sent Cheng Qiantang away, and Qian Chao did not go to Chengqitang.

After a few busy days, he still has a copy of "Nine Xuan Lingyun" borrowed from the Inner Hall Flower Spirit Stone in his hand, and he has never read it.

While looking at the book in his hand, Qian Chao thought about the things that Senior Brother Cheng talked about with himself.

Don't ask about things that don't want to be asked, and have nothing to do with yourself.

Senior Brother Xun's matter, I heard that he was killed by the demon insect drilling the bamboo wind, and there are still doubts, I don't know what news will be heard in the master in the future, and who will risk harming an apprentice of a monk Jiedan? Well, there is another senior brother who can't even find the body, could it be that he didn't want to harm Senior Brother Xun in the first place, but another, Senior Brother Xun's time just happened at the right time?

Senior Brother Wu's brother died outside the sect in his early years, is it related to Senior Brother Luan? Senior Brother Wu has been forbearance for so many years, could it be that he only recently got the news and went to take revenge?

There is also the treasure map, the few maps that Senior Brother Cheng took out on the table did not take away, saying that they are worthless, but it is unknown that there may be something there over the years, but he repeatedly told Qian Chao not to go rashly before he passed the small five levels.

However, the senior brothers who were unusually intelligent and intelligent mentioned by the senior brothers themselves could deduce the hidden treasures by their words or the records in the books, which made Qian Chao interested, and as soon as he closed the book in his hand, he took out many maps he had drawn from the storage bag.

Alas, this stone table is too small, Qian Chao fiddles with these maps, this table really can't be spread out, and one day you have to get a big bookcase.

……

It's time for a few people to get together again, and now they basically get together every month on the day of the Crane Tower Market.

"Brother Qian, Brother Li, come on!"

When Lu Pingchuan saw Qian Chao and Li Jian coming together, he greeted happily.

"Well, this time the two of us finally came a little earlier than you."

Tang Ping and Yan Xuan arrived first, and they were already watching Lu Pingchuan busy there, but this time it was not barbecue, Lu Pingchuan started a stove on the flat ground, and there were two large cauldrons on it, one covered with a big wooden lid, and it was estimated that the soup was boiling inside, and it was steaming outward, I don't know what it was stewed, and the meat was fragrant and attractive. In the other pot, there was some oil, and there was green smoke, and Lu Pingchuan held this big spoon, as if he wanted to learn from the chef in the restaurant to fry and fry it.

When Yan Xuan saw the two of them approaching, he smiled and said, "Brother Lu said that he recently got the true inheritance of Senior Kang, and today he wants to show us a few hands to open our eyes!" ”

"I just don't know when I'll be able to eat it in my mouth, Brother Lu, you're faster, I'm hungry!"

Tang Ping also said on the side, with rhubarb squatting on her shoulder, the little monkey staring at the cauldron with his two eyes, and Xiaobai was held by Yan Xuan, also staring at the steaming cauldron without turning his eyes.

"Haha, don't worry, good food is not afraid of being late!"

By the time the cups and plates were lined up on the table, several people couldn't wait to sit together.

"Well," Li Jian sniffed and couldn't help but praise, "I really didn't expect Brother Lu's craftsmanship to be so good, whether it was my Li family's New Year's Festival or the banquet given by the lord of Liang Guoguo, it was not as good as Brother Lu!" ”

"That's right," Qian Chao said, "I've never seen such a tempting banquet in my prime minister's grandfather's house before. ”

"Hehe, my master claims to be a thick soil cook, how can it be called in vain, a little leakage from his old man's fingers is enough for me to learn, well, my senior brother Xi's skills are also good, but he is more focused on cultivation, and only I, who is greedy, begged my master and his old man to teach me this, come, how about a taste!"

"Hmm...... Delicious, delicious! Brother Lu, you have to learn more from Senior Kang in the future, and learn all his cooking methods! Tang Ping couldn't hold it back for a long time, so she put down her chopsticks.

These people also got the method of transforming blood and eating from Lu Pingchuan, and knew that eating this delicacy was beneficial to cultivation, so they were not reserved, and they had a beautiful meal.

After the remnants of the table were removed, Qian Chao took out the teapot he brought with him and cooked a pot of hot tea for everyone to relieve their greasy.

"It's time for us to go out again." Holding the tea cup, Tang Ping said.

"Well, it's time to go out, it's boring to stay in the sect, but before you go out, ......" Qian Chao said, taking out three wooden boxes and giving them to Li Jian, Tang Ping and Yan Xuan.

When the three of them opened it, they saw that it was armor.

"Tang Xiaomei, I know you are ugly, but listen to me first," Qian Chao said, "The last time I came back from outside, I heard a lot of things in Jiuxuan, we Jiuxuan Elder Jin, well, it is the senior who presided over the selection of disciples of each sect when we first arrived in the sect, one of his apprentices, we want to call Senior Brother Xun, a high-level disciple of Qi refining, encountered a powerful demon insect when he went out, and he couldn't come back, and there was another senior brother who was killed together, and that senior brother is said to have not even been able to find the body until now." ”

As soon as Qian Chao said this, several people began to get serious.

"High-level disciples of Qi refining, if you say no outside, it's gone, we're only at the third level of Qi refining, and we have to be careful when we go out, even if we don't go to those dangerous places, won't some accidents happen? Isn't that wind snake an example? So I thought, since we go out, then let's prepare properly, these armors are also refined after I heard about Senior Brother Xun's matter, let's go out or use it, Brother Li, you once said that your sword cultivation is the most important method, so I only used some armor pieces in the vital parts of you, and the rest used a few more layers of leather armor, which did not hinder your skills, and could also give you safe protection if necessary. ”

Li Jian rubbed the leather armor in the box a few times with his hand, his one could see that Qian Chao had put a lot of thought, the leather armor was dark in color, soft to the touch but full of toughness, and the heart and shoulders were lined with layers of patterned iron armor, but they were all lined inside the leather armor, but they couldn't be seen outside.

Li Jian was naturally satisfied with this armor, and also understood Qian Chao's hard work, and said with a smile: "Thank you Brother Qian, I will definitely wear it on my body when I go out, I didn't expect that in this cultivation world, I can also find the feeling of wearing the same uniform." ”

Tang Ping took her armor and looked at it, still a little disgusted, she said: "Alas, it will always look fatter when you pass it on, forget it, since it is your money boy's kindness, then I will wear it when I go out, but I will take it off when I come back." ”

"You......" Yan Xuan said angrily after listening to Tang Ping's words, "Thank you Brother Qian, I will definitely wear it on the day I go out, so it will be a lot more reassuring." ”

Qian Chao nodded, turned his head and said: "As for Brother Lu, only Brother Lu is not afraid of heaviness among the few of us, I am trying several new refining methods, if it can be successful, although it is heavier than this one on Brother Lu, but it is also much stronger than this one in terms of protection." ”

"Well, no problem, hehe!"

Seeing that Qian Chao's armor was distributed to everyone, Yan Xuan also took out four small jade bottles and put them on the table.

"I refined the spirit grass I picked back last time into pills, alas, speaking of which, my alchemy still has to continue to be polished, almost half of the spirit grass has been refined by me, these are refined Yang Yuan Dan, almost five of us each, but there are a few more, and when I come back this time, I will refine a batch and share it with everyone."

After saying that, he divided the small bottles among a few people.

Qian Chao opened the small bottle and sniffed it, looked at it, then looked up and said, "Well, I looked at Sister Yan's elixir and it seems to be stronger than the one given by the sect." ”

"Of course, the sect basically gives low-level and low-grade products, and many of the products refined by Sister Yan are low-level and middle-grade, which are better than those of the sect." Tang Ping looked at the pill and said happily.

"Actually, there are these," Yan Xuan said and took out another small bottle, which contained three pills, but the color was different from the ones in several bottles.

"This is a mid-level Yangyuan Pill, but I have only gotten three so far, and I will give it to everyone when I have enough five."

"Intermediate!" When Tang Ping heard the mid-grade elixir, she couldn't help but lean over to take a look.

"Well, it's indeed mid-level, even if this elixir is given to everyone, don't use it usually, and then use it when we want to break through, it will definitely help a lot."

The lower-level and top-grade Yangyuan Pill is priced at ten spirit stones in the Crane Tower, this middle-level one, it can't be bought, and it is generally kept by alchemists for their own use, Yan Xuan took out all the pills, and it was obvious that he had no selfishness at all.

"Thank you, Miss Yan." Li Jian said.

"Thank you, this is also what it should mean, it's important for a few of us to practice together."

Yan Xuan put away the elixir again, this is what Lu Pingchuan suddenly thought of, and said: "Eh, speaking of which, I went out with my master a few days ago, and I also got something, but a few of us can probably only use it by Tang Meizi, come." ”

Tang Ping heard that there was something for him, so he looked at it curiously, and saw that Lu Pingchuan had found something, which was the size of a small grape, an irregular spherical shape, and the color was white and yellow.

"This is ......" Tang Ping took it from Lu Pingchuan's hand, and seemed to recognize it, but she didn't see much of it and didn't say it.

"Demon pill!" Lu Pingchuan said.

Hearing the word demon pill, several people couldn't help but lean over to take a closer look, after all, the demon pill that Tang Ping got last time was the size of a grain of rice, and this one was much bigger than that one.

"This is the Demon Pill? I thought the demon pills were the same size as the last one. Qian Chao looked at it and said.

This is naturally a demon pill, but Tang Ping doesn't know what kind of demon beast's inner pill this is, Xiaobai and Da Huang seem to be interested in this demon pill, and after driving the two of them away, Tang Ping asked: "Brother Lu, what kind of demon beast's inner pill is this?" ”

"Uh...... My master said at the time, what is it...... By the way, that kind of monster beast is called a mirage. ”

Mirage!

A few other people listened to it, but Qian Chao was very surprised when he heard it, he also read a story about mirages in a book a few days ago, but he didn't expect to see the mirage's demon pill today, which is really a coincidence.

Yan Xuan was a little curious and asked, "What does that mirage look like?" ”

"Hey, it's ugly to death, I couldn't recognize it at first, or my master saw through this guy's illusion at a glance, hmph, this thing has a big mouth and transforms into a cave, and some good things are conjured up in it, luring passing monks, if you don't notice it, go in and take the good things in the cave and count it as if you fall for it, and it will eat people as soon as it closes its big mouth."

"Is it so dangerous?" Yan Xuan frowned and said.

Tang Ping interjected and said, "It's not necessarily to lure the monks, if other demon beasts are fooled, they will also become its meal." ”

"Well, that's what my master said, speaking of the wind snake last time, Brother Li said that the wind snake's illusion is powerful, and when I came back, I asked my master if he had any way to crack it, and my master taught me a trick, and then took me out to find those demon beasts that could use illusions to try their hands, but I didn't expect to touch it, and it was unlucky. But my master said that there shouldn't be such a thing in the place where he went that day, and he wondered, hey, anyway, I killed it in a few strokes with the trick that my master taught, and that guy's real body is like a big toad, but it is the size of a grinding plate, except for the belly and eyes all over the body, and people are panicked when they see it, how ugly and ugly it is! ”

Tang Ping and Yan Xuan couldn't help frowning when they heard what he said.

Only Qian Chao has a different idea in his heart!

"Brother Lu," Qian Chao said, "do you remember the place where you killed this mirage?" ”

"Of course I do."

"Okay, wait a minute."

After speaking, Qian Chao went to the pen and paper, and drew the map of Senior Brother Wu Wei that he remembered in his mind.

"Brother Lu, take a closer look, is this place where you and Senior Kang went?"

Several people didn't know what Qian Chao was going to do, and when they saw him ask Lu Pingchuan to identify the map, they all came over curiously to take a look.

"Huh! Have you been there too? Or did you go with you that day? Your painting is exactly the same as the place we went to! ”

On that piece of paper, in a small ravine, there was a cave, and the surrounding mountains, trees, grass and rocks were almost exactly the same as what Lu Pingchuan saw that day.

Really! It seems that Senior Brother Wu Wei is really weird, he must know that the hole is a mirage, and he also sold this map to Senior Brother Luan, is it possible that Senior Brother Luan will die? Maybe that mirage was also arranged there by Senior Brother Wu in advance!

"I see, I see!" Qian Chao muttered.

"Hey, what is this, what's going on, how do you know where Brother Lu went? Say it! ”

Tang Ping was in a hurry, and when he saw that Qian Chao knew that there was something inside, he urged him to say it quickly.

"This map," Qian Chao picked up the map he had drawn, "was originally sold as a treasure map." ”

Qian Chao told him about Senior Brother Wu Wei and Senior Brother Luan Xiuzhang, and also said about Senior Brother Wu Wei looking for himself late at night that night, including which pieces of maps were burned by himself and did not hide it.

After listening to it, everyone didn't expect such a thing.

Tang Ping said: "You mean to say that it is very likely that Senior Brother Wu Wei prepared the mirage there in advance, and then drew a drawing and sold it to that Senior Brother Luan, he was planning to kill that Senior Brother Luan, right?" ”

Qian Chao nodded when he heard this: "Now it seems that eight or nine are not far from ten, but Senior Brother Wu would not have thought that the mirage he arranged there was killed by Brother Lu." ”

After listening to this, Lu Pingchuan pondered for a while and understood, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said: "Hehe, that's a coincidence, it seems that I saved someone." ”

"I didn't expect it," Li Jian said, "There is also such a conspiracy and calculation between the senior brothers!" ”

Qian Chao said: "Brother Li, this is nothing, the Senior Brother Xun I just mentioned, it is said that his master, that senior Jin, saw something strange on his corpse, and suspected that his apprentice was plotted by others, and he had already let his apprentices go to inspect it, I don't know what news will be in the future." Even if this Senior Brother Wu, what makes me strange is that he suspected that I had taken those map fragments, so he came to me late at night to ask me, where did I still have those fragments for him at that time, so I could only bite the bullet and refuse to admit it, but when he left, he repeatedly warned me, saying that it was extremely dangerous, so I must not risk going there, you say, looking at it this way, this Senior Brother Wu does not look like a great evil person, but he has some grudges with Senior Brother Luan, but it is not like it involves the innocent. I also heard that one of the brothers of Senior Brother Wu died outside when he was out in the early years, which is probably related to his current calculations. ”

Several people nodded again after hearing this, thinking about it separately.

Tang Ping raised his eyes and asked, "You said that Senior Brother Luan was quarreled with by a few people in that Chengqi Hall?" ”

"Four people, Senior Brother Luan went with the other three senior brothers, what's wrong?"

Tang Ping listened, then nodded and smiled: "In this way, this Senior Brother Wu's strategy is actually successful, but the mirage he made is not good enough." ”

"What do you mean, tell me about it."

"This" Tang Ping said and shook the demon pill in his hand, "Looking at the color of this demon pill, you can probably know what kind of cultivation that mirage is, well, according to my judgment, the mirage that Brother Lu killed, if it was only against one Senior Brother Luan, I am afraid that Senior Brother Luan would have died outside, but, listening to what Qian Xiaozi said, Senior Brother Luan did not go there alone, but went with three companions with similar cultivation, in that case, this mirage is not an opponent, don't underestimate this mirage, it is very cunning, Eat if you can, forbear if you can't eat, four monks together, it thinks that it is not an opponent, so it just stays still, making people feel that it is an empty cave, so Senior Brother Luan feels that he has fallen for Senior Brother Wu, and only thinks that he has bought a fake treasure map, so he angrily went to the Chengqi Hall to find Senior Brother Wu's theory, right? ”

Qian Chao nodded frequently when he heard this, and secretly said that this matter is probably like this, the mistake of that Senior Brother Wu is that he does not know much about the knowledge of demon beasts, if he has Tang Ping's knowledge, I am afraid that Senior Brother Luan will really be plotted by him.

Yan Xuan felt that such a thing made people's hearts furious, and said: "Alas, speaking of which, it's all some conspiracies, weird and scary, is there anything that can't be sat down and talked about properly, does it have to hurt people?" ”

"Sister Yan," Tang Ping put her arms around Yan Xuan's shoulders and said, "If everyone is like you, there is still so much hatred there, right?" ”

Qian Chao knew that these words must have clouded the hearts of several people, so he also smiled and said: "However, I have made another discovery through this incident." ”

When Tang Ping heard this, he said: "You are so clever, what kind of conspiracy have you discovered?" ”

"No, it's not a conspiracy this time, it's something useful for us."

As soon as he said this, several people were attracted by the tide of money, and Tang Ping said: "Hurry up, don't sell Guanzi, what did you find again?" ”

Qian Chao smiled and pointed to the map he had drawn on the table with his hand and said

"Treasure map!"

"Shhhh Isn't that picture fake? Besides, Brother Lu has already killed that mirage! ”

"No, listen to me, after that incident, I also inquired with a few senior brothers, and the results are all similar, the various treasure maps that are popular among our qi refining disciples in the sect will not actually have any good things, you don't need to buy them, you are fooled if you buy them, ah, these are the ones that my senior brother Cheng bought back then, and told me that the things found in the places in the pictures are not worth buying the spirit stones of this map."

When a few people saw it, they picked up a few maps that Qian Chao took out and looked at them.

"However, there are really some smart senior brothers in the sect who can deduce by themselves where there may be some good things based on various information, and then they will go there to find treasures."

Tang Ping listened and asked, "Have you discovered this method too?" ”

"I've said it before," Qian Chao said, pulling out a small map from his storage bag, "Look, this is the result of my few days, not all, maybe there will be more in the future." ”

Only then did everyone remember that Qian Chao had indeed talked about something similar at a previous meeting, not only asking a few people to find books for him to show him from the library buildings of each gate, but also taking out drawings for everyone to see.

The map is drawn in more detail, but these four people are not as good at these as Qian Chao, and they can't see any clues when they look at it. Tang Ping found that there were some places on the map that had been marked by Qian Chao with a light-colored pen, so he pointed there and asked Qian Chao

"Here, the place you marked, isn't it possible that there are good things?"

"That's right," Qian Chao replied, "This map also took me a lot of effort, but unfortunately, most of the places I marked out here can't we go to now, with our current cultivation, it's too dangerous there, and I don't know if my picture and my inferences are accurate, it's not worth the risk, but there is one place ......."

His hand moved a little to the map.

"Here, the closest to the sect, I also inquired with some senior brothers on the side, in terms of our cultivation, it is not a risk to go there, this time let's go out, you might as well take a look, to verify whether my picture is accurate, if it is not right, I will come back and think about it." Second, if there is really something to be gained there, it is also a good thing for us, how about it? ”

"Well, that's wow!" The first to respond was Lu Pingchuan, who rubbed his two big hands together and said, "I don't think it's a problem, Brother Qian's intention will not be wrong." ”

Li Jian also agreed, he nodded and said: "I think we can go and take a look, as long as we are cautious and careful, if there is anything wrong, we will withdraw, and it should be fine." ”

Tang Ping and Yan Xuan also nodded, and Tang Ping said: "Since you have put a lot of thought into it, then let's go and take a look, maybe there will really be some gains." ”

Qian Chao said: "Then it's decided, I've also checked what spiritual grass is near there, and tomorrow we will go to the Remembrance to receive the dispatch according to that one, and then go out." ”

The matter was decided, and then Tang Ping made a fuss about going to the Crane Tower, anyway, he was going out tomorrow, and today was the day of a few people's gatherings, so he left the Houtu Temple and came to the Crane Tower.