When Zhao Ya entered the room, she saw Dean Zhao lying lifeless on the bed.
In an instant, Zhao Ya's eyes reddened.
"Father!" Zhao Ya called out and rushed to Dean Zhao's side.
But they received no response whatsoever.
That makes sense; how could a dead person possibly react?
"Please accept my condolences." Qingjian patted Zhao Ya's shoulder, speaking with a hint of suppressed emotion.
Clearly, he was also deeply saddened by Dean Zhao's death, and was only suppressing his grief at the moment.
"Dean, Dean, what happened to my father?" Zhao Ya asked, sobbing slightly. As if remembering something, she looked up at Qing Jian: "My father was perfectly fine in seclusion just a moment ago, how did he become like this today?!"
"Eh..." Qingjian sighed heavily and recounted everything that had happened that day.
"I don't know the reason either. It's just that after I broke the restriction, Dean Zhao suddenly jumped out and attacked. After the formation was broken, Dean Zhao suddenly stopped breathing."
After hearing this, Zhao Ya suddenly buried her face in her father's chest and cried, a stark contrast to her previous elegant and serene demeanor.
Qingjian listened to Zhao Ya's crying and wanted to comfort her, but for a moment he didn't know where to begin.
Just as he was staring at Zhao Ya, he suddenly saw a burst of black energy emanating from Dean Zhao's body.
The black aura reacted to Zhao Ya like a dog sees a meat bun.
Qingjian didn't have time to think about what the black aura was, and quickly pulled Zhao Ya away.
"What are you doing..." Zhao Ya was pulled over so suddenly that she hadn't even reacted yet. She spoke subconsciously, but before she could finish her sentence, she saw Qing Jian set up a barrier around her father's corpse.
Although she couldn't understand what Qingjian was doing, she knew that Qingjian wouldn't do anything pointless for no reason.
Before he could finish speaking, he quickly shut his mouth, focusing on watching Qingjian's movements without making a sound or disturbing her.
After a series of actions, Qingjian withdrew his hand from the air where he was drawing.
He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the golden light shimmering around the corpse.
Fortunately, it was in time, preventing Zhao Ya from being infected by that strange black aura.
The black aura didn't look like anything good, but it was different from demonic aura.
"Dean, what just happened?" Zhao Ya only dared to speak after seeing that Qingjian had stopped moving.
Qingjian then turned around and looked at Zhao Ya, whose eyes were red.
"This..." Just as he was about to explain, he heard a series of "bang bang bang" sounds coming from his barrier.
Zhao Ya subconsciously shifted her attention and looked into the barrier. Apart from Dean Zhao's corpse, there was nothing else inside. However, the barrier seemed to have been attacked by something.
Golden light flashed intermittently.
It should be noted that this barrier only lights up when attacked; normally, it blends into the air and is invisible to the naked eye.
However, the scene that Qingjian saw was different from that of Zhao Ya.
In his eyes, a black aura was clashing against the barrier.
However, this black aura seemed somewhat weak, and apart from its brute force ramming into the barrier, it had no other means of attack, and its impact was not great.
However, just to be on the safe side, Qingjian reinforced the barrier again to prevent the black energy that was trying to enter Zhao Ya's body from being trapped.
"Dean, what did you see?" Zhao Ya wasn't stupid; she knew that the situation inside the barrier was definitely not as simple as what she saw with her naked eye.
"There was a dark aura that emerged from Dean Zhao's body just as you approached him, attempting to enter your body." Qingjian's expression was somewhat serious.
Lately, he seems to have been making this expression quite often.
"Finding the source of this black mist might just help us find out the cause of Dean Zhao's death!"
Aoki coldly stared at the tireless black energy that kept crashing against the barrier.
Each time the black energy crashed into the barrier, it would be dispersed upon impact, then regroup and crash into it again.
After watching for a while, Qingjian found it boring.
At this point, Dean Zhao's body could no longer be disposed of.
“Zhao Ya, I will seal this place off until the cause is found out. You…” Qing Jian looked up at Zhao Ya, carefully choosing his words.
After all, Dean Zhao is Zhao Ya's biological father.
Zhao Ya lost her mother at a young age and was practically raised by Dean Zhao. It's easy to imagine how deep her feelings for Dean Zhao must be.
But nowadays, even the closest relatives cannot be laid to rest after death; their bodies must be sealed inside this hall using special methods.
It's easy to imagine how unacceptable this is.
Zhao Ya's first reaction upon hearing Qing Jian's words was disbelief.
However, she was not an unreasonable person.
She bit her lip hard, and after being stared at by Qingjian for a while, she finally let go and exhaled heavily.
"I agree," Zhao Ya said resolutely, glancing past Qing Jian for one last time at Dean Zhao lying on the bed before leaving immediately.
Qingjian sighed, turned his head to look at the black aura that was still causing trouble, and felt a surge of anger in his heart.
However, there was nothing that could be done about it for the time being. The only thing to do was to reinforce the barrier. Then, they went out of the room and set up an array near the house, determined to trap the black energy.
After doing all this, he flew away.
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Lin Jingge went straight back to her residence.
The room was quiet; Tang Cheng wasn't there, and Lin Jingge was the only one left.
For a moment, she didn't know what to do.
He could only take out that wood-type spirit core, intending to absorb it first to improve his cultivation level.
When Qingjian came to find her, she had only just begun absorbing the nutrients.
Lin Jingge carefully put away the wood-type spirit core and quickly found a place to stay.
I met Aomi at the gate.
Qingjian stood conspicuously on a flat spot next to the registration desk. Upon seeing him, Lin Jingge quickly ran over.
"Dean, is there something you need from me?" Lin Jingge asked in a low voice.
You have to understand, she and Qingjian had only been separated for a short time. What could have happened in such a short period of time?
"Dean Zhao is dead." Qingjian started by saying this.
Lin Jingge wasn't surprised when she heard this.
You should know that when I first met Dean Zhao, he already looked like he was about to die.
His eyes were abnormally hollow and bloodshot.
It was as if I was being manipulated by something.
"A black aura has emerged from Dean Zhao's body. This black aura doesn't seem to be demonic. I'd like to ask you, do you know what this thing is, and whether it's related to the Divine Demon Transfer Array?"
It's important to know that the Divine Demon Transfer Array hasn't been seen for thousands of years. Even Qingjian has only heard some information about it. He doesn't know the specifics of how to set it up or what's needed.
Lin Jingge, on the contrary, is the one who understands the Divine Demon Fortune-Turning Array the most.
"Black aura?" Lin Jingge asked in confusion, "I didn't see any black aura when I was destroying the formation."
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