Three days passed in a blink of an eye, when the morning light was faint and the dawn was falling. Chu Yunfan set off early and came to the foot of Haoran Peak. I thought I had arrived early, but I didn't expect that before I arrived at the meeting place, I saw that there were many people who had arrived earlier than me.

Chu Yunfan exerted a slight force under his feet, only to see an afterimage pass by, and he came to the crowd in an instant.

"Excuse me, which Yuan Jie?" Chu Yunfan slowly walked into the crowd and asked.

"Which uncle or uncle's disciple are you that you are so rude and call Senior Brother Yuan's name!" a delicate-looking young man in the crowd stepped out of the crowd, frowning slightly, and said very unpleasantly.

Yuan Jie is the leader of this mission, and he is also the oldest senior brother in this team. Besides, Chu Yunfan was too young, making it difficult for people to put him on an equal footing with him, so the young man's first thought was to treat Chu Yunfan as a junior disciple who came over to join in the fun.

"This Daoist brother, you misunderstood, you didn't mean to offend Yuan Jie in the slightest......" Chu Yunfan thought about it in his heart and said slowly. According to seniority, Yuan Jie and these young people in front of him can be regarded as his own teachers and nephews, but even if he tells the truth, I am afraid that these young people in front of him will not believe it, but will think that they have no respect for their superiors, their thinking is abnormal, and they are even crazy, so Chu Yunfan can only carefully reply with careful consideration.

"Brother Dao, we are all disciples of Haoran Peak, if you don't want to call me Senior Brother, you don't even dare to call Senior Brother Yuan's name like this. Although Senior Brother Yuan is the same generation as us, he is more than ten years older than us, and he is very friendly to his junior brothers. It's really disrespectful and bold. The young man's brow furrowed even deeper, and his face was very gloomy.

"Yes, yes, yes...... It's just so lawless. Several teenagers around him followed suit.

"I really didn't mean that......" Chu Yunfan's face was full of helplessness, and he really didn't know how to explain.

"This is Uncle Chu, I am Yuan Jie, and you call me Xiao Yuan. ”

Chu Yunfan was about to open his mouth to explain again, when a deep voice came from not far away. I looked closely, but I saw a middle-aged man in his thirties in a light cyan long suit walking over hurriedly. A boxy Chinese face, two thick eyebrows, eyes full of smiles, grinning and laughing.

After a while, Yuan Jie came to Chu Yunfan's side and said respectfully to Chu Yunfan: "Senior Uncle Chu, you came really early, there are still some junior disciples who haven't arrived yet, we have to wait before we can go." ”

Yuan Jie's words fell on the ears of the young man next to him, which was tantamount to thunder on the ground, what did you hear just now? Senior Brother Yuan actually called that kid his uncle, so isn't this kid in front of him also his own uncle? Could it be that he heard it wrong, the young man was dumbfounded, with a look of disbelief, and he didn't come to his senses for a long time. Even if he heard it wrong, Senior Brother Yuan just now saw the respectful expression and movements of the young man who was difficult just now. If you take 10,000 steps back, even if you are dazzled, you won't be dazzled by everyone, right? The young man turned his head and glanced around the other senior brothers, and found that they were also full of surprise, standing still in place and not coming back to their senses.

"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry, and I'm not too early. By the way, it's good if you call me Yun Fan. Chu Yunfan listened to Yuan Jie's eager shouting of Uncle Shi one after another, and he really couldn't hold back his enthusiasm and felt a little uncomfortable.

"Uncle Xiao laughed, I don't dare to call you by your name, if my master knows, he won't scold me until he is bloody. Yuan Jie hurriedly smiled, but as soon as the words fell, he turned his head, his face sank, and said to the young man: "Meng Tianhui, you were disrespectful to Uncle Chu just now?"

For these young juniors, Yuan Jie didn't know a few, but he knew Meng Tianhui. Meng Tianhui's master is Meng Anren, and Meng Anren is Meng Zhengtian's own niece, plus although Meng Tianhui is not a direct line of the Meng family, he is also a very close collateral branch, and he is also well-known among the younger generation.

If it was in normal times, Yuan Jie would not have spoken to him like this, but who let him offend Uncle Xiao just now, even if Meng Anren knew, he wouldn't be able to say any gossip, of course, Yuan Jie was just making a show for Chu Yunfan, and he didn't really blame Meng Tianhui for this.

Looking at Yuan Jie's stiff face, Meng Tianhui hurriedly bowed his head and arched his hand at Chu Yunfan: "Meng Tianhui has seen Uncle Chu, I didn't know the identity of Uncle Chu just now, I was offended, please Uncle Chu has a lot of don't worry about my nephew." ”

At this time, Meng Tianhui already had a rough guess about Chu Yunfan's identity in his heart, a few days ago, he heard the master mention that the peak master had accepted a new disciple, and he couldn't remember what his name was, but it was indeed surnamed Chulai. Combined with Senior Brother Yuan's words, presumably the kid in front of him, no, the young man in front of him is the new disciple of the peak master.

"No, no...... Don't say that, if it were me, I wouldn't easily believe that such a young boy would be my uncle. Chu Yunfan's face was slightly embarrassed when he saw this, he was very embarrassed, and hurriedly waved his hand and said hurriedly.

"Okay, okay, since it's a misunderstanding, let's just talk about it. Yuan Jie looked at Chu Yunfan's somewhat overwhelmed look, and came out at the right time to play a round.

"By the way, Uncle Chu, there are a few juniors over there who are leading the team with me this time, or we will go over and I will introduce them to you one by one. ”

"Well, then you'll have to lead the way. Chu Yunfan nodded in response.

Yuan Jie walked in front, and Chu Yunfan followed closely behind, and came to a relatively empty flat land. I saw three middle-aged men talking in a low voice in the open space in front of me.

"A few junior disciples, come over and see Uncle Chu. ”

As Yuan Jie's deep voice spread far away, the three middle-aged men turned around and hurriedly greeted Yuan Jie and Chu Yunfan who were walking forward.

"I've seen Senior Brother Yuan, I've seen Uncle Chu. The three of them came to Chu Yunfan and the others almost at the same time and said respectfully.

Chu Yunfan and the three of them greeted each other one by one, then stood aside and listened to Yuan Jie chatting with the three of them, waiting for the rest of the people to arrive.

These three people are not Meng Zhengtian's personal disciple Sun, among the three, the tall and thin man in the middle is named Liu Hanting, the man on the left is of medium stature, with a slightly round face and a lovely smile, Sun Qianping, and the man on the right who looks ordinary and has some dark skin is Zhao Siyuan.

In the middle of the conversation, the rest of the people also arrived one after another, in addition to Yuan Jie and Chu Yunfan, there were a total of twenty disciples, including eight female disciples, which could be regarded as adding a bit of a different color to this not easy journey.

Yuan Jie led Chu Yunfan and the other three to walk slowly to the crowd, and said loudly: "Okay, be quiet, everyone is here, then let's go." ”

Yuan Jie looked at the people who were quiet in front of him, turned his head to Chu Yunfan and the others next to him and bowed slightly, and suddenly let out a long howl, and the howl came out far away, only to see a group of cranes flying down from Haoran Peak, hovering above everyone's heads for a while and then landing quietly.

"Let's choose a crane to ride on, the road is not close, we have to rely on them for the next few days. ”

Seeing the crane next to him, Chu Yunfan was very curious, and he was still guessing what form everyone was going to go to Heishui Mountain. You must know that only when you reach the Feather Transformation Realm can you master the trick of flying with imperial qi, and Yuan Jie, who is the strongest here, is just the peak of concentration, if you use your feet to rush with all your strength, it will not only take more than ten days, but when you arrive, maybe everyone will be exhausted, let alone investigate, it is estimated that it will be very laborious to walk a few steps.

Yuan Jie's figure flashed, and he took the lead in choosing a tall and strong crane to ride on, and gently stroked the very soft feathers on the crane's long neck with his right hand, waiting for everyone to ride the crane.

Seeing that everyone began to choose the crane, Chu Yunfan also followed, and he casually walked in front of a crane. This crane didn't look very strong among the cranes, and it was a little thin compared to the crane under Yuan Jie's seat. But Chu Yunfan just fell in love with it, and always felt that there was a kind of arrogance in its eyes that was different from other cranes.

"That's you, little one. Chu Yunfan did not hesitate after choosing, and with a slight movement under his feet, the figure appeared on the white crane.

"Alright, let's go. ”

Yuan Jie saw that everyone had already sat on the selected crane, and with a slight clamp of his feet, the crane under the seat flapped its wings, cut through the sky, and left the dust.

Seeing this, everyone also set off one after another, following Yuan Jie's figure.

Not long after Chu Yunfan and his party left, a black figure also followed, and the speed was far from comparable to that of Chu Yunfan and the others.

That's right, this black figure is the Huangfu Shaoqi who was ordered by the master to secretly protect Chu Yunfan, and he waited by the side of Haoran Peak early in the morning, waiting for Chu Yunfan and the others to set off. Huangfu Shaoqi is also very fond of Chu Yunfan, a junior brother, even if he doesn't have the master's order, he is very willing.

Heishui Mountain is not close to the Zixiao Sect, even if Chu Yunfan and the others have immortal cranes to travel, it is not a day or two to arrive.

Chu Yunfan and his party walked and stopped, and it took a total of four days to arrive at the side of Heishui Mountain.

"Alright, it's finally here, let's find a nearby village to rest. ”

Yuan Jie and his entourage drove the crane around Heishui Mountain for a while, and saw a small village in the distance, so they landed and walked towards the village.

"Senior brother, something is wrong. Just when everyone came to the entrance of the village, Zhao Siyuan stopped, turned his head and frowned at Yuan Jie and asked.

The small village in front of me is very quiet, there is no one on the street, this quiet is a little weird, there is no vitality, and the atmosphere is very depressing.

"It's a little wrong, why didn't I see anyone. Yuan Jie also frowned slightly, his face full of puzzlement. "We don't have to guess, just go in and take a look, everyone pay more attention. ”

Everyone followed behind Yuan Jie and slowly walked into this quiet village. I saw that some of the houses on both sides of the road had fallen into ruins, and some had been destroyed by something. The crowd walked a few streets in a row, but not only did they not see the figure, but they did not even see a living thing.

Yuan Jie frowned, his face was very serious, he glanced at several junior disciples, and then said in a low voice: "It seems that we are late, and this village must have been attacked." You go from house to house to find me if there are any living people, be careful. ”

Yuan Jie was faintly uneasy in his heart, and had a very bad premonition, just now his divine sense spread outward, but he didn't find a living creature in this village. With the strength of himself and several juniors, although he didn't dare to say that there was no omission, he basically didn't have much hope for it.

"Senior brother, no one was found here......

"Senior brother, there's no one here. ”

"There's no ...... here."

Chu Yunfan followed the other two to look for them room by room, and the three of them searched for dozens of houses in a row, but they didn't even see a living thing, some of the rooms were neat, some of the doors were not closed, and the houses were messy. But the only thing in common is that everything inside the house is covered in a thick layer of dust.

"It seems that there is no hope, I have found so many families, and I don't even have a hair. The white-clothed young man who acted with Chu Yunfan muttered. The young man in white is named Zhang Hongyu, and the other young man in white is called Zhang Hongfeng, and the two are a pair of brothers.

"I've searched for everything in the vicinity, and it seems that there is really no one alive, so let's go back and report it. Chu Yunfan said in a deep voice.

Chu Yunfan and the three of them returned to the intersection, and after seeing everyone, they hurriedly stepped forward, and said in a low voice to Yuan Jie and the others: "We have carefully searched for more than 20 houses, and basically the house is in a mess, but there is no one, not even corpses and bloodstains, it is really strange." ”

When Yuan Jie and the others heard this, their faces became more and more unsightly, this thing was really too weird, and the people of the entire village seemed to have evaporated from the world, and they had disappeared so completely. If it is said that it was attacked by some demon clans, it will not leave even a trace of blood, and it seems that this matter is not something that a few people can handle.

"Three junior brothers, it seems that this matter is more serious than we imagined, and there are strange things everywhere here. Everyone in the village seems to have disappeared from the world, and I don't think we can handle this matter, so it seems that we have to ask for help. Yuan Jie's face was very gloomy, and his voice was a little hoarse.

Liu Hanting, Sun Qianping, and Zhao Siyuan's faces were also very dignified, although their strength was not high, they had rich experience. If it was just them and Yuan Jie, they might choose to continue the in-depth investigation, but now they are not alone, they still have a group of junior brothers who are ignorant of the world behind them, and even a young uncle, if there is any accident, they can't afford it.

"I didn't expect that as soon as we got here, things were out of our control, it seems that the information we got before was not accurate, or that someone had set up suspicions to lure us here. Sun Qianping was the first to speak, and in the end, his face was already difficult to see. If someone really deliberately set a trap to lure himself and others to come, then he really didn't dare to imagine the consequences.

"It's not getting early now, so I suggest spending the night in the open space at the entrance of the village. Early tomorrow morning, Senior Brother Liu, the three of you will immediately return to the faction with everyone to ask for support. Yuan Jie is also a decisive person, and immediately made a decision, asking Liu Hanting and the others to return to the sect early tomorrow morning to ask for support, while he continued to stay to investigate the ins and outs of the matter.

"No, we can't leave you alone, Senior Brother Yuan, I agree to spend the night here tonight, but tomorrow morning we have to go back to the sect together. As soon as Yuan Jie's words fell, Liu Hanting hurriedly spoke out against it.

"Yes, Senior Brother Yuan, I don't agree with you staying alone, this fact is too weird. Sun Qianping also responded.

"Otherwise, Senior Brother Yuan and I will stay and continue the investigation, and the two Senior Brothers will take the others back to the sect tomorrow morning to ask for support. Zhao Siyuan rubbed his chin with his left hand and groaned slightly.

"This ......"

"Okay, that's it, Senior Brother Zhao will stay and help me, and the others will leave for the sect to ask for support as soon as it dawns tomorrow. Without waiting for Liu Hanting and Sun Qianping to speak, Yuan Jie took the lead and made a decision.

"That's all there is to it. ”

Yuan Jie turned around and said to everyone: "Everyone, listen, it's getting late now, tonight we will camp in the open space outside the village entrance to rest for one night, and early tomorrow morning, Senior Brother Liu and Senior Brother Sun will take all of you back to the sect first." ”

"What, back to the sect?"

"Senior brother, didn't we just arrive, why did we go back to the sect?"

......

As soon as Yuan Jie's words fell, the crowd was chaotic, with constant discussions and doubts.

"That's enough, I've already discussed it with several of your senior brothers, and this matter is not to be discussed again. Yuan Jie shouted.

As Yuan Jie scolded loudly, everyone gradually quieted down, but the expression on their faces was still a little dissatisfied and questioning.

"Okay, all the juniors and disciples should go and clean up the place, find some wood, and make some bonfires. At this moment, Meng Tianhui walked out, came to everyone, and beckoned everyone to go and set up a camp.

Although Meng Tianhui was not as well-informed as Yuan Jie and other senior brothers, he could also see that something was wrong with this matter, otherwise several senior brothers would not have made such a decision.