Vertical day.

Xiushan, in the dense forest somewhere, the wild grass is green.

The verdant dew slid down the green leaves and fell on the face of a young boy, falling to pieces.

Tick!

The boy's delicate brows furrowed slightly, and with a blank look, he slowly opened his eyes.

"I survived."

Ji Ning sat up from the ground and looked around, his face a little pale.

Yesterday, after he fought his way out of that alley, he was quickly wanted by the Yamen, and even troops from other places chased him into the mountains to encircle and suppress him.

Fortunately, he was familiar with the terrain in the mountains, and he desperately fled into the depths, so that he could shake off his pursuers.

But it didn't take long for him to faint due to his injuries.

At this moment, wake up.

Aftermath.

Only, where is this?

Ji Ning frowned, looking at the surrounding mountains, he had probably entered the middle of Xiushan.

The distance from the Taoist temple, not to mention 108,000 miles, at least about five or six days of walking, and that must be in a state of stable injury to himself.

But now, it's a great luck that he didn't die, how can he rush in this dangerous dense forest, but whenever he encounters any demon beast, no, even if it's just an ordinary beast, he will become food in the other party's mouth!

"The top priority is to find some healing herbs."

Thinking of this, Ji Ningdang even set his eyes on the mushroom growing between the rocks under an old pine tree ten meters away.

This thing is very common in the mountains, and although it has little medicinal value, it is very nutritious and everywhere.

He and his senior brother used to use this thing to make soup and drink.

Ji Ning's body was weak, he gritted his teeth, and moved towards the mushroom little by little, leaving a long trace on the cold, wet ground full of rotten mud leaves.

After eating the mushroom, Ji Ning was not satisfied, and with great effort, he moved a big stone away, grabbed the beetle and centipede below and put it into his mouth, and after chewing it with a distorted expression, he set his eyes on the wild fruit that was growing in the bushes not far away.

Ji Ning rubbed on the ground again.

On the way, I also drank a few sips of dew from the weeds.

In this way, after barely eating half full, the boy found a slightly dry, sunlit land, and sat down cross-legged, like a real person sitting on a futon.

Put your hands together, draw the true qi of heaven and earth into your body, and slowly recover from your injuries.

……

It's a new day.

Ji Ning opened his eyes, slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity, got up and moved his muscles and bones briefly.

After eating mushrooms for two days in a row, his body can be regarded as recovering somewhat, although he still has a lot of injuries, but at least he can walk.

"In two days, it's my luck that I haven't met a demon beast, but it's not suitable to stay here for a long time."

Ji Ning's face was pale, and he cleaned up the scene repeatedly with a tree branch before slowly leaving.

In the nights of the past two days, he could often hear the terrible wolf roar, the roar of unknown demon beasts, and even a tiger demon as big as a hill passed by him five meters away.

If it weren't for the fact that the other party was chasing prey at the time, he would have been discovered.

"Looking at the direction of the sun, the way back to the Taoist Temple should be this way."

Ji Ning pulled some bark and draped it on his body, used it as armor, deliberately bypassed the road, and plunged headlong into the thorny grass hole, every step was extremely difficult.

I don't know how long it took, the sky gradually turned dark, and the dense forest in front of me finally came to an end.

In front of Ji Ning, a gentle mountain bag appeared, and just as he was about to climb over it, he suddenly heard a slight rustling sound.

"The boss is really, this place where birds don't, let's find someone to go to!"

"Yes, the boss still wants to camp here, I really don't understand, in case we encounter some fierce beasts in the middle of the night, won't our brothers finish playing!"

Ji Ning's expression froze, and he hurriedly squatted down and hid it, while poking his head out slightly.

I saw that on the mountain bag not far from him, there were two men in burlap clothes slowly walked up, one tall and one short, the short one was holding a pile of fruit in his hand, and the tall one was honest-looking, carrying freshly cut firewood on his shoulders.

"Hmph, the boss still wants to use the wood here to make a fire, it just rained, and this wood is not a little hoof in the green building, can this burn!"

There was a wave of disdain in the short man's mouth.

They are an adventurous group active in the North County area, and the team is basically a group of cultivators who have entered the initial realm and succeeded in fixing bones, and they hunt some low-level demon beasts in groups, and sell beast pills and furs for a living.

This time I came to Whitefish Town for a shocking tomb, but the tomb was not yet opened, so I took Ji Ning's wanted warrant.

A group of more than 20 people, using a special method of finding dragon points, groped all the way to this vicinity.

Then, the trail is broken.

The tomb is dead, but the man is alive.

In the vast mountains, how easy is it to find an ordinary person who doesn't even have the realm of cultivation?

"Maybe that kid has been eaten by the demon beast a long time ago!"

The short man spoke indignantly, obviously dissatisfied with the leader's decision to enter the mountain early.

The tall man made a round and comforted: "Forget it, let's go back to the camp first, this snake bite is uncomfortable, you have to take medicine quickly!" ”

As he spoke, he glanced at his ankle, which had turned purple.

The thin man glanced at it, and shook his head again and again, fortunately, he did what they did, and he had all the medicines he brought when he went out.

Otherwise, in this mountain and jungle, ordinary people may not survive for more than two days.

"Camp?"

In the dark, Ji Ning listened to the conversation between the two, his eyebrows raised slightly.

What he lacks most now, is food and medicine, if he can get some from these people, it will be excellent, but I'm afraid it will be a little difficult to implement, especially his current state, if he is discovered, there will definitely be only a dead end.

"But even if I escape this catastrophe and return to the Taoist temple, I may not be able to have smooth sailing, and if I am powerless at that time, the trouble will be even greater."

Ji Ning sighed and decisively chose to follow.

His current state can be regarded as able to walk at most, and the team that went into the mountains to chase him cannot be only a group, even if he dodges them all, he will inevitably encounter beasts and jackals, and he can't hide by luck.

At the end of the day, you have to be strong.

Following the two of them over the mountain bag, they traveled more than 100 meters, and came to a sparsely wooded clearing, where there were many tents, and more than a dozen people were busy one after another, and a fence was fenced with wood around it, which was obviously newly felled.

"It's not small."

Ji Ning raised his eyebrows, the team in front of him was not simple at first glance, and they were all uniformly dressed, and there seemed to be a big "Kui" word embroidered on it, not like a local person in Qingquan County.

"Boss, we're back!"

I saw the tall and the thin two men walking back to the camp, and greeted a bearded man loudly, and after some exchange, both of them went about their own things, banging and beating in the camp, chopping wood and making fires, and roasting the wild beasts on the skinning racks, and everything went in order.

After a while, it was slowly getting dark.

The meat of the beast is also roasted, and the oil and water are golden and exude an attractive aroma.

The people in the camp, those who eat meat, those who drink wine, only four people are left on guard, and their emotions are relaxed, not at all like they are in the mountains, but like they are in a mortal restaurant, as if they are not afraid of danger at all.

"Boss, how long are we going to stay in the mountains!"

"Yes, boss, we can't catch that kid for a day, so we won't leave for a day!"

In the camp, there was a faint sound of questioning from the crowd, but as soon as there were some signs of commotion, they were suppressed by the man in the lead.

"What are you yelling about, you can't stop your mouth when you eat meat!"

The man carried a big sword on his back, sat on the top wooden block, carried a tiger leg in his hand, stared coldly at the crowd and reprimanded:

"I can't bear this bit of suffering, do you still want to go to Longtan Peak to compete for the opportunity, if you want to leave, get out of the house as soon as possible, Lao Tzu's team doesn't need waste!"

For a moment, everyone was silent.

The thin man who complained the most was even more embarrassed, and lowered his head and did not dare to look directly into the man's eyes.

"Hurry up and eat, finish eating the vigilance, and get a thorough understanding of the environment in this mountain as soon as possible!"

Seeing that no one took the lead in picking the thorn, the man snorted coldly and continued to concentrate on eating the meat, and the enveloping coercion disappeared, and the thin man immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Longtan Peak?"

On the other side, among the bushes, Ji Ning keenly captured the key information in the man's mouth.

He couldn't help but think that the gold paper he took out from the box under Jiang Chuan's chair, and the time and place recorded on it were also Longtan Peak.

If you can get a team of cultivators from other places to come over, what will happen in a few days?

Ji Ning frowned, took out the bone token and gold paper, and looked at it repeatedly, but he still didn't see the reason, so he could only shake his head.

He could vaguely guess that on May 17, a major event would inevitably happen in Longtan Peak.

At that time, there will inevitably be a bloody storm in the cultivation world.

It's just that he is not qualified to care about this kind of thing in front of him, and the most important thing for him now is to think about how to fill his stomach.

Gollum!

Ji Ning rubbed his lower abdomen, licked his lips, and stared at the flickering bonfire.

He wanted to rush out and feast now, but he could only think about it after all.

Ji Ning reluctantly looked away, and set his eyes on a tent again.

After a long period of crouching and observing, he had already discovered that the team's medicines, clothing, dry food, and even weapons would be placed here, and a special person would be assigned to guard them.

The man who sat at the top and ate meat, quite dignified, with a burst of natural coercion, also slept next to the supply tent.

What he had to do was to sneak in while the moon was dark and the wind was high.

The difficulty is not high, and once it is discovered, it is the end of death, there is no luck, this adventure group seems to be a cultivator, even the worst ones have opened a few tricks, no one looks worse than him, there is no luck in the face.

"I can only wait patiently."

Ji Ning took a deep breath, endured the bitter cold and hunger, and silently closed his eyes.

The half-lacked moon shines through the clouds, shining a faint cold light.

A cold wind gently stirred the grass among the trees, and there was a sparse sound, as if some animal was stepping on fallen leaves.

At this moment, it is past midnight.

In the adventure group, the people who should have been in charge of guarding also dozed off.

Ji Ning, who had been lying in the dark for a long time, finally found an opportunity, tiptoed over the fence, came to the camp, and then walked straight to the tent where many supplies were stored.

The immature little face looked a little pale under the moonlight, and Ji Ning was so nervous that his palms were sweating.

Because the head of the adventure group of this camp slept next to the supply tent, and the curtain was still open.

This means that if he makes a slight noise and disturbs the other party, the latter can easily catch him, put him to death in place, or send him back to Whitefish Town.

It can be said that the danger level now is only higher than when he was in the gambling house!

"Whew!"

Ji Ning held his breath and stared, and at each landing point, he had to carefully observe the time of several breaths, and only dared to get down after confirming that there was no problem, all the way, without making a sound, like a ghost floating in the air.

Ji Ning came to the tent where the supplies were stored, turned his head sideways and looked at the sleeping man next door with his eyes closed, and after seeing that the other party did not have any intention of waking up, he opened the curtain and walked into the tent with confidence.

Because there are some bonfires not far outside the tent, you can see the inside clearly.

After Ji Ning walked in, the first thing he encountered at his feet was a whole head of wolf demon beast meat.

Ji Ning, who had been hungry for a day, widened his eyes, the saliva in his mouth kept secreting, and his eyes turned green, so he couldn't wait to pounce on it directly, but in the end he still held back.

He turned his head and walked past a large pile of weapons to the innermost part of the tent, where many wooden boxes were stored, and when he opened them, he saw that they contained the exclusive clothing of the group, embroidered with the same emblem as the people outside.

Next to the clothes, there were piles of medicinal herbs, with a wide variety of types, and even some of them had never even been seen by him, who grew up in the mountains.

Ji Ning's face was solemn, and with the faint light of the fire, he carefully selected some medicines that could treat internal injuries, opened the water bladder on the spot and swallowed it directly, and then took out a cloth bag, and put all the medicines for treating external and internal injuries in it as long as they could be used.

In the end, Ji Ning looked at the homemade straw coat he was wearing, smiled, and even took it off, put on the new clothes, even changed his shoes, and brought a knife.

After doing all this, he took the cloth bag and carefully retreated to the mouth of the tent.

The aroma of animal flesh poured into his nostrils again.

"It's all here, don't worry about eating some."

Ji Ning swallowed his saliva, cut off a large piece of the beast's leg with a knife, and then chewed it with gusto, his face full of satisfaction, and he was even about to burst into tears.

In this world, all painful things can be relieved by eating meat, and he is convinced of this, especially after eating wild fruits for two days.

Ji Ning devoured what he ate, so unhappy.

So much so that he didn't realize it at all.

Just behind him, there was a strong shadow, slowly approaching!