Time Travel: Did My Sister-in-Law Get Slapped in the Face Today?

"Good apprentice, I knew you could escape. So, how much did you get?"

Old Daoist Duan Tian rubbed his hands together, eagerly anticipating the passage.

"I only picked up a little bit before that ghost scared me away... Master, that cemetery really is haunted!"

The young Taoist priest was a little scared.

"This time we almost got into trouble... I was hoping to use Zhu Wuquan to get in touch with the Zhu family, but I never expected to run into a ghost!"

The old Taoist gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go, let's go see the true disciple of the Zhu family!"

……

Another place.

mine.

Countless miners toiled day and night like slaves, and mine carts piled high with spirit stones transported them in dense rows. Inside a grand stone hall, a young man in brocade robes, after listening to the report from his escaped subordinate, slowly said:

"So, I ordered you to capture the descendants of the Venerable One, but because of your greed, you acted on your own and caused trouble, attracting vengeful spirits, and you didn't even bring the person back?"

His men were all terrified and fell silent!

"Take them away and kill them all."

The young man in brocade calmly said, then looked to the side and said, "Blood Chrysanthemum, go there yourself."

A woman in a tight-fitting outfit next to him nodded and immediately left.

……

The village was entirely built of stone and was very simple. Some ordinary wild wheat was planted around the village, but it had all been destroyed by the Zhu clan's cultivators.

Li Lan followed Ming Zilou into a slightly larger stone chamber. Inside, a perfectly round stone was enshrined. After offering incense, Ming Zilou turned around:

“Young friend, I will not hide it from you anymore. We are the descendants of the Mingzun and all the saints.”

“Back then, Mingzun led the saints to quell the rebellion, while the rear was handed over to Zhidao Immortal Venerable. However, the saints ultimately had reservations about Zhidao Immortal Venerable, so they placed us all in the Wanyuan Mountain Range and left some experts behind to protect us.”

He sighed, "Originally, the saints had put in a lot of effort, and this place was of great importance. Even if the Supreme Immortal Venerable broke his promise, he shouldn't have dared to cause trouble here. But unexpectedly, some great changes happened here later, and the experts who stayed here entered the Ten Thousand Yuan Mountain Range and never came out again..."

"The threat here has been eliminated. After the Supreme Immortal Venerable betrayed the Bright Venerable, he led various forces to sweep in. Most of the experts who remained were also lost within the Ten Thousand Mountain Range and were unable to resist. Therefore, the descendants of the saints have been almost completely wiped out!"

"We tried every means to hide, and only then did we survive as the last branch of our family. We thought that being found by the Zhu family today would mean our extinction, but we never expected that fate would not abandon us and that we would eventually meet you, young friend."

He hadn't mentioned these things for a very long time, but now, as he spoke of them, his old eyes were filled with a mix of emotions, grief, and sorrow. After a long while, a trace of heartache and guilt slowly surfaced on his old face:

"The descendants are incompetent. Now, my young friend has escorted the bones of the Mingzun and the saints back, but he cannot bring them the honor of the world. Instead, they must hide their names and die in the wilderness... How incompetent!"

He was heartbroken, and tears welled up in his old eyes.

Li Lan was taken aback. Ming Zilou... actually knew that he had sent the bones of the Mingzun and the saints?

“Young friend, you are cautious, but I am, after all, a direct descendant of the Mingzun. I am not so foolish as to not recognize my ancestor’s bones even when they are right in front of me…”

He said, “Young friend, rest assured, I understand that once this matter gets out, it will cause a huge uproar. It’s not just that we will all die, but even their bones will not be preserved… Therefore, no third person will know about this matter.”

Li Lan felt a slight mix of emotions, but she nodded.

He trusted Ming Zilou.

"Young friend, did the Bright Lord and the other saints leave any last words? Are any of them still alive?"

Mingzi Lou asked in a trembling voice.

Li Lan sighed, "All the saints have died in battle, and even the Mingzun has long since vanished."

"I only caught a glimpse of the remnant spirit of the Venerable One, and he imparted some teachings to me. It was he who entrusted me with the bones of the saints, and sent me to the Ten Thousand Mountain Range..."

Now that things have come to this, Li Lan did not hide anything: "However, the Venerable One did not expect that the Wanyuan Mountain Range would be in such a state."