After leaving the Ghost Gate, Hong Yuan and his party became faster and faster, heading straight for the Night Demon Stone Forest.

Along the way, more and more people went to the Daredevil Stone Forest to venturize, and many alliance masters rushed over, and even encountered many wandering masters from the Hualong Empire, speaking different dialects and accents. In addition to the adventurers, many caravans also flocked to the area, ready to snap up the Daredevil Stone Forest's specialty, the Cloud Mist Flower, a precious medicinal herb for refining the finest elixir.

Hong Yuan was calm and calm along the way, calmly facing anyone's gaze, and completely integrated into the role of the coachman, without arousing anyone's suspicion. Zou Haiyan seemed to see something, and from time to time she narrowed the distance with Hong Yuan and wanted to talk, but after repeated temptations a few times, she didn't gain anything, and slowly forgot it.

The group set off at sunrise, camped and rested at sunset, and finally arrived at a small town called Heping Town two days later. Here, there are only more than ten miles left from the Night Demon Stone Forest, and it is the only settlement within a radius of 100 miles.

It is said that this place was originally deserted, but later, more adventurers camped and rested here, and a small town was gradually formed spontaneously. Every time the clouds and mist bloom, people flock to it, and after the flowering period has passed, they leave one after another, and there are not many people who live here all year round. There is an unwritten rule here, no matter how much hatred there is for each other, you can't use force when you arrive in Heping Town, according to legend, it is a rule set by Yan Beifeng, a master of the world who once lived in seclusion in Heping Town, and it has been passed down from generation to generation.

There are also shops in the town of Peace that sell items such as weapons, armor, and elixirs, with the largest number being inns and taverns. When Hong Yuan and his party arrived at Heping Town, it was already evening, and the inns in the town were already crowded, and there was not a single spare room. In the end, Zou Haiyan had a way to get a few rooms from a few adventurers at a high price, and the group had a place to rest. After settling in, the sun had already set into the evening.

In the evening, when Liang Laosan and the others went to the hall on the first floor to drink and join in the fun, Hong Yuan sat cross-legged in the room, and hurried to practice as usual.

Counting on his fingers, his cultivation had been stagnant for a long time, and he had been unable to open the treasures of the Four Directions to break through to the Four Directions Realm. Entering the Night Demon Stone Forest, the biggest danger is probably not the legendary Night Demon, but that his cultivation is not strong enough. If you don't have deep enough skills, not only will you not be able to deal with strong enemies, but you won't be able to subdue even the powerful demon beasts you admire, and even cause terrible dangers!

Hong Yuan remembered that when he subdued Ghost Five, the latter involuntarily and suddenly counterattacked, remembering the so-called Fear Demon King and Fear Demon Cave. In front of Ghost Wu and Hong Python and others, Hong Yuan was calm, but he was also shocked in his heart, and now that he recalled it, he secretly called it a fluke, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. At that time, if his skills were a little worse, or if he didn't use the War Pet Heavenly Scripture, I am afraid that his soul would have suffered a heavy blow, and he would either be scattered on the spot, or he would have become the body of the Fear Demon King like Ghost Five.

"After the Divine Soul Treasure is developed to the extreme, it is the Treasure of the Four Directions. ”

"What does it take to really open the treasure of the Quartet?"

Hong Yuan was lost, feeling that his cultivation was getting more and more difficult, and while pondering, he opened the "Treasure Sutra" given to him by his aunt Liu Ruyan, hoping to find a way to break through from above. Unfortunately, I couldn't find what I was looking for.

In the Treasure Sutra, the explanations of the spirit body treasure and the divine soul treasure are very detailed, and there are also in-depth descriptions of the Linghai treasures in the later period, and even the heavenly god treasures are described, but there are few explanations of the Quartet Realm. It was nothing for the great masters above the Spirit Sea Realm, but for Hong Yuan, it was extremely distressing, lacking a crucial stage.

Outside the door, there was a sudden sound of soft footsteps, and before Hong Yuan could put away the treasure scripture, Zou Haiyan pushed the door and walked in, "Uncle, are you reading?"

"Hmm. Hong Yuan nodded.

Zou Haiyan didn't care whether Hong Yuan would be angry or not, and directly snatched the book in Hong Yuan's hand, thinking that it was a secret book of exercises, but he opened it and looked at it in disbelief, "No, treasure scriptures? Uncle, you locked yourself in your room all day long, just to read this book?"

In the Divine and Ghost Continent, the Treasure True Scripture is the most widely circulated, and it is not any cultivation exercises at all, but the most basic cultivation common sense. Seeing that Hong Yuan was still reading the treasure scriptures at his age, Zou Haiyan's eyes were about to fall out, and it was really hard to believe.

"There's no way, uncle, I'm just a casual cultivator, I don't have any help from my family and big sects, I haven't seen any peerless exercises in my life, and all I can see is this kind of cultivation common sense. Hong Yuan smiled bitterly.

"Then what realm have you cultivated to now?" Zou Haiyan asked.

"The pinnacle of the Divine Soul Realm. ”

Hong Yuan told the truth, there was no need to hide this, and smiled self-deprecatingly, "Swallow girl, I am smiling, uncle, I am a lot older, but my cultivation is far worse than you young people, ashamed, ashamed!"

"Is it really the Divine Soul Realm?"

Zou Haiyan was a little suspicious, opened the treasure scripture and saw the note left by Hong Yuan, and saw that he was still reading the chapter between the treasure of the divine soul and the treasure of the four directions, and he had no doubts in his heart, and he was a little speechless. A lot of people are old and haven't even opened the Quartet Treasure, basically, it can be said that Hong Yuan's cultivation has come to an end, "Alas, uncle, I originally thought you were ......"

"You think I'm a hidden master, a peerless swordsman who wanders all over the world, right?"

Hong Yuan knew what Zou Haiyan wanted to say, and said with a wry smile, "I'm sorry, Miss Yanzi, I disappointed you." More than 20 years ago, I should have been a coachman and a servant for a large family, at least I could marry a wife and have children to wait for my parents to enjoy their old age, but it turned out that others went out to practice whimsically. Now, after more than 20 years of wandering on the rivers and lakes, his parents are gone, his home is gone, and he has become a homeless wandering knifeman. After more than 20 years of hard pursuit, nothing has been achieved, alas!"

Hong Yuan sighed faintly, on the one hand, he was dispelling Zou Haiyan's suspicions, and on the other hand, he was also lamenting the difficulty of cultivation.

He was about to enter the Night Demon Stone Forest, facing the legendary Night Demon and all kinds of dangers, but there was no progress in his cultivation, which was what Hong Yuan was most worried about.

"Uncle, this is your reward, find a place to settle down, don't wander around. There is really nowhere to go, you can go to the Zou family in Donghai City to be a doorman in the future, so I said that I asked you to go. ”

Zou Haiyan took out a bag of silver taels and put it on the desk, the bag was heavy at least fifty or sixty taels, much more than promised at the beginning. Just as he was about to put down the Treasure Sutra and turn away, he suddenly found that something was wrong, "Hey, uncle, why did your Treasure Sutra suddenly jump from the last page of the Divine Soul Treasure to the late stage of the Four Directions Realm?"

"What, what's wrong?" Hong Yuan asked.

"No, it's not right. ”

Zou Haiyan frowned, she had forgotten most of the contents of the Treasure Sutra, she had read it when she was a child when she was just enlightened, but she could still be sure that Hong Yuan's Treasure Sutra was wrong, "The page number of the book is correct, but it is missing at least ten pages, and the explanations about the Four Directions Realm have basically been deleted." Strange, uncle, where did you get this treasure scripture?"

"Swallow girl, are you sure?" Hong Yuan asked rhetorically.

"Sure, you can guarantee 100% that part of your treasure book has been torn off. No, it's not as simple as tearing it off, the page numbers have been changed, someone did it on purpose. Strange, is it a prank, or is it deliberately misleading?Uncle, how did you get this treasure scripture?" Zou Haiyan asked again, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong.

"I bought it from a stall with a copper plate, and back then, I was wondering how it was so cheap, and I thought I had found a treasure, but I was tricked, and I don't know which guy was idle and had nothing to do. Hong Yuan smiled bitterly, shook his head, and continued: "Alas, it seems that there is really no hope of becoming a peerless swordsman. I knew that I should have bought a thickened version of the treasure scripture with five copper plates back then, and I really couldn't save money!"

"Uncle, you can really save it! It's not early, rest early. ”

Zou Haiyan sneered, turned around and left. Tonight, she came to talk again to test who Hong Yuan was. After knowing Hong Yuan's true cultivation and realm, there was no doubt in his heart, a wandering swordsman in the Divine Soul Realm, even if there was really any secret, it would not have much impact and could not turn over the storm.

Zou Haiyan left with peace of mind, and politely helped Hong Yuan close the door, but in the room, Hong Yuan's face became solemn.

"Ten crucial pages are missing, but the page numbers remain the same, which is clearly deliberate. ”

"Auntie, is it your idea? Are you doing it on purpose, are you worried that my cultivation will be high enough to go to the rivers and lakes to cause trouble, or ......?"

Hong Yuan muttered, he wanted to think on the bright side, but his heart involuntarily became heavier and heavier, and some small details that were once inadvertent slowly came to mind.