The village chief led the three people outside the ancestral hall. First, his legs weakened, and he knelt on the ground. He kowtowed three times and murmured: "My ancestors, please forgive your unfilial piety. Today I will take care of you." Outsiders come in."
After saying this, the village chief broke down in tears and burst into tears.
Ning Shuyan had never seen this scene before, and her heart suddenly softened. She put away her sword, looked at the ancestral hall in front of her, turned to Hua Ruxue and Su Yi and said, "This ancestral hall looks like new. Maybe there is nothing we are looking for in it." s things."
"Ah, yes, yes!" The village chief nodded repeatedly, "This girl is right. This ancestral hall was just built last year, and there is nothing in it except tablets!"
Hua Ruxue: "..."
The village chief clearly wanted them to enter the ancestral hall, otherwise he wouldn't have specifically told them "Don't go to the ancestral hall" at the beginning, and he wouldn't have specifically mentioned "The ancestral hall is not allowed" just now.
How does he look like he is suffering great humiliation and unwillingness now?
Ning Shuyan was considerate of his age and difficult life, but Hua Ruxue was not used to it. She would even bother opening the door, for fear that they would not be fooled...
"In that case, let's not bother the village chief. Let's go look elsewhere?"
Before she finished speaking, Hua Ruxue and Su Yi looked at each other and turned around to leave.
Ning Shuyan looked apologetic: "Senior, I'm sorry for disturbing you. I just had to take action. Don't take it to heart and say goodbye!"
After saying that, Ning Shuyan turned and left.
The village chief, who had already exposed his neck and was waiting for threats, looked at the retreating figures of the three men and shrank in the cold wind.
He shouted anxiously: "Don't go! Don't go!"
"The door is open! It's really open!"
"Look back! I won't lie to you!"
With a "creak", the door of the ancestral hall was opened, and the originally clear sky suddenly became covered with dark clouds. In an instant, the sun set and darkness fell.
The clothes hanging in the yard in the distance disappeared. The woman who had been fetching water from the well just now brought out the hot meal from the kitchen. Orange candles were lit in the hall. The husband, who had not appeared during the day, was standing upright at this moment. Sit at the table and eat.
None of the villagers seemed to notice the change of time.
When the three of them turned to look at the ancestral hall, the village chief's figure had disappeared.
Hua Ruxue glanced at the ancestral hall and did not go in directly. Instead, she chose to go to the yard where Lin Feng and others were to take a look. She was a little worried that they would become like those villagers.
However, when the courtyard door was opened, there was no trace of anyone in the deserted courtyard.
Even the yard where they stayed during the day was restored to the way it was when they came.
What happened in Yanmiao Village? Where are Snake Vulture and Lin Feng?
The three of them looked at each other in pairs and returned to the outside of the ancestral hall.
It was pitch dark inside the ancestral hall. When the last person crossed the threshold, a gust of cold wind hit, and the wooden door closed tightly with a "snap".
Su Yi took out the luminous pearl for lighting, and the original appearance of the ancestral hall appeared in front of the three of them. Z.br>
There are seventy-three tablets enshrined in the ancestral hall. The tablets are made of new cypress trees, with gold calligraphy and are spotless. There is neither a futon nor a place to place offerings in front of the tablet. The tablet is for viewing, not worship. The clues are on these wooden tablets.
Ning Shuyan glanced around, jumped up onto the beam, and came to a conclusion: "Apart from these tablets, there is not even a genealogy in the ancestral hall. What can we find here?"
"Village Chronicle." Su Yi said.
Then he put away the luminous pearl in his hand, and the ancestral hall fell into darkness again, without a trace of light.
Then Su Yi controlled his spiritual power, and fluorescent dots landed on the seventy-three tablets. The hidden words on the tablets were revealed. From top to bottom, they were the complete village history of Yanmiao Village.
Seventy-nine thousand three hundred years ago in the Immortal Calendar, that is, seven hundred years ago, the first group of monks, headed by Yan Chenrui, established Yanmiao Village here.
There are thirty people in total, ranging from out-of-body to golden elixirs. Yan Chenrui and his relatives and friends who were tired of the killings in the outside world chose to live in seclusion here.
In the following years, the village gradually accepted hundreds of monks who had fled Guanyun City.
Some are children with mediocre talents who were abandoned by their families, some are wandering cultivators who have achieved nothing, and some are powerful men who have killed countless monsters with great reputation.
Their origins and achievements are very different, but without exception, they all have a common characteristic - they hate killing and want to live a stable life.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. The arrival of the An family in Guanyun City broke the peace and stability.
The existence of Yanmiao Village has shaken the will of most people. This time the people of the An family came here to ask Yanmiao Village to send someone to resist the beast tide, otherwise each person will have to hand over a thousand spiritual stones as protection fee.
Yanmiao Village does not belong to any force, but this small village already accommodates more than 600 people. Although most of the villagers are people with low cultivation levels and will not pose a threat to any force, for the An family, The existence of Yanmiao Village is a threat.
Because most people in the village were once affiliated with the An family, the existence of Yanmiao Village undoubtedly challenged the power and majesty of the An family.
"In the current tide of beasts, you are hiding here like a coward, and you are not even willing to contribute a few spiritual stones. It is really chilling." The speaker was a Mahayana monk.
Yan Chenrui knows very well that these people are extremely hypocritical. Being able to stand here and talk to the villagers now is nothing more than their hard work. If the An family finds that there is no benefit from them, then next year's day will be the death anniversary of everyone in Yanmiao Village.
Yanmiao Village does not belong to any force, so no one will protect them. An only needs to use his mouth to make some mistakes for them, and then no one will ask anything about them.
The survival of Yanmiao Village depends only on An's thoughts.
No, it's not just Anshi.
After all, he was too naive, thinking that if he stayed away from Guanyun City, he would be free and live the life he had longed for.
In that year's beast wave, all 344 people from Yanmiao Village were sent to the front line. Even the children in the Qi training stage, as long as they came from Yanmiao Village, were sent to the front line.
In the end, the early stage of the beast wave ended, and only 280 of the 344 people survived.
While preparing for the battle in the middle stage of the beast tide, the ugly faces of those in power once again refreshed Yan Chenrui's understanding. Their arrangement was to force him to surrender, to bow his head, and to continue to work for them!
He put down his pride and knelt outside the commander's door, begging him to let back the children who were lucky enough to survive and the monks who were weak and injured to go back.
He will never forget the voice that came from the door that day, "What an unfamiliar dog. I am so good to him. I have spent all my efforts to train him and send him to the front line to accumulate merit. This is a great opportunity that no one else can ask for." I didn't have any. He was not grateful and didn't say anything. Instead, he was thinking of ways to escape. He also took away so many children and taught them all bad."
"How dare I disobey you? If so, then there will be no need for Yanmiao Village to exist."
A few simple words could decide their life or death.
He had tasted the feeling of being treated like an ant controlling life and death many times in his life, but at this moment, he still felt chilled.
The Guanyun City in his memory was obviously a peaceful place that everyone longed for. How long had it turned into the current state of eating people without spitting out bones?
Guanyun City was built to protect the weak and the children, but now it has become a place where high-level monks show off their power and status.
He had worked hard for so long to lead those people to find that paradise. Was he about to give up like this?
He is not willing to give in!
He wanted to take them back to Yanmiao Village and isolate themselves from the world, never to care about the world again.
When Yan Chenrui returned to his place of residence, he found that out of the 280 people, only 200 were left. Where had the other 80 gone?
"Didn't you beg me to let those children go back? I kindly agreed to it. What's your expression?"
Yan Chenrui looked at the fear on other people's faces and had a bad feeling in his heart.
"You look as if I killed them. They are not that noble and worthy of me. Useless people should go back and forth where they come from, you say, right?"
Where do useless people go back and forth from?
Yan Chen Ruiqi
Staggering and holding on to the wooden door, those who disappeared had their cultivation levels abolished, their spiritual roots pulled out, and thrown into the central city!
Those children would never survive the day after their spiritual roots were pulled out!
"Want a comforting life? Want no more killings? Central City is where those cowards should go!"
At that moment, Yan Chenrui's heart was shaken again. He asked himself more than once in his heart what the purpose of all this was!
They were fighting desperately outside the city, killing the monsters, guarding the barrier behind them, and guarding the city gate. What was the point?
Just for the wine pool and meat forest of those superiors?
Just to continue being trampled under the feet of those in power over and over again in the future?
Just to rub salt into their wounds for the sake of the superiors, and call it healing? Training?
He can't protect those people and doesn't want to protect them! He doesn't want to defend Guanyun City like this!
He just wanted to take the people in Yanmiao Village back safely, and he just wanted to fulfill his promise to "take them home" before leaving. They entrusted their hearts to him, but he failed them.
Yan Chenrui stood there for a long time. Only when the beast tide started would they have a chance to escape. If they escaped now, they would definitely be chased back.
In the end, they decided to leave Guanyun City when the beast tide started, and never return to Guanyun City even if they were shattered into pieces.
Why do those children from aristocratic families never enter the Forest of No Return until they reach the Golden Core stage, while ordinary monks like them have to run around for the so-called sanctuary?
Why do the children of those aristocratic families never have to participate in the beast tide, and only need to enjoy themselves peacefully in the rear, while they, the helpless monks, have to stay at the front with all their lives?
Because Yan Chenrui and others escaped from the battlefield, everyone was caught off guard. Anshi hurriedly went to fill the loopholes and could not get away to chase them.
Since then, they have set up a tracking array in Yanmiao Village to cover their tracks, and have lived the peaceful and peaceful life they dreamed of since.
Eighty thousand years after the Immortal Calendar, Yanmiao Village, which had been immersed in the atmosphere of fireworks, suddenly welcomed a pair of grandparents.
Grandparents and grandchildren came here to seek medicine and accidentally entered this place. The elder was a ninth-level formation mage. With his help, the villagers improved the confusion formation. The spiritual energy required for the confusion formation was reduced by most, so the daily formation was activated. The time increased by three hours.
It was originally a good thing that the formation took longer to be activated, but just ten years later, a group of people broke through the mysterious formation and broke into Yanmiao Village.
Although Yan Chenrui was already a Mahayana monk at that time, he was still unable to defeat the intruders. In the end, all the monks in the village who were above the foundation-building stage were reduced to scorched earth.
The monks in the Qi training stage barely escaped by hiding in the well.
That night, the remaining villagers discussed where to go, where those people came from, whether they were the An family of Guanyun City, and whether there were traitors hidden in the village.
They wanted to avenge Yan Chenrui and the other seventy-three people, but they alone could not even defeat a monster.
Later, some people chose to keep the secret and leave Yanmiao Village, while others chose to stay in the village.
Those who stayed did not trust each other as much as before. They distrusted each other and watched each other. After they monitored each other for several days, they were surprised to find that the ninth-level formation master would leave his grandson to go somewhere every night. You should know that the grandson and grandson were inseparable on weekdays.
When they used the child as a threat, the ninth-level formation master had no choice but to tell the truth: he was looking for an extinct herb to refine the immortality pill. He was already a monk in the tribulation stage, but his grandson's talent It was mediocre, so he wanted to refine an immortality pill for his grandson.
In order to avoid the catastrophe caused by lightning, monks in the tribulation stage will find a remote place and concentrate on preparing for the tribulation.
This elder is about to reach the end of his tribulation. If he fails to go elsewhere in time and spends his tribulation in the village, it will have unimaginable consequences.
In order to send the elder away quickly, they decided to help him.
Help him find the extinct herbs quickly.
