Chapter 176: Sudden Separation, Endless Forest, Searching for the Essence

Seeking change for twelve years.

In that remote town, there is a "Qingfeng Inn". The word "Qingfeng" sounds elegant. It is said that a scholar who traveled far away came here and nominated himself.

It was not yet dawn.

The waiter of the inn had to get up and deal with various tasks, such as feeding horses, boiling water, wiping tables, etc. These were all miscellaneous tasks that did not require any brains. The waiter who had been doing this for many years had developed muscle memory.

So he was drowsy and half asleep, and had already finished most of the work. The table was wiped clean and the floor paved with bluestone tiles was swept.

He walked out of the inn and went straight to the stable.

He took a few bundles of straw, pushed open the door of the stable, and called the horses to eat.

Suddenly.

There was a slight cold wind blowing on his face.

He frowned and looked in the direction of the cold wind. This look instantly made him sober.

A big hole appeared in the stable out of thin air.

The surprise instantly wiped out all sleepiness. The waiter was shocked and immediately counted the number of horses. The number of horses was not less, but there was one donkey missing.

He vaguely remembered...

It was an old donkey.

The old donkey was led by a swordsman in white.

He didn't dare to delay for a moment, and hurriedly informed the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper knocked on the door of the swordsman in white and said to the swordsman, your donkey ran away, and the things in the bamboo box were scattered everywhere.

To the shopkeeper's surprise, the swordsman was unusually calm. He only replied, "I know," and then there was no more news, and he didn't bother himself.

Seeing this, the shopkeeper was naturally relieved. In this day and age, livestock are more valuable than human lives. If the swordsman insisted on claiming compensation, he would probably have to cut off a few taels of meat.

The swordsman paid for the meal and walked out of the inn alone.

The shopkeeper and the waiter looked at the swordsman's back as he left. The waiter was amazed, his eyes full of contempt. Even if it was a dog or a cat, you would have some affection for it after raising it for a long time, let alone a donkey that carried people every day?

The swordsman's donkey was lost, but he didn't say a word, and his expression didn't change much.

I don't know if he is a timid person.

Or a cold-blooded person.

The shopkeeper nodded. Although the swordsman's actions saved him a lot of trouble, he didn't have a good impression of the swordsman.

…

"Old donkey, old donkey." Li Changxiao sighed, "You didn't even say goodbye before leaving."

Perhaps he was used to parting, and from beginning to end, Li Changxiao's expression didn't change much.

He continued walking.

He just looked a little thinner.

…

Seeking change for fourteen years.

Li Changxiao came to a small town by boat.

The town is located near an endless forest, which is rich in products and has a strange fragrance of fruits, but it is often harassed by wild beasts.

A while ago, a family of four on the East Street had a wild beast break into the house at night because the door was not locked properly. Three people died and only one man was left. According to the man's description, the beast that broke into the house was not like an ordinary creature. It was a tiger with two heads, and its shape was strange and extremely ugly.

This incident caused a sensation, and the government office in the town immediately called on warriors to hunt in the forest.

Li Changxiao stayed in the inn and listened to the storyteller telling these things. He knew in his heart that the man-eating beast was probably a beast called "Jihu".

This endless forest is one of the eighteen dangers in the world, the Endless Forest.

This forest is as vast as the sea, with rampant beasts and diseases in it, and is not welcomed by the cultivators in the world.

Regarding this forest, before the spiritual energy was exhausted, the most common use was to avoid being hunted down. According to rumors, the Sword Goddess of the Sword Immortal Sect, a branch of the Taoist sect, was a genius that had not appeared in thousands of years. She was framed by someone who wanted to capture her as a forbidden delicacy. Later, she used forbidden techniques and escaped to this place.

With the help of the rules of this place, she escaped narrowly.

When she returned to the Sword Immortal Sect, she was infected with a strange disease. The Sword Immortal Sect invited the Buddha of Jiuxiang Temple and the Arhats of Tiandi Temple, another branch of Buddhism, to remove these diseases one by one after another.

This experience was too wonderful, so it was widely circulated, and it was also one of the battles that made the Sword Goddess famous.

Of course, there are more failures than successful examples.

There are many rumors about this endless forest, countless. There are Buddhist disciples who come here on their own initiative, contract strange diseases and experience suffering, and there are horizontal training body cultivation and custom ascetic paths to sharpen their bodies and Taoism.

The reason why Li Changxiao came here has nothing to do with these rumors.

It was simply because the "Muyuan Marrow", one of the ten great divine essences, had appeared here.

He wanted to collect the ten great divine essences and use them to enter the stage of transformation. In this way, his Nascent Soul path could be considered complete, without omissions or regrets.

Looking back, although his cultivation talent was average, he took every step steadily, and laid a solid foundation in the foundation building and golden elixir. Now that the Nascent Soul path has reached the end, he is still the same.

He can do this thanks to his endless lifespan. If other disciples with average talents did not have the support of a big force behind them, they would have died of old age early if they spent decades or hundreds of years laying the foundation like him.

After drinking and eating in the inn, Li Changxiao put a few copper coins on the table, left the inn alone, left the town, and walked towards the Endless Forest.

The endless green ocean was like a beast with a bloody mouth, swallowing all those who entered it.

As he walked out of the town.

The road became more and more difficult to walk on, and there were fewer and fewer pedestrians. It was summer, and there were many snakes, insects, rats and ants. There were several families in the town who made a living by hunting, but they did not dare to enter the Endless Forest, because the strange beasts in it were not something that mortals could deal with, so they only dared to hunt around.

After walking another mile, they still had not entered the Endless Forest, but there were no pedestrians on the roadside, only the martial artists who were also heading to the Endless Forest.

A few meters away from Li Changxiao, there was a team of people, well-equipped and wearing armor, a total of three men and one woman.

If they were ordinary martial artists, they would definitely not be worth Li Changxiao's attention.

But he recognized that among the four people, one man and one woman were once the pride of the cultivation world, one of the stars.

The woman seemed to be named Xiao Yuan, with a ponytail tied behind her head, and the ends of her hair were slightly red, which was very distinctive. She was the daughter of the cultivation family Xiao family.

The Red Domain Xiao family, this is a famous cultivation family.

Unlike other "domains" in Fuyao Tianxia, ​​there is no "continent" division in the "Red Domain", and it is also the smallest domain in Fuyao Tianxia.

Another man who is also a cultivator, named "Shang Xin", is also a genius, from the Shang family in the Red Domain. It is rumored that the Xiao family and the Shang family have a close relationship, even through marriage. I wonder if these two are related.

When Li Changxiao was looking at the two, Xiao Yuan also noticed Li Changxiao, frowning, and her intuition told her that this person might also be a fellow traveler.