For half a month, Yu Jiao was searching outside.
Yan Guang hadn't come back yet, so he led a group of brothers in the Snake-Tiger City branch, starting from the maze exit mentioned by Shi Qingqing, and looking out inch by inch.
Unfortunately, no trace was found.
Yu Jiao also knew in his heart that there was little hope of finding it, but he didn't want to give up. If he just let it go without even trying, he wouldn't be where he is now.
After searching all the way out, there was no news, but there was one thing that puzzled Yu Jiao.
You should know that since the last snowstorm nearly a year ago, there has been no new snowstorm in Hantian Territory yet. Normally, the snow in the outside world should be caked together and tightly connected.
However, where he passed, the snow was still covered with a thin layer of fluffy texture, which was obviously only recent.
After making this discovery, Yu Jiao even issued an order for the disciples searching in other directions to pay more attention to the abnormalities on the snow.
After searching for more than half a month, when other outside forces were already vaguely suspicious of Yu Jiao's actions, he received an anomaly discovered by one of his disciples on the southern hillside near Xingtian Mansion.
As soon as he received the transmission talisman, Yu Jiao immediately rushed to that side. However, he was approaching White Tiger City at the moment, and even if he hurried all the way, it still took him half a day to get there.
By the time he arrived at that spot, the sun had already set in the west and was about to set.
Under the guidance of the early foundation-building disciple, Yu Jiao saw the exposed mountain wall and the surrounding snowdrifts of varying thicknesses.
He explored the area for a long time, but found nothing.
At this moment, the moon was high in the sky, and before Yu Jiao could continue to expand his surroundings, a transmission note quickly flew over and hung in front of him.
A ray of light penetrated it, and a familiar voice came from inside.
"Fellow Taoist Yu, it's almost January. Please fulfill your promise as soon as possible."
The voice was cold, and although it was not urging, it had a meaning that people could not refuse.
This was Shi Qingqing's message. She and the Miaoyin Pavilion disciples had been waiting in Snake and Tiger City for many days. It was inevitable that Ye Changmengduo would be caught by their Pavilion Master when he came back, so she had no choice but to send a message to remind Yu Jiao.
As soon as the voice fell, the transmission note spontaneously ignited without any wind.
Yu Jiao pinched his eyebrows. He had spent too long outside and it was time for him to go back.
However, before leaving, he arranged for the male foundation-building cultivator who found the anomaly here to continue searching in the following days.
However, this operation needs to be more secretive, and we must focus on looking for anything unusual in Xingtian Mansion recently.
This male foundation-building cultivator was named Jing Shi. After receiving the order with his fists clasped, he asked if he could bring his brother with him.
He and his brother have a cooperative tracking secret method, which may be helpful in the next direction.
Yu Jiao naturally agreed after hearing this.
After he sent out the telepathic message "Stop searching and return to the city immediately" to all around, he left directly.
After Jing Jin reunited with his brother Jing Yi, he used his secret method to search from the exposed rocky place.
The shaded side of a cliff outside the east side of Baihu City.
Mo Mei shook off the monks behind him and flew all the way to this place.
This was the last place where Kong Jinyu found her home when she first came to Hantian Territory.
Unfortunately, she arrived a step too late, and there was no one in the cave. Only the recently extinguished fire showed that someone had stayed there.
The formation outside the cave here was left by Kong Jinyu, using the formation technique created by her brother Kong Jiuzhang, Mo Mei's husband.
As Kong Jiuzhang's wife, Mo Mei naturally knew about it.
That's why she was able to find the anomaly here and find their former foothold.
The layout in the cave is very simple, with only one main hall and one training room on the left and right.
Seeing the way the walls of the cave were being hacked with knives and axes, Mo Mei, who had just arrived at that time, couldn't help but reach out and touch the wall in a daze. Although she was old, she could still feel her husband's sword energy from the mottled wall.
For many days in the future, she used this as her base. After going out many times to search for information in Tielou, Xinge and other places, she finally decided to go to Xingtian Mansion to search for information.
Mo Mei sat cross-legged in the training room on the right side of the main hall in a daze. She did not regret throwing Yu Wan out as bait. After all, that was the best option at the time.
No matter if we meet again in the future or whether his niece will resent him after knowing it, Mo Mei has no regrets.
With a gentle breath, Mo Mei stood up and went to the training room opposite to check on Li Nian's condition.
Li Nian has been quite unlucky since he arrived in Hantian Territory.
His first stop here was the Xinge Pavilion in Longxiang Snowfield. After collecting relevant information, he went directly to the easternmost Tielou.
I wanted to take on the mission here first to integrate into this place.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered Xin Pavilion, he was noticed by the master of Miaoyin Pavilion who happened to be a guest in the pavilion at that time.
Then the pavilion master tracked him all the way, planned to catch him while he was performing his mission, and directly forcibly broke the Kong family's secret technique on Li Nian.
In this way, his alien identity was revealed.
After being caught, the master of the Miaoyin Pavilion took him directly to the darkroom of the Miaoyin Pavilion and tried and adjusted the methods he already had on Li Nian one by one.
Until all the substances in Li Nian's body were really consumed, the pavilion master had no choice but to go to Xingtian Mansion alone as a guest, hoping to dig out some more things from them.
Who would have thought that this departure gave Shi Qingqing the opportunity. She used the gimmick of auctioning Li Nian to attract monks from Han Tianyu to come here one after another, and set up a Hongmen auction.
Li Nian was tortured by the pavilion master, and his body's Dantian and meridians were severely damaged and full of cracks. If it were later, I'm afraid he would never have the chance to become an immortal in this life.
After Mo Mei brought Li Nian back, he first used his own spiritual power to slowly bring the power of Linghua Pill into his body to repair his body first.
Then, she directly swallowed the only small returning pill she had on Li Nian.
This is a weakened version of the Great Returning Pill. Although it can't reach the level of living and dead people, flesh and bones, it can very well repair the Dantian meridians.
It can be said that it is the most suitable elixir for Li Nian at present.
After swallowing it, Mo Mei would use spiritual power to clear the meridians in his body every hour to prevent the internal organs and flesh and blood congestion from blocking the meridians.
After more than twenty days of this, Li Nian's pale face turned red. After Mo Mei sorted out his meridians again, Li Nian finally woke up.
Mother and son hadn't seen each other for many years, and Li Nian thought he wouldn't know what to say.
But since waking up, either due to physical weakness or because the previous days were too dark, Li Nian was even more talkative than before he left home.
He always caught his mother telling her about her experiences over the years, her encounter with Yu Wan, and asking about Mo Mei's various situations.
Of course, both of them said that they reported good things but not bad things.
Li Nian did not tell about his hardships in Jiutian Pavilion, and Mo Mei did not tell about the series of methods he used after entering Xingtian Mansion.
After chatting for a whole day, no matter how much Mo Mei asked, Li Nian never said anything about what happened to him in Miaoyin Pavilion.
In the end, Mo Mei was so angry that he scolded him.
"If the sky falls, your stubborn mouth will support it, right?"
After questioning again to no avail, Mo Mei was furious and threw a high-grade storage bag directly to Li Nian. "Continue to cultivate during this time. I still have some things to do. I'll see you again in a few days."
After saying that, he left. She didn't tell Li Nian the secret to opening the formation here, just because she was afraid that he would leave willfully again.
Li Nian looked at his mother's angry look with a smile on his face, as if he had gone back to his childhood when his mother would get angry and check if he was injured every time he got into trouble.
It wasn't until Mo Mei left that he took back his smile and stared deeply into the void.
For a long time, no other action was seen from him.
In Baihu City, there is a small courtyard in the inner city.
Qin Yuqing, wearing white clothes embroidered with gold threads, immediately stepped forward to ask after seeing Dr. Cao Dan coming out of the room.
"Doctor Cao, how are you doing?"
Cao Ming closed his eyes and shook his head with a helpless look on his face, "Now, Cao can only persuade that person to change to practice the demonic skills."
"Is there really no other way?" Qin Yuqing didn't want to give up and kept asking, "Qin has a lot of spiritual stones here, or whatever heavenly and earthly treasures Dr. Cao needs, Qin can find them."
"Please..."
"Fellow Daoist Qin, Cao did his best." Cao Ming bowed to Qin Yuqing, clasped his fists, and then left.
Qin Yuqing still stood there blankly, staring at the room, his eyes never leaving for a long time.
After a long time, he took out a teleportation note from his body and said, "Fellow Daoist Ling, please meet Qin."
As soon as he finished speaking, the transmission notes flew far away.
Qin Yuqing entered the small room next to him, changed into the dark gold robe inlaid with green leaves that he usually wore every day, and went straight out of the yard.
