Yan Chu gave up the job, and Yun Huiming and his friends didn't know much about the "curse", so they were helpless. In the end, they could only follow Yan Chu's instructions and check it out tomorrow. So Chu Lu and Yun Huiming turned back to the inn, and Yan Chu, who was known as "Mrs. Bai", took over the previous "being robbed in the street" scenario smoothly and naturally, and stayed in Xu's house.
Yun Huiming and others: “……?”
Of course, they did not realize that a certain inhuman senior was not only planning to eat and drink for free at Xu's house, but also was planning to take this opportunity to increase the training obstacles for his disciples. The young men thought that the other party was planning to investigate the situation at night and did not intend to involve them.
For a moment, he felt extremely guilty for his previous "misunderstanding". Not only did he give him many self-defense talismans, he also left his spiritual consciousness in the sound transmission jade, so that he could inform them at any time if he encountered any danger.
Director Yan accepted all of it with a smile on her face as "Mrs. Bai".
Chu Lu: "..."
He could hardly bear to look at these young boys and girls.
It was already dark. After leaving Xu's house, Chu Lu went straight back to the inn, while Yun Huiming and his party continued to search for the raccoon monster in the town.
——Since Mr. Xu’s death had nothing to do with the demon, they would naturally continue to look for other clues.
…
The moon was at its zenith, and Chu Lu was meditating in the guest room.
“Knock knock knock—”
There was a gentle knock on the window, and the person on the bed opened his eyes, but with a slightly surprised look on his face.
It wasn't a surprise that someone came over at this moment. He had expected this and didn't even need to identify the spiritual energy to know who it was. It's just...
Director Yan actually learned to knock on... the window?
After all, based on past practice, the other party would probably be more accustomed to climbing in through the window.
Chu Lu couldn't help but feel a mixed feeling of "the naughty kid has finally grown up."
Yan Chu was no longer dressed as "Mrs. Bai" during the day, but was wearing a black outfit. However, her face was still the same with soft edges and corners as during the day.
After Chu Lu let him in, he called him "Senior Brother" in a dry voice.
Then, the two brothers fell into a brief silence.
Noticing that Chu Lu's eyes slightly fell on his face, Yan Chu began to explain, "This is a kind of magic that I found in the Sutra Library a few years ago. It changes bones and paints skin... It is different from other magic techniques. After changing the face, it does not require spiritual power to maintain it. However, the caster cannot interrupt it and can only wait for the effect of the magic to fade away naturally..."
Chu Lu nodded slightly to show that he understood.
His junior fellow apprentice was indeed very interested in all sorts of unconventional techniques.
Then silence again.
But after all, there was something important to discuss, so there was no need to remain silent...
Chu Lu first put forward his own guess about the situation in this town -
The entire Jinning Town should be a huge breath-concealing formation, so the demonic aura entering the town is blocked. No matter whether it is the Cang Bi that escaped from the Demon Locking Tower that the two were chasing, or the raccoon monster that Yun Huiming and his party were chasing, they all lost their traceable aura as soon as they stepped into the range of Jinning Town.
Chu Lu first discovered that the road layout in this town was a bit strange on his way to Xu's house. When he returned to the inn, he took an easy route, which confirmed his previous guess.
In fact, it would be more certain if flying the sword from a high place, but Chu Lu doesn't have his sword at hand now, and ordinary levitation skills cannot support that kind of height. If he wants to fly into the clouds, he can only transform into a monster, and "Jiang Lu"'s body instinctively resists this option.
What Chu Lu could discover just by walking from the inn to Xu's house, Yan Chu, who had been wandering around the city before being stopped by Young Master Xu, naturally knew better.
He also found out some other information, for example, although Mr. Xu was lustful and greedy for money, he was not stingy at all when it came to building roads in the town, and most of the roads in the town were built with his money.
The reason was very obvious. Master Xu was still counting on the turtle he raised to make money, so he naturally didn't want this monster to be discovered by those who practiced cultivation, so he went to so much trouble to create this formation.
The reason was figured out, but there were many problems involved: let alone how a mortal like Mr. Xu knew about the Breath-Concealing Formation, if the formation could really be built so easily by just repairing the road, the disciples of Xun Sect would be so angry that they would die.
Moreover, this formation was surprisingly quite sophisticated. Yan Chu flew around the town on his sword but couldn't find the center of the formation.
In response, Yan Chu's eyes wandered slightly, "I have already sent a message to Yuan Ju, but..."
Chu Lu guessed what he hadn't finished saying - the message had been passed on, but it was not certain whether the other party would come or not.
Zhou Yuanju, the leader of Xunzong, was able to be the leader of Xunzong, which put formations first. Needless to say, his attainments in formations were truly top-notch in the world. Xunzong and Tianshang Mountain had always had a good relationship, and the leader of Tianshang Mountain still had the face to let the number one person in Xunzong leave the sect for this trip.
...The premise is that this person is not Yan Chu.
Chu Lu never had any unnecessary illusions about his junior fellow apprentice's popularity.
He even thought at one point that the reason why Yan Chu had been able to live safely for so long without being beaten to death was largely due to the protection of the world consciousness.
However, it turned out that Chu Lu had underestimated his junior brother's ability to be annoying.
Yan Chu: "...He may not be able to receive it."
Chu Lu:? ?
Few cultivators in this world have the habit of seclusion. If Zhou Yuanju was so engrossed in studying the formation that he didn't notice the sound transmission, it's possible. But judging from the tone of Yan Chu...
...He was marked as a person with a spiritual consciousness and was listed as someone who was banned from communication, right?
This is commonly known as being “blacklisted”.
Chu Lu: "..."
He still understood Zhou Yuanju's character. Official business is official business, and personal feelings are personal feelings. Jiang Lu and the other party were close friends back then, but it did not affect his decisive action after Jiang Lu turned into a dragon. Yan Chu was really amazing to be able to force Zhou Yuanju to this extent, ignoring official business and being blacklisted as the head of Tianshang Mountain.
Chu Lu hesitated whether to try to send a message himself. But after he came out of the Demon Locking Tower, he was chasing the demon outside, and he didn't have the sound transmission jade at hand. Moreover, according to reason, he should be locked in the Demon Locking Tower at this time... It was hard to say what Zhou Yuanju would think when he suddenly received a message from such an old friend.
Seeing Chu Lu's thoughts, Yan Chu put forward some other suggestions: "The curse I found in the Xu family is interesting. Let's go there first to take a look... maybe it has something to do with this matter?"
He paused for a moment, then added: "Yuan Ju is fine, he should come to see me soon."
Chu Lu: "..."
This "it's time to come find me" makes people's hearts skip a beat...
Chu Lu didn’t really want to know what Yan Chu had done to Zhou Yuanju that made him so sure that the other party would come to him... maybe he would even come to “beat him up”.
However, Director Yan’s suggestion of “looking for traces of the curse first” is worth a try.
People who practice cultivation can communicate with heaven and earth, and their premonitions are not ordinary premonitions. This is especially obvious for Yan Chu, who is favored by heaven. For example, when he was a teenager, he relied on such skills to accurately avoid the crisis of being put into a sack time and time again in Tianshang Mountain... Now he feels that the matter is related to the Xu family's curse, so it doesn't hurt to go and take a look.
This time, the two of them walked out of the door in a serious manner.
Although Yan Chu complained in his heart that "it would be faster to climb through the window", he still felt guilty at the moment, so he naturally followed the rules.
Almost at the moment the door was opened, the door of the next room creaked. The sound was not loud, but with Chu Lu and Yan Chu's cultivation level, it was impossible for them not to notice it.
Yan Chu curiously glanced at the crack of the door, while Chu Lu remained calm and continued to move forward. As a result, Yan Chu naturally fell behind.
The black fox lying on Yan Chu's shoulder stood up.
After the black fox climbed in through the window from Yanchu, it lay motionless in a pretend scarf, blending in with the black clothes without any sense of incongruity. Now it suddenly raised its head, which scared Yanchu.
Ignoring Director Yan's gesture of glancing at the figure of his senior brother in front of him and making gestures to him, the black fox squinted its eyes and glanced through the crack in the door, grinning and revealing its sharp fangs on both sides.
After a brief pause, the gap closed with a snap, and a loud noise came from inside.
Director Yan was so frightened that his heart almost stopped beating. Before Chu Lu in front of him turned around, he slapped the fox's head down and gave a nonchalant smile to his senior brother who turned around to look at him.
Chu Lu: "..."
There is no need to go there.
Chu Lu: "Follow."
Director Yan quickly nodded in agreement and took a few quick steps to catch up with Chu Lu.
At the same time, he sent a message to Black Fox, "What happened to you just now?! Don't act recklessly just because you have the Breath-Suppressing Formation here! I almost got seen by my senior brother!"
[…If you really hurt someone, I can’t save you.]
And that just now... was a deliberate threat, right?
The black fox sneered, "That's a demon."
Although the Breath-Suppressing Array can indeed hide demonic aura, there is always some sense of connection between demons.
The fox's voice was filled with undisguised sarcasm, "To live next door to a demon, huh."
Is it actually a demon? Yan Chu was silent for a moment.
He thought for a moment, raised his hand and stroked the fur on the fox's head, and comforted it: [Don't be jealous. Think about it...it can only live next door, but I'm bringing you into the house.]
Black Fox:?!
It bared its teeth angrily, [What did you say?!]
Yan Chu's tone was full of pretentious tolerance, [I know you are angry because you were told what you were thinking, but it's not good to be angry all the time... It's easy to lose hair...]
Black Fox:!!!
#So angry I can't speak.jpg#
The brief telepathic communication between the man and the fox ended with five crossed claw marks on Yan Chu's arm, plus a row of neatly arranged tooth marks on his index finger.
But they were just red bumps, and the skin wasn't even broken.
Apparently someone had anticipated the consequences of his words and had even prepared some spells to strengthen his physical defense.
…
…………
The noise at the door just now was quite loud for cultivators, but it was just a small noise for mortals without cultivation. Yun Huiming and his group were still outside looking for the trace of the raccoon monster and had not returned yet, so the mortals in the inn naturally had no way of noticing it.
The waiter who was keeping watch downstairs was a little dazed due to his doze. He vaguely saw two people coming down the stairs. Before they fully opened their eyes, they knelt on the ground and kowtowed several times, muttering something. Although the words were incoherent, one could make out that they were words praying to gods.
Chu Lu: "..."
“…………”
Yan Chu: “?”
"puff--"
After they walked out of the inn, Yan Chuchu finally understood what had happened. He couldn't help but take a step forward, bumped into Chu Lu's shoulder, and said jokingly: "Next time you come across a dilapidated temple, brother, you stand on the statue platform, and I'll collect the incense money below... We'll split the money 50-50 between the two of us."
Chu Lu: "..."
“…Nonsense!”
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