Master of Strange Dao

The village chief looked at the sentence, he didn't understand its meaning, but he also realized it was a hint given by the Jade Tomb.

Had the Jade Tomb developed its own consciousness?

The village chief furrowed his brows slightly, memorized the sentence, and seeing everything return to normal, he vanished from the spot in a flash.

He wanted to check on the situation in the village.

Such a huge change could easily result in injuries, though death was unlikely.

The weakest person in the village, buried in the belly of the mountain, could not die so quickly either.

He moved incredibly fast, as if tearing through the air in front of him, darting toward the village like a strong arrow.

However, this time, he silently estimated that it took twice as long as usual.

Jinlan Mountain had grown much larger.

After patrolling the village, those tough-skinned folks were only a bit shaken up. The only one injured was a guy who got so scared that he ran around chaotically and was calmed down by a slash from the butcher.

Qingqing was fine, the little one reacted the quickest, sensing something was amiss and rushing out of the mine.

The Little Tree Demon stationed at the village entrance was also fine, just scared.

The only slight problem was with the hungry ghosts who couldn't escape with their homes in time. The expanding Jinlan Mountain had enveloped some hungry ghosts, and the alien power made them very uncomfortable. They could run, but running with their homes was problematic.

Walking on air, he reached mid-air and saw numerous locust trees pulling their root systems out of the ground, moving like little demons with their thick roots as legs, taking small steps toward a location away from Jinlan Mountain.

Luckily, Yu Ziqing had left a sufficiently large zone between Jinlan Mountain and the locust forest at that time, which gave these folks time to evade.

The village chief circled around the new Jinlan Mountain, casually pulling out those locust trees that hadn't been taken along, and tossing them outside the boundaries of Jinlan Mountain.

When he reached the north side, he saw You Zhen had dug out his entire manor and moved it over two hundred li to the north.

"Village chief, need any help?"

You Zhen called out from a distance; he didn't rashly ask what had happened.

"No issues, just a small problem, nothing serious."

"Just call if you need anything."

From afar, You Zhen looked towards the distance, saw a huge number of locust trees moving like countless Tree Demons, and also noticed that Jinlan Mountain had visibly grown several sizes larger.

He didn't know what had happened, but he could feel that the alien power of Jinlan Mountain was growing stronger.

Just now, there was a lazy, deadly power, hidden and unreleased, that leaked just a bit of its essence and made him feel a bit of pressure.

The waters of Jinlan Mountain were indeed deeper than he had anticipated.

This was why he never entered Jinlan Mountain.

He did not want to know the internal affairs of Jinlan Mountain, nor did he want anyone using his remains to pry into the internal situation of Jinlan Mountain.

The village chief circled Jinlan Mountain in and out at the fastest speed, and after confirming there were no issues, he immediately crushed a Jade Scroll, sending a message to Yu Ziqing.

The Mountain Protection Array that Yang had painstakingly set up was partially shattered by the expanding Jinlan Mountain; Yang would definitely sense it.

Normally, if a large part of the Mountain Protection Array crumbled at the same time, it certainly meant an invasion by external enemies.

Since Yang and Yu Ziqing were out on business and there was no danger at home, there was no need to worry them.

On the other side, Yang indeed sensed the shattering of the Mountain Protection Array, and it was a large area.

He immediately found Yu Ziqing and mentioned the incident.

Yu Ziqing and his group hadn't planned to leave yet when they sensed the message from the village chief.

According to the preset content, the village chief's crushed Jade Scroll informed them that everything was fine at home, nothing serious.

Nonetheless, Yu Ziqing still decided to hurry back and see what exactly had happened.

Considering there seemed to be no issues on this side for now, and the remaining tasks didn't really require Yu Ziqing's involvement, he wasn't needed here.

Taking his people, Yu Ziqing boarded King Xiang's Flying Boat, racing westward. After several days, they crossed Dazhen's territory and entered the Wilderness area.

As he drew closer to Jinlan Mountain, Yu Ziqing started to feel that the atmosphere around Jinlan Mountain was somewhat different.

When he finally saw Jinlan Mountain from afar, the entire mountain had clearly expanded several times in size, its highest peak now reaching into the clouds.

At that moment, he could see the locust trees, under the control of the hungry ghosts, slowly spreading outwards.

Without even getting closer, he sensed the pressure coming from Jinlan Mountain. At this moment, Jinlan Mountain was like a giant, silently sleeping atop the Wilderness.

The unique sense of pressure and sediment from famous mountains and rivers hit him, as if Jinlan Mountain had existed for a very long time, filled with an ancient air.

Even before entering, Yu Ziqing realized, it had come.

He had always felt that there would be a change, and finally, it had arrived.

But this process, wasn't immediate, it was delayed for a while.

When he entered An History Book's sealing and saw those disasters, Yu Ziqing knew that as long as it was resolved, it was bound to cause changes outside.

The Dadui Seal was about disaster, and the disaster was at its core.

Just like the Meteor Disaster, the disaster is the event, while the meteor is the protagonist of this event.

This is the characteristic of the Dadui Seal, distinctly different from the seals from other families.