There is another person who hasn't slept all night, and that is Jubei.

He turned his body at night and squinted his eyes, and sure enough, he saw the black shadow watching him at the end of the bed, because he had gathered his wings and feet, and the black shadow stood there as in his memory, looking at him with a pair of red eyes, but now he could see more clearly that the black shadow's eyes were flame-like.

Jubei slowly opened his eyes, intending to face it head-on, but as soon as he opened his eyes, the black shadow moved, but instead of attacking, it suddenly flew backwards, and then opened his black mouth and silently screamed at Jubei, who raised his hands in fright, and flew out of the window with a few shouts.

Zhu Bei put down his hand in shock, just in time to see the black shadow flying out of the window, he immediately got out of bed and came to the window to look out, the black shadow was gone, and there was only a little black gas left on the sculpture.

Jubei thought about it all night, but he didn't think clearly about the meaning of the black shadow's sudden departure, if it was because he was afraid of him? How is that possible?

Early the next morning, Jubei yawned and came to the restaurant for dinner, and in the process of breakfast, the third, fifth and ninth uncles came and went in a hurry, and left the castle after greeting each other.

On the way back to the room after breakfast, Zhu Bei met Brother Rui again, and Sister Hong and Sister Tong left in a hurry.

He stood in the hallway for a moment, confused, then turned and walked up the stairs, and soon came to the door of the room of the head of the house, his father.

Jubei knocked lightly on the door, but there was no reaction inside, and he frowned and knocked harder.

"Young Master Ran? Why are you here? "Steward Zhu just brought breakfast up, but I didn't expect to see Young Master Ran taking the initiative to find the head of the family.

Zhu Bei turned around and saw Butler Zhu holding a tray with breakfast on it, he frowned and asked, "Has my father always eaten breakfast in the room?" He remembered that his father used to have breakfast with them.

Steward Zhu explained with a smile: "In the past two years, the head of the family has been busy, and sometimes he gets up late, so as long as it is past the usual time to get up, I will bring breakfast and wake up the head of the house." ”

Jubei said he understood, "I'll take it." He took the tray from Steward Zhu's hand.

Steward Zhu didn't see outside, smiled and gave the tray to Zhu Bei, and then knocked on the door vigorously, and after a while, there was a response from inside, "Come in~!" ”

Steward Zhu unlocked the door and walked in, followed by Zhu Bei.

When the two came to the bed, Zhu Bei was surprised to see his father sitting weakly at the head of the bed, and he was even more haggard.

"Father? Good morning! Jube pretended not to notice and said good morning.

"Hmm." The head of the house just hummed lightly and didn't pay much attention to Zhu Bei.

Steward Zhu said to the head of the house in surprise: "Seventh Master, it just so happens that Young Master Ran is coming to you, this breakfast..."

"Put it aside, I'll eat it later."

"Hey, then I'll go out first, Young Master Ran, just put breakfast on the table here." Butler Zhu instructed Zhu Bei to put breakfast on the table aside, and then took his leave of the room.

Zhu Bei put down his breakfast, and then looked around with his spiritual eyes, and saw that there was a lot of black gas left in the entire room, especially on his father's body, the black gas was even heavier.

The seventh master, the head of the family, looked at his son and looked at his room, he didn't say anything, and when his son looked over, he asked, "Is there something wrong with me?" ”

Jubei blinked and walked to his father: "I have some questions for you, don't you get up now?" ”

Standing beside the bed, Jubei didn't go any further, and at such a close distance he could see the wrinkles on his father's face very clearly, and he guessed that it was true.

The seventh master turned his gaze away solemnly and looked at his son, "There is nothing important today." What do you want to ask? ”

Zhu Bei sat on the edge of the bed, ignoring his father's slightly serious eyes, and asked innocently and curiously, "Father, I remember that the phoenix statue at the door has been there since the ancestors, right?" ”

"Well, you haven't read the family annals?" The Seventh Master frowned.

Jubei hurriedly explained: "I've finished reading." I just want to confirm, is the sacred bird enshrined by our Zhu family really a phoenix? ”

The Seventh Master's eyebrows did not relax, "There is no doubt about it." ”

Zhu Bei saw that his father's answer was categorical, but he was a little weak-hearted, could he really think too much?

"You had another nightmare last night?" The seventh master knew that Zhu Bei would have nightmares since he was a child, and every time he said that he saw a ghost catch him, in fact, he was a father not because he didn't believe in his son's words, but he couldn't let others know that his son was timid, after all, in the prophecy handed down from the ancestral hall, the next owner of the divine bird was not Zhu Bei's generation, and it was possible that he would be the next generation, and from his son's extraordinary birth and some strange things he encountered later, he firmly believed that his son or grandson was the prophesied person.

Zhu Bei hesitated for two seconds before nodding: "I saw that the black shadow came out from under the phoenix statue, and I saw clearly that the black shadow was not a phoenix." ”

The seventh master was surprised and immediately sat up straight: "What did you say?" Ahem..."

"Father," Zhu Bei saw his father coughing, and quickly got up to pour water for his father to drink, "You drink some water." Jubei approached his father and reached out to caress his father's back, and he drove the spiritual power to operate into the spiritual chain on his wrist, activating the dispel talisman array inside.

After coughing, the seventh master took the water cup and took a few sips, and then raised his head again comfortably, and his face became even paler.

Zhu Bei's brows furrowed, and he silently increased the dispersion of fluctuations.

"I'm fine, I'm not old enough to need your care," the seventh master handed the water cup to his son and continued to lean back against the head of the bed, stopping his son's hand behind him.

Jubei withdrew his hand and nodded, took the water cup and put it on the head of the bed, "I have studied family history, but it is not easy to be the head of the family, right?" ”

The seventh master leaned on the head of the bed a little weakly and nodded: "If you can, I don't want you to take over the position of the head of the family, but there is no way, as long as I establish a contractual relationship with the divine bird, I can sense its preferences, it likes you, and it likes you more than the previous generations of family heads who have chosen in the past." Babe, you can't escape. ”

Zhu Bei lowered his head, and heard his father call his nickname again, he had mixed feelings in his heart, his father had actually been struggling with him all along, right?

The Seventh Master looked at the ceiling and sighed, "Actually, compared to those branches that have severed their relationship with the Divine Bird, they are luckier than us. Since you left, I have seen some things clearly, and I have also guessed the meaning of your nightmares, and now I don't need to say more, you can also see it clearly, right? That mythical bird is not a phoenix... Ahem, ahem... Ahem..."

"Father?" As soon as Zhu Bei was surprised that his father would talk to him, he saw his father coughing suddenly and violently, and he hurriedly reached out again, but this time he felt resistance, "Bastard, get out of the way!" ”

The spiritual power in Zhu Bei's eyes spelled out, activating all the runes on the spirit chain.

"Poof, poof.." Twice, Jubei's hand touched his father without hindrance, but his father also stopped coughing and passed out.

"Father? Father? Dad, wake up. Zhu Bei saw the spirit chain sweep around a few circles of rune array ability, quickly dispersing the black qi entangled in his father's body, but the life aura on his body was very weak.

Seeing that he couldn't wake up his father, Zhu Bei turned his head to look around the house, and saw that all the black gas was dispelled, but he didn't guarantee that the thing would come again.

Jube frowned, laid his father flat, covered the quilt, and sat on the edge of the bed in contemplation.

"Whew...," there was the howling of the wind outside the window, and the curtains were rustled by the wind.

Jubei walked over and wanted to close the window, but he saw that it was clear and calm outside the window, but his window was windy? Blinking his eyes and opening his eyes again, Jube saw the initiator.

The huge black shadow of the bird froze in mid-air, waving its wings in his direction, and the wind was getting stronger and stronger.

Zhu Bei took a deep breath, grabbed the windowsill, didn't let himself be blown away, and ignored the furniture behind him being blown over, he looked coldly at the black shadow that now looked a bit like a phoenix,

"I don't care what kind of person you are, dare to deceive the Zhu family for hundreds of years, I, absolutely not, let you go!"

The black shadow suddenly stopped fanning, tilted its huge head to look at Jubei, and then suddenly opened its large mouth and blew black flames at Jubei.

Zhu Bei was startled, and immediately blocked the front with both hands, and activated the rune array of the spirit chain again, and the effect was obvious, he blocked the black flames.

Zhu Bei saw that the flames disappeared, and at the same time, he breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, the huge black shadow was gone?

Zhu Bei's face changed greatly, and he immediately turned to look at his father's bed, which was empty, "Father~!?" ”

In a panic, he took a few steps forward and caught a glimpse of the door being open, and Jubei immediately ran out, "Father~"

There was no corridor outside the door, and Jube saw that there was a staircase going upstairs on one side and going down the stairs on the other, and he ran down.

When he reached the first floor, he saw Steward Zhu who had fallen to the ground, and hurried over to probe his breath and breathe;

Zhu Bei breathed a sigh of relief, Steward Zhu was fine, he should have been knocked unconscious.

He ran past Steward Zhu to the door, just in time to see his father sleepwalking towards the sculpture, "Father~!" Father~! Don't go, wake up,"

Jube shouted as she ran over, hoping to wake up her father.

However, the Seventh Master still sleepwalked under the sculpture, did not stay, and disappeared directly through the sculpture in front of Zhu Bei.

Jubei ran over and leaned on the sculpture, "Dad? Father~?! ”

Seeing his father devoured by the sculpture, Zhu Bei's eyes turned red, "Bastard, you give my father back." ”

He clenched his hand into a fist and hammered it on the sculpture, even if he added a spiritual power bonus, Zhu Bei only felt pain in his hand, but he couldn't shake the sculpture at all.

Zhu Bei withdrew his two trembling hands, the back of his hands was already bruised and broken, and there was blood flowing out, only to see that there were blood stains left in the place where he had just been beaten.

Jube walked back to the castle and took a turn and dragged out two heavy iron chairs and hammers.

He pursed his lips and picked up the hammer without saying a word and smashed it at the sculpture, "Boom. Rumble. Rumble. Click..."

The wooden handle of the hammer broke, and the hammer fell to the side.

Jube gasped and looked at the last foot of the sculpture's forehead, and he picked up the iron chair and slammed it up again.

With the final blow, the iron chair also fell apart, and the sculpture finally shook and fell to the ground unsteadily, "Bang, bang..."

After the whole sculpture fell to the ground, it was very easy to break, and it fell directly into several petals.

Zhu Bei climbed up and picked up the sculpture residue on the base, looking for a long time and didn't see any mechanism, "Bastard~!" You come out for me..."

Jube kicked the base angrily, his hands were already red with his own blood, and blood was still dripping on the ground at this time.

Zhu Bei squatted down sadly, he didn't believe in evil and looked again to see if there was a formation or something, he also let himself slowly calm down, and silently thought in his heart that he was calm, rational, and not impulsive.

Still didn't find anything on the base, Zhu Bei pursed his lips and glanced around, then looked at his hand, and jumped off the base to deal with the injury on his hand first, he calmed down and couldn't think about the pain.

However, as soon as he turned around, he stopped, and quickly turned to look at the bloodstains on the base, only to see that the bloodstains were somewhat scribbled out of two words; Ancestral temple!