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With a flick of his finger, all the strange phenomena in the world vanished. The rapidly sinking sunset reversed direction, and the tributary of time and space reversed rapidly in Su Yuchen's hand. The figures of Steward Su and the others gradually faded away. In the river of time and space, everything returned to Zhige Tower in Daxing Prefecture.

Time continued to flow backward, and Su Yuchen's figure became omnipresent, enveloping the world and occupying the very beginning of this realm's creation;

As his figure appeared, the nascent world was filled with light, and the first ray of light transformed into a chubby little baby beside him, pursing his lips and remaining silent.

At this moment, Su Yuchen exuded an ancient and eternal aura.

Under the watchful gaze of the Supreme Being, you retraced the past of this realm, seized the source, and possessed a trace of ancient aura.

With the Supreme Being's tacit approval, you will occupy more historical landmarks when retracing the Tang Dynasty, defining time and space in a way that is utterly unchangeable.

Your future is entangled with cause and effect. You need to become a Supreme Being to repay the karmic debts. You will occupy more of the future and become an incredible existence among the Great Luo Immortals.

"Turning cause into effect, does cause and effect change because of my existence?" Su Yuchen exclaimed.

With a casual toss, the world, curled into a small ball, escaped from Su Yuchen's palm and fell into the river of time. The world rapidly expanded, taking over the future. Time returned to Zhige Tower in Daxing Prefecture. This time, Su Yuchen did not need to leave; the flow of the future had completely changed.

Because of Su Yuchen's existence, there is a person in Zhige Tower who can fight against an entire country. The world's martial arts are thus set in motion, and countless people follow one after another, pushing the world's martial arts to another incredible climax.

At every turning point in the rise of martial arts, Su Yuchen remained quietly behind the scenes. With the support of the Dao Lord's authority, he assimilated the martial arts of the world while also driving the continuous transformation and development of martial arts.

Under Su Yuchen's watchful eye, the world witnessed continuous bloodshed due to the rise of martial arts, and the emergence of individual hegemony as a result. However, ultimately, due to the widespread adoption of martial arts and its intimidating power—the saying "a common man's rage can splatter blood five steps away"—the world moved towards a different kind of equality, freedom, and democracy.

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The world continues to develop, rising and falling because of martial arts. New civilizations are built on the ruins of old ones, and ultimately, they all turn to martial arts.

Watching the future flow into the future he needed, Su Yuchen reached out and clapped his hands, and the little baby turned into a beam of white light and disappeared back into the world.

At this moment, Su Yuchen gained a deeper understanding of the authority of the Supreme Myriad Manifestations Yuanwu Dao Lord and a greater appreciation of the Supreme Being as the foundation of all paths in the world.

After a long while, Su Yuchen took out the bronze mirror and looked at the illuminated world of The Legend of the Condor Heroes and the many stars that were lit up around him. Countless figures walked out of Su Yuchen's body and then disappeared back into Su Yuchen's body.

After leaving behind enough time-space markers, Su Yuchen turned around without looking back and stepped off into the river of time.

Chapter 673 The Haunted House 1

Across the river of time, Su Yuchen, holding a bronze mirror, strode forward until the bronze mirror resonated with a certain time-space beacon, at which point he stopped.

As he looked, a world beneath his feet emanated waves of joy, welcoming the arrival of this indescribable being.

A portal of light opened automatically in front of Su Yuchen. Within the portal, a wondrous connection drew Su Yuchen's Dao Fruit—his past self.

A figure emerged from Su Yuchen's body; it was himself, carrying a trace of the authority of the Supreme Myriad Manifestations Yuanwu Daojun, stepping into the gate of light.

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As the sun sets, a red fireball on the horizon emits a dark red glow, bathing the clouds in a crimson hue.

A boy dressed in a royal blue embroidered robe, with an embroidered ribbon swaying behind his head in the wind, looked at the boy, who was no more than twenty years old, as he strolled through the market town, occasionally stopping to chat quietly with the vendors on the street.

As the conversation progressed, the boy would occasionally reach out his right hand and stroke the two whiskers on his lips. The whiskers were trimmed extremely well, just like two eyebrows growing on his lips.

Perhaps having received some interesting news, the boy stretched out his right hand, spread his five fingers towards the setting sun, and gently breathed on it.

Perhaps due to the moisture, or perhaps due to frequent handling, the jade thumb ring on my thumb appears warm and smooth as water.

The boy smiled at the vendor in front of him, then gently grasped at the empty space in front of him with his five fingers, as if he had grasped some treasure, and carefully put it into his bosom.

Amidst the bewildered and embarrassed gazes of the vendors across the street, as if they were looking at a fool, the boy suddenly spread his sleeves, like a sapphire blue butterfly spreading its wings and obscuring the sky.

When the boy extended his right hand again, he held two money pouches in his palm. One of them, a royal blue pouch, was clearly valuable, made of superior materials and craftsmanship, and belonged to the boy.

The other purse was much worse, made of ordinary coarse linen without any care or decoration. It looked like a piece of cloth that had been randomly torn from a garment and haphazardly sewn together with hemp thread, with crooked stitches and no aesthetic appeal.

The vendor opposite the boy, whose smile had been stiff, immediately changed his expression when he saw the coarse cloth money bag, and frantically searched his waist with both hands.

"Young master, that...that was my..." The old man selling goods stammered, flustered and unable to speak properly.

The boy casually tossed it aside, and the old man hurriedly reached out and caught the flying money bag. He carefully opened it and counted the money before he felt relieved.

When he looked up, the handsome young man had vanished, leaving only a stack of ten copper coins on the chopping board.

The old man hurriedly grabbed the copper coin in his hand, counted it carefully, and only after confirming that it was a real copper coin did he finally beam with joy.

Before he could continue to be happy, four or five men carrying swords surrounded him, looking at him coldly.

"Gentlemen...gentlemen, would you like to buy some sesame cakes?" the old man stammered.

One of the men reached in, pulled out a string of copper coins, slapped them on the table, and pressed down on it. The table was as soft as tofu, squeezed in by the copper coins.

“I ask, you answer. If you answer well, the money is yours; if you answer incorrectly, you get nothing,” the man said.

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In a small alley in a corner of the town, the boy in the bright blue robe who had disappeared earlier leaned against the wall, seemingly unconcerned about getting his robe dirty, and looked at a dirty, panting boy with a playful expression.

The boy, dressed as a beggar, rested his hands on his knees, panting, and said with a forced smile, "Sir...sir...I was blind to your greatness, blind to your talent, please...please...let me go."

"Are you going to say next that you have an eighty-year-old mother to support and a crying baby to feed?" the boy said lazily, leaning against the wall.

The little beggar was taken aback and said, "I have no father or mother, and I live in the world. I have nothing like these things."

He had gradually caught his breath and said, "Young master, I have offended you greatly. I am just trying to make a living. Please be magnanimous and let me off the hook."

The boy in the sapphire blue robe smiled and said:

"I'm not a horse herder, and you're not a horse, so why should I let you off the hook? Besides..."

"Besides, I caught you red-handed stealing. According to the rules of the underworld, it's only right that I break your hand, isn't it?"

The little beggar's eyes narrowed, he swallowed hard, and said weakly, "My... my boss is the big boss who controls this area, with dozens of brothers under him. Friend, we're all in the same boat, don't push things too far."

"Oh!" the boy in the sapphire blue robe said, and just as the little beggar showed a look of joy, he added, "I don't know him."

"You..." The little beggar pointed at the boy in exasperation, wanting to say something but not daring to.

The young man in the sapphire blue robe smiled and said, "I'll ask you a few questions. If you answer them to my satisfaction, I might consider letting you go; if not, I'll drag you to the yamen and give you a beating."

The little beggar's face turned pale, clearly knowing how dark the government office was, where "money talks" and "no money, no entry" was. He immediately nodded.

"How long have you been here?"

"This town? It's been around for quite a while. I've been hanging out here since I was seven or eight years old."

"Do you know if there's a small building around here? It used to be filled with flowers inside and outside. Of course, that was before; the building is probably abandoned now."

"Small building, flowers, no recollection."

"you sure?"

"I'll think about it again, I'll think about it again."

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After a long while, the little beggar, who was frowning and thinking hard, suddenly realized and said, "Are you talking about the haunted building in the bamboo forest by the small lake a dozen miles east of the town?"

"Oh? Tell me more," the boy in the royal blue robe said seriously.

The little beggar thought for a moment and said, "What I said doesn't count, after all, there's no one left in that area anymore. What I know is what I heard from others."

The boy nodded.

The little beggar then said:

"I was just wandering around once, and I ended up going quite far before I discovered that place."

"I originally wanted to go to that bamboo forest to catch snakes, but I ended up going around in circles and found a small building there. However, the building was already in a terrible state of disrepair."

"But now that you mention it, I do remember. Around that haunted building, amidst the thick weeds, there were indeed many wildflowers, growing in patches here and there, all over the place."

"Which direction?" the boy asked.

The stingy man pointed to the southeast direction and said:

“Go out from the east gate and walk along the main road. There is a big tree by the roadside that is as thick as two people can hug. Looking along the tree, you can see a bamboo forest that is faintly visible.”

“Outside the bamboo forest, there is a small lake. If you look east along the lake into the bamboo forest, you can see it after about a mile.”

The boy nodded, flicked his finger, and a bright silver coin flew over; the little beggar reached out and grabbed it, only to find it was a small piece of silver.

The boy nodded, turned around, and walked away.

The little beggar hesitated for a moment, then said, "You...you'd better not go at night, that...that place is haunted."

Chapter 674 The Haunted House 2

"Haunted?" the boy asked, turning around.

The little beggar nodded, then his face turned extremely ugly, as if he had thought of something.

"I'm the kind of person who wanders the world and has no fixed abode. I always sleep wherever I go, but I've never seen such a strange place before."

"Seriously, I've seen those martial arts masters who pretend to be supernatural, but nothing is as scary as that place."

"I... I saw that it was getting late, and I originally wanted to rest in that godforsaken place for the night. At least it could shelter me from the wind and rain, no matter how dilapidated it was."

As he spoke, the little beggar's face turned extremely pale:

"But it really is like a ghost. The haunted building is clearly only a dozen steps away from me, but I can't get close to it no matter how many times I try."

"On the contrary, it is often when you look back that you find yourself even further away from that place."

"That's not the worst part."

"The scariest thing was that when I realized something was wrong and tried to turn back to leave through the bamboo forest, I found myself back where I started, instead of returning to the bamboo forest."

"Once you get to that hellish place, you'll be in a real dilemma, with nowhere to go, nowhere to turn, and no one to answer your cries for help."

The boy raised an eyebrow, as if all four eyebrows were moving at once, and asked with great interest, "So how did you finally leave that place?"

The little beggar shook his head, looking confused, and said, "I don't know. I was trapped in that godforsaken place for three days. I was in a daze, and I think I saw someone sitting on the rooftop smiling at me. When I woke up, I was already out of the bamboo forest."

As if afraid the boy wouldn't believe him, the little beggar emphasized:

“When I came back, Blackie sent people to look for me, and they arrested me and beat me up. He thought I had run away.”

“I was looking for revenge on him, so I told him about it. Blackie was just as interested as you were, and he immediately took us to that godforsaken place.”

"To be on the safe side, Mr. Hei was naturally unwilling to take any risks, saying that a rich man should not sit under a dangerous roof."

"As a result, none of the men that Blackie sent to scout out came out. We waited there for three days and three nights, and sent in two more groups of people, but none of them came out."

"Moreover, we tried every method we could think of, including torches, ropes, and slogans, but none of them came out. I was the only one who did."

The boy asked thoughtfully, "Didn't you tell anyone?"

The little beggar shook his head and replied, "Master Hei said there must be something good there. He's secretly looking for some kind of feng shui master. He says that if you reveal the feng shui secrets, you can find the treasure. So nobody is allowed to say anything. Whoever does, Master Hei will kill them first."

The boy smiled and said, "Then you'd better not tell anyone, or you might lose your life."

"You, you still want to go?" the little beggar asked.

The boy nodded and said, "I have a reason why I have to go."

As he spoke, he looked up into the distance and said, "I have a friend who is very sick, and there is only one way to save him in that haunted building."

With that, the boy turned and left without lingering.

By the time the little beggar chased after the boy out of the alley, he had already disappeared from sight.

A moment later, the little beggar gritted his teeth, stomped his foot, and walked through the east gate of the town.

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The boy returned to the town and wandered around the streets for a while before finally entering an inn.

A moment later, the boy had changed his clothes, now wearing a white robe and white socks. He then bypassed the hurried pedestrians and stepped into the unknown wilderness.

Not long after he left, several figures appeared on the town's city wall behind him, watching the departing figure.

"What is he looking for here? Is there anyone here who can save Ximen He?" someone seemed to be talking to themselves.

The people around looked at each other and then shook their heads.

Someone said:

"The Yama's Decree is one of the most powerful hidden weapons of the Tang Clan. Those who can decipher it are extremely rare, if not unique."

"And that crazy woman from the Tang family, based on the Yama's Decree, is said to have gone a step further and developed an even more powerful Red Decree. Otherwise, the medicinal spring in Wanmei Manor would not have been unable to cure the poison."

When it comes to the most powerful madwoman in the Tang Clan, everyone feels a chill in their hearts. She is a complete madwoman who will destroy what she cannot have. Just because Ximen He does not like her, she poisoned him with the most incurable poison.

After a moment, someone else retorted, "Ximen He only has two days to live. What method does Lu Lingsha have to find the peerless divine medicine tonight and then return to Wanmei Manor?"