Chapter 757: 757

The Capital, Liuhai Lane .

It was summer . The walnut trees stood and provided shelter with a canopy of leaves . Shi Xuejin sat under a walnut tree with a book in his hand .

He read very slowly . He flipped the page after a very long time . People would think that he was spacing out instead of reading .

“Can that route really be walked on?” Nie Ting, who was beside him, casually asked .

“There’s no answer . You will only know if you walk down that path,” replied Shi Xuejin calmly .

“What if there is no answer?” Nie Ting looked at him .

“Nothing in this world definitely has an answer . ” Shi Xuejin laughed .

This was a lonely path . He treated this world as a massive problem . He would slowly find parameters and work out a possible answer to the problem .

It might be wrong . It might be correct . But these were not important .

“If the sages of the past did not embark on different paths, how would we have the cultivation knowledge of today?” Shi Xuejin was not paying attention .

“I’m going to the Changbai Mountains next week . Keep a close lookout here,” said Nie Ting . “The Puppet Masters are very strange . The information we have obtained from the Golden Foundation may not be complete . Or… even the Golden Foundation doesn’t have the full picture . ”

Even Shi Xuejin was uncertain . “I thought that they went to India to control the Practitioners there in secret . But it seems like they didn’t do it . It’s as if… they look down on such Practitioners . ”

“What is the goal of the Puppet Masters?” Nie Ting seemed to be asking Shi Xuejin, but he also seemed to be asking himself .

According to the Golden Foundation records, these powerful Puppet Masters lived for their king in the exiled land . They pledged their undying loyalty to the king . They had come from the exiled land and announced that they were about to welcome the return of their king . This was Nie Ting’s understanding . The Puppet Masters were the vanguard of the king, and their king would return to Earth from the exiled land .

Since the king was the king of the exiled land, he should be in the exiled land . But how did the Puppet Masters break through the barrier? Furthermore, ever since they had come to Earth, they did not seem to be in a rush to destroy the barrier . It was as if they were trying to draw their former subordinates back .

There was a thick folder on the stone table in front of Nie Ting . The Golden Foundation had given the Heavenly Network the folder . The other large organizations possessed this folder as well . The folder contained the information regarding the exiled land that they had gathered .

But the information was not completely accurate . Some pieces of information were pending confirmation, while other pieces of information were clues based on current information .

Some of the clues included ancient myths and unofficial folk history, but these were not very reliable . Even Li Xianyi had said that this information was just for reference .

Back then, some things had probably disappeared from the world . Nie Ting somehow knew why . That king was like a demon in myths that could swallow people’s fears and grow stronger . Even the name of the demon had become taboo as time passed .

The king had been transformed into a demon . He ruled over the exiled land . According to myths from the exiled land, even the Four Lords of Heaven feared him . Everyone who knew the truth treated the king as an imaginary enemy .

But why did the Puppet Masters not destroy the barrier? On a stormy night 17 years ago, they had been surrounded and attacked by the Golden Foundation . They had fought their way out .

For the past 17 years, the Golden Foundation had been tracing their whereabouts, but they seemed to have vanished from the face of the Earth . However, they had reappeared and mysteriously advanced in class .

The Golden Foundation had been on alert for 17 years, but the Puppet Masters did not seem to be planning anything and vanished . Even the Golden Foundation thought that they had made a mistake…

“But why?” Nie Ting thought calmly .

He looked at the records of what had happened during that stormy night 17 years ago . They had encountered four Puppet Masters . Two were killed, while two survived . Li Xianyi’s foundation was also destroyed that very night .

Nie Ting suddenly saw a piece of information and furrowed his eyebrows . According to the piece of information, the Puppet Masters seemed very weak, as if they were suffering from a serious illness . During the fight, one of the Puppet Masters was carrying a giant box .

In the end, the Puppet Masters split ways and escaped . The Puppet Master carrying the box was chased to Luo City and killed there . The box disappeared . The Puppet Master was one of the two who had been killed .

Nie Ting wanted to know what was in the box and why the Puppet Master was so weak . The Puppet Master was probably a Class A, but for some reason, he had weakened!

All along, the Golden Foundation had suspected that the box contained a mythical object that could destroy the barrier . Thus, they worked very hard to find the box . Li Xianyi had also been in Luo City for 17 years .

The barrier was still standing 17 years later because the Puppet Master had lost the mystical object that could destroy the barrier .

After Cloud Yi’s identity had been exposed, the Heavenly Network started to look for clues . The Heavenly Network discovered that Cloud Yi had visited Luo City eight times in the past few years . It was as if she was looking for something!

Nie Ting started to look at the records of everyone who had been there . Their oral accounts had been typed out . Suddenly, Nie Ting saw something very strange . “That night, I felt as if I heard the cry of a baby in the rain . ”

Nie Ting suddenly turned and looked at Shi Xuejin . Shi Xuejin was baffled . He touched his face . “Why are you looking at me?”

“We have always thought that the Puppet Master was here to break the barrier since their king is still in the exiled land . But have you ever thought that the cry of the baby was not the result of a hallucination? Could it actually have been there? The box didn’t contain a mythical object to destroy the barrier . It contained a baby!” Nie Ting was shocked by his own answer . “Could that baby be their king? Or a descendant of the King?”

Shi Xuejin was dumbfounded . “But no one else said that they heard the cry of a baby . ”

“Maybe that baby had been sleeping and occasionally cried, but only one person heard it,” said Nie Ting .

“But if it really was a baby, where is the baby? Does it look like a human?” Shi Xuejin laughed . “According to you, this demon king should have started destroying the entire world . ”

Nie Ting shook his head . He looked at the walnut trees above him . Sunlight streamed in through the canopy of leaves . “We can only leave this question open… wait . How old is Lu Shu? When was he sent to the orphanage?”