Yu Su walked with Yu Zhou for a while and noticed that Lu Yan had not caught up, which seemed strange.
Turning around, he found Lu Yan and Jian Yunchuan lagging behind the crowd, discussing something.
Seeing him look back, Lu Yan ended the conversation with Jian Yunchuan and immediately walked towards him.
"What's wrong?" Lu Yan asked him in a low voice.
Yu Su shook his head, "Nothing, just tell my father what you talked about."
Lu Yan, "Asked if you were injured during this time, worried that you encountered danger but didn't tell him."
Yu Su nodded, instructing him not to tell Jian Yunchuan about anything too dangerous.
Lu Yan nodded, "I understand."
...
To celebrate their return, the village held a celebration banquet.
After a lively night, Yu Su returned home, took a hot bath, dried himself, wrapped in a warm fox fur, climbed onto the warm kang, and crawled into bed.
During the time outside, he endured rough conditions, and now that he's home, he just wanted a good night's sleep.
After Yu Zhou finished his hot bath, Jian Yunchuan carried him into Yu Su's room.
"Brother, I want to sleep with you."
Jian Yunchuan sighed, "You two brothers sleep together."
Yu Su's warm kang could be said to be the most comfortable in the entire village, with soft and smooth fur cushions, thick and soft quilts. He let Yu Zhou into his own bed and hugged him.
He told Jian Yunchuan, "Father, you go to sleep."
Jian Yunchuan nodded, closing the door on his way out, also closing the main door of the outer room, and went inside to sleep.
Outside was windy and snowy; everyone wanted to snuggle into their warm beds.
After confirming that Yu Zhou's feet were not cold, Yu Su told him to sleep quickly.
However, Yu Zhou said, "Brother, let's call Lu Yan brother to sleep with us."
Yu Su, "Why?"
Yu Zhou, "Lu Yan brother is warm."
Yu Su, "My bed is not warm enough? Hurry up and sleep. If Lu Yan brother falls asleep, don't disturb him."
Yu Zhou, "No, when I entered the room just now, I saw him outside your door."
Yu Su immediately looked at the closed door; Lu Yan was outside?
He returned home without specifically paying attention to the surroundings, so he had no idea unless Yu Zhou mentioned it.
"What was he doing outside?" Yu Su asked.
Yu Zhou, "Maybe he wanted to sleep with you."
Yu Su wanted to test it, not expecting Lu Yan to really open the door and walk in, his eyes shining, "Did you call me?"
Yu Su, "..."
Helplessly, he said, "What were you doing outside?"
Lu Yan, "Afraid you're cold; the snow outside is getting heavier."
Yu Su was speechless. How could a Foundation Building cultivator be afraid of a little cold?
Moreover, his room had a warm kang, thick and soft fox fur, and quilts. How could he be cold?
"I'm not cold. Go back to sleep and don't stand outside scaring people."
Lu Yan sighed disappointingly, looking at Yu Su's warm kang with regret.
Yu Su chuckled; this guy envied his warm kang?
Lu Yan's own bed was not bad either.
He didn't want to spoil this guy; he was already clingy during the day, and now he wanted to sleep together at night. What kind of situation was this?
Yu Su sent Lu Yan back to his room, hugged Yu Zhou, and had a peaceful and warm sleep.
The next morning, he didn't want to get out of bed, lazily lying there.
After a while, Lu Yan came in from outside, bringing breakfast for him.
"Eat breakfast before lying down again."
Yu Su sat up, wrapped in a fuzzy fox fur, and watched Lu Yan place a low table on his kang, bringing over a steaming bowl of wild vegetable and meat soup.
"Have you eaten?" Yu Su asked.
Lu Yan nodded, "Yes."
After finishing breakfast, Yu Su said to Lu Yan, "After breakfast, let's go to the refining room."
Lu Yan nodded.
Yu Su finished breakfast, washed up, and wrapped in a furry fox fur, led Lu Yan to the refining room, taking out the refining materials they brought back and organizing them.
"Using this type of Golden Crow Sand and Red Iron Stone together can refine a tough sword. You can try to see if you can forge the first sword," Yu Su told Lu Yan.
Lu Yan nodded, preparing to start the experiment.
They spent the day in the refining room. The first attempt wasn't very smooth, but they gained experience and planned to try again after the celebration feast at the village chief's house.
In the evening, Yu Su went to the mountain.
His pace was fast now, reaching Deer God Mountain in just over ten minutes.
Deer God Mountain remained like spring all year round, and the temperature of the mountain god was warm, not at all like the wind and snow outside.
"Lord Mountain God, I'm back," Yu Su called at the foot of the mountain.
Qingze jumped down from the mountain, standing on a large rock, looking at him.Yu Su greeted it with a smile, then took out all the gifts Qingze brought back from this trip.
Mostly, they were food, and many were picked from the island of the Tree of Life.
They were all spirit fruits rich in spiritual energy.
Qingze, seeing these things, knew that Yu Su had successfully met the Tree of Life.
It didn't rush to eat; instead, it collected these things and looked at Yu Su.
Yu Su knew what it wanted to hear, so he recounted how he reached the Water Marsh, how he reached the island, and how he made a deal with the Tree of Life.
"In the end, Lord Tree God gave me its Life Fruit. Now my dantian has advanced, and my cultivation has reached the Foundation Building stage. However, the other four dantians are not lit up. I estimate that when I light up the remaining four dantians and reach Foundation Building altogether, I'll probably be struck by lightning again."
Qingze, hearing that he successfully obtained the Life Fruit, relaxed. While Yu Su rambled about worrying about being struck by lightning again, it casually began eating the spirit fruits.
After Yu Su finished talking, he told Qingze another important matter.
"Lord Mountain God, this time I also discovered some things, but I don't know what they are, so I brought them back for you to see."
First, Yu Su talked about the matters of the Lion Tribe, then he took out the witch fruits and the ghost-faced stones and sheepskin scrolls he found in Xiongli's house.
Qingze looked at these things and became serious.
After a while, it asked Yu Su what the witch fruit tree looked like.
Yu Su described the appearance of the witch fruit tree and mentioned the half-black heart of Xiongli.
Seeing Qingze's serious expression, Yu Su guessed that it knew something and asked, "Lord Mountain God, do you know what's going on?"
Qingze summoned spirit fire, burned the witch fruits, ghost-faced stones, and the sheepskin scrolls that Yu Su brought out, then told Yu Su that those were all things related to evil gods.
That Xiongli should be a black witch who worshipped an evil god.
"You all talk about evil gods. What exactly are evil gods?" Yu Su couldn't help but ask.
Qingze explained that evil gods are fallen gods. Originally, he was a well-known Lord of Fate in the divine realm. However, due to using dark arts to harm people privately and disrupting the three realms by using divine powers, causing harm to countless beings, he was finally jointly expelled from the divine altar by the gods. His divine position was stripped, his divine body disappeared, and his divine soul was suppressed in a place known only to the gods.Yu Su was surprised to learn that not only did the evil god exist, but it was also a fallen god.
"So, these things coming out, it's not that the evil god has come out, right?"
Qingze shook its head, indicating that the evil god couldn't have escaped. However, being a god with a powerful divine soul, it only took a little temptation to make those with weak wills fall.
That half-hearted thing was evil and, after devouring flesh and blood, served to feed the evil god.
Yu Su: "Fortunately, I destroyed it. However, the people of the Lion Tribe said that Xiongli turned into that after coming out of the resting place of the witch doctor. I don't know where this resting place of the witch doctor is, and I don't know if there are any other hidden dangers there."
Qingze stood on a large rock, looking into the distance, indicating that it would investigate this matter, and Yu Su didn't need to worry about it.
Yu Su faintly sensed that Qingze wasn't very keen on him getting involved with matters related to the evil god. Perhaps it was some kind of secret in the divine realm.
He tactfully said, "If there's anything I need to do, just give me orders."
After chatting with Yu Su, Qingze didn't bring up the matter again.
After meditating on Deer God Mountain for a night, Yu Su returned to Yucun the next day.
He noticed that after he returned to Yucun, Qingze also left Deer God Mountain.
Qingze should have gone to investigate the resting place of the witch doctor or something like that.
...
It snowed all day yesterday, but it stopped this morning.
The people in the village cleared the snow from the front of their houses and the roads. Tables and chairs were set up at the village chief's house and in the square.
Today, the second son of the village chief is getting married, and the village is lively early in the morning.
After returning, Yu Su went home first to change clothes and then went to the village chief's house.
At this time, there weren't many formalities for the wedding. It was just the two families sitting together, making merry, and expressing their union as a couple witnessed by everyone.
It's worth mentioning that the groom, Yu Yan, is marrying the daughter of the Bee Village chief.
During this time, the two of them had developed feelings for each other, and as both were of marriageable age and in agreement, the village chief personally went to the Bee Village chief's house to propose the idea of their families becoming in-laws. The Bee Village chief was also quite satisfied with Yu Yan, so the matter was settled.
Originally, they could have held the wedding banquet before winter, but both villages insisted on waiting for Yu Su to return. So, here it is today.
The Bee Village chief and his family arrived in Yucun yesterday and stayed overnight.
Now, both families and the villagers of Yucun are sitting in the square.
As the witch doctor of Yucun, Yu Su, of course, had to give blessings to the newlyweds.
He stood on a high place, dressed elegantly, and delivered words of blessing to Yu Yan and his wife.