Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 613 Return to the Eighteen Caves

Pu Yanlan sorted out the magic weapons, including a single phoenix hairpin that could spit fire, an oil lamp, a golden sword, a complete set of robes, and a fist-sized water-repellent bead. It was a pity that the revolving lantern was destroyed in the Jiugui Formation. Pu Yanlan felt heartbroken when she thought about it now!
This is because the magic weapon was not refined properly, and a very useful item was lost in vain!

Pu Yanlan learned her lesson, and this time she stayed in the secret realm for a full month, re-refining the magic weapons one by one, and she was familiar with each magic weapon and could use it as easily as with her own arm. During this month, Gu Shiyi took the fox and the king to stroll around the town every day, and went to the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain and the small village. However, now the cultivators are gone, the barbarian witch god has fallen, and the witches are no longer respected by the people. The barbarians in the small village are still hunting quietly for a living, and from time to time they come to the town to trade with the people. In short, no matter how the world of cultivation changes, ordinary people are still unaware of their ordinary lives!
A month passed like this, and when Pu Yanlan came out of seclusion, the group left the town.
"Let's go back to Tianyi Gate!"

Pu Yanlan had endured for so long, and finally couldn't bear it anymore. Gu Shiyi knew that this matter could not be concealed after all, and he didn't dare to object. He just asked carefully when he set off.
"Yan'er, if I told you that Tianyi Sect was long gone, would you...would you not be able to bear it?"

Pu Yanlan glanced at Gu Shiyi and said,

"When you came back from the other side and went to the wilderness, you should have passed through Baimazhou. Even if you passed Baimazhou... why didn't you go to Tianyimen? It's been so long... You never mentioned Tianyimen to me. I didn't want to think about it at first, but today, what else do I not understand?"

Pu Yanlan understood Gu Shiyi as well as Gu Shiyi understood herself. With Gu Shiyi's personality, if Tianyi Sect was still there or the situation was still good, she would probably start yelling the first time she saw him. But she hasn't said a word until now, which can only mean that Tianyi Sect has met with an unexpected disaster. Pu Yanlan had already guessed it in her heart, but it was just a guess, and whether she could accept it in her heart was another matter. She had been playing ostrich for so long, and it was time to face reality!

"Hey... let's go!"

Pu Yanlan let out a long sigh, and flew away from the town first. Gu Shiyi followed behind her, holding the king and the fox. The two of them had reached a higher level of cultivation now, and they could travel two thousand miles a day at full speed. After seven or eight days of traveling, they returned to the Guiling Mountains again!

The Guiling Mountains today are different from when Gu Shiyi came back. Judging from the situation, a great battle must have taken place here not long ago. The Guiling Mountains, which had been gradually recovering its beautiful scenery, have become a mess again, with peaks collapsing, mountain streams drying up, trees falling down in large numbers, and one mountaintop even being flattened. It is obvious that a cultivator with great magical powers had fought here. The ruins that were visible when Gu Shiyi came back no longer exist!

The two of them stared at everything in front of them in a daze. Pu Yanlan turned back to look at Gu Shiyi.

"Here...you...was it like this the last time you came here?"

Gu Shiyi shook his head slowly.

"No... the main hall on the main peak is still there..."

As she spoke, she looked up and pointed. The main peak had been cut away, and the remaining Tianyi Sect Hall on it was naturally gone...

Pu Yanlan's face turned cold. She turned around and flew towards the Flame Valley without saying a word. Gu Shiyi and the other two followed her to the Flame Valley. The underground fire in the center of the Flame Valley had been moved away, leaving a deep hole. The nearby houses had also been destroyed, and the pink building where Pu Yanlan had lived had also disappeared. All that was left were broken bricks and tiles. Pu Yanlan said nothing and flew to Jinyuan Cave. The situation in Jinyuan Cave was better. Although half of the mountain was destroyed, the Eighteen Caves were still preserved.

After the four of them entered from the remaining entrance of the cave, they found that Cave Eighteen was miraculously well preserved. Except for the thick dust on the various furniture inside and the flowers and trees growing wildly due to lack of pruning, the entire cave was still the same as when they lived there before. Everything was still there, even the water lily that Pu Yanlan had kept in the bedroom, lying quietly in the blue and white porcelain jar.

Pu Yanlan stood blankly in front of her exquisite little courtyard. After a while, her nose twitched and tears began to fall. She sobbed very softly, just staring blankly with her eyes open, breathing gently, tears like beads, sliding down non-stop, wetting the front of her clothes. Gu Shiyi hugged the king, and Fox stood beside him. No one spoke, just watching her quietly, watching her cry quietly...

Half an hour later, she quickly calmed down after crying for a while, wiped her tears, and turned back to ask Gu Shiyi,

"In your opinion, has there been a fierce fight in Tianyi Sect recently?"

Gu Shi nodded,

"Looking at the extent of the damage, the person who did it must be at a high level..."

Pu Yanlan thought for a while and said,
"Didn't you say that there were invaders occupying this place before? And the Supreme Elder Jin is still here, and some of the disciples of Tianyi Sect are still following him. Could it be that they came back and fought against the invaders?" Gu Shiyi thought for a while and said,

"Then... why don't we look around to see if they left any clues? Judging from the situation here, it seems that neither side of the battle has gained an advantage!"

If one side wins, then there must be people from the victorious side at the Tianyi Sect Mountain Gate, but now such a large area is empty...

Of course, it is also possible that the two fighting parties have nothing to do with Tianyi Sect, and they simply walked here and met!

Gu Shiyi knew that her good sister had deep feelings for Tianyi Sect and was thinking about restoring its former glory. She thought that Grand Elder Jin would bring people back to rebuild Tianyi Sect. However, she didn't know that Tianyi Sect had now become the bottom of the league and it was difficult for it to protect itself, let alone rebuild the sect. She couldn't bear to burst her good sister's hope and thought to herself,
"It would be best if we don't find any clues tomorrow, or if the clues we find have nothing to do with Tianyi Sect, that way Yan'er can give up!"

According to their current situation, Gu Shiyi does not want to return to Tianyi Sect, but as for Yan'er, it is hard to say!

So that night, they cleaned up the old residence of the Eighteen Caves and lived there. Pu Yanlan did not sleep all night, taking care of the flowers and plants in the small courtyard, trimming, pruning and loosening the soil. The king wanted to go up to help but was stopped by Gu Shiyi.
"Let her be. Yan'er still needs time to calm down!"

A cultivator must be indifferent to love in order to pursue the great way. All the emotional tribulations they have endured will turn into inner demons when they ascend, blocking the path to ascension. Therefore, any tribulations encountered on the path of cultivation must be resolved and overcome by one's own!
Gu Shiyi meditated in the house all night. When it was dawn, Pu Yanlan had already lit a fire in the kitchen and cooked breakfast, a very light porridge and some side dishes. Gu Shiyi smelled the faint smell of firewood rising from the porridge and thought... this should be the first time that the Eighteen Caves, or Jinyuan Cave, have seen fireworks again since the destruction of Tianyi Sect?

Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan sat opposite each other, while the king and the fox had gone into the mountains to find food early in the morning. Gu Shiyi drank the porridge in front of him mouthful by mouthful, and added another bowl. The two were silent. After drinking the porridge, they planned to go out. When they arrived at the entrance of the Eighteen Caves, Pu Yanlan looked back, tears flashed in her eyes again, then she bit her lip and turned around to fly out. Gu Shiyi followed her for a while and suddenly said,
"Yan'er, wait a minute..."

"what happened?"

"I left something in Cave 18, wait for me..."

"okay!"

Pu Yanlan nodded, and Gu Shiyi turned around and returned to Cave 18. He carefully looked at the mountain. The mountain where the Jinyuan Cave was located should have been destroyed by someone with great magical powers. Because Cave 18 was deep in the Jinyuan Cave, it was spared. After observing it for a while, Gu Shiyi sacrificed his strange knife.

"go with!"

The strange knife with a crooked body was like a swimming snake. It twisted its body in the air and disappeared. When it reappeared, it was already in front of the half-collapsed mountain. There was another slight flash, and then a rumbling sound was heard from the half of the mountain. Countless rocks rolled down, and half of the mountain seemed to be pushed by a big hand. Suddenly, it separated from the lower part at the waist and began to shake. Seeing this, Gu Shiyi flew over and stretched out his hand.
"Bah..."

With a loud shout, she actually held the mountain steadily, and with her other hand, she took out the token to open the secret realm. When they were in the town before, Yan'er was refining her own magic weapon in the secret realm. When Gu Shiyi wanted to enter and exit the secret realm, she took the token. When she saw Yan'er's expression just now, she knew that she was reluctant to leave, so she thought of cutting off the remaining half of the mountain when she came back.
"open……"

The token flashed with light, and the entrance to the secret realm opened. Gu Shiyi shouted,
"Bah..."

Dragon scales appeared all over his body, and golden light flashed faintly. The muscles on his arms bulged, and the blue veins were all protruding.
"what……"

With a force of both arms, Gu Shiyi pushed a corner of the mountain weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds into the entrance of the secret realm...

"boom……"

With a loud bang, the entire secret realm trembled a few times. Gu Shiyi flew in immediately and found that the mountain peak had smashed into the grassland. It was flat and not tilted. Gu Shiyi looked around and found that the secret realm had accepted this foreign peak. There was nothing abnormal. Only the startled Dragon Soul, Old Horse, a bunch of fur balls, and the Golden Cicada couple all ran out.
"What's wrong?"