Kyoto, Liuhai Alley.

It was summer, the canopy of the walnut tree was slim, and Shi Xuejin was sitting on a deck chair under the walnut tree, holding a book in his hand.

He read very slowly, and if he hadn't turned a page dozens of minutes later, I'm afraid others would have thought that he was in a daze, not reading a book.

"That road, can you really get through," Nie Ting next to him asked casually.

"If you don't have an answer, you can only know if you do it," Shi Xuejin smiled calmly.

"What if there is no answer," Nie Ting glanced at him.

"There is nothing in this world that must have an answer," Shi Xuejin said with a smile.

The road is lonely, he treats the world as a huge exercise, and then he looks for parameters in the slow truth, and finally wants to ask for one of the possible answers to this exercise.

It can be wrong or it can be right, but it doesn't matter.

"If the sages don't go out of different ways, then how can they practice now?" Shi Xuejin didn't care.

"I'm going to go to Changbai Mountain again next week, you should be careful here," Nie Ting said, "The puppeteer is acting very strangely, and the information we got from the Foundation may be incomplete, or ...... Even the Foundation does not have complete information. ”

Speaking of this, even Shi Xuejin was a little puzzled: "I originally thought that they went to Ah San's side to secretly control the cultivators there, but they didn't seem to do it, it seems that they ...... They don't look down on cultivators of this level. ”

"What is the purpose of the puppeteer," Nie Ting seemed to ask Shi Xuejin, and as if he was asking himself.

According to Foundation records, these powerful puppeteers were born to be the king of the Exiled Lands, and they swore loyalty to the death. The other party came from the Land of Exile and claimed to welcome the return of the king, which was literally understood by Nie Ting as the vanguard of the king, and their king would return to Earth from the land of exile.

After all, since the king is the king of the Exiled Land, he should be in the Exiled Land, but how did these puppeteers break through the barriers? And after the other party came to the earth, it seems that they are not in a hurry to break the barriers, but have been thinking about the old department.

There was a thick file on the stone table in front of Nie Ting, which had been given to the world by the Foundation on its own initiative, and other major organizations had also done so, all of which were collected by the Foundation about the Exiled Land.

However, these are inaccurate, some of them are identified by the Foundation, while others are clues gleaned based on known information.

Some of these clues are ancient legends, and some are folk history, but they are not particularly reliable, and even Li Xianyi himself said that these are for reference only when giving information.

Back then, those things seemed to have been erased from this world by power, and the reason Nie Ting also seemed to understand, the existence of that king seemed to be really as powerful as the legendary demon that could devour the fear of others, so even the drift of the demon's name became taboo in time.

It was a demonized king who seemed to rule over the entire Exiled Lands, and even the legendary Four Heavenly Emperors of the Exiled Lands were to offer fear for him, and now all humans who knew about it regarded each other as imaginary enemies.

But why didn't the puppeteer break down the barriers, the other party came quietly on a stormy night 17 years ago but was besieged and killed by the Foundation, and finally fought his way out.

In the past 17 years, the Foundation has been looking for traces of the other party, but the other party seems to have completely evaporated from the world, and now it has reappeared, but the level has inexplicably risen to a new level.

For 17 years, the Foundation had been on guard, but the other party disappeared as if he had no intention of doing anything, making the Foundation almost think it had made a mistake......

"Why?" Nie Ting thought calmly.

He looked at the records word by word about that stormy night 17 years ago, when they encountered four puppeteers, killed two and left two, and it was at that time that Li Xianyi broke his foundation.

Nie Ting suddenly frowned when he saw a passage, which said that at that time, the puppeteers seemed to be very weak and as if they were seriously ill, and during the battle, there was a puppeteer carrying a huge box on his back.

Eventually, the puppeteers split up and fled, and the puppeteer with the box on his back was chased and killed in Los Angeles, but the box didn't know where it went, and this was one of the two puppeteers who were killed.

Nie Ting also wanted to know what was in that box, and what was the weakness of those puppeteers, he judged in his heart, maybe the strength of those puppeteers themselves was A-level, but he didn't know why their strength had dropped!

For a long time, the Foundation believed that the box was probably a sacred object used to break down barriers, so it always wanted to find this thing, so much so that Li Xianyi lived in Los Angeles for 17 years.

It is precisely because the puppeteer has lost the artifact that breaks the barrier, so until now, 17 years later, the barrier still exists.

And after Yun Yi's identity was exposed, Tianluo began to look for clues, Nie Ting actually found that Yun Yi had been to Los Angeles 8 times since last year in the past ten years, and he seemed to be looking for something!

Nie Ting began to look at the records of each of the combatants that year, which were recorded according to their oral records, and then Nie Ting suddenly saw a very inconspicuous sentence: "That night of bloody fighting almost had an illusion, I seemed to hear the cry of a baby on a rainy night."

Nie Ting suddenly turned his head to look at Shi Xuejin, Shi Xuejin looked inexplicable, he touched his face: "What are you looking at me?"

"We always thought that the puppeteer was here to break down the barriers, and their king was still in the Exiled Lands, but have you ever thought that maybe the baby's cry was not an illusion of the combatants, but a real existence, and that box contained not some divine object used to break the barrier, but a real baby!" Nie Ting was stunned by the answer he imagined: "That baby, could it be their king, or the king's bloodline?"

Shi Xuejin was also stunned: "But everyone else said that they didn't hear the baby's cry." ”

"Maybe the baby had been asleep, crying occasionally and only one person could hear it," Mr. Nie said.

"But if it's really a baby, then where is he now? Does it look the same as a human being?" Shi Xuejin smiled: "According to what you said, shouldn't this Great Demon King already start destroying the earth now?" ”

Nie Ting shook his head, he looked at the canopy of the walnut tree overhead, the warm sunlight was spilling through the gaps in the leaves: "I can only doubt it for the time being...... Wait, how old is Lu Shu, and when was he sent to the orphanage?"