Chapter 321 – Strange Valley
Chapter 321 – Strange Valley
It was only the last spirit stone, which was also used up during yesterday’s dinner, in order to fool the others into thinking that the two had eaten all that food.
The remaining talisman seals were like waste paper without the aura to activate them.
Thinking of this, Chu Youtian sighed lightly and looked very covetously at the bone blade in Xu Chuniang’s hand.
Those two bone blades had been polished to be so light and thin that they could almost blow away hair, a very rare weapon in this land of extinct spirits.
Chu Youtian had left in a hurry and only had time to casually pass along a spear.
The spear was made of wood, only the tip was made of bone, and it looked like it had already had some years of age.
He was of an idle nature, and didn’t walk for long before he started to run out of words.
“Fellow Daoist Yan is still a bit inexperienced. When a cultivator walks outside, especially when in a secret realm like this, it’s best to carry some spirit stones and other things close to you, just in case.”
Xu Chuniang didn’t retort, Chu Youtian’s words had some truth to them.
For him, a cultivator from a small sect to live peacefully until he was two hundred years old, he naturally had his strengths.
“Since this is the third time that Fellow Daoist Chu has come to this Heavenly Dao Palace, I’m sure you’re familiar with this place. Have you entered this Land of Extinct Spirits before?”
Chu Youtian shook his head, “The Heavenly Dao Palace’s test is different every time, and this is also the first time I’ve entered this place. It stands to reason that the first level should be easy to pass, and I don’t know if there was some kind of accident.”
“Does fellow Daoist Chu have a way to break the barrier?”
Chu Youtian looked a little more serious, from Xu Chuniang, he had gotten quite a bit of useful information, and naturally had many conjectures.
“If I’m not wrong, the Sorcerer God they worship is most likely their ancestor. The people in the village are the descendants of that Sorcerer God.”
“Descendants of the Sorcerer God.”
Xu Chuniang repeated in a low voice, “Then it would seem that the people in the other villages should also be descendants of that Sorcerer God.”
Chu Youtian nodded, “Not bad, the fact that his descendants could have developed into so many villages means that this Witch God has existed for at least a thousand years.”
Xu Chuniang recalled the conversation she had heard that night, and a heavy feeling came over her heart.
“The fact that they don’t hesitate to sacrifice the Sorcerer God at the cost of their clan’s lives shows that this Sorcerer God is of vital importance to them.”
“That’s why after we follow the village chief and the others to blend into the ancestral land, we have to find a way to disrupt the sacrifice.”
Chu Youtian sighed softly, “But we are devoid of aura, so I’m afraid that it won’t be easy for us to do something under that Sorcerer God’s nose.”
The two of them resumed their silence, quietly following behind the village chief and his group.
After following them like this for five days, after entering a valley, the village head and his party suddenly quickened their pace.
Xu Chuniang frowned slightly, since entering this valley, she had a feeling that she was not quite comfortable.
Chu Youtian obviously shared the same feeling, whispering, “Something’s not right here, I’m afraid it’s not far from that ancestral land.”
As soon as the words fell, his entire body was violently yanked by Xu Chuniang, pulling him into a tall shrubbery on the side.
However, he saw that ahead, the village chief and his party suddenly stopped, their gazes coldly scanning the surroundings, even sending a few people to search the neighborhood.
“Grandpa Village Chief, what’s wrong?”
A young boy looked to the sides in confusion.
Seeing that nothing was searched, the village chief withdrew his gaze and revealed a kind smile.
“I seem to have heard some movement just now, but I hope I heard it wrong. Keep walking, Lord Witch God doesn’t like to be late.”
Seeing the group’s figures completely disappear, Xu Chuniang only softly opened her lips, “After entering this valley, their spiritual senses seem to have elevated.”
Originally, separated by such a distance, those people would not have been able to detect the movements of the two at all.
However, the village chief’s actions just now seemed like he had discovered something.
Chu Youtian similarly realized this, his face did not look too good, this was not good news.
The two of them were so delayed, the few people behind them had already followed. Other than the pair of evil cultivator men and women, the other person was a middle-aged male cultivator.
“Why aren’t the two of you leaving?”
You Sinniang raised an eyebrow, her gaze sweeping over Xu Chuniang’s flat, uninteresting face and landing on Chu Youtian’s body.
Chu Youtian hesitated slightly and voiced the two’s suspicions.
“So it’s like this.”
The middle-aged male cultivator’s face changed slightly.
Chu Youtian added, “But as long as you pay more attention and follow them from afar, you won’t be discovered.”
The three groups of people went back on the road unannounced, only the deeper they went towards the valley, the stronger that feeling of discomfort became.
On the contrary, the village chief and his group were walking faster and faster and walking as fast as they could, they used all their strength to hurry, but they still lost them.
“What a strange thing, what kind of strong medicine did this group of people take, how do they walk so fast.”
The middle-aged cultivator was panting with exhaustion, sweating profusely as he stared at the fork in the road in front of him.
“Ever since we entered this valley, there’s always been a depressing feeling. Ugh, really don’t want to go any further.”
You Sinniang didn’t say anything, she had already secretly sent out Xiao Jin, who was connected to her heart and soul and could easily find those people’s location.
“What to do now, which side to go?”
Chu Youtian had a helpless look on his face as he looked towards Xu Chuniang, seeking her opinion.
Xu Chuniang thought for a moment and intuitively chose a path to the right, “Go this way.”
You Sinniang’s gaze flickered slightly as she chose a path on the left, “Then I’ll choose this one.”
The five parted ways at the fork in the road, the middle-aged cultivator eventually following behind the evil cultivator man and woman.
Xu Chuniang and Chu Youtian didn’t go far along the path on the right and found a natural cave with an ancient stone tablet standing at the entrance.
Chu Youtian came closer to the stone tablet and tried to recognize the characters on it, but those characters were so worn out that only a few traces of varying depths remained.
“It seems like there are characters written on this stone monument, but it’s too old to read.”
He hesitated for a moment and gently placed his hand on top of the stone tablet, and a cold sensation immediately emanated from the stone tablet and fell into his palm.
Chu Youtian only felt that his body was soothed, and he couldn’t help but stick his entire body on top of the stone tablet, and that cold sensation became even more intense.
“What are you doing?”
Xu Chuniang frowned slightly.
“That uncomfortable feeling disappeared when I hugged this stone tablet, this stone tablet is definitely a treasure.”
Chu Youtian explained, wrapping his hands around the stone tablet and attempting to pull it out.
However still by holding his red face, the stone tablet remained motionless.
The corners of Xu Chuniang’s eyes twitched slightly, and she stepped forward to place her palm on top of the stone tablet.
An icy coolness emanated from her palm, dispelling the faint restlessness that had risen in her heart since she had entered this valley.
Chu Youtian was right, this stone tablet was indeed extraordinary.
She withdrew her hand, and that coldness lingered around her body for a long time.
Chu You Tian kept changing his posture, trying to pull out the stone tablet, even though he was tired, he refused to give up on it.
He had risked his life to enter this Heavenly Dao Palace for the sake of treasures and cultivation resources.
Now that he had come across it, how could he miss it?
(End of chapter)