Corpse Retriever.

Chapter 489

"Lord Sanjiang, I think this place is quite nice."

"Hmm, Marquis of Sanjiang, I think it's acceptable."

Grandpa Shan took a shovel, selected several spots to dig, then squeezed out the soil and carefully smelled it.

Liu Jinxia held yellow paper in her pocket, pointing at one piece here and tossing a string of them there, muttering incantations as she questioned the "little devils" around her.

Li Sanjiang held an old compass in his right hand, turning it around in all directions, while his left hand made calculations, sometimes frowning, sometimes serious.

Of the three, Li Sanjiang had the best demeanor, while Shan Daye had the worst. Therefore, Li Sanjiang had the most vegetarian business, while Shan Daye had the least.

Ironically, when it comes to real skills, the mountain elder who raised Runsheng is the most capable of the three, while Li Sanjiang is actually the least capable.

Li Zhuiyuan stood at the back, watching the three old men determine the feng shui and site selection for the new kiln.

The reason the boy was called over was not to hear his opinion, but because in Li Sanjiang's plan, everything he had was left to Xiao Yuanhou, including this kiln. Therefore, only when Xiao Yuanhou, this "rich man," was present could the wealth be determined. In short, Li Zhuiyuan was now a mascot, required by the patriarch, to stand on three stacked stones.

In fact, there is no natural scenic spot or auspicious location in the entire Siyuan Village.

Applying the current situation, it can be understood that for the next thirty years, no matter how many roads are built, industrial zones are developed, or industrial zones are constructed around the village, it will have nothing to do with this village, there will be no demolition, and the villagers' real estate will remain untouched forever.

Of course, if we look at a life span of thirty years, and the old house is still there, and the small bridges, flowing water, and farmland remain the same, that would be an even greater kind of happiness.

"This will be it. I'll go talk to the village."

Li Sanjiang made up his mind.

Li Zhuiyuan was finally able to get off the rock.

The new brickyard is located in the northwest of the village, far from the rows of houses, and next to a river, which facilitates small-boat transportation.

Li Sanjiang asked Aunt Liu to prepare a table of dishes for lunch as a reward for his old friend who had come to help him.

While drinking, Uncle Shan asked Li Sanjiang how big a factory he planned to build. Li Sanjiang waved his hand and said he didn't know. Xiao Yuanhou would give him the blueprints. Anyway, the university teaches everything, and college students know everything.

It will take some time to discuss and confirm this matter in detail. This will give Li Zhuiyuan a good opportunity to go out and clear up his current tasks, finish up the next wave of work, and return home with a full complement of people to officially start work.

Everyone's travel preparations are complete, with all the hiking backpacks placed in prominent positions, ready to be picked up and taken out at any time.

Mu Qiuying looked at Chen Xiyuan with the same hiking backpack and a hint of envy flashed in her eyes, but she consciously suppressed it.

In the afternoon, we officially set off.

Runsheng carried the coffin containing Mu Xueci's body out of the dam. As far as Runsheng was concerned, he couldn't tell whether there was a body in the coffin from his carrying actions.

Li Sanjiang and Grandpa Shan were a little drunk at noon. The two old men sat on the dam, basking in the sun and smoking.

Li Sanjiang knew that Xiao Yuanhou was going out in the afternoon, otherwise he wouldn't have been in such a hurry to take Xiao Yuanhou to choose a place in the morning. But seeing Runsheng's actions, he asked with some curiosity:

"Lord Runsheng, you're carrying the coffin..."

Grandpa Shan rubbed his nose, looking thoughtful. When he arrived at the Marquis of Sanjiang's house today, he smelled a certain aroma and reminded the Marquis. The Marquis said it was smoked meat made by Marquis Ting. He didn't like the flavor, but the children did.

Mu Qiuying walked over and explained to Li Sanjiang that her grandmother had always wanted to prepare a coffin. She came here and saw that the coffins in the house were quite nice, so she wanted to buy them. As she spoke, she took out the money and handed it over.

"We're family, we don't need that much, just charge us the cost price."

Li Sanjiang handed the extra money back.

Grandpa Shan asked in confusion, "Your grandma, she's still alive?"

Li Sanjiang slapped Uncle Shan on the back of the head and scolded, "You're really drunk and talking nonsense. Did someone have to buy a coffin from out of town and bring it back after everyone else had left?"

Li Zhuiyuan lit incense in the east room and said to Liu Yumei:
"Grandma, I'm leaving."

Liu Yumei: "Once you arrive in Qiongya, you must prioritize yourself."

The sentence "Do not be sentimental" should have been added, but Liu Yumei felt that it was completely unnecessary for her own Xiaoyuan.

Li Zhuiyuan: "I will."

The boy took Ah Li's hand as they came to say goodbye to the old man.

Li Sanjiang: "Young Marquis Yuan, you go ahead with your work. By the time you return, the formalities here with Grandfather will be completed. We'll open the kiln and build the factory. Hehe, our Young Marquis Yuan will be a small boss from now on."

After Li Zhuiyuan, A Li, and the others left, Uncle Shan nudged Li Sanjiang's arm and said:

"Marquis of Sanjiang, why do I feel like you're getting more and more troublesome as you get older?"

"What's wrong with me? I can eat and sleep well, it's the age when I should go out and make a living to support my children!"

"How did you used to criticize Han Hou for living his whole life for his children? Aren't you the same now?"

Li Sanjiang picked his ear with his little finger, then blew on it and said:
When is your Meng Hou coming back?

“Menghou told me on the phone that she’s opening a shop over there and said she’ll earn back the money she owes you for building the house and for the renovations before coming back.”

"That's great. The two of them can earn enough money together, then come back and get married. With their efforts directed towards the same goal, there's so much to look forward to in life."

"That is."

“Unlike my little Yuanhou, I dream of doing things for him, but he’s not old enough and can’t get a certificate from a government agency. Sigh, I can only wait.”

Grandpa Shan fell silent.

Li Sanjiang: "Hehehe."

Grandpa Shan couldn't hold back any longer. With his bloodshot eyes, he reached out and grabbed Li Sanjiang's neck.

……

Upon arriving at Big Beard's house, the coffin was loaded onto the truck, and He Shen, the truck driver, personally helped tie the ropes to secure it.

As long as the price is right and payment is made quickly, there's nothing to be ashamed of.

These days, it's an absolute exaggeration to say that long-haul truck drivers are living on the edge, but it's not uncommon to see them keeping steel pipes, machetes, or even a shotgun under the driver's seat.

Li Zhuiyuan and Chen Xiyuan walked into the peach grove.

Lin Shuyou asked Mu Qiuying, "Aren't you curious about what's going on inside?"

Mu Qiuying shook her head: "I won't go to places I shouldn't go."

Lin Shuyou: "You're smarter than Three-Eyed."

Deep in the peach grove, by the pool, Qing'an sipped tea while watching the reflection of Benben being taught array formations by Luo Xiaoyu on the pool's surface.

Qing An put down his teacup and said calmly, "Actually, it doesn't need to be so complicated. Just dig this forest out of Qiongya, and the problem will be solved."

Chen Xiyuan: "..."

Li Zhuiyuan: "It's not that bad."

Qing An: "I'm warning you, allowing you to dig a canal in this forest is the greatest tolerance I've shown, but if you want to dig me to that half-dead, dying place, you can try it."

Li Zhuiyuan: "How could that be?"

Qing An: "Impossible? Ha, people like you have an aversion to risk ingrained in your bones, and eliminating threats is your obsessive instinct."

Chen Xiyuan picked up her flute, preparing to play one last duet with Qing'an before leaving.

Qing An waved his hand: "Wait for you to come back. Your music style will have a new flavor then."

Chen Xiyuan: "Okay."

After bidding farewell to Qing'an, the convoy set off, and the journey officially began.

Just outside the village entrance, as they drove along the road, Li Zhuiyuan, sitting in the passenger seat, saw through the car window a group of young people gathered in a roadside house not far from Shinan Town, including Shitou and Huzi.

Inside, there was an arcade.

It wasn't the weekend, and it wasn't time for school to let out, so the two boys skipped class.

Sitting in the passenger seat of another car, Lin Shuyou laughed and said, "Brother Bin, aren't those Brother Yuan's two younger brothers?"

Tan Wenbin, who was driving, glanced at it and laughed, "That's youth! I used to do that too."

Lin Shuyou: "I didn't have this opportunity when I was in school. After school, I had to go back to the temple immediately to practice my skills and practice spirit writing."

Tan Wenbin took out his mobile phone and dialed Aunt Zhang's shop number. Aunt Zhang, who answered the call, would go to Li Weihan and the two children's house and sing folk songs.

Lin Shuyou: "Brother Bin, what are you doing? Didn't you say this is what youth is all about?"

Tan Wenbin: "Yes, I'm doing this to make their youth more complete."

The convoy arrived at the outer edge of Tingfeng Gorge, but upon entering, there was no road and not even a village in sight.

The driver and the truck waited where they were. Runsheng carried the coffin, and everyone got out of the vehicle and walked inside.

Not far along, at a corner, they saw Mu Qiaosheng standing there waiting quietly.

His gaze first fell on the coffin, tears welling up in his eyes. After taking a deep breath, he turned his gaze to Li Zhuiyuan and slowly knelt down.

"Mu Qiaosheng greets the patriarch."

Li Zhuiyuan glanced at Tan Wenbin, who understood and gestured for Runsheng and Mu Qiuying to follow him forward.

Next, Tan Wenbin will represent Li Zhuiyuan to make future arrangements in Mujia Village.

Actually, Li Zhuiyuan wouldn't have made this special trip to Mujia Village if it weren't for the fact that he wanted to retrieve anything Grandma Liu might have left for him.

His network of relationships is currently limited to Mu Qiuying alone, and the fact that Mu Qiuying is still on the river accounts for at least half of that.

They either possess unwavering loyalty and are willing to follow to the death, or they hold crucial positions and are of immense value. Unfortunately, the current Mu Family Village possesses neither.

From both a moral and logical standpoint, there was no need for Li Zhuiyuan to put on a show of being courteous and respectful to scholars at this time.

Doing so will only encourage those outsiders who possess valuable assets to raise their prices, and will also make loyal outsiders who have struggled in the past few years feel disheartened and wronged.

Mu Qiaosheng was clearly aware of this as well. When Tan Wenbin approached, he did not put on an act as if he had to apologize. Instead, he stood up and led the way while introducing the current situation in the village to Tan Wenbin.

After they had walked away, Li Zhuiyuan and A Li walked to a tall building.

Lin Shuyou: "So ugly, yet so imposing."

It is truly ugly. Although it has not been built for long, it has a severe weathered appearance. The main problem is that the insect shells on top are cracked, revealing the undigested bones and flesh inside, giving people an extremely strong experience of trypophobia.

But precisely because you know what it is, a sense of awe arises when you look at it.

Aunt Liu has artistic talent, a fact that Li Zhuiyuan noticed when he first visited his great-grandfather's house and saw her coloring paper figures.

If the goal is to evoke fear, then don't worry about aesthetic details. The more unsettling the details, the more oppressive the overall effect.

Chen Xiyuan: "This is... my sister's doing?"

She found it hard to believe that Aunt Liu, who was a delicious cook, gentle, and loved to eat sunflower seeds with her, had this side to her.

Li Zhuiyuan: "One side is for my family, and the other side is for my enemies."

Chen Xiyuan took a breath and licked her lips.

Li Zhuiyuan: "I'm not targeting you. I'll just tell you what I want to say directly."

Chen Xiyuan: "I'm curious, where does my sister usually keep all these bugs?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Normally, we only keep the female insects to raise, and when needed, we give the female insects some time in advance to lay eggs and hatch them."

Chen Xiyuan: "Is there enough time?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "As long as there are enough 'nutrients' nearby for the mother insect to hatch, it won't take too long."

Therefore, Aunt Liu's defining characteristic is that she is not suited for fighting alone, but no force would be willing to provoke an enemy like her.

The group camped on the spot, and Lin Shuyou set up his tent.

After a while, Mu Qiuying and Runsheng returned, each carrying a burlap sack.

One bag contained rhinoceros horn, which was very long and large, while the other bag contained a fat ladybug that was still struggling and wriggling.

Ah Li is very interested in rhinoceros horn, the horn of the Thunder Beast. When ground into powder, it is an excellent material for making Thunder Talismans.

Of course, this is absolutely extravagant, and even the family that raises the Thunder Beast would probably not be willing to spend so much.

Asking family members to reclaim it will only put it back into the Thunder Pool to be decomposed by thunder power, paving the way for the growth of the young thunder beast. As for taking its horn to make talismans, it's similar to killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

However, with this, and with the fact that there are still plenty of things to be dug up in the mountains, it is enough to make up for the lack of offensive lightning runes in the team's equipment.

Ah Li has the ability to draw high-level lightning talismans. One or two might not be much, but a large quantity would be plentiful.

Moreover, once the quantity reaches a certain level, its effects can be expanded. For example, when facing evil spirits, scattering a large number of thunder talismans will ensure that the evil atmosphere is completely dispelled.

Li Zhuiyuan noticed that the sky above this area was much clearer and cleaner than the outside world, which must have been because someone had scattered even more extravagant and precious purple talismans across the sky.

Here, only Grandma Liu could be so extravagant.

In other words, if she could actively control the pace of lighting the lamps and walking along the river according to the normal procedure, then Grandma Liu, who was poor but had nothing left but her heritage, would inevitably divide up an even more exaggerated and terrifying "property" for herself.

Even the cave dwellings of Chen Xiyuan and Ling Wuxing, who were also from the Dragon King's clan, were nothing compared to his own.

Li Zhuiyuan asked Mu Qiuying, "Is this a specialty of your village?"

Mu Qiuying nodded: "Yes."

Li Zhuiyuan: "What are the effects?"

Mu Qiuying: "Can it cure...rheumatism?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Grandpa is getting old. Although he is healthy now, I have to think about what will happen when he gets even older. Here's what we'll do: I'll buy as much of this stuff as your village has. You go and calculate the purchase price with Tan Wenbin."

Mu Qiuying: "Okay."

Li Zhuiyuan reached out his hand towards the large ladybug, whose mouthparts opened and closed rapidly, as if it were trying to resist.

The boy withdrew his hand and muttered to himself, "I'm hungry, let's make some food."

After saying that, the boy waved his hand, releasing karmic fire that burned the firewood that Ah You had piled up.

Ah Li walked over and took the sack from Run Sheng's hands, carrying it with both hands.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Ah Li, be careful not to let the sack touch the karmic fire, it's easy to catch fire."

Upon hearing this, Ah Li accidentally let go of the sack, which fell into the fire.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle sizzle".

The ladybug's belly swelled up and split open as it was roasted by the karmic fire.

Immediately, a black shadow darted out.

Aunt Liu provided pre-death psychological counseling to each member of the Ming family.

Besides venting his pent-up anger, he also ensured that when the souls of every Ming family madman burst forth, their forms were even more monstrous than demons.

Li Zhuiyuan reached out and grabbed, and the "evil spirit" was held in the boy's palm.

With fingertips squeezing inward, the "demon" is continuously compressed and ravaged.

This should have been a perfectly normal operation for a teenager, and no one would have thought that a teenager couldn't control this thing.

But an unexpected event still occurred.

Li Zhuiyuan: "My finger is cramping." The previously well-compressed state has developed a gap. Perhaps it's a return of some self-awareness, or perhaps it's an instinctive counterattack. A black straight line is released from Li Zhuiyuan's palm, pointing directly at the boy's brow.

Li Zhuiyuan staggered backward and sat down on a bench in front of the tent.

Ah Li stepped forward to check the situation, while simultaneously spreading her hands out and forming a mudra.

It was just pinching, but there was no mark.

The purpose of this action was to prevent Runsheng and Ayou from getting flustered due to their concern.

Washing away karma is far more complicated than laundering money. The Heavenly Dao strictly controls the support and assistance that the inherited forces provide to those who travel the rivers.

However, Grandma Liu had already apologized to Heaven and even presented herself as a "tainted witness," implicating two "accomplices."

This matter has been largely put behind us.

But if we just put on a little act, we can make Grandma Liu cough up less blood, so why not?
The black lines disappeared, the evil spirits vanished, and all of them entered Li Zhuiyuan's brow.

Thick black energy appeared on the boy's forehead, and ferocious patterns appeared on his face.

Fortunately, these symptoms soon disappeared, the boy recovered completely, and was full of energy. The fatigue from traveling in a large truck for days was also swept away.

A smile appeared on Li Zhuiyuan's lips.

As expected, the Ming family's ultimate, desperate tactic is always the same.

This would be incredibly terrifying to others, because it's an attack on the soul level, causing you to give birth to and nurture a demon powerful enough to devour you. But Li Zhuiyuan himself is that demon.

As long as we are careful not to tell the Ming family the truth, they will hysterically nourish themselves whenever they have the chance.

It's a ladybug, not suitable for carrying.

Ah Li revealed two dimples. She took out a pill from her pocket and then touched the Jianlibao (a type of Chinese herbal medicine) in the outer pocket of her backpack.

The ladybug was gutted, the soul of the Ming family member was extracted, and then the soul was compressed and sealed into a pill. When needed, the pill was put into a Jianlibao (a popular Chinese soft drink), and the boy was made to drink it with a straw.

Li Zhuiyuan said to Mu Qiuying, "These insects are extremely ferocious, and the evil spirits inside them can easily cause trouble and endanger ordinary people. Here's what we'll do: you search carefully and catch as many as you can. I'll leave you a few trucks and load them, along with the rhinoceros horns, onto them and send them to Nantong. I will personally deal with and kill these evil spirits."

Mu Qiuying: "Brother Xiaoyuan is righteous and takes responsibility for the common people!"

It wasn't until the curtain call that Miss Mu truly entered acting mode.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Before transportation, the goods must be properly sealed to prevent any mishaps. You will personally accompany the vehicle to escort them."

Mu Qiuying: "Don't worry, I will definitely deliver them to your home safely."

Li Zhuiyuan: "It's not being sent to my house, it's being sent to that peach orchard."

Mu Qiuying: "Yes, I understand."

Li Zhuiyuan and A Li walked to the other end to appreciate the Jingguan from a different perspective.

Mu Qiuying walked up to Chen Xiyuan, her face filled with shame, and said:

"I'm sorry, I promised you..."

Chen Xiyuan asked, puzzled, "What is it?"

"It means you help me first, and then I'll help you."

"But I didn't help you, so you don't need to help me either."

"I will hurry up and dig out all the local specialties that need to be dug up, send them to the peach orchard in Nantong, and then come to find you right away."

"No need, no need. Since the little brother has asked you to escort him, it means that you are not involved in the rest of the journey."

Besides, your village has just experienced such a major upheaval. I think you should focus on calming down and resolving the conflicts within the village before the next wave arrives.

“I just went back to the village and checked, and there are no conflicts in the village.”

Because the opposition has all died.

Now, the remaining people in the village have only one desire and goal: to perform well and strive to restore their family to the position of retainers of the Liu family.

Chen Xiyuan: "Then you can spend more time with your family and parents, and you also need to arrange your grandmother's funeral."

Mu Qiuying: "Can you tell me what you want me to do?"

Chen Xiyuan was taken aback for a moment: "It's the same."

Mu Qiuying: "The same?"

Chen Xiyuan: "Didn't we agree that I would clean your house and then you would clean mine?"

Mu Qiuying: "Help you clean up... the Dragon King's residence?"

Chen Xiyuan: "Yeah."

Mu Qiuying's face tightened.

She wanted to ask again if the other person was joking, but she immediately realized that she shouldn't be involved in what was going on.

On the river, she felt little psychological pressure fighting against the inheritors of the Dragon King's lineage.

On the shore, however, the Dragon King's Palace itself is a terrifying behemoth.

"I'm going to... dig for local specialties."

"I'll help you dig."

"I don't need your help, I don't need it."

Mu Qiuying walked away alone.

After some time, Tan Wenbin returned with Mu Qiaosheng. Mu Qiaosheng did not approach, but bowed to Li Zhuiyuan from a distance before turning back.

“Brother Xiaoyuan, everything in the village has been arranged. I’ve also seen Tingfeng Gorge and taken some photos for you to remember. That place is quite interesting.”

Li Zhuiyuan: "We'll discuss this further when we have time. You go and talk to He Shen about leaving a few cars behind, and we'll continue our journey."

Tan Wenbin stretched and exclaimed, "Finally, I can go 'home' and visit."

Chen Xiyuan chimed in, "I can't wait!"

Tan Wenbin: "We're just not worldly-wise, but you were born into the world, so why are you so excited?"

Chen Xiyuan: "When I was a child, my grandmother often said that compared with the Qin and Liu families back then, our Chen family was just a small rich family."

Tan Wenbin: "These must have been said when you were arguing with your grandfather."

Chen Xiyuan: "That's true, but every time my grandfather is speechless and can't refute it."

Although a few vehicles were left behind, the majority of the convoy continued towards Mount Taibai.

After all, Li Zhuiyuan valued bringing a generous amount of his own local specialties to Old Master Chen more than transporting local products back home from Mujia Village.

Finally, the convoy stopped at the foot of the mountain to wait, and Li Zhuiyuan led his men up the mountain.

The scenic area is not on this side, and the mountain road on this side has not been developed. However, it is only difficult to walk on this part of the road at the beginning. After passing this section, when fog appears ahead, Li Zhuiyuan takes out the key to the ancestral house, gently turns it, and the fog in front dissipates, revealing a flat and upward-sloping road.

Runsheng: "We should have brought the tricycle over."

The road is a good road, but it is long.

Furthermore, we also need to consider whether it will be convenient to take the local specialties out of the house and transport them down.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Let's make a raft."

Instead of setting off immediately, the group retreated and cut down trees to build a large raft.

Afterwards, the rest of the people sat on the raft, with Runsheng pulling it from the front.

There must be trees on the mountain. Logically, it would be easier to build the raft after we get to the top, but who can say for sure whether the ancient trees near the ancestral home will be considered family property?

Tan Wenbin made a note in his notebook that he would go to the Forestry Bureau to pay the fine when he left Baoji.

Along the way, there was nothing but fog and no scenery to see.

With the key in hand, all the restrictive formations were open to Li Zhuiyuan, and he was not hindered in the slightest.

However, upon closer inspection, one can discover some unique traces, some new and some old, indicating that over the past few decades, many people have tried to spy on this ancestral home.

The fact that the Yu family was once occupied by monsters and rendered useless has attracted the attention of many martial arts forces, all eager to grab a share of the spoils. This is even more true for the once more powerful Dragon King Qin.

The reason they failed was not because the array formations here were particularly sophisticated. No matter how powerful an array formation is, without enough people to control it, it will eventually be penetrated by drilling.

What truly made those countless greedy hands hesitate and dare not act recklessly was the evil spirit that had not been sealed away in the Qin family's ancestral home.

The higher you go, the fewer the footprints become, until they finally disappear.

Surely some people managed to stop in time, but the vast majority were forced to leave the ground forever.

Runsheng stopped in his tracks:

"arrive."

Everyone looked up and saw a towering, majestic building shrouded in clouds and mist.

At first glance, the ancient and profound sense of history presses down on you, as if silently telling you about its past.

It stands on the mountain peak, and also in the world of rivers and lakes, but for a time, its view is obscured by the clouds and mist.

Li Zhuiyuan sensed the intense emotions emanating from the evil dragon within his body—a mixture of fear, excitement, and intense greed.

The boy's gaze was fixed on the viewing platform that stretched outwards from the mountain peak.

Those are the horns of a dragon.

Furthermore, from here all the way to the gate of the ancestral home in the distance, this black, solemn stone path, with each slab adorned with exquisite patterns, is the former body of the dragon.

Using the dragon's horn as a platform and its body as a road, the Dragon King's gate was erected.

Li Zhuiyuan stretched out his fist and gently pounded his forehead.

Even someone as calm and rational as him felt a sense of absurdity at this moment.

Back in Jiujiang, he obtained the spirit newly born from the decay of a dragon's corpse, and thought he had found a great treasure. Zhao Yi even called himself "ancestor" several times for those few pieces of black dragon skin.

Such a precious thing, the Qin family... no, I should call their ancestors, actually used it to build a dam in front of their door.

Although he had always been told by outsiders how profound his family's ancestral home was, Li Zhuiyuan was finally able to empathize with the expression on Grandma Liu's face when she saw him carrying large bags of things home every time he returned.

It turns out that the things he had painstakingly collected and brought home as treasures were nothing more than the mischievous Qin family children of the past, who would take a small shovel, stand in the yard in front of their own gate, and pry up a few pebbles.

Li Zhuiyuan looked up at the sky above.

He suddenly understood why Heaven had lit the lamp representing his journey across the river for him during his initiation ceremony.

You've already gotten the basics down, so what's the next step? Do you need to ask any more questions?
Lin Shuyou: "Wow!"

After expressing his feelings, Lin Shuyou reached out and poked Tan Wenbin on the back with his finger:

"Brother Bin, Tongzi told me that the platform is the Horn of the Dragon."

Tan Wenbin blinked hard, and with slightly trembling hands, he grabbed Ayou's arm:

"Calm down, we haven't even entered the gate yet."

Runsheng remained calm.

Chen Xiyuan looked left and right, pointing to the flowerbeds on both sides of the road at the entrance, introducing what kind of spiritual flowers and fruits, and what kind of spiritual trees and vines they were.

Tan Wenbin: "Do you also grow these in front of your house?"

Chen Xiyuan: "We're not that extravagant. In my family, these plants are planted in the ancestral courtyard. The Qin family just puts them outside as guide plants."

Li Zhuiyuan looked at A Li beside him.

Before Grandma Liu moved to Grandpa's house, Ah Li should have lived here.

However, for Ah Li at that time, it didn't matter where she lived.

At this moment, Ah Li's gaze fell on the majestic gate, and the girl held the boy's hand, gently exerting force.

"They're waiting for me inside, aren't they?"

Ah Li nodded.

The changes in the "footprints" on the road show that the evil spirits in the ancestral home are unwilling to leave, rather than unable to. The fact that the flowers, plants, and paving stones were not dug up is the best proof of this.

They must have sensed my arrival the moment I held the key and opened the outermost gate's protective barrier.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Come in."

The boy walked at the front. As he approached the steps in front of the gate, the two enormous stone-carved black Qilin statues at the entrance, as big as small mountains, turned their eyes and gazed at him with a powerful and terrifying aura.

Without any investigation, you can feel the terrifying aura emanating from them when you face them directly.

The key in Li Zhuiyuan's hand gleamed.

The two black Qilin figures trembled and knelt before the boy.

Li Zhuiyuan walked to the door, his hands bracing against the door frame. The heavy door felt as light as a feather to him.

The boy stretched out his arms and pushed the door open.

The moment the door was opened, endless roars and howls swept out!

at the same time,

Inside a cave deep within the Qin family's ancestral home, an elderly man dressed in white robes took out a wine cup and raised it.

Above the old man's head, a huge snake head hung down, its eyes dripping with essence blood, which condensed and fell into the old man's wine cup.

This mountain was formed by the coiling of this giant python, and this cave is a gap in the middle of the python's body.

"Is it almost here? Hehe."

The old man swirled the wine glass in his hand, and with this movement, his fine clothes swayed. It was clear that his left arm, left leg, and even the left side of his head under the brim of his hat were empty.

The gate was pushed open by Li Zhuiyuan, and countless terrifying evil spirits that had been waiting for a long time gave this outsider who dared to covet the inheritance of the Dragon King's family a show of force!
"boom!"

The old man's wine cup exploded, and a thick mist of blood filled the entire cave. The giant python above greedily inhaled the blood and qi, and after it finished, fear and regret were revealed in its eyes.

In the past, if the giant python dared to do this, it would have incurred the most severe punishment from the elder. Every once in a while, every evil spirit here had to pay a certain price. This was the rule in the Qin family's ancestral home. Otherwise, how could they be annihilated and suppressed?

But this time, the old man did not retaliate against the giant python; instead, he began to tremble.

His white robes fell off, revealing his body, which was now only half its original size. The wound on his side still had granulation tissue wriggling, but it could never be fully restored, preventing him from regaining his wholeness.

Upon closer inspection, one can see that the old man's fear at this moment is many times greater than that of the giant python above, which is waiting for punishment for its wrongdoing.

"Wei...Wei...Wei..."

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There will be one more chapter during the day.

(End of this chapter)