Li Ji's voice was very soft, and the movement of pushing the fence away was also very light, as if someone lived here, and he returned too late, for fear of disturbing that person.

But his voice echoed through the empty woods, and all that answered him was a deathly silence.

The courtyard was silent, and no one answered his words.

Li Ji lowered his gaze slightly, hiding all his emotions in the heavy bronze mask.

He was silent for three breaths, and there was still dead silence in the courtyard, and then he completely pushed the fence and walked into the courtyard. He seemed to know that this would be the case, and as if he was expecting something different, and the process of entering the door seemed to be repeated countless times.

But in the end, no one answered him.

The fact that there is such a house in the depths of such a dark forest is enough to arouse everyone's curiosity, but this small courtyard does not have the slightest popularity.

Walking into the courtyard, everything has not changed in the slightest, but if you are a stranger, you will be quite surprised to see this scene.

There was a dead silence all around, not to mention the people, not even a breath of living creatures had been heard here, and everything revealed a message that it was uninhabited.

However, although uninhabited, the courtyard is very clean and tidy.

This place is a no-man's land, when no one has set foot on it, but the scene in front of you is very life-like.

There is not a single spider web of fallen leaves in the courtyard, there is not a trace of dilapidated omission in the roof bricks, the ground in the courtyard is clean and dusty, and there is a bamboo dustpan on the steps outside the house.

It seems to be a place where no one has lived for many years, but everything in this small courtyard is not in a dusty state.

Everything in this courtyard seems to stop in a moment.

Its owner didn't seem to have packed up everything and gone out of the house, but it was like he was leaving for a short time, or like.

Disappeared in an instant.

And then someone came here often to clean and keep everything in that moment.

Li Ji looked at everything that remained unchanged in front of him, and there was a slight tremor in the fingers in his sleeve. The next moment he walked into the courtyard, picked up a bamboo broom leaning against the corner of the wall, and swept away the thin layer of dust from the steps.

Then, the bamboo broom was put back in its original place.

With all this done, he climbed the steps and put his hand on the wooden door of the main house.

With a squeak, the unlocked door was pushed open, and Li Ji walked into it without the slightest surprise.

The furnishings inside the house are the same as the outside, and there are still traces of human life. Li Ji walked into the kitchen and brought a dry cloth to brush off the dust from the furnishings in the room, obviously he was a fourth-level cultivator, but he was very skilled in doing all this. After wiping it, he washed the cloth as usual and put it back in its place, pushed open the back door and walked to the back of the courtyard.

Behind the courtyard is the huge tree that four people hug together, this tree is towering into the sky, I don't know how long the age of the tree, the crown of the tree is like a giant umbrella open, and the huge branches in the canopy are as thick as two people together.

Li Ji stood under the tree and looked at the top of the tree.

This tree is also very special in the whole cloud forest.

There was a hut on such a tree.

It is a wooden house, nestled between the huge branches at the top of the tree, surrounded by vines, all made of logs, in a quaint style.

Li Ji raised his head and looked at the hut deep in the canopy, a thick vine hung down from the branch in front of the wooden house, all the way from the top to the bottom of the tree, and it was not difficult to see that it was specially designed to help climb into the wooden house.

Li Ji walked up to the vine, put his hand on it and shook it gently, but he didn't start climbing.

He just took a quiet breath and pulled the vine in his hand, and the next moment his figure had already appeared on the top of the tree.

Li Ji's expression was complicated for a moment.

Now he no longer needs this vine that was once set up for him.

Li Ji stood on the branch of the tree, passed through the curtain woven by vines, came to the door of the wooden house and pushed the door in.

Compared with the small courtyard under the tree, the furnishings in this treetop hut are very simple, with only a table, a chair and a couch, just like a sleeping place. But even though the furnishings are simple, each piece of furniture looks like it has been carefully crafted, and the simple style reveals a unique wild elegance and looks very comfortable.

The forest outside was cold, but the interior of the hut seemed to reveal endless warmth.

The most eye-catching feature in the corner of the wooden house is a wooden bed, under which is covered with a carpet of some kind of down and feathers, and the bed is covered with a whole snow-white bear skin, which looks extraordinarily soft.

And at the head of the bed hung a wooden bow of the same simple style, the boxwood made of which was very ordinary, but it seemed to have been cherished by its owner countless times, and the bow arm was covered with pulp.

Li Ji stood at the door, looking at the same scene in the wooden house. He walked to the edge of the bed and sat down on the bearskin.

He stretched out his hand to the bow at the head of the bed, his fingers brushing silently over it, and the next moment he spoke softly, and said the second word into the woods.

"I'm back."

It was still silent outside the window of the wooden house, and only the sound of swaying branches and leaves could be heard.

Still no one answered him, Li Ji just took a slight breath, as if he was used to all this.

Sitting on the bed and saying this, he suddenly reached out and touched the straw rope behind his head instead of the headband, and then looked at the interior of the wooden house, where there were no furnishings and almost everything was clear.

He quietly surveyed it all, then stood up, walked around the house, and began to search around.

He had searched every corner and crevice, as if he were looking for something small, and he had done this many times, and the inside of the empty wooden house had been touched, but until finally he didn't seem to find what he was looking for.

However, Li Ji did not have a disappointed look on his face, as if he was doing some routine, and after finding every corner, he straightened up and said to himself.

"Sure enough, I couldn't find it." He touched the straw rope behind his head again.

When he lost it, he couldn't find it again, so where did he go?

However, the place he could find had been found, and the usual things he could do every time he went to this place had been done.

Li Ji quietly looked at his palm, and then his gaze inadvertently fell on the wrist of his left hand.

Of course, there was nothing on his wrist.

He clenched his fists, as if he had made up his mind, pushed the door open from the hut, and then fell straight down the vine in his hand and returned to the tree.

Just behind the vines were the roots of the giant tree that were exposed to the ground, and between the two roots, a slight bulge of dirt could be seen.

Everything looked like an ordinary tree root, but Li Ji walked under the thickest root, knelt on one knee despite the dirt on his knees, stretched out his hand and began to dig.

Obviously, he used the fourth-tier True Yuan to instantly raze the dirt around here to the ground, but he didn't have the slightest flow of True Yuan on his body, and he didn't use any tools, just kept digging down with his palm.

More and more dirt was piled up in front of him, as if he was going to bury his whole body in it, but the movements in Li Ji's hands did not stop at all, but became faster and faster.

Just as the soil was piling up on his chest, his fingertips suddenly touched a smooth object, and Li Ji's eyes paused slightly, and he stopped.

He lowered his head slightly, brushing away the dirt in front of him.

The moonlight pierced through the branches and fell in front of him.

In the pit in front of him, a swarthy box appeared.