The inn was quiet, Xia Qing drank silently, and the old shopkeeper didn't say anything more.

After a long time, Xia Qing broke the silence, "Old man, where is the Great Happy Valley?"

The old shopkeeper was unexpected, "When is it, you don't want to think about how to break through the bottleneck, and you still want to go to the Great Happy Valley?

"Yes, it's more important than life. ”

Xia Qing took another big sip of wine and said, "Of course, cultivation is very important, but no one can say how long it will take to break through, maybe it's a day, maybe it's a hundred years, even if you work hard, it's useless." The Great Happy Valley is different, there is a good chance that there is my mother there, and I must find her, at least to meet her. ”

Originally, Xia Qing had a lot to say to the old shopkeeper, to ask him about the Immortal Kingdom and the turbulence of time and space, and wanted to know why he had entered the Immortal Kingdom era again and again, but after knowing that the Divine Court was coming, he was not in a hurry, and there was only one most important thing, that is, to go to the Great Happy Valley to find his mother, and the others were secondary.

The old shopkeeper was silent, took a sip of wine, and said in a low voice, "Qing'er, are you sure?"

"Sure. ”

Xia Qing nodded and said with a wry smile: "Of course, if the old shopkeeper has a way to make me break through to the realm of life and death 100% in the short term, I have no opinion, you can wait until you break through to the realm of life and death and then go to the Great Happy Valley!"

"If I really had that ability, would I still be guarding the mountain here?" the old shopkeeper rolled his eyes.

"So, let's go to the Great Happy Valley. ”

Xia Qing put down his wine glass, looked at the old shopkeeper and said, "Old man, you must help me, where is the Great Happy Valley?"

"I don't know. The old shopkeeper refused as before.

"I really don't know?" Xia Qing obviously didn't believe it, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that the old shopkeeper was lying, a state pastor in Guzhongzhou, would he not know where the Great Happy Valley was?

"Really. ”

The old shopkeeper lay down and said, "I'm going to sleep, Qing'er, you should rest early." ”

"Well, tomorrow morning, I'll find it myself. ”

Xia Qing stood up, turned around and left, although he was a little disappointed, but it was also expected, and he did not completely pin his hope of finding the Great Happy Valley on this cunning old man, "That guy in Heiyuan said before he died, every time he wants to arrange any task, the Great Happy Valley will send someone to row out in a bamboo leaf boat; I believe that there will definitely not be too many such places in Wuzhou. ”

Xia Qing gradually walked away, and the voice came from afar, ready to go back to the room to rest, and set off early tomorrow morning.

"Wait!"

The old shopkeeper sat up suddenly, "Qing'er, do you know Zhuyezhou?"

"If you guessed correctly, this is it. ”

Xia Qing stopped, turned to look at the old shopkeeper, and took out the unique bamboo leaf, "Old man, you won't say that this is just an ordinary bamboo leaf, right?"

Maybe it was because he was full of energy, or maybe his skills had improved a lot, Xia Qing faintly sensed a unique power fluctuation from the bamboo leaves, and became more and more sure that this bamboo leaf was not simple.

"Alas......"

The old shopkeeper didn't deny it, and let out a long sigh.

"Old man, tell me, where is the Great Happy Valley, help me, I must find my mother!" Xia Qing lost no time in asking again, knowing that the old shopkeeper must be hiding something, it is impossible not to know anything about the Great Happy Valley.

"You haven't seen your mother since you were a child, you don't have any feelings, you don't know if she's in the Great Happy Valley, and you don't even know if your mother is alive. Qing'er, do you have to go to Dahuanxi Valley to find her?, what are you looking for her?" The old shopkeeper asked, seemingly a little shaken, moved by Xia Qing's persistence.

"Yes, I haven't seen my mother since I was a child, and she doesn't have the grace to nurture me, but she has the grace to give birth. Xia Qing paused and walked to the old shopkeeper, "I didn't look for her to repay the grace of childbirth, I just wanted to ask her a word." ”

"Ask her what?" asked the old shopkeeper.

Xia Qing's face was a little bitter, and her voice was low, "Ask her why she gave birth to me but didn't want me." ”

When he was a child, Xia Qing grew up in the Xia Wangfu and was favored by the old lady, but no matter how deep the love the old lady gave him, it was not something that could be replaced by mother's love.

The old shopkeeper was silent again, and he didn't seem to know how to persuade Xia Qing.

"Old man, help me. Xia Qing asked again, and the more silent the old shopkeeper was, the more hopeful he felt. As an old man, it is very likely that he doesn't know where the Great Happy Valley is, but he just doesn't want to say it.

Sure enough, the old shopkeeper sighed faintly, and finally revealed a hint of tone, "Qing'er, it's not that I don't help you, but the place in the Great Happy Valley...... It's too weird to be where you should go. ”

"What's the weird method?" Xia Qing became interested, thinking of the Wuyang Daoist who was acting strangely. For a while, I don't know if the people of Wuyang Dao were born weird, or if they became weird after going to the Great Happy Valley.

"This ...... If you do go in, you'll know. The old shopkeeper seemed to be a little unspeakable, and he didn't want to say a word.

"Where is the Great Happy Valley, and how far is it from here?" Xia Qing asked, a little unable to wait, eager to leave now.

"Far away, close at hand. ”

The old shopkeeper paused, looked at Xia Qing with a surprised face, and said: "The Great Happy Valley is indeed in a place where there is water, but according to your method to find it, search all the large and small lakes in Wuzhou, and spend your whole life on it, and you will definitely not find the Great Happy Valley." ”

"Why?" Xia Qing asked, knowing that the old shopkeeper had hit the point.

"Because, the Great Happy Valley is not in Wuzhou at all! Or rather, it is not in the same time and space as us. ”

The old shopkeeper's voice was a little hoarse, and after a while, he decided to tell Xia Qing some secrets. Xia Qing has grown up, and it's time for him to know something, "Qing'er, you have explored a lot of places during this time, and you may have noticed a phenomenon, this place in Wuzhou is different, or too weird. It looks like no other place during the day, but at night it's weird, and every now and then you have some illusions, or you can enter some strange place like a time and space, right?"

"Yes!"

Xia Qing nodded, this was exactly what he was puzzled about, "Old man, why is this?"

"This is because the natural conditions in Wuzhou are too good, and it has been a holy place for the cultivation of major sects and various forces since ancient times. Later, the ancient witch fell, Wuzhou entered the era of the fairy kingdom, became the immortal court of the immortal country, and led the masters of immortal cultivation in the major exotic spaces to worship; after the immortal kingdom, the major forces appeared one after another, leaving a lot of prohibitions or relics. During the day, most of the ruins are hidden in remote corners or even destroyed, and at night, many dead souls are not willing to be lonely, or they are summoned by others, and the ruins of various forms reappear in the world, and the real world and the ancient period overlap each other, and there are endless strange and strange things. The old shopkeeper explained.

"The Great Happy Valley is also an ancient ruin?" Xia Qing asked.

The old shopkeeper hesitated a little and said, "Well, it can be regarded as well." ”

Xia Qing was a little confused, feeling too bizarre, "Old man, how can I find the Great Happy Valley?"

"There is no way, take the initiative to find it, no one has absolute certainty of finding the Great Happy Valley, so they can only go out at night to try their luck. If you are lucky, you may be able to meet the Great Happy Valley by the Luoshui River, but if you are unlucky, you can't find it in every place with water in Wuzhou. The old shopkeeper sighed and said, "Qing'er, now I know why I persuaded you to give up." Time is limited, and the situation is very bad, so it's better for you to concentrate your energy on cultivation and break through to the realm of life and death as soon as possible. ”

"No, I must find my mother, at the very least, go out and give it a try. If you don't try it, how do you know that you can't find it?" Xia Qing continued to insist, looked at the old shopkeeper and said, "Old shopkeeper, you must help me." ”

"Okay, since you must try, let's go!" The old shopkeeper stood up, perhaps feeling Xia Qing's determination, and did not refuse again.

"Thank you, old shopkeeper, wait a minute, I'll go pack the package. Xia Qing became excited.

"No, let's go now. The thicker the fog, the greater the chance of the Great Happy Valley appearing, let's go!"

The old shopkeeper grabbed Xia Qing and strode out. The moment he stepped out of the inn, wisps of blue light emanated from the old shopkeeper's body, turning into a circle of light to wrap Xia Qing away from the erosion of the Wuzhou poisonous fog, and he himself stood outside the circle as if nothing happened, and the terrible poisonous fog couldn't get close at all. Xia Qing secretly opened the ninefold demon pupil as he walked, and found that the light behind the old shopkeeper's head was soaring into the sky, like a god-like existence.

Great Happy Valley, I'm coming!

Mother, where are you? I must find you!

Xia Qing became excited, and walked side by side with the old shopkeeper into the land of Wuzhou under the cover of night, walking in the terrible poisonous fog.

There was a faint sigh from the inn behind him, and the madman Lu walked out at some point. Looking at the old shopkeeper and Xia Qing who were walking in the poisonous fog and gradually drifting away, Lu Madman shook his head and sighed, turned around and continued to strike iron.