Originated from mountains and seas, life never ends

Chapter 162 I believe you

Fortunately, she met a scholar on the road, who drew the pattern on several pieces of paper and put them away.

Meng Liyun found those pages of paper, looked at the patterns on them carefully, stared at them in silence for a long time, then clenched the papers and raised her head.

She kept asking passers-by and checking. Fortunately, this pattern seemed to be very famous. Even if they couldn't tell the exact location, those people had heard of the sect that the pattern corresponded to.

Meng Liyun hurried and it took her nearly a month before she finally reached the foot of the mountain where the sect was located.

She sat in the teahouse and asked passers-by for confirmation again, but got an unexpected answer.

"Ah? You mean this sect?" The passerby looked at the pattern on her paper in surprise, pointed at it, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are you new here?"

"Yes, I have admired this sect for a long time, so I wanted to come here to ask, what's the matter?" Meng Liyun took out the words she had prepared long ago, looked at the man with a smile, and replied.

"...Oh, don't go." The man looked a little strange after hearing this.

"What happened? Did they move?" Meng Liyun asked.

"How can that be possible?" The man's voice became smaller and smaller. After hesitating for a moment, he rolled his eyes and said to her, "The sect above is gone."

"Gone? What does that mean?" Meng Liyun frowned and asked him.

"That's what I mean." The man scratched his head, said "Hi", and leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Do you know Xiao?"

Meng Liyun's heart skipped a beat, and she looked at him calmly, "I don't know, what's wrong?"

"You haven't heard of it?" The man was surprised, but then he found an excuse, "Hey, a girl like you really doesn't pay much attention to this kind of person..."

"He came here ten days ago, broke into the mountain gate, and killed all the people in this sect."

Meng Liyun was stunned.

She seemed to not understand what the man meant, and seemed to be unable to believe it, so she stared at him blankly.

"Oh, you don't know. At that time, there were bursts of thunder and lightning here. It felt like those mountains were about to be shattered. It was very scary..."

The man continued talking.

"There were more than 2,000 people on the mountain, so many monks, and he killed them all by himself. How terrifying..."

"The scene at that time was simply horrifying. The magic circle in the sky was opened, and countless immortals cast spells on it. But the owl seemed to have some magical weapon and beheaded all the immortals..."

"That was really cruel. Later, someone went up the mountain to take a look and found that the whole mountain was full of traces of fighting, with headless corpses scattered everywhere... When he was caught, he was covered in blood, as if he had been washed in blood. He was simply an evil ghost crawling out of the underworld!"

"But fortunately, the immortals from other places arrived here at that time. Although they arrived a little late and failed to save the people, they surrounded and captured the owl. Now the owl is imprisoned in its dungeon. I guess even if it has three heads and six arms, it can't escape."

The man said this and breathed a sigh of relief.

"You are lucky. If you had come a few days earlier, you would have been frightened."

The man looked at Meng Liyun and said this.

Meng Liyun stared at him blankly, unable to digest this information for a moment.

How can it be?

Meng Liyun claimed that she understood Xiao's character. Logically speaking, he would never interfere in other people's affairs, not to mention that he would never kill so many people at once.

When he was surrounded before, he did not kill an army of a hundred people. How could he possibly massacre thousands of people at once?

Was it a mistake?

Meng Liyun asked in a daze. The man said "hmm" and waved his hand.

"I saw this with my own eyes. If you don't believe me, go ask others. They saw it too."

Meng Liyun looked at him for a moment, then turned and left.

On the way, she stopped a few more people and asked them about this matter. The answers she got were either evasive and hesitant, or affirmative.

The fear and panic expressed on these people's faces were surprisingly similar.

Meng Liyun was a little confused.

Standing on the road, staring blankly at the people coming and going on the street.

After standing quietly for a while, I decided to go up the mountain and take a look myself.

The mountain must have been cleared by someone. She did not see the hideous corpses all over the ground as the man said, but she did see a lot of remaining bloodstains and a few weapons.

Meng Liyun found a token in a hidden bush. The pattern on it was the same as what she had memorized. She looked down for a moment, then continued walking up holding the token.

She arrived at the so-called immortal gate and saw hideous marks on the ground and dried blood everywhere.

She could see the former glory from the dilapidated ruins.

Meng Liyun looked around and saw only a few beheaded corpses in a hidden place, and nothing else.

Based on the marks on the bodies, Meng Liyun could confirm that it was indeed Xiao Dong's doing, but she still couldn't believe that he had killed so many people.

The breeze blew through the mountains and forests, and the rustling sound of leaves echoed in my ears. Looking at the bleak scene before my eyes, I felt a little chilly unconsciously.

Meng Liyun did not linger here for long. After confirming what the man said, she went down the mountain and inquired about the sect that took Xiao away.

She wants to find him.

Meng Liyun thought.

She had something else to ask him.

So... he can't die.

Meng Liyun inquired for a long time and finally found out the name and address of the sect. Without thinking too much, she went straight to that place.

That sect was different from ordinary immortal sects. It was built on an island surrounded by lakes and was surrounded by turbulent lake water, making it very difficult to enter.

But fortunately, the island is not closed. It has trade exchanges with surrounding islands from time to time, and ordinary people like her are responsible for transporting goods by boat.

Meng Liyun observed in secret for a few days, and after figuring out the pattern, she disguised herself as one of the men, knocked him out, tied him up, and threw him aside, then sneaked onto the island.

Fortunately, supplies needed to be delivered to the immortal gate that day, so she followed the group and went in with them.

These people seemed to have a fixed route, and were accustomed to daily transportation. After entering the Immortal Gate, they did not look around curiously, but just kept their heads down and carried things.

The monk in the immortal sect who was in charge of receiving and guarding them also looked casual, as if he was very confident in them.

But Meng Liyun could sense from them that they were not relieved, but disdainful.

They felt that an ordinary person like her would not do anything to threaten them.

that's the truth.

Meng Liyun, like everyone else, hung her head. After delivering the items, she found an excuse to leave for a while, pretending to be lost and wandering around for a while. Although she was caught and taken back not long after, her goal had been achieved.

After they got down the mountain and gathered together for dinner, the leader suddenly asked her.

"What happened to you today?"

"Ah? What's going on?" Meng Liyun replied, imitating the accent.

"Haven't you been working here for several months? How could you still be lost?" The leader seemed very dissatisfied with her running around today.

Hearing this, Meng Liyun pulled the corners of her mouth into an apologetic smile.

"It's not... I'm nervous. I can't see anyone over there, and I haven't paid much attention to that place."

"Hey, there's nothing to be nervous about." The sturdy man next to her put his arm around her shoulders and patted her with a laugh. "Even if she's powerful, she shouldn't be so bad that she doesn't even know the way, right?"

Meng Liyun smiled apologetically: "People are different..."

As he spoke, he met the chief's meaningful eyes. His heart skipped a beat, but he remained expressionless and said nothing more.

At night, when it was late and quiet, she stayed with the group of people next to the boat. As they were keeping watch, the leader came over.

"What did you do to him?"

The chief came straight to the point, speaking in a calm tone.

"......Ah?" Meng Liyun still wanted to pretend.

"Stop pretending." The leader looked cold and his eyes were as sharp as an eagle, staring straight at her, "What do you want to do?"

"..." Meng Liyun did not answer, her fingers slightly tightened, and her eyes changed.

The leader suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed her face. Meng Liyun was prepared and dodged sideways, engaging him in combat.

After a few moves, they realized that the other was no pushover and became nervous.

Meng Liyun stared at the other person's eyes and suddenly felt that he looked familiar.

"...Swallow Eagle?"

Meng Liyun frowned and spoke hesitantly.

The other party was stunned, but did not let down his guard.

"you know me?"

"...How is Sister Yuwei?" Meng Liyun was still nervous, but started chatting.

"She is at home and in good health... Who are you?" Yan Ying stared at her closely.

"...You may not recognize me." Meng Liyun didn't know if she could still trust him after so many years, but it would never hurt to get closer to him first. "Do you still remember that you recognized a sister in Xiong'er?"

Yan Ying was stunned, then relaxed: "Li Yun?"

Seeing this, Meng Liyun put her hand down, turned her eyes slightly, took off the mask on her face, and smiled brightly at him: "It's me."

"...Why are you here?"

“…Actually, I wanted to ask this question, too.”

Seeing that the other party had no ill intentions, Meng Liyun followed him and sat down again.

"... We listened to Xiao and moved before. But as you know, a few years later, there was a war. We packed up and started to hide from the chaos... Now we are here. Yuwei and the others are on another island. I am working as a porter between these islands with my brothers to earn some money."

"Although these monks look down on us, they do pay us a lot. We plan to work here for two or three years, and then start a new business after we have some savings."

Yanying said, glancing at her: "You are here... because of Xiao, right?"

Meng Liyun was stunned and looked at him in surprise.

"Originally we were not going to take the job on this island, but we heard some time ago that the leader who was previously in charge of this area fell ill and needed to rest for a while, so we continued to do the job," Yan Ying explained.

"…So, you guys are…"

"Wait a moment." Yan Ying said, got up and went into the cabin, fiddled with it for a while, and took something out.

"By the way, where is my buddy?" Yan Ying came out and asked casually.

"I put him on the shore." Meng Liyun thought about her embarrassing moment and told him the place. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Yan Ying shook his head, "Go on."

Meng Liyun caught what he threw and found it was a piece of cloth.

"This is a map we drew. Take a look."

Meng Liyun was stunned. She opened the map and looked at it in the light of the nearby lamp for a few seconds. Then, based on the points she had explored today, she confirmed whether the map was real or not.

"You——" Meng Liyun looked up at him.

"According to our speculation, Xiao should be here." Yan Ying pointed at the location on the map and said to her, "After we moved here, the child was spotted by a passing monk. The boy was unwilling to accept this and followed us into the mountain gate without consulting us. He is still a gatekeeper now..."

Yan Ying said, seeming a little helpless: "He just learned some self-defense skills from others, and how to report to the superiors if something happened... and was thrown into guarding the dungeon door."

When Meng Liyun heard this, her heart began to beat violently. She stared at Yan Ying, and for a moment she could not believe what he meant.