Chapter 613: Far from the Rivers and Lakes
The road was rugged and bumpy, and Ji Qiang did not choose the official road, but instead took a detour to the path.
Although the path is far, it is not as open and flat as the main road, and there are many stones.
"Sand... Sand... rustling..."The sound of the leaves blowing through the woods, the branches and leaves trembling. Ji Qiang turned her head suddenly, but there was no one behind her.
She shook her head and moved on. Although there was no footsteps behind him, Ji Qiang felt as if he was the prey targeted by a predator, and he was covered in hair.
The path is wooded and dusty. She walked all the way forward, unconsciously quickened her pace, and gradually walked out of the shadowy woods, looking up at a full moon in the sky, and the wide and endless plain beside her, Ji Qiang felt something in her heart and looked behind her.
No people, no footsteps.
But there is a shadow of man...... Ji Qiang's heart tightened, and sure enough, someone had been following her. The man was afraid that he had been behind him since he entered the woods, Ji Qiang remained silent on his face, and still walked forward, and even deliberately slowed down the man's pace.
That shadow didn't come forward for a long time, killing people and robbing money? Passing by? There were many thoughts flashing through her mind, all of which were ruled out by herself.
The withered grass on the side of the road moved, and Ji Qiang looked at it fiercely—but the grasshopper jumped on the grass to eat. She pretended to be attracted by the insects, and looked behind her, only the shadow of her elongated feet.
She was indeed followed all the way, and the man didn't know why, so he didn't step forward, just followed.
Tomorrow the weather will be fine, and today a full moon will be as bright as a silver plate, and the sky will be full of stars. There were two forks in the road in front of Ji Qiang, the Big Dipper was pointing to the left, she knew that she should follow the stars to the north, but the shadow of the feet behind her was really impossible to ignore, and she stepped to the right.
Ji Qiang used light skills and dodged into the road on the right. Unlike the road on the plains in the north, it was still the shadow of the tree, and Ji Qiang jumped directly onto the tree, and her slender body was hidden in the shadow of the tree.
There was still the sound of the "rustling" of the dead grass being blown by the wind, and she expected that the person was blocked by the branches of the moonlight, and the visual range was sparse, and she couldn't see herself, so she looked inside.
Ji Qiang left the southern woods with steps and walked on the right path again. There is indeed no feeling of being watched behind him, and he is unharmed all night.
Ji Qiang entered the mountain city and found the teahouse to rest.
As soon as he sat down, he called Xiao Er. There was a sight next to her like last night, and she was secretly frightened in her heart, so she could only follow that sight, and she must not startle the snake. Xiao Er came with tea and soup cakes, Ji Qiang ate her own, and the line of sight had to follow herself, then she would follow, and there would always be times when she couldn't keep up.
For a month, Snow Lotus Mountain is at the foot.
Tianling grass does grow on the top of the mountain as the legend says, and the snow lotus mountain is as its name suggests, and the snow does not melt all year round.
There are no clouds at the bottom of the mountain, and at the foot of the mountain, you can feel bursts of cold air drilling straight into your bones from the soles of your feet. Ji Qiang tightened the clothes on her body, and spiraled all the way up the mountain road that was almost covered with snow.
The snow is drifting on the mountain, obviously it is still a clear blue sky, the snowflakes floating around him are not fake, and the sun shining on the body is gloomy and cold.
She kept following the road built by her predecessors to the mountain, but the predecessors did not make it all the way to the top of the mountain.
"No wonder the Heavenly Spirit Grass is so rare, I'm afraid that no one can go up alive." Ji Qiang muttered, as if to speak to the shadow who was still insisting on following him, maybe just talking to himself.
She found the rope she had bought on the road, and hooked her claws to the mountain wall. Although Snow Lotus Mountain does not snow all year round, it is not very steep, and she grabbed the rope and stepped on the snow step by step.
The top of the mountain was close in front of her, and she finally saw the extremely rare Heavenly Spirit Grass growing on the top of the Snow Lotus Mountain, which was indeed worthy of this name, and the whole grass exuded a strange light blue fine light.
Ji Qiang plucked it, and the light blue light of the sun refracted on the grass disappeared immediately. We have to hurry up and bring the grass back, and we can't wait.
There is no line of sight that has been following behind him, and I think I have given up.
She climbed down the mountain wall again along the way she had come, but there were two dark shadows waiting for her on the broken road that had been repaired by her predecessors. Ji Qiang's whole body immediately became vigilant, she put the Heavenly Spirit Grass in her bag and jumped to the broken road.
The two looked familiar, and thought that they were the ones who were called on the rivers and lakes.
"Who are you?" She asked tentatively.
"The rivers and lakes are simmering, have you heard of it? We're here with you. The two were a combination of a man and a woman, and it was the woman who answered Ji Qiang.
"Naturally, I have heard it, and I have naturally heard that you follow me." Ji Qiang raised her eyebrows and looked at the two, and the muscles in her whole body gradually tightened.
She felt a strong murderous aura, and she had a hidden blade in her sleeve, and she was afraid that she would have to fight to the death with two people.
"You for this grass?" Ji Qiang guessed that it could only be Tianling Grass, and it was not the spies sent by the enemy country to capture Queen Dachen at this time.
"The mother is wise." The man spoke, his voice hoarse, as if a fire had passed by, and the sound of sandpaper rubbing made people feel sore when they heard it.
As soon as he finished speaking, the two figures killed Ji Qiang like ghosts. The wind in her ears moved, and she quickly ducked back.
The man and the woman had drawn their weapons—two strangely shaped scimitars. Ji Qiang couldn't help but clench the bottom of the sleeve sword with one hand, the sleeve sword is a soft sword, maybe it can't withstand this knife and it will become two pieces with a single slash. With the other hand, he grasped the fine snow on the mountain wall behind him and slowly pinched it.
The two of them couldn't strike a blow, and the blow came again, Ji Qiang spilled the snow in her hand towards the two of them, and at the same time her body flew up, and the claw hook around her arm also hooked the mountain wall, she stepped on it with her strength, and at the moment when the two were blinded by the snow, the sword at the bottom of her sleeve attacked the two.
Perhaps thinking that Ji Qiang was not carrying a weapon, the man was cut in his waist when he landed, and he hurriedly used a scimitar to resist. Ji Qiang naturally knew that although the sword at the bottom of his sleeve was sharp, it was invincible.
The two of them didn't bring claw hooks or ropes, otherwise they wouldn't have waited here for Ji Qiang to come down. She wrapped one hand around the rope of the claw hook, and her body exerted force backwards, quickly flew backwards, and instantly hit the mountain wall again, as if she was born with wings, light and agile.
She naturally put all kinds of poisonous powder in her bag, but the Heavenly Spirit Grass was also among them, and she didn't dare to let people know the location of the Heavenly Spirit Grass easily. You need to dress lightly to go up the mountain, and you put all the poison Gu in your bag, but I thought that the robber would be ambushed on the way back to Beijing, but I didn't expect to be so impatient.
The man and the woman saw Ji Qiang attached to the stone wall, and one of the two of them was injured first, and changed their moves again, and the two of them were like ghosts, and they stabbed at Ji Qiang together.
Seeing that she couldn't dodge left and right, she reached into her bag and sprinkled the poison powder into the air.