Chapter 70: Stone Tablet

Li Yan was now walking on this path full of thin bamboos and with clouds and mist drifting from time to time. Thinking about the helplessness brought to him by the fragmented poisonous body more than half a year ago, and thinking about the pain when his meridians were separated, he couldn't help but tremble. Shaking his head, he seemed to put these unpleasant things aside.

He looked up and looked around. On the path he was walking, another path diagonally inserted to the side would occasionally flash, which reminded him of the scene of looking for a place to practice immortal arts a month ago.

That day, after he decided to find a place to practice outside the courtyard, he left the courtyard and walked around, but this area was all residential areas. Although there was more than a mile of open space between the courtyards, he could practice here, but Li Yan didn't plan to do so. After searching for a while, when he walked to the back of the west side of his courtyard, he found a path leading to the top of the mountain, so he simply walked back along this path.

This is a path through dense bamboos. White clouds move slowly along the branches and leaves. Birds fly over the blue sky from time to time. He walks and looks for a place suitable for his cultivation. At the same time, he also feels the quietness and emptiness here. After walking for a while, he finds a forked path. He turns and walks over. The forked path twists and turns among the bamboos. After walking and stopping for half a cup of tea, Li Yan finds himself at a dead end.

In front of him is a more densely interwoven bamboo forest. The gaps between the bamboos are very small. It is estimated that only mice at home can pass through them. Looking around, the open space is not very large. It is not suitable to cultivate here. Li Yan shakes a few bamboos. He originally intended to do it casually, and it has no meaning. He intends to turn back immediately and look for another place.

But when he put his hand on a thin bamboo, he touched nothing. His palm actually passed through, as if he was pressing on nothingness. He was stunned, and then he stood still, withdrew his palm, hesitated for a moment, and this time he pressed his hand on the thin bamboo beside him. This time he really touched something. So, when he stretched his hand to the dense bamboo forest at the end of the path again, he pressed on nothing again, as if there was nothing.

This made Li Yan feel strange. He carefully extended his spiritual sense. When his spiritual sense touched the dense bamboo forest, he found a familiar feeling, which was the feeling when his spiritual sense reached the protective formation in the courtyard. It was instantly bounced back, and he couldn't help but be shocked.

"Why is there an illusion formation here?" Although Li Yan has not been cultivating immortals for a long time, he has read many books on cultivation in the past six months, and he still knows the types of formations.

Just as he was about to increase his spiritual sense to detect again, a cold voice sounded, "Why are you here?"

This abrupt voice scared Li Yan. Along the way, except for the birds flying through the bamboos in the sky, it was like a quiet valley. Suddenly, this tranquility was broken, as if all balance was lost.

He hurriedly stepped back a few steps and turned his head to look around, but strangely there was no one around. Just as he hesitated, the dense bamboo forest in front of him twisted and rippled like waves, and then a tall and beautiful figure appeared in it.

After this person came out, he stood still and looked at Li Yan indifferently. Li Yan looked closely and found that it was the short-haired and fit sixth sister Gong Chenying. She was wearing a tight-fitting outfit, and her curves were more undulating and fiery. Her full chest was still slightly undulating, and there was still crystal sweat on her sunny and healthy skin, as if she had just practiced.

Looking at the cold girl who was a little taller than him, Li Yan was stunned for a moment, then he quickly bowed and said, "Hello, Sixth Senior Sister. I just wanted to come to the back mountain to find a place to practice. I saw a small path and walked in. It seems that I have come to the wrong place. I am sorry to bother you, Senior Sister. I will leave now."

Li Yan didn't know where this place was? Could it be the residence of this cold Senior Sister? Doesn't she live in the bamboo courtyard? Several questions arose in his mind, but of course he would not ask them rashly.

Gong Chenying didn't answer after hearing this, but just looked at Li Yan coldly with a blank expression. Li Yan smiled bitterly and turned to walk in the direction he came from.

"If there is a stone tablet at the intersection of this mountain, you don't have to enter. There are useful places or forbidden places in Xiaozhu Peak. In addition, you can only walk up to 50 miles. After that, go up to the top of the mountain, which is the largest forbidden area of ​​Xiaozhu Peak. Except for the master and uncle, others cannot enter. But I think you don't have the ability to enter." Just as Li Yan turned around and walked back, a cold voice came from behind. Li Yan looked back in surprise, but at this moment, except for the echoing voice, there was no figure in front of the bamboo forest. Li Yan smiled. It seems that this sixth sister is not as cold as she seems, but her words are too hurtful. He thought about it. He didn't find any stone tablets or stone tablets before entering this path. Did he overlook it?

Half a cup of tea later, Li Yan stood on the main road up the mountain again. He looked at a small upright stone at the intersection of a small road that was diagonally inserted to the side and couldn't help but smile bitterly. When he just returned to this fork in the road, he looked for the "mouth card" mentioned by the sixth senior sister. After searching for a long time, there was only a stone less than one foot high standing in front of him, and then there were broken stones on the ground. There were no words or pictures on the stone, so it was okay to regard it as a natural formation in the mountain.

"I wish the sixth senior sister would not say "stone tablet" or something, but "stone tablet". If you don't say it, I'm sure a newcomer here won't know it."

Li Yan shook his head again. He couldn't understand why Xiaozhufeng seemed to do everything in the simplest direction, and some things were so simple that you couldn't figure out the tricks.

Li Yan continued to walk up the mountain. On the way, he saw several forks in the road. Among them, there were similar one-foot-high stones beside three small roads. He also met many people going in and out of those three small roads. Li Yan did not know these people. He was a little surprised. The only people he had not seen in Xiaozhu Peak were the third and fifth senior brothers. So many people should not be just the two of them. However, after seeing the logos on the sleeves of these people, he knew that these people were not from Xiaozhu Peak. Some of them were from Buli Peak, some were from Laojun Peak, and some were from Sixiang Peak and Lingchong Peak. This made him feel a little strange. He didn't know what they were doing in these small roads. But after thinking about it, he gave up the idea of ​​going in to explore. What he needed now was to do his own cultivation well. Those who came and went also saw Li Yan. Seeing that Li Yan looked unfamiliar and the spiritual power emanating from him was very weak, they could not help but be stunned. But when they saw that Li Yan was wearing the robe of a disciple of the sect, he was obviously not a errand disciple. When they noticed the golden bamboo logo on Li Yan's sleeves, they were just a little surprised. After looking at him with some doubt, they all passed by him and no one talked to him.

Li Yan noticed that these people were very well-behaved. They only entered and exited from those intersections with stone signs, and never went to other places. After they came out, they flew away directly and did not stay in Xiaozhu Peak for long.

Li Yan muttered in his heart when he saw that there were people coming and going here, so he walked straight up. He didn't want to find a place to practice immortal arts in a crowded place.

After walking up for another seven or eight miles, he could no longer see the stone signs erected beside the paths. Similarly, he did not meet any figures here, which made him have some guesses about where the paths led to before.

In this way, he began to seriously look for a suitable place to practice immortal arts. After a quarter of an hour, he really found several relatively suitable places, but he did not practice immediately, because he remembered that the sixth sister, whose figure and expression were opposite to each other, said that "you can only go up fifty miles." But now there was no one around here, and for this kind of thing that would not attract other people's attention and could satisfy his curiosity, he simply walked up.

In this way, he went around and around, and he found several good places one after another, especially a platform, which was about ten feet in size. A small path led to the platform from the forest. The platform was surrounded by dense bamboo forests on three sides, and a mountain peak stretched out on the other side. Below it was an endless sea of ​​clouds. Standing above it, there were more continuous peaks in the distance, but only a few peaks could be compared with Xiaozhu Peak. Most of them only showed a small section of the mountain peak in the sea of ​​clouds. The clouds in the distant sky were rolling and unrolling, which made people feel refreshed. Li Yan liked this place very much and decided to go there immediately. This must be the place...

Li Yan had already come down from the platform and was still walking up the mountain. He looked at the path under his feet and felt strange. Why can only two or three people walk side by side on this back mountain, whether it is the main road or the other diagonal roads? All he could see were small bamboos, giving people a sense of boundlessness and no end. I don't know if it was intentional. This kind of path makes people walk on it, as if he is the only one in the world, accompanied by the sound of wind, the swaying bamboo leaves, and loneliness.

An hour later, Li Yan looked at the path in front of him and saw another bend, disappearing behind the repeated dense bamboo forest. Li Yan did not feel irritated, but rather liked the silence on this long journey. He was not good at talking by nature, and his personality was even a little eccentric.

Calculating the distance in his mind, he felt that it should be about fifty miles from here to the Sixth Senior Sister, but he still did not feel any restrictions. Li Yan looked around and planned to turn around the bamboo forest. If the situation in front was still the same, he would go back. At this time, he was a little nervous, afraid that it would be bad if he really broke into that powerful restriction. After walking for so long, curiosity was slowly replaced by reason, but there was always a fluke curiosity that did not disappear, which made him walk here. This can only show that he is not an adult after all, and youth's curiosity about the unknown can often overcome reason.

Thinking in his mind, he turned around the bamboo forest, looked up, and was stunned. His heart had long been occupied by endless and repeated bamboo forests. Subjectively, he thought that after turning around the bamboo forest, it was just this path passing through another bamboo forest and extending upward again, but at this moment, a huge square appeared in his eyes. There was no more black bamboo, or even nothing, but there was a tall stone tablet standing in the middle.

This stone is not a stone tablet, but a real stone tablet, about three or four feet wide and more than twenty feet high. There is no words or pictures on it, but it gives people an overwhelming feeling, as if a god is looking down on the common people. Li Yan only took a look at the stone tablet, and his brain was struck by lightning, and the blood in his chest was surging. The blood in his body seemed to burst out of his body. He was frightened and hurriedly retreated. However, as he retreated, his throat felt sweet and blood foam flew in his mouth. He spit out blood several times in a row until he retreated to the corner of the bamboo forest and could not see the huge square. The pressure on his body disappeared.

Li Yan held his knees with his hands, gasping for breath, and blood was still dripping from the corner of his mouth. At this moment, the huge stone tablet still remained in his mind, as if it occupied his entire mind, standing tall. He didn't know what happened. In his mind, there was only the stone tablet and a small path behind the tablet that vaguely extended to the back of the mountain.

Li Yan panted for a long time before straightening up and wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth with his hand. There was still fear and ridicule on his face. He asked for it. He almost committed suicide. Cultivating immortals, cultivating immortals, the power of immortals is unfathomable. He is just a mortal who has just seen the immortal road. It is ridiculous that the sixth senior sister has already reminded him, and he deliberately came to seek death.

So far, Li Yan has a real understanding of cultivating immortals. It is the great way, the majesty, and the unknown power.

Li Yan walked down the mountain without looking back. He deeply realized his insignificance, an ant that could die at a glance, and he longed for those powers.

The boy has grown up after all.