"That's right, the old friend said in the letter that there was a village over there, and for some reason, the crops withered one after another within two days, and finally even the flowers and trees did not escape, and then people in the village began to die inexplicably."

After investigation, the local government could not find a reason, so they had to move the people to other places, and the village became an abandoned village. The terrible thing is that since then, this has also begun to happen in other villages next to that village, and the people are afraid to move to another place, and for a time there is a lot of panic. “

"The old friend said that if he can't find a reason, maybe there will be no one living in their area, has the county lord heard of such strange things?"

Xu Qingyan shook her head: "Unheard of, is that all Lord Qin knows?" But what else is there? “

Qin Chengcheng shook his head: "That's what I told in my old friend's letter." ”

"So, tell me where your old friend is. If it's convenient, I'll go there myself and see if I can help. “

"Oh, the county lord is willing to go, that's great." Qin Chengcheng was overjoyed: "That place is not far from here, it is the neighboring Taizhou County, Linyi County of Dongshan Prefecture. “

"Okay, I know, it's not early, it's time for us to go, Lord Qin, please go back."

"The lower official sent it to the county lord."

"No need, my lord is busy with business, so let's go back early."

"It's not bad for a while, let the lower official send the county lord to the city gate."

"Since Lord Qin is so gracious, then Le'an is disrespectful."

"It should be, it should be."

The two of them were polite for a while, and then they each got into the carriage, Xu Qingyan's carriage walked in front, Lord Qin's carriage followed, and then the carriage of the people got off.

When he arrived at the city gate, Qin Chengcheng said some auspicious words to see him off, something like 'have a good trip', Xu Qingyan was polite to him again, and then he really went out of the city gate and set off to the next location.

Although Taizhou County is adjacent to Cangzhou County, there is a road that is a dead horse running in Wangshan, and the distance between Linyi County and Louhuai County under Dongshan Prefecture is seven or eight hundred miles, and they walked at a normal speed and took three days to arrive.

When she arrived at Dongshan Mansion, Xu Qingyan did not rush to Linyi County to investigate immediately, but asked Lingxian and to find an inn to live first.

When the inn was found, she called two young people and two girls again: "Tomorrow, Long Ling and I will go to Linyi County to investigate the strange things that Lord Qin said, that place is dangerous and inconvenient to take you, you live here, of course, it is not to let you be completely idle." “

Seeing that Xu Qingjun was about to protest, Xu Qingyan hurriedly threw out a task: "Dongshan Mansion is the capital of Taizhou, and Banlian Pavilion and Pujitang are going to open branches here, so I will leave the matter of finding a shop to you, and the requirements of the shop are nothing more than those few items, which Lingxian and Zelan know, right." ”

Spirit Immortal and Zelan nodded hurriedly.

"So, this time I have full authority to let go, if you can't make up your mind, just ask the two young masters."

"Ah, ask us." Xu Qingjun and Xu Qingwen were a little stunned, and felt that this challenge was a bit big.

"That's right, what is the purpose of bringing you out to practice, isn't it just to increase your knowledge and learn skills? This is the learning opportunity I give you, don't be afraid of failure, don't be afraid of not doing well, because if you don't do it, you will never know where you are good at. “

"Okay." Listening to Xu Qingyan's encouragement, the two of them calmed down a little.

After instructing everything, they rested at the inn for another night, and the next day, as soon as the morning dawned, the two set off.

When she arrived in Linyi County, Xu Qingyan neither went to the county office, nor was she looking for someone to inquire, because with their divine sense, as long as they looked at it, they could know where the incident occurred.

Who said that the characteristics of the place of the incident were too obvious!

In this season of lush vegetation, suddenly a place was full of yellow, and under his divine consciousness, he could see a trace of black gas floating in the sky above that heaven and earth.

"These black ....."

"It seems that this is the reason why the green plants withered and the villagers died for no reason."

The two of them fell from the air, standing in the middle of the withered rice fields, and the black gas floating in the sky seemed to have found their target, and they all rushed towards them.

In order to find out the origin of this thing, the two did not release their aura to resist, but because they had aura and cultivated to a high level, after those black qi rushed over, they could stop a foot away.

"These black gases don't seem to be close to us." Long Ling said.

"Maybe it's because we have cultivation?" Xu Qingyan said uncertainly.

"Maybe, it's just that the black gas is not thick, and I don't know where it came from, hey, what are you doing?

I saw Xu Qingyan squatting on the ground, dragging a withered rice stalk in her hand.

She didn't see anything famous on the outside, and she swept it from beginning to end with her divine sense: "Hey, there's a discovery. “

"What?"

"Look, there are black spots at the root of the rice stalk, and there are also down the root system, you see!"

Under the rice field, it is like a net woven with black gas, densely wrapped around the plant roots.

"The black gas seeps out of the ground, you see that the black gas in front of you seems to be thickening, go, go over and have a look." Long Ling said.

"Let's go," Xu Qingyan nodded and followed.

Three miles away, one side straight into the sky, smooth as a mirror stone wall in front of the two of them, there was a crack in the ground below the stone wall, the crack was as black as ink, and the moment they approached, a large puff of black smoke poured out of the crack and went straight to their door.

At this moment, a golden light popped out from Xu Qingyan's body, blocking the black smoke from his body, but Long Ling on the side was not so lucky, although he also subconsciously raised his hand to block it, but it was useless.

Black smoke slid straight through his raised arm, and then quickly traveled around him.

"Hmm....." There was a muffled snort in his throat, and he suddenly fell to the ground with a sour and weak heart.

"Long Ling." Xu Qingyan hurriedly rushed over to support him: "What's wrong?" “

"Dead air, this is dead air, they are eating the life in my body."

"What!"

At this time, the black qi in the crack was still surging, and Xu Qingyan hurriedly summoned out the gratitude and merit of her whole body as a shield to cover the two of them inside. At the same time, he opened his divine sense, observing the direction of the black qi in Long Ling's body, and at the same time transmitting gratitude to fight against the black qi.

But this time she was disappointed, because she was grateful that her mental power only resisted for a few moments after encountering the black qi, and was defeated and devoured by the black qi.

The only consolation is that the black gas after swallowing is so lost.

"What to do? Gratitude doesn't work! Xu Qingyan was anxious.

At this moment, the light of merit that surrounded her body suddenly burst out one after another, disintegrating all the black qi that was flying over.

Xu Qingyan is blessed to the heart.

Merits and virtues!

The light of merit can deal with these dead qi! The thought flashed, and more than a dozen merits had been sent to Long Ling's body by her.

As soon as he looked at his face, the light of merit and the black qi started a big battle, and two different colored air currents, one gold and one black, collided in the meridians, and Long Ling frowned uncomfortably.

Even though Xu Qingyan was heartbroken, there was nothing she could do, but fortunately, the light of merit was strong enough, and she melted the black qi in a short time, and by the way, she also replenished the lost vitality in his body.