In the middle of the night, Longzhou Mansion, which had been lively all day, finally quieted down. The vast and huge city, the wide and criss-crossing streets, has long been devoid of a single figure, only a faint sound of beating people in the distance.

After a full day of joyful and excited celebrations, both the powerful and wealthy families and the people in the slums were exhausted at this time and fell asleep early. Because they also have to be in a good mood and state to meet tomorrow, the first day of the new year. A good start on the first day will mean that the following year will be accompanied by good luck.

At this time, the Lu family was already quiet and peaceful, and the huge courtyard of the Lu family was endless, but the lights were on one hand that could be counted, and most of the people had already fallen asleep.

Only the few sparse attics still flickered with dim candlelight.

In the huge Lu family compound, dozens of night patrol guards carried torches back and forth in various alleys.

Because the previous murderous demon has not been dealt with until now and the New Year Sacrifice will be held tomorrow, the high-level leaders of the Lu family unanimously requested that the number of patrols and guards be doubled tonight to ensure that such a major day as the Spring Festival passes smoothly and steadily, and also to ensure the normal holding of the New Year's Festival tomorrow.

All the guards are fully guarded and do not spare any corner.

One of the guards happened to patrol in front of Lu Yan's house, and just saw that the courtyard was still lit up, and the guards who took the lead glanced at it slightly and wanted to go up and knock on the door to ask if there was anything abnormal.

"Head, that's Young Master Lu Yan's courtyard, Steward Fu said don't bother him. Just as the captain of the guard reached out to knock on the door, a young guard in the back of the line suddenly spoke.

"Oh, is it? This is where Young Master Yan, who made the cultivation of the entire Lu family change for the better with a single sentence?" The captain of the guard stopped what he was doing, then glanced at the young guard who had just spoken meaningfully, and then asked with some suspicion.

"Yes, this is indeed Young Master Yan's home, but you are new to our Lu family, so you don't understand," the guard said with some caution.

"That's what you said, I heard about this young master when I just came back from outside, and I admired him a lot, but I didn't expect him to live in such a humble place!" said the leader of the meeting with some disbelief.

"Well, I don't know what the reason for this is, this kind of thing is only understood by the higher-ups," the guard said with a wry smile.

"Let's go, then don't bother him. The leader of the guards waved his hand and left with the group.

At this time, Lu Yan's cultivation in the room had also entered a critical moment, and the demon crystal in the palm of his hand was already only the size of a soybean, and it was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At this time, streams of white heat were bubbling above Lu Yan's head, forming a layer of mist above. His forehead was already covered with beads of sweat, Lu Yan's eyes were clenched, his teeth were clenched, and his face was slightly pale. The aura on his body was also violently fluctuating and vibrating.

"Bang... Bang..."

At this critical juncture, Lu Yan could even hear the sound of his heart beating. However, thinking of the next crisis that he might face at any time, Lu Yan was ruthless in his heart, and the speed of absorption in his hand accelerated a few points, and at this time, Lu Yan's strength had also reached the critical point of breakthrough.

Lu Yan only felt that the feeling of swelling in the dantian was getting stronger and stronger, and the breakthrough could come at any time.

Just when Lu Yan was about to rush through the pass in one go, he suddenly remembered that this was in the Lu family, and his scalp was numb and his heart palpitated.

At this time, a layer of cold sweat had already broken out all over Lu Yan's body, if he didn't deliberately control it, it would be easy to attract the attention of people because of the breakthrough!

At the moment, my mind quickly turned, and soon there was a way. While speeding up the absorption of the remaining demon crystal energy, he took dozens of mid-grade spirit stones from the space ring and placed them beside him.

With a "bang", the red demon crystal exploded into a puddle of gray powder after the last trace of energy was absorbed.

Lu Yan didn't have time to think about it, so he picked up a spirit stone from the side and absorbed it.

"Boom!"

At the moment when the spirit stone was just in hand, a loud buzzing sound sounded in the dantian, and then a powerful momentum burst out from Lu Yan's body, blowing Lu Yan's long hair up and fluttering in the wind.

Under Lu Yan's deliberate control, that powerful momentum came and went quickly.

"Have you finally broken through?" Lu Yan opened his eyes slightly, and a dazzling red essence suddenly crossed his clear eyes!

Because of the experience of previous breakthroughs and his own deliberate control, Lu Yan's breakthrough this time was generally relatively smooth and did not cause much movement.

But it still woke up the demon bear. The demon bear looked at Lu Yan blankly, a little puzzled.

But Lu Yan didn't have time to take care of the demon bear at the moment, because the moment he broke through, the dantian in his body was in a state of extreme hunger and thirst, and the demand for spiritual energy was particularly urgent.

Lu Yan immersed his entire mind in adaptation after the breakthrough, and the medium-grade spirit stone in his hand was quickly absorbed and transformed into pure fire flame true qi.

And after the continuous stream of aura was absorbed and transformed, the aura on Lu Yan's body gradually stabilized and slowly strengthened.

In this way, about an hour passed, and the aura on Lu Yan's body no longer continued to grow, and it had been fixed in the middle of the third layer of the day after tomorrow.

Lu Yan stopped the movement in his hand and then opened his eyes again, and the whole person exuded a fierce momentum, like a sharp sword with a blade, and the cold qi was pressing.

Just the momentum that emanated invisibly already made the demon bear feel that his breathing was a little stagnant, and he had to take a few steps back, looking at Lu Yan with frightened eyes.

"Brush!" Lu Yan put away all his momentum, and instantly returned to the appearance of a weak scholar, looking at the demon bear with a smile, feeling very comfortable in his heart.

Glancing at the few spirit stones left on the bed, and then at the demon bear who was still frightened in the distance, Lu Yan showed a smile at the corner of his mouth, and then sent the remaining spirit stones to the demon bear with a flick of his big hand.

When the demon bear saw the spirit stone, he instantly put all his fears behind, glanced at Lu Yan gratefully, and then leaned on the spirit stone with his whole body and absorbed it directly.

Regarding the demon bear's behavior, Lu Yan was not surprised at all. This guy is much better now than before, so Lu Yan also hopes that his strength will become stronger soon, which will also be a very big help for him in the future.

After moving his joints, Lu Yan got out of bed and walked straight outside around the demon bear.

Coming to the courtyard, Lu Yan glanced up at the sky, then walked to the pond and took off his soaked clothes and threw them aside. He jumped into the pond with a pop, and immediately swam happily.