Chapter 415

"Big bait, you've arrived."

Before leaving Nantong, Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan had discovered that in this wave of planning, there was still a missing strong motive that would compel him to go to the Goguryeo tomb.

At the time, the youth had guessed that this motive should be hidden within the three carrots, with one of them leading toward Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Zhengdao.

Therefore, in Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan's eyes, this old woman before him was an old carrot carrying a special mission.

In his heart, there was a bit of disappointment.

When he came, Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan had held expectations.

The youth hoped that the person before him could break free from "It's" control, possess autonomy, and stir up his influence under this already arranged situation.

In that way, this wave would become more chaotic, and at the same time, more interesting.

But when this person asked him "Are you surnamed Wei?", it meant that he was still proceeding within the frame set by "It," only he himself did not know it and still felt quite good about himself.

Theoretically, this extra layer of wrapped sea of clouds was quite unnecessary.

"It" did not need to monitor at all, and even less would it stop him from coming, because "It" already knew his motive and purpose, as well as the results that would lead to.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan: "I am not surnamed Wei."

Old woman: "The inheritance of surnames, in the long river of history, is extremely normal to experience distortion."

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan: "You have an obsession with surnames."

Old woman: "I have an obsession with bloodlines. In my view, bloodlines are the firmest bond for carrying on an inheritance. Don't you think so?"

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan shook his head.

Old woman: "You just told me that my Qiongya Chen family is now a Long Wang household; isn't this the best proof?"

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan: "I am not here to debate with you."

Old woman: "It's not that you don't want to debate, it's that you have nothing to say. I only ask you, is the *Listening to the Sea and Watching the Tide Law* now something only my Chen family members can practice?"

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan: "Yes."

A look of triumph appeared on the old woman's Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Face, and a victor's luster flickered in her eyes.

Old woman: "I have proven that I was right. It is truly laughable; they did not agree with my theory back then and did not hesitate to expel me from the family, but in the end, they still walked the path I had envisioned."

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan: "Is this the reason you became a rebel of the Chen family?"

Old woman: "It was before, but not now. I am the pioneer of the current Long Wang Chen family."

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan: "I don't believe the current Chen family and the three Chen family Long Wangs in history would acknowledge you as such a pioneer."

Old woman: "I don't care about that. I endured endless torture and survived in such a hellish place just to have a day where I could come out and see who was right and who was wrong."

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan: "Then you should go to Qiongya, instead of lingering here."

Old woman: "I want to first come and reminisce about my younger brother and younger sister."

At this moment, a bit of mist rose up inside the room.

The old woman stood up, raised her palm, and displayed the palm prints to Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan.

The palm prints were already severed, and liver spots were obvious on the palm.

"Did you see it?"

"Yes."

"When I arrived, she had just passed away peacefully, lying on the bed. I chose her as my temporary physical body. I helped her deliver the last letter she hadn't had time to send to her children; this is very fair."

"Indeed."

Here, what was displayed was not just his kindness and principles, but also an expression of his harmlessness to Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan.

He could not use this old woman's body to engage in slaughter. As a practitioner of secret arts, he knew clearly what those who walked this path feared most.

White mist began to condense. Moss gradually climbed onto the bedroom door of this room, and the material of this door also transformed from wood to stone.

"My name is Chen Chen Zunfeng, and you?"

"Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan."

"A good name, Wei Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan."

Chen Chen Zunfeng walked to that door, reached out, and began to pat it.

On the stone door, the aura of a barrier flowed. It had only been a little bit off before, but now it was completely smooth, meaning the stone door could be opened.

"After a great deal of effort, I finally repaired the family door from back then. May I have the honor of inviting you to be a guest at my home?"

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan: "I want to know about that person surnamed Wei you mentioned."

"Creak..."

The stone door opened, and a large amount of wood ash spilled out from inside.

This kind of "secluded paradise" supported by a small barrier was nothing more than a house invisible to the naked eye of ordinary people. If no one lived in or maintained it for too long, it would still gather dust, decay, and collapse.

Chen Chen Zunfeng made a "please" gesture toward the inside:

"A story must be accompanied by tea or wine to be worthy of it."

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan did not move: "My people are coming soon."

Chen Chen Zunfeng: "Rest assured, in my arrangement, your people cannot come out for a while without your help. We have plenty of time."

No, there is not enough time.

Admittedly, Chen Chen Zunfeng's arrangement was very clever, reflecting his extremely high attainments in this field.

But before Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan came out, he had specifically told his partners the numerical formula. Theoretically, in a few more minutes, they would be able to break through the arrangement here.

And this was also the time Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan had reserved for himself to meet privately with the "old woman."

Chen Chen Zunfeng still underestimated the youth's level in this regard; he did not expect the youth's level to be higher than his own.

However, time might also be enough.

"It" in the *Wordless Book* should thoughtfully help extend the time.

Chen Chen Zunfeng made a "please" gesture again: "Are you really unwilling to grace my humble abode?"

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan took a step and walked forward.

Chen Chen Zunfeng smiled and walked in first.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan followed and entered the stone door.

After the two entered, the stone door closed.

The space inside was not large, with a small path extending toward an ordinary courtyard house.

When Chen Chen Zunfeng brought his younger brother and sister to leave the family, he probably just used this as a temporary residence and didn't spend much effort to build it.

The vegetation inside had long since turned to ash, covering the once-secluded path, and the courtyard house in front had collapsed by half, with the remaining half also teetering on the edge of collapse.

Chen Chen Zunfeng walked in front. After entering, he began to fulfill his promise and spoke of the things Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan wanted to hear.

"The ancestor Chen Chen Yunhai once left a notebook, which recorded the ancestor's travels in the jianghu back then... oh, now it should be called walking the river.

When I read this notebook, the handwriting was already blurred, and when reading it, there was a faint sense of rejection and isolation. It is estimated that future descendants would not be able to see this record.

The ancestor said that when he was walking the river, he met a person, and this person was surnamed Wei, called Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Zhengdao.

The ancestor called him the most terrifying and abominable person in the world.

Do you know the significance of this ancestor to my Chen family?"

"I heard that in the Qiongya Chen family ancestral hall, there are four spirit tablets. Three are the Chen family Long Wangs, and the one at the head is Chen Chen Yunhai."

"Then it seems that future generations can also acknowledge the ancestor's contribution. My generation was not too far from the ancestor, and our understanding of the ancestor was even more vivid.

In our cognition, the ancestor's failure to become a Long Wang in that generation was the greatest regret. The ancestor had that strength.

And in that generation, there had always been an unsolved mystery. The jianghu seemed not to know who the Long Wang of that generation actually was.

He never appeared, yet he made the entire jianghu appear exceptionally quiet in that generation.

I suspect..."

Chen Chen Zunfeng reached out to push the courtyard door.

"Bang!"

The courtyard door collapsed inward.

"It could only be him, that existence who could make even the ancestor feel terrified."

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan knew that the Long Wang of that generation was indeed Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Zhengdao.

There was Qing An's oral account, and also what was seen in Sun Brother Baishen's memory images.

It's just that the opponents and evil spirits Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Zhengdao faced were all very good at keeping their mouths shut.

Chen Chen Yunhai only made private records in his notebook and did not make them public. That Chen Chen Zunfeng could see them clearly meant he had broken the rules and committed a taboo.

Walking into the courtyard, they arrived at the hall that had collapsed until only half remained.

Chen Chen Zunfeng asked: "Tea or wine?"

On the side of the hall, there were wine jars and tea cakes.

Half of the wine jars and tea cakes were buried by the collapsed house, leaving only half intact.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan: "I am not thirsty."

Chen Chen Zunfeng picked up a teacup from the ground, squatted down, pulled out a jar stopper, and poured himself a bowl of wine.

This wine had become thick, like glue.

He took a sip, and a bright red immediately appeared on the old woman's wrinkled Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Face.

"I really didn't expect that I would actually meet him again. He, he actually hasn't died yet.

He also recognized me. When I used the Cloud Sea, he asked me if I was a descendant of 'Chen Chen Yunhai'."

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan: "Where did you meet him?"

Chen Chen Zunfeng: "Under the tomb."

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan: "You should have been in your own prison cell at the time."

Chen Chen Zunfeng: "He suddenly appeared in my cell."

As he spoke, Chen Chen Zunfeng pointed to the boy's feet:

"That day, I was in the cell, enduring the day-after-day torture of the water waves, when a hole suddenly opened in the ground, and he just crawled out like that."

In the account of Ye Dui, there was no such perspective.

Ye Dui believed that only he had seen Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Zhengdao, and he had kept this matter a secret from the other three.

"You haven't truly been to that place; only listening to others' accounts, I'm afraid it's hard to understand the despair there."

"Then, did he bring you any hope?"

"The first time he came, he only asked me if I was a descendant of the ancestors.

The second time he came, he brought wine."

Chen Chen Zunfeng lowered his head to look at the cup in his hand:

"I really don't know how he managed to get wine in there, and he even had a complete set of exquisite wine utensils.

I had originally thought that he, like me, was in prison, suffering under the torture.

The moment I took the wine bowl he handed me with both hands, I realized that we were not in the same prison."

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan reached out and pushed the chair in front of him; after confirming it was still stable, he sat down.

The boy's gaze swept around; behind the main hall was the bedroom.

If Chen Chen Zunfeng's younger brother and sister had been buried after death, it should have been outside the courtyard; of course, it was highly probable that they had waited in vain for their brother's return and left here on their own.

And if Chen Chen Zunfeng needed to miss his younger brother and sister, he should have headed straight for their former bedroom at this moment, rather than staying in this main hall to drink.

Both his behavior and his narrative carried an obvious "gap," implying that there was deliberate concealment within it.

Calculating the time, logically speaking, his companions should have already broken in by now, but there was no movement at all.

This indicated that "he" in the *Book Without Words* was indeed buying time for Chen Chen Zunfeng.

"He drank with me and chatted with me a lot, and I discovered another even more shocking fact. Guess what it was?"

"You died, but he is still alive."

"That's right. Although I still exist, I actually died long ago. He is different; he is truly still alive, and he is living very healthily."

In the Profound Heaven Sect, the concept of "alive" can be further subdivided; in short, the longer one survives beyond the limit of their natural lifespan, the less they tend to resemble a human.

Chen Chen Zunfeng meant that at the time, Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Zhengdao was still a living, breathing person in front of him.

This point was also corroborated in Ye Dui's account.

Because after Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Zhengdao raised the level of the cell and the water wave torture he was in to a terrifying level, he was injured, and after being injured, he was actually able to recover.

"Recovery from injury" only exists in the concept of a normal living person; from the perspective of an evil spirit, there is only "replenishment."

"When I was with him, the pain given to me by the surrounding water wave torture seemed to decrease, so for the vast majority of the time, he was the one drinking and listening to me talk.

I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but I was truly afraid of the conversation dying down, afraid of the drinking session ending, afraid of him leaving, and afraid that if he left this time, he wouldn't come back next time.

So, I kept looking for all kinds of stories to tell him.

From my childhood to my adulthood, from myself to my younger brother and sister, from the stories of the Chen family to the local customs of Qiongya."

"Then did you tell him your theory?"

"I did."

"And he?"

"He acknowledged me."

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan nodded.

Now it could be confirmed: the Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Wei Zhengdao at that time must have been bored from staying there, just like himself sitting here now...

Teasing a fool.

Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Runsheng, Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin, and Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You were constantly moving according to the formula left behind by the boy.

Soon, they discovered that the complex and fragmented environment was gradually returning to normal.

This meant that they were about to walk out of here and break through this predicament.

Below the staff building, that group of undead knights who were originally riding horses in circles collectively pulled on their reins and stopped.

They drew their sabers and held them against their own necks.

"Puchi!"