Ling Ning's consciousness was in a trance, he could feel his body falling rapidly, Xia Shiqing beside him desperately grabbed his shirt and shouted at him at the same time, but he couldn't hear what she was shouting, the sharp pain in his waist and the strange force in his body that was about to shatter his internal organs made him miserable, and finally, as if the candle flame in his brain was suddenly blown out, he lost consciousness.

As if in a dream, he seemed to see Xia Shiqing raise her head, revealing an infinitely beautiful white neck, and then, a dark green bead appeared from her mouth, and in an instant he felt a burst of vitality.

Xia Shiqing squeezed the beads to her lips with half a bite on her teeth, she lowered her head, and her usual cold face began to dissolve, showing a rare shy look. She seemed to notice that he was awake, and pulled out a white ribbon to cover his eyes.

In the darkness, there was a coolness from the wound on Ling Ning's chest, as if some warm and tender object was sliding back and forth on his wound, and the pain and heat immediately dissipated everywhere he went, replaced by a burst of coolness and comfort.

She ...... Is she treating my wounds? ”

Ling Ning's mind came up with the scene of Xia Shiqing sucking the toxin out of his chest, although she couldn't see her delicate and infinite expression, even just thinking about it was enough to make people feel intoxicated.

As the pain in his chest dissipated, his nerves began to relax, and a wave of exhaustion swept over him again, and he couldn't help but fall asleep deeply.

When I woke up again, my mind was no longer dizzy and clear. It was pitch black all around, except for a ray of moonlight shining through the holes in the branches. Reaching out and touching his chest, the wound had healed, and he just wanted to sit up, but there was a sharp pain in his lower back.

"Huh! Pain, pain, pain! ”

"Don't move!"

Xia Shiqing's voice sounded in his ears, and then her cold but beautiful cheeks appeared in front of him, as if she was concerned about her face, showing a little nervousness.

"Poetry...... Shi Qing ...... This...... What is this place? ”

Xia Shiqing first reached out and grabbed his wrist to check his pulse, and paused slightly for a while before saying: "Your internal breath has finally returned to stability, this time you have been in a coma for more than a day because of your injuries, fortunately there is no comminuted fracture of the waist bone, but a more serious bone crack, I have fixed your waist, you still lie flat and don't move." ”

Ling Ning looked at her and nodded blankly, but her mind recalled the touching look on her face just now.

Xia Shiqing saw him staring at him like a goose, and couldn't help but say, "You...... What are you looking at? ”

Ling Ning knew that he was rude, so he hurriedly withdrew his gaze and hurriedly said, "This ...... What is this place? Why not fire? He was about to reach out and take out the burning object from the ring, but was held down by Xia Shiqing.

"Don't move, listen."

Ling Ning paused for a moment, but still listened attentively as she said. At first, he only felt silence in the dark, but after listening for a while, he noticed that there was a dense "hissing" sound all around, and the first reaction in his mind was that there were poisonous snakes around him.

"Snakes?"

Xia Shiqing nodded slightly, "There are highly poisonous snakes all around, and we fell into the snake nest." ”

Ling Ning was puzzled: "Then why didn't they attack us?" ”

Xia Shiqing shook her head and said, "I don't know why, these snakes seem to be attracted by something, and they all look in one direction, and they don't even look at me and us." ”

"That's weird."

At this moment, the two of them were on a boulder, the boulder was not big enough for the two of them, and by the moonlight there was a quagmire swamp all around, and under a closer look, both in the quagmire and on the vines covering the sky and the sun were hung with all kinds of colorful poisonous snakes, they simply fell into the snake cave!

As Xia Shiqing said, these snakes are very strange, all of them are fused in one direction and stick out their tongues, as if they are expecting something.

Ling Ning said: "It's not a way to stay here...... By the way, let's send a message to Mei'er and them first, otherwise they will be worried......" As he spoke, he took out the exquisite jade from the ring and prepared to contact Qianmei'er.

Xia Shiqing said: "I don't know if they found Xin'er...... How? Can't send the message? ”

Ling Ning frowned and said, "Well, I don't know why the Linglong Jade seems to be invalid, could it be that the environment here shields the Linglong Jade?" ”

Xia Shiqing muttered: "The environment here is dark and difficult to see, let's wait for dawn...... You'd better breathe a little longer. ”

Ling Ning nodded silently, and at this time, Xia Shiqing reached out and stroked the long hair on her sideburns, and only then did he notice that her slender jade fingers were covered with blood stains and sludge, and even most of her nails were broken. On closer inspection, there was also a lot of mud on her cheeks and hair, although there were traces of cleaning, but it was obviously extremely hasty, and there were still a lot of stains.

The blue dress on her body was even more damaged, revealing a large area of skin, both the skirt and the skin, were covered with large patches of sludge, as if they were rolling through the mud.

Ling Ning didn't need to ask to know that it must have been at the critical moment when the two of them fell off the cliff, and she tried her best to keep the two from falling to their deaths. Judging from the sludge that she didn't have time to clean up, she must have taken Ling Ning's safety more seriously, so she gave priority to taking care of her regardless of the filth on her head and face.

Thinking of this, Ling Ning felt guilty in her heart, originally he had come to save her, but he didn't expect it to add a lot of trouble to her......

Xia Shiqing saw that he was staring at himself again and didn't speak, and said a little helplessly: "Why is there anything dirty on my face?" I haven't cleaned it up carefully after I fell, but it makes you laugh......"

Ling Ning retracted his gaze, scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "How ...... I'm alive thanks to you, I'm sorry, I came to save you, but I was saved by you, and I made you so embarrassed......"

Seeing that he meant this, Xia Shiqing breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Don't forget that you also saved me, let's be ...... Let's flatten it out. ”

"Hmm...... But thank you anyway, Shiqing......"

Hearing the word "thank you", Xia Shiqing hurriedly shook her head and said, "Don't say that, we can be regarded as having been born and died together, so there is no need to say these two words." ”

"Hmmm......"

The two looked at each other and smiled, quite a little heart-to-heart.

Xia Shiqing said: "Okay, okay, let's get down to business, what should we do next?" ”

Ling Ning said: "There are poisonous snakes all around here, although I don't know why they didn't attack us, but we'd better find a way to get out of here as soon as possible." ”

Xia Shiqing nodded in agreement, "But this place is bottomless, and I don't see the light of day, and there is no good way to go out for a while." ”

Ling Ning said: "It's a pity that I can't exert too much force in my waist now, otherwise I can try to climb up." ”

Xia Shiqing smiled bitterly: "I don't know if you feel it, the bottom of this stream is full of poisonous miasma, to be honest, I'm a little exhausted now, just resisting these poisonous gases will cost a lot of true yuan......"

Ling Ning said: "Why didn't you say it earlier, I'll help you with your luck." ”

He didn't wait for Xia Shiqing to agree, and naturally held her little hand, her little hand shook slightly like a frightened rabbit, but it didn't break free. She thought that after the drama just now, Ling Ning didn't have much true yuan left in his body, but she didn't expect a majestic true yuan to continue flowing into her body from the palm of his hand, although she was shocked, the stone in her heart was put down, and she also began to close her eyes and breathe.

Ling Ning knew that she had used a lot of True Yuan when she was treating herself, and he could feel a stream of green True Yuan still remaining in his body. This vigorous wood attribute true element, with the operation of the god decision, was absorbed into the dantian, and then more wood attribute true yuan emerged from the dantian, but after a while, the wood attribute true yuan surged in the body like a great river, and finally slowly sent into Xia Shiqing's body.

Xia Shiqing's cultivation of wood attributes since childhood is extremely pure, and this power was absorbed by Ling Ning, which actually made him proficient in wood attributes, although he still doesn't know the exercises related to wood attributes, but he can also manipulate them freely, which can be said to be a blessing in disguise.

……

Qian Mei'er and Phantom Ji chased after Wen Xin'er in the night, thinking that they would be able to catch up soon with the cultivation of the two girls, but unexpectedly, Wen Xin'er suddenly became extremely fast, and the two girls were left behind by her, pulling farther and farther. By daybreak, they had completely lost all traces of her, and when they looked around, a small city was in sight. This small city was the first city after entering the Dongyou Empire, and like the "Yi City", it was a perennial gathering of merchants from various empires.

The two women discussed for a while, and they both felt that Wen Xin'er might have infiltrated the city, so they decided to go into the city to secretly investigate the situation.

At this moment, there was an endless stream of people entering the city from outside the city, most of these people were wearing thick cloaks, and judging from the aura and movements on their bodies, there was a chance that they were all cultivated. Among them, there are many people with a heavy breath, and judging from their clothes, they are obviously from the Immortal Dust Continent.

The two women put on their cloaks and entered the city in a low-key manner, and the doors and windows of every house in the city were closed, and the hawkers and people were nowhere to be seen, but there were monks with swords everywhere. This small city, which is usually full of merchants, did not expect that today it is crowded with monks, which is really incomprehensible.

Qian Mei'er whispered: "The situation is not quite right, why are so many monks gathered here? Is something big going to happen? ”

Phantom Ji shook her head and said, "Who knows, I think we should go to a crowded place nearby to find out the news first." ”

Qian Mei'er nodded, "It's okay." I just tried to contact Xiao Ning, but I found that he didn't respond, and I was worried that something had happened to him. ”

Phantom Ji sighed slightly, "I can only take one step at a time now." Be careful, I sensed someone snooping on us with a secret technique just after passing the city gate, maybe we've been targeted. ”

"I had that feeling just now, the situation here is complicated, let's be careful."

The two women went round and round, and finally came to a tavern with the most people, which was densely packed. These people were vaguely divided into four or five camps and sat in the four corners of the hall, and many monks stood scattered to the side. Most of these people wore cloaks and couldn't see their faces clearly, and a few of them were facing the sky without makeup, and some of them talked in a whisper, while others bowed their heads and tasted tea without speaking.

Qian and Phantom quietly leaned against the door, wanting to see what these people were doing.

After a while, an old man in a gray robe sitting in the middle suddenly spoke: "Old ghost, you are not willing to give up the auction place to the old man no matter what?" ”

When everyone saw someone talking loudly, they looked around to see who they were talking to, but they were answered by a young man in black in the corner.

The young man smiled and said, "Why should I give you the quota that I have worked so hard to get?" Although the deity is not as good as you in the Immortal Dust Continent, everyone's cultivation is the same in this Mortal Dust Continent, what can you do with me? ”

Qian and Phantom glanced at each other, and they both knew that these two must have changed their appearances, so they hid without cloaks. Listening to what they meant, it seemed that they were competing for a place in the auction, and they didn't know what treasures were treasured in this auction that could attract so many monks to come from the Immortal Dust Continent to compete for it.

The gray-robed old man sneered with a fierce look in his eyes: "If you don't give it, don't think about leaving!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his hand and struck at the black-clothed young man in the corner, and with a "boom", a large hole with a diameter of one person was directly blasted out of the corner of the tavern! The area around the hole seemed to be scorched black by flames, and it was obviously a fire-attribute spell.

Everyone looked at each other, and then they all whispered, even Qian and Phantom were shocked, obviously they didn't expect this old man's light palm to be so powerful!

The black-clothed young man walked out of the black smoke with a grin, and flicked off the soil on his body as if nothing happened, "The old thing is old after all, why is this palm so powerless?" ”

The gray-robed old man glanced at him and said disdainfully: "The dignified 'Water Venerable' actually uses a stand-in? Hmph, the old man knows that you don't have the guts to come in person. ”

The black-clothed young man "Water Venerable" raised his eyebrows and said, "Then you, 'Fire Venerable', dare to come in person?" The deity doesn't believe it! ”

The Water Venerable put his palms together as if he were understated, and then pushed forward! In an instant, huge waves erupted from his palm, and the monks present scattered in a hurry!

The gray-robed "Fire Venerable" was not afraid at all, and he burst out: "It's a good time!" "Suddenly covered in flames, he slammed head-on into the waves!

"Bang!"

The loud noise mixed with a large amount of steam lifted the roof of the restaurant, and the surging waves and the flames like fire snakes broke through the walls of the restaurant, and the whole restaurant was like a red copper kettle filled with boiling water and burned, and finally it could not bear the pressure and fell apart instantly!

Nearly 100 monks were affected and fled frantically, many of them moaning loudly on the ground, and the blood of the severed limbs and stumps stained a large area red!

Qian and Phantom left the restaurant early when they heard the names of "Water Venerable" and "Fire Venerable", which was not affected.

Looking back at the restaurant that was razed to the ground, Qian Mei'er said with palpitations: "Fortunately, you were alert and pulled me out early, otherwise it would have been ......"

Phantom Ji said: "I didn't expect it...... Unexpectedly, these two old immortals also came to the mortal dust continent to join in the fun, it seems that something is really going to happen here. ”

Although Qian Mei'er also grew up in the Xianchen Continent, she has been staying in the mountains and is not familiar with the origin of these two people, "Are those two guys very famous in the Xianchen Continent?" ”

"This is natural, it is rumored that there are five powerful 'Venerables' in the Immortal Dust Continent, their cultivation is unfathomable, and they are only one step away from the Ascending Realm...... With their status and status, if they want to say something, someone will be willing to give it, even if the deity does not come in person, the doppelganger here also shows that enough attention is paid to it......"

From time to time there were several loud noises in the city, and smoke rose in several places, and it was clear that the monks in the city were restless and began to fight.

Qian Mei'er said: "What is going on in this city? Why can't even a single citizen be seen? ”

Phantom Ji said: "I don't know, I really don't have a clue now." That Xin'er friend of yours is nowhere to be found......"

Qian Mei'er thought for a while and said, "Did they say 'auction' when they talked just now?" ”

Phantom Ji said: "Yes, it seems that they are competing for a place in some auction." ”

Qian Mei'er said: "Speaking of the auction, I think of someone! She took out the exquisite jade and began to send a message, but after a while, she said with a happy face: "She's really here!" Come with me! ”

"Hey, where are you going? Who do you think of? Hey, stinky girl, wait for me! ”

The two girls ran on the rooftop, one after the other, until they came to a small courtyard in the middle of nowhere. Knocking on the courtyard door, an old man with bright eyes ushered them into the inner courtyard, and as soon as they entered the house, a woman with outstanding demeanor greeted them.

"Mei'er! It's been a long time, are you okay? ”

"Spirit! I knew you had to be here! Oops, it's been a long time since you've had fair skin again! ”

"Haha, you just have a sweet mouth, I see that your little face is tender and about to drip water, tell me what kind of beauty method you use! Huh? Who is this? ”

"She's my fellow sister, Phantom Queen."

Phantom took off her cloak and said with a smile, "I'm glad I will!" ”

Lingxi looked her up and down, and praised: "This phantom sister is also a rare beauty!" ”

The three girls returned to the topic after greeting for a while, and Qian Mei'er took the lead and said, "We just entered the city, and it is not clear why so many monks gather here?" ”

Lingxi was stunned and said, "Don't you know yet? ”

Qian and Phantom glanced at each other and said, "What do you know?" ”

Lingxi said: "Naturally, it is the news of the birth of the 'Heaven Devouring Demon Gong'!" ”

Phantom Ji said: "We've heard this news, but what does it have to do with this small city? ”

Lingxi said: "Why is it okay? Tonight, this magic book will be auctioned at the auction in this small city, which is why there are so many monks gathered here! ”

"Tonight?" The two women spoke in unison, both of them feeling incredible.