Dragon Hidden in the Sky

Chapter 1221 The Woodcutter

Ye Qing looked at the letter in her hand and hesitated.

"I have a bad feeling!" Long Rui said. "Are we really going to send this letter? Or should we just throw it away?"

Before Ye Qing could speak, Zhang Heng said with a wry smile, "Do you think we have a choice?"

Based on this old woman's ability to disappear into thin air, she is someone that Ye Qing and his group cannot afford to provoke.

“This old woman is incredibly powerful. We have no choice. Even if we lose this letter, it might cause us some trouble!” Zhang Heng said. “Now that we’ve all reached the Domain Lord level, we would be considered experts outside. But here, we are… ants, truly ants.”

Ye Qing nodded in agreement. He took a deep breath, wanting to put the letter into his spatial ring, but he found that he couldn't. He was stunned for a moment.

He had no choice but to put the envelope in his pocket, and then he said, "Let's go, I feel like we should be there soon!"

They followed Ye Qing's direction and soon discovered that they had actually left the city of Verati.

"Your destination isn't in Verratti City?" Zhang Heng asked, slightly surprised.

Ye Qing was also a little puzzled. He sensed this while inside Verratti City, but they had walked out of Verratti City along the way.

After traveling for another ten minutes or so, Ye Qing saw some buildings ahead, which looked like a village. This village was very close to Verati City, with many buildings of varying heights scattered across the landscape. Although it was a village, all the buildings looked very beautiful and were very well preserved.

"Is this the place?" Zhang Heng said, "Even with my aura observation, I can't see through the situation here. Something feels off."

Ye Qing nodded.

He discovered that his mental strength was completely suppressed, making it impossible for him to enter the village even a fraction of the way!

“I’m quite curious. Let’s go take a look!” Long Rui’s expression shifted. “This place is so well preserved. Perhaps it’s the residence of some great emperor, just like Senior Yu. Maybe there are other extraordinary encounters here!”

With that, she took the lead and walked towards the village!

Ye Qing and Zhang Heng exchanged a glance. Ye Qing said in a low voice, "Be careful. If there are any problems, leave immediately. I will cover you!"

"Okay!" Zhang Heng nodded.

They walked towards the village, following a bluestone path for a while, when suddenly, the pupils of the three of them contracted slightly, and their gaze fell on a huge rock not far from the stone path!

There sat an old man in that spot.

The old man was dressed in simple cloth clothes and was sitting on a rock with a load of firewood on his back. He had a wood-chopping knife at his waist and looked just like an ordinary old man.

However, Ye Qing noticed that beneath the two bundles of firewood, some liquid seeped through the wood and remained on the stone slab. Ye Qing even smelled a strange, fishy odor.

Just as Ye Qing noticed him, he seemed to notice Ye Qing as well. His face first showed a hint of surprise, as if he thought he had seen wrong.

He rubbed his eyes, as if confirming something. After confirming that it was Ye Qing and the other two, he licked his lips, then took the scythe from his hand and stared at Ye Qing and the others, shouting, "Who are you three? What are you doing in our Lingyin Village!"

"Lingyin Village?" Ye Qing's expression shifted. "The name of this village?"

"We're just passing through and we've come here looking for something," Ye Qing said.

He remembered the old lady's warning: be careful of the woodcutter.

Although the old man looked ordinary, Ye Qing noticed something: like the old woman, he couldn't sense any aura emanating from him. It was as if the old man didn't exist at all.

However, he truly existed right in front of Ye Qing.

"Looking for something?" The old man's lips curled into a smile, then he seemed to think of something, tucked the knife into his waistband and said, "You don't seem like bad people."

After he finished speaking, he sat down again, rolled up something that looked like a tobacco leaf, and started puffing away.

“This… isn’t dangerous!” Long Rui said cautiously.

“There are other problems!” Zhang Heng said in a low voice, “Ye Qing, you should have noticed the subtle changes in the old man’s facial expressions!”

Ye Qing nodded, then pondered for a moment and said, "How about I go up alone?"

“Since we’re already here!” Long Rui said, “Let’s go up together.”

Zhang Heng nodded and said, "Long Rui is right, and even if we wanted to leave now, we probably wouldn't be able to."

Ye Qing gave the woodcutter another deep look, then nodded and said, "Then let's go!"

Just after Ye Qing set off, he noticed that the woodcutter was also carrying a load and following behind them, keeping a certain distance.

Ye Qing's heart skipped a beat, and he said, "I've been targeted!"

He sped up, but he noticed that the old man maintained a certain distance from them, as if he were being teased.

Moreover, Ye Qing discovered a problem: there was a certain distance between where they found the old man and Lingyin Village ahead.

At the very least, it's equivalent to several streets away in Verratti.

But the old man seemed completely unaffected!

"This old man seems to be able to move around freely in Silent Hill!" This gave Ye Qing a slight jolt.

According to Long Xuan's previous statement, Silent Hill is a divided space where everyone is a prisoner, except for two types of people: one is the enforcers, namely the angels that Ye Qing saw.

Without a doubt, this old man is not!

The other one is the Spirit Race.

Ye Qing had never heard of the Spirit Race, and Long Rui only knew the name.

This appears to be an ancient race that has vanished from the universe!

Ye Qing pondered that this old man was very likely a member of the Spirit Clan!

Although he had some guesses in his mind, Ye Qing didn't pay much attention to them. Now that he had come this far, he naturally wouldn't give up!

Before long, he saw the words "Lingyin Village" written in large, blood-red characters between a huge stone tablet on the steps.

Ye Qing did not hesitate. Guided by the Sky-Piercing Shuttle, he entered the village.