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

Chapter 446: Cicadas and Blood Dew

After Zhu Cheng left, Duan Rong stayed in the villa all day long reading materials.

Ruyi had been watching over him not far away, bringing him new tea from time to time, but Duan Rong seemed to have entered a kind of "flow state". Apart from the information in front of him, it seemed that everything around him no longer existed.

He continued like this until late at night, when the moon set in the west.

Ruyi had been there for a whole day and could not help yawning.

Duan Rong finally raised his head and moved his stiff neck. He picked up the cup of tea not far away, took two sips to moisten his throat, then glanced at Ruyi not far away. Ruyi had just yawned and there were tears of sleepiness in her eyes.

Duan Rong smiled and said, "What's wrong? Are you sleepy?"

Ruyi said: "No, sir, I am not sleepy..."

Before Ruyi could finish her words, her expression changed. Duan Rong also frowned and turned to look outside the house.

"Ding!"

"Ding! Ding!"

Outside the courtyard, in the quiet night, there was a sudden sound of iron colliding, obviously someone was fighting.

Duan Rong suddenly leaped up and stood at the door when he landed.

"Stay here and don't move!"

Duan Rong gave Ruyi some instructions and ran out of the house.

"Sir, you have to be careful!" Ruyi said with a worried look, but Duan Rong was no longer in the room.

At this time, the sound of fighting outside the courtyard had stopped. When Duan Rong heard the sound of fighting, he had already released his spiritual sense.

The man was wearing night clothes and was injured by Qiu Luan in just two moves.

When Duan Rong jumped out, the man had already retreated. Under his spiritual awareness, he saw a black shadow, covering his shoulder, flashing over the wall.

Not bad for lightness skills!

Duan Rong's concentrated spiritual consciousness had already penetrated the black cloth covering the man's face.

“It’s this person!”

Duan Rong was shocked when he saw the man's face clearly. The man who came to visit the other courtyard at night turned out to be the waiter of Taihe Tower.

"This Shenyun Mansion is truly a place of hidden dragons and crouching tigers!"

Duan Rong walked to the gate of the villa.

In the open space outside the door, Qiu Luan stood there holding a dagger. Although he reeked of alcohol, he stood very steadily, with a murderous look between his brows.

A knife fell to the ground not far from Qiu Luan, with an obvious pool of blood next to the knife.

Duan Rong glanced at Qiu Luan, and Qiu Luan also looked at Duan Rong.

The two men looked at each other, but neither spoke. Duan Rong walked straight over and picked up the knife next to the bloodstain. With the dim light of a lantern hanging above the gate of the villa, Duan Rong recognized the knife in his hand as a standard Mo Dao.

The standard Mo Dao is the official sword of the Dali Temple.

Duan Rong frowned, looking at the blade reflected by the dim light in his hand, and thought to himself: "Read the spirit of the weapon."

In the gloomy night, a set of data appeared in front of Duan Rong.

Object: Standard Mo Dao
Spirit Level: Level 7

Devouring requirements: Host's mental strength level 7 (satisfied)
Devouring Effect: Feiyun Sword Technique Level 4
Duan Rong looked at the floating data panel in front of him and smacked his lips slightly. "You are indeed at the fourth level of the True Qi Realm. I really underestimated you!"

In fact, when Duan Rong used his spiritual sense to scan the man's leaving body just now, he had already vaguely guessed his realm, but he did not use his spiritual sense to penetrate his dantian to explore his actual realm at that time.

An expert at the fourth level of the Qi Realm actually works as a waiter in Taihe Building. He is really wasting his talent!
Duan Rong thought so, and looked at Qiu Luan who was not far away from him with a serious look. The man was also at the fourth level of the Qi Realm. Although his skills were more focused on light skills, he was still at the fourth level of the Qi Realm. However, such a master was injured after only two moves from Qiu Luan.

It can be seen that Qiu Luan's cultivation is probably not far from the great perfection state of true qi realm.

You know, Ximen Kankan, Xiao Yu and others have not yet reached the great perfection of the Qi realm and are trapped in the tower forest.

The subtle and perfect realms after the fourth level have nothing to do with the strength of the true Qi in Dantian, but are a kind of skill in using true Qi and belong to the level of mental power.

Therefore, although Duan Rong had observed Qiu Luan's Dantian when they met, he only knew about his internal strength cultivation, and was not clear about his progress in the subtle or perfect realm.

At this time, Zhu Zhengfu and housekeeper Zhu Yu were seen rushing towards this side by the bamboo forest at the other end of the courtyard. The lantern in Zhu Yu's hand was swaying like sparks in the night.

Duan Rong glanced at their figures over there, then lowered his head to look at the sword in his hand, staring intently and saying inwardly: "Devouring!"

With his current level of cultivation, he naturally had no interest in the martial arts of the True Qi Realm, but he was somewhat curious about the waiter of Taihe Tower. Perhaps there might be some information in this weapon spirit.

By the time the data panel in front of him collapsed and disappeared, Zhu Zhengfu had already walked to the entrance of the villa, and the dim light reflected his gloomy face.

Zhu Zhengfu arranged defenses around the villa, but he issued a strict order not to allow the guards to approach the villa to avoid exposing Duan Rong's whereabouts.

Just now, the guards heard the fighting and reported it to him, so he rushed to the villa.

Zhu Zhengfu glanced at Qiu Luan and asked, "Who is it?"

Qiu Luan remained silent and just shook his head.

Duan Rong handed the Mo Dao in his hand to Zhu Zhengfu.

Zhu Zhengfu picked up the phone, looked at it closely under the light, and said in surprise: "Standard Mo Dao?! Is it the Dali Temple??"

Zhu Zhengfu held the Mo Dao in front of his eyes and rubbed the base of the blade with his fingertips for a while, where there were several small numbers.

Zhu Zhengfu's eyes flickered, he put away the knife and said, "It is true that the knife belongs to the Dali Temple, but this person, I am not sure."

Duan Rong glanced at Zhu Zhengfu. This man was not stupid. If he was really from the Dali Temple, why would he come for a night investigation with a Mo Dao that would reveal his identity?

"I will give this knife to Zhu Cheng overnight and ask him to check it out. There should be results tomorrow."

Zhu Zhengfu said, clasping his fists towards Duan Rong and said, "I'm sorry that I didn't protect myself well enough and frightened you, sir!"

Duan Rong smiled and said, "Master Zhu, don't be nervous. Maybe he's just a thief."

Duan Rong said this only to ease the atmosphere. How could an ordinary thief be holding the Dali Temple's standard Mo Dao?
Duan Rong said, looking at Qiu Luan with admiration, "The guard that Master Zhu picked for me is very good!"

Zhu Zhengfu then smiled and said, "Qiu Luan's martial arts are indeed not bad, otherwise I would not dare to let him come to guard the gate for you, sir."

Zhu Zhengfu said, glaring at Qiu Luan and said coldly: "Qiu Luan, the master is praising you! Why are you still like a stone?"

Upon hearing this, Qiu Luan clasped his fists towards Duan Ronglue but remained silent.

Zhu Zhengfu knew Qiu Luan's temper and couldn't do anything about him. He was already giving him face by clasping his fists and bowing.

Duan Rong smiled and praised: "What a brave man!"

The more Qiu Luan acted like this, the more he admired her. When employing people, one should not only use their strengths, but also their weaknesses. This is why Qiu Luan was so loyal.

Zhu Zhengfu clasped his fists and said, "Don't worry, sir. I will ask Zhu Peng to transfer another team of soldiers from the Privy Council to strengthen the patrol and defense outside the villas in the mansion. Such things that disturb sir will never happen again."

Duan Rong said, "There's no need to go to great lengths. They've been here once, and they already know there's someone in the courtyard. As for who it is, how can we know just by looking at it at night? They probably won't come again."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Zhengfu's face changed for a moment, and he clasped his fists and said half-seriously, "Your Excellency sees things clearly."

Duan Rong could see that Zhu Zhengfu did not really agree with his opinion, so he smiled and said, "It's getting late, Master Zhu, go to bed early."

After Duan Rong finished speaking, he walked straight into the courtyard. Zhu Zhengfu looked at Duan Rong's back, his eyes flickering. As soon as Duan Rong entered the room, Ruyi came over in a panic. "Sir, what happened?"

"It's okay, just a thief." Duan Rong said calmly: "It's getting late, go to bed."

Ruyi nodded, closed the door, turned off the lights, and went into the inner room with Duan Rong.

Ruyi brought a basin of hot water and helped Duan Rong undress and take off his socks. Then she held Duan Rong's feet and put them into the basin. While doing this, Ruyi was only wearing a bellyband and underpants.

Duan Rong closed his eyes as much as possible, not looking at her, and just let her soft hands rub his feet.

Ruyi helped Duan Rong lie down, and when she went out with the foot washing water to pour it, her eyes were obviously dim and she sighed softly.

Duan Rong was lying on the bed. The room was pitch black. He could hear Ruyi's steady breathing. It was obvious that she had fallen asleep, but Duan Rong was not sleepy at all.

After a while, he heard faint rustling sounds coming from far away outside. He knew without using his spiritual sense that Zhu Zhengfu had still dispatched more soldiers around the villa.

This cannot be blamed on Zhu Zhengfu, he was also afraid of messing up the job.

In the pitch-black night, Duan Rong's eyes sparkled deeply...

The person who came to visit at night turned out to be the waiter of Taihe Tower. He had stayed in Taihe Tower for three consecutive days before, so he might have some impression of it.

However, his coming to visit at night was obviously unrelated to the previous meeting with him in Taihe Tower.

I'm afraid there are spies in Zhu Zhengfu's mansion.

It was because he had given the order not to allow the patrolling guards to approach the villa that some people became suspicious.

However, if he allowed the guards to patrol the front and back of the villa, Duan Rong's whereabouts would probably be exposed.

its not right!
The various major forces in Shenyun Mansion have been operating for many years, so naturally they have deployed many spies and a secret network of informants. As long as he comes into contact with Zhu Zhengfu and Zhu Cheng, he will definitely be exposed. Because people like them must be watched by someone in Shenyun Mansion.

Then why did Zhu He specifically tell him to come to Shenyun Mansion to contact Zhu Zhengfu and others?

Moreover, thinking about it now, Zhu He's instructions were said at the end, which seemed a bit abrupt.

Is it...

Duan Rong suddenly thought of one thing, that is, Zhu He's purpose was to expose him.

Why?
Why do you want me to be exposed?

Duan Rong thought about it again and again, but still found it difficult to guess the connection.

He sighed helplessly. This old man Zhu He was too experienced. Often, his seemingly unintentional words were actually very meaningful.

Moreover, the way it was laid out was extremely obscure. He simply couldn't understand the deep meaning of it until the moment came.

Duan Rong touched the Dew-Drinking Cicada hidden on his body, his eyes cold.

He suddenly slid down from the bed, stepped on the floor barefoot, and looked at Ruyi who was sleeping on the floor next to the pillar. Ruyi's breathing was steady and gentle.

Duan Rong suddenly waved his hand in the darkness of the night, and as his sleeves shook, a ball of medicine powder was sprinkled on Ruyi's face.

It was a kind of coma powder that could make Ruyi sleep for several hours.

After the powder was sprinkled, Ruyi's breathing became noticeably weaker.

Ruyi's fair and tender shadow flashed through Duan Rong's mind in the darkness, and a feeling of heat rose in his lower abdomen again.

Duan Rong took a deep breath, circulated his vital energy, and suppressed the heat. Then he put on his clothes and jumped out of the side window of the room.

The moment Duan Rong jumped out of the window, his spiritual consciousness suddenly released.

With his physical skills at the fourth level of Yuan Qi Realm and his spiritual sense, it was impossible for him to be discovered even if there were many soldiers surrounding the villa.

Duan Rong passed by a team of patrolling soldiers silently like a ghost and jumped into the shadow of a rockery.

Then, Duan Rong's figure flashed repeatedly and he had already jumped out of Zhu Zhengfu's mansion.

At this time, it was midnight and the entire Shenyun Mansion was silent, with only the faint sound of the Danjiang River gurgling.

Duan Rong moved his body, flashing like a ghost in the shadows of various buildings.

About an incense stick later, he had left the city of Shenyun Mansion.

Duan Rong stood in the dead silence and darkness in the wilderness. He looked back at the tall, dark city wall behind him, then continued to move forward into the depths of the wilderness.

Half an hour later, Duan Rong suddenly stopped in a vast wilderness.

At this time, the stars and the moon were low in the sky, and the trees were low in the open fields.

Duan Rong exhaled a breath, and for half an hour, he exerted all his strength to hurry on his way. At this moment, he was at least twenty miles away from the city of Shenyun Mansion.

Duan Rong stood there. The surroundings were quiet and dead silent. He could clearly hear his own breathing.

He flipped his hand, and in the darkness, he saw a cicada with a faint bloody glow lying in his palm.

It was the Dew-Drinking Cicada that he had refined with his essence and blood according to Zhu He's instructions.

Duan Rong looked at the cicada's body glowing with blood in the night. Its light and shadow floated, and it was as agile as a living thing.

A hint of pain flashed across Duan Rong's eyes, but he still made up his mind and activated his mind in an instant.

After being refined by his essence and blood, the Dew Drinking Cicada had already become connected with his mind. The moment he urged it with his mind, the Dew Drinking Cicada lying on his palm suddenly let out a low cicada chirp.

The cicada's chirping was not harsh at all, but like a soft hum, almost inaudible, yet it filled the entire wilderness.

At the moment when the cicada chirped, a drop of blood dew spit out from the mouth of the dew-drinking cicada...

The moment that drop of blood appeared, there was only a flash of blood shadow before it disappeared, as if it was not a thing of this world. Once it appeared, it was wiped out by the way of heaven.

But at the moment when the blood dew disappeared, an extremely terrifying force suddenly enveloped Duan Rong, and with him as the center, it spread out to all around the wilderness...

The terrifying aura of the invisible force made Duan Rong tremble uncontrollably, and his mind instantly collapsed...

The wilderness, with Duan Rong as the center, an area of ten feet in radius, was reduced to dust in an instant.

The land, the trees, the rocks, the grass, all were gone.

It was like a desert ten meters in radius suddenly appeared in an oasis.

No, not the desert, that is much finer than sand, even finer than flour.

Moreover, all matter is ground into powder without any distinction.

Those large pieces of fine powder lay quietly around Duan Rong, and the place where his feet were standing was an almost perfect circle. The grass on it was creepy green under the dim light of the stars and the moon.

Duan Rong swallowed his saliva, and a hint of fear flashed in his eyes!
Fortunately, that power was not meant to destroy him, but to protect him. Otherwise, he was sure that he would not be able to resist even for a moment, and he would be wiped out in an instant, like powder all over the ground.

Because, that is a power from a completely different dimension.

"This is the power of law!"

At this moment, Duan Rong did not feel the excitement of controlling the power of the law at all, but instead felt a deep fear.

That power appeared without any process and without any sound. After the low sound of cicadas, everything happened quietly.

It was so fast and so strange. Just like a dream, Duan Rong stepped on a round grass and appeared in the middle of a desert...

(End of this chapter)