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Chapter 124 Reunion with Guo Yutian

A day later, after a short rest, the group finally embarked on their journey back to the academy.

Fortunately, although the trip was extremely dangerous, no one was injured or killed. Although there was still some evil energy in everyone's body that could not be removed, it could be suppressed for the time being. As long as they could return in time, it was not a big problem with the academy's capabilities.

It is worth mentioning that when Lu Yunxi and Lin Min returned to the Iron Mountain Sect, they found that all the strange spirits in the sect had disappeared.

But these are things beyond their control. Asking them to go back again is absolutely out of the question. Let's talk about the rest after we get back to the academy.

The academy rarely takes the initiative to deal with matters concerning otherworldly spirits, but it can report them to the relevant authorities in the Eastern Xia Kingdom for them to handle.

As for a nobody like myself, I can just go back and enjoy my vacation.

"Look, isn't that Li Family Village?" Tang Busan pointed ahead and suddenly shouted to the crowd.

“That’s true.” Lu Yunshi replied, and then the group exchanged glances before arriving at the entrance of Li Family Village.

"Do you think the barrier outside Li Family Village is still there?" Li Hu looked at the air in front of him, somewhat puzzled.

Lu Yunshi smiled mysteriously upon hearing this. "Finding the answer to this question isn't difficult; you just need to..."

Before he could finish speaking, Lu Yunshi reached out his wicked hand, and Li Hu, caught off guard, was pushed inside by Lu Yunshi.

"Hey!" Li Hu was shocked, but found that his body had easily left the original position of the barrier. He immediately calmed down, glared at Lu Yunshi angrily, and punched Lu Yunshi in the chest.

"Junior Brother Lu, you've gone astray. What if I get trapped again after coming in?"

"Don't worry." Lu Yunshi stepped into Li Family Village, seemingly having anticipated this situation. "Although the formation of Li Family Village and the Iron Mountain Sect are not at the same core, they are linked together. It can be considered an extension of the Iron Mountain Sect's formation. Now that the Iron Mountain Sect's formation has failed, the same will naturally happen here."

As he spoke, Lu Yunshi looked around. The blood-red substances that had been around the houses had disappeared. Li Family Village now looked like a deserted, abandoned village. It no longer had the eerie feeling it had before. Although there were still some strange spiritual energies in the air, they were no longer a problem.

After pondering for a while, Lu Yunshi did not leave, but went inside.

"Junior Brother Lu, what are you going in for?" Seeing Lu Yunshi walk in, everyone was a little confused, and Li Hu asked directly.

"I promised to do something, so it's better to do it if I can." Lu Yunshi turned around and smiled slightly at everyone before continuing to walk inside. Lu Yunxi pursed her lips and followed without saying a word. Seeing this, the others naturally wouldn't leave alone.

Soon, the group arrived near the large tree and saw the frail, seemingly elderly man.

"Hello, senior, I am Lu Yunshi, a student of Wujie Academy." Lu Yunshi knelt on one knee and greeted the old man with a faint smile.

The old man slowly moved his head, and his cloudy eyes became clearer.

"Hello... I am... Elder Guo Yutian of the Iron Mountain Sect."

At this point, Guo Yutian paused for a moment, then asked a question.

"You...did it?"

“It’s done. Everything is over. I came to see you one last time, following Sect Master Zhang’s last wish. He said he was sorry to you and to the entire Iron Mountain Sect, and asked you to scold him severely,” Lu Yunshi replied.

During a conversation with Zhang Tieshan, he also mentioned the matter of Lijia Village. At that time, Zhang Tieshan remained silent for a long time, seemingly understanding everything, but he didn't say anything. He only asked Lu Yunshi to come here and do something after he left.

Guo Yutian was stunned for a long time upon hearing this, and two lines of tears slid down his cheeks.

“Well done, well done! At that time, I was mostly corrupted by the alien energy and was beyond saving. He could only ask me to go outside and find someone to help me, while he stayed behind to activate the Iron Mountain Sect's formation, isolating the Iron Mountain Sect from the outside world and preventing the alien energy from flowing out.”

“I was looking for an opportunity to leave the Iron Mountain Sect. I wanted to find someone to resolve this matter. At that time, the formation had just been activated and was not stable. Li Qing still possessed immense power, and many high-level alien spirits in the sect showed signs of forcibly breaking out. If they were allowed to come out, by the time I returned, there would probably be no people left within a hundred miles of the Iron Mountain Sect.”

"The sins of the Iron Mountain Sect should remain within the Iron Mountain Sect. My arrival in Li Family Village is the beginning of all this. I used the lingering spiritual energy here as a guide to set up a new formation, with myself as the core of the formation, to teleport all the spiritual beings who left the Iron Mountain Sect to this place, preventing them from going out to harm people."

"This letter has been pending for several years. I'm so lucky that things have been resolved satisfactorily. Thank you all, young man. Now, could you please help me with one last thing?"

Guo Yutian looked up and gazed into Lu Yunshi's eyes.

"Can you help me?"

“Of course, I came here for this very reason.” Under the questioning gazes of the people behind him, Lu Yunshi slowly stood up, suddenly gripped his sword, and before the others could react, Lu Yunshi’s sword slashed across Guo Yutian’s neck.

"Senior, may you have a safe journey."

"...Junior Brother Lu, what are you doing...?" Apart from Lu Yunxi, who remained calm, Lin Min and the other three did not understand why Lu Yunshi suddenly killed Guo Yutian. According to the other party, he was a hero who protected the people within a hundred miles of the Iron Mountain Sect.

If they didn't know that Lu Yunshi wasn't an evil person, they probably wouldn't have found it strange.

"Just helping him." Lu Yunshi sheathed his sword, his tone filled with regret.

"This Elder Guo used himself as the core of the formation, as if he were immersed in the strange spiritual energy. He should have died long ago, but because of the strange spiritual energy, he stubbornly continued to live, constantly using himself as a source of energy for the formation. Fortunately, this formation was linked to the Iron Mountain Sect's formation and also introduced some of the power of the Iron Mountain Sect's formation to suppress the strange spiritual energy here, which allowed Elder Guo to barely retain his mind."

“Even so, he was constantly tormented mentally. If he had relaxed even a little, he would have been transformed long ago.”

“He’s been living such a miserable life, he’s wanted to die for a long time. When Sect Leader Zhang asked me to do this, he thought the same thing. As for me… I’ve been given the hands-on work, and all the pressure has fallen on me.”

After muttering a few words with a displeased expression, Lu Yunshi seemed to have discovered something. He squatted down, took Guo Yutian's hand, and ripped off the storage ring on it.

"Consider this payment, your funeral expenses."