When the door of the dark room was opened, Yu Yi clearly saw a spiritual line flowing from behind the door to both sides, activating the array hanging on the door. At the same time, another spiritual line flowed from below to the ground, shooting towards the seat under her feet.

Because this directional teleportation array had been used, the surrounding spiritual stones were also turned into powder. The array on the door flashed and then went out.

It was a killing array. If someone opened the door when this directional teleportation array was not activated, the person would be strangled to death by the magic array on the door.

Yu Yi looked over vigilantly, pinching the sword technique on her fingertips.

The door hinge creaked, and the person pushed the door open a little more with great effort. He raised his hand and waved the floating dust in front of him. He stared at the empty house in a daze, and murmured, "Why is it gone? Why has it all turned into dust?"

Yu Yi saw her face clearly. She was hunched over, with gray hair, and she was wearing a gray linen shirt. The skin exposed outside was wrinkled like tree bark, and there was a large age spot on the back of her hand. She was a frail old woman.

Yu Yi did not feel any spiritual power from her. She was a mortal.

The end point of Xue Chenjing's directional transmission array was actually set in the home of a mortal?

The old woman coughed due to the dust, and finally reacted, waving at her and saying, "Hey, this room has not been opened for so many years, how come it has turned into dust? Little girl, come out quickly, don't let the dust cover your nose."

Yu Yi released a little spiritual power to suppress the spiritual stone dust in the room, took two quick steps to the door, and asked, "Grandma, where is this?"

The old woman stepped back and led her out of the house, picked up a handkerchief and wiped the bench in the yard, turned around and ran quickly into the kitchen, took out a snow-white porcelain bowl from a plate of earthenware bowls, washed it with mountain spring water from a bamboo tube built on a large vat, poured a bowl of hot water, and asked her to come over and sit.

Yu Yi hurriedly thanked her and sat down at the table.

After finishing the enthusiastic work, the old woman patted her forehead and said, "You just asked where this place is? Our place is called Liuya Village, because three big mountains form a '丫' character, so it is called Liuya Village."

Yu Yi was helpless. The name "Liuya Village" was too small. Even if she knew the name of the village, she couldn't tell the direction.

This yard is a very ordinary farmyard, with earthen walls and green tiles. The tiles are not complete. Many places are covered with thatch and banana leaves and then covered with mud.

It is in the shape of a concave character, with a total of four rooms. The room that Yu Yi came out of was blocked behind the woodshed and was quite hidden.

The house was built on the mountainside. There was a fence in the yard, and some chickens and ducks were kept in the pen. Looking down from here, you can see a group of houses gathered at the foot of the mountain, forming a village, and in the distance is a rushing river.

The afterglow of the setting sun shines through the sky, shrouding the entire mountain in a dim glow. It is a very picturesque place. Of course, that's all. There is no spiritual energy here. While

Yu Yi turned her eyes to look around, she continued to ask: "Grandma, do you know which county, town, or state Liuya Village belongs to?"

"There is Fengsheng County above us, and I don't know about anything above that." The old woman raised her sleeves and wiped her eyes. Her originally cloudy eyes seemed a little clearer because of the shining divine light.

She couldn't help but look at Yu Yi curiously, but seemed afraid that her gaze would offend her, so she looked a little reserved, but she kept smiling.

The little girl had red lips and white teeth, and her cheeks were so tender that you could squeeze water out of them. She was wearing a bright red dress that looked like a wedding dress. She had a golden hairpin in her dark hair. She was so dazzling that she didn't look like an ordinary person, and it didn't match her dilapidated mud house in the poor mountains and old forests.

When the old woman saw her stretch out her fingers as white as scallions, pick up the porcelain bowl on the table, and take a few sips of water, the old woman's reserved look relaxed a little.

The little girl didn't despise her.

When Yu Yi asked about the house behind the woodshed, the old woman tilted her head to look at the rushing river in the distance and said, "It was a young man who came to play drums thirty years ago."

The old woman's surname was Li, and Yu Yi called her Granny Li. Granny Li spoke slowly but clearly, and it was obvious that after thirty years, she had not forgotten what happened that year.

The "Ya" in Liuya Village comes from the river sandwiched between three mountains. Thirty years ago, the water level of the river rose sharply, and a snake demon was washed down the river. The snake demon came to Liuya Village and entangled it, eating many people in the village, and swept away the young children in the village to make a nest, and laid snake eggs in the human body to hatch.

Thirty years ago, Granny Li was nearly thirty years old. She was a family of three. Her husband was eaten by a snake demon, and her daughter, who was about to turn ten, was dragged away by the snake demon to make a nest.

She lost her husband and son overnight, and she asked for help everywhere to save her daughter. But at that time, everyone was afraid of the snake demon. Those who were not affected in Liuya Village were all running away, and no one dared to help her.

They were in a remote and poor place, far away from the immortal gate, and there was no way to ask for help. Even if they could find the immortal gate, by the time they found someone to save her, her daughter would have turned into bones.

Granny Li had no choice but to carry her chopping knife and go into the mountains to find the snake. Even if she couldn't save her daughter, she wanted to die with her daughter.

The snake demon was rampant in Liuya Village. It had knocked over trees everywhere, and the mountains were full of paths left by the snake. So it didn't take her long to find the snake's nest. The

snake's nest was in a damp cave. The cave was full of bones spit out by the snake demon, with bloody flesh on the bones. Deep in the cave was a nest made of human bodies. The people at the bottom were flattened, and blood was all over the ground.

Granny Li took advantage of the snake demon going out to forage to sneak into the cave and jump into the snake's nest to find her daughter. She searched for a long time in the crowd and finally found her daughter among the layers of white bodies.

Unfortunately, she arrived too late. Her daughter had already been filled with snake eggs by the snake demon, and the snake venom had penetrated her lungs, causing her to suffocate and die.

Even though her daughter was already dead, Granny Li did not want her body to remain in the snake's nest to rot, so she dragged her swollen-bellied daughter out of the snake's nest, which was covered with the stench of snakes.

She was panicked and scared at the time, and did not notice these things at all. After she came out of the snake's nest, she wanted to carry her daughter on her back and flee in the direction of the county town.

As a result, she was caught up by the snake demon not long after she left. She fell while running away in a panic, and she rolled into a mountain ravine with her daughter in her arms, and happened to fall into a mass of white mud-like stuff.

Granny Li almost suffocated to death in that stuff, and it was a young man who pulled them out of the mud.

When Yu Yi heard her talk about "white mud", he could probably guess that it was Xue Chenjing's mud.

Granny Li stroked a deep scar on her elbow and continued, "At this time, the snake demon also caught up with them, and they fought each other. In less than a while, the powerful snake demon was chopped into several pieces and died."

The young man killed the demon, walked over and kicked the several fish that were roasted into charcoal on the ground, and asked her if she could cook and grill fish.

Granny Li looked at the two burnt fish lying next to the fire which had been extinguished by the snake's blood. The fish scales had not been scraped off, and the internal organs had not been opened to remove them. The outer skin was burnt, but the meat inside was still raw.

She was so scared that her mind was confused. She nodded.

Then the boy went home with her.

"The young man caught a few big fish again and asked me to make him Jade White Fish Soup, Braised Dragon Scale, Golden Crispy Fish Slices, and Delicate Four Fresh Pot. I had never heard of these names and had no idea how to cook them. In the end, I just followed my usual method and used the pickled cabbage in the jar to make a pot of fish soup."

The memory of that day was so deep that when she talked about it now, she could even remember all the details, including the names of the dishes he reported, which she had never heard of before.

Granny Li said that when she served the big bowl of pickled cabbage fish soup, the young man's face was full of disgust, and she was so panicked that she sweated. But in the end, he still ate up the whole bowl of fish with a look of disgust on his face.

Granny Li folded her arms and gestured, "This big basin."

Yu Yi saw that the size she gestured was bigger than a wash basin, no wonder she was so surprised.

Granny Li cooked for him, but she didn't eat it herself. She couldn't eat anything. She washed a knife and wanted to cut open her daughter's belly and take out the snake eggs that filled her belly so that her daughter could be buried cleanly.

But she held the knife there for a long time, but she still didn't dare to do it. Finally, the young man took action and tapped her daughter's belly a few times, causing her to spit out all the snake eggs in her stomach.

Granny was so grateful that she knelt on the ground and worshipped him vigorously, raising her hands and swearing that she would be his slave in the next life.

The young man stared at her and smiled for a while, then said, "No need to come back to life. I have some treasures on me, but it's not easy to carry them with me. If you want to thank me, I will hide them here, and you can help me keep them."

The old woman had no intention of living anymore, and planned to follow her daughter and her husband after burying her daughter, but since he only had this one request, she had to bite the bullet and agree.

She raised her old hand, pointed to the hidden house and said, "That's the room."

Grandma Li cleared out a room overnight, sealed all the windows, and asked him to put the treasures in. She then gradually added a thick layer of mud outside and covered it with a woodshed.

"I saw that he put a lot of gold, silver and jewelry in there, and he hung a bell on the corner of the door and asked me to lock the door, saying that only when the bell rang, it would mean that he came back to get the treasure, and I could open the house. If the bell didn't ring, I couldn't open it."

In recent years, Granny Li has lived a very difficult life alone. She couldn't even sleep well at night guarding a house full of gold and silver.

There were countless times when she wanted to abandon her promise and end it all. Later, Liuyazhuang became lively again, and she also came out of her grief and met an old partner who wanted to live with her.

When the two were poor, she had wandered around the door of the treasure house countless times, wanting to open the door, go in and get some money to tide over the difficulties, and then return it when life got better.

Sometimes, her key was stuck in the lock, but she finally managed to get through it. @無限好文，盡在晉江文學城

Granny Li said, her shoulders drooped, as if she had finally unloaded a heavy burden, "After more than 30 years, I finally waited for the bell to ring, and I don't have to worry anymore."

@無限好文，盡在晉江文學城 When

she first opened the door, she was shocked that all the gold and silver in the room had turned to ashes. Now that she thought about it, it must have been the little girl in front of her who put them away. The bell rang, and her mission was considered successful.

Yu Yi thought of the killing array hanging on the door. If Granny Li had really opened the door, it would have turned into bones by now. There was no gold or silver in the room, only a teleportation array and spirit stones piled up next to it.

He deliberately transformed the spirit stones into gold and silver so that Granny Li could see them.

Yu Yi could now more or less guess what he was thinking at the time. Testing human nature probably made him feel very amused. However, at the time, this room was indeed Granny Li's only hope for survival.

When the sun set, Granny Li lit the oil lamp and let her stay overnight. She also took out a fish from the water tank, slaughtered it in the dim light, and asked her to try the pickled fish she made.

Yu Yi couldn't refuse, so he picked up the oil lamp to light her way.

Granny Li probably hadn't had such a pleasant chat with someone for a long time. While she was busy, she kept talking with a smile on her face.

She said that she and her future husband had another daughter. When the daughter grew up and got married, the couple went to the county town to do business. They wanted to take her with them, but she had to stay at home.

Therefore, the mother and daughter often did not see each other for several months. She was unable to take care of her daughter when she was pregnant and gave birth.

Now, she finally did not have to stay here anymore. She planned to pack her bags and go to the county town tomorrow.

Yu Yi sat in front of the stove and burned a fire. In the flickering firelight, she smiled and looked up and said, "Mother-in-law, I will go to the county town with you tomorrow."