Senior Sister Bai Yueguang is incredibly strong.

Chapter 70 Falling to Earth (3)

After resting for a night, the group decided to explore the mass grave in the west of the city again, while only Nie Xushuang and Chu Yeli stayed behind to take care of the patients.

Shen Yan followed without saying a word.

"Don't you need to go see Lord Jian?"

Luo Zai Shui was somewhat surprised; this child had never shown such concern for this matter before.

Shen Yan paused for a moment. Being weak and powerless, he was indeed out of place with this group of people. He pursed his lips, but in the end, he didn't say much. He just hurriedly said, "I'm going to see the teacher," and then turned and left.

Shi Ming stared at the man's somewhat disheveled figure, remaining silent for a long time.

Luo Zai Shui spoke up to explain: "He has helped me a lot these days, but his temperament is not much different from Ting Han's. Let's go to the west side of the city first, and we can explain to him later."

Feeling a bit resentful at being compared to someone for no reason, Ji Tinghan stared in the direction Shen Yan had left and muttered, "I'm not as childish as him."

Shi Ming slapped his head: "What do you mean you didn't? Back then, you only listened to your two senior sisters, and you didn't listen to me or Uncle Xie at all."

Su Wusi covered her mouth and chuckled. It wasn't hard to imagine that her fourth senior brother had an icy expression and then did some extremely childish things back then.

“I agree with that,” Xue Xin chimed in. “When Ji Tinghan first came here, he was a troublemaker. Anyone who dared to cross him would get hurt. Only the two senior sisters could handle him.”

"There's another story like this?"

Jian Muyi arrived late at the mountain and had never seen Ji Tinghan like this before, so his eyes were full of mockery.

Luo Zai Shui glanced at Jian Mu Yi and casually said, "That's because you came and became the newest troublemaker on Xianyun Peak. You can easily provoke a cultivator with just a few words. As your senior brother, there's nothing we can do but unite with us to teach you a lesson."

"Ah..." Jian Muyi scratched his head uncertainly, "Am I really that good?"

The group burst into laughter, and even Ye Xiao, who was usually stern, smiled slightly, his gaze falling gently on the chuckling Su Wusi.

The mass grave during the day wasn't as desolate as it looked at night; traces of Luo Zai Shui's fight with that person still remained around it.

"I was tracking this place when I was interrupted."

Luo Zai Shui casually pointed to the tombstone, the black soil beneath it still emanating a nauseating stench.

Ye Xiao squatted down and casually rubbed some blackened soil between his fingers: "What is this?"

Shi Ming explained, "It was left by the people of the Ghost Realm, similar to a dog marking its territory. It was used to warn other members of their race that this was their territory, and of course, it could also intimidate demons and cultivators."

Judging from Ye Xiao's expression, he was clearly disgusted. Su Wusi handed him a handkerchief, and Ye Xiao held the handkerchief in his other clean hand, looking somewhat lost.

"Miss Su, this...it's not appropriate to get your handkerchief dirty, is it?"

Su Wusi was clearly taken aback for a moment, then smiled gently: "It's alright, I have plenty of handkerchiefs."

Ye Xiao's ears turned slightly red, so she carefully wiped her fingertips clean with a handkerchief, then stuffed the handkerchief into her sleeve: "Then I'll wash it clean and return it to you later, Miss."

Luo Zai Shui, who was originally observing the layout of the surroundings with a compass, heard the commotion and her eyes met Ye Xiao's, who was hiding his gaze. It wouldn't have mattered if they hadn't met, but as soon as they did, the tips of Ye Xiao's ears turned even redder.

Luo Zai Shui raised an eyebrow and joked, "Why are Senior Brother Ye's ears so red? Are you feeling unwell?"

"It's...it's alright..."

Ji Tinghan and the other two, who had been watching this scene closely, glared fiercely at Ye Xiao, determined to tear this guy who had seduced their junior sister to pieces.

Su Wusi found it rather strange that Ye Xiao was acting so coy; he didn't seem like the person she knew before.

The compass in Luozaishui is unusually quiet today.

"How about it?"

Shi Ming asked.

Luo Zai Shui shook his head, thinking that he must have alerted the enemy last time.

The three of them, Jian Muyi and his companions, returned after wandering around with the talisman, but found nothing.

"Aside from the tombstone and the fact that the talisman paper is faintly warm, Chu Yeli's talisman is practically just a piece of waste paper."

Jian Muyi stuck the talisman on the black soil. The talisman was slowly burned and turned into ashes, merging with the black mud.

"Perhaps I alerted them last time."

Luo Zai Shui was not surprised at all. With such a commotion that night, those people must have already fled to a more secluded place, and it would probably be even more difficult to find them now.

Shi Ming's gaze suddenly fell on the tombstone: "Why is it marked here of all places?"

Luo Zai Shui wasn't sure either. The tombstone was clearly newly built, but it didn't have any biography of the deceased inscribed on it. It wouldn't be strange to have a blank tombstone for unclaimed corpses in a mass grave, but surely a newly built tombstone wouldn't be so incomplete as to not even know the year of death?

"Shall we dig it open and take a look?"

Luo Zai Shui's words were astonishing, and apart from Shi Ming and Ye Xiao, the others all stared at her in shock.

Jian Muyi swallowed hard: "Senior sister, isn't this inappropriate?"

He was instilled with the idea of ​​respecting the dead from a young age, and that it was extremely inappropriate to dig up other people's graves at will.

Luo Zai Shui thought about it carefully: "It's really not appropriate. Let's go back to Lord Jian and ask him to bring people to dig. If there's nothing unusual, we can perform a ritual for the deceased."

Luo Zai Shui spoke lightly, but the expressions on the faces of the others were somewhat strange. It was Su Wu Si who gritted her teeth and spoke up in support.

"It's just digging up graves, isn't it? When we entered secret realms or caves before, weren't they all places where our predecessors passed away? What's there to be afraid of?"

"No, this isn't a question of whether you're afraid or not, is it?"

Jian Muyi was terrified, but the others were clearly persuaded and were already preparing to set off to find the so-called Lord Jian.

"No, are you serious?"

"Otherwise what?" Shi Ming's expression was serious. "How will we know what's inside if we don't open it and see?"

Ye Xiao nodded in agreement, and the group eventually returned to the city before noon.

The group planned to meet up with Nie Xushuang and the others first, when they saw an old man with gray hair pulling Chu Yeli and talking to her in a low voice.

Chu Yeli looked impatient, but out of respect for elders and care for the young, he could only listen patiently.

The old man was none other than Lord Jian. When Chu Yeli saw them return, he was overjoyed, as if he had seen a savior. He casually pointed to Jian Muyi's location and said, "Your son is here. I'm going to help my senior sister prepare her medicine."

Jian Muyi rubbed his eyes: "Why does that old man look so much like my dad?"

Luo Zai Shui sighed, "Is there any possibility that it's your father?"

"Father—"

"My son—"

"father--"

"Son--"

The touching father-son reunion did not occur; instead, Lord Jane delivered a devastating dunk upon seeing his biological son for the first time.

"You brat, you're back and you didn't even come home first! Do you know how worried your mother was about you?"

Jian Muyi rubbed his forehead, which was almost red and swollen from being hit, and couldn't help but mutter, "I've been too busy, I haven't had time to see you all, and I didn't even know you'd been demoted again..."