It had already been two years since she left home.
Walking on this familiar path, it brought back many memories for Zhao Shuning.
Compared with the small - town mansion where the Zhao family lived, Yanyu Tower was quite luxurious. It boasted beautiful scenery and strong financial backing, and could meet the students' needs in many aspects.
However, Zhao Shuning preferred the dilapidated small house in Zhao Village where they once lived together.
Around the house, Zhao Zheng had reinforced it a lot on the outside to ensure they could sleep soundly.
On the night before she left, Shuang'er found Zhao Shuning and happily gave her a spiritual herb.
Before Zhao Shuning could say a word, Shuang'er said that it was discovered by her spiritual beast and brought back from the deep mountains. She thought it was a spiritual herb for treating leg injuries, so she "casually" gave it to Zhao Shuning.
Was it really casual?
That girl Shuang'er had learned to hide her true feelings.
This change could be seen as good or bad.
However, with this spiritual herb, perhaps it could really treat Zhao Zheng's leg injury.
"Brother is willing to go to the sect meeting. Maybe he also knows that there are all alchemists in the sect meeting and wants to see if there is any pill to repair Father's spiritual root."
Zhao Shuning arrived at the entrance of Qinghui Town. According to the usual practice, on a day like this, there would usually be a bustling market in the old Qinghui Town.
But today, after careful investigation, Zhao Shuning found that the market in Qinghui Town was extremely deserted.
It wasn't even winter, but there were very few people walking on the street.
Although Zhao Shuning was puzzled, she still stepped forward, planning to go in and find out.
However, she found that Qinghui Town had been cast with spiritual magic and sealed with magic seals, forming an isolation shield. This shield was extremely powerful. No matter how hard Zhao Shuning tried, she couldn't move it.
People outside couldn't get in, and people inside couldn't get out?
What was going on?
Did someone want to deal with Qinghui Town? They actually locked Qinghui Town in such a powerful barrier.
Wasn't this equivalent to trapping all the people in Qinghui Town to death?
Moreover, judging from the faintly flowing light waves on the magic formation, this magic formation had been set up for almost a month.
"A month. It's really heartless."
The lives of tens of thousands of people in Qinghui Town. If she hadn't come back, would no one have discovered this accident? The Zhao family and those innocent common people would have starved to death inside?
Family mark?
Zhao Shuning slowly moved westward along the barrier. If it weren't for her hand touching it, she might not have noticed that the transparent protrusion was a mark left by a family's magic formation.
Why would it be a family mark?
The family that could create such a powerful isolation shield should have considerable strength. But Zhao Shuning couldn't remember having offended any powerful family over the years.
Moreover, she had been undergoing trials in Yanyu Tower. Yanyu Tower was a fully - enclosed management place. Even if she had a feud with a certain family's son in the tower, it couldn't spread out.
No, something was wrong.
The Meng father and son.
Meng Yang and Meng Hao were deacons in Yanyu Tower. Could it be that they were behind this?
No, that was also wrong. Zhao Shuning had experienced their abilities. The most powerful one was Meng Hao, but he was only a third - level spiritual herbalist. Grandpa should be able to deal with such a person.
Moreover, the strength of the Meng family couldn't be so powerful.
The last time because of Uncle's matter, Zhao Shuning had dug out all the details of the Meng family. They shouldn't have recovered their vitality so quickly.
Zhao Shuning was standing there, still thinking about who would attack Qinghui Town when she suddenly heard a sound from behind.
She immediately held her breath and carefully hid herself in the grass.
Zhao Shuning was a little over seven years old. Although she had grown taller, her body was still relatively petite. She hid in the thick grass and evened out and erased her breath. As long as the person was below a fifth - level spiritual herbalist, they wouldn't be able to find her.
Not long after the sound came, a young man led dozens of people slowly approaching.
From Zhao Shuning's direction, all the people in that group were wearing dark blue clothes.
With blue as the main color, were they from the Wang family?
Did that old guy Wang Cheng know that she was hiding in Qinghui Town?
No, that was impossible. Zhao Shuning recalled that from her birth to now, she had never mentioned her past life to anyone. Even her closest Zhao Huai was kept in the dark.
This matter was so incredible that no one would associate a little girl from the Zhao family with the Empress Ye Ling.
Then, the Wang family, one of the four great families, was a prominent existence in the Dongze Wilderness. Why, why would they come to a small Qinghui Town?
The leading young man was probably about thirteen years old, looking about the same age as Zhao Huai.
But in terms of momentum, he was far inferior to her brother.
When the young man came, suddenly another group of people emerged from somewhere. The leader of this group was a middle - aged man in his forties. Zhao Shuning always felt that she had seen his eyebrows somewhere.
"Master Feiyang's personal visit is really a great honor for our Zhang family."
"Uncle Zhang, you may have misunderstood. I'm here this time because of my uncle's matter."
"Is it Deacon Meng?"
The man called Uncle Zhang was very sincere in his words. Even though he was rebuffed by the young man in front of him, there was not a trace of complaint on his face.
That's right, Zhao Shuning thought that this man looked so familiar. With a sly look, he should be Zhang Zhi, the father of Zhang Tianyuan.
And the one called Feiyang opposite should be an inner - sect disciple of the Wang family and also a favored disciple.
In this way, everything made sense.
This young man named Feiyang was Meng Hao's eldest nephew. He came to Qinghui Town mostly because the Meng father and son had sent a letter asking him for help.
As for the Zhang family, it should be because of Zhang Tianyuan.
However, why did Zhang Tianyuan suddenly attack the people in Qinghui Town? He shouldn't have known that the person who appeared near the mysterious cave that night was her.
What kind of mysterious and powerful force was there behind Zhang Tianyuan?
"What about the people in Qinghui Town?"
"Uncle Zhang can do whatever he wants. When it's over, I only want the Zhao family's body - protecting armor."
"Deal."
Body - protecting armor?
Zhao Shuning couldn't help but touch the inner lining of her clothes. Before she left, Grandpa had already given her something to protect her life.
If it weren't for the function of the body - protecting armor, at the second height, Zhao Shuning would have been cut into pieces by Zhang Tianyuan's spiritual weapon, the Qingyun Sword.
The body - protecting armor was a good thing. As long as people had seen it, they would basically have thoughts about it.
"Tonight, let's see how that old guy in Qinghui Town kneels on the ground and begs for mercy. It's a pity that the pair of children raised by the Zhao family are so talented, but they don't know the truth that excessive intelligence tends to lead to an early demise."