Ying Baoyue stared at the figure of the man in front of the road, this scene was the seventeenth time she had seen this month.

No matter which route she went, there would be him waiting for her at the front of the road.

"It's over," Ying Baoyue smiled as she looked at the man standing under the moon, "But how many times have I said it, you don't have to pick me up." ”

"I'm not here to pick you up," Li Ji shook his head and said, "I'm here to stop you." ”

The girl's eyes lit up, and the next moment she smiled helplessly, "I also said that I didn't want to run ......"

Li Ji looked at her silently, and then spoke.

"Last week in Hojo Ridge, you ran for thirty miles, and there are only forty miles left from the border of Southern Chu."

If she hadn't been stopped by him, there was really no doubt that she would have broken through alone, regardless of the ambush ahead, all the way to Soochow.

The man's voice was calm, but his dark eyes were staring at her tightly, and for some reason, Ying Baoyue only felt that these eyes contained accusations.

"That day...... I want to find out if there is an ambush ahead," Ying Baoyue smiled.

"Three miles away from where you stood that day, there was an ambush," Li Ji looked at Ying Baoyue and said, "Don't tell you that you can't feel it, even if it's five miles, you can detect it." ”

"This ......" Ying Baoyue was a little speechless.

In the bright moonlight, Li Ji looked at her quietly.

The girl's face in front of her was as white as jade, but there was a lack of sleep under her eyes.

These days, she's locked herself in her study, studying maps, and she's been doing one thing. That is to find a safe route to Soochow.

Merely.

It was the route that she could safely take to Soochow alone.

In fact, when he learned that Lou Xiaolou was injured in the process of exploring the way for her, Li Ji heard Ji Jiashu invite Ying Baoyue to ask her to set off with him to Soochow.

Ji Mo had once again entered the Zihua Mountain for retreat. He was extremely indifferent to his sister-in-law's going to Soochow to participate in the mid-level ceremony next.

The wives of the national teacher, Ye Shi and Ye Jingshu, cried and shouted to go with Ji Jiashu, but they were rejected by the young man.

Ji Jiashu was ready to take a hitchhike to the Xuegong Palace, and set off with Xu Yishan, Chen Zichu, Chen Zihan and others, and then invited Ying Baoyue to go along.

As an unmarried couple, it is natural to go together, and although Li Ji was in a complicated mood when he heard this invitation, he was also relieved.

Because of Lou Xiaolou's injury, people can't help but worry about the dangers she will encounter along the way. Walking with Ji Jiashu, Xu Yishan and others, not to mention anything else, it is equivalent to having a lot of strong hands to protect her at once, which is a great thing for ordinary cultivators, how can there be any reason to disagree.

However......

However, the woman in front of him refused.

Not only did she refuse Ji Jiashu's invitation, but she didn't even want to bring her brothers and sisters home.

Li Ji stared at the girl standing alone in the moonlight in front of her, looked at the dark forest path behind her, and didn't know how she had the courage to explore the path alone.

That's right, pathfinding.

Just three days after studying the map, Ying Baoyue began to disappear from Qing'an Courtyard.

I don't know how she can be so proficient in stealing and climbing over the wall, in short, this woman will leave Qing'an Courtyard every day after that, and go alone to explore the road from Nanchu to Dongwu.

But when it comes to path-finding, in Li Ji's view, it is more like sneaking away...... The farthest she had run that day, if he hadn't stopped her, the girl would have wanted to see if she could get through those ambushes.

Then he rushed to Soochow alone.

Thinking of this, Li Ji looked at Ying Baoyue's eyes and became stern, her abnormal behavior made people wonder what danger she was expecting.

After all, she had been hunted down and killed when she went to Nanchu before, but he remembered that time at least she didn't leave behind her brothers and sisters who returned home and Captain Lou Yao.

But this time, she actually wanted to leave alone with them behind her back.

What is she worried about?

Meantime...... Who is ambushing her?

These days, rumors of fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls being attacked on the official road from Southern Chu to Eastern Wu have been spreading. However, as long as the information is carefully studied, the officers and men will definitely prevaricate in the end with the result of bandits and rogue bandits. As a result, everyone in the townships and counties on the border of Southern Chu was in danger, and the government asked the women not to go to the official road anymore, and let the cultivators who went to Eastern Wu go first.

But on the Shanhai Continent, there is still a person who is also a woman and a cultivator.

Li Ji learned through Zhao Guang's intelligence line that the road to ambush a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl was not just an official road, and now there were even more people who didn't know what it was on such a forest trail that only had a name on a few maps.

"I don't mention that day, but is it enough to get here today?"

Li Ji turned to look at the road behind him, took a deep breath and said, "Three in the Divine Dance Realm, six or five in the equal rank, this cold qi ...... Probably a crossbow. ”

He quietly looked at the girl in front of him, "You can't get by." ”

Ying Baoyue closed her eyes, then nodded, "I know." ”

Today's Xiheling was the last road she searched for from Ji Qingyuan's pile of maps that could lead to Dongwu.

But there are still unknown dangers lurking ahead.

Time had left her no longer in the way to find a new path.

"Let's go back," Li Ji looked at the woman in front of him, "Go back and discuss with Ji Ergongzi, and find a relatively safe route to walk together tomorrow." ”

"He doesn't walk with me, all roads are safe for him." Ying Baoyue smiled and said.

Sure enough, because of it.

Li Ji quietly looked at the girl in front of him.

She would never want to hurt anyone around her, or they would be hurt because of her.

"You shouldn't tell me this," Li Ji said lightly, "You can go back and refuse him yourself." ”

"If you don't stop me here, I don't have to go back," Ying Baoyue looked at the man under the moon in front of him, and said with a wry smile the next moment, "Anyway, you obviously don't want to go back to Soochow, why do you want to get involved in these things." ”

Li Ji's eyes lit up, and he looked into the eyes of the girl in front of him and said softly, "You know? ”

"Well," Ying Baoyue nodded, "Zhao Guang said that you are going to stay in Nanchu to find your enemy. ”

Li Ji nodded.

Since that time he received the news that Shao Si Ming was mixed with the cultivators who participated in the Beginner Grand Ceremony, he had not received any new news. There was no news that Shao Siming had left Nanchu, so he would naturally stay in Nanchu to look for it.

After all, he didn't have to participate in the beginner ceremony, and there was no reason to go back.

Zhao Guang has already indicated his identity as the king of the county, and the king of Eastern Wu ordered him to be re-named as the stepson of the middle-level canon ten days ago, and few people dare to disadvantage him with his current status, so Li Ji is relieved that he will go back alone.

It's just that he didn't expect that the only thing he didn't worry about was that there was actually another person.

Looking at the girl standing under the moon, Li Ji took a deep breath.

For some reason, he didn't want to watch her take the risk of going to Soochow alone.

"Actually, there is another way." The man paused.

Ying Baoyue was stunned when she heard this, "What did you say?" ”

"I said that there is still a road from Nanchu to Dongwu, and on this road, there is generally no ambush." Li Ji said.

"What way?" Ying Baoyue was stunned for a moment, she confirmed that she had searched all the maps and geographical records, but found no such road.

"Because the road itself is dangerous enough, there shouldn't be an ambush." Li Ji said quietly.

"You mean......" Ying Baoyue suddenly realized something.

"That's right," Li Ji looked deeply into the eyes of the girl in front of him, "It's the place where you take one of the three desperate situations and pass through the ......."

He spoke word by word.

"Cloud Forest."