Chapter 18: Return, Blame
Chen Yuan held the egg that fell from the sky, and he didn't know what to do for a while. At this time, Lu Shu had been freed from the shackles, and it walked up to Chen Yuan and looked at the egg in Chen Yuan's arms with a look of awe on his face. It told Chen Yuan that this egg had an extraordinary origin, and it should have been mistaken by Qiqi, and the ball of light that hit it into the water disturbed it, making it extremely sensitive to Qiqi's energy breath, so it had the behavior of seriously injuring Qiqi as soon as it came out of the water. As for why it ended up in Chen Yuan's arms, the biggest possibility is that the beast royal aura on Chen Yuan's body attracted this egg, making it feel cordial, and subconsciously regarded Chen Yuan as a relative.
Due to the seriousness of the big ash's injury, the matter of returning to the village can only be put on hold temporarily, and then go back after the big ash's injury is better, so with the injured big ash, Chen Yuan and Lu Shu returned to Lu Shu's residence. Fortunately, Big Ash's own recovery ability is good, and Lu Shu found a lot of healing herbs for it, and in just three days, Big Ash's injuries recovered. And in the state of being seriously injured and dying, in order to resist the continued destruction and corrosion of the body by the attack energy of the big ash, the body of the big gray spontaneously awakened an ability called "tenacity", when attacked by strong attributes, tenacity can help the big gray increase nearly thirty percent of the elemental resistance. In other words, after having the tenacity skill, the big gray only needs to take about 70% of the damage when facing the attribute attack, and the rest of the damage will be offset by tenacity. This also means that when facing enemies with elemental damage as the main means of attack, Big Ash will have a big advantage, which can be regarded as a blessing in disguise.
After three days of recuperation, the big gray returned to the previous state of vitality, and they embarked on the journey home accompanied by Lu Shu, this time there was no more attack, after all, even a vicious beast like Qi Qi has been fatally hit, and there will be no more beasts that can't think of touching Lu Shu's moldy head.
Looking at the familiar stone tablets and warning slogans, Chen Yuan couldn't help but feel emotional, originally just wanted to take a few red jade zhuguo to verify his ideas, but he didn't expect a few twists and turns in the middle, he accidentally broke into the forbidden land, and also had the power of qi and blood, got acquainted with Lushu, and expected a one-to-two-day trip, but stayed in the forbidden land of Xingchen Lake for nearly a week.
Bidding farewell to Lu Shu, Chen Yuan carried a package that was nearly five times larger than when he came, holding the egg that saved his life in his arms, sitting on the back of the big ash, and running in the direction of the village, the package was filled with many herbs that Lu Shu had collected for him, because Chen Yuan found that for some reason, the herbs that grew in the forbidden land were much stronger than the herbs in the outside world, so he asked Lu Shu to help him collect some in case of emergency.
After being outside for nearly a week, he was hovering on the edge of life and death several times, and Chen Yuan and Da Ash were like arrows. I don't know if it's because of the increase in strength or what, in just over an hour, Chen Yuan can already faintly see the outline of the village. "Whoa!" Ash roared excitedly and sped up again, rushing towards the village like a gust of wind.
"I'm back!" When he came to the entrance of the village and saw the familiar scene in the village, Chen Yuan couldn't help but shout. The shout alarmed most of the village, and everyone opened the door to see whose child was shouting. When they saw Chen Yuan, the whole village seemed a little excited. "This kid is finally back!" "Quick, go and call the old village chief and Qingfeng to say that his family Chenyuan is back!" "I don't know where this kid went, but the old village chief's family is in a hurry!"
The return of Chen Yuan seems to have injected vitality into the village, and the village that originally seemed to be quiet quickly became noisy, and everyone hurriedly approached Chen Yuan to the village, and a few family members who had already gone to call Chen Yuan went. Listening to the gossip of the neighbors, Chen Yuan smiled, smiled very happily, and sure enough, it was the most cordial here.
"Let's let go, let's let go!, the village chief is here!" The crowd parted, revealing Chen Yuan, who was holding an egg inside, carrying a large package, and the big ash on the side. "Chen Yuan!" Ah Lian, who was standing next to Mu Qingfeng, saw her son who had not returned for many days, and she couldn't control her emotions anymore, she rushed forward with a strong step, hugged her son excitedly, looked up and down to see if she was injured, and her tears couldn't stop falling, and she couldn't speak at all.
"Where have you been? You haven't been back for five or six days, and your mother is so worried that she can't sleep all night! On the fourth day after your disappearance, most of the people in the whole village went out to look for you, and your uncle even went to the forest in the south himself, and all the spirit beasts are nothing! Tell me where you went? Why are you lying!" Mu Qingfeng stood aside and asked with a look in his eyes.
Chen Yuan turned around and knelt down towards his father and grandfather, and said with a little shame and regret: "I'm sorry Dad, grandpa, and everyone in the village, Chen Yuan made you worried." Mu Qingfeng wanted to say something, but Mu Yuanshan waved his hand and said: "Okay, it's good to come back, everyone is gone, this kid just came back, let him rest and rest." Qingfeng, I'll talk about something when I go back. Mu Qingfeng had to be called yes.
After dismissing everyone, Chen Yuan's family walked to the residence, Mu Qingfeng didn't speak all the way, Chen Yuan knew that this time his father was afraid that he was really angry. When he returned home, Mu Qingfeng closed the door and said, "Say, why are you lying?" "I went to Xingchen Lake. Chen Yuan saw that he couldn't hide it anymore, so he could only confess. "What! Don't you want to die? It's a forbidden place, and you dare to break in? You have eaten the bear's heart and leopard's guts! It seems that I indulge you too much every day, I think you are too intelligent, and you have to be more thoughtful and calm than your peers, and you will not do some ridiculous things. Have you ever thought about what you and your mother would do if something happened to you? Your grandfather now only has one grandson like you, what will he do? Hmm? You're really angry with me!
Mu Qingfeng couldn't believe his ears, the Star Lake Forbidden Land has been a forbidden area for humans since ancient times, and he didn't know how many people had perished there throughout the ages, how could he never have imagined that his son, who was only ten years old, could make such a bold move. The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and finally got up directly and slapped Chen Yuan in the face.
"Slap!" A crisp slap echoed in the room, Mu Qingfeng's slap was full of strength, and Chen Yuan stumbled, falling a few steps to the side, the entire right side of his face instantly swollen, and a trace of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. In terms of strength, the current Chen Yuan has far surpassed his father, but he did not hide, because he knew that because of his misjudgment, the late return caused by him, and the act of venturing to Xingchen Lake, had turned the worry in the hearts of his family into fear. They are afraid of losing themselves, and this anger from the fear of losing themselves should and can only be borne by themselves.
"Brother Feng, don't do this! he's still a child. He already knew he was wrong. Kuaichen Yuan hurriedly confessed his mistake to your father!" Seeing that Mu Qingfeng slapped his son firmly, Ah Lian, who was also shocked by the three words "Xingchen Lake", came back to her senses, hurriedly stepped forward and hugged Mu Qingfeng, who was still about to do something, and hurriedly said. "Why are you going!" Mu Qingfeng gradually calmed down under the comfort of his wife, and when he saw his son, who lowered his eyebrows and was pleasing to his eyes, and his right cheek was high and swollen, he also regretted his heavy hand slightly, but he still asked the second question with a straight face.
Chen Yuan was silent, because he really couldn't explain it, and the things he had crossed over were too shocking to be convincing at all. At this time, Mu Qingfeng noticed that Chen Yuan's package was significantly larger than when he went out. "What's in the package?" Mu Qingfeng asked. "Some herbs, part of which are wound medicines, can be distributed to the people in the village who often go out hunting, and some of which are Peiyuan's medicinal materials, which can be distributed to the elderly in the village. Chen Yuan opened the package and said truthfully, although he couldn't answer the reason for going to the forbidden land, these medicinal materials were originally meant to be distributed to other people in the village, and there was no need to hide them.
Seeing these medicinal materials, Mu Qingfeng subconsciously thought that this was the purpose of Chen Yuan's trip to Xingchen Lake this time, so he didn't investigate the reason why Chen Yuan went to the forbidden place, but just instructed Chen Yuan to rest, and went out.