Chapter 786

He He Jiaqing followed the Old Train out of the city and came to the side of the railway tracks.

The surrounding scene was gray and white, only these two railway tracks were as bright as new, looking slightly dazzling.

After waiting for a while, the sound of a whistle rang out, and a train drove over from the distance.

The Old Train leaped and jumped onto the carriage, and He He Jiaqing hurriedly followed.

The two squatted on the roof of the carriage. After walking for not long, the Old Train said to He He Jiaqing: "See that big bridge in front? Once the carriage gets on the bridge, you jump up. Don't use any techniques.

According to the speed of this train, by the time you fall under the bridge, you will have reached the middle of the river. Drift down the river, and you will drift to the exit. Have you remembered everything?"

He He Jiaqing nodded.

The Old Train asked again: "I said before that the item must be divided into three. You must not swallow it alone. Have you remembered this too?"

He He Jiaqing said: "Remembered."

"Get ready to jump."

He He Jiaqing didn't like being manipulated, but he knew too little about the Dream-Pulling Tower. His few days of experience definitely couldn't be mentioned in the same breath as the Old Train's. Whatever the Old Train said, he had to listen.

When they reached the bridgehead, He He Jiaqing jumped off the train and fell into the middle of the river. This river water had no buoyancy at all, and it felt sticky and slimy on his body. He He Jiaqing drifted for not long before he sank into the riverbed.

With his cultivation, he naturally didn't need to panic about this situation. By the time he crawled out of the riverbed, the train was gone, the bridge was gone, and even the river from before had disappeared.

He He Jiaqing crawled out of a mud puddle. He looked around; he recognized this place—it was Red Mud Ridge.

Red Mud Ridge was a very famous piece of new land outside Green Water Bay. Because it was full of swamps and the mud puddles were very deep, many new land hunters had lost their lives here.

Escaping from the Dream-Pulling Tower and arriving directly near Green Water Bay could be considered luck for He He Jiaqing.

Simply dealing with the mud and water on his body, He He Jiaqing was about to hurry on his way when an honest-looking new land hunter caught He He Jiaqing's attention.

That new land hunter was observing around in the swamp, as if he were hunting, and as if he were looking for something.

That hunter hadn't discovered He He Jiaqing yet, but He He Jiaqing didn't dare to be careless. He drilled back into the silt and occasionally poked his head out to take a look.

The reason he was so careful was because this hunter's actions were abnormal.

New land hunters generally wouldn't come to Red Mud Ridge to hunt. The strange monsters in the swamp were too fierce, and most of the prey couldn't be sold for a good price, so it wasn't worth the risk for the hunters.

As for looking for things in the swamp, it was even more absurd. For ordinary people, if something was lost in a swampy place like Red Mud Ridge, there was basically no possibility of finding it back.

There was a type of hunter who would specifically go to the swamp to look for "glue mud," but that type of hunter was very rare, and the tools used were also very special. The hunter before him was clearly not in this line of work.

He wasn't looking for things; he was looking for a place—a place to hide things.

He wandered around in the swamp for a good while before finally finding a suitable place. He dug a hole in the silt and buried a wooden box in it.

After burying it, the man stuck two branches into the silt. In the blink of an eye, the branches disappeared, and the traces of digging on the silt also disappeared.

The "Confusing Eyes Array" of the Foolish Cultivators.

He He Jiaqing really had some knowledge; he recognized the origin of this magic array.

After the honest-looking new land hunter left, He He Jiaqing drilled out of the silt and came to the place where the hunter had buried the item.

He didn't rush to break the magic array. After circling twice and observing for a moment, He He Jiaqing took out a piece of wire and probed it into the silt.

The "Stealing Cultivation Technique," Golden Thread Suspends the Pulse.

This technique sounded like a medical cultivation technique, but it was actually a high-level technique of the Stealing Cultivators. Using this wire, He He Jiaqing could probe what was buried in the silt without damaging the magic array and mechanisms, and without causing damage to the item.

The wire went down more than three feet deep, and He He Jiaqing had a sense of it in his hand.

This wasn't just because his technique was exquisite, but also because he was very familiar with the shape of this item.

Profound Life Did Honglian.

He He Jiaqing's expression was solemn. He twisted the wire with his fingertips and poked the red lotus twice lightly.

After waiting for a long time, there was no response. He He Jiaqing pulled the wire back.

He waited for a moment beside the swamp, then got up and left.

All the footprints on the swamp were cleaned up by him, and even the holes where the wire had been inserted were smoothed over.

As He He Jiaqing's back faded into the distance, two figures emerged on the swamp: one was the Old Train, and the other was Meng Xiao Qian.

The Old Train asked Meng Xiao Qian: "Did he see through it?"

Meng Xiao Qian waved her hand, and the swamp suddenly hardened, and the mud all over the ground turned into pieces of blue bricks.

The path paved with blue bricks extended to both ends in a pitch-black space. This was the real location.

The swamp, the red lotus, and the honest-looking new land hunter that He He Jiaqing saw all originated from dreams—partly from He He Jiaqing's own dreams, partly from dreams created by Meng Xiao Qian, and partly from dreams brought by the Dream-Pulling Tower itself.

Meng Xiao Qian was very confident in her methods: "In the Dream-Pulling Tower, if he wakes up from his dream, I will immediately notice."

The Old Train didn't think so: "He He Jiaqing is a top-tier Stealing Cultivator. Some of the things he did could escape the eyes of Old Man Pliers; it might not necessarily escape you."

Meng Xiao Qian shook her head: "The world knows too little about dream cultivation, thinking that our sect has no combat power, not knowing that our combat power is different from the algorithms of ordinary people. When a person is in a dream, it is a completely different situation from when they are in an ordinary state.

In the Dream-Pulling Tower, I am the one in charge. Let alone He He Jiaqing, even if it were you, as long as you wake up from the dream, I would definitely know, but whether I could fight you or not is another matter."

The Old Train said: "You don't have to be humble. After the Dream Cultivation Founder went missing, the one with the highest achievement in the entire sect is you, right?"

Meng Xiao Qian said: "It depends on what kind of achievement. If it's just about cultivation, the one with the highest achievement before wasn't me, and it isn't after either. I walked the wrong path myself."

The Old Train didn't quite understand: "You managed the Dream-Pulling Tower to this point, why do you still say you walked the wrong path?"

Meng Xiao Qian sighed: "Zhao Zhao Lanmeng's path was the right one, and someone walked it even earlier than him."

The Old Train thought about Meng Xiao Qian's words, and then thought about the tunnel Zhao Zhao Lanmeng dug into the Dream-Pulling Tower. The reason Meng Xiao Qian didn't fill in the tunnel might have been for other schemes.

Meng Xiao Qian interrupted the Old Train's train of thought: "I have done what I promised you. You should also fulfill your promise and leave the Dream-Pulling Tower immediately, and take your friend with you."

The Old Train thought: "I still don't understand, why didn't He He Jiaqing take the red lotus?"

Meng Xiao Qian said: "I think this is reasonable. Back then, he didn't bring the red lotus back to Puluo Continent. Relying on this good move, he avoided many storms."

The Old Train shook his head: "At that time, he was in the public eye. Now, with such a good opportunity, I don't believe he wouldn't be greedy."

Meng Xiao Qian didn't want to continue speculating. She only hoped that Eighteen Wheels would leave quickly; no one could say when he would go crazy.

The Old Train also kept his word: "You hand over this dream to Li Qi, and I will immediately take Face Not Big and leave the Dream-Pulling Tower."

Meng Xiao Qian frowned: "I don't even know where Li Qi is."

"He is in Boundless City. You definitely have a way to find him." The Old Train prepared to go find Face Not Big.

Meng Xiao Qian felt it was unnecessary: "You can just tell Li Qi about the dream directly. Why must you make me go find him?"

The Old Train turned back: "I don't want to see him. I don't want to harm him."

He He Jiaqing walked out of Red Mud Ridge. A breeze brushed his face, and he suddenly sensed a special chill—a chill that was intimate and real.

He seemed not to have sensed such a chill in the Dream-Pulling Tower, but he had already left the Dream-Pulling Tower for a while.

Why did this chill arrive so late?

Had he just left the Dream-Pulling Tower? Was everything before still a dream?

He He Jiaqing was a bit nervous. He looked back at Red Mud Ridge behind him, still hesitating whether to go back to verify, whether to see if the red lotus was really in the place just now.

But on second thought, regardless of whether the red lotus was there, and regardless of whether it was a dream or reality, his handling just now was not wrong.

He He Jiaqing walked all the way toward Green Water Bay, sighing in his heart that even with his cultivation level, he still lived in fear.

Li Li Banfeng was sleeping in Jade Yu Yu Cuilou. He had been feeling sleepy these days, and even if he wasn't sleepy, he wouldn't go out.

In his dream, he was holding the Lady, sitting on a train, watching the sunset on the Desolate Plain.

A cold wind blew, and the Lady in his arms suddenly turned into another beauty—a peerless beauty dressed in white, with delicate features and a lazy expression.

If this were in the Dream-Pulling Tower, Li Li Banfeng would feel everything was logical. Thinking in a dream is not continuous,

and the dreamer can accept some jumps in the situation in most cases.

But this was not the Dream-Pulling Tower; this was Jade Yu Yu Cuilou, this was Li Li Banfeng's residence.

Recognizing his wife on the bed and recognizing his shoes off the bed, Li Li Banfeng pushed Meng Xiao Qian away. He realized that this woman had invaded his dream.

"What do you want to do?"

Meng Xiao Qian shook her head slightly: "I have no malice; I just came to send you a dream."

She presented He He Jiaqing's dream in Red Mud Ridge to Li Li Banfeng: "Eighteen Wheels asked me to show you this.

To find you, I spent quite a bit of effort."

Li Li Banfeng bowed deeply. To show his gratitude, he burned Meng Xiao Qian's clothes.

Meng Xiao Qian looked down at her burning clothes: "Why did you burn my clothes again?"

Li Li Banfeng said: "I told you last time we met: don't scare me! If you have something to ask, just answer properly!"

Meng Xiao Qian nodded slightly and left, full of smoke and fire, looking like an immortal.

Li Li Banfeng woke up from his dream, sat silently for a moment, and took Zhao Zhao Xiaowan back to the Follow-the-Body Residence.

Why He He Jiaqing didn't take the red lotus—Li Li Banfeng also couldn't figure this out.

Since he couldn't figure it out, he would just ask until he understood.

Li Li Banfeng moved the red lotus and the television set to the Fifth Room and asked the red lotus first: "Back then, why did He He Jiaqing leave you in the campus supermarket? Why didn't he bring you back to Puluo Continent?"

The Did Honglian said: "How would I know? I had already refined quite a few elixirs for him before, but the next day he put me in that cabinet, and since then, I haven't seen him again."

"When did you fall into his hands?"

The Did Honglian said: "When he just started university. This was all thanks to Yuan Miao-Ping's help."

The television set lit up. Yuan Miao-Ping still had her sharp-angled bangs, chewing bubble gum: "I don't remember the time. When I went out of the room, I suddenly had a box in my hand. I took a look by accident,

and discovered it was the Profound Life Did Honglian.

At that time, I still had to do things for others—that person you mentioned, the one surnamed Du. I didn't dare to make a scene, and just as I was thinking about how to send the red lotus out, Song Shu contacted me and told me to just throw the red lotus in the hallway."

Li Li Banfeng thought about the process; it was very unreasonable.

Yuan Miao-Ping was teaching Du Du Wenming about electromagnetism at the time. Ayu and the Heavenly Maiden didn't know what method they used to hand the red lotus to Yuan Miao-Ping, and Song Shu told Yuan Miao-Ping to put the red lotus in the hallway.

Du Du Wenming wasn't blind; could he not see such a big red lotus?

But on second thought, it was possible that Du Du Wenming really couldn't see it.

The red lotus placed in the hallway might not have been in the hallway. Li Li Banfeng thought of the snake in the storage locker of the campus supermarket;

that was Mu Yuejuan's snake.

Li Li Banfeng looked at Yuan Miao-Ping: "Do you know the connection between the Dark Star Bureau and the storage lockers?"

Yuan Miao-Ping shook her head and said: "I don't know what storage lockers you're talking about. When I was locked up, I was always in a glass display case. Are you talking about that thing?"

While speaking, Yuan Miao-Ping blew a bubble.

Looking at her appearance, it always made people feel that this girl had no schemes, and always made people feel that what she said was the truth.

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan pinched Li Li Banfeng's wrist. This matter couldn't be asked here; it had to rely on the Second Room to investigate.

Li Li Banfeng asked the red lotus again: "In the four years you were in He He Jiaqing's hands, what did you do?"

"What else could I do? Refine elixirs for him! I've been with you for almost four years; don't you know my skills in refining elixirs?"

The Did Honglian touched Li Li Banfeng's cheek with a lotus leaf. Zhao Zhao Xiaowan didn't get angry; she also touched the lotus heart of the red lotus.

Li Li Banfeng asked: "Where did He He Jiaqing get the materials for refining elixirs?"

The Did Honglian sighed: "I don't know about that. He He Jiaqing is very cautious. The corpses he brought back were all cleaned up—some had no heads, and those with heads couldn't be identified. Unlike you, throwing them into the house casually, leaving all the cleaning up to us."

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan asked: "How many elixirs have you refined for He He Jiaqing?"

"I don't remember that. He He Jiaqing's cultivation grew so fast; you can roughly calculate how many elixirs he ate."

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan nodded: "Refining so many elixirs for him, you definitely didn't take less of a kickback. Even if there were damages before, in four years, you should have recovered.

But when I first saw you at home, your condition wasn't very good. Even the half-broken clock pendulum left by Luo Yuni, you didn't let go of at the time, looking like a starving ghost."

The Did Honglian smiled: "Who are you calling a starving ghost? My condition was fine at the time, wasn't it? I didn't act like you, shouting 'hungry' at Li Qi, did I?"

As for what you call a kickback, that's really wronging me. I've always exhausted my efforts refining elixirs for you all, and I've never kept any kickbacks."

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan smiled: "These words aren't very true."

Li Li Banfeng suddenly asked the red lotus: "Why do you know how to refine elixirs?"

The Did Honglian was startled: "Do you even need to ask? I was born knowing how to refine elixirs. Ding Nv created me for the purpose of refining elixirs."

Everyone felt that the red lotus should know how to refine elixirs, but Li Li Banfeng insisted on finding the reason today.

"Refining elixirs is clearly her technique, called 'Hundred Flowers Kill'." Li Li Banfeng looked at the wall of the Fifth Room and simply brought all the matters into the open.

The figure of the Fifth Room's "Mother" appeared on the wall.

She was still wearing a blue school uniform, holding a bunch of flowers in her right hand. The flowers had already withered, and the petals were drifting away. A short hair cut to the ears was disheveled, covering her face, and one could vaguely see her blood-red eyes.

She looked at Li Li Banfeng with full resentment, and the temperature in the Fifth Room seemed to drop quite a bit.

Li Li Banfeng shivered, took a book from the bookshelf, and slapped it on the face of the Fifth Room's Mother with a "pa" sound: "I told you not to scare me. If I ask you something, answer properly!"

The Fifth Room's Mother took the book off her face, tidied up her hairstyle and makeup, put on a resentful expression again, and said through gritted teeth: "The Did Honglian came from me!"

Li Li Banfeng looked at the red lotus, then at the Fifth Room's Mother: "Do you mean the Did Honglian was made by you?"

The Fifth Room's Mother shook her head: "The Did Honglian is my flesh and blood."

Li Li Banfeng asked again: "Do you mean the Did Honglian was born from you?"

The Fifth Room's Mother looked at Li Li Banfeng helplessly.

She tried her best to shape a mournful, angry, and even slightly terrifying atmosphere, but it seemed to have no meaning to Li Li Banfeng.

She tidied her hairstyle and said in a plain tone: "I mean, the materials for refining the Did Honglian were my flesh and blood."

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan raised her eyebrows and looked at the red lotus and Yuan Miao-Ping.

Yuan Miao-Ping waved her hands repeatedly: "I don't know about this!"

The Did Honglian waved her lotus leaves: "I don't know about this either."

The Fifth Room's Mother sobbed: "Back then, I was killed by the Peddler. My soul was handed over to Eighteen Wheels, and my body was handed over to Ding Nv.

Ding Nv used my body to refine the Profound Life Did Honglian, and Eighteen Wheels sealed my soul in the little train, experiencing the tribulation of life and death. I lost most of my memories, but I will never forget this blood debt for all eternity."

"Blood debt?" Zhao Zhao Xiaowan tilted her head and asked, "When Ayu brought Ding Nv to our house, I saw you trying to escape with the red lotus. I didn't see any deep hatred between you and Ding Nv."

"Where does this come from?" The Fifth Room's Mother brushed her hair. "I had been picking flowers all along; I had been deceiving the red lotus. I was inviting them into our home. This matter, the little train can testify for me!"

The Follow-the-Body Residence coughed twice.

He didn't approve of the Fifth Room's statement. He didn't remember the Old Train sealing the soul of Lai Lai Wuju into his own body.

But the Follow-the-Body Residence had lost many memories, and logically, there were no flaws in the Fifth Room's statement.

Li Li Banfeng didn't intend to ask anymore. He took Zhao Zhao Xiaowan and left the Follow-the-Body Residence.

Once they reached Jade Yu Yu Cuilou, Zhao Zhao Xiaowan asked Li Li Banfeng: "Precious husband, how much truth do you think they told?"

"A lot," Li Li Banfeng rubbed his temples, "but why do I feel that the more truth there is, the more troublesome it is."

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Zhao Zhao Xiaowan also felt this matter was troublesome: "Husband is right. Truth is sometimes more deceptive than lies."

Li Li Banfeng stretched and came to the entrance of Jade Yu Yu Cuilou.

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan came outside and looked at Li Li Banfeng: "Husband, I know you don't want to go out, but we should go back to the Outer Continent once to investigate things clearly. The entanglement between Ding Nv and the Did Honglian is definitely not that simple. Now that she is in your residence, if she uses some means to meet with the Did Honglian, it will lead to consequences, and I can't say for sure."

Li Li Banfeng nodded: "We definitely have to investigate things clearly, but first wait for me to go to Xiao Capital to collect some popularity,

so I can catch up with the residence cultivation."

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan felt it was inappropriate: "Husband, going to Xiao Capital at this time will probably lead to Lan Qiao Yi's schemes."

Li Li Banfeng didn't think so: "Lan Qiao Yi probably can't worry about me right now."

Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang walked on the road of Chaoge's Fourth City, vigilantly watching the situation around him.

A large number of nobles lived in the Fourth City. Their residences were not big, but they were very particular about etiquette. In Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang's memory, entering the home of any noble meant facing a large number of rules. Some roads and some doors were not for ordinary people to walk.

But the situation today was special; the gates of every residence were wide open, and people were coming and going from time to time.

These people were all doing the same thing: they were carrying out corpses.

There were many corpses placed on both sides of the road, some put into coffins, some just covered with a piece of cloth. Perhaps because there were too many dead people, the funerals couldn't be handled.

The most miserable was a three-headed person who had caught the plague. The head in the middle had died, and the remaining two couldn't control the body, couldn't walk, and couldn't speak, so they could only lie on the side of the road, waiting for death together.

A medical cultivator ghost servant reminded Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang: "This is a plague! You must be very careful!"

A traveling cultivator ghost servant said in his ear: "We shouldn't have come back. I told you there was danger, but you just wouldn't listen!"

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Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang had suffered a lot of bullying at home since he was a child, but he never bullied ghost servants. The ghost servants were straightforward with him, and they had been advising him to go back all the way.

After falling out with Nian Nian Shangyou, Nian Nian Shangyou even sent people to kill him. Logically, Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang really shouldn't have returned to the Inner Continent.

But Lan Qiao Yi found him and wrote a letter to Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang personally, saying that everything before was a misunderstanding, that all grievances were wiped out, and even promised to confer the title of Viscount on Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang. Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang weighed it carefully and decided to return to Chaoge.

Lan Qiao Yi sincerely wanted Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang to go back. He didn't have much impression of Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang, but he knew this was a capable person, and it was a time when he needed people. As for the conflict between Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang and Nian Nian Shangyou, Lan Qiao Yi had his own way of resolving it.

Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang also trusted Lan Qiao Yi, but the traveling cultivator ghost servants around him felt that danger was everywhere. Now it seemed that the source of the danger should be this plague.

With Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang's cultivation and physique, he firmly believed that he should be able to withstand the invasion of the plague. Two streets away from Lan Qiao Yi's mansion, a man resembling a hedgehog fell to the ground, less than ten steps away from Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang.

Since arriving in Chaoge this time, such people falling ill on the road were common.

Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang originally didn't intend to pay attention, but he saw a letter tube beside the person.

The person who fell was a messenger. Looking at the style of the letter tube, it should be a secret letter unique to the Cabinet. Lan Qiao Yi was the Chief Grand Secretary, and he himself was Lan Qiao Yi's subordinate. Should he help with this matter?

After weighing it for a moment, Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang stepped forward to help the messenger up. The messenger was burning hot and shivering uncontrollably.

The medical cultivator ghost servant took out a pill, and Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang stuffed the pill into the messenger's mouth.

After eating the pill, the messenger's condition improved slightly. He kept staring at the letter tube; this letter was incomparably important to him.

Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang let him pick up the letter tube. With this pick-up, Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang felt that something was wrong.

The lid of the letter tube had fallen off, and the letter paper inside had leaked out.

Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang hurriedly picked up the lid of the letter tube and handed it to the messenger together. The messenger thanked him repeatedly.

He originally intended to go to Lan Qiao Yi's mansion with the messenger, but Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang thought it over and let the messenger go first.

The lid of the secret letter tube had been opened; Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang couldn't explain the reason.

Things that can't be explained shouldn't be said. He could not claim credit, but he absolutely couldn't take the blame.

After the messenger had gone far away, a Peeping Cultivator ghost servant said to Yuan Watch Yuan Youshang: "I saw a few words."

"What words?"

The ghost servant said: "On that letter, I saw 'Great Totem', and I also saw 'Repair Completion'."

PS: Has the Great Totem really been repaired?