Since the creation of the Taiqing Sword Immortal Sect, the Taiqing Sect has always been in a pivotal position among the Immortal Cultivation Sect. Over the years, although it has experienced various crises, the Taiqing Sect has never really declined. First, because of the mysteriousness of the Taiqing Sect's sword book, and secondly, because the Taiqing Sect's conditions for accepting apprentices are relatively strict, the disciples' root bone qualifications are the best among the people of the same generation who cultivate immortals. Taiqing Sword Immortal and Yeli Sword Immortal, the patriarch of the Yeli Sect Creation Sect, once fought side by side and formed a deep friendship. Therefore, the disciples of the two sects have always followed the teachings of their ancestors and have been friends for generations.

The blade used by Yeli Sword Immortal is also one of the eighteen peerless immortal swords, and the sword name is "Qingshuang", ranking fifteenth in the fairy sword spectrum. It's a pity that the Yeli Sect once encountered a turbulent period, due to serious internal friction, outsiders took advantage of the situation, resulting in the Qingfrost Immortal Sword being taken away by another great immortal cultivator, the Red Sun Sect of Tenglong County. At that time, the Chiri Sect was in its heyday, and even the Taiqing Sect did not dare to directly and openly argue with the Chiri Sect. After losing the Zhenzong Immortal Sword, the Yeli Sect quickly declined, and once disappeared from the Immortal Cultivation Realm. It wasn't until more than two hundred years ago that Yeli Sect produced an amazing and brilliant immortal cultivation wizard who led Yeli Sect to recapture the Qingfrost Immortal Sword from the Red Sun Sect, which made Yeli Sect grow stronger.

However, because of these two sword battles, the Yeli Sect and the Red Sun Sect were at odds. The Yeli Sect was friendly with the Taiqing Sect, and the Red Sun Sect and the Cold Moon Sect of Feilong County were allies, so the four major sects were in a situation of fighting each other in pairs for many years. After more than two hundred years, the relationship between the sect and the sect has eased a lot, and the disciples do not meet each other, but they still don't like each other.

Now, a total of twelve disciples of the Taiqing Sect and the Yeli Sect are slowly moving forward on the path in the dense forest of the Green Cloud Swamp.

"Six years, really?" Bi Qiongfang couldn't believe her ears, "This is too fast, isn't it?

Tianxiao said: "Senior Sister Bi, we don't need to lie to you about this, Brother Yao and I are both eighteen years old this year. ”

Bi Qiongfang was stunned: "At the age of eighteen, I cultivated to the middle stage of harmony...... In vain, I still admire some talented senior brothers and sisters in the sect, seven and a half years, or even seven years of cultivation to the middle stage of harmony, compared to the two junior brothers, what is that?"

Hearing that the two of them had been cultivating immortals for such a short time, even Zhang Yirong, who had never spoken and was as cold as frost on the side, also showed surprise on her face, and carefully looked at Tianxiao and Tianyao. Several other disciples of the Night Leaving Sect were even more impressed with the two, and their admiration was beyond words. ”

"It is worthy of the Taiqing Sect, and there are many talents, and I am deeply admired. Li Qingyang's praise came from behind him, and Bi Qiongfang's exclamation just now was not small, and even he who followed the team at the end could hear it clearly.

Among so many people, only Yan Luoting was not very happy. His twenty-six years of cultivating immortals is only the late stage of the Yuan Infant, which is too slow compared to Tianxiao and Tianyao.

After this conversation, the disciples of the two factions got acquainted with each other, and everyone chatted as they walked. From the beginning of entering the dense forest of the Green Cloud Swamp, it has been half a day now. Although it was 10 o'clock in the afternoon, the light was still dim due to the dense trees in the swamp.

As I walked, the path under my feet was gone, replaced by dense weeds. It can be seen that no one usually comes to this place at all. Further down into the swamp, the trees gradually became scarce, but the grass became a soft mud ground that was full of water, and it was still difficult to walk. In some places, there are also quite a few puddles, and the water surface is often covered with a thick layer of aquatic plants and duckweed, and if you are not careful, you will step into the pit, and several female disciples are all complaining.

After a few more hours, it was getting dark. Finally they found a slightly drier clearing, and decided to rest here for the night. There were several pits in the clearing, and there were some ash of branches in them, and it seemed that someone had rested here before.

After lighting the bonfire, everyone sat around the fire in twos and threes to meditate.

At night, Tianyao asked Tianxiao softly: "Brother, it has been a day since we entered the Green Cloud Swamp, have you felt any spiritual changes?"

Tianxiao shook his head: "I have carefully watched my surroundings along the way, and I have not noticed anything abnormal. But I have a question, the Green Cloud Swamp is very wide, but there are very few poisonous snakes and beasts, don't you think it's strange?"

"Not just a few, not a single one at all. Moreover, it is a little creepy quiet...... "Tianyao looked around, slightly uneasy.

Indeed, nothing else was heard except the "crackling" of the campfire. Looking into the distance, the darkness was too hard to see clearly, and the shadows of the trees were faintly shaking, and the entire swamp was filled with a thin layer of mist.

Suddenly, a cool breeze blew, and the two of them couldn't help but shiver, because the woman's complaining cry was faintly heard in the wind. The other people who were meditating also heard it, opened their eyes and looked around. At this time, in this place, this kind of crying of a woman is really terrifying.

The cry was very strange, it seemed to come from the east for a while, and when it turned to the east, it seemed to come from the north again, and then it seemed to float from behind. Several female disciples couldn't sit still, and slowly moved together, looking around vigilantly. The male disciples were a little bolder, and they drew their immortal swords one after another.

"Who is crying?" Li Qingyang shouted.

"Woooooooooo......oo Hehehe......" The resentful cry suddenly turned into an eerie laughter, which made people shudder to listen.

"Who the hell is it, get out of here!" Yan Luoting roared.

The woman's voice sounded again, fluttering and swaying, reaching everyone's ears: "In the depths of the green clouds, you must not enter." There is no way to go to the earth, and there is no way to go to the sky...... Hehehe......" The sound became smaller and quieter, and by the end it was almost inaudible.

"Don't pretend to be a ghost! We are not afraid!" Li Qingyang shouted loudly again.

After that, the strange female voice never sounded again, and the silence around them returned to death.

Everyone looked at each other and was silent.

After a long time, Bi Qiongfang broke the silence: "The female voice just now is really eerie and terrifying, which makes people uneasy. Won't it ...... Could it really be a female ghost?" It's a very remote place, and the strange female voice makes it easy to associate it with ghosts and the like.

Li Qingyang frowned slightly: "Don't panic. I, who cultivate immortals, are we still afraid of ghosts?"

"It's ridiculous that a disciple who leaves the sect at night is afraid of ghosts. Senior Brother Li, you disciples of the Night Departure Sect are nothing more than that. Yan Luoting sneered with disdain on his face.

"You ......," Li Qingyang was speechless for a while.

Yan Luoting also ignored the annoyed gaze of the Yeli Sect disciple, and continued: "Ghosts and the like, which of you present has seen it with your own eyes? Just hearing a few words from a woman, you are afraid of such unwarranted things, do you want to retreat? In my opinion, ghosts and the like are all false rumors, and they are not to be believed. ”

Bi Qiongfang calmed down, her voice returned to normal, and said to Yan Luoting: "Senior Brother Yan is well-informed and courageous, and a timid woman like Qiongfang is ashamed of herself. Since you think that ghosts are nothing, I don't know what you think of the female voice just now?"

"If you want me to say, most of them are other treasure hunters, worried that they won't be able to compete for us and other immortal cultivators after discovering the spirit treasure, so they came up with this kind of boring trick in a vain attempt to scare us away. Hmph, hiding, hiding, covering, sneaky, it must be done by the rats, why be afraid!" Yan Luoting's tone was impassioned.

Lu Mingyao rarely nodded in agreement with Yan Luoting: "What Senior Brother Yan said is not unreasonable. Tonight we will wait and see what happens, and we will be careful to pay attention to our surroundings as we meditate. ”

This night, everyone was tense and did not dare to take it lightly, but until early in the morning, they did not hear the resentful female voice again. Although the swamp was dim during the day, it was much brighter than at night, and there was no eerie cold feeling at night during the day, so the mood of several female disciples was finally better. After resting, the group continued to advance deeper into the swamp.

Speaking of which, no one had ever been to the depths of the swamp, and everyone was just following a general direction. Half a day after entering the swamp the first day, there was no way to go, and since then the group has been forging new paths as they move forward. Except for the remnants of a campfire in the open space where we slept last night, there was no sign of anyone passing along the way.

Yan Luoting was still at the front of the team, and after the harassment of the strange female voice last night, he became a lot more careful, and his sword did not leave his hand. Everyone is not chatting like yesterday, one by one silently, quietly moving forward.

There was still silence in the swamp, no birds could be heard, no insects could be heard, the silence was too unbearable.

Tianxiao stood suddenly, frowned, and asked loudly: "Everyone, I don't know if it's me dazzled or what, look at the farthest place ahead, through the gaps between the trees, can you faintly see something green?"

Hearing Tianxiao say this, everyone suddenly became nervous, and they all raised their eyes to look into the distance, but the vision in the swamp was too poor, and the scene in the distance was always vague. The crowd stopped and watched for a while, but saw nothing.

Yan Luoting chirped: "Obviously there is nothing, what a fuss!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but just as they were about to move on, Tianyao suddenly said, "No! There are really green things, I can see them too!"

The hearts that everyone had just put down rose to their throats again, and both of them said that they saw it, so it should really be something. But no matter what other people think, they can't see the so-called "green things" of Tianxiao and Tianyao.

"Why can't we see it, just the two of you can see it, take a good look at it!" Xiao Liying said.

"I can really see it, in the crevices of the trees, green, like ...... It seems to be ......" Tianyao opened his eyes wide and tried to make out it.

"What the hell is it? I'm really anxious!" Lu Mingyao asked anxiously.

"Maybe it's some kind of smoke, it seems to be still drifting...... "Tianxiao is also looking into the distance.

"That's right, a hazy hazy puff of smoke. "Tianyao said.

Yan Luoting was very impatient: "Okay, you two don't be startled and suspicious, what's so strange about fog in the swamp?"

Lu Mingyao said: "Senior Brother Yan has seen the green fog? Besides, why can't we see it?" Could it be ...... You two can see farther than we do?" she said, looking at Tianxiao and Tianyao.

"Possibly. The farthest I could see was the coarse willow about a mile ahead, and there was no green smoke there. Xiao Liying said.

Tianxiao and Tianyao glanced at each other, a little surprised, Tianxiao said: "It seems that Senior Sister Lu is right, the green fog is about a mile and a half away from us. ”

Xiao Liying was surprised: "The light in the swamp is so dim, you can still see so far, and you can see the color of the fog clearly?"

The brothers nodded together.

"Well, since there's smoke, let's go over and see, we're going to go deeper into the swamp anyway. The smoke is a strange color, everyone be careful. Li Qingyang said.

So, the group continued to walk, and sure enough, after about half a mile, the others saw a faint green in front of them.

Not long after walking, this time it was Tianyao who suddenly stopped. He tightened his nose and shouted, "Stop, everyone!

After hearing this, the others all raised their heads and sniffed carefully into the air.

"What's the matter, I didn't smell anything!" This time, Yan Luoting's tone was not as tough as just now.

Tianxiao also said: "There is indeed a very faint spicy smell, and I don't feel very comfortable." ”

Tianyao thought about it and guessed: "I guess it's the miasma in the swamp, and the source is the green fog in front of it." ”

"The spicy, pungent smell really fits the characteristics of miasma. Li Qingyang said as he took out a vial from his arms, "I have a few Lu Ning Dan here, which can resist miasma poison, grass poison, insect poison, Gu poison, corpse poison, silk poison, and flower poison, which are the more common poisons among the seven poisons in the world, and last for a full twenty-four hours." After speaking, he gave each disciple of the Yeli Sect a Lu Ning Pill, and then sneered at Yan Luoting: "Senior Brother Yan, the Taiqing Sect shouldn't be so stingy that he doesn't even give Lu Ning Dan, right?"

Yan Luoting snorted coldly: "That's nature. I have them here, as well as Senior Sister Lu and Senior Sister Xiao, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

Lu Ning Dan, as the name suggests, is to take the dew on the flowers and leaves in the early morning, mixed with bellflower, Chuanbei, bear bile, realgar and many other detoxification herbs, plus more than a dozen condensation petals, pounded into medicinal mud and refined. The medicinal effect of Lu Ning Pill is amazing, and a small pill can actually resist dozens of poisons. It's a pity that the raw material frost flower only grows in the snow on the top of a high mountain, and the number is relatively rare, and a frost flower only has four petals. Therefore, this kind of elixir was only carried by the important disciples of the great sects.

The pill is light blue in color, and when you take it in your mouth, a faint and faint sweet smell rushes straight to your brain, which makes people feel refreshed. The slight spicy and pungent feeling that Tianxiao and Tianyao felt just now had completely disappeared under the impact of this powerful and extremely sweet taste.

After taking the Lu Ning Dan, everyone no longer worried about the miasma in the swamp and continued to move forward.

"Tianxiao, Tianyao, I found that the perception ability of the two of you seems to be beyond ordinary people, why is this?" Xiao Liying asked as she walked.

The two shook their heads together.

"Forget it, don't dig deeper. It's good to be sensitive, and sometimes you can spot danger in advance and take precautions before it happens. Lu Mingyao turned around and said.

Everyone was getting closer and closer to the miasma, and the green was already very thick. The view here is even worse, and it is already difficult to see clearly from a dozen steps away.

"Everyone is in a row, following closely in front and back, and the people in the Harmony Realm are among them, and we are about to step into this fog. Yan Luoting said loudly. He and Lu Mingyao opened the way in front, Li Qingyang and Zhang Yirong were behind, and the others were also always paying attention to the left and right, moving forward cautiously.

The harsh environment also made everyone's mood tense, and with no one else in sight, this dense forest with poisonous mist always felt dangerous. The ground under her feet became softer and softer, and Bi Qiongfang suddenly accidentally stepped into the mud, staining her shoes, her mood became more and more anxious, and she muttered in her mouth.

Yan Luoting stood up suddenly: "Shhh

The resentful female voice reappeared: "Deep in the green clouds...... You can't enter, you can't enter...... But you're still here...... Here it comes...... Aha!"

With a "brush", everyone drew out their fairy swords, and looked around with wide eyes vigilantly, but there was still no figure in the thick green mist. The woman's voice laughed a few times, but she couldn't hear it again.

"It's terrible, I can't stand it anymore!" goosebumps straighten up on my body......" Bi Qiongfang muttered quietly.

Li Qing was furious, whether it was a human voice or a ghost's scream, why did he always not show up? As if he was deliberately scaring them. He tried his best to use his dantian, took a sharp breath, and shouted loudly: "Come out for me——!"

The shouting faded away, and after the sound fell, the surroundings were still quiet.

Yan Luoting said: "This is obviously someone deliberately scaring us, everyone don't follow her way! The guy who pretends to be a ghost, when she is caught by me, she will definitely look good! Everyone holds a sword in their hands and continues to move forward!"

As she walked, Lu Mingyao, who was headed, suddenly stepped on a soft thing. "Huh, what is this?" she muttered to herself, looking down.

There was a hand trapped in the mud beneath his feet, a human right hand!

"Ahh

"Calm down! What's so terrible about a severed hand?" Li Qingyang said.

"Senior Brother Li, it's not just a broken hand, look at the ...... over there" Wu Yantong's voice trembled a little.

As he pointed out, there was a shallow pit in front of him, and the pit was full of broken corpses! There was minced flesh, severed arms, calves, and rotten internal organs in half of the body, and a few bloody and blurred heads could be seen, which was unbearable.

Several female disciples couldn't help but retch, looking at the extent of the decay, those broken corpses had been piled up here for several days, because everyone had taken the sweet Lu Ning Pill, so they didn't smell the stench of carrion just now.

The male disciple's psychological endurance was relatively strong, and in the face of this disgusting scene, Tian Xiao frowned and guessed: "These are probably the people who entered the swamp before us, and they don't know who killed them, and then they were dismembered and thrown here." ”

Tianyao approached the edge of the pit and looked at the corpse carefully: "These wounds are a little weird. The deceased was not dressed like a disciple of an immortal cultivator, if it was killed by someone, it was nothing more than a sword or something like a blade, then the wound should be smooth. But when you look at the corpses, the wounds are uneven, and they are all minced flesh, as if they were ...... It looks like I've been bitten by something, and the broken bones look like they've been gnawed......"

Bi Qiongfang, who had just stood up, heard what Tianyao said, and immediately squatted down and retched, Xiao Liying patted Tianyao's back and complained: "Why do you say more and more disgusting!"

Li Qingyang said: "This is true, the wound does not look like it was injured by a sharp weapon. It must have been gnawed by some wild beast. ”

Lu Mingyao wondered: "But I've never heard of any man-eating beasts in the Green Cloud Swamp, we've been in the swamp for almost two days, haven't we even seen a single bug?"

Li Qingyang shook his head lightly: "What you can't see is even more terrifying." Let's not stay here too long, and if we come across a man-eating beast, we must kill it and not let it continue to harm people. Let's go ......."

Before the words fell, a black shadow suddenly jumped down from the tree next to him, and rushed towards Cao Ruiqian, who was closest to the big tree.

"Beware!" Zhang Yirong shouted, Cao Ruiqian's reaction was very fast, he retreated sideways to avoid the black shadow, and immediately swung a sword to counterattack.

The black shadow was very dexterous, and with a slight leap, it jumped over the blade of the sword, landed not far away, turned its head, and everyone saw the face of the black shadow clearly.