In the blink of an eye, everything turned into ashes.
Li Yue floated in mid-air and stared at the huge pit below. There was no fluctuation in his eyes. There was only calmness like water.
This place where he used to live was destroyed by his hands in the end.
With a light palm, this ancient city with a long history was erased and could no longer be seen.
"This is just the beginning."
With a low murmur, Li Yue's body swayed and instantly disappeared from the spot.
…
Dozens of miles east of Fangcun City, there was a forest. The area was not big and there were no ferocious beasts.
This forest was not eye-catching. It did not even have a name. Outsiders usually referred to it as "the forest to the east of Fangcun City".
The forest was quiet and barren. Following a river, one could see the sparse and dense trees at a glance. The leaves were lush and the insects and birds were chirping. It looked quite lively.
However, there wasn't anything valuable in this forest, so there weren't any villages within a radius of a few miles. The nearest residential area was more than twenty miles away, and it was a small village by the side of a mountain and a river.
Li Yue came to the outskirts of this small village.
The village was situated beside a mountain and a river. The mountain was low, and the river meandered and gurgled. Looking down from the low mountain, one could see large tracts of farmland. Crops were growing in the farmland, and there were farmers busying themselves in the farmland, removing insects.
Li Yue appeared in the farmland at the foot of the short mountain. He walked along a narrow ridge road.
Soon, he came in front of a farmer who was bending over and waving a hoe.
The farmer was not young. He was seventy years old but his body was very strong. He was busy in the farmland. Every time he swung the hoe, he was sweating.
"Old man!"
Li Yue walked up and said to the old farmer.
"Hmm?" The old farmer was stunned. He raised his head and looked at Li Yue's face. A look of surprise flashed across his slightly turbid eyes.
"Little brother, are you from outside?"
The old farmer asked. Although it was a question, his tone was certain.
This village was relatively remote. Although it was close to Fangcun City, it was in the middle of a short mountain. It stood aloof from worldly affairs and very few outsiders came.
Hence, when the old farmer saw Li Yue's unfamiliar face, he knew that this was a young man from outside.
He wondered what was the matter.
"Yes, old man. I rushed over from Fangcun City."
"Fangcun City? The rumbling sounds like an earthquake just now seemed to have come from Fangcun City. I wonder what happened there? "
The old man's eyebrows, a worried look.
"Little brother, where did you come from? I wonder if you can tell this old man if the Heart City is …"
Li Yue was slightly taken aback, then he shook his head. "I'm sorry, sir. I don't know, and I'm also very confused."
"Why? Old man, you seem to be very interested in the situation in Fangcun City?"
"Hehe, I'm not afraid of being laughed at. Although I don't have much experience and have been cooped up in a mountain village all my life, my two sons are very promising. My eldest son is already married and is the village chief of the village. My second son has excellent cultivation potential. When he was very young, he was valued by the people of Fangcun City and was chosen to be a guard of the city lord's residence!
"I just don't know how that kid is doing now!"
The old man said with a look of nostalgia. His youngest son didn't come back even once a year. Naturally, he missed him and hoped that his son was doing well.
"…"
So that was it.
It was a pity that Fangcun City had been destroyed.
Li Yue was speechless. He looked at the old man quietly and listened to the old farmer talk about his son. He didn't feel any other emotions in his heart. In fact, he was very calm.
The old farmer talked a lot. It was obvious that he was very satisfied with his youngest son. He also doted on him a lot. Once he opened his mouth, he couldn't stop talking.
"Sorry for making a fool of myself."
After a few minutes, the old farmer patted his head and said with a smile, "Oh right, little brother, I wonder why you came to this village? Are you planning to stay the night? Or is it something else? "
"No."
Li Yue said, "I want to ask if you remember that a young lady passed by this place more than 30 years ago?"
This village was the only one that was close to the forest. In the memory that Li Yue obtained, it mentioned that Nannan appeared in this village 30 years ago.
That was why he came here to ask about it.
"30 years ago?"
The old farmer was stunned. "This … there really was."
"But why are you asking about this, little brother? Could it be that the young lady is your elder? " The old farmer couldn't be blamed for saying that. It was because Li Yue looked young and his aura was so ordinary that he didn't seem like a cultivator. That was why he thought of this.
After all, it was something that happened more than 30 years ago.
"Yes."
Li Yue nodded. "I came here because I heard that she appeared in this village more than 30 years ago. I want to ask about her situation."
"I see!"
The old farmer nodded. He held the hoe with one hand and stroked the beard on his chin with the other. He said thoughtfully, "There is indeed such a thing, but it's been too long. I only heard about it from some of the elders in the village who passed away."
"More than 30 years ago, on a rainy night, a young lady carried a dried corpse and passed by here. After cultivating in the village for a night, she walked toward the forest in the east."
"Because the young lady's behavior was really strange, it caused a lot of discussion in the village. I don't know the details. Most of the elders who knew about it have passed away."
"Is that so? Thank you, old man. "
Li Yue nodded and asked a few more questions. Then, he said goodbye to the old man and turned to leave.
…
Killing and being killed was a kind of karma that couldn't be resolved.
Everyone had to die. Li Yue didn't feel guilty at all about wiping out Fangcun City and causing the deaths of countless civilians. He didn't feel anything at all.
It was just killing people. He was already used to it.
Perhaps when he was a greenhorn, he would feel disgusted, guilty, worried, and afraid. But now, he didn't feel any of these emotions. There was only calmness and silence.
The reason why he went to that village was because it was convenient. He had to pass by anyway. So, he wanted to confirm and ask about Nannan.
Secondly, he also wanted to find more information about Nannan.
'That little girl carried a dried corpse on her back and walked for a few days and nights. She came to the village in the rain. If it wasn't for the village chief who took pity on her, no one would have allowed a person to carry a corpse into the village.' This was what the old farmer had said before. Just this one sentence made Li Yue's heart ache.
He could imagine how his younger sister had carried his broken corpse on her back and struggled to come here from outside Fangcun City. Step by step, it was incomparably difficult.
And it was raining heavily.
The more he thought about it, the colder his eyes became. He became even colder to the Tian Que Holy Ground who knocked Nannan unconscious and threw her down the cliff.
"Let's go."
…
In the nameless forest, Li Yue walked step by step. He stepped on the void and searched the place inch by inch.
At this moment, he had already come to the depths of the forest. According to the information in his memory, this should be the place where Nannan buried her corpse. Why couldn't he find anything?
"No."
"No."
"No."
After wandering for a long time, Li Yue found a lot of information. Some torn clothes, animal bones, broken weapons, and so on. But because the traces were very new and not very old, they were not what he was looking for.
Time passed bit by bit. In the sky, the bright and warm sun had reached the highest point. It emitted light and heat. Rays of sunlight penetrated through the gaps between the leaves and hit the forest, leaving mottled circles of light.
"That is …"
At this moment, Li Yue's expression froze.
In the search of his divine thoughts, he found a pile of collapsed wood and wooden boards by a small river three miles to the right of the center of the forest. But from the general shape, it could be seen that it used to be a small wooden house. But too much time had passed and the small wooden house had collapsed.
This place was very remote and surrounded by trees. It was easy to miss if one did not pay careful attention.
In front of the ruins of the collapsed house, there was a slightly raised mound covered with weeds. At first glance, it looked like a raised terrain and was inconspicuous.
But in front of the mound, half of a wooden board was buried. The wooden board seemed to be engraved with remnants of words, which were very vague.
Li Yue's body flashed and he appeared here in an instant.
He raised his hand and pulled the wooden board out of the soil and into his hand.
At this moment, he saw a few words that had been blurred into a ball on the wooden board. "Brother Lin Lin's Grave."
Li Yue stared at the simple tombstone in a daze. An indescribable and complicated feeling rose in his heart. His right hand gently rubbed the wooden board that was about to rot. He touched the blurry carvings on the wooden board and traced his fingertips.
At this moment, he seemed to see the past.
He saw everything that had happened in the past.
A little girl in tattered clothes came here with a skeleton. She painstakingly dug a hole and buried the skeleton. As she buried the skeleton, she cried. Her little face was full of tears.
How heartbreaking.
"Nannan."
He whispered softly, "Brother has let you down. Brother swears that I will destroy the Heaven Lack Holy Ground and avenge you!"
As he spoke, he waved his hand and the weeds on the grave were all removed. The wooden board in his hand was also inserted into the grave.
After doing all this, Li Yue sat in front of the grave and remained silent.
In his heart, all the memories of Nannan, all the past, once again swept over him. Since they were young, they depended on each other for survival and lived a tough life in Fangcun City until they parted.
All these memories slowly settled down at this moment and slowly settled in the deepest part of his heart. The last obsession in his heart was also slowly removed.
Just like that, Li Yue sat there for seven days and seven nights.
After seven days and seven nights, he stood up and his heart was calm.
Li Yue raised his head and looked into the distance. Then, he moved and flew into the distance.
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