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

Chapter 817 A-Ku's Identity, Contact Qin Zhou!

Having had previous experience, Chen Yang was already very familiar with the process this time.

The jade pendant was placed into the patterned groove, and the size was just right. Then, he placed his hands on the dragon-patterned jade pendant.

He poured his true essence into it.

"Buzz!"

The two jade pendants vibrated simultaneously, as if a switch had been turned on, creating a kind of resonance.

Chen Yang activated his Heavenly Eye and used the Qi Observation Technique. The next second, he sensed that two kinds of energy substances, one gold and one red, had reappeared within the stone tablet.

As if guided by some force, they quickly converged into the two jade pendants.

On the originally ordinary stone tablet, two energy vortexes, one gold and one red, quickly formed. The gold energy was absorbed by the dragon-patterned jade pendant, while the red energy was absorbed by the phoenix-patterned jade pendant.

As Chen Yang poured his true essence into the jade pendants faster, the two jade pendants absorbed the two types of energy at an increasingly faster rate.

"Kaka!"

A few minutes later, the energy in the stone tablet seemed to have been completely absorbed, and the suction force of the jade pendant gradually disappeared.

At the same time, the stone tablet trembled slightly and fine cracks appeared.

These cracks, like fissures on ice, spread rapidly and continuously, soon covering the entire surface of the stone tablet.

Chen Yang quickly took the dragon and phoenix jade pendant off the stone tablet.

"boom!"

The stone tablet seemed to have lost some kind of support and collapsed with a crash.

In an instant, it shattered into a pile of small stones.

The stone tablet was destroyed.

Chen Yang picked up the dragon and phoenix jade pendants and examined them carefully under the lamp. He saw that there was a faint golden-red light flowing within the jade pendants, but after a short while, the golden-red light subsided, and the two jade pendants looked normal again.

There was still no difference from before, and no one knew what secrets were hidden in this jade pendant.

"We've already obtained two of the three stone tablets. When you go to Raojiang, I'll take you to find the third one. Once we've collected all the tablets, perhaps the secret of the Dragon and Phoenix Jade Pendant will be revealed to the world."

The voice of the Five Thunder Immortal echoed in my mind.

Chen Yang nodded slightly, "Would you still dare to go to that place?"

The third stone tablet, according to Master Wu Lei, is deep in the Shuailao Mountain. It was there that Master Wu Lei lost his physical body and lingered on for nearly a hundred years, ending up in his current state.

Master Wu Lei said, "As long as you dare to go, of course I have no problem with it. Could the outcome be any worse than it is now?"

His current spiritual state is already miserable enough; the worst outcome would be death.

The Three Corpse Divine Tree said, "Since it is said that this stone tablet may be related to the severed Heavenly Road, I think it is worth taking the risk if conditions permit."

"Yes!"

Master Wu Lei sighed, "It's been four hundred years since anyone left the Celestial Realm. So many people died there that day because of the mysteries of the Celestial Realm, and I also lost my physical body. If I had the chance, I would definitely want to go back again and find out the secret that has been hidden for four hundred years..."

Who wouldn't want greater power? Who wouldn't want a longer life?

The Five Thunder Immortal lost his physical body. Although his consciousness survived in the form of a primordial spirit, without the protection of a physical body, the primordial spirit will face the five signs of decay of heaven and man sooner than when it had a physical body.

If you want to live longer, you have to break through to a higher level.

However, after the Heavenly Path was severed, the Celestial Realm became a mirage, and the Dao True Realm was the limit. Without figuring out the secrets behind it, one could never break through to the Celestial Realm and could only wait for their lifespan to end and vanish into nothingness.

"Let's talk about it later!"

Chen Yang did not give them a definite answer; whether or not they went to that place was not up to them at the moment.

After all, Master Wu Lei said that back then, so many experts, even those who had reached the Dao True Realm or even the late Dao True Realm, died in that mountain.

Chen Yang didn't think he was any better or luckier than these people.

All he needs to do now is improve his strength to deal with any situation that may arise in the future.

After putting away the dragon and phoenix jade pendant, Chen Yang tidied up the stone chips on the ground, put them in a bag, and took them to the trash can at the street corner to throw them away.

Chen Yang clapped his hands, closed the roller shutter, and walked towards the residential area.

It was already past five in the afternoon, but the sun was still scorching.

As Chen Yang arrived at his apartment building, his phone rang.

It was Li Chunxiao who called.

"Aunt Xiao!"

In the hallway, Chen Yang answered the phone.

"What's the deal with the photos you sent me?"

Li Chunxiao's voice came from the other end of the phone.

Around noon, Chen Yang sent her a photo and left a message asking her to help him find information about the person in the photo, without explaining the specifics.

Li Chunxiao had been busy, and as soon as she had a moment to herself, she saw Chen Yang's message and called him.

"Aunt Xiao, it's like this..."

Chen Yang rattled off the whole story to Li Chunxiao.

After listening, Li Chunxiao was clearly processing what Chen Yang had said, and there was a few seconds of silence on the other end of the phone.

Chen Yang said, "Jing Chen was harmed terribly by this woman. The cultivation that Feng Lingzi passed on to him was also stolen. This woman is highly suspicious. In addition, I suspect that Jing Chen was poisoned by the Qi Ling Powder back then. Only the Li family and the Hu family have this drug..."

"The Hu family has already fallen, so there's no way to trace them. Moreover, I heard from the Qing Shen Sect that Jing Chen happened to meet this woman while traveling in Jianmen back then. I think her name was something like A Ku..."

"Whether this woman disappeared suddenly back then, intentionally hiding or being murdered, there's still no definitive conclusion. Aunt Xiao, if you have time, please help investigate, at least to give Qing Shen Mountain an explanation. I've spoken with Yu Huaizhen, and he promised that if the matter is related to the Li family, he will only pursue those who participated in persecuting Jingchen back then, and won't extend it to the entire Li family..."

……

Chen Yang rattled off a long explanation: Qingshen Mountain has a great influence in Sichuan and a strong foundation. Li Chunxiao has only just taken over the Li family, so he certainly wouldn't want to provoke such a formidable enemy for nothing.

"Ah Ku? Wait a minute, I'll find a photo for you to see."

After Chen Yang finished speaking, Li Chunxiao did not rush to express her opinion. Then, footsteps were heard from the other side, followed by a rummaging through drawers and cabinets and taking pictures.

A short while later, a photo was sent to Chen Yang's phone.

Chen Yang clicked on the photo.

The photo shows a woman in a white dress with long, flowing hair; she is a very pretty woman.

He looks to be at most fifteen or sixteen years old.

He was somewhat green, but there was an indescribable sense of vicissitude and aloofness between his brows that was inconsistent with his age.

Chen Yang immediately compared the photos he had taken for Li Chunxiao at noon with the photos Li Chunxiao had taken back.

similar.

Their facial features and eyebrows are about 60% similar.

The woman in the photos Li Chunxiao sent looked much younger and more innocent.

But that aura almost instantly convinced Chen Yang that it was the same person.

A person's appearance will definitely change as they age.

People in their teens, twenties, and thirties will definitely look different, but no matter how they change, you can still find some similarities in their appearance.

Moreover, the photos Chen Yang obtained were drawn by someone from the Qing Shen Sect based on the memories of several disciples.

Those disciples hadn't seen this Aku many times, so it's normal that the portraits they drew deviated from the real person.

"Aunt Xiao, who is this person?" Chen Yang asked directly.

"you guess?"

Li Chunxiao, however, suddenly found herself in a good mood and started playing games with Chen Yang.

That's not how you keep someone in suspense.

Chen Yang was somewhat amused and exasperated. "It couldn't possibly be you, could it?"

"How can it be!"

Li Chunxiao laughed. "More than ten years ago, I was already in my thirties. How could I still be dating a girl in her twenties?"

"Who can say for sure? Twenty-something, thirty-something, it's not much different."

"loquacious."

Li Chunxiao laughed and scolded, but after Chen Yang said that, she lost interest in keeping him in suspense any longer. "She is Li Mancang's eldest daughter, Li Xiulian."

"Oh?"

Chen Yang raised an eyebrow, his heart skipped a beat, "Li Xiulian? That Coptis chinensis?" "That's right."

Li Chunxiao responded, "I haven't seen her many times either. The last time I saw her was at Li Changfu's 70th birthday celebration, a fleeting glimpse. It's been seven or eight years since then. This photo is probably about twenty years old; it was found among the eldest son's belongings..."

"It turned out to be her."

Chen Yang took a deep breath; it was definitely her.

Li Xiulian, the reincarnation of that Coptis chinensis fruit, is now thirty-five or thirty-six years old. Thirteen years ago, she was only twenty-two or twenty-three, in the prime of her life.

It's entirely conceivable that when Jingchen went down the mountain to travel, he encountered this woman in Jianmen and was attracted to her.

With this woman's cultivation level, she could probably easily make the naive Jingchen fall at her feet with just a little trickery.

Honey trap.

The purpose was simply to steal the cultivation of the Wind Spirit within Jing Chen's body.

This woman was cunning; she stole some but kept a small portion, so as not to stop Jingchen's cultivation from increasing and arouse suspicion.

In addition, Jingchen was given Qiling Powder, which confused her mind, leading the Qingshen Sect to believe that Jingchen was truly heartbroken and infatuated with love.

Ah, no wonder.

For the past ten years or so, Jingchen has been acting erratically and in a daze, completely unable to speak out about her suffering.

This woman is indeed malicious.

The only thing he still finds a little puzzling is how Li Xiulian knew that Jingchen possessed the cultivation level of a Wind Spirit Child back then.

It should be noted that this matter is a top secret in Qingshen Mountain, and very few people know the inside story except for Jingchen herself.

Feng Lingzi's power was sealed within Jing Chen's Sanjiao Xuanguan, which was not something that just anyone could discover.

Did Jingchen tell the news herself?

It's unlikely. If Jingchen said it himself, it means that when Jingchen met Li Xiulian, Li Xiulian didn't know the secret he carried.
But since Li Xiulian didn't know Jingchen's secret beforehand, why would she take the initiative to get to know him?
It should be noted that Li Xiulian was kept in the Jianmen sanatorium and rarely went out.

How could it be such a coincidence that Li Xiulian ran into it?
She must have known about Jingchen's situation beforehand, so she planned to use her beauty to seduce her.

What secret method does she have to sense the state of other people's Triple Energizer?

Or did someone inform on her?

The probability of the former is not high. Even for a late-stage Dao Realm expert, forcibly checking someone else's Sanjiao Xuanguan would be quite taxing.

Unless you know he has a problem, why would you forcibly probe someone else's Sanjiao (Triple Burner) for no reason?
Thinking about it this way, Chen Yang felt that there might be traitors within Qingshen Mountain who could betray them.

However, this was not something he should care about.

Only Li Xiulian knows the truth.

"Have you found that woman?" Chen Yang asked.

"not yet!"

Li Chunxiao sighed, "It's like he vanished into thin air, without leaving a trace."

“Her cultivation level should be quite high, and her true form is a spiritual plant, so it’s not hard to imagine that she has some special methods.” Chen Yang wasn’t surprised. “However, as long as she still wants Li Xiulian’s body, she will show herself sooner or later.”

"Ah."

Li Chunxiao responded, "I've basically taken over the Li family's affairs. The asset inventory will take a little more time. Old Zhou is going back to the provincial capital tomorrow. If you want to see him, it's best to do so tomorrow. I heard from him that he's leaving again the day after tomorrow."

This time, Zhou Mingyuan only returned from Beijing in a hurry because Guan Meiqi invited him; she had important business to attend to.

"it is good."

Chen Yang made a mental note of it and immediately said, "Aunt Xiao, you should also be careful. I'm afraid this Li Xiulian might come looking for trouble for you..."

"That's not the case."

Li Chunxiao smiled and said, "I wasn't involved in Li Changfu's death, so why would she come looking for me? Besides, I'm in charge of the Li family now. Even if she were to come looking for me, it would be for cooperation. After all, nominally, I'm still her aunt."

"Well, it's always good to be careful. If anything happens, feel free to call me. The Qing Shen Sect should contact you later. When they do, explain the situation to them. With the Qing Shen Sect involved, finding Li Xiulian should be easier."

……

In the stairwell, after hanging up the phone, Chen Yang was slightly lost in thought.

Li Xiulian? Aku?

A single Coptis chinensis plant caused all this trouble, and now it's run away, which is quite a headache.

After careful consideration, Chen Yang concluded that the chances of this Coptis chinensis plant coming to him were slim.

After all, he had done a relatively clean job of eliminating the mountain spirits led by Zhang Laoguai. Even though some spiritual plants escaped from Bamian Mountain and informed Li Xiulian, Chen Yang did not reveal his identity at the time.

No matter how capable this woman is, she won't be able to find anything about him in a short time.

As for where the woman escaped to, Chen Yang couldn't guess. For now, he could only take it one step at a time.

He immediately called Xiao Yutang and explained the situation.

With the intervention of the Qing Shen Sect and the methods of the Guan family, it shouldn't be difficult to find this woman as long as she dares to show her face.

……

Arriving at the front door, I opened it.

My parents aren't home; only my grandfather is here.

During this period, Chen Guodong received a sum of money from the old man and started a company with some old friends.

The company was just starting out, and Chen Guodong was full of energy. He brought Chen Yang's mother along too. The couple were both fifty years old, but they still worked from dawn till dusk, and didn't get home until very late at night.

Chen Yang was starting to regret giving the money. He was already quite old; was it really necessary to work so hard?

Chen Yang had no idea about his father's new company. He had only heard his father mention it briefly during casual conversations, saying that business had been tough these past two years. His father was good at technical work, but trying to do business might be difficult for him.

His words revealed that he wasn't very optimistic about his father's new business venture.

But for Chen Yang, success or failure didn't matter. Money was a minor issue. It was good to find something to do, as long as he didn't ruin his health.

In the evening, Aunt Zhao also came over, leaving only Chen Yang and the two elderly people at home.

Now that the old man is in better health and has more freedom, he spends his days strolling in the park, sitting in the tea garden, drinking tea, listening to opera, playing cards and chess. He lives a very comfortable life.

Aunt Zhao is currently living temporarily in a residential area on Fuhe Road. It was arranged by Qin Zhou, and she has a maid to take care of her daily life. It is not far from Chen Yang's home, so the two old people often see each other.

After dinner, I accompanied them for a stroll along the Fuhe River.

Aunt Zhao brought up the matter of Qinzhou again, saying that he left Chengdu a few days ago, saying he had to go back to Taiwan, and that she couldn't contact him by phone for the past few days.

Chen Jingzhi reassured them, saying that it was normal for people from Qinzhou to be unable to contact them using their original contact methods in Taiwan.

But Aunt Zhao felt that it might not be that simple.

What struck her as odd was that before Qin Zhou left, he transferred a large sum of money to her and also transferred ownership of the house on Fuhe Road to her.

In addition, Qin Zhou made proper arrangements for his son before leaving.

It gave the impression that he was preparing for his departure and was making his final arrangements.

Chen Jingzhi frowned as he listened.

Chen Yang frowned even deeper. He couldn't understand why Qin Zhou should have told him if he was in trouble.

They ran away without a word, which is really unusual.

He also tried to call Qin Zhou today, but as the old man said, perhaps because Qin Zhou is already in Taiwan, the original contact methods have expired and he can't get in touch with him at all.

The wind by the river was still hot. The old man was wearing a white vest and fanning himself with a palm-leaf fan while swatting away mosquitoes.

"This old man was a worry when he was young, and he's still like this now that he's old."

Chen Jingzhi sighed helplessly, then said to Chen Yang, "Xiao Yang, do you know anyone or have any way to help contact this old man?"

Although Qin Zhou was a scoundrel when he was young, and the old man didn't have much affection for him, now that everyone is getting old, they have fewer and fewer friends around them, and the fewer they have, the more they should cherish them. Besides, Qin Zhou is, after all, his father's nominal apprentice. Even if there were any conflicts in the past, they have all faded away, and the feelings that remain are still there.

This question stumped Chen Yang.

On the other side of Taiwan, apart from Qin Zhou, he really didn't know anyone.

However, I don't know what someone said, but no matter who you are, you can contact anyone in the world through a certain number of people.

There are countless people and countless networks of relationships on Earth. Just because you can't contact someone doesn't mean others can't. You just need to contact the people who can contact him.

Chen Yang thought about it briefly and went through the people he knew in his mind.

Perhaps asking Qian Huai-ren and Chen Qiao-gu could help with this.

Chen Yang nodded immediately, "I'll call and ask when I get back."

Both of them nodded slightly and said nothing more.

(End of this chapter)