When Yan Feng saw the shopkeeper chasing the old man, he almost wanted to follow. The sword embryo that Hanxiong got today made him very hot, but it was a pity that he missed it like this. But if you can find the place where the old man picked this kind of stone, maybe there will be a greater chance.

His words also made everyone present a little moved. Anyway, the inns and inns in the Red Brocade City are full, and yesterday they still spent the night in the post yard, which is no different from sleeping in the wilderness, so why bother to crowd in this messy place. And everyone is a monk, so they should find a quiet place to cultivate.

And Yanfeng's true purpose is also well known to everyone, that is, to go to the place that the old man said. That area is already the deep wilderness around Wufu Hill, and the remnants of the mountains connected to the wilderness. The crowd is not Baoyu, although the road is far, but most of them pass through the villages and cities where there are roads, and they are not far from the people.

Walking alone in the mountains is, after all, an adventure, and it is very inconvenient. But since everyone has come all the way to the area of Wufu Hill, why don't you enjoy the real wild and deep scenery? This is the experience of travel! Even if you can't find the Wufu Pushi, maybe there will be other discoveries.

There are many demon clans living in this area, and there are also many special products that cannot be seen elsewhere, and you can also take elixirs, find natural treasures, and subdue rare birds and beasts in the inaccessible wilderness. Slay the Great Demon ...... These are all legends and deeds that everyone hears in their hometowns or sects. It's exciting to think about it firsthand!

Someone then chimed in: "Anyway, there is still more than half a month before the winter solstice, and it is not interesting for us to stay in this crowded and chaotic city outline." It is better to leave the city and travel through the wild mountains, and then go directly from the mountains to the bottom of the Wufu Hill. This time may witness things that have never been seen before. Choosing to cultivate quietly is not a difficult opportunity to find. ”

The little sprinkler agreed: "When I left the mountain, the Venerable Elder had instructed me to refine the Empty Mulberry Branch, a unique magic weapon, to the ninth leaf during this journey, but my cultivation was slow to break through the Four Realms and Nine Turns. I wanted to choose a place to retreat and refine in the Red Brocade City, but I couldn't find a quiet place at all, so it was better to go to the mountains and wilderness to cultivate, maybe there was another great opportunity. ”

Hanxiong also nodded and said, "My father once told me not to run around alone in the mountains. He also said that my cultivation is still shallow. In case of danger or inability to protect oneself. And now that so many of us are traveling together, we are not afraid of anything, and we can break through...... Mr. Koji, what do you mean?"

Baoyu: "If everyone thinks so, I don't have a problem. ”

Hanxiong: "Then what else do you say, let's go quickly!" Anyway, there was no place to spend the night in the city, and he had already bought such a good sword embryo, and he didn't want to go to the market anymore, so he wrapped up the mountain goods and stuffed them into the package.

Someone else whispered to Baoyu: "You have been in the market for three days, with your good eyesight." Have you found anything as good as that sword embryo, but no one knows it?"

Baoyu smiled bitterly: "There are indeed a lot of good things, but not everyone knows them. There are so many cheap things in the world. Just waiting for you to take it?"

There is a restaurant next to the market that specializes in all kinds of meals, and a group of eight monks with a flower-tailed puppy found a place to have lunch first. Hanxiong happily invited the guests, bought some dry food items, and then everyone left the west gate.

Out of the city is the mountains, scattered scattered with populated villages, large and small plains and valleys also have reclaimed fields, it does not appear desolate, it is a different pastoral scenery from the city.

Yanfeng still seems to be the leader of the people. Take the initiative to lead the way. He stood on the edge of a terraced rice field and said, "The old man said that he would go fifteen miles west and ten miles south, which is obviously a big detour." We have to cultivate in our bodies, and we can climb mountains and mountains. Calculate the orientation and plug it directly to the southwest. Isn't it faster?"

He calculated in his heart that the old man must have walked on the mountain path, and the shopkeeper was also following behind, and the two of them might have hurried to the place in the mountains to find the stone. If you take a shortcut to get ahead of these two people, you may be able to grab a greater creation. But what he said did make sense, and the crowd did not object.

But when they left the vicinity of the inhabited village and fields, climbed to the top of a mountain and looked ahead, everyone was a little dumbfounded. The mountains in front of you are like cutting, thousands of rocks and ravines criss-cross, if you follow the direction of Yanfeng pointed straight through, it is simply not the road that people walk, even many birds can not fly over.

Although everyone has cultivated to the supernatural ability to climb over mountains and mountains, it is also very dangerous to climb up such a high mountain and climb down, and to cross so many cliffs and deep ravines, and it is extremely physically and time-consuming. It's better to find a place to walk, it only adds up to twenty-five miles of mountain roads, and if it is on the road, it will only take a short time for them.

Baoyu looked at the terrain and observed the direction of the mountain range, so he explained to everyone: "The old man did not deliberately point out a detour, but to the west of the city is a plateau valley in the middle of the mountains, and there are populated villages one after another, and there are also roads connecting them. After fifteen miles, it is convenient to detour south. He was referring to the path he usually walked, and it was also the fastest way. ”

In the wilderness, it is not the shortest distance in a straight line, but to find the best place in the mountains, the fastest and safest time to arrive, Baoyu has long been experienced. The people had to go down the hill to return to the road they had come from, and then follow the road between the villages. The road is fairly smooth and wide, barely feasible for carriage and horses, but there are more uphill and downhill slopes, twists and turns.

Of course, the speed of the crowd was very fast, and it didn't take long to drive fifteen miles, and a mountain path appeared on the south side of the main road, winding up to the depths of the peaks.

The road was not as easy to walk as before, and along the way to the mountains, I saw several small villages, scattered in small valleys. The mountain road winds higher to the south, and after five miles it is no longer inhabited. The trail is fading in the mountains and forests, and many places have been covered by vegetation. Hanxiong frowned and said, "What kind of road is this?"

Baoyu analyzed: "In recent years, few people have walked here, but it was trampled very solidly, and obviously there are large groups of people and horses who often come and go, so many sections of the roadbed are still there, and there is not much grass so far." If there was a wufu stone in the deep mountains, many people must have come here to mine in the past, but now that vein should have been basically hollowed out and abandoned, so the road was deserted. ”

The old man said that he would travel ten miles south, but the scene in the deep mountains was ten miles of different days. In the early years, I don't know who first explored this path, circling around the mountains and ravines and twisting and turning, and what you see along the way presents the posture of a hundred turns of the peaks. When the road finally disappeared completely, everyone stood between the mountains and valleys, and the scene in front of them was very magnificent and beautiful.

It's winter, and it's a plateau with snow-capped peaks. On the snow-free mountainside below, large areas of vegetation have lost their leaves, giving them a pale yellow color. But further down the mountain, the color changed to orange and light red. The terrain here is very different, and in the lowest valley, there are many evergreen plants and trees in all seasons, and you can see a verdant landscape.

The mountains are layered, like colorful waves meandering and flowing, and the snow in the sun on the distant peaks, because of the difference in distance and angle, reflects the light and shadow of snow white, light blue and blue, which is like a dream. The little girl took a deep breath and said: "Feel the breath of this place, it is extremely quiet and fresh, if you can find a suitable cave house, it is a good place to retreat and retreat."

Yanfeng: "The road is gone, we have already walked ten miles, where is the place that the old man said?"

Baoyu pointed to the distance and said, "We can just see here that there is a large bare mountain wall over there, and there is a dark brown rock formation in the middle of it, which should be where the veins of Wufu stone were produced in the early years." Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and there was indeed a line of dark brown looming between the steep cliff rock layers, like a huge dragon walking through the mountain.

When everyone walked down the high slope and through the valley densely covered with green trees and vines, they found a lot of scattered martial arts stone shells. Most of them could be used to process utensils, but it was too remote to transport the stone out, so it was abandoned in the deep valley.

Before dusk, they came to the foot of the steep bare slope, where there was indeed a vein exposed to the surface, and many traces of human excavation had been left between the craggy rocks, which had been hollowed out. Everywhere were hewn open mushi shells, and if any of them were produced, they would have been taken away long ago.

The little sprinkler girl looked at the rocky slope and sighed, "There are so many caves!"

The early miners who came here have been digging along the veins into the mountain all year round, leaving many holes, many of which are like stone chambers, very deep, wide and very flat, similar to the Qing Xiu Cave built by monks who lived in seclusion deep in the mountains.

Yan Feng looked around and said, "There should be no Wufu stone produced here, but there are stone shell scraps everywhere under the cliff, I wonder if I can find the stone?"

Baoyu looked at the sky and said, "It's going to be dark soon, let's find a place to spend the night first." This place is good, suitable for sitting and cultivating. But there are also many poisoning insects and beasts in the mountains, and we have already encountered several fierce beasts on the way here, although they have all been frightened away by us, but they are also dangerous enough. ”

Someone was startled and asked, "Is there such a thing? Why don't I know?"

Yan Feng glanced at the man and said, "With your cultivation, you can't detect the movement lurking in the distance. ...... Didn't you notice how many times Mr. Xiaolu's dog barked?"

There is a ready-made "cave house" on the cliff, and everyone finds the most desirable place to rest. Early the next morning, everyone walked out of the cave and searched along the rock formation where the ore vein was located, mainly to investigate the scattered and abandoned Wufu stone shells, but they did not find the same stone as the sword embryo.

Some people think that some stone shells are a little special, and they can't eat them accurately, and they specially invite Baoyu to "identify", Baoyu shook his head and said no. This vein stretched for more than two miles on the surface, and had been mined for many years, and now there was nothing good left, and that kind of stone was impossible to see easily.

Everyone divided up to search for it, and in half a day, they searched all the area of the two-mile-long ore vein. When everyone got together again, Yan Feng asked, "Mr. Xiaolu, where will that kind of stone appear, will the old man lie to us?"

Baoyu asked rhetorically: "Why did he lie to us, what he said was wrong? We followed the path he pointed out, and sure enough, we found the remains of the veins of the Wufu Stone, and also found a lot of stone shells that could be used to refine treasures. Of course, the stone appeared with the vein, it was very rare and rare, and it had been taken by the old man. And I knew where he had taken it from, and I saw it. ”

Everyone was amazed and said, "Where? Take us to see it!"

Baoyu led the group to a short distance to the heights, some distance from the vein, and there was a long concave mark on the bare cliff. Baoyu said to Hanxiong: "Take out your sword embryo and compare it on it." ”

Hanxiong took out the sword embryo and put it on the stone wall, which happened to be able to be embedded in it. Everyone reacted at this time. This sword embryo was originally a natural "sword in the stone", which was exposed on the surface of the cliff due to the collapse of the rock layer, which was a useless stone shell. But it was seen by the old man who was digging up the mountain goods. I chiseled it down and sold it at the market. And the mountain goods sold by the old man can be seen in the mountains in this area.

Everyone has found the source of the sword embryo. It proves that what the old man said is not true at all. But where can we find the stone in this rock formation? Moreover, this is an exposed vein of the earth, and the possibility of containing the stone in it is very small.

Miss Xiao Sa sighed and said, "I knew that there was little hope of finding the stone, and I didn't have any hope. But such a long vein, even if it has been mined on a large scale, maybe there will still be one or two pieces of Wufu Mei Stone left!"

Hanxiong smiled: "The martial arts are all bred in the stone shell, you can knock open all the stone shells that the predecessors threw away." ”

Someone whispered again, "What a trip for nothing!"

Baoyu said: "How can you say it in vain? You can see the relics of the ancestors who mined the Wufu Stone back then, and there are natural caves here that are suitable for cultivation. It's all a gain...... Little sprinkle girl, do you want to find the Wufu Stone? I think there may be somewhere, because it is buried too deeply, maybe the miners of the year missed it. ”

The little girl's eyes lit up: "Where is it?"

Baoyu: "In the stone cave where you spent the night last night, I only found some traces, but I'm not sure if it's real, you can try to find it." ”

Last night, everyone looked for a "quiet room" to rest, and they were not far from each other. The mine cave picked by the little sprinkler girl is in the middle of the cliff, and there are still traces of the remaining martial arts stone shells on the cave wall. When everyone was looking for a place to spend the night, Baoyu also went in and took a look. But Miss Sprinkler picked that place.

Everyone gathered in the stone cave again, and Baoyu turned around and seemed to be unsure of the direction, so he said to Hanxiong, "Lend me your sword embryo." ”

The sword embryo is in Hanxiong's package. It's protected by a thick layer of soft deerskin. This thing can't be easily held in the hands of others, if anyone makes a bad take the opportunity to refine it to make it recognize the master, it will be useless for Hanxiong. But Baoyu wanted to borrow it, and Hanxiong took it out and handed it over without hesitation, because this sword embryo was originally the creation that Baoyu gave him.

Baoyu held the sword embryo in his hand and intently sensed it for a moment, then pointed at the stone wall with the sword embryo and said, "Little sprinkle girl, you will chisel there." ”

It is important to know that the veins of Wufu stone are continuously distributed, and it is sufficient to search for them along the rock layer with stone crusts when mining. This is how the cave they are in has been artificially hewn. But the place Baoyu was referring to was an ordinary stone wall, and there was not even a trace of a stone shell. Everyone was a little puzzled.

Xiao Sa took out a dendribranch-like magic weapon and swung it out, and seven pieces of blue light shone on the rock formation. In the blink of an eye, fine cracks appeared in the hard stone wall, and she asked, "How big is it to be chiseled?"

Baoyu: "One foot is enough." It doesn't have to be too mana-expended. ”

Xiao sprinkled the branch again, seven pieces of blue light sprinkled out, and the cracked rock layer turned into powder and fell to the ground like quicksand, and this exquisite imperial weapon magic power also won the applause of everyone. Xiao Sa glanced at Baoyu secretly, wanting to see if he was also appreciating himself?

But I saw Baoyu shaking his head and saying, "You're not demonstrating spells to people, you just need to chisel open the stone wall!"

Xiao Sa waved the short branch in his hand again with some disappointment, and the one-foot-square rock wall did not break, and the broken fist-sized stone collapsed, digging deeper and deeper, and a stone cave several feet deep had extended into the rock formation. While digging deeper rock formations, she cleared out the rubble in the way of a royal object, and landed a large pile on the ground, looking more and more difficult.

The mountain rocks here are very hard, and the little sprinkler girl's imperial weapon technique looks beautiful, but it is not suitable for such a brutal work, and gradually her face has become a little red, and fine sweat is oozing from the tip of her nose. But deep in the hewn rock formation, there were still rocks except rocks, and Hanxiong said, "Little sprinkler girl, don't be tired, let me help...... Mr. Xiaolu, is there really a martial arts stone in there?"

Yan Feng also showed a puzzled look on the side, he didn't believe that Baoyu's divine sense could penetrate such a deep rock layer and sense what was inside. And Baoyu held the sword embryo in his hand and closed his eyes and said, "Originally, I just sensed the intermittent direction of the ore vein, but now I have chiseled so deeply, I can already be sure that there is a martial arts stone in it." ...... You don't need to help, Miss Sprinkle can do it herself. ”

Yan Feng's fellow disciple, the young man named Yan Gang, interjected: "Could it be also a stone?"

Baoyu had sensed it very clearly at this moment, and replied very simply: "It's not a stone!, but a martial arts stone that has been naturally created." Seeing Yan Gang's disappointed face, he said again, "The Wufu Stone is already a precious treasure of heaven and earth, don't be disappointed even if you find the Wufu Stone just because you have seen the Stone." ”

Yan Gang was taken aback, and then his face showed a look of vigilance. It seems that the encounters in the last two days have unconsciously caused some subtle imbalance in his state of mind. Fortunately, Baoyu woke up with a word, and he realized it himself, and hurriedly saluted Baoyu, and whispered: "Thank you Mr. for your advice, otherwise I wouldn't know that there is a demonic obstacle in my heart." ”