Qin Yanxiu looked up at the thousand-year-old Huai Metasequoia above his head, and his thoughts flickered like the sunlight that had inadvertently leaked.

In the late autumn wind, the yellow leaves of the metasequoia trees fell down, just like the self he had dreamed of countless times, falling from a thousand feet of height, shattered into the boundless emptiness, lifeless as death.

For a long time, he tried to trace the source of this dream, but all he could see was a blank space, and he felt so close to the truth, yet so far away.

Hide, be quiet as an outer disciple, hide in the Floating Kite Peak Medicine Garden, cultivate alone, participate in the disciple competition three years later, and leave here to find the answer after obtaining the Zhuji Dan, Qin Yanxiu planned so in his heart.

It's just—

"Eh, eh, Qin Yanxiu hurry up and save me, I'm going to be taken away by this stupid duck and this strange sheep!"

Xianzhiyu's sleeves were bitten by the stubborn, stumbling and trotting all the way in the woods, and from time to time waving his hands behind him to call for help.

Disregard.

Qin Yanxiu, who directly pretended to be deaf and blind, followed unhurriedly and made marks on the road. Passing through this thousand-year-old Huai Metasequoia forest, the footsteps in front of him gradually slowed down, and he actually came to the end of the side of the Floating Kite Peak.

The sea of clouds full of rising and tumbling clouds poured out from between the two peaks, like a big river rushing and like a waterfall falling for nine days.

Xianzhiyu almost immediately said "wow" as soon as he saw such a picture, pulling Qin Yanxiu to sigh in such a quiet and magnificent scenery.

Rare and weird, continue to ignore it.

"Why is it that every time I see such a beautiful scenery, I am with you, it's so boring, next time I will definitely call Su Jibai to come and see." Xianzhiyu turned his head to look at his expressionless face and said with disgust.

What do you mean every time, twice only.

"Quack!" Meat cried cheerfully as she stood on her back, and as she looked over the voice, she could faintly see the vine-covered cave on the cliff beside them.

The cave is narrow at the beginning, only one person can pass, walk to dozens of steps, and suddenly open up.

This is another space completely isolated from the outside world, with fragrant grass and several peach trees growing up to three feet in the middle, covering the sky and the sun, and setting colors. If the guess is correct, it should be exactly the same as the illusion they strayed into before, it is the time when a certain great power solidifies in Helai Mountain, last time it was a galaxy above the pond, and this time it is the peach blossom source in late spring and early summer.

Now, this has become a nest of the monkeys - under the peach tree, there are two large, one small and one large, vigilant and puzzled, watching Xianzhiyu and his "brothers in distress" approaching step by step.

"Ah, your daughter-in-law stepped on me the last time we met, you know. After recognizing the horn of the short-haired man, Xianzhiyu turned around and pointed at the forehead of his "brother in distress" and complained.

Qin Yanxiu shook his head helplessly, and looked around the illusion, looking for the companion grass he needed in the land covered with peach petals, the bell thread.

Until Xianzhiyu called out to him.

"Qin Yanxiu, come quickly, come quickly, urgent. He frowned, his tone seemed a little worried.

Walking in, he saw that he was crawling at his feet, his eyes closed and dying, only the occasional fluttering of his ears made it clear that he was still alive, and upon closer examination he could find a visible bite on his leg.

"The snake is red and born on the wood, gnawed and poisonous, and can only be solved by the wind and glowing grass. Now that the weather is getting colder, the snake will protect itself from the winter under the tree, and it will be easy to be bitten if it is alarmed. ”

"In other words, this poison can be solved with Wind Glowgrass Grass, where can Wind Glowgrass be found?"

"Where there are snakes, there will definitely be wind glow grass, but where is Helai Mountain, I want to ask Elder Liu, who is in charge of medicinal herbs in Guiyan Peak......"

"Qin Yanxiu!" Xianzhiyu put his hand on Qin Yanxiu's shoulder, which caught him off guard, "I think I have definitely made the most correct decision to bring you over today, you are simply my Baidu Encyclopedia, right?" ”

"Quack!" the meat dish flapped his wings in agreement.

Qin Yanxiu didn't dare to stare at Xianzhiyu's eyes this time, because he didn't know the reason why he understood this qiē, demon beasts, or medicinal herbs, alchemy, or even the mental method and practice of cultivation, since he could remember, this qiē had been firmly engraved in his mind, and it was terrifyingly complex and detailed.

But these memories are like a labyrinth, he searches every fork in the road, and in the end what awaits him is a sealed wall.

Who am I and what kind of past do I have?

Between the chaos of dreams and wakefulness, Qin Yanxiu would always ask such questions, to heaven and earth or to himself.

……

"In the end, I didn't finish the task with you, not to mention, I have to help them detoxify and heal, what do I want, I ......" After coming out of the cave, Xian Zhiyu grabbed his hair and looked up to the sky and roared, but after a while, he turned his head and said to Qin Yanxiu, "Brother Xiu, this time please help cure it, next time I take the task, the reward will be compensated to you." ”

Didn't you just cry out for regret?

"It doesn't matter. "In short, I can't understand the person Xianzhiyu, Qin Yanxiu chose to give up.

After returning to the small courtyard of Floating Kite Peak, Xianzhiyu, who was covered in mud, ordered the same meat dishes to take a bath with him, so he ran to fetch water to boil water. Qin Yan Xiu walked to the medicine garden to lift the ban according to the plan, packed several mature century-old herbs in a wooden box, and prepared to go to Guiyan Peak.

On the second floor of the main hall in the center of Rose's Goose Peak, the walls as far as the eye can see are neatly lined with small square-lined medicine drawers, the air is filled with the familiar incense of wormwood, the medicine hall is in charge of the great elder of Rose's Goose Peak, Liu Gu, at this moment he is standing in front of a wall, several rows of jade slips hovering around him, it seems that it is time for the monthly inventory again.

Yu Guang caught a glimpse of Qin Yanxiu, and Elder Liu's face showed a rare smile: "You're here." ”

Qin Yanxiu respectfully presented a few wooden boxes with both hands, feeling the wooden boxes slowly float up and then being taken into Elder Liu's hands.

"Well, very good, almost none of the herbs of the Oak Spirit have been lost in the past hundred years, and you are the most top-notch of the outer disciples I have ever seen in the meticulous process of cultivating and cultivating herbs. Elder Liu stroked his beard and pointed lightly at the wooden box, and the spirit grass in it automatically flew into the open medicine drawer, "If it weren't for the carefree mother-in-law who refused to let people go, I would definitely ask you to come to my Rose Goose Peak to take care of the Great Medicine Garden." ”

"Thank you, Elder, for your appreciation. Qin Yanxiu tried his best to put on a look of infinite regret, in fact, he was glad in his heart, taking care of the fat difference of the Rose Goose Peak Great Medicine Garden, I don't know how many outer disciples were red-eyed, he definitely didn't want to mix with it at all.

"Well, go get your spirit stone. Willow waved at him and continued to count the medicine drawer.

"Elder Liu, the disciple still has something to ask the elder. After receiving Elder Liu's tacit approval, Qin Yanxiu further asked, "The disciple doesn't know where to pick the wind glow grass from Helai Mountain, so I ask the elder for guidance." ”

"At this kind of season, don't keep running to the Shanyin woods, lest you all be bitten half dead by the snakes, and in the morning, the Xue nerd on the Canglu Peak Library Pavilion came to me sickly and asked me......" Elder Liu touched his beard and squinted his eyes for a while, and said: "The Wind Glowing Grass grows on the side of their Canglu Peak Mountainside near the edge of the cliff, and it is no different from other grass plants during the day, and it will fluoresce with the wind after half the night, so it is called Wind Glowing Grass." ”

Qin Yanxiu thanked him again and retreated.

……

By the end of the night, Qin Yan Xiu had just finished a big Zhou Tian cultivation, he counted the drawn charms, jade shovels and wooden boxes and left the small courtyard, stepped on the teleportation array of Canglu Peak, and went straight to the edge of the cliff to find the Wind Glowing Grass.

Walking through the huge Huai Metasequoia forest, everything is silent, and the branches of the trees at night are like pitch-black minions, tearing at the remaining light layer by layer.

Therefore, the wind glow grass that shimmers in the wind on the edge of the cliff is particularly easy to identify.

The corners of Qin Yanxiu's mouth were slightly upturned, his toes were lightly, and he stopped steadily at the top of the rock at the tip of the cliff, and the gray clothes belt flew up, but it was as quiet as snow falling.

Just as he was about to take out the jade shovel and wooden box to collect the wind glow grass, the sound of the monk's spell bursting during the battle gradually came from the quiet air, and in a few breaths, the sound was getting closer and closer to the edge of the cliff.

Qin Yanxiu's heart sank, and he shouted badly, hurriedly slid down the cliff, stuck to the rock recess, and took out a concealment talisman to cover his chest, and secretly prayed that it would not be a major repair above the Jindan period.

Calculating the speed at which they approached this place, it should be one chasing and one fleeing, and the person chasing deliberately forced the escapee to the cliff.

"If you're still hiding in the library, I really don't know how to move you...... If you want to complain, blame yourself for your bad luck......" I finally heard someone speak, and the tone was particularly yin and yang in this dead silence, "By the way, don't you like Sister Jibai?" ”

After the muffled snort, followed by the sound of clothes rustling, but it didn't last long, after the final "cut" sound, a black figure fell from the cliff, and was instantly swallowed up by the endless darkness in front of Qin Yanxiu's eyes.

The night is dark and the wind is high, killing people and killing people.

Even if the footsteps of the man on the cliff faded away, Qin Yanxiu didn't dare to make any moves, his face was pale, his limbs were stiff, and he waited here for another hour, and after being sure that there were no living creatures around, he moved his body and climbed up lightly from the rock wall.

Not daring to delay for a moment, Qin Yanxiu quickly collected the Wind Glowing Grass. Before leaving, he suddenly remembered something, stared at the darkness below the cliff, and made a decision.

Half an hour later, sneaking down the mountain road, he finally found the man who had been thrown off the cliff on the road at the foot of Canglu Peak: the other party did not kill him with his own hands, because he was afraid of being discovered, rummaged through his clothes and storage bags, he was looking for something, and finally he said in a tone that there was no or no at all...... Didn't find it.

I touched my pulse, I was already out of breath, I should be an ordinary outer disciple in my clothes, and the storage bag was really still on my body, and when I opened it, there were only some spirit stones and jade slips and bamboo slips of various colors, but they were just ordinary biographical exercises, and I found nothing after looking for a while.

Is it that I'm thinking too much. Qin Yanxiu had some doubts in his heart, why didn't the other party let out a shout until he died, and even the corpse still maintained this kind of gritted teeth...... Wait, gnashing your teeth......

Taking a deep breath, Qin Yanxiu broke open the corpse's mouth with his hand, and finally twisted out a very small piece of jade from the other party's mouth.

Sure enough.

This is a piece of memory preservation tablets, the method of making zuò this kind of reading tablets is very obscure, I don't know how this outer disciple knows, but the most important thing is the content stored inside, so hidden, that is, the reason why he was killed.

Qin Yanxiu didn't dare to stay here, nor did he want to go back to the small courtyard of Floating Kite Peak, so he simply went straight to the cave where Shanyin was located. Moving rapidly, he probed his divine sense into the reading tablet, and found that it was only an intermittent human voice.

At the beginning, there was a sound of men and women, and then the woman called the man "master", and the two talked about a series of shocking contents such as "Demon Clan", "Seal", "Niwang Sword", etc., and finally the woman chuckled and said, "Although the master is a borrowed skin, don't let Su Ningru know about the matter between us, hehe." ”

It seems that although he doesn't know who the men and women are talking in the film, he has found someone who should know.

After arriving at the Taoyuan Cave, Qin Yanxiu's chaotic thoughts gradually calmed down in this brightness, and when the stalks saw him coming, they all happily rubbed around him.

Take out the wind glow grass in the box, take the rhizome internally, apply the leaves externally, and treat the wound for Xiao Xuan, then hold it like this, lean under the peach tree to feel the warmth in your arms, and after extreme tension, you are physically and mentally exhausted.

I don't know when he fell asleep, Qin Yanxiu only knew that as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Xian Zhiyu squatting in front of him and smirking at him.

Under this transparent honey-like sunshine, the peach petals swirl and scatter at the same time, and the snow-white shade of the flowers can't cover the bottom of Xianzhiyu's eyes.

"Spicy chicken, you haven't returned all night since you went out last night, I was so worried that I didn't fall asleep, I came to look for you early in the morning, and you actually slept here!"

- For the first time, Qin Yanxiu realized that the haunted ghost that he hated infinitely also had times when people were extremely relieved.