Long Ping didn't see the thing until he got closer, and he took a step back in horror.

His face was pale, and he almost fainted from being frightened!

It was a small black finger with a fingernail like a sharp hook, resembling a human finger, but the thickness of a baby's arm, covered in blood frozen dark red.

"This, is this a claw? It's the ......."

"What are you talking about when you enter the house?" The girl didn't wait for Long Ping to speak, turned around and entered the wooden house.

Li Qing nodded, pulled out a snowy three-edged thorn from his back in his hand, and jumped onto the branch of a dead tree.

"Huh? You are. ”

"Brush! Brush! Brush! "In a few strokes, the top of the trunk was cut off in a few knots.

"Smack!" The fallen tree trunks happened to be jumped down by him and reached out to hold them in his arms.

"Let's go, there's no firewood in the house, is there? Something for you. ”

……

A bonfire was rekindled in the cabin, and it was suddenly warm.

Li Qing dragged the dead subordinate outside and buried him in the snow.

Li Qing looked a little jealous, and bowed to the girl by the fire, which was a common fist salute for cultivators.

The girl returned the salute and sat down on the floor.

Long Ping looked at the two of them in surprise, he had never seen any other cultivators except for Li Qing and the people in that strange village.

But judging from Li Qing's etiquette just now and his slightly respectful expression, that girl is obviously also a cultivator, and the two seem to know each other?

"Did you come here from Cliff Lake? I didn't know that the 'Sky Survey Shadow Guard' was here, so ...... Please forgive the younger generation for being rude, please Venerable Haihan. ”

Li Qing said after giving another salute.

This girl is the jade Linglong who was sent here by the "master".

She came here day and night, looking for Joyna and her group, and completing the task assigned by her master.

The red bead on her head was also endowed with spiritual power by the rock when she left, and she was able to feel the nearby spiritual power from a greater distance. Coupled with her innate spiritual power acuity, it is even more powerful.

She had known that there was someone on the cliff opposite, and that she was a powerful cultivator, but she had been secretly lurking on the rooftop.

"Well, you actually know the 'Sky Survey Shadow Guard'. It seems that you know a lot, but what kind of cultivator are you? ”

"His Holiness smiled, I'm just a small local guard compared to 'Ispartine'......"

"Local guards? Guards of the Guge Mountains! Yu Linglong's eyes began to flicker.

"Could it be that you're an 'Ancient' guard?"

"Uh, yes."

There was a hint of uneasiness in Yu Linglong's expression, and it disappeared in a flash.

"Wait." Long Ping shouted in a low voice.

"Why are you here? Have you been following us for so many days? ”

After speaking, his eyes looked at Li Qing in disbelief, and his expression became puzzled.

"Yes and no." Li Qing pursed his lips and said.

"After you left, the Great Elder asked me to protect you secretly. However, as you can see, I missed two of you dead, and I am responsible for not protecting you. Maybe it's because you're scattered, and I'm the only one of you, so I've chosen to protect you instead of your men. But ......"

There was obviously something hidden in Li Qing's words, and he didn't want to say it truthfully.

"You mean, another guy who went out hunting, and he died, too?"

Although Ryuhei had already vaguely guessed - one person was seriously injured and struggled to crawl back, while the other was missing.

Then most of them have encountered something, and it is very likely that the poison of the green-eyed thing!

However, he still wanted to get some more specific answers from Li Qing.

The girl named Yu Linglong didn't seem to care about these things, she listened to it and didn't say a word.

"Can you tell me what that thing is? You got it back with its fingers? ”

Li Qing smiled bitterly, knowing that the appearance of this thing could not be concealed no matter what.

"The creature is a wild cry, and outsiders used to call them 'Snow Man', it's a creature you can't even know, they're very old humanoids, but they're ......"

Li Qing was stuck again halfway through speaking, he didn't know whether to explain all this to them.

"What's wrong? Say, is this what you said of by 'beasts'? "Ryuhei really wants to know about the creature.

"Nope! It's much scarier than that......"

After that, Li Qing was silent.

This is a secret that these "ancients" guard, and they should not be told to outsiders.

However, one person quickly broke the silence.

"They've been corrupted by the 'Black Evil'? Right? ”

Li Qing and Long Ping were taken aback when they heard this!

The person who spoke was naturally the girl - Yu Linglong.

"How do you know? Don't...... You saw it all?! ”

Li Qing's suspicious inquiry had already revealed the truth of the matter - the girl was telling the truth.

"Hmph-this kind of thing, it's not just you who can detect it, we 'Ispatin' have long been ......"

Suddenly, she realized something, and didn't continue, just shook her head slightly, bit her lip, and seemed to have something unspeakable.

"Alas! Sure enough, this kind of thing can't hide the eyes and ears that are as powerful as your ears! This variant has been around for years. But at that time, it was just a few cases, and it didn't attract as much attention as we do now. ”

Li Qing lowered his head and began to ponder.

For a moment, he raised his head and looked at Yu Linglong.

"Venerable, is it possible that you have come here because of this?"

"Exactly! I didn't expect to meet you Elder Guards on my way to find them. ”

"Wait, you're looking for us? But I've never seen you before! You—Do you know Joyna and Xiao Wu? What's going on here? ”

The girl muttered to herself thoughtfully: "Joyna and Xiao Wu? Is this their name? ”

"Of course I don't know, a person you know asked me to come to you, and he asked me to help you, this is my task."

"What?!' Who is he? What's the mission? ”

There were more and more questions in Long Ping's mind.

First Li Qing protected us along the way, and then this obviously more powerful girl named "Sky Survey Shadow Guard", did anyone give her the task of protecting us?

It's simply ...... I don't know what to say, they have been secretly protected.

"Surely you know, that man—'master.'"

Yu Linglong said it without thinking.

"Huh? Master? It turned out to be ...... O master! You turned out to be sent by him! ”

His hands trembled slightly with excitement.