Chapter 30: Mysterious Village

After a month of searching, Su Yu still had not found any clues, having eliminated many Yao Beasts along the way.

Seeing that there were still no clues, Su Yu found a giant tree and lay down flat beneath it.

Su Yu organized the recent search process in the Mysterious Yin Forest in his mind, not letting a single detail slip by.

After organizing for a long time, the result was still that nothing had been discovered.

Just as Su Yu was about to get up and continue searching, a wave of energy sucked him into the interior of the giant tree.

Before Su Yu could react, he had arrived inside the giant tree. Su Yu looked at the scene before him; this place was no different from where people lived outside, and the environment was even a bit better.

Su Yu was a bit puzzled. What kind of place was this? There was actually such a place in the Mysterious Yin Forest, and he hadn't heard Elder Wang mention it when he asked before.

Su Yu then walked forward, and a village appeared before his eyes. The sounds of children playing and frolicking were everywhere in the village.

There were also many adults working in the fields. Looking at the scene before him, he was momentarily dazed; this was truly a good place.

As Su Yu walked towards the village, a group of young people carrying long spears immediately ran over.

Su Yu probed them and found that they actually had no cultivation base. In a place like the Mysterious Yin Forest, there were actually people without cultivation bases.

It seemed that no one in the entire village had any cultivation base.

At this moment, the leader of the group looked at Su Yu and said, "Who are you, and what is your business in our Spirit Village?"

Su Yu replied, "I have no malicious intent; I am just passing through and would like to come in for a meal."

Seeing this, Jin Ge looked at Su Yu's appearance and physique, and it seemed he was not from any of the hostile villages.

"Come in."

Afterwards, he arranged for someone to take Su Yu into the village and handed him some food.

Su Yu inquired with Jin Ge about what this place was. He learned that the place where Su Yu was currently staying was called Spirit Village.

There were many other villages nearby, but they were all friendly villages, while on the other side of the forest behind Spirit Village, there were several hostile villages.

They would occasionally break out in conflict, and they also knew some Martial Skills. Su Yu had seen these when he was in Fengyang City, and they were basically all the same.

Su Yu then spoke up, "I also know some Martial Skills. Could you let me stay in Spirit Village for a while? I can teach your children some Martial Skills."

Jin Ge considered it for a while and agreed to Su Yu's request.

Afterwards, Su Yu built a small wooden hut in Spirit Village and stayed there temporarily.

He felt that since there was such a place in the Mysterious Yin Forest, it certainly couldn't be that simple. He prepared to explore the situation first before making any plans.

After a few days of observation, Su Yu discovered that this village had a special activity, which was worshipping the Spirit.

They had to worship it once every day.

Su Yu also secretly went to observe other villages and found it was the same; they all had the habit of worshipping a Spirit.

Moreover, according to Su Yu's observations, there were a small number of Yao Beasts in the forest, equivalent to the Qi Refining First or Second Layer, while the rest were just wild beasts.

The villagers often went into the forest to hunt wild beasts for food, and they would always take a portion of the beasts they hunted to offer to the Spirit.

They said that this way, the monsters in the forest would not enter the village. Everything made Su Yu feel that it was not simple.

Although Su Yu could easily deal with the Yao Beasts they spoke of, he did not do so; he wanted to get to the bottom of these secrets.

After these few days of getting along, the children in the village also liked him very much.

He often told them some fairy tales and some stories about the Journey to the West.

They listened with great interest, and they also really liked Su Yu teaching them Martial Skills because these were things they couldn't learn in the village, so they were exceptionally interested.

Furthermore, after Su Yu's investigation, he discovered that many of them possessed a Spiritual Root, but Su Yu did not intend to teach them.

Because doing so would disrupt this balance; Su Yu did not intend to do that, teaching them some Martial Skills was enough.

A few more days passed, and this time Jin Ge returned to the village with an injured person.

It looked like they had been injured while hunting.

Jin Ge hurriedly carried the person to the front of the Spirit, and everyone prayed with their hands clasped.

Only to see a faint light appear out of thin air and land on the injured person's body; immediately, the injured person's original wounds healed rapidly.

Watching this scene, Su Yu wanted more and more to figure out what this Spirit was all about; after all, such things did not exist outside.

Another peaceful period passed, and Su Yu became more and more familiar with the people of Spirit Village, but these peaceful days did not last long before Jin Ge found Su Yu one day.

Jin Ge looked at Su Yu and said, "Brother Su, we have had some conflicts with the hostile villages again. We are going to resolve the issue; could we trouble you to help look after the village?"

After getting along for this period, Jin Ge also knew that Su Yu was extraordinary, which is why he asked him for help.

This way, they could also go to resolve the issue with more peace of mind.

"No problem, go ahead with peace of mind. Leave this place to me; if anything happens, I will notify you."

Afterwards, Jin Ge left the village very quickly. Time soon reached evening, and Jin Ge and his group returned with quite a few wounded people.

There were no fatalities; most were just injured.

They placed all the wounded under the sacrificial altar. It was the same process again, and the wounded people's injuries healed quickly.

Another year or so passed. Over this year, his relationship with the people in the village had become better and better; he basically knew everyone, and he even knew some people from the neighboring villages.

Furthermore, some people even said they wanted to introduce him to a partner so he could get married here, but Su Yu refused them all.

This day, while Su Yu was outside scouting the situation, he accidentally found a Little Girl who looked about three years old. She was dressed in pink and carved from jade, just like an exquisite doll.

Her whole being exuded agility and the word "cute."

Su Yu walked up to the Little Girl and said, "Little friend, which village are you from? I will take you back."

The Little Girl shook her head and did not speak. Su Yu also realized that this Little Girl seemed unable to speak, but she followed every step Su Yu took.

Su Yu didn't have the heart to leave the Little Girl here, so he brought the Little Girl back to Spirit Village.

After the people of Spirit Village learned that Su Yu had picked up a Little Girl, they all chimed in that they would help look for the child's parents.

Su Yu thought about entrusting this Little Girl to someone to help take care of her.

However, the Little Girl stuck to Su Yu tightly; wherever Su Yu went, she went.

Seeing this, the people said that this Little Girl had a connection with Su Yu, so they let Su Yu take care of her first; if there was anything he didn't understand, he could just ask her.

So Su Yu took on the role of a nanny. Since he didn't know what the Little Girl was called, Su Yu named her Su Ling'er.

The Little Girl seemed very satisfied as well.

Thus, this plain life continued for another period. Although this kind of life was quite nice, Su Yu had come to find clues about the Innate Spirit.

He needed to figure out whether this Spirit was related to that Innate Spirit, but there had been no progress at all.

He had to make some big moves to see if he could force this Spirit out.