Chapter 9: The First Bones
When the Zhou Ning family was full of food and drink, and they were about to finish the rectification, Pang Jian also walked out of the stone pile in time.
"Pang Jian, this horse is still controlled by you."
Seeing him appear, Zhou Qingchen, who had changed to He Ziren's dark horse, smiled and waved from afar.
On his side, it was the jujube red war horse that belonged to Liu Qi, but was occupied by Pang Jianjiu.
"The dragon spear right away for you to use."
Zhou Qingchen pointed to a spear hanging on the waist and abdomen of the war horse, and said with a smile: "Next, everyone is partners who fight side by side." The long knife you are used to is not a weapon that we cultivators should use, I heard that Miss Ning said that you have also embarked on the path of cultivation, so I will give you a dragon pattern spear to try first. ”
"Later, if there are more suitable utensils, it's not too late for you to change them."
The Ning family is old and young, and seeing that Zhou Qingchen's attitude towards Pang Jian has changed greatly, he doesn't know what medicine he sells in his gourd.
first took the initiative to go to the stone pile to deliver meat, and then gave him the dragon spear under his dead command, all kinds of strangeness made the Ning family suspicious.
Including Han Duping, the remaining Zhou family diners were also overwhelmed by Zhou Qingchen's actions.
Pang Jian was calm, and after softly thanking him, he climbed onto the war horse and tried to lift the dragon spear.
The pole of the spear is rough to the touch, with a natural wood grain, and it really looks like a dragon pattern when you look closely.
The spearhead was a shiny silver metal that shone with an icy sheen and looked extremely sharp.
When he pulled hard, Pang Jian found that the spear shaft made of wood was extremely heavy, several times heavier than the long knives he was used to!
Swaying and swaying, adjusting to the weight, he pointed his spear in both hands and pointed to the depths of the mountain range, and said, "The Cen Lin Mountain Range is very large, do you have an exact direction of travel?" ”
Zhou Qingchen thought for a moment and said, "Go north, go to the location closest to the fog." ”
Ning Yao and Ning Yuanshan changed color slightly when they heard him say this, and looked at him in surprise.
When they discussed it before, they only said that they were searching for Tianfeng's bones, as well as the artifacts that had fallen from the Blood Moon, the Galaxy Alliance, and the Yin Spirit Temple.
The people of the Ning family actually did not intend to go deep into the far north and take greater risks to explore the "treacherous fog" anomaly.
"It's okay, we don't really want to enter an area shrouded in fog."
As if seeing their concerns, Zhou Qingchen smiled and continued: "I always feel that the bones of Tianfeng, as well as the searchers of the three major forces, are in the north close to the mist of the treacherous fog. ”
Ning Yuanshan reluctantly agreed, and reluctantly said, "That's ...... All right. ”
"We are in a canyon, in the southernmost part of the Cen Lin Mountains. If you want to go north, just go straight. However, there are two paths to choose from, one is a mountain road, which requires climbing high mountains. The other one, along the winding river, but it will be detoured, the journey will be a little slower, how do you want to go? ”
Pang Jian took the initiative to ask.
"Since you're most familiar with this place, it's up to you." Zhou Qingchen looked indifferent.
"If we're going to ride a horse, let's go along the river." Pang Jian suggested seriously.
"Listen to you." Zhou Qingchen smiled briskly.
Ning Yao frowned slightly, secretly dissatisfied in her heart, Pang Jian was obviously the guide she hired with money, but looking at Zhou Qingchen's posture, how did Pang Jian become his person?
Dissatisfied to dissatisfied, she didn't show it, but kept silent.
After that, Pang resolutely set the itinerary and direction, and he led everyone along the muddy stream.
Whenever everyone was resting and eating, Pang Jian would leave alone, find a secluded place, take out the cracked gray and white rock in the bamboo basket, and practice with the "Hutian Qi Cultivation Technique".
As long as he covered the cracks in the rocks with the palms of his hands, there would be a strong "Xuanyin power" flowing into his dantian spiritual sea to help him wash away the filth in it.
The strange rocks he obtained by chance made his cultivation path progress extremely fast, and a lot of "cotton wool" in the spiritual sea was removed.
As the "cotton wool" continued to decrease, he could clearly feel that the spiritual sea had become bright and empty, and the power he had introduced in the follow-up channel, and there were fewer and fewer obstacles to his activities.
He was soon convinced that with the help of that rock, it would not be long before he would be able to sweep away the filth from the spiritual sea.
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"A Heavenly Phoenix Bone!"
On this day, Zhou Qingchen was on the war horse, looking at the dense trees in the distance, and suddenly said excitedly: "Have you seen it?" ”
Because of his reminder, everyone looked into the distance, and suddenly saw a dry bone like a giant pillar of optimus, inserted in the forest several miles away, shocking them from afar.
"Let's go!"
Everyone waved the reins vigorously, driving the war horses under them to keep accelerating.
As a guide, Pang Jian looked at the incomparably large dry bones and was pulled behind everyone in shock.
When he got closer, he realized the huge size of one of Tianfeng's bones, and he couldn't help but think of how huge that mysterious Tianfeng's real body should be?
When he noticed that the crowd was about to leave his sight, he hurried to follow.
After a while, Pang Jian, who was at the end, finally arrived at the place where the bones of the Tianfeng were located.
More than 100 meters of dry bones pierced the forest like a sword, causing the earth to bloom with many spiderweb-like ravines.
It was as if it was stabbing the ground in an instant, causing a terrifying wave of energy, and the aftermath tore apart the surrounding earth!
Dozens of meters away, there was a vast and ancient sacred aura, coming from the dull dry bones, so that all those who looked up to the dry bones couldn't help but have a desire to bow and worship.
The bones of the heavenly phoenix stand on the earth like a mountain, as if it can suppress the evil demons of the heavens in the Cen Lin Mountains.
Pang Jian's heart was shocked and infected.
Just a dry bone is more than 100 meters, as thick as the rhizome of a giant tree, how shocking should that Tianfeng's demeanor be before his death?
Isn't it a mythical existence?
No wonder, the divine bird that hovered over his house would be easily assassinated and killed.
"The uncertain ferry of the Blood Moon!"
When Pang Jian's mind was stirring and reverie, Ning Yuanshan suddenly snorted softly and pointed to the back of the dry bones.
Immediately, the huge sailboat with a pitch-black pennant with a blood-colored crescent moon on the pennant was exposed behind the dry bones in his sight.
"Let's take a look!"
With Ning Yuanshan's shouting, Pang Jian and everyone set up horses to bypass the dry bones and observe them up close.
I saw a sailboat tens of meters long, I don't know how many trees had been crushed, and it was moored on the debris and dead branches in one place.
Around the perimeter of the sailboat, there were bloodstained dry bones, and some of the clothes still had the pattern of the blood moon.
"This is the true Blood Moon cultivator."
Ning Yuanshan glanced at it, couldn't help covering his nose, and said, "After they die, they should be eaten up by the nearby beasts." Behold, beside their corpses, blood-stained objects of gold and silver were spat out. ”
Unlike the bones of the Yin Spirit Temple in the stone pile, those wearing blood moon clothes, after the bones here were eaten flesh, the pungent smell of blood emanated from the corpses, which made people want to be disgusted.
"Were they killed by the beasts nearby, or were they killed by the people of the Yin Spirit Temple and the Star Alliance? Or is there something else dangerous about the Cen Lin Mountains? Ning Yao couldn't help but wonder about the cause of death of the skeleton.
"The beasts of the Cen Lonely Mountain Range should not have the ability to kill cultivators." Pang Jian said.
Infested in the Cen Lin Mountains all year round, he knows best what kind of power the beasts here have.
The most ferocious beasts, he didn't think he could deal with characters like Zhou Qingchen and Ning Yuanshan, so the death of the Blood Moon cultivator should have nothing to do with the beasts in the mountains.
"No, you don't understand the power of the mist."
Zhou Qingchen's face was dark, he shook his head, and said solemnly: "I am very sure that the treacherous mist has penetrated from the boundary wall to the northernmost part of the mountain range. If the beast that strayed into it can come out alive, it will inevitably undergo a mutation, and it will become a fierce beast or spirit beast that is many times more powerful than the original. ”
"And that beast is no longer the species you used to be familiar with, and it can no longer be called a beast."
As soon as these words came out, Pang Jian's heart was awe-inspiring, knowing that he really didn't know much about "treacherous fog".
Although he has been active in the Cen Lin Mountains all year round, he has never been exposed to the "treacherous fog", and he is also restricted by his father and strictly forbids hunting in the far north.
"Whew! Whew! ”
The wind suddenly howled, and the black flag erected above the indefinite ferry was hunting with the wind.
The huge scarlet crescent moon in the center of the banner unexpectedly released a strange blood-colored light as the banner moved, illuminating a deep red in the vicinity.
Under the crimson blood light, those fleshless skeleton bodies suddenly looked extremely infiltrating.
"Don't act rashly."
Zhou Qingchen stared at the blood moon in the banner, silently felt it, and then said, "I'll go and confirm if there is any miracle left behind in this fallen Tianfeng bone." Your words...... Just wait by the side, don't touch the artifacts left by the bones, and don't go to the indefinite ferry. ”
"Good!"
Everyone who has experienced the pain of the rocks is more cautious this time, and they are all obedient.
Zhou Qingchen immediately dismounted, either avoiding those gaps with large cracks, or flying directly over them, and soon arrived at the landing site of the huge dry bones.
He turned his back to the others beside the dry bones and pulled something out of his bosom, as if he were examining it carefully.
"It's not."
Zhou Qingchen soon had an answer.
He turned his back to everyone and took back the things he took out first, then turned around and said, "It's just an ordinary phoenix bone, and there is nothing strange in it." The death of the Blood Moon cultivator had nothing to do with this dry bone, it should have been killed by something else. ”
"Okay, now you can spread out and check, but be careful."
In Zhou Qingchen's heart, Tianfeng's bones were the most terrifying thing, and seeing that it was not what he thought, his mood relaxed a little, and motioned for everyone to search at will.
But he still advised: "As for ...... On the side of the ferry, don't go in. You first examine the corpses and see if there is anything strange about the artifacts they left behind. ”
The crowd moved quickly.
Pang Jian knew that the relics of those cultivators, he was afraid that he was not qualified to obtain them, so it was better to wait for Zhou Qingchen to take the initiative to give them, so he did not scatter with everyone to loot, but waited quietly and silently.
I don't know how long it took, but Zhou Qingchen suddenly frowned and said softly: "Someone is here." ”
When the busy crowd heard this, they immediately stopped and waited nervously.
Whether it was the Blood Moon or the people of the Yin Spirit Temple, they were all cultivators from the Upper Realm, and most of them were higher than them.
Those powerful people are now dying in large numbers in the Cen Lin Mountains, let alone them?
They had to be doubly cautious.
After half a sound, accompanied by a deliberately lowered "rustle" sound, the group gradually revealed their traces, emerging from the forest behind the uncertain ferry.
Both sides looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
"The people of the Zhou family and the Ning family!"
"It turned out to be someone from the Shangguan family!"
In the relaxed whisper, a group of nine people finally dared to show their heads generously, and the nine people just seemed to be more careful than them.
The first one was a graceful lady, dressed in a rich, bright dress, and glittering with fine jewelry.
She has a good appearance, like a ripe peach, and her body curves are extremely tempting.
At this moment, she clutched her white and towering chest, and said in a fuss: "I'm scared to death, I thought I ran into the survivors of the upper realm and wanted to kill us all." ”
The plump beauty came with a swaying posture, and threw a flattering eye at Zhou Qingchen from afar, "Qingchen, we haven't seen each other for a long time, and I am relieved to see that it is you." ”
Zhou Qingchen smiled casually: "It turned out to be Aunt Qin." ”
"Sister Qin, you, Brother Han, I'm here too." Han Duping, who was bloated, squinted his small eyes, stared at the white greasy piece on her chest with squinting eyes, and said without looking at his face: "Others say that you are Kefu, but I am not afraid, anyway, two of your men have died, or let's make do with it." ”
"As long as you nod my sister, I will immediately part ways with Zhou Xiaozi and directly switch to your Shangguan family."
Han Duping beat his chest and assured that he would be able to break off with Zhou Qingchen immediately and become a minister under her skirt.
Zhou Qingchen knew what kind of virtue Han Duping was, and with a helpless face, he said with a smile: "After all, there is a relationship, old Han, if you really want to be like this, in addition to seeing you off, I will also prepare a generous gift." ”
"Phew! Fat winter melon, you don't daydream anymore! Shangguan Qin's gorgeous face was shrouded in disgust and coldness, and he sneered without giving any face: "You old toad, you also want to eat swan meat?" ”
"Ha, you've killed two men, and you're not too young now, but you're not a swan." Han Duping smiled and revealed her old bottom.
Shangguan Qin's breathing was short, but it seemed that her chest was towering, and it became more and more upright and turbulent.
"Squeak!"
A tall and sturdy man, wrapped in thick heavy armor, dragged a huge iron cage with one hand, and pulled it at the end of the Shangguan family.
Pang Jian, who was mixed in the crowd of the Ning family and the Zhou family, and didn't care about the people who came from this group, suddenly looked at a gray ape in the iron cage.
The gray ape's pair of strange ice-blue eyes are violent and ferocious, and although he has become a prisoner, he still looks murderous.
At the same time that Pang Jian saw it, the gray ape, which was covered in scars, also looked at Pang Jian.
"Acquaintance?"
Ning Yao, who was next to Pang Jian, followed the sight of the gray ape's ice-blue pupils, looked at Pang Jian beside him, and couldn't help but ask in surprise.
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