Chapter 40: Mutations

In the vast snow forest, the sunlight sprinkled down from the treetops, far away from the Lingshan tribe, looking up, a quiet snowfield shijie.

Looking back, I couldn't see the tent of the Lingshan tribe, in the snow, En Ning didn't have the Yuan Force to support Feizong, and Qin Wen next to him stretched out his hand to take him, followed by Batu, who had a calm face.

It should be that the distance between the Spirit Eagle Stone in the tribe is getting farther and farther, and the interference with En Ning is getting smaller and smaller, he hardly stops to discern the direction, and tells Qin Wen the direction he is going very clearly.

After walking for another half an hour, Qin Wen faintly felt as if someone was following them behind him, but when he checked with his divine sense, covering the position within a radius of three miles behind, he couldn't help but frown slightly.

Batu saw Qin Wen's expression behind him at this time, so he opened his mouth and asked, "Master Qin Dan, is there something wrong?"

Qin Wen's voice was low, "Why did I suddenly feel that someone was following us behind, are there other tribes around here?"

Batu shook his head and said: "There is only our Lingshan tribe within thousands of miles here, because the Hu people occasionally come to disturb, so there is no small tribe, if it is our Lingshan tribe, after seeing us, he should say hello, otherwise he met a herdsman who went up the mountain to collect medicine, maybe he didn't see us." ”

Qin Wen thought about it, he hadn't been in the Lingshan tribe for a long time, and he didn't have much contact with other people on weekdays, just refining pills in the tent, Batu and Erning were just ordinary teenagers in the tribe, if the identity of the three was special, it was that Batu's father was just the leader of a subordinate tribe.

The three of them going out of the tribe together will not attract too much attention, just now it may be that they have too much heart, just like Batu said, it should be the herdsman who met by chance to make him feel that he was being followed, Qin Wen also put down his heart at this time, and continued to follow the direction pointed by En Ning.

After passing through a vast snowfield, a steep mountain wall appeared in front of me, and although the mountain wall was also covered with snow, a small stream of hot springs flowed through the middle, and a white mist rose and washed away the slightly yellowed grass roots beside the stream.

The three of them came to the stream gushing out of the hot spring, and En Ning spoke, "Master Qin, let's stop first." ”

Qin Wen let go of his arm, the three of them stopped their flying footsteps, and En Ning walked to the edge of the stream, avoiding the mist faintly spreading from the upwind, squinted his eyes slightly, looked at the mountain wall above and said, "I can see that the Spirit Eagle Stone should be on the top of the mountain wall." ”

Qin Wen nodded, then pulled up Ening, and flew up to the top of the mountain wall, in front of him was a snow-capped mountain, only bare trunks were left on the trees, and occasionally a cold wind blew, and the entire mountain forest made a "woo" sound.

At this time, En Ning asked Qin Wen to put him down, and then stepped on knee-deep snow to look carefully, the source of the hot spring flowing on the stone wall was a small hole covered by a few big stones, En Ning approached the small hole, walked around a few big stones, and then pointed to a place two feet away from the stream, and said to Qin Wen: "Qin Danshi, I saw that the Spirit Eagle Stone is under the stone next to it. ”

As he spoke, he walked in the direction of his finger just now, and cleaned the snow under his feet with his hands, revealing the green stones underneath, Qin Wen saw that he continued to sweep the snow nearby, so he asked, "How much can you see?"

En Ning hesitated for a moment and said: "In the past, the range of the search was relatively large, there were five zhang square, but this time I think it has narrowed a little, just about two zhang around here." ”

Qin Wen nodded and said, "You are too slow to clean up like this, you stand by the stream first, and I will clear the snow in this place first." ”

En Ning and Batu both avoided the stream of the hot spring from a distance, and with a wave of the sleeves of Qinwen's robe, a wave of vitality spread out from his hands, and within a radius of two zhang from where he was standing, the snow under his feet was cleaned up, revealing the cyan stones that had been freeze-dried.

En Ning looked at the stones at this time, and said with some embarrassment: "This time I saw that it should be in a deeper position of the stones, and these stones may have to be dug up." ”

Qin Wen smiled slightly: "As long as you can find the approximate location, it is not difficult to turn over these stones." ”

At this time, Batu walked to Qin Wen's side and said, "Qin Danshi, you can rest for a while, I am the best at turning over these stones." As he spoke, he picked up Yuan Li, easily lifted the bluestone with the size of the grinding plate under his feet with one hand, and rolled the bluestone to the bottom of the hillside, making a "rumbling" echo.

Qin Wen also knew in his heart that Batu was afraid that he would use his vitality to smash the bluestone and affect the Lingying Stone below, so he nodded and walked to the stream with Erning, watching Batu digging the bluestone with his bare hands.

After several pieces of bluestone above were lifted off by Batu, revealing a slightly dark cyan wet stone below, at this time, the Qinglong Dan furnace in Qin Wen's storage silk bag faintly vibrate, Qin Wen knew that the Lingying Stone was about to be dug up below, and walked to Batu's side, according to the amplitude of the vibration of the Qinglong Dan Furnace, pointed out the location and said: "The Lingying Stone should be below here, don't dig in other places." ”

Batu gently lifted the stone on it according to the position Qin Wen said, revealing a stone that was as black as jade, and En Ning also approached the two of them at this time, and after seeing the Spirit Eagle Stone, he said in surprise: "The sixth-order Spirit Eagle Stone is so big, it should weigh fifty catties when it is dug out." ”

Batu looked at the Lingying Stone below, and couldn't help but have a bright look in his eyes, gently swept away the fine stone dust on the Lingying Stone, checked the approximate location, and then carefully removed the stone next to the Lingying Stone, and gently took out the Lingying Stone with two hands.

After the inky black spirit eagle stone was dug out, it refracted a charming luster in the sun, Qin Wen estimated it with his eyes, this spirit eagle stone was the highest grade he had ever seen, and it was also the largest spirit stone in terms of weight.

Just when the three of them showed expressions of surprise, Qin Wen suddenly noticed a wave of aura fluctuations behind him, and his heart suddenly became alert, and he said loudly to Batu: "Quickly put away the Spirit Eagle Stone." ”

Batu was also very alert at this time, seeing that Qin Wen's face changed, he picked up the Lingying Stone and withdrew to hide in the middle of Qin Wen and Erning, and handed the Lingying Stone to Qin Wen, Qin Wen's divine sense moved, and he put the Lingying Stone that had just arrived in his storage bag.

A black shadow floated by the three of them, and stopped at a distance of about five zhang opposite Qin Wen, seemingly wanting to snatch the Spirit Eagle Stone in Batu's hand, but because Batu dodged in time, he snatched it up.

After the black shadow landed on the snow, he didn't grab it again, but his body floated slightly in the snow, and a flying sword flashed in his hand in an instant, and he said with an arrogant light in his eyes: "The reaction is quite fast, but I still advise you to hand over the Spirit Eagle Stone, maybe I'm in a good mood and can spare the lives of the three of you." ”

Before Qin Wen could answer, he only heard another wave of aura fluctuations behind him, and checked it with his divine sense, and at this time, a man in black also appeared behind him, and the man in black on the opposite side sandwiched the three of them in the middle, this man in black did not have a magic weapon in his hand, but his fingers were slightly clenched, as if he was running vitality.

Qin Wen raised his head and took a closer look at the black-clothed man opposite, wearing a black robe and a black scarf on his face, so he couldn't see his face at all, but judging from his eyes and smooth forehead, he was not very old, and his cultivation should be a middle-level Xuanshi, judging from the flying sword in his hand, he was not a physical cultivator in the tribe, but a monk of Daqi.

Batu's mood had calmed down, and then he frowned and said: "Which tribe are you monks from? Below is Batu of the Lingshan tribe, this is the mountains and forests of the Lingshan tribe, if you know each other, leave quickly." ”

Behind Qin Wen, a gloomy voice sounded and said: "This little Hu doll has such a big tone, just rely on the three of you, and you are also worthy of arguing with us, hurry up and hand over the Spirit Eagle Stone in your hand." ”

Qin Wen turned sideways and looked at the other black-clothed man behind him at this time, the two of them were basically dressed in the same way, both were masked in black scarves, but in terms of age, the age of the two was not too big, and their cultivation was basically up and down, Qin Wen slowly put his mind at ease, and the two middle-level monks of the Xuanshi still had the strength to fight.

However, the man in black secretly pounced on him just now, which also made Qin Wen a little alert, he suddenly thought of the fact that he felt someone following him halfway, these two people can evade their divine sense, and they should have a special magic weapon on their bodies, Qin Wen casually took out the Yanlong Spear in the storage silk bag.

Batu also took out the slender saber he carried with him, although he knew in his heart that the strength of the three people on his side was obviously inferior to the two black-clothed men opposite, but if he wanted him to give up the Spirit Eagle Stone, he couldn't do it, and when he saw Qin Wen take out the spear, he was ready to attack at any time.

Batu looked at En Ning beside him and said in a low voice: "When we fight later, you will first find a safe place to hide, and then send out the signal bullets on your body with fire." ”

En Ning also knew that at this time, the battle between the monks was also a burden to Qin Wen and the others here, so he nodded, and then turned his eyes, looking for a suitable place to hide.

When the two black-clothed men saw that Qin Wen and Batu had taken out their weapons, they glanced at each other, and said coldly to the black-clothed man facing Qin Wen: "Since you toast and don't eat and drink, then we will fulfill you and prepare to die." ”

As he spoke, the flying sword slashed at Batu beside Qin Wen, Batu swung his saber and headed towards the flying sword, and after a burst of gold and iron, Batu was shocked by the flying sword and retreated.

The black-clothed man behind Qin Wen let out a gloomy laugh at this time, and the secret skill in his hand pointed at Qin Wen, and a surging firelight went straight to Qin Wen's face door that had just turned around.