Chapter 94, Tracing the Trail
"You come with me!" Jiang Liu beckoned Li Shun and Fang Qing, "Do you think this place looks like a trace of a human being?"
Li Shun squatted down and stared at a broken branch in the middle of a cluster of dwarf trees on the side of the road, this branch was very new, and after a few glances, he frowned: "The road is full of this kind of broken branches, it may be caused by people, it may be something else!" They chased many of these traces along the way.
Fang Qing stood behind him, the sunlight falling from the cracks in the branches on his shiny scalp. "You mean the beast?"
Li Shun stood up, slapped a loud slap on his bald head, and said: "Can you stop being so crow-mouthed, Jiang Liu's cultivation is high among us, she just fought with a wolf beast just before yesterday, and now you want to exhaust her if you encounter a fierce beast again!"
Fang Qing punched Li Shun in the chest, of course, their fight with each other was not really angry, but a manifestation of friendship. "Spotted, Brother Li Shun, I told you not to hit my head, a man's head, a woman's waist, you can't even touch it, you still beat, then you said it could be something else, what do you mean?"
"Well, I mean" There is nothing else in this forest except for fierce beasts, Jiang Liu knows that Li Shun is referring to this, but he is afraid that she will be disappointed, so it is difficult to say.
Fang Qing and Li Shun were met on the hillside fifty miles outside the village on the day she left the village, she had been out of the village for nearly three hours, the sun was rising overhead, and she was alone tasting the loneliness of leaving Jiangcun, the two of them jumped out from behind the rocks to scare her, and also gave her an unexpected surprise. Li Shun blushed and scolded her for not being interesting enough, and he didn't tell him when he ran away from home, and Fang Qing also said that she was too disagreeable. "I saw that something was wrong with you that night," Fang Qing said, "I knew that you were going to do this kind of thing again, you are a woman's family, and you have to be protected when you go out!"
She told them that she was on this trip to find Yang Tianxiao, and he might have been rescued by someone with a strong cultivation, so this trip was very dangerous, let them go back, but Li Shun said: "It's the danger that we have to follow, we are also very adventurous, you see Fang Qing's hair is because he was curious about what fire is when he was a child, so he put his head on the fire, and as a result, all the hair on his head was burned!"
"That's right!" Fang Qing said, "Besides, Saruo is not only your brother, but also our brother, he has saved the lives of our entire village, so I have to help him no matter what!"
Jiang Liu was very moved to have them with him, but knew that this trip was not child's play, so he tried his best to persuade them to go back, but in the end Fang Qing became angry. He scolded loudly: "Spotted, Jiang Liu, we are buddies, we are good brothers, even if we encounter danger, what's the big deal if we die with our buddies, we didn't even think about going back when we came out of this trip, leave Zhang Shan's stammering at home, if we can't go back, let him help us take care of our parents, don't say it anymore, if you don't let us follow, we must also follow!" Jiang Liu finally couldn't resist him, so he had to let them follow.
Since then, Jiang Liu has led them to look for traces of Yang Tianxiao everywhere in the outer layer of the Fengxin Forest. Because Yang Tianxiao is the son of Yang Zongtian in the Western Continent, Jiang Liu deduced that he will definitely go to the Western Continent.
There are two roads to the western continent, one is to go through the middle layer of the Fengxin Forest to the western continent, this road will not work at all, because there is an enchantment between the middle layer and the outer layer of the Fengxin Forest, and this layer of enchantment will not open until a certain time, and the other road is to go west along the outer layer of the Fengxin Forest, and finally go south, and then turn west. Jiang Liu guessed that they must have taken the second path.
Therefore, for four days, Jiang Liu took Fang Qing and Li Shun to search along this road. They have found all the places where people can walk, including the paths in the dense forest, the gaps between the hills, they have looked along the stream, Jiang Liu is even jumping on the tree, shuttling between the branches, but in the past four days, they have not even seen a single figure, the day before yesterday Jiang Liu also had a fight with a wolf beast, it was a vicious battle, she fought for a long time before the wolf beast was killed, and almost took out the glass disillusionment lamp. They followed every possible trail, but either they found the beast's den or suddenly disappeared.
At this time, Jiang Liu was very discouraged. She looked at the path that winded through the forest in front of her, wondering what the little trace she had found now would lead her to.
In the end, Jiang Liu decided: "Whether this trace is left by a human or a fierce beast, we have to go and see!" Jiang Liu was the youngest among the few, but no one objected to her words, Jiang Liu knew that this was not only because she was the only woman, but also because of her own strength, in this era, the strength is high, and the weight of words is high.
There is a thick layer of leaves on the path, they walk on it without making a sound at all, the trees on both sides are thick, it takes several people to hug them together, the branches are implicated in the top of their heads, blocking most of the sunlight, the woods are gloomy and quiet, the roots of the trees under their feet protrude from the ground, and they are covered with moss.
After walking dozens of steps, Jiang Liu saw Li Shun pick up a big stone of more than 100 catties on the side of the road. He held it to his chest, and did frog jumping as he walked, and after a few minutes, Fang Qing was not to be outdone, and also found a stone about the same size, and jumped next to him, Jiang Liu knew that they were seizing the time to refine the body, and they all did this along the way, Li Shun was a big man, and during the time that his father taught him the cultivation method, he had not put it down for a day, and now he couldn't cover the muscles of his two arms even if he was wearing clothes, Fang Qing was a little lazier than him, but Fang Qing's cultivation talent was slightly higher, at this time, he was about to cultivate to the realm of Lingwu Yizhong, and cultivators who cultivated to Lingwu Yizhong could gather spiritual power in the dantian, at that time, cultivation was the first glimpse of the doorway, wait until you cultivate to the Lingwu Triple before you really embark on the path of cultivation.
"You two listen well, you should pay attention to your breathing when you jump, and at the same time pay attention to feeling the spiritual power in your surroundings, as long as you feel the spiritual power slightly, you try to communicate with them, if you can guide it to the dantian, you can cultivate to the spiritual martial arts."
In fact, Jiang Liu is more sympathetic to them, it was a very wrong decision for his father to lead them to the path of cultivation, the cultivation talent of the two can be said to be very low, lower than the Xiao Ye she knows, it is basically impossible for them to cultivate to a very high level, the cultivation world is cruel and abnormal, and they may not be killed by people with high cultivation one day, Jiang Liu is really worried about them, so he often puts his own along the way
Share their cultivation experience with them, so that they can quickly cultivate to the Lingwu realm.
But they don't seem to be cultivation material at all. "Spotted, how to communicate, I seem to feel a little spiritual power, but to guide them to the dantian, it is not possible at all" Fang Qing's bald head slammed into the air. Li Shun said: "Yes, where is the dantian?"
Jiang Liuzhen was anxious for them, she still didn't know where the dantian was, she felt that it only took three days for the spiritual power to be refined, and it had been almost three months since they had refined their bodies, even if they exercised their bodies to be strong, it was useless, and only with spiritual power could they become real powerhouses.
With only a cup of tea, they were already covered in sweat, and Fang Qing's bald head was dripping with beads of sweat, like dew drops on winter melons, and Li Shun's back was wet, and his clothes were all attached to his back.
Jiang Liu described to them a lot of spiritual power characteristics and feelings along the way, but they didn't understand, Jiang Liu knew that it was useless to say anything, just to see if he could help them get some elixir in the future, like their talent, they could only rely on the elixir to forcibly improve their cultivation, as for how high they could cultivate in the end, it depended on their creation, maybe they would also have benefits in refining their bodies like this, and the more spiritual power they could bear, the higher their cultivation would be, so Jiang Liu no longer cared if they could understand it after three consecutive days of explanations, and secretly made a secret to help them get some elixir in the future。
Half an hour later, Fang Qing threw the stone on his body on the ground, and he shouted: "Spotted, Jiang Liu, come and see, there are footprints here, there are many footprints!"
Li Shun also threw the stone on his body to the ground. "Sure enough, there are a lot of footprints, have we found them?"
Jiang Liu's figure flashed over, and quickly asked them to speak quietly, if they really found them, how to snatch Yang Tianxiao is still a problem, since the other party can save Yang Tianxiao unconsciously, then the cultivation must not be low. Although there were three of them, only they could fight in front of the real masters, and Li Shun and Fang Qing were probably destroyed before they could make a move.
Jiang Liu found footprints here, arranged side by side from left to right, there are three rows, each row of four seals, of which the two on the right are deeper, because the soil here is close to a small pitch-black pool on the side of the road, which is softer. At this moment, the water in the pond is rippling, and the fallen leaves of the trees near the pond float into the middle of the pool, giving birth to a little splash.
Li Shun was puzzled: "Why are there only three rows of footprints?"
Fang Qingdao: "Spotted, Li Shun, you are stupid, don't they walk from the tree, don't you know that cultivators have all kinds of body methods?"
Jiang Liu smiled: "Fang Qing, I can't see that you know a lot about your bald head!"
Fang Qing touched his bald head and laughed silly. Jiang Liu didn't say anything anymore, the spiritual power was running, the body method was used, the person had jumped to the branch above her head, she checked several nearby trees one by one, and finally found a few broken branches on the third tree in front of the road, Jiang Liu's heart ignited a glimmer of hope, if it was really Yang Tianxiao, she would stop it desperately, and she must not let Sa Ruo be in danger, I don't know why, she just had a feeling that Sa Ruo must be fine, and his cultivation will definitely recover.