The news of Young Master Xiuzhu's return naturally spread like wildfire. Soon, before they even reached the central hall, a large circle of boys and girls had already gathered around. This shows that Shen Xiuzhu is still a good person in the Shen family. Quite popular.

Of course, a large part of them are here for the handsome young man Qingyun.

"mother!"

Struggling to squeeze his way out of the chattering crowd, Shen Xiuzhu waved his arms towards a beautiful middle-aged woman outside the door.

"It seems she must be that Shen Shumei."

Shen Xiuzhu and Shen Shumei are almost carved from the same mold. Since the son is a humble young master, the mother is also a pretty beauty.

Wearing a light-colored gauze skirt, she lives up to her name, and her graceful grace perfectly conceals the flaws of her age, adding to the mystery of time.

Shen Shumei coughed slightly, and the people surrounding him immediately dispersed from Master Shen. Then he sat down on the chair, breathing heavily.

"Xiuzhu, this is..."

Similarly, Shen Shumei could tell at a glance that Qingyun was unusual. Instead of asking about the results of her son's trial, she asked about Qingyun first.

"Mom, senior Qingyun is mine..."

"Don't say it yet, wait until Qi Shuang comes out."

Qingyun's secret message made Shen Xiuzhu change the word "benefactor" to "friend".

When he saw his mother, he immediately relaxed his guard and almost revealed his secret.

However, Shen Shumei obviously knew her son very well, her eyes flickered, but she did not continue to ask, although she did not understand why he was called a senior because he was in the Qingyun Baimai realm and was even weaker than Shen Xiuzhu.

"I've met Young Hero Qingyun."

Shen Shumei, who was in the Yuan Hua realm, smiled slightly, and said that the young hero was not only his identity, but also gave Qingyun enough face.

"Mrs. Shen is polite."

The young man clasped his fists generously.

But before Shen Shumei could continue to speak, another beautiful woman of similar age also came to the central hall. She chuckled as soon as she entered the door:

"Xiuzhu is indeed as outstanding as ever. He is the first one to come back. How is the search for the elixir going?"

"Xiuzhu has met...Aunt Eight."

The beautiful woman is ninety-nine in appearance, and looks even better than Shen Shumei in temperament, but there is an arrogant look between her eyebrows.

Hearing Shen Xiuzhu call the other party "Eighth Aunt", Qingyun immediately thought of her identity, Shen Li's wife, Shen Danrui!

But at this time, she didn't know the news that Shen Li had long since passed away. When she saw that Shen Xiuzhu came home earlier than her son, there was no malice in her eyes other than resentment and jealousy.

"Doesn't she know?"

Qingyun couldn't help but thought.

"Did you come back with a full load? Shumei, it seems that our forest cultivation is definitely not as good as your bamboo cultivation!"

"Ruimei is so humble. Xiu Lin and Xiuzhu are all the rare pillars of the Shen family in the future. There is no distinction between you and me."

Shen Shumei smiled slightly and turned a deaf ear to the strong jealousy in Shen Danrui's voice.

"Oh…"

Shen Danrui smiled contemptuously, and then with the help of two maids, she sat across from them, and Shen Shumei also sat next to her son.

Her appearance instantly reminded Qingyun of Chen Quan'er, the young lady of the Chen Mansion back then. She was already a master of the Yuan Hua Realm, but she still needed help when walking? What kind of pretense~

After a while, some important members of the Shen family filed in. At this moment, Qingyun remembered that he had not yet asked Shen Xiuzhu what elixir he was looking for.

"They are all common spiritual materials used to treat internal and external injuries. They mainly test our recognition of medicinal materials. Everyone's test questions are different. The competition is relatively small, so there is a certain proportion of time grading."

Hearing Shen Xiuzhu's explanation, Qingyun nodded silently, secretly thinking that it was no wonder that Shen Li would ambush him at the end. Not only was there someone to protect his feelings, but everyone took different routes, so he had no choice but to take action before returning to the city.

Everyone in the Shen family attaches great importance to the results of this trial, because this has almost confirmed the position of the next head of the family!

Although all the teachers had great expectations for their disciples, the fact that Shen Xiuzhu returned first did not surprise them.

Before the young geniuses from the Shen family could return in triumph, Qi Shuang, who was wearing a mask, walked out of the back room one after another with a middle-aged man who looked as if he were an immortal.

"See the head of the family!"

Qi Shuang covered his face with a mask, and his temperament was even colder, which was completely opposite to Shen Xishan, the head of the Shen family.

After nodding to everyone, Shen Xishan stretched out his hand extremely politely and respectfully, and actually invited everyone to take a seat. This made everyone present wide-eyed.

"Please take a seat."

Chen Xishan said respectfully.

"Um."

With a casual hum, Qi Shuang sat down at the top of the central hall. She sat down for a long time, but the head of the Shen family was still standing like this.

According to Qingyun's feeling, the strength of Shenxi Mountain is unparalleled. Not to mention anything else, the hidden spiritual pressure alone is at least at the level of the early wind control realm.

He couldn't see through the opponent's cultivation level, but his spiritual pressure couldn't deceive Qingyun's keen five senses!

"What is the background of Qi Shuang? Is he an inner disciple of the Demon Sheng Sect? A high-ranking wind-controlling monk salutes her in the Yuanhua Realm, and his attitude is so humble?"

The young master secretly speculated in his heart.

Shen Xiuzhu returned home so early that many of the other elders' retainers, not to mention the other trial disciples, had not arrived yet.

"Quick, all the elders and teachers who are testing the disciples, come quickly, what are you busy with!"

Seeing that there were actually quite a few empty seats underneath, Chen Xishan, who was originally a pine-shaped crane, suddenly blew his beard and stared, as if his face felt dull.

"yes!"

Everyone below was hurriedly whispering to each other, giving orders and urging friends.

"five…"

"Um?"

"Uh... please be patient, Xiuzhu came back too early..."

"Well, how about you announce it directly? I'm in a hurry."

"yes."

Qi Shuang tidied her hair impatiently and ordered.

Not to mention, although she is dressed in neutral clothes, she does not dress like a man like Feng Ziyu. Who knows why such a beautiful woman would choose to dress like a man in a brocade robe.

She sang along with Shen Xishan, causing everyone below to be confused.

"Everyone, time is short. I have two things to announce. As for the other elders who haven't come yet, please tell each other later."

Seeing everyone nodding, Shen Xishan took a deep breath and looked around, only staying on Shen Xiuzhu and Qingyun for a moment, and then said:

"The first thing is that this trial cannot continue due to some unexpected circumstances. At the same time, the clan disciple Shen Xiuzhu voluntarily withdraws from the trial, so I now declare that the winner of the trial is Shen Xiulin!"

As soon as these words came out, not to mention other people, even Shen Xiulin's mother Shen Danrui herself was a little confused.

Is this, is this the legendary secret operation?

Although almost everyone in the Shen family knows that the final winner will be Shen Xiulin and Shen Xiuzhu, but now the results are announced directly before the contestants are all here. Isn't this too much?

However, when Shen Shumei heard this, she just frowned, and then glanced at her son who was silent. She didn't say anything nonsense, which made Qingyun on the side secretly say that this woman's concentration is not simple.

On the other hand, Shen Danrui was so surprised that she almost lost her composure in ecstasy. She almost accidentally hurt the person sitting next to her, and kept shouting, "My son is unparalleled in the world!"

"Ahem, there's a second one."

Seeing Shen Danrui's triumphant look, Shen Xishan couldn't help but sigh, and then lowered his voice, as if he was a little sad:

"The second thing is that several Yuanhua realm elders of the Shen family, headed by Shen Xin, died for some reason while escorting Shen Xiuzhu on his way back, including Shen Xiulin's father, Shen Li."

"What!?"

Shen Danrui didn't believe her ears at all, and she even laughed wildly without even having time to close her long mouth.

"Shen...Shen Li? This...this is impossible?! He...he..."

Shen Danrui thought of Shen Li leaving without saying goodbye in the middle of the night, saying he was going to deal with some matters. Although he didn't say it explicitly, how could Shen Danrui not know who Dao Dao was going to "deal with" after having been mediating family struggles for more than a hundred years?

But she also knew that Shen Li had extremely terrifying strength. Killing fellow monks was as common as eating and drinking. If he used his full strength, he would not be unable to fight against the monks in the Concentration Realm.

But how could he, who was so careful and forbearing, end up in trouble with Shen Xin and the others?

Who killed them?

Suddenly, Shen Danrui's laughter stopped abruptly, her eyes were about to burst, she pointed at Shen Shumei and said angrily:

"It must be you! Shen Shumei! You sent someone to kill Brother Li, right?!"

As he spoke, Shen Danrui, who was in a state of ups and downs, struck out angrily, with both palms out, and his spiritual power immediately conjured up two golden roses, which shot towards Shen Shumei opposite.

"stop!"

The head of the family, Shen Xishan, was furious when he saw this. The distinguished guest behaved so disrespectfully here, which really brought shame to the Shen family.

With a flick of his sleeves, a strong wind suddenly rose, and the golden rose instantly exploded, turning into dust with a rich fragrance, and dissipated invisible.

"Master, Brother Li..."
To be continued...