Practice Remembering You

"If we encounter demons that harm people, we, the immortals, will definitely take action. It's getting late today, you should go back and rest quickly." Zhang Yu's words contained the intention of seeing the guests off.

When the crowd heard this, they all bowed and left.

After a night's rest, the next morning, after everyone finished breakfast, Zhang Yu and Ye Fangcheng confirmed the coal matters again and then set off on their journey home.

Compared with the journey here, the return journey was much slower, because Zhang Yu was now shouldering an extra task.

He needed to stay focused and keep observing the terrain along the way, and then every certain distance, he needed to use land compression techniques to solidify and compact the area under his feet.

Use this to anchor your current location so that when you return, the route will be clear.

As the journey progresses, the route becomes clearer and clearer, and when you return to your original place, the complete route map will be clearly visible.

After that, you just need to start from the beginning and use land compression techniques to connect the roads little by little to create a smooth official road.

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Western Regions - Northern Province - Yinshan Relics

Yinshan Ruins, a mysterious and quiet place. It is dark and gloomy all year round, as if swallowed by endless darkness. Above the head, heavy cumulus clouds are like a heavy sky, tightly covering the entire area.

The water vapor in these cumulus clouds is extremely thick. They intertwine and rub against each other, emitting thunderous noises from time to time. The sound produced is deafening, as if it is going to tear the world apart.

However, no matter how loud the thunder roared, the raindrops never fell.

Looking up, I saw that the dark clouds in the sky were like a huge and solid basin, trapping all the rain firmly in it. This strange scene makes people marvel at the magic of nature.

Sometimes, the strong wind in the sky would blow through the dark clouds, trying to stir up this pool of "stagnant water", but in the end it was in vain. The dark clouds still hovered steadily in the air, as if embedded in the air.

In such an environment, the Yinshan ruins appear even more mysterious.

The mountains on the ground are very slender and look like they are about to fall over, giving people the feeling that they are bamboo shoots growing out of the soil at an angle.

In fact, in the entire Yinshan area, only the Yinshan ruins are so special, as if there are some natural treasures attracting these dark clouds.

Of course, at the beginning almost all the monks shared this view, thinking that there must be something good here. However, after hundreds of years of searching, those powerful monks have searched this place several times and still have not found the so-called treasure.

Finally, a conclusion was reached that the reason why dark clouds accumulated here and it did not rain was not caused by any treasure, but simply because the terrain was special, forming a natural formation that blocked the penetration of water vapor.

As the last few powerful monks stopped exploring, the nature of the Yinshan ruins was determined. Apart from its special appearance, it was just an ordinary ruins.

Shi Dongdong and Wu Mengjie were in the ruins at this time.

"Senior, are there really those good things here that you said?" Wu Mengjie was a little skeptical. Now he held a torch in his hand to add some light to the road.

(This torch is not an ordinary torch. The manufacturing process is very complicated. It is ignited with true qi. After the true qi is ignited, it will release an abnormally bright flame. This flame needs to be continuously output with true qi to keep the light. The continuous consumption of true qi is not much. With Wu Mengjie's true qi capacity, it can be continuously ignited for about five hours.)

Shi Dongdong patted his chest nonchalantly: "Of course... no guarantee~, I said there are good things here, this is just to motivate myself.

Isn't that the kind of uncertainty that you want when you go out to explore ruins? If you know where everything is, what's here or there, then when you get something good, will you still feel excited? "

"Senior, you are right. That is indeed the case." Zhang Yu agreed politely, "The uncertainty of the ruins makes people very excited. I understand this very well."

"Hi, hi!" Shi Dongdong had a happy face, his eyes wide open, and pointed at Wu Mengjie with both hands: "I didn't expect you to be so knowledgeable! It's really pleasing."

"I feel deeply honored to share the same interests with my seniors." Wu Mengjie also studied history, patting his chest and saying with an intoxicated look on his face.

"Oh~" Shi Dongdong sighed at this time.

"Why are you sighing, senior?" Wu Mengjie asked attentively.

"I thought of my second brother. He didn't support me doing this. He said that going to the ruins to look for opportunities was a crooked path and not orthodox. It was not a realm that could be reached by practicing little by little. It was all empty and unstable. Then he insisted that I practice hard."

Wu Mengjie thought about it and quickly said, "I think this kind of thing varies from person to person. For some geniuses with extremely high cultivation talents...indeed, whether to seek opportunities may not be that important.

However, such people are only a minority after all, and they are rare throughout the world.

But the qualifications of most practitioners in this world are very ordinary, or even if they are not ordinary, they cannot be compared with those geniuses.

Therefore, for these people, that is, us, it is very important to find opportunities. Often, a small improvement obtained inadvertently may completely rewrite the future trajectory of life.

Moreover, even if these are unimportant and don't count, does the success of a cultivator's life have to be determined by the level of his cultivation and the strength of his strength?

If you like something, do it, and experience joy in the process, isn’t that also a kind of success?

Just like you and I, our predecessors, we both like to explore ruins and look for treasures. As long as you and I do it and get happiness from it, isn’t that a very important thing!

Is it really necessary for people like us to sit on the ground and practice hard, spending most of our lives in a retreat room?

I admit that there may be cultivators who like to do this, but they are others, not you and me. If you and I did that, I am afraid it would have the opposite effect and cause the cultivation to progress even slower.

So you just have to find a lifestyle that works for you.”

Shi Dongdong nodded heavily and gave Wu Mengjie a thumbs up: "Oh, Xiao Wu, that's right, you are exactly what I like."

Wu Mengjie was particularly happy to receive empathy from Shi Dongdong.

During this period, Wu Mengjie and Shi Dongdong got along very well. Shi Dongdong felt that everything Wu Mengjie said touched his heart, which made Shi Dongdong feel that it was really rare to meet a "fellow traveler" like Wu Mengjie.

The two chatted and explored the area.

After a while, the two came across a pit-shaped cave with a diameter of about three meters.

The two men came to the top of the pit and did not sense any threatening aura from it.

The torch probed downward and saw the bottom of the entrance cave, which was about thirty meters deep from the top.

Looking at both sides of the pit, you can see that the walls are very wet and slippery, as if they are coated with a layer of sticky liquid. This liquid does not have any strange smell. If I have to describe it, it should be the earthy smell of soil that has been exposed to water.

At the bottom of the cave, the two saw some purple pieces of cloth, which looked like clothing material.

In addition, there are some scattered broken bones, but these broken bones are so badly broken that it is impossible to tell what animal they belong to. However, considering those pieces of cloth, it seems likely that they belong to human.

Wu Mengjie and Shi Dongdong both realized that this place might not be as simple as it seemed.

Shi Dongdong took the initiative to expand his spiritual sense, and the light blue light in his eyes became brighter.

Wu Mengjie, who was beside him, felt as if he was enveloped by something and suddenly had a strange feeling, as if his clothes were stripped off and hung on the ground for people to look at closely.

After a moment, Shi Dongdong's eyes returned to their normal brightness. "My spiritual sense can only detect a short distance. It can only detect about 50 meters after the bend at the bottom of the cave. At this distance, I can guarantee that there is no danger."

"In that case, let's go in." Wu Mengjie stood up straight and activated his sword-controlling technique. The golden sword flew out and floated behind Wu Mengjie.

Then Wu Mengjie jumped directly and fell to the bottom of the cave.

Shi Dongdong was not much later. He jumped down at the same time as Wu Mengjie jumped down.

When the two were about to hit the ground, they simultaneously used their true Qi to lift themselves up, then gently floated into the air without making a heavy landing.

After the inertia of falling disappeared, the two of them released their true energy, stepped on the ground, and looked forward together.

The entrance to the cave was about five meters high and it was pitch black inside.

The two walked forward side by side. Wu Mengjie expanded a small part of his consciousness, slowing down the speed of the world he saw by about 20%, to prevent himself from being unable to react in time if he encountered any danger.

A golden sword was placed in front to clear the way.

Shi Dongdong walked forward with his spiritual awareness open, as he needed to detect threats in advance.

After walking twenty meters into the cave and passing three sharp bends, the view ahead suddenly opened up.

The two stepped in carefully, and were stunned by the scene before them. This place was like an isolated paradise, peaceful and mysterious, but also a little weird.

The reason for this is that what grows here are not peach blossoms, but strange trees with pale white trunks.

Their branches are tall and straight, and the leaves of the trees are surprisingly grey in tone, adding a dull and depressing feeling to the whole scene.

Although it was inside a cave, the place was very bright, without any of the darkness and dampness that one would expect from being underground.

Looking up, you can clearly see bright rays of light pouring down from the ceiling, as if the stones on the top of the cave are spontaneously emitting light downwards.