As soon as he stepped into Tu Feng Cave, he felt his feet were moving faster.
Betrayal by one's subordinates is a very embarrassing thing, but unfortunately Tu Feng has already discovered Zhen Ru's arrival.
"Get out of here, all of you! Don't ever say you ever followed me, Tu Feng."
The embarrassment in Tu Feng's eyes flashed by, and unwilling to get entangled with those people any longer, he casually tossed some spirit stones to them and then told them to leave.
Some people were initially dissatisfied with Tu Feng's attitude, but they were intimidated by Zhen Ru's intimidating presence and could only slink away, fearing that if they were too slow, Zhen Ru would stand up for Tu Feng.
"Fellow Daoist Zhenru, I am truly sorry to have shown you such a disheveled scene."
After the person left, Tu Feng's face showed embarrassment.
Zhenru didn't care. She waved her hand and pressed Tu Feng, who was about to get up and bow, back down. She didn't ask him about his choice, but only checked his physical condition.
"Hmm, the medicine is quite effective. Your other injuries have almost healed, except for your dantian and your old injuries. If you have the energy, tell me what you know about the Qiu family."
Tu Feng breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that if pressed on for his choice, he really hadn't made up his mind in a short time.
Especially after those who betrayed him came.
He couldn't even imagine how those ungrateful wretches would humiliate him if he were to shatter his core and start over.
Upon hearing Zhenru inquire about the Qiu family's situation, Tu Feng adopted a serious demeanor, stating:
"As you have predicted, the Qiu family is indeed extraordinary."
"The Qiu family are the lackeys of that Tai Xuan Sect patriarch from last time, and they've done all sorts of things that are intolerable to Heaven!"
If you hear Tu Feng say that Heaven's will is against it, you know that he must have found out some useful information.
Meeting Zhenru's encouraging gaze, Tu Feng thought for a moment and then directly transmitted his voice to Zhenru.
It turns out that the Qiu family, on the surface, is just a small family in Red Moon City, but in reality, they have been secretly gathering all kinds of talents and treasures.
Talented individuals are generally those with strong fortune, but not so strong that they are recognized by the entire Sun Realm, such as Liu Yunzhao and Liu Yunqing.
At the same time, the items collected were all geared towards enhancing one's luck.
"It's difficult to pinpoint the specifics, and they're likely doing the same thing in more than one place, and with more than just these people."
Zhenru nodded in agreement. Based on Tu Feng's description, she had basically figured it out even if he hadn't said it.
Because the things Tu Feng described were similar to the evil cultivators that had been exposed before, but the Sun Realm was so vast that there were obviously even deeper hidden ones.
If that's the case, then the Qiu family, or families like the Qiu family, are serving Qi Yunguang, and people like Qi Yunguang are ultimately serving the remnant soul within Liu Yunzhao's body, or the owner of that remnant soul. In reality, the target of those evil cultivators' service is the so-called "daughter of destiny" who is supposed to "save" the Sun Realm.
A thought suddenly popped into Zhenru's mind: this woman of destiny might not be the woman of destiny of the Sun Realm, but rather the woman who stole the destiny of the Sun Realm's Heavenly Dao.
Thinking about it this way, Zhenru felt that everything made sense. Ever since Liu Yunzhao drained her heart's blood in her previous life, she had become a stolen part of herself.
The fact that Zhenru was able to reverse her stolen fate in this life is almost entirely thanks to Venerable Xian'en and Wuchen from her previous life.
So, who exactly is Venerable Xian'en or the person behind Venerable Xian'en, what role do they play, and why haven't they personally taken action in either of their two lifetimes?
Zhenru's thoughts had drifted far away, but after a while, Tu Feng's words, "A major event happened in the Qiu family before," pulled her back to reality.
"What important matter?"
Tu Feng shook his head apologetically and explained:
"It must be a very big deal. The Nascent Soul cultivator of the Qiu family is furious. I don't know if something has gone wrong or if something has been lost... I'm afraid it's something their own family members did."
Zhenru's face flashed with surprise, but she didn't seem to care much and joked:
"Oh, so there's a traitor in the Qiu family? Could it be that a bad bamboo shoot has sprouted a good one?"
After laughing, Zhenru stopped thinking about it and decided to investigate Tu Feng's matter herself after it was over.
Unexpectedly, before she could even investigate, the "mole" in the Qiu family came knocking on her door.
Of course, this didn't happen immediately; it was a message received after Zhenru had treated Tu Feng and settled him in.
As expected, Tu Feng's final choice was to shatter his core and start over. He was a resilient person who was not afraid of hardship, but he was afraid of wasting time and achieving nothing.
Especially when Zhenru took the initiative to suggest that Red Moon City was not safe for Tu Feng after his core shattered, and that she could arrange for him to go to Falling Sunset City, Tu Feng chose to shatter his core without hesitation, and he didn't stand on ceremony with her.
Only after boarding the flying boat that would take them directly to Luoxia City did Tan Wu quietly ask Tu Feng:
"Boss, didn't you say that Senior Zhenru didn't owe you anything? How can you accept it so calmly?"
Tu Feng, who was also diligently cultivating on the flying boat, didn't even raise an eyelid when he heard Tan Wu's words, and said calmly:
“Fellow Daoist Zhenru doesn’t owe me anything, but I do owe her. I’ll repay her properly in the future.”
Tan Wu paused for a moment, looked at Tu Feng's calm yet firm expression, and immediately understood. He then pursed his lips and remained silent.
...
After seeing the two off, Zhenru, unaware that during this part of the journey on the flying boat, communicated with Luoxia City and then turned around and headed in another direction outside Hongyue City.
The Red Moon Day was just a few days away, and people flocked to Red Moon City. When they saw Zhenru going in the opposite direction, they couldn't help but take a second look out of curiosity.
However, for some reason, everyone who saw the true form felt that the female cultivator was surrounded by a hazy halo, and her appearance could not be clearly seen.
"What's so strange about that? Some senior and powerful figures pretend to be juniors and deliberately conceal their appearance. It's perfectly normal."
"Indeed, indeed."
As Zhenru walked further and further, fewer and fewer people appeared, until she encountered no one else in the vast desert, at which point her divine sense spread far and wide.
Where are you?
“Travel three hundred li to the east, find the only stone pillar, and tap it three times.”
The voice transmitted by divine sense is not the voice of one's own physical body, so it is difficult to tell who it is. Asking more questions is useless, so it is better to just do as instructed.
Three hundred li is but a short distance, barely the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, in the present state of Zhenru.
Upon arriving at the location, they saw a solitary stone pillar standing amidst an endless expanse of yellow sand.
As instructed, Zhenru stepped forward and tapped the stone pillar three times. The pillar collapsed with a crash, and in the next instant, a gust of wind swept through, and Zhenru's figure disappeared along with the swirling yellow sand.
At the very moment Zhenru disappeared, in the Qiu family of Red Moon City, four Nascent Soul cultivators slammed their fists on the spirit mirror in the center of the table.
"Where did they go? How could they just vanish into thin air like that?!"
"Instead of getting angry here, we should hurry up and chase after them!"
As soon as he finished speaking, only one person remained to guard the area, while the remaining three Nascent Soul cultivators unleashed their maximum speed, attempting to catch up with Zhenru.
Unfortunately, Zhenru was now a world away from them.
Looking at the familiar cave dwelling before her, Zhenru, though she hadn't seen anyone yet, had already guessed who the owner of this place was.
"Qiu Zhengping? Is that you?"
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