Leisurely mountain village

On Friday, July 13th, an auspicious day for breaking ground and offering sacrifices, Ye Huan told his grandfather after lunch that there was some noise in the back mountain and to ignore it. He also gave Da Zhuang a few instructions and, along with Big Tiger and Mangfu, went to the depths of the back mountain, to the thousand-meter-deep abyss.

The defensive array had been set up before the Lunar New Year. Ye Huan landed directly in the spiritual vein cave below. He first stared at the rolling mist at the cave entrance for a while, then told the big tiger to watch out for the situation below, as he was about to extract spiritual energy from the vein.

The tiger moved, leaping onto a large protruding rock on the opposite cliff, staring intently down below, assuming a fighting stance.

Seeing that the tiger was ready, Ye Huan went inside, reached out and pressed down on the head of the spiritual vein, and shouted, "Space, draw!"

With a rumbling sound, the earth trembled as the spiritual veins were gradually pulled out of the rocky mountain and entered Ye Huan's space. Still, they remained aloof and refused to merge, occupying their own territory.

As time went on, Ye Huan realized that this spiritual vein was much, much larger than the one he had drawn from the borderlands before. He even saw that the latter half of the spiritual vein was entirely composed of top-grade spirit stones.

Rocks are falling from the cliff here. Without the spiritual veins, the loose rocks are falling into the abyss.

After more than 40 minutes, Ye Huan finally finished drawing spiritual energy and flew out to the side of the big tiger. More and more rocks were falling from the opposite cliff, but only a lot of rocks fell. The cliff collapse that Ye Huan had imagined did not happen.

He wasn't in a hurry to go into the space to check. The space had already shaken, and Ye Huan knew that it must have been upgraded again. This time, the spiritual vein was too complete and too large, and its quality was definitely better than the previous one. But he didn't have time to care about how the space had been upgraded.

Ye Huan stared intently at the formation below. As the spiritual veins were drawn out, the mist began to slowly dissipate.

After searching for two whole hours, Ye Huan finally saw the formation below. However, because the spiritual vein was gone, the formation was also on the verge of collapse. Ye Huan flew to the edge of the formation and struck it casually. The formation shattered with a loud bang.

Just as the formation shattered, Ye Huan saw a monster charging towards him. "Stop!" Ye Huan shouted, pressing one hand against its forehead.

A clear and melodious roar came from the monster under Ye Huan's command. Ye Huan smiled and said, "Qilin, haha, come with me." After saying that, he took the Qilin and entered the space.

This Qilin had been inside the formation for countless years and had already reached adulthood as a spirit beast. So after entering Ye Huan's space, it became loyal, underwent a slight evolution towards becoming a divine beast, and then disappeared.

Ye Huan also observed the changes in space. The mountains were higher, covered with snow, and the sea was wider, with large fish leaping out of the water. The total area had increased several times over. According to the spatial feedback Ye Huan received, the area was currently 1000 million mu, of which 200 million mu was ocean.

Ye Huan didn't know if the current space could support him to upgrade to the level of an immortal, but he knew that at least he didn't have to worry about upgrading in the future.

After leaving the space with the Qilin, Ye Huan looked at the Qilin standing beside him and asked, "Where is next?"

"Woo-hoo~~" Qilin nuzzled Ye Huan with its head.

"You mean, this is the place where your sect left behind when they were relocating? Oh my god, really?" Ye Huan was stunned. He had found the place of inheritance left by an ancient sect?

After asking the Qilin, Ye Huan led it, the big tiger, and the brute down. It turned out that this place was much deeper. Judging from the speed, Ye Huan estimated that they were now at least a thousand meters below the ground. Not a thousand meters below the cliff, but a thousand meters below the ground. Including the height of the abyss, it was more than 2000 meters.

"This was hidden too well," Ye Huan said speechlessly, then thud—finally, he was on solid ground.

Looking at everything before him, Ye Huan couldn't believe it. This was actually a sect's base! It was at least twice the size of their Ye Family Village.

There were probably over a hundred ancient buildings in the complex. Ye Huan looked at the buildings, then at the Qilin, and asked, "How many years have you lived here?"

Qilin looked at Ye Huan and shook its head. It didn't know either. Anyway, it had been a very, very long time. It had been a long time since it was a cub, until it became an adult.

"Where is the place of inheritance?" Ye Huan nodded and asked again.

The Qilin took off, and Ye Huan and the others followed, flying over one ancient building after another. The Qilin led Ye Huan to an inconspicuous little house and stopped there.

Ye Huan looked at the small house, which occupied about 50 square meters, went inside, and found a table, a kang (a heated brick bed), and that was it.

There was a futon on the kang (heated brick bed), made of some kind of material, somewhat like jade. "A jade futon?" Ye Huan asked in confusion. "Do people use jade futons for meditation?"

Ye Huan put the jade pieces away and looked at the two jade pieces on the table. He really knew about these things; his master and the others used them too. They were called jade slips, used by ancient cultivators to record cultivation techniques or leave written messages.

He knew how to use it: stick it on his forehead and read it with his divine sense. Ye Huan carefully put away the two jade slips, deciding to look at them later. He was worried about not knowing the background of this place.

After a careful search, there was indeed nothing left in the small house. Ye Huan came out and asked Qilin, "Is there anything else we can take with us?"

Qilin glanced at Ye Huan, tilted its head and thought for a moment, then continued running, this time without taking off.

Ye Huan and the others followed, and soon they arrived at the center, at the largest ancient building. Ye Huan pushed open the door, revealing a place resembling a grand hall.

There were seats on both sides, and next to each seat was a long, blue sword. It had been there for a long time, but the tassel on the sword was still as good as new.

Ye Huan sheathed his longsword and searched carefully again. The Qilin cried out and then ran away. Ye Huan followed. This time it was an inconspicuous house. Ye Huan went in and saw spirit stones all over the floor, but there weren't many top-grade ones, only about a thousand. They might have been taken away by someone.

However, there were many more ordinary spirit stones. Just looking at that huge pile, Ye Huan guessed that there were more than 10 of them.

He didn't even count it; he just put it into the ring. He was rich! He really was rich this time.

When asked again, the Qilin shook its head, perhaps because it didn't have any left, or perhaps it thought the other things weren't worth the trip.

Ye Huan used his divine sense to search the area and saw several large, unidentified trees. He put them into his spatial storage. Then he saw a herb garden with fallen seeds and roots still in the ground, all of which he collected into his spatial storage and planted, just in case there were any good things among them.

Having found nothing else that caught his eye, Ye Huan traversed the entire underground territory, rearranged a super defensive array, and then ascended upwards with the Qilin, the tiger, and the brute.

Standing atop the abyss peak, still unable to see anything below, Ye Huan led everyone back.

When he got to the back of the mountain, he checked the time and it was almost nine o'clock. He didn't go down any further. He sent a message to his wife to let her know that he had arrived at the back of the mountain, and then started to prepare food.