Lin Qiu walked forward along the corridor. At the end, the door of a room was open, and a faint smell of sandalwood came from inside.

This is an antique house with a gold-burned ceiling, an old-fashioned wall, and a middle-aged man wearing a robe and brewing tea.

"Sit!" The Shadow Lord pointed to the wooden bench opposite.

Lin Qiu nodded slightly to him and sat opposite him.

The door closed silently, and the Shadow Lord opened the lid of the pot, and a quiet fragrance of tea instantly spread, covering the whole room with sandalwood.

He poured two cups of tea, handed one to Lin Qiu, and placed the other in front of him.

"Have you studied tea?" Yingzun asked with a smile.

Lin Qiu shook his head: "I am a rough man. I have lived for so long, except for training and performing tasks. Such an elegant thing is just a water to quench my thirst."

Yingzun smiled: "What I brew today is the mountain fog tea. This fog tea grows on the top of the mountain and is filled with thick fog when adults grow. It grows slowly, with fat leaves and big branches. However, because it is covered by clouds and fog all year round, it needs to soak it repeatedly in boiling water."

"Unlike other teas, this mountain mist tea can only taste its true taste after three or four times."

Lin Qiu picked up the tea and sniffed it, then drank it all: "It's no different from other teas. If this is your apology, I'll accept it."

The Movie Lord laughed: "Why should I apologize?"

Lin Qiu stared at him closely: "Deliberately increasing the difficulty of the assessment, the three projects are almost impossible to complete. Do you want to tell me that I am this fog tea, and I have to be soaked in boiling water repeatedly to see my true strength? Although I have good intentions, I am very unhappy!"

The Shadow Lord was stunned and then smiled even happier: "You are very smart and can see everything thoroughly. Then, since you have seen it thoroughly, why should you continue? You can object to such an unfair assessment, but you have no complaints from beginning to end!"

"Because I want to come here!" Lin Qiu said firmly: "Because I want to become stronger!"

The mist that filled the two of them suddenly dissipated, and at this moment, even the air seemed to be a little colder.

The Shadow Master slowly sipped the tea, his eyes filled with the wisdom of adults: "Want to become stronger? Is it for the indelible spirit in his heart, or just want to become stronger simply?"

Lin Qiu did not answer, but at this moment, a lot of past events appeared in his mind.

He thought he had forgotten some things, but as long as he calmed down, everything would be vivid in his mind.

The Shadow Master stared at his eyes for half a minute, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Your murderous aura is very strong!"

"So what?" Lin Qiu said indifferently: "Hey, if you don't even have murderous aura, would you dare to want such a person?"

The Shadow Lord nodded: "You are right. Dragon Shadow defends the country and the world we live in. People without murderous aura cannot say the word "guarding". But your murderous aura is too strong. Do you think your companions will be willing to be with you?"

"I don't need companions." Lin Qiu looked at the three birds parked on the tree through the gap in the window: "I am alone, enough!"

The Shadow Master finished drinking a cup of tea: "We are a team and don't need the Mavericks. I know that you are afraid that one day your teammates will die, and you are unable to protect them, so you will become stronger. In this way, you can be alone and don't need to witness your teammates die by your side again."

Lin Qiu did not deny: "I used to be young and I was very eager to grow up. But when I really grew up, I will find that there are fewer and fewer people around you, and fewer people talking to you. I don't want to fall from the excitement to the loneliness. If I had to live in painful memories every day, I would rather be lonely alone. At least... I won't be sad or sad."

The room was silent for a long time, with only the sound of tea boiling.

The Moon Zun said nothing and silently poured another cup of tea for the two of them.

This time, the aroma of tea became stronger.

"Do you still remember the person you brought you?" The Movie Lord asked suddenly.

Lin Qiu suddenly turned his head, and his eyes showed eager expectation: "You, do you have news about him?"

"No!" The Shadow Master smiled: "But every year, I receive his greetings, and I don't know where he called me in the world. This person is like this. He clearly said he retired and will never appear again. But every year, he will call the people he cares about to report his safety. Maybe he wants to tell everyone that he is not dead, maybe he wants everyone not to forget him."

Lin Qiu stared at the Movie Zun in a daze, and the latter picked up the teacup: "This year, he actually called me three times. The first one was to talk to me about Dashan, and the last two were all about you."

Lin Qiu suddenly stood up: "Uncle, he...he still remembers me?"

"Of course." Ying Zun gave him a blank look: "You were brought back by him, and it was also his hope. He entrusted you to us. Do you think he forgot you? On the contrary, he will ask you every year. Not only me, but all the people he entrusted him with will ask you about it. In his heart, you are very important, more important than our old friends."

Lin Qiu's eyes were sour. The uncle who brought him from darkness to the world of light was in his heart the only relative in this world.

For fifteen years, he always thought that his uncle had abandoned him.

But today he realized that the uncle was actually by his side.

The Shadow Master asked Lin Qiu to sit down: "He knew you were going to join Longying this year, so he specifically asked me to take care of you. Why did the assessment increase the difficulty? This is what he arranged. He wanted to see if you have abandoned yourself in the past fifteen years."

Lin Qiu asked anxiously: "Are he satisfied?"

The Movie Zun smiled: "That old boy, I couldn't stop smiling when I heard your grades."

Lin Qiu's heart was warm, as if he saw the uncle's smiling face with his own eyes, and he became satisfied.

The Movie Zun said: "For the last call, he entrusted me to get rid of your inner demon."

"Inner Demon?" Lin Qiu asked in surprise.

The Shadow Lord nodded: "Because you have a demon, you have too much murderous aura. You are always unwilling to forget the past and put a lot of responsibility on yourself. The death of your friends and the death of your brothers, you think it is caused by your inability to do so. The longer the time, the more you are, the more you are, and you will become less and less trusting others. This is your demon. If your demon is not eliminated, you will never become the strongest knife."

Lin Qiu blinked, not understanding the words of the Shadow Master: "Then, what does that uncle wants me to do? I will do whatever he says, and I will listen to him."

The Shadow Master shook his head and smiled, "This is also your weakness. Don't rely too much on someone. After he left for fifteen years, what he feared the most was that you became dependent on him, but he didn't expect..."

Lin Qiu was like a child who did something wrong and pleaded quickly: "I was wrong, I shouldn't have done this. Please tell me what to do?"

The Shadow Lord was silent for a moment and stared in his eyes: "He sent someone to you to remove the inner demons for you!"

"Who?" Lin Qiu asked.

The Shadow Master clapped his hands, and Guo Cheng walked in with a man: "Shadow Master, the man is here."

"It's her!" Ying Zun drank tea.

Lin Qiu turned his head and looked at Xu Ke's eyes.
Chapter completed!