Lu Fuyue nodded, then thought for a moment, "How about calling him Jianxun?"
The seeker is a person of great achievement; the sword implies sharpness!
The boy murmured, "Jian Xun?" Then he excitedly hugged the big yellow dog beside him, "Big Yellow, did you hear that? I have a name now, my name is Jian Xun, I have a name now..."
The big yellow dog barked and rubbed its head against the boy's calf and trouser leg, seemingly responding to the boy's joy.
...
Jianxun and Dahuang would go out at sunrise every day and return in the evening, while Lu Fuyue would stay alone in the small earthen house.
Because of her dual cultivation of spirit and body, Lu Fuyue only suffered some superficial injuries from falling from above and was otherwise fine. She would recover in a few days.
However, the day after she woke up, Lu Fuyue suddenly discovered that she was unable to enter the space in this place.
Lu Fuyue's eyes darkened slightly. She closed her eyes again and circulated her cultivation technique, trying to enter the space. However, the space seemed to be disconnected, and she could not detect its existence at all.
What exactly happened? Could it be because of the place itself...?
Outside, the wind howled louder, and fine sand, carried by the wind, fell in through the broken windows, gradually filling the room with dust.
Fortunately, she wasn't particularly reliant on the space, and she didn't put everything into it.
Lu Fuyue simply continued to meditate and cultivate in bed, planning to go out and investigate after her body had fully recovered.
Just then, the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and a burly man wearing several animal skins and tanned dark all over strode in, shouting impatiently, "You little bastard, you little bastard, hurry up and help me boil water and cook!"
However, Li Dazhuang suddenly saw Lu Fuyue meditating on the bed. He grinned and looked Lu Fuyue up and down with a malicious look in his eyes. "Oh, so that little bastard hasn't been going out much these past few days because he's hiding a woman in this house."
For some reason, Lu Fuyue's spiritual sense was severely restricted in this place, making it difficult for her to detect anyone approaching. At first, she thought it was Jian Xun who had returned.
Hearing the voice of the newcomer, she opened her eyes, glanced at the burly man before her, and knew that Jian Xun was just an ordinary person without cultivation, but this man's eyes...
Lu Fuyue's expression suddenly turned cold. She raised her hand and unleashed a burst of spiritual energy, slapping the burly man's right cheek hard. Li Dazhuang's face immediately swelled up, and he was momentarily stunned, his finger trembling as he pointed at Lu Fuyue, "You..."
Before he could finish speaking, a large, foul-smelling, yellow tooth mixed with blood fell from his mouth. Li Dazhuang instinctively reached up to touch it, and instantly, warm, sticky blood appeared before his eyes. Li Dazhuang's eyes widened, and he stammered, "Blood...blood...it's actually blood..."
As he was speaking, his massive body, as large as a mountain, collapsed to the ground with a thud, and he lost consciousness completely.
A hint of surprise flashed in Lu Fuyue's eyes. This person faints at the sight of blood?
Just then, a worried voice came from outside the door, "Sister Lu, are you alright?" Big Yellow Dog ran back before Ah Xun, and when it smelled Li Dazhuang's scent, it immediately lowered its head and barked fiercely and loudly into his ear.
"Woof woof woof—"
Jian Xun pushed open the door and ran in. He looked Lu Fuyue up and down, and finally breathed a sigh of relief after finding that she was alright. "It's good that you're alright, it's good that you're alright."
But when he saw Li Dazhuang lying half-dead on the ground, his mouth full of blood, and his body stained with some bright red blood, his expression changed drastically.
"Sister Lu, you...you didn't kill him, did you? Li Dazhuang is our village chief's only son. If anything happens to him, the village chief and the villagers will not let you off the hook."
Lu Fuyue glanced indifferently at the person on the ground, "Don't worry, the person isn't dead."
After saying that, she went back to bed to meditate and cultivate. Although there was no spiritual energy here, it was better than nothing. She would not waste a single second whenever she could cultivate.
As for this place...
Jian Xun sighed, squatted down, took out a tattered cloth, and wiped the blood off Li Dazhuang's body before dragging him out. Only after everything was settled did he return.
“Sister Lu, you probably don’t know the situation here. Although all sorts of people fall down that rock wall, most of the extremely dangerous ones fall directly into another place. Only a very few exceptions, like you, end up on the edge of our village.”
“But that place is the truly terrifying place. No one in our village has ever dared to go there. Once you get close to the edge, you will be pulled down by a strange and terrifying force.”
"So, you absolutely must not go to that place."
"Also, the village chief keeps a ledger for everyone who comes to our village. In it, there are the names and birth dates of those who have fallen into our village. I heard that with that ledger, the village chief can control the people listed in it at any time."
"And you... should be among them."
Lu Fuyue suddenly opened her eyes. "Are you telling the truth?"
No wonder many things stopped working after she arrived here, including her spiritual sense and the space around her.
...
The next day,
Lu Fuyue transformed into an ordinary-looking man and went outside, intending to look around and investigate the place where she had fallen to see if there were any other exits.
As soon as I stepped out of the room, yellow sand and dust filled the air, and a strong wind blew up gusts of sand. Looking around, there was not a single sign of human habitation.
But shouldn't there be a village outside? Why didn't she see a single person?
Lu Fuyue instantly became alert. And what about that burly man from yesterday? Where did he come from? Could it be a figment of her imagination? But everything seemed so real.
Yesterday's events flashed through my mind, and some strange things I hadn't noticed before suddenly appeared.
The first thing the burly man said when he came in was to tell Jian Xun to hurry up and cook. His tone was... very strange.
Why would a village chief's son go to someone else's house and ask them to cook for him?
Furthermore, Da Huang's attitude towards the burly man at the time seemed more like an attempt to wake him up than a desire to drive him away.
And the things Jian Xun said to her later, on the surface, seemed to be for her own good, but in reality, they were more like protecting the strong man and diverting her attention.
...
Lu Fuyue suppressed her doubts and continued walking forward. However, after walking for a long time, she saw nothing but endless yellow sand. The strangest thing was that even though she had been walking for several days, it was still bright outside, as if there was no night in this place.
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