eurekapd Chapter 131 Leaving Home
Chapter 131 Leaving Home
In a flash of inspiration, Zhang Yunling and Xue Minghua fell to the ground, having escaped the pursuit of the Taiping Dao cultivators.
"Luckily, I had the spatial scroll Wan'er gave me. It was a near-death experience... But with my current strength, just using the spatial scroll once almost exhausted all my spiritual power..." Zhang Yunling thought to himself.
Xue Minghua looked around and, after realizing that his divine sense could no longer detect the presence of other cultivators, he breathed a sigh of relief, patted Zhang Yunling on the shoulder, and praised, "Well done, Yunling, you still have this trump card!"
Zhang Yunling nodded slightly, and was about to speak when a mound of earth not far from him came into view. It was an earthen grave, the tomb of Zhang Yunling's father, Zhang He.
In an instant, all the thoughts related to his father flooded his mind. When he was young, his father worked hard to farm and earn money to support his studies. Although he passed the imperial examinations after he grew up, he was unable to fulfill his filial duties to his father in his old age. This was his incompetence and the source of his hatred.
Zhang Yunling's eyes were vacant, and he forgot all about Xue Minghua's endless chatter beside him. He slowly walked towards his father's grave, subconsciously kneeling down, tears welling up in his eyes.
Xue Minghua realized that something was wrong, and seeing Zhang Yunling's unusual behavior, he also kept quiet.
Zhang Yunling kowtowed three times deeply before his adoptive father Zhang He's tombstone, then stood up and asked in a deep voice:
"Brother Minghua, how long have you been in Daotian Continent?"
After thinking for a moment, Xue Minghua replied, "Including this year, it's the fourth year."
Zhang Yunling wiped away the tears on her face with her sleeve, adjusted her mindset, and turned around to say, "What I just used was a magic weapon containing spatial power, which will take me to a place in my memory."
"This is a place deep in my memory, where my father is buried. He was secretly murdered when I first became a cultivator, and I embarked on this path of cultivation to seek revenge. Minghua, in your four years on the Dao Tian Continent, have you ever seen a woman with a full head of silver hair?"
Upon hearing Zhang Yunling's question, Xue Minghua frowned and pondered, then immediately came up with a clue: "A woman with a full head of silver hair... Now that you mention it, I do have a vague impression of her. However, I didn't see her on the Dao Tian Continent, but rather on the border of the Western Desert. That woman not only had long silver hair, but she was also wearing a white robe."
Zhang Yunling clenched his fists, looked westward, and slowly said, "Is Morika's matter urgent?"
Xue Minghua paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "Oh, no rush. Where can that little girl run off to? I've wasted a lot of time looking for her. Instead of searching for a needle in a haystack, let's find something else to do. Yunling, you tell me, where should we go?"
Zhang Yunling stepped forward and hugged Xue Minghua tightly, saying in a deep voice, "Good brother, we hit it off immediately. If you help me this time, I will definitely repay this kindness in the future!"
Xue Minghua patted him on the back. Although the two had only known each other for a few days, they had experienced a lot together. It seemed that it was fate that brought these two brothers in misfortune together.
Zhang Yunling took out a spatial scroll from his storage bag and handed it to Xue Minghua, saying, "Unroll this scroll, then try to recall the place where you saw that woman back then, while chanting the incantation."
Xue Minghua took the scroll and tentatively asked, "If we really go back, can we come back?"
Zhang Yunling firmly replied, "Of course I can, and I can do it anytime."
As the incantation was recited, Xue Minghua clearly felt the spiritual power in his body being rapidly absorbed by the spatial scroll, followed by a feeling of weightlessness that swept over his entire body.
Seeing this, Zhang Yunling reached out and grabbed Xue Minghua's arm. Both of them were pulled together by the power of space and began to teleport. The vague memory in Xue Minghua's mind became clearer and clearer until finally, a green light flashed in his eyes, and the place in his memory completely became reality. They arrived at the borderland that Xue Minghua had mentioned.
Zhang Yunling spread his divine sense and looked around at the surrounding environment. It was a vast desert, desolate and uninhabited.
But the next moment, Zhang Yunling felt a powerful energy coming from one direction. He looked closely and saw a pale gray light curtain standing in the desert in the distance. This light curtain stretched for hundreds of miles without end, like a wall separating the two worlds.
Xue Minghua pointed to the light screen and explained to Zhang Yunling, "Look, that's the border region, the barrier between Daotian Continent and the Western Desert. To cross this barrier and go to Daotian Continent, you need to travel through a special space tunnel."
Zhang Yunling smiled and said, "This passage must also be controlled by the Western Regions Empire. If you want to use it, you have to give them a lot of benefits."
Xue Minghua nodded and said, "Yes, that's what I'm worried about too. If we can't go back to Daotian Continent, we won't be able to use that spatial passage anymore. I've already been ripped off."
Zhang Yunling patted Xue Minghua on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, you can go back anytime. Speaking of which, this is my first time in a foreign land. Brother Minghua, please be my guide and show me around this continent."
Xue Minghua smiled and nodded, about to speak, but his expression immediately turned serious because he sensed a very powerful energy fluctuation coming from the direction of the sky.
Zhang Yunling looked up at the sky. Unlike Xue Minghua, he showed no wariness in the face of this unusually powerful energy. Instead, he was quite delighted.
A purple light tore the sky apart, and a phantom hand slowly emerged from it. Upon seeing this, Zhang Yunling slapped his forehead. Only now did he remember that he had such a powerful backer, and he realized that the giant hand was his backer's classic move—the Formless Hand!