Dawan Village 1

Qin Yan took out another piece of silver but didn't give it to him. The waiter's eyes lit up when he saw it. Qin Yan tempted him, "If you don't tell me, give the silver back to me. Otherwise, this is also yours."

"Tell me, tell me," the waiter replied hurriedly, then pulled Qin Yan outside and whispered, "I heard that a monster appeared in a village in Tianen Mountain. If you want that monster, you must bring enough money."

Just as Qin Yan was about to ask in detail, he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure. Qin Yan walked over quickly, and the waiter quickly followed him, "Sir, where is the silver?"

Qin Yan threw it backhand and the waiter caught it happily.

"Master" Gu Qingqu's eyes lit up when he saw Qin Yan, "I finally found you, I thought you left me behind"

Qin Yan looked at him, who was still holding the candied haws in his hands, and said, "I'm not calling you."

"Master, this is yours. I've tasted it. It's delicious. Try it." Gu Qingqu happily handed a string of candied haws to Qin Yan. Qin Yan glanced at it and continued, "Didn't I tell you to wait where you are? Why are you running around?"

Gu Qingqu lowered his head and spoke in a weaker voice, "I just wanted to help you."

When passers-by saw this, they all spoke up for Gu Qingqu, saying, "Young man, he's so handsome, what could he have done wrong?"

"That's right, don't yell at him, yell at me instead."

"Look how scared the young master is, his eyes are red"

"My heart is also in a knot. Oh, I can't do it. My heart is in pain."

As she spoke, the old lady fell to the ground. Qin Yan was stunned. Gu Qingqu stuffed the candied haws into his mouth and went to help her. Qin Yan was speechless. What a mess! He pulled Gu Qingqu and left.

Gu Qingqu followed him, took out the candied haws in her mouth, and said anxiously: "Auntie, I'm fine, get up quickly, the ground is cold."

Qin Yan was about to explode after hearing this. He turned around to curse, but he saw that there were still some crystal sugar threads on the corners of Gu Qingqu's mouth. His lips were sparkling in the sunlight, and his eyes were slightly red. Somehow, Qin Yan swallowed back the words that were on the tip of his tongue and just pulled Gu Qingqu to walk faster.

After leaving the city, Qin Yan finally relaxed his pent-up anger. He took a deep breath and turned around to start cursing, but when he turned around, a string of red candied haws appeared in front of him. Gu Qingqu's eyes were brighter than the reflective icing, "Master, try it."

Although Gu Qingqu's hand was hanging, he could hold things but it was inconvenient. In order to prevent his injury from getting worse, Qin Yan reached out his hand and said, "Can't you see that she is pretending? You still go to help her. You still have a good hand, right?"

Gu Qingqu nodded and said: "I didn't see it, Master, you saw it but didn't tell me"

Qin Yan was angry and surprised, "You blame me?"

Gu Qingqu shook her head slightly and argued softly: "I didn't, I really didn't notice it. She looks quite old, and I was afraid that something might happen to her."

Qin Yan corrected him: "She is at most 40 years old, which is not even a child in our place."

Gu Qingqu raised his eyes, blinked, and asked, "What is that?"

Qin Yan said with full energy: "Baby"

"Puff" Gu Qingqu laughed suddenly, which made Qin Yan's face even darker. "What are you laughing at?"

Gu Qingqu's eyes were filled with a beautiful smile, and her voice was clear, "Master, you are so cute. No matter where you are, I can't be a baby."

"I..." Qin Yan choked. It was the first time that he couldn't continue scolding someone. He remembered another common saying in the world: Don't hit a smiling person. This must be the power of the proverb.

"Are you still going to Tian'en Mountain?"

Gu Qingqu trotted away, his eyes curved, "Of course I have to go, Master, you are so kind"

His voice spread in the air, making the air jump with joy. Qin Yan followed behind him and inexplicably curled the corners of his mouth as well.

After half an hour's journey, the carriage arrived at the royal forbidden garden. The mountain road was difficult to navigate, so the carriage couldn't go up. Gu Qingqu and Qin Yan got off the carriage, and the driver turned the carriage around and left. Qin Yan asked, "Isn't he going with us?"

Gu Qingqu said: "He is watching the car. If the car is stolen in this remote place, how can we get back?"

Qin Yan admitted that what he said made sense, but, "Do you mean that it's just the two of us going?"

Gu Qingqu looked at him, somewhat puzzled, as if he didn't understand how he could ask such a question, "Is it not possible, Master?"

"Do you think it's okay?" Qin Yan was choked again. He decided to choke back, but it was obvious that Gu Qingqu didn't accept it at all. He smiled and replied, "Of course it's okay. I believe in the master."

Qin Yan kept silent with a gloomy face. Gu Qingqu grabbed his arm and said the same universal words, "Master, now that you are here..."

Qin Yan looked at him with a dim gaze, and finally they went into the mountains together. It was different from the deep mountains and old forests that Qin Yan had thought. Although the mountains here were also deep, there were obvious traces of people. Along the way, there were few fallen leaves in the forest, and the ground was easy to walk on, but there were too many trees between them, so a carriage could not pass.

Qin Yan asked: "Is there anyone living here?"

Gu Qingqu replied: "It seems so, but I don't have any information on this."

Only humans need so many fallen leaves to make a fire. This is also common sense.

After walking for a while, I saw a boundary marker with two rows of characters on it. However, due to the passage of time, the left row has been washed away and is not very clear, but I can still make out the word "fox". The right row is clear and says "Do not disturb the forbidden area".

Qin Yan asked Gu Qingqu, "Fox?"

Gu Qingqu nodded and said, "Let's go in and take a look."

Gu Qingqu walked in, but Qin Yan was stopped outside. He closed his eyes and looked carefully, and saw a very faint golden light coming from the boundary marker, forming a barrier. However, the power of this barrier was unfamiliar to him. It was neither the power of the demon world, nor the power of the heaven, nor the power of other realms. What was this?

Seeing that Qin Yan didn't move, Gu Qingqu reached out and pulled him, "Master"

This time, Qin Yan successfully entered the barrier. At that moment, Qin Yan sensed that it was Gu Qingqu's power, but Gu Qingqu himself was unaware of it at all, and he couldn't even control this power.

Qin Yan asked: "Where did this boundary marker come from?"

Gu Qingqu replied: "According to the notes of our ancestors, this boundary monument was transported from Mount Tai, and the inscription was carved by our ancestors themselves. When the boundary monument was completed, our ancestors swore an oath of blood here."

That's right, Qin Yan suddenly realized. No wonder the demon general revealed his true nature as soon as he approached Gu Qingqu. It turned out that he had a mysterious power. His ancestors also had it. Could it be that it was unique to emperors on earth?

"Master, what's wrong with you?"

Qin Yan came back to his senses and met Gu Qingqu's worried eyes. He subconsciously said, "It's okay." After that, he looked at Gu Qingqu, "Do you feel that there is a strong power in you?"

Gu Qingqu nodded. Qin Yan was shocked. Before he could ask Gu Qingqu, he continued, "I feel like I can eat a cow's head right now."

"Gone?" Qin Yan couldn't believe it.

Gu Qingqu didn't understand what he was surprised about, "I'm really hungry"

Qin Yan was speechless. He shouldn't have asked. If Gu Qingqu really had some power, he wouldn't have been almost killed by the little bamboo spirit.

"What do you want to eat?"

Gu Qingqu asked happily: "What do you have?"

“What you want to eat is not available anyway”

Gu Qingqu stopped laughing and sighed, "I don't want to eat roast duck, rice, fried buns, or shredded potatoes and pork."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Yan took out a roast duck from the Chaos Stone Ring. Gu Qingqu's eyes lit up, his mouth corners raised but he was still sighing, "Master, I don't want to eat roast duck," he said as he reached out to take it.

Qin Yan tore off a duck leg and handed it to him, ruthlessly exposing him, "You know I bought roast duck, and you still said you didn't see me?"

Qin Yan took out two chairs and a small table from the Chaos Stone Ring so that they could sit down and eat. Eating just roast duck would be too greasy, so Qin Yan took out some fashionable fruits and pancakes to go with it.

Gu Qingqu's eyes narrowed into a line with joy. He explained: "When I passed by the roast duck restaurant, I heard the boss chatting with someone. He said that he met a super powerful illusion master who could change things. I knew it was you as soon as I heard it."

Sitting in the open air, watching the setting sun, standing in the deep mountains and forests, and eating steaming hot food, this feeling was very novel and fun, and both of them were in high spirits. During the chat, they talked about the bamboo forest. Gu Qingqu asked curiously, "Master, how did you find me among so many bamboos?"

Qin Yan laughed out loud when he recalled the scene at that time, which made Gu Qingqu even more curious, "Master, what are you laughing at?"

Qin Yan smiled for a while before replying, "It's very simple. There is only one bamboo in the entire bamboo forest with two lines of black tears hanging on it."

If Qin Yan really tried hard to find it, he really couldn't find it.

Gu Qingqu was stunned but not surprised. After the "Master of Wisdom" praised Qin Yan, he immediately asked, "I must have been very ugly back then, right?"

Qin Yan nodded without hesitation, "Yes, his face was covered in black and gray, like a beggar." Qin Yan laughed again, and Gu Qingqu laughed with him, "But it's a blessing in disguise, it's not a loss to save my life."

Qin Yan nodded in agreement, "That's right"

After eating and drinking, people were sleepy. They were very tired after sitting in the car for a long time. Besides, it was almost dark, so Qin Yan didn't plan to walk anymore. He took out some firewood from the Chaos Stone Ring and built a fire on the open ground. It was worth spending money on it. It was completely different from the crabapple branches he burned in the bamboo forest before.

The fire quickly got big. Qin Yan took out a bed, cotton wool, and a mosquito net from the Chaos Stone Ring and built a very comfortable bed in the wild. When he lay down to sleep, he turned around and saw Gu Qingqu standing beside the bed, staring at him with admiring eyes. Qin Yan was secretly annoyed. Damn it, he only prepared one bed.

Qin Yan just imagined sleeping with Gu Qingqu, and he felt that every bone in his body was resisting, so he said: "You must not be sleepy after sleeping for three days."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Qingqu yawned very exaggeratedly and shook his head and said, "Master, it's hard to sleep well in the car. I can even fall asleep while standing now."

These words really touched Qin Yan's heart, "Then sleep standing up."