Early period
With his hands behind his back, Yunxiong watched Zhao Rui's back disappear outside the gate, his gaze kept flickering, his lips were pursed and pulled down slightly, making his face look more majestic.
Standing behind him was the elegant and refined old steward Yun, his eyes also followed Zhao Rui's figure, and gradually moved away.
"Old man, the origin of this Zhao Rui's identity is so weird and mysterious that people can't figure it out. We can't even tell whether he is a human or a demon. There is a lot of uncertainty! In addition, he It seemed that I was a little disgusted with our temptation just now. Should we disclose the news a little to the Cha family? Regardless of whether Zhao Rui is the masked killer, Zha Zhongheng, who urgently needs to vent his anger, probably won't let him go .When two tigers fight, one is bound to be injured. We can also take advantage of the opportunity to profit from it."
Yun Xiong pondered for a while, raised his right hand, waved it lightly, and refused: "No! Absolutely not! It is precisely because this Zhao Rui is weird and mysterious, so we can't do this even more.
Judging from the strength he showed just now, looking at the entire Yun Family, only you and I are qualified to fight him. More importantly, he is still young, and his future is boundless, while we are all old. If we do that, he must hold a grudge. In the future, when he is done and comes back to take revenge, the Yun family will be in great trouble. In addition, although Zhao Rui is elusive, he doesn't seem to be hostile to our Yun family, and he has a good relationship with Yun Fei. We should seize the opportunity and make good friends with him. "
"Yes. My thoughts are not thorough enough." Old Butler Yun blamed himself.
"Don't mention this matter to anyone. God knows, you know me, understand?" Yun Xiong ordered.
"Yes. I understand." The old butler replied with a slight bow.
The two were pondering about Zhao Rui's identity, Yun Fei jumped into the living room from the outside.
She walked up to the two of them, grabbed Yunxiong by the corner of his clothes, and asked with anticipation on her small face:
"Grandpa, when I was outside just now, I saw a man who looked a bit like Zhao Rui. Did you call him over?"
Yun Xiong didn't deny it either, and said with a smile, "That's right. Don't you have some doubts about his identity? I'll invite him over to meet him, and thank him for saving his life last time."
"Really? Then is he the mysterious killer who killed Cha Naiwen!" Yun Fei's eyes lit up, and she asked quickly, hoping to get a definite answer from Yun Xiong.
"I don't know." Yun Xiong shook his head and said.
Although Zhao Rui's identity was weird and mysterious and his strength was powerful, he was not 100% sure that Zhao Rui was the masked killer who killed Cha Naiwen.
Yun Fei was a little disappointed, and then asked: "Then is he an ancient warrior?"
"No." Yun Xiong was very sure of this, the ancient warrior would never exude such a strong and terrifying demonic aura.
Of course, he will not mention this to Yun Fei. Some things are better kept hidden.
Yun Fei drooped her head in frustration, she didn't expect her guess to be completely wrong.
Yunxiong dotingly touched her head, a gentle smile appeared on his resolute face, and comforted him: "However, I think Zhao Rui seems quite interesting. If you have a chance, you can do more. Get close, get close."
Yunfei found that her grandfather seemed to value Zhao Rui a little bit. Although she didn't know the reason, she was very happy and nodded quickly.
Although Yunxiong felt that Zhao Rui's identity was mysterious and weird, he didn't send his subordinates to spy on him, and even stopped the investigation.
Because he knew that with Zhao Rui's strength, if someone was watching nearby, they would definitely notice it very quickly, which would definitely cause Zhao Rui's dissatisfaction with the Yun family.
Now the Yun family needs to get closer to Zhao Rui as much as possible, not to annoy him, so it's better not to do those useless things.
Time goes by slowly, Christmas will soon pass, and the Spring Festival is coming.
Zhao Rui quit his job in the bar on the pretext of coping with the school's final exam.
Xiaolan's brother-in-law Chen He felt a little sorry, because it was hard to find such an "excellent" waiter as Zhao Rui even with a lantern.
However, Zhao Rui's reason for resigning was very good, and Sun Xiaolan also supported it. Chen He had no choice but to agree to it with a heartbroken heart.
When paying the wages, he insisted that if the exam is over, he can continue to work part-time if he has time, and he welcomes it at any time.
After the final exams, all universities in Dong'an began to have winter vacation.
Zhao Rui and the three roommates in the dormitory had a breakup meal after the exam, then packed up and went home.
Anyway, his home is in Dong'an, which is very convenient.
The police and the Cha family are still investigating and searching for the mysterious masked killer.
It's just that the police's investigation is a little tired, and the intensity is obviously not as good as before.
However, Dong'an Zhajia still showed no sign of relaxing. He still mobilized his staff and continued to investigate and search, vowing to find out the masked killer and cut him to death.
It was precisely because of such external threats that Zhao Rui did not dare to neglect in the slightest in cultivation.
He hoped that he could enter the early stage of life as soon as possible and possess stronger strength. In this case, the Dong'an Cha family would not pose any threat to him.
Since it was winter vacation and he resigned from his part-time job in the bar, he had nothing else to distract him. Zhao Rui had a lot of time. He spent almost all day in the forest behind Shanshui Yayuan, practicing.
Sun Xiaolan couldn't see Zhao Rui during the holidays, so she couldn't help but feel a little strange, but the Spring Festival is coming, and she is busy cleaning the house and buying new year's goods, so she doesn't have much time to get to the bottom of it.
After Zhao Rui practiced hard for a period of time, coupled with the help of magic weapons such as the Earth Monument, the progress of his cultivation has been greatly improved, and the true energy in his dantian is also becoming more and more full, and is about to reach the critical point of qualitative change.
It was another silent night, and the mountains and forests were covered with snow, and it was extremely cold. The moon was also covered by dark clouds, only revealing a slight moonlight.
At this moment, Zhao Rui came to the cliff where he often practiced, and began to practice this night.
He sat down against the stone wall, took out the ancient treasure he obtained from the fairy tomb last time—the Monument of Earth, from the Qiankun Ring, and hung it around his neck, ready to make the final breakthrough.
During this period of time, he could already clearly feel that the true energy in his body was undergoing strange changes.
If there is no accident, tonight he may be able to break through the late stage of seizing the soul and enter the early stage of life!
Zhao Rui had to admit that there was indeed a huge gap between the late stage of seizing the soul and the early stage of life.
Even with the assistance of ancient treasures like the Earth Monument, it still took him more than two months to get to where he is today.
You know, it only took him two or three months to advance from the early stage of soul-seizing to the late stage of soul-seizing.
Fortunately, today is finally going to make a breakthrough.
Zhao Rui adjusted his breathing, got rid of distracting thoughts in his mind, and then slowly sank into the state of cultivation.
The third image of "Eight Desolation Killing Immortals" slowly emerged in his mind.
According to the map and formula recorded above, Zhao Rui began to quietly absorb the aura of heaven and earth.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged from all directions, penetrated the skin, soaked into the muscles, entered the meridians, and finally flowed into his dantian. After being continuously tempered in the dantian, it formed a mist-like true energy, filling the dantian.
After a while, under Zhao Rui's mobilization, these misty true qi began to condense little by little, forming a thin warm current, which flowed out from the dantian, flowed into the meridians, and circulated.
At the same time, the Earth Monument hanging on the chest, stimulated by true energy, emitted a soft khaki-yellow light.
The mellow, sweet, and earthy spiritual power flowed out from the earth, penetrated his clothes, penetrated Zhao Rui's skin, penetrated into his limbs, and washed him from the inside out. Then it flows into the meridians and flows into the Dantian.
The two kinds of spiritual power meet in the meridian, but there is no repulsion, but a very natural and harmonious fusion, which promotes the improvement of Zhao Rui's strength.
Although it was already cold winter and late at night, coupled with the howling wind, it was the coldest time of the day.
But Zhao Rui couldn't feel the slightest bit of chill at all. Instead, he felt as if he was soaking in warm spring water, his whole body was warm and extremely comfortable.
As more and more spiritual energy is absorbed, the true energy in the dantian becomes thicker and thicker, as if it is about to reach saturation.
At this moment, a huge change suddenly occurred!
The true energy in Zhao Rui's dantian suddenly collapsed in the center, forming a strange hole.
This hole seems to have an incomparably huge power, rotating and pulling the true qi floating in the dantian in a clockwise direction, and it is turning faster and faster!
A strong demonic aura slowly leaked out from his body, enveloping him like invisible smoke.
The thick ice and snow covering it were also melted by the temperature emitted from his body.
After an unknown amount of time, Zhao Rui's body was shaken suddenly, and the demonic aura covering the surroundings suddenly exploded, and the violent air waves lifted up the surrounding soil and flew high.
Zhao Rui slowly opened his eyes, let out a deep breath, and showed a delighted smile on his face.
After more than two months of arduous training, he finally broke through the realm of the late stage of seizing the soul and entered the early stage of life!