Chapter 431: The Depths of the Desolate Domain

Leaving the Meeting Hall, Lin Xun came alone to the place where Daoist Ming Lu usually lived.

While Lin Xun and Su Ying lived in a courtyard, the Old Man was accustomed to living in an Immortal Cave.

Breaking the Restriction, Lin Xun walked into the Immortal Cave.

Because of Daoist Ming Lu’s instructions, no one had cleaned this Immortal Cave since he began his seclusion.

Lin Xun and Su Ying wouldn’t enter it either.

The layout of the Immortal Cave was simple.

It consisted of nothing more than a stone bed, a row of bookshelves, a cabinet, a stone table, and a few stone chairs.

Every item in the Immortal Cave was already covered in dust.

Lin Xun walked around the Immortal Cave incessantly.

What he wanted to find was simple: the marriage contract the Old Man had arranged for him back then.

Regarding his marriage contract with Wang Xing, she had a copy, so he should have one here as well.

Lin Xun originally thought his copy of the marriage contract was with his Junior Sister, hidden away by her.

But in reality, that didn’t seem to be the case.

However, Lin Xun searched the entire Immortal Cave and couldn’t find that single sheet of the marriage contract.

“Strange, where could the Old Man have put it?”

Lin Xun stood up, unable to figure it out.

Could the Old Man have taken that marriage contract with him to his place of seclusion?

That didn’t seem very likely.

This marriage contract wasn’t some precious treasure; he shouldn’t be carrying it with him.

The Old Man wasn’t that eccentric.

The marriage contract must still be in the Immortal Cave.

Lin Xun planned to search one more time.

But the second search still yielded no discoveries.

Just as Lin Xun was planning to actually go to the place where the Old Man was in seclusion,

Suddenly, Lin Xun thought of something.

He looked up at the smooth stone wall of the cave ceiling.

Lin Xun released a burst of spiritual energy, covering the entire ceiling.

The spiritual energy slowly seeped into the ceiling.

After three breaths, Lin Xun opened his eyes!

Sure enough, there was something up there.

Lin Xun floated up and moved a stone aside.

The stone wall of the ceiling was hollowed out.

Lin Xun reached his head inside and discovered quite a few things, mostly stack after stack of papers and several notebooks.

Lin Xun took them all out and opened them one by one on the table.

As he looked through them, Lin Xun’s brow twitched slightly.

To an ordinary Cultivator, these things weren’t precious at all.

Because these were all the Old Man’s “precious memories.”

For example, some love letters written to the Old Man by certain Fairies back in the day.

Or, for instance, confession letters the Old Man wrote to other Fairies that were returned to him.

And then there were the Old Man’s diaries, one notebook after another.

Daoist Ming Lu was five or six thousand years old.

If he wrote a diary entry every day, these notebooks definitely wouldn’t be enough to record them all.

So Daoist Ming Lu generally only wrote in his diary on meaningful days.

These diaries were extremely valuable as reference material.

However, when he saw an entry from when the Old Man was three hundred years old, about rolling around on the grass with a Fairy, Lin Xun’s brow twitched uncontrollably.

In the end, the Old Man didn’t end up with that Fairy.

It seemed the Old Man had been dumped, and he even wrote a love poem at the end.

To be honest, this love poem was truly mushy.

After his heartbreak, the Old Man became obsessed with listening to music in the courtesan houses.

Listening to music was one thing,

But the Old Man had actually recorded his reflections every time he went to the courtesan houses to listen to music.

And they were extremely vivid and descriptive.

Lin Xun’s DNA couldn’t help but react as he read them.

Reading with his Divine Sense, Lin Xun quickly flipped to a day over ten years ago, the day the Old Man picked him up.

The description in the diary was also very simple.

It was nothing more than: “This Old Man picked up a peerless Genius! This Old Man finally has someone to carry on my legacy!”

Then, on the day Su Ying was picked up by the Old Man, he wrote another entry:

“I saw that the boy was too lonely, so today I picked up a Junior Sister for him. This boy should be very happy.

When Xiao Ying and that boy grow up, let these two little ones become Dao Companions.

Childhood sweethearts, and Xiao Ying is such a natural beauty; this boy won’t be losing out.

Tsk tsk tsk, this Old Man is truly a qualified Master, even finding a marriage match for this boy.

It’s just that Xiao Ying doesn’t seem to like that boy much, so what should be done?

Sigh, really, that boy only knows about cultivation and doesn’t know how to care more for his Junior Sister.

If Xiao Ying runs off with another man one day, that boy will cry himself to death!”

Lin Xun: “…”

Lin Xun continued flipping through the pages.

He flipped to the day Daoist Ming Lu headed into the depths of the Desolate Domain.

“Damn, is this the depths of the Desolate Domain?

How is this fog so thick?

It’s been a whole day, and this fog still hasn’t dissipated.

And the monsters here are f*cking disgusting!

Damn it, what did this Old Man come here for?

Wouldn’t it be better to go back and watch over my two cute disciples?”

“Fourth day in the depths of the Desolate Domain.

I don’t even know how I’ve spent these four days!

Nothing but mist and more mist. Am I really heading deeper?

Why does it feel like there’s no end?”

“Tenth day in the depths of the Desolate Domain.

This Old Man is still heading deeper.

The monsters inside are truly getting weirder and weirder.

No! This is simply bizarre!

Their fighting styles are also very strange.

I can increasingly feel that the depths of this Desolate Domain are affecting my Divine Sense and spirit.

Can you believe that I, an Ascension Realm Cultivator, would actually have hallucinations?

Then again, was that an hallucination?

I f*cking hope it really was an hallucination!”

“Sixteenth day in the Desolate Domain.

I feel like I can’t hold on much longer; my mental state has been very bad lately! Extremely bad!

If it weren’t for those two kids, Lin Xun and Su Ying, waiting for me to return home, I probably wouldn’t have been able to persevere!

By the way, why did I come to this place?

Right, what was my original purpose for coming here?

I can’t seem to remember…”

“How many days have I been in the Desolate Domain? I don’t really remember anymore.

What is my name?

Am I called Ming Lu?

Yes, that’s my name!

I fought a giant headless suit of armor.

That fellow was riding a big black horse, and that horse had no head either.

He was holding a long lance!

Strong! Really strong!

What is this thing?

Demonic Creature? Ghost Spirit?

No! It’s both!

Where on earth do they come from?!”

“Injured, this Old Man is quite badly injured.

I saw a bizarre army training!

They seem to be preparing to attack something.

Attack what?

What is there to attack in this place?

Could it be…?

The Myriad Laws World?

Or the Demon Race World?!”

“But if they want to attack, why don’t they leave?

I’ve been discovered.

I fought a humanoid monster covered in fire!

I was no match for it.

It is at least at the Spirit Refining Realm!

Spirit Refining Realm!

So this Realm really exists in the world!

My mind is on the verge of collapse; I must leave!

This place should not be entered, but if one day someone must come here, they must get to the bottom of it!

What exactly exists in the depths of the Desolate Domain!”