(Chapter 439 onward: Immortal Emperor breaks through apocalypse in a frozen world)
Li Mu cultivated for tens of thousands of years, finally becoming the number one Immortal Emperor in the Imm...
The mountain is not very high, but at the top, without any trees blocking the view, it is easy to see the smoke rising from the kitchen below.
"There are other people here?" Wang Jian murmured.
"That's natural. Those who couldn't get out are just trapped here. Since they can't get out, they can only reproduce and live here!" Li Mu said.
"Let's go down the mountain and find someone to ask about the situation here first!" Li Mu continued.
Then the two of them walked down the mountain. Although they could see the smoke from cooking not very far away, they had no cultivation now and had to rely on their legs to walk. The road was all mountainous, so it took them three hours to see a village.
Outside the village were fields planted with all kinds of crops, and a few villagers could be vaguely seen working in the fields. Seeing Li Mu and the other two, they were extremely alert, and before they could even ask the villagers, they ran away.
Helplessly, the two had to walk towards the village. A few old men were sitting and chatting under the crooked tree at the head of the village. When they saw Li Mu and the other man approaching, they were also alert and looked at a white-haired old man sitting in the middle. The old man frowned and whispered something to the person beside him. After hearing it, the man left the crowd calmly and ran towards the village.
Then the white-haired old man asked Li Mu and the other man, "Brothers, are you from the mountain?"
As the saying goes, people are shaped by the land and water they live in. People born in this cave look significantly different from those born outside. This cave is not big and there is no way to communicate with people from the outside world, so it is easy to identify the identities of Li Mu and the other person.
"You can say that." Li Mu said calmly.
"Haha, come to think of it, the last time I saw someone coming up the mountain was about ten years ago!" the old man said with some emotion.
"Ten years?" Wang Jian was a little surprised. He thought to himself that this was, after all, an immortal cave. How could it be so unattractive?
"Please go away. What you are looking for is not here." The old man ignored Wang Jian and began to drive them away.
Just as Wang Jian was about to say something, a group of young villagers rushed out, each holding a stick and staring at Li Mu and the other man unkindly.
"Outsiders, leave quickly. The guys in our Shiguang Village are not to be trifled with!" A middle-aged man who was in the lead shouted at Li Mu and the other man.
Judging from the situation, if the two don’t leave, they will really take action.
"Then where can we find what we are looking for?" Li Mu had no choice but to ask the old man.
The old man shook his head and pointed to the dirt road at the entrance of the village and said, "Follow this road for more than 60 kilometers and you will reach the Meteorite City. You can go there and take a look. We in the village just want a peaceful life. I hope you understand!"
"Old man, there is one thing I don't understand. Why do you have such great hostility towards us?" Wang Jian asked with some confusion.
"Nothing good will happen to you outsiders coming here! Thirty years ago...Okay, let's go!" the old man said impatiently.
"Haha, okay, then we won't bother you anymore!" Li Mu said, then turned around and left.
As Li Mu and the other man walked away, a villager whispered cautiously, "They won't come back, will they?"
At this time, a little girl jumped out from the village entrance, poked her head and asked: "Dad, where are the outsiders? Let me see what they look like!"
"Liao Xiaotao, are you itching for trouble? Go home quickly, this is not the place for you to join in the fun!" the middle-aged man in the lead shouted.
"Grandpa Liao, since the outsider from thirty years ago just wanted to pull out the rusty broken sword in our village, since we have guarded our village for so many years and have never seen anyone from the City Lord's Mansion pull out the sword, just let him do it. It won't cause such a commotion later!" A young man asked the white-haired old man in confusion.
"The successive city lords have issued orders that no one is allowed to approach the things guarded by each village unless the city lord personally orders it, otherwise the city lord's mansion will directly send people to massacre the entire village! That year, that man sneaked into our village, and after failing to draw his sword and losing his last hope, he actually went crazy and swung his butcher knife at innocent villagers! Do you know how many people in our village fell under the knife of that gangster that night? Even so, our village was still held accountable by the city lord's mansion, and many people were arrested before the matter was settled!"
"They actually killed someone? I only heard from my grandfather that the outsider got angry and had a conflict with the people in our village. Finally, the elders, under the leadership of you, Grandpa Liao, subdued the man." The young man said with some horror.
"Old man Wang just doesn't want you to know the cruel truth. Most of these outsiders come here when they are at the end of their rope. How many of them are normal people?" sighed an old man.
"Grandpa, are they really that powerful?" asked the little girl.
"It's just some fancy moves. If it weren't for that bastard's sneak attack, how could those villagers have suffered such a murderous attack?" the little girl's father said angrily.
The others also expressed their agreement.
After hesitating for a long time, a young man asked the white-haired old man: "Old village chief, are those legends true? Whoever can pull out the sword in the village can leave this world and go to a world that is countless times larger than ours? Or even become a god?"
"Is there a world bigger than ours? What kind of place is that? Last time my father took me to Yunxian City, we walked from morning to night before arriving. It is said that it takes two full days to walk from one end of this world to the other!" The little girl looked incredulous.
"And Uncle Zhao who lives next door to our house told me that there are no gods in the world. They are all imagined by those people. He has traveled all over the world and has never seen any gods or ghosts!" the little girl added.
The white-haired old man shook his head and said, "It's just a legend after all, but you should be careful during this period. No matter what, you can't let outsiders enter our village." Then he said to the little girl's father, "Liao Qiang, take people to inform the people in the City Lord's Mansion. It is a serious crime to conceal the outsiders!"
The others also nodded. This was what they were worried about.
Li Mu and the other man, who had already walked far away, naturally had no idea about the discussions of those people in the village.
"Sir, why do you think the people here are so hostile to us? Are they really from outsiders who came here to look for treasure?" Wang Jian asked Li Mu somewhat depressed.
"After all, three thousand years have passed, and these people have long forgotten their origins!" said Li Mu.
"Aren't there people often coming in to look for treasure? They should be able to get some information about the outside world, right?" Wang Jian asked doubtfully.
"Haha, of course there are people who don't want them to know the truth. You'll know when you get to Yunxian City!" Li Mu said with a smile.