After the quarterly examination, Yuan Chu and Wei He spent most of their time refining spiritual talismans, apart from practicing and studying. After two months of operation, their store has completed thousands of transactions, accumulated a good reputation, and gained many regular customers, and their income has been rising steadily.
Based on current income, it is not an impossible task to make several million within a year.
With the financial pressure relieved, Wei He can focus more on his cultivation. He wanted to graduate early, enter a cultivation sect, learn more advanced spells, obtain higher-quality elixirs, cure his mother's diseases, and extend her life.
As long as students of the Photo Academy reach the middle stage of foundation building and complete all basic studies, they can apply for early graduation. Such outstanding students are disciples that any cultivation sect is willing to recruit, and there is a wide range of options to choose from.
"Yuanchu, your current cultivation level is in the late stage of Qi refining?" Wei He asked.
Yuanchu nodded: "Yes."
"I want to reach the middle stage of foundation building before I turn 18." He mentioned seemingly unintentionally.
Original: "Oh." Don't worry, you can get there next year.
Seeing that she had no reaction at all, Wei He added: "When I reach the middle stage of foundation building, I will apply for early graduation."
Original: "Yes, I support it."
No, what's the use of your mere support? Don’t you want to graduate early with me? ?
Wei He waited, but did not receive her promise of never leaving, so he felt a little depressed. Based on the original cultivation level in the late stage of Qi training, it would take at least four to five years to reach the middle stage of foundation building. In addition, her talent is not high, and she may never be able to break through the late stage of Qi refining, but she doesn't seem to be in a hurry at all!
For this reason, Wei He decided to urge her to practice from today and not let her continue to be a salted fish. Since you like him, you must go with him!
Wei He: "I won't take orders during holidays from now on, so I can use my free time to practice."
"Okay." Yuan Yu had no objection.
Today is the day Jun Xiaobu is discharged from the hospital, and the dean came to pick her up early.
The time in the hospital was the happiest time for Jun Xiaobu. Every day he could see all kinds of strange magic talismans, play some cultivation games with Yuanchu, and eat delicious food from time to time. He gained several kilograms and his body also deteriorated. Much stronger.
Jun Xiaobu didn't want to go back to the orphanage, but the orphanage was her home and she couldn't leave until she reached adulthood.
"Xiao Bu, come here." The dean called Jun Xiaobu to his side, pointed at a middle-aged couple, and introduced with a smile, "This is Uncle Zhou and Aunt Wang. They want to adopt you, and you can have them in the future." My own family.”
Jun Xiaobu looked at the strange man and woman in front of her in confusion. She just came back and learned that she was going to be adopted. She didn't know how to react.
"Silly boy, why are you so dazed? You're calling someone." The dean smiled and put his hand on her shoulder a little harder.
Jun Xiaobu tilted his shoulders uncomfortably and called out reluctantly: "Uncle Zhou, Aunt Wang, hello."
"So good." Aunt Wang leaned down, touched her head, and said warmly, "Little Bu, are you willing to be our child?"
Jun Xiaobu said firmly: "I don't want to."
Displeasure flashed across the dean's face, and he persuaded patiently: "If you become the child of your uncle and aunt, you will be able to eat delicious food, wear nice clothes, and have people who care about you and love you every day. It will be better than staying here." The orphanage is much better, why wouldn’t you want to?”
Jun Xiaobu stared at them for a while, then lowered his head and remained silent. He tightly grasped the corners of his clothes with his little hands to hide his inner resistance, and whispered, "I like staying in the orphanage. Grandma, the director, don't drive me away, okay?" ?”
"Why don't you kid listen to my advice?" The dean glared at her cryptically, then smiled at Zhou and Wang, "Xiaobu grew up in an orphanage, so it is inevitable that he will be a little reluctant to leave. Don't mind, wait. As long as she’s familiar with you, it’ll be fine.”
Uncle Zhou smiled warmly: "We know that relationships need to be cultivated slowly, there is no rush. If there is no problem with the dean, then let's go through the procedures, right?"
"Okay, please follow me." The dean forcefully pulled Jun Xiao into the office.
"Grandma dean, I don't want to leave, I don't want to leave!" Jun Xiaobu cried with tears in his eyes.
"If you don't want to now, you will definitely have to thank me in the future." The dean thought that he had found a good family for her. Although she was not a good person, she would not push the child into the fire pit.
While the three of them were going through the formalities, Jun Xiaobu stood alone with tears in his eyes.
Although she strongly opposed it, she was eventually taken away without even having time to see Yuan Chu.
Jun Xiaobu and Aunt Wang were sitting in the back seat, frequently looking out the window with anxious expressions.
She quietly put her hand into her pocket and summoned up the courage to say to the woman next to her: "I feel very stuffy. Can you open the window?"
Aunt Wang glanced at her indifferently and lowered the car window halfway.
Jun Xiaobu's chest was pounding, he took out a magic talisman from his pocket, pretended to turn his head to look at the scenery outside the window, and quickly threw the talisman out.
The magic talisman immediately turned into a white light and shot away in a certain direction.
The men and women in the car were completely unaware, which showed that they were not practitioners, otherwise the mana fluctuations that activated the talisman would have been discovered by them.
When Jun Xiaobu saw them for the first time, he knew they were not good people.
Although the purity of her spiritual root is only 3%, it is a rare mutated spiritual root. She is born with magical powers. Her eyes can see the thoughts and desires of sentient beings in the six realms, and their shapes and colors can change. This is the legendary "clairvoyance". She may not have enough in cultivation, but she is uniquely endowed in Buddhism.
This man and woman were riddled with evil spirits and had dark hearts. They must have done a lot of evil things.
The car drove for two hours and stopped in front of an old house in the suburbs.
It was deserted and gloomy, except for the occasional crow of crows.
Jun Xiaobu was dragged out of the car by the woman and came to the door of the old wooden house. He shouted: "Mr. Lei, we have brought you the person you want."
The wooden door opened with a creak, and an ugly-looking man walked out, looking sharply at Jun Xiaobu with a pair of eagle eyes.
Jun Xiaobu lowered his head in fear, his body trembling slightly, as if he saw some terrible monster.
"Come in, I'll give you the money." Lei Yin turned around and walked into the house, and the middle-aged man and woman quickly followed him happily.
The wooden door creaked shut again.
Half an hour later, the wooden door reopened, and the middle-aged man and woman walked out of it, with stiff expressions and dull eyes, like puppets. They walked step by step to the parking place, opened the car door, got in, and drove off the mountain trail, heading straight to the west. After driving for more than a hundred miles, he suddenly rushed towards the river on the right without warning. Within a few tens of seconds, the man and the car sank to the bottom of the river, and died.
In the old house, Jun Xiaobu huddled in the corner and looked around in horror. In this small room, there were more than a dozen children about the same age as her. They were all as skinny as firewood, some had their eyes gouged out, some had their arms cut off, some had their tongues cut off, and they all had a heavy air of death on their bodies, and all of them looked like they were short-lived.
It's so scary, sister, come and save me!
Jun Xiaobu shouted helplessly in his heart.
Don't be afraid...
Vaguely, a familiar voice seemed to sound in his head.
Jun Xiaobu was stunned: Sister
[Don't be afraid, I'll be here right away.]
This time, the sound was much clearer.
Jun Xiaobu's eyes shone with surprise, and his fear was instantly calmed down. He held the amulet on his chest and quietly waited for the arrival of the original.
After school, Yuanchu and Wei He made an appointment to visit Jun Xiaobu at the orphanage and celebrate her discharge from the hospital.
But when they arrived at the orphanage, they found that Jun Xiaobu had been taken away.
"Why so hasty?" Yuanchu asked, "She was just discharged from the hospital today. Does the person who adopted her know her physical condition?"
The dean said displeased: "Of course I know. The information is clearly written and the procedures are complete. The couple is leaving the province tonight, so they are in a hurry."
"How can ordinary people adopt a little girl who is weak and needs long-term treatment?" Yuan Chu stared closely at the dean's eyes and activated the power of prediction. After tens of seconds, she turned and left without waiting for the dean's reply.
"What's wrong?" Wei He asked, "Are you sure there is something wrong with that couple?"
"Yeah." Yuan Chu quickened his pace and left the orphanage. When he was about to call a car, he suddenly saw a beam of white light coming from a distance.
She raised her hand to catch the beam of white light, spread it out and saw that it was the rescue talisman she gave to Jun Xiaobu.
"Something happened." Wei He glanced over, his face darkening.
"Let's go." Yuan Chu said no more, tiptoed a little, moved his body, and swept away in the direction of Jun Xiaobu like a gust of wind.
Wei He also took out the Xuanxiao Umbrella and flew in the air. He caught up with Yuan Chu, grabbed her waist and took her to fly with him.
The Xuanxiao Umbrella has the ability to fly, but it only needs mana to sustain it.
The flying speed was faster than that of ordinary scooters. They flew over the original two-hour drive in about an hour.
[It’s so scary, sister, come and save me!]
Yuanchu received Jun Xiaobu's cry for help and immediately sent a message: Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I'll be here right away.
"There seems to be demonic energy overflowing there." Wei He looked at the wooden house not far away and said with a solemn expression.
"We may have encountered a demonic cultivator." Although Yuan Chu used "maybe", his expression was very determined.
Demon cultivator Lei Yin, a notorious big demon in the future, specializes in using children with extraordinary talents to practice demon skills, and eventually reaches the realm of demons. His strength is comparable to that of a cultivator in the integration stage, and is one level higher than the master of the supreme sect of the first sect of cultivation. class.
He should now be a demon cultivator in the realm of true demons. Wei He in the foundation-building stage cannot deal with him at all. Yuan Chu cannot currently use abilities that exceed his own level, nor can he kill people casually.
Hearing the word "Demon Cultivator", Wei He's expression changed slightly.
"I'll go explore the situation first. If I can lure the people inside away, you can take the opportunity to rescue them." Yuanchu suggested.
Wei He objected without thinking: "No, it's me who wants to go..."
Before he finished speaking, Yuan Chu had already disappeared.
Wei He: "..." Exploded!
He originally thought about what Yuan Chu might have planned, but when he looked up, he saw her simply and roughly breaking open the wooden door and rushing in.
Wei He: "..."
"Get out!" A murderous demonic sound came from the wooden house, making the surrounding trees rattle.
Lei Yin had known for a long time that two low-level monks were coming outside, but he didn't expect that they would dare to rush in without hesitation. He was so angry that he blurted out a loud shout. He originally thought that they could shock the people to death, but in the end, they quickly Without slowing down, she rushed straight up to him, raised her hand and snatched away a handful of his hair, and then quickly moved away.
"Looking for death!" Lei Yin was so angry that a piece of his head was shaved off, and he turned into a black mist and chased her. He didn't think about these two low-level monks at all. He thought about dealing with one first and then the other. He didn't think they had a chance to escape, let alone save others.
However, after Lei Yin chased him for a few kilometers, he realized something was wrong. He couldn't catch up with the "low-level monk" in front of him!
What a shame!
But he was not a reckless person. After weighing the situation, he gave up the pursuit and prepared to return to the cabin, kill the other monk, and take away the children.
Just as he turned around, a strong gust of wind suddenly came from behind. He dodged alertly, but unexpectedly, a slender hand still accurately touched his head and took away a handful of his hair.
Her hair floated in the air like a silent mockery.
"Ahhh!" Even though Da Luo is a true immortal, he is about to go berserk.
Lei Yin forgot about the other monk and launched an all-out pursuit of Yuan Chu, vowing to cut her into pieces and make her into a specimen.
He has been practicing for hundreds of years and has never been insulted like this before. What made him even more angry and puzzled was that the man was clearly only at the Qi Refining stage, so why could he easily pull away his hair? ? ? Being bullied to the point of being bullied by a junior in the Qi refining stage, he is a real demon and has no shame!
Escape skills are originally professional.
Under the supervision of Tiandao, she couldn't even kill a bird casually, but she had already mastered other skills.
Not to mention she was just a real demon, even an ascended immortal might not be able to catch up with her.
But she couldn't run too fast. She had to hang on to the real demon behind her to buy time for Wei He to save people.
The more Lei Yin chased, the more frightened he became, and he began to doubt his own judgment. Was that person really just a monk in the Qi Refining Stage? Could it be that he is disguised as a high-level cultivator? Is there a trap ahead, and she deliberately led herself through it
Thinking of this, Lei Yin's face turned pale, he turned around, gave up the pursuit again, and ran in the opposite direction.
After running no more than a few hundred meters, a flash of silver light suddenly appeared in front of him, approaching his face.
Lei Yin made a secret with his fingers, wrapped in demonic energy, trying to block the silver light. However, the silver light actually snaked in the air, passed through the demonic energy, brushed against his scalp, cut horizontally and vertically, and caused the broken hair to dance wildly. In the blink of an eye, a head with thick black hair turned into an overgrown bird's nest.
Lei Yin's anger level reached the peak. He roared violently, and the demonic energy surged all over his body. The surrounding trees instantly withered, and insects and birds died suddenly.
Yuan Chu retreated hundreds of meters to avoid the impact of the demonic energy.
She thought he would attack her, but instead she turned into a ball of black mist and fled towards the other side with a terrifying murderous aura, not even caring about the children in the room.
"I will never be a human being unless I take revenge!" The angry voice echoed in the forest, startling the nearby beasts to crawl to the ground.
Yuan was standing in the withered forest, with traces of evil energy still lingering around him.
Yuan Chu stopped chasing and walked towards the direction of the wooden house. The remaining demonic energy around her will be instantly purified as long as it comes within two steps of her.
On the other side, Wei He saw that Yuan Chu had lured the man suspected of being a demon cultivator away in an extremely rough manner. Without wasting any time, he quickly rushed into the wooden house and knocked open the wooden door of the back room. The tragic scene he saw made him heartbroken. shock.
More than a dozen children were described as thin and disabled. The expressions on their faces were numb and indifferent, as if they had given up hope of survival.
"Brother Wei He!" A crisp voice woke up Wei He.
He turned around and saw Jun Xiaobu standing up from the corner, staggering over and hugging his waist.
"Are you okay?" He stiffly tore Jun Xiaobu away from him.
"I'm fine." Jun Xiaobu looked behind him and asked anxiously, "Where's sister?"
"She lured the bad guy away, give me time to save you, and you leave." Wei He said bluntly.
Jun Xiaobu said worriedly: "That bad guy... is very powerful and scary. Sister, she..."
"She'll be fine." As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a loud shout from the distance: "Seeking death!"
Wei He: "..."
Jun Xiaobu: "...Is it really going to be okay?"
Wei He: "No!"
Damn it, I’m so anxious! But he couldn't leave these children behind, so he gritted his teeth and asked Jun Xiaobu to help him take all the children with him and quickly escape from the wooden house. At the same time, he contacted the college and asked for support.
"Ahhh!" After walking several thousand meters, another roar came from the woods behind him. The thick murderous aura was still unabated even though they were so far away. The exhausted children all fell to the ground with pale faces. , even Wei He felt palpitations.
He turned back quickly, his dark eyes showing deep anxiety, and his clenched fingers almost dug into his flesh. He wished he could drop everything and rush to Yuanchu's side immediately.
"Everyone, please hold on, we will be out of the woods soon." Wei He tried his best to suppress the surging emotions and cast a spell to protect these children.
The children got up with difficulty and continued on their way.
Half an hour later, the college teacher who received the distress message rushed over as quickly as possible and happened to meet Wei He and others walking out of the woods.
Seeing the miserable condition of these children, all the teachers were filled with grief and anger. At first, I didn’t believe that there was a demonic cultivator here, but now I do.
"Wei He, you and Teacher Gao Yuan escort these children to the academy. I and the other teachers will go to the hut to have a look." Ju Le ordered.
"In order to save people, Yuanchu lured the demon cultivator away alone. I don't know what's going on now. Please ask the teacher to rescue her as soon as possible." Wei He felt angry and annoyed at his own weakness. He couldn't protect his girl and could only ask for help from others. .
"What? She lured away that demon cultivator on her own?" Ju Le felt that Yuan Chu was basically hopeless. Judging from the situation of these children, the strength of the demon cultivator has probably reached the Nascent Soul stage. A young cultivator in the Qi refining stage will be crushed to ashes by the opponent in minutes.
Logically speaking, this clumsy plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain has no chance of success, but Wei He successfully brought the children out...
"You are not overestimating your own capabilities!" Ju Le murmured sadly. He had given up hope that Yuan Chu was still alive. He called to other teachers and was about to go to the woods to pursue him when he saw a figure running quickly from a distance.
However, within a few breaths, he was approaching, and it was Yuan Chu who had lured the demon cultivator away on his own.
She was tall and tall, unscathed, as if she had just returned from an outing.
Teachers: "..." It seems to be different from what they expected...
Wei He stepped over and was about to hug Yuanchu into his arms. Jun Xiaobu who was next to him ran over first and threw himself into her arms like a cannonball.
Wei He half-raised his hands: "..."
The author has something to say: Lei Yin: I am so miserable as a demon cultivator...