Pulling the shovel out of the soil, Tang Yu looked at the sapling in front of him that was only as tall as himself, feeling filled with emotion.

"Grandma, you have to grow up well."

Tang Yu said to the tree.

The mountains in Jiangcheng are cool and quiet; the heat and humidity seem to exist only in imaginary legends.

No one could have imagined what was buried under this mountain. For the people of Jiangcheng, this was a mountain that they had been able to see from afar on the riverside since childhood, but had never been to.

Let me make it clear in advance that Tang Yu is not mentally ill.

By burying his grandmother's ashes in the soil and planting saplings, Tang Yu finally fulfilled the old lady's last wish.

She looked down the mountain. The Ling River was flowing quietly, and the abandoned town in the distance was still bustling.

It seems like nothing in the world has changed.

Tang Yu came back from the forest, but she couldn't remember where the tree was.

Just like the thousands of trees in this mountain, it will thrive and become a touch of green here.

Returning to the car parked on the side of the road, Tang Yu suddenly saw a narrow mountain path.

This mountain path seemed to have existed here forever, unchanged.

But Tang Yu recalled that he had never seen a similar road before, it seemed to appear suddenly.

Tang Yu approached the entrance of the road and was about to step in, but suddenly, a strong premonition made her give up the idea.

She thought about it, picked up her phone and called Lu Ban.

Thanks to the abandoned city, there is still a pretty good signal on the Jiangcheng Mountain. Lu Ban answered the call. After learning about Tang Yu's experience, he immediately drove here.

Looking at the mountain road, Lu Ban felt it looked familiar.

“This might be that path.”

Lu Ban wasn't sure whether the formation still existed, so he asked Tang Yu to wait there while he walked up the stairs.

A certain feeling surged in his heart and Lu Ban turned around.

He saw Tang Yu standing there.

It seems that the formation is gone.

Lu Ban called Tang Yu to join him, and the two of them climbed up the moss-covered steps.

“Is this where it was?”

Tang Yu asked.

The first time she saw Lu Ban was also on the mountain road of Jiangcheng Mountain. She didn't know what Lu Ban was doing at that time.

Now, Tang Yu tends to believe that Lu Ban might be an immortal who obtained the power of Xuanjun and has lived from that era to the present.

Otherwise there is no way to explain how he could know so much about Jiuliu and still be able to reconstruct the scene at that time.

It can't be that Lu Ban really traveled through time and space and went back to the past, right?

There are too many paradoxes.

This was the extent of Tang Yu's curiosity about Lu Ban's previous experiences.

She knew very well that the more she knew, the more unfortunate she would be.

If she had not learned the skills of a corpse seamer from her grandmother, she wouldn't have become a forensic doctor and wouldn't even have a boyfriend.

This is the truth: the more you know, the more unfortunate you are!

But Tang Yu didn't worry too much.

Someone has to do these things. Anyway, her interest in her boyfriend is about the same as her interest in a corpse with an unknown cause of death. So she might as well be a forensic pathologist.

Following Lu Ban up the mountain and walking through a thousand steps, Tang Yu looked at the surrounding scenery. The forest was still the same forest, but it had a more mysterious feeling. If it was at night, walking on this mountain road would obviously require more courage.

Not to mention, the slight pollution lingering between the clouds and mist made Tang Yu always feel that there was something stirring behind the grass, and that the distance between him and Lu Ban was getting farther and farther.

It is said that a survey team had gotten lost in the mountains of Jiangcheng before. The investigation at that time showed that they were poisoned by severe weather changes and the miasma in the mountains. But Tang Yu now feels that it was probably because the survey team members encountered pollution here and their lack of mental training led to their loss of reason, which eventually led to their unfortunate death.

“Don’t stop.”

Lu Ban suddenly spoke and pulled Tang Yu.

Tang Yu then realized that she had been paying attention to the surrounding scenery and had inexplicably stopped. It was not until Lu Ban reminded her that she came to her senses and found that a certain distance had been created between her and Lu Ban.

When the clouds and mist cover the area, she might lose sight of Lu Ban and get lost in the mountains.

“It looks like this road needs some work.”

Lu Ban's mumbling caught Tang Yu's attention.

"Deal with it?"

She began to be curious about Lu Ban's identity.

Although Tang Yu's reason told her that this man was not as simple as he seemed, and was just a director who liked to make movies, and there might be some stories behind him that would lead to a tragic ending if she was involved, she was still curious.

To humans, danger is like brightly colored insects, emitting an alluring luster.

"There are some bad things in this world. If left unchecked, they will cause harm. If I encounter them, I will deal with them."

Lu Ban answered casually.

"The last time I met you in the mountains, were you also dealing with it?"

Tang Yu asked again. She didn't dare let go of Lu Ban's hand, as she was worried that she would suddenly be alone.

“I guess so.”

Lu Ban answered.

He saw a platform.

Lu Ban walked over and found that the place was full of broken walls and ruins.

“This is from the movie…”

Tang Yu couldn't help but sigh.

The buildings she saw had been worn out by the years. The Taoist temple that originally displayed the statue of Fang Geng had long since collapsed, and the statue inside was naturally nowhere to be found. The entire courtyard was decayed and dilapidated, without any trace of human presence.

This is normal. It would be really scary if a man in a dark suit and with dark skin suddenly appeared here and invited everyone to drink black tea.

Lu Ban checked and estimated that this place has probably not changed since then.

He saw some small bones and human remains, which were probably from the foreign soldiers who died at that time.

It was unknown whether their bodies were devoured by Fang Geng's followers or eaten clean by wild beasts that followed, leaving only a few traces of their integration with nature.

There are also some weapons and ammunition here, and Lu Ban saw the way to the next level.

He and Tang Yu looked at each other and then climbed up.

The twisted temple disappeared, leaving only rubble and unknown plants covering it, devouring the corpses along with it.

Going up is the cave where Xuanjun is.

Lu Ban came to the platform.

But the cave has disappeared.

There are only bare stone walls here, as if no one has been here for hundreds of years.

Relying on his memory, Lu Ban found the cave dug by foreigners, but found nothing there either.

The past seemed to have been swallowed up and buried by these mountains and disappeared.

Lu Ban guessed that all this was forgotten after the dark-skinned man stopped paying attention to this place.

The seal of the evil god will never loosen again, and there is no need for Xuanjun to continue.

From then on, only the lush green Jiangcheng Mountain remained, standing quietly.