I work as a security guard at a cemetery, and I overhear the dead chatting about getting rich quick.

The Sword Sect Stele is not located in the inner mountain.

This relieved Cheng Fang.

Xie Hongyi led them westward from the Sword Washing Pool, through a section of outer gate buildings that had mostly collapsed, and soon they arrived at a stone platform.

The stone platform is not high.

In the center stands a black stone tablet, seven or eight meters long.

The surface of the monument is covered with cracks.

Two ancient characters can be seen at the very top.

Wanling recognized it first.

"Clan Records".

Lin Ye looked up.

"Not an ancestral tablet?"

"Something."

The Way of Ten Thousand Spirits.

"Different sects use different names."

Xie Hongyi had already reached the monument.

She didn't touch it right away.

First, I walked around the stone platform.

His brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

"The array pattern is broken."

Zhou Xiao also squatted down to check.

The bottom of the stone platform should have had complete spirit-guiding patterns.

Only about 30% of them are still lit up.

What remains is not bad.

It was taken over by something again.

Many new, vibrant lines have appeared on the patterns.

Like tree roots growing out of a crack.

The technician was just about to approach.

Xie Hongyi raised her hand.

"Don't touch it."

His tone was very harsh.

But there was no hostility.

The fight just now has already taken place.

Now both sides know that the other is not someone to be trifled with.

Cheng Fang asked directly:

How do I make it light up again?

Xie Hongyi glanced at the stone tablet.

"Normally, the sect seal and the main peak's spiritual vein are activated together."

"The sect seal is no longer in my possession."

"The spiritual veins are also in disarray."

"Force it open?"

It will break.

After saying that sentence...

No one moved from the scene.

Lin Ye has already activated his spiritual hearing.

The stone tablet itself made no obvious sound.

The area beneath the stone platform actually reacted.

Very fine.

Intermittently.

It's like a water channel that has been cut into many sections.

He squatted down and listened for half a minute.

He pointed to three locations.

"These three places are still passable."

Xie Hongyi turned her head.

"Can you hear the array patterns?"

"Very different."

Wanling immediately interjected.

"He can only tell where the spiritual energy is coming from, but he doesn't understand formations."

Xie Hongyi's gaze towards Lin Ye became even stranger.

It's not about belittling.

It is a reassessment.

She had only thought that Lin Yeling had a special sense of wonder.

Now let's look at it.

This thing is more valuable in formations than in actual combat.

Lin Ye ignored her.

"What if we temporarily reconnect the broken part?"

Xie Hongyi shook her head.

"Can't receive it."

Why?

"There are no spiritual materials."

The technician immediately spoke up.

"What do you need?"

Xie Hongyi gave three names.

Nobody has ever heard of them.

All spirits know each other.

"The first one is not available right now."

"The second spiritual wire you brought can barely replace it."

"The third one..."

It paused for a moment.

"That spirit stone is fine."

Lin Ye looked at Cheng Fang.

The first spirit stone we found on the way is still in the sample box.

Cheng Fang did not hesitate.

"use."

The technician immediately removed it.

Xie Hongyi was clearly taken aback.

"Are you willing to part with it?"

Cheng Fang looked at her.

"Why can't you bear to part with it?"

"This is a spirit stone."

"I know."

Xie Hongyi didn't say anything more.

She clearly hasn't adjusted yet.

In ancient times, a low-grade spirit stone was worthless.

Now, however, there are seven genuine spirit stone samples that were among the first batch confirmed.

But right now.

Rather than keeping it for research.

Opening the ancestral tablet is more important.

This incident made Xie Hongyi realize for the first time.

These people are not the same as the Candle Shadow Society who secretly entered the mountain.

The technicians quickly set up the equipment.

Modern conductors.

Spiritual materials.

Shattered Spirit Stone.

In addition, Xie Hongyi personally corrected the array patterns.

The scene looks strange.

It's like two eras have been forcibly clashed together.

Lin Ye listened the whole time.

Which segment of spiritual energy cannot be overcome?

The backflow is too heavy there.

There's a mistake in the connection.

He only reported his location.

The principles of the array will not be explained.

Because he genuinely doesn't understand.

Ten minutes later.

The last temporary diversion segment is connected.

hum.

The stone platform shook.

It's not lit.

No one moved.

The second second.

A faint light appeared at the very bottom of the black stone tablet.

very weak.

Then it climbs up along the crack.

One.

Two.

more and more.

Xie Hongyi's expression finally changed.

"retreat."

Everyone quickly retreated.

next moment.

The entire stone tablet suddenly lit up.

boom!

A heavy spiritual pressure spread outwards.

Xu Mian immediately raised her gun.

But it wasn't opened.

The fire in Qin Zhao's palm only shone for a moment.

Cheng Fang stood at the very front.

There was no preemptive attack.

Xie Hongyi saw it all.

She stared at several people.

The wariness in his eyes lessened.

True heretical cultivators wouldn't be so restrained when faced with the sudden awakening of a sect's relics.

They certainly wouldn't hold back along the way.

The characters on the ancestral tablet began to appear.

It doesn't light up all at once.

Instead, they are arranged in columns, from bottom to top.

The content at the beginning is quite miscellaneous.

Major events in the history of the sect.

The disciples added to the list.

The mountain gate was expanded.

The migration of spiritual veins.

Wanling quickly flipped through the woods.

The technicians then used video equipment to record the entire process.

Heading upwards.

The characters are getting newer and newer.

And there are fewer and fewer of them.

Until the last three columns.

Suddenly, all the spirits fell silent.

Lin Ye lowered his head.

"What's wrong?"

See for yourself.

"Can I understand it?"

"Then listen to me read it."

Wanling's voice deepened.

"The year 1842 of the Hidden Peak Calendar."

"The spirit of heaven and earth is declining."

"The main vein is withered."

"Outer-class staff will have their salaries reduced."

Second column.

"Winter of the same year."

"The three sects of the Northern Territory have sealed off their mountains."

"The Jade Capital has lost communication."

"The spiritual tide of the world recedes again."

The third column.

It consists of only a few short sentences.

When Wanling read this, he paused for two seconds.

"The year 1843 of the Hidden Edge Calendar."

"The ancestral hall has reached a decision."

"Close the mountain."

"He appointed his disciples to reside in the places of Jianmian and Shimian."

"Use the boundary marker to block the mountain gate."

"Waiting for the restoration of heaven and earth..."

"Reopen."

The scene quieted down.

Waiting for the restoration of the spirits of heaven and earth.

Reopen.

This shows that Cangfeng Mountain did not disappear by accident.

It was blocked voluntarily.

Moreover, people at the time were very clear about this.

Reiki may make a comeback in the future.

Cheng Fang immediately grasped the key point.

"Did they know that Reiki would revive?"

Wanling did not answer immediately.

Xie Hongyi, however, was looking at the very top of the stone tablet.

"At least that's what the sect leader and the others think."

"Before I sealed myself in slumber, all I knew was that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth had depleted to the point that the sect could no longer sustain it."

"As for the future..."

She shook her head.

"Nobody knows how long we'll have to wait."

Zhou Xiao's face turned somewhat pale.

"We all thought it would be at most a hundred years."

No one responded to that.

Lin Ye looked at the monument.

century.

As a result, we waited for more than two thousand years.

What's more troublesome is...

The inscription on the stele reads "The Three Sects of the Northern Border are sealed off from the mountain."

There is also Yujing.

In other words.

Hidden Peak Mountain is definitely not the only sect that actively detaches itself from reality.

Now the boundary has been opened.

I'll come back later.

And there is definitely more than just this one.

Just then.

Xie Hongyi suddenly turned to look at Cheng Fang.

"How long have you been meddling in this kind of thing outside?"

Cheng Fangdao:

"Many years."

"Those remnant souls, spiritual artifacts, possessed beings, and out-of-control cultivators—are they all under your jurisdiction?"

"almost."

"Were those three people from earlier also among them?"

"The Candlelight Gathering".

"What do you do?"

"Competing for resources, recruiting people, and learning incomplete techniques—it's all quite troublesome."

Xie Hongyi remained silent for a moment.

I glanced again at the seven markings on their bodies.

"So you are not a sect."

"no."

"He is not an evil cultivator either."

Cheng Fang looked at her.

"You're only realizing it now?"

Xie Hongyi ignored her.

Her gaze fell on Lin Ye.

"Is this how people from outside the mountains cultivate?"

Lin Ye shook his head.

"Not at all."

"He's rather chaotic."

Wanling delivered the final blow.

Lin Ye ignored him.

Xie Hongyi did not make any more sarcastic remarks.

She already figured it out.

This group of people practiced chaotic methods.

Gear monster.

His way of doing things was completely different from what she knew about sects.

But they came in one after another.

There was no rush to buy medicine.

There was no mining.

No outer sect disciples were killed.

Prioritize controlling hostile entities.

When the sect monument needed its first spirit stone, it used it without hesitation.

This is not the practice of heretical practitioners.

It was even quite different from many of the righteous sects she remembered.

Xie Hongyi finally let go of the sword hilt.

What just happened.

"Consider it an obligation I owe you."

Cheng Fang nodded.

"Make a note of this."

No need to be polite.

There was no feigned magnanimity.

Lin Ye smiled instead.

Xie Hongyi saw it.

"What are you laughing at?"

"It's nothing."

"I just think you're quite reasonable."

Xie Hongyi glanced at him indifferently.

"I'm just not blind."

The voice just fell.

The very top of the Zonglu Stele.

A line of text that was not originally lit up.

Suddenly it surfaced.

It wasn't left over from ancient times.

It looks like it was just generated.

The Scripture of All Souls trembled violently.

Lin Ye looked up.

There were only eight characters in that line.

Xie Hongyi's expression changed instantly.

"That's impossible."

Cheng Fang asked:

"What did you write?"

Wanling read it out word by word.

"The external spirit is restored."

"The mountain gate returns to its original boundary."

"Return to the Boundary..."

It paused for a moment.

The voice faded completely.

"It turns out they had already given this day a name."