Chapter 75: Lost an Arm

The young woman from before turned around and ran in a different direction.

The two humanoid monsters chasing her spat out another batch of small black creatures.

Su Jian happened to see this clearly, felt a chill in his heart, and immediately sensed extreme danger!

Otherwise, he would not have turned around, picked up Su Jin, and run.

"That must be the thing. Call for help immediately." The forest ranger who had just asked Su Jian said to his companion beside him.

"Alright. I will call for support right now." That forest ranger began to use the Thousand-Mile Message Talisman.

However, Su Jian noticed that the forest ranger who had just asked them was also using a Thousand-Mile Message Talisman. Noticing Su Jian looking at him, the ranger immediately smiled and said, "I have arranged a flying carriage for you two siblings. When the carriage arrives, leave immediately.

Once a battle breaks out here, no one will be able to look after you.

You take the child and do not get involved."

Hearing these words, Su Jian understood immediately.

He said very gratefully, "Senior Brother, my name is Su Jian, and this is my sister, Su Jin. Thank you so much this time. Senior Brother, could you tell me your name? I will take Su Jin to thank you later."

"Haha, my senior brother is called Xu Yunrui. He lives in Hongchuan Ward. You can visit him in the future if you have time."

"Lu Jing." Xu Yunrui scolded him impatiently.

"I was wrong, Senior Brother, I was wrong." Forest Ranger Lu Jing said with a smile after sending the message, feeling completely relieved.

"Senior Brother Xu, rest assured, we definitely will not disturb you randomly. If we visit in the future, it will only be to express our gratitude." Su Jian said respectfully.

"There is no need. Anyone who sees you carrying a child will offer you help. It is true that we are cultivators, but being cultivators does not mean we lack humanity." Xu Yunrui said. "Enough, the carriage is here, leave quickly. We still have to wait for the Patrol Bureau people to arrive.

They should be here in a few minutes. Once they arrive, they will definitely seal off this place, and you won't be able to leave."

Clatter, clatter, clatter...

At the entrance of the forest farm, a flying carriage truly appeared.

Su Jian looked at him with immense gratitude, performed a deep bow of greeting to a senior with both respect and piety, and then carried Su Jin away.

After the flying carriage left, Lu Jing asked his senior brother with a strange expression, "Senior Brother, you have always disliked meddling in others' affairs. Why did you suddenly step in to help these two siblings today?"

"If they were sealed inside the forest farm, they would not be able to leave for the next few days, or even ten-plus days. How could the young girl attend the clan school?" Xu Yunrui asked in return.

"Hmm?" Lu Jing looked at him: "How did I not know that Senior Brother Xu is such a kind person overflowing with sympathy?"

"Perhaps I just find that young girl pleasing to the eye?" Xu Yunrui said.

"What?" Lu Jing was instantly dumbfounded upon hearing this. "Senior Brother Xu, act normal. Don't change so drastically. Otherwise, I will think you have been possessed by something."

Xu Yunrui rolled his pair of big white eyes at him impatiently.

Su Jian carried Su Jin, waiting until the flying carriage had moved far away from the forest farm before secretly letting out a sigh of relief.

If they had been blocked inside the forest farm, who knows when they would have been able to get out.

"I hope Su Hanlin and Su Yu can return safely."

"Big Brother, can I come out again on my next day off?" Su Jin continued to stuff the Blood-Xue Chiluo deeper into her sleeve.

Just as they were about to board the carriage, the Blood-Xue Chiluo finally returned, and she put it back into her sleeve.

"That depends on whether that thing was caught. If it wasn't, then we cannot come out for the time being."

"I hope the uncles from the Patrol Bureau catch that monster." Su Jin immediately made a wish.

"Haha, I hope so too."

Back at home, the two siblings were perfectly in sync; they did not mention the monster they met in the forest farm at all. They simply said they had finished their spell training and returned early.

Su Jian also handed a large bag of river shrimp and clams caught in the stream to his wife, asking her to cook them for dinner to add a treat for the two daughters.

His wife, Liu Yunniang, sighed silently in her heart: Others go to extract Wood Spirit Qi as proper work, but her husband, instead, accompanied his sister to practice spells and conveniently caught shrimp and clams along the way.

However, a large pot of dry-pot river shrimp and clams was very popular.

Everyone ate until they were stuffed for dinner.

Early the next morning, Su Jin saw Su Yunhu in the First Academy again, who had arrived even earlier than her.

At this moment, Su Yunhu's temperament had changed greatly.

His two eyes were red and swollen like walnuts, and his gaze had become very resolute.

It was as if he had grown up overnight.

"What happened to you?" Su Jin asked.

"I am fine." Su Yunhu said.

Soon, other students also walked into the academy one by one. Liu Shi also arrived. After entering the academy, she did not start the lesson immediately but first called Su Yunhu over. However, not long after, she led Su Yunhu, who had cried again, back into the academy.

After letting Su Yunhu return to his seat, Liu Shi started the lesson again.

After the morning general knowledge class finished, everyone moved to the Third Academy.

As soon as Su Wuji entered the Third Academy, he asked, "Su Yunhu, what exactly happened to you? The day before yesterday you suddenly ran out; I thought you were going to drop out."

Upon hearing these words, Su Yunhu suddenly let out a loud wail and burst into tears.

Everyone was stunned.

This little classmate is crying so miserably!

"I said I wanted to drop out. My father said that if I dropped out, I would have to become a loose cultivator first, and I would have to seek all resources outside the city myself. Because I am young, I cannot enter a sect yet, not even as a menial disciple, and I have no safe way to obtain cultivation resources. He said I simply cannot endure the hardships of being a loose cultivator and advised me not to drop out. I didn't believe him, so he took me to train outside the city.

We encountered a centipede more than two people long.

To save me, my father was bitten by the centipede's venomous fangs and lost an arm. Waaah, waaah, waaah!!

It is all because I am too useless. If I were a bit stronger, if I could run a bit faster, and not drag my father's leg, my father would have successfully escaped the pursuit of that big centipede long ago."

Su Yunhu cried so hard that his body twitched slightly as he sobbed.

"Don't cry anymore. If you continue crying like this, wasn't your father's arm lost in vain?" Su Cheng immediately advised.

Su Yunhu instantly stopped crying.

He stared blankly at Su Cheng.

"Your father's not wrong. You're too young — apart from the clan school, you have nowhere better to get cultivation resources. Either let your father risk his life going out of the city to find resources for you, and one day he really might die! Or you throw yourself into the grind at the clan school and get the resources yourself.

You want to be a rogue cultivator? How would you even manage it? The very first day you went out of the city to temper yourself, you nearly died."

Su Cheng went straight for the blunt truth.

Su Yunhu was left unable to say a single word. After a good while, he finally said, "I really was a fool before."