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"Old Taoist priest, can we talk about this matter of age and seniority later? Could you please tell me the whereabouts of the other five people who traveled with me, and how I got here?"

Seeing Ye Changyan's anxious look, Qing Xuanzi smiled and looked at the row of people in blue Taoist robes standing on the left side of the hall. He cast a glance at the crowd and saw a cultivator in his early thirties in the front row stand up and bow respectfully to Ye Changyan.

"Nephew Cangqin, I want to reply to Uncle Master's words. Three days ago, Uncle Master Qingxuan told me that Uncle Master's descendant had entered Mangshan Mountain, and asked me to take a group of disciples to the palace gate to welcome him. However, I waited from noon to afternoon and Uncle Master did not come to knock on the door. I guessed that Uncle Master might not have found the mechanism to open the palace gate."

Ye Changyan felt something was wrong when he heard Cangqin's words. This was his first time in Shengjing, and he had never set foot in the mountains. How could he know the gate mechanism of Yujing Palace? Then he heard Cangqin continue.

"Just when we, the disciples, were puzzled, we heard the rumble of an avalanche outside the palace. We immediately opened the palace gate and saw that our master and his group were buried under the snow by the avalanche caused by the eyeless monk who had been lingering on the mountain for several months."

Ye Changyan had been wondering if he, a weak scholar, was the only one buried under the snow. He did not expect that even Lu Tingfeng and Sang Li, who were agile martial artists, were buried.

"I and other disciples rescued Master Uncle and the others who were traveling with him. Because Master Uncle was seriously injured, the Palace Master ordered him to be sent to the cliff cave in the back mountain to heal his injuries."

"Where are the others who were with me now?"

"In reply to Master Uncle, the people who traveled with Master Uncle have all been placed in the guest house to recuperate."

"Are they all okay?"

"Except for the young master who doesn't know Kung Fu and is slightly more seriously injured, the others are all fine. However, the young master who was slightly more seriously injured has been treated by Senior Brother Cangjie and is now fine."

Upon hearing that Liang Jingcheng, Lu Tingfeng, and Sang Li and their servant were all safe, Ye Changyan finally felt relieved.

However, from what Cangqin said just now, the man who attacked him and his group seemed to be called the Eyeless Monk. And from the meaning of Cangqin's words, it seemed that he should know the mechanism of the mountain gate, which made Ye Changyan very confused.

"We came into this mountain to find Yujing Palace. We went deep into the mountain but couldn't even find the gate of Yujing Palace. We were attacked by that eyeless monk for no apparent reason."

"Hahaha, Junior Brother, you are worthy of being the successor of my uncle. The reason why that Bitter Bitter Monk attacked you is because you found the mechanism of the gate of my Yujing Palace."

Qing Xuanzi burst into laughter, and the other four people beside him also smiled.

Qing Xuanzi saw Ye Changyan looking at him in confusion, so he stared at Ye Changyan and said with a smile.

"Junior brother, please feel what is in your arms."

Ye Changyan had a puzzled look on his face. He reached his hand into his arms and touched the light green pebble that he had picked up in the snow. Ye Changyan took out the pebble and looked at Qing Xuanzi and the others on the platform with some confusion.

"The founder of my Yujing Palace discovered that the depths of this vast mountain was an excellent place for cultivation. In order to prevent outsiders from disturbing us, he set up a magic array outside the palace gate. People outside the palace only need to hold the stone in my hands and continue to walk up the mountain. When they get close to the palace gate, the stone will be sucked onto the gate. At this time, people outside the palace can see the palace gate through the magic array, and the gatekeepers inside the palace gate will also hear the sound of knocking on the door."

After hearing what Qing Xuanzi said, Ye Changyan finally understood that the light green pebble in his hand was the key to finding Yujing Palace. The principle Qing Xuanzi described seemed similar to the principle of a magnet being attracted to a large iron door.

"Junior brother, you are worthy of being the successor of my uncle. There are twelve such stones outside the palace gate. You are the first person to find such a stone in all these years."

Ye Changyan's face flushed a little, because after he found the stone, he felt that it must be worth a lot of money. In addition, there were many people around, so he collected the stone, intending to keep it for himself.

"How did the eyeless monk know that I had found the mechanism to open the palace gate?"

"That Blind Monk is a monk from the extremely cold land of Mobei. When he was young, his family suffered a tragedy and his family was destroyed. He was the only one who survived, as his eyes were pierced out by his enemies. No one knows how he ended up in the extremely cold land of Mobei. He has been living with white bears for many years, practicing hard, so people call him Blind Monk."

I didn't expect that the life of this blind and miserable monk was so pitiful. But when I thought about how I was almost killed by him, I couldn't help but think of the saying: There must be something hateful about a pitiful person.

"Although the eyeless monk lost his eyes when he was young, he devoted himself to practice and his other senses became extremely sensitive, especially his hearing and smell. I believe that when Junior Brother found the stone, the resonance between the stone and the palace gate was heard by the eyeless monk. After all, the eyeless monk was in the psychedelic array."

If this is true, then the hearing of this eyeless monk is too horrible.

"I don't know where that eyeless monk got the news from, but he said that there was a magical elixir in my Yujing Palace that could bring dead trees back to life and turn the dead back to life. He wanted to get one to rebuild his eyes. He came to this mountain a few months ago and lingered there for several months, but couldn't get in. When you found the stone, you gave him hope, so he naturally went crazy for it."

"No wonder that old but deep voice asked us to hand over the things. It turns out that this is what he wanted."

Ye Changyan couldn't help but sigh, the cause of the disaster was actually the small pebble in his hand.

"So where is this eyeless monk now?"

Hearing Ye Changyan's question, Cangqin stood out from the queue again.

"To answer Uncle Master's words, when a group of disciples including me opened the palace gate, the Blind Monk rushed in like a madman. We stopped him outside the palace gate and told him that the palace did not have the elixir he wanted, but he refused to believe it. Later, Uncle Master Qingyang, who was in charge of the alchemy room in the palace, came forward in person and sent him away."

Hearing that the blind and miserable monk had been sent away, Ye Changyan finally felt relieved.

At this time, Ye Changyan still had many questions in his mind about himself, about Mr. Gongshu, and about his original self. He looked at the people on the platform, then tilted his head to look at the people standing in the hall. For a moment, he didn't know whether he should ask.