Chapter 498 Xu Geng Escapes

Time passed quickly during the hard training, and two years passed in the blink of an eye.

Song Wen, who had stabilized his cultivation, walked out of the temporary cave.

In the past two years, there were no abnormalities on Jiyin Island, which made Song Wen feel relieved.

The spiritual energy of the uninhabited island is very thin, so the spiritual energy required for cultivation must be replenished by spiritual stones, which is very costly. In two years, he consumed tens of thousands of spiritual stones just to maintain his cultivation without deteriorating.

He also understood at this time why those high-level monks would not easily set foot in a place with thin spiritual energy.

Returning to Jiyin Island, Song Wen scanned his spiritual consciousness and found that everything on the island was as usual.

An Yin is in the spiritual field on the top of the island, taking care of the elixir. She has successfully built the foundation and is in the early stage of foundation building.

An Tong is in retreat in the cave, and she has reached a state of perfect Qi training.

Song Wen contacted the shadow Gu who stayed on the island. After confirming that there was no abnormality on the island during his absence, he released all five shadow Gu and went to the spiritual field.

"An Yin, come here, I have something to ask you." Song Wen said.

In the past two years, Song Wen once asked Shadow Gu to place a sum of spiritual stones outside the cave of Sister An Yin, and asked them to hand it over to the Wuji Island disciples who came to collect the island's rent.

This made Sister An Yin mistakenly believe that Song Wen was in retreat on the island.

Seeing Song Wen, who had been in seclusion for two years, suddenly appear, An Yin was stunned for a moment, but soon, a smile broke out on her face.

She hurriedly flew out of the spiritual field and came to Song Wen's side.

"Senior! You are finally out of seclusion."

Song Wen nodded lightly, but before he could speak, he heard An Yin say again.

"Senior, I have successfully established the foundation."

Song Wendao said, "You did a good job."

An Yin was like a child who was praised, her smile became brighter.

"It all depends on the foundation-building pill from senior, otherwise I wouldn't be able to build the foundation."

Song Wendao said, "Has everything been peaceful on the island in the past two years?"

An Yin said, "Everything is fine."

Song Wendao said, "That's good. I have some things for you to handle."

An Yin said expectantly, "Senior, what's the matter?"

Song Wendao said, "You go to Wuji Island and buy some spiritual materials for me to make alchemy. In addition, by the way, I want to inquire about Wuji Island's situation in the past two years."

An Yin looked particularly excited when she heard this, which meant that she could leave the island.

"Senior, please rest assured that we will complete the mission successfully."

Song Wen took out a storage bag and handed it to An Yin.

"There are fifty thousand spiritual stones here, as well as a list of elixirs that need to be purchased."

Then, Song Wen asked, "Can you wield a sword?"

An Yin shook her head, "I haven't practiced sword control yet, nor do I have a flying sword."

Song Wen thought, and a flying boat appeared in front of him.

"This time, you will go to Wuji Island by boat first. When you come back, I will give you sword control skills and flying swords."

Then, Song Wen turned his palm, and a corpse coffin appeared in his hand.

"Have you ever practiced corpse control?"

An Yin said, "I have practiced."

"There is a mid-level second-level corpse puppet here to give you self-defense."

An Yin said happily, "Thank you, senior."

Song Wendao said, "Seize the time to refine the flying boat and corpse puppet, and set off as soon as possible."

"Yes, senior."

Half a month later, An Yin, who had refined the flying boat and corpse puppet, set off for Wuji Island.

What she didn't notice was that a sesame-sized Gu worm quietly sneaked into the airship.

Six days later, she returned safely.

"I'm at the pavilion on the top of the island, come here quickly." As soon as An Yin stepped onto the island, Song Wen's voice came to her ears.

An Yin came to the pavilion and said, "See you, senior."

Song Wendao said, "Is this trip going well?"

An Yin said, "The journey has been smooth. However, something big seems to have happened at the inner gate of Wuji Island. The entire Shadow City has been under martial law and the protective formation has been activated. Only one entrance and exit has been opened in the north and south for the monks to pass. Each Everyone entering and leaving will be searched.”

Song Wen frowned when he heard this.

His first reaction was that Wuji Island was investigating the cause of death of Yu Jiao and the other three.

But when I thought about it again, I thought it was impossible.

Yu Jiao and the three of them have been dead for two years. It is impossible for the city to be closed for such a long time. Moreover, the three of them did not die in the Shadow City.

"How long has the city been closed for?" Song Wen asked.

"It's just what happened in the past few days." An Yin said.

"Do you know why the city is closed?" Song Wen asked again.

An Yin said, "According to rumors in the city, Wuji Island seems to have lost some treasure."

Song Wendao, "Lost the treasure? Wuji Island is one of the five major forces in the Discord Sea. Who can steal the treasure from Wuji Island?"

An Yin shook her head, "That's not clear! There are quite a few speculations circulating in the city, but they are all hearsay and have no basis."

Song Wen thought for a moment and decided not to care about the matter anymore; no matter what happened on Wuji Island, it had nothing to do with him anyway.

"Have you bought all the elixirs?"

An Yin handed over a storage bag, "I bought them all."

Song Wen took the storage bag and disappeared into the pavilion.

One month later, Song Wen asked An Yin to go to Wuji Island again.

From the news brought back by An Yin, we learned that the blockade of Wuji Island has been lifted.

As for the lost treasure, it is unknown whether it has been recovered.

After learning about this situation, Song Wen took the elixir he had refined this month and decided to go to Wuji Island himself.

As soon as Song Wen arrived in Shadow City, he took out the jade slip and contacted Chu Qian.

Half an hour later, in the private room of Tingchao Pavilion, Song Wen saw Chu Qian arriving.

"Senior Jiyin, I haven't seen you for more than two years." Chu Qian said.

"I accidentally got a secret book before, and I was in seclusion for a while." Song Wen said nonsense.

Chu Qian smiled, "So that's it. I thought I did something wrong, which made you dissatisfied and unwilling to trade with me."

Song Wen said, "My friend, you are a little suspicious."

As he said that, Song Wen took out three jade bottles.

"These are the Jinyu Pill and Qishen Pill I just refined. My friend, please check the quality."

Chu Qian smiled, "The pills refined by Senior Jiyin are always of high quality, so why do we need to check them? Senior, should we trade at the previous price?"

Song Wen nodded.

After trading the pills, the two chatted for a while, and Song Wen suddenly asked.

"My friend, do you know why the island was closed some time ago?"

Chu Qian lowered his voice and said, "The sect lost something."

"What is it?" Song Wen asked.

Chu Qian said, "A wooden statue, a half-foot-tall wooden statue."

Song Wen heard this, and the soul shackles that sealed Xu Geng flashed through his mind.

Did Xu Geng break the shackles and escape? Or, was the soul shackle stolen?

Song Wen was more inclined to the former guess, the possibility of stealing the soul shackles from the inside of Wuji Island was too low.

Thinking in his mind, Song Wen's face showed no abnormality. He frowned and asked.

"Wooden statue! I have seen this thing in the inner gate. What kind of treasure is it?"

Chu Qian made a gesture to silence and said, "Senior, it is best not to discuss this thing, so as not to cause trouble."

Song Wen nodded and asked.

"In addition to this matter, have other major events happened on the island in the past two years?"

Song Wen wanted to inquire about the death of Yu Jiao and the other two, which was what he really cared about.