Eighty-second bowl of soup (nine)
It's a pity that Cheng Jiuzhou is docile and well-behaved towards Linglong, but he is completely indifferent towards Qing Huan. When he saw Qing Huan, he was not at all shocked or confused by her alluring appearance, but just glanced at her lightly, as if she was the same as the little flowers and grasses by the roadside.
"Senior Sister, Master wants you to meet him in the Meditation Hall. Regarding this year's disciple assessment, I will leave it to you to handle it."
After hearing this, Linglong said to Qing Huan: "Then I'll go first. If you are free, remember to come to me. I have a lot to say to you." She was always alone, even if she was accompanied by someone, she would still be there in dozens of years. After leaving after a year, she had so many stories to tell and so many things she wanted to confide in, so she was overjoyed when she met Qing Huan, and she was not willing to ask her to leave.
Qing Huan chuckled: "I will."
"Jiuzhou also come with me."
"Master, as long as I see Senior Sister, what am I going to do, not to mention that I have to see the progress of my juniors' homework today, Senior Sister should go quickly." Cheng Jiuzhou smiled gently, but when Linglong disappeared from his sight, he faced Qing Huan's expression changed, the corners of her eyes and brows were all cold, "No matter who you are, stay away from her."
After living for so long, this is the first time that Qing Huan has been treated as a dangerous person and threatened to keep her away from her. It's a pity that she is a soft-hearted person, especially not afraid of threats from others. "Oh? Why should I listen to you?"
This is the big devil in the legend, he looks no different from ordinary people, except that the city is deeper, but it can be seen that he is sincere to Linglong.
"She looks indifferent, but she has a naive temper. She is always deceived by others. It's best not to have any bad ideas, girl."
Totally naive, always being lied to? The girl she knew just now? Qing Huan almost couldn't hold back her rebuttal, but after thinking about it, there is a reason why Linglong showed Cheng Jiuzhou this side, and it's better for her not to expose it. Too lazy to continue talking nonsense with Cheng Jiuzhou, he turned to leave but was stopped, "What is your purpose in coming here?"
What purpose could she have? She felt that the connection between Tiandaozong and Zhanlu would not be broken so easily, and Zhanlu felt weird to her, so she wanted to figure it out. Who knew that I met Linglong when I first came up, and it was almost time before we started to inquire about the news, she should go back to the tree house, lest Zhanlu come back and find that she is not there.
"I have no purpose, just walking around."
"In recent years, the magic cultivator has grown stronger and stronger, and Tiandaozong has been mixed in, so I doubt you. Senior sister, she thinks everyone is good. If you want her to like you, you have to treat her wholeheartedly."
Qing Huan could not do without Linglong when he heard every word he said, so she asked casually: "Do you like her?"
"Huh, what nonsense!" Cheng Jiuzhou seemed to have been poked into a weak spot, he denied it in a deep voice, and then warned, "You better not let me find out that you have ulterior motives."
After finishing speaking, he walked away quickly as if something was chasing after him. It looks fierce, but unexpectedly innocent.
Qing Huan smiled at first, and then thought carefully about Cheng Jiuzhou's casual sentence "The magic cultivator has grown stronger in recent years". For some reason, she just felt weird, and felt that Zhan Lu had something to hide from herself.
But it was really getting late, Qing Huan rushed to the tree house, and she started to smell the smell of blood in the air when she was still some distance away. She frowned, thinking that something happened to Zhan Lv, so she sped up immediately Speed, but not far from the tree house, I saw a group of black people surrounded by the tree house, all wearing black robes, and blood flowed from between them. Because she didn't see the situation clearly, Qing Huan immediately hid behind a big tree. She watched the group of men in black gradually get out of the way, and a man also dressed in black came out from inside—that man was very familiar, not Zhan Lu. Who is it again
It's just that it wasn't the Zhan Lu she had seen before.
This Zhan Lu was expressionless, with extremely cold eyes. The black robe on his body was soaked in blood, dripping all the way to the ground. Behind him, also in the middle of the circle surrounded by people in black, lay a flesh and blood Objects that are blurry and can no longer see their original appearance. The limbs and torso looked human, but they had no skin.
Qing Huan couldn't believe what she saw. She only saw the men in black quickly clean up the tree, and the blood was also cleaned up. It was as if nothing had happened. A man in black knelt down in front of Zhan Lu: "Your Majesty, the subordinates are all ready, just wait for your order to kill Tiandaozong!"
Zhan Lu looked at him coldly, and the man in black's face gradually turned pale: "Yes, this subordinate is talking too much, this subordinate knows his mistake, this subordinate knows his mistake!"
Zhan Lu ignored him, and flew up to the tree house. The man in black knelt on the ground and trembled for a while before getting up, and then left quickly. The whole scene started to disappear quickly, if Qing Huan hadn't witnessed it with her own eyes, she would never have believed that Zhan Lu would do something like skinning people alive. Hiding behind the big tree, she just felt a little dazed. She didn't know where she was for a while, and she felt an unconcealable disappointment in her heart.
After a while like this, she felt better and went back to the tree house. As soon as he entered, he saw Zhan Lu sitting on a stool sorting herbs. The basket he often carried was on the side. It looked as if he had just come back from collecting herbs to classify. He probably didn't expect Qing Huan to come back so soon - when he first returned to the tree house, he couldn't find her inside and out, so he thought she was missing again, but this time she came back so early, he was so happy.
Happily showing a small smile to Qing Huan.
As soon as Qing Huan saw him smile, she habitually returned a smile, and Zhan Lu also habitually reached out to ask for a candy. Qing Huan peeled it off for him. When she saw the candy wrapper, she remembered the person who was peeled under the tree house, and her heart suddenly burst sorrow and grief. She wanted to touch Zhan Lu's head as usual, but he was already taller than her.
Qing Huan's outstretched hand froze in mid-air, Zhan Lu lowered his head and placed himself at the same height as her. Qing Huan touched it, and there was a gurgling sound in his throat, which sounded very comfortable.
this kid...
He also didn't say a word before, whether it was skinning or talking to the man in black, he didn't say a word.
Qing Huan pulled him to sit down, feeling that they still needed to have a good talk. "I have something to ask you, Zhan Lu, will you lie to me?"
Originally, Zhan Lu was about to shake his head without even thinking about it, but when he saw Qing Huan's expression, he felt that something was wrong, and he naturally knew what he had done in his heart. If she knew, would he still be able to stay in the tree house? During the few seconds of his hesitation, Qing Huan was sure that he really had something to hide, but she didn't know how bad it could be. "Just now... the one you skinned, is it alive?"
Zhan Lu's black eyes turned into vertical pupils, and Qing Huan realized that his pupils had turned bright red, and the whites of his eyes had turned black. This was a look she had never seen before. Zhan Lu... It seems that he is leaning more and more towards the wolf ghost side. The human blood in his body is gradually decreasing. The more the wolf ghost's power is awakened, the stronger he will be, and the more ruthless and cruel he will be.
So what Linglong said, Cheng Jiuzhou is not the one who destroys the world, but Zhan Lu... is
Qing Huan did not want to believe this fact. She held Zhan Lu's hand: "I want to listen to the truth, don't lie to me."
Zhan Lu looked at the caramel she had peeled but didn't give to himself, and nodded to her.
Although she already knew it, Qing Huan was still extremely sad. She looked at Zhan Lu, there was no anger or disappointment in her eyes, only sadness and bewilderment. "What happened? Why did it become like this?"
Zhan Lu looked at her silently, touched her face, seemed to want to say something, his throat moved, but he took the candy she had peeled and put it into his mouth, and then began to write on her palm.
It's actually a very simple story, and it couldn't be simpler.
Twenty-two years ago, when Qing Huan suddenly disappeared, he was terrified. He waited in the tree house for a long time and didn't see her back, so he went to look for her, but how could he find it? In this way, he went out to find people every day, and he didn't stop until the disciples of Tiandaozong started their trials. By chance, he met several familiar disciples. The opponent was an adult who had practiced for many years. He was not their opponent at all. He was stripped naked and tied to a tree by them. Those disciples caught a male beast and wanted to humiliate him. Zhan Lu frantically struggled and resisted to no avail. At the last moment, the hatred and resentment in his heart awakened the power of the wolf ghost. When he regained his senses, both the beasts and the disciples of the Heavenly Dao Sect were completely torn apart. Limb remains were scattered on the ground, and the ground was covered with blood.
With trembling hands he dug a hole and buried them, then ran back to the tree house shivering.
But once the power is awakened, it will not sleep again. Looking at his own sharp teeth and claws, Zhan Lu fell in love with the pleasure of cutting everything and sweeping everything. No one can bully him anymore, and the only person who can really protect him is himself.
He didn't know how powerful he was, so he chose to hunt down the disciples of Tiandaozong as an attempt. In just three days, none of the hundreds of white-clothed disciples in the entire forest was spared. They all died under his sharp claws, and they were all torn to pieces.
In those days, the forest was bright red and smelled of blood.
Naturally, Tiandaozong would not give up after killing so many disciples, but they turned the entire forest upside down and didn't know who did it. In the end, they could only attribute it to the beast. Slowly, the rumors of the beasts living in the back mountain spread, and Tiandaozong changed the place where the new disciples were tested. Since then, no one has come to this forest for twenty years.
So this place has become the world of Zhanlu.