Legend Management Bureau Chapter 397

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The three farmers immediately reacted. Their wives and children were sleeping in the bedroom; how could they let the water monkey get inside?

A middle-aged man immediately grabbed his carrying pole and swung it viciously, tripping He Suoyi to the ground.

The other two raised their hoes, ready to swing down and end his life.

However, He Suoyi had a wealth of combat experience. There was no way he would allow himself to be slaughtered by a few farmers.

He rolled across the floor, dodging the fatal strike from the hoes. Refusing to get tangled up in a fight, he instead reached out and flipped over a table.

Blocked by the table, the men visibly slowed their pace. He Suoyi took the opportunity to dive into the small room.

“Good heavens! Stop him!” the farmers shouted in unison.

Du Yu gnashed his teeth in hatred, cursing loudly as he gave chase.

The moment he pushed the door open, the scenery before him completely changed. It was actually a valley shrouded in mist and clouds. Countless low houses dotted the landscape, with cooking smoke rising from every chimney.

“Oh my god! What in the world is this?!” A sudden roar sounded behind Du Yu, startling him badly.

Du Yu turned around and discovered that one of the farmers had actually crossed through the space-time rift and chased after him. He was wearing a worn-out Mao suit, his hands trembling as he gripped his carrying pole.

“Huh?” Du Yu was taken aback. “As if this situation wasn’t chaotic enough… Uncle, how did you get here?”

“Young man… what is going on here?” the farmer asked in a trembling voice. “How did my house turn into this? Have I run into a Great Immortal?”

Du Yu rolled his eyes in thought before speaking slowly, “It is fine, Uncle. This is all the work of that water monkey. As long as we can beat it to death, everything will go back to normal!”

“Beat the water monkey to death…” The farmer was clearly a bit timid now. “I have only heard that the Yellow Great Immortal can cast illusions on people. How can this water monkey bewitch people too?”

Du Yu ignored the farmer and slowly walked forward.

This space was slightly different from the others.

Looking around, there were surprisingly no spatial rifts to be seen anywhere.

He glanced back and realized that the path they had come from had vanished as well.

“Strange, the space here is much more stable,” Du Yu murmured to himself. “Could this be some famous Legend?”

Du Yu took a few slow steps forward, and the old man behind him followed closely, not daring to stray a single inch.

“There are no visible rifts in this valley… which means that scumbag is still here.” Du Yu walked up to the door of a wooden cabin and gently pushed it open.

Sure enough, inside the door was just an ordinary room. It did not connect to any other dimension.

“Young man… what exactly do you do?” the old man could not help but ask, seeing Du Yu’s bizarre behavior. “Are you a Daoist Priest from Mount Mao? Or a Daoist Priest from Mount Longhu?”

“I…” Du Yu shook his head helplessly. “I am not a Daoist Priest. However, Uncle, your constitution is quite special. If you ever die an unnatural death one day, make sure to go see Chief Judge Cui Jue. There might just be a chance at wealth and glory waiting for you. If you pass away naturally in your old age, then pretend I never said anything and just reincarnate peacefully.”

“Ugh!” The old man closed his eyes in disgust. “You speak so viciously, young man. Why in the world would I die an unnatural death?”

Du Yu did not respond. Instead, he continued searching the village for clues.

He pushed open door after door, but not a single one led anywhere else. It seemed the residents of the houses had all gone out to work in the fields.

If it were not for the fact that Du Yu had this uncle from the sixties or seventies tagging along beside him, he would have thought the spatial anomalies were already repaired.

“Uncle, why are you trying to kill the water monkey?” Du Yu asked casually.

“Ugh!” the uncle replied, gritting his teeth. “Actually, the one who wants to kill the water monkey is not me, it is my Big Brother. I just came over tonight to help! My nephew went to play by the water, and the water monkey dragged him under and drowned him! Speaking of which, that water monkey is truly detestable. My nephew was only seven years old!”

“It seems there are Legends even after the founding of the nation…” Du Yu shook his head in resignation. He knew that, from a scientific perspective, things like water monkeys simply did not exist.

However, none of the Legends in this world were just wind from an empty cave. If people had not genuinely witnessed inexplicable anomalies, how could the Legend of the water monkey have simultaneously spread across the entire country during the seventies and eighties?

But now was not the time to dwell on water monkeys, nor could he tell the uncle in front of him that water monkeys “did not exist”. He Suoyi was insidious and cunning; having a strong, strapping burly man nearby to help would not be a bad thing.

The pressing issue at hand was figuring out the situation in this valley. If this truly was a Legend, he had to find a way to bring the Legend to an end. Only then would it be possible to expose a temporal rift.

“But where exactly is this?” Du Yu murmured to himself.

“It has to be an illusion created by the water monkey!” the burly man answered without a second thought.

Du Yu sighed and prepared to go strike up a conversation with the local villagers. If he didn’t hurry up and kill He Suoyi and find a way back to his own timeline, the situation would only get worse.

“Friend!” Du Yu grabbed a passing villager. He saw that the villager wore a smile, brimming with happiness.

“Hmm?!” The villager was clearly stunned upon seeing Du Yu and the old man. “Where did the two of you come from?”

“We… came from outside the mountains,” Du Yu said, pointing behind him.

The villager thought for a moment before asking, “What is it that you do for a living?”

“I am a fisherman!” the old man was the first to answer. “Great Immortal, where exactly is this place?”

The villager smiled and waved his hand. “I am no Great Immortal, and this isn’t any special place, just the village where we live! We rarely have outsiders in our village. Since you two have traveled from afar, if you do not mind, would you care to join me at my home for a chat?”

The old man gently poked Du Yu from behind and whispered, “What is going on? This guy is being way too friendly!”

“Rarely any outsiders?” Du Yu narrowed his eyes. He knew that if He Suoyi was hiding in an isolated village like this, he would inevitably be discovered very quickly. “That works. Friend, we just happen to have a lot of questions for you.”

Although the old man strongly objected, Du Yu still followed the local villager. Fearful in his heart, the old man did not dare remain by himself and had no choice but to follow along.

Weaving through the small village paths, Du Yu finally realized that the scenery here was truly exquisite. There were neat rows of houses and sprawling expanses of terraced fields. Beyond the village lay a crystal-clear lake and a vibrant green mulberry grove.

Looking further out, he noticed that the entire valley was enclosed by a massive peach orchard. The peach trees stretched for hundreds of miles like a natural barrier.

“Huh? A village surrounded by peach trees, isolated from the rest of the world, where the people live in peace and work happily?”

Du Yu’s lips moved slightly as he muttered to himself, “Could this be… ‘During the Taiyuan era of the Jin Dynasty, a man from Wuling, who made his living as a fisherman, was traveling along a stream and forgot how far he had gone. Suddenly, he came upon a peach blossom grove, lining both banks for hundreds of paces…’?”

The old man behind him was utterly bewildered. “Young man, what are you doing? Are you chanting an incantation?”

Du Yu turned around and declared with utter seriousness, “Uncle, I figured it out! This is the Peach Blossom Spring!”

“What? Who did you say is resting in peace?”