Chapter 119 - The Strange Xu Family
Chapter 119: The Strange Xu Family
“Huh?”
“Senior, back then, many masters from Zhongzhou and the South Continent rushed into this place and took what they could. I only managed to grab this round plate before someone started chasing after me.” Old Demon Han felt very wronged.
After grabbing the round plate, he had quickly left, not daring to take anymore.
But he was still chased anyway.
Those who had taken better treasures were still not satisfied.
He was chased by the people of Zhongzhou as well as the South Continent’s disciples.
“It looks like an ordinary Perfected Person’s cavern.”
Li Mu looked around but didn’t find anything.
Obviously, many people had been in this cavern before.
It had been more than a hundred years since Old Demon Han and the others discovered this cave.
In these hundred years, everything that could be taken had already been taken.
“I heard that this Perfected Person is from the East Continent, but I don’t know the specifics.”
“From the East Continent?”
“Exactly! Zhongzhou people are so xenophobic that those who enter Zhongzhou are instantly besieged. I heard that this Perfected Person died from a serious injury after being besieged.”
Li Mu walked around the cavern.
It was rather big.
It was comparable to a luxury villa from a previous life.
Evidently, this Perfected Person also knew how to enjoy life.
“Do you know where he came from and what his name is?”
Old Demon Han closed his eyes and thought for a long while.
“His last name is Xu. He is from the Xu Family in Muyang City in the East Continent.”
That had been quite sometime ago.
He only knew about this person’s identity from listening to other people’s small talk.
His memory was good but this was all he could remember.
“Do you have any more information about him?”
“No!” Old Demon Han shook his head.
Li Mu touched the round plate.
“Do you know why he came to Zhongzhou?”
“No I don’t.”
“I’ll give these pills to you. Your half-step Virtual Realm cultivation level is too low. Using this can help you to break through. As long as you practice hard and observe the world around you closely, you will be able to achieve an awakening,” said Li Mu as he threw two bottles of pills to Old Demon Han.
“Thank you, Senior.”
After Li Mu left, Old Demon Han took the pills and stared at it.
“Senior…Is he the Virtual Realm master from the South Continent?”
The more Old Demon Han thought about it, the more he started to believe it.
He had met this senior in the Imperial Palace of the State of Great Xia.
The sword qi in the State of Great Xia’s Imperial Palace was the same as the sword qi from the attacker on Muguang Mountain.
“If the State of Great Xia has no other guardians, then he is the Virtual Realm master from the South Continent.”
Having discovered this extraordinary fact, Old Demon Han quickly headed towards the South Continent.
On the way, Old Demon Han became depressed.
He didn’t know how many years it had been since this Virtual Realm master from the South Continent had appeared.
When he was still in the Spirit Manipulation Realm, the other party had just been a little stronger than him.
Now, the other party was already at the peak of the Virtual Realm.
“Sigh! Forget it. I’ll just keep this a secret.”
“But then what happened to the ancestor of the Xia Family?” Old Demon Han was confused.
Two months later…
In Muyang City in the East Continent…
The whole of Muyang City was extremely depressed.
The Evil Gang had invaded the previous year.
And now, although the Evil Gang had been defeated, the entire city still remained this way.
Not many people had survived the encounter.
Till now, the prenatal qi in the city has not recovered.
Many feared that the Evil Gang would come back and move into the mountains.
After heading to Muyang City, Li Mu managed to quickly find the Xu Family.
The Xu Family occupied a vast area of the city.
It was as large as the State of Great Xia’s Imperial Palace.
From this, one could see how powerful the Xu Family had been.
But now, there was only rubble left. It was a mess. There were only five or six hundred people left in the Xu Family.
Li Mu headed to a restaurant.
“Let me ask you something. Was there an incident in the Xu Family many years ago?” Li Mu said lightly as he tossed two gold coins over.
“Are you talking about the Evil Gang?”
“Before the Evil Gang came.”
“There were so many incidents. After the grandfather of the Xu Family took in his eighteenth concubine and gave birth to a son with his grandson…”
Li Mu was taken aback.
When was this?
He was shocked to hear the details of the story.
The chaos that had happened in the Xu Family was beyond what Li Mu could ever imagine.
Did the master of the round plate leave because of the chaos in the family?
After listening to him for a while, he realized that this happened in the last fifty or sixty years.
“Were there any major incidents two hundred years ago?”
“How would I know about the events over two hundred years ago? My grandfather was not even born yet!”
“Help me find someone who knows about any events that maybe have happened over a hundred years ago. I will reward you greatly,” Li Mu said.
Old Demon Han had discovered the cavern about a hundred years ago.
So by now, the cavern must be at least two hundred years old.
Not to forget that it would have taken a lot of time for the Xu Family’s Perfected Person to set up such a cavern after running away.
“The shopkeeper is at the pinnacle of the Saint-level. He should know something about this. After all, the events happening in a family as big as the Xu Family would have left a deep impression.”
“You can ask the shopkeeper.”
The shopkeeper was at the peak of the Saint-level and was about three hundred years old.
Li Mu visited him and asked about the Xu Family’s affairs two hundred years ago. After thinking about it for a long time, the shopkeeper briefly recounted a few incidents.
But it had nothing to do with what Li Mu wanted to know.
“Is that all?”
“Yes!”
“Then did something happen to the Xu Family three hundred years ago? Some incident such as the Xu Family’s disciples betraying the Xu Family?” Li Mu continued to probe him.
In the back garden of Xu Family’s house, Li Mu stood on an overhanging rock.
Beneath the rock was a tunnel entrance to Xu Family’s house.
Sure enough, a disciple of the Xu Family had betrayed the Xu Family three hundred years ago and stole the Xu Family’s treasure.
But the shopkeeper didn’t know what the treasure was.
Li Mu touched the round plate.
Maybe this was it!
He entered the underground tunnel.
He flew through the cavern for for hundreds of miles until he finally reached the end of the tunnel.
Similar to the State of Great Xia’s Imperial Palace, there was an underground palace at the end of the tunnel. In the center of the underground palace was a vitality well.
The Well of Prenatal Qi was surrounded by many treasures.
Dozens of the Xu Family’s elders were practicing here.
But the prenatal qi gushing in this well was far less potent than the one at the State of Great Xia’s Imperial Palace.
Li Mu looked around the underground palace.
The underground palace was very wide and filled with various decorations.
Its style was very different from Zhongzhou and the South Continent, and even slightly different from the rest of the East Continent as well.
The architectural style of the South Continent was more elegant, with many beautiful curves, similar to the Ming Dynasty’s culture from his previous life.
The Zhongzhou architectural style was more barbaric.
Here, the colors used were similar to the Qianlong period.
The murals were colorful and mysterious.
Similar to that of Dunhuang.
This was the first time that Li Mu has seen such a dazzling color in this world.
After a long time, the old man with the white beard and robe spoke, “Sigh! With the Evil Gang still rampant, I’m afraid we have no chance to go back.”
Afterwards, the underground palace fell silent.
Then, someone else sighed.
“If the key the ancestor left is still here, we would have left by now. This is not a place fit for people to live. Everyone is fighting with each other instead of living harmoniously together.” The old man in black suddenly stood up and said angrily.
Then, he sat down cross-legged and continued to practice. Li Mu was dumbfounded.
Wasn’t talking while cultivating very distracting?