"Walnuts!" Jiang Mu shouted as he walked in the direction the old man pointed.
Along the way, they mostly saw only unknown ghosts, with no sign of Walnut.
"Hu Tao!" Jiang Mu shouted again, and finally collapsed to the ground...
Although he is a transmigrator with a system, Jiang Mu's current physical age is still that of a teenager. After running for so long, his stamina is naturally starting to wane...
"Huff... Huff—"
Panting heavily, Jiang Mu asked.
"System, are you there?"
"I'm here," the system's mechanical voice sounded again.
"Has the location of the walnut been detected?"
"Reporting to the host," the system said coldly.
"Due to interference from an unknown magnetic field, the search function of this system is temporarily unavailable."
"Fine." Jiang Mu rolled his eyes.
"Why don't you just say no..."
After resting for a while, Jiang Mu changed his mind and began to inquire about the situation from the surrounding spirits.
Finally, through Jiang Mu's unwavering persistence, he finally found the lonely figure hugging his own legs.
"walnut!"
Jiang Mu shouted.
"Jiang Mu?" Hu Tao rubbed her eyes, incredulous.
"What are you doing here? This is no place for you! Get out of here!"
Hu Tao is right. Within this "boundary," although it appears sunny and bright, it's actually the result of an extreme reversal of yin energy. If an ordinary person stays here, they could easily be infested by this yin energy and develop serious illnesses...
She herself is able to stay in this environment for a longer period of time because of her special blood plum constitution, but even so, after a while, she is now starting to feel the strain...
"This isn't a place for me..." Jiang Mu laughed angrily, "So this is where you should be? Come with me now, don't stay here..."
"I don't!"
"Hu Tao said stubbornly."
"This is the place where the realms of Yin and Yang meet. I will wait for my grandfather here!"
"Master Hu..." Jiang Mu was slightly lost in thought.
At this moment, a group of wandering spirits noticed the two and slowly floated to their side. After hearing their conversation, they burst into laughter.
"Young lady, you're talking about the 75th head of the Hall of Rebirth, right? Forget about it, he won't stay at this border. Hurry up and pack your things and go home..."
"No!" Hu Tao said stubbornly.
"I'm going to wait for my grandfather here!"
“Stubborn to the end…” The spirits simply shook their heads and left, without arguing with Hu Tao any further…
"Sigh..." Seeing this, Jiang Mu stopped pressuring Hu Tao and simply sat down on the ground.
“Jiang Mu!” Hu Tao looked at the former, her face full of surprise.
"Since you're not leaving, I'll stay here and keep you company."
Jiang Mu explained.
"..."
Hu Tao didn't speak, but simply buried her head deeply in her knees...
Seeing this, Jiang Mu could only sigh and enter a state of semi-sleep to conserve his energy.
……………………
Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, five days had passed. The two of them were barely holding on...
“Jiang Mu…” Hu Tao looked at Jiang Mu and said with some heartache.
"I have some dry food here, have some..."
"No, thank you." Jiang Mu waved his hand. "You have to keep waiting. You should eat and conserve your energy."
"Well... at least... have some water..."
"No need, I'll stay here with you."
"Ginger wood..."
"Yes, I'm here..."
"How about... you go back first, and wait five more days... no, just three days, then I'll leave, okay?"
“Then I’ll wait with you for three more days,” Jiang Mu said decisively.
"Ginger wood..."
……………………
Not far away, Gan Yu hid behind a rock, watching Jiang Mu grow thinner and thinner every day, and gritted her teeth in anger.
"Honestly, don't they take care of their bodies at all..."
……………………
Five more days...
"Little girl..."
Just as Hu Tao was looking at Jiang Mu with great anxiety, an old voice rang out from the side.
"You are...?"
Hu Tao looked in the direction of the sound and saw an old woman in simple clothes smiling at her.
"I'm just an ordinary ghost..."
The old woman waved her hand and looked at Hu Tao with a smile.
"But you, little guy, what are you doing here, a living person?"
"I……"
Hu Tao hesitated for a moment, but still confessed.
"I'm waiting for my grandfather."
"Your grandfather?" the old lady asked with a smile. "Who is your grandfather?"
"My grandfather was the 75th head of the Rebirth Hall!"
At this point, a strong sense of pride shone on Hu Tao's face.
"So you're from the Hall of Rebirth..." the old woman said with a slight smile.
"Little girl, do you know that the past leaders of the Hall of Rebirth have never stayed at this border..."
"Why!"
Hu Tao didn't believe it and pressed for an answer.
“Because…” the old woman continued speaking slowly.
"The successive leaders of the Hall of Rebirth will never linger at this border, because the ancestors of the Hu family were all upright and honest gentlemen who lived and died with integrity."
"As the people who have dealt with death the most, they naturally understand the true meaning of death and will naturally have no regrets after death."
"turn out to be……"
Hu Tao finally believed that the reason her grandfather hadn't shown up was because he had already crossed the border and gone to where he was supposed to be...
"My grandfather was an upright man throughout his life, and he had no regrets after his death."
Before anyone knew it, tears began to stream down Hu Tao's face, but her expression was more joyful than sorrowful...
"Now... I have no regrets..."
As she spoke, Hu Tao looked at the old woman, struggled to her feet, and bowed slightly.
"Thank you for your advice, we'll head back right away..."
As she spoke, she was about to help Jiang Mu up and leave...
"etc……"
The old woman suddenly spoke, and Hu Tao was slightly taken aback. She looked at the woman and saw that she was staring intently at Jiang Mu...
“Senior…” Hu Tao stood in front of Jiang Mu, her face full of vigilance.
"What...do you want to do..."
Jiang Mu had already fallen into a coma after not eating for more than ten days. If the old woman wanted to do something to him at this time...
"take it easy……"
Seemingly understanding Hu Tao's worries, the old lady smiled and waved her hand.
"It's just that seeing familiar faces again made this old woman a little excited..."
"Again?"
Hearing this, Hu Tao was somewhat bewildered.
"Young lady, while this boy's life isn't in danger yet, why don't you take a look at his past?"
The old woman suggested with a smile.
"You can..."
Hu Tao opened her mouth slightly, incredulous.
"Hehe..." The old woman just smiled.
"Thanks to the Rock King Emperor, I, who should have perished, am able to live on in this borderland..."
At this point, Hu Tao realized that the old woman's body was not as ethereal as other spirits; on the contrary, it had a solid feel to it...
As she spoke, the old woman turned around and said calmly.
"Little one hiding behind the rock, come out too..."
"Someone's here!" Hu Tao was startled when she heard this, but she breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that the person who came was Gan Yu.
Gan Yu strode forward, and after confirming that Jiang Mu was unharmed, she flipped her hand, and a wisp of immortal power condensed in her palm. Then, with her movement, it slowly entered Jiang Mu's body...
"This will protect Jiang Mu's body," Gan Yu explained to the bewildered Hu Tao, then looked at the old woman.
"You mean you saw Jiang Mu's younger brother's past?"
"Hehe..." The old woman simply chuckled, waved her hand, and a screen of light appeared before the three of them...
"Everything you want to know is inside."
"Take your time and watch it..."
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