After hearing Hua Shi's words, Zhou Li was speechless for a long time. Only now did he realize that he was indeed too naive.
There is no way the young master of the Hua family would care about this trivial matter.
However, before they could return to the room, the dispute quickly calmed down.
Because someone was walking towards us from the corridor.
"I was away for just a moment, and you guys are already causing trouble?"
The one who spoke was a bearded man holding a wine pot. He was wearing a coarse grey robe. Because he was too tall, the robe didn't fit him well. The narrow sleeves tightly hugged his arms, outlining the obvious outline of his muscles. Perhaps because of being drunk, the man's cheeks were flushed. He staggered over, without looking at the others next to him, and without asking what happened just now, he directly raised his hand and waved at the heads of several Fengyu Hall disciples.
With a few crisp sounds, every disciple of Fengyu Palace received a slap on the head.
Without any hesitation, the bearded man taught his disciples a lesson and pushed them in front of the spiritual disciples. He said impatiently, "Apologize."
Several Fengyu Hall disciples' faces turned pale or green, and they looked extremely ugly. One of the disciples couldn't help but raise his head and said to the man, "They were the ones who started it first..."
"Shut up." The man pressed the disciple's head down and said coldly, "Apologize."
The disciple didn't say anything after all. He resigned himself to his fate and bowed to the other spiritual disciples.
Now it was the Lingdao disciples who didn't know what to say. Hua Shi could see clearly from the side that the group of Lingdao disciples had come here deliberately to cause trouble, and now the other party had apologized first. They claimed to be a righteous sect, so naturally they couldn't continue to cause trouble.
Finally, the Lingdao disciples scolded several Fengyu Hall disciples with cold faces, glanced at the bearded man, and turned back to their seats.
However, after such a farce, the faces of the disciples of Fengyu Hall were not very good. They left the hall with gloomy faces without eating much and returned to their rooms. After drinking a few glasses of wine alone, the bearded man soon passed out on the table and had to be helped upstairs by the waiter of the restaurant.
Hua Shi and Zhou Li witnessed the whole process from the side. Hua Shi's eyes were full of curiosity, but Zhou Li deliberately avoided his gaze and just stared at the teacup on the table without much concentration. It was obvious that his mind was on the people at the table in Fengyu Palace.
After everyone in Fengyu Palace returned to their rooms, Zhou Li looked back at the corridor with a complicated expression.
Everyone else in the hall seemed to be paying attention to the group of people from Fengyu Hall. When they all left, the teenagers from other sects sitting in the hall began to discuss in a low voice: "These guys still like to put on a sour face. They still think they are some powerful people. They are just rats crossing the street."
"Did you see that drunkard just now? I heard that guy is over a thousand years old. He is now the deputy hall master of Fengyu Hall. In the past, he followed the evil master Fang Wei and was Fang Wei's most useful dog."
"That guy? He was so timid? And he followed Fang Wei?"
"Who do you think he is? At best, he is just a dog that bites people. His master is gone, so naturally he can't be so rampant anymore. Now he is just a drunkard."
"Haha, I heard that he used to pull a cart for the owner of Leihuoshan Villa and knelt before the people of Hanxi Sect. Fengyu Palace is now made of paper. Don't be fooled by the fierce eyes of those guys just now, they are all pretending. Fengyu Palace can't even support itself now. There are only about ten people in the whole sect. That old drunkard runs errands for others everywhere to make money and bows his head. He doesn't even care about his dignity."
"If Fang Wei knew the current state of Fengyu Palace, he would be so angry that he would flip open his coffin."
"That's right, hahaha."
The hall was full of discussions about Fengyu Palace, and many people couldn't help but laugh while talking. Hua Shi listened to the words carefully. Even though he no longer had any good feelings towards the devil after knowing that the devil was related to Liu Qishuang's death, Hua Shi still heard a lot about what happened in Fengyu Palace in the past. Now seeing the Fengyu Palace, which used to be so powerful, reduced to this state, he still couldn't help but sigh.
Hua Shi poked Zhou Li beside him, using him as some kind of encyclopedia: "Who is that drunkard? The group of people just now said that he was someone who was with Fang Wei back then?"
When Zhou Li heard him asking about this, he looked around to make sure no one was paying attention to this place, and then he whispered, "Yes, this man is called Lu Yao, and he is the current deputy hall master of Fengyu Hall. However, although he is called the deputy hall master, he is actually almost the same as the hall master, because since the death of the devil Fang Wei, Fengyu Hall has never had a hall master again."
Hua Shi said "Oh" nonchalantly and didn't respond to Zhou Li, but in his heart he said to the system quietly: "So that was Lu Yao just now? The Lu Yao who was said to have been seriously injured and chased by dozens of masters a thousand years ago, and later killed three of them? The Lu Yao who made no one in the entire Destroying Star Tower dare to go out for three days with his own strength?"
Hua Shi asked this, but didn't hear any response from the system, so he couldn't help but ask twice more.
It was only then that Fang Wei finally came back to her senses from her memories and replied in shock, "Yeah."
He didn't expect that when he returned to the mortal world a thousand years later, the first familiar person he saw would be Lu Yao, and this kind of Lu Yao.
What kind of person is Lu Yao?
In Fang Wei's memory, this man should be the most unrestrained person in the entire Fengyu Palace. He picked up Lu Yao from the wilderness. At that time, Lu Yao was still a little boy in his teens, with wounds all over his body and was very thin. Fang Wei ordered people to check his wounds and threw him into the warm pool of Fengyu Palace to soak for three days before he was finally rescued.
However, the person who was rescued did not know how to be grateful at all, and could not even communicate with others. When he just woke up, he first scratched the Fengyu Palace disciple who was guarding and taking care of him, and then smashed the precious porcelain in the room. He bit and scratched people many times. For three whole days, he made the entire Fengyu Palace a mess. In the end, Fang Wei came back to comfort him, and he gradually calmed down.
Fang Wei could no longer remember how he comforted Lu Yao at that time. Anyway, from then on, he gave Lu Yao a name, and Lu Yao followed him and started to help him with things.
But even so, Lu Yao is still a difficult guy to tame. For a long time, he only listened to Fang Wei's orders and refused to communicate with anyone else. Even if he followed Fang Wei's orders, he would only choose the simplest and most brutal way to complete the task. In the eyes of many people, he is simply a beast who doesn't know any rules of conduct. He only does things based on his animal instincts, isolating himself in a closed world outside the crowd, and only allowing Fang Wei to step into it.
At that time, Lu Yao had no idea what compromise meant, and he would not follow any rules. He was reckless, impulsive, and unreasonable, and no one could restrain him.
But no one could have imagined that Lu Yao back then would become the timid person he is now.
If it weren't for some subtle movements and expressions that confirmed that this person was indeed Lu Yao, Fang Wei wouldn't even be sure that he was really the young man who followed her back then.
Fang Wei was so surprised and confused that she couldn't respond immediately when she heard Hua Shi's question. After Hua Shi called out to her several times, Fang Wei finally regained her composure and said calmly, "It's him."
After saying this, Fang Wei no longer knew what Hua Shi responded to. She only knew that the other party's tone was very surprised, and even a little bit of disbelief.
Not to mention Hua Shi, who had only heard the story of Fang Wei and Lu Yao in the past, even Fang Wei himself found it hard to believe that the Lu Yao in front of him was the Lu Yao of the past. Although there were many exaggerations in the stories about Fengyu Palace, most of the evaluations of Lu Yao were correct. It was precisely because of this that the group of people in the lobby had such a reaction when they mentioned Lu Yao.
A guy who was once lawless has now become so timid. In their eyes, he is naturally pitiful and ridiculous.
Fang Wei fell silent again, and Hua Shi, after the initial surprise, slowly stopped talking. He and Zhou Li finished their meals and soon returned to their respective rooms. The affairs of Fengyu Palace did not leave much of an impact on him, after all, he did not have the habit of meddling in other people's affairs.
After eating and drinking and going out for a walk for a while, Hua Shi gradually felt sleepy. He tidied himself up, lay down on the bed, and soon fell into a dream.
It was not until Hua Shi fell asleep that a ray of golden light slowly floated out from his body. It circled around Hua Shi half a circle, then flexibly floated out of the window, dragging the light to other rooms in the restaurant.
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At the same time, in the innermost room of the restaurant, several young men from Fengyu Palace were sitting together and discussing something in a low voice. Their faces were solemn and filled with deep anger, as if they were talking about the most crucial point.
At this moment, the door of the room was suddenly pushed open, and someone walked slowly into the room, leaning against the door with a wine gourd in his hand.
The boys looked grimly, raised their heads to look at the man at the door, and instantly fell silent.
The man holding the wine gourd was Lu Yao. He leaned against the door with his eyelids drooping, as if he could fall asleep at any time. Seeing several teenagers looking at him, he smiled without any emotion, poured a sip of wine into his mouth and said, "Why? Don't blame me for not telling you. If you run to those guys to cause trouble now, then you will never be able to participate in the Spirit Transformation Conference again in your life, and you will never be able to enter the Spirit Realm and form a contract with spiritual creatures."
Several teenagers were obviously very unhappy, but they were probably used to what Lu Yao said. One of them said, "But Master, we didn't do anything wrong. It's clearly those guys who are looking for reasons to bully us. Why should we endure it..."
"With our Fengyu Palace, we have nothing now." Lu Yao had a blank expression on his face. His dark pupils stared at the young men and he coldly interrupted them and said, "If you don't want Fengyu Palace to disappear completely, you better bear it."
These words made everyone silent, except for the young man who looked the oldest among them who frowned tightly. After hesitating for a long time, he couldn't help but lower his voice and said, "But what you are guarding is not the Fengyu Palace at all, it's just an empty shell!"
As soon as the words fell, the room fell silent.
The young man who spoke felt everyone's gazes on him, his eyes dimmed slightly and he seemed a little regretful, but in the next moment he raised his face again and met Lu Yao's gaze.
Lu Yao's eyes were cold, and he had put down the wine gourd in his hand at some point. He squeezed the gourd with a little force, and his fingertips had turned slightly white.
Everyone watched him walk towards the young man. His footsteps were light, but the sound of his soles touching the ground was particularly clear in the silence.
Just before Lu Yao approached, the other teenagers rushed over one after another. Several of them blocked Lu Yao's way. Several of them tried to wink at the teenager who was speaking. The teenager was silent for a moment, stiffened his neck and stared at Lu Yao for a long time. In the end, he did not continue to speak. He just lowered his eyes for a while and said softly: "I said too much. Please punish me, Master."
Lu Yao still stared at the young man and did not speak immediately.
Everyone then continued to plead for mercy, because the noise was too noisy and sounded like chattering.
Lu Yao's jaw was tense, and he listened to everyone's voices. After a long while, he lowered his eyelids again and returned to his usual listless look: "So what if that's the case."
He turned his back and left the room again, only saying lightly before leaving: "Even if it is just an empty shell, as long as this shell is still there, it is enough."
After saying this, he pushed open another door and returned to his room.
After closing the door, Lu Yao raised the wine gourd and took a big gulp of the wine. Then he threw the gourd away and walked to the bed, preparing to lie down with his clothes on.
When he turned around, his eyes swept across the tables and chairs in the room, and his gaze suddenly froze.
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