strictlysupreme Chapter 687 Seeking an Audience with Master Zhong Ran
Chapter 687 Seeking an Audience with Master Zhong Ran
Zhong Ran stood up: "In that case, you should rest well for a day. We will resupply in the city and then take you out of the city."
Mu Jinning followed her out, and the two went to a room next door.
Since entering the Forest of Death, they haven't had a proper night's sleep.
These two days can be used as a good rest.
"Ranran, could the Cui family have some connection with your mother and the others?"
Zhong Ran also had this strange thought in her mind after Cui Jingyun said that they were a branch of a reclusive family.
"It seems that reclusive families all have branches outside."
Lan Yuan had told her before that each of their hidden families had tens of thousands of members.
However, it is unclear whether all of these 100,000-plus people are from the main family inside, or whether they include those from the branches outside.
If the main family has more than 100,000 people, plus the branches outside, how huge would that be?
How much do you know about your maternal grandmother?
Zhong Ran shook her head. She had never met that maternal grandmother; she only knew that her two daughters took her surname.
She knew nothing more about it, nor had her mother ever mentioned it.
If she hadn't later learned that her mother had a hidden bloodline, she would never have made contact with the reclusive family.
“If your mother is truly of the Cui family bloodline, you should also have some Cui family blood.”
Zhong Ran took out some food and placed it on the table, smiling faintly: "Never mind those, let's have a good meal first, and then go out to replenish our meat supplies."
The meat was obviously for Ah Sheng's supplies, since they would be going to the ancient battlefield soon and wouldn't have any supplies for a long time.
Mu Jinning nodded and sat down opposite her. The two of them slowly began to eat.
Having spent so long in the Forest of Death, although they had eaten some food, they were genuinely uncomfortable.
The place is filled with the aura of death; it's no wonder it's not comfortable.
"Ranran, you rest for a while. I'll inscribe two array plates, and we'll go out for a stroll again in the evening."
He looked at her delicate face: "How about getting a new look?"
Zhong Ran was taken aback: "You mean, the two paths of evil and demonic forces?"
Initially, both the demonic and evil factions wanted to hunt them down, but they first went to Thunder City, which was then the hiding place of the mermaids.
"By the way, I wonder how many of those mermaids died or were injured back then?"
The eruption of that divine fire vein was so terrifying that it completely burned away the seawater. They really didn't know how many of those mermaids would be left.
Mu Jinning shook her head: "Everyone has their own destiny. At least they left behind their bloodline."
Yi Junlan and the others went to the ancient battlefield for training with Zhong Yuanheng and the others, so at least the merfolk were not completely wiped out.
He took out the array stones and began to polish and carve them.
Zhong Ran thought about it for a while and decided to take a nap first.
Although cultivators don't need to sleep much, she still felt that sleeping was more comfortable.
She went straight to bed and lay down to sleep. When Mu Jinning saw that she had really gone to sleep, his heart trembled twice, and he couldn't help but follow her with his gaze.
He had previously said that they would get married after they all reached the level of deities.
They've all reached the Nascent Soul stage now, but given the current situation, marriage is impossible.
If we really want to get married, we have to wait for Zhong Yan to return.
But Zhong Yan unknowingly went to the underworld, and it won't be easy for him to come back.
Unless they cultivate diligently and reach the level Xiao Qingtian mentioned, which allows them to break through the boundary barrier and travel to the Underworld to find him.
He gently shook his head, banishing those chaotic thoughts, and focused on inscribing the array plate.
"The Cui family? Yan Dong, are these your guests?"
Following the beast-drawn carriage to the Cui family's gate, Wu Minghao couldn't help but look at Cui Yandong beside him.
Cui Yandong was also taken aback, and immediately walked upstairs: "How interesting, when did our family get involved with Zhong Ran?"
"Come on, let's go back to your house and see what's going on."
Wu Minghao followed in his footsteps. The Cui family had actually managed to get on Zhong Ran's good side. Would it be difficult for them to return to the main family in the future?
The gatekeeper opened the door, saw them, and let them in.
"Did we have guests over just now?" Cui Yandong asked casually.
The gatekeeper respectfully replied, "Young master, it was a member of a collateral branch of the family who said they were passing through and came into the city to resupply, and are staying at your residence temporarily."
Cui Yandong paused. A young master from a collateral branch passing by? Not Zhong Ran?
Could it be that he misread it?
"Wasn't there an extremely beautiful and refined woman with a young master?"
He suddenly realized that he might actually have misread it.
It's said that Zhong Ran is always accompanied by a tall man named A Sheng, a young man in black named Zhong Yan, a young man in white named Mu Jinning, and then Zhong Ran herself.
It was noticeably different from what they had seen before.
There were five people in the car at the time, including a mysterious-looking person dressed in a black cloak.
The young man in white does match, and Zhong Ran should be that girl, but the other woman and young man are not the kind of people in the legend.
"Yes, there are some. They seem to be friends of that young master Cui?"
The doorman wasn't entirely sure, since there were some things he couldn't ask.
"We're already at our doorstep, why don't we just go in and ask?"
Wu Minghao nudged him: "Or why don't we just go and meet them directly and find out?"
Those who haven't seen Zhong Ran's true face are extremely curious about her, and naturally want to meet her if they have the chance.
Cui Yandong thought about it and agreed, so he stopped worrying and led him inside.
After returning home, they asked the guests which guesthouse they were staying at, and the two of them headed straight for that guesthouse.
Cui Jingyun was meditating when he sensed someone approaching the courtyard. He immediately stopped meditating and opened his eyes.
He paused for a moment, thinking that Zhong Ran and Mu Jinning were still here and he shouldn't be disturbed, before opening the door and going out.
Standing under the eaves, he looked towards the doorway, his divine sense already probing out, and saw two young men coming in.
Although they were described as young men, both of them were quite old. The youngest, Cui Yandong, was already seventy-two years old and at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, making him even older than himself.
The other Wu Minghao is even more advanced, having reached the age of one hundred and possessing the cultivation level of the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.
Reaching the peak of the Divine Transformation realm before the age of one hundred is already considered genius.
It's just that they can't compare to a genius like Zhong Ran.
The two of them also sensed Cui Jingyun inside and went up to knock on the door.
Cui Jingyun had no choice but to go and open the door. It was someone from the Cui family on this side, so he couldn't refuse to open it.
"Is there anything I can help you with?"
Cui Yandong chuckled and said, "This junior brother must be a young master of the Cui family, right? We heard that Zhong Ran came to our house, so we wanted to come and meet him."
Cui Jingyun was taken aback. He hadn't told the people here that it was Zhong Ran and Mu Jinning. How did they know?
When Cui Yandong saw his expression, he knew that he had not mistaken Zhong Ran for someone else.
"Junior brother, is this a convenient time?"
Cui Jingyun snapped out of her daze, glanced at them with a complicated expression, and then said, "I can't decide for Senior Sister Zhong; I need to ask her first before I can know."