ninety thousand miles

Chapter 589 Inference
Li Chuan and his companions followed Yu Chen out.

Under the huge house, there was a maze of secret passages, intertwined and intricate. Li Chuan could feel that he was going down, and the others were lost.

Finally, Yu Chen stopped and said, "This is it."

Li Chuan looked forward with the help of the torchlight. He could vaguely see a dark cave in front of him, but nothing else was clear.

Yu Chen said: "You guys go in and talk, I'll stay here."

"Okay." Wen Guying said and walked forward, and Li Chuan and others followed.

After walking in, Wen Guying took out a lamp and placed it on the ground. Li Chuan finally saw the situation in the cave clearly and he let out a "Huh".

"What's wrong?" Gong Er asked.

"This," Li Chuan pointed to the stone wall in front of him. There was a row of simple patterns on the stone wall. He said, "Among these pictures, the one closest to the edge is somewhat similar to what I saw in my dream."

Wen Guying glanced at it and said, "A spell."

"Yeah." Li Chuan said. He saw Jiang Mei setting up a barrier and asked, "Can this place block the wind?"

Jiang Mei said, "Sure, I also took out double insurance." Then he turned to look at Li Chuan and asked, "What did you dream about?"

"Last night, the spiritualist of the Ruiling tribe came into my dream." Li Chuan replied, "I made a deal with her. I helped the half-demon and let the night fall, and she would tell me the clue of Chi Lin. Then I entered the dream, and I saw the memory of the ancestors of the Ruiling tribe."

Li Chuan sat down on the stone bench and said, "That ancestor witnessed every move of the God Clan High Priest Chi Lin after he fled to the Cangwu Wilderness until she died."

Wen Guying sat down opposite Li Chuan and asked, "Did you see her memory?"

"Yes." Then Li Chuan told Wen Guying what he saw in his dream.

After Li Chuan finished speaking, Lao Xiaokai spoke first. He said, "The abilities of the Ruiling tribe are too amazing. As long as there are still living members of the Ruiling tribe, their history will continue to be passed down."

"It seems that the whole tribe worked together to find the memory of this ancestor, and she also said that this memory is incomplete." Li Chuan said: "I didn't notice it when I was watching the memory, but now when I recall it, there are indeed some missing parts."

"How sure are you?" Wen Guying asked.

"What?" Li Chuan was a little confused.

"When night falls," Wen Guying said.

"I think we can give it a try," Li Chuan replied. He said, "I told the spiritual master that I would try my best. If I made a wrong judgment and it doesn't work, then we can go to Youxi Valley and maybe find some clues there. No matter what, as long as the night doesn't fall, I will stay here and try various methods."

He had some ideas and said, "That ghost light, I'll try it later to see if I can enter the dream again and see what I see."

"No." Jiang Mei stopped Li Chuan. He said, "Your body is already weak. After you fell asleep last night, your spirit became even weaker. If you fall asleep again, I'm afraid it won't just be a serious illness."

"Then, who of you wants to try? Or should we find a few half-demons to try?" Li Chuan asked.

"Let me do it, big brother." said Pang San.

"Let me try?" Lao said with a smile. Li Chuan was a little surprised and asked, "Do you really want to try?"

Lao laughed and said, "I really want to."

"Let's find a few more half-demons." Wen Guying said.

"Then I'll tell her when I see the spiritual master later." Li Chuan said, and then he began to talk about some of his speculations about the dream, "I think Chi Lin may be a special life form, which may be different from other gods. He is parasitic on those monks, maybe more than six. Before he arrived in Cangwu Wilderness, he may have used this method to control more monks. In the end, there were only six left. When he arrived in Youxi Valley, there were five."

"That's right, aren't the high priest of the God Clan and the other people of the God Clan the same species?" Li Chuan was very confused. He said, "If that's the case, he wouldn't have to plan for the God Clan for more than 30,000 years. And what I don't understand is, if each of his hosts is him, then why would one of them become like him? Not only the facial features, but also the body and bones have changed."

"I tried to see it at the time, but I couldn't enter the state of my ancestor's memory. I could only see what she saw, heard, and felt," Li Chuan shook his head. "If I could take a look and shine a magic mirror on him, maybe I could figure it out."

"The gods may be his followers." Wen Guying said: "The number of gods and demons who entered here was not large at first. They grew and expanded by enslaving a large number of monsters and humans."

"Maybe. Another point is, can the means used to deal with ordinary gods be used to deal with Chi Lin? I have some doubts about this." Li Chuan said: "When I was watching the memory, I vaguely had a feeling that Chi Lin was very weak at that time, so he obviously had the means to kill the black-robed and yellow-robed monks head-on, but he still deliberately showed weakness and used a strategy to win. He... I seemed to feel that he was saving his energy. He wanted to use his energy on more important things..."

Li Chuan once again saw the scene of giant trees piercing the moon and heavy snow. He said, "He planted dead branches in the riverbed of Sanqing River. This dead branch..."

"These are the branches left after the sacred tree died." Wen Guying said.

"The sacred tree?" Li Chuan asked.

"Legend has it that there was once a sacred tree in the Cangwu wilderness. When the world was first separated, the sacred tree grew nine fruits. The fruits fell to the ground and turned into nine kinds of beasts, which were the first ancient monsters. After the ancient period ended, the sacred tree decayed, and only some dead branches and leaves were scattered all over the Cangwu wilderness."

"One of the dead branches was brought to Qifeng Gorge by a phoenix. The phoenix practiced day and night and finally achieved enlightenment and ascended to heaven. Qifeng Gorge got its name from this. On the day of ascension, new buds sprouted from the dead branch. After that, every morning, thousands of birds flew to Qifeng Gorge, and the dead branch gradually grew into a towering tree."

"After another ten thousand years, the tree wanted to ascend to heaven. That day, nine hundred and ninety-nine thunderbolts fell from the sky. From then on, there were no more big trees in Qifeng Gorge. Only thousands of birds still came to worship every day."

"Is that dead branch from that tree?" Li Chuan asked.

"That should be it." Wen Guying said thoughtfully: "After Chi Lin got the dead branch, he planted it in the Sanqing River and slept in it... The tributaries of the Sanqing River are spread all over the Cangwu Plain... and under the Cangwu Plain..."

"What is it?" Li Chuan asked.

"Great terror." Wen Guying said.

"How scary is it?" Li Chuan asked.

"This is what the old palace master said. What he meant should be... he doesn't want to face an existence that he has no chance of defeating." Wen Guying said, "Brother Li, are you sure you can wake Chi Lin up?"

"I still have no idea," Li Chuan stroked his forehead and said, "How about we try to make the night fall first."

"No." Wen Guying said.

"Why?" Li Chuan asked.

"You can look for him in the tributaries of the Sanqing River. He is sleeping in the tributaries of the Sanqing River..." Wen Guying stroked the hilt of the sword and said, "Go to Youxi Valley first."

(End of this chapter)