Lu Yi left quietly, the residents of this hilly area didn't even know what the name of their great benefactor was, and this place was remote and very desolate, and the flow of information was very poor, until many years later, Lu Yi's name and image were called in the Western Regions, and the residents of this small town established by Lu Yi knew Lu Yi's true identity by chance, and they were proud to be able to get Lu Yi's help, and finally named the city "Yize City" , which means that this city was completely blessed by Lu Yi, and the people who lived here have been grateful for Lu Yi's favor for generations.

Lu Yi didn't know all this, he had never gone back since he left the small city that was later named "Yize City", he completed Sima Hongqian's first tempering task and returned to Qilin City alone, he knew that Sima Hongqian must be secretly watching his every move, so he didn't need to report to Sima Hongqian after he completed the tempering. After Qilin City dealt with the major events that had to be decided by himself in the year he left, Lu Yi brought the human butcher to him and discussed with him whether he wanted to go to the second place where Chen Yunzi arranged Lu Yi to go?

After completing the tempering of the first level, Sima Hongqian did not arrange the following tempering for Lu Yi, he also set aside a buffer time for Lu Yi, so that Lu Yi could do something he wanted to do, he sent a message to Lu Yi and gave Lu Yi a year to arrange it by himself, and at the same time, he was also making some preparations for the second tempering.

Lu Yi originally followed the route designed by Chen Yunzi, and after solving the matter of Qilin City, he traveled south for more than 200,000 miles, there is a small city called Hecheng, there is a spirit stone mine near this Crane City, which produces medium-grade spirit stones and high-grade spirit stones, although the quality of the spirit stones produced by this spirit stone mine is not very high, but it is better than the far-reaching veins, and the stock is also large, and it can be continuously mined. At that time, Chen Yunzi and several other spiritual monks controlled this mine, Chen Yunzi specially arranged various protective means for this mine, deliberately made a few phantom arrays to hide the entrance of this mine so that it would not be discovered by outsiders, and also established a small teleportation array that could go straight to Hecheng, and several other spiritual monks settled in Hecheng and concentrated on operating this spiritual stone mine, only Chen Yunzi went away to a different place like an idle cloud and wild crane, and the other few people also promised to set aside a certain share for Chen Yunzi, and kept it for him temporarily, when he had time to come in person or by the person he designated to take away the spiritual stone that belonged to him by virtue of the code words agreed by several people。 Chen Yunzi actually doesn't take this spirit stone mine seriously, and there are not many points of spirit stones, and the rewards he gets for doing people a favor casually are more than these, so he has never gone back and never sent someone to get his share of the spirit stone for so many years. After years and years, after so many years, the number of spirit stones saved should have reached an astonishing astronomical amount, and Crane City is not far from Qilin City, so Chen Yunzi also gave this spirit stone to Lu Yi as a gift, and asked Lu Yi to take it as pocket money. Lu Yi, a wealth fan, has always had a persistent collecting habit of spirit stones, so he also had a bright eye after listening to Chen Yunzi's introduction to the situation, and his interest in this spirit stone far exceeded others, but Chen Yunzi reminded Lu Yi that after the chaos in the Western Regions, Hecheng lost his message, and even the teleportation array was closed, and it is estimated that something may have happened, so it may not be smooth sailing to collect spirit stones, and it may even cause a bloody storm, he must act cautiously when he asks Lu Yi to go to Hecheng.

Lu Yi didn't plan to make any big development in Hecheng, he was still based in Qilin City, he wanted to reintegrate the various forces of sandstone, select people who could be cultivated into henchmen, and also take care of learning from Sima Hongqian, so he discussed with Ren Tuzi whether to go to Hecheng and then return to Qilin City. As an old man who has followed Chen Yunzi for many years, he is still very clear about the affairs of Hecheng, although Hecheng seems to be inconspicuous in the Western Domain, but the strength is not weak, earlier there were four monks in the middle of the spirit building on the surface of Hecheng who lived for a long time, known as the "Four Friends of Songhe", the four of them are brothers in life and death for many years, and the perennial cooperation has allowed the four to find a set of joint hitting methods suitable for their own characteristics, and the four of them can even have a fight with the monks in the late stage of the spirit building. There are not many vassals under the four of them, only twelve early stage cultivators, but they are all strong, known as the "Twelve King Kongs", such a force lives in a small city, it is easy to completely control the entire city in their own hands. Songhe four friends are very low-key, they never cause trouble or want to expand, back then and has not yet stepped into the late stage of the spirit building Chen Yunzi has a good relationship, after the four of them discovered the spirit stone vein, he was also specially invited to protect the vein and Hecheng, take this opportunity, but also gave Chen Yunzi a share of the spirit stone mine, but also to win over Chen Yunzi in Hecheng when he encountered danger can come forward to help, they did not expect that Chen Yunzi later broke through to the late stage of spirit building, and left them far away, so inadvertently he also hugged a thigh, but later Chen Yunzi never went to Hecheng again, on the contrary, most of the time active on the other side of the Western Regions, and the four friends of Songhe rarely go out, and the connection between the two sides is gradually broken. After the civil strife in the Western Regions, Chen Yunzi thought of these old friends, and felt that even if their spirit stone mine was deliberately hidden by everyone, there was no impermeable wall in the world, and it might leak out and be remembered, so he once sent someone to go to Crane City through the teleportation array, but found that the teleportation array had been closed on the other side, and he didn't know what had happened. Hecheng is a little far away from Jade City, and it takes a lot of time to send ordinary men to make a round trip, and Chen Yunzi is not too concerned about those spirit stones, so the matter is put aside, and it was not until Lu Yi appeared in Jade City that this matter was put on the agenda by Chen Yunzi again. Ren Tuzi told Lu Yi that the four friends of Songhe were all mid-ninth order cultivators back then, and now it is very likely that someone has already set foot in the late ninth order, and it is even possible that someone has advanced to the late stage of spirit building, after all, they have a large spirit stone vein in their hands, and they have enough resources to maintain the livelihood and cultivation of their subordinates, so they don't have to work hard for these trivial matters, and they can concentrate on comprehending the way of heaven. If the other party remembers the old relationship and admits it, things should be very smooth, but if the other party feels that he needs to prepare more because of the demon clan, it is very likely that he will not admit the account or simply kill people and destroy the corpses, and even if Chen Yunzi personally finds them, they can say that they have not seen anyone coming, so they still have to make a few more preparations. Moreover, the strength of the four friends of Songhe is not weak, and with the assistance of the large array arranged by Chen Yunzi himself, if they really make a move, they can wait for work, and there is a combined attack technique that can threaten the monks in the late stage of soul building, which is really a bit of a headache.

In the end, Lu Yi decided to use the old method, make a private visit to the micro-service, quietly enter the city, find out the situation first and then improvise. For the sake of insurance, Lu Yi planned to bring all the spiritual monks sent by Chen Yunzi to him this time, and also requisitioned a part of the spiritual monks from the various forces of Sandstone, and gathered an army of forty spiritual monks, in case he really started to suffer a loss on his own side.

Lu Yi and Tu Zi planned for nearly ten days, deduced all possible situations in advance, and formulated several sets of contingency strategies, so that the forty people under his command went to Hecheng in batches, and agreed to assemble again somewhere thousands of miles away from Hecheng, where Lu Yi would arrange some defensive means and enter the city after being fully prepared. This time, Lu Yi was very careful, he didn't even bring Bai Chunze, just for fear that it would cause unnecessary trouble if he said something wrong, Bai Chunze was not happy about it, and stuck to Lu Yi's ungiving heart, and finally Liu Hongyan, who had never shown up, suddenly appeared next to Bai Chunze, and scared Bai Chunze away with murderous eyes.

Everything was ready, Lu Yi embarked on the journey to Hecheng alone, while the others also set off sooner or later.

Crane City is now in ruins. There are ruins everywhere, the walls that are not tall have long since collapsed, and the houses in the city can hardly find any intact existence, and there are traces of being attacked by magic everywhere, some have been burned to ashes, some have been smashed out of deep pits by boulders, some have been cut neatly by knives and axes, and some seem to have been hit by a tornado, and the houses and trees have been uprooted. There was no living creature in sight, and the fragments of bones that could be seen everywhere in the ruins showed that the creatures of the city had suffered in that catastrophe, but it had been a long time, and the corpses had long since turned into white bones.

A certain wealth fan on the road didn't know all this, he was still thinking about how to deal with the problem of Yunya Pavilion while he was in a hurry, so far Lu Yi has not come up with a better countermeasure, and there is no one who can help him come up with ideas, the dead fat man has already replied, saying that he was arrested by his mother-in-law again and forced to create people, and he was too busy to take care of himself, and he couldn't help him, which made him sad. When he received the summons that Hecheng had been completely wiped out, Lu Yi was already less than 30,000 miles away from the meeting place, he was shocked by this unexpected change that he and Tuzi expected, and hurriedly put away his thoughts and hurried with all his might, and after meeting with everyone, he didn't have time to make any protective preparations, and immediately took everyone straight to Hecheng.

Standing above the Crane City, which had been turned into ruins, Lu Yi looked at it, and the sores in his eyes made him frown.