Chapter 340: Big nephew, we meet again! Given Chen Long and Li Ling

Late night, Qin Gu Town.

Cultural Square.

A few scattered stars hung in the sky, their light dim; the pitch-black square was already devoid of people.

The original site here was once a Daoist temple, but later, as the town was rebuilt, most of the buildings were demolished. Only an ancient pagoda remained standing, while the rest was converted into a square for the citizens' leisure and entertainment.

Hum...

At this moment, in the center of the square, beneath the ancient pagoda, a figure sat cross-legged. Qi surged around their body, and a patch of purple light faintly boiled at the Spirit Platform. It was bizarre, extraordinary, and peerless. The terrifying phenomenon caused Ge Changfeng and Qiu Wanmian, not far away, to be moved.

"He has become stronger again. And it's only been a few days?" Ge Changfeng's eye twitched, and he couldn't help but say.

Originally, the feeling Qiu Buyi gave him was unfathomable, but right now, the Qiu Buyi he saw was a vast, chaotic expanse, deep and wide as the sky, to the point where he couldn't even perceive him.

As a descendant of a Pure Yang family, Ge Changfeng knew that Qiu Buyi must have made a major breakthrough during these days of training with Qiu Shangqing.

"My brother's natural talent is no weaker than those descendants of the Daoist Xuan Sect." A different kind of brilliance flashed in Qiu Wanmian's beautiful eyes, revealing deep confidence.

Whoosh...

Just at this moment, Qiu Buyi slowly opened his eyes, waking from his meditative state. The phenomenon around his body immediately dissipated, returning to simplicity and becoming unremarkable.

"Congratulations, brother, on taking another big step forward in the Innate Art." Qiu Wanmian stepped forward and said.

Within the Qiu family, there were few who could master the Innate Art. Qiu Buyi's attainments in this technique were becoming increasingly extraordinary. One day, perhaps he would be able to comprehend the mysteries of the Celestial Master Realm, just like Qiu Shangqing.

"It is all thanks to Uncle Shangqing's guidance." Qiu Buyi chuckled lightly.

During these days of secluded cultivation, he had indeed made significant progress. If he were to encounter that "North Zhang" expert from the teahouse that day again, he was confident he could hold the other party back.

"Recently, has there been any movement in Qin Gu Town?" Qiu Buyi asked.

These days, he had been in secluded cultivation and knew very little about information from the outside world.

"Two days ago, Lou Hechuan had already arrived in Qin Gu Town. Now, this town is completely under the surveillance of the Dao Alliance," Ge Changfeng said in a deep voice.

"Lou Hechuan has come, which means that person from the Dao Alliance headquarters has also arrived." Qiu Buyi's gaze tightened, and he said in a deep voice.

"You mean..." Qiu Wanmian's heart stirred, and a name blurted out.

Yuan Yuan Tian Du!

"The Vice-Guan Master of the White Crane Temple is now in Qin Gu Town?"

In that case, doesn't this small town hide two figures of the Celestial Master level!?

"The current Qin Gu Town is already a net of heaven and earth, a caged beast's trap. Only Given Chen Long would come from afar." Qiu Buyi said in a deep voice.

Such an inconspicuous small town was already a dead end and a dangerous place. Even for Given Chen Long, as long as she dared to appear, she would surely fall into eternal doom, unable to escape.

"Will Given Chen Long come?" Qiu Wanmian couldn't help but ask.

This time, the Dao Alliance had mobilized so many people, and two great Celestial Masters were gathered here. If Given Chen Long didn't come, it would truly become a joke.

"If she comes, then this place will be her burial ground. We happen to be here at the right time, and we can also catch a glimpse of a Celestial Master's demeanor and see that great dragon fall to the earth." Qiu Buyi chuckled lightly.

Clap... clap... clap...

Just at this moment, a round of applause rang out softly in the vast night, coming from far to near.

"As expected of a disciple of a Pure Yang family, truly as arrogant as the sky."

Following the applause, a sound of light laughter and praise came.

Everyone looked up and saw, under the soft moonlight, a beautiful woman walking slowly, followed by a young boy.

"Hehe, a bunch of little dried fish."

The boy stared at Qiu Buyi and the other two, his eyes flashing with brilliant light, and he subconsciously licked the corner of his mouth.

"Who is it?"

Qiu Buyi raised an eyebrow, stared fixedly at the beautiful woman, and shouted in a deep voice.

"Given Chen Long!" The beautiful woman's lips parted slightly, spitting out two words.

Once these words were spoken, the expressions of Qiu Buyi, Qiu Wanmian, and Ge Changfeng changed drastically. They subconsciously took a step back. They had never dreamed that Given Chen Long would actually appear, appearing so openly before them, and she was also a woman of peerless beauty.

"You..."

Qiu Buyi's gaze narrowed into a line, his Spirit Platform trembled, and his soul-aspect was on the verge of leaving his body.

Rumble...

Just at this moment, a terrifying fluctuation surged into the sky, and in an instant, it enveloped the entire square.

Qiu Buyi's expression changed drastically. His vision became increasingly blurred. Everywhere he looked, everything dissipated like smoke and clouds. The sky spun and the earth turned, the stars were gone, the great moon had no light, and even his soul-aspect seemed to be buried in this vast nothingness.

"Young people, you are still too green."

Soft words echoed in his ears. Qiu Buyi slowly raised his head and saw that Given Chen Long was already standing before him, her long, slender legs appearing exceptionally dazzling.

The three of them knelt on the ground, drenched in sweat, their soul-aspects as if imprisoned, trapped in their Spirit Platforms, unable to move at all.

The gap was too great...

In front of the woman before them, they were like infants who had just learned to walk, unstable and ridiculously ignorant.

"Kill or carve, do as you please." Qiu Buyi held his head high and gritted his teeth.

With life and death before him, he could accept his fate, but he could not bow his head.

"You do have the demeanor of a Pure Yang family." Given Chen Long nodded, revealing a look of appreciation.

"Rest assured, I will not kill you. You are not yet worthy of dying by my hands."

Once these words were spoken, Qiu Buyi's heart felt as if it had been fiercely gripped by someone, his blood surged, but his face felt burning hot.

"Which Celestial Master did the Qiu family send?" Given Chen Long changed the subject and asked suddenly.

As the words fell, everyone's expressions changed drastically, but they lowered their heads and remained silent.

Given Chen Long was more terrifying than they had imagined. She actually knew that the Qiu family had a Celestial Master-level expert hiding in Qin Gu Town!?

Given Chen Long saw that the three little ones before her refused to speak, and she just smiled lightly.

"Qiu Shangqing?"

When that name blurted out, the expressions of the three changed again.

Given Chen Long, she even knew this!?

"When the South Zhang was destroyed back then, he was also there. At that time, he was not yet in the Celestial Master Realm; he was just a fledgling." Given Chen Long sneered.

"Go back and tell him that this time, he will leave his life here."

Given Chen Long's expression was indifferent. She took a step forward, picked up Qiu Buyi as if carrying a small chicken, turned into a gust of wind, and disappeared into the vast night.

Such movement, not knowing where she came from, not knowing where she went, marvelous to the extreme, divine and mysterious.

"Given Chen Long... she actually came just like that? Entering a place with no one, are those people from the Dao Alliance eating rice?"

Finally, Ge Changfeng came back to his senses and couldn't help but whisper.

"Nonsense, with her cultivation, who can keep an eye on her?" Qiu Wanmian gritted her teeth, unable to help but worry about Qiu Buyi.

"Is she crazy? To provoke them like this?" Deep shock and suspicion appeared in Ge Changfeng's eyes.

Now it seemed that the so-called net of heaven and earth was no longer a secret in Given Chen Long's eyes. But even so, she still came, and with such great fanfare, without any concealment, and even spared their lives, letting them pass the message?

"A demon of the Wu Wei Sect, truly cannot be measured by common sense." Qiu Wanmian's expression was ugly to the extreme.

"You don't need to worry. Calamity and opportunity are born together. This is Brother Qiu's calamity, but it is also his opportunity." Ge Changfeng said in a deep voice.

"Opportunity? What kind of opportunity is this?" Qiu Wanmian glanced sideways: "If you don't know how to comfort people, then don't speak."

At this moment, Qiu Wanmian was restless.

"Regardless, Given Chen Long has come. This is a big matter. I will go notify Lou Hechuan, and you go notify Celestial Master Qiu." Ge Changfeng said in a concentrated voice.

"Good!"

Qiu Wanmian nodded and acted separately from Ge Changfeng.

Tonight, it was destined to be sleepless.

The night wind blew leisurely, brushing across the lake surface, rippling with sparkling waves.

By the side of Zhuhu, Zhang Fan walked along the embankment, looking at the endless lake water. In the far distance, that chaotic darkness seemed like an abyss, capable of swallowing everything.

These days, he had not stepped out of the house, staying in the hotel, occasionally strolling on this embankment, chatting with that old man who painted.

"Why did your wife leave?" Ge Shuangxiu followed behind and couldn't help but ask.

This morning, Li Miaoyin had left Qin Gu Town in a hurry.

"I asked her to go meet Fang Changle. After all, Jiangnan Province is the territory of Maoshan. I feel that it will be very chaotic here next. If there are people from Maoshan to look after us, we won't be too passive." Zhang Fan said casually.

"Then wouldn't a phone call have sufficed?" Ge Shuangxiu raised his eyelids slightly, saying with deep meaning: "Are you feeling sorry for your wife, afraid that she is taking risks for you?"

"Don't talk nonsense." Zhang Fan rolled his eyes, but a complex emotion surged in his eyes.

Back then in the Ten Thousand Mountains, Li Miaoyin had disregarded everything, risking her life to enter the Great Night Without Light, searching for Zhao Jiexuan's soul-aspect for him.

That night, she even blocked the aftermath of the black iron shard for him.

From that moment on, Zhang Fan indeed instinctively did not want Li Miaoyin to be in danger, which was why he found an excuse to send her away.

"Have you really fallen in love?" Ge Shuangxiu's gaze tightened, looking at Zhang Fan with deep meaning.

"You should know that for us who cultivate the Dao, any movement of desire is not a good thing."

"I know." Zhang Fan nodded: "Living in the red dust, as long as one is human, one cannot be completely devoid of emotion or nature."

"To forget emotion is not to be without emotion."

When the wind passes, the water leaves a trace. You cannot say the wind is fake, empty, and the traces and ripples left behind are also fake.

It is just that after the wind passes, the water traces dissipate, and everything is like the original, empty as if nothing existed.

The realm of a practitioner is also like this. Emptiness can carry all things. After all things rotate and perish, they enter emptiness again. At that time, the fake becomes real, the real hides the fake, carrying Yin and embracing Yang, returning to one.

"This is also cultivation." Zhang Fan said indifferently.

"High-sounding."

Ge Shuangxiu glanced sideways, looking at the boundless lake surface, and couldn't help but say: "Do you think Given Chen Long will come?"

"How many days has it been?"

"She will." Zhang Fan spat out a word.

"Why are you so sure?" Ge Shuangxiu asked.

"Intuition!" Zhang Fan said indifferently.

He had a feeling in his heart that Given Chen Long would definitely come and would appear in this Qin Gu Town.

"Intuition is not bad!"

Suddenly, a soft voice came from behind, carrying thirty percent appreciation and seventy percent playfulness.

Zhang Fan's expression changed suddenly, feeling that this voice was extremely familiar. He turned his head and saw, in the vast night, that woman with the cinnabar mole walking slowly, carrying a figure in her hand, followed by a young boy.

"Given Chen Long!" Zhang Fan gritted his teeth and said.

Ge Shuangxiu's expression changed drastically, his demeanor alert to the extreme.

"Big nephew, we meet again!"

Once these words were spoken, whether it was Qiu Buyi, who was being carried by Given Chen Long, or Ge Shuangxiu, their expressions changed.

Especially Qiu Buyi; he didn't know Zhang Fan and Ge Shuangxiu, yet Given Chen Long's words caused waves in his heart.

Given Chen Long's big nephew!?

The Thirteen Zodiacs were mysterious to the extreme, especially Given Chen Long. Ten years ago, she rebelled against the Human Zodiac, mastered the Five-Form Wrong King, and achieved the Celestial Master position, which made her extremely transcendent within the Wu Wei Sect, and her identity even more mysterious.

Now, she actually called this young man before her "big nephew"!?

"I didn't expect to meet so soon." Zhang Fan said alertly.

"The taste of the Divine Demon Holy Fetus!"

Just at this moment, the boy beside her moved his nose, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Zhang Fan flashed with a different kind of brilliance.

"Divine Demon Holy Fetus!?"

Qiu Buyi looked at Zhang Fan again, and the look of surprise on his face could no longer be hidden.

As a disciple of the Qiu family, they were naturally sensitive to this name.

Among the nine great inner alchemy techniques in the world, the Divine Demon Holy Fetus had a thousand threads of connection with their Qiu family, and the ancestral Innate Art was derived from this.

However, in the world today, it seemed that only one person had truly mastered this technique, and that was the man known as the Great Lingzong King.

"South Zhang..."

Countless thoughts flashed through Qiu Buyi's mind. He knew many secrets of the current world and also knew clearly that the Great Lingzong King was a remnant of the South Zhang. This young man, who was about the same age as him, should have a thousand threads of connection with him.

In other words, Given Chen Long was also related to the South Zhang lineage!?

In an instant, Qiu Buyi deduced quite a bit of the truth.

"Big nephew, don't be so surprised. He is called Linu, from Mount Ailao, and can be considered of the same sect as that old cat." Given Chen Long chuckled.

"Are you here to kill me?" Zhang Fan said in a deep voice.

He had originally wanted to sit back and reap the benefits, but who would have thought that Given Chen Long would step into Qin Gu Town and find him immediately.

"Zhuhu... when you were young, your father often brought me here to play. We would dive in and catch fish, and in the small woods nearby, we would roast the fish with True Fire to eat. It had a unique flavor..."

Given Chen Long changed the subject, looking at the endless Zhuhu, a look of reminiscence rising in her eyes.

"One time, he burned half the forest and was hung up by the Second Granduncle and whipped until half-dead. He gritted his teeth and didn't give us little ones away..."

Given Chen Long murmured softly. Her voice blended with the sound of the wind and the waves, extremely low yet extremely soft, as if time were flowing backward, like a flood of memories.

"My Dao of Talismans was also initiated by your father. From the time I just learned to walk, I followed him, always following him..."

Given Chen Long's voice gradually grew louder, like surging waves, like undulating emotions.

"Once, I respected him, honored him, loved him so much..."

Given Chen Long's hands clenched tightly, her voice becoming cold as frost.

"But because of a woman, a woman... he forgot the deep blood feud of our South Zhang lineage..."

"So many people, did they die in vain!?"

As she spoke, Given Chen Long turned her head fiercely, looking at Zhang Fan, a complex emotion appearing on her cold, beautiful face.

"Do you think Li Linglong deserves to die?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 341 =====