It was summer, and the canopy of the walnut tree was as tall as a canopy. Shi Xuejin was sitting on a lounge chair under the walnut tree, holding a book in his hand.
He read very slowly. If he hadn't turned a page after dozens of minutes, others would have thought that he was in a daze rather than reading.
"Is that road really feasible?" Nie Ting asked casually.
"There is no answer. You can only find out if you keep doing it," Shi Xuejin said with a calm smile.
"What if there is no answer?" Nie Ting glanced at him.
"There is nothing in this world that requires an answer," Shi Xuejin said with a smile.
This road is lonely. He treats the world as a huge exercise, and then slowly searches for parameters in the truth, and finally wants to find one of the possible answers to this exercise.
It might be wrong, it might be right, but it doesn't matter.
"If the sages didn't walk a different path, then why would we practice cultivation now?" Shi Xuejin didn't take it seriously.
"I'm going to Changbai Mountain again next week. Please be careful here," Nie Ting said: "The puppet master behaves very strangely. The information we get from the foundation may not be complete, or... even the foundation
There is no complete information.”
At this point, even Shi Xuejin was a little confused: "I originally thought they went to Asan's place to secretly control the practitioners there, but it turns out they didn't seem to do that. It seemed... they looked down on this level of practice.
By."
"What is the purpose of the puppet master?" Nie Ting seemed to ask Shi Xuejin, but also seemed to ask himself.
According to the records of the Foundation, these powerful puppet masters live for the king of the Exiled Land and swear loyalty to the death. The other party comes from the Exiled Land and claims to welcome the return of the king. Literally Nie Ting understands that these puppet masters
They are the vanguard of the king who will return to Earth from his exile.
After all, since the king is the king of the Exiled Land, he should be in the Exiled Land, but how did these puppet masters break through the barriers? And the other party didn't seem to be in a hurry to break down the barriers after they came to the earth. Instead, they always wanted to close them.
Old department.
There are thick files on the stone table in front of Nie Ting. They were given to Tianluodiwang by the Foundation and other major organizations. The contents are all about the Exiled Land collected by the Foundation.
However, these things are not accurate. Some are things determined by the foundation, while others are clues collected based on known information.
Some of these clues are from ancient legends, and some are from folk history, but none of them are particularly reliable. Even Li Xianyi himself stated that these are for reference only when giving the information.
Those things back then seemed to have been wiped away from the world by the powerful, and Nie Ting seemed to understand the reason. The existence of that king seemed to be like a legendary monster that could swallow other people's fears and become powerful, so even that monster
The drifting of his name became taboo over time.
That is a king who has been demonized, and seems to rule the entire exiled land. Even the legendary four heavenly emperors in the exiled land have to offer fear to him, and now all humans who know about it regard him as an imaginary enemy.
But why didn't the Puppet Master break down the barrier? The opponent came quietly on a stormy night 17 years ago, but was surrounded and killed by the Foundation, and finally fought his way out.
For the past 17 years, the Foundation has been searching for traces of the other party, but the other party seemed to have completely disappeared from the world. Only now it reappears, but its level has inexplicably risen to a higher level.
The Foundation has been on alert for 17 years, but the other party just disappeared as if it had no intention of doing anything. The Foundation almost thought it had made a mistake...
"Why?" Nie Ting thought calmly.
He read word for word the records about that stormy night 17 years ago. That night they encountered four puppet masters, killing two and leaving two. It was at that time that Li Xuanyi collapsed.
the foundation of.
Nie Ting suddenly frowned when he saw a passage. This passage said that at that time, the puppet masters seemed to be very weak, as if they were seriously ill. During the battle, one of the puppet masters was carrying a huge box.
In the end, the puppet masters split up and ran away. The puppet master carrying the box was caught up and killed in Luo City, but the box went nowhere. He was one of the two puppet masters who was killed.
Nie Ting also wanted to know what was in that box, and why the puppet masters were so weak. He judged in his heart that maybe the puppet masters themselves were A-level in strength, but he didn't know why their strength had declined!
The Foundation has always believed that the box contained a magical object that could be used to break down barriers, so it has always wanted to find this object, so much so that Li Xianyi has lived in Los Angeles for 17 years.
It is precisely because the Puppet Master lost the artifact that broke the barrier that 17 years later, the barrier still exists.
After Yun Yi's identity was exposed, a dragnet began to search for clues. Nie Ting discovered that Yun Yi had visited Luo City eight times in the past ten years since last year, and he seemed to be looking for something!
Nie Ting began to look at the records of each participant in the war. Those were all recorded based on their oral accounts. At this time, Nie Ting suddenly saw a very inconspicuous sentence: "That night of bloody battle almost created an illusion. I seemed to have heard it in the rainy night."
A baby’s cry”.
Nie Ting suddenly turned to look at Shi Xuejin. Shi Xuejin looked puzzled. He touched his face and asked, "Why are you looking at me?"
"We have always thought that the Puppet Masters came to break down the barriers, and their king is still in the Exiled Land, but have you ever thought that maybe the baby's cry was not the hallucination of the combatants, but a real existence, and that
What's in the box is not some magical object used to break down barriers, but a real baby!" Nie Ting was stunned by the answer he imagined: "Could that baby be their king, or...
Will the king’s bloodline survive?”
Shi Xuejin was also stunned: "But everyone else said they didn't hear the baby crying."
"Perhaps the baby has been sleeping, and occasionally it cries and is only heard by one person," Nie Ting said.
"But if it is really a baby, where is he now? Does he look the same as a human being?" Shi Xuejin said with a smile: "According to what you said, shouldn't this big devil have already started to destroy the earth?"
Nie Ting shook his head. He looked at the crown of the walnut tree above his head. The warm sunlight was shining through the gaps in the leaves: "I can only have doubts for the time being... Wait, how old is Lu Shu this year? When was he sent to the orphanage?"
