Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

Zhuo Yichen followed Zhang Qiling to the open space in front of the mountain temple and handed him the Yunguang Sword that had been taken out from the Bingyi tribe's territory since Zhuo Yichen was born.

"Yuanbao, practice sword skills well. Have you learned the sword skills that the professor taught you a few days ago?" Zhang Qiling stood in front of Zhuo Yichen and handed the blue long sword to Zhuo Yichen.

Zhuo Yichen was still thinking about what his father and the Yingzhao Mountain God would say in the room, and he listlessly agreed with Zhang Qiling's questions.

"Yuanbao. After you followed Zhu Yan to the Great Wilderness, Xiaohua came to look for you, but when he heard that you were missing, he became very worried. Do you want to have a chat with Xiaohua?" Seeing that Zhuo Yichen was not in a good condition to practice sword, Zhang Qiling simply suggested that he have a chat with Xiaohua and let Xiaohua counsel his brother Yuanbao.

When Ying Zhao was discussing with Hua Yu in the room, he suddenly mentioned that a few hundred years ago, there was a sudden earthquake at the border between the wilderness and the human world. He rushed over, but found that a bottomless abyss suddenly appeared there, and black gas was constantly emanating from the abyss.

"Black air?" Hua Yu was quite concerned about the black air that Ying Zhao mentioned, because when he was in that small world, he and his brother had also encountered black air when they were traveling.

“Yes, and when the black air touches a person, it will turn that person into a living dead who has no consciousness and does not feel pain, but also has the characteristics of a wild monster.” Ying Zhao was also puzzled. How could the black air turn a living person into a living dead who does not feel pain and cannot die?

"Has the black energy in that place been sealed?" Although Hua Yu did not have a strong sense of belonging to this world, after all, this world had no manager, and since he was here, this was his territory. Therefore, he still needed to learn about this unknown thing that suddenly appeared.

“I still sealed the black gas, but the strange thing is that after the black gas touched the fire, it became very well-behaved and obedient. Even the living dead it transformed into became quiet.” Ying Zhao didn’t understand why. The black gas was so powerful, how could it be afraid of a mere ball of fire.

"I'm afraid it's not that fire, nor is it an ordinary flame. But I still have to go and see it to know." Hua Yu had a plan in mind, "I still have to trouble you with Zhuo Yixuan. I will leave the herbs for you. However, I hope that when I come back, I can see the two Zhuo family father and son with their eyes open."

Ying Zhao bowed and accepted the order, "As you command." After that, Ying Zhao left the room with the treasure bag given by Hua Yu.

Hua Yu was holding the teacup, not knowing what she was thinking. Finally, she poured the cold tea onto the ground and stood up and left the room.

Not long after Hua Yu left, a man suddenly appeared in a dark corner of the room. That man was none other than the wild monkey that Hua Yu had always scolded - Zhu Yan.

Zhu Yan stroked his chin with a smile on his face, "Things are becoming more and more interesting."

When Hua Yu walked out of the mountain temple, Zhang Qiling and Zhuo Yichen were sitting in a row on the steps with a water mirror in front of them. On the other side of the water mirror was Xie Yuchen, whom Hua Yu had just mentioned.

Xie Yuchen is now trying to counsel his younger brother Yuanbao, who is depressed because his father and brother are seriously injured and unconscious.

"Daddy!" Xie Yuchen shouted happily after seeing Hua Yu behind his brother and father.

Zhuo Yichen and Zhang Qiling looked back at the same time, only to see Hua Yu standing on the steps with her arms folded, looking down at them.

"Brother, didn't I ask you to practice with Yuanbao?" Hua Yu looked at Zhang Qiling with a slightly cold expression.

Zhang Qiling turned his head to look at Zhuo Yichen, lowered his eyes and dared not look directly into Hua Yu's eyes, "Yuanbao's mood has been very up and down today, and it is not suitable for practice. But I am afraid that he is upset and unwilling to talk to us, so I asked Xiaohua to enlighten Yuanbao."

Zhuo Yichen nodded frantically, while Xie Yuchen on the other side of the water mirror was also making excuses for brother Yuanbao, hoping that Hua Yu would not punish brother Yuanbao. As for father, it was up to him. Father was so big that even if he was beaten twice, he would not feel any pain. Brother Yuanbao was the little baby they had pampered, and his delicate body could not withstand a beating from his father.

Hua Yu looked at Xie Yuchen in the water mirror and Zhang Qiling who was protecting Zhuo Yichen wholeheartedly. She was really amused by them. "Okay. Did I say I would punish Yuanbao?"

As soon as Hua Yu finished speaking, the three people who had just looked hopeless and pitiful suddenly seemed to see a rainbow after a storm.

"Yuanbao, my brother and I are going to go somewhere else. You stay in the mountain temple and wait for us to come back." Hua Yu thought of the place Ying Zhao just mentioned. He was really worried, but Yuanbao... Alas! So he could only leave Yuanbao in the mountain temple.

"Dad, can't we take Yuanbao with us?" Zhuo Yichen suddenly climbed up and stood in front of Hua Yu, asking cautiously.

Zhuo Yichen was really scared. Before, his father and brother said that they only came to the Great Wilderness to help the White Ze Goddess, but in the end, most of the people in the Demon Collection Division died, and his father and brother were seriously injured and unconscious. Now his father was going out with his second father again, and he was afraid... afraid that he would receive bad news again.

Hua Yu took a few steps forward, gently rubbed Zhuo Yichen's head, and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, Yuanbao, Daddy can swear that this time Daddy and your second father are just going to investigate and will be back soon."

No matter how reluctant Zhuo Yichen was, he had no choice but to obey his father's arrangement and stayed in the mountain temple waiting for his father and second father to come back.

Zhuo Yichen started writing a diary after his father and second father left:

The first day that Daddy and Second Daddy left, I was very bored. There was a white monkey beside me that kept bothering me. Didn't he have anything to do? I heard from Lord Yingzhao that Zhu Yan was the leader of all the monsters in the wilderness, with strong strength and profound magic power. However, in his opinion, he was just an old and shameless white-haired monkey.

The day after Dad and Second Dad left, Lord Ying Zhao said that Dad's condition was getting better day by day, but it was impossible to recover to his original state. Even if he recovered completely in the future, he could no longer do strenuous exercise and could only stay in bed and rest, otherwise he might not live long.

Lord Yingzhao also said that his brother's condition had basically stabilized thanks to the miraculous medicines his father left behind, but he still couldn't wake up. If he still couldn't wake up, he probably only had a few days left.

Brother, Yuanbao doesn't want you to leave. You said you would come back safely, and you also said that you would teach me the rest of the swordsmanship when you come back. Brother, you can't lie to Yuanbao, otherwise Yuanbao will ignore you.

Tears dripped from Zhuo Yichen's eyes and fell onto the notebook where he was taking notes. The tears blurred the handwriting on the notebook.

On the other side, Hua Yu and Zhang Qiling rode on a flying beast, followed by a green bird, and rushed all the way to the place filled with black air mentioned by Ying Zhao. When they gradually approached the destination, they did not rush in directly, but carefully stopped on the cliff at the edge of the basin and observed from a high vantage point for a long time.

After careful scrutiny, Hua Yu and Zhang Qiling decided to enter this mysterious place. In order to conceal their whereabouts and avoid unnecessary trouble, they not only brought Fei and Qing Geng with them, but Hua Yu also made dozens of lifelike paper figures and disguised herself as a merchant from another place selling rare goods.

Since Hua Yu and Zhang Qiling were generous, they soon found a temporary residence in the local area and settled down. Then, they began to deploy their plan in an orderly manner - first sending those paper figures to quietly infiltrate every corner and collect detailed information about this place bit by bit.

A few days passed, and Hua Yu finally received the news sent back by the paper people. She carefully read the hard-won intelligence, frowning more and more, her face full of solemnity, and muttered to herself: "This... is really hard to evaluate!" Seeing this, Zhang Qiling hurriedly took the intelligence from Hua Yu and read it carefully page by page. However, as he read more and more deeply, his face became more and more heavy, and for a moment he didn't know how to comment on the situation in front of him.

At this time, Fei in the courtyard was lazily lying on the green grass, enjoying the caress of the warm sunshine. It squinted its eyes and purred from time to time, as if it was completely immersed in this wonderful time. Qing Geng stood obediently on the horns above Fei's head, making a cheerful "chirp chirp" sound, seemingly unaware of everything happening around it.

According to the information gathered by the paper people, this place is called Jiuchen Valley, where a huge force lives. The leaders of that force all have the surname Gong. They are divided into the five elements of music: Shang Gong, who makes weapons and gunpowder, Jiao Gong, who is responsible for making money outside, Zheng Gong, who makes medicines and hidden weapons, and Yu Gong, who is responsible for the safety of their family.

But the abyss with black air that Ying Zhao talked about was exactly right within that force.

Hua Yu's paper figurines also found out that this generation's Palace Master of Zheng Palace, Gong Yuanzheng, looked very similar to their young master, but there was an age difference, so they were not sure. They could only use the photo stone to record Gong Yuanzheng's appearance and then bring it back to show the master.