The fortune telling was so accurate that I accidentally accumulated a huge amount of merit!

Chapter 494 Jumping around like a monkey (2nd update)
Gu Yuan wanted to side with Yun Ran, but Xuan Kong was a tough opponent. Even if he joined the party, they would probably only be able to play a minor role.

Just as Gu Yuan was thinking about how to dissuade Yun Ran from causing trouble for Xuan Kong.

Yunran said resentfully, "They're lucky they ran fast! They messed with me, they've kicked a hornet's nest!"

Gu Yuan: ...

What was he thinking before? How could he have thought Yunran would do something reckless?

"Exactly! They ran away fast. From now on, we'll ignore them!"

A small pot not far away was making a bubbling sound.

"The broth is ready!"

As he spoke, Gu Yuan ran to the small pot and handed it to Yun Ran, pot and all. But he felt like he had forgotten something. However, what could be forgotten was obviously unimportant.

At this moment, he only had eyes for Yunran, and he felt that no one would dare to compete with a little girl who had been starving for days and nights.

Xie Xuzhi, watching from the side, was now genuinely angry.

But he didn't know that he was angry because Gu Yuan had promised to cook him meat soup, but now he had taken the pot away, and he was also angry because Gu Yuan was jumping around like a monkey, and he was everywhere!

Yun Ran was truly hungry, so she didn't notice the complicated expressions on the faces of the others when they looked in her direction.

Everyone: We never expected that Director Gu, who seemed like such a scoundrel before, would actually have such a considerate side.

After finishing the whole pot of meat soup, Yunran suddenly felt full of energy.

Gu Yuan stood to the side, grinning foolishly, with the same smile as his grandmother who was feeding her grandson.

As Yunran handed him the empty pot, Gu Yuan finally remembered what he had forgotten.

Then, with a stiff turn of his body, he met the boss's somewhat sinister gaze.

Gu Yuan gave an awkward laugh.

Can he really say that he didn't intentionally forget about the boss just now? It was just an accident!

Yun Ran then turned to look at Gu Yuan and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

Gu Yuan immediately suppressed his previous embarrassment and forced a smile, saying, "It's nothing, I was just a little cold..."

Since we've already offended the boss, there's no need to let Ranran know that this pot of meat soup was for the boss; that would be too awkward.

Having eaten and drunk her fill, Yunran was finally able to calm down and observe her surroundings.

Gu Yuan quickly followed Yun Ran, partly to avoid his boss's cold gaze.

On one hand, I was also thinking of telling Yunran about the situation here, just in case we made a discovery.

"Ranran, what did you see?"

"This should be an ancient altar, but it seems to have been destroyed by something."

Yunran now knew that this was beneath the previous pile of rubble. If it weren't for that explosion, they would never have discovered such a large, deep crater.

Suddenly, a piece of information that the little paper doll had reported earlier flashed through her mind.

After Xu Wen learned that they had gone to the pile of rubble, his suppressed inner demons suddenly erupted.

Information that seems to have no connection at all is now coming together. Does this mean that Xu Wen might know about this deep pit in the future, or even that he might have been inside it?

"You said there's a medicinal spring here that's incredibly effective for people injured by fire magic?"

Gu Yuan nodded quickly.

If the medicinal spring water hadn't immediately lost its effectiveness once it left the spring's area, the little paper figure would have gone to retrieve a bottle to show its master.

“Xu Wen is skilled in fire magic!” Gu Yuan wasn’t stupid; he suddenly opened his eyes: “You mean, Xu Wen discovered what’s going on here?”

Yun Ran nodded: "That should be true. People who are good at fire magic will have a more acute sense of perception than ordinary people if they encounter their nemesis."

So he must have discovered this place, but for some reason, he didn't attack the black bear monster.

Based on the information reported by the little paper doll and the conclusions drawn by Elder Gong, Xu Wen's true mission is probably not to keep an eye on Zhu Qing, but to protect this monster.

That's why, upon hearing that I was in the pile of rubble, his inner demons surged, and he attacked the paper doll and Elder Gong with deadly intent!

Gu Yuan couldn't help but gasp. He didn't know who Xu Wen was before, but after fighting with Zhu Qing, he had a guess about Xu Wen's abilities.

How could someone like Xu Wen possibly protect such a monster?

The only explanation is that he had no idea he had been infected.

He seems fine most of the time, but he'll go berserk if anyone mentions the pile of rocks or anything that threatens the black bear monster.

Thinking of something, Gu Yuan couldn't help but shudder: "Ranran, we didn't get infected too, did we? Maybe it will suddenly go berserk at any time."

It's quite frightening that someone from Xuwen could be infected, and even be completely unaware that they were infected.

Yunran looked at the murals carved on the surrounding stone walls. After looking at them for a while, it did give her a very uncomfortable feeling.

"You said before that when this monster died, Xuan Kong's body was still glowing? Xuan Chu said that was one of the secret techniques of Tiandao Village?"

Gu Yuan nodded.

Yun Ran closed her eyes briefly, then brought two fingers together and swept them across her face before opening them again.

A faint blue light flashed from Yunran's eyes.

Soon, Yunran saw that the surroundings were shrouded in a sticky, gray gas.

Normally, this should be a series of clumps, but what she 'sees' now is a mess, with scattered gaps everywhere.

It's as if someone forcibly destroyed the original structure of that mass of gas, making it impossible for it to clump together again.

After thinking for a moment, Yun Ran took out her Heavenly Thunder Token.

He drank and said, "Go!"

The Heavenly Thunder Token, which was originally only half the size of a palm, immediately grew to the size of a washbasin, and its entire body was crackling with lightning.

The swaying gray gas seemed to have encountered some kind of nemesis, and kept retreating.

Yun Ran clasped her hands together: "Exterminate evil!"

As Yunran's voice faded, the Heavenly Thunder Token grew larger once more, filling the entire pit with the aura of heavenly thunder.

Apart from Xie Xuzhi and Gu Yuan, who had seen it before and were not surprised, everyone else present looked horrified.

Even the old men couldn't help but tremble.

They were afraid that if Yun Ran didn't control it properly, the heavenly lightning that swept past them would fall on them.

"What kind of method is this!"

"I had heard before that Yun Ran was skilled in lightning-based magic, but no one told me that her lightning-based magic directly borrowed from heavenly lightning."

"This is terrifying! I feel all the hairs on my body standing on end!"

"I can't go on, my body is getting weak, can someone help me?"

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