Corpse Recovery Diver-Chapter 1155 - 210

After leaving the tomb chamber, the group circled to the other side of the canyon and climbed up the slope.

After walking for quite a while, just as they were nearing the top, they saw a charred area scorched by thunderfire.

The crack was right at the center of this scorched ground.

Tan Wenbin: "Did it get struck by lightning as soon as it came out?"

Lin Shuyou: "Wouldn't that mean it has already turned to ashes?"

Tan Wenbin: "The way you put it sounds like a villain in a martial arts film, laughing triumphantly after believing the protagonist is doomed."

Li Zhiyuan squatted down and began to examine the charred marks on the ground.

This place was indeed struck by lightning, just like the old locust tree at the tomb entrance, only it was struck even harder here.

The young man took out his small compass, its pointer normal, and frowned slightly, realizing his compass's high quality might sometimes lead to being affected as part of its function.

"Take out your compasses and let's have a look."

Everyone took out their compasses from their backpacks.

Tan Wenbin glanced at his and others', saying: "Our compass pointers look like they've got Parkinson's."

"There should be some kind of mineral deposit here, inherently prone to attracting lightning strikes, and combined with deliberate guidance..." Li Zhiyuan sniffed the ashes on his fingertip, being an expert in arrays could detect the smell of array materials turning to ashes under burden, "this was a deliberately caused lightning strike."

Yin Meng: "Calling lightning to strike oneself?"

Li Zhiyuan clapped his hands, saying: "Probably trying to temporarily isolate oneself from cause and effect, and to obscure the gaze of the Heavenly Dao."

From setup to harvest and finally clearing one's name, all done flawlessly, that is true professionalism.

Run Sheng unusually spoke, asking: "Xiao Yuan, does leaving that message mean he will come find you in the future?"

A monster emerging from the heavy mountain body and surviving a lightning strike, such physique exerted immense pressure on Run Sheng, knowing that against such an opponent, even if he fully opened his Qi gates, he couldn't stop him.

Li Zhiyuan: "I wore his face, borrowed his identity, causing entangled cause and effect between us. He might also understand, even if I don't seek him, Jiang Shui will push me towards him. He likely would make the same decision as me, since he can't avoid it, then proactively strike."

With Wei Zhengdao's precedent and Zhao Yi's normal difficulty Zou Jiang as reference, the youth understood Jiang Shui's attitude towards him:

If you can't die, then use you until you're dead.

"But now, although he has succeeded, he's certainly not in a good state, plus the secret realm deep within Yulong Snow Mountain has been ruined. To establish a truly terrestrial divine kingdom, he must find a suitable Daoist Field anew.

We're traveling along Jiang, and those who navigate Jiang are essentially the eyes of the Heavenly Dao. Before being fully prepared and gaining enough confidence, seeking us would be exposing himself under the Heavenly Dao's gaze."

Li Zhiyuan stood up, sweeping his gaze over the pleasing valley scenery below:

"Anyway, we have enough time to grow before he finds us. There's no need to fear."

"Yeah." Run Sheng responded, trusting Xiao Yuan, if Xiao Yuan says it can be done, it certainly can be done.

Lin Shuyou also trusts Brother Xiao Yuan unconditionally, yet still glanced again at the crack, thinking:

Wow, if I can ever have the strength to go up against such a guy, going home in the future, not just a new page on the family records, I could start a whole new ledger.

What Lin Shuyou didn't know was, the dream scene he's been longing for, the White Crane Child from back home, has already achieved it ahead of him.

Li Zhiyuan waved his hand:

"Let's go home."

...

Being away for so long, Li Zhiyuan also missed home.

However, some incidents occurred en route.

First, Lin Shuyou received a call notification from the temple back home, returning it via a public phone outside the airport, his master Chen Shoumen inquiring and expressing concern about his recent physical condition.

Li Zhiyuan had just called Aunt Zhang at the village's small shop, asking her to inform Grandmaster of his return date, the young man's hearing sharp enough to catch Lin Shuyou's phone conversation even unintentionally.

Lin Shuyou thought his master was simply concerned, feeling moved, beating his chest to assure his master his health is great, eating heartily.

After hanging up, Lin Shuyou awkwardly scratched his head, telling Li Zhiyuan, "My master still treats me like a child."

Li Zhiyuan: "Call back and ask if something happened at the temple."

Lin Shuyou immediately realized upon hearing this, quickly called back, and upon the other side picking up, asked directly:

"Master, did something happen at the temple?"

Actually, the people on both sides holding phones were themselves microphones.

Chen Shoumen, holding the phone, looked at his own master, Lin Fu'an standing beside him, who nodded, indicating to speak directly.

Thus, Chen Shoumen relayed to Lin Shuyou the recent abnormality with the White Crane Child at the temple.

Originally thought after the Child manifested one night and then went back to routine, everything would return to normal, but actually, once something changes, it really can't return.

For example, although older divination children like Chen Shoumen can now invite the child, younger and less experienced divination children still can't.

The White Crane Child changed its previous people-friendly image of running errands everywhere, ignoring trivial matters now.

Let whoever go, after all, these mosquito leg matters, the Child doesn't care.