The night sky is starry and the moon is bright.

Shen Xiu in the courtyard sat on the central stone bench, and in front of the bricks and stones under his feet was the foreign attacker who broke into it and did not move.

The man in black was lying on the ground at the moment, and the black mask had been taken off by Shen Xiu and thrown aside.

Under the mask is an ordinary-looking middle-aged man, with large body joints, a thick body, thick calloused wrists, and a good hand at practicing martial arts.

It's just that at this moment, the hands and feet, like twisted rattans, form an awkward shape, and at this time, the eyes are closed, and there is no breathing.

For the guy who wants to attack him, Shen Xiu has never been soft.

After some operations, the commander behind him had already been politely asked, it was the old second worshipper of the Shanglin Yun family, Tong Tongguang with gray hair.

The purpose of sending men was to abolish him.

Shen Xiu was not surprised at all by the result of the question.

When he first went to the Yun family, this old guy also appeared, and threatened him openly and secretly, probably blocking his financial path and saying that he wanted it to look good.

This idea was gradually understood in his subsequent contact with the Yun family, and it was confirmed that it was probably a nephew of this old guy, and he also took a fancy to the position of the five offerings.

This Tong Tongguang is also recommended to the Yun family, and this time he was almost successful, and he was robbed by Cheng Biting Jin, who was killed halfway.

Shen Xiu was skeptical about this imminent success, and if the Yun family had some ideas, they would not let it form if they had some ideas.

This old guy is obviously not a powerful lord, and he thinks that he is the one who is the obstruction and occupies this position.

Now that I want to do something to him, this is no longer a normal idea.

After asking, Shen Xiu took advantage of the moonlight to dig a big pit in the courtyard and buried the corpse under a peach tree, which could be regarded as fertilizing it.

Second, Shen Xiu went to the Yun family and swayed in front of Tong Tongguang, Tong Tongguang was obviously surprised.

In the past days, when Tong Tongguang went out alone and passed by a remote place, Shen Xiu looked for an opportunity and broke his head.

After that, the Yun family no longer had anyone in the way, and it was not pleasant to look for him in front of him, and the Yun family posted a list of people looking for offerings.

As the days went on little by little, Shen Xiu continued to go back and forth to the Demon Mountain Realm, filling the silver in his pocket little by little.

On the way, he often went back and forth to the place where Ning shopkeeper lived, looking for any way to make money.

"Really? The recent news is that near the southern edge of the Demon Mountain, someone has seen some traces of phoenix ghost vines.

This is the main by-drug for making the Realm Breaking Pill, one plant can be sold for a hundred taels of silver, I also have some news, do you want to sell you ten taels of silver! ”

The shopkeeper Ning behind the counter said with a smile on his face.

I don't know why, Shen Xiu felt that some of his later words seemed to be the point.

So after Shen Xiu paid the price of ten taels of silver, the shopkeeper Naning got up and stood up, and then walked to the row of cabinet shelves at the back.

There were all kinds of things neatly arranged on the shelves, and in one of the compartments were bundles of parchment files.

Shopkeeper Ning flipped through it at random, and then pulled out a roll from the bottom layer.

Obviously, it recorded the clues of the phoenix ghost vine, and Shen Xiu took it and opened it, and a few neat lines of words suddenly appeared on the parchment scroll.

In the middle of November last year, a resident of Dayang Town outside the mountain passed near the cliff and faintly saw the phoenix ghost vine from it.

The following is a note of the time and place where the phoenix ghost vine was seen, and the approximate range is clearly marked on it one by one.

As for this clue, there are not many or less, but I am afraid it will take a lot of time to investigate them one by one.

After all, the memory of that day is no longer clear, and the range marked on it is the boundary of the cliff within a radius of ten kilometers.

Looking for a herb within a radius of ten kilometers is really not very probable.

It's just that this phoenix ghost vine is expensive, and now he can only look for it.

The demon mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, and it is not completely forbidden land, as one of the many peaks, it only occupies the overwhelming part of it.

The rest is bound to be desolate or undeveloped areas, and the clue to the location of the phoenix ghost vine given by the shopkeeper Ning is the southern peak of the demon mountain, one of which is an insignificant territory.

Having reached the return of the Four Realms of Martial Cultivation, the energy in the body has formed a simple cycle of vitality, surging endlessly, and the physical strength and endurance have increased greatly compared to before.

After a distance of more than 30 kilometers, it only took him less than half an hour to enter a redwood forest that shaded the sun.

This redwood forest is generally several feet tall, and the branches and trunks of the forest are crisscrossed and connected to each other, so that the space under the forest is black, like the afterglow of the sun after setting.

These are somewhat similar to the scenes in the forbidden land of the Demon Mountain.

As soon as he stepped into this redwood forest, Shen Xiu stepped on the dead branches and rotten leaves, and felt a cold cold air coming from his face.

Looking for the direction of the forest, Shen Xiu rushed to the cliff recorded on the clue, and after arriving, he couldn't find it, and at this time Shen Xiu remembered the reminder of the shopkeeper Ning that the phoenix ghost vine grows in a dark and cold place.

So I searched around, and after a distance, a deep lake came into view.

Tucked away deep in the redwood forest, this lake is overgrown with weeds and thorns, and it is very remote and looks like it is uninhabited.

It's just that this lake doesn't look big, and after Shen Xiu searched an area to no avail, he continued to walk forward, intending to search one by one.

After walking a long way, at this moment, in the dark redwood forest in front of him, a few sparse and unorganized words came from it, and he stopped in an instant.

“…… How's the placement of those runes......"

An old voice sounded in the woods, answering the voice of a middle-aged man.

"It's been settled, when will it trigger ......"

"The timing is not right, we need to wait a little longer......"

"I'm running out of time, I met an elder of the Yuanyang Gang a few days ago, and he looked at me twice......

“…… That rune needs to absorb aura, I'm afraid it won't be a while and a half......"

"I suspect that Elder Zhai Qiu is aware of me, I'm afraid I can't stay any longer......"

"Absorb enough, and by then it should be able to break the ......"

"Elder, are you listening to me......"

From a distance, Shen Xiu could still hear the angry aura that was secretly suppressed in the middle-aged man's words.

The word elder bites extremely hard.

Obviously, if it weren't for the limitations of status and strength, I am afraid that the elder in front of him would be split.