It is unknown what the final result of this dispute within the Tao family was, but after one night, Tao Mengchu resumed reporting to Gu Yaopan on time every day and taking care of her daily life. From time to time, he would take her to their house for a home-cooked meal. And Tao Youning and his wife did not mention the previous topic again, but sometimes looked at Gu Yaopan, their eyes were a little complicated, as if they were pity and regret.

Of course, Gu Yaopan, who had thick lines, turned a blind eye to these turbulent dark tides, and after spending half a month turning the main peak of Maoshan Mountain and several large mountains around it, he had to stop even if he was unwilling.

Hundreds of years have passed, and this is no longer the Maoshan she is familiar with. Not only are the houses where they used to be gone, but even the hills don't seem to be the same anymore.

Tao Mengchu looked at the disappointed Gu Yaopan, raised his hand and pointed to the southwest and said to her, "Have you been there?"

Gu Yaopan turned his head to look at him, the light in his apricot eyes was puzzled, and he pointed in the direction Tao Mengchu was pointing and said, "Is there anything special there?"

"I flipped through the classics in the sect these days, and after checking it repeatedly, I found that the location should be the place where the Wang Zhangjiao used to retreat. It's just that the years have passed, and the original site may no longer be found, if you are interested, we can go and see. ”

Tao Mengchu looked at Gu Yaopan seriously, although he didn't quite know what she had been wandering around the front and back mountains for these days. But thinking about it, it should still be related to her own injury, although the terrain of Maoshan has changed slightly, but the general environment has basically not changed, how to say that the place of Wang Zhangjiao's retreat can be regarded as a blessed land, and it may not be possible to gain some gains in the past.

Gu Yaopan looked at Tao Mengchu's young and sunny face, the inexplicable extra perseverance on the edges and corners that had been slimmed down because of taking care of her, for some reason, made her want to show him a smile. That's what she thought, and that's what she did.

A faint smile bloomed from her face, and she nodded at Tao Mengchu: "Okay! ”

As beautiful and natural as a blooming flower, Tao Mengchu looked at the faint smile on Gu Yaopan's lips in a little daze, since what happened to Lin Qianqian and Xiaoni, he couldn't remember how long it had been since he had seen her smile.

"Let's go!" Seeing him stunned, Gu Yaopan urged strangely, not understanding what he was doing.

"Oh! good!" Tao Mengchu agreed, and hurriedly turned around and walked forward.

Wangshan ran a dead horse, this small hill in the southwest is not far from the main peak of Maoshan Mountain, but Tao Mengchu took Gu Yaopan to copy the path, and it took two or three hours to reach the peak of this small hill.

Looking at the surrounding pine forest, Gu Yaopan found that she could no longer see any traces of Wang Ju's previous stay. Everything has become too much here.

"Let's go! Let's go a little further. Tao Mengchu greeted.

"This hill is so big, if there are any traces left, it should be closer to the center. ”

As he spoke, Tao Mengchu pointed to an ancient pine in front of him, no one had come to this hill for a long time, and the trees were growing freely. However, it is also a little strange to say, the whole Maoshan Mountain, only this mountain is a pine forest, every winter, this place is a dark green, from the main hall side, there is quite a bit of interest.

Gu Yaopan nodded, and kept following Tao Mengchu forward. She hadn't come to see the hill yet, because the terrain was no longer familiar to her.

The two of them bypassed a few big trees hugged by several people, stepping on a thick layer of pine needles under their feet and moving forward, a few birdsongs came from time to time between the dense pine branches, Gu Yaopan took a deep breath of the air in the forest, and a faint spirit of plants and trees meekly entered her body with her breathing, and the breath of life slowly began to nourish her internal organs.

"It's not bad here. Gu Yaopan followed and took two steps forward, looking at Tao Mengchu's back in front of him, and when he really stepped into this forest, he felt that this place was actually a little thicker than the life qi of the main hall.

"Really?" Tao Mengchu turned his head to greet Gu Yaopan, and then looked back at the front, he also clearly felt the aura of the creatures here, nodded in agreement, and then pointed ahead and said:

"There we are. ”

When the two of them stood in front of the two old pines that had grown almost together, they almost exclaimed in unison, and even Tao Mengchu, who had been living in Maoshan Mountain, was a little surprised. How could he never have found out before that there were two huge old trees on this mountain?

The branches of these two pine trees are about the thickness of three people together, and they grow separately from the roots upwards, and there is only a fist-wide gap between the trunks on both sides, which looks like a wall standing here when viewed together, and the many branches that protrude from the top of their heads block out the sunlight tightly, making the two of them feel a kind of coolness.

"Where did these two trees grow from?" Tao Mengchu said in surprise.

Gu Yaopan looked at the two trees suspiciously, and then stopped after circling around the trees. In her memory, Wang Ju was only 16 years old when he went into retreat, and this retreat was three years, and he was 19 years old when he came out.

She remembered that she had been there a few times, and there didn't seem to be two big trees like this on the hill, not even the smaller ones that grew closer.

"What is this?" Tao Mengchu shouted in front of Gu Yaopan.

In front of him half-crouching, a stone the size of a grinding disc was diagonally inserted into the roots of the two big trees, and the side of the stone facing the roots of the trees was as smooth as a mirror, as if it had been polished.

Gu Yaopan was alarmed by his shout, took two steps forward and walked to Tao Mengchu's side, and when he followed his fingers, he saw the smooth mirror-like plane on the inside of this big stone. She subconsciously stretched out her hand and touched the stone face, and a sense of wind and thunder rushed straight to her Lao Gong acupoint through her fingers.

"It's not polished, it's been split by thunder. Gu Yaopan opened his mouth and quickly withdrew his hand from the boulder.

There was a faint joy on her face, it seemed that the classics in Maoshan were still somewhat useful, at least there was no mistake or omission about Wang Ju's retreat.

"When Wang Ju came out of the customs, the sealing stone at the entrance of the cave where he retreated was broken with thunder tricks. Gu Yaopan continued.

As soon as she had finished speaking, she stood up and turned to look at the surrounding trees, trying to find the cave where Wang Ju had been retreating.

Tao Mengchu looked at the light of surprise in Gu Yaopan's eyes, and his heart was inexplicably a little sour, he didn't understand why Gu Yaopan had to find this stone cave, could it be that there was anything she needed in this stone cave?

Just when Tao Mengchu was thinking wildly, he only heard Gu Yaopan's voice with some surprise.

"Found it!"