Chapter 418 The End
If Yu Zhiyi could see through the stone wall above her head, she would see a flying sword hovering a hundred meters away in the sky.
A young man dressed in white stood with his hands behind his back. The wind blew his robes, making them flutter, and his dark hair flew up, revealing his exquisitely handsome face.
He had a touch of crimson between his brows, a captivating red mole, but his expression was like an unyielding glacier, cold and stern.
He was none other than Lingyun Zhenren, the youngest Taishan Elder of the Taixu Sect.
He established his foundation at fifteen, formed his core at twenty, and entered the Nascent Soul stage at thirty.
Now, more than a hundred years have passed, and no one knows how powerful he has become.
All people know is that since he entered the Nascent Soul Realm, he has rarely appeared in public.
He has appeared a total of three times in the past century.
The first instance was eighty years ago when a monster uprising occurred, with countless high-level monsters surging out of the Boundless Forest and attacking human cities.
Human cultivators rose up in resistance, but suffered repeated defeats.
Left with no other choice, they had to seek help from the supreme elders of various sects.
Lingyun Zhenren answered the call and, with only his sword, slew over a thousand demonic beasts. In the end, he joined forces with the other four prodigies to drive the Demon King back to his home, the Boundless Forest.
The second time was eighteen years ago.
The peerless beauty, Heavenly Sound Fairy, has fallen.
Lingyun Zhenren rushed to the place where she fell, but couldn't even find a piece of her clothing.
Because Fairy Tianyin encountered an ambush by the demon race.
She fought against thousands of high-level demons alone. When she was no match for them, she resolutely self-destructed, taking hundreds of demons with her.
She herself met a tragic end, with no trace of her remains.
This is the third time.
Speaking of which, Fairy Tianyin was one of the four prodigies in the battle against the demon race eighty years ago.
This is the third time.
But this matter has nothing to do with Fairy Tianyin.
The cause was the murder of Elder Qingfeng of the Taixu Sect.
He was killed in the mortal realm. Although there were no traces of demons at the scene, Qingfeng Zhenren's death was extremely gruesome.
Just then, the Supreme Elder of the Taixu Sect happened to pass by and determined that the person who killed him was a demon.
Since the death of Fairy Tianyin eighteen years ago, the Tianji Sect and the Taixu Sect have launched a purge of the demon race, finally eliminating all the demons in the open.
For eighteen long years, the demon race dared not reappear in the world.
Now that the demons have returned with renewed force, the people of the Hidden Realm are filled with fear and unease.
Meanwhile, the already declining Tianji Sect and Taixu Sect both issued statements.
The demons, they kill them one by one.
Master Lingyun ended his seclusion early to personally investigate Elder Qingfeng's death.
Yu Zhiyi was unaware of the above details; she only knew that her intuition was correct.
There must be some danger lurking nearby that she can't sense.
She stopped breathing.
Experts at the Golden Core Realm no longer need to use breathing to maintain their vitality; some who are in seclusion may not even have their chest rise and fall for decades or even centuries.
However, we all grow up from ordinary people, and we are used to the way we breathe, so generally speaking, no one will deliberately hold their breath unless necessary.
Moreover, breathing is also a means by which living people are distinguished from some evil beings that cannot breathe.
Yu Zhiyi maintained the one-legged stance for three days straight.
Actually, that chilling feeling had disappeared for a while, but Yu Zhiyi dared not let her guard down.
Sure enough, half a day later, that feeling returned.
After lasting for more than an hour, it finally dissipated completely.
From an angle that Yu Zhiyi couldn't see, Master Lingyun stood above the cave for two hours, constantly scanning all directions with his divine sense.
This includes the ground hundreds of meters above your feet.
With his current strength, even if his naked eyes and divine sense cannot see anything, he can still sense if there are clues nearby.
He had a vague feeling that the clue was nearby.
It's even possible that the murderer who killed Elder Qingfeng is nearby.
However, even after his divine sense swept across every piece of land within the extreme range, he could not find any clues.
He certainly considered the possibility that it was an array formation.
but.
Eighteen years ago, in that battle, he joined forces with the Heavenly Mystery Sect and almost completely destroyed the Demon Clan's stronghold, including their library.
What good things could be in the Demon Clan's library?
He set the library on fire.
It's possible that the demons' storage rings contain secret manuals, but who doesn't know that those guys have never been interested in things that require thinking?
Except for one guy...
Unlike the demons who like to improve their cultivation by killing, robbing, or even devouring the flesh and blood of cultivators, this guy prefers to study formations.
He was also very talented, and with his profound array-setting abilities, he almost escaped from the encirclement and suppression of the two major sects eighteen years ago.
Master Lingyun was absolutely certain that the guy was dead.
That guy's storage ring was also confiscated, and all the forbidden books inside were burned to ashes.
With this in mind, he finally gave up on wasting any more time in this area.
In fact, even someone as gifted as him can make mistakes in his intuition.
For example, eighteen years ago.
He sensed that the Celestial Fairy had been reincarnated.
But when he rushed to that place, he found that she was nowhere to be found.
He shook his head, moved his feet, and his flying sword transformed into a streak of light, disappearing into the distant mountains.
Standing on one leg for an extended period of time is extremely physically demanding. Fortunately, Yu Zhiyi has already reached the Golden Core Realm. Even if she is not a cultivator who specifically trains her body, her physical strength is still unmatched by ordinary people.
Apart from some muscle tightness, she did not feel any other discomfort.
However, the prolonged tension eventually left her somewhat mentally exhausted.
She didn't know what the danger was, but she was absolutely certain that if she hadn't concealed her presence beforehand, she would have faced certain doom.
After resting in the cave for half a day, Yu Zhiyi carefully released her divine sense and explored the surrounding environment little by little. Only after confirming that there were no traces of her presence nearby did she leave the cave.
As for the illusion outside the cave, she hesitated for a moment before deciding to stay.
After all, this is the place where the elders passed away, which is equivalent to a tomb. It's best not to disturb them if possible.
She consulted the oracle sixteen times and walked in one direction.
Fortunately, this direction also leads westward, so it's not entirely contrary to the general direction.
The rest of the journey was uneventful.
Whether her plan worked or the Gao family simply couldn't find that area and therefore couldn't use that location as a center point to expand their search outwards, she didn't encounter any living people along the way.
Yu Zhiyi left for another three days.
Finally, we saw the end of the mountains.
Before she could even catch her breath, a pleasant female voice suddenly rang out: "What are you doing?! Are you crazy?"
Another male voice said, "You're the one who's crazy, shut up!"
Along with this, there were also the sounds of wind breaking and the roars of wild beasts.
Yu Zhiyi looked up and saw a wolf pouncing towards her.
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