
"Ohhh!"
The two Jieru disciples were suffocated together when they realized that what they saw was a plant.
A plant that rises together.
They were stuck and jolted backwards.
The vines are alive!
The three leaves form a head and two hands. Everyone nodded as the plant stretched on its tendrils. Beyond the grass field by the lake.
Krrtrsk. Krrtrsk. Krrtrsk.
The long tendrils reached towards them, weaving in the darkness.
They twitched and leaped backwards while drawing their respective swords.
The thick fog covered the hill again.
They can't see anything.
Something that crawled like a snake wrapped around their eyes.
The two young men blinked and bowed to check their feet. But suddenly their bodies were dragged forward, then strayed and in an instant the plant's tendrils wrapped around their entire bodies and dragged them into the ground.
"Teacher!" the sound of both of them suffocating and setting.
Darkness was attacking them.
I don't know how long the darkness took hold of Dunrui.
Dark purple patches floated before Dunrui's eyes. Part of him wanted to drown again in the darkness, but the other part of him struggled to be fully conscious.
Gradually the purple patches faded, turning gray.
The mist thinned, and there appeared a porcelain white taper face with a pair of bright blue eyes.
At first it looks far away. Then it gets closer.
Getting close…
More luminous.
"I think he's conscious!"
Dunrui heard someone say. Then the worried face of his fellow students emerged from behind the gray fog.
"What's going on?" ask Dunrui.
His parents just shrugged their shoulders.
Dunrui pulled her body and looked around while frowning. He saw a room like a glazed black stone castle perfectly carved out, forming a table, a window, a bed.
A row of oddly shaped reliefs lined up along the edges of the wall like a frame. The entire room seemed to sparkle dominated by gold and silver combined with gemstones that Dunrui had never seen in her lifetime.
The gold and silver cups are arranged artistically on the stone table layered with soft linen cloth.
The curtains of linen, fine mori and dark purple cloth, tied with fine linen and light purple strings hung on silver buttons on white marble columns. A golden and silver bed was placed on the marble floor, white marble, perch and a crowbar.
Like a sky palace, Dunrui thought in awe.
The porcelain-white taper-faced young man was wearing a flaming white labyrinth cloak plated in a metallic white coat of armor made of linen with a gold-colored belt.
His long, golden hair was left scattered to the waist, a golden headband coiled around his forehead like a crown.
His looks are inhumane.
The typical appearance of a stunningly beautiful man of the fairy race.
That thought triggered Dunrui's memory. "Did I die and go to heaven?" That silly question spontaneously came out of his mouth.
The elegant young man who was glowing by the side of his bed was smiling faintly.
Dunrui was surprised to find that the young man was much younger than she expected. He looks much younger than himself.
And as the young man turned his back, stepping slowly towards the window, Dunrui was forced to figure out his impressive height.
He stared straight ahead as he walked in a controlled motion, full of strength and suppleness, and his posture was perfectly upright. His nose that looked arrogantly above his thin lips gave a cold impression, contrary to the look of his eyes that sparkled warmly. His pair of blue eyes gave off a friendly face that seemed to be always smiling. It was very different from the impression he displayed when the young man hid his face under the hood of a dark-colored robe.
After reaching the window, the beautiful creature stopped, then twisted with the right movement.
For a while, none of the two Jieru disciples knew what they were going to say, how to start. Both of them were just glued to the young man, admiring the charming figure before them to remember that such a handsome young man would be their teacher.
An X-lined Y-pattern linen coat is attached fittingly to the chest of his field as he freezes. The two sides of the coat on his shoulders are of different colors. One side of the mantle is daubed with a bright blue color like its eyes, while the other side is daubed in sparkling gold under the chandelier light hanging from the ceiling above its head. A wide waistband that was also perfectly circular gold in color on her slender waist. Knee-length boots were patterned - nothing more if not gold-like freshly rubbed and looked spotless.
"There are those who say Jinzhi forest is very sacred" Hua Zu told. "No man was accepted. Jinzhi forest will not let them in or out alive."
Jinzhi Forest? dunrui thought surprised.
"There will be a time when this forest will no longer be sacred to you," Hua Zu glanced at them.
So we're still in Jinzhi forest? thought Dunrui was unsure, then exchanged glances with her fellow students.
Who would have thought in the hidden forbidden forest a palace belonging to the god race?
"What can we do?" the Dunrui brothers asked Hua Zu.
Hua Zu smiled faintly once again, "Peace," he said filled with meaning. He turned his face again, looking out the window.
Dunrui exchanged another glance with her fellow students.
"Does that mean we can't get out alive before we understand what Master means?" Dunrui asked again.
"That will be your first practice" Hua Zu said.
Dunrui was silent.
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Meanwhile…
On the other side of the city, the, Zhou Hua Zu—or black-haired Hua Zu who had managed to escape from the pursuit of the soldiers bought a lot of food and distributed it to the beggars along the road to their village while running around small and laugh, "Break the inside, then eat the outside?" Hua Zu posed a riddle to his partner, not waiting to hear praise or thanks from anyone, just turning his head around not.
"What's that?" his partner could not answer. "What is always following us, but our ears cannot hear?" instead of answering, he replied to Hua Zu with another riddle.
"Your guesses are as bad as your plans today" Hua Zu snorted. Then he replied with another riddle, "What is fleshy but bloodless, and hearts as hard as stone?"
"What do you mean it's olives or chief Yu?" his friend's claws while chuckling.
Then the two were scattered and sped up to the gravel road to their village, far from the city border.
Reaching the base of the stairs to the gate of their headquarters, Hua Zu scattered first and jumped two steps at once.
His partner gasped behind him.
"There's news that the Luoji nobles will cross at the foot of Jingling Mountain!" Their teacher, Dai Xiao Yu greeted with a cold look and a flat-face look. The man knew that he was already standing around at the top of the stairs under the gate of their headquarters.
Hua Zu and his partner stopped the steps on the third rung of the stairs from above. Then exchange views.
"Xi Mo's! You come with them," their chairman said to Hua Zu's colleague as he glanced over his shoulder, pointing at the same five mysterious-clothed men. "And you're coming with me!" he said to Hua Zu.