"My second brother fell so quickly, he lost all his moral integrity."
Su Yun looked at him from a distance and shook his head, saying, "I hope he won't learn from Mr. Lingyue to steal bellybands, or learn to write obscene lyrics and songs to ruin Mr. Yehu's reputation."
It was hard for him to imagine the scene where the honest and mature Huahu followed Mr. Lingyue and recited poems.
In the distance, Qingqiu Yue, Li Xiaofan and Hu Buping each used their own methods to try to capture those spiritual weapons. Chi Xiaoyao supervised and instructed them, and helped from time to time.
But the three little fox demons grew up very quickly and she rarely helped them.
Su Yun looked at this scene, feeling peaceful and at ease: "That night, Buping asked me if I would leave them, and I said no. But now I am worried that they will leave me. After all, they will grow up..."
He was very pleased. Taking care of Huahu and the three little fox spirits was his promise to the old Gou couple, and also a way to repay Mr. Yehu's kindness.
But more importantly, it was because he had long regarded Huahu and the three little fox demons as his own relatives and family.
Seeing that Li Xiaofan, Qingqiuyue and others were able to become independent early and find their own direction and path, he felt both disappointed and happy.
He looked around and saw hundreds of scholars searching for spiritual weapons. Many of them had subdued spiritual weapons. Some were extremely excited, while others choked with sobs and cried because they had their own spiritual weapons.
"These scholars from poor families are willing to risk their lives to get a spiritual weapon and go to Thunder Valley. Some of them know that this is a trap set by the Lin family and that they may become sacrifices, but they still come. They are not after the spiritual weapon, but to improve their own strength after obtaining it, so that they can get more opportunities."
Su Yun turned around and looked at Mr. Lingyue who was talking to Huahu, and thought: "Mr. Lingyue is a very unique person. He is plagued by bad luck, but he is kind and benevolent. He gave them this opportunity."
From the very beginning, Mr. Lingyue's goal was to disrupt the Lin family's blood sacrifice and collect the treasure.
He used his own characteristics to lead the thunderclouds into the abyss. He also teased Lin Suyi and fought with her, taking the opportunity to destroy the seals and restrictions left by the ancestors of the Lin family.
However, he probably came here just out of passion, without any careful plan.
Su Yun accidentally killed Lin Qingyi, causing the Lin family ancestor's treasure refining to end prematurely. The four-legged square tripod was destroyed, filling his loophole.
It was then that Mr. Lingyue began to take advantage of the opportunity to destroy the four-legged square tripod formed by the essence of heaven and earth in the thunder layer, leaving the Lin family treasure no chance to recover!
At the same time, Mr. Lingyue is also a very generous person. He can obviously hold thousands of spiritual weapons in his hands, but he deliberately lets them go to help the poor scholars who come here to train.
He is obviously a notorious person, carrying a bad reputation, but he is doing great good things.
"Su Shizi!"
Mr. Lingyue walked over here, trying his best to control his power and take the billowing black smoke into his spiritual world to avoid bringing misfortune to Su Yun, but he still couldn't completely gather it together, resulting in a black cloud above his head.
The flower fox followed behind him, and there was also a black cloud above his head, but it was smaller.
Mr. Lingyue exuded a cynical air, not at all like a great scholar. He smiled and said, "Does the first place winner of this exam want to be admitted to our Confucian Academy?"
Su Yun greeted him and said, "Sir, you are too kind. But my spiritual power has already been developed, and the Confucian Academy is not suitable for me."
Compared with Mr. Lingyue, he has a more elegant demeanor, which he learned from studying with Mr. Yehu. Only when his temper explodes does he reveal his arrogance.
Mr. Lingyue, on the other hand, looked like a street thug dressed as a great scholar, not looking serious at all.
Mr. Lingyue waved his folding fan in the middle of winter, walked in a figure-eight step, and laughed as he talked, "That's right. Your skills are weird, I can't see through them, and your magical powers are even weirder. I seem to be unruly, but in fact, every move I make is within the rules. You seem to be rigid and follow all kinds of rules, but in fact, you are the most unruly and always want to smash all the rules."
Su Yun thought about it carefully and realized that they were indeed such people.
"Second brother, why did you turn dark?" Su Yun couldn't help but asked Hua Hu in a low voice.
Huahu was very ashamed and whispered: "He asked me if I had ink in my stomach? Let him see. Then I turned black."
Su Yun was stunned.
"One hundred and fifty years ago, a dragon fell from Tianshiyuan. At that time, it snowed heavily and the entire Shuofang was covered in ice and snow. The people suffered from the snow disaster and many people starved to death. The roadsides were littered with corpses."
Mr. Lingyue looked up at the sky in a daze, and said, "When I was reading Shuofang Chronicles, I read that Emperor Yuan received news of the snowstorm at that time, so he ordered the imperial envoy to escort food, grass and money to provide disaster relief. However, what is not recorded in Shuofang Chronicles is that the imperial envoy who came to provide disaster relief changed his appearance and surname to Lin, who is the ancestor of the current Lin family. It was also at that time that he discovered the treasure of Thunder Valley and planned to use the Thunder Valley to refine treasures."
Su Yun was slightly startled, not knowing why he told him this. After thinking for a moment, he asked, "Mr. Lingyue, how is the result of the Lin family's disaster relief?"
"People were displaced and eating each other's children."
Mr. Lingyue said casually, "Look at these thousands of spiritual tools, most of them are bronze. In fact, they are not bronze, but made of Qinghong coins. If you want to refine so many spiritual tools and use the treasure land to refine a four-legged tripod as a treasure for the clan, how many Qinghong coins do you think you need? The money for disaster relief is here."
Su Yun stopped and remained silent.
Mr. Lingyue put Lin Suyi's bellyband under his nose and sniffed it, saying, "Since the generation of Lin Qinshi, the Lin family has gone through three generations and finally became a noble family. Now that they have a precious land, they still want a treasure to protect the family. How can such a cheap thing be found? In addition to the Lin family, there are also the Zhou family, the Lu family, the Wen family, the Tian family, the Wu family, and the Tong family. Didn't they all benefit from the snow disaster and later became noble families?"
He walked away and said leisurely, "There are some things that their descendants don't remember, but someone helps them remember. Huahu, let's go!"
Huahu waved to Su Yun, who smiled and waved, silently saying in his heart: "Some noble families occupy the best resources, have power and money, and they eat people, want profit, fame, and also want to take."
"Some people, bearing the stigma and misunderstanding of the world, still work tirelessly, without asking for anything in return, doing the dirtiest and most dangerous work, and taking the biggest blame. People are really different!"
He walked towards Chi Xiaoyao, Qingqiu Yue and the others, thinking, "One hundred and fifty years ago, the ancestor of the Lin family was an imperial envoy who came to provide disaster relief. However, the snowstorm was caused by the team leader, Senior Brother, summoning the spirits of the human demons when they summoned the dragon spirits."
His mind raced faster and faster, thinking, "The human demon Wutong fought with a real dragon and fell into the Fallen Dragon Valley. The team leader and a group of Tiandao scholars were ordered by Emperor Yuan to come to Gelong. Only the team leader survived and sealed the human demon and the dragon spirit in the Dragon Burial Mausoleum. The ancestor of the Lin family came to Shuofang for disaster relief and found that the fire dragon flew out from the ground, so he embezzled the relief money to build the Thunder Valley treasure land, trying to refine the treasure of the clan."
"Mr. Lingyue said that the aristocratic families of Shuofang, such as Zhou, Lu, Wen, Tian, Wu, and Tong, all originated one hundred and fifty years ago!"
"One hundred and fifty years ago, after our team leader sealed the human demon and the dragon spirit, he walked out of Tianshiyuan. His first stop should have been Shuofang!"
"There must be some connection here, a crucial connection! He must have some connection with the seven great families of Lin, Zhou, Lu, Wen, Tian, Wu, and Tong. It is even possible that he is the ancestor of one of these families!"
Su Yun's eyes suddenly became extremely bright, and he was overjoyed: "When Zuo Pushe asked, I told him that the case of robbing the ashes, the case of the human demon and the case of the thunder-struck valley were all the same case. Can this excuse fool people? Can it delay the case for a while longer?"
The more he thought about it, the happier he became. "If Zuo Pushe is still not satisfied and asks me to investigate other cases, I will tell him that the Snow Disaster Case, the Fallen Dragon Valley Case and the Buried Dragon Mausoleum Case are all the same case as the Human Demon Case, the Robbery Ashes Case and the Thunder Valley Case. In this way, we can definitely delay the case for half a year! Zuo Pushe will definitely have nothing to say!"
With a smile on his face, he came to Chi Xiaoyao, Qingqiuyue and others and asked, "Xiaofan, Buping, did you get the spiritual weapon?"
The three little fox demons were inexplicably excited and immediately showed off to him the spiritual weapons they had obtained.
Li Xiaofan got a dragon-horse ring pendant, which was in the shape of a dragon horse. However, when Su Yun looked at the dragon-horse ring pendant, he always felt that this dragon-horse was the dragon horse that kicked him so hard that he stuck to the wall.
The sword with a green rainbow dragon pattern that Hu Buping obtained was taller than him when he carried it on his back. If he walked a little faster, he would trip over it.
Qingqiu Yue got a bracelet with a Chilong tail in its mouth, which looked very exquisite when she wore it on her wrist.
Chi Xiaoyao did not try to capture the spiritual weapon. When Su Yun asked, Chi Xiaoyao shook his head and said, "My family has no shortage of Qinghong coins, and we have the money to refine spiritual weapons. The spiritual weapon that is made according to one's needs is the best spiritual weapon."
Su Yun's heart was suddenly filled with a feeling of poverty.
"Junior Brother Su, why didn't you get one or two spiritual weapons?" Chi Xiaoyao was also a little puzzled.
Su Yun tossed the small wooden box and said with a smile, "Because I have a better one."
The wooden box turned into countless dust particles that flowed through his fingertips and transformed into a small dragon, lying on his shoulder, vivid and lifelike.
Chi Xiaoyao was very envious, but also felt a little inferior, thinking: "Tianmen Town is really rich, my family and his family are not well matched, my family is too poor..."
It was getting dark, but the number of people near the Thunder Valley did not decrease at all. Instead, it showed an increasing trend. Many scholars lit lamps and searched for treasures everywhere, and more scholars came from farther places.
Su Yun, Chi Xiaoyao and others left the Thunder Valley and came to the Phoenix Seal. The old bird demon put the broken building aside and was teaching three young birds to read and write.
Seeing them coming, the old bird demon hurriedly stood up, revealed his true form, chased the three young birds into the broken building, carried the broken building on his back, and said, "Scholars, while I was waiting for you just now, I caught a spiritual weapon that I can leave to my children as a family heirloom."
"Congratulations!" Su Yun said with a smile.
The old bird was very happy and said, "It depends on which of the three of them can learn well, and I will pass it on to that one. By the way, why did the mountains around the Thunder Valley collapse?"
Chi Xiaoyao said: "Mr. Lingyue collapsed it."
"I see. No wonder it looks like it was chewed by a pig."
The old bird ran two steps, flapped its wings, and flew into the air, flying towards Shuofang City.
Su Yun looked down and saw that the Thunder Valley below looked like it had been dug up by a pig. The surrounding mountains and rivers were in tatters, and the ground was uneven and bumpy.
Not long after they left, rocks flew everywhere in the huge pit that had sunk into the Thunder Valley. Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and a woman broke out of the ground. It was Lin Suyi, the second in command of the Lin family!
Her clothes were in disarray, and she immediately activated her magical powers, using Taoism to transform herself into flowing water to cover her body.
"Lingyue! My Lin family will never let you go!" She vomited blood, covered her chest with her hands, and left.
Su Yun and Chi Xiaoyao returned to the Xinglin herbal medicine shop first. Doctor Dong examined Su Yun, changed the medicine for him, and drew another bottle of blood. Su Yun and Chi Xiaoyao took Qingqiu Yue and the others to the street to eat. The little ones ate until their bellies were full, and then they returned to Wenchang Academy.
When they arrived at the academy, it was already very late. They had not yet returned to Shanshuiju. Su Yun saw Taoist Xianyun and Monk Tu Ming standing under the Jiehui lamp on the side of the road, waving at them from afar.
"Mr. Su, the Left Prime Minister invites you!" Monk Tu Ming said with a smile.
Su Yun's heart skipped a beat: "You can't blame me for the collapse of the mountains in the Thunder Valley, right? Although it seems that I collapsed them, they were bound to collapse sooner or later..."
He asked Qingqiu Yue, Li Xiaofan and Hu Buping to go back to Shanshuiju first, and then he followed Xianyun and Tu Ming to Wenchang Palace.
When Su Yun arrived at Wenchang Temple, Zuo Songyan was burning incense to Emperor Wenchang, very respectfully.
The Wenchang Hall enshrines Emperor Wenchang, whom Su Yun had seen in the no-man's land. He was an old man holding a book.
Zuo Songyan took a step back, bowed to Emperor Wenchang, and said, "Xianyun, Tu Ming, you go guard outside the door and don't let anyone in."