The days passed quietly, and a lot of things happened naturally.
Su Qingjun went back to the Su family. Under the comfort and persuasion of her father, Su Tianhe, she finally reconciled with her family.
Originally, they had been a family of blood relatives for decades. How could they really cut off this familial love? Moreover, Su Tianhe gave his genius daughter enough face and punished the three brothers of the Su family. Even Su Qingjun's mother, Madam Bai, had tears in her eyes. She hugged Su Qingjun and cried.
As a result, after the storm, the Su family became harmonious again. However, after this time, the entire Su family clearly saw that Su Qingjun's status in the family was like a crane in a flock of chickens, and no one could compare to her.
After returning to the mountain, Su Qingjun saw Lu Chen. She was a little embarrassed, but she still told him about it.
Lu Chen just smiled and congratulated her. He didn't say much, nor did he complain about the pain and suffering he had suffered in vain.
Su Qingjun wanted to make it up to him, but she didn't know what to do at the moment. She thought that there was still a long way to go, so she wasn't in a hurry. In any case, now that Lu Chen had the status of a nominal disciple, she had a reason to take care of him. In the future, she would find a chance to accept him as a direct disciple. She would provide him with all kinds of resources and elixirs. At the end of the day, he would be able to reach the Foundation Establishment Realm. That way, his life of cultivation wouldn't be in vain.
There were still 18 days until the next full moon. When the moon rose, it seemed to be thinner than yesterday. The moonlight was still very bright. It shone on the window sill of the wooden house on the Flying Goose Terrace like frost and snow.
Lu Chen lay on the bed and quietly looked at the night outside the window. After a while, there was a slight movement in the darkness. Atsu walked over and leaned against him. He lifted his front feet and placed them on the window sill. He also looked at the moon outside.
The moonlight shone on the man and the dog, and it was as soft as water ripples.
Lu Chen reached out to touch Atsu's body and found that the black dog was staring at the moon in the sky in a daze. Its only eye was shining with an inexplicable brilliance, like a black, transparent gem.
There was a hint of loneliness in his gaze.
He looked forward to it.
Lu Chen looked at Atsu quietly and did not disturb it. After a while, Atsu turned around and looked at Lu Chen again.
Under the moonlight, Atsu's single eye flickered and gradually became gentle. Then, it obediently lay down beside Lu Chen, snuggled up to him, closed its eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.
Lu Chen closed the window and darkness descended upon the room. For a moment, he suddenly wished he had a mirror so that he could look at his own face and eyes. Because just now, he suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity from Atsu's gaze.
It was just like him ten years ago.
…
These few days, when it was late at night, Lu Chen would secretly go out and walk through the mountain paths of the Kunlun Mountains in the dark, carefully testing the boundless darkness.
However, the strange three-eyed strange insect never appeared again.
That soul-stirring and dangerous encounter that night seemed to be an accident, or perhaps it was just an inexplicable coincidence.
If it were not for the fact that Lu Chen was still holding a hard, charred stone in his hand, the scene that night might really be like a dream and not real.
However, the rough feeling of the black stone in his hand kept reminding Lu Chen of the evil behind the stone.
When it was late at night, when even Atsu was immersed in dreamland, Lu Chen quietly left Flying Goose Terrace and walked into the deep night.
He did not tell Old Ma the whole truth about the strange three-eyed insect, especially when he had already killed such a monster. Because once he told him, it would inevitably involve the biggest secret in his body at the moment — the unprecedented black divine disc, and the horrible nature of robbing vitality to grow. He did not want others to know.
Perhaps he had been a shadow for too long and was no longer used to trusting others. Even when it was Old Ma who he could entrust his life to, he instinctively wanted to keep the last bit of the secret, as if he was hiding his last trump card.
If the strange three-eyed insect did not appear, the matter would have ended without a hitch. Perhaps it was really just a strange monster that came out of nowhere. However, could there really be such a coincidence in this world? In the vast Kunlun Mountains, the strange three-eyed insect did not look for anyone else, and it just happened to meet him?
Lu Chen had been a shadow for many years, and he no longer believed in coincidences, including this time.
Therefore, he had been thinking hard about this matter, thinking over and over again, trying to find out what was different about him or what was so eye-catching about him. But after thinking about it, he found that he seemed to have only one secret, which might be different enough to attract such a monster.
It was still the mysterious black divine disc in his Ocean of Energy.
That night, he pondered for a long time on the dark mountain path, then closed his eyes slightly to the night. The darkness surged around him like a tide, like the rising waves of the sea.
When he opened his eyes again, the dark flames were already burning in his pupils.
The silent black flames slowly burned on his body. At this moment, there was no longer the pain and despair of the past. The black flames seemed to have become a part of Lu Chen's body, swaying on his flesh.
The night was as dark as ink, and the darkness rolled like a tide.
This man stood in this dark night, as if he was roaring angrily at the boundless darkness in front of him, a call.
Then, the night was cold, and the darkness was like an abyss. There was no response.
Everything seemed dim and dull, only the feeling of loneliness still lingered around him. Lu Chen was a little disappointed, and he quietly let the black flames shrink back into his body and extinguish. But at this moment, his heart suddenly moved, and he looked towards the depths of the Kunlun mountain range.
That was a distance that could not be seen, that was the most mysterious forbidden area of the Kunlun mountain range. There was a thick fog that did not dissipate all year round, and there were four strange mountain peaks floating in the sky.
Passing through the darkness, passing through the mountains, an inexplicable throbbing suddenly surged from the void, as if someone was looking in this direction from afar, but it also seemed like nothing had actually happened.
Lu Chen sensed that something was off.
But that feeling disappeared in a flash, and did not even give him extra time to carefully savor it. It disappeared in an instant just like that. However, Lu Chen could already feel that something was different in this short period of time.
Something was really over there, in that forbidden area, and it was resonating with the dark aura in his body.
What kind of secret was hidden in this quiet and incomparably huge Kunlun mountain range?
And this secret, could it be related to the spy of the Devil Cult?
…
During the day, someone came to the Flying Goose Platform, and despite Lu Chen's dissuasion, insisted on calling Su Qingjun out of the cave.
Su Qingjun was a little unhappy. Of course, this was easy to understand. But very soon, the news brought by this person made Lu Chen and Su Qingjun a little startled.
The case of He Changsheng's murder, which had caused a sensation for a while but soon died down, suddenly stirred up waves after dragging on for such a long time. He Yi, who was entrusted by the sect masters to investigate this matter, was under great pressure, but still insisted on investigating to the end. Finally, he found something and began to take action.
However, the first person he attacked still surprised most of the people. Because He Yi brought people to detain the three brothers of the Su family, Sumo, Su Qian and Su Wen.
Detaining them under the pretext of investigating the assassination of the Devil Cult was tantamount to suspecting that the three brothers of the Su family were not only related to He Changsheng's death, but also possibly colluding with the Devil Cult.
This accusation, or rather, this crime was too big and too heavy, so heavy that even the Su family could not bear it. So, the Su family quickly began to take action. They mobilized their informants in the Kunlun Party, as well as some cultivators they were on good terms with to inquire about the news. At the same time, they also tried their best to help the three brothers of the Su family. Among them, the most important was of course Su Qingjun, so the message brought today was to implore Su Qingjun to help as soon as possible.
After listening to the news, Su Qingjun looked grim. She did not discuss it with Lu Chen, closed the stone door of the cave, and directly went down the mountain with the messenger.
After watching Su Qingjun go far away, Lu Chen also looked down the mountain with a complicated expression.
Unlike Su Qingjun, who knew almost nothing about this matter, Lu Chen knew almost everything about He Changsheng's murder case.
In this world, who knew the most about a murder case? It must be the murderer.
Lu Chen waited on the Feiyan Platform for a while, then also got up and went down the mountain.
When the Feiyan Platform quieted down, and there was only one dog left, Atsu looked a little anxious and irritated. It looked at the forest in the back of the mountain again and again. After a while, it slowly got up and walked in.
There was a faint light in the forest, and Atsu could see its surroundings very clearly. As it walked, it heard the familiar chirping of birds. However, that day, Atsu did not meet White Lotus again.
In fact, after meeting White Lotus that day, Atsu did not see her again. The little girl, who was only a little over ten years old, seemed to be busier than most adults.
Not seeing White Lotus, Atsu did not seem surprised, and even looked a little more relaxed. But soon, its body tensed up again, because it saw a little bird suddenly fly to the ground in front of the forest, using its beak to search for food in the thick layer of leaves.
Almost without any hesitation, Atsu slowly approached it.
Its figure and movements were almost silent, as if it was born to do so. Like a genius hunter, it slowly approached the bird.
Suddenly, the black dog pounced on the bird, and before it could startle it, it bit its wing.
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