Hearing Zhao Shuning ask about something that happened more than four hundred years ago, Hun Dun fell silent.
Seeing this, Zhao Huai quickly said, "Aren't all those things from more than four hundred years ago recorded in the ancient books? If you want to know, I'll go and find all the records from four hundred years ago for you, okay?"
Zhao Shuning said, "Brother, I want to know some details. Hun Dun experienced those things personally, so what it says should be more reliable."
Hun Dun said, "Miss, what do you want to know? Do you think there's no emotion in our beast world? Do you really have to peel off our wounds layer by layer?"
"Hu Dun, why are you so angry?"
Zhao Shuning clearly remembered that although Hun Dun had a bad temper, it would never lose its temper for no reason like this. Moreover, she had been respectful and had shown no disrespect to its master at all.
Hun Dun said, "So what do you want to know? That Master Qiu jumped into the lake more than four hundred years ago? That after Master Qiu saved the young prince of the Hailing Kingdom, she seemed to have changed into a different person and was condemned by the common people? That because I was so eager for revenge and hurt many civilians, I was finally imprisoned in this Nether Valley by the Emperor Venerable and wasn't allowed to go out?"
Zhao Shuning was stunned. She stared fixedly at Hun Dun.
"Are you saying that Luo Qiu more than four hundred years ago seemed to have changed into a different person?"
"Yes, but Master Qiu must have had her difficulties. Before I made a contract with her, she lived a bright and cheerful life. But later, she killed most of the female mermaid clan. But I know that Master Qiu must have had her own reasons. It must be that the female mermaid clan was ignorant and stepped on Master Qiu's bottom line first."
Zhao Shuning said in horror, "What did you say?"
"Luo Qiu was the main culprit who harmed the female mermaid clan?"
"The female mermaid clan must have brought it upon themselves. It's no wonder Master."
Zhao Shuning then said, "How is this possible? Isn't Luo Qiu a chivalrous woman? According to the records in the ancient books, she's clearly not such a person."
Hun Dun fell silent.
Zhao Huai said, "Hun Dun, if you have any doubts, you must speak them out. Although Shuning is young, she knows no less than you."
Hun Dun looked at Zhao Huai and then nodded seriously. It sighed. The atmosphere at this moment was extremely strange.
"Actually, I always feel that the master I followed before and the master I made a contract with later don't seem to be the same person."
Zhao Shuning was startled. What did Hun Dun mean by this?
"Although they looked exactly the same, the first master was bright and smiling, always putting the common people first. The Emperor Venerable was also very affectionate and doting on her."
"But the later master, yes, it was after we went to Loulan and picked the Starlight Grass that I felt that Master seemed different from before. She didn't like to smile at me. Every time she summoned me, it was just to borrow my strength to deal with the people of Ruoqiang. And more importantly, since I became her contracted divine beast, she hardly ever saw the Emperor Venerable. Given their relationship, it's impossible for things to have developed to this point."
Zhao Shuning seemed to understand something. Could it be that she wasn't a person from the later generations but was actually the "Luo Qiu" recorded in the ancient books in the previous life?
To verify her conjecture, Zhao Shuning quickly asked, "You said you made a contract with Luo Qiu. When was that?"
Hun Dun said, "It was when Master took me to Loulan to plant the Starlight Grass. It was a night with a full moon. Master said that on such a day, making a contract could bring our abilities to the extreme."
Zhao Shuning panicked. Her feet almost gave way. Zhao Huai quickly supported her. She asked with great patience, "But the ancient books clearly say that you were given to Luo Qiu as a contracted divine beast by the Emperor Venerable as a reward after she became a ninth - rank alchemist?"
"When I followed Master, she was already a ninth - rank alchemist. Otherwise, she couldn't have transplanted the Xuanshuang Flower into her body so easily in the Cangwu Kingdom."
So, she really existed in history? So, most of the records about "Luo Qiu" were actually about herself?
Zhao Shuning's emotions were fluctuating greatly at this moment. She never dared to think that she had always thought she was an intruder from the later generations to the world five hundred years ago, but unexpectedly, she actually existed in that time.
There were probably very few people still alive from five hundred years ago to now. If it weren't for Hun Dun's testimony, Zhao Shuning wouldn't have believed it so firmly.
Zhao Huai also noticed Zhao Shuning's absent - mindedness and quickly asked with concern, "Shuning, what's wrong? You don't look well."
Zhao Shuning came back to her senses. Looking at Zhao Huai, she was a bit out of control.
"Brother, I was wrong. I was wrong."
"What's wrong?"
"I always thought I didn't belong there. I was so afraid that I would change the outcome of the entire Kyushu Continent. There, I didn't even dare to tell Bu Ran my identity. I didn't know that I actually had the power to dominate that world."
"Shuning, what are you talking about?"
Zhao Shuning shook her head. At this moment, she didn't know what she was saying. She was just happy but also sad. These two emotions alternated, making her a bit out of control.
She was happy that from beginning to end, the person who had been by Bu Ran's side was always herself, and he hadn't fallen in love with someone else. Bu Ran was so smart that he should have understood the things she had said to him later. That's why he went to the Eastern Swamp Wilderness and found her to be his disciple.
No wonder. Bu Ran was a millennium imperial teacher, a figure at the level of the Emperor Venerable. How could he be so sympathetic just because a little girl was pitiful and agree to take her as his disciple?
Zhao Shuning always thought it was because she had touched Yan Ruyu at that time. Now, thinking about it carefully, it seemed that after she had mentioned Zituan'er and her own name, Bu Ran had smiled understandingly and taken her as his disciple and brought her by his side.
"Shuning, you just said you were wrong. What exactly was wrong?"
There were tears in Zhao Shuning's eyes. Then she said, "I wasn't wrong. I wasn't wrong."
Zhao Huai and Hun Dun glanced at each other. They didn't know why Zhao Shuning's emotions had changed so much all of a sudden. First she said she was wrong, then she said she wasn't wrong.
"Shuning, you—"
Zhao Shuning wiped the tears from her eyes, then gave Zhao Huai a sweet smile and said, "Brother, I'm fine. I'm very good now."
Then she faced Hun Dun directly. In that case, she and Hun Dun should be old friends who hadn't seen each other for many years, because she really existed in Hun Dun's memory.
She stood on tiptoe and shyly reached out her hand to touch the scales on Hun Dun's body as she had done five hundred years ago. She said, "Thank you for remembering me."