bookbashuk Chapter 2588 Returning to the old place
Chapter 2588 Returning to the old place
Feixianzhai, the place where he had stayed briefly, had long been forgotten by him.
Returning here now was just a coincidence. He didn't think much about it. He just thought casually and decided to go in and take a look.
To him, Feixian Village was just a place where he stayed back then, and he no longer had any attachment to it.
However, when he actually stood on this land, he felt an inexplicable ripple in his heart.
The restrictions outside Feixian Village were still in effect, and a faint blue light curtain was flowing through the mountains, like an invisible barrier that isolated the outside world from the inside.
However, to Matthew, this restriction was useless.
He didn't even try to break it. He just stepped lightly and his body penetrated in like smoke without causing any disturbance.
After entering Feixian Village, Matthew's spiritual awareness instantly spread out, covering the entire village.
However, this investigation made him frown slightly.
“So few people?”
His spiritual sense covered the entire Feixian Village and he found that there were very few people in the village. A rough estimate was that there were no more than three or four hundred people.
This was completely different from the prosperous scene of Feixianzhai during its heyday in his memory.
Back then, there were thousands of monks gathered here, and it was bustling with people coming and going.
But now, it seems particularly deserted.
Matthew walked slowly on the streets of the village. The bluestone slabs under his feet were still flat, but the houses on both sides looked a bit dilapidated, and many places were even abandoned and overgrown with weeds.
Occasionally, one or two monks could be seen hurrying by, but most of them were in a hurry and seemed to be busy with something.
"what happened?"
Matthew thought to himself that the current situation of Feixian Village did not seem to be a natural decline, but a forced contraction.
He continued walking forward and soon arrived in front of the tall building.
This building was once the core of Feixian Village, and all important matters were discussed here.
Although many years have passed, the building still stands, but it looks a little old and the runes on the walls have faded a lot.
Matthew paused for a moment, his eyes sweeping over the building, a hint of reminiscence flashing in his eyes.
"then……"
He sighed softly and walked in.
In the hall, a woman was sitting in the main seat, holding a jade scroll in her hand, and seemed to be thinking about something.
Hearing the footsteps, she raised her head slightly and her eyes instantly fell on Matthew.
"Who is it?!" The woman stood up suddenly, a trace of anger flashing in her eyes.
However, when her eyes fixed on Matthew, the anger on her face quickly solidified and then turned into shock.
"You! You are..."
The woman's voice trembled slightly and her expression was complicated.
Matthew smiled slightly, bowed and said, "Friend Bao, long time no see."
"Matthew?!"
The woman's pupils suddenly shrank and her voice suddenly rose, but then lowered in an instant, as if she couldn't believe her eyes.
That’s right, this woman was none other than Bao Ya, the rising star that Feixian Village had focused on training back then.
Back then, she was just a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment stage, but now, her aura has reached the middle Nascent Soul stage, and has even vaguely touched the threshold of the late Nascent Soul stage.
Bao Ya stared at Matthew, her eyes full of disbelief.
She could clearly feel that the man standing in front of her had no spiritual energy fluctuations, as if he was just an ordinary person.
However, she knew clearly that Matthew could never be an ordinary person!
"senior……"
Bao Ya quickly came back to her senses and bowed hastily, with a hint of awe in her tone.
Matthew waved his hand, found a chair and sat down, and said with a smile: "I just happened to pass by here, so I came in to take a look. You don't need to be polite."
Bao Ya stood there with a complicated expression.
Back then, Matthew's life in Feixian Village was not easy, and it could even be said that he was imprisoned here.
Now, he has entered the realm of transformation of the spirit, and his cultivation is unfathomable, while she is only in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. The gap is already a world of difference.
She took a deep breath, forced herself to suppress the complicated emotions in her heart, and whispered, "Since you have returned, why don't you stay here for a few more days? I will prepare some wine to welcome you."
Matthew shook his head and said, "No need to bother, I'll just take a look and leave soon."
Bao Ya opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't.
She understood that although Matthew was an old acquaintance, he was now a powerful god-transforming expert, and their identities and status were vastly different. Naturally, she did not dare to neglect him in any way.
At this moment, Matthew's consciousness suddenly moved, his eyes slightly focused, and he looked outside the hall.
"Ok?"
His brows slightly raised, realizing that the restrictions outside Feixian Village suddenly fluctuated violently at this moment, making a roaring sound.
Obviously, someone was forcibly attacking the ban and trying to break into the village.
Bao Ya's face suddenly became solemn, and a hint of fatigue flashed in her eyes.
She seemed to have noticed this situation a long time ago, but she didn't expect it to happen so soon.
"Please wait a moment, senior. I'll be back soon." She suppressed the uneasiness in her heart, nodded slightly to Matthew, then turned around and left quickly.
Ma Zheng was about to speak, but saw that Bao Ya had already left, with a hint of amusement in his eyes.
"It seems that Feixian Village has not had a good time recently."
He did not stand up, but continued to sit in the hall, but his spiritual sense quietly spread out, taking in the situation outside Feixian Village.
Outside the village gate, a group of monks in black robes were forming a battle formation and frantically attacking the restrictions of Feixian Village.
Matthew was sitting in the hall of Feixian Village, his spiritual awareness had already quietly spread out, taking in everything inside and outside the village.
He had originally just come in to take a look, but he didn't expect that not long after he sat down, he sensed waves coming from the restrictions outside the village.
"Someone is attacking the village..." He raised his eyebrows slightly, and his spiritual sense instantly locked onto the direction of the village gate.
I saw a group of black-robed monks forming a formation and frantically attacking the restrictions of Feixian Village.
The leader was a middle-aged man with a sinister face. He held a long black banner in his hand. Black mist was rolling on the banner, and shrill roars could be heard from it from time to time.
"Someone from Black Dragon Village?" Matthew took a quick glance with his spiritual sense and instantly recognized the other party's identity.
He was slightly stunned. He didn't expect that the Black Dragon Village still existed and dared to directly attack the Feixian Village.
As far as he knew, the Black Dragon Village had been in decline a long time ago, so how could it still have the strength to attack the Feixian Village?
Under the frenzied attacks of the people in Black Dragon Village, tiny cracks had already appeared on the ban, and it was obvious that it would not last long.
Matthew's spiritual sense continued to extend, and soon captured another scene outside the village.
Bao Ya was standing in front of the people from Black Dragon Village, seemingly negotiating with them.
"I seem to have come at the wrong time..." Matthew glanced at the situation outside the village and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Naturally, the conversation between Bao Ya and Black Dragon Village did not escape his eyes and ears.
Bao Ya's voice was calm, but with a hint of helplessness: "Everyone, my Feixian Village is now weak and unable to resist your attack. However..."
She paused, her eyes flickered, and then she said, "There is an elder visiting my village. If we disturb him, I'm afraid..."
She didn't finish her words, but the implication was clear.
If the Black Dragon Village continues to attack, it might lead to the emergence of a being that they cannot afford to offend.
Matthew listened to her words with a hint of amusement in his eyes.
Bao Ya really brought up his name.
He did not show up to stop it, but continued to sit in the hall, waiting quietly.