That night, three people stood on the top of an isolated steep cliff among the "Wangze Ridge" mountains.
Looking at the bright rabbit on the silver plate and the hazy jungle swamp all around, one of them spoke.
"Uncle Sang, why do you stop here?"
After these words fell, an old voice slowly sounded.
“According to the jade map left by your mother, this mountain is Lingyue Mountain, which is only a thousand miles away from the Hu Chen family.
It is the only independent mountain within hundreds of miles. It is surrounded by swamps and no one can hide there. If someone ambushes nearby, it will alert the monsters here.
This is also the last place your mother said we can leave quickly before entering the Hu Chen family."
Li Yan and his two companions were on the top of the cliff. They had arrived here half a quarter of an hour ago.
As soon as he arrived here, Zhuo Lingfeng released his spiritual sense to observe. It was only until just now that he withdrew his spiritual sense, but a trace of suspicion appeared on his face.
Hearing Zhuo Lingfeng's words, Hu Chen Wuding's face suddenly became a little nervous.
He is not a stupid person, but rather extremely smart.
"Uncle Sang, did you find someone following us?"
This time Zhuo Lingfeng did not say anything, but looked at Li Yan who had been silent.
Ever since Li Yan arrived here, he has been looking at the black swamp rushing down the mountain with great interest.
Seeing the two of them looking at him, he hesitated for a moment.
"Thousands of miles away, when we walked out of the teleportation array, someone was watching us. However, I don't think they had any bad intentions.
Otherwise, when we flew to a place where there were few people, they would have caught up with us and attacked us, but they just hung around for a distance and then left on their own."
Li Yan knew what Zhuo Lingfeng meant.
He might have known what he had discovered through his expressions before. Therefore, he still wanted to confirm his cultivation level through some things.
Li Yan smiled inwardly upon seeing this, but answered seriously on his face.
However, after Li Yan said this, Zhuo Lingfeng rolled his eyes in his heart.
"This person is really cunning. He said that he discovered the problem just after leaving the teleportation array. At that time, anyone who paid close attention would have noticed that someone was watching him."
But what Li Yan said was really the truth, but Li Yan did not say that later on when they were flying here, there were two more groups of people who stared at them for a while.
"Oh, Brother Li is right. I noticed that there was a group of people there. But now they are not far from the Hu Chen family. Why don't they fly over there in one go?"
Hu Chen Wuding looked at Li Yan and blinked helplessly.
After spending the past few days together, he and Li Yan have become quite familiar with each other. Li Yan is an easygoing person, but he always speaks slowly after careful consideration. It is extremely difficult to get words out of him!
At this time, he had already called Li Yan "Brother Li". In order not to arouse suspicion, Li Yan no longer allowed him to call him "benefactor".
"After that, two more groups of people followed us on the road. We stopped here just now to see if the last group was planning to attack us or if they had an ambush nearby.
Now it seems that there should be no more, and that group of people has retreated, and I haven't found anything unusual in the hundreds of miles around here."
Zhuo Lingfeng glanced at Li Yan and saw that he was observing the rushing black swamps carefully again, so he had to speak himself.
Without waiting for Hu Chen Wuding to continue asking, he thought for a moment and continued.
"I guess this matter may be related to the ancestor of the Hu Chen family. Although I don't know why he has been in seclusion for so long
However, even if this retreat was for the purpose of breaking through the realm, regardless of whether he succeeded or not, with his original Nascent Soul initial stage cultivation, the range covered by his spiritual consciousness would be at least around five thousand miles.
Therefore, even if the last group of people just now wanted to hunt you down, they probably wouldn’t dare to do it.
I am staying here because this is the place noted in your mother's jade slip. It is the nearest accessible place to escape from the Hu Chen family.
On the one hand, we came here to hold back for later, to see the terrain first; on the other hand, to see if those people following us will really take action. If we don’t take action here, there will be no chance later.”
Under the moonlight, the wind from Zhuoling came slowly.
However, both Hu Chen Wuding and Li Yan could hear that he mentioned Hu Chen Wuding's mother twice, and his voice always sounded a little strange when he said these words.
As for whether Zhuo Lingfeng really wanted to identify the person who was following him, or just wanted to take the opportunity to look at the place names left on the jade slip by Hu Chen Wuding's mother, to remind him of someone, only he knew.
What the two of them didn't know was that Lingyue Mountain was the place where Hu Chen Wuding's mother often visited in the past.
Once, after she suffered a great injustice in the family, she had no one to talk to, so she flew away from the Hu Chen family alone at night. She just wanted to be alone and quiet for a while, and flew here aimlessly.
She saw that there was only one lonely mountain here, standing within a radius of hundreds of miles. Under the moonlight, it looked so desolate and lonely, just like her mood at that moment.
When she stood on the top of this lonely and steep mountain, she found that everything around her was in sight. As long as there was anything unusual, she could quickly discover it. In this way, when she wanted to be quiet, as soon as someone approached, she would immediately leave. This was exactly the place she was looking for.
So from then on, whenever Hu Chen Wuding's mother was depressed, she would always come here late at night.
She would sit alone on the top of the mountain, letting the mountain wind ruffle her black hair, staring blankly at the full moon over the Desolate Moon Continent, as if recalling the past, the time she spent with her master, and the figure of the young man who made her heart beat...
She never told these things to anyone.
Until the moment before her death, when she was truly nestled in the young man's arms, she softly, as if talking to herself, talked about the past, about Lingyue Mountain, and about the figure she saw in the full moon on the top of the mountain...
After Zhuo Lingfeng finished speaking to Hu Chen Wuding, he also glanced at the full moon in the sky and thought to himself.
"Meng Jun, is this where you came from? But when I came, you were gone!!"
He lowered his eyes and looked at the cliff in front of him again.
He seemed to see a lonely and helpless woman here, sitting on the top of the mountain, her chin supported by her delicate hands, with a sad and beautiful look in her eyes.
"Let's go! There are only three hours left until dawn!"
Zhuo Lingfeng took a deep breath.
With a flick of his sleeves, a ferocious black-armored demon dog appeared in the air. It stood on all fours and let out a long howl towards the bright moon... In the early morning, when the mist just rose, a black light with a murderous aura flew directly towards this place from the top of the hill where Yu Jiang had landed yesterday.
The black light circled in the air and then landed on the top of the hill.
The light faded away, and it was revealed that it was a huge black-armored demon dog. The three people standing on its back took a light step forward the moment the black-armored demon dog landed, and landed lightly on the top of the hill.
One of the hunchbacked old men waved his robe sleeves lightly, and the ferocious black-armored demon dog disappeared from the spot.
These three people were exactly Li Yan and his group. As they fell, their appearances had returned to their original forms.
At this time, Hu Chen Wuding had become a very handsome young man, completely different from the pale and sickly-looking man in Daoxuan Temple. He had red lips, white teeth, and a handsome look.
Looking at the scenery, Hu Chen Wuding looked a little dazed.
He still vaguely remembers this entrance. He was only eight years old when he left. His mother was anxious and took him away in a hurry.
I remember that at that time, there was a weak scholar named Hu Chen Wubing who escorted them all the way away.
Looking at Hu Chen Wuding's somewhat dazed expression, Zhuo Lingfeng and Li Yan did not disturb him.
The entrance here is, of course, also engraved on the jade slip of Hu Chen Wuding's mother.
Otherwise, based on Hu Chen Wuding's memory when he was eight years old, and this being his first time out, finding this place among these mountains would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
After a long time, Hu Chen Wuding took out a small black tripod from his storage bag with a wooden expression.
However, the appearance of this tripod is different from the one that Yu Jiang took out. There are three fine golden lines on it.
Then Hu Chen Wuding held the small tripod and waved it towards a cluster of bushes. Then there was a flash of light on the top of the hill.
Then, a white light gate appeared in front of the three people in the twisting void.
"Uncle Sang, Brother Li, let's go!"
Hu Chen Wuding turned around, with a smile on his face, but there was a kind of eerieness in his smile.
As soon as he finished speaking, he stepped into the light gate. Zhuo Lingfeng followed closely behind him, and at the same time, he cast a spiritual power shield on Hu Chen Wuding, as if he had done this countless times.
Li Yan smiled and followed him in.
… …
At the entrance of the valley, the sky suddenly rippled, which made the guards here look up.
But there was no surprise on their faces. This rippling situation did not mean that someone had trespassed into the Hu Chen family, but that someone was using the family token to normally activate the transmission.
Moreover, this kind of thing has happened frequently during this period of time. Since the ancestor came out of seclusion, he issued an order, which made many members of the Hu Chen family who were away return recently.
“Hehehe… Someone rushed back so early in the morning, but this is considered late.
The battle will be held tomorrow. It seems a bit hasty to come back and prepare now. I don’t know which branch of the sect he is from. What good will he do if he comes back? He will just serve as a foil for others.”
There are five people guarding here, they are the inner disciples of the Hu Chen family.
All five of them had cultivation bases above the eighth level of Qi Condensation. The person who spoke was a thin young man, about 23 or 24 years old, with a slightly blue complexion, as if he was stunted.
"Hu Chenliang, you are getting more and more arrogant, as if your eldest branch is the heir."
At this time, a burly man next to him said.
The thin young man named Hu Chenliang rolled his eyes and glanced at the big man lazily after hearing the words.
"Hu Chen Tu Hu, although your name sounds domineering, you are not even qualified to participate. Although Miss Hu Chen Hui Qing from your second house is very talented..."
Just as the two guards were displeased with each other and the other four people nearby were watching the fun, the waves at the valley entrance flickered and became more intense.
Then, three figures stepped out of the light gate one after another, interrupting the quarrel between the two people below and attracting the attention of five people at the same time.
But after seeing the faces of the three people clearly, the five people were stunned and then surrounded them.
Moreover, an unfriendly look appeared on everyone's face, because they didn't recognize any of the three people who appeared and had never seen them in the family before.
"Three of you, who are you? Why did you come to my Hu Chen family?"
The five people came over at the same time and surrounded Hu Chen, Wu Ding and the other two who had just entered the valley.
The first person to ask was the guard named Hu Chenliang.
When he opened his mouth, Hu Chen Tu Hu and another young guard curled their lips inadvertently, and Hu Chen Tu Hu whispered.
"It makes him look like the captain of this team, how funny!!"
As for the remaining two guards, one of them glared at Hu Chen Tu Hu.
The other young man, who was about 27 or 28 years old, gently shook his head at Hu Chen Tu Hu without saying anything.
The five guards had already scanned with their spiritual sense, and they saw that the hunchbacked old man standing behind the purple-shirted young man was a powerful foundation-building cultivator, but they still showed no fear.
This is the Hu Chen family. Even cultivators from a first-rate large sect would not dare to barge in like this without permission.
What's more, after the current ancestor of the family came out of seclusion, he stayed in the back mountain.
Hu Chen Wuding looked at the people in front of him. He seemed to see a hint of familiarity between their brows.
But he did not say anything, just raised his right hand, and in his right hand, there was a small black tripod clasped in the palm of his hand, flashing with a black light.
"Family keepsake? Who are you? Why haven't I seen it before... No?"
After seeing the small tripod, Hu Chenliang still asked with a stern look on his face, but before he finished speaking, he let out a cry of surprise.
At this time, not only him, but the other four guards were also staring at the small tripod in Hu Chen Wuding's hand, which had three golden lines on it.