The Love of Passerby A

"No way! It is said that this supreme elder is the dream partner of many female cultivators!" Ye Li retorted in disbelief.

"It's hard to say. I've heard this rumor before." Tang Zhou echoed, "It's rumored that this elder's Taoist partner has very poor spiritual roots, and her cultivation was built up with treasures from heaven and earth.

It is normal to be weak after practicing. It is basically impossible to reach the top of the world. In fact, there are only two possible outcomes:

Either she died of old age, or she was abandoned by the elder. Practicing the great way to achieve immortality is the path of our generation. Would I give up practicing for a mere woman?"

Ye Li couldn't refute his words, but she still insisted stubbornly: "Anyway, I don't believe that the elder would abandon his Taoist partner."

Lin Mu and the others shrugged indifferently and didn't argue with her.

Lan Di didn't say anything, but just quietly looked at an ink painting hanging in the center of the main hall of the Observation Pavilion.

The painting shows the backs of two people standing side by side. The two people are leaning against each other and should be walking forward together. Although the front cannot be seen, just by looking at the way they are leaning against each other, you can tell how good their relationship is.

The entire painting is in black and white with ink, except for the petals falling on the two people's cloaks which are painted with cinnabar, making them look particularly gorgeous.

The figures in the painting are drawn very sloppily, but the two peony hairpins in the woman's hair are extremely delicately drawn. Although they are also in black and white ink, the layers are extremely clear.

It is not difficult to guess that these hairpins should be a token of love between two people. The painter poured his love for the woman in the painting into these two peony hairpins.

"Brother Lan, why don't you say anything?" Ye Li had been discussing with the other people for a long time, but Lan Di didn't say a word.

Lan Di did not answer, but walked straight over, took the painting off the wall, and shook the scroll tentatively a few times, but nothing changed around her.

"Senior Brother Lan." Ye Li called again.

Lan Di's heart moved. She held the painting in one hand, pulled Ye Li's hand with the other, and shook the scroll a few more times.

In an instant, Ye Li and he were sucked into the painting together. It was too late for others to stop them and they could only watch and sigh.

Not to mention other people, just Lan Di and Ye Li, when they came to their senses, they were already in a cave.

"I knew that this painting was the core of the teleportation array." Lan Di had lost his usual composure and instead had a proud expression on his face.

Ye Li was shocked by his change and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Lan Di ignored her and walked quickly to the middle of the cave. When he saw there was only a sarcophagus in the middle, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Ye Li also discovered something was wrong at this time. It seemed that the goal of the senior brother in this expedition to Liuyue Sect was very clear from the beginning. Although there were occasional mistakes, the general direction had never been wrong.

Moreover, whether it was discovering the secret realm or the method to open the secret realm, he always seemed to be confident.

She followed all the way and saw the sarcophagus in the cave. She couldn't help but feel suspicious. Could it be that her senior brother was looking for a dead person, or was there some incredible secret in the sarcophagus?

Lan Di watched her come in without saying much. She just cut her finger and dripped blood on the scroll, but found no reaction.

He thought about it, then walked over to Ye Li and cut her finger to let the blood without her consent. Sure enough, the painting scroll changed this time.

The scroll was slowly dissolving, and finally all the light gathered in Lan Di's palm again. He opened his hands and saw the two peony hairpins that were in the painting.

The size and shape just match the grooves on each side of the sarcophagus.

Lan Di put the hairpin into the groove, and the sarcophagus immediately changed, from being ordinary to being dazzling.

Wow! This change was too sudden. Ye Li was shocked!

But this was not the most shocking thing, because when the sarcophagus was opened, the scene inside made Lan Di's heart, which had just relaxed, fall to the bottom again.

"It is so." He muttered to himself.

Ye Li was once again shocked by Lan Di's absent-minded look. She mustered up her courage and asked, "Brother, what on earth is going on?"

Lan Di looked at the sarcophagus, then looked at her junior sister, and sighed, "Don't you want to know the final outcome of the Grand Elder and his Taoist partner?

I am not afraid to tell you that I am from the Lingmu tribe, and I came here to find out the news about our tribe’s leader, Elder Jin Yinan.

And Jin Yinan is the legendary supreme elder. You saw his Taoist partner fall.

And he did not ascend to heaven as rumored, he has dispersed between heaven and earth."

Ye Li asked: "Brother, will you return to the sect?"

Lan Di waved his sleeves and put the sarcophagus into the Lingmu Clan's unique space. He said, "I will send you out, and I will never go back again."

After saying this, Ye Li felt dizzy for a while. When she opened her eyes again, she was already on the ruins of Liuyue Sect, and beside her lay the other members of their team: Tang Zhou, Lin Mu, and Qian Duobao.

After a while, several people woke up, and then looked at each other in silence.

Ye Li only said that she was here when she woke up, hiding what she saw and heard in the cave and Lan Di's true identity.