Dusk Returns to the Ruined Building

Lingxu Mountain, outside the former site of Fuchen Temple, beside Xuxue River.

Shen Yichen, Monk Mingzhi, and A'mei were washing their faces in the river at this moment. The three of them had just come down from the former site of Fuchen Temple and didn't know where to go.

"This water is so refreshing!" Shen Yichen said as he drank the water in his hand.

"What a pity! It's not as sweet as the spring water from Stargazing Mountain!"

Monk Mingzhi also took a sip and said, "Amitabha, the nature of water is true emptiness, and the nature of emptiness is true water!"

Ah Mei looked at Shen Yichen with a slightly frowned brow, and thought to herself: "He came from Guanxing Mountain? Impossible!"

A-mei asked casually:

"Big brother, where is Stargazing Mountain?"

Shen Yichen shook his head and said, "I don't know either!"

A Mei didn't dare to ask further questions and just let it go!

After a while, the three returned to the shore.

"Brother, there really is a beauty! I told you my dreams would come true!"

A'mei pointed at the road on the mountain and shouted to Shen Yichen.

Shen Yichen looked in the direction A-mei pointed and saw a woman with a white veil on her face walking down the mountain. "It's her - the Holy Maiden of Qingwei Xuannv Sect!" Shen Yichen recognized her at the first sight.

"Big brother, do you rape women?"

Looking at the masked woman in white veil getting closer and closer, A'mei pushed Shen Yichen and asked.

"I'll rob you, you big-headed ghost!" Shen Yichen said in his heart. He walked forward to greet the woman in the white gauze mask, but he opened his mouth for a long time without knowing how to start. Then he realized that he didn't know her name.

"Mr. Huang, why did you come from the mountains?" Monk Mingzhi spoke first.

"Senior Brother Mingzhi, how long have you been here?" Huang Xiyi asked.

Shen Yichen thought: "Why did she call him Brother Monk? Did she eavesdrop on our conversation that night?"

"Mr. Huang, have you gone to the mountains to look for the Soul-Devouring Cave?" asked Monk Mingzhi.

The three of them listened to Zen Master Wuwang telling a secret story that happened five hundred years ago. Monk Mingzhi guessed Huang Xiyi's intention of going to the mountains.

Huang Xiyi nodded!

"Are there any results?" asked Monk Mingzhi.

Shen Yichen stood nearby, not knowing how to start, and said nothing.

Huang Xiyi said: "Let's go down the mountain and talk while we walk!"

After saying that, he walked downstairs.

"Hey, little sis, my big brother said he wants to rob you!"

A-mei reached out to stop Huang Xiyi.

"Oh my god, sister, what are you doing!" Shen Yichen cursed in his heart, pulled the sister away and said: "Please, please, children should not be restrained in their words! Children should not be restrained in their words!"

Huang Xiyi ignored them and thought: "Where did these two people pick up a child from?"

The four of them walked down the mountain together. Huang Xiyi and Monk Mingzhi walked side by side in front. Huang Xiyi told Monk Mingzhi what happened in the mountain. Shen Yichen and Amei followed behind them. Shen Yichen didn't say a word along the way. He was not familiar with them! Amei jumped and skipped along the way. She was so happy.

When walking down the Xuxue River, passing by a small waterfall, Ah Mei casually threw a stone into the waterfall, and said to herself: "Why did it come here again? Is there something related to the demon race in Lingxu Mountain?"

It turned out that this was another deep pool hidden under the waterfall. Just like normal water flow, it was impossible to see it at all. At this moment, there was a giant python coiled at the bottom of the pool. It was the three-eyed demon python.

Of course, only A-mei herself knows this.

Through the conversation between Huang Xiyi and Monk Mingzhi, Shen Yichen learned that, first, the woman's surname was Huang; second, the Soul-Devouring Cave was also called Xuya Cave, located in the south of Lingxu Mountain; third, he needed to find a way up from the east side of Lingxu Mountain; and fourth, the territory of the Snow Yi tribe was deep in the snow-capped peaks of Lingxu Mountain.

The four of them soon arrived at the three-way intersection where Ke Lai Xiang was.

"Brother Mingzhi, how about we go to Kelaixiang to have some food first, and ask for directions to the east of Lingxu Mountain?"

Shen Yichen called out to Monk Mingzhi.

Monk Mingzhi was stunned. He still remembered the last time they had dinner together. The three of them still had no money. Did they still want to eat and drink for free under the name of their master? Monk Mingzhi hesitated.

"Alright, Senior Brother Mingzhi, let's go to the store to find out the way. It's noon now, so let's just eat something."

Huang Xiyi next to her took the initiative to say something.

The three of them walked towards Ke Lai Xiang. When Ah Mei saw them going to the restaurant, she said, "Big brother, take us to have a free meal!"

A-mei jumped and ran to the front.

Shen Yichen had gotten used to it, really used to it, and loosened his clenched fists.

When the waiter saw the three of them coming again,

"Brother Li, Brother Li!" he shouted while running towards the store.

Huang Xiyi thinks the waiter in this shop is really weird!

"Master, are we going to beg for alms or have a meal today?" The boss named Brother Li came out and asked Monk Xiang Mingzhi.

"A table full of delicious food and wine, plus five vegetarian dishes. Someone is paying today!" Shen Yichen ignored Li Ge's eyes and walked towards the second floor.

"Waiter, I want to order a table full of free meals!" A-mei followed closely behind.

Shen Yichen was walking in front. When he heard A-mei's voice, he staggered and almost fell to the ground.

After a while, the food and wine were served, and Shen Yichen said to the waiter:

"Go get me ten sealed bottles of wine and five bottles of wine for drinking now!"

The waiter was stunned. He wanted to drink so much?

"Go quickly, someone is paying!"

Shen Yichen thought it over and decided that this time it would definitely be the masked woman who paid.

Huang Xiyi and Mingzhi Monk didn’t know why Shen Yichen ordered so much wine?

As for A-mei, she ignored everyone and started to eat everything in her possession!

After a while, the waiter brought up the wine. Shen Yichen put ten jugs of wine into the storage bag. He saw A-mei gnawing on a chicken leg and giving him a thumbs up.

"Xiaoer, call Brother Li up here, we have something to ask him!"

The waiter muttered as he walked, "You're sick. You can't finish it all at once!"

After Brother Li came up, Shen Yichen and A'mei were enjoying their meal and no one paid any attention to Brother Li.

"Master, what is your order for me to come up here?"

Monk Mingzhi looked at Shen Yichen, Shen Yichen looked at Huang Xiyi, Huang Xiyi looked at Monk Mingzhi again, and Monk Mingzhi finally reacted.

"Mr. Li, may I ask which road should I take to the east of Lingxu Mountain?"

"After leaving Kelaixiang, take the middle road and keep going west to reach the mountain!"

Brother Li whispered.

"Master, are we going to the eastern foot of Lingxu Mountain?" Li Geduo asked.

Monk Mingzhi looked at Shen Yichen, and Shen Yichen looked at Huang Xiyi. Huang Xiyi thought of Zen Master Wuwang asking the three of them to come to Lingxu Mountain together, so she said, "The three of us are going to go into the mountain along the east side of Lingxu Mountain, and then turn to the Soul Devouring Cave in the south of Lingxu Mountain!"

"There are four of us!" Ah Mei added, her mouth full of grease.

"Oh, then I suggest that the master and this young man change your monk robes into ordinary clothes. The master should wear a hat and disguise himself! If you meet people in the mountains, it is best not to say that you are from Fuchen Temple!"

"Why?" Shen Yichen spoke this time!

"The Tuoba people live in the mountains east of Lingxu. They have hated monks and the people of Fuchen Temple for generations."

"Why?" Huang Xiyi asked. She was curious why someone would be enemies with monks.

"I don't know the details, but I heard from the elders in the tribe that the ancestors of the Tuoba tribe originally lived in the area of ​​the destroyed Fuchen Temple below the Xueyi tribe, and they moved to the forest on the east side of Lingxu Mountain later."

"You'd better dress up so that it will be easier to do things!" Brother Li reminded.

"Thank you for the reminder, Amitabha!"

"Waiter, find me two sets of men's clothes and a hat! Remember to serve the wine and food."

Shen Yichen shouted loudly.