After hearing Hu Chen Wuding's words, Zhuo Lingfeng's stone-like figure remained motionless, but the long robe on his body suddenly moved in the windless air.
Then, he looked up at Hu Chen Wuding, still without saying a word.
Hu Chen had no idea what was going on. He knew that Uncle Sang had been suppressing his anger for a long time. In his mind, he had long regarded Uncle Sang as his closest relative, and that person as a passer-by in his life.
Now he came back here, not to join the family, but to let his mother see that he has grown up and can get what he deserves with his own strength.
Then, after giving revenge to all those who had bullied him and his son, he would give up everything and travel the world with Uncle Sang.
"The room behind me belongs to my mother. Uncle Sang, you can live in that room for the time being. I will take care of the rest."
Hu Chenwuding saw Zhuo Lingfeng staring at him like that, and he suddenly changed the subject.
Li Yan heard a sense of revenge from Hu Chen Wuding's words.
Hu Chen Wuding came to the family after experiencing life and death, but he did not come to die, and he would not fight head-on with the other party. It seemed that he had already planned in his mind for many years.
As Hu Chen Wuding said this, Zhuo Lingfeng's eyes trembled as he looked at him, and then he could no longer hear the rest of his words.
Instead, he took a deep breath, nodded to Li Yan, and then walked towards the room behind Hu Chen Wuding.
However, as a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, even Hu Chen Wuding could feel that Uncle Sang's steps had lost their previous steadiness.
It was not until Zhuo Lingfeng disappeared into the door that Hu Chen Wuding turned around and looked at Li Yan.
"Brother Li, this place is shabby, I'm sorry for you. You can rest in another room for a few days."
As he spoke, he pointed to a room on the far left of the courtyard, and continued.
"If Brother Li feels uncomfortable, I will go to the head of the family in a while. Although he has not been in the family for more than ten years, it should be possible to arrange for someone to live in the welcoming building."
As he said these words, there was a hint of apology on his face.
Li Yan had already seen the four rooms in the courtyard. Except for one room which was the kitchen, the furnishings in the remaining three rooms would not be exquisite just by looking at the peeling paint on the doors and the mottled window frames.
With a smile on his face, he waved at Hu Chen Wuding.
“Don’t bother, let’s just stay here. I think the fight between the sons of inheritance won’t last too long.
However, it is up to you from now on. I hope you don’t waste the life and death you went through to come here.”
Having said that, Li Yan looked at Hu Chen Wuding meaningfully, then walked towards the room.
After hearing this, Hu Chen Wuding also looked serious and stared at Li Yan's back until he disappeared behind the door.
Then, he slowly walked to the stone bench in the yard and sat down again. Looking at the rising sun above the yard, a look of determination appeared on his face.
Just as Hu Chen Qiukong said, not long after, a servant came to the courtyard carrying a large food box.
After knocking on the gate, putting down the food box and seeing that the pot was dusty, the servant turned around and left with a look of surprise.
In his memory, not only this courtyard, but the entire area was uninhabited, and someone would only come to clean it once every ten days or half a month.
It must have been many years since anyone lived here!
After Hu Chen Wuding opened the food box and removed the layers one by one, he found that there were as many as ten dishes. Each of them was fragrant and exquisite. There were also four pots of wine. The preparation was quite sufficient.
After filling the stone table with all these dishes and wine, just looking at the plates of delicious food will make one's mouth water.
It’s no wonder that Hu Chen Qiukong said that even cultivators have appetites, not to mention that he has been sneaking around in fear every day for some time.
I'm back here today, and now that my ancestor has come out of seclusion, I can be considered safe for the time being.
Later he went to call Zhuo Lingfeng and asked him to come out to eat something to relieve the tension of the past few days.
But no matter how he persuaded, Zhuo Lingfeng no longer came out. Instead, he sat in front of his mother's former dressing table, staring blankly at himself in the mirror.
Hu Chen Wuding is an adult now, and of course he understands Uncle Sang's feelings, so he can only close the door and return to the yard alone.
Afterwards, he came to Li Yan's door again and rang the doorknob.
Seeing Hu Chen Wuding standing alone in the yard, Li Yan thought about it and readily agreed to come to the yard.
Hu Chen Wuding forced a smile at Li Yan, then opened the four bottles of wine and placed them on the stone table.
Next, he reached out and slapped the storage bag on his waist, and the jade bottle that had appeared before appeared in his hand again.
He stretched out his hand and slapped the bottom of the bottle, and a stream of smoke came out of the mouth of the jade bottle, but the smoke was silver. After circling on the stone table, the smoke was sucked back into the jade bottle again.
Li Yan sat opposite, watching everything quietly.
After Hu Chen Wuding had finished doing all this, he suddenly spoke.
"Your magic weapon is quite amazing. It can contain many different magical arts."
After Hu Chen Wuding put the jade bottle back into the storage bag, he first shook his head at Li Yan, and then a complicated expression appeared on his face.
“With my cultivation level, I can’t possess any magic weapon. Even spiritual treasures are rare to me.
But Uncle Sang saw that I had some talent in practicing the Ghostly Poison Scroll, so he spent almost all of his life savings to refine this elementary magic weapon for me.
Originally, he should have had a chance to reach the Golden Core stage, but in order to refine this magic weapon, his cultivation has stagnated for seven years."
After hearing what the other party said, Li Yan couldn't help but be moved. He didn't expect that a cultivator would use up all his cultivation resources for others, while his own cultivation level had not improved at all in several years.
“There are four independent spaces inside this treasure. Although it is a primary magic weapon, these four spaces can store four different kinds of elixirs. It can also use its internal formation to increase its power by 30% before launching.
The four kinds of elixirs can achieve both offense and defense according to different preparations. Even some mid-level magic weapons may not be stronger than them."
Hu Chen Wuding just thought about it and then actually told him the function of this magic weapon.
Just now, Li Yan was just admiring this magic weapon, and he didn't mean to ask about the secret of other people's magic weapon. Hu Chen Wuding's directness made Li Yan a little embarrassed.
However, he also knew that Hu Chen Wuding was deliberately trying to please him and was revealing his life-saving trump card.
If he really cannot get the position of the son of inheritance, it would be difficult for me to turn against him directly because of his honesty.
Hu Chen Wuding seemed not to notice the embarrassment on Li Yan's face. He picked up the wine jug while speaking.
After pouring himself a glass of wine, he drank it in one gulp. Then, ignoring Li Yan, he picked up the chopsticks and actually picked up a dish from each plate and put it in his bowl.
Then, he put it into his mouth with some flavor, tasted it carefully, and then closed his eyes as if he was savoring it.
After a long while, he opened his eyes and smiled at Li Yan.
"After days of running around, it's good to have these foods."
Then, as if he remembered something, he quickly filled Li Yan's glass with wine.
"Did you also develop that silver smoke yourself?"
Li Yan didn't seem to mind Hu Chen Wuding's rude behavior of drinking by himself. He slowly picked up the wine glass and looked at the wine in it carefully.
“I refined it by combining the seventeen techniques and forty-six herbal changes in the first four layers of the Ghost Cave Poison Scroll. Its original purpose is to detect whether there is any poisonous substance invading within the surrounding seven feet space, and it can only serve as an early warning.
For a fugitive like me, I am almost always thinking about how to save my life.
But I am not proficient in formations, and my cultivation is shallow, so I can only do my best to keep myself safe, so I refined this technique into the Jade Purification Bottle, so that it can also detect and warn. "
Li Yan was playing with the wine glass, listening to Hu Chen Wuding talking about something very small, as if he was talking about his daily practice, it was so ordinary.
But in his heart he admired Hu Chen Wuding's caution. Even when he arrived at the family, he did not lose his vigilance.
When the food was full, the first thing he did was to naturally take out the jade bottle. This action was smooth and flowing, as if it had been integrated into his bones.
But listening to his words, Li Yan saw a little monk who was cautious all the time, and finally formed an instinctive habit, and all this was for - to stay alive.
After Hu Chen Wuding finished speaking, Li Yan smiled, raised the wine glass in his hand, and drank it in one gulp.
Seeing that Li Yan just asked two simple questions and then drank the wine in the glass without hesitation, Hu Chen Wuding was stunned at first, but then a warm feeling surged in his heart.
He had few friends since he was a child. Even with people like Hu Chen Qiukong, they only took orders from that person and those who had just interacted with him did not dare to say too much to Hu Chen Wuding.
However, Hu Chen Wuding never thought that the seemingly generous man in front of him was not really defenseless. Li Yan had his own trump card in the research of poison, so he drank it in one gulp.
The two of them drank and chatted like this, and they continued eating until noon, then went back to their rooms.
After returning to the house, Li Yan closed the door, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, and then he flicked his sleeves, and four small formation flags fell directly in the corners of the wall.
Then he made a gesture of magic, and the whole room suddenly experienced a slight fluctuation of spiritual energy before returning to normal.
Then Li Yan sat on the bed with an expressionless face.
"So quickly, many people came to investigate."
When he was in the courtyard before, in less than half a day, four groups of people appeared in his spiritual sense. Those people were observing near the courtyard and trying to send out their spiritual sense to detect.
However, as soon as his spiritual sense reached the sky above the courtyard, it was bounced back by Zhuo Lingfeng's spiritual sense.
"The water here is still turbid. Among the four groups of people just now, at least two groups showed murderous intent.
This murderous intent was deeply hidden, but after detecting that there were people in the courtyard, it was inadvertently revealed. It seemed that he was afraid of the Yuanying ancestor and did not dare to take action at all, but he wanted to know the situation in the courtyard, so he could not control his murderous intent.
It seems that Hu Chen Wuding is fine, at least on the surface. We should be more careful tonight. I wonder how many days it will take for the battle for the son of inheritance to end?"
Li Yan was thinking about his worries. He felt that getting the "Xuanming Order" this time might be more difficult than he had imagined before.
At the same time, in the attic where the head housekeeper Yu Jiangshi had been, a young man with a gloomy face was talking to a woman in palace dress.
"Mother, that bastard is really back! What Hu Chenliang reported was correct. The moment that kid came back, he hid in his old courtyard and never came out again.
After Manager Yu and I led our men over, we were unable to penetrate with our spiritual sense because they had not set up any formations.
But one of them had a very high level of cultivation. Even Manager Yu’s spiritual sense was shocked back as soon as he detected it, and he was injured. That person’s cultivation was extremely domineering.”
The woman in light green palace dress smiled coldly after hearing this.
“Hehehe… Even Yu Jiangshi was injured by his spiritual sense detection. Hu Chenliang said that among the three people, only one old man was at the foundation-building stage. Could it be that he had reached the great perfection of the foundation-building stage
Could this person be the junior fellow apprentice of that bitch? It is said that after that bitch escaped from her family more than ten years ago, she went looking for a junior fellow apprentice of the same sect. If it weren't for this person, the bitch and her son would have been found by us long ago.
This person should be called Zhuo Lingfeng. He is ruthless and is said to have competed with people from the four major sects without losing. It seems that he was recruited by two major sects, but at that time, he disappeared with that bitch. "
Speaking of this, there was hatred in the eyes of the beautiful woman in palace dress.
If this hunchbacked old man is really the junior fellow of that bitch, then everything that has happened over the years should be the result of this man's actions.