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"Do you think I will believe it?" Anyone with some power or influence knew that Dugu Bo would hardly leave Tiandou City. Perhaps it was because he was a person who did not like to move, or perhaps it was to protect Prince Xuexing who had done him a favor.
No one knew why. In short, Dugu Bo would hardly go too far away from Tiandou City. After leaving, he would always return to the dilapidated manor outside the city within five days at most.
It can only be said that Dugu Bo was very lucky. After giving Gu You's letter to Dugu Yan and asking her to pass it on to Xiao Wu, he went around to help Gu You collect soul beast materials.
After returning from outside, he did not return to the manor immediately, but went back to the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire first. Then he was drafted by Gu You to charge the soul battery and participate in experiments, so he had no time to return to the manor. This happened to avoid Cixue's search, and he did not expose the Sunset Forest and Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire.
Qian Renxue's voice was very calm, as calm as the forest before a storm. Apart from the chirping of insects and birds, you could not hear any other sound.
This is what is happening with Cixue now. He knows the same thing and cannot refute it. Apart from the sound of his pounding heart, he can only hear Qian Renxue's voice.
Even though he is a Titled Douluo admired by thousands of people, in front of the heir of the Spirit Hall who is destined to be the heir and has his own domain, unless his cultivation can be improved to above level 95 and join the Worship Hall, no one in the Elder Hall will stand on his side.
Looking at the deeper blood stabs with his head lowered, Qian Renxue sighed silently. Gu You was able to return to Tiandou City, and Dugu Bo still let him go back by himself at the city gate, which meant that Dugu Bo had no intention of hurting him. Maybe it was really as Dugu Bo said, he found that the two were gifted and took them out to practice for a while.
She wanted to invite Gu You to the palace for a chat, but when she thought about the various royal activities that would follow, and the fact that she would have to interact with all kinds of strange nobles, and their corruption and depravity, Qian Renxue felt upset. She had no choice but to give up the idea and waved her hand to let She Long and Cixue leave.
Pulling open the curtains, Qian Renxue had turned back into "Xue Qinghe" and was looking through the window at Tiandou City from afar.
It was almost eleven o'clock in the evening, but Tiandou City was like a city that never sleeps, still full of vitality, and lights and decorations were still on everywhere.
In Qian Renxue's eyes, unlike the lifeless brightness of the Imperial City, the light of Tiandou City contained vitality. Under the light, children ran around, holding gourds and windmills in their hands, with bright smiles on their faces. The children's parents followed closely behind them, saying not to run around, but also smiling. In the quiet study, the shouts of various vendors outside the Imperial City could be faintly heard by Qian Renxue.
Even though she was not there, Qian Renxue could still feel a bit of warmth from it.
Like a mother's arms.
The next morning, Gu You, who had completely recovered his spirit, got up early and took Tang San to buy Tiandou City specialties. I don't know if the gourd bought yesterday activated Xiao Wu's taste buds, Xiao Wu didn't go shopping with Gu You, but dragged Lanta to buy gourds all over Tiandou City early in the morning.
"I want to try all the gourds in Tiandou City!" Xiao Wu said firmly. Perhaps it was because it was the New Year. Unlike the expensive and mediocre gourds she had when she first entered Tiandou City, the gourds Xiao Wu had eaten last night were extraordinary. For this reason, she decided to buy all the gourds in Tiandou City and bring them back for Old Jack to taste.
Of course, if Old Jack thinks it is too sweet and just wants to taste it and not eat it, then based on the principle of not wasting food, Xiao Wu will have to accept it with a smile.
As the New Year approaches, the prices in Tiandou City have increased slightly, but not by much. The most expensive pastries have only increased by 10%. It seems that the royal family still has a strong control over the city's economy and has not allowed various nobles to completely control the economic lifeline of the Tiandou Empire.
If the nobles controlled the economy, the Tiandou Empire would be finished. They arbitrarily controlled the rise and fall of grain prices and made money by buying at low prices and selling at high prices. The person who had to bear the blame was the current emperor.
"It seems that I need to remind Qian Renxue to see if I can get the economic rights."
This idea popped into Gu You's mind. With education on one hand and economy on the other, even if his true identity was exposed, if everyone said he was the emperor, then he was the emperor.
Soon, after putting all the specialties he bought into his soul guide, Gu You returned to the manor and packed up his things. The next morning, he said goodbye to Meng Yiran and returned to Notting City.
Of course, training cannot stop. In order to keep exercising on the road, Gu You asked everyone to go at full speed, not take a carriage, and run back. Although Xiao Wu strongly opposed it, she thought that they should have a good rest during the New Year. But she was alone and weak, and was suppressed by Gu You. She had to run away in tears, thinking that when she saw Old Jack, she would accuse Gu You of being unkind and abusing animals (rabbits).
Boom boom boom boom boom boom
"Come, come, who is it at this hour?" Hearing the knock on the door downstairs, Old Jack reluctantly got up from the bed and grabbed the crutches beside the bed. Although the room was warm, he still put on his coat and yawned as he walked down the stairs.
Ever since Gu You and others left Notting City to study in Tiandou City, the house in Notting City has been empty. After the autumn harvest, Old Jack, at the suggestion of other villagers, half-heartedly moved into the big house purchased by Gu You.
Although Old Jack prefers to stay in Holy Soul Village and be with his fellow villagers, it is not a good idea to leave a big house empty.
So, even though he angrily hit Gu You on the head with his cane when Gu You persuaded him to move to Nottingham, he still agreed to live in Nottingham during the winter when there was no farming work.
An old man from the countryside came to the city to live alone, and even lived in a wealthy area. Old Jack was somewhat out of place in the surrounding environment.
Fortunately, Gu You had anticipated this and asked Ma Xiunuo and Su Yuntao to visit Old Jack from time to time. The two soul masters of the Spirit Hall often visited the old man. As long as those nobles who were arrogant and arrogant had a normal mind, they would not provoke Old Jack.
Otherwise, the next plot will be: Youzi returns to Notting City and finds that his grandfather lives in a doghouse. In anger, he calls Tiandou Prince, whose real identity turns out to be Master Guyou, and kills Notting City without leaving a single piece of armor. (Here the Dragon King laughs)
"Grandpa, we're back." Old Jack opened the door, and the cold wind instantly poured into the warm room, blowing up Old Jack's coat. But seeing the familiar four figures at the door, and the familiar voice and tone, Old Jack ignored the coat that was blown away, and asked with wide eyes: "Why are you back?"
"Come back for the New Year. It's New Year, so I can't stay in Tiandou City." Gu You rubbed his hands and walked into the room. Feeling the warmth coming from the floor under his feet, he said in a boastful tone: "Grandpa, this house is nice, much better than the one in the village."
Since he started to study soul guides, Gu You certainly couldn't just use the research results in combat, he also had to improve his living standards. Gu You and Tang San worked together to make a thorough renovation of this house in Notting City. The result was this floor heating system.
Since the fully sealed soul power battery was successfully developed, the starting point for changing the world has actually appeared. As long as it is regarded as an energy source that requires a certain group of professionals to charge but can be used by everyone, then sooner or later this world will be infinitely close to the world before Gu You crossed over.
A fully sealed soul power battery and soul guide array "scorching", a small soul guide array to limit the output, and a soul guide array with a knob to adjust the soul power output. All these together, a soul power floor heating system was born.
Old Jack didn't answer. "Why did you guys come back? Why didn't you study hard in Tiandou City?"
In Old Jack's simple values, students should focus on learning. Old Jack only knew that full innate soul power was rare, but he had no idea what was special about full innate soul power and how rare it was. He could only imagine it as being born a few levels higher than other soul masters.
Therefore, Old Jack often urged Gu You and others to practice seriously. If they did not concentrate and work hard, they would soon be caught up by other soul masters whose innate soul power was not as good as Gu You. Just like Tang San and Xiao Wu in the original novel before Shrek were only two levels behind Zhu Zhuqing, and Feng Xiaotian, who had full innate soul power in the original novel, was just a soul master like others.
Although Old Jack complained that Gu You and others should not have gone to so much trouble to run back from Tiandou City for the New Year, his face was filled with smiles. He asked everyone to change their clothes wet by the snow, put on dry new clothes, and chat around the fire with hot tea in hand.
Hearing Xiao Wu complaining that Gu You was unwilling to ride in the carriage and asked everyone to run back, Old Jack pretended to hit Gu You on the head. Gu You immediately put his hands on his head and said aggrievedly that he ran much faster than the carriage because of the snow that might block the road.
At this point, Gu You immediately bit back, saying that Xiao Wu was wasting money in Tiandou City and had to pay for snacks every day. Unfortunately, this counterattack was too weak and was still hit on the head by Old Jack. Seeing Gu You's aggrieved expression, Xiao Wu laughed happily.
The next morning, Gu You and Tang San went to the Spirit Hall to visit Mashunuo.
"Xiao You? Xiao San?" The guard at the door was the familiar Uncle Li. Looking at the two people in front of him, Uncle Li asked in surprise: "Didn't you go to Tiandou City to study? Why did you come back suddenly?"
"Long time no see, Uncle Li, how are you feeling recently?" Gu You also greeted him, just like before leaving Nottingham.
"Sure enough, Xiao You will never change." Hearing this familiar tone, Uncle Li smiled, "Not bad, he is still in good health."
Looking at the face with many more wrinkles compared to the past, Gu You sighed that time flies and took out the gift he had prepared long ago from the soul guide, a bottle of beautifully packaged wine, "This is the wine from Tiandou City. Don't drink too much at once."
Uncle Li took it excitedly, sniffed the bottle, smelled the mellow fragrance inside, and said with a smile: "How can I be so embarrassed. Xiaoyou, I'm sorry to have cost you money."
"Yes, I spent money, so give it back to me." Gu You stretched out his hand as if to take it back. Uncle Li quickly held the wine in his arms and waved him away, "Go, go. How can you take back a gift you gave? Master Mashunuo is in there, go in quickly."
Gu You nodded and walked inside, "Uncle Li, remember not to drink too much, otherwise I won't bring you wine next time."
Hearing this, Uncle Li couldn't help but laugh.
"Auntie Wang, long time no see." "Uncle Liang, long time no see." "Brother Zhang, why are you fat again?" Returning to the Wuhun Hall of Notting City, Gu You felt like he was back home. He greeted everyone and chatted with them. After half an hour, Gu You finally greeted everyone and walked to the second floor smoothly. Looking at the exquisite door in front of him, Gu You took a deep breath.
"Grandpa Matthew, long time no see."
"Hmm? Xiao You?" Mashuno, who had been looking down at the report, raised his head and looked at the two people he was most familiar with, and asked in surprise: "Why are you back?"
"Grandpa Matthew, of course I came back to celebrate the New Year." Although he answered this question countless times today, Gu You did not become impatient and still explained seriously why he came back.
The New Year is a very important festival for every Douluo. But for soul masters, this day is not that important. In order to hunt soul rings and improve their cultivation, they need to practice hard day after day.
But in Gu You's opinion, combining work and rest is far more important than persisting in hard training. It is meaningless to become stronger just for the sake of becoming stronger, and it is easy to fall into the abyss of depravity. From time to time, find an opportunity to reaffirm why you want to become stronger, so that you can move forward with a firm will.
Jian Da exchanged a few pleasantries with Ma Xiunuo, and Gu You asked curiously, "Grandpa Ma Xiunuo, where is Brother Tao?"
With Su Yuntao's personality, he could get along well with all his colleagues in the Spirit Hall. Logically, he should have rushed to Mashunuo's office as soon as possible. But Gu You and Tang San had finished a cup of tea, but still hadn't seen him.
Hearing Gu You's question, Ma Xiunuo simply replied: "Yun Tao has gone to work."
Hearing this, Gu You immediately stopped asking questions and continued chatting with Mashunuo. After putting down the gifts for Mashunuo and other people from the Spirit Hall, he stood up and said goodbye.
After leaving the Spirit Hall, the faint smile on Tang San's face instantly disappeared, "Xiao You, something happened."
Gu You nodded and said in a deep voice: "Well, I hope it's not those people."
Now Su Yuntao, whose cultivation level exceeds that of Matthew Nuo, has become the "top star" of the Wuhun Hall in Notting City. There are really not many problems that can require him to leave Notting City to deal with at this point in time.
Considering that the continent is generally peaceful now, and there is no overt conflict between the two empires and the Spirit Hall, Gu You couldn't think of anything else he could do except for the evil spirit masters now known as the Fallen.
Judging from Matthew's tone, he probably didn't want the two of them to get involved. Helplessly, Gu You could only return home and prepare to celebrate the New Year with Old Jack.
The ordinary and happy daily life always passes quickly. Apart from the necessary exercise, Gu You doesn't want to think too much. He stays in the warm living room every day and plays cards with others for entertainment.
Dong dong dong
"Who is it? Why are you coming here so late at night?" Under the gaze of everyone, Gu You, who was closest to the door, had no choice but to get up and walk to the door with a gloomy face.
"Today is New Year's Eve, you'd better give me a reasonable solution"
"Long time no see, Xiaoyou." Along with the whistling cold wind, a man's voice came from outside the door, "Sorry to come here at this time, but we may need your help."
I feel like my head is buzzing, and I have a lot of ideas, but I can't express them in words.
Chapter 238 Shadows Under the Snowstorm
"Brother Tao?!"
The man standing at the door was Su Yuntao, who Mashunuo said was not in Notting City at the moment. His face was not the usual sunny and even a little silly smile, but unusually serious. Even without the spirit possessing him, his eyes were like a gray wolf aiming at its prey.
Seeing Gu You pushing open the door, Su Yuntao's eyes softened instantly, and a smile broke out on his face that was somewhat stiff due to the cold wind, "Yeah, it's me. Haven't seen you for half a year."
Gu You quickly welcomed him in, helped him brush off the snow on his body, and asked, "Brother Tao, what's wrong? Why did you come here so suddenly in the middle of the night? Is there anything I can help you with?"
After escaping the blizzard and walking into the warm room, Su Yuntao's face instantly turned rosy. After hearing Gu You's words, his frown relaxed slightly, and a strange light flashed in his eyes. "I'm sorry, Xiao You, for coming to see you on New Year's Eve, but we really need your help now."
"Xiao You, who is it? Brother Tao, why are you here?!"
Seeing that Gu You hadn't come back for a long time, Tang San came out to see what happened. As a result, he saw Su Yuntao, who was dressed in formal clothes and exuded a faint murderous aura, standing at the door and saying something to Gu You.
"Xiao San, long time no see." Seeing a familiar person, Su Yuntao's face became obviously better, and he nodded to Tang San. Just as he was about to speak, two more heads popped out of the room.
"Brother Tao, long time no see." "Brother Tao, good evening."
"Long time no see, Xiao Wu, Lanta." Su Yuntao nodded to the two of them, and without further ado, he said to the four of them, "Xiao You, Xiao San, Xiao Wu, Lanta, we need your help now."
"You? Spirit Hall?" Seeing Su Yuntao nod, the four of them looked at each other. It seemed that it was really possible as Gu You guessed, that there were traces of the Fallen nearby.
Gu You replied: "Okay, I'll talk to grandpa first." Then he turned and went back to the room.
Looking at Old Jack sitting by the fire, Gu You was about to speak, but unexpectedly Old Jack said directly: "Go."
As early as when Gu You became a soul master, Old Jack had predicted that this day would come sooner or later.
He had just heard that the one who came to see Gu You was Master Su Yuntao of the Spirit Hall. As the head of the village, although Old Jack was not a spirit master, he was well-informed, so he had heard about the work of the Spirit Hall's patrol deacon.
Although he didn't know about this group of Fallen Ones, Old Jack knew that the Soul Master from the Spirit Hall must have come to find Gu You for a reason, so naturally he had no reason to stop Gu You.
Gu You nodded silently, turned around and went back to his room to prepare. Just before he stepped out of the door, Old Jack's slightly trembling voice came from behind him.
"be careful."
Soon, the four well-prepared people left their warm home, walked into the snowstorm, and followed Su Yuntao towards the Wuhun Hall of Notting City.
Although not as prosperous as Tiandou City, Notting City, which was still prosperous during the New Year, fell into silence due to the blizzard. The blizzard, which was rare in ten years, piled up thick snow on the road. The soul guide lights on the roadside emitted a faint light, which reflected on the snow and illuminated the serious faces of the five people.
"Brother Tao, he must be a fallen one."
Gu You's voice was clearly audible amidst the whistling wind. Su Yuntao was silent for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, it's the Fallen."
"Remember Xinxiang City? Traces of the Fallen were found there. I went there earlier to help search for traces of the Fallen."
"Xinxiang City?" Gu You's face changed when he heard the name. Xinxiang City is a city far away from Notting City. It takes about three days to reach it by ordinary carriage. If Gu You went there now, he would have to run for a whole day without sleep to reach it.
Unlike the Master of the Spirit Hall in Notting City, Matthew Nuo, whose cultivation level is only that of a Great Soul Master, the Master of the Spirit Hall in Xinxiang City has reached the level of Soul King, which is enough to prove the size of this city.
When they heard the word "Fallen" coming out of Su Yuntao's mouth, everyone's eyes instantly became as sharp as knives. Gu You and his three companions, who had experienced two Fallen incidents, need not be told much. Lanta had also experienced the "Dark Land" incident and was well aware of what the Fallen could do that would make people hate them.