Yan Yun Shan Di Gong is dead silent.

The Wu Sheng Jiao no longer exists. The Wu Sheng Jiao followers are either dead or scattered, so naturally no one will come here again. Lately, not even snakes, insects, rats, or ants are present, making it a truly “silent realm.”

It is not entirely without sound.

Water drops painstakingly gather on the dome above. After a long wait, they finally choose to fall, dripping into the dark channel, creating this mournful sound of dripping water.

Drip… drip.

No one knows how long this has continued, and probably no one has kept track of the time.

In the past few days, some blood drops also fell, but that too has stopped.

Without a source of blood, it couldn’t last long.

The dark, sunken blood drops dispersed in the dark channel, making it even less clear.

That long river is vast and mighty, roaring for ten thousand li.

The Qian Tang River attracts ten thousand people to witness the tide, which suddenly appears like a line.

The world also has deep ditches and dark channels, self-generating and self-perishing, mourning in times without people.

The water flowing through this Di Gong, though a dark channel unseen by daylight, is not stagnant and putrid. If occasionally a ray of daylight penetrates through a crevice, it can illuminate the bottom clearly.

Yan Yun Shan Di Gong is not forever without daylight. Having been shattered here, it long ago lost the power to isolate inside and outside.

When the sun is just right, and the clouds don’t interfere, some light rays will more or less be able to travel a long distance and arrive—though for a very short time.

Now is just such a rare moment; appropriate light illumination is about to come.

Where the daylight occasionally falls upon the water, from the bottom of the dark channel, one by one, like swimming fish, perfectly formed blood drops float up—these are precisely the drops that originally gathered drop by drop and fell drop by drop.

These originally dark, sunken blood drops, after sinking to the bottom for these past few days, seem to have been cleansed by the dark water. At this moment, they are crystal clear and even emit a faint fragrance. The fragrance is ethereal, enveloping the entire Yan Yun Di Gong in a kind of “imagined brightness.”

One by one, the blood drops swim out of the water and silently connect into a circle. This connection is oval-shaped and at first glance, it greatly resembles an eye.

This “eye” formed of blood drops faces the crevice in the dome, gazing at the source of the light.

Drip… drip.

Time drips away, and finally, that moment arrives.

A wisp of daylight precisely penetrates the Di Gong, falls on the dark channel, and finally illuminates this clear dark flow.

The sun treats everything fairly, bestowing brightness upon all existence that faces it.

So this single wisp of daylight inside the dark Di Gong will, of course, not avoid those blood drops. Refracting into the blood, a wonderful change then occurs—

The perfectly formed blood drops, under the illumination of the light, actually “bloomed,” blooming into small flowers of blood color.

All the small flowers of blood color connect together. The small flowers of blood color themselves, in turn, become a single petal.

Where is the eye formed by those connecting blood drops?

It is clearly a blooming lotus flower!

It is the blooming of all the blood drops that finally formed this blooming lotus flower.

And during the blooming process, the blood color gradually fades, becoming pure white and flawless.

In this forgotten, dark corner, a white lotus flower is blooming.

It sheds blood and gradually becomes white, bears light and gradually grows.

Finally, it transforms into a one-zhang square white lotus platform. Above the lotus platform, a woman in red clothes sits cross-legged. Her figure is graceful, also like a lotus opening. That single wisp of daylight falls precisely on her charming but not demonic face, giving her a kind of holy feeling.

And she raises her palm, blocking the daylight.

The Di Gong thus returns to darkness.

She is Mei Yue of the San Fen Xiang Qi Lou. She is Yu Zhen from deep within the Bamboo Forest. She is Miao Yu from outside Feng Lin Cheng. She is Bai Lian from before Yu Heng Feng.

The death of Feng Xiang Zhen Ren Fa Luo was precisely for this moment. The reason he desperately wanted to escape to Yan Yun Shan to be beheaded was precisely because Yan Yun Shan had arrangements by the San Fen Xiang Qi Lou and the means of Luo Sha Ming Yue Jing.

“Feng Xiang Er Si, Wei You Lian Sheng.”

This is Feng Xiang Zhen Ren’s fate.

The Bai Gu Dao has been destroyed. The Wu Sheng Jiao, which grew from the corpses of the Bai Gu Dao, has also been wiped out.

Everyone has forgotten that the Bai Gu Dao still had a Sheng Nu.

But Jiang Wang remembers.

Mei Yue herself also remembers.

As the Sheng Nu of the Bai Gu Dao, she was chosen from a young age to be cultivated as the Dao Guo, the body for the Bai Gu Zun Shen to descend into the world.

When Zhang Lin Chuan occupied the Bai Gu Sheng Qu, she became the most coveted provision of the Wu Sheng Jiao.

Similarly, when the Bai Gu Sheng Qu was destroyed, she gained a thorough new life.

She could easily take over everything of the Wu Sheng Jiao.

She also seized the “Wu Sheng Jing.”

She even improved Zhang Lin Chuan’s Nine Jie Fa. Grasping tribulation as a flower, attaining liberation through encountering life.

Feng Xiang Zhen Ren Fa Luo’s willingness to die here in Yan Yun Shan, completing a link in her escape, was of course not for her. It was for this “Huo Guo” that she now holds in her hand.

A Dao Tu fruit formed from the destruction of the entire great sect Nan Dou Dian.

It is the Cheng Dao provision of the Lou Zhu of the San Fen Xiang Qi Lou, Luo Sha Ming Yue Jing.

Its name is so fierce, yet it truly grows beautifully. Held in Mei Yue’s palm, it appears carved from snow jade, like a small gourd, its entire body pure white and flawless. Within it, ethereal light flows, occasionally capturing glimpses, all of which are scenes of collapse.

“This Huo Guo is so round. Younger Sister has indeed performed a great service this time.”

A voice that interprets the meaning of “pleasant to hear” moment by moment rings out within the Di Gong. Ye Lan Er lightly lifts her Luo skirt and carefully walks closer, looking at the ground strewn with broken bricks and tiles.

Just a few steps of road, walked with a swaying posture. She is like a butterfly dancing in the light.

She stands beneath the lotus platform, looking up at Mei Yue sitting alone on the lotus: “Your heart of fire is also round.”

Mei Yue uses a little finger to lightly wipe her lip edge, where there is probably a trace of blood, dyeing her finger with rouge: “Hmm. Fortunately, I didn’t die.”

She casually flips out a jade box, places the Huo Guo carefully inside, and throws it to Ye Lan Er: “Feng Gui Lou Zhu. I’ve finished my task.”

Ye Lan Er catches the jade box with a raised hand, carefully examines the intricate carvings, but does not open the jade box. Her expression is unclear: “It is said that this is the Lou Zhu’s fundamental divine ability, capable of self-ignition and possessing the power to end all things.”

This time, the Nan Dou event saw Chu Guo effortlessly flatten the Nan Dou Dian, and Luo Sha Ming Yue Jing obtained the Huo Guo.

Only the Nan Dou Dian lost everything.

Only one survivor remains, hiding his name among the ten thousand common people, Chang Sheng Jun.

But to say the San Fen Xiang Qi Lou gained everything is not entirely true.

At least from Ye Lan Er’s perspective.

This time, the San Fen Xiang Qi Lou’s many years of hidden agents in the South Domain were all for naught in one morning. Three Tian Xiang died, five Xin Xiang died, and Feng Xiang Zhen Ren Fa Luo also died. The Cave Heaven treasure, Peach Blossom Origin, was also taken back to Ying Cheng.

Using these sacrifices to exchange for a Huo Guo, to exchange for Chu Guo’s tacit understanding not to investigate the past, is it worth it?

Perhaps time will provide the answer.

“Does the Huo Guo have divine abilities? Me?” Mei Yue says calmly: “The Lou Zhu didn’t tell me these things. She only told me what I needed to obtain.”

Ye Lan Er looks at her with a complex expression: “You are too adventurous, you didn’t need to be so.”

This time, the journey into the Nan Dou secret realm involved Mei Yue putting herself in the middle of the situation, and finally picking the Huo Guo. It sounds like a very clean action, but the process was truly not easy.

Luo Sha Ming Yue Jing helped her arrange a path to survival, but it was not guaranteed to succeed. It can even be said that only at this moment can she confirm that she is alive.

But originally, facing the Sin Jun, having to navigate between the Zhuang, Yong, and Luo countries, she was not even listed among the Tian Xiang or Xin Xiang.

Later, she became the seventh Tian Xiang, and then the first Xin Xiang… How did she achieve this so easily?

“Everyone must bear the consequences of their own choices.” Mei Yue is unfazed: “Perhaps this is the life I am meant to experience.”

This sentence sounds truly familiar.

Ye Lan Er recalls Jiang Wang saying similar words to her in the river valley.

She looks at Mei Yue at this moment and cannot help but shake her head: “I truly feel very strange. Facing a woman like you, even I can’t help but be moved. Why can some people have hearts like iron and stone, seeing but not seeing?”

Mei Yue suddenly turns her eyes: “Did you go find him? Didn’t I tell you, don’t—”

Ye Lan Er raises both hands, begging for mercy: “Good Younger Sister, don’t be angry. I didn’t say who you are.”

Mei Yue floats down from the lotus platform and with a backhand, shrinks the lotus flower and puts it back in her sleeve: “I’ve discovered that many people, when facing him, always overestimate their own wisdom and underestimate his cleverness. Is it that he inherently possesses a kind of clumsy quality that makes people pity and love him?”

Ye Lan Er slightly frowns: “…Are you saying he is clever, or not clever?”

“I am saying you are not clever.” Mei Yue sighs: “Since you went to find him, he can certainly guess who Mei Yue is.”

“Let him guess then.” Ye Lan Er says with a resigned tone: “You’ve done so much for him, he should know. If you hadn’t told me not to say anything, I would have properly asked him.”

Mei Yue shakes her head: “I didn’t do anything for him. The last time I brought you to kill Yang Chong Zu was because I also needed Zhang Lin Chuan to die. I am the Dao Guo of the Bai Gu Sheng Qu, so to hide myself long-term, killing Zhang Lin Chuan, who occupied the Bai Gu Sheng Qu, was just to eliminate the biggest threat to me. You were helping me, not helping him—”

“Go explain these words to him!” Ye Lan Er strokes her hair, saying whatever comes to mind: “Anyway, no matter what you do, I’ll always favor you.”

“Then don’t act on your own again, my good Elder Sister.” Mei Yue walks towards the outside of the Di Gong: “I have my path to walk, I don’t live around him. You have even less of a need to.”

“Is it me?” Ye Lan Er asks behind her: “The situation was so dangerous this time. Why didn’t you find Jiang Wang for help? He is probably extraordinary now. His strength is high, his identity is honorable, his friends are everywhere. Didn’t he say he wanted to save you once? Even several times?”

Mei Yue pauses for a moment, then continues walking outside—

“He has had enough to think about.”

The Da Chu Empire’s organization named “Feng Du” does not have its headquarters in the capital. Instead, it is located in a mysterious place on the border of Chu Guo, which cannot be found on maps.

The headquarters is simply called “Feng Du,” also known as the “Human Ghost Country.”

The contemporary Yin Gu Chi of Feng Du is a strong person not very famous in the world. But those who are active in the dark night change color upon hearing his name.

When Xiang Feng Qi tested his sword in the world that year, his first journey to the South Domain was to the Human Ghost Country.

Gu Chi was Dong Zhen’s invincible Nan Lai’s first challenge target, which shows his importance.

Chu Guo’s Feng Du Yin Gu Chi, Jing Guo’s Central Tian Lao Sang Xian Shou and Jing Shi Tai Fu Dong Xu, Qin Guo’s Zhen Yu Si Shang Sheng Dian Yu Guan Yan Wen, Qi Guo’s Da Gu Ren leader Han Ling, Mu Guo Yi Qi Na Si’s Si Zheng Zhi Yan, Jing Guo’s An Xing Luo Hou, can be considered the highest intelligence officials of the current six major overlord countries.

Among these, Shang Sheng Dian Yu Guan Yan Wen is the highest leader of the Zhen Yu Si, and below him are the ten Si Yu Chang such as Ya Feng and Tu Wei.

“Yi Qi Na” was originally a temple, named “Po Ba De Mi.”

“Po Ba De Mi” is the Cang Tu Shen Yu, meaning “God of the Eye.” It is the organization within the Cang Tu Shen Jiao that monitors the grassland and punishes heresy. It has always been famous on the grassland for its “cruelty.” The extinction of various teachings on the grassland was due to the merit of the Po Ba De Mi temple.

Later, the temple was changed, and the name was changed to “Yi Qi Na.”

“Yi Qi Na” is a grassland language, its original meaning is “homeless,” extended to “nameless person.”

It also says, “For the claws of wolves and eagles, all are nameless.”

But there is still one important point—”Yi Qi Na” is the original name of Mu Guo Tai Zu He Lian Qing Tong. Many people on the grassland have this name because it has the meaning of “orphan.” If one has no glorious bloodline, no prominent family, and even no parents, one can be called “Yi Qi Na.”

He Lian Qing Tong was of humble origins, without father or mother from a young age, only having a lamb left by his grandfather. It happened that there was chaos and war among various tribes on the grassland, and people could not survive. The fertile grassland was all occupied by nobles, who did not allow ordinary people to herd. He slaughtered his own raised sheep, ate a full meal, carried the slaughtering knife, and went to enlist in the noble’s private army. From this, he began his magnificent life.

From a shepherd boy, he grew to become the emperor who created an overlord country. This is also a feat no less than the Cang Tu myth.

Changing the “Po Ba De Mi temple” to the “Yi Qi Na temple” is of course a declaration of authority transfer, representing the transfer of the He Lian family’s royal power, replacing the divine power of the Cang Tu Shen Jiao. It also implies that Mu Tai Zu is forever watching this world, protecting his descendants.

Under the Si Zheng Zhi Yan, although he is not as famous as Cang Yu Xun Hu Ya Ya Zhu Hu Yan Jing Xuan, who manages security, in terms of deterrence, he is far above Hu Yan Jing Xuan.

If Hu Yan Jing Xuan stares at someone, they are nothing but dead. If Zhi Yan stares at someone, death is the best outcome.

The “An Xing” that fights the “Yi Qi Na temple” the most is naturally not a good place either.

The so-called “An Xing” implies that among the various heavenly flags, there is a hidden star outside the thirteen stars, its importance is evident.

Each leader of the An Xing is named “Luo Hou.” They specialize in assassination and can be called the sect master in this regard.

Today, Gu Chi, as usual, left his office at three-quarters past noon and strolled within this “Human Ghost Country.”

This is an old habit of his. As long as he is in Feng Du, he is unmoving like thunder.

He often says one sentence—”To make people feel relieved, air dry in the sun.”

Feng Du also usually escorts prisoners in at this time.

So, while strolling, Gu Chi also conveniently glanced at them. Sometimes, if he was in a good mood, he would randomly point out a suspect and personally interrogate them.

Someone just wanted to ask—when he’s not in a good mood?

He points out three.

Gu Chi walked down the gloomy long street, with no human figures before or after him, but from time to time, faint whispers came from both sides of the road.

One voice said: “An old Confucian scholar walked down Shu Shan and came to find Mister Zhu Ge. He said he wanted to ask Luo Sha Ming Yue Jing why Gao Zheng had to die.”

“Who is this old mister?” Gu Chi asked.

“Yan Sheng,” the faint voice replied.

Yan Sheng, the Tai Fu of the Crown Prince of Yang Guo!

Chapter 4k, added for the great alliance “Ban Zui You Zi” (2/3).

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