Chapter 117: The Wind Rises

On the viewing platform, under the Hongjun pillar.

In the disciples of the Lingxiao Sect who passed by from far and near, they would look here from time to time with strange eyes, Shen Shi, Sun You and Zhong Qingzhu were all silent, after a while, perhaps feeling uncomfortable with this somewhat oppressive atmosphere, Sun You was the first to speak, laughed dryly, and said: "Stone, we all believe in you, and I see that you have a good relationship with Zhong Qinglu on weekdays, how can you be as stalked? But this rumor is said one by one as true, do you know who is behind you?" ”

When she heard Sun You say that Shen Shi and Zhong Qinglu had a good relationship, Zhong Qinglu's eyes flickered slightly, but her expression did not change, and in the end, when Sun You asked Shen Shi where this rumor came from, she also showed a look of listening.

Shen Shi pondered for a moment, and said lightly: "There were only four people present yesterday, except for me, Qinglu has no reason to say such things, so the source of this rumor is afraid that only the Zhong family and the senior brother Ji'an Fuji of the Elixir Hall will come up." ”

"Ji Anfu?"

Sun You and Zhong Qingzhu opened their mouths at the same time, the difference was that Sun You was a little puzzled, and it seemed that he didn't know this person, while Zhong Qingzhu's expression was a little surprised, he looked at Shen Shi, and said, "Why did he go to Zhong's house?"

Shen Shi shook his head slowly and said, "I don't know about this, anyway, these are the people who were present at the time." After a pause, he suddenly frowned, and said thoughtfully, "Speaking of which, I have met this Senior Brother Ji a few times in the past, and it seems that he is not very friendly to me." ”

Zhong Qingzhu was stunned and said, "Why is this?"

Shen Shi thought about it, and just wanted to say something, but after glancing at Zhong Qingzhu, he wanted to say something, then shook his head and smiled lightly, and said: "Who knows, maybe I offended him somewhere, that's it, rumors are still rumors after all, stop at the wise, as long as I don't pay attention to it, it will subside after a while." ”

Sun You and Zhong Qingzhu also looked at each other silently, and there was really no better way to do it without evidence at the moment, so they could only deal with it like this, which could be regarded as a dumb loss. Sun You sighed and said indignantly:

"That Zhong Qinglu is also really, if you come out and explain casually, you can understand everything clearly, why don't you speak?"

Shen Shi originally turned around, and when he heard this, his body paused slightly, but the corners of his mouth flashed a wry smile, but Zhong Qingzhu kept staring at him, hesitated for a moment at this moment, but walked to Shen Shi's side, and said: "Maybe Sister Qinglu has encountered something important in the past two days, and she can't be separated, and she has no other meaning." ”

Shen Shi smiled and smiled at Zhong Qingzhu, his eyes fell on her face, but he looked at her a few more times.

Zhong Qingzhu was stared at by him, and suddenly felt a little inexplicably nervous, his cheeks turned red for no reason, and then he said in a low voice: "What are you looking at me like this?"

Shen Shi smiled and said: "In the past few days since I returned to the mountain, I have seen that you are much more confident and reserved than when we first met on Qingyu Island, and I thought that you had changed a lot. But now it seems that you are still the same girl I knew before, and you are very considerate of other people, especially taking care of Qinglu. ”

Zhong Qingzhu bit his red lips slightly, and then smiled, beautiful and moving, but he didn't say anything more.

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In the following days, Shen Shi has been living on Jinhong Mountain, in addition to the daily fixed cultivation and talisman exercises, he will also take out an hour or two every day to go to the library to read the ancient books, in addition, he has been remembering the weird and disappearing spirit grass on Xiao Hei's body, and he has thought of some methods, thinking about deceiving Xiao Hei a little bit.

Thinking that there might be more than a dozen mountains and countless spiritual grasses hidden in Xiao Hei's body, and there might even be rare elixirs of the highest grade as high as five grades, Shen Shi, who had grown up in the shop since he was a child, was really itchy, and he worked hard to hold Xiao Hei for a while.

It's just that I don't know if it's because of the gift of the dragon bloodline, Xiao Hei looks a lot smarter than before, and he used to be able to do it lightly with one or two spirit crystals, but now this pig has no signs of being fooled again. Regardless of Shen Shi's soft grinding and hard bubbles, Xiao Hei is still mighty and unyielding, and he either sleeps every day, or plays in the valley and forests, and his life is not too comfortable and happy.

But fortunately, Shen Shi has been rare and has a lot of money recently, and with the entry of that Kui Pattern Demon Pill, it can be said that this period of time is the time when Shen Shi has the most spirit crystals since he began to cultivate, so he is not too depressed, at most he is just laughing and scolding a few words of Xiao Hei, and it is okay.

As for the reading side of the study hall, after reading it for a while, Shen Shi also had a rough understanding of the situation in the study hall, but the situation was not very good. It's not that there is something blocking the library, but that there are even ten times more books in the sea of books than he had expected.

In Shen Shi's life, he had never seen such a huge number of books being in the same place at the same time, and at a glance, it was boundless, and it was really as boundless as the ocean. While the Shutang had collected so many scrolls, it was also tasked with storing and protecting many of the Lingxiao Sect's Dao Dharma Divine Powers, and these things were obviously much more important than those broken books that no one had read thousands of years ago. Therefore, the vast majority of the manpower under the library is used to take care of the important books of the sect, and as for the other books, especially the ancient books of the Heavenly Demon King Court era, most of them are directly stacked on the shelves, and no one cares about them anymore.

As for what to say about the classification and careful distinction, there is no need to think about it, not to mention anything else, just the ancient books of the Heavenly Demon Court era are at least more than 300,000 volumes here in the sea of books, even if the people in the Taoist are more knowledgeable and memorized than mortals, but to sink down and carefully watch these books are carefully classified, it is also a tedious and tiring matter that consumes time, effort and energy, and everyone is a cultivator, who has the leisure to waste countless energy and time to do this useless work?

Therefore, after Shen Shi went to Shuhai two or three times, he basically despaired of the possibility of finding some truth about Huang Ming ten thousand years ago, and now he is just a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and he comes to see it casually every day, which can be regarded as an explanation to Gu Lingyun in the future.

Originally, this kind of day was peaceful, and it looked like a bit of a quiet cultivation without contention, but Shen Shi stayed on Jinhong Mountain for more than half a month, but found that his situation was actually a little uncomfortable.

For no other reason, the rumor they thought would soon be put down has not been silent these days, but has become more and more popular, and even more and more bizarre versions have appeared.

Not to mention anything else, just among the rumors that Shen Shi heard, there were legends that in Liuyun City that day, a certain disciple surnamed Shen in Jin Hongshan was treacherous and cunning, coveting the beauty of Miss Zhong's family, and he actually intended to force rape, but the forced rape failed to cause Zhong Nu to return home, and this adulterer actually chased after his family, so there were all kinds of scolding and driving away.

The rumors have reached this point, it is already a little unbelievable, even Sun You, who personally told Shen Shi, said it with a smile with Shen Shi as a joke, but Shen Shi, who was the party concerned, was depressed and couldn't laugh at all. And there is another thing in the middle, that is, Zhong Qinglu has never shown up after such a long time, some people say that she is alchemy, some people say that she is in retreat, and some people fan the flames and say that the eldest lady of the Zhong family is traumatized and dare not see people, and so on, but on the other hand, it also increases the momentum of rumors.

In the end, even Sun You was a little worried, and secretly said to Shen Shi: "Why don't you go down the mountain and stay for a while and come back, as long as you are not there, this rumor has no one to blame, and maybe it will settle down by itself." ”

After thinking about it, Shen Shi also agreed with Sun You's statement, but the depression in his heart really didn't need to be mentioned, and he complained very much in front of Sun You for a while, especially angry with that senior brother Ji'an Fuji.

Sun You was strange and said, "Didn't you still suspect the Zhong family and Ji Anfu at the same time a few days ago, why is he the only one left now?"

Shen Shi said lightly: "If you are Zhong Liancheng, will you really go around to publicize the humiliating thing of your own daughter being forced to rape?"

Sun You suddenly nodded yes.

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In his heart, he recorded a black account for that Ji Anfu, so Shen Shi packed his bags, took Xiao Hei, and went straight down the mountain.

After leaving Jinhong Mountain, he really felt that his ears were a lot cleaner, and after counting the days, it seemed that it was almost the January period agreed with Gu Lingyun that day, and Shen Shi, who was privately organized by the Immortal Society, was still a little interested, so he took Xiao Hei directly to Liuyun City.

At the same time, in the study on the fourth floor of the Liuyun City Immortal Society, Gu Lingyun was sitting on the comfortable and wide chair, holding a file paper in his hand, and was watching intently. In addition to her, there was a witch master sitting on the side, a cup of tea in his hand, and he was gently savoring.

Gu Lingyun stared at the text of the dossier with his eyebrows, and after reading it carefully, he closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, looked at Master Wu, and said:

"This month, the high-grade spiritual materials allocated by the main hall are not bad, roughly the same as before, but the number of demon pills is a little less. ”

The witch master put down the teacup in his hand and said, "This is also a matter of no choice, now there are fewer and fewer high-level demon beasts in the Hongmeng main realm, only in those remote and dangerous wild Jedi can survive, or in more remote and inaccessible remote other worlds, so the natural production is scarce." ”

Gu Lingyun nodded, glanced at the file in her hand again, her eyes swept over the lines of words and numbers, and suddenly she seemed to have found something, her eyes suddenly paused, but she saw one of the entries, and then her voice was a little surprised, and said:

"Hey, there are actually ten rainbow flowers in the main hall this month, which is twice as many as before. Her delicate and good-looking brows furrowed slightly, and she thought about it carefully, but turned her head to Master Wu and said: "I remember that this Phantom Rainbow Flower is a four-grade spirit grass, and its efficacy and use are very good, but it has always been scarce, and it seems that there are restrictions on the production area, so there have never been many, why is there suddenly so much more in the main hall this month?"

The wizard shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.

Gu Lingyun pondered for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and asked, "Mr. Wu, where is this phantom rainbow flower produced, do you know?"

The Witch Master nodded happily this time and said, "I know, it's the Blood Moon Realm." ”