pulled him into the courtyard.It was only then that Xu Mu noticed that his own courtyard was also much larger than before, and he had also planted many flowers and plants to beautify it.

At this moment, Zhao Fu Manchu looked at the figures of Xu Mu's father and son and couldn't help but freeze, muttering, "Xu Mu has actually gone down the mountain? Doesn't that mean that he has already built his foundation?

Actually, Zhao Fu Manchu misunderstood, last time Liu Yan only told Zhao Fu Manchu that when Xu Mu came down the mountain, he would have no more enemies in the Qi Practising Stage, but he didn't say that he only came down the mountain after he had built his foundation.

He said, "I've been on the mountain for five years, and I've managed to build the foundation, which is a great qualification in Zhao.

After all, the last step of the threshold is not easily crossed.

With Xu Mu's qualifications, if there was no other chance, he might not be able to build the foundation in fifty years.

However, Zhao Fu Manchu didn't know that he was wrong, having stayed on the mountain for so long, he was well aware of the abilities of foundation experts.

Normally, he would have had to rush back to the mountain to resume his duties, but now that he saw Xu Mu returning, he didn't care, so he hurriedly put on a smile and walked in.

"Hey! Elder Brother Xu, you two masters are waiting for me!"

Not long after, Xu Mu finally met his mother Chen Xiu in the backyard.

Chen Xiu was a woman after all, and she even cried right after seeing Xu Mu, making Xu Mu feel bad as well, and his eyes couldn't help but turn red.

He had previously thought that he had been away for five years, and that his parents probably didn't recognise him when he returned home, or had started to get angry because of his status.

But now he realised he was wrong, no matter who he was, he was always a son at home.

By the middle of the day, Chen Xiu's crying had stopped and Xu Mu's lapels were wet.Chen Xiu couldn't help but blush at the sight, and laughed awkwardly, "Look, it's all my fault, on this big day, how could I cry, and asked Brother Zhao to look at the joke".

Zhao Fu Manchu hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Haha, sister-in-law's words are not right, in my opinion, sister-in-law is a man of nature, a heroine, a heroine among women!"

Hearing Zhao Fu Manchu praising his mother in such a way, Xu Mu asked with some tears and laughter, "Uncle Zhao, aren't you in a hurry to return to the mountain? I heard that Outer Sect Stewards can only go down the mountain for three hours at a time, right?"

"Hehehe, not busy!" Zhao Fu laughed unconcernedly, "But Xu Mu, you're in the Inner Sect, and you actually know so much about the affairs of the Outer Sect as well?"