As the saying goes, there are unexpected changes in the world. Given the current situation of the Sun family, it is impossible for their good fortune to be passed on forever. And now that it has suddenly come to an end, it can only be said that it was designed by humans, but it can also be said to be a kind of destiny. There is no excusable reason for God in this matter.
Lu Shanjun stopped and sat down again. He had no intention of going to the noodle stall immediately. In fact, it was just a subconscious reaction. Besides, he had said before that he would not help Hu Yun this time.
"It all depends on how that kid breaks the situation. Master, who do you think did it?"
"Some of the means, he has already left, I won't guess."
It’s not that Ji Yuan was too lazy to guess, but in fact, there was not much point in just guessing. The other party was obviously very powerful and could conceal the secrets of heaven. Maybe he was the Great Sage Mihuang, or maybe he was some old enemy of his, or maybe it was just a coincidence.
The old dragon thought about it, looked at Lu Shanjun and said.
"How many of Mr. Ji's enemies are left?"
Lu Shanjun smiled coldly.
"Most of them have already gone into my stomach. Some are really hard to find, or they are shrunk very tightly. Now I am cultivating my body and mind, so that's all."
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At the corner of a big river, Hu Yun finally found the person he was looking for. He landed a little distance away, then jumped onto the water and leaped onto a small boat with the movement of a swallow skimming the water.
Before he got close to the boat, he could already smell a strong smell of blood. Hu Yun put his feet on the boat. The boat swayed gently on the water, creating ripples, just like Hu Yun's heart at the moment.
There were five people in total on the boat, or to be exact, five bodies. The old couple was also among them. They were lying on their backs with several knife wounds on their bodies. At the stern, there were two strangers and a third one holding a half-cut pole in his hand. He fell to the ground with a painful and dazed look on his face. It was none other than Mr. Hong.
Hu Yun's face looked extremely ugly. Although their deaths had nothing to do with him, he felt extremely upset. If he had gone to the Confucian Temple with Sun Yiqiu and the others earlier, he might have noticed something was wrong in advance.
"Please ask the river god here to come and see us."
As Hu Yun spoke, he stomped his foot lightly. The ripples on the water surface continued to spread, and then a column of water rose from the river surface beside the boat, lifting up a hunchbacked old woman. She looked at Hu Yun in surprise, and when she reacted, she hurriedly saluted.
"My humble servant Shang Mo greets the Immortal Master. I wonder why the Immortal Master wants me to come here?"
Hu Yun squatted down and gently closed the eyes of the scholar who died with his eyes open. The scholar was a kind-hearted man. Although it was quite annoying, he shouldn't have died like this. After he finished, he stood up and looked at the river god from the side.
"You are the river god of this place, do you know how the people on this boat died?"
He Po looked at the boat and said.
"My Lord, although I am the water god of this area, I do not know everything in the basin, unless someone on the boat calls me to appeal. However, there have been several cases of pirates robbing ships in the nearby waters, so I think they were responsible."
"Water bandits?"
Hu Yun shook his head. If it was really that simple, then when they parted in Ning'an County in the morning, he should have been able to see the changes in the fortunes of the three people, such as the blackening of their foreheads and the blood-red light covering their heads. But he didn't notice anything this morning.
"Master?"
"It's okay, you can go now."
"May I ask the Immortal's name?"
Hu Yun looked at He Po.
"I am just an independent cultivator, so I won't leave my name."
As he was speaking, dark clouds suddenly covered the sky in the direction of Ning'an County and thunder roared. Hu Yun's heart suddenly jumped and a bad premonition arose.
Oops!
"Please ask He Po to report to the authorities. I will take the bodies of these three people away first."
After Hu Yun finished speaking, he waved his sleeves to collect the three bodies, then he flew directly into the wind and quickly flew back to Ning'an County. When he returned to Ning'an County, it was still raining in the county, but the wind and rain were not as strong as before.
Hu Yun hurried to the location of Sun's noodle stall. At this time, the Sun family had already packed up and went back. He squatted down and looked in a direction, picked up a small piece of remaining debris from the crack of the stone floor, which was exactly where the bowl fell.
The rain from the sky fell, seemingly falling on Hu Yun, but actually slid down the surface of his clothes.
Hu Yun clutched the broken pieces of dishes tightly. He knew that the Sun family's fortune had been broken. He also understood that the deaths of the old couple and Hong Shusheng were also related to this incident. The other party was using this as a trap to lure him away and destroy the Sun family's fortune in this short period of time.
"Very good, very good!"
There was a hint of ferocity in Hu Yun's eyes, and the shadow of a fox was faintly visible on his face. Heat rose around him, and the rain evaporated when it fell near Hu Yun, making it seem as if Hu Yun was shrouded in mist.
Although he was angry, Hu Yun was still a little dejected when he returned to Ju'an Pavilion. Seeing that everyone in the yard was looking at him, Hu Yun shrugged his head and said something.
"Sir, Shanjun, I seem to have messed up and failed to save your bowl of noodles."
Ji Yuan almost choked on his breath and said jokingly.
"What do you mean you didn't save my bowl of noodles? If Ji wanted to eat noodles, he had to pick the last bowl, right?"
Hu Yun glanced at Lu Shanjun carefully and found that he didn't seem angry either, and there was nothing unusual in the way he looked at Hu Yun.
"I understand. It's just that the future well-being of the Sun family is up to us. How many ordinary people's blessings are given by God? Why should we regret returning to common sense? Now that things have come to this, you don't have to look after the Sun family anymore."
The old dragon stroked his beard thoughtfully and personally refilled the tea in Ji Yuan and Lu Shanjun's cups. Even Zao Niang did not show up.
No one scolded him, but Hu Yun felt even more uncomfortable. Mr. Ji was fine, but why didn't Lu Shanjun teach him a lesson, even though what he said just now was a bit ironic.
Hu Yun frowned and sat down on the remaining stone bench. He sat for a while and stood up again, then stood for a while and sat down again. He was really restless and felt uncomfortable.
"I go out for a while."
Hu Yun stood up and left angrily. As he went out the door, he slipped an umbrella out of his sleeve. After opening the umbrella, he turned around and disappeared on the spot with his clothes spinning. When he appeared again, he was already on a remote street.
There is a restaurant in the middle of the street. Lanterns have been hung in the dim sky, and the lights look particularly dim in the light rain.
Two men with knives on their waists came out arm in arm, holding an umbrella together, talking and laughing with a swaying step.
Hu Yun was standing on the street watching them. After walking for a while, the two stopped and looked up at the street together. The sparse pedestrians around them were ignored by them. The only thing in their eyes was the tall figure holding an umbrella. The rain around them hit the umbrella, stirring up a hazy mist, which made the figure look particularly ethereal.
“Brother!”
"Well, he is not a good person."
A light mist of alcohol rose from the two men's bodies. They stood up straight, moving slowly and gently.
"Who are you, Excellency, and why are you blocking the way of my two brothers?"
The man in red gently turned the umbrella, and the rain on the umbrella formed a circle of rain curtain around him. The water droplets were not a big deal when they were scattered around, but when they flew to the two men, the two men suddenly trembled all over and dodged to the left and right.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
The water drops fell to the ground where the two had just stood, making a noise and splashing the rain water on the ground several feet high.
The bearded man didn't waste any words. He slapped his waist, put the sword behind his back, and exerted force on his feet to rush towards the man in red. His speed was so fast that it seemed that he broke through layers of rain curtains, and a fist whistled forward with the power of energy.
The woman in red held an umbrella in her left hand and swung her right wide sleeve lightly, colliding with the bearded man's fist.
With a dull "bang", the rain under Hu Yun's feet created ripples, causing the rain to splash and briefly peel off the stone street.
At the same moment when the fist and the sleeve intersected, the bearded man's left heel had already moved back a little and touched the tip of the scabbard.
"Zheng~"
The long sword was unsheathed, and when the aftermath of the collision between his right fist and the sleeve rose, his right hand twisted clockwise and turned his fist into a claw, grabbing the right arm of the woman in red, while his left hand grasped the hilt of the sword and slashed down.
Brush~
A half-foot-long sword energy was wrapped around the blade, and all the rain water three feet above was separated by the sword, and it slashed towards the woman in red with the momentum of splitting mountains and breaking peaks.
The red-clothed man's eyes lit up slightly, his left hand loosened the umbrella, and the cold light of the long sword illuminated his cold face.
The bearded man frowned slightly when the long sword fell. After moving his left wrist slightly, the long sword fell with the sword energy.
"Dang~"
With a crisp sound, the energy exploded, clearing away the fallen rain and puddles within several feet. The bearded man's pupils dilated as he looked at the scene in disbelief.
Two fingers as white as scallions clamped the blade and cut off the indestructible sword energy.
At this moment, the umbrella of the man in red fell to the ground, and he raised his head to look at the bearded man who was half a head taller than him.
"Your martial arts skills are pretty good."
The bearded man's pupils shrank, and he only had time to shout "Brother, run!" before he felt a terrifying force in his stomach.
With a "bang", the bearded man was kicked away. The man in red took a step forward and reached the side of the other man. The latter threw out his fists, but before he knew it, he was hit hard from behind.
"You're a long way off."
The man in red said this and turned his body to the side to avoid another punch from the bearded man. Then he grabbed his fist and swung it back, throwing the bearded man backwards. When the latter turned over and tried to land on his feet, the man in red kicked the bearded man backwards, and he flew out, hitting the ground and sliding far away.
... ...
After a while, the man in red picked up the umbrella on the ground, stood in the rain and let out a long sigh.
"Phew...much more comfortable!"
The man in red was Hu Yun. He walked forward with an umbrella and stopped after ten steps. At his feet were two ragged men with bruises all over their bodies and their faces swollen like pigs. They only had the strength to breathe and twitch.
Hu Yun lowered his head and looked at the bearded man.
"If you hadn't been thinking of showing mercy when you struck me with the sword, you would have been beaten even harder today. It's great that you have such cultivation at your age, but you have gone astray in the path of martial arts by cultivating evil instead of suppressing it. No wonder you are easily taken advantage of by demons. How sad!"
After saying this, Hu Yun walked forward holding an umbrella.
The two people lying on the ground were still struggling. The bearded man raised his head and looked in the direction where the woman in red left, only to see that figure disappear at the end of the street.
After a while, people who had been hiding in the restaurants and houses on both sides of the street dared to come out to see what was going on.
Extra: The Past That Has Never Been Cut Off Twenty-nine