The next day, Karn woke up early.

But the old people get up earlier, and they just drink the hot porridge that has just come out of the pot, which is especially warm in winter.

After thanking them for their hospitality, the two walked around the village, where the farmers dug up the scent of the earth in the snow, as if spring had never gone away.

It didn't take long for Yi Ye to come out of the farmer's house where he was staying, carrying a twill bag on his shoulder.

He was a little surprised to see that the two of them were earlier than him.

"Are you going up the mountain too?"

"I want to see the Wuji Ruins." Karn replied in a serious way, he wanted to go up the mountain with him to find out the source of the evil qi, he wanted to devour these "evil qi" and help Yi in his own way.

"There's nothing to see in the mountains anymore." Yi sighed lightly: "Since they are all here, it doesn't hurt to take a look, and come with me." ”

"Up the mountain? How can I be missing? ”

With a deep sound, Jax stepped out from behind the haystack.

"Why did you go up the mountain?" Karn asked.

"I can see that there is something on this mountain that disturbs Master Yi's heart, I have to go and see what that inner demon is." Jax carried a lamppost like a weird exorcist.

Yi smiled and shook his head and walked towards the woods, and the other three hurriedly followed behind him.

In the woods, listen to the morning song of the birds. The sky, the clouds are gone, and it is a rare clear sky.

It's just that the forest is still, as if it has lost its aura and is sluggish.

The path leading to the mountain was once lined with lilies, but in winter they have withered and can no longer accompany Yi on the mountain. After two hours of climbing, Kai'Sa had to stop and let out the heat, and even though the skin armor was mimicked and wrapped around her body, there were already some signs of overheating.

And Yi, who was dressed in armor, still walked briskly in front, and the people of Baru'e never found it troublesome to climb the mountain, they were used to the feeling of climbing.

Maybe this is the highland bloodline.

After climbing for a while, the four of them finally reached the top of the mountain.

What appeared in front of them was a barren land, the remains of a village scattered before everyone's eyes.

It was once a tranquil mountain village, nestled in picturesque scenery. This village, called "Wuji", remembers Yi's childhood.

But it was all because of a poisonous fire that turned into the current ruins.

The air still seemed to smell of ash, and Karn noticed that blood-sucking vines had grown here as well.

The land sent out these vines to absorb and purify the poisonous water and ashes, but they were also polluted and generated.

Yi set off again and headed for the graveyard.

Karn followed him, past overturned columns and stone carvings.

The remains of houses, schools, and shrines are all mixed together, including Yi's parents' workshop, which is no longer able to be found.

The easy-to-visit cemeteries are arranged in a perfectly symmetrical structure, with gaps between the mounds for people to pass through.

He walked through the gap, touching the hilt of each sword with his hand stuck in the ground. These are his memories of warriors, teachers and apprentices, not missing a single sword.

"The memory of the rank hangs forever on the limit, and may the name of the rank be remembered by the world. Rest in peace. ”

There was too late for him to pay tribute one by one, and the most important people did not go to pay their respects.

"It used to be a lily garden." Yi said, his voice quickly became tired: "After that fire, this place became an open space, and I turned this place into a cemetery in order to bury the rank as soon as possible." ”

"You're doing the right thing." Originally, it was Yi's self-description of memories, but Jax added it: "My hometown was also destroyed, but I couldn't even bury my comrades." ”

"Oh?" Yi looked at him suspiciously. He suddenly noticed that Jax's mask had many similarities with his Seven Degrees of Insight eyepiece, and from what he said, he knew that he was also a man with a story.

"Those monsters are wreaking havoc in my hometown, and both the living and the dead have been transformed into monsters. The whole city has fallen, and before my eyes, I can only flee. Jax said.

Yi pondered, unable to imagine what it was like to be in a tragic situation, but it was certainly much more terrible than what had happened to him, and he had not seen the scene of the destruction of his hometown with his own eyes.

Karn also wanted Jax to talk to Yi Duo more, to tell all the horrors of the Void, and then to trick Yi into the camp against the Void. But Jax didn't do that, and it seems that from the beginning he only wanted to comfort Yi by being miserable.

"I'm sorry." Yi didn't think about it and came to a tomb.

In front of the grave lay an iron hammer, the head of which was already rusting under the moisture of the mountains.

"Master Dolan, I've come to see your old man." Yi took out a plate of fruit from his cloth bag and put it down: "I still remember when you first took me to practice, you said that I swung my sword four thousand times a day and should be a blacksmith, not a swordsman." Maybe I should have listened to you and become a swordsmith in my parents' workshop, so that the fire wouldn't have happened. ”

"But then I figured it out, if I had chosen to become a blacksmith, I would have chosen to have no one to inherit the Infinite Kendo. Excuse me. ”

Yi bowed deeply, then walked to the last two tombs, where the golden scabbard was waiting.

"Imai, Ibu."

Yi drew two short swords and sent them into the scabbard in front of his parents' grave. Tight-fitting.

He took off his helmet, knelt solemnly, and buried his head deeply.

Karn noticed that some white silk was mixed between Yi's temples and landed on his robe.

"May the wisdom of your second elder continue to guide me."

The memorial process was very simple, and it was easy to put on a helmet, as if there was something else to do.

He meditated on the spot, then left his feet off the ground and suspended in the air.

Karn's left eye saw it, and a spiritual power spread through him, and Yi was communicating with the spiritual realm.

He also tried to look, but he saw death and decay all over the ground.

Acid and poisonous water distort the magic of the land, which in turn affects the spiritual realm.

He saw the spirits that dwelt in another realm, like the poor takin, entangled in demonized vines, and the essence was weakening.

Strong spirits break free and abandon the sinister land as the young people move.

Those who remain here have been corrupted...... or will soon be corrupted.

Eventually, the land will deteriorate completely.

"What will be connected to the roots of those vines?" Karn wondered.

Suddenly, it was easy to move.

He drew the sword that pierced the ring, and the sword was infused with the power of the spiritual realm, and he turned into an afterimage and rushed out, and the graveyard changed for a while.

Jax's muscles twitched, and for a split second he wanted to make a move, to see if he could stop Yi.

But he endured it anyway.

After a flash, Yi returned to the same place, the knife in its sheath, maintaining its previous position, as if it had never moved.

One by one, the vines crumbled. Some slipped off fallen roofs, others crumpled in place.

The rescued spirits sang happily, and the listless bamboo branches stood upright, like students who had been named.

Yi smiled with relief, but he knew that it wouldn't solve the problem entirely.

Rather than treating the symptoms, these vines will still grow again, covering the deteriorating land.