Dusk Returns to the Ruined Building

The sun is blocked by a cool breeze that blows out of the secluded valley, and to my great surprise I come across a solitary grave!

"Why is it so unlucky? I don't think I'm really fit to go down the mountain!"

Shen Yichen looked at an abandoned grave beside the mountain road outside the valley entrance, muttering to himself. Without stopping, he hurried over. With the corner of his eye, he saw that there seemed to be a tombstone with the words: "Tomb of my beloved wife Gongsun Hongyan".

"Bumpkin, the words on this tombstone look like they were carved in blood!"

Xixi walked at the end and called out to Shen Yichen and Mu Wanqian. Mu Wanqian didn't even notice the desolate graves on the side of the road. Oh! She was a little obsessed!

"This should be the tomb of a cultivator. Look at the words on the tombstone. The blood inside is coagulated and not dispersed!"

As Xixi spoke, she grabbed Mu Wanqian's other hand and pinched it quietly.

In fact, Shen Yichen noticed that the tombstone was actually a piece of stone slab with words carved on it in blood.

"Xiaobai, we are cultivators after all, can you please stop making a fuss? Let's go, this is just a deserted grave, I think it's unlucky!"

Shen Yichen didn't dare to call her Xiao Bainiu, so he just called her Xiao Bai! Xixi glared at him and said nothing.

After Shen Yichen finished speaking, he was about to grab Mu Wanqian's hand and continue moving forward, but Mu Wanqian dodged!

It turned out that after Xixi secretly pinched Mu Wanqian just now, Mu Wanqian realized that she seemed to have lost her composure and let go of Shen Yichen's hand.

"Coward, you are still a coward after all!"

Mu Wanqian walked forward and looked around the desolate grave.

“It’s been decades, right?”

"Let's go, my lady!"

Shen Yichen urged helplessly.

There was really nothing to see in a deserted grave, so Mu Wanqian continued to move forward. Xixi shook her head. She pinched Mu Wanqian to make her pay attention to the words on the tombstone! But Mu Wanqian seemed to have misunderstood.

Why is Xixi interested in the tombstone? Because Mu Wanqian's grandmother's surname is Gongsun, and she is from the Gongsun family of Yingzhou, but Mu Wanqian didn't seem to care, so Xixi didn't mention it. After all, Mu Wanqian didn't have a good relationship with her grandmother!

The three of them set off again, and Mu Wanqian returned to her young ladylike appearance.

"Coward, look how beautiful you are!"

Mu Wanqian shouted as she walked to a pond.

This is a heart-shaped pool of water. The water should come from an underground river because the source of the water is not visible. The water in the pool flows slowly outward along the apex of the heart. The water in the pool is crystal clear, reflecting the clouds and the red sun in the sky. From a distance, it looks like a beautiful painting of the red sun and clouds.

Shen Yichen sighed secretly:

"Nature is truly amazing! Not to mention the strange peaks and dangerous gorges, even this small pool is so wonderful!"

It turned out that Shen Yichen discovered that the heart-shaped pool was formed naturally, without any traces of artificial excavation.

Xixi looked at the reflections of the two people in the pool and was very envious. The two people were standing at the center of the pool, and their reflections in the water looked like a loving couple.

The three of them lingered for a while and then continued to move forward. They did not fly. One reason was that they had not fully recovered yet, and the other was that they had agreed last night to rest today and play in the mountains.

Not long after the three of them left, a few bubbles suddenly appeared in the heart-shaped pool. The three-eyed demon python poked its head out and whispered:

"Who is this kid? How come he knows where I'm hiding?"

Looking at the three people's backs as they walked away,

"You should be out of Manghuang by now! If you come back again, I won't be polite to you!"

The three-eyed demon python had no idea that Shen Yichen really hit on it by accident!

However, Shen Yichen, who was traveling far away, looked back at the direction of the pond and said to himself:

"It can't really follow me all the way, this is too scary!"

He subconsciously quickened his pace. It turned out that after the three-eyed python appeared, Youyou told Shen Yichen.

It was a very ordinary encounter, but it made the man and the monster, each with their own thoughts, think a lot!

Shen Yichen and the other two continued to move slowly along the path in the mountains. Mu Wanqian was at the front and Shen Yichen was at the end. It was Xixi who separated the two intentionally or unintentionally!

Not long after, the three of them saw a wall. To be more precise, it was more like a mountain that had been chopped off by an axe, leaving behind a smooth, flat stone wall with many patterns carved on it. It looked ancient, mysterious and strange.

Although the lines carved on the stone wall are very rough, the pictures are very clear. Some look like sacrifices, some look like people besieging a giant beast, and some look like people kneeling to pray to God. I don't know why! In the pictures, people are wearing all kinds of clothes, and different people are doing different things. The three of them looked at them all carefully and found it very strange. The carvings obviously look very old, but why haven't they been corroded by wind and sun?

Shen Yichen also made another discovery. Something in the picture looked very much like the Soul-Devouring Cave!

"Coward, isn't that the hole we fell into?"

Mu Wanqian also noticed it and pointed at the hole outlined by lines in a painting and asked Shen Yichen.

Shen Yichen did not respond because he found that in every picture with people in different clothes, there was the shadow of the Soul-Devouring Cave. Although the content of each painting was slightly different, the cliff and the cave entrance were vaguely visible.

Shen Yichen muttered in his heart:

“Oh my god! Isn’t the black hole in the Sky Burial Mountain also called the Soul Devouring Cave?”

Shen Yichen was shocked and quickly said:

"Let's go, why do I feel like we're still in the Manghuang Mountains?"

Mu Wanqian did not continue to ask. The appearance of a stone wall with countless pictures on it in this desolate mountain was a bit creepy.

The three of them quickened their pace and continued along the mountain road. Shen Yichen suggested flying, but the two girls refused. They gave good reasons. What if there were people outside the mountain who wanted to kill them? Wouldn't that mean they were doomed?

Shen Yichen gave up, in fact, he also had this worry! After all, the three of them had not recovered yet.

"Oh, I have to practice hard. It's not easy to be afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind!"

While Shen Yichen followed the two of them, he reminded himself in his heart!

After thinking about the many things he had experienced after coming down the mountain, he finally came to a conclusion:

"He has no money, no power, and no cultivation. This is the real reason why he has difficulty traveling after coming down the mountain!"

The scenery along the way for the three of them was quite nice. There were wild flowers everywhere, colorful, and green mountains and leaves, all green under the sun. But there was one strange thing: there were no people, but small animals could be encountered occasionally.

At some point, Xixi walked in front, and Mu Wanqian walked between the two of them, picking a flower and throwing it behind her from time to time. Shen Yichen didn't care, but after a long time, Shen Yichen found that Mu Wanqian always glared at him, and he was a little confused!

The three of them just kept walking like this, knowing that they were definitely on the way out of the mountain. Although the road didn't go straight down, it was winding downwards!

When the sun was at its highest point in the sky, the three of them came to a huge rock with three words engraved on it - Wu Heng Peak!

“Have you ever heard of this mountain?”

Shen Yichen and Mu Wanqian asked each other at the same time, and then they looked at each other and smiled!

"Country bumpkin, aren't you from Manghuang? How come you don't know anything?"

Xixi said something to Shen Yichen, and she found that the young lady had two flowers on her hair, one was purple and the other was red. She didn't know if the young lady had put them in herself or...

Of course it was Shen Yichen who inserted the flowers. Mu Wanqian kept glaring at him all the way, and seeing that he didn't react, she finally signaled Shen Yichen with her eyes. Shen Yichen suddenly came to his senses, quickly picked two flowers, and quietly inserted them in Mu Wanqian's hair. From then on, Mu Wanqian not only stopped glaring at Shen Yichen, but also turned back and smiled at him from time to time.

"Didn't you tell me that this is not the Manghuang Mountains? How would I know where this is!"

Shen Yichen glanced at Xixi and thought:

"I wish the little white girl would become a good little girl someday!"

"Miss, what should we do? Which way should we go?"

Xixi looked at the two paths beside the boulder and asked Mu Wanqian.

"Which one do you choose, you coward?"

"Miss, you choose. He was the one who chose last time. We almost..."

When Xixi heard that Mu Wanqian still wanted Shen Yichen to choose, she quickly spoke out to stop her.

Shen Yichen shamelessly said:

"Qian'er, you choose!"

When the two girls heard Qian'er, they panicked, and Mu Wanqian's face suddenly turned red! As for Xixi, her face didn't change much, but her heartbeat quickened, and she felt her face was hot!

Mu Wanqian didn't say anything, but walked shyly to the right front road.

"Ouch!"

A scream echoed through the mountains and forests. It was Shen Yichen's voice again.

Xixi attacked again, but this time she didn't use her palm, but her hand. She pinched Shen Yichen's arm hard and warned him:

"Don't call me Qian'er anymore!"

After saying that, she went after her lady.

"Little white girl, are you sick? It's none of your business if I call you Miss!"

Shen Yichen whispered, not daring to let Xixi hear him. Covering his arm, he also walked towards the road in front of him. Xixi pinched him too hard, and Shen Yichen thought he must be bleeding!

"Humph, sooner or later I'll turn you into a good little girl!"

Shen Yichen looked at Xixi's back in front of him and said fiercely in his heart.

There were still birds singing and flowers blooming along the way, but there was a small stream on the side of the road, with gurgling water and tinkling sounds.

Not long after, Shen Yichen noticed that Mu Wanqian's body flashed with purple light, but he didn't pay much attention to it. Mu Wanqian walked for a long time before she recovered from her shyness as "Qian'er" and said to herself:

"Is it too fast? I don't seem to understand him!"

Alas, when has a young girl's love ever been rational? The budding of youthful love cannot be stopped by rationality. Before you know it, you will be deeply trapped in it and unable to extricate yourself!

The three of them walked side by side on this road because it was very wide, but Xixi was in the middle and Shen Yichen didn't call Qian'er anymore.

When Shen Yichen noticed the fish in the stream beside the road, he said:

"Miss, shall we take a break?"

The second girl was also a little tired, so the three of them stopped, and soon, they started eating grilled fish.

"Xixi, give me a pot of Qisongxiang!"

Mu Wanqian asked Xixi for wine while eating!

"Miss, you two have drunk all the wine!"

"What did you say? There was so much! No more? Did you drink secretly?"

When Shen Yichen heard that the wine was gone, he spoke first.

Xixi glared at him.

"Don't you have any idea how much you drank? Don't you remember how drunk you were?"

While Xixi was arguing with Shen Yichen, she was secretly thinking:

"How did he know I drank secretly?"

He looked at Shen Yichen with suspicion.

On the night when Shen Yichen was drunk, he did vaguely see Xixi drinking, but he couldn't remember it at all. He just said it casually.

Without wine, Shen Yichen and Mu Wanqian found their food tasteless, but Xixi ate a lot of grilled fish!

After the three of them had eaten their fill, they continued on their way. After an unknown amount of time, they came to a boulder. There were still two roads next to the boulder, and three words were engraved on the boulder:

Wu Hengfeng!