ninety thousand miles

Chapter 615: Rift
"What cracked?" Li Chuan was still a little confused.

"There's a crack in the ground." Gong Er stood on the quilt, hanging his neck and said, "It's outside the house, on the road facing the main gate. It suddenly cracked. Senior Brother Wen, Senior Brother Jiang, and Doctor Lao are all over there. Big Brother, do you want to go over and take a look?"

"I'll go take a look." Li Chuan stood up, took a few steps, and unexpectedly found that his body felt very relaxed.

Doctor Lao's medicine is still safe to take.

So he changed his clothes and followed Gong Er out.

It seemed like there had just been a light rain outside the house. The ground was half dry and half wet, and the air was damp.

Soon, Li Chuan and Gong Er walked out of the main gate and saw a group of people gathered not far ahead. The spiritual master, Yu Chen, clan leader Xun, other half-demons that they had seen before and others, as well as Wen Guying and a few others were all there.

Li Chuan also quickened his pace. When he was almost there, Wen Guying turned around, waved at him and said, "Are you awake? Come here quickly."

"Coming." Li Chuan walked over.

The people standing on both sides made some room for him.

He leaned over and looked inside.

The crack was wide and deep, like a huge wound, with dark red soil on the edges, and irregular jagged shapes. He took two steps forward and looked inside the crack, which seemed bottomless. The inner wall was dark red, interwoven with fine and complex mesh patterns, and there seemed to be dark red liquid flowing between the patterns.

Like a gaping bloody mouth.

Li Chuan suppressed his thoughts and asked, "When did this appear?"

"Just now." Wen Guying said.

Pang San added: "We were originally practicing swordplay with Taoist Master Wen on the open ground of the Sun and Moon Altar, and then we felt the ground shake. Taoist Master Wen chased us out and saw this crack."

"Then I came to find my eldest brother." Gong Er said.

"I'll go call the spiritual master and the others." Pang San said.

"What does this mean?" Li Chuan turned to Wen Guying and asked, "Is it because the secret realm is about to be revealed, or is it due to some other reason?"

The spiritual master replied: "If the secret realm appears in Songdu this time... the entire Songdu may be swallowed up by the secret realm."

"Make another one?" Li Chuan asked.

The spiritual master shook her head and said in a sad tone: "It's impossible. The Moon Shadow Clan is gone, and the craftsmanship of that era has long been lost." She saw Li Chuan's expression and said: "I know that Songdu is too simple compared to the human capital, but it is very difficult to build such a city in the Cangwu wilderness. Even if you bring all the human craftsmen here, you can't do it."

"I believe this." Li Chuan said.

"It may not be born in Songdu." Wen Gu responded, and he also turned to the spiritual master and said, "I need a safe secret cave."

"Okay, I'll take you there." said the spiritual master.

"I need you to enter the dreams of those shadows." Wen Guying said.

"This..." The spiritualist hesitated. She said, "I don't know if I can do it..."

"Let's try first." Wen Guying explained, "Brother Jiang and I will control those shadows so that you can enter their dreams. They... they might have been masters of the demon clan, and were transformed into their current appearance by a cultivator. I'm worried that ordinary torture methods will not be effective on them, so I hope you can enter their dreams and see what they are."

He said: "Elder Li caught them during the sacrifice last night. But we can't be sure if they did anything before the sacrifice. Maybe the appearance of the crack is related to them."

"I'll try my best." said the spiritualist.

"Also," Wen Guying continued, "some people should be sent to patrol various places in the Cangwu Plain. Perhaps, there are more than one rift here." "I understand." said the spiritual master.

"Can you feel where the secret realm will appear? Didn't you say before that you can feel when it will appear? What about the location?" Li Chuan asked.

The spiritual master shook his head and said, "I can't feel it."

Yu Chen added, "Sometimes I can vaguely sense it, but this time, there was only a strong sense of approaching. It felt like it was getting closer and closer, and it was about to come."

He added: "I will arrange for my tribesmen to patrol the sky continuously."

"Thank you for your hard work." said Li Chuan.

"Then let's go to the secret cave first." Wen Guying looked at Li Chuan and asked, "Do you want to come with us?"

"Okay." Li Chuan said.

"Go back and drink the medicine first." Lao Xiaokai said, "I have already boiled it. It has been cooling for a while."

"No wonder there was a smell of medicine in the room when I woke up." Li Chuan said, and he said to Wen Guying: "Then you go first, I will come over after I drink the medicine."

"Okay." Wen Guying said, and then he said to Jiang Mei: "You set up a barrier around the crack. If there is anything abnormal in the crack, we will come here immediately."

Jiang Mei replied: "Don't worry."

While Jiang Mei was setting up the barrier, Li Chuan followed Lao Xiaokai back into the house.

As Lao Xiaokai poured the medicine juice from the pottery jar into the bowl, he asked, "How is it? Do you feel better today? Do you feel better now? Doesn't your headache anymore?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore, but I still feel a little weak. After walking two steps, I felt a little dizzy," said Li Chuan.

"So you have to drink the medicine obediently." Lao Xiaokai placed the medicine bowl in front of Li Chuan, "Drink it."

When Li Chuan was about to drink, he moved the bowl away and asked, "What do you think that crack is?"

"I don't know. I looked down and it seemed like there was no bottom. Maybe it leads to the blood pool you mentioned." Lao laughed and said, "What did you see?"

"I don't know, but..." Li Chuan swallowed the medicine with great effort. After he finally finished it, he said, "I feel like blood vessels." He put the bowl down and said, "I'll go see how Master Wen and the others are doing. Things here are really one after another. There's no peace at all."

"Then I'll rest in my room and study the prescription." Lao said with a smile.

"Okay." Li Chuan stretched and said, "I'll go."

After he walked out of the house, the guard who had been waiting for him took him to the underground cave. When walking in those intricate corridors again, Li Chuan suddenly felt like he was walking in the body of some giant beast. With the help of the torch light, he looked up at both sides of the corridor, and after seeing the traces of artificial excavation, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Soon, he walked to the secret cave under the guidance of the guard.

"Mr. Li, they are all inside, please go in," said the guard.

"Okay, thank you." Li Chuan said and walked in.

In the secret cave, Wen Guying, Jiang Mei and Ling Shi sat on each side, with Yuan Huojing in the middle, and the fire snake bound a ball of gray mist.

Yu Chen and Gong Er and San stood beside the cave entrance. Yu Chen whispered to Li Chuan: "The spiritual master has fallen asleep."

(End of this chapter)