Capital, Liu Hai Alley.
It was summer, and the crown of the walnut tree was like a canopy. Shi Xuejin was sitting on a recliner under the walnut tree, holding a book in his hand.
He was reading very slowly. If not for the fact that he flipped a page after tens of minutes, others would have thought that he was daydreaming instead of reading.
"That path, can it really be taken?" Nie Ting asked casually.
"There's no answer. We'll only know if we keep doing it," Shi Xuejin said with a calm smile.
"What if there's no answer?" Nie Ting glanced at him.
"There's nothing in this world that must have an answer," Shi Xuejin said with a smile.
This path was lonely. He treated this world as a huge exercise, and then he slowly searched for the parameters in the truth. In the end, he wanted to find one of the possible answers to this exercise.
It could be wrong, or it could be right, but it did not matter.
"If the sages didn't walk different paths, how would there be any cultivation?" Shi Xuejin was unconcerned.
"I'll go to Changbai Mountain again next week. Keep a close eye on things here." Nie Ting said, "Puppeteers are very strange. The information we received from the foundation might not be complete, or rather … even the foundation doesn't have complete information."
At this point, even Shi Xuejin was confused. "I thought they went to India to secretly control the cultivators there, but it seems like they didn't do that. It seems like … they don't care about cultivators of this level."
"What's the goal of the puppeteers?" Nie Ting seemed to be asking Shi Xuejin, but it also seemed like he was asking himself.
According to the foundation's records, these powerful puppeteers lived for the king of the Banished Land and swore loyalty to him. They came from the Banished Land and claimed to welcome the king's return. From the literal meaning, Nie Ting understood it to be: These puppeteers are the king's vanguard, and their king will return to Earth from the Banished Land.
After all, since the king was the king of the Banished Land, he should be in the Banished Land. How did these puppeteers break through the barrier? Moreover, the other party didn't seem to be in a hurry to break the barrier after coming to Earth. Instead, he was trying to gather his old subordinates.
On the stone table in front of Nie Ting, there were thick dossiers. They had been voluntarily provided to Tengra's Terra Net by the Foundation. The other major organizations had also received them. The contents were all about the Banished Land that the Foundation had collected.
However, these things were not accurate. Some of them were confirmed by the foundation, while others were based on clues collected from known information.
Some of these clues were ancient legends, while others were unofficial histories. However, none of them were particularly reliable. In fact, when Li Xianyi gave them the information, he indicated that it was only for reference.
Those things seemed to have been erased from the world by the almighty, and Nie Ting seemed to understand the reason. The existence of that king seemed to be like the legendary demon that could devour the fear of others to become stronger, so even the name of the demon drifting in time became a taboo.
He was a king who had been demonized and seemed to rule over the entire Banished Land. Even the legendary Four Directions Celestial Emperors of the Banished Land had to fear him. Now, all the humans who knew the truth saw him as an imaginary enemy.
However, why didn't the puppeteers break the barrier? The other party had quietly arrived on that stormy night 17 years ago, but he was surrounded by the foundation and eventually fought his way out.
For the past 17 years, the foundation had been searching for the traces of the other party, but the other party seemed to have completely vanished from the face of the earth. Now that he had reappeared, his level was inexplicably higher than before.
For the past 17 years, the foundation had been on high alert. In the end, the other party seemed to have no intention of doing anything at all. He disappeared just like that, causing the foundation to almost think that they had made a mistake …
"Why?" Nie Ting thought calmly.
He read through the records of that stormy night 17 years ago. That night, they encountered four puppeteers. Two of them were killed, and the remaining two were left. It was also at that time that Li Xianyi's foundation collapsed.
Nie Ting suddenly frowned when he saw a paragraph. According to it, the puppeteers seemed to be very weak at that time. It was as if they were suffering from a serious illness. During the battle, one of the puppeteers was carrying a huge box on his back.
In the end, the puppeteers split up and fled. The puppeteer carrying the box was caught and killed in Luoyang City, but the box was nowhere to be found. This was one of the two puppeteers who were killed.
Nie Ting also wanted to know what was inside the box. He also wanted to know why the Puppeteers were so weak. He guessed that the Puppeteers were probably A-class, but for some unknown reason, their strength had decreased.
All this while, the foundation had been convinced that the box contained a divine item that could be used to break the barrier. Therefore, they had been trying to find it. As a result, Li Xianyi had stayed in Luoyang City for 17 years.
It was also because the puppeteers had lost the divine item that the barrier still existed after 17 years.
After Yun Yi's identity was exposed, the Tengra's Earth Net began to look for clues. Nie Ting discovered that Yun Yi had gone to Luoyang City eight times over the past decade, starting from last year. It seemed like she was also looking for something!
Nie Ting started to look at the records of every participant in the battle that year. They were all recorded verbally. At this moment, Nie Ting suddenly saw a very inconspicuous sentence: "That night of bloody battle almost gave me an illusion. I seemed to have heard a baby crying on a rainy night."
Nie Ting suddenly turned to look at Shi Xuejin. Shi Xuejin was baffled. He touched his face and asked, "Why are you looking at me?"
"We've always thought that the puppeteers were here to break the barrier and that their king was still in the land of exile. But have you ever thought that the baby's crying might not be an illusion of the participants in the battle but something real? And that the box didn't contain some divine item that could be used to break the barrier but a real baby!" Nie Ting was stunned by the answer he had imagined. "Could that baby be their king, or is it a continuation of their king's bloodline?"
Shi Xuejin was also stunned. "But the others said that they didn't hear the baby crying."
"Maybe the baby has been sleeping all this time and only one person heard it occasionally crying," Nie Ting said.
"But if it's really a baby, where is it now? Does it look like a human? " Shi Xuejin smiled and said, "According to what you said, shouldn't this demon king have already started to destroy Earth?"
Nie Ting shook his head. He looked up at the crown of the walnut tree above his head. The warm sunlight was shining through the gaps between the leaves. "We can only remain suspicious for now … Wait, how old is Lü Shu this year? When was he sent to the orphanage? "
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