A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 305: Cloud-feathered Crazy Eagle
In the night sky, a full moon as big as a face floats in the sea of clouds...

Duan Rong sat on the rumbling old ox cart, looking up at the rising moon with a grim look in his eyes.

The ox cart was moving very slowly. At the moment they all felt heavy-hearted and extremely tired. Moving so slowly was just enough for them to rest.

In a dense forest beside the official road, three figures hid in the shadows of the trees in the dark, looking at the three ox carts moving slowly on the official road under the moonlight. However, their eyes gradually focused on Ah Mo, who was walking slowly beside the ox carts...

Dang Haihong said: "Miss Qingchuan, that guy killed Yu Lieting with just one move!"

Ge Qingchuan remained silent. She was not surprised at all that the man who could kill Fan Hanzhou could kill Yu Lieting with one move.

Ge Qingchuan turned his head and looked at Dang Haihong and Xiao Nan behind him.

She brought a group of people out, and the only two people left alive were the two in front of her.

Ge Qingchuan said: "You two should go back to your respective rudders first. Stay dormant for a while and don't cause any trouble."

As Ge Qingchuan spoke, he turned his head and looked at Xiao Nan, saying, "Xiao Nan! Yu Lieting was killed in the battle. You will be the temporary leader of the Jiuchong Branch."

Xiao Nan was delighted. As the leader of a branch, he would not only know more secrets of the sect, but also have a better understanding of the techniques. However, he suppressed his joy and pretended to lament, "Leader Yu died tragically! If I have the chance one day, I will definitely avenge him!"

Ge Qingchuan knew that Xiao Nan was just being polite, so he didn't respond to his words and said, "You guys go ahead."

The two men bowed and left, disappearing into the darkness of the dense forest.

When Ge Qingchuan saw the two people leaving, she turned her head to look. The ox cart on the official road also turned around and leaped into the dense forest. The direction she was heading was actually the direction of Xiangu County.

Ge Qingchuan was walking in the darkness of the dense forest, and before he knew it, two lines of tears had already slid down his cheeks...

She had been planning this ambush against the sect's envoy and newly registered disciples for several months, from planning and preparation to final deployment and implementation, and she had mobilized a large number of elite troops from the Yuanyang Hall in order to hit the target with one strike.

But I didn't expect that the final result would be such a disastrous failure!
Although she killed three registered disciples, the price she paid was too high, so high that she simply could not bear it.

Not only she couldn't bear it, but her father Ge Qinglei probably couldn't bear it either.

This great defeat might have put her father, the leader of Yuanyang Hall, at risk. Thinking of this, Ge Qingchuan couldn't help but blame herself.

On the official road, Duan Rong and Ximen Kankan were sitting together on the swaying oxcart. Xiao Yu and Shen Mizhi were also huddled together, leaving only Lu Qingzhu sitting alone at the rear of the car.

Every time the ox cart shook, Lu Qingzhu felt uncomfortable from the bumps. Although she was very tired, she couldn't fall asleep.

Ah Mo saw Lu Qingzhu was shaken by the ox cart and frowned. He felt distressed and said, "Miss, let Ah Mo carry you."

Lu Qingzhu raised his sleepy eyes and smiled.

At this time, A-mo had already squatted at the tail of the ox cart. Lu Qingzhu jumped lightly and put his arms around A-mo's neck.

A Mo carried Lu Qingzhu on his back and walked steadily beside the ox cart.

Lu Qingzhu leaned his head against Ah Mo's shoulder and said, "Ah Mo, when was the last time you carried me on your back?"

Ah Mo said: "I forgot, Miss. It has been many years..."

The two grew up together. When they went out to play, Lv Qingzhu was tired and didn't want to walk, so she asked Ah Mo to carry her on her back. Later, as the two grew older, Lv Qingzhu never asked Ah Mo to carry her on his back again.

Lu Qingzhu was originally sitting at the rear of the ox cart, but her figure was blocked by Xiao Yu and Shen Mizhi who were curled up together, so Duan Rong did not look in that direction. Now that Ah Mo was walking beside her with her back on his back, Duan Rong immediately looked over there.

Xiao Yu and Shen Mizhi snuggled together. Xiao Yu instantly noticed Duan Rong's gaze. Girls are always very sensitive to such changes.

Xiao Yu's brows were already furrowed.

Lu Qingzhu lay on Ah Mo's shoulder and murmured, "Ah Mo, I want to go home."

Ah Mo said: "Miss, we will be able to go home soon."

Lu Qingzhu rubbed his face on Ah Mo's shoulder and said, "Ah Mo, when we go home this time, we will stay in the mountains and not come out, okay?
Ah Mo said, "Miss, if you want to stay in the mountains, Ah Mo will stay with you. If you want to come out, Ah Mo will come out with you."

Lu Qingzhu lay on Amo's shoulder, with tears in her eyes.

"Amo..."

Just as Lu Qingzhu was about to say something, a clear and distant eagle cry suddenly came from the sky high above their heads.

That sound seemed to be able to penetrate the night sky!
Everyone was shocked and looked up, only to see a huge black shadow coming across the sea of clouds under the moonlight!

In a moment, the black shadow flapped its wings and came towards us like clouds hanging from the sky!

A dark shadow covered the sky and a strong wind swept past!

The huge black shadow had already landed in front of the ox cart, three or four feet away, raising a large cloud of dust.

The black eagle folded its wings, but its body was still as big as a mountain, occupying almost half of the official road. In the moonlight, its huge eagle eyes, as big as a human head, shone with black light like gems.

Zhu Qunxiang was driving the first ox cart and walking in the front. He looked at the huge black shadow with horror on his face and his jaw almost dropped.

"This... Cloud-feathered Crazy Eagle?!..."

The Cloud-Winged Wild Eagle is the sect's strategic resource.

This kind of falcon is extremely difficult to breed and raise. There are only seven of them in the entire Taiyi Sect.

An adult Cloud-Winged Wild Eagle can carry dozens of experts at a time and charge thousands of miles, which is enough to turn the tide of the battle!

Zhu Qunxiang is not only a descendant of an aristocratic family, but also an outer disciple of the sect, but this is the first time he has seen the Cloud-Winged Wild Eagle.

Before Zhu Qunxiang recovered from her shock, she saw two figures jumping down from the mountain-like black shadow.

The two men leaped up like ghosts and stood not far from Zhu Qunxiang.

Zhu Qunxiang immediately jumped off the ox cart, knelt down and said, "I pay my respects to you, sir!"

Lu Zhongtang glanced at Zhu Qunxiang and ignored him. He only looked at Ah Mo not far away and said with hidden anger, "Qingzhu, why don't you come over?"

When Lu Qingzhu and A Mo heard the eagle's cry, they knew who was coming.

The two walked to the front.

Lu Qingzhu lowered his head and called out in a weak voice, "Father."

Ah Mo stood aside, bowed slightly, and said respectfully, "Master."

Duan Rong was sitting on the last ox cart. When he heard Lu Qingzhu calling him father, his heart skipped a beat and he looked at the man intently.

There were two figures in the front, one was a tall and thin middle-aged man wearing a green Taoist robe, and the other was a young man with a refined temperament. Lu Qingzhu's father was the middle-aged man. Duan Rong couldn't help but look at him a few more times.

At this moment, Lu Zhongtang's eyes suddenly turned to the ox cart behind Zhu Qunxiang. Under the floating moonlight, he saw corpses piled on the ox cart, and dense blood threads on the corpses were wriggling and floating...

Lu Zhongtang's eyes jumped, and he looked at Zhu Qunxiang and asked, "What's going on with these corpses of foul-blooded monsters?"

Zhu Qunxiang was still kneeling there, not daring to stand up, and replied: "Your Excellency, while we were escorting these newly promoted registered disciples, we were ambushed by the evil spirits of the Filthy Blood Sect in the mountains..."

Lv Zhongtang's brows knitted together as he listened to Zhu Qunxiang's words. In the moonlight, he also saw that Ah Mo's body was covered in blood...

Lu Zhongtang was immediately furious. He glared at Lu Qingzhu and cursed, "Lu Qingzhu! You are getting bolder and bolder! I arranged for you to go to Shenyun Mansion for supervision. Who gave you the courage to act on your own initiative and get replaced by someone else, and run to this godforsaken place!"

It was only in the past two days that Lu Zhongtang received the news that Lu Qingzhu was not under surveillance in Shenyun Mansion, but was transferred to Yuanyang Mansion, thousands of miles away.

He only has this one daughter, and treats her like the apple of his eye. Although Lu Qingzhu has achieved the second level of the True Qi Realm and has Ah Mo to protect her, the martial arts world is extremely dangerous, not to mention that she has run thousands of miles away.

Among them, the most dangerous one is the Filthy Blood Cult, and we just happened to encounter them.

Lu Zhongtang looked at Ah Mo's bloody body and felt a wave of fear in his heart. What if Qing Zhu had an accident, how would he explain it to the ancestor?
Lu Qingzhu pursed her lips tightly, with a stubborn look on her face, and said, "Father, don't scold me. I won't come out again!"

"You..." Seeing that Lu Qingzhu looked like she was going to get angry with him, Lu Zhongtang became even more furious.

At this time, the elegant young man standing not far from Lu Zhongtang said, "Master, don't be too angry. Junior sister is still young, and it's normal for her to be a little playful. Besides, after all, nothing happened. The ambush by the Filthy Blood Cult can be considered an experience, which is not a bad thing."

The young man who was speaking was called Pei Du. He was a disciple of Lu Zhongtang. He was quite talented and was highly regarded by Lu Zhongtang.

As Pei Du spoke, Lu Zhongtang's expression eased slightly. He looked at Lu Qingzhu and said, "Come on, follow me back to the mountain!"

As Lu Zhongtang spoke, he turned and walked towards the Yunling Wild Eagle that was standing there with its wings folded.

Lu Qingzhu followed silently.

Lu Zhongtang, Lu Qingzhu and A'mo walked up to the Yunling Wild Eagle and jumped onto the eagle's back.

The Cloud-Winged Eagle's wings suddenly spread out and flapped slowly...

When the eagle landed, it raised a cloud of dust. Now it took off with even stronger wings. The strong wind blew across everyone's faces like a knife. Duan Rong's face was hurt, but he still forced his eyes open, staring at the figure of the Cloud-feathered Wild Eagle, because he knew that Lu Qingzhu was on the eagle.

The Cloud-Winged Eagle flapped its wings and took off from above the crowd's heads amidst the rising dust. With a flash of black shadow, it suddenly rose into the air.

Duan Rong stared at the huge black shadow under the moonlight, which became smaller and smaller, and gradually disappeared among the vast sea of clouds...

Duan Rong stared at the place where the black eagle disappeared, lost in thought for a long time.

Xiao Yu said angrily, "It's long gone! Are you still looking?"

Duan Rong sighed deeply. When Lu Qingzhu left just now, he didn't even look at him, as if he didn't exist.

Duan Rong sat dejectedly on the ox cart, staring blankly at the dark forest beside the road.

Lü Zhongtang, Lü Qingzhu, and Ah Mo had already left, but Pei Du, who came with Lü Zhongtang, was still standing in front of Zhu Qunxiang. Pei Du smiled, helped Zhu Qunxiang up from her kneeling position, and said, "My fellow disciple, what is your name?"

Zhu Qunxiang said, "I am Zhu Qunxiang."

Pei Du smiled and said, "Junior Brother Zhu, Junior Sister Lu can no longer serve as the sect's imperial envoy. From now on, I will take over her duties as the sect's imperial envoy. This is my sect's cloud certificate, please check it out, Junior Brother."

Pei Du said this and handed over his sect's cloud certificate.

In fact, the fact that he could come here on a Cloud-Feathered Wild Eagle already indicated his identity, so there was no need to check the sect's cloud certificate. However, the other party had already handed it to him, so Zhu Qunxiang still took it respectfully, opened it, and his expression suddenly changed.

This Pei Du is actually an inner sect disciple!

The status of an inner disciple is so noble!

Inner disciples are considered the direct descendants of the sect’s power core.

Even the highest-ranking person in the secular world, the Lord of Shenyun Mansion, is only an outer disciple.

According to etiquette, he also has to kneel and kowtow when he meets an inner disciple!

The inner sect is a gap between the sect and the secular world!
Because inner disciples generally do not interfere in worldly affairs unless ordered by the sect.

What's more, it is such a tedious and miscellaneous task as escorting registered disciples?
Zhu Qunxiang closed the cloud certificate, held it in both hands and handed it back to Pei Du, saying respectfully: "We all follow your lead, Senior Brother!"

Pei Du took the letter and said, "No need, I will go with you. You can do whatever you want. I won't interfere!"

Pei Du said as he sat down next to the front of the ox cart, then patted the board next to him and said, "Junior Brother Zhu, weren't you driving the cart just now? Keep going..."

Zhu Qunxiang looked at Pei Du's modest smile, sniffed, and understood what he meant. He didn't want to worry about it at all, just to nominally complete the task of escorting the registered disciples for Lu Qingzhu.

Zhu Qunxiang sat next to Pei Du and whipped the old ox. The old ox cart began to grunt and continued to move forward along the official road...

Duan Rong sat on the last ox cart, and from time to time, the image of Lu Qingzhu pointing a sword at him in the ruined temple flashed through his mind.

"After today, the day we meet again will be the day I kill you!"

This voice echoed in his mind over and over again.

After a long time, Duan Rong looked at the vast sea of clouds and the moonlight above his head, and murmured: "Qingzhu, mountains and rivers have met, we will meet again if we are destined to do so!"

"If you still want to kill me then, what if I let you kill me?!"

Above the sea of clouds, the wind is blowing wildly!
Lu Qingzhu and A Mo grabbed the feathers of the Yunling Wild Eagle and sat on the eagle's back.

Lu Qingzhu turned his head and looked down behind him. He saw only misty clouds and darkness below. Before he knew it, Lu Qingzhu had shed two lines of tears.

"Duan Rong, I hope I will never see you again in this life!"

For some reason, Lu Qingzhu's heart was suddenly filled with sadness.

She herself didn't know where this feeling came from.

Outside the East Gate of Xiangu County, gongs and drums were beating loudly, and suonas were playing...

At nightfall yesterday, the county office received an official document stating that the new Xiangu County Magistrate would arrive in Xiangu County the next morning.

Secretary Qin notified his colleagues in the yamen and the wealthy gentry in the county overnight.

Early in the morning, everyone gathered outside the city gate to welcome the arrival of the new county magistrate...

　Joy is fun, parting is painful, and there are even more foolish children among them. With the clouds in the vast sky and the evening scenery of thousands of mountains, to whom will the shadow go?
　　
　
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