Chapter 18: Touched

"What the hell is going on?" Lu Renjia covered his mouth and looked at the scene in front of him in surprise, for him this was the first time in his life that he had seen such a miserable scene.

The walls had collapsed, and most of the huts had long since been burned in the fire, leaving only a few fragments of wood. The remains of human corpses can be found everywhere, and it is impossible to distinguish between children and old people. The blackened blood stains had already stained the dirt red, accompanied by bursts of blood, as if telling of the suffering of the past.

"Lin Chen, what's going on here?!, why are there so many dead people?!" Lu Renjia hid behind Lin Chen tremblingly, and stretched out his head from time to time to look around, the more he looked, the more afraid he was that the hand holding Lin Chen's clothes would clench tightly.

"Hey, hey, I said Lu Renjia, can you loosen my clothes, isn't it just a dead person, look at what scares you, how can you be the same as a woman!" Although Lin Chen is not very old, he is from Orion after all, and blood or corpses really don't feel anything to him. It's just that Lin Chen was hiding behind him by a big man, and he was still clutching his clothes, which was a little awkward to think about.

"Who is not a man!" As soon as Lu Renjia heard this, his hands suddenly loosened Lin Chen's clothes, his face was full of annoyance, and there was a trace of inexplicable blush. However, after seeing the dead people around, he immediately hid behind Lin Chen again.

"Alas, I really can't do anything about you!" Lin Chen shook his head, pushed Lu Renjia and said, "You wait for me on the mountain road when we came, I'll go in and find some dry food, and then we'll continue to set off."

"Okay, okay, I'll wait for you on the mountain road!" Lu Renjia couldn't wait to leave here early, he agreed, and didn't wait for Lin Chen to say anything, he turned around and walked all the way to the mountain road.

Lin Chen looked at Lu Renjia, who was leaving quickly, and was really a little helpless. To say that Lu Renjia is good at everything, he is also very handsome, and according to himself, he is still a monk in the late Kaiyuan period, such a person is almost perfect. It's a pity that he is a little timid and a little clean, he never takes a bath with Lin Chen, and even when he rests at night, he doesn't allow Lin Chen to come close to him within three meters.

Lin Chen no longer paid attention to Lu Renjia, and turned his head to carefully look at the small mountain villa that was obviously slaughtered. With Lin Chen's experience, he could naturally see that this place should be a bad bandit, with obvious knife marks everywhere, and only a few sparks left, all indicating that everything here is man-made. And the only ones who can do this kind of thing are those outlaws in the Great Wilderness!

"Alas, uncles and uncles, rest in peace!" Lin Chen made a strange gesture while chanting words in his mouth. This is a set of scriptures that he learned from the clan sacrifices, and it is said that he can transcend the souls of the dead.

After half a cup of tea like this, Lin Chen also ended his prayer. However, just as he was about to step into the village in search of dry food, he suddenly felt a roar in his mind, and an unprecedented strong feeling hit him.

Lin Chen was immediately overjoyed, according to the information he learned from Lu Renjia, this was a sign that he was going to open the Yuan. Every monk will have different signs when they open the Yuan, but no matter what kind of sign, the monk will have a strong feeling, just like Lin Chen is now.

Lin Chen looked around for a moment, and simply sat on the ground, his legs crossed, and his eyes closed. The hands make strange gestures according to the "Returning to the Origin". The index finger, thumb and ring finger of the right hand are pinched together, and the left hand is held high above the head in the form of a lotus finger.

As Lin Chen took such a strange pose, the entire sky seemed to be much darker, and even the sun in the sky was not as dazzling as before.

"Huh, in this direction, could it be that Lin Chen is Kaiyuan?" Lu Renjia at the mountain pass pressed his right hand to his chest, obviously he had not recovered from the fear just now. But he seemed to sense something, and turned his head to look at the small village down the hill.

"Alas, that's it. Who made me naturally compassionate, even if you Lin Chen are blessed, the advanced Kaiyuan still wants me to protect the Dharma for you!" Lu Renjia sighed secretly, shook his head, turned around and walked towards the small mountain village, although he was ten thousand unwilling to return here, but Lin Chen wanted to advance to Kaiyuan now, in case he was disturbed by other things and distracted. Failure to advance is still a trivial matter, and losing one's life is by no means impossible.

"Huh, where am I, why is it dark all around?" At this time, Lin Chen suddenly appeared in a dark night sky, and there was no scenery around him, except for the stars that shimmered with various lights in the sky.

"Could it be that this is what Lu Renjia said that when advancing to the Enlightenment, every monk needs to find his own star through that connection in the underworld?" Lin Chen walked aimlessly in this pitch-black space, anyway, it was pitch black all around, Lin Chen simply closed his eyes. Purely relying on his feelings, he kept moving forward, trying to find the connection just now.

Lu Renjia said that the monks were touched when they advanced to the beginning of the Yuan, as long as they could find the reason that touched them, they could quickly find that connection, and they could quickly find their own stars. Lin Chen kept thinking back to some of the things Lu Renjia had told him about the advanced Kaiyuan before.

What Lin Chen didn't know was that Lu Renjia had already returned to the small mountain village at this time, but this time it was just to protect himself.

"It's really advanced Kaiyuan, alas, it's so worry-free!" Lu Renjia looked at Lin Chen on the ground and shook his head helplessly. But then, Lu Renjia didn't know where three palm-sized flags came out, and with a wave of one hand, the "whoosh" was accurately inserted around Lin Chen. As the spell in Lu Renjia's mouth changed, one after another mysterious spells were issued from his hand, and then submerged into the order flag on the ground.

The three Ling Banners continued to spit out a large amount of white smoke, and soon enveloped Lu and Lin. At this time, if someone watched this scene from a distance, they would find that as the smoke continued to thicken, Lin Chen and Lu Renjia gradually disappeared from sight.

Not obscured by smoke, but literally gone. People's eyes can clearly see everything here, and even the situation in the mountain village that was blocked before can be seen clearly, and Lin and Lu seem to have disappeared like evaporation from the world. Of course, they can't really disappear, they still stay in place, but this kind of immortal method really makes people have to be amazed.

"What touched me, why did I suddenly advance to Kaiyuan here?" Lin Chen kept interrogating himself, what touched him.

Lin Chen kept walking in this dark space, and I don't know how long it took, Lin Chen suddenly opened his eyes, and a dazzling light door not far from him flashed with a soft white light.

"Did you finally find it?!" Lin Chen looked at the light gate in front of him in a daze, but he didn't rush over, but turned around and looked behind him, there was still nothing there.

It turns out that it is my lifelong wish to protect what I want to protect in the depths of my heart. Maybe I have been bullied and ridiculed by others before, so I know how to cherish it, and I understand how difficult it is to protect something.

"Father, mother, and Dai'er, wait for me!" Lin Chen said softly, turning around and walking towards the light gate.

Lin Chen, who stepped into the light gate, was instantly wrapped in an extremely thick star soul power, a large amount of star power continued to nourish Lin Chen's soul, and a thrill that was extremely comfortable made Lin Chen almost scream. Out of the corner of the eye, I vaguely seemed to see that a delicate flower went from blooming to decaying, and the whole process did not take more than a breath.

Lin Chen didn't seem to understand the meaning, but the process of the flower's decay was firmly engraved in Lin Chen's heart

On the other side of this meantime, on a barren planet that is thousands of miles away, the mysterious man in black seemed to sense something, suddenly opened his eyes, grinned and said, "Hehe, have you finally started cultivating?" Yes, this time it will start earlier than the previous times. According to past experience, with the power of his previous star soul, ten years is enough time for him to meet that requirement! Hehe, maybe I should have made some preparations earlier!"

The mysterious man in black looked at the scene at the entrance of the small mountain village through time and space, and a strange smile with mysterious meaning appeared on the corner of his mouth.

What Lin and Lu didn't know was that in a valley ten miles away, an old man who couldn't see his face clearly sat cross-legged in a makeshift cave. Covered in a wolf's skin, skinny as wood, only a pair of strange eyes flashed with a few hints of blue fire, and a skeletal scepter made of bone lay quietly on the side.

"Hehe, the two little dolls are indeed a tonic. It's just that that white-faced kid doesn't seem to be a good stubble, and I really can't get out of it now, otherwise I really want to taste the taste of blood!"