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"Sui'an and Chaoxi are not here, it's a bit boring..." In a corner of the library, Li Chu muttered while flipping through the pages of a book.

The words and patterns on the pages were taken into her perception one by one as she touched them with her fingertips, turning into starlight in the sea of ​​her soul.

Zhong Heng, who was standing opposite him, looked up at the girl with her eyes covered by black silk and said thoughtfully, "How is your control of the Eye of Prophecy?"

Li Chu supported his chin and tilted his head: "It's okay, you see, the backlash effect has been weakened by me." Li Chu calmly raised his hand to wipe away the bloodshot from the corners of his eyes.

Zhong Heng: “…” Sometimes I feel that humans are even more bizarre than other races.

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he silently took out a bunch of bottles and pushed them over.

"What did the prophecy say?"

Li Chu poured a few pills and swallowed them. After a few seconds of silence, he said seriously: "I see that your forehead is black, and you will have a bloody disaster in the near future."

“???” Zhong Heng raised his eyes and remained silent for a long time, silently holding his forehead.

"Brother, I must not be human, otherwise why would I feel out of tune with them?"

Another voice echoed in the sea of ​​souls, saying gently: "Ah Heng is very good, so the humans he meets are very special."

Zhong Heng raised an eyebrow, feeling that his brother's words sounded very subtle.

Li Chu said seriously: "Don't leave the academy, don't leave the City of No Return."

Zhong Heng put away the pile of books in front of him and nodded: "Okay." It is better to believe it than not to believe it, but he is also a little curious about what the so-called bloody disaster will be.

"I'm leaving first. I still have some questions to ask Professor Agatha." Zhong Heng gestured, "If you can't handle the backlash, come to the Alchemy Department for emergency treatment."

Li Chu watched Zhong Heng leave, knowing that he would remember her reminder, and continued to study the book "Star Chart Explanations" by Dean Iris in her hand.

"Ok?"

Li Chu unconsciously turned his head and "looked" towards the second floor, and vaguely felt that his thoughts seemed to be pulled over by something.

The Eye of Prophecy was stirring, and in her dark vision, some colorful spots of light appeared for no reason.

Those colorful dots of light gathered together and merged into a bright morning star.

"Morning Star..." She closed the book, frowned, and followed this inexplicable feeling unconsciously, and then came to the end of the corridor on the second floor. She raised her hand, and the touch told her that there was a door in front of her, but in her perception, there was nothing in front of her.

She fumbled for a moment, unable to make out what the pattern was. After hesitating for a moment, she pushed gently and the door creaked open.

She followed her feeling and took a step inside, and her figure immediately disappeared into the door.

"Huh?" Hua Mei, who was sitting in front of the counter, woke up and saw that the library was empty. She stood up and looked around. Seeing the open books on the table, she muttered, "You have to return them after reading..." She raised her hand and put the books back in their places accurately.

The stars are shining and the bonfire is flickering.

The moonlight lengthened the shadows of the tall trees, making the surrounding environment seem even more eerie.

Li Qing supported her chin and slowly turned the roasted chicken in her hand: "I say, Professor Iloven, is this the treatment I get when I go on a business trip with you?"

Iloven sat on his recliner, with a sweet-smelling cake on a carved plate beside him, and Sylph was pouring her specially prepared sauce on it.

"There is no large-scale teleportation array nearby, and the positioning scroll also requires space nodes. Those stupid dragons insist on staying in the remote mountains, where they have to sleep in the open air." He shrugged.

Li Qing raised her lips and saw that Iloven was enjoying the cake. She then handed the roast chicken to the young man who was silently looking at the map beside her: "Professor Feng, would you like some roast chicken?"

Feng Liting, who had long black hair and a cool temperament, placed the map on his knees, nodded lightly, and took the roast chicken.

"Thank you very much. You've worked hard." He took out a carving knife and cut the roast chicken into several pieces, then placed them on a plate and said to the young boy squatting beside him, "Let's eat together."

"Thank you, senior, thank you, professor!" The cute dwarf Finnian happily reaped the fruits of Li Qing's labor.

Li Qing glanced at Feng Liting and the dwarf boy beside him, then glanced at the relaxed Ilowen, and whispered to Xi Sui'an beside him: "No matter what, I always feel that the atmosphere in your alchemy department is weird. Xi Sui'an, what do you think?"

The firelight illuminated an unfamiliar face. There was no familiar trace on this face. It had fox eyes, heroic eyebrows, and pupils like a piece of amber, with an extremely strong inhuman feeling.

She stroked her furry orange-red fox ears and said calmly, "Now I'm not Xi Sui'an, call me An Sui Sui."

Then he answered his question: "It's okay, it's just a little unexpected that Professor Feng Liting is with us."

Looking over, she realized that it was no wonder that she had never seen Finnian before. It turned out that this dwarf was studying under Feng Liting.

Li Qing glanced at her ears and muttered to herself that she didn't know how this guy could camouflage so realistically. It looked better to the touch than Vega's black fox.

"Forget it, I won't try to guess what the bosses are thinking." Li Qing slowly skewered another fish.

Finnian handed Xi Sui'an a chicken wing while eating, "Professor Feng is also an alchemist, okay? I'm more curious about why Minister Sylph followed us."

"That's right." Xi Sui'an took the chicken wing and took a bite. "What is the relationship between Sylph and Professor Ilovin?"

Li Qing whispered, "Sylph is the descendant of the current Elf King, and the most popular successor of the Elf Tribe. Professor Ilowen, in human terms, is her uncle."

"???" Xi Sui'an was stunned. After she figured out the relationship, she was so shocked that the chicken wing at the corner of her mouth fell off!

"Isn't he half-elf?!"

"Yes." Li Qing flipped the grilled fish, sprinkled spices on it, and said calmly, "Professor Ilowen's father is the younger brother of the current Elf King."

"..."

Xi Sui'an blinked and was silent for a while: "Wait, let me sort it out."

In other words, Professor Iloven's father was an elven prince, and then he defected, and then fought and fell in love with the humans of the Gatekeeper Organization, and finally died at the hands of the other party? !

Dozens of scenarios of failed struggles for the throne flashed through her mind.

Li Qing seemed to know what she was thinking and whispered, "The Elf Prince's defection is ranked among the top ten gossips of all foreign tribes, and it has not fallen out of this category for hundreds of years."

"Indeed, I've heard my tribe members mention it as well." Finnian took a bite of a chicken leg and quietly joined in on their conversation.

The love, hate and vengeance of the elves seemed even more exciting than those of humans. Xi Sui'an fell into deep thought.

"Then how could Sylph be the next heir?" Shouldn't it be her father?

"That's a long story."

Sylph glanced at the three heads gathered together and said calmly, "Have you said enough? If you have, let's discuss who will keep watch between us?"

Li, who was caught talking, touched her nose lightly: "Ahem, sorry, sorry, I just talked too much."

"Let me take care of the night watch." The professor and his junior classmates are here. There are old people and young children here, so he is the most suitable person to do it.

Xi Sui'an was also a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, I'm just a little curious."

Iloven seemed to remember something and said thoughtfully, "Li Qing is not wrong. Sylph, how is your father?"

Sylph was silent for a moment: "...Everything is the same as before."

Feng Liting rolled up the map and said gently, "The problem of broken spiritual consciousness is indeed very serious. There are very few alchemists in foreign lands who are better than Agatha. Why not let her go and take a look?"

Sylph shook her head: "It's your majesty's decision."

Soul consciousness broken?

Xi Sui'an was slightly stunned. He seemed to have seen this some time ago. The destruction of the spiritual consciousness of alien races was equivalent to the drying up of the sea of ​​human souls. The result was...

The mind returns to the childish state.

"Oh, so that's it." Feng Liting didn't say anything else.

Iloven took the last bite of cake and looked up at him: "I always thought you were oblivious to what's going on outside, but I didn't expect you know a lot."

Feng Liting said calmly: "How could I not know about the matter that was so hotly discussed back then?"

"That's right." Iloven smiled.

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Xi Sui'an and Finnian looked at each other and silently lowered their heads to eat chicken.

"Sui Sui." Iloven suddenly called out the name.

"......Ah." Xi Sui'an was so frightened by Yi Luowen's cry of "Sui Sui" that he almost choked on the chicken bone.

Iloven took out a dark golden bell and threw it to her: "Find a place to hang it up."

Xi Sui'an raised his hand to take it. The wind chime would capture the fluctuations of the original power.

She touched her nose: "Oh."

Feng Liting glanced at Xi Sui'an, who was disguised as a red-eared fox, with a deep gaze. After a moment's smile, he nodded a plain ring on his hand and said, "Go."

"Yes." A black shadow floated out from the ring and disappeared into the air.

Everyone looked at the disappearing black shadow, and their expressions changed differently.

Sylph's pupils shrank slightly.

Xi Sui'an hesitated for a moment when he stood up.

Li raised her eyebrows slightly.

Finnian tilted his head as he looked at his mentor, a thoughtful expression on his face.

Iloven touched his chin: "Is this... a fog puppet?"

"That's right." Feng Liting nodded, "Thanks to Peregrine's previous exploration of the ancient ruins."

Iloven laughed and said nothing more.

Xi Sui'an got up to hang up the wind-catching chimes. While looking for a place, he thought that the relationship between Yi Luowen and Feng Liting was really not that good.

She had only met Professor Feng Liting once, but now she had some systematic understanding of him.

The fog puppet we saw just now is a combination of a refined alien spirit and a kind of smoke worm. The smoke worm has a very low life level and is only the bottom of the legendary creatures. It just has a little more spirituality.

"Smokeworm, this kind of thing is indeed only found in some ruins." Chao Xi yawned and said, "This Professor Feng Liting is very interesting, he has some of the temperament of an ancient alchemist."

Xi Sui'an slowly hung the dark golden bell on a broadleaf tree, turned his head and asked in a low voice: "What is the temperament of an ancient alchemist?"

"Hmm... not that pure." Chao Xi said after thinking for a while.

Xi Sui'an pondered for a moment, then shook her head. Regardless of whether it was pure or not, she believed that the professor should be under Ju Mang's control.

"What are you thinking about?" Li Qing walked over, folded her arms, and looked at Xi Sui'an.

Xi Sui'an glanced at the smiling Li Qing and smiled as well: "I was wondering if Kailid wanted to give me some of the money since he used me as the banker in the opening game?"

Li Qing: “…” The smile was stiff.

"Okay," Li scratched her forehead lightly and said helplessly, "Ask me to reimburse you for the core materials this time."

"Thank you very much, senior!" This covers a huge amount of expenses. Li Qing is really generous.

Li shook her head gently: "Hide your tail later."

"Okay, I understand." Xi Sui'an nodded seriously and accepted Li Qing's kind reminder.

"Go and have a rest." Li Qing put her hands in her pockets and leaned against the tree, baring her teeth and saying, "I'll keep watch. The alchemy guys gathered together, ugh, it's just giving me indigestion."

Xi Sui'an curled his eyes, leaned against a tree trunk not far from the campfire, took out the constant temperature cloak he bought when he left the City of No Return from his ring and put it on, then closed his eyes and fell into a light sleep.

Iloven and Feng Liting looked at each other and signaled Sylph and Finnian to take a rest.

The camp in the woods fell silent, as if everyone had fallen into a deep sleep.

Li Qing jumped onto a branch nearby and sat down, resting her chin on her hand and looking at the moon, wondering what she was thinking.

Later in the night.

A layer of white frost condensed on the leaves of the broad-leaved trees, and soon it started to snow lightly.

"I really hate snow and moon..." Li Qing muttered, brushing the snowflakes from her hair without being affected.

Just now.

A "Ding-ling-ling~" sound suddenly rang out, and everyone in the camp opened their eyes with vigilance in their eyes.

The light black mist that dispersed around gathered together, and the mist puppet condensed into a human form and stood beside Feng Liting.

"The fluctuation of the origin is very strong." The elf Sylph frowned and stood aside.

Xi Sui'an casually patted his cloak and looked into the depths of the woods: "At this time and in this place, the people who come here are not friendly."

"Help!"

"No, don't kill me!"

The girl's clear voice was panicked and hurried.

Li Qing jumped down from the tree: "Wow, this is a chance to be a hero and save a beautiful girl, here I come~~"

He said with a smile.

In the gloomy woods, the girl stumbled over and when she saw them, her eyes lit up with surprising light.

Several people wearing black cloaks rushed over from behind: "Damn it! Stop!"

Chasing closely behind were a group of alien creatures with two heads, compound eyes, eight claws, and eerie white bony tails.

Even Li Qing, who considered himself to be well-informed and had excellent professional knowledge, was slightly startled. He saw characteristics of different races in these guys, and for a moment he couldn't tell how many there were.

"Save me!" The girl rushed towards Li Qing, her voice pleading. Her deer eyes were wet and her pair of antlers looked very immature.

Xi Sui'an looked over and raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Linlu tribe?"

Li Qing narrowed her eyes: "Ah, I haven't seen the Forbidden Alchemist for a long time."

He picked up a pear branch and was about to make a move when Feng Liting spoke.

"and many more."

The handsome young man with long black hair stood up and walked to Li Qing, looking across: "Where are you from?"

The leader on the opposite side opened his eyes with a pair of cold vertical pupils. He shook his bony tail, took a step back and said coldly: "Don't meddle in other people's business. Get out!"

"Where did this taboo trend come from? Tell me about it. I'll go and investigate when I have time." Feng Liting didn't take it as an offense and spoke in a calm tone.

"Are you also an alchemist?" The other party was stunned.

Iloven sat aside and stretched, then casually threw a piece of lava crystal into the campfire. When the lava crystal came into contact with the flames, it instantly stimulated greater heat.

He tilted his head and gave a short laugh: "Who isn't an alchemist these days?"