Why did Guo Yi appear in Chōkoku country? This is also a question he wants to ask himself now.

  He remembered that at the time of his battle with Yan Que, he had already gained the upper hand, and was about to deliver the final blow, when suddenly a tremor occurred in his lower abdomen, causing his body to hesitate for an instant. At this critical moment, his spiritual gate opened, and he was on the verge of breaking through to a higher level. Yan Que took advantage of Guo Yao's momentary lapse and stabbed two short swords into his abdomen, but what he did not expect was that they had struck precisely the two gates of Guo Yao's cultivation.

  At that time, Guo Yi lost consciousness. When he woke up, he was already in the royal city of Changguo State. What made him speechless was that the Yujin Order hanging on his chest had disappeared.

  "We've definitely encountered bandits."

  Kuo Yeh struggled to his feet, only to find that everything of value on him had vanished except for the Imperial Edict. Even the "Nine Transformations of the Mysterious Flame" given by Ji You Ruan was nowhere to be found. Fortunately, he had memorized the entire "Vermilion Flame Chapter", otherwise he would have been left with nothing but tears.

  "You damned thief, if I catch you, watch me not leave a single piece of clothing on you, and best take your underwear too..." Guo Yi cursed as he walked into the Longguang Wang City.

  This is a mortal city, and there are no immortal sects or schools. Even the Martial Saints are rarely seen on the streets. The strongest person Guo Yi has seen is only at the eighth level of the "Great Martial Scripture", and this person is still a master of the royal city.

  Guo Yi only found out after inquiring that this place was actually 90,000 miles away from the Forbidden City. Even if he rode an iron-hoofed war beast, it would take him nine days to get back. Suddenly, he cursed his bad luck, "Damn thief, stealing the Forbidden Order is one thing, but you've also stolen me and taken me 90,000 miles away!"

  Guo Yiru has now opened the door to immortality, and feels a faint flow of spiritual energy in his body. However, it cannot last long, and the spiritual energy circles around the gate once before disappearing, unable to cross over.

  Only by crossing the gate of cultivation can one truly embark on the path of cultivation. This is also the most difficult pass, and the vast majority of people are blocked outside the gate of cultivation. Many high-ranking masters in "Wu Bang" are trapped here for a lifetime, never to be able to cultivate again.

  "How can there be two paths of cultivation? Am I supposed to embark on two different paths of cultivation? Or am I supposed to choose one of them?"

  Guo Yibai was at a loss for what to do and finally decided to return to Youjin City to ask Ji You Ran, perhaps she would know more.

  Guo Yi suddenly thought of something, "Aren't Li Yuan and Li Xiaoyan siblings from a collateral branch of the Longguo royal family? Five years ago, their cultivation was low, they were bullied in the family, so they went to Youjin City. Now that they have achieved the cultivation of a Martial Saint, why are they still afraid to return to their family?"

  "Could it be that the Li family still has some secret that even the Martial Saint fears?" Guo Yao's curiosity was piqued, and he wanted to investigate.

  The Changguo Wangcheng was not large, and Guo Ye soon heard the relevant information. It turned out that there really was a big family with the surname Li, whose head was the Taishi of Changguo State.

  An old man said to Guo Yi, "Li Taishi is an immortal from Changguo State, who has lived for over 300 years. He has many children and grandchildren, with his descendants reaching the ninth generation, and the entire family has a population of tens of thousands."

  "The family has a population of tens of thousands, it's indeed a big family. This Li Taishi seems to be at least a spiritual being who has already embarked on the path of cultivating immortality."

  Guo Yue now understands why Li Xiaoyan and her brother became the Martial Saints, yet still dare not return home, but what reason made them leave home in anger?

  The old man mysteriously said to Guo Yao, "I heard that Li Taishi's mansion was haunted last night, and a female ghost almost scared the Eighth Lady into madness."

  Guo Yi never believed in ghosts and asked: "Who is Madame Ba?"

  "She was the eighth wife of Li Taishi and lived for over 200 years." said the old man.

  "What!" Guo Yi was surprised this time. Logically speaking, a small place like Changguo Country could already be considered extraordinary for producing one spiritual being, and now another one appeared? It seemed that the Li family was indeed a family of immortal cultivators!

  A living person was almost scared out of his wits by a female ghost, which is very strange.

  Guo Yi originally asked the old man for directions, but inadvertently obtained this information. He wanted to give the old man some reward, but found that he had nothing useful on him at the time.

  The old man suddenly pulled Guo Yao and pointed to a young man in the middle of the street, saying: "That young man is the eldest son of Mrs. Ba."

  Guo Yimiao narrowed his eyes and looked ahead, and indeed saw a young man who bore some resemblance to Li Yuanzhang. At this moment, the young man was worried and anxious, muttering something under his breath, as if he had encountered a ghost the night before, his expression dazed and bewildered.

  After thanking the old man, Guo Yi followed him up. Along the way, the young man kept muttering: "Little Smoke sister has come back to claim lives, everyone will die in this house..."

  Kuo Yeh's eyebrows furrowed as he listened, who was this Little Smoke sister of his? Could it be Li Xiaoyan?

  Guo Yi followed the young man all the way to a huge mansion, where a large plaque on the golden lacquered gate read "Taishi Fu" in three bold characters.

  The entire Taishi Mansion was closed, and the massive door ring seemed to be stained with fresh blood. As soon as one entered, a strong smell of blood could be detected.

  That young soul, restless and unguarded, pushed open the large gate and walked into the Taishi Mansion. Guo Yi was considering whether to follow him in when a mournful and eerie cry echoed from within the mansion, as if countless vengeful spirits were wailing inside.

  "Boom!"

  The young man who had just entered burst open the door and escaped, his eyes were bloodshot, he was so scared that his eyeballs were about to pop out, and he knelt down and cried: "Xiao Yan sister spare my life, it was mother who killed you, it has nothing to do with me..."

  "Boom!"

  Before the young man finished crying out, corpses flew out from the gate one by one. There was no wound on these corpses, but every corpse had an extremely fearful face. Each of them was scared to death, and it is unknown what kind of terrifying thing they saw when they were alive.

  The corpses were constantly being thrown out of the mansion, with over a hundred bodies in total. Even though it was still daytime, it made people feel numb all over and want to leave immediately.

  Guo Yi was also shocked by the scene in front of him, and he went forward to help up the young man who was about to faint. He asked: "Who is this Little Smoke sister you mentioned?"

  "Ah! Little Xiaoyan, it wasn't me, I didn't kill her..." The young man pointed at the gate and shouted in terror, then rushed in like a madman.

  "Could Xiao Yan really be inside."

  Kuo Yeh followed with doubt, but as soon as he stepped into the Tai Shi Fu, he was startled by the scene in front of him. The ground was filled with dead people, without a single wound on their bodies, just like those outside, every one of them had been scared to death. That young man also ran off somewhere.

  A chilling cry echoed from the depths of the mansion, a mournful wail that sent shivers down one's spine.

  Kuo Yiping held his breath and made a great effort to control his emotions, walking through the corridor in the direction of the crying sound. The road was piled up with corpses, he no longer wanted to count the number of corpses, because there were too many, and it was impossible to count them all.

  After passing through three courtyards, Guo Yi arrived in front of a low and humble stone house. This stone house was quite secluded and did not match the luxurious style of the entire mansion. From a distance, you could feel a chilling cold air emanating from it.

  Two corpses were nailed to the wall in front of the stone house, an old man with white whiskers and a middle-aged beautiful woman. Both of them wore extremely luxurious clothes, and their skin was flowing with a hint of Taoist rhyme. Their Dantian had been dug out by someone, and spiritual energy was constantly escaping from the wound.

  At this time, the two corpses still had a few degrees of warmth, as if they had just died recently. These two people were Li Taishi and Eighth Auntie.

  "Even the spirits have died in this place, what kind of terrifying existence have they provoked?"

  All that can be seen is the disappearing youth kneeling on the ground, wailing in pain, constantly knocking his head against the stone house, his forehead already shattered, still muttering to himself, unable to make out what he's saying.

  What secrets lie hidden in this stone chamber?

  He thought that young man had gone mad, but just as Guo Yi was about to step into the stone room to investigate, he suddenly called out: "You can't go in."

  "Why?"

  The young man's eyes were filled with fear as he said: "Because there is a corpse inside, and the soul of that corpse has turned into a fierce ghost."

  "Whose corpse?" Guo Yi asked.

  "He said, 'I'm her half-brother.'"

  "Little Smoke Sister?" Guo Yi held the young man in his hand, pushed open the stone gate and stepped inside. This was a large ice cellar, it was quite dark inside, with only faint light shining dimly.

  The ice cellar was divided into three layers, and the lower you went, the colder it became. Occasionally, you could still hear the sound of dripping water. By the time they reached the third layer, it had become extremely cold. Even Guo Yi's current body felt like it was being frozen to the point of pain, and the young man he was holding in his hand was shivering violently, with a layer of frost on his face.

  "Five... five years ago, my mother... killed Little Smoke's sister. Afraid of being discovered, she stored her body in the lowest level of the ice cave."

  Guo Yi didn't believe the young man's words because he had seen Li Xiaoyan not long ago, how could she have died here five years ago.

  But when he walked to the third layer of the ice cellar and saw the corpse of a little girl lying in the ice, his brain suddenly exploded with a loud noise, and his whole body was about to fall to the ground.

  This was a pale corpse, although still quite young in age, but Guo Yedan was certain that this corpse and Li Xiaoyan were definitely the same person, because not only did they look too alike, but the aura on their bodies was also identical.

  "Li Xiaoyan's body was placed here five years ago, so who is the Li Xiaoyan I saw? No, they were originally the same person..."

  "Could it be that what I saw was her ghost?" Guo Yi suddenly felt his mind go blank, a chill running down his spine.

  "Then did Li Yuan know that his sister was already dead?"

  "I don't know, the whole thing only my mother and I knew. The young man found it strange that Guo Yi was more fearful than him, and continued: "Five years ago, on the second day after Xiaoyan's sister died, Li Yuan also disappeared."

  "What really happened five years ago? Is there really a ghost in this world?"

  Suddenly, Guo Yi felt a black shadow flash behind him. He turned his head to look but found nothing. Had he seen things? Guo Yi turned around to look at the ice cave and discovered that Li Xiaoyan's corpse had suddenly disappeared, vanishing from under Guo Yi's eyelids in just one turn of his body.

  The entire ice cellar only had one door, and it was always within Guo Yi's line of sight. Where did the corpse go? Did the corpse walk out by itself?

  Kuo Yi was puzzled and couldn't figure it out, so he turned to the young man and asked: "Did you see anything just now?"

  The young man didn't utter a word in response, and had actually already died from fright. His eyes bulged outwards, his pupils extremely dilated, his mouth agape, the skin on his face taut, and he was literally scared to death.

  "What did he see in that instant that was so terrifying?"

  Kuo Yeh placed the young man's body in the ice cellar, and his mind was filled with the shadow of Li Xiao Yan. His heart was full of doubts, "Was the woman who had been with me for so long really just a female ghost?"

  Kuo Yeh's restless soul walked out of the Tai Shifu mansion, without noticing the figure in black standing on top of the stone house within the compound. At this moment, the dark figure took one last look at him before his body became illusory and transformed into a wisp of green smoke that vanished into thin air.

  Kuo Yeh walked out of the Taishi Mansion, and the sky had already completely darkened. The sunset dusk seemed particularly desolate, and the pedestrians on the street gradually thinned out.

  Through the towering and icy city walls, you can see the clouds at the horizon like flames, in which an ancient chariot is being pulled by a strange bird with its whole body ablaze, rolling towards this side.

  An elegant flute melody echoed from the ancient car, sometimes high and sometimes low, sometimes slow and sometimes urgent, floating in the afterglow of the setting sun. The flute sound emitted endless murderous aura, just like a swordsman was about to draw his sharp sword and stab into the enemy's heart.

  Guo Yiwang looked at the old car and whispered: "What a heavy killing aura, I don't know who's going to be unlucky."