The Nameless Grave
"As for the three days of rest, it was simply because there was some disturbance in that pool, which caused some depletion of my soul, so I needed to rest."
After saying that, Liao Pantu took a leisurely sip of tea.
Lin Xiao saw that he spoke with such ease, but he knew it couldn't be as easy as he made it sound.
However, since Senior Liao didn't bring it up, he didn't ask.
But he will naturally keep these things in mind.
Then Lin Xiao told Liao Pantu how they got out, how he charged fees and the old Storage Bag he found while charging fees, and about buying the Heart-Questioning Stone.
At this point, he suddenly remembered something and said to Liao Pantu:
"Oh right, I almost forgot! Senior, do you know any suitable burial sites around Yuanling City?"
When he asked this, Liao Pantu knew what he meant:
"You want to bury those Storage Bag?"
Lin Xiao shook his head and said:
"That's such a waste. Besides, those cultivators who perished in the ice cave probably knew that their Storage Bag would definitely fall into other people's hands, so they probably treated these Storage Bag as payment for taking care of their own funeral arrangements."
But since those cultivators threw away their final letters from their Storage Bag, I have no way of knowing their names or last wishes. So all I can do is collect their bodies.
After collecting their bodies, he can then rightfully keep the contents of those Storage Bag as payment.
Upon hearing this, Liao Pantu looked at Lin Xiao with some surprise, his expression somewhat complicated:
"You collected all the remains from that ice cave?"
Lin Xiao nodded.
After sending everyone out of each ice cave, he would always take a quick look inside to make sure no one was missed, and then he would collect all the bones on the ground.
So now, his private treasury is practically overflowing with bones...
After all, this is the culmination of many years of hard work.
Fortunately, many of the ancient remains are long gone, otherwise Lin Xiao's private vault would probably contain far more remains than what we have now.
Seeing him nod, Liao Pantu was momentarily speechless. He could only stare at him in silence for a moment before giving him a thumbs up.
After a moment's thought, he remembered that the boy had just asked him where he could bury people, so he thought for a moment and said:
"I remember that about a hundred miles west of the south of the city, that area seemed quite desolate, but it would be a good place to bury the dead."
So Lin Xiao took a private stash of bones and went out. He first went to the street to buy a few jars of wine, and then followed the direction Senior Liao had indicated and left Yuanling City.
After spending an hour finding the desolate spot and selecting the exact location, Lin Xiao began digging the hole.
It must be said that the digging skills applicable to farmland are equally applicable to digging burial pits.
Lin Xiao quickly dug a large pit.
Then they buried the remains from the private vault one by one.
He also buried some items that appeared to be of sentimental value in those Storage Bag as funerary objects.
After burying the remains, he split a stone slab nearby and carved the three characters "Unknown Tomb" on it. He also recorded the cause of death of the remains next to it.
After he finished, he planted the stone tablet firmly in the ground.
Looking at the nameless gravesite before him, Lin Xiao remained silent for a moment, then took out several jars of wine he had bought earlier from his private stash, opened them, and silently poured them onto the ground.
It was nearly dusk.
The setting sun cast Lin Xiao's shadow long, long across the cemetery.
He glanced once more at this place of eternal rest, then left, stepping on his own shadow.
May these departed souls rest in peace.
Liao Pantu popped his head out of the Soul-Nourishing Pendant in his arms, looked behind him, and then shrank back into the Soul-Nourishing Pendant, transmitting his voice to Lin Xiao:
"Kid, I want a drink."
"Okay, let's go to the Immortal Fragrance Pavilion then, it's on me."
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Let's go back three days.
Inside the Yuan Household in Yuanling City.
Yuan Zhiyun woke up early the next morning after being taken home.
After confirming that there was nothing wrong with her body, her father, Yuan Bi, carefully asked her what had happened.
However, Yuan Zhiyun was completely baffled as to why she was trapped in the ice cave of the secret realm before she lost consciousness, and then opened her eyes again a day later, and was already lying in her own room at home.
Faced with her father's questions, Yuan Zhiyun had no choice but to recount every detail of the time before she fell into a coma.
After hearing her explanation, Yuan Bi's initial worries subsided.
It seems my daughter has met a good person.
It seems this person wanted to save someone but didn't want to reveal their identity.
Furthermore, considering the lengths this person went to to avoid revealing their identity, they must be quite capable to have saved so many people.
This person is probably not from a prominent family or a sect, but is naturally low-key, likely because they lack connections and are afraid of attracting unwanted attention and getting into trouble.
Yuan Bi seemed lost in thought, staring silently at a certain spot for a long time.
Upon seeing this, Yuan Zhiyun asked:
"Father, have you thought of something?"
Hearing her words, Yuan Bi snapped out of his reverie and smiled gently at her, saying:
"It's nothing, you should get some rest. By the way, where's that Heart-Questioning Stone I asked you to keep? Give it to me; our Heart-Questioning Platform needs replacing."
Upon hearing this, Yuan Zhiyun immediately reached for her Storage Bag and opened it.
Just as she was about to take out the Heart-Questioning Stone from inside and give it to her father, she seemed to suddenly discover something and let out a soft "Eh."
"What's wrong?" Yuan Bi asked.
Yuan Zhiyun rummaged through her Storage Bag and then said to him:
"It seems I'm missing fifty Spirit Stone..."
Despite being the young mistress, she's actually quite stingy and knows her own assets very well.
Let alone the fact that fifty Spirit Stone are missing, she would have noticed even if only one Spirit Stone was missing.
Yuan Bi was clearly very aware of this trait of his daughter, so after she said that, he had no doubt that she had misremembered.
"It's alright, a little less is a little less. It's better to lose money than to lose it. You should get some rest. Once the Icefield Mystic Realm closes in a few days and Shangpu comes back, you and he will have plenty of room to fight."
"I'm not messing with him! He's just a weirdo! I was the one who got trapped in that ice cave this time, otherwise I would definitely have found the Icefield Spirit to save the Ancestor!" Yuan Zhiyun was very Qi Ingestion.
Her father always did this; even though Yuan Shangpu who provoked her first, he always made it sound like she was being unreasonable.
Seeing her strong reaction, Yuan Bi felt somewhat helpless:
"You don't need to worry about the Ancestor's affairs. Icefield Spirit aren't easy to catch, and the Ancestor's problems can't be solved by just one Icefield Spirit. You should get some rest. I'm leaving now."