After returning to the village, start chasing the mountain from binding Emei

Chapter 776 Tracing the Silkworm Thief: Wang Yaozu, a Young Man from Raojiang!
"Oh?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Yang frowned.

He reached out and grabbed Huang Can's wrist, his mental energy probing directly into his body.

I checked it inside and out.

Chen Yang's expression turned extremely ugly.

"what happened?"

Chen Yang's expression immediately made Huang Can's heart jump.

Chen Yang's expression was serious. "It's not that you can't get in touch with them, it's that the Fire Silkworm has been stolen."

"What? You stole it?"

Upon hearing this, Huang Can exclaimed in surprise.

He quickly touched his stomach, searching his body with his spiritual energy.

He always thought the fire silkworm was throwing a tantrum and hiding, after all, the little silkworm had played hide-and-seek with him quite a few times before.

Stolen?
How is this possible?

Huang Can searched extensively, even opening the gates of the three dantians, but still couldn't find any trace of the insect.

So, it really was stolen?

He stood there dumbfounded for a long time, unable to come to his senses.

It felt like losing the most precious thing in his life, like the little yellow dog his sister bought for him when he was a child, which was then stolen by a dog dealer.

driven to distraction.

The insect had been inside his body for quite some time. At first, he was quite disgusted by it, but he gradually developed a bond with it. It can be said that this fire silkworm played a crucial role in his current level of cultivation.

It was stolen from him out of nowhere; it was like tearing a piece of his heart out.

Chen Yang said, "This person's technique is very skillful. He took the Fire Silkworm but did not harm your body. He only made you feel weak."

"I offended his ancestors."

Huang Can immediately started cursing, "Who the hell is so despicable, damn it! If I catch him, I'll fucking kill him..."

……

As he continued hurling insults, he became so agitated that his voice started to tremble with emotion.

He clenched his teeth and made fists with both hands.

I can tolerate you stealing my chickens, but if you steal my silkworms, I'll fight you to the death.

"Alright, stop cursing."

Chen Yang patted Huang Can on the shoulder, calming him down.

Huang Can wiped away her tears and looked up at Chen Yang, "Brother Yang, is there any way to find my Fire Silkworm?"

"This……"

Chen Yang paused slightly.

This question stumped him.

Looking for it? How do I look for it?
You've already stolen it, do you think they'd just sit there waiting for you?
They've probably run away and disappeared without a trace.

"Oh my God, it's all over."

"Silkworm, how can I live without you!"

……

Chen Yang's expression was as if he had sentenced Huang Can to death. Huang Can seemed to have lost his soul and sat down on the ground, almost crying and wailing.

The elderly people in the courtyard, hearing the commotion, kept looking up at the building, wondering what had happened.

"Look, you're in a hurry. But being in a hurry won't help. There are solutions, though. Let me think about it carefully."

This must have been a huge blow to Huang Can, and Chen Yang can understand why he's like this.

"any solution?"

Huang Canteng stood up abruptly, as if he had heard that his death sentence had been commuted to a suspended death sentence, and stared intently at Chen Yang.

Chen Yang said, "Anyone interested in fire silkworms must be someone who cultivates insect gu techniques. Insect gu techniques are most prevalent in Raojiang, so those who are eyeing you are most likely insect gu masters from Raojiang, whose level is definitely no lower than yours. I'll ask Elder Wang to help me check if any insect gu masters have come to Raojiang recently..."

"Yeah."

Huang Can nodded repeatedly.

Now, no matter where you go, you need your ID card to use public transportation.

Such a person, if coming from outside the province, would most likely be recorded by the authorities unless they traveled over mountains and valleys.

Chen Yang called Wang Yuanchao and explained the situation.

Wang Yuanchao was very busy and only said that he would arrange for someone to help him investigate and would reply with the results, but he did not say when he would reply.

"How about it?"

After hanging up the phone, Huang Can immediately inquired.

"Wait for the news."

Chen Yang nodded slightly, giving him a reassuring look.

Huang Can was helpless; he was now truly filled with regret. "If I had known it would turn out like this, I wouldn't have bothered catching that tiny cicada!"

Chen Yang shook his head. "Since they know your name, they've obviously come prepared. It has nothing to do with whether you went up the mountain to catch the cicada; they've already got their eyes on you. Instead of complaining here, you should think back and see if you've had any contact with any suspicious people recently, especially people from Raojiang..."

"This……"

Upon hearing this, Huang Can pinched his chin and started pacing around the room.

"Besides that Huanglong Taoist, I only went to Luoshan a few days ago to spend two days with Xiao'e. I met a lot of people then, so how would I know who was suspicious..."

After racking his brains for a long time, he still couldn't figure it out. His mind was a complete mess, and he couldn't concentrate on thinking.

Chen Yang said, "Don't worry about this for now. Take care of what your uncle left behind. I'll handle your affairs."

Huang Can nodded repeatedly, grabbing Chen Yang's arm, "Brother Yang, it's all up to you. You must help me find the Fire Silkworm, and it would be best if you could catch that person too. I want to squeeze out his green shit with my own hands."

Chen Yang was both amused and exasperated.

He didn't dare give Huang Can a 100% guarantee, he could only say that he would try his best to find one, and if he really couldn't find one, he still had an unused ice silkworm, which Huang Can could use as a substitute if he wanted it.

……

-

Jiapigou, night.

The crescent moon is like a filament hanging in the sky, its light hazy and indistinct, as if it were wearing a lampshade.

Chen Yang communicated with the camellia tree using the Mountain Yu Seal.

The camellia tree is a sacred mountain spirit that has been granted a title. It is connected to all sentient beings in the mountain and can usually find out the details of what happens on Qishan Mountain.

Gaokanlin is actually not far from the village. The Ant Slope where Chen Yang used to pick matsutake mushrooms is located in Gaokanlin, roughly halfway up Qishan Mountain.

If such a person has appeared in the mountains, the camellia tree should be able to find out some information.

Before long, the camellia tree sent back a message.

Last night, such a person did appear on the mountain. Several plants that had developed spiritual awareness were seen there. A person dressed in white came from the west side of Qishan Mountain in the evening and returned around midnight, also coming down the mountain from the west side of Dongqishan Mountain.

As for what it looks like, the camellia tree doesn't know. Its information comes from several spiritual plants. Although these plants have some intelligence, their level of wisdom is not high, and the information they obtain is limited.

Camellia Tree did not see this person in person, so she knew nothing about whether the person was male or female, their appearance, or their cultivation level.

Chen Yang frowned as he listened.

To the west of Qishan, on the back side of Jiapigou, after crossing Tiger Leap Cliff, lies the direction of Lingjiang County. That area is relatively desolate, with steep mountains and difficult mountain roads, so few people venture there.

……

Chen Yang decided to go up the mountain to take a look, because few people walk there, and this person might leave some traces, such as footprints or a scent, which might provide some useful clues.

It was still early, just past eight o'clock, and the sky was just getting dark when Chen Yang led Black Tiger up the mountain.

We first arrived at Gaokanlin and wandered around the forest.

The mixed forest was filled with the chirping of insects and the flickering lights; a group of village children were already catching cicadas in the woods.

When cicadas emerge from the soil and try to climb trees to molt, you can wrap transparent tape around the tree trunk to prevent them from climbing up. They will then pile up under the tape. If you time it right at night and collect them before they molt, you can easily grab a handful.

Huang Can didn't come tonight, but with Black Tiger around, they quickly found the place where he had the accident last night.

In a low-lying depression in the woods, there were no footprints or other traces, but the lingering scent at the scene was still clearly discernible to Black Tiger.

Dogs have a keen sense of smell, especially Black Tiger, who is a dog king from the Spirit Realm.

Fortunately, it didn't rain last night, so the atmosphere wasn't washed away.

Sniffing here and there, Black Tiger managed to discern a suspicious scent from the chaotic mix of smells at the scene.

"Wang."

He called out to Chen Yang, communicating telepathically, that it was all done.

"Walk."

Without a word, Chen Yang followed Black Tiger out of the forest.

Black Tiger was agile and moved like a ghost in the night, quickly running towards the mountaintop.

After crossing Tiger Leap Cliff and walking for about half a mile through the forest, you will reach the back of Qishan Mountain.

The back mountain is significantly steeper than the front mountain. A small path winds its way down through the forest. Because few people walk on it, the path has been abandoned for a long time and is overgrown with knee-high weeds.

At this time, faint traces of people passing by could still be seen on the mountain path.

The weeds lay flat, and occasionally, in the soft spots on the ground, one or two footprints could be seen.

This person has excellent lightness skills; their footprints are very shallow. Even though the path down the mountain is difficult, their stride is still very long.

Black Tiger walked along, stopping and starting, occasionally making a whooshing sound to determine its direction.

Black Tiger stopped in front of a small gully halfway up the mountain.

"Wang!"

Black Tiger seemed to have discovered something, let out a cry, and jumped directly into the ditch.

Chen Yang went closer to take a look and saw that the ditch was dry; there was no water in it. At the bottom of the ditch lay a white dress and a wig. Black Tiger quickly picked them up.

Chen Yang frowned upon seeing this.

It really was a premeditated crime, wasn't it?

According to Huang Can, he only vaguely saw a shadow of the other party last night, probably a woman, a woman in white.

These clothes and wig were probably thrown away by the person who stole the fire silkworm.

Disguise?

Chen Yang's eyes flickered slightly. Should he say this person was cautious or not?

If you say he was careless, he knew to disguise himself; if you say he was careful, he didn't know to destroy the items on the spot, and just left them in the mountains.

Isn't that overconfidence?

"Could it be that they deliberately stayed here to deceive others?"

When Chen Yang encountered trouble, he tended to overthink things. He suspected that the clothes and hood had been deliberately left there, perhaps bearing the scent of other people, to confuse those investigating.

But Black Tiger gave him a negative answer.

The scent on this dress is exactly the same as the scent it was extracted from at the crime scene in Gaokanlin.

They should belong to the same person.

That person probably thought they had covered their tracks perfectly and that no one would trace them here, which is why they brazenly removed their disguise here.

The scent emanating from the skirt and wig was very strong, and Black Tiger remembered it vividly.

Keep following up.

Before long, we reached the foot of the mountain. Below the mountain was a wasteland, beyond which were large tea plantations and farmland. There was a village about four or five miles away.

The village is called Anquan Village and belongs to Fushuang Town, Emei County.

It was already past nine o'clock at night, and many houses in the village still had their lights on.

As soon as Chen Yang entered the village, dogs started barking. Once the dog at the village entrance barked, all the dogs in the village started barking too.

"Wang!"

Black Tiger roared, and then fell silent instantly.

Only low sobs remained.

It has to be said, the king of dogs is the king of dogs; with that kind of prestige, he can get along well anywhere.

Black Tiger swaggered ahead, leading Chen Yang through the city in a grand manner. After a short while, they stopped in front of a house at the west end of the village.

An old-fashioned courtyard house with a wooden and tile structure, it looks like a very old house.

The gate to the courtyard was ajar, and lights were on inside, indicating that someone was there.

Black Tiger was about to break down the door.

Chen Yang called out to it.

His mental energy instantly enveloped the entire courtyard.

There were people inside, an old man and a young man, watching TV in the main room, and the sound of the TV could be faintly heard.

The old woman was not a cultivator; Chen Yang could not sense any cultivation level from her. She was just an ordinary person.

The younger one was a man, and his aura was concealed by something, but it couldn't escape Chen Yang's senses.

A spiritual realm.

He's not very old, probably around twenty.

Such a young spiritual realm?
Chen Yang's eyes flickered slightly. Judging from Black Tiger's reaction, the person he was looking for was most likely this young man.

He was surprised to find it in this village. He thought that since the other party had already obtained the Fire Silkworm, they should have escaped long ago.

How dare they stay near the crime scene?
"Da da da!"

"Is anyone home?"

Chen Yang still knocked on the door politely. It was late at night in the village, and he didn't want to make too much of a commotion.

It's just a mere spiritual realm; it's easy to handle.

"Who is it?"

A moment later, the old woman came out unsteadily to open the door.

This old woman was probably seventy or eighty years old. Her body was hunched over, her back bent, and her upper body was almost parallel to the ground. She could no longer straighten up at all.

With her white hair, headscarf, and apron tied around her waist, she was dressed like a typical rural old woman.

Her face, etched with the marks of time, stood by the door. Looking up at Chen Yang, her cloudy eyes held a hint of confusion. "Young man, who are you looking for?"

Chen Yang glanced at her, then pulled up the system to take a look.

The old woman's name was Xia Guilian, and she was indeed an ordinary person who couldn't be more ordinary than the average person.

"grandmother."

At that moment, a voice came from inside the room.

Before Chen Yang could answer, a young man approached the old woman and said, "Grandma, this is my friend."

friend?

The young man's words startled Chen Yang for a moment.

"Oh, a friend? Come in..."

The old woman was very enthusiastic when she heard that he was a friend, but she was still a little afraid when she saw the fierce-looking Black Tiger next to Chen Yang.

"No need, old man. I want to say a few words to your grandson." Chen Yang shook his head, his gaze remaining fixed on the young man.

The young man remained unusually calm. After the old woman returned to her house, he followed Chen Yang directly to the outside of the courtyard.

Outside the courtyard, by the roadside, under a banyan tree.

Do you know why I came to find you?

In the darkness, Chen Yang's gaze was piercing.

The young man's composure puzzled him; he didn't seem like a caught thief at all.

Chen Yang imagined many possible outcomes: he would run away, escape, fight him to the death, or argue and reason with him.

But to my utter surprise, the young man was so calm when I came to him.

He doesn't think that his small spiritual realm is enough to control everything, does he?

Upon hearing this, the young man nodded. He opened his right hand, and a plump, bright red worm crawled out of his sleeve and onto his palm.

It was a fire silkworm.

"Is it for that?"

The young man smiled slightly, then clenched his right hand and put the fire silkworm away again. "You arrived a little later than I expected."

These words startled Chen Yang.

He pulled out the system and scanned the young man in front of him.

We're still at the foot of Qishan Mountain, and the system can still find the other party's information.

……

Name: Wang Yaozu.

Physical strength: 2963.

Mental power: 3252.

……

Information about the young man quickly came to Chen Yang's mind.

Wang Yaozu?
Chen Yang raised his eyebrows slightly; the name seemed familiar.

If I remember correctly, among the six Wang sisters of Niutou Mountain in Raojiang, there was a younger brother named Wang Yaozu.

Could it be this bastard in front of me?
He carefully examined the young man in front of him.

Young, around twenty years old, dressed in a blue casual outfit, with delicate features, youthful and energetic, and bearing a resemblance to Wang Zhaodi and others.

At this point, Chen Yang roughly understood the identity of the person in front of him.

He found it somewhat amusing; all six of his older sisters had already given gifts, and now this kid was rushing to give one too?
"My name is Wang Yaozu, and I come from Niutou Mountain in Raojiang. What's your name?" The young man revealed his background directly.

He seemed genuinely unafraid, displaying an air of complete confidence.

Chen Yang didn't answer him, but said, "Did you deliberately throw away the clothes in the mountains to lure me here? If that's the case, how could you not know who I am?"

The young man shook his head and calmly said, "My six older sisters have all gone missing in the past six months. I'm afraid they're probably in grave danger. My family doesn't care, but I can't abandon them..."

“I’ve been in Sichuan for half a month now. A week ago, I met Huang Can in Luoshan. I sensed my sixth sister’s presence in him…”

"This Huang Can, although he has the cultivation of the Spirit Realm, it's impossible for him to kill my sixth sister. So I guessed that there must be a powerful figure behind him. So I secretly followed him to Jiapigou, but after wandering around Jiapigou for several days, I didn't find anything useful..."

"Therefore, we had no choice but to resort to this desperate measure to force the mastermind behind him to reveal himself."

The young man looked at Chen Yang and said, "So, if I'm not mistaken, you're the expert behind him, right?"

He couldn't see Chen Yang's level of cultivation, but his intuition told him that Chen Yang was very strong, and the pressure he felt from him was extremely intense.

Even the black dog next to Chen Yang gave him a very dangerous feeling.

But he remained expressionless, staring directly at Chen Yang.

"You are very smart."

Chen Yang looked at the seemingly meticulous young man in front of him, "However, people who are too smart, without matching strength, are prone to having short lives..."

The young man chuckled lightly, "How do you know I lack strength?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a figure appeared from the end of the road, taking several feet in one step, and was already close at hand in the blink of an eye.

An old man, not very tall, with a white beard, leaned on a cane with a gourd hanging from it, dressed like an old man who had passed away.

He calmly watched Chen Yang from more than ten meters away.

The young man smiled slightly, "Let me introduce you, this is Elder Qingquan of the Five Elements Sect of Raojiang!"

(End of this chapter)