In the Kunlun Mountains, amidst the ruins of Fulong Town, atop Fulong Mountain! Great Wind Novel Network
"Master, it should be in this area."
Under the full moon, Ji Xue led Ye Ling around the mountain, marking out a general area for him.
"However, so much time has passed, this is all I remember."
Ji Xue gave Ye Ling a wry smile, feeling a bit embarrassed.
She said she was marking an area for Ye Ling, but the distance she led him covered almost half the mountain, so whether it was marked or not made little difference.
"This is about right."
Ye Ling wasn't too concerned about it. During the time he followed Ji Xue circling Fulong Mountain, he had also used his divine soul to meticulously scan the places they had passed. He had indeed found several locations where the geology had changed, with shattered rocks inside.
It was obvious that those places had been artificially broken, bearing traces of combat.
Without hesitation, Ye Ling's body was enveloped by demonic energy, which spread outwards, seeping into Fulong Mountain.
Rumble...
The entire mountain began to shake. The previously marked spots all erupted with soaring demonic energy, a large amount of earth and stone was blasted upwards by the demonic energy, turning into dust in the air.
Ye Ling ascended into the sky, his gaze sweeping over the several battlefields below.
Ji Xue also flew to Ye Ling's side. Looking at the battlefields below, she couldn't discern anything and could only ask Ye Ling, "Master, can you tell anything?"
Ye Ling said, "These places still retain some not weak spiritual energy. Although the attributes of this spiritual energy cannot be determined as time has passed, by inferring from the aura they now emit, the participants in the battles should have all been Red Dust Immortals, or even above Red Dust Immortals."
Ji Xue was startled, "Doesn't this mean that over seventy years ago, there might have been Immortals fighting here?"
"Likely so."
Ye Ling scanned the entire scene, then descended into one of the battlefields. Looking at the surrounding shattered rocks, he mentally reconstructed the scene of the battle.
Although over seventy years had passed, the earth and stones covering the area were still clearly different from the earth and stones that were originally in the mountain.
Ye Ling separated the new and old earth and stones, and it was not difficult to restore about eighty percent of the original battle scene.
"It should have been a battle of five or more people, with one person controlling the field, and the other four in a three-on-one situation... In that case, the person controlling the field should also belong to the side with more people."
"Four against one..."
Ye Ling muttered to himself, causing Ji Xue behind him to feel a tremor of fear.
Ye Ling had just said that the participants in the battle were all above the Red Dust Immortal realm!
What kind of person in this world would require four Red Dust Immortals to surround and kill them?
Moreover, it was uncertain if there were even that many Red Dust Immortals in this world!
"What was the outcome? Did the side with more people win?"
Ji Xue, unable to discern the outcome from the battle traces, quickly asked.
Ye Ling shook his head, "Quite the opposite, the one who was besieged won."
As his voice fell, the demonic energy swirling around Ye Ling spread outwards, condensing into five black shadows. Following the battle he had simulated in his mind, he re-enacted it on Fulong Mountain.
Ji Xue watched the shadows fight directly. Although she couldn't feel much power, she could imagine how fierce the battle had been back then!
She, who had been sealed beneath Fulong Mountain, was completely unaware that such a world-shattering battle had occurred directly above her head!
"Was it because someone set up a barrier, controlling the field?" Ji Xue murmured, deeply shocked.
Ye Ling continued, "Judging by the movements back then, it seems those four people were snatching some treasure from the other person. However, as it progressed, the speed and strength of the besieged person clearly increased, likely due to some enhancement."
"They chose to fight on Fulong Mountain because the treasure itself was on Fulong Mountain?"
"But at that time, the Kasi tribe still had the Queen Mother of the West's Divine Stone. What could be more precious than the Queen Mother of the West's Divine Stone in this mountain?"
As he spoke, Ye Ling walked to the last battlefield and suddenly stopped. The black shadows around him also ceased their performance.
"Master?"
Ji Xue, who had been watching the shadows fight with great interest, was stunned when the shadows suddenly stopped. She looked at Ye Ling in surprise, not understanding what had gone wrong.
Ye Ling did not respond to Ji Xue. Instead, he half-crouched down, grabbed a handful of gravel from the ground, and frowned, "No, there's a sixth person hidden here!"
As his voice fell, a part of the demonic energy swirling around Ye Ling dispersed again, condensing into another black shadow, standing in front.
"There's one more person?"
Upon hearing Ye Ling's words, Ji Xue was completely astonished. She looked at Ye Ling with disbelief, her heart churning with immense shock!
What treasure could a mere Fulong Mountain hold that would attract six experts above the Red Dust Immortal realm to fight over it?
Such a treasure must be an item from the Immortal Realm!
However, any item from the Immortal Realm that fell into the mortal world would invariably cause celestial phenomena. If it were in Fulong Mountain, how could she, who had been sealed here for so long, not have noticed?
It was too bizarre!
"Although he hid very deeply, this batch of gravel was shattered from a complete giant stone. The power used is completely different from the previous five people..."
"This person should not belong to either of those two factions; he's a third party."
Ji Xue instinctively said, "The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind?"
"Roughly so..." Ye Ling nodded. "I initially thought the besieged person should be Ye Feng, but from the current situation, the hidden sixth person is him."
"The treasure these people were fighting over fell into his hands."
"And he was likely afraid that you and the Kasi tribe would know he was the ultimate beneficiary, so shortly after obtaining it, he began planning to eliminate you."
"Then why didn't he act directly?" Ji Xue asked, confused. "With his strength, killing me, who was sealed, and the Kasi tribe would have been a piece of cake."
Ye Ling shook his head, "He couldn't, or rather, he dared not act."
Ji Xue asked in confusion, "Why?"
Ye Ling replied, "The other five experts should have been one dead and three heavily injured. Even today, four of them are still alive. Ye Feng likely took advantage of the chaos to secretly seize the treasure."
"If he had acted here, he would have been discovered by those four."
"This suggests that Ye Feng's strength should not have been enough to deal with those four experts, otherwise, he wouldn't have gone through such a roundabout way, using others to kill."
Ji Xue was stunned by Ye Ling's explanation. She had never imagined that Ye Ling could reconstruct this entire event solely based on the traces of the battlefield left over seventy years ago!
Such calculation ability was terrifying!
Ji Xue then asked, "What should we do now?"
"Now?"
Ye Ling raised an eyebrow slightly, then smiled, "Of course, we need to figure out what treasure was hidden in this mountain."
"A mountain that can nurture heavenly treasures cannot possibly be an ordinary mountain."
"Let's go and see its interior!"