You are such a master

"There is no need to prepare for the tribulation yet."

Xuan Lan's answer made Gu Ran's eyes light up.Master is not going to cross the catastrophe for the time being, that is to say, he can still make some progress before Master has not ascended, but he does not know why Master has not ascended.

Looking at the person in front of him, the words Li Lang said before emerged in Gu Ran's mind.Probably to protect Xuanjianzong, but now that Xuanjianzong's strength has returned to its peak, Master can rest assured to ascend...

Gu Ran still couldn't figure out why, so he simply put the doubt aside, "Master, I'll make breakfast."

"It's already noon." Xuan Lan raised the corners of her lips slightly.

Gu Ran looked up at the sky, and had no choice but to correct himself for oversleeping. "Uh...then I'll go make lunch..."

"Okay." Xuanlan nodded, just like when they were at Xuanshuang Peak.

There is also a small kitchen in the guest room area of ​​the Beicheng City Lord's Mansion, but it is generally not used by anyone.Fortunately, Gu Ran brought a lot of things in his Qiankun bag, except for the stove, there were other matching pots and bowls and chopsticks.

Two vegetarian dishes and two meat dishes, plus a soup.That's about it.Gu Ran thought about today's lunch menu, and then took out a lot of ingredients from the universe bag.

First, wash and steam the two servings of Lingmi.

Then simmer the soup in a crock pot, put the tea mushrooms and fragrant leaves in and stew for a while, then cut up the chicken and put them in to stew together, and finally put a few slices of ginger to remove the greasy and fishy smell, and wait for it to come out of the pot.

Then wash the pork ribs, rinse them with spiritual water, cut them into pieces, put them in the oil pan and control the heat, the skin will be burnt on the outside and tender on the inside, and the skin will be browned and fragrant. After putting it on the plate, pour half of it with a layer of sauce, and the other half without pouring. You can choose to eat it with dipping sauce.

River prawns, a delicious ingredient, are not tasty when they are old, and they are afraid that the seasoning will not taste good when they are tender.Gu Ran simply peeled off the shrimp shells one by one, then skewered them with thin bamboo sticks, roasted them half-cooked on a high fire, and then changed to a low fire to taste.It didn't take long for the fragrance to float out, very attractive.

Vegetarian dishes are relatively simple. Gu Ran washed the pot with spiritual water, fried asparagus, and mixed fungus with cold.

By this time, the rice and soup were ready, Gu Ran filled two bowls and brought them into the house.In the process of transporting, the whole courtyard is inadvertently filled with the delicious fragrance of food.

So when the Xuanjianzong disciples came back from going out, the first thing they noticed was something wrong was the smell of food that filled the courtyard.This tasted and smelled different from the food they had eaten before, so it couldn't have been made by the chef of the Beicheng City Lord's Mansion.

"Who made this food? It smells really good!! It's almost comparable to the smell of the little uncle cooking roast chicken in the courtyard last time." Li Luo sniffed her nose vigorously.

"By the way, no one will come to this courtyard except our Xuanjian sect." Li Yu replied scratching his head.

So according to that statement.When they went out this morning, the only two people left in the yard——

"Anyway, I don't think it's possible...the master will cook." Chu Shaoqing thought for a while, then said quietly.

"Second!" Xiao Rang also nodded in agreement.

"En." Li Lang also nodded.

"Sure enough, the only one who knows how to cook is the little uncle. Does this mean that the little uncle's injury has healed and he can get up to cook again?" Li Luo rearranged what they said.

As soon as Li Luo's voice fell, the person whom he had just said on his lips just happened to push open the kitchen door.

Gu Ran had a plate of sauced pork ribs in his left hand, and a plate of grilled river prawns in his right hand.Just so caught off guard, he saw his nephews standing at the gate of the courtyard.

"Good afternoon, fellow nephews." Gu Ran was the first to come back to his senses, and greeted his nephews with a smile.

"Good afternoon, little uncle..." Everyone replied subconsciously, but their eyes were uncontrollable, attracted by the things in Gu Ran's hand.

"Well, go ahead." Gu Ran nodded, then walked straight past them with the two dishes in his hand, and turned into his room.

In fact, we have already finished our work, little uncle! !

We're more interested in what you hold in your hand! ! !

What kind of dish is that?It looks delicious! !

Just the smell is a bit overwhelming! !

Li Luo really wanted to go in with his little uncle, but when he thought of Master Xuanlan inside the house... Li Luo's guts trembled, and he could only watch as the wooden door of Gu Ran's room opened and closed .

After putting the last two dishes on the table, Gu Ran said to the person who was still reading the chess records in front of the desk, "Master, you can start eating."

"Okay." Xuan Lan put down the scroll in his hand, got up and sat beside Gu Ran.

The dishes on the table are full of people, after Xuanlan glanced around, the chopsticks first reached into the plate of grilled river prawns.

Gu Ran's hand holding the asparagus paused for a moment, and still held the asparagus to Xuan Lan.According to common sense, the dishes that Master usually puts in are all vegetarian dishes.But today is his first time cooking grilled river prawns, maybe Shizun wants to try something new...

Xuan Lan looked at the asparagus in his bowl without changing his expression, then raised his eyes to take a look at Gu Ran's empty bowl, and picked up chopsticks of pork ribs in sauce and grilled river prawns for him.

Sometimes both master and apprentice habitually serve each other food, but today there seems to be something different.

Gu then belatedly stared at the meat dishes in his bowl, which were in direct proportion to the vegetarian dishes in the master's bowl... It seems that this is not the way to go.

"Master, you don't need to pinch the meat for me anymore, it's almost too much to eat." Gu Ran hesitated for a while, and still planned to suggest to his master tactfully.

"Yeah, okay." Xuan Lan nodded, the movement of sauced pork ribs and grilled river prawns paused for a while, and then she narrowed her eyes slightly as she looked at the piles of vegetarian dishes in the bowl, "You eat too, don't bother to give it to me Add vegetables."

"Yeah." Gu Ran nodded, and then began to eat with his head down.He didn't notice at all that his master was in a place he didn't see, and he ate the vegetarian dishes that Gu Ran gave him bit by bit with delicate expressions. As for his own chopsticks, he never picked up vegetarian dishes once.

After finishing the meal, Gu Ran started to clean up the dishes as usual.Xuan Lan quietly held a cup of tea, staring at the busy figure of her little apprentice in a trance.

"Master, I'm going to ask Nephew Li Lang about the incident in Beicheng this time. If we can solve it successfully, we will probably be able to go back. It's been a long time since we came out this time." Gu Ran said to Xuanlan With that in mind, there is also anticipation for the return journey.

"Okay." Xuanlan nodded.

"Squeak—" The wooden door was pushed open from the inside, and then closed again.

Xuanlan was the only one left in the room, and he had spent hundreds of years alone. With his apprentice's qualifications, he would ascend to the fairy world in less than a few hundred years.

The time of hundreds of years is not long or short.It's just that this body can't bear it any longer.

Xuanlan dropped the chess piece in his hand on the chessboard, the white piece trembled slightly, and it was a little bit off the chessboard—there is no regret for the chess piece, and it is easy to follow every step.

Let him choose this game, he shouldn't be as hesitant as that person, but if he meets the disappointed eyes of the little apprentice.Xuan Lan should have thought that she was determined, but she also became a little hesitant.

"Of course..." It was nothing more than a sigh.

***

"Nephew Li Lang, what's going on in Beicheng..." After Gu Ran came out of his own room, he turned into another courtyard and was about to ask, but was startled by the scene in front of him.

Qing Zichu actually sat peacefully in Li Lang's courtyard with a cup of tea!

Qing Zichu sat in Li Lang's nephew's small courtyard! !

Qing Zichu! !

For a moment, thousands of thoughts ran through Gu Ran's mind, and in the end he could only put his questioning eyes on Qing Zichu.

"Uncle Yunran." Li Lang called him in the room, and when he came out, he still held a volume of books with some old pages in his hand.

"Well, nephew Li Lang, if you're not free now, I'll come and find you later." Gu Ran said that he didn't really want to stay under the same roof as Qing Zichu.

"It's nothing, I'm free now." Seeing that Gu Ran was about to leave, Li Lang quickly put down the solitary swordsmanship book in his hand, and at the same time, he didn't forget to say something to the person sitting in his yard, "Qing Fellow Daoist of the Xiao Sect, I have something important to discuss with my uncle, so please step aside first."

This stunned Qing Zichu, who was drinking tea leisurely in Li Lang's courtyard, but he didn't understand people's words, so he said goodbye to Li Lang and left.

Before leaving, the figure of Qing Zichu and Gu Ran happened to pass by each other.

There seemed to be a burning smell in the air.Gu Ran sniffed, diverting his attention away from Qing Zichu.

If he knew that Qing Zichu would be in Li Lang's courtyard at this time, Gu Ran would never come over.But why is Qing Zichu in his nephew's yard?

"How did Nephew Li Lang and Qing Xiao sect's Qing Zichu get to know each other? Could it be that I disturbed you when I came?" Gu Ran was at a loss for a while, after thinking about it, it would be better to ask directly.

Li Lang was stunned for a moment when he heard Gu Ran's words, "No, Uncle Yunran didn't disturb anything. Just now, fellow Taoist Qing Zichu came to ask me for an isolated book of swordsmanship, and that book is relatively It's rare, so I left him to drink a cup of tea in the yard."

"It turned out to be like this, did Qing Zichu personally give you the only book of swordsmanship?" Didn't he ask the attendant from his yard to come out to give you the gift that day?

"If you don't get rewarded for meritorious service, naturally you won't accept it." Li Lang's expression was indifferent, indicating that he did not accept what Qing Zichu gave him.

"Nephew is really upright." Gu Ran praised him.

"If you don't ask for something, how can you give salary when you have no merit. This is the master's teaching." Li Lang rarely curled the corners of his lips, as if thinking of something that he found interesting.

Thinking of his senior brother who often played cards out of common sense, Gu Ran smiled, and then brought the topic to the main topic.

"Speaking of which, does my nephew know how the investigation of the Beicheng matter has gone?"

"The matter of the cemetery has been basically resolved, and the corpse refining formation has been destroyed. It's just that the corpses of those who died suddenly a few days ago have begun to rot, and the cause can't be found for a while..."

When Li Lang said this, Gu Ran couldn't help asking, "Did those corpses have corpse spots on their bodies before they died?"

"This...disciple didn't notice." Li Lang felt ashamed for a moment.

"Those corpses are probably man-made. Besides, has Mrs. Bei's maid, Xiang'er, come back?"

"I haven't seen the maid in the past few days. Mrs. Bei has sent someone to look for it, but there is no progress so far."

"What does the master of the north gate say?"

"He wants us to stay for a few more days until all the dust settles." Li Lang replied in this way.

"Where are those people from Qingxiao Sect?"

"Fellow Daoist Zhang Ziyu seems to have something to go back to the sect first. Fellow Daoist Beiming and Fellow Daoist Qing Zichu are still visiting in Beicheng."

After asking some more questions, Gu Ran planned to go back after getting the answer he wanted from Li Lang.There are still some things left to ask Bei Yan tomorrow.

The maids Xiang'er and Zhang Ziyu both disappeared temporarily, and the tomb guard was hacked to death by himself.Let the Lord of the North Gate burn those corpses tomorrow, and check all the people in the North City to see if they are infected. It would be bad if there are "living people" with corpse spots on their bodies.

Gu Ran thought about it, and just walked out of Li Lang's small courtyard, not far from his, Gu Ran was about to open the door to enter - but suddenly realized that the area he was in was not right.

"Who?!" Gu Ran directly sacrificed the Yunshuang sword, staring at the wooden door in front of him defensively.

There was silence all around, and the air seemed to freeze.It was unnervingly quiet.

This is definitely not the guest room of the City Lord's Mansion in Beicheng!It's more like another closed space, a tight barrier separates him from the original space, even if the buildings and people are exactly the same as the original... it's just an illusion.

Gu Ran closed his eyes, trying to carefully capture the fluctuations of the sound.

"Shushasha..." The sound of whirling branches and leaves sounded, as if there was a wind, and it was very real to the ears.But the scene around him became less real, mottled as if it were a phantom.

"Squeak!" The wooden door in front of Gu Ran was pushed open, and a helpless and familiar voice sounded in front of Gu Ran, "Didn't you just go to Li Lang? Why did you come back so late? "

"Master..." Gu Ran looked at the figure in front of him and subconsciously called out, but he pressed his lips together tightly after regaining consciousness. This is just a false world, and the person in front of him is not Master at all. If he Once you find the place where the enchantment is located, you can go out.

"Follow me back as a teacher, your body is not in good condition yet, and your cultivation base is gone, you are no different from ordinary people now, don't catch a cold in the cold wind." "Xuan Lan" had a worried look in his eyes, and said His words made Gu Ran tremble with fear.

"What are you talking about, what do you have no cultivation?" Gu Ran opened his eyes wide, trying to mobilize the water spirit power in his body, but there was no slight fluctuation.

Yunshuangjian didn't respond either, and couldn't even look inside his dantian.

"Be good, don't mess around." Xuanlan's tone became more helpless, and he reached out to take Gu Ran's hand, but Gu Ran dodged it in advance. "The cultivation base is gone, and I can continue to practice in the future."

"You are not a master, what is this place? What exactly do you want to do?" Without cultivation...wouldn't you want to be slaughtered?

What is going on in this weird space?Just now he obviously just walked out from the courtyard of Martial Nephew Li Lang, and then there was nothing else, he just walked here unprepared.

"Yun Ran!" Xuan Lan frowned upon hearing Gu Ran's words, and her voice was filled with dissatisfaction.

"..." Gu Ran clenched the Yunshuang sword tightly, lowered his head and said nothing, he didn't want to see that face that was exactly the same as the master's, even though he knew it was fake, as long as it was related to the master... his own Emotions are always out of control.

"Forget it, you rest first, and prepare for the big wedding in three days." After Xuanlan said this, she left directly, leaving Gu Ran standing in front of the empty wooden house.

What kind of wedding are you preparing for?What is that, he just wants to get out of this false space now.It's true that the master is still playing chess in the room where he lives temporarily while waiting for him to go back!

Gu Ran gritted his teeth and began to search in this area.

As long as you find the exit of the enchantment——

No matter what the cultivation base is, you must find the exit of the enchantment!As long as you go out, the weird state on your body can be solved.

The scope of this space only covers the city lord's mansion, and there is no way to do it in a larger place.

Gu Ran was sticking against the restricted air barrier, but his figure stayed firmly at the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, not allowed to take a step out.

For three days and three nights without sleep.

Probably because without cultivation, when Gu Ran's body was not as good as Yuanying's cultivation, he would be tired, hungry, thirsty, sleepy, and even a little frightened.

Could it be that you can't find your way out?

Gu Ran returned to the wooden door in front of his house.

"Shushasha..." The wind blew through the branches and leaves, and there was another fine whirling.

This is an auditory hallucination, he is a little tired, and even a little dizzy.Where did the sound of the wind blowing the leaves come from?But every tree in the Beicheng City Lord's Mansion was almost searched by him.

Gu Ran's body was at its limit, he was thinking in a daze, but his vision was completely black.

Before he passed out, he saw a corner of red slam into his eyes.

Master...?

***

Not far from the place where Gu Ran disappeared, Qing Zichu looked at the position of the fantasy world and nodded with satisfaction. Now, the so-called Xuanjianzong's proud son of heaven will probably be trapped in the fantasy world for the rest of his life.

"Anyway, he will definitely not be able to find the location of the exit." Qing Zichu was very confident in his fantasy world.