Chapter 22: The Hometown of the River Styx
After the three of them left the Colosseum for a distance, Ning An looked around and made sure that no one cared about them anymore before putting his hand on Dugu Yi's shoulder and said with a smile: "Boy, when did you become so powerful, you knocked a third-level martial artist over in three or two strokes." ”
"It's not that I'm strong. Dugu Yi shook his head lightly and said with a smile: "Although he is talking about a third-level martial artist, he only has the strength of a first-level martial artist at most; ”
"Even if that's the case, the gap between that person and Brother Yi is too big, right?"
As soon as Xue'er spoke, she realized how irresponsible it was to say this! How Dugu Yi cultivated, Xue'er knew best, words like 'diligence and hard work' could no longer be used on Dugu Yi, if someone who didn't know saw Dugu Yi cultivate, it would only be considered self-harm and self-abuse.
On the first day he came to the hospital, Dugu Yi was covered in injuries and couldn't even hold the pen steadily, and began to practice calligraphy, and the next day he took Xue'er to buy a sword and began to learn it. From that day on, no matter how windy or rainy, you could see Dugu Yi practicing swords in the courtyard with his upper body bare, and Iwanaka and Xue'er would feel distressed just watching from the sidelines, and they had persuaded him countless times but failed to pull him back into the house; no matter how late the night was, as long as Xue'er woke up, she could see that the lights were still on in Dugu Yi's room; this kind of cultivation that lasted almost day and night was a year without a day of interruption, would someone else's year be his year? Today, I finally saw the reward that Dugu Yi got through Zhao Hao.
"Anyway, it's fine. Ning An made a final summary, looked back at the Colosseum, which was already far behind, and said with shallow worry: "I just don't know if he will come to trouble again." ”
Hearing Ning An's words, a worried look appeared on Xue'er's face again.
Dugu Yi looked at the two of them and said with a light smile: "Then you can find talent." ”
"Yes, haha......" Ning An immediately laughed. "You're leaving the city of Doron tomorrow. ”
"Yes!" Cher turned from worry to sadness.
Seeing Xue'er's face, Ning An said again: "Is there anything else you want to go?"
Cher shook her head. Originally, she just wanted Dugu Yi to stay for one more day, and what did she care about where she was going.
"Neither did I. ”
"That's it!" Ning An touched his chin in embarrassment and said, "Or go back, I think the old man also wants to talk to you more on the last day, or he won't open the door to see a doctor." ”
"Then let's go back. Dugu Yi and Xue'er came to a conclusion at the same time.
"Hmm. Ning An nodded and said, "Let's go, and when you go back, buy some things you can use on the way." ”
"I almost forgot about it. Dugu Yi shook his head and smiled bitterly. It's not that he hasn't been out of the house and didn't expect it, but he has never made this kind of preparation before the trip, and at most he just found a container that can hold water and fill it with water.
So, the three of them went back to the hospital while purchasing the items they needed on Dugu Yi's way.
When they returned to the medical hall, the three of them were carrying large and small packages in their hands, of course, Dugu Yi paid for them himself. Now, the three people in the hospital know that Dugu Yi is rich, but only Xue'er knows where Dugu Yi's money came from and where it is hidden.
Looking at the many packages that had been placed in his room, Dugu Yi couldn't help but sigh: "It turns out that you need so many things to go far away. ”
"These are all must-haves. ”
Ning An, who didn't know that Dugu Yi had a storage ring, was still helping Dugu Yi sort out the package, and Xue'er went to help Yanzhong prepare dinner together after sending the package in, although it was usually prepared by Xue'er, but today Yanzhong insisted on cooking it himself.
"That's right!" Ning An suddenly stopped what he was doing and looked back at Dugu Yi who was resting on the chair. "I haven't heard you say where your hometown is, isn't it far away?"
"It's very far away!" Dugu Yi raised his head, he wanted to look at the sky but only saw the beams, but he didn't retract his gaze, and said lightly: "Minghe Kingdom." ”
"Is there a country with that name?" Ning An searched in his mind for a long time, but there was no information related to it.
Dugu Yi still maintained a posture of raising his head, and said lightly: "Just in the easternmost part of the continent, it is a very small country, known as the place closest to cruelty and death......"
"Why?" Out of curiosity or surprise, Ning An couldn't help but interrupt Dugu Yi.
"I don't know. Dugu Yi smiled bitterly: "I didn't live there for a long time, and I was too young to be interested in this kind of thing at all, but I vaguely heard that the country would be trampled by the overwhelming Yuan Beast every few years, and it would come and go and come and go like a tide, and during that time all humans could do was to hide, even if it was Wangcheng, it would not be spared under the beast tide." ”
Dugu Yi paused, and then said: "It seems that the previous kings also organized armies and hired human powerhouses to stop the beast tide, but the result was that the human race was completely wiped out, and the beast tide still passed through, which is said to be because of the appearance of a super-level Yuan Beast." ”
"A super-level primordial beast, a beast tide that humans can't fight?"
Ning An felt terrifying just thinking about it in his mind, what kind of existence was a super-rank primordial beast, no one had ever seen it, or no human person who had seen it could pass on the relevant information; now people only knew one thing: super-rank primordial beast was a more powerful existence than a human martial saint.
After being stunned for a long time, Ning An raised his hand to wipe the fine sweat from his forehead, and said in a trembling voice: "That... That... That's... Place... How can there still be people living and a country still being built?"
"Who knows?"
"You're going back to a place like that, are you alright?"
Dugu Yi shook his head slightly, turned his head to look at Ning An, and said: "There is no need for you to worry about this, with my current footsteps, I will have to walk for at least a year or so to return to the Minghe Kingdom; ”
"That's right. Ning An nodded slightly, although he was no longer worried about Dugu Yi, the shock in his heart did not fade.
When Ning An began to sort out the package again, Dugu Yi continued: "The River Styx is the real original name of that country, and there is an even more terrifying place besides the beast tide. ”
"Wouldn't it?" Ning An looked at Dugu Yi with a 'you're kidding' look, and the movements in his hands stopped completely.
"Cursed Lands!"
Dugu Yi's fists were already clenched tightly at this time, and his whole body began to tremble, but he forcibly suppressed the fluctuating emotions, and still maintained the tone just now and said: "That valley is a nightmare that human beings dare not touch! Every full moon night, even a hundred miles away, you can clearly feel the cold air coming from the valley, and you can even hear a terrible wail; no one has ever entered that valley, so no one knows what is inside and what it looks like. ”
Dugu Yi looked at Ning An, who was stunned because of the horror, and added: "These are just what I recalled in this year, but there shouldn't be anything else." ”
After Dugu Yi finished speaking, Ning An was silent for a long time before grinning dryly: "Your hometown is really a terrifying place. ”
"Yes, indeed. Dugu Yi nodded with a wry smile, touched the blindfold on his face, and asked in his heart: Why was I born in that kind of place, why was I so close to the Valley of the Damned?
Ning looked at Dugu Yi calmly for a while, then sighed heavily, and said, "You know that you still have to go back?"
"Yes!" Dugu Yi took a deep breath, stood up from the chair, but did not leave the blindfold with his hand, and said: "Although it is a terrible place, it is also the place where it began, I must go back, and then start looking for ...... from there"
(Note) Yuan Beast: According to its own intelligence and strength, it is roughly divided into one to nine levels, and each level has three stages: front, middle, and back. The Yuan Core formed in the body of the Yuan Beast can be used by cultivators, absorbing the Yuan Power and improving the martial rank, the more advanced the Yuan Beast, the more refined the Yuan Power contained in the Yuan Core in the body, and the more precious it is. The super-order primordial beast is a more powerful existence than the late ninth-order period, and it is a transcendent existence that can no longer be called a 'primordial beast'.