Origin System, I have a barren mountain

Cheng Yunmo was led out of the Zhang family's house; it turned out they had prepared an escape route in advance.

Grandma Zhang walked slowly, glancing at Cheng Yunmo's retreating figure.

Feeling uncomfortable under the gaze, Cheng Yunmo couldn't help but turn back to look at Old Madam Zhang and ask helplessly, "Old Madam Zhang..."

"Did you know that the Empress Dowager couldn't have her own children when she was young?"

Cheng Yunmo shook her head; how could she possibly know such a thing?

"The Empress Dowager is a bit strange. I saw her tear open a door, and the light inside didn't look like candlelight."

"what?"

An image flashed into Cheng Yunmo's mind without his noticing.

"Could it be that I've traveled through time?"

"I don't know, but she just disappeared so suddenly, and even her long hair turned into short hair, which was dyed."

Cheng Yunmo, “…”

The Empress Dowager is amazing; she can travel back and forth between the modern and ancient times without any complicated costs of returning.

The key point is that this person is the Empress Dowager. With such a status, it's no wonder that Empress Dowagers like to come to ancient times so much.

Grandma Zhang said thoughtfully, "If my benefactor knows about this door, is there any way to prevent it from being easily opened by the Empress Dowager?"

Cheng Yunmo thought that Old Madam Zhang was joking. If what Old Madam Zhang said was true, then let's put it this way: the Empress Dowager didn't need to treat her as anyone important; she could just kill her if she wanted to.

"Is the Empress Dowager really that powerful?"

Cheng Yunmo nodded, "Of course they're powerful, otherwise why would I run away with you instead of directly engaging in battle?"

Grandma Zhang sighed helplessly, "It shouldn't be like this. I heard from the illusion of the jade pendant that the Xu Kingdom is not in this situation. It is said that a Heavenly Daughter will come to save the Xu Kingdom. How come I have never seen her after all these years?"

When Cheng Yunmo heard Old Madam Zhang mention the Daughter of Heaven, he realized that more and more people were now hearing about her.

"It's the Empress, isn't it, Lord Cheng?"

Physician Zhang's wife suddenly turned her head and glanced at her, then spoke.

The Empress is the daughter of Heaven. In fact, the fact that a great rain fell from the sky on the day the Empress was enthroned directly alleviated the drought that had plagued the Xu Kingdom for many years is already proof of this.

People may have doubts because they have no way to deal with the Empress and what will happen next.

"The daughter of Prime Minister Mu when she was young, now the Empress, disappeared without attracting much attention. There were far too few people who helped Prime Minister Mu back then. I wonder if the large number of people who helped Prime Minister Mu back then has left the Empress isolated and helpless now?"

"Imperial Physician Zhang's wife sighed and said."

"The Empress still needs the Emperor's protection, and I'm afraid she can't do much. But no one knows what will happen to the Xu Kingdom in the future."

As the Zhang family discussed the matter, everyone's eyes turned to Cheng Yunmo, hoping he could come up with a good solution.

"Lord Cheng, you also claim to be the Imperial Advisor's female disciple, haven't you obtained any useful information from him?"

Grandma Zhang suddenly remembered Cheng Yunmo's identity and asked hopefully.

Cheng Yunmo could only recall that Lord Liu had once given her a jade pendant, which was also given to her by the Imperial Advisor.

After the jade pendant turned into powder, she put it in a small porcelain bottle. When she took out the small porcelain bottle to show it to Grandma Zhang, she suddenly noticed that the porcelain bottle was moving strangely.

Feeling something was off, she opened the porcelain bottle to look inside. To her surprise, the jade pendant suddenly floated into the air after the bottle was opened.

The jade pendant seemed to possess a special energy. When it floated in the air, it clearly went straight for those shadows, and those shadows, as if they had seen something terrifying, vanished instantly.

Cheng Yunmo was stunned when he saw this scene, having no idea that the jade pendant given by the Imperial Preceptor had such power.

The villagers, who had been fleeing in all directions, suddenly found themselves safe and sound.

"what happened?"

"I saw it! Just now, something like a magical cloud ran up to those shadows, and the shadows just disappeared. It seemed to be over there!"

Cheng Yunmo and his group were caught off guard and spotted by the villagers.

The villagers looked at the Zhang family with shame. They hadn't expected that after treating them that way at the beginning, the Zhang family would become so friendly and even choose to save them.

"Lord Cheng, you are the legendary Spirit of the Desolate Mountain, aren't you?"

For some unknown reason, a villager suddenly recognized her and mentioned the name she had been called "Huangshanling" long ago.

Cheng Yunmo didn't know who the other person was. Seeing everyone looking at him, he slowly nodded.

"Lord Cheng, you don't remember me, but I remember you. When I fled to the desolate mountains, it was you who helped us drive away those shadows. When those shadows saw you, they obediently stopped spitting fire, and we were able to grow food in time."

The man's eyes were full of gratitude as he said this.

“My mother told me that you are a good person. The seeds we brought back followed your orders and removed some strange things from the soil. The crops grew quite well.”

This was the first time Cheng Yunmo had ever heard someone remember what she had said after so long.

The middle-aged man seemed to remember something and quickly brought over the cloth bag he had tied up.

Cheng Yunmo saw the other person carefully open the cloth bag, inside which were some corn seeds.

These were corn seeds that had been attacked countless times, yet they remained completely unaffected by the shadow's attack, and the cloth bag suffered almost no damage.

The corn seeds seemed to emit a faint, peculiar scent, a scent that somehow dispelled the flames emanating from the shadows.

"this…"

When Cheng Yunmo saw this scene, she was also extremely surprised, as she herself had a very poor memory.

Most of the people from that period had forgotten about it, but unexpectedly, someone put such important information in front of her.

Grandma Zhang stared in astonishment at the middle-aged man's mother, who was slowly following behind with a cane.

Judging from the other person's age of sixty, although he was using a cane, he walked like the wind, not at all like someone his age.

Since everyone's eyes were on the elderly man who had come over, Cheng Yunmo's gaze also fell upon him, but he didn't think anything of it.

After all, in modern times, it's not uncommon to see sixty-year-olds in good health who walk like the wind.