Seven days later, Yiye Xingzhou slowly landed on the east side of Qingyang Mountain, and twenty miles further west he entered the territory of Qingyang Mountain.
A white figure rushed out of the boat first and drifted in the air for seven days. Hua Ruxue couldn't wait to put her feet on the ground and breathe the air in the forest.
It is already the season of blooming spring flowers, but the branches here are withered and lifeless, as if winter is approaching. Z.br>
Su Yi, Ning Shuyan, Lin Feng and other eight people followed closely behind. Ning Shuyan was wearing a green dress embroidered with irises, her eyebrows were slightly raised, she looked around curiously and asked, "Where is this?" "
Su Yi put away the boat and was a little surprised when he saw the situation in front of him. There was actually a place with such thin spiritual energy in the human world.
He said: "According to records, the Lingyin Underground Palace is located at the intersection of mortals, monks, and ghosts. The spiritual energy is sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and the Yin energy is strong."
"The weak spiritual energy here is consistent with the records. Let's go to the front and have a look first." Hua Ruxue said, walking at the front of the team to clear the way.
Su Yi found the location of the Lingyin Underground Palace from the autobiography of the Sword Immortal Su Changyou. At that time, the Master Sword Immortal accidentally entered the Lingyin Underground Palace in order to send a resentful ghost to Huangquan Road to eliminate resentment.
The original human world was divided into the monk world and the mortal world based on the strength of spiritual energy. The mortal world was adjacent to the Forest of No Return. Today, the human world is full of spiritual energy, and the monk world is connected to the Forest of No Return.
The weakening spiritual energy here may be a precursor to finding the Lingyin Underground Palace. It is definitely right to follow this path.
The group of people walked in the forest for a quarter of an hour. Every two old trees around had a stump. Looking at the uneven marks on the edges of the stumps, the old trees had been cut down with a blunt axe. The marks were brand new and were not more than a day old.
As we walked further, there were more and more tree stumps, and the marks on the stumps became older and smoother. The ax was the same, and the person who cut down the trees was the same person. The only difference was that the ax was blunted.
After walking a little further, I saw a middle-aged man wearing coarse clothes, with a slightly bulging chest, as if he was carrying some dry food, and holding a rusty ax in his hand.
Hua Ruxue stepped forward quickly, ready to ask the middle-aged man for directions, but the middle-aged man seemed to have not seen her and walked past her without looking away.
Lin Feng saw that Hua Ruxue was unable to talk to her, so he stepped forward confidently, but was directly ignored by the middle-aged man. He coughed twice to relieve the embarrassment and said, "Brother, maybe he is in a hurry to chop down the tree."
If he is in a hurry to chop down a tree, the ax in his hand should be sharpened anyway. Although Hua Ruxue was confused, she saw that the middle-aged man did not pay attention to their intentions at all, so she had no choice but to continue moving forward with everyone.
The further they walked, the thinner the spiritual energy around them became, until the group saw a village called Yanmiao Village, where the spiritual energy completely disappeared.
Hua Ruxue looked up and down at the huge stone carved with the words "Yanmiao Village". The stone seemed to come from the Broken Star Mountain Range, which is Guanyun City.
The group of people entered the village in a grand manner. The courtyards in the village were sparse. It was not the white houses and poor houses with rows of houses in the impression. There was only one house every other mile with high walls and green tiles. Judging from the appearance alone, it was compared to the ones in Guanyun City. The house is also much more luxurious.
Passing by several more, the courtyards became more and more simple. In one of the courtyards, freshly washed coarse cloth clothes were hung, and a woman was fetching water from the well.
"How does this feel like entering a country house?" Lin Feng looked at the courtyard in surprise, "I have never seen anyone reluctant to use even the simplest dust-clearing technique."
The woman who was washing her clothes was clearly a Qi practitioner, cleaning the house and washing clothes, but it was just a dust-cleaning technique that didn't need to be so troublesome.
Hua Ruxue, who was reluctant to use the dust-clearing technique, silently averted her eyes. She saw two more people walking in front of them. As soon as she stepped forward to meet them, the two people seemed to have not seen her and walked past her.
Lin Feng adjusted his clothes a little, regained his confidence, and walked towards the two people. Before he spoke, the two people, like the middle-aged man he met just now, ignored Lin Feng's existence.
Just when Hua Ruxue and Lin Feng were doubting themselves, a white-haired old man walked towards them.
When Hua Ruxue saw the old man approaching, she hurriedly ran away and was ignored one after another. Did she still want the face of being the boss?
No, she can't be the only one to be embarrassed!
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Turning to look at Su Yi, he said, "It's your turn this time."
Faced with her childish behavior, Su Yi could only cooperate. He stepped forward and asked respectfully: "The juniors and the others stumbled into this place by mistake. Do you dare to ask the seniors where this place is?"
The old man opened his slightly cloudy eyes, revealing a trace of clarity. He glanced at the nine people present and said slowly: "This is Yanmiao Village, and I am the village chief here."
Before Su Yi could ask any more questions, the village chief smiled broadly. He glanced at the clear sky in the west and said, "It's still early and the sun has not yet set. A few distant visitors might as well take a rest here for the day."
The village chief seems to know something. Lingyin Underground Palace only appears at night, and there is no entrance at all during the day.
Hua Ruxue and Su Yi exchanged glances and decided to rest for a day in Yanmiao Village and make plans after nightfall. It would be best if they could get some news from the village chief.
"The village chief must be a good person for letting us stay here. I also want to do something for the village chief." Hua Ruxuedui smiled and stepped forward. She was close to the village chief and could smell the faint scent of medicine from him. It seems that the village chief is also an alchemist.
The village chief smiled and refused, "The visitor is a guest. As the village chief, I should fulfill my duties as a landlord. However, Yanmiao Village rarely sees outsiders. Except for me, everyone is very resistant to outsiders. If they annoy you, , please don’t blame me.”
"The village chief was joking. We are the ones who bothered him first." Su Yi was respectful and gentle.
The village chief seemed very satisfied with Su Yi's attitude and personally led the way for several people.
Arriving at a secluded courtyard, the village chief pointed to the three or four surrounding courtyards and said, "These courtyards have been abandoned for a long time, so we can stay here safely."
Before leaving, the village chief warned: "Those who are not from Yanmiao Village should not enter the ancestral hall."
A few people agreed obediently, and they felt that the village was very strange.
Lin Feng was the first to express his doubts: "I have never heard of Yanmiao Village. There is no aura here, but the other people in the village are monks in the Qi training stage, and the village chief's cultivation is even more difficult to discern."
"This village does not belong to any force. Not all monks are willing to cultivate immortality and kill monsters." Su Yi looked at the furnishings in the courtyard. Every plant and tree was ordinary.
The wooden door made of elm tree seems to have been painted with a peony. It is mottled in color and looks old.
Ning Shuyan pointed to the stone mill in the yard, which is a stone unique to Guanyun City. She seemed to remember something and said: "Earlier, I heard Master say that during a beast tide hundreds of years ago, there were a group of animals in Guanyun City. The monks escaped from the battlefield..."
Before Ning Shuyan finished speaking, she felt the anger coming from around her. She immediately realized that what she said was wrong and hurriedly shut her mouth.
The emergence of traitors in Guanyun City has always been a taboo in the hearts of everyone in Guanyun City.
Feng Helan and others understood what she was talking about, and when they looked at the yard again, they couldn't help but feel some emotions in their hearts.
He Yuan was dissatisfied and said: "We are holding on at the front, and they are living in peace and happiness here? How can there be such a good thing in the world?"
In the memories of Hua Ruxue and Su Yi, Guanyun City has always been a gathering place for monks. They have never heard of a traitor appearing in Guanyun City or a tide of beasts that endangered their survival.
Lin Xi, as the eldest among them, knew the most about the traitors appearing in Guanyun City. He sighed:
"There wasn't that high wall outside Guanyun City. During a beast wave seven hundred years ago, a group of people suddenly left their posts without permission, followed closely by the second and third teams. Hundreds of people disappeared as if they had discussed it. There is no trace, and the established defensive formation is suddenly full of loopholes. If the city lord at that time had not returned from Buguilin in time, where would there be Guanyun City in the world?"
After listening to Lin Xi's words, several people became even more angry. He Yuan was the most furious. He drew his sword and rushed outside the courtyard: "I'm going to ask them now!"
Hua Ruxue hurriedly stopped and stopped the person. She remembered that He Yuan had been sarcastic and sarcastic to her. She thought he just disliked everyone and had a venomous mouth. She didn't expect that he would have such a bad temper and would pull it out when he was angry. sword. I have to say that this is comparable to Ning Shuyan.
"Those people outside are only in the Qi training stage. According to what Lin Xi said, the defection happened seven hundred years ago. Their lifespan in the Qi training stage is only a hundred years. It can't be them."
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Said: "Those who participate in the beast tide are at least in the foundation building stage and have nothing to do with the people in the village."
"Yes, the purpose of our trip is to find the Lingyin Underground Palace and pick Lingyin grass. It's not dark yet, so we should replenish our spiritual power as soon as possible." Feng Helan advised, no matter whether these people are traitors or not, they are not What they can do.
Hua Ruxue waved her little hand and gave two spirit gathering arrays to a few people, "Feng Helan, He Yuan, and Lin Feng share a courtyard, and Lin Xi, Lin Tian, and Huang San share a courtyard. Please put away the spirit gathering arrays before it gets dark. Afterwards, everyone will gather in this courtyard."
Looking at the backs of several people leaving after taking orders, Hua Ruxue was very satisfied with her assignment. He Yuan had a bad temper and Feng Feng was able to suppress it. Huang San and Lin Tianze were very obedient to Lin Xi's words. .
"Sister!" Snake Vulture ran out of the beast-controlling bag excitedly and rubbed Hua Ruxue's head affectionately. "Sister must have cared about me being bored for too long, so she deliberately kicked them out."
Hua Ruxue slapped the snake vulture on the head. If it gave her the smell of a monster, how could she secretly go out to inquire for information later?
Wait, there is a snake vulture here!
Hua Ruxue apologetically rubbed Snake Vulture's head, "Ah Jiu, look around to see if your little brother is around, and go out quietly so that no one finds you."
"Bring this with you." Ning Shuyan put a sky blue bead on the neck of the snake vulture. "This bead can help you hide your breath. If you encounter danger, break the bead and you can teleport back to me."
The snake vulture blinked, feeling happy, "Sure enough, the master loves me the most!"
Hua Ruxue couldn't help but look envious when she saw this situation. She thought that when she was still Su Yi's temporary contracted beast, it would be great if Su Yi didn't cheat her with spiritual stones every day. There are not many contractors with kind hearts like Sister Ning. .
As if feeling Hua Ruxue's resentment, Su Yi bent her eyes, took out a piece of glass candy and handed it to Hua Ruxue.
The moment she saw Liuli Tang, a sentence came to Hua Ruxue's mind: You never know what a monk will have in his storage bag.
Hua Ruxue reluctantly put the candies into her storage bag. After several years of accumulation, she had more glass candies in her storage bag than spiritual stones.
Is this person treating her like a child and becoming addicted?
Sooner or later, he would have to know that she was the most powerful fox demon in the world!
It can't be coaxed with a piece of candy, it requires thousands of high-grade spiritual stones!
