Ning Chen

Li Chen, "Brother, why is Master retreating again?"

"..." Gu Lichen sighed and shook his head, "I don't know what foster father is thinking."

In the past few days, Fu Zhaohua has been paying attention to Shi Shuliu's every move, "Brother, I think Master is hiding something from us."

Gu Lichen asked, "You think so too?"

Fu Zhaohua nodded and said: "Well, Master has always been mysterious these days, and recently he always runs to Senior Sister's Garden of Hundred Puppets."

"Hundred Puppet Garden?" Gu Lichen asked doubtfully.

Fu Zhaohua nodded, "Yes."

What did foster father do in Hundred Puppet Garden?The Hundred Puppet Garden has been abandoned for many years, and no one cares about it. Could it be that the secret room was discovered by the adoptive father? Thinking of this, Gu Lichen hurried to the Hundred Puppet Garden.

Fu Zhaohua shouted from behind: "Brother, where are you going?"

Gu Lichen didn't turn his head back, "Hundred Puppet Garden."

The Hundred Puppet Garden was still the same as it was when Gu Zhi was alive, but no one is using it now, and a lot of dust has accumulated everywhere.

"What is this?" Gu Lichen didn't come to the Hundred Puppet Garden for a long time, but there seemed to be an extremely clean place on the dusty bookshelf, "Letter?"

Gu Lichen lit a lamp, carefully picked up the notebook, "Could it be the senior sister's notebook?"

"Seal?" All the books and notes in the Hundred Puppet Garden, Gu Zhi did not allow Gu Lichen to look through them. Not only has he never seen this one before, but he has also imposed multiple seals. Among them, it must be unusual.

Gu Lichen tried various spells to lift the seal, but none of them worked. In the end, he broke the seal with the stone seal method that Shi Shuliu had only taught him in the early years. Impressively recorded the following text.

"Xin Yi, Zhi'er will soon be able to develop a living puppet, and you will have a body soon."

"It's not in vain that I raised her with care and worked hard for many years."

Gu Lichen murmured: "Xin Yi? Arrangement?" What exactly is the foster father planning?

"Xin Yi, today I found Miao Jiang, and I slashed the couple with the Youlian sword, and wiped out the Youquan spring. From now on, no one will die from the purple blood plague."

"Youlian sword, Youquan spring..." The more Gu Lichen looked at it, the more flustered he felt. This was actually the notebook of his foster father, and everything his foster father had done these years was recorded in it.

Gu Lichen turned a few more pages and continued to read.

"I just feel sorry for the child named Ning'er, who became an orphan without father or mother. But Xin Yi, I did nothing wrong. It's not wrong to kill one person to save the world."

"Miao Jiang, Ning'er..." Gu Lichen's hands were trembling uncontrollably, and what was written in the handbook obviously exceeded Gu Lichen's expectations.

Gu Lichen turned to the next page tremblingly.

"If my predictions are correct, Li Chen should be You Lian, who was born in the spring of You Spring, but has no demonic energy at all."

With a "plop", the letter fell to the ground, Gu Lichen looked dazed, and muttered to himself, "Youlian... foster father, it was foster father who killed Zhanning's parents..."

"Master, can your real body refine weapons?"

"Then the weapon refined with your real body, can others use it?"

It turned out that what Xie Zhanning asked back then meant this, "Zhanning, are you doubting me? How could you doubt me..."

Gu Lichen felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and he was at a loss for what to do. Fragmentary memories swept over him, connecting everything together.

Shi Shuliu hugged the four-year-old Gu Lichen, and said softly, "Lichen, would you like to give your adoptive father a real body?"

Gu Lichen in his arms had a blushing little face, and the pink and jade carvings looked like the fat-headed dolls on the New Year paintings, "Yes!"

Shi Shuliu kissed that flushed cheek, and said with a smile, "Li Chen is so good."

"Hey." Gu Lichen kept pushing into Shi Shuliu's arms, smiling foolishly.

"..." Gu Lichen clutched his head, feeling a dizzy headache, "When was this memory? Why can't I remember at all... It was the adoptive father, it was the adoptive father who sealed this memory."

"One, two, three...nine, nine petals, it turns out to be real, I really gave one petal of my real body to my adoptive father." Gu Lichen transformed into his real body, counting countless times back and forth, but no matter How he repeats, nine petals are nine petals.

At this moment, Gu Lichen finally understood why Xie Zhanning left without saying goodbye, and why his attitude was completely opposite, "Father, you have caused me so much misery."

If the notes are true, then Gu Lichen has secretly become the biggest accomplice, "...what should I do, what should I do."

Gu Lichen didn't know the state in which he left the Hundred Puppet Garden. At this moment, he was sitting in a daze in the Heguangyuan, as if his soul had been sucked out of him.

"Who?!" The sound of a dead branch snapping in the courtyard startled Gu Lichen.

"Meow~" Huahua lazily walked towards Gu Lichen.

"So it was you." Gu Lichen sighed in disappointment, "Oh, what am I thinking, why is Zhanning coming back?"

"...Master..." In the dark corner, Xie Zhanning secretly stared at Gu Lichen. Gu Lichen was thinner and emaciated. , I still couldn't help but throbbing in my heart.

In fact, Gu Lichen knew that the sound of breaking branches and leaves just now was not made by Huahua, but he wanted to bet that Xie Zhanning would not be able to hold back, "... Zhanning, I knew it was you."

"..." Xie Zhanning held his breath, not daring to take a breath, for fear that Gu Lichen would know where he was hiding.

Gu Lichen took a big sip of the tea on the table, and said to himself: "Zhan Ning, Master knows why you don't want to see each other. Master doesn't expect you to forgive what happened back then. If poisoning Master can make you feel at ease , Master is willing to do so."

"..." What happened back then?Is Gu Lichen admitting what happened back then?

After a while, Gu Lichen squeezed out a wry smile, "Huahua, Zhanning really left and won't be coming back."

"Meow~" Huahua walked to Gu Lichen's feet and rubbed against her.

The next moment, a elixir fell into the porcelain cup that Gu Lichen had just finished drinking tea. Gu Lichen picked up the elixir in the porcelain cup, "... the antidote?"

"Meow~" Huahua jumped onto the table, about to grab the pill in Gu Lichen's hand.

"...Oh, I don't need it anymore." Gu Lichen smiled wryly, and threw the elixir back into the porcelain cup. With a shock in his palm, the porcelain cup was shattered into ashes, and the elixir was also dissipated in the wind. .

"Meow~" Huahua chased the gust of wind, frantically swiping her claws, as if trying to grab a little bit of powder.

It was dusk, and suddenly a disciple from the outer sect rushed to Heguangyuan in a hurry, "True Lord Lichen, the real Lord Lichen is not good, there are a large number of demon troops, a large number of demon troops have invaded the Half Smoke Valley!"

"What?!" As soon as Xie Zhanning left, a magic army attacked in behind.

Gu Lichen turned his head and secretly wiped away his tears. His face was pale and pale, and he muttered to himself, "Zhanning, do you really hate me that much? Poisoning is not enough, do you have to kill me yourself?"

Seeing that Gu Lichen was not in a hurry, the disciple said anxiously, "True Monarch!"

Gu Lichen turned his head and said seriously, "Where is Zhenjun Zhaohua?"

The disciple replied: "True Monarch Zhaohua has led most of his disciples to attack at the entrance of Banyan Valley, but there are many demon soldiers, and some demons still broke into the sect."

Gu Lichen stood up and said, "Don't worry, as long as I'm still here, I won't allow the demon army to hurt me at all."

The darkness outside the Valley of Half Smoke had already become a stalemate, and Fu Zhaohua was already overwhelmed by defending against thousands of demon armies. At this moment, he was out of skills and had no idea what the situation in the sect was like.

Outside the main hall of the Qianyan Sect, the demon army led by Shi Yu had already occupied the entire school grounds. Gu Lichen looked at the densely packed demon army, with no fear on his handsome face, "Shi Ming, it's you?!"

Shi Yu stood in front of the demon army, extremely majestic, "Not only me, but also him."

Seeing the magic army brigade make way neatly, Gu Lichen looked at the person coming, his pupils suddenly lost focus, "Zhanning, you..."

Shi Yu smiled like a flower, "If it wasn't for him, would we have found such a hidden Half-Smoke Valley so smoothly?"

"Zhanning, why did you do this?" If it was for revenge, Xie Zhanning could have come for Gu Lichen alone, but now, why would he implicate the entire Qianyan sect.

The moment Xie Zhanning met Gu Lichen's eyes, he saw tears in Gu Lichen's eyes. It was a look of disappointment. Xie Zhanning didn't want to see Gu Lichen's eyes. He lowered his head and said in a deep voice : "I just want to prove one thing."

Gu Lichen's voice was trembling, and his chest was aching, "What do you want to prove?"

After a while, Xie Zhanning raised his head abruptly, his eyes were fiercer than ever before, "When I was six years old, I saw a sharp sword made of green lotus petals... that sword killed my parents and made me became an orphan."

Gu Lichen: "..."

"I ask you! Was that sword refined with your real body?!" Xie Zhanning's voice became higher and higher, and the more he spoke, the more excited he became.

"Yes." Gu Lichen answered very neatly.

Xie Zhanning didn't expect Gu Lichen to answer so happily, the veins popped up on his forehead instantly, and countless bloodshot eyes appeared in his eyes, and even his voice was piercingly angry, "Then my parents! My parents are too!" Did you kill it?!"

"..." This time, Gu Lichen's answer was not so sharp, and was replaced by silent silence. If he said no, the sharp sword that killed Xie Tingyun and his wife was indeed transformed by his real body. If he said yes, He never intended to be an accomplice to this murder.

Xie Zhanning's fists were clenched with blood, and even the roots of his teeth were about to be crushed, "I asked you if it was true?!!!"

"..." Gu Lichen's answer was still silent, he wanted to say 'no', but the words were about to spit out