The sacred tree is about to pass, and the cannon fodder's wish countdown is coming

The meat is cooked and ready to eat.

Lu Shi let it cool down a little, then cut off the first piece of meat with a knife and stuffed it into Lu Ciyan's mouth.

"Hmm... delicious!" A glimmer appeared in Lu Ciyan's eyes. Before he swallowed the meat in his mouth, his eyes were fixed on the remaining meat.

Seeing this, Lu Shi handed him the whole barbecue and said, "It's still a little hot, be careful."

"Master, don't you want to eat it?" He held the meat in his hands, obviously swallowing his saliva greedily, but he still had to suppress his greed and asked Lu Shi.

There seemed to be a hint of smile in Lu Shi's eyes, but it disappeared in an instant. "You eat, I am not hungry."

Seeing that his master was not joking, Lu Ciyan no longer insisted and devoted himself to eating the meat. He did not notice when the people around him disappeared quietly.

Only a slightly dirty white handkerchief was left aside.

After eating the meat, Lu Ciyan sat blankly in the yard for a while, then picked up the handkerchief as if possessed by a ghost. He put his little hands into cold water to wash it, dried it, and then carefully put it away.

It would be a shame to throw away such good fabric, Lu Ciyan thought.

……

In the next few days, Lu Ciyan was well taken care of. His little cheeks finally grew cute baby fat, like a cute snowball. His round eyes were so cute that they almost melted you when he looked at you.

The system was deceived by his cute appearance. He is a cute creature himself, and now he has to take the initiative to accompany another even smaller cute creature.

Lu Ciyan's head was held up by the system's long beak, and he couldn't escape. He looked at Lu Shi with watery eyes as if asking for help.

Lu Shi glanced at the system indifferently. Just this light glance made the originally noisy system quiet down instantly and stop all actions obediently.

Lu Ciyan could actually see a human expression on a crane's face, a serious and shifty look?

"It simply likes you, so there's no need to be afraid. From now on, it will follow you. But you don't have to bother raising it, it can take care of itself." Lu Shi said slowly.

Finally, as if remembering something, Lu Shi added: "Don't eat it."

After all, two spiritual cranes had already been killed before. If Lu Shi was not worried that the system would follow suit, he would not have given such serious instructions.

Lu Ciyan suppressed the smile on his face and nodded slightly, "Then Master, does it have a name?"

"It hasn't started yet. You can get one for it."

After a brief thought, Lu Ciyan said, "Then let's call it a banquet, a banquet that brings peace and tranquility."

"Ah."

Seeing that the time was almost up, Lu Shi turned around and prepared to leave.

Before leaving, she told Lu Ciyan: "Come to my cave residence tomorrow and I will start teaching you how to read."

If you want to embark on the path of cultivation, you must first be able to read and write. Otherwise, even if you are faced with a profound and mysterious cultivation manual, it will be difficult to understand the mysteries contained therein.

And Lu Shi asked him to be able to protect himself.

The original owner was Taoist Xinglan of Qingxu Sect, the undisputed number one in the world of immortal cultivation.

She was gifted, displaying astonishing talent and understanding from a young age. Possessing a top-grade mutant ice spirit root, she was able to successfully draw Qi into her body within three days, a speed that was astonishing.

At the age of only eight, the original owner had already embarked on the path of cultivation, and before he was ten years old, he broke through to the foundation-building stage in one fell swoop, and reached the tribulation period in just seven hundred years. His talent was so high that almost no one could match him.

Such an achievement is unprecedented in history. Just when everyone believed that she would reach the top and successfully enter the immortal path, the original owner stopped at this realm. In the following hundreds of years, no matter how she practiced in seclusion, there was no sign of a breakthrough.

In order to find a way to break through, she chose to declare to the outside world that she was practicing in seclusion, but in fact she quietly left the sect and looked for opportunities everywhere.

Unfortunately, despite going through countless hardships and obstacles, she still gained nothing.

Until recently, an immortal came down from the fairyland to the mortal world and found her. In exchange for helping the original owner break through, he asked the original owner to protect the immortal who came down to the mortal world to transcend the tribulation.

It is natural for an immortal to go through hardships when he overcomes the tribulation.

He was reborn as a mortal prince. His biological mother was so beautiful that she was raped and defiled by the scum emperor. She was forced to give birth to him, but she could not bear the humiliation and committed suicide.

This action challenged the royal authority, so the emperor disliked her as soon as she was born and threw her into the cold palace, where she was fed by several crazy concubines until she was five years old.

After the death of those ladies, he lived alone.

He lost his mother, was disliked by his biological father, and even his mother's family considered him a disgrace. His situation in the cold palace was almost hellish.

When the original owner went to pick him up, he had just killed three eunuchs with his own hands, his face and body covered in blood. He didn't show much emotion when he saw the original owner, as if killing was a trivial matter to him.

The original owner found that he was too violent when he first met him, so he was displeased with him, but he still brought him back to Xinglan Peak and accepted him as a disciple.

Even though he didn't like it, since it was related to "ascension", the original owner still took good care of him.

When he entered the new environment, he was very good at disguising himself. He was well-behaved, cute, and smiled at almost everyone he saw. The original owner gradually let go of his dislike for him and sincerely treated him as a disciple.

But beneath his well-behaved appearance is a transparent and indifferent heart. He seems to have noticed something about himself that is beneficial to the original owner, and he also knows that the original owner adopted him for other purposes.

Therefore, despite his well-behaved appearance, he was either getting into trouble or on his way to getting into trouble, and made countless enemies.

The original owner was exhausted from dealing with these things.

Later, after he finally survived his life-and-death crisis, the original owner could finally stop caring about him and let him fend for himself, but she was always his master.

"If a son is not well educated, it is the fault of his father." The original owner was forced to bear the consequences of his actions.

As a result, the original owner developed an inner demon, his cultivation regressed, and he was unable to ascend.

The system took the opportunity to make a deal with her, helping her to eliminate her inner demons, sending her to the modern world to be an ordinary person, and fulfilling her wish to "ascend".

The original owner readily agreed.

When Lu Shi came to this world, he had more than one task to do.

When the system made a deal with the original owner, Lu Shi also made a deal with the way of heaven in this world.

In order to verify a guess that appeared in his mind after the last world, Lu Shi took on another bodyguard mission - to accept the Son of Tiandao as his apprentice and protect his safety.

However, the timeline for the appearance of the Son of Heaven has not yet begun, and Lu Shi’s current mission target is still only Lu Ciyan.

This guy is not easy to deal with. He is very narrow-minded and holds grudges.

But Lu Shi is not as easy to fool as the original owner. The original owner would be fooled by his cute and well-behaved appearance, but Lu Shi would not.

Besides, the immortal only said to protect his safety, but did not say to pay attention to his mood.

It’s just that the other party is willing to pretend now, so I will give him a good face.

But what she was concerned about was the guess that suddenly appeared in her mind after the end of the last mission world.

If it really is the same person, I wonder if he will follow in this world...