Chapter 217

Jin Wu turned his head and, together with Shen Qing Tong, saw Shen Jing.

Following Shen Jing was Shen Qing Mo.

"Old ancestor, San Ge..."

Shen Qing Tong didn't quite understand; the little sister was the most qualified to know Qi Shu's recent situation.

"Your fourth uncle and San Ge have recently captured quite a few troublemakers." Shen Jing, while saluting Jin Wu, said, "After interrogating them we found that these people have always wanted to sneak into the inner court of the Vermilion Bird Palace."

Among them, a higher‑ranking one confessed that they wanted to use Old Seven to threaten A Li, to get A Li to join their cause. Moreover, he had only just finished half his confession when he turned into green smoke and dissipated. We pieced this together from all the interrogation results.

"Are you worried that once the news is told to A Li, she will be used?" Jin Wu summed up and asked.

Shen Jing nodded. "This is certainly not what Old Seven wants to see."

"But if something happens to Qi Shu, the little sister definitely can't bear it!"

Shen Qing Tong clearly understood that for the little sister, this father Qi Shu might be more important than right and wrong.

"But if something happens to A Li because of him, Old Seven definitely couldn't bear it." Shen Duo's voice came.

He knows his little brother's temperament all too well! Actually he doesn't want to manage anything; he just fears trouble.

This was before; since bringing A Li back, everything about A Li has become his everything, and moreover...

"I believe in Old Seven." Shen Duo looked toward the hall, "He won't let himself come to harm."

This little younger brother of his once said to him, "No one or anything will ever make me leave A Li."

At that time he didn't pay much mind, after all she was his only daughter; as a father he certainly had to keep an eye on her.

Until——

When he saw Shen Kuo ascend, he never took the Huashen Pill, no matter what; even near extinction he could 'reignite'.

Only then did he roughly understand the weight of what Shen Kuo had said to him back then.

Leaving Shen Qingli when she was young was obviously Shen Kuo's lifelong unforgivable mistake.

So, although his cultivation was originally not as good as Shen Duo's, he still managed to ascend together with Shen Qingli when she ascended.

In order to be able to accompany Shen Qingli in the future, he, not knowing he himself was a god monarch, stubbornly endured a heavenly tribulation that was actually not weaker than the thunder tribulations Shen Qingli faced.

Shen Duo slowly said——

"As a Kunlun god monarch, he really died."

"As a father, he then came back to life."

These days, Shen Duo and the others have already learned Shen Kuo's identity.

Some things that were previously incomprehensible are now understood.

Shen Duo, among the brothers, is the fourth brother who has talked the most with Shen Kuo, and thus understands him better.

"Anyway, as far as he knows, among the other primordial spirits that can be revived, which one doesn't still have a divine body?"

No matter how injured, even Zhu Que Nu Di—he heard Xu Shen Yun say—that too still has a divine body! It's just covered in wounds.

And his seventh younger brother?

His soul and spirit scattered.

Dead beyond the point of dying again.

How could he possibly revive?

Opportunities certainly exist, but all opportunities seem to come only after reaching Huashen.

"If it weren't for A Li, Shen Duo feels there would be no more Kunlun god monarch in this world, because he wouldn't be able to come back to life."

"Don't worry." Shen Duo patted the shoulders of the two juniors, "Believe in your Seventh Uncle."

"Jin Wu doesn't understand Shen Kuo, but he has a worry: 'His Majesty is also inside…'"

"Could your Majesty be the kind that would make A Li worry?" Shen Duo said impatiently, "Anyone who dares to use her against A Li, she wouldn't let them off even if her soul and spirit scattered."

Although he hasn't had deep contact with this Seventh Brother's wife, her temper is known throughout the Vermilion Bird army.

Moreover, judging by her act of disregarding heavenly laws to kill Qin Su Nu, she is essentially the same as the Seventh Brother at heart.

A Li

It is their life!

You can take their lives! But if you want A Li's life, even if a Dao Monarch comes, forget it!

"…"

Jin Wu remained silent, because he couldn't refute.

"How then should I reply to A Li Di Xia?"

Jin Wu took out a flashing jade tablet, to lie to Di Xia—he can't do that!

"Just say you don't know, you can't get in, and you won't get a reply from His Majesty. Anyway, you really don't know—it was Qing Tong who saw it." Shen Duo suggested.

Jin Wu gave Shen Duo a thumbs‑up.

If he says it that way, he really feels no pressure.

So he replied like that……

Shen Qing Tong got anxious, "What if the little sister asks me?"

"Go into seclusion." Shen Duo arranged.

Shen Qing Tong immediately obeyed! If he goes into seclusion, he won't receive news from the little sister, can't reply, and won't have lied.

"The little sister's blame, blame you." Shen Qing Mo suddenly spoke.

Shen Duo angrily twisted his head, "You little brat, you're the one who sells out your father!"

Shen Qing Mo didn't speak; although he was persuaded, he wasn't happy.

"Alright, disperse now. Are you that idle? Those petty thieves will surely come again; keep an eye on them!"

Shen Duo directed the underlings, then looked toward Shen Jing, meaning "Ancestor, you also pitch in," right?

Shen Jing, however, walked away with his hands behind his back; it was quite obvious that he, too, had been clearly arranged.

Jin Wu sensed something odd, 'Can you Shen family people all see this light?'

"Hmph." Shen Duo nodded, "How about this? Why not give some Transformation Spirit Pills? I'll go down and give each of my brothers and nephews a handful, so they can hurry up and come help."

Jin Wu laughed and cried, 'Could A Li possibly be short on your Transformation Spirit Pills?'

Don't worry about it, you Vermilion Bird Palace folks really are something—just making people work without giving military pay, that's over the top.

This is also the Vermilion Bird Palace of A Li, Di Xia.

Don't give me that! Hurry up and issue the military pay—Xu Shen Yun said it, the military pay is all yours to issue.

Shen Duo firmly refuses to work for free; before his older brothers and they come up, he cannot let the Shen family carve out a territory?

Expecting the Fifth Generation Old Ancestor who is always in closed-door cultivation, plus those two youngsters, is definitely not reliable……

His unworldly seventh younger brother is even less reliable! He'll have to be the one to worry about it.

"Okay, here you go." Jin Wu was truly satisfied with Shen Duo and took him to the treasury.

But after they left, the hall shrouded in snowlight still obviously emitted a faint trace of firelight, but only for an instant! Then it vanished, not even enough to draw their attention.

Because, in fact, Zhong Minglan, who was also anxiously pacing, blew up!

I'll help you out.

Zhong Minglan thought to herself, she could no longer be hesitant and fearful!

She is Zhu Que Nu Di, after all—naturally she wards off evil and drives away malign influences!

These somewhat green ghostly things—clearly they are evil spirits; she just burns them all, and that's settled!

Whoosh!

Zhong Minglan, who had decided to burn it, wrapped up the snow-light white cocoon formed from Shen Kuo.

Yes.

At this moment, Shen Kuo's surroundings no longer had any five-colored divine splendor.

But the divine cocoon formed from his snow-white holy light has actually been constantly resisting the evil poison trying to contaminate his origin.

He was fully focused……

Zhong Minglan's divine fire suddenly descended!

Shen Kuo's tightly closed eyes visibly twitched his eyelashes.

In the next instant, the snowlight, as if melted by the divine fire, directly dissipated!

Zhong Minglan, revealing her divine fire wings, simply embraced the seated Shen Kuo.

Shen Kuo opened his eyes.

Zhong Minglan looked at him.

Only then did he discover! His pupils were a dark green?