ninety thousand miles

Chapter 616 Inviting people
Li Chuan counted the heads and asked, "Where is Chief Xun?"

Yu Chen replied: "While on the way, I received news that the people from the Xi tribe had arrived."

"The leader of the Cynomolgus tribe?" Li Chuan asked.

"No, it's the clan leader's younger brother," Yu Chen whispered, "This is the Xun clan's place. The clan leader of the Xun clan won't come. It's good enough that his younger brother can come."

"Will Patriarch Xun take action against his younger brother?" Li Chuan asked.

"It's not impossible." Yu Chen said.

"Can you persuade them to reconcile?" Li Chuan asked.

"Impossible." Yu Chen said decisively: "Even if the leader of the Xun tribe agrees, the other people in the Xun tribe will not agree. The new and old hatreds between the two tribes are really endless." Seeing that Li Chuan did not seem to realize the seriousness of the matter, he said: "It was two years ago. I was not there at the time. I heard from the tribe members when I came back. Every spring, the Xun tribe would hatch their offspring by the Xiaohe Lake. At that time two years ago, many people from the Xun tribe deliberately stepped over..."

"This..." Li Chuan was speechless for a moment.

"Because more than ten years ago, people from the Xun tribe poisoned the water source that the Xun tribe used as its main water source. Hundreds of people died, most of them were young beasts whose bloodlines had just awakened that year." Yu Chen said.

"That can't be solved." Li Chuan said.

Yu Chen said: "But the Xi tribe knows the most about underground things."

"Then what should I do?" Li Chuan asked.

Yu Chen looked at the three people in the center of the secret cave and said, "If you want to know something or want them to do something, let the spiritual master communicate with them. But you have to be careful, they..."

"What's wrong?" Li Chuan heard the hesitation in Yu Chen's tone.

"They know the underground situation best." Yu Chen repeated this sentence, "Many underground secret passages that we don't know about may be in their control. Who knows, they may have come into contact with things underground a long time ago."

"I understand." Li Chuan said.

Yu Chen said: "The poisoning of the Xun tribe's young beasts made me start to think that they were not quite right. I heard about this later. At first I didn't believe it. In the past, the half-demon tribes had been fighting each other for hundreds of thousands of years, and such things must have happened. But in fact, it has been peaceful for a long time now. Even in the two or three hundred years since the establishment of the Great Jiang Dynasty, there have only been small conflicts, no major conflicts. More than ten years ago, the Xun tribe suddenly attacked the young beasts of the Xun tribe. I don't understand why."

Yu Chen sighed softly, "Considering what has happened recently, maybe the Xi tribe has always known something."

"It's possible." Li Chuan said.

At this moment, the shadow trapped by the fire snake suddenly twisted and made screams of varying lengths.

Li Chuan turned his head and looked. Behind the shadow, the spiritual master's cheeks were trembling and his teeth were biting his lower lip, as if he was enduring great pain.

Jiang Mei stretched out her hand and pressed it on the shadow.

"Wait a moment." Wen Guying said.

Jiang Mei shook her head and said, "She has reached her limit."

Then, Li Chuan saw the spiritual master suddenly open her eyes, and then her body seemed to deflate and she fell to the side.

He walked over quickly.

At this time, Jiang Mei had already sealed the shadows in the Yuanhuo Mirror. After seeing Li Chuan, he said: "These shadows have strong wills. Even in their dreams, they are resisting the power of the spiritual master."

"I just saw a few images." The spiritual master said breathlessly.

"Don't be in a hurry, take a rest first." Li Chuan said.

The spiritualist propped herself up and sat up. She waved her hands at Li Chuan and said, "I'm not hurt. Taoist Jiang has been protecting me."

"What did you see?" Wen Guying asked.

"A woman, a woman controls them with something like silk thread." said the spiritualist.

"Demon Spirit, and Yuansi." Li Chuan said. He asked for confirmation: "Spirit Master, can you tell me what that woman looks like?"

The spiritualist said: "Her face was blurry and unclear, her hair was very long, and she was wearing a black robe."

"That's the evil spirit." Li Chuan said.

"What else?" Wen Guying asked. The spiritualist said: "She said a few words to them, but her voice was too vague for me to hear clearly. Then the woman suddenly turned her head, she seemed surprised, and then a force pushed me out."

"She may have met someone who surprised her." said the spiritualist.

"Chi Lin?" Li Chuan asked.

"I didn't see it," the spiritual master said apologetically, "I tried hard to stay in the dream, but the power was too great. If it weren't for Master Jiang protecting me, I would have been scared to death now."

"If it's Chi Lin, the demon spirit shouldn't be very surprised." Wen Guying stood up and said, "I'm going to the capital and will be back in three days."

"Are you looking for Gong Jianzheng?" Li Chuan asked.

"If we were to say who is best at using dreams to extract information, it would be Luo Xueli," Wen Guying said.

"Are you going to invite him?" Li Chuan asked.

"That's right." Wen Guying said.

"You go ahead, I'm here." Jiang Mei said.

Wen Guying nodded and said to Li Chuan, "Write a letter to Gong Wuguang."

"Why? Why don't you just say no to him?" Li Chuan asked.

"I asked him to lend me someone last time, but failed." Wen Guying was very careful and said, "Write in the letter that your situation is very dangerous and he must come in person."

"No need?" Li Chuan said, and took out a pen and paper from the Bishui Ring. He licked the pen, dipped it in ink, and began to write. Soon, the letter was finished. He handed it to Wen Guying and said, "Go and come back soon. I always feel that something is going to happen here."

"I can make it in time." Wen Guying stuffed the letter into his sleeve and said, "I will return before the secret realm is revealed."

As he spoke, he strode out of the secret cave and soon disappeared into the darkness.

"Then let's go too?" Li Chuan said.

"Wait a minute." Jiang Mei said, he looked at the spiritual master and asked: "After the secret realm of the past is revealed, how many cultivators will enter the Cangwu Wilderness?"

"Not many," the spiritual master replied. She said, "Because only half-demons with strong enough bloodline power can sense the approximate time of the secret realm's appearance. As for the cultivators, they have to wait until the secret realm is born and the news spreads before they come here one after another. Or they just happen to come, or they just happen to run into it when they have been waiting in the Cangwu wilderness. After the secret realm is born, the duration can be long or short. When it is short, it may be a few breaths, the time of an incense stick. When it is long, it may be about ten days and half a month, no more than a month. And it is not so easy to find. On average, there are about ten each time."

"How many people came out?" Jiang Mei asked.

"One or two, sometimes none," the spiritualist replied.

"The secret realm will eat people." Li Chuan said.

"I plan to go and take a look under the crack," said Jiang Mei.

"Now? Aren't we waiting for Master Wen to come back?" Li Chuan asked.

"No need for him. I'll come up if I feel something is wrong." Jiang Mei stood up and said, "Spiritual Master, please clean up the area around the crack and don't let anyone come over."

"Okay." The spiritual master agreed.

"Then I'll go too." said Li Chuan.

Jiang Mei glanced at him and said, "You still have to meet the people from the Xi and Ruoshui tribes."

"Let Dr. Lao go. He is suitable for this job." Li Chuan said, "Let him have something to do."

"That's fine." Jiang Mei said.

"I'll go too." Yu Chen said.

"Let's go too." Gong Er Pang San said.

"I also..." Jiang Mei interrupted the spiritual master before she could finish her words.

Jiang Mei said, "Li Chuan and I will go down, and you guys should do whatever you need to do. You too, Junior Brother Gong and Junior Brother Pang, just stay with Doctor Lao and help him deal with the people from the two tribes."

(End of this chapter)