Chapter 60: Return to the Great Wilderness Mountain

It's the middle of July, and during this time, Qingshi has a feeling in his heart, as if he is subconsciously telling himself what he wants to do, but he can't remember it.

It wasn't until this evening that he was successfully promoted that Qingshi got himself a table of delicious preparations to treat himself, and when he took out the wine jug, he suddenly remembered that he should go to the Great Wilderness Mountain to pick peaches.

Aishan peaches generally bear fruit once every three to five years, and the last time it bears fruit is four years ago, and Qingshi is not sure whether it has borne fruit last year or next year, but he has a feeling that it is mostly this year.

Qingshi put away the wine and food, took out the communication artifact and sent a message to Chen Tianye to ask him if he was at home, and Chen Tianye replied. Qingshi drove the boat to the accommodation area of the Martial Arts High School on the west bank of the lake.

There is a peninsula stretching into the lake hundreds of zhang in the south of the west bank of Dalu Lake, and more than 100 small buildings have been built on the shore and the peninsula or adjacent to the water or against the mountain, the shape is similar to that of Qingshi, this is the accommodation area of the Wudao High Court, Chen Tianye's dormitory is on the hill, and the house number is No. 9 Huaguo Mountain. Bluestone has been here once before.

When he came to the No. 9 gate of Huaguo Mountain, Chen Tianye had already stood at the door to greet him, and when he saw Qingshi, Chen Tianye smiled: "Why did you remember to come to see me, wouldn't it be to send wine to my brother!" ”

"Not only wine, but also good food." Qingshi smiled.

"Really? That's great, I haven't eaten in days. Chen Tianye smiled, and hurriedly led the bluestone to the terrace and sat down at a small square table, where the terrain is higher, the view is very good, and the beautiful scenery of Dalu Lake at sunset is very good.

Qingshi took out seven or eight utensils with delicious food and placed them on the table, and then took out a pot of fire and said: "There are all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas, but this wine is the last pot." ”

"Ahh I see," Chen Tianye said as he took the flask and poured the wine, "You're going to let me accompany you to pick the brewing materials, right?" ”

"Yes," Qingshi said, "I feel that this year's piece of Aishan peach should be ripe, and I want you to accompany me on a trip." ”

In the past few years, Qingshi occasionally remembered the encounter with Wu Yulin in the Great Wilderness Mountain, and later recalled the details at that time, Qingshi always felt that this Wu Yulin should not be a person, but her companion was not there at that time.

Therefore, Qingshi always felt that going to the Great Wilderness Mountain again would not be so smooth, and he was naturally much more relieved to invite Chen Tianye, Chen Tianye was a second-stage martial cultivator in the Yuan Dan Realm, and he was not an ordinary Yuan Dan Realm martial cultivator, but a genius among geniuses.

Chen Tianye naturally agreed, and the two ate and drank and chatted for a long time, and set off in three days, and Qingshi said goodbye.

The next day, Qingshi finished attending Elder Dandaoyuan Zhang's class and was about to go to Dean Jin to ask for leave. A trip back and forth to the Great Wilderness Mountain, Qingshi is estimated to take about ten days to half a month.

As soon as he walked out of the classroom, he saw Elder Yang waving on the side, Qingshi walked over to say hello, and Elder Yang said, "Elder Liu Changqing of the Mission Management Office asked you to go, there should be an assigned task." ”

Qingshi walked towards the task management office without Elder Yang, thinking in his heart that it was most likely the task that the master wanted to hone himself and let Senior Brother Mo arrange for him, and the assignment last time was still very rewarding for him, but he didn't know what the task was this time.

Coming to the mission management office to explain his intentions, Qingshi was taken to Elder Liu's office on the third floor and met Liu Changqing.

Liu Changqing smiled kindly and invited him to sit down, and said straight to the point: "Qingshi, last time you reported that you killed Wu Yulin of the Five Poisons Sect, the academy attaches great importance to it, let me re-sort out the case of the Five Poisons Sect back then, and we found that there were two people who escaped with Wu Yulin back then, and these two people are also the last two remnants of the Five Poisons Sect so far." When you encountered Wu Yulin a few years ago, did you notice any signs of other people? ”

Qingshi said: "I didn't see anyone else back then, but when I think about it later, I always feel that she should have a companion, otherwise it seems unlikely that she would have lived alone in such a humble environment for nearly twenty years. Also, judging from what she left behind, if the spirit fruit poisonous grass she planted and harvested had been accumulated for nearly twenty years, it would not have left so little, so it must have been dealt with every once in a while, if she didn't go out of the mountain to deal with it herself, then someone should come to help her, considering that she was unable to move after she broke her leg later, it was almost certain that someone would come to help her. ”

"Well, that's good," Liu Changqing nodded and said, "Your speculation also confirms our speculation and preliminary findings. Among the remnants of the Five Poisons Sect who escaped that year, the other two people who were with Wu Yulin were a pair of brothers and sisters, the elder brother Yin Zhen and Wu Yulin were lovers, and the younger sister was called Yin Yu. The brother and sister are both animal trainers who specialize in domesticating poisonous insects and beasts. We suspect that they and Wu Yulin will not be separated. ”

"Beast trainer?" Qingshi nodded and said, "Yes, this Wu Yulin also seems to have some skills in taming beasts, and he once commanded two spirit monkeys to attack me back then." ”

"Well, that would confirm our speculation even more," Elder Liu said, "It makes sense for Wu Yulin to learn some beast taming techniques from the Yin family brothers and sisters. Well, since that's the case, I'm even more convinced that this assignment is targeted. ”

As he spoke, Elder Liu took out a bound dossier and handed it to Qingshi, and said: "The academy suspects that the Yin family brothers and sisters are hiding in the Great Wilderness Mountain, we sent an airship to investigate, and found that there are traces of human monks living in six places in the Great Wilderness Mountain for a long time, and two of them still have traces of a large number of spirit beast activities, so it was decided to send students to these two places to investigate, you are Wu Yulin's killer, and you are familiar with the Great Wilderness Mountain, not only is the formation mage able to use the terrain of mountains and rivers, but also the Dan Master is not afraid of poisons, so he is naturally the most suitable person. Now the academy has instructed you to form a team of five people to complete this assigned task, and you are solely responsible for it, and the specific details and requirements are all in this file, as well as the introduction to the Yin family brothers and sisters. After you form a team, you must first report the list of personnel and the date of departure, this task cannot be shirked, I hope you take it seriously and try your best to complete it. ”

Qingshi hurriedly stood up and said yes. Xindao: I was about to go to the Great Wilderness Mountain, and the college assigned this task, which is really a coincidence, it seems that this is the will of God.

Back at his residence, Qingshi carefully looked through the dossier's introduction to the Yin family's brothers and sisters, more than twenty years ago, the two of them were about fifty years old, and they were both low-level cultivators in the Qi Condensation Realm, considering their cultivation talents, it was estimated that the current cultivation would not break through the Yuan Dan Realm.

It is not clear how well they can tame beasts, but the most powerful spirit beasts in the Great Wilderness Mountain have reached level five, and their combat power is basically equivalent to the intermediate level of ordinary human cultivators in the Yuan Dan realm, so it is speculated that they may have the ability to tame level five spirit beasts at most.

The dossier lists that there are three kinds of fifth-level spirit beasts in the Great Barren Mountain, one is the barren mountain mang, the second is the red-eyed tiger, and the third is the iron-armored brute bull, each of which has its own introduction. In addition, there is a map of the Great Wilderness Mountain in the file, and two suspicious locations are marked.

Qingshi looked at the relevant requirements of the mission, the purpose of the mission was to explore these two suspicious locations, if you find the Yin family brothers and sisters, you can kill them directly, and if you can't do it, you can report to the academy for processing.

The personnel requirement is that the team has a total of five people, and there must be at least two members above the Yuan Dan Realm. After being selected, Bluestone may request the selected person to participate in the capacity of the assigned task holder, and the selected person shall not refuse unless there are special circumstances.

In addition, the academy has prepared a small airship that can seat five people for this mission, five communication magic weapons, and some elixirs.

There are more than 20 Yuan Dan Realm masters among the students of the academy, and there are not many choices for Qingshi, except for Chen Tianye, Qingshi called Duan Wutian. The other two, Duan Wutian, said that he would arrange it, and Qingshi had to be arranged by him, but in the end, he brought Duan Xiaoyu and Han Xueyan two female generals.

Han Xueyan is also from the Martial Arts High Court, and Duan Xiaoyu is the disciple of Gu Fei'er, one of the nine elders of the academy, Gu Fei'er has accepted five disciples, and the eldest disciple is Zheng Fangyi.

Qingshi reported the list and itinerary, Liu Changqing had no opinion, and distributed airships, communication equipment, pills and other items.

On July 24, the weather was fine, and early in the morning, Qingshi and his group of five people took an airship to fly to Mingshan Country in the north.

This airship is small, everyone can only sit in a fixed position and cannot move around at will, and the speed of the airship is not very fast, tens of thousands of miles away, it takes about a whole day.

Qingshi is the first time to fly this kind of airship, the operation of this small airship is very simple, and it is very similar to the small boat used in the lake, so it is very proficient quickly, Chen Tianye and Duan Wutian have both piloted this kind of airship, so it is easy for the three of them to take turns to pilot.

In the early morning of the second day, after a day and a night of flight, the dinghy had already arrived in the territory of Mingshan Country, and after the sun rose, Duan Wutian found that the course of the dinghy was a little off, so he corrected the deviation and continued to fly.

After more than an hour, the airship finally flew to the boundary of the Great Wilderness Mountain, and Qingshi lowered its flight altitude and tried to identify the underground mark.

After flying along the mountain range for about half an hour, Qingshi finally saw the small village at the foot of the mountain where he had been back then, and had reference coordinates, so he adjusted the direction of the airship and flew towards the mountain, and soon saw the Grand Canyon, and the airship quickly landed at the east end of the canyon.

After getting off the airship, everyone stretched their bodies and feet, and Duan Wutian was the most familiar with driving the airship, so Qingshi handed over the airship to Duan Wutian.

Qingshi led everyone to the small basin to the west, paying attention to the surrounding situation as they walked, compared to four years ago, there seemed to be little change here, there were no human tracks, and even fewer animal tracks. After a short time, everyone came to the edge of the small basin, and the bluestone still did not find anything different.

Qingshi took out some pills, gave each person a poison-avoiding pill for everyone to hold in their mouths, told everyone not to breathe hard when the air contained poisonous gas, and to talk as little as possible, and then took the lead into the small basin.

After a while, Qingshi led everyone to the edge of the poisonous pool, only to see that the simple stone bed built by bluestone on the west bank was still there, and there was no trace of digging around the lush vegetation, but there were no hanging fruits on those few Mahuang fruits.

Qingshi also did not dig up medicinal herbs, took everyone to the north, and soon walked into the Aishan peach forest, only to see that the peach trees were fruitful, about one-third of them were ripe.

According to Qingshi's experience, these fruits should be ripe for a maximum of ten days, and the rest of the fruits will be fully ripe in the next half a month, and the ripe fruits can only hang on the tree for half a month at most before falling to the ground and rotting.

Everyone had heard Qingshi talk about this Aishan peach in advance, and at this moment, they were so happy that they saw thousands of fruits hanging on the branches.

Qingshi instructed everyone in advance, so everyone didn't hear Qingshi's words and didn't rush to pick.

Qingshi walked around the peach forest, but frowned.

Chen Tianye asked, "Is there anything wrong?" ”

"Yes," replied Aoishi, "do you remember the monkeys I told you about?" Supposedly, the group of spirit monkeys should have come to eat peaches, but I didn't find any traces of monkeys. "It was too boring to be on the airship when I came, but Aoshi told everyone about his experience here a few years ago.

"That's right!" Duan Xiaoyu said, "Not only the monkeys, but also any other animals along the way." ”

Qingshi thought about it for a while, and reached out to pick a ripe peach to take a closer look, but there was nothing unusual at all, so he asked everyone to pick a few and try it.

Qingshi took a bite of the peach, savored the fresh and delicious spirit fruit, and couldn't help muttering: "Such a good peach, but the monkeys don't come to pick it, it must be strange." Since there is no problem with the peach, then there must be something wrong with the monkey group, maybe it is related to the brothers and sisters of the Yin family, the beast tamer. ”