Chapter Twenty-Nine: Secret Realm I
"Well, someone!" Qin Jie, who was exploring the strange land, heard a movement not far from him, and immediately dodged behind a bush and hid his figure.
Whoa, whoa!
I saw a man dressed in the Nalan family's guard uniform, with a knife on his face full of annoyance, chopping through the messy branches to open the way, while cursing in annoyance.
"MD, where have all the people run away from this hellish place?" After the man complained, he stopped less than ten meters away from Qin Jie's hiding place, turned his head to look around, and then took out a map from his arms, opened it, looked at it, and then took it back again.
"Brother, where are you going?"
Just as the other party was about to move on, Qin Jue came out of hiding and asked with a light smile. He was worried that he couldn't find any trace of the other party, and this person happened to bump into him.
"Who are you?" the Nalan family's guard was momentarily stunned, then immediately clenched the weapon in his hand, his face full of vigilance.
"Who I am, you'll know right away. As soon as the words fell, Qin Jue rushed directly towards the other party.
When the guard saw the other party rushing over, he didn't hesitate, he directly raised his knife and slashed at the approaching Qin Du.
The guards who participated in this operation were all elites of the Nalan family. And before this operation, they had learned that this strange place was a no-man's land. Qin Jue can appear here, and it is very likely that he will be the enemy.
Although Qin Jue was just a young man, the other party did not take it lightly, and slashed it with enough strength.
However, the knife fell short, and the young man's figure suddenly disappeared in front of him. Before he could react, he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, and then he lightened his hand, and he caught a glimpse of a cold light coming horizontally from the corner of his eye, and he was immediately frightened.
The guard secretly said that he would die, but the cold light stopped abruptly, and the blade was within a millimeter of his neck.
"Say, about this operation, tell everything you know and spare you from dying, or ,,,"
The guards for the rest of their lives, feeling the chill faintly coming from their necks and the cold eyes of the young man, they didn't dare to hide anything, and confessed everything they knew.
"That's all I know, I've told you all. The guard said cautiously and secretly glanced at Qin Jue.
"Isn't that new?"
"There's really no ,,,"
Without waiting for the other party to finish answering, Qin Jue shook his wrist and struck the back of the knife on the side of the opponent's neck. The guard immediately went limp, and he fainted.
He threw away the knife, reached into the guard's shirt, took out the map, and opened it to see that there was a mark in the center of the map, as the other party said.
It turned out that the ancestor of the Nalan family had obtained an ancient directional teleportation array blueprint. It is said that this teleportation array can lead to a secret realm, and there is also a sketch map of the secret realm.
At first, they tried several times but were unsuccessful in activating the teleportation array.
Because it was too expensive to build a teleportation array, after a few failures, the idea of continuing was discouraged.
It wasn't until the contemporary head of the family, Nalan Mingyuan, learned by chance that some special conditions were required for the activation of this directional teleportation array. Then, after spending a lot of manpower and material resources for a long time, the location in the Sunset Canyon was finally determined, and a lot of materials were consumed before the teleportation array was activated.
Although, so much has been done with great difficulty. However, the people of the Nalan family didn't know what was inside the secret realm. They only deduced from what they knew that this secret realm must be extraordinary.
After entering the secret realm through the teleportation array, the position where everyone appears is random. Fortunately, the people of the Nalan family copied the map in advance, and everyone only needed to converge towards their destination.
Qin Jue followed the location prompts on the map and kept heading towards the center of this secret realm. After a long journey, we finally came to a dense forest of ancient trees as far as the eye can see.
The growth of ancient trees in this dense forest is even more amazing, and the smallest ones are as thick as more than a dozen people. And after a long period of growth, these trees have spread their branches from the bottom to the top, and the branches and leaves are so dense that they cannot be seen from the sky. The trees crisscross each other, and the branches and trees are connected, forming a strange scene of endless layers, reaching into the sky and connecting to the ground.
Walk here without touching the ground at all. Moreover, the layer near the ground has more branches and leaves, which is difficult to walk. It's better to walk on the branches, anyway, the ordinary branches are hugging trees, and walking is similar to a single-plank bridge. The only thing to note is that some branches have some moss growing on the surface, which is smoother to step on.
Judging from the map, this forest area is quite large, and it occupies almost half of the entire secret realm. The location of the sign is in the center of the woods.
Soon after, Qin Jue got used to the environment here. Running on the thick branches of the ancient trees, the scene on both sides quickly receded. Occasionally leap high and leap from one branch to another.
Shout!
Qin Jie, who was marching, suddenly stopped his steps, and his body flew up in the air, flipping in the air. Just dodged a flying bow and arrow.
Chop! Sharp arrows shoot into the trunk of the tree, and the tail feathers tremble.
Turning his head, a Nalan family guard with a bow and arrow stood on a branch more than ten meters away from him.
Seeing that the arrow of his sneak attack was avoided by the other party, the bow guard immediately opened his bow and prepared to shoot a second time.
Qin Jue's eyes narrowed slightly, how could he easily give the other party a chance, and he jumped with the force under his feet, falling towards the other party.
"Good time!" the guard let out a sigh of joy and instantly drew his bow.
'See how you dodge this time', the guard exhaled, 'Medium'!
The arrow shot like a meteor towards Qin Jue in mid-air.
The crisp sound of gold and iron clashing sounded, and the sparks flashed away in mid-air.
Qin Jue withdrew his crossbow, and Yuan Li condensed and prepared to deliver a fatal blow to the other party.
The bow-wielding guards obviously didn't expect that the other party had already prepared, and they lost their minds slightly, and they were about to be killed by Qin Du.
At this moment, a sudden change abruptly appeared, and Qin Jie, who was about to attack, suddenly felt a sharp aura approaching his body.
In a hurry, he pointed like a sword, stabbing out by feeling.
Ding! A finger stabbed precisely into the spine of the sword of the person who was secretly attacking.
The long sword swung past Qin Jie's arm, but the other party was obviously a master, the long sword was flattened, and the sword style changed, cutting off Qin Jie's sleeve in half, and leaving a slight scar on his arm.
"Well, it turned out to be a sword cultivator, and his strength was not weak, it should be in the late stage of body refining. After Qin Du landed, he retreated a few meters and stood still before he had a chance to take a look at the person who was sneaking in.
The other party is also wearing the Nalan family guard costume, but the clothes are different from the other guards.
"Chief, this kid was able to dodge the two of us one after another. It seems to be a bit tricky, do you want to send a signal and see if there are any other brothers nearby, maybe Elder Xu can notice it too?" said the bow-wielding guard hesitantly.
He had just felt at close range how powerful Qin Jie's unfazed blow was. If the other party delivers that blow, he doesn't think he can dodge or resist.
When the head of the guard heard this, he frowned slightly, and rebuked in an unhappy tone: "If it's a big deal, you know how to gather people, and the two of us can't deal with this kid?"
After speaking, he glared at the other party and said, "Who can see the signal from this place!"
Reprimanded, the bow-wielding guard could only say yes again and again.
ps: Qin Jue is about to get two important things, guess what it will be, there has been foreshadowing ahead?