As Hua Ruxue revealed all her guesses, the expression on the village chief's face changed from tears of gratitude and contentment to solemnity.
"The village chronicle only mentioned that the grandfather and grandson came to Yanmiao Village, and then that the villagers were still willing to help the senior find extinct herbs to refine the longevity pill after being invaded by foreign enemies." Ning Shuyan recalled the village chronicle. What he said, he suddenly realized:
"After my senior ascended, he discovered one day that the child had died, and the villagers who had taken good care of them in the past suddenly became extremely indifferent, so he suspected that the villagers had poisoned the child, so..."
"So senior should ask those villagers why they trapped us on the day when the child died?" Z.br>
A trace of sadness flashed in Su Yi's lowered eyes, and he whispered: "Those villagers couldn't find the reason in the mirror, they are no longer here."
The immortal's anger was enough to bury all the remaining people in Yanmiao Village with him.
Ning Shuyan looked at the village chief fiercely, and the shock in her eyes turned into a burst of unspeakable sadness when she saw the village chief nodding silently.
Hua Ruxue was not surprised by this incident. If the ascended senior had known the cause of the child's death, then the three of them would not have appeared in this illusion today.
"Now that we know why our seniors kept us here, and we also know the origin of Yanmiao Village and what happened in the village, we also ask the village chief to send us out." Hua Ruxue said:
"No matter how realistic the illusion is, it is not reality. Even if the three of us continue to stay in the illusion, we will not be able to find any other clues. Maybe the child has gone to a place outside the village. The snake vulture is still in the hands of the senior, and the junior will definitely try his best to find the child. identity tag."
"You are smart." The village chief had now regained his freedom and smiled broadly. He took out a piece of jade from his arms and said, "This contains the images of the villagers entering the Shuiyue Mirror. Could you please help me, Master?" Find the whereabouts of the child and untie the knot."
"Juniors must go all out."
After Hua Ruxue took the image stone, a bright mirror suddenly appeared in front of her eyes. The silver light suddenly appeared, and the figures of the three people disappeared in the illusion instantly.
When we arrived at Yanmiao Village outside the Shuiyue Mirror, the red sun had not yet set, and the time in the illusion was different from that outside.
The three of them finally found Lin Feng and six others who were still sleeping soundly at the entrance of the village.
Ning Shuyan looked at the six people, remembering that the snake vulture was still in the water moon mirror, she couldn't help but feel a little sad, "Can we find the whereabouts of the child?"
"How can you know if you can't do it if you don't give it a try?" Hua Ruxue stuffed the seventh-level defensive formation she had just obtained in the future into Lin Feng's arms. If someone attacks them, the defensive formation will activate on its own.
Judging from their condition, they will have to sleep for at least another hour, so they can't be taken care of right now.
Seeing that Ning Shuyan was still worried about the safety of the snake vulture, Su Yi comforted her softly: "The operation of the Shuiyue Mirror requires a lot of spiritual energy. With so many people entering, it is beyond the scope of the Shuiyue Mirror, so only Leave the Snake Vulture behind. Judging from the senior’s agreement to send us out of Shuiyue Mirror, the Snake Vulture is safe.”
Even if Hua Ruxue had not taken the initiative to leave Shuiyuejing just now, the village chief would have sent them away. The village chief's words and deeds had only one purpose - to send them away as soon as possible to prevent the illusion from collapsing.
If the illusion collapses, the village chief, who has developed self-awareness in the illusion, will also disappear with the illusion.
"Yes, Sister Ning, don't worry. With that senior's strength, if he wants to kill us, we will never be able to escape from the illusion alive. Finding the cause of our grandson's death is the senior's only obsession in the human world. We just have to do our best. Why, I think senior won’t make things difficult for us.”
Hua Ruxue raised her head and glanced at the bright sun above her head. She got the news about Lingyin Underground Palace and Lingyin Grass from the village chief, which showed that they were looking in the right direction.
Just wait for the Lingyin Underground Palace to appear after nightfall, and then you can pick the Lingyin grass!
During this time, they can find the whereabouts of the child.
The three of them walked towards the ancestral hall in the village. Hua Ruxue suddenly asked, "Do you know who the ninth-level formation mage has been promoted to in recent years?"
Ning Shuyan recalled the news she had heard over the years, and finally confirmed: "There is only one monk who has ascended in the past ten years, and he is a sword cultivator."
"This senior may have never been in the world." Su Yi said, just like everyone in Yanmiao Village, he has never been in the world.
"It's very possible. After Yan Chenrui's defection, Guanyun City went through a major blood change. The number of aristocratic families increased from eight to five now. The Bai family of the city lord's lineage has only been in Guanyun City for a thousand years and is not counted among the aristocratic families. Among them. Since then, more and more seniors have been hiding from the world."
The position of city lord has always relied on force, character, and strategy to convince the public. Now the Bai family lives in the city lord's mansion. Maybe it will be replaced by another family next time. Hua Ruxue has heard of this for a long time.
To think that Yan Chenrui and others could still stay safely in Yanmiao Village without being disturbed after escaping from the battlefield. This city lord did his best.
It's a pity that there is still no news about the child. They knew something about the child, but not much.
After that senior ascended, what did the child experience in Yanmiao Village?
"The senior once said that he would refine the elixir of longevity for his grandson. This elixir of longevity has probably been refined. Could it be that these villagers had evil intentions because of this?" Ning Shuyan asked. The senior must have refined the elixir of longevity. Only then will Dan be able to overcome the tribulation and leave with peace of mind.
Without waiting for Hua Ruxue to answer, Su Yi said: "Although there is no immortality pill in the world, we can't confirm that the villagers will not have evil thoughts because of it."
Lingyin grass is often used to neutralize medicinal properties, and is used as a medicinal ingredient in many ancient prescriptions. Hua Ruxue couldn't tell what kind of elixir the senior wanted to refine with the Lingyin Grass, but she could only be sure that it was definitely not an immortality elixir.
Even a stone has its own lifespan. Living forever is not easy.
The three of them came to the ancestral hall. There was a thin layer of dust inside the ancestral hall. After confirming that the current furnishings in the ancestral hall were no different from those in the village, and the records in the village annals were exactly the same, Hua Ruxue activated the image stone in her hand and said:
"If you want to know whether the Immortality Pill has been successfully refined and what happened to Yanmiao Village after the senior left, you can only ask the villagers."
After the image unfolded, Hua Ruxue discovered that each of the thirty-nine villagers had entered an illusion with exactly the same scene, but without interfering with each other. There is only one illusion, but the villagers enter the illusion at different times.
In order to speed up, the three of them acted separately. Hua Ruxue stared at the village chief and other thirteen people, while Ning Shuyan and Su Yi stared at thirteen people each.
Hua Ruxue was very interested in the illusion where the village chief was. She guessed that after entering the illusion, the village chief discovered that this was the Yanmiao Village in the illusion. Then when the illusion wanted to obliterate him, the outsider, he completely replaced the village chief in the illusion. The village chief, so he can survive with the illusion until now.
Just as she thought, after the village chief entered the illusion, he discovered something was wrong that night. He stood behind the ancestral hall and looked north, murmuring: "Where is the road? Why is it missing?"
Road, is it the road to Lingyin Underground Palace? The village chief said that he had followed the senior to a crypt one night. The village chief must know the location of the crypt.
The ancestral hall faces north. Hua Ruxue silently noted this direction and planned to search along this direction after nightfall.
However, that senior has already ascended. Why does the village chief go to the crypt after dark? Continue to refine the Immortality Pill?
After a while, a villager dragged his injured arm to the village chief's door and shouted loudly through the wooden door: "Village Chief! Help! I have been poisoned by snake venom!"
The village chief opened the door, skillfully took out the antidote pill from the bag he carried with him, handed it to the man, and sighed: "You were also poisoned by snake venom yesterday, what should you do?"
The villager seemed not to have heard the village chief's words and thanked him repeatedly, "Thank you very much, village chief. Fortunately, there is still an alchemist like you in the village."
Alchemist...
Hua Ruxue recalled the first time she met the village chief, and she indeed smelled the fragrance of the elixir from him.
Hua Ruxue was shocked when she saw the detoxification pill in the hands of the villagers. It turned out to be an eighth-grade pill!
An alchemist who can produce eighth-grade elixirs must have at least an out-of-body cultivation level.
If the records in the village chronicles are correct, after Yanmiao Village was attacked by the enemy, only the monks in the Qi-training period who hid in the well and escaped the disaster were left in the village.
Why does the village chief hide his cultivation?
Hua Ruxue vaguely felt that what happened in Yanmiao Village was not as simple as she thought.
The sudden enemy attack in Yanmiao Village was an unsolved mystery, but now there is an eighth-grade alchemist in the village.
Is it just an accident that the ninth-level formation master and the eighth-level alchemist gathered in a little-known village at the same time?
Moreover, this village is very likely to be adjacent to Lingyin Underground Palace.
If these two people had met early on, if they had reached some kind of cooperation...
Hua Ruxue didn't dare to think too much. She then watched another villager's fantasy to compare the differences between the performances of the two village chiefs.
On the day when the child disappeared, the village chief walked north along the ancestral hall at nightfall. After disappearing for half an hour, he returned to the house covered in dust. The bottoms of his shoes were covered with loess, as if he had been somewhere. Crypt.
Immediately afterwards, villagers came to ask for medicine. The village chief received the villagers with a worried face. After sending the villagers away, he opened the barrier, took out the alchemy furnace, and began to make alchemy.
He took out a delicate box from his storage bag. When he opened the box, there was the Lingyin Grass that Hua Ruxue had longed for!
Yanmiao Village is indeed close to Lingyin Underground Palace!
Hua Ruxue was not familiar with alchemy, so she could only write down the herbs used by the village chief so that she could compare the elixir recipes and determine what the village chief was refining.
She guessed that the elixir the village chief was refining was most likely the "immortality elixir" mentioned by the senior.
If the Lingyin Grass and the Immortality Pill were intentionally revealed to the senior by the village chief, then the senior brought his grandson to Yanmiao Village. In order to prevent the location of Yanmiao Village from being exposed, he improved the tracking array.
According to the village chief, it took the senior ten years to draw the Soul Leaving Formation and the Yin Gathering Formation, and he also saw the formation diagrams used for practice in the crypt.
Can this prove that the senior only started practicing drawing the Soul Leaving Formation and Yin Gathering Formation after entering Yanmiao Village? And it took ten years after entering the village to successfully draw the double formation?
Ten years after the senior arrived in Yanmiao Village, another major event happened in the village - an enemy attack!
At that time, all the high-level monks headed by Yan Chenrui were dead. In such a tragic situation, the remaining people believed that there was a traitor in the village, but they could not find who the traitor was.
If there is a traitor, what about the person who led them to catch the traitor?
What if the traitor is the village chief they have always trusted?
If you want Lingyin Grass to grow, you must have Yin Qi and gather Yin Qi. In addition to the Soul Leaving Formation and the Yin Gathering Formation, the most critical and indispensable thing is-soul creation!
Yan Chenrui and the others may not have died, but were captured by the village chief and put into the soul separation array to resurrect their souls and gather their yin.
When receiving the task of picking Lingyin grass, Hua Ruxue figured out the process of making Lingyin grass grow: first find the Lingyin underground palace with Lingyin grass seeds, followed by the Soul Leaving Array, the Yin Gathering Array, and the Soul Regenerating Array. .
They only need one Lingyin grass and take some soul power from the living souls of a few people without causing harm to the soul body.
However, as far as the village chief's proficiency in using Lingyin Grass to refine elixirs is concerned, he needs more than one Lingyin Grass.
