Chapter 173: Travelers Mourn for the Old Monument on the Moss

Most of the row of houses have collapsed, and there are still some traces of their former construction on the side of the mountain wall.

The remaining three stone walls are as jagged as canine teeth, standing tall or short on the ground.

The walls are also covered with various weeds growing diagonally or straightly, swaying constantly in the wind, and an old and rotten atmosphere spreads invisibly.

There are many fallen rocks left in the house that have been eroded by time. They have turned blue-black and are covered with thick dark green moss.

The house is also surrounded by thatch that is as tall as a person, connecting the entire house with the valley. If you don't identify it carefully, it will be difficult to distinguish what is "inside and outside the house".

Li Yan flew up to the sky and silently stared at a house at his feet, where he had lived and feared.

Every time I go out, I actually don’t want to come back here. I just want to escape as far away as possible!

"Chen An, Li Yin..."

Li Yan murmured to himself in a low voice. He thought of the two soldiers who had been ordered to "stay on the left and right" to protect him, but were tricked by him, and many memories came flooding back...

Every time he had to come back here under the "escort" of these two people, and he was always thinking about how to get rid of Chen An and Li Yin...

Although he spoke softly, Zhao Min and Zi Kun, who flew over after him, were equally advanced in cultivation. Of course they heard clearly, but they had no idea what Li Yan said.

Except for the dense weeds and some exposed blue-black stones, all other objects in the stone house are gone.

Li Yan could actually guess the reason. After Ji Junshi's death, unless there were still official guards here, everything here must have been plundered.

Whether it is the hunters who strayed here by mistake or the villagers in nearby villages, in their eyes, only the huge stones used to build houses are worthless.

The tables and chairs in the house are the most needed things in the house, so of course they will be "taken away".

This can also be seen from the remaining wall on the south side.

That's where the doors and windows were in Li Yan's memory. The tall and wide windows, with fine wooden squares, exuded a faint smell of tung oil...

But now there are only a few bare broken walls in a "concave" shape, and not even a trace of sawdust can be seen.

Li Yan was in a trance for a moment. In his eyes, the ruins disappeared, and the weeds all over the house disappeared in an instant.

There is a large wooden bed leaning against the wall on the north side of the house, with neat bedding placed on it;

There is a washstand and some toiletries placed on the east wall, and there is a four-story bookshelf on the west wall with some books on it;

A wooden table is placed against the south window. On the table are several tea cups, a kettle, and two chairs;

There are also two tall boxes made of old brown vines placed on the table. Several sets of coarse cloth clothes that Li Yan brought were placed neatly in the boxes one by one...

On a sunny morning, he opened the big window and saw the mist above the pond not far away. He took a deep breath and felt clear in his heart...

This picture appeared in Li Yan's mind, and his eyes were dazed for a moment!

r>  Zhao Min and Zi Kun behind him did not speak. They also scanned the surroundings with their spiritual senses. They saw something strange about Li Yan, and Zhao Min had roughly guessed the reason.

People like Li Wuyi and others had only heard about Li Yan's past, but they didn't know that this was the place where Li Yan almost died.

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First, Li Yan didn't want to mention anything about things in the valley; second, no one was bored enough to go to Qingshan Pass to inquire about such things in person.

What's more, at this time, her heart was also filled with ups and downs. The Demon Sect was suddenly so close before her eyes, and everything happened so unexpectedly!

But she would not disturb Li Yan at this time. She suppressed the craze in her heart and carefully looked at everything here, staring at the place where Li Yan once entered the path of immortality.

Li Yan then set his sights in front of the dilapidated house, where there were several stone platforms that had turned black. Li Yan seemed to see a food box in a wooden tray, which was placed on the stone table on time every day, and the woman who packed it all...

Everything is like a white dog in the blue clouds, floating into the distance and never looking back!

"It's been about a hundred years!"

Li Yan sighed deeply in his heart, and suddenly looked up to the north.

Although he was separated by towering mountain peaks, his heart flew to another place, where he had returned to in countless midnight dreams.

But at that time, Li Yan would often suppress himself and not think about it. He was afraid, afraid that the ruthless years would take everything away. He would rather believe that the small mountain village was still the same small mountain village as before.

But at this moment, when he saw everything here, a kind of panic suddenly arose in his heart, the merciless panic of time.

When he first came here, he was only fourteen years old, but now he has been away for a hundred years.

Just when Li Yan looked towards the north, Zhao Min's voice came over.

"Why don't you go back and take a look first, and then we can go back!"

What she said was convoluted, and of course Li Yan understood it. He turned around and smiled.

"Okay, let's go back after we go there!"

After that, Li Yan flew straight out of the valley. When he passed by the dilapidated house of Master Ji, he didn't take another look.

It wasn't until he flew out of the valley that he glanced at it. On the stone wall on one side of the valley, he could see some faint red handwriting. He carefully identified the three characters "Military Advisor's Mansion".

It’s just that someone scratched it all over with a sharp blade, and the scratches were extremely deep!

"As a member of the Xunxian lineage, you may not have chosen to live here on a whim!"

When Li Yan saw these words, some thoughts came to his mind, and he thought of the pool again...

Then, the three flew to the north. After flying for a while, Zhao Min's voice came over, but her voice was a little strange.

"It's really here, we're back!"

At the beginning, she and Gong Chenying followed Li Yan to the small mountain village. Although Qingshanai was more than 200 miles away from the small mountain village, it was a long way to mortals.

But even for Li Yan and others who were only in the foundation-building stage at the time, it only took a few dozen breaths.

The surrounding mountains and road environment here are different from what Zhao Min remembered, but the overall change is not big.

"Yes, although it is incomprehensible, it is really not a dream!"

Li Yan said softly.

When flying away from the valley of the "Military Advisor's Mansion", Zi Kun hesitated and asked whether he should go down to the bottom of the pool to see what the pit was?

But Li Yan rejected it directly. He had no control over the broken pottery jar and just let it go.

If they were teleported to other unknown places, it would be difficult to come back.

Therefore, Li Yan was unwilling to try, and he had some guesses in his mind. Before he reached the Nascent Soul stage, he would not try it easily.

There was no doubt that the broken pottery jar came from the "Soul Prison Clan", and those who founded the sect were most likely from the Wild Moon Continent.

Combined with some information from Su Hong, some of these people got the broken pottery jar, and then stimulated the soul power in it invisibly, and were teleported to the Qingqing Continent.

Those who were seeking the immortals had a deep foundation and some means beyond ordinary people. Li Yan felt that they could easily stimulate the soul power.

And this kind of teleportation did not have terrible pressure. Li Yan and his team did not feel the so-called space pressure before.

Unlike when they were teleported from the Lost Continent, if it were not for the runes drawn by the Thousand-fold True Lord, they would not be able to survive the teleportation.

This also explains why warriors can reach the other world with only their mortal bodies. They should have received the inheritance of soul cultivation there.

Later, perhaps for some special reasons, the long alley for soul cultivation trials was built near the teleportation node, and the bright yellow door was the real exit to the outside of the secret cave.

As long as the opening formula is correct, Li Yan and his companions should be safely teleported to somewhere in the secret cave.

After Li Yan activated the broken pottery jar, several people did not enter the bright yellow door at all, but were directly involved in the teleportation space.

Now think about it carefully, including the broken statue of the general, it may be a backhand left by the "Soul Prison Clan" at the beginning, or it can be said that it is a secret kept by a strong man of the "Xunxian Lineage".

There are too many possibilities here, and Li Yan can only guess some of them.

Zhao Min also agreed with Li Yan's decision. She didn't want to get close to the pit on the mountain wall at the bottom of the pool again. She suggested to wait until she has the ability to tear the void in the future to explore again.

Otherwise, everything depends on luck, which is too dangerous!

The small mountain village is only more than 200 miles away from Qingshan Pass.

This is just a matter of seconds for Li Yan and his companions now.

However, after they flew away from the "Military Advisor's Mansion", they still flew very slowly. Looking at the pedestrians like ants on the road below, Li Yan's inexplicable fear grew stronger and stronger.

He was afraid of his hometown. Of course, he knew what was most likely waiting for him next, but he still wanted to go back and take a look.

Looking at the pedestrians rushing on the road in the dust below, Li Yan seemed to see a carriage with a burly man and three immature teenagers...

The big man kept giving instructions, and the three teenagers sat in the carriage and listened silently, their hearts full of yearning for a better future...

"Uncle Guo Xin... Li Shan, Li Yu..."

Li Yan silently recited their names in his heart!

Seeing Li Yan's unusual silence, Zhao Min and Zi Kun no longer had any words, and looked down silently together!

No matter how slowly they flew, they finally flew over a small mountain village after dozens of breaths.

Li Yan sensed that there were no more cultivators like the Blood Leaf Sect in the surrounding area, and his heart tightened.

"The Blood Leaf Sect guarded the direct relatives of the Wuliang Sect cultivators, and now they have all disappeared..."

Li Yan felt a little dry in his mouth. In fact, he could have used his spiritual sense to explore the small mountain village a long time ago, but he had not used his spiritual sense to explore it.

This may be the last fantasy left in his heart, but now even the guardians like the Blood Leaf Sect have quietly withdrawn.

This situation should not happen as long as Li Yan's direct family is still there.

Even if the Blood Leaf Sect died in the war with the demons, there would be other immortal sects to replace it.

Li Yan himself often thought about Zhao Min's weaknesses, and in fact, he was the same.

He took a deep breath, and his spiritual sense easily covered the entire small mountain village. After a moment, Li Yan's figure flashed and fell to a place in the village, which was his home at the beginning.

"Just wait for me here!"

Zhao Min and Zi Kun heard Li Yan's voice in their minds, and he had disappeared without a trace.

A spacious courtyard is located in a small mountain village. It looks very grand. It is much larger and more magnificent than many surrounding houses.

But in a corner of the garden behind this decent courtyard, there is an old house made of mud and stone, which is out of tune with the elegance of the surrounding gardens.

The walls of this old mud house have traces of mud of different colors, indicating that it has been renovated more than once.

At this time, there was an old woman in the garden with white hair and a kind face, half lying on a recliner.

Although it was only early autumn, the precious fabric on her body was already thickened, and a blanket was covered on her knees.

The old woman gently rocked the recliner, half squinting her eyes, listening to the silver bell laughter coming from the flowers not far away, with a satisfied smile on her face!