Chapter 1272: Journey to the Great Wilderness 2
The little girl nodded obediently, "I know, Grandpa."
The next evening, Luo Li slowly opened her eyes, looked at the darkening sky outside, and walked out of the stone house.
The air after the rain is particularly fresh, carrying the moist scent of soil and grass.
The afterglow of the setting sun dyed the entire Luling Mountain a warm orange-gold color.
Luo Li stood at the door of the stone house, squinting her eyes slightly to adapt to the light.
After a day of breathing exercises, although the spiritual veins in her body were not completely restored, they were finally able to support her normal movements. The power of chaos also recovered a little, enough for her to barely explore the surrounding environment.
"Big sister, are you awake?"
A clear child's voice came from the side. Luo Li turned around and saw the little girl in the animal skin skirt squatting in an open space not far away, holding a branch in her hand and drawing strange symbols on the soil.
There were a few furry monsters around her, who were tilting their heads to watch her doodle, looking very cute.
"Yeah." Luo Li responded softly and walked over slowly.
The little girl immediately dropped the branch, stood up, and looked up at her, her eyes sparkling. "Grandpa said you recovered very quickly. You're worthy of being someone who can withstand the power of the spiritual marrow herb."
"Spiritual marrow grass?" Luo Li was stunned for a moment before she realized that she was talking about the bowl of medicinal soup from yesterday.
The pure spiritual power contained in the medicinal soup is indeed quite similar to the legendary Lingsui grass that has long been extinct.
The little girl nodded vigorously and pointed to the misty mountains in the distance: "Yes, that's what Grandpa picked at the deepest part of Black Wind Cliff. He usually doesn't want to use it."
Luo Li's heart moved slightly.
Black Wind Cliff?
This name was also not in the landforms of the Continent of Gods that she knew.
She took a deep breath, suppressed the doubts in her heart, and asked softly, "What's your name?"
"My name is Aya." The little girl grinned, revealing two pointed little canine teeth. "What about you, big sister?"
"Luo Li."
"Sister Luo Li." Ah Ya changed her name naturally and pulled her clothes towards the nearby bonfire. "Grandpa is grilling meat. It smells so good. Sister Luo Li, come and try it!"
Beside the bonfire, the old man with white hair and beard was squatting beside the fire, turning the barbecue on the rack. Fat was dripping, tiny sparks were splashing, and the rich aroma of meat filled the air.
Hearing the footsteps, the old man turned around, and when he saw Luo Li, a barely perceptible gleam flashed in his cloudy eyes.
"The little girl is awake?" The old man's voice was old but powerful. "Are you feeling better?"
"Thank you for your rescue, senior. I am fine now." Luo Li nodded slightly.
She could feel that although the old man in front of her looked ordinary, there was a deep and powerful power hidden in his body, and he was definitely not an ordinary spiritual master.
The old man waved his hand, wrapped the roasted meat in leaves and handed it to her. "It's just a small favor. Judging from your clothes, you don't look like you're from around Luling Mountain?"
Luo Li took the barbecue and felt the warmth on her fingertips. She hesitated for a moment and said truthfully, "To be honest, I don't know where this place is either."
Ah Ya scratched her head and said, "Sister, this is so strange. Everyone in our Continent of Gods knows about Luling Mountain."
Luo Li's expression changed, "Is this also the Continent of Gods?"
Ah Ya wrinkled her nose and said, "Of course. Grandpa said that Luling Mountain is one of the oldest mountains on the continent!"
The old man handed the last piece of barbecue to Ah Ya, then spoke slowly, his voice hoarse with the accumulation of time: "Little girl, do you know what year it is now?"
Luo Li was stunned.
The last clear time in her memory was the 67,621st year of the New Gods Calendar, the day of the decisive battle.
"I don't know." Luo Li clenched the barbecue in her hand, and her fingertips turned slightly white.
The old man looked up at the sunset glow in the sky, as if counting the passing star tracks: "It is now 1,500 years into the Great Wilderness calendar."
"The Great Wilderness Calendar?" Luo Li's pupils shrank suddenly. "That's impossible! The Great Wilderness Era ended nearly three hundred thousand years ago. The Calendar of the Gods only began after the catastrophe of gods and demons..."
Her voice became lower and lower, and an absurd but uncontrollable thought exploded in her mind. She had returned to the past?
The Great Wilderness Period?
Ah Ya gnawed on the barbecue and mumbled, "What did Sister Luo Li say?"
The old man ignored Ah Ya's words and just looked at Luo Li. His cloudy eyes seemed to be able to see through all her past. "You have residual demonic energy and the breath of the laws of heaven. You are not from this era, right?"
Luo Li was shocked and suddenly looked up at the old man.
He could actually see through all this? You have to know that the chaotic power in her body had already restrained most of the demonic energy and the aura of laws. Even a spiritual master at the level of a Saint Lord might not be able to detect it, let alone this seemingly simple old man.
"Senior," Luo Li's throat moved slightly, "Who are you?"
The old man smiled, revealing a few yellowed teeth: "He's just an old man guarding the mountain."
Luo Li stopped asking questions and just said, "Senior, do you recognize Cang Wu?"
If it were the Great Wilderness Period now, Cangwu should still be alive.
The old man paused as he was turning the barbecue, sparks dancing between his fingers, and the cloudy look in his eyes suddenly brightened for a moment.
He didn't answer immediately, but pushed the shiny skewers of meat into the fire. The fat dripped onto the charcoal, making a sizzling sound.
Ah Ya was chewing some meat. Seeing that Grandpa didn't say anything, she tilted her head and asked, "Cangwu? Ah Ya has never heard of it!"
The old man said, "I have never heard of the name Cangwu, but the Cang family in Qingshan City is only three days' journey from Luling Mountain. I wonder if the Cangwu you are looking for is from the Cang family in Qingshan City."
Luo Li's heart skipped a beat, and the kebab skewer between her fingertips was almost crushed.
Cang Family? Qingshan City?
Cangwu's surname is Cang. If he really had a family during the Great Wilderness period, then the Cang family in Qingshan City might really be related to him.
Even if there was only a slight possibility, she had to go and see.
"Which direction should Qingshan City go?"
The old man pointed to the misty mountain pass to the east. "Go past Black Wind Cliff, then around Broken Soul Valley. Follow the path carved by the monsters. In three days, you'll see the outline of Qingshan City. The city is built against the mountain, and its walls are cast from a mixture of ten-thousand-year-old black iron and dragon bones. They glow a turquoise-gold in the sunlight."
After finishing the last piece of barbecue, Ah Ya ran to Luo Li, tilted her head and pulled her sleeve: "Sister Luo Li, are you leaving?"
Luo Li looked down at the girl's clear eyes. There was no haze of war in them, only the purity of a mountain child.
She hummed softly and reached out to wipe away the oily spots on Aya's mouth: "Sister is going somewhere to find someone very important."
"Then can Aya go with you?" Aya's eyes sparkled. "Grandpa always says it's dangerous out there, but I want to see if Qingshan City is like in the stories, with glowing streets and singing birds."
The old man coughed twice, and A Ya immediately stuck out her tongue and retracted her hand.
"Don't run around, little girl." The old man tapped her head, then turned to Luo Li and took out a hide bag from the cave behind him. "Here are some dry food and healing herbs. The miasma on Black Wind Cliff is strong, and this herb can drive away the poison. And this..."
He handed over a palm-sized wooden plaque with crooked runes engraved on it. "I once met the old patriarch of the Cang family. Take this plaque with you, and they won't make things difficult for you."
Luo Li took the wooden sign, and when her fingertips touched the rough texture, she felt a gentle spiritual power flowing up along her fingertips.
She knelt and bowed deeply: "Senior and A'ya's kindness, Luo Li will never forget it."
"It's a piece of cake." The old man waved his hand, his cloudy eyes looking eastward. "It's just that Qingshan City has been in turmoil lately. I heard that the head of the Cang family obtained a rare treasure, which attracted many evil cultivators to spy on him. You should be careful when you go there."
Luo Li's heart sank slightly. Evil cultivator?
Before this battle between gods and demons when the evil spirit had not yet spread, there were actually evil cultivators?
She didn't ask any more questions, tied the animal skin bag around her waist, and looked at Aya again.
The girl was squatting on the ground, drawing something in the dirt with a branch. When she finished, she looked up and smiled at her, revealing two small canine teeth: "Sister Luo Li, this is for you."
It was a crooked painting of a small person holding another smaller person, with the sun and clouds painted next to it, as well as several winged monsters.
"This is Aya and my sister," the girl pointed at the painting. "My sister found someone and came back to see if Aya is okay."
Luo Li's throat tightened and she nodded: "Okay."
The next day, at dawn, Luo Li was ready to go.
The early morning at Luling Mountain was immersed in mist, the shadows of the ancient trees stretched long on the ground, and the dew wet her skirt, bringing a chill to the bones.
A'ya was still sleeping soundly in the stone house. The old man stood at the mountain pass to see her off, leaning on a smoothly polished wooden stick in his hand.
"When you go to Qingshan City, if you see the ancient stele of the Cang family, remember not to touch it with spiritual power."
The old man suddenly spoke, his voice a little deeper than yesterday, "Remember, the rules on the monument are not something you can touch now."
Luo Li was startled, ancient monument?
She remembered what the old man said last night: "The Cang family has guarded the ancient monument for generations, and the patterns on it are connected to the laws of heaven and earth." Suspicion filled her heart, but she still replied, "I'll take note of it."
The old man said nothing more, just waved his hand.
Luo Li pursed her lips and handed over a space ring and a manual. "These things are here. I hope they are useful to you."
In the space ring was the Saint King Pill that she had refined last night. The manual recorded her experience in refining pills and weapons. Although she didn't know whether it would be useful to A Ya and the old man, it was the best thing she could come up with at the moment.
Luo Li turned and stepped into the morning mist. She looked back every few steps and saw the old man's figure gradually being swallowed by the mist. The outline of the stone house was hidden behind the giant tree, with a sense of peace and mystery.
When passing through the Black Wind Cliff, there was indeed miasma everywhere. The dark green poisonous fog rolled in the canyon, and when it touched the scent of the spiritual plants emitted from the animal skin bag, it retreated like a tide.
Occasionally, a flying monster would fly over the cliff, making sharp hisses. Luo Li held the Xuan Yue Sword tightly and did not stop.
Whenever she thought of the possible traces of Cangwu in Qingshan City, and the faces that disappeared in the light of destruction, she felt strength reborn in her body.
The Continent of Gods is gone, but she is still alive, so perhaps everything can still be saved.
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