Verse 61
The old man hurriedly said, "These are all gifts from Dayue and other countries, I have counted them all, and there is nothing missing, and even a few percent have been added." ”
The old man got a little closer and whispered, "Except for that child, the others are all children of royal or family families in these mortal countries, and they may be squeamish, so please take care of them more." ”
Ming Luo waved his hand, put the contents of the frame into the storage bag, and his eyes swept over the mortals, their expressions were either apprehensive, or cautious, or envious, but they all hid a pride in their bones.
She didn't care, "Which time wasn't it?" Just sharpen it for a few years. ”
After speaking, he raised his voice, "Okay, it's all done, let's go directly, don't rub it off." ”
A group of people came in a hurry, and went even more hurriedly, this group of ordinary children, the younger ones were fine, and the older ones kept looking in the direction of the town, full of reluctance, maybe they knew that once they went, they would never have a chance to come back again in five or ten years.
Entering the Spirit Mist Forest, Xiao Shilei was still pestering Zhao Ning, and Zhao Ning had no choice but to stretch out his hand and lead him away.
With a group of mortals, as well as children, everyone walked more slowly, and even Mingluo and Guo Ying'er didn't talk much, cautiously paying attention to the surrounding situation, and then moving forward.
The others didn't dare to say more, everyone had been reminded before they came that this Spirit Mist Forest was dangerous, so only Xiao Shi Lei was chattering in the team of more than a dozen people.
"Sister Fairy, I heard that there are not only terrible beasts in the Spirit Mist Forest, but also a white mist that can eat people, is it true?"
"Sister Fairy, isn't the white fog we usually see? Why can fog eat people? ”
"I also heard the village chief's grandfather say that the sky in the forest has fallen, but why can we still look up and see the sky now?"
"Sister Fairy, look, what is that, that is the collapsed sky, why is there a white fog inside?"
“……”
The little guy chattered a lot of questions, and when he passed by a spatial rift, he had even more problems.
He was patient with the child Zhao Ning, and explained to him that "it is not the white fog that eats people, it is the beast in the white fog", "the sky has not fallen, but many magical 'doors' have been opened", "the white fog comes out of the 'door'".
She likens the spatial rift to a "door" that is easy to understand.
"Door?" The little guy blinked, but he didn't know that his mind turned, and he said with a clear mind, "Then let's close the door, won't we have to meet the cannibalistic white fog?" ”
Such a question made Zhao Ning not know how to answer for a while, but he still said, "Closing the 'door' requires strong mana or special Dao methods, not that it is closed." ”
Xiao Shilei blinked, he must not have understood, but the child's curiosity came and went quickly, and in a blink of an eye, he was attracted by the strangely growing trees, and asked random questions about trees.
This way, he was the only one talking, Zhao Ning occasionally explained twice, and he couldn't keep up with the child's jumping thinking, Ming Luo and the others pretended not to hear, and the other ordinary children looked back and stared at Xiao Shi Lei in annoyance, Xiao Shi Lei took Zhao Ning's hand and hummed majestically, and they didn't dare to say it anymore.
Zhao Ning was a little tired.
I don't know how many hours I walked, Chen Chu suddenly said, "Do you think there's anything wrong?" ”
This speech was not said completely, so frightened that all the ordinary children did not dare to leave, and shrank together and trembled.
But there are also bold and curious, and their voices are a little excited, "Is there a demon beast coming?!" ”
There are few demon beasts encountered along the way, and the only few they have seen are still seen in the ordinary mountains and forests, and these ordinary children have not seen the legendary demon beasts that can breathe fire and water.
Chen Chu didn't look at them, and asked Qingxiao Sect and his party, "We seem to have been walking for four or five hours, doesn't it mean that the Spirit Mist Forest is shrouded in white mist all day long, and there is only three hours without white mist?" ”
And when they came, the white mist of the Spirit Mist Forest was also like this.
Mingluo looked at the sky, and could still feel the light of the sunset in the gaps in the dense canopy, "It's almost time, usually it's the fastest time when the white fog fills." ”
They looked at Zhao Ning, and Zhao Ning couldn't answer, when she was training in the Spirit Mist Forest, that time was the time when the white mist in the Spirit Mist Forest was active, and the time occupied by the white mist was longer than at other times.
"Yes, yes, yes, the 'door' is closed!"
At this time, Xiao Shilei clapped his hands happily and cheered.
Ming Luo and his party are cultivating real people, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know if it's shocking or questioning for a while.
"Forget it. It's getting dark, so let's find a safe place to rest. Mingluo knew that he couldn't find a reason, so he arranged.
Everyone has no opinion, and the ordinary children feel even more relieved, they don't have the physique of a cultivator, and they can't bear it for a long time if they don't fall behind after walking for several hours a day.
A group of people hurriedly found a cave to rest, and when they arrived, white fog began to fill the forest.
"It's finally up."
I don't know who muttered.
"It looks like it's just an hour late." Mingluo was guarding at the entrance of the cave, Zhao Ning stood with her, she said with a smile, "This white mist will never rise again, I really thought that we were favored by God, and the 'door' was closed." ”
Zhao Ning followed with a light smile, "Senior Sister Ming said that she laughed, you also saw it, this is just a casual explanation I made with the child." ”
She looked into the cave, Chen filled a few people closed their eyes and meditated, ordinary children lay together in twos and threes, sleeping very unsteadily, compared to Xiao Shi Lei, he drilled between the two little girls, sleeping sweet and fragrant.
"If we can follow the law, what we can do in our cultivation will be directly ascending to the ground."
She retracted her gaze, saw that Mingluo also shook her head amusedly, and sighed, "Probably this is luck." ”
Chapter 079
This luck lasted until they were about to walk out of the Spirit Mist Forest.
Even the mortal children who had shrunk at first became more and more bold, and there was laughter and laughter along the way.
"Isn't it about to leave the Spirit Mist Forest?" Ming Luo took two steps behind, walked beside Zhao Ning and asked, Zhao Ning estimated the direction, "Walk twenty miles further east and you will walk out of the cracked area."
Zhao Ning looked at the sky, and now when he just arrived, "Senior Sister Ming is going to go out in a hurry, or?"
"Let's hurry, the white fog is unusually short for a while, it's better to go out early."
Zhao Ning nodded, and Ming Luo beckoned to the others, asking everyone to speed up.
Xiao Shilei walked for a month, and realized the hardships of adults early, and was not active at this time, As soon as he heard that he was going to continue walking, his mouth was so pouting that he could hang an oil bottle, he swayed to Zhao Ning's side, stretched out his arms and said coquettishly, "I can't walk anymore, Sister Fairy hug me, okay?" ”
Zhao Ning has never liked to be close to people, and so are children, but with such a cold attitude, Xiao Shilei is still very entangled.
Zhao Ning shook his head, just smiled, "If you insist on it, it will be there in a while." ”
Seeing that Xiao Shi Lei's eyes were red and about to cry, Guo Yinger couldn't bear it, put the little tiger cat on her shoulder, and stretched out her hand to Xiao Shi Lei, "Xiao Bao'er come to my sister's side, my sister hugs you, you Zhao Ning sister is a cold ice cube." ”
In the face of Guo Ying'er's sarcasm, Zhao Ning knew that she was joking, so she stopped interfering in their communication, walked to Ming Luo's side, and saw that her expression was not relaxed because she was about to walk out of the Spirit Mist Forest, "Senior Sister Ming, but you still feel that something is wrong?" ”
"Hmm." Mingluo nodded slowly, still uncertain, "Zhao Ning, if you say that this white fog is naturally long, the length of the fog is not accurate, and it is reasonable to be lucky to encounter a short fog time." However, did you find it, we have been walking for a month, and we have not even encountered a first-order demon beast, which is unreasonable. ”
Zhao Ning was silent, there was indeed a problem with this matter, the last time a similar situation occurred, it was when the four major sects cleared out the demon cultivators in the Spirit Mist Forest, but after that battle, it was impossible for there to be demon cultivators rampant in the Spirit Mist Forest, not to mention, no matter how rampant it was, it could not reach the level of deterrence of the Bagua Soul Refining Array.
Puzzled for a moment, Ming Luo joked and said, "Could it be that you have an immortal to guide the way, and unconsciously avoided the location of the demon beast." ”
"Senior Sister Ming, I can't afford this joke ......"
"Wow!"
Before Zhao Ning finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xiao Shi Lei's wawa-wah.
"Little Black Tiger!" Guo Ying'er shouted anxiously.
It turned out that Xiao Shi Lei was playing with the little tiger cat, which annoyed the little tiger cat, and scratched him with a paw, and the little tiger cat jumped off his shoulder directly and got into the forest.
For Guo Yinger, her pet is a treasure of her heart, and she chased after Xiao Shi Lei when she threw it, leaving Xiao Shi Lei crying beside her.
"Senior Sister Guo!" Mingluo didn't have time to shout, and Guo Ying'er's figure disappeared into the forest.
"How reckless!" Mingluo frowned and complained.
Zhao Ning said, "I'll go find her, Senior Sister Ming will take them to find a safe place first." ”
"That's all it can be." She became more and more irritable when she heard Xiao Shilei's crying, and said impatiently and helplessly, "You can't cry, little ancestor, you are crying so much that the sky is going to fall and crush us to death!" ”
Zhao Ning chased in the direction where Guo Ying'er disappeared, and didn't take a few steps, someone followed behind, it was Chen Fill.
"Senior Sister Shen went to look for it alone, no one took care of it, it was too dangerous, I will be with you."
Zhao Ning is not pretentious, thank Chen for filling and speed up the search.
However, the two chased in this direction for nearly half a mile without seeing a figure, and they searched separately in the vicinity, and shook their heads when they met again.
Chen Chu wondered, "That's not right." The traces in the forest did not go around the corner, and I even paid attention to the cracks nearby, why was the person missing? ”
Zhao Ning patrolled around, "I've been here, there is a pit nearby, and there is a small secret realm entrance in the pit, will you go in?" ”
This place is not far from Huang Tingguo's pit, and Zhao Ning has also sealed a spatial crack here before, so Zhao Ning is very familiar with it.
"Pits? It's a rift in space...... It's her tiger cat! ”
Chen was halfway through his words, and his eyes lit up, and he saw the little tiger cat rushing towards him.
As soon as Zhao Ning lowered his head, the little tiger cat had already rushed to their feet, "meow" and "meow", eagerly turning in circles under their feet, and running in the direction they came and went after a while.
Chen Zhuo's eyes were solemn, and he realized the problem, "Oops, something must have happened!" ”
The two hurriedly chased after him, and after a while, they saw the little tiger cat anxiously spinning in circles under a tree.
But the two of them looked carefully from the bottom to the top, but they didn't find that even if they used the spiritual eye technique, they didn't see a hidden place.
Zhao Ning stared at this big tree carefully, it was just an ordinary pine wood, she pressed her hand on the trunk, the Lingqi cultivated by the secret cultivation of the six spiritual sources of Taixu was the same as the wood spirit, and it naturally had affinity.
Spiritual power was injected into the body of the tree, and a faint spiritual light appeared on the surface of the tree, and the lush branches slowly unfolded.
Suddenly, Chen Chu snorted, "There!" ”
As soon as he finished drinking, he was already flying high against the wind.
I saw that the canopy and foliage were dense, and a human figure was wrapped around the branches, only one face was downward, exposed, her eyes were closed, but her face was still smiling, as if she had just found the little tiger cat and was happy, and fainted before she could react.
"Meow!"
The little tiger cat barked anxiously at his feet.
Zhao Ning reacted violently and shouted eagerly, "Senior Brother Chen, be careful!" ”
This is an ordinary broad-leaved tree, how could Guo Yinger faint plainly, there must be an ambush.
But Chen Chu had already touched Guo Ying'er, and he was in a hurry to save people, so he forcibly cut off the branches on her body.
The branches of the tree collapsed, and before they gathered joy, they saw that they fell with Guo Ying'er, and it was a dense swarm of gold-devouring insects.
The gold-devouring insect is no bigger than a fingernail, and its whole body is pitch black, but it has a pair of mouthparts the same size as the body, which can break through all the spiritual power and protective defenses of the cultivator, and the venom in the mouthparts is extremely weird, once pierced into the cultivator's body, it can make the internal organs petrified.
Chen Chu held Guo Ying'er in both hands, and only had time to pull out a golden shield technique, and this group of gold devouring insects didn't even pause.
Seeing that it was getting closer and closer, Chen Chong gritted his teeth and protected Guo Ying'er and turned over suddenly, resisted the attack with his back, and flew straight down against the wind.
"Senior Brother Chen!"
This group of gold-devouring insects was extremely fast, and several of them had already attached to Chen Bao's back, fainting a few blood stains.