Chapter 24: Counterattack

A mile away from the volcano, the Seven Great Families temporarily camped.

After hearing the burly man's report, the Seven Masters instantly made a judgment that the stone that was knocked away must be the treasure pendant they were looking for.

And Chu Jingtian is very likely to be hidden in it.

Although they could not understand how a person could hide in a pendant, there was only one possibility for now.

Immediately, not bothering to punish the burly man's mistakes, the Seven Great Masters immediately rose to the sky and flew towards the volcano.

After a while, the tinkling sound near the volcano disappeared instantly, and everyone turned around in unison, and began a carpet search in the direction of Chu Jingtian's escape.

At the same time, the Seven Great Masters even led some masters to march at the fastest speed, intending to catch up with Chu Jingtian and form a circle.

They believed that as long as they could form an encirclement, it would be difficult for Chu Jingtian to escape.

............

In the mountains and forests, Chu was running at a rapid pace.

Suddenly, a faint rustling sound came into his ears, it was not loud, it seemed to be quite far away from him, but it was a messy sound, obviously the sound of many people together.

Chu Jingtian was slightly startled, it seemed that the Seven Great Families had discovered that he had escaped and started a search.

Immediately, Chu was stunned, his eyes looked around, and he began to look for a suitable place to hide the Heavenly Jealousy Tower.

The Seven Great Families have already discovered that he has escaped, with the ability of the Seven Great Masters, they will inevitably fly into the sky to find him, if he still runs away rashly at this time, it will be easy to be discovered, it is better to hide first, and then look for opportunities.

Although in this way, it is very likely that he will be surrounded again, but now that he is in the dense forest, it is much easier for him to get out than before.

And most importantly, now, it is he who holds the initiative.

His gaze quickly swept over the environment around him, Chu Jingtian's brows furrowed, the place he was in was not a place suitable for the Hidden Heaven Jealousy Tower.

In the current situation, he definitely didn't dare to bury the Heavenly Jealousy Tower underground, in case the Seven Great Families had tracking masters, it would be easy to find traces on the ground.

Therefore, he can only use some hidden places that exist naturally, such as tree holes or snake and rat caves.

However, when he looked around, he found that the place he was in did not have the terrain he needed.

Listening to the rustling sound that was getting closer and closer in the distance, Chu Jingtian knew that he couldn't delay any longer, otherwise he might be discovered.

Gritting his teeth, Chu Jingtian walked quickly to a big tree.

The tree had a fist-thick root—bare—exposed, and he intended to dig a small hole in the side of the root close to the ground, and then shove the Tower of Envy inside.

Picking up a sharp stone from the ground, Chu Jingtian carefully pounded it under the root of the tree.

He had to be very careful with this process, otherwise the place would be easily spotted once the side of the root was scratched.

"Tweet ......"

Just as Chu Jingtian's small pit was about to be completed, he suddenly heard several bird calls coming from above his head.

When I looked up, I saw that on a branch near the treetops of the big tree, there was a bird's nest that was nearly a meter in size made of a mixture of branches and dirt.

In the nest, there are a few small birds that have just grown milk-feathers, poking their heads out, chirping constantly.

Due to the abundance of foliage in the big tree, he had not even noticed the existence of this bird's nest before. Even if he was standing under the tree at this time, if it weren't for the calls of those birds, he probably wouldn't have noticed the existence of this nest.

Chu Jingtian was not very familiar with birds, and he couldn't tell the types of these birds, but the moment he saw the bird's nest, his eyes lit up.

Immediately, Chu Jingtian took off his shoes, jumped onto the tree trunk with a vertical leap, and then cautiously crawled towards the position of the bird's nest.

I took off my shoes so as not to leave footprints on the trunk, and I was careful not to break the branches and leave marks.

After a while, Chu Jingtian finally came to the height where the bird's nest was. He took out the Heavenly Envy Tower, gently stuffed it into the gap in the bird's nest, and then blocked the gap with a few branches, and then his body flashed and disappeared.

Just two minutes after Chu Jingtian entered the Heavenly Jealousy Tower, above the treetops, the figures of the Seven Great Masters flashed in an instant and flew farther away.

I have to say that Chu Jingtian is lucky, if he is still standing in the forest at this time, he will inevitably be discovered.

After flying ten miles over the place where Chu Jingtian was, the Seven Great Masters directly landed and stopped. According to their calculations, at such a short time, with Chu Tiantian's speed, they couldn't run where they were.

Moreover, they had ordered everyone to surround the area in a ring at the beginning, and now, the entire area has been surrounded.

In other words, Chu Jingtian must still be surrounded by them, as long as the encirclement slowly closes, Chu Jingtian will definitely be found.

Although the terrain in the dense forest is complicated, it is more difficult to find the pendant, but in such an environment, if Chu Jingtian wants to escape, he will inevitably leave more traces, and it will be easier for them to find Chu Jingtian.

After sending a signal to let some people rush to their location, and after forming a circle with others, the Seven Masters rose to the sky again and launched aerial reconnaissance.

The carpet search on the ground, coupled with their aerial reconnaissance, was so shocking that they didn't want to escape.

......

In the Heavenly Jealousy Tower, Chu Jingtian was thinking with his eyes closed.

Through Rumeng's narration, he is also aware of the situation in the outside world, and judging from the current situation, he is not worried about being found.

So he was thinking about how to make the Seven Great Families suffer a little loss, and he had been beaten so passively, but it was not his style, he wanted to fight back.

After a while, Chu Jingtian opened his eyes and looked at Rumeng, "Can you hear what those people said?"

"You can hear it within a hundred meters, but you can't go any farther. Rumeng replied.

Chu Jingtian nodded, "A distance of one hundred meters is enough, from now on, tell me everything you heard." ”

"Good. ”

......

Time passed slowly, and the carpet search of the Seven Great Families was still going on.

It wasn't until dusk that everyone received an order to rest in place and be on high alert. This made the guards of the seven major families, who had been searching for two days and one night, cheer.

In fact, the Seven Masters also knew that it was almost impossible to find the pendant at night, but it was possible for Chu Jingtian to escape by taking advantage of the night and chaos.

It is better to let the guards be on guard in place, so that they can not only let their subordinates rest, but also prevent Chu Jingtian from escaping, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Moreover, after an afternoon of searching, the extent of the encirclement has been reduced a lot, and the distance between people is almost twenty meters. If there is any movement, as long as there is a greeting, the people next to them can immediately rush to support, and they are not worried that Chu Jingtian will be able to run away at all.

When the moon rose in the sky, the light in the dense forest was completely dimmed, and only the fire lit by the people of the Seven Great Families was like a ghost fire, flickering brightly.

"Huh!"

On top of a big tree, a figure appeared out of thin air, it was Chu Jingtian, who had been waiting for a long time.

Putting away the Heavenly Jealousy Tower hidden in the cracks of the bird's nest, Chu Jingtian fell to the ground little by little, and there was no sound in the whole process.

After landing on the ground, Chu Jingtian touched a fire about seventy or eighty meters away from him.

In that place, there were two guards of the Seven Great Families, one of whom was swaying back and forth on guard, and the other was sleeping.

After two days and one night of searching, these guards could not bear it for a long time, and as soon as they received the order to rest, they spontaneously worked in pairs and began to take turns to rest.

And the reason why Chu Jingtian chose this group was because according to the news that Rumeng Tan heard, these two people were both the fifth level of body refining, and with his current combat strength, they should be able to kill in seconds.

Cautiously groping forward, Chu Jingtian didn't dare to make a sound.

In a short distance of seventy or eighty meters, it took Chu Jingtian more than half an hour to move near the two people.

At this time, he was less than ten meters away from the sleeping man.

As low as possible to keep the sound of breathing low, Chu Jingtian's gaze locked on the guards swimming back and forth through the branches and leaves in the forest.

He's waiting for his time, he's going to have to deal with both of them quietly, or he'll be spotted if one of them makes a noise, and his counterattack plan won't be able to continue.

After waiting for nearly half an hour, just when Chu Jingtian felt that his hands and feet were about to go numb, he found that the guard who was swaying back and forth actually walked quickly towards his location.

"Discovered?"

With a slight tightness in his heart, Chu Jingtian pressed his body towards the ground again, and then stared closely at the guards who were getting closer and closer, and at the same time, his body was also slowly tensed.

To Chu's astonishing surprise, when the guard walked to a position more than five meters away from him, he suddenly stopped, and then he heard the sound of a stream of water hitting the blades of grass.

"That guy, he's unraveling!"

When the thought fell, the power of Chu Jingtian's hands and legs exploded at the same time, and the whole person burst up from the ground, heading straight for the guard.

The guard was squinting and releasing water, only to feel a black shadow flash in front of him, and before he could react, he felt a pain in his neck, and then heard a clattering sound of bones breaking, and then his consciousness completely dissipated.

Twisting the neck of this guard, Chu Jingtian let go of his hands, and his momentum did not decrease, and he rushed directly to the guard who was sleeping heavily, and then twisted the man's neck as concocted, poor that guy, he died in his sleep.

And until this time, the body of the first guard had just begun to fall backwards, and then it was supported by Chu Jingtian and gently placed on the ground.

In an instant, the two were killed, without making a sound.

Glancing at the two corpses, a touch of coldness appeared on the corner of Chu Jingtian's mouth, and he whispered to himself: "You want to arrest me, then be prepared to pay a sufficient price...... Seven families, I want to see how many of you can die......"

Leaning the two corpses against the trunk of the tree and posing as if they were asleep, Chu Jingtian touched the other fire......