In the hall, Su Bingyan frowned and turned around, "What do you think about this matter?"
Over there, a woman in a black trench coat who was idly playing with her phone stood up, "I'll go there. Master must have had a deep meaning in doing this."
"What deep meaning? I think Brother-in-law just doesn't want to see me," Su Bingyan said sadly.
The woman in black was naturally Jun Mengyao. She pursed her lips and smiled, "That's not necessarily true. Master might be embarrassed to see you. This time, he has truly returned to his youth, and he's afraid of scaring you sisters, right?"
It was indeed a bit difficult to accept someone they had known for three to four years suddenly changing their image so drastically.
"No, I must go and see Brother-in-law."
Jun Mengyao just smiled. She couldn't interfere in the sisters' affairs.
However, she still asked, "What's going on with Yu Luo? She's changed so much after not seeing her for a few months."
Su Bingyan smiled, "She just learned how to put on makeup and has matured. She's not the little girl she used to be."
Jun Mengyao pursed her lips, "This isn't a temperament that can be achieved through makeup. I thought she had plastic surgery."
Su Bingyan frowned, "How is that possible? That child wouldn't dare to get plastic surgery without my permission, even if she had a hundred more guts. However, she did have a minor surgery."
"Oh? What surgery?"
Su Bingyan was reluctant to talk about her sister's private matters, but seeing Jun Mengyao's serious expression, she took out a medical record, "Yu Luo developed a patch of skin tinea. It wasn't large, only about the size of a piece of dried tofu. She went to Mingyue's hospital and had it removed with the latest laser surgery."
Jun Mengyao took the medical record and looked at it carefully, "It's not that I'm meddling, but Master instructed me to protect you sisters. I need to take care of your lives too."
The medical record was written very simply. Su Yu Luo was probably too shy and asked her sister to delete some information.
"Ichthyosis-like skin tinea, I thought it was something serious. This can be treated with some topical medication."
Looking at the photos Su Yu Luo took at the time, there was a patch of raised, fish scale-like skin on both sides of her ribs.
"This is what we commonly call ichthyosis. I think I had it when I was a child."
The two women's relationship was actually quite ordinary, and they were just making small talk.
It was Jun Mengyao who broke the awkward silence, "I'll go deal with Han Lengjun and his gang. After all, they are subordinates of your Jiantian Academy. How do you want me to handle them?"
Jun Mengyao controlled the dark forces left behind by Qin Yexuan. Even Su Bingyan didn't know how powerful they were, so she replied directly, "You handle it as you see fit. I don't want to see them again."
Jun Mengyao nodded and turned to leave.
After walking out the door, she suddenly stopped and took out her phone. On it was the medical record of Su Yu Luo that she had secretly taken.
She sent a photo of this medical record to Zhu Tianqi, "Please take a look, Master. This is Su Yu Luo's recent medical record."
In the old prison, Zhu Tianqi's phone vibrated.
The prison guard who was about to dismantle the phone for parts was startled.
"This phone isn't worth much, give it back to that girl. That way she can call home for money later."
"Yeah, this girl's watch is worth millions. Her family must be rich."
The phone was thrown back into Zhu Tianqi's arms.
She was idly circulating her internal energy when she opened her phone and saw, "What is this? Su Yu Luo's medical record?"
Qin Yexuan, who was beside her, gently took the phone and his expression changed drastically after a glance.
"What's wrong?" Zhu Tianqi asked curiously.
Qin Yexuan stared intently at the phone screen, zooming in on the photos of the medical record. Then, with a dark expression, he sent a message to Jun Mengyao: "Have Bingyan and Mingyue delete this medical record. Warn everyone involved not to reveal anything."
With a few taps, he deleted the medical record and sat alone, deep in thought with a furrowed brow.
Zhu Tianqi became even more curious, her heart itching.
"What's going on? Did Su Yu Luo get a terminal illness?"
Although she said it jokingly, Zhu Tianqi felt it was a bit much, "I'm just saying it casually, not cursing the child to death. We still have some of the bearing of a grandmaster, right?"
Unexpectedly, Qin Yexuan slowly replied, "It would be good if it were a terminal illness. This is more terrifying than any other situation."
Zhu Tianqi's eyes widened, "What are you talking about?"
Qin Yexuan waved his hand, "Sit down. Didn't you ask about the turbidity river golden carp a while ago? I'll tell you about it properly."
Zhu Tianqi was overjoyed.
After killing the turtle spirit in the small town, it had unexpectedly led to a story about a Taoist priest and the golden carp leaping over the dragon gate. She had been pondering why Qin Yexuan attached so much importance to it, and now, this guy was finally willing to explain.
Qin Yexuan slowly recalled, "Sixty years ago, no, to be precise, it should be sixty-eight years ago, a great turtle spirit appeared in the turbidity river, and seven boatmen went missing. The result was that the Wu Taoist priest killed the boatmen and hid the golden carp."
Zhu Tianqi was impatient, "I know all this. We watched that Wu Taoist priest die together."
Qin Yexuan said coldly, "But there's something you don't know. Sixty-eight years ago, that golden carp had already leaped over the dragon gate five times!"
What?
The golden carp had failed to leap over the dragon gate five times?
Zhu Tianqi, who had been in charge of the demonic sect for many years, was familiar with the legend of the golden carp leaping over the dragon gate. Her heart was greatly shaken, "Under normal circumstances, after failing the first leap over the dragon gate, that golden carp should have failed to transform and died."
Qin Yexuan shook his head, "Heaven is benevolent. That golden carp was also blessed. After each failure, she would cultivate again and continue to strive. At that time, I deduced that after her fifth failure to leap over the dragon gate, she had already gained sentience and could understand human language. She only needed to be guided by a person with profound Taoist magic to have a chance to transform into a human!"
Zhu Tianqi listened, dumbfounded, "For any living being in the world, after millions of years of evolution, there is only one path to becoming human: forming a golden core, then destroying the original form, and nurturing it with the golden core to transform into a human. According to the records of the demonic sect, this process takes anywhere from three to five hundred years, or even three to five thousand years!"
Qin Yexuan fell silent, and began to calculate the possible changes of that golden carp over sixty-eight years.
"If it's not a cycle of seventeen years, then after sixty-eight years, she has gone through four more cycles, plus the previous five times, making it exactly nine times!"
Nine is the number of the supreme. A golden carp that leaped over the dragon gate nine consecutive times, has she already become a 'holy embryo'?
Qin Yexuan closed his eyes, and couldn't help but recall the photos of Su Yu Luo's medical record.
"Yu Luo is seventeen this year, and she has symptoms that look like fish scale tinea... No, this might be a coincidence. There are too many talented seventeen-year-old girls in the world, how could it be her?"
But!
The proliferation of monsters in Lingmeng Mountain in Chaoge City also began precisely after Su Yu Luo chose to attend Chaoge University.
Coupled with the turtle spirit in the small town, and the membership card of the Shituoling Club I obtained...
It was obvious that the demons of the world were gathering in Chaoge City!
This was no longer a coincidence that could be explained.
Qin Yexuan stood up and paced back and forth with his hands behind his back. Just as he was about to say something, vehicles drove in from outside.
"That idiot is locked up right here!" Han Meng's voice could be heard.