Three men and two women came to the shore of the lake in the valley, led by a man with a sharp beak and cheeks, who looked to be around forty years old, and the other four were all in their early twenties. They were all dressed in navy blue robes of a uniform standard, which should have come from a family or sect.

One of the girls with a black ponytail shouted happily when she saw the lake in front of her, "Sister Fu, look at the lake, we can finally take a good bath." He shouted and clapped his hands excitedly. But when she realized that there were three other big men around her who were looking embarrassed, she suddenly felt that her cheeks were hot.

"Rong'er. The appearance is seven or eight points similar to the ponytail, but the girl who looks older said angrily: "Dad and the family have spent so much effort to let us come here just to let me seek some opportunities, why are you so ignorant." If you delay for a moment, the treasures and opportunities here may be taken away by others. The girl who spoke had her black hair draped over her head like a waterfall.

The girl called Rong'er pursed her lips and muttered disappreciatively: "How can there be such a good thing in the world, you can encounter any chance casually, and even if there is, it won't be our turn." ”

The older girl was a little angry, and was about to continue to reprimand, but was stopped by the middle-aged man who was the leader: "Miss, I know that you are distressed that the master of the family spent fifteen yuan to send us in, thinking that you can find some treasures and opportunities as soon as possible." But what the second lady said is not unreasonable, we don't know how big this place is, and we have no clue where the treasure is. What's more, there are still big forces and big sects from various states here, even if we really find any treasures and opportunities, I'm afraid we have to give them up, otherwise it will be difficult to leave this place alive. The head of the family didn't expect you to gain something here, but he felt that the opportunity was rare and wanted the four of you to experience it here."

When the girl heard this, she nodded a little lonely, they were born in an ordinary sect, and the background of the sect was not solid, this time his father, who was the head of the sect, took out almost half of the savings of the sect, and let the two sisters and the other two children of the sect come here to try their luck, but everyone knew that this time they would get nothing out of nine, and they returned home.

A young man with a somewhat honest face next to the girl said: "Yes, senior sister, we have been sleeping in the open all the way, and you two girls have also suffered a lot with us three rough men, since senior sister she wants to take a bath, let her be fulfilled." I don't think there are any people here, the three of us retreat farther away, if you have something to do, you can call us. Seeing that the other two men also nodded in agreement, the older girl also nodded, she had indeed not bathed and changed clothes for many days, and had endured the bumps in the road, and now that she had this half of a moment of leisure, she naturally would not be hypocritical anymore.

Just as the three of them were about to turn around and leave, when the two girls were about to untie their clothes, the sound of breaking water suddenly sounded from the lake, and everyone was shocked and prepared to attack. But I saw a middle-aged man in a yellow shirt with a face yellower than his clothes coming out of the water and swimming towards the shore.

"What person?" the middle-aged man led by him pulled out a halberd hanging from his waist and pointed to the middle-aged man who came from the water. Several people behind him also held their blades in their hands.

"Don't panic, don't misunderstand. I had been cultivating in the water before, and I wanted to live up to the river with a few wells, but I heard these two girls say that they wanted to bathe in the water, and I was afraid that there would be a misunderstanding, so I had to show up. ”

Before the middle-aged man with the halberd could speak, another young man with phoenix eyes and thin lips behind him spoke, "Thief, I think you are a thief, lurking in the water, and I want to wait for my two junior sisters to plot against them after they go into the water. Still quibbling here. ”

The middle-aged man went ashore and did not continue to walk, but looked at the other four, pointed at the young man who was talking, and then pointed to his own brain, with a questioning look on his face. The young man was furious when he saw this, and was about to open his mouth to continue to reprimand the thief in front of him with righteousness and awe, but he heard a "poof" laugh from beside him. It turned out to be a ponytail girl named Rong'er, she noticed her gaffe and quickly covered her mouth with her hands, but her trembling shoulders still exposed her hard work to endure with a smile.

"Senior Brother Sun, if this person really has a bad plot against our two sisters, you can wait for a few of you to go far away, and when my sister goes into the water, then he will use tricks. However, when he learned that the two of us were going to take a bath, he appeared in a hurry, obviously not wanting to have a misunderstanding. How do you say that people are lewd thieves, this is Senior Brother Sun, you are rude. ”

Seeing that one of the children around him mocked himself and the other lectured himself, the young man surnamed Sun was a little displeased, but he had nothing to refute. When he appeared in middle age, he realized that the other party should be an upright gentleman, if he waited for the three of them to leave, this person would appear again, even if he would not really do anything wrong to his two junior sisters, I am afraid that the innocence of the two women would be ruined. And the other party is thoughtful, frank and slutty naturally will not be the lewd thief in his mouth, he said this, it is nothing more than to show the righteous and awe-inspiring jealousy and hatred of the young chivalrous spirit in front of the two junior sisters, who ever wanted to steal chickens and rice.

The middle-aged man led by hung the halberd back on his waist, and said to the wet middle-aged man with a fist: "Sir, forgive me, it was me who recklessly disturbed Mr.'s cultivation, Mr. did things above board, and it was our villain's heart before." Please don't blame you, sir. ”

The middle-aged man waved his hand and said, "Don't blame, don't blame." If it's okay, I'll go first, and the two girls can have peace of mind. As he spoke, he walked along the lake in the opposite direction from where he came.

"Sir!" the middle-aged man continued, "I see that Mr. is frank and alone, if Mr. don't mind, are you willing to walk with me?" The middle-aged man pondered for a moment, totaling that he didn't know anything about this place, if someone was in company, it would indeed save a lot of unnecessary trouble, and if he wanted to leave, he could part ways with these people at any time, so he turned around and nodded.

Half an hour later, a group of five people walked out of the valley. The two girls after bathing and changing clothes look a little more beautiful, although compared with the stunning women seen in the middle-aged, they are not very good-looking, but the sister is restrained and quiet, and the younger sister is cheerful and jumpy, and they also have their own vulgarities.

Along the way, the middle-aged learned that the five people in this line came from a sect called Shixingmen in Nanliyang Prefecture, which is adjacent to Yinxun Prefecture, and the father of the second daughter was the current sect master, a martial artist of the Zhongwu Realm of the Fetal Shaping Realm. My sister's name is Xin Fu, and my sister Xin Rong has reached the bottleneck of the Heavenly Milk Realm, and this time I came to seek a breakthrough. The middle-aged man is an enshriner in the door, and he is also the sworn brother of the door owner Xin Tieyong, and he is also a plastic fetus. The remaining two men, the honest one is called Li Jianyu, and the one who spoke disrespectfully before is called Sun Ju. Both of them have also reached the bottleneck of the Lower Martial Realm.

"Uncle, may I ask what is your name?, which sect and force do you come from?", "Uncle, look at your body like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child who has not grown tall, have you never eaten enough when you grew up?" The girl named Xin Rong was obviously not deeply involved in the world, and even Sun Ju, who had always spoken harshly, felt that it was very inappropriate. Xin Fu and the middle-aged man named Qin Hu awkwardly apologized to the yellow shirt one after another. The middle-aged man didn't seem to be the slightest annoyed by the girl's inappropriate words, and he said to Xin Rong with a smile: "My name is Lan Yun, probably because of my name, bad luck, bad luck." I grew up in a poor family, grew up eating hundreds of meals, and never ate meat when I was a child, so I stayed at the age of fifteen or sixteen. As for the sect, I'm just a nameless mountain and wild cultivator. ”

The girl named Xin Rong became a little solemn at this time, as if she didn't expect that the middle-aged man in front of her would be so calm and light when he told about such an encounter. She blinked her big eyes, but she didn't speak.

It took everyone an hour to finally get out of the valley, and along the way, Xin Rong kept talking and laughing like a nightingale, telling the middle-aged man anecdotes about their departure from the rivers and lakes of Yangzhou, and he was happy. The mouth of the valley was connected to an endless forest, and everyone couldn't help but be a little disappointed, not knowing when they would be able to pass through this endless dense forest, but now it was obviously not practical to turn back and go out of the valley by another way, and everyone entered the forest.

The trees here are two or three feet high, and they grow extremely densely, leaving almost no gaps in the moonlight. The middle-aged man at the head took out six torches from his backpack, lit them and distributed them to everyone. The bright light of the fire calmed the hearts of the people. Everyone walked for about a quarter of an hour, and suddenly the young man named Li Jianyu asked thoughtlessly: "Don't you feel that there is anything wrong?" Everyone stopped and looked at the young man when he heard this, and the young man saw that everyone was staring at him, and scratched his head a little embarrassedly and said: "I just think it's weird, a little cold, but that's not the point, and I can't say what's wrong." After speaking, he looked at everyone with a smile.

"Senior Brother Li also felt a little cold when he said it. The girl Xin Rong answered. While everyone was thinking, a voice suddenly said, "It's the wind." Everyone looked in the direction where the voice came from, and saw that it was a middle-aged man named Lan Yun who spoke, and their eyes were full of doubts. The middle-aged man explained, "You said that you feel cold because the wind blows you, but if there is wind, the flame of our torches should swing with the wind, but you see, our torches do not move at all. That's what's strange about what the little blue brother said. Hearing this, Li Jianyu slapped his forehead and hurriedly claimed that it was. Everyone was stunned, but then their hairs stood on end.

"Could it be that the wind here only blows on our legs and bodies, and will not pass over our heads?" Qin Hu asked in a muttering voice.

"Or is something blowing at us?" Lan Yun's voice turned cold. As the words fell, he stretched out the torch in his hand to his feet, and turned around in place by the light of the fire, and everyone saw that the moment he turned around, a black shadow disappeared into the forest.

Several people were shocked that something was really following them, and everyone didn't notice it.

"Ah......h

"Is that thing a human, a ghost, or some kind of beast?" Sun Ju asked the middle-aged man. The man spread his hands and showed that he didn't know, Sun Ju couldn't help but be angry when he saw this person's attitude. He thought about it quickly, and came up with a plan to kill two birds with one stone, and he said: "Since Uncle Lan, you are so bold and careful, why don't you walk at the end?" Two junior sisters, you walk between me and Senior Brother Li, please continue to open the way." Everyone heard the meaning of the young man's words, since that thing followed everyone, then the person who walked last must be the most dangerous, although several people felt that something was wrong in their hearts, but when they thought about it, the five of them were a team, and they didn't let outsiders get into danger, could it be difficult to let others take risks? Seeing everyone's performance, the middle-aged man shrugged his shoulders and signaled that he had no objection to walking last. Only then did everyone secretly breathe a sigh of relief and continue to move forward, and the moment everyone turned around, the smile on the corner of the mouth of the young man who walked at the end became contemptuous and cold.

The middle-aged walks very slowly, deliberately keeping a distance from everyone. It seemed that she was really dutifully breaking off for everyone, and the girl named Xin Rong turned her head and shouted to the back several times, asking if there was anything wrong with the middle-aged, while the others walked forward silently. The middle-aged man walked slowly at the back of the group, more like a pleasant walk, and from time to time he used torches to illuminate the surrounding feet, but he didn't find anything else. In the darkness that everyone could not see, a short figure was lying on a tree, a pair of eyes staring at the six people in front of him, flashing green light.

After about another hour, no accidents happened, and everyone's tense nerves finally relaxed. The heartstrings were no longer tense, and everyone felt a little tired, so Qin Hu, who was the leader, suggested that everyone sit down and rest. The five of them sit in a circle under a tree so that they can keep an eye on the scene behind their companions. At this time, the man in the yellow shirt approached from the rear, and when he saw that everyone had no intention of giving him a place to join, he didn't say much, and he already knew everyone's thoughts. The middle-aged man did not sit under the tree opposite everyone as everyone expected, but rested against a big tree on the spot.

"In this forest, every tree grows the same, and who knows if we are moving forward or spinning in circles. The young man named Li Jianyu said to himself Hearing him say this, the rest of the people became alert, Xin Fu looked around, and said with some uncertainty: "Senior Brother Li said this, I really feel that we have been here before." ”

When the girl said this, several other people also began to be suspicious, "Senior Sister Xin said this, I also think that we have been here, you look at the tree over there, I remember the lines on it, it looks like this." Sun Ju agreed, and what he said was clear-sighted.

"If that's the case, then aren't we going to be trapped in this forest?" Xin Rong said timidly.

"Why don't we leave a mark on the tree to see if we're really going the same way. The middle-aged man at the head of the proposal arrived, and seeing everyone nodding, the five of them got up and prepared to continue their march. Seeing that Lan Yun was still sitting in place, Sun Ju said a little impatiently, "Get up, it's time to go." ”

"I haven't rested yet, I just paid attention to the hard work behind you, why don't you walk at the end this time?" The young man looked at the young man who spoke with contempt.

"You!" The young man was speechless for a while, and he directly tore his face and said, "You don't like to go, and you just want to find someone who can clear mines, and you really don't think of yourself as an outsider." With that, he turned and left. Qin Hu glared at the young man, looked at Lan Yun a little stiffly, and said apologetically: "Since this is the case, we won't disturb Mr. Lan's rest." Sir, be careful, take care. With that, he left with a few people. Xin Rong wanted to say something more, but was pulled away by her sister, and the moment the girl turned her head, she saw the undisguised ridicule on the middle-aged face.