Mortal Bones

"Fortunately, grandpa's grave is still there."

Qingniu Village.

After coming out of the underground palace, Xu Taiping relied on his childhood memories to find the cemetery where his grandfather's tomb was located.

This cemetery was originally a barren mountain behind Qingniu Village. Now, after being burned by the real fire, the vegetation on the mountain has long been reduced to ashes, making the graves on the hillside look extremely conspicuous.

"Taiping, don't go too fast."

Just as Xu Taiping quickened his pace and walked towards the cemetery, Fairy Lingyue suddenly reminded him.

"Um."

Xu Taiping nodded.

He knew that Sister Lingyue was worried about an ambush in that cemetery.

"Sister Lingyue, although we have completely blocked the entrance to the underground palace, we have left many traces. I am a little worried that someone will find the Zaodiao Flag again based on these traces."

Xu Taiping put on his hiding cloak and walked towards the cemetery very vigilantly, while transmitting messages to Fairy Lingyue in his heart.

Regarding the underground palace where Emperor Zhenwu placed the soap-carving flag, he actually still had a lot of questions in his mind.

"Taiping, you don't know something."

Fairy Lingyue appeared from the gourd.

"Emperor Zhenwu had already arranged all this when he used the soap carving flag as the formation's eye."

When she explained this, she pointed to the ground, and then gestured to Xu Taiping:

"Put your hands on the ground and use your soul to sense the underground palace below."

"Okay." Although Xu Taiping looked confused, he still squatted down and put his hands on the ground.

Xu Taiping didn't feel anything at first. It wasn't until he released the power of his soul along the palm of his hand that he sensed a huge thing moving slowly underground.

"Sister Lingyue, could it be said that the underground palace where the Zaodiao Flag is placed can move underground on its own?"

Xu Taiping raised his head and looked at Fairy Lingyue's spirit body with some surprise.

"That's right."

Fairy Lingyue nodded, and then explained to Xu Taiping seriously:

"The Zhenwu Heaven barrier set up by Emperor Zhenwu has its array eyes buried almost entirely covering the entire Zhenwu Heaven, and the most important array eyes are all in the earthly world he opened up for mortal bones to live in."

"In order to prevent anyone from finding the formation eyes, Emperor Zhenwu not only buried these formation eyes deep underground, but also asked them to constantly change the position of the formation eyes using seven sunsets as a small cycle and forty-nine sunsets as a large cycle."

"This is why after two to three hundred thousand years, the great formation set up by Emperor Zhenwu is still functioning as usual."

"But Zhenwu Barrier is not without any weaknesses."

When she said this, Fairy Lingyue paused for a moment, looked up at the sun hidden behind the clouds and said:

"Whenever the Tengu eclipses the sun, the Zhenwu Barrier's sealing power against demons is greatly weakened. The formations located underground will also stop changing positions for at least seven days."

"As expected, this is the reason why Song Tianshu and others in Wumianlou were able to find the location of the soap carving flag."

When he finished saying this, the great sun in the world just emerged from the clouds, and the scorching and dazzling sunlight once again shone on the emperor.

Fairy Lingyue then withdrew her gaze from looking directly at the great sun.

"This Zhenwu barrier is indeed exquisite."

After hearing this explanation, Xu Taiping nodded with a look of astonishment on his face, then patted himself and stood up.

"In this way, as long as we don't encounter that dog-eating sun again, we won't be afraid even if someone with intentions wants to destroy the Zhenwu barrier."

He was completely relieved.

"Sister Lingyue, this is my grandfather's tomb."

While talking, Xu Taiping took Fairy Lingyue to a bare tomb.

Although this grave mound no longer has a tombstone, Xu Taiping and his uncle from the village built the mound by hand, and he would never remember it wrongly.

"If we go by this earthly time, it will be almost seventy years since you left Qingniu Village, right?"

Looking at the grave bag in front of her, Fairy Lingyue suddenly felt a little emotional.

"some."

Xu Taiping nodded.

At this time, his mood was neither sad nor happy. After all, all his connections with Qingniu Village were in the handful of loess in front of him.

"By the way, why hasn't the person Lian Tong mentioned appeared yet?"

Fairy Lingyue looked around and whispered in confusion.

"Maybe Lian Tong played a joke on us again."

Xu Taiping smiled helplessly.

In fact, when Liantong said at the beginning that someone very important to him was waiting for him next to his grandfather's grave, the first thing that flashed in his mind was his grandfather's appearance.

At that moment, he even wondered whether his grandfather might have been a cultivator. He had just faked his death for some reason, but now that he had the ability to protect himself, he came out to see him.

However, when he saw the intact tomb bag and sensed the withered corpse in the tomb bag with his spiritual mind, all the suspicions in his mind were naturally disillusioned.

As for whether Liantong was joking with them, if not, then who was the person he was talking about.

Xu Taiping didn't care at all.

From the beginning to the end, the reason why he was attracted by Lian Tong's words was just because of the unrealistic conjecture in his heart.

"Sister Lingyue, please wait for me for a while."

Xu Taiping suddenly turned his head and glanced at Fairy Lingyue, then took out a piece of demon beast's leg bone from the gourd, and then used the water-breaking knife to cut it into the shape of a tombstone, and then carved words on it while looking at the person beside him without looking back. Fairy Lingyue said:

"I will build a monument for grandpa."

Fairy Lingyue on the side said nothing, but just nodded.

Then, Xu Taiping was seen carving the tombstone while telling the little grave mound in front of him about his experiences over the years, just like when he was a child.

When the tombstone was carved, Xu Taiping had roughly told "Grandpa" about all the things he had encountered during his cultivation over the years.

For some reason, Xu Taiping, who had been feeling a little depressed since coming to Daliang, suddenly felt much more relaxed after talking so much to himself.

"Pah!"

He was seen inserting the tombstone carved from the leg bones of the monster heavily into the soil in front of the grave mound.