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It's not the first time Lu Yifan has come to this secret room in the Vermilion Bird Palace, the last time he came was in the New Year's season, and the person who brought him here at that time was a black-clothed guard, and the purpose of coming here was to see the old man Qiu Ming and Yan Shuangyi, and it was also that meeting that time that Lu Yifan used a great favor to exchange the old man Qiu Ming for an opportunity to quietly leave the academy.

And tonight, the person who brought Lu Yifan out of his courtyard was still the black-clothed guard, and it was Mo Bai, the second captain of the black-clothed guard, who personally invited him.

The wind is raging and the snow is cold. Mo Bai came to visit late at night with a group of black-clothed guards, just to invite Lu Yifan here, this situation is very familiar to Lu Yifan, a whole year has passed, and when the same scene from the past last year was staged again, Lu Yifan suddenly had a sense of the vicissitudes of life and embarrassment.

And this time, Mo Bai still only invited Lu Yifan alone. As for the other people in the room, they were ordered by the black-clothed guards not to leave the courtyard casually for half a step until Lu Yifan came back, otherwise they would be dealt with in accordance with the rules of the Holy Soul Academy. This kind of treatment, which is almost equivalent to being under house arrest, made Liu Sandao, who has a free and uninhibited temperament, almost pull out the knife, but fortunately, Lu Yifan came forward to stop him, so he didn't make any big mess in the snowy night.

This is the Holy Soul Academy, and Lu Yifan knows very well in his heart that as long as he is still in the realm of the academy, no one will be able to escape the vision of the old man Qiu Ming and the strong people in the academy.

The rather old secret room is still empty now, everything is exactly the same as when Lu Yifan came here last year, and even the slightly rotten smell in the air is no different from last year's memory.

With the experience of the last time, this time Lu Yifan did not show any panic and discomfort, when he was brought to the door of the secret room by Mo Bai, he didn't even need Mo Bai to explain, Lu Yifan pushed the door and walked in, calmly and calmly, acting as if he was going back to his own home.

Lu Yifan stood quietly in the dim and empty secret room, he could feel that there was a person standing in the corner of the secret room at this moment, although the endless darkness made him unable to see clearly, but the subconscious feeling made Lu Yifan guess that the person was very likely to be the dean of the Holy Soul Academy, the old man of Qiu Ming.

Qiu Ming stood silently in the dark, he didn't deliberately hide his aura, because he was here to wait for Lu Yifan. As soon as Lu Yifan entered the door, Qiu Ming was silently paying attention to him and was not in a hurry to speak.

Qiu Ming never opened his mouth, and Lu Yifan didn't open his mouth either, and the two of them stood quietly in the dark secret room, looking at each other quietly through a layer of darkness like clouds.

"I haven't seen you for a year, and now you're a second-turn soul!

In the darkness, Qiu Ming's old and kind voice quietly sounded from the darkness, not loud, but it made Lu Yifan hear every word clearly.

In the direction from which the voice came, Lu Yifan bowed respectfully and said softly: "Student Lu Yifan, I have seen the dean!"

"Okay!" Qiu Ming agreed with a faint smile, and then his thin and short figure slowly walked towards Lu Yifan, and in his eyes that looked at Lu Yifan, there was always a flash of scrutiny, "When you walked out of this secret room last year, you were still a childish child, and when I see you here again this year, you have become an out-and-out adult!"

"Speaking of which, Yifan would also like to thank the Dean for giving me the opportunity to leave the academy to truly hone my life and death!" Lu Yifan smiled quite modestly.

"Haha...... In your opinion, I sold you a small favor, but you don't know how many times I have been accused by the two adults from Jinling City in the past year for this little favor!" Qiu Ming laughed and said, "You just leave, why do you want to take the eldest lady of the Han family? Fortunately, you all came back safely in the end, otherwise the old man is afraid that he really doesn't know how to explain to Lord Lu and Lord Han!"

"This matter is indeed a lack of consideration, and it has caused a lot of inconvenience to the dean, and I hope that the dean will forgive me!" Lu Yifan smiled, and arched his hand at Qiu Ming as he spoke.

"Hey, I'm just talking about it casually, you don't have to take it seriously!" Qiu Ming waved his hand and smiled, at this moment he had already walked in front of Lu Yifan, the thin Qiu Ming stood in front of the tall Lu Yifan, a head shorter than Lu Yifan, with a smile in his eyes, and there seemed to be a hint of something else in the smile, "I have also heard of what you have done in the southwest, it is worthy of being a disciple of my Holy Soul Academy, and it is worthy of being the son of Lu Haoqian, the Duke of Wending, and it is really a talent blessed by God, Wang Zuozhi's general!"

Lu Yifan had already seen through the almost die-hard relationship between Qiu Ming and the Emperor Ling as early as last year, and the reason why Qiu Ming praised himself so much was not that he had brought any special glory to the Holy Soul Academy, but because Lu Yifan had helped the Emperor to eradicate the bully Lou Zong in the southwest this time. To put it bluntly, Qiu Ming was happy because Lu Yifan was loyal to assist the emperor in his affairs, and then he could be so sure of what Lu Yifan had done.

In Qiu Ming's eyes, the current Lu Yifan seems to be a good general who can faithfully assist the emperor in the future, so the more Lu Yifan performs well, the more pleased he will naturally be.

The Holy Soul Academy itself is the place where the foundation for the Emperor to continuously provide a steady stream of strong people. Because of this, anyone who is not loyal to the Emperor, whether he is a mentor or a student, must not stay in the Holy Soul Academy.

Although Lu Yifan was dissatisfied in his heart with his repeated reduction to becoming a pawn of the Emperor, as Qiu Ming said, he was the son of Lu Haoqian, the Duke of Wending, after all, and he was a student of the Holy Soul Academy, and compared with the Sect Master of the Holy Domain, he was naturally closer to the Emperor. Therefore, for Qiu Ming's praise to him, of course he laughed it off, and he would not be stupid enough to excuse anything.

"Lou Zong's removal depends entirely on His Majesty the Emperor's foresight, and I am just a small link in the whole plan!" Lu Yifan said with a smile, but he didn't want to dwell on this issue anymore, so he hurriedly changed the conversation and asked, "By the way, I don't know what happened to Lord Dean ordering the black-clothed guard to pass me on late at night?"

"It's mainly that I haven't seen you in a year, so I'd like to see how you're doing!" Qiu Ming politely greeted.

However, Lu Yifan naturally didn't take Qiu Ming's words seriously, so he didn't answer, but quietly waited for Qiu Ming to continue to speak. And Qiu Ming saw that Lu Yifan was unmoved, a trace of strangeness appeared in his eyes, and then he still smiled without changing his face: "And I heard that there are two strange young people who came back with you this time, one of them is Xie Yun, the second son of Wenyang City. There is also a famous bandit in the Xihuang Mountain area, called Liu Sandao. I wonder if it's true?"

"This matter is absolutely true!" Lu Yifan knew that this matter would definitely not be hidden from Qiu Ming, so he just took this opportunity to ask Qiu Ming for personal favors again, "Both of them are confidant brothers I met during this trip to the southwest, and the matter of Wenyang City must have been heard by Lord Dean, and now Xie Yun's family is in the middle of the road, and there is no relatives and no reason, so now I am his brother." And Liu Sandao is just as the dean said, he was a bully who lived by robbing some local rich people in the Xihuang Mountain, and a thief who barely made a living, although his words and deeds and his actions were inappropriate, but he was also a good man, I hit it off with this person at first sight, and he also saved my life three times, so I didn't want him to continue to be a thief in the mountains, so I invited him out of the mountain and became a confidant brother with me, and there will be many of my own people to take care of him wherever I go in the future!"

"Oh!" Qiu Ming didn't seem to care much about the origin of Xie Yun and Liu Sandao, nodded to himself, and then said lightly, "You will inevitably cause some unnecessary trouble if you bring two strangers into the academy, and it's not good to come out and go in after all, you go to find Zhao Yun tomorrow and get two sets of Vermilion Bird Academy robes for them to wear!"

As soon as Qiu Ming's words came out, Lu Yifan couldn't help but be stunned. He never expected that before he opened his mouth to mention this matter, Qiu Ming would take the initiative to say this way.

"Lord Dean, do you mean to put Xie Yun and Liu Sandao in the Vermilion Bird Academy?" Lu Yifan asked in surprise.

"Xie Yun doesn't care, it's just that Liu Sandao is over twenty years old, and it is not in accordance with the rules of the academy to admit him, so letting him wear the robe of the Vermilion Bird Academy is to hide people's eyes, but it doesn't mean that he can do things as a student of the Vermilion Bird Academy, do you understand what I mean?" Qiu Ming looked at Lu Yifan and said with a smile.

"I want to ...... I understand what the dean meant!" Lu Yifan nodded in sudden realization.

"Yifan, let me ask you, don't you wonder why I chose to let the two of them stay in the academy so happily?" Qiu Ming asked with a deep meaning.

"This ......" If you want to say that you are not curious, it is definitely false, but the current Lu Yifan is a little confused about Qiu Ming's intentions, so he doesn't dare to speculate, "Lord Dean's decision naturally has your reason, how can it be my turn to guess here at will!"

"Haha...... Okay, you Lu Yifan, I think you have improved far more than your cultivation in the past year, but also your city!" Qiu Ming said and poked his head, looking very funny, like an old naughty boy.

"Lord Dean, arranging Liu Sandao and Xie Yun is the purpose of you recruiting me here?" Lu Yifan smiled awkwardly, and at the same time quietly changed the topic.

"Of course not!" Qiu Ming shook his head and smiled, "I asked you to come here because an old friend wants to meet you, and he has been waiting for me for almost a month!"

"Old friend?" Lu Yifan looked at the darkness around him in surprise, "Who is it?"

"Young master, it's me!"

Before Lu Yifan's words fell, he only heard a slightly old laugh suddenly coming from outside the door, and then before Lu Yifan turned his head, he only heard the door being gently pushed open with a "squeak", and then an old man in a moon-white robe with kind eyebrows walked in slowly.

"Ancient!" Lu Yifan recognized at a glance who it was, he was the Soul King powerhouse who had been following his father's side, almost all of Lu Yifan's cultivation when he was a child benefited from this person's guidance, and his status in the Lu Mansion was not low, and everyone in the mansion would respectfully call him when they met, ancient. Especially in Lu Yifan's eyes, Gu Gu is more like his grandfather, not only guiding his own cultivation path, but also teaching himself many principles of life.

It's just that since Lu Yifan came to the Holy Soul Academy, he has never seen the ancient, and when he suddenly met today, Lu Yifan of course felt a heartfelt touch, and then he took three steps and two steps to meet him, grabbed the ancient arm, and asked excitedly: "Ancient, why did you come to the Holy Soul Academy? Are my parents okay?"

"Okay, good, my lord and lady are very good, what they are most worried about is you, young master!" Gu Gu was also very excited to see Lu Yifan, a pair of loving old eyes looked Lu Yifan up and down vigorously, as if he wanted to completely understand the changes in Lu Yifan in this short period of time, this feeling is like an elder's concern for a younger person who has not seen him for a long time, which makes Lu Yifan feel extremely warm," The young master really deserves to be a genius in the sky, Mrs. really did not accumulate virtue and do good deeds in vain, if the young master's achievements today are seen by adults, I am afraid that adults will be happy for a few days and will not be able to sleep. Haha......"

After confirming that Lu Yifan was indeed intact and not even a single hair was injured, Gu Fang nodded with satisfaction, and then walked to Qiu Ming's side with Lu Yifan.

"During this time, there is Dean Lao Qiuming, on behalf of my family lord and wife, I once again thank Dean Qiu Ming for taking care of my young master!" Gu arched his hand and said to Qiu Ming, "The young master can make such rapid progress, and it is inseparable from Dean Qiu Ming's teachings, and after I go back to tell my lordship, my lord will definitely thank Dean Qiu Ming again!"

"Hehe, ancient and polite!" Qiu Ming waved his hand casually, "Since Yifan entered the Holy Soul Academy, Lord Lu has sent people to send gold and silver to my Holy Soul Academy, these old men have all written down, as long as he is a student of the academy, teach him what the old man should do!

Hearing this, Lu Yifan could be regarded as completely understanding, it turned out that from the day he entered the academy, Lu Haoqian had been secretly working for him to make up and down relationships. Thinking of this, Lu Yifan was more and more deeply moved that he could have such a father.

In fact, since he came out of Xihuang Mountain, Lu Yifan's heart has been in an extremely tangled state, he has clearly known from the spirit of the underworld that he is the queen of the Xihuang Underworld, and the ironclad evidence is like a mountain that does not allow him not to believe it at all. But the question is, if he is the queen of the underworld, then who are his parents now? Lu Yifan's biggest wish now is to figure out all this as soon as possible, no matter what the result is, in his heart, Lu Haoqian and Liu Qingyuan will always be his Lu Yifan's parents.

"Now that Yifan has returned, then I will return him to you in good condition, so you can rest assured, right?" Haha......" Qiu Ming laughed at the ancient.

"That's that, what do I have to worry about in Dean Qiu's old decay......

"Wait a minute!" Without waiting for Qiu Ming and Gu to finish speaking, Lu Yifan suddenly had a thought in his mind, and then looked at the two of them in surprise, frowning and said, "Listening to the meaning of your words, how do you say that I seem to be leaving the academy?"

"Yifan, otherwise, why do you think that the ancient people came all the way from Jinling City to find you?" Qiu Ming asked with a smile.

"This ......"

"Also, if it weren't for the fact that you couldn't stay in the academy for two days, how could I allow you to leave Liu Sandao and Xie Yun by your side so easily?" Qiu Ming continued, but his words really stunned Lu Yifan.

"What do you mean I can't stay for two days?I've just returned to the academy, and I'm not old enough to leave the academy, why ......" Lu Yifan looked at Qiu Ming and Gu in confusion, "What do you mean by this?"

"This is the purpose of my special trip to summon you overnight, Gu has something to say to you!" Qiu Ming looked at Lu Yifan with a smile, and nodded at Gu Gu as he spoke.

"Gu, tell me, what kind of medicine is sold in this gourd?" Lu Yifan focused his eyes on Gugu's body, and there was both doubt and anxiety in his eyes.

Under Lu Yifan's gaze, Gu Gu slowly retracted the smile on his face, and replaced it with a solemn look.

"Young master, on the orders of the adults, as soon as the New Year passes, you have to leave the Holy Soul Academy with the old man and rush back to Jinling City!"

"Why?" Lu Yifan asked.

"The Jinling court is changing, and my lord is for your future