The Coiling Mountain Avenue was clearly 10,000 feet long, but now it was stretched to hundreds of thousands of feet. According to the yellow-faced man, no matter who it was, if they wanted to reach the top of the mountain, they had to walk along the Coiling Mountain Avenue. As for why, the yellow-faced man didn't know. Perhaps it was a custom that had been passed down for thousands of years.
With their amazing speed, they arrived at the top of the mountain in less than half an hour.
As far as the eye could see, the flat mountain top was covered with ancient buildings. Behind the buildings, there was a small green mountain that was less than a hundred feet high. A beautiful waterfall fell straight down into the small pond in the middle of the buildings, splashing water everywhere.
"What a beautiful place." Ye Chen was secretly amazed. He was used to seeing big cities and mountains. Now that he was on this island, he felt refreshed.
Walking along the ancient stone road, Ye Chen followed the man with a yellow face to the big house in the middle of the buildings.
"Master, the person outside is an inner disciple of the Sky Cloud Martial School." The man with a yellow face said loudly.
"Let him in."
An old voice came out.
Hearing this, Ye Chen stepped into the hall of the house.
An old man in his seventies was sitting in the main seat of the hall. His skin was yellow like the man with a yellow face, but it did not look like he was malnourished, it seemed like he was born this way. Sitting next to him was a young man in green, it was Qu Ming who had arrived before Ye Chen.
Qu Ming saw that Ye Chen could come to the Pan Shan Island, he was a little surprised.
Walking to the center of the hall, Ye Chen cupped his fists, "I am Ye Chen, an inner disciple of the Sky Cloud Martial School. Nice to meet you, Master Qu."
The old man nodded, "You received a mission and came here, right?"
"Yes."
"That's good. With two disciples, we have a better chance of finding the lost ship."
"Ye Chen will try his best." While talking, Ye Chen was confused. He carefully sensed the old man's cultivation level and found that he was only at Mortal Realm Stage 7. He could not help but ask, "Master Qu, on the way here, I noticed that all the people in the Qu family are below the Condensing Reality Realm. What is going on?" He didn't think that a family couldn't produce a Condensing Reality Realm warrior, Qu Ming was a good example, in the future, he might also step into the Clasping Yuan Realm and become a martial artist.
The old man sighed. "Find a seat first."
Ye Chen sat on the chair opposite Qu Ming, wanting to hear what he had to say.
"It's not that our Qu family doesn't have any Condensing Reality Realm warriors, it's just that we don't have any Condensing Reality Realm warriors. Any warrior who has reached the Condensing Reality Realm, if they stay on Pan Shan Island for more than three months, would suddenly meet with an unexpected calamity, or be attacked by demonic beasts, or become possessed by evil spirits, and disappear without a trace. Therefore, when Qu Ming reached the Condensing Reality Realm, I asked him to leave Pan Shan Island." The elder said slowly.
"There's such a thing?" Ye Chen gasped.
Qu Ming said lightly, "That's true. Fifteen years ago, my father died of Qi deviation without any warning."
The hall was silent for a moment.
Ye Chen said again, "Then why didn't the whole family leave Pan Shan Island? The outside world is so big, there would be a place for the Qu family."
"The story starts from three thousand years ago. At that time, the Ancient Water Lake was not called the Ancient Water Lake, it was called the Green Lake. Our Qu family lived on the shore of the Green Lake, there was no Pan Shan Island. However, ever since one of our clansmen found an ancient object in a cave at the bottom of the Green Lake, things changed. First, there was a huge earthquake in a radius of a thousand miles, causing the terrain to change, forming a huge crater. Then, there was a thunderstorm that lasted for three months, almost completely submerging the Qu Clan and everything around it. On the brink of life and death, an island descended from the sky, suppressing the cave at the bottom of the Green Lake. Our Qu Clan's ancestors believed that the gods were merciful and gave the Qu Clan a way out. Thus, the entire clan moved to the island. This island is today's Pan Shan Island.
After recalling for a while, the old man continued, "But things are not so simple. After moving to Pan Shan Island, all the warriors above the Mortal Realm died one by one within three months. At that time, the patriarch with the highest cultivation level, the ancestor of our Qu family, finally said some information before he died."
"What did he say?" Ye Chen found himself deeply attracted.
The old man used all the strength in his body and said word by word, "Devil, curse, just these four words."
Devil, curse!
Ye Chen suddenly felt a tingling sensation on his back, the pores on his body stood up. These four words seemed to have a great magical power, even saying it out loud was enough to make people tremble.
Qu Ming's face was also not looking good. Every time he heard these four words, he would feel a kind of fear, deeply imprinted in his blood, unable to get rid of, unable to forget.
The old man smiled bitterly, "Is it very scary?"
Ye Chen did not try to be brave, he nodded and said yes.
"When I first heard these four words, I was even more afraid than you were. I couldn't sleep for a month, I always felt like there were shadows around me, like there were ghosts roaring. But then I became numb, because as long as we don't reach the Condensing Reality Realm, we Qu family are still normal people, we won't die for no reason."
Hearing this, Ye Chen looked at the old man again, the old man had not explained his previous doubts.
The old man continued, "It's not that we didn't think about moving the whole family, it's just that we couldn't do it. Before the ancestor died, he told everyone to leave Pan Shan Island, not to stay here. The others all obeyed, and were divided into three groups, ready to leave one by one. But what made people desperate was that only one of the first group survived, the others also suddenly met with an unexpected disaster, and it was even more terrible than those who died on Pan Shan Island. The only survivor was scared out of his wits, and after returning to Pan Shan Island, he died within three years."
Couldn't leave Pan Shan Island? But what happened to Qu Ming? No, only one of the first group survived. Although he died later, it was due to a mental breakdown, it should have nothing to do with the curse. In other words, only one person could leave Pan Shan Island safely, and not be threatened by the curse. This could be explained as there were fifty ways of living, forty-nine ways of living. If a person escaped, the heavens would always leave a chance of survival, not to mention an entire family, hundreds of thousands of people. At that moment, countless thoughts flashed through Ye Chen's mind.
"After a few decades, some of the younger generation of the family didn't believe it, and prepared to move again, but the number of people was much smaller, only a few dozen. Without exception, as long as one left Pan Shan Island for five hundred miles, only one survived, the others all died tragically. No one could explain why." The old man's voice sounded a little tired.
Ye Chen more or less understood the ins and outs of the whole thing, but he didn't think that such a beautiful place could have such a terrible thing. An underwater cave, an island that fell from the sky, a cursed family, the whole thing was too horrifying, and impossible to explain. Perhaps when he reached a certain level, he would be able to solve this mystery. Now, he didn't dare to act rashly, for fear of being infected by the curse of Pan Shan Island. At that time, he really wouldn't be able to leave Pan Shan Island, unless he killed Qu Ming. But he and Qu Ming weren't from the same family, even if he killed Qu Ming, he wouldn't be able to leave Pan Shan Island, unless he killed Qu Ming.
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