As the Universe Turns - Chapter 488
Chapter 488 Man Goes to the Valley
Many people gathered by the dock. Even though they hadn’t seen Xiao Chen three years ago, they had heard of a young man who had bought a boat and insisted on going out to the sea to search for the Immortal Mountain. This trip lasted three years.
At that time, the sea was not peaceful. Everyone in the town thought that the young man would die in vain. After a long time, no one mentioned him again. Now, almost everyone had forgotten about him. But today, he suddenly appeared here. How could everyone not be surprised?
“Long time no see, shipowner.”
Xiao Chen lightly jumped and flew from the bow to the shore. Everyone cried out in shock and praised the young man for his handsome qinggong.
If it was an ordinary person, after three years, there would be some changes. However, Xiao Chen Yi was as young as before. The owner of the boat couldn’t help but be stunned. Looking at the boat again, he clearly recognized that it wasn’t the boat he had sold back then. Could it be that this little brother really found Immortal Mountain at sea and met Immortal Yimiao?
At that moment, many people surrounded him and asked him what he had encountered at sea in the past three years. Xiao Chen only smiled and said, “The sea is indeed not peaceful. If you go fishing, remember not to go too far.”
It wasn’t until the afternoon that Xiao Chen left this small town in the East China Sea and returned to that mountain peak. That Black Tortoise Stone was still standing on the edge of the cliff, and the day he left with him hadn’t changed at all.
Xiao Chen reached under the stone and gently touched the icy cold on it. He recalled that he had sat here for three days before comprehending the Undying Concept beneath the stone.
Now that he was back here, he sighed with emotion. Especially when he thought back to the sixty years he had spent in the Heart Demon Forbidden Land. Although it was only sixty years, and it couldn’t compare to this Black Tortoise Stone that had stood here for tens of millions of years, it was as if he had seen the flourishing and sinking of the human world once in those sixty years.
It wasn’t until dusk fell that Xiao Chen left. After another seven days, he returned to the Dongjie Mountains. At this moment, Leng Yue was hanging diagonally in the sky. He still remembered that he and Guisi had rescued Hua Weiyang from the Heavenly Gate. Afterwards, they were chased by the Heavenly Gate and escaped all the way here.
Now that he had returned after three years, he could still find the two caves. However, Guisi, Shen Jing and the others were no longer here.
“I, someone Xiao, have returned …”
Looking in the direction of the Heavenly Gate, at this moment, his eyes suddenly became a little cold. For some reason, he remembered the voice of the Heart Demon in the Seventh Mountain of the Forbidden Land of Heart Demons. “Didn’t you think that one day you would kill them all?” Yes, it’s this kind of hateful gaze. I’ll be waiting for you the day you fall into the abyss. Hahaha … ”
The moonlight was cold and miserable. Xiao Chen flicked his sleeves and removed the distractions in his mind. He leapt forward and headed for the mountain range in front of him.
Next, he had to carefully bypass the Heavenly Gate’s sphere of influence. Before he went to the Southern Butterfly Valley and saw Shen Jing, he didn’t want to create any complications. However, if he was stopped, he didn’t need to think about it and could kill her.
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Ten days later, Xiao Chen finally returned to the Butterfly Valley in the Southern Domain. He still remembered every single stone and tree here. It was late winter, and the ice and snow sealed the valley. When he entered the valley, he discovered that there were no restrictions left. In the entire valley, only the sound of falling snow could be heard. There was no longer the scene of the past.
“Shen Jing …”
For some reason, looking at the snow falling in the valley, Xiao Chen suddenly had a very bad premonition. Why was Butterfly Valley so quiet today? Even after the heavy snow had sealed the road, no one could sweep away the heavy snow. If it was in the past, Shen Jing would have let the two alchemists clean up the heavy snow on the main road. How could it be such a depressing scene now?
The more he thought about it, the stranger he felt. Could it be that Shen Jing didn’t bring Wei Yang back to Butterfly Valley? As he thought about it, he quickly went into the valley. When he arrived outside the small courtyard, he was stunned by the scene before him.
The courtyard had long since been destroyed, and even the cliff behind them had suffered heavy injuries from the sword qi. Even with the heavy snow covering the sky, it was difficult to conceal the traces left behind by the battle that day.
“Shen Jing, Wei Yang …”
If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, Xiao Chen would never have believed that this place would have been destroyed so thoroughly back then. Who was it?
He kicked his feet and arrived in the ruins of the ruins. With a flick of his sleeve, he swept away the snow. There were many sword marks on the ground. Obviously, the sword qi had descended from the sky. This was the sword technique of the Righteous Dao Profound Sect!
Looking at the cliff wall, there was a sword mark that was about a hundred feet deep. The Butterfly Valley already had a defensive formation, and it could create such a deep sword mark. How could such a fierce sword Qi be emitted by an ordinary person?
Moss had already grown all around the sword mark, and it must have been a long time since the day of the incident.
Xiao Chen couldn’t help but think of the day when Gongsun Yun and Sect Leader Luo Huo brought tens of thousands of people to kill Luo Die when they entered the God’s Demon Tomb two years ago. That was the day he comprehended the third level of the Undying Concept, the Slaughter Concept. His heart beat violently, as if he sensed something. It must be the day that something happened in Butterfly Valley …
“Wei Yang …”
At this moment, Xiao Chen’s heartbeat became intense once again. He turned around and saw that the sky was full of snow and wind, but there was no trace of anyone. Where was Wei Yang? Where’s Shen Jing …
More than three years had passed, but was he still late? Three years had passed, and where were they now?
“Wei Yang … Wei Yang, did you hear me? I’m back … I’m back!”
Xiao Chen shouted forcefully. However, even his voice was gradually concealed by the heavy snow. The valley was empty, and there was no longer any old scene in the past.
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In the following month, he searched many places, but couldn’t find Shen Jing and Hua Weiyang. During this period of time, he had also asked around. It turned out that two years ago, it was one of the four great profound sects, Tibetan Feng Valley, that discovered the location of Butterfly Valley. In order to capture the “witch”, Tibetan Feng Valley gathered all the righteous sects and attacked into Butterfly Valley.
Although the battle on that day could not be said to have been tragic, there were still casualties on both sides. The disciples sent out by the Lianhua Palace to guard the valley were almost all killed and wounded. Afterwards, the various sects once again surrounded the Lianhua Palace. Madam Xian Shu had no choice but to use the Hundred Flowers Secret Array to completely hide the Lianhua Palace.
However, no one knew where Shen Jing and Hua Weiyang had escaped to the day the Tibetan Feng Valley and the Righteous sects had invaded Butterfly Valley.
“Hidden Peak Valley …”
At this moment, rows of deep and shallow footprints were left behind Xiao Chen in the vast snowy ground. However, these footprints were quickly concealed by the blizzard that covered the sky.
It was already winter. For some reason, heavy snow had fallen from all over the Immortal Origin Five Regions. The vast expanse of white seemed to be trying to cover up the bloodstains that had covered the ground in the past.