"I wonder if the dean is satisfied with the people who are waiting for him?" Shen Chen said.

Actually, he didn't know anything. But he decided to keep things the same.

The reason why Wan Tonghong is waiting here must be something for someone to do or something he wants to know.

So Shen Chen calmed himself down, and asked this question in order to get something out of Wan Tonghong's mouth.

Wan Tonghong glanced at Shen Chen, and his sharp eyes seemed to be able to see through Shen Chen's thoughts at once.

But he didn't disappoint Shen Chen.

Wan Tonghong nodded with a smile, and said in a low voice with a sigh, "I've waited, the person I'm waiting for." ”

When he said this, his eyes seemed to look beyond Shen Chen into the distance, or through the distance to the unknown.

Shen Chen was stunned by the dean's reaction, and tightened his hand on his lap, and Shen Chen heard himself ask, "Why?" ”

"Why?" The old dean asked rhetorically, and then laughed to himself.

The voice was deep as muttering, "I have been waiting for this day for more than thirty years. Today I finally waited for ......"

Wan Tonghong looked at Shen Chen suddenly, with a certain eager expectation in his eyes, "The red moon rises when the formation is the most vulnerable. ”

Shen Chen's eyes widened, "Formation? He took a closer look at Wan Tonghong, and found that although there was excitement in his expression, it didn't seem to have lost his mind, and Shen Chen asked tentatively, "What formation?" ”

Wan Tonghong smiled, "A formation that envelops Wanlu and envelops the Huawu Forest. ”

Shen Chen's heart thumped, assuming that what Wan Tonghong said was true. The Red Moon, the formation, is at its most vulnerable...... Could these have something to do with the awakening of Han Muche's half-demon bloodline in the novel? Why are they all Jingzhu Xiaolin, and what is the connection between them?

Thinking about it like this, Shen Chen couldn't sit still, could there be anything wrong with Han Muche?

Wan Tonghong saw Shen Chen's anxiety, patted Shen Chen, and said, "Young man, don't be impatient. I will tell you slowly, the old body has a hunch, and if I don't talk about it today, I'm afraid I won't have a chance in the future. ”

Shen Chen frowned, "Okay, dean, you say." ”

The old dean shook his head, "Before I say that, I want to ask you first to confirm my suspicions." ”

The black jade teacup was shiny with brown water, and the old dean touched the cup body slightly with his fingers, and the brown water lines in the cup rippled in circles, and the sound of tea hitting the wall of the jade cup became clear and audible at this moment.

The atmosphere is so quiet that even the rustle of bamboo leaves blown by the breeze grows like a symphony.

Shen Chen's nervousness, the question of Wan Tonghong's exit.

"Where did you go after you disappeared in the Huawu Forest?"

Shen Chen heard Wan Tonghong's voice with a hint of determination, as if he had already decided that Shen Chen had gone somewhere else.

They did go somewhere else.

Shen Chen was silent and rubbed his teacup.

"Dean, if you don't say anything, it's hard for me to tell you anything." Shen Chen said.

"Haha," the old dean laughed, "it seems that I have met a shrewd child." ”

"Well, it was thirty-six years ago." Wan Tonghong said slowly, talking about the time that has passed from a person who is nearly 100 years old, no matter how good the old man is, he can't help but bring a little vicissitudes.

There was aging in his voice, and some nostalgia for the past. It's ridiculous to say, but Shen Chen really believed in his heart that he was a good person because of the tone in which the old dean began to recall the old things.

Shen Chen still remembered the story that his master Shen Baimu told him, and the nostalgia in his voice was very similar to that of the old dean, and Shen Chen felt that most of the people who had this kind of soft affection in their hearts were not bad people.

"Thirty-six years ago, the dean of Wanlu was still my father. That was the year he died. The old dean slowly spoke, "The matter I want to talk about is related to the Huawu Forest, and it is also related to this formation that has been laid out for more than thirty years. ”

Wan Tonghong smiled and asked Shen Chen, "How many years do you think Huawu Forest has been around?" ”

The problem?

Shen Chen frowned, "Everyone in the whole Dayan knows that Huawu Forest, as the largest demonic beast forest in the north, has a history of hundreds of years. ”

"Ah, that's a good point," Wan Tonghong smiled, blinking like a child, "Everyone in the whole of Dayan knows it, and that's because what you know is not true." ”

"What...... Is it? Shen Chen was a little hard to believe.

The old dean crossed his hands and shook his hands, and sighed, "I'm probably the only one who knows about this now, right?" Actually, I don't remember very well, and if I hadn't waited for someone to come, I would probably have forgotten about it. The power of this formation is very powerful. ”

Wan Tonghong closed his eyes and plunged himself into memories, and some pictures that were no longer very clear in his memory resurfaced in his mind. The only red moon in more than thirty years, finally waiting for someone who can tell the story. He needed to be quiet, think about it, and see what to say.

Some familiar pictures filled his mind in his memory, and Wan Tonghong slowly spoke, "The previous Huawu Forest was not like this, it was not even a forest before. Just overnight, the original scene was completely subverted, and towering trees with thick branches emerged from the ground, and the mist never dispersed. ”

Yes, just overnight.

Wan Tonghong still remembers that it was a vast grassland with green grass, and a wide river ran through the field. As soon as the rising sun shines, the golden light makes the people who see it rise with infinite hope.

But it is not exhaustive to say that it is a grassland, where in addition to grass is also full of all kinds of precious exotic fruits, flowers bloom continuously in all seasons, and the fragrance of flowers is rich. There was also a low hill, just in the deepest part of the steppe, and no one had ever been there. But they had seen all sorts of little beasts running out of that direction, and running back in that direction when it was getting late, so they guessed that it was where the little beasts lived.

At that time, there were a lot of small animals there, and the students of Wanlu ran there in the morning to exercise and saw many animals crowded by the long river to play. The sight full of creature spirituality and the ultimate beauty of nature is very moving, and it will make them feel very good.

Yes, the reason why Wanlu Academy is called this name is because when it was first built, this academy was still very close to the dream-like grassland. The founder walked there one morning and saw thousands of beautiful fawns looking up at a horned deer that glowed white. This is also the source of the statue in front of Wanlu Academy.

Qiongqiong horned deer, the glory is rising.

It was such a shocking sight that the founder saw it once by chance and will never forget it again.

Such a beautiful place was like a dream from beginning to end, so that one day they found that the once qiē had collapsed, but overnight, the black and iron-like trees grew all over the field, the once soft and fragrant earth became hard and cold thick soil, the bright river of the past was completely gone, and when the cute and spiritual little animals became aggressive beasts, they thought they were dreaming and could not return to their senses.

This they were the teachers and students of Wanlu at that time.

At that time, the scale of Wanlu Academy was not as large as it is now, and the teachers and students of the whole academy together were only more than fifty people.

It was for the sake of these fifty people that a formation was quietly laid down, or at the expense of one person's life.

The person who sacrificed was none other than Wan Tonghong's father, the old dean of Wan Lu at that time.

At that time, Wan Tonghong was just a teacher, and he watched his father negotiate with the man in iron armor, and asked him not to brutally kill more than 50 people in the academy because of this.

The reason why the men in iron armor want to kill them is because they know a secret that should not be known to the world.

It was a winter as cold as it is today.

Perhaps, Wan Tonghong already knew that there would be such a day when the different frost arrived this winter, so he chose to wait until the red moon really appeared.

Wan Tonghong still remembers that day his father fought against those people, and finally a luxurious carriage came from the sky, and the satin soft velvet curtain was opened, and the person wearing a white fox fur who came out did not look like a mortal.

But Wan Tonghong knew that that person was a mortal, but he was more powerful than ordinary people.

The aura emanating from his body was already a near-god aura, and under the shroud of such a powerful aura, all of them couldn't restrain their legs from weakening and wanted to kneel.

He watched as his father trembled under pressure and begged to save their lives. In the end, at the price of using an eighth-level powerhouse as a formation guide, he got a powerful formation that could forcibly eliminate and change people's memories.

Wan Tonghong still remembered the appearance of the handsome god-like man in white fur who hooked his lips and said that formation.

It's scary.

Wan Tonghong thought at the time, how could people's hearts be so cold.

Later, when he set up the formation, he and his father did a little bit of tricks, and his father died, and he became the only one who remembered it.

Later, he became the dean of Wanlu. The original teachers and students all left the academy, Wanlu Academy moved to a distant place, re-enrolled, and new blood was injected into Wanlu. At the same time, a large number of books and periodicals about Huawu Forest were released, and everyone in Dayan knew about this largest demonic beast forest in the north.

He was the only one who remembered, but because of the strength of the formation or the fact that the people who set up the formation were getting stronger and stronger, the little hands and feet he did at the beginning gradually became ineffective, just like his father, an eighth-level powerhouse eventually turned into a pool of blood under that formation.

Wan Tonghong was not reconciled, and this incident even became his inner demon. He repeated his father's old mistakes, and after reaching the eighth level, he could never rise again.

Shen Chen closed his eyes.

Overnight, the mountains and rivers were turned upside down, iron trees were everywhere, and thick fog was everywhere...... This is ridiculous.

However, Shen Chen couldn't help but believe it, because he had been to that place.

But that place is no longer the dreamy scenery described by Wan Tonghong.

There were only barren land, long rivers, low hills, and the fog was thicker than the Huawu Forest. There was no green grass, no scent of flowers, and wild fruits grew where he couldn't see.

There weren't so many cute critters, and there weren't horned deer with fancy horns.

There are only spirit animals, Xi deer, and the festival that belongs to the darkness.

Finally, Shen Chen sighed.

"There is indeed another place under the Huawu Forest, but it is different from what the dean said. There are some things, why cling? It is a knot in the heart, and it must be let go. ”

Although the wilderness in Wan Tonghong's memory has been blurred, it is still too beautiful, and Shen Chen can't bear to tell an old man who is dying, and the dream in his heart has long been desolate. It's cruel.

Wan Tonghong seemed to understand, shook his head and smiled, "It's okay, it's okay." ”

"I can't imagine that I, an old man who knows hundreds, is not as transparent as your little doll. No matter what, why be persistent, you have to let go of ......" shook his head and sighed Wan Tonghong closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes were even more cloudy than before.

Wan Tonghong rolled up his sleeves and stood up, and said to Shen Chen, "I want to practice a set of boxing in my old body, which I learned from my father, and it is very beneficial to improve my cultivation." If you are not in a hurry to leave, please stay and take a look at it for the time being, and be a thank you gift from your old body. ”

Shen Chen was going to take this opportunity to get up and say goodbye, but looking at the old dean's serious expression, he couldn't say no, so he had to stay.

Fortunately, the set of punches was very short, only sixteen styles.

Shen Chen always felt a little familiar when he looked at Wan Tong Hongqi's open boxing method, and then thought about it, isn't this very similar to the Tai Chi learned in the freshman physical education class! It's just that Wan Tonghong's every move is to carry the true qi, which looks very different from Taijiquan, but it is still very similar.

Shen Chen thought about it, and when Wan Tonghong finished fighting a set of sixteen styles, he smiled and said, "It's also a coincidence, the dean's boxing method is also very similar to what I see from home." But I didn't play well, I only barely learned a rough idea, and if the old dean is not too troublesome, please take a look. ”

Wan Tonghong was interested, he personally liked this set of boxing very much, and his spirit after a set of boxing was much better than just now, otherwise he would not have used this as a gift to Shen Chen, so he nodded and let Shen Chen hit a dozen.

However, when Shen Chen first started fighting, Wan Tonghong laughed, thinking to himself, didn't this kid use any boxing technique to fool him? How can there be a serious cultivation method without true qi? What else does that do?

However, the more he watched Shen Chen, the more frightened he became. Shen Chen's set of boxing has twenty-four styles, although it is not the same as his set of boxing, but it is very similar, some places can still be connected, and even some places are more effective than his set! Wan Tonghong, with Shen Chen's boxing movements, his heart has been quickly measured, plus which joints can be opened up by true qi, which actions can make true qi more abundant.

After a set of twenty-four boxing techniques, Wan Tonghong has already seen many of the subtleties, and there are many more subtleties to be studied in detail. At the moment, he didn't have the heart to care about Shen Chen anymore, and after praising Shen Chen, his mind was already drilled into that set of boxing techniques.

Shen Chen saw what Wan Tonghong was thinking, so he got up and said goodbye.

It's just that before leaving, Shen Chen asked Wan Tonghong to make a promise to him.

"If the dean relies on this set of boxing techniques to make great improvements, please also promise the students to do one thing for the students in the future."

Wan Tonghong was so smart that he understood that Shen Chen was recruiting his strength, so he agreed after just thinking about it.

"The old body is already a person who is about to enter the ground with half of his body, and there is nothing to worry about when his heart is knotted. I wish to take my father's wish and break through the ninth level as soon as possible. If it succeeds, what can the old body promise to be more than one thing? ”

Shen Chen nodded and made a gesture, "Thank you so much." ”

Today, Shen Chen understands the importance of strength. If Han Muche faced such a powerful opponent in the future, then he had to save up more strength.

What Shen Chen didn't know was that after Wan Tonghong studied and improved this set of boxing techniques, he really rose to the ninth level with persistent practice.

All Shen Chen thinks about now is that it is always not wrong to accumulate more strength, connections, and leave more ways to retreat.

Walk back along the bamboo forest and return to the Jingzhu forest again.

The reddening moon in the night sky had faded to a white sheen.

Because it gets dark early in winter and there is no entertainment in ancient times, Shen Chen looks very late when he comes out, but in fact, it is only seven o'clock.

The conversation with the dean made Shen Chen feel tired, and when he came out again, he felt a sense of vicissitudes.

In fact, from the time he went in to the time he came out, it was only one hour.

But Shen Chen felt that a long time had passed, so long that he felt very tired, his body was weak, his feet were heavy, and he had no strength.

The moon in the sky still has some red.

Shen Chen thought about it and still dragged his steps towards the bamboo garden.

It's only nine o'clock in the real world, and the night owl is just starting his life, and the people here are already asleep.

Han Muche, he also slept, right?

Shen Chen thought. I'll just take a look here and see that he's okay.

Standing on tiptoe and looking out of the window of Han Muche's bedroom.

Shen Chen himself was surprised when he remembered which room their bedroom was so familiar.

Call. In fact, you can't see anything from the window at all. But Shen Chen still quietly stuck his head on the window.

The skin of the face touches the cold temperature of the window.

Shen Chen waited quietly for a while.

I said in my heart, I feel that you're okay, and that's fine.

Removing his face from the window, Shen Chen yawned and walked towards his bedroom.

Because he didn't have the strength, he felt that he was walking bumpy, and he couldn't help but be glad that everyone was sleeping at this time, and no one saw him look so embarrassed.

Behind him, a bedroom door creaked open.

Shen Chen paused, but did not look back.

Until a voice with a tone of surprise sounded, "Shen Chen? ”

"Why are you here?" The man walked over step by step, and the oil lamp he was carrying reflected two figures on the ground that were getting closer and closer.

Shen Chen could imagine the way the man said this with a frown.

Frowning, Shen Chen quickly turned around and hugged the person behind him.

Han Muche was caught off guard by Shen Chen's hug, so he had to stretch out his arm carrying the lamp and let Shen Chen hug him tightly.