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"what?"
When Wu Bai heard Yang Yu's words, his trembling eyes allowed him to see the world around him clearly. It was no longer the dense and terrifying forest filled with evil spirits, but a rice field that was growing very well.
There are also terraced fields all around, forming patches of grain crops halfway up the mountain.
Behind me there is a small stream flowing in the ditch, which irrigates all the rice fields on the hillside.
The dazzling sunlight in the sky made his body feel a little hot, and his big, misty white, furry tail immediately became fluffy and began to shake with enjoyment.
"This...where is this?"
The big white fox looked around in a daze, not knowing what to do.
"This should be the mortal world. Everything that happened just now was just a trick to prevent others from entering here by mistake."
The big white fox put Yang Yu down, and Yang Yu turned around and crossed the stream behind him.
They had clearly just crossed over from the other side of the stream to here, but now when they crossed back, they could not get back to the forest.
Yang Yu walked further away, and Wu Bai followed behind him.
After walking four or five kilometers on the mountain path, the surrounding scenery remained unchanged, with hills of varying heights. The ones that were too steep had only green forests left, and some of the gentler hills had terraced fields halfway up the mountain.
"Master, we have walked four or five kilometers, but the scenery around here seems to have not changed at all. It's like we have gone around in a circle and are back here again."
Wubai blinked his eyes and looked at the familiar environment around him. Although he did not feel this feeling clearly, it would definitely be right to tell his master about his discovery.
"No, we have walked four or five kilometers. This is not the same place as just now."
Yang Yu shook his head. Although the surrounding environment was familiar, he could find some differences from before with just a little observation.
In the natural environment, the laws of nature can create many similarities, but the terraced fields and the crops are the works of humans.
No matter how the surrounding natural environment evolves, it is impossible to replicate the terraces to that extent.
It’s just that the rice fields were actually planted by humans, but for some reason, there was no one living around them.
Logically speaking, rice fields cannot be too far from home. The mountain roads may be winding, but no more than one or two kilometers away. Ordinary people need to deal with the weeds on the edge of the field and carry the rice back in bags at harvest time. It is too far and too strenuous for ordinary people to work.
Yang Yu frowned and thought about whether he should go back the same way or continue walking further.
Fairy Haoyue told him to find a house to live in before dark.
What Fairy Haoyue asked was to find a house. As for the key word "find", whether the house built by oneself is also effective for this instruction, and what are the differences between the two houses, this remains to be discussed.
It is still noon, so there are at least three hours left to look for a house.
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What this world is like still requires a little bit of exploration.
But since I can’t find anyone after a long time, I can try other methods.
The power has been sealed, but there is still the Sun and Moon Divination.
Yang Yu sat cross-legged on the ground, using a broken branch nearby to paint on the soil, drawing a circle of complex patterns.
Wu Bai took a few steps back to avoid blocking Yang Yu's movements.
When it was completed, a formation diagram similar to the Bagua appeared around Yang Yu.
"Divination, fortune-telling, there is a will of heaven in the dark, and there is only human will in the will of heaven. All actions have their own rules."
Yang Yu closed his eyes, controlled the spiritual power in his body, and circulated it in his spiritual veins with difficulty.
The spiritual power that used to be like a surging ocean is now just a small drop of water, which makes Yang Yu a little uncomfortable.
Fortunately, this divination does not require spiritual power, but it will be more accurate with the assistance of spiritual power.
Divination and fortune-telling are about the will of heaven. Whether it will be successful or effective depends solely on oneself.
All we can get is an opportunity, a chance, a direction.
The air became quiet and Yang Yu could only hear his own heartbeat.
suddenly.
There was a sound next to Yang Yu's ears. Wu Bai looked over and saw a piece of grass breaking and falling to the ground.
"Strange, I didn't see anything passing by."
The big white fox frowned, wondering if the grass was blown by the wind? But he didn't feel the wind.
Wu Bai wanted to get closer to take a look, so he went around the edge of the field, avoiding Yang Yu's formation, and walked to the weed that had fallen from the weed pile. He picked it up and observed it carefully.
It is a very common weed.
Is she overthinking it?
Wubai put down the weeds and turned around, and his big white tail fluttered and hit the grass next to him.
Yang Yu also opened his eyes at this time and looked at the grass that was knocked down by Wubai's tail.
"I'm sorry, Master. I didn't mean to..."
Wu Bai immediately became restrained, fearing that he had accidentally disturbed Yang Yu and interrupted what he was doing.
"No, it has nothing to do with you."
Yang Yu stood up and looked at the broken grass that had fallen to the ground, revealing a small path hidden under the ridge of the field.
It looked like no one had walked there for a long time, and there were faint traces of water, as if it had become a ditch washed by rain on a rainy day.
"Let's go this way."
Yang Yu touched the misty white fox ears.
The result of divination showed a path: either avoid it or walk away, but it should obviously be the latter here.
"Ah? Uh-huh, wait a minute, Master, it's too slippery here."
Wu Bai grabbed some hair from his fox tail, rubbed it twice, and produced a thin white rope. He tied one end around Yang Yu's waist and the other end around his own body.
"That's good."
Wu Bai smiled. She actually wanted to hug Yang Yu with her big tail. This is how fox spirits raise their children.
When going out, they would put their children on their tails and roll them up, and the children would be hidden inside the tails.
Although Yang Yu is very tall, her tail can also become bigger. The fluffy hair is just right to wrap Yang Yu inside.
"Let's go then."
Yang Yu nodded and walked down the road.
The overgrown road was hidden in the field and was a bit steep. One had to hold on to small branches to walk steadily.
The winding path gradually led to the foot of the mountain, and as it got closer to the triangle, the deer became more and more numerous, and finally there were fewer signs of weeds, and some faint traces that looked like footprints could be seen.
"There are indeed people living nearby, but it seems that they don't live on the mountain, but sit at the foot of the mountain. There may be a flatter land at the bottom of the mountain that was chosen as a residence, and the land on the mountain is used for rice fields."
Yang Yu looked at the faint footprints and thought in his heart.
I wonder what the people in this mortal world are like?
Fairy Haoyue said that the mortal world and the world where immortals live are actually a piece of space that was separated after the ancient world was destroyed. This space may have mortals and cultivators who once survived. After who knows how many years, they have multiplied and formed a new civilization and a new country. If there are a large number of cultivators, there may also be sects.
The world here, logically, should be no different from the ancient world, but Fairy Haoyue repeatedly asked him not to stay outside at night and he must find a room to stay in, proving that this place could not be as it was speculated on the surface.
Therefore, you may need to be a little more cautious in the way you interact with and meet the indigenous people here.
The path eventually meandered to the foot of the mountain. After passing a bamboo forest, Yang Yu saw a cloud of smoke rising in the distance.
Not far away, just across a river about three or four meters wide, there is a small village with perhaps only thirty or forty households. The houses are relatively densely packed, making the village look even smaller.
"Master, I finally saw someone's house. Do you want me to go up and ask?"
Wu Bai stood beside Yang Yu, leaning against his shoulder.
"Wait a minute."
Yang Yu took another look at the sky. The sunlight at noon had dropped a little. There was still a long time before sunset, so he could stand outside and observe the situation in the village.
It's such a small village with only thirty or forty households. It would be fine if you moved here, as there are bigger cities outside.
But if they have been here from the beginning, living and multiplying for hundreds or even thousands of years, but there are still only thirty or forty households, then there must be something wrong with this village. Either they are performing a ritual of sacrifice and the people in the village are not normal, or their living conditions are too extreme and they often encounter things that threaten their lives.
Yang Yu squinted his eyes and tried hard to see the situation in the village clearly, but unfortunately he was only a cultivator at the first level of Qi training and could not see the situation so far away.
"Master, do you want me to help you?"
The big white fox hugged Yang Yu's waist, as if he was holding a child, wanting to pick Yang Yu up so that he could see farther.
Yang Yu: “…”
"You're so stupid! Even if you pick me up, I still can't see."
"Uh-huh."
The big white fox put Yang Yu down again.
Yang Yu held his forehead, a little speechless, "You just stay here and take a look at the situation in the village and see what the villagers are doing."
"Uh-huh."
Wu Bai obediently looked at the situation in the village. She didn't need any spiritual sense, as the monster's sharp vision allowed her to see farther.
After observing every house in the village for a long time, Wu Bai tilted his head and said, "They all seem to be having lunch. After lunch, some people are sitting in the yard to rest, while others are ready to go out, carrying baskets on their backs, as if they are preparing to do farm work."
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“It looks like an ordinary village.”
The big white fox observed for a while and finally came to a conclusion.
The monsters' keen intuition can easily distinguish abnormal and abnormal humans, but Wu Bai has no such feeling at all. The village in front of him is just an ordinary village.
"That's it."
Yang Yu touched his chin. No matter what, as long as he wanted to find a house to live in before night, it was inevitable to come into contact with the people in this village.
"Stay here first and take a look at the farmland in this village. Is it the place we just walked down from?"
Yang Yu planned to wait for the people Wu Bai mentioned who had already gone out to do farm work, and did not rush into the village.