Chapter 259 Lingshui Village

Lian Chengyue's sudden words made Ning Mingmei stunned at first, and then he laughed.

But he kept a grim expression: "What do you mean by that?"

Lian Chengyue knew that Ning Mingmei naturally didn't want to mention Qi Miancheng in front of him. Of course, he, who has a high emotional intelligence, would say something that fits the situation: "Xianzun, what I mean is that I have no interest in administration. I am very interested in academics."

Ning Mingmei: "Hmm?"

Lian Chengyue: “The academic path is full of temptations for me.”

The cave is filled with loving teachers and filial piety among children, what a harmonious scene. Both of them were very happy.

Ning Mingmei finally recovered after resting for the third day. The two walked out of the cave, and Ning Mingmei looked up at the mountains.

There are no more heavy rains in the mountains now, but the air here is still foggy. The misty rain seemed like it would never stop. The signal in this mountain area seemed to be particularly poor. Ning Mingmei turned around several times but was unable to load the navigation.

Ning Mingmei then asked Lian Chengyue: "Where did you run to at the beginning?"

Lian Chengyue also felt very depressed. The situation was urgent at the time, so of course he ran to where there was no one. Ning Mingmei lowered his head and tapped the phone in his hand. He felt that the signal here was strangely poor.

Logically speaking, this is the border between the human world and the demon world, so the signals from the human world should be transmitted in by some means. The signal here is poor, but it doesn't seem to be caused by the mountains.

It's more like there is some kind of specific barrier.

The two walked in the chilly mountains. Finally, Lian Chengyue saw a huge rock. After confirming the shape of the boulder, Lian Chengyue said, "Master, I've been to this place before."

Ning Mingmei: "I call you Immortal Venerable. I'm not that familiar with you yet."

Lian Chengyue changed his tone without changing his expression: "Immortal Lord, this is the Fangcun Mountain Range."

Fangcun Mountains!

Ning Mingmei began to feel that he was a bit of a pessimist. I just made a joke about Lian Chengyue’s background, and now I have come to Lian Chengyue’s hometown.

Ning Mingmei asked: "You have been here? What are you doing here?"

Lian Chengyue: "In order to earn more scholarships, I came here to do the mission. But..."

This seems to be related to his life experience.

Lian Chengyue was also unlucky when he was on a mission last time. After he left here, he went to Lanqiao, then went to the ghost world with Ning Mingmei, and then returned to Qingji Sect to enroll. He lost himself in the busy campus life and never had the chance to leave school again.

But after returning from here, Lian Chengyue began to have strange dreams constantly.

In his dream, he saw towering mountains covered in rain and fog. It seemed as if someone was holding him in his hands and taking him into the mountains... past a boundary marker. A sobbing voice repeated a phrase in his ears.

"Fangcun Mountains..."

Lian Chengyue was horrified to find that it was actually his own voice!

Lian Chengyue vaguely felt that this was related to her extraordinary background and should have nothing to do with her midterm exam results. But he couldn't take leave from school, so he could only consider coming here to explore during the holidays.

I didn't expect that fate would always bring all kinds of coincidences. Lian Chengyue came to the demon world for social practice, and unexpectedly arrived at the place he originally wanted to go with Ning Mingmei.

Otherwise, why do we say that the male protagonist is the male protagonist? He can even break into his own important stronghold by accident. Ning Mingmei knew from Lian Chengyue's expression that this person must have known something about the Fangcun Mountains, but not much.

"Keep moving forward." Ning Mingmei said briefly and decided to follow Lian Chengyue.

Since we are here, we might as well make the best of it and get some cultural relics from Lingshui Village.

There must be a lot of unknown technologies in the village where the descendants of the goddess live, right?

The Fangcun Mountains are foggy. But as he walked, the path in Lian Chengyue's dream became clearer and clearer.

After walking past this rock wall, there is a forest, and then a hillside...

At the junction of light and darkness, Lian Chengyue saw a narrow gap hidden by vines. Outside the narrow gap, he saw the boundary marker in his dream.

The boundary marker is engraved with a name that no one can understand, and it has become blurred due to the erosion of time. But when Lian Chengyue squatted down, the content of the text automatically appeared in his head.

"Lingshui Village..."

"Lingshui Village?"

It seems that this is Lingshui Village. Ning Mingmei used his spiritual sense to check and vaguely felt that there was an obstruction here.

It's like a barrier, preventing outsiders from entering.

But the magic has become weaker over the years. Ning Mingmei easily used the magic formula to pass through the barrier.

"Come in and take a look," he said.

Lian Chengyue followed behind Ning Mingmei and used the same magic formula as Ning Mingmei. However, he soon frowned.

"What's wrong?"

"Immortal Lord, I can't get through."

What Lian Chengyue felt from the barrier was a rejection and disgust that was already weak in power but strong in subjective will. Ning Mingmei frowned and used his own spell to open the barrier: "Try again."

"Thank you, Immortal Venerable."

Lian Chengyue wants to cross the barrier with the help of Ning Mingmei. But at that moment, Ning Mingmei suddenly had a premonition of insecurity!

"Bang!"

A sharp explosion sounded. Lian Chengyue was actually bounced out by the barrier. He covered his chest and spit out blood!

Such a strong sense of rejection, disgust, vigilance, and...

fear.

In an instant, another picture exploded in Lian Chengyue's mind. The images were totally illogical and blurry.

He was held in someone's hand, he was divided into several parts, he was sealed, he sat in a dark place for a long time, no one paid attention to him, no one was willing to take him away...

Someone was killing people, slashing at a group of demons with a long sword, but they were roaring and trembling...

"Lian Chengyue? Lian Chengyue?"

In the endless darkness and sea of ​​blood, there was suddenly a little cold light.

He is very similar to him, also in an excluded situation, also on the road to being sacrificed, but he is not stupid, weak, or naive to make friends with anyone.

He is strong, yet soft.

He is very determined.

he……

Lian Chengyue woke up from her trance. All he could see before his eyes was the buzzing sound of golden stars, and besides that, Ning Mingmei's face slowly emerged.

Ning Mingmei was pinching his philtrum. The two were very close, and at that moment Lian Chengyue could almost smell the faint, icy scent of Ning Mingmei...

No, it’s not the scent of ice and snow, but rather the scent of the icy American-style marinated food in the Qingji Sect cafeteria.

"Immortal Lord, I..."

Ning Mingmei: "What's going on? Why does this barrier hate you so much?"

Lian Chengyue covered his aching chest and replied, "Immortal Venerable, I also found that this barrier hates me. Unfortunately, I don't know the reason. I need to search for relevant information."

Ning Mingmei: "Stop your AI speech."

ai……what is that? Lian Chengyue was at a loss.

Lian Chengyue woke up well. Ning Mingmei said: "You have student medical insurance, right?"

"Yes, Immortal, I have medical insurance."

Ning Mingmei: "Okay. You just took a good medicine from me, I'll put it on your account when you go back."

Lian Chengyue: "Thank you, Immortal Venerable. You are the best to me."

The two of them completed a nonsensical conversation and once again completed a sweet and sour emotional exchange. Ning Mingmei asked Lian Chengyue: "Can you still walk?"

Lian Chengyue was still craving for the taste of the iced American coffee. It was strange. He didn't want to do anything, but he thought the smell was very good, with the scent of working in a laboratory all night long. He showed a pale and weak expression, and whispered: "Immortal Lord, I..."

Ning Mingmei: "I have a portable ambulance. You can sit in the ambulance and continue the adventure with me. One ambulance ride costs -8,000 Spiritual Stones."

Lian Chengyue supported herself on the ground and stood up: "I can walk, Immortal Venerable."

Ning Mingmei also found this matter very strange. Lian Chengyue is of divine bloodline. Although he has now settled in Qingji Sect, Lingshui Village has no reason to refuse Lian Chengyue's return to his original registered residence. In today's education system in the world of immortal cultivation, Lingshui Village is full of people of higher education, but Lian Chengyue is an undergraduate student from a top university. He can definitely be introduced as a talent and settle down in Lingshui Village directly.

But soon, Ning Mingmei figured it out - after all, Lian Chengyue's core was the reincarnation of the vengeful spirit and ancient demon in the magic sword that was sacrificed and sealed in Lingshui Village for many years. It seems that the seal of Lingshui Village is very advanced, and it was identified that Lian Chengyue, who looks like a god, is actually a fugitive.

Fortunately, after inspecting the barrier, Ning Mingmei quickly found a weak spot. Ning Mingmei said: "Let's go there and take a look."

Lingshui Village is surrounded by mountains. Looking from a high vantage point, it looks like a small basin completely covered by trees. Ning Mingmei arrived at the designated location quickly. You can also enter Lingshui Village by passing through that cave.

"Wait, Immortal Venerable." Lian Chengyue suddenly said, "It smells like blood."

He followed the small stream in front of the crack upwards, and the blood disappeared behind a huge rock. Lian Chengyue clenched his sword tightly, ready to fight to the death.

After a moment, Lian Chengyue said, "Master, there are two people behind the boulder."

"who?"

Lian Chengyue said: "The chief priest of the demon fox tribe, and Wu Yu."

It's really a bad time to have side quests. After Ning Mingmei arrived at the boulder, he found the seriously injured fox priest lying there.

However, to his surprise, Wu Yu was also lying here. He clearly remembered that when the accident happened at the Demon Fox Tribe's holy land, Wu Yu was unharmed.

Why did Wu Yu faint?

Ning Mingmei frowned and looked at Wu Yu's face. Suddenly, he felt that something was a little strange... Lian Chengyue asked: "Master, what should we do?"

Ning Mingmei: "I carry a lot of handcuffs with me. I handcuffed them and took them away together. In addition, I also have a lot of drugs."

Lian Chengyue didn't dare to ask why Ning Mingmei had these things on him.

The responsibility of taking the two people away naturally fell on Lian Chengyue. He put the two of them on a small cart and pushed them from behind. However, when moving the two people, Lian Chengyue was a little surprised.

The Fox Demon High Priest weighed lighter than he thought, and Wu Yu weighed heavier than he thought.

At this moment, he suddenly heard Shi Ruzhuo's voice: "These two are very strange."

"Old senior, what's so strange about that?"

"It's hard to say." Shi Ruzhuo said, "You go first, I'll think about it."

Shi Ruzhuo is older than Ning Mingmei and the others, has more experience in the martial arts world, and has unique insights into being an evil cultivator. Lian Chengyue was very happy that Shi Ruzhuo was willing to share his knowledge. With him around, he could fill in the gaps for the two of them.

Shi Ruzhuo continued to ponder. Lian Chengyue followed Ning Mingmei into the barrier. This is indeed the place where the barrier is calculated to be the weakest, and even mortals can enter and exit.

After walking through the long tunnel, the scene in front of me suddenly became clear. Just after exiting the cave, Lian Chengyue was stunned: "This is..."

"Corpse." Ning Mingmei said.

Lying on the ground in all directions were the bodies of the guards.

Decades have passed, and these corpses have long since weathered away and turned into dry bones. Even so, Ning Mingmei could see marks of knives and axes on the skulls.

He bent down to take a closer look.

"They are very professional. This is a planned attack. They sneaked in quickly and did not want to alert the villagers in advance." Ning Mingmei said, "These people are not ordinary people. They are a group of monks with a plan."

He stood up and looked out over the lifeless village. The massacre decades ago separated this village and the Fangcun Mountains outside into two sides of yin and yang. The village looked gloomy, forbidding, and dead.

Who attacked this village and why did they launch this massacre?

To answer this question, Ning Mingmei needs to know the routes of these people's actions. He squatted down, trying to find traces of the past in the unchanging soil.

Until Lian Chengyue's voice came from his side: "They are heading this way."

He pointed to a path.

Ning Mingmei raised his eyebrows: "Why do you think so?"

Lian Chengyue was looking straight ahead. His eyes were so dark that his pupils were almost invisible: "On this road..."

“There’s a smell of death.”

Absolute strength is the basis of self-confidence. If the person standing here was indeed Lian Chengyue, Ning Mingmei would not be alert at all and would just remain calm.

No matter how powerful Ren Lianchengyue becomes in the future, he is just a Jindan cultivator now.

But at that moment, Lian Chengyue's straight gaze made him think of Qi Miancheng.

When Qi Miancheng occasionally smiled, his eyes were also dark and the pupils were almost invisible. His eyes were also fixed.

Can……

So what.

In life, if you want to follow your own path, you can't avoid dancing with wolves.

Because it is really useful.

"Really?" Ning Mingmei said, "Then you lead the way."

…

This is how the gang entered the village.

This is a festival for the villagers of Lingshui Village. All the villagers gather in the square, singing and dancing. A group of people dressed in black blocked all exits from the village.

Another group of people ambushed around the square and took advantage of the villagers gathering to control all the villagers.

The most important group of men in black entered the ancestral hall and captured the village chief and his family.

Some people went straight into the forbidden area and captured the witch of Lingshui Village.

Thousands of years of secluded life have made these descendants of the gods too fragile and too confused. They were quickly contained and became...

"Bargaining chips." Ning Mingmei said, "If they just wanted to massacre the whole village, their plan wouldn't have to be so complicated."

Why did they capture the villagers as bargaining chips, on the one hand interrogating the village chief, and on the other hand capturing the witch?

What information is it for?

"As we all know, there are always good things in the forbidden area. No, if they want to take something from the forbidden area, there is no need to be so complicated. They just need to go straight to the forbidden area and kill people to silence them. When they have absolute power, they don't need to play any tricks."

Ning Mingmei paced back and forth in the square.

What appeared before his eyes were rows of corpses. The skeletons were neatly laid out in rows, as if bones were being sharpened with a dull knife.

"They are looking for something." Ning Mingmei concluded, "They believe that the people in Lingshui Village know the whereabouts of that thing... They..."

When Ning Mingmei saw a piece of bone, he realized something.

The skeleton belonged to the chief of Lingshui Village. As the person believed by the attackers to know the most information, the village chief's body looked particularly miserable. He was stabbed more than once, almost as if he was tortured to death and hacked to death by a swarm of knives.

After so many years, most of the traces left here have disappeared, but Ning Mingmei, who was doing research, quickly recognized this most familiar substance.

Dark, creeping chaos.

Ning Mingmei took out a special plastic bag, put the drop of Hunlun into the bag, and took it back to Qingji Sect as evidence. Soon, he discovered other clues in the square.

There are a few plots of land that are a different color than the rest. There is less dust there and the colors are different. It was obvious that someone had placed something like a clay jar here.

Something like a clay jar... Ning Mingmei immediately knew who the murderer of the Lingshui Village was.

mob.

"The mob... But did the mob start slaughtering innocent villagers decades ago? To grab the treasure?" Ning Mingmei muttered to himself.

This is obviously different from Ning Mingmei's perception of the mob. Lingshui Village has always been closed, and it doesn't have any enemies in the outside world like Bixiao who would surrender to Wuhezhong and hope that Wuhezhong would avenge him. If the purpose was just to steal the treasure, there would be no need for the mob to resort to such cruel means.

Ning Mingmei always felt that Yunyan, the ruler of the mob and the sword spirit of Weng Xingyun, was by no means an irrational madman. On the contrary, her madness was very conspiratorial and deep-rooted.

A thought suddenly appeared in his mind.

"A mob... Could it be that this incident was led by Yunyan?" Ning Mingmei thought, "And she came here not to steal treasures, but to find someone."

She wants to force someone to show up and she wants to take revenge on that person.

Who does Yunyan hate the most?

There are many people that Yunyan will hate. When Xinghuo Island was destroyed, everyone in the martial arts world was trying to take advantage of the situation. In terms of their identities, they were all well-known big and small sects. Yunyan couldn't kill them all one by one unless she killed everyone in the world - this was also the reason why Yunyan collected Hunlun in the past and wanted to bring the whole world into the abyss.

Since she can lie dormant for this purpose, who is it that she absolutely cannot wait to kill and whose whereabouts she desperately wants to know?

Ning Mingmei walked into the ancestral hall of Lingshui Village. Sure enough, there are high step-like racks in the ancestral hall, where the tablets of Lingshui Village were once placed. But now, they were all swept to the ground and chopped into pieces in anger.

"She is looking for someone. She is looking for a descendant of the gods, someone from Lingshui Village." Ning Mingmei thought.

The answer is obvious - there is only one person who has a huge connection with the destruction of Spark Island and whose identity is unclear.

——Nocturnal jasmine.

"So Ye He is from Lingshui Village. Although the God Clan has declined, they have passed down some of their magic. In this case, it makes sense why Ye He is so powerful despite being so young."

But it was obvious that Yunyan and others came to nothing. After the destruction of Xinghuo Island, a thousand years have passed, and they have not found Yehe or Yehe's tomb in Lingshui Village. The village chief of Lingshui Village may not know anything about the villagers a thousand years ago - although the gods have become weak, the descendants of the gods are born long-lived and can live for hundreds of years even without practicing. But what happened thousands of years ago is too far away after all.

But it is impossible for Yehe, who has great magical powers, to die within a thousand years. So they took the villagers of Lingshui Village as hostages, killing them in batches and forcing Ye He to show up. final……

"There is a single tablet that was not overturned by the mob." Ning Mingmei said, looking at the tablet.

This tablet is independent of the tablets of other villagers in Lingshui Village. It is a separate one, and there is only one in each generation.

They are none other than the shamans in Lingshui Village.

The wizards in Lingshui Village master the knowledge in classics, seal forbidden areas, and know magic spells.

The divine wizard is a job title. After the death of the previous divine wizard, the position will be passed on to the next divine wizard. Ning Mingmei looked at the various names on the tablet and guessed that the crowd must have believed that Ye He was among these gods and witches.

There was nothing to see in the village. Ning Mingmei turned around again and didn't find many things that needed to be taken away. So he said to Lian Chengyue behind him: "Let's go to the forbidden area."

Ning Mingmei noticed that since entering here, Lian Chengyue's eyes had become darker and darker, and his expression had become more and more confused and ethereal. He seemed to have a headache, frowning and relaxing his brows from time to time.

Ning Mingmei was not worried about Lian Chengyue. This may be a sign of the Great Memory Restoration Technique. Lian Chengyue might be here to recover his memory of being a vengeful spirit. But it doesn’t matter, as long as Lian Chengyue doesn’t remember that she is Qi Miancheng.

Although he didn't know why Qi Miancheng set up two Lian Chengyues and for what purpose, Qi Miancheng would not allow Lian Chengyue to remember things in another timeline so quickly.

Qi Miancheng attaches great importance to his sense of control over the situation.

However, Ning Mingmei felt that it was a good thing that Lian Chengyue recovered his memory. For example, the library of divine books, divine treasures, and divine weapons near the divine witch's residence should all belong to Ning Mingmei from now on. Seizing the inheritance of the only orphan of the God Clan would make Ning Mingmei feel a little bit stressed - the pressure of accounting. But since Lian Chengyue is a descendant of the gods (the version of a vengeful spirit taking over another's body), he automatically loses the right of inheritance.

Ning Mingmei took away the property, and the gods have to thank him.

However, Ning Mingmei still showed some concern for Lian Chengyue: "Are you okay? Are your hands shaking?"

"Thank you for your concern, Master. I'm fine, yes." Lian Chengyue said.

...Lian Chengyue was indeed confused. You see, he called out the "Master" that he longed for deep in his heart.

Ning Mingmei didn't expose it. He nodded and said, "That's good. I was worried that your hands would shake and you would drop Wu Yu and the demon tribe's high priest."

There is a mystery about these two people at first glance. Moreover, Ning Mingmei wanted to squeeze some money out of them to enrich his own research funds.

Sure enough, Ning Mingmei confirmed his guess in the forbidden land of the gods. There are traces of battles everywhere near the residence of the Shenwu clan. Obviously, the mob had besieged Shenwu and others here for a long time.

They wanted to find the traces of the night jasmine one by one.

Ning Mingmei walked around the residence of the gods and witches, and took away all the treasures, weapons, and books of the gods. Sure enough, Yunyan is a sword spirit who does not seek fame or fortune. She took almost none of the good things here.

When picking up the last book, a blueprint fell out of it.