allonlinenovel Chapter 176: Sudden Separation, Endless Forest, Searching for the Divine Essence
Chapter 176: Sudden Separation, Endless Forest, Searching for the Divine Essence
Twelve years of seeking change.
In that remote town, there is an Inn called "Qingfeng Inn". The word "Qingfeng" sounds elegant. It is said that it was nominated by a scholar who traveled here from afar.
It's still dark.
The waiter of the inn has to get up and handle various tasks, such as feeding the horses, boiling water, wiping the table, etc. These are all miscellaneous tasks that do not require any brainpower. The waiter who has been doing this for many years has developed muscle memory.
So, in a daze, half asleep and half awake, he had already finished most of the work. He wiped the table polished and swept the bluestone floor.
He walked out of the inn and headed straight for the stables.
Holding a few bundles of hay, he pushed open the door of the stable and called the horses to eat.
suddenly.
There was a slight cold breeze blowing on his face.
He frowned and looked in the direction where the cold wind came from. This look instantly made him sober.
A big hole suddenly appeared in the stable.
This startled the waiter and he instantly lost all his sleepiness. He was so shocked that he immediately counted the number of horses. The number of horses was still there, but one donkey was missing.
He vaguely remembers...
It's an old donkey.
An old donkey being led by a swordsman in white.
Not daring to delay for a moment, he hurriedly informed the shopkeeper, who knocked on the door of the white-clothed swordsman and said to the swordsman, "Your donkey has run away, and the things in the bamboo box are scattered everywhere."
To the shopkeeper's surprise, the swordsman was unusually calm. He only replied, "I understand," and then said nothing more, without causing any trouble for him.
The shopkeeper was naturally relieved when he saw this. These days livestock are more valuable than human lives. If the swordsman insisted on claiming compensation, he would probably have to cut off a few pounds of meat.
The swordsman paid for the meal and walked out of the inn alone.
The shopkeeper and the waiter looked at the swordsman's departing back. The waiter was amazed, his eyes full of contempt. Even if it was a dog or a cat, after raising it for a long time, one would have some affection for it, let alone a donkey that carried people every day?
The swordsman lost his donkey, but he said nothing and his expression did not change much.
I don't know if he is a timid person.
He is still a cold-blooded and heartless person.
The shopkeeper nodded. Although the swordsman's actions saved him a lot of trouble, he still had a bad impression of the swordsman.
……
"Old donkey, old donkey." Li Changxiao sighed, "You left without even saying goodbye."
Perhaps he had already gotten used to separation, and from beginning to end, Li Changxiao's expression did not change much.
He kept walking.
It just looks a little thinner.
……
Fourteen years of seeking change.
Li Changxiao arrived at a small town by boat.
The town is located near an endless forest, which is rich in resources and has fragrant fruits, but is often harassed by wild beasts.
A while ago, a family of four living on East Street had their door unlocked and a wild beast broke into their home at night. Three of them died and only one man was left. According to the man's description, the wild beast that broke into the house was not an ordinary creature. It was a tiger with two heads, and it was weird in shape and extremely ugly.
This incident caused a sensation, and the town government immediately called on brave men to go into the forest to hunt.
Li Changxiao checked into the inn and listened to the storyteller telling these things. He understood in his heart that the man-eating beast was probably a wild beast called "Jihu".
This endless forest is one of the eighteen most dangerous places in the world, the Endless Forest.
This forest is as vast as the ocean, with strange beasts running rampant and unusual diseases everywhere, and it is not welcomed by cultivators all over the world.
Regarding this forest, before the spiritual energy was exhausted, its biggest use was to avoid being hunted down. According to rumors, the sword goddess of the Sword Immortal Sect, a branch of the Taoist sect, who was said to be a genius that had not appeared in thousands of years, was once framed by someone who wanted to capture her as a forbidden delicacy. Later, she used forbidden techniques and escaped to this place.
With the help of the rules of this place, he managed to escape narrowly.
When he returned to Jianxianmen, he was infected with a strange disease. Jianxianmen invited the Big Buddha from Jiuxiang Temple and the Arhats from Tiandi Temple, another branch of Buddhism, and it took decades to cure all the diseases.
This experience was so exciting that it was widely circulated and was also one of the famous battles of the sword goddess.
Of course, there are more failures than successes.
There are countless rumors about this Endless Forest. Some Buddhist disciples come here on their own initiative, contract strange diseases and experience suffering. Some practice asceticism to cultivate their bodies and sharpen their bodies and minds.
The reason why Li Changxiao came here has nothing to do with these rumors.
It is simply because the "Muhara Marrow", one of the ten divine marrows, once appeared here.
He wanted to collect the ten divine essences in order to enter the stage of Divine Transformation. In this way, his journey to the Nascent Soul stage would be complete without any omissions or regrets.
Looking back, although his talent for cultivation was average, he took every step firmly, from foundation building to golden elixir, all of which laid a solid foundation. Now that he has reached the end of the Nascent Soul stage, he is still the same.
The reason he could do this was due to his endless lifespan. If other disciples with average talent did not have a powerful force to support them, they would have died of old age long ago, as he did, spending decades or even hundreds of years laying the foundation.
After drinking and eating in the inn, Li Changxiao put a few copper coins on the table, left the inn alone, left the town and walked towards the Endless Forest.
The endless green ocean was like a beast with its bloody mouth wide open, swallowing up everyone who entered it.
As we walked out of the town.
The road became more and more difficult to walk on, and there were fewer and fewer pedestrians. It was summer now, and there were many snakes, insects, rats and ants. There were a few families in the town who made a living by hunting, but they did not dare to enter the Endless Forest, because the strange beasts in it were not something that mortals could deal with, so they only dared to hunt in the surrounding areas.
After walking another mile, they still hadn't entered the Endless Forest, but there were no pedestrians on the roadside, only the wanderers who were heading to the Endless Forest.
A few meters away from Li Changxiao, there was a group of people, well-equipped and wearing armor, consisting of three men and one woman.
If he were an ordinary wanderer, he would definitely not be worth Li Changxiao's attention.
But he recognized that among the three men and one woman, one man and one woman were once geniuses in the cultivation world, one among the stars.
The woman's name seemed to be Xiao Yuan. She had a ponytail tied behind her head and the ends of her hair were slightly reddish, which was very distinctive. She was the eldest daughter of the Xiao family, a family of cultivators.
The Xiao family of the Red Domain is a well-known family of practitioners.
Different from other "domains" in Fuyao World, there is no "continent" division in the "Red Domain", and it is also the smallest domain in Fuyao World.
Another man who is also a cultivator is named "Shang Xin". He is also a genius and comes from the Shang family in the Red Domain. It is rumored that the Xiao family and the Shang family have a close relationship, even through marriage. I wonder if these two are related.
When Li Changxiao was looking at the two of them, Xiao Yuan also noticed Li Changxiao and frowned. Her intuition told her that this person might also be a fellow traveler.