Chapter 21: Senior Brother Qi
Ling Pei in front didn't hear her scream, suddenly stopped, couldn't see any expression, and ran towards Xia Ning.
"What's going on?" she asked. β
Xia Ning picked up the jade pendant and tried to close the cracked jade pendant together, "Someone has been here." β
The two halves of the jade pendant come together and close seamlessly, it is really a big bird that spreads its wings and flies, it is very good-looking, I don't know what kind of bird it is, it is said that the tail of the phoenix bird is not as long as I remember, but it is very good-looking, and the carving is exquisite and lifelike.
Xia Ning looked at it: "This jade pendant should have been dropped not long ago, and it is still very clean." Have you ever seen this jade pendant? β
According to Senior Sister Pei Wu, there are also people in the Southern Sect in this forest, and the direction that Su Yuncheng is chasing should be them, so who is this jade pendant?
Xia Ning suddenly raised her head: "Could it be that there are also people from the Southern Sect in front of you?" β
Ling Pei was silent, she took the jade pendant, and as soon as Xia Ning let go, the jade pendant that seemed intact was broken into two pieces. Xia Ning said: "I was accidentally trampled on by me, and I saw it." β
Ling Peiwu didn't see it, it should have been covered by fallen leaves, Ling Peiwu looked at it for a while, "I haven't seen it." As she spoke, she turned back to the path they had taken.
Xia Ning also looked back suspiciously, and then, the corners of her mouth twitched.
In the forest, her footprints on the dead leaves are very obvious, slipping and turning, left and right, around the branches and concave soil, similar to the picture of chickens and ducklings stepping on the snow in primary school Chinese textbooks.
And Ling Peiwu's traces are in a straight line, the footsteps span a lot, and the marks are so light that they seem to have no weight, just like walking on tiptoes.
Other than that, there are no other traces, and it is still the original forest as it should be.
Xia Ning also sensed the key point: "There are only the footprints of the two of us here, so who dropped this jade pendant?" β
Ling Pei was silent, lowered her eyes and pondered, and after half a sound, she suddenly looked up at the lush giant trees that seemed to reach the skyβit was not Xia Ning's exaggeration, she had never seen such an ancient and tall tree, one by one, one by one, and countless ancient giant trees formed a vast and mysterious forest.
Ling Pei didn't have the strength to use his feet, he jumped up, and flew to a tree branch dozens of meters away after a while.
Patrolling around, his body moved lightly and jumped upwards, coming and going freely between the towering trees, exploring them one by one.
After a while, she flew down and said with a serious expression: "There are traces left by someone on the tree, they should be acting secretly, and they deliberately rushed from the tree to not be noticed." The jade pendant fell from a great height. β
Lying down, this is going to do something unknown, there is a road on the ground and you have to waste your energy flying around in the trees.
Xia Ning was speechless for a moment and asked, "Are there many of them, could they be people from the Southern Sect?" β
"The minimum is four, and the maximum is six. From the footsteps, it is impossible to determine whether it is a southern sect. The hatred in Ling Pei's eyes flashed, and she was also wondering if it was the Southern Sect, if it was, she would definitely see one and kill the other.
"Well, that makes sense." Pei Wu is not a shoemaker, how can she see through who others are from her footprints.
Xia Ning asked: "Then should we continue to go, those people don't know whether they are friends or foes, and there are more of them......
Ling Peiwu interrupted: "Are you afraid? The look was Xia Ning's common contemptuous look in his eyes.
Xia Ning: "......" Pei Wu Senior Sister, it's not a question of whether I'm afraid or not, but it's unnecessary.
Xia Ning couldn't help but say: "Don't you talk every day that you want to complete the task as soon as possible and find the white-tailed spirit fox, why every time you hear the three words of Nanzongmen, you are like a rabbit in a hurry, and you chase after it regardless of it." β
I was chasing outside the village before, but I just encountered a fierce beast and wanted to go up, and now I want to chase after it.
and the disciple of the Southern Sect who appeared in Guiyunfeng before, he was also so emotional that he almost beat people into meat sauce, it shouldn't be her illusion, the Southern Sect really easily provoked Ling Peiwu's emotions.
Ling Peiwu's face was gloomy, as if he had been stabbed into the untouchable knot in his heart, and said coldly: "I want you to take care of it!" β
Then she stinked and left.
Xia Ning: Huh?
It's not an illusion, she's just extremely sensitive to the Southern Sect!
Obviously, I didn't say anything terrible, and I made my popularity like this, oh of course, if you exclude the fact of slapping her face before and after.
Ling Pei was angry and angry, she still persistently followed her own ideas and followed the traces left by those people.
Xia Ning: "......"
She followed Ling Peiwu speechlessly, observing Ling Peiwu from time to time as she walked, to see if she was really angry or fake.
The two walked and walked to the depths of the more lush forest.
Along the way, Xia Ning looked at Ling Peiwu like a monkey, wondering if there was an angry soul under that expressionless face.
Ling Pei smiled angrily, stopped to look at Xia Ning, and said in a very bad tone: "Have you seen enough!" β
Xia Ning: "......" You say this as if I covet your beauty.
In order to prevent Ling Pei from thinking so, Xia Ning waved his hand and said, "I've seen enough, I've seen enough, let's go." β
Ling Pei snorted coldly and continued to walk.
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The ancient tree is flourishing, on the trunk of the tree dozens of meters high, two figures move rapidly, one in front of the other, the leading man has a handsome and cold face, thin lips like a knife, and a cold and hard temperament that rejects people thousands of miles away.
The male disciple who followed closely behind asked, "Senior Brother Qi, there are dead leaves all over the ground under the tree, can we find them?" β
Qi Shu said: "If you can't find it, you have to look for it." β
The male disciple looked worriedly at the ground full of miasma and layers of rotten leaves, and said that it was not easy to find a small thing the size of three fingers in the huge forest, and most of them would not be able to find it.
Time was pressing, and the two of them had to go back and forth from the trees.
It's okay if the jade pendant falls on the tree, but if it falls to the ground, the layer of rotten wood and rotten leaves can be described as a natural shelter.
The two of them were focused on searching, and suddenly heard a woman's voice under the tree, Qi Shuyuan signaled the male disciple to hide, and then quickly dodged behind the tree.
The male disciple was concentrating on finding the object and failed to hide it in time, but for a moment, the person who was walking here under the tree immediately noticed him, and a female voice shouted coldly: "Who! β
The male disciple secretly said that it was bad, their task on this trip was very important, and the head of the sect specially told him not to leak it.
Qi Shuyuan's eyebrows frowned slightly, and his mind turned, so he had to appear and fly down from the tree.
Seeing this, the male disciple had no choice but to follow and leap down to the ground.
Xia Ning: ?
Ling Peiwu's sudden shout just now scared her so much that she almost jumped up, and before she could react to anything, she saw two men falling from the sky, oh no, from the tree.
Not to mention, it's pretty good-looking.
The two landed easily, and the male disciple looked at Ling Peiwu, who had a cold face, and praised: "Senior Sister Ling is very sharp, but I, who is a senior brother, can't catch up." β
If it is said that among the female disciples of the younger generation of the Burning Cloud Sword Sect, the most outstanding is Jiang Yan, the daughter of the head of the sect, when it comes to the second, everyone will inevitably think of Ling Peiwu.
Even if she is not as approachable as Jiang Yan, she always has a face, and she only has a little respect for Tianqing.
The identity is not as eye-catching as the daughter of Jiang Yan's head. But she has an outstanding natural appearance and is willing to work hard to study and cultivate, so the whole sect knows that this person should not be underestimated.
Ling Pei didn't see anyone coming, put away his guard posture, and said coldly: "You are also in Rinshan?" β
The task of this trip was pushed by Jiang Yan to Su Yuncheng, but since they were also in the Rinshan Forest, why did they have to hand it over to Guiyun Peak? Ling Pei looked at them without eyes.
The male disciple touched his nose and laughed, but did not speak.
Xia Ning looked confused, and when she saw that one of them was called Ling Peiwu's "junior sister", she knew that they were her own people, not the Southern Sect, so she relaxed.
After all, these two people look very powerful, and she is afraid that she and Ling Pei will not be able to beat others. Especially the one who has been silent, with a tall posture and eyes like blades, even if he is silent as gold, it is not difficult to see that the dominant power is in his hands - because the male disciple's expression is obviously saying: You ask him, don't ask me, I don't know anything.
"Have you ever seen a jade pendant?" The man with a cold expression who was silent and golden spoke, and only asked one question.
Ling Pei glanced at him meaninglessly, and said seriously: "I haven't seen it." β
Xia Ning: ? Isn't the jade pendant in your hand?
Xia Ning was shocked by her serious and deceitful appearance, but her mind quickly went through her thoughts, and she understood that Ling Pei was trying to deceive this man.
Fortunately, she didn't rush to talk just now, otherwise it would have ruined Senior Sister Pei Wu's plan.
Ling Peiwu: "What are you doing in Rinshan?" β
Although Qi Shuyuan is not good at words, he is not a stupid person, and he knows that the jade pendant is in their hands when he looks at them.
He still had an unsmiling expression: "We have other important things to do on this trip, and we can't take care of the white-tailed spirit fox, so we will hand it over to you." β
When Xia Ning heard this, she said in her heart, it turns out that this makes us do hard work! She was indignant in her heart, and asked angrily: "What task is so important for you, you have come all the way to the side of the Rin Mountain, and you still want us to help find the spirit beast, won't you find it?" β
Xia Ning's words were not good, as if they deliberately pushed the task within their power to Gui Yunfeng and let Gui Yunfeng work hard for them. The male disciple was not happy to hear this.
They were secretly entrusted by the head of the sect on this trip, and they didn't want to let the people of Guiyunfeng take over, and the eldest disciple Su Yuncheng agreed, and the others had anything to say.
The male disciple frowned and said, "Senior Sister Xia, this is not right, since we have obtained your consent from Senior Brother Su, you can ask Su Yuncheng if you have any questions." β
Xia Ning glanced at him, who is your Senior Sister Xia.
Ling Peiwu sneered, "But you didn't say that you were also in the Rinshan Forest. β
The disciples of Lieyun Peak were also here, and they also asked Guiyun Peak to complete this mission, and they did not tell them in advance that they would come to Rinshan.
When you suddenly bump into the forest, you feel offended, as if you are just a tool for others to come and go.
The male disciple raised his forehead and said, "Don't be angry, the two junior sisters are really the head of the family who told you not to disclose the matter of this trip." β
Xia Ning said: "Okay, since that's the case, we won't be difficult for you." β
Immediately, her eyes wandered, her smile brightened, and she showed that bad idea expression.