#108 - Chapter 108: Stone House

After spending half an hour, you arrived at the foot of the black mountain. Of course, before heading back, you swept away everything in the Heavenly Demon Sect's treasury, storing it all in your storage bag.

Although you don't think much of these magical artifacts and spiritual weapons, there's a large enough quantity to be useful for a certain plan you have in mind.

Now that Qiu Yue has been killed by you, and the Demonic Path of Qingzhou is in complete disarray, you can start considering how to reorganize the order of Qingzhou.

As you've already said before, although the order of the Righteous Path is better than that of the Demonic Path, it's not what you want. You want to initially establish your ideal order in Qingzhou, which requires a large number of people.

The contents of the Heavenly Demon Sect's treasury are exactly what you need.

After spending ten minutes, you walked out of the tunnel, returned to the black palace, and looked at the second door.

"I hope the Xuan Bird Token and the Merman Pearl are inside, otherwise I'll feel uneasy..." Lin Changqing muttered to himself, then forcefully pushed open the second door.

You felt that this battle was too smooth; only by seeing the Xuan Bird Token and the Merman Pearl with your own eyes could you be sure that Qiu Yue was truly dead.

The second door, like the first, also had a black tunnel inside, but the difference was that this tunnel was very quiet, without the sound of wailing ghosts.

You stepped into it, and after ten minutes, you reached the end of the tunnel, and then you saw...

You saw stone houses everywhere. This seemed to be a desolate wilderness, with stone houses resembling primitive tribal dwellings scattered everywhere. At the edge of the wilderness, there were also about several thousand giant stone pillars, each about a dozen zhang high, standing in some irregular pattern.

Last time, the tunnel connected to a black mountain; this time, the tunnel connected to a desolate wilderness filled with stone houses, as if you had arrived in prehistoric times.

After seeing the stone houses, you were very surprised, because these stone houses reminded you of the City of the Dead. You remembered that in the last simulation, you entered a city full of stone houses in the Chaoge City of the Dead, and this place was very similar in style to that City of the Dead.

"Qiu Yue possesses the Xuan Bird Token, so she must have entered the City of the Dead more than once. Did she arrange this place to imitate the style of the City of the Dead, or did she bring these things out of the Stone City?"

Lin Changqing examined the stone houses in front of him, and the more he looked at them, the more he felt that they were things that had come out of the City of the Dead.

What's the point of filling this place with stone houses? And what about those giant stone pillars standing next to them?

Moreover, the black mountain in the previous door had the existence of evil ghosts, even if they were dead objects, they could still be considered to have some movement.

But this place is different. Lin Changqing didn't feel any vitality at all.

There was only a desolate wilderness, giant stone pillars, and these uninhabited stone houses.

You walked into a stone house and began to explore. It was empty inside. Then you walked into the second, the third... After searching hundreds of stone houses in a row, they were all empty. Not to mention people, there weren't even any traces of people living there, as if these stone houses were just decorations.

Over the next half hour, you searched almost all of the stone houses scattered across the desolate wilderness, but there was nothing inside.

Fortunately, at the last moment, you discovered something different in a stone house located in the center of this desolate wilderness.

The stone house in the center was larger than the other stone houses, and more importantly, you found traces of living people inside.

Walking into this central stone house, the interior of the house was like a woman's boudoir, with a mirror, rouge, a red peach wood table, a red peach wood bed, and even a futon underneath. Lin Changqing even saw a cup of unfinished tea on the peach wood table.

Lin Changqing picked up the cup of tea and sensed it. The tea was actually still warm!

All of this indicated that someone had lived in this house, and it was just recently.

Who could it be? You suspected it was Qiu Yue.

"Has Qiu Yue lived here before?" Lin Changqing carefully scanned the house. He searched through the house again, and soon, he saw a box under the peach wood bed, a box that looked like it was for storing clothes.

There were many women's clothes here, and most importantly, Lin Changqing found a very familiar blood-colored palace dress inside.

This was clearly Qiu Yue's clothes.

Through these things, you confirmed that this central stone house was where Qiu Yue lived? The question is, what did Qiu Yue come here to do?

After searching for half an hour, you didn't find anything special in the stone house. There was nothing in this house except for a cup of unfinished tea.

The other door had a mountain of evil ghosts and the Heavenly Demon Sect's treasury. Obviously, the things inside the door should all be relatively valuable items of the Heavenly Demon Sect.

You didn't believe that there was nothing in the second door, but unfortunately, after searching back and forth for another half hour, you searched the central stone house over and over again, and also swept through the other stone houses, but still found nothing.

You didn't find the Merman Pearl and the Xuan Bird Token, nor did you resolve the doubts in your heart.

"Could it be that my unease is just me overthinking things? Qiu Yue was indeed killed by me, she is indeed dead, there are no unexpected circumstances. As for the accidental disappearance of the Merman Pearl and the Xuan Bird Token, maybe Qiu Yue put them in some unknown hidden place."

Lin Changqing thought to himself. He had almost searched this place, but still hadn't found anything.

He could only think that way.

Another half hour passed, and you carefully searched this place again, but you still didn't find anything special.

Suddenly, an idea struck you. You walked out of the central stone house, flew into the sky, and looked down at this desolate wilderness.

This look really allowed you to discover something. Looking down from the sky, the placement of these stone houses and stone pillars was actually based on the trajectory of some kind of formation!

"Could this place be a formation? Who arranged it? Qiu Yue?"

"Also, if it's a formation, what's its purpose?" Lin Changqing pondered in the sky, and began to speculate.

Qiu Yue lived here, and put some clothes here, indicating that she had lived here for a long time. Maybe it was a place for closed-door cultivation, or maybe the formation in this place was very important, requiring her to be here for a long time.

But the problem is, all of this is just Lin Changqing's speculation.

It's still hard to say whether this place is a formation or not.

"Maybe I need to find some Supreme Elders of the Heavenly Demon Sect to ask. These Supreme Elders should know the core secrets of the Heavenly Demon Sect, and maybe they know what this place is used for," Lin Changqing thought. He didn't know if it was a coincidence of fate.

Before, Mo Batian held a Golden Core banquet, and the Supreme Elders of the Heavenly Demon Sect's headquarters must have gone.

He had been too ruthless before. At the Golden Core banquet, he had killed all of those eighth- and ninth-layer Golden Core Supreme Elders with one strike.

This also led to the fact that there wasn't even a Supreme Elder-level figure in the Heavenly Demon Sect's headquarters now, and Lin Changqing couldn't find anyone to ask.

But it's not a big problem. According to Lin Changqing's understanding, some Heavenly Demon Sect branches scattered in various prefectures of Qingzhou still have some Supreme Elder-level existences.

Finding these Supreme Elders might lead to some clues.