After the two people stepped through the stone door, they heard a loud bang and the stone door fell again. Mu Jingyu had experienced it once. He just turned around and took a look without showing any panic. But Qin Yunchuan was different. First he yelled and took a step back, then hurriedly rushed to the stone door, beating it constantly, trying to open the stone door.
"Jingyu! Jingyu! Why did the stone door suddenly close? Is there any mechanism that can be opened here?" Seeing that he could not open the stone door with brute force, Qin Yunchuan groped around the walls, trying to find the hidden mechanism.
Mu Jingyu shook his head helplessly and said, "Brother Qin, don't waste your efforts. Once this boulder falls, no one can open it from the inside except for the mechanism on the outside."
Qin Yunchuan checked his surroundings unwillingly, and after confirming that there was no mechanism as Mu Jingyu said, he tried to push the stone door with his true energy again. Of course, as Mu Jingyu said, his efforts were in vain.
"Jingyu, since you can't get out from here, where did you come out from? And also, where does this stone path lead to? Is it the valley you mentioned?"
Qin Yunchuan saw Mu Jingyu walking towards the depths of the cave and quickly followed him.
"Brother Qin, when I first entered this place, I had the same reaction as you do now. I thought I was in a dead end. But after wandering through these criss-crossing stone paths, I discovered the valley hidden in the depths. "Mu Jingyu said, recounting the story of how he first entered here.
"Jingyu, according to what you said, as early as eight hundred years ago, He Xiaozi found this place and obtained an ancient spiritual stone, which enabled his cultivation to greatly increase and make Jiuhua Zhen stand on top of Kyushu. Qin Yunchuan suddenly asked.
While talking, the two of them had reached the end of the cave. After Mu Jingyu stepped out of the cave, he pointed at the stone tablet dozens of feet away and said, "Brother Qin, if you don't believe it, there is nothing on the stone tablet in front of you. You can tell the authenticity of the inscription left by Xiaozi himself at a glance."
Qin Yunchuan followed what Mu Jingyu pointed and came to the stone tablet. After reading it carefully, I found that it was exactly what Mu Jingyu said. Then he took three steps back, stood with his hands at his sides, and bowed respectfully three times. At the same time, he was mumbling something, not knowing what he was mumbling.
"Brother Qin, what are you..." Mu Jingyu asked in confusion.
"Oh, Jingyu, no matter what He Xiaozi said, he is the elder of our Jiuhua sect. Without him, the Jiuhua sect said it could stand in Jiuzhou for 800 years, but it might have disappeared long ago and disappeared. As a disciple of Jiuhua, I saw the inscription left by the old man today, so I should treat him with courtesy."
Despite Qin Yunchuan's sincere words, he looked very respectful. In fact, that’s not what I think in my heart! The previous mutterings were begging He Xiaozi to have a spirit in heaven to protect Zhou Yan and the others from any accidents.
But these words can only be said in my heart. If Mu Jingyu really heard it, he would have to laugh at him like his daughter, being distracted by Zhou Yan.
Mu Jingyu said sternly: "Brother Qin is right. Uncle Mo has accepted me as a disciple a long time ago, and I have been taught by Master Fan He in Zhishou Hall for three years. In total, I am now half a disciple of Jiuhua Mountain. At that time, I was about the same age Shang Xiao, and because he is resentful of Master Songyang's uncle, did not fulfill his etiquette in front of He Xiaozi's stone tablet. Since he is back today, he should make up for it."
Qin Yunchuan stepped aside, and after watching Mu Jingyu salute respectfully in front, he quickly whispered: "Grandpa, even Mu Jingyu, this kid, saluted your stone tablet, just to bless my face. Son, Xiaodie, Yingying, um...and Shi Dahong, please be safe and sound."
Qin Yunchuan was originally thinking of the three Zhou Yan women, but finally he remembered that there was Shi Dahong, so he had to add his name at the end.
Raising his head again, Mu Jingyu looked at the valley where he had been away for half a year, feeling both familiar and unfamiliar. At the beginning, he had lived in the valley for six years, and every plant and tree here had his footprints. But after leaving the valley, in just over half a year, it felt like a world away.
It's all because so many things have happened in the past six months, more than what he has experienced since he was a child.
Qin Yunchuan followed Mu Jingyu and walked into a wooden house casually. He looked at the furnishings in the room and asked, "Jingyu, I never thought you could stay here for six years. If it were me, don't say It’s been six years, and if I persisted for six months at most, I would have gone crazy.”
"Hahaha, Brother Qin, Brother Qin, I want you to see something. If you see me, you won't want to leave even if you stay for six more years, let alone six months."
Qin Yunchuan said curiously: "Oh? After hearing what you said, I'm curious, brother. What could it be that makes you so confident that it attracts me to stay?"
Mu Jingyu smiled mysteriously and led Qin Yunchuan to the bottom of a stone wall. Looking up, he saw a large swath of fiery red covering the entire hundred-foot-high stone wall, with countless vermilion fruits hanging on it, making Qin Yunchuan greedy.
"This...this...is this a red fruit? There are actually hundreds of them!" Qin Yunchuan said, he couldn't wait to pick one, bit it in his mouth, and ate it in three or five seconds. A clean one.
Mu Jingyu laughed heartily: "Hahaha, Brother Qin, Brother Qin. When I found this piece of red fruit, I thought of your current expression. When I saw it today, it was as shameless as I had expected. Two."
Following Mu Jingyu's laughter, Qin Yunchuan ate four or five red fruits in a row before he felt a little full in his stomach. He touched a handful of juice at the corner of his mouth and said nonchalantly: "Jingyu, you also know that I am obsessed with the pill Qihuang technique. I am obsessed with herbs as soon as I see them, let alone this large piece of red fruit."
Qin Yunchuan smiled self-deprecatingly and continued to ask: "Jingyu, so you have been relying on these red fruits to fill your stomach during the six years you have been in the valley."
"In addition to these red fruits, there is also a viper that has become a spirit! The skin and flesh all over its body have kept me fed for a year."
As Mu Jingyu said that, he led Qin Yunchuan to the place where he fought against the viper. However, all that is left on the ground now is a long piece of snake skin.
While Qin Yunchuan was looking at the snake skin, Mu Jingyu talked about the origin of this viper, and then swallowed the beast Queen Zhu Guo, and tried to swallow him alive, but he accidentally swallowed her inside. Gu Gu, and what he stuffed into his stomach together with King Zhu Guo told him again.
Qin Yunchuan was sometimes nervous and sometimes excited. Although he knew that Mu Jingyu would save the day in the end, his palms still started to sweat unconsciously.
"Unexpectedly, the viper we met when we were young was eventually killed by you, and it was a blessing in disguise that we transformed the inner elixir of the meridians! It's really a blessing and a misfortune that makes me so sad!"
Mu Jingyu was getting excited when he started to lead Qin Yunchuan around the valley. Pointing to each wooden house and everything in the valley, he recounted the interesting things and difficulties he had experienced in the past six years.
Although Qin Yunchuan was worried about the safety of Zhou Yan and the others, seeing that Mu Jingyu was in high spirits after returning to the valley this time, he had no choice but to suppress his anxiety and accompany him to reminisce about the past.
After walking around the small valley, we finally came to the middle of the valley. I saw that the place where the Chu Li tribe's altar originally stood was reduced to ashes by the high priest's self-explosion of his spiritual body as early as half a year ago in order to open the passage to the bottom of the lake.
After more than half a year, this open space has long been covered with weeds. From a distance, it looks no different from other places in the valley. If people who don't know see it, they will think that it is like this.
Qin Yunchuan looked at Mu Jingyu standing in the middle, his eyes gradually becoming misty, with a look of respect and nostalgia, and couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Jingyu, why are you..."
"Brother Qin, this is where the original altar of the Chu Li tribe is." Mu Jingyu took a deep breath, suppressed the sadness in his heart and said, "It is in this altar that the last high priest of the Chu Li tribe is , gave me the Jiu Yao Xuan Light Chain."
"This is where you got the Nine Yaoxuan Light Chain?" Qin Yunchuan looked at the empty grass, obviously not believing what Mu Jingyu said.
After Mu Jingyu explained all the causes and consequences, he was naturally filled with sadness. Suddenly a thought flashed through his mind and he blurted out: "Huh? Jingyu, big brother suddenly thought of something. That Jin Yingzi from the Jiuli tribe helped you in every possible way. Is that what the high priest said, retreating with the Jiuli tribe? Are you a descendant of Chu Li from Netherworld Ghost State?"
"Brother's guess is right. Jin Yingzi and others are descendants of the Chu Li tribe." Mu Jingyu nodded and continued: "When I first met Jin Yingzi, I didn't notice this. A little bit. It was when she was framed by Gu Li and others at Juyun Villa outside Jianning City that she suddenly saw the Jiuyaoxuan Light Chain in my hand and realized that I was the one recorded in the prophecy of their clan. , who can save their Chu Li tribe from danger."
"That's why she helped me secretly, passed on information several times, and helped me avert danger. But she didn't tell me all this until we were heading to the Sword Forging Valley of Senior Kido Chengmu, and she told me in that restaurant. "
Speaking of which, Qin Yunchuan was more or less involved in everything Mu Jingyu said. After listening, I also lamented that although things in the world are unpredictable, there is a pair of invisible hands that arrange everything.
Unknowingly, Mu Jingyu led Qin Yunchuan around the valley. He also told everything he had experienced in the six years in the valley. Qin Yunchuan knew that Mu Jingyu had nothing else to say. On the one hand, I was still worried about Zhou Yan's safety, and immediately said: "There is God's will in the dark. Jingyu, it's getting late, let's come out of the valley quickly. If we delay a little longer, Yan'er and the others will It’s a danger.”
Mu Jingyu knew what Qin Yunchuan said was true, so he pointed to the center of the lake not far away and said: "As far as I know, if you want to leave the valley, apart from the waterway at the bottom of the lake, the only thing left is the cliff thousands of feet high above. It's just... I'm worried that after I left, the whirlpool at the bottom of the lake closed again. And if you go out from the mountain wall, you don't know where you will end up. If you are still in Jiuhua Mountain, I'm afraid I will be discovered by Jiuhua disciples."
Calculating the distance, this valley should still be in Jiuhua Mountain. If he really left from above, what Zhenmu Jingyu said might be discovered by Jiuhua disciples.
"You wait here, I'll go to the bottom of the lake to have a look first." After Qin Yunchuan finished speaking, he jumped into the lake.
The further you go downstream, the more rapid the water becomes. After swimming to the bottom of the lake a hundred feet deep, I saw a crack that could only be walked through by one person. Water is constantly gushing out of it, replenishing the lake.
Mu Jingyu stood by the lake, still immersed in memories, when he saw Qin Yunchuan rushing out of the lake not long after he went down. As soon as he jumped out of the lake, he waved to Mu Jingyu and said, "Jingyu, the crack below is not closed. Please follow me in."
"Really!" Mu Jingyu quickly stood up, and after jumping into the lake with Qin Yunchuan, he saw that the crack still existed. He waved his hand and motioned for Qin Yunchuan to follow him, and then passed through the crack.
Although it is pitch dark here, Mu Jingyu's current cultivation level is far from what it was six months ago. No matter how fast the water flows, it remains still. After taking a quick look around, he pointed to the waterway he had left and swam up first.
I don’t know how long I swam in the dark mountain water, but I felt a ray of light coming directly from the top of my head.
Mu Jingyu gathered his energy and yelled to be careful, and the two of them rushed out along the current. When Qin Yunchuan opened his eyes here, he saw that he was washed out of the cave by the current and was thrown high in the air.
Before he could exclaim, Qin Yunchuan subconsciously threw the Mingkong Fairy Sword and stepped on it. When he was looking around blankly for Mu Jingyu's figure, he saw that he had already fallen to the river below, staring blankly at the river in trance.
