Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 928 - 577: The Faceless Woman

Chapter 928: Chapter 577: The Faceless Woman

Hearing Ran Qingmo’s description, Xu Yuan unconsciously furrowed his brows slightly and glanced at the surroundings that had already fallen into complete darkness.

Woman?

Building an estate in this kind of place swarming with insects?

Based on the experiences of the past half month, the narrow valley here is indeed dangerous, but it also depends on whom it is dangerous for. For those with Grandmaster-level cultivation and above, there would be no threat to their lives.

But it would be extremely troublesome.

The brain structures of these Insect Demons seem to be somewhat different from Demonic Beasts.

In the outside world, even the most basic Demonic Beast knows to seek benefits and avoid harm, while these Demon Insects are completely brainless, instinctively thinking only of devouring any living creature they see to feel secure.

Living in this narrow valley, even if as powerful as a Saint, once the residence is tainted with the special pheromones secreted by those insects, every day they would need to divide their will-spirit to deal with these incoming Demon Insect Tides, making it impossible to remain in peaceful seclusion.

A strange feeling spread in his heart, Xu Yuan frowned and asked in a low voice:

"That woman... does she have any peculiarities?"

"I don’t know."

Ran Qingmo answered crisply and said:

"I normally don’t use my Will-Spirit to probe others."

"..."

His train of thought interrupted, Xu Yuan looked at the ice block with a three-noes demeanor and helplessly smiled.

Right, almost forgot about that.

Compared with his habit of randomly using Spiritual Vision to probe his coin, the ice block was a true stickler for order.

When there was no animosity, she wouldn’t casually probe others, even if they were the lowest level cultivators.

However, it seemed there would be no more information.

After a moment’s thought, Xu Yuan asked softly:

"Then.. what do you think would be the attitude of that woman if we were to visit her together?"

Ordinary reclusive individuals generally enjoy peace and quiet; a chance meeting and hospitality are still considered a fine story, but bringing others to disturb them after a refusal could be somewhat rude.

However, this was after all the only discovery made by his treasure-seeking princess in half a month, and they had to find a way to go see for themselves.

Ran Qingmo’s beautiful eyes flickered, and she asked:

"Do you want to go see her?"

Xu Yuan spoke the truth, his tone carrying a hint of helplessness: "We have already been here for more than half a month, and we want to see if there are any clues."

Ran Qingmo pondered seriously and replied:

"It should... be alright, I guess. That sister seemed very hospitable. I even saw other guests at that estate."

Saying this,

Ran Qingmo paused for a moment before tentatively saying:

"How about I go ask that sister now?"

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The next day in the afternoon, it was somewhat unusual for the Great Desert to have rain, as dense rainwater fell from the narrow valley top into the abyss.

Qianji Gorge wasn’t strictly speaking a no man’s land, at least most of it wasn’t, because the surface area it spanned was too vast, somewhat similar to the Great Rift Valley that crossed East Africa in Xu Yuan’s previous lifetime.

Although most of the area was dry and barren, there were also valleys with rivers and oases and even some flat regions that bore unique dense forests.

In those suitable environments, there were even some bullet-sized ancient nations older than Dayan.

But the problem was that this narrow gorge was clearly not among them.

This region was an absolute death valley, vast endless sands and countless all sorts of Demon Insects directly turned this realm into a valley of death.

Not to mention humans, not even a decent mammal was left uneaten by those giant insects.

But at this moment,

Looking down from high ground, with the dim light on a rainy day, Xu Yuan saw a human settlement not far away.

It was a village built around a manor that spanned dozens of acres.

The village wasn’t large, not many people resided inside. Scanning the area, he could see about twenty villagers braving the light rain, planting some oddly-shaped crops on the yellow soil around the village’s periphery.

This made Xu Yuan’s mind somewhat muddled.

Wait...

This village was the estate Ran Qingmo mentioned?

But then on second thought, what ice block said didn’t seem wrong; estates within Dayan Territory were just like this.

Centered around a landlord family’s courtyard, with several dozen farming households supplanted around, supplying nourishment and called earth forts, or estates.

But was it not problematic for such an estate to appear in this Demon Insect valley, in a place without villages ahead or stores behind?

Playing Strange Tales, aren’t we?

It’s just that in the context of that estate, was there a female ghost?

Oh no, Dayan’s Yin Ghosts have no intelligence, if there were any, they would be more like female spirits.

Smiling lightly, he cast these thoughts from his mind and back to the matter at hand, Xu Yuan felt that woman must be a recluse.

After all, with Ran Qingmo’s luck and good destiny, encountering a reclusive Grandmaster wasn’t that unusual.

Protecting these commoner farming households might just be one of her peculiar habits.

With a slight and vague sense of unease, Xu Yuan exhaled a murky breath, circulated his Cultivation Technique, and with a fierce leap, along with the two women beside him, in a few moves, they landed directly at the entrance of the manor at the village center without alarming any of the households.

Compared to those grand mansions within Dayan Territory, the estate before him was more akin to the kind of old wealthy landlords’ mansions in the countryside.

With three entry steps, there were no guards holding the entrance, only two lifelike stone lions standing guard, with a mahogany gate and a copper knocker on the door without a nail.

The only thing that caught Xu Yuan’s attention was that the plaque hanging above the gate was blank, without any writing.

The pattering rainwater fell like pearls dropping along the eave’s upturned corners.

After a moment’s pause, Xu Yuan stepped up to the doorway, pulled the knocker, and tapped thrice gently. Shortly after, the thick mahogany door creaked slowly open from the inside.

A robust man appeared before his eyes.