In the middle of a deserted forest, somewhere in a cave.

"Hmph...... Today, Duanmuqi and those people came out halfway, which caught me by surprise, thinking that there were many of them, I almost couldn't resist it several times, fortunately, there were Qinglong and White Tiger, and the two of you responded in time, otherwise my life would be difficult to protect!" Xuanwu said with some reluctance, seeing that his anger had not yet dissipated.

On the other side, after Mr. Diyin heard Xuanwu finish speaking, he thought for a while and said: "Now that the situation seems to be that there are indeed many powerful people in the righteous path, we must hurry up the action plan!"

Suzaku stood behind Mr. Diyin, she twisted her slender waist branch, strolled over, and raised a charming look, she smiled: "Sir, Xuanwu and I have already arranged for a group of sect members to go to various places in the Desolate Forest to release the news of the Seven Treasure Bells, I believe that a large number of sect forces will gather towards the place where we are ambushed in the next few days." ”

She added: "At that time, we only need to arrange for the elite disciples in the sect to ambush him, and then wait for the opportunity to move and kill him by surprise!"

After hearing this, several other people agreed.

At this time, Xuanwu looked at Suzaku, he seemed to be a little unhappy, his face was angry and dissatisfied, and then he said coldly: "When I fought with Duanmuqi's five people today, I saw that you were also fighting with that man and woman, but I found that you didn't seem to use all your strength!"

Xuanwu has always been straightforward when he speaks, and if he has anything, he has to say anything, and the people in the sect also know his temperament, and the three people beside him, Qinglong, White Tiger and Mr. Diyin, are not surprised.

When Suzaku heard this, a pair of flattering eyes turned to him, but instead of being angry and explaining, her face looked a little playful, and she chuckled: "Oh! Could it be that our Xuanwu Holy Envoy has discovered something, don't you think that I have something to do with those people?"

Suzaku is mainly anti-guest this time, Xuanwu was stunned for a moment by her rhetorical question, and he couldn't say anything after thinking about it for a while.

He only snorted: "Today I saw that young man attack Ling Li with every move, and every move and style left no room to attack you with all his strength, and you could have defeated him in the shortest possible time, why didn't you use all your strength, but instead entangled with that kid, isn't it that you fell in love with that young man and had some affection for him?"

After hearing this, Bai Hu on the side burst into laughter and said, "Brother Xuanwu, you are making a bit of a big joke! Think about how noble our Suzaku is, we are the ladies of the sky, how can we fall in love with that stinky boy again!"

At this time, when Suzaku heard Xuanwu's remarks, she didn't think of the young man, but when she heard Xuanwu's mention, some clips of the young man flashed in her mind.

Suzaku had a hint of joy in her heart, and she couldn't tell what it was, maybe it was the words that Xuanwu had just said that made her feel a little inexplicable!

But who would have expected that Suzaku did not defend herself, but admitted it, she echoed and whispered: "Yes! It's a pity...... After finishing speaking, she shook her head slightly, expressing regret!

Xuanwu was a little puzzled by her words, and the white tiger beside him also scratched his head, but with Suzaku's usual style, some things are always confusing, which makes many people in the sect curious and even a little mysterious about her!

Among the few people, only Qinglong and Mr. Diyin, who stayed aside, were silent, compared to Xuanwu and Baihu, these two naturally had much higher clarity of mind than them!

Just before Xuanwu and Baihu could understand, Suzaku had already left their side and walked towards the entrance of the cave, but she dropped a sentence, "Hehe" and said: "It's a pity that the young man's family already has a lover, and it's useless for me to think about it......"

As soon as she finished speaking, her red figure disappeared from the eyes of several people in the cave. Only Xuanwu and White Tiger were still standing in the cave, with blank expressions on their faces......

......

In the barren forest, the night moon is dark and the wind is high, and the dark and dreary night sky seems to have boundless thick ink heavily smeared in the sky.

In the forest, the cold wind mixed with the slightest raindrops whistling, and the clatter of dead branches and broken leaves could be heard everywhere. When the fog hits at night, you accidentally step into this dark weirdness, which makes people lose their way!

A graceful red figure looked strange and bright in the dark night, it was a strong color in the darkness, she put away the blood-colored scimitar in her hand, as if waiting for someone to arrive.

Suddenly, a white light flashed, the light of a weapon, piercing the deep darkness.

Not far away, a strange black figure stood faintly in a narrow bend, he picked up two black moon blades in his hands, the blades emitted a blue light, revealing a killing intent that made people shudder.

The man walked briskly towards the red figure in front of him, his steps silent but powerful, like a lonely man in the dark, a mysterious lone wanderer in the night!

In the faint light, the man looked very capable in a tight black suit with leggings and legs, and there were a few silver stripes on the black clothes, and the light flickered, and the outfit was naturally the usual dress of an assassin.

I couldn't see what his face looked like, but half of his face was covered by a black cloth, and a pair of eyes shone with cold indifference and forced to look ahead.

When he approached the red figure, he was about a foot away from the red shadow. Then, the red graceful figure turned around, and a charming and beautiful face appeared in front of him, the woman turned out to be Suzaku!

"Subordinates, see the Suzaku Holy Envoy!" the voice was cold and decisive, coming from the mouth of the black-clothed assassin.

Suzaku also opened his mouth, with a little concern in his tone, only to hear her say: "The desolate forest, everywhere is full of dangers, these days you are looking for the artifact Qibao Bell, what clues do you have?"

The black-clothed assassin replied at this time: "Returning to the Holy Envoy, after receiving the task, my subordinates dare not slack off these days!"

He continued: "After my subordinates surveyed the terrain of the entire Desolate Forest, I thought that the Seven Treasure Bell and the spirit beast were hidden deeply, but the subordinates have not found any clues yet, but they are just ......."

Suzaku saw that he stopped at this point, so he asked, "Just what?"

The black-clothed assassin thought for a moment, and then he replied: "My subordinates discovered yesterday that there is a mysterious place in the depths of this desolate forest, called 'Monuma Gorge'! That's why the subordinates didn't act rashly!"

In the past few days, in addition to spreading news to lure those righteous people into the trap, she has also been looking around for where the Qibao Bell is, but she has also walked many places, and has not found a trace of it!

This made her feel a little that the artifact was just a legend, and the so-called spirit beast Hedgehog was just a fabrication in ancient books, and there was no such ancient beast as the Hedgehog.

But no matter what, a large number of sect forces have already gone to this desolate forest, and this plan can also get rid of those righteous path forces, which is really a great time.

After that, he only looked at Suzaku and chuckled: "You have worked hard in the past few days, so according to what do you mean, the Seven Treasure Bell and the Spirit Beast are very likely to be in this land of Monuma Gorge?"

"Well, according to the subordinates' guesses, there should be no doubt about it!" replied the black-clad assassin.

Suzaku has always believed in his judgment, and has been working with her for the past few years, and she can basically get satisfactory results.

The light drizzle in the sky turned a little heavier from the slightest drizzle just now, and after a long time, the clothes on both of them were covered with water droplets, and even their hair became wet.

Suzaku's fair and translucent face, crystal clear water droplets fell from her long eyelashes, and flowed down her slightly flushed cheeks, as if it was as beautiful as the water hibiscus!

The cold eyes of the black-clothed assassin flashed with a strange light at this moment, and the night was dark, and he looked at the woman in red in front of him, and for a moment he became distracted, and he thought about it wildly......

After a moment, he realized that he had lost some of his temper, and hurriedly bent down, lowered his head, and stopped looking at the woman in red.

Seeing that the raindrops were getting bigger, Suzaku said to the black-clothed assassin, "You go back and rest first! As for the Monuma Gorge, I have my own plans, and I will inform you when I have a mission!"

"Yes! As soon as the black-clothed assassin wanted to leave, he said again: "The night rain is cold, please go back and rest early, so as not to be careful of catching a cold!"

Suzaku nodded in response. Then, she thought about her subordinate, who has always been unsmiling, usually cold and killing, just now he said that made Suzaku a little surprised, when did the cold-blooded and ruthless step shadow learn to care about others.

Suzaku didn't think much about it at this time, she saw the rain getting heavier, and then her body turned into a red shadow and flew into the sky, disappearing.

Speaking of the black-clothed assassin just now, it is the shadow mentioned in Suzaku's mouth before, he was a well-known blood moon killer in the rivers and lakes, relying on taking people's money and buying and selling for people to make a living, just a few years ago, he has always been alone, he didn't know why he worshiped the Tianwei Holy Sect, and later worked under Suzaku, he often haunts the night when the moon is dark and the wind is high, and he is the terminator of fate in the dark!

From this moment on, I saw the rain pouring down in the sky, the wind roared like a roar, and in the dark sky, a thunderclap sounded, and the lightning emitted a powerful light, like a sharp sword, piercing the sky and illuminating the entire desolate forest!

Day 2.

There have been a lot of large numbers of forces in the Desolate Forest these days, and they are all looking for the traces of the Seven Treasure Bells and Spirit Beasts, leading the powerful elite disciples in the sect, almost all over this ancient secret realm.

For a time, in the face of many crises in the jungle, they scrambled to kill each other. For this reason, some sect forces have already fallen here, and some have been attacked by a series of strange beasts, and have suffered heavy casualties several times, so they have no choice but to give up and leave the desolate forest.

Now those who can still persist in this desolate forest are only a few sects with relatively strong strength. They all wanted to be one step ahead, get the Seven Treasure Bell, and collect the spirit beasts, so that they could use them for their own use.

On this day, many disciples from the sect sent to investigate! It was news that the artifact Qibao Bell was located in a place called the "Blood Bat Sinkhole" in the south of the Desolate Forest.

It is said that the blood bat sinkhole, which was formed in the Hongmeng period, was a huge sinkhole smashed out by some kind of alien object flying here, and many people speculated that the UFO was afraid that it was the artifact Qibao Bell, so I thought that the Qibao Bell must be in the sinkhole!

As a result, most of the sect forces scattered in all corners of the Desolate Forest, as soon as they heard the news, they all rushed to the location of the Blood Bat Sinkhole!

......

In the south of the Desolate Forest, there was a group of people walking in the direction of the Blood Bat Sinkhole, they were about twenty or thirty people, and in front of them were three heads, two men and one woman, two of whom were both in the age of sixtieth year, and the woman was also at the age of not being confused! Looking at their costumes, it was obvious that they were from the three sects.

At this time, the three of them talked and whispered as they hurried along...... The disciples behind them followed.

Suddenly, a group of people wearing armor appeared in front of them, and the leader in front was a man about twenty years old, wearing silver armor, a white cloak on his back, and a long halberd in his hand, majestic, it turned out that Bai Zhaoce and his seven disciples had come here.

On the opposite side of Bai Zhaoce, all the disciples of the three sects pulled out their weapons one after another, thinking that they were some kind of evil forces, and they were about to prepare for battle!

I saw that among the three leaders in the lead, one of the old men in gray looked at Bai Zhaoce in front of him, he stretched out his hand to stop the movements of those disciples behind, it seemed that those people were taking him as the leader. The gray-clothed old man was Wu Zhenren, the master of Youzhou Taimiaoguan, and the two people beside him were Ma Xiangu, the head of Cihang Zhai, and Bian Peng, the head of Jinxiang Palace.

Then, after Wu Zhenren carefully looked at the people on Bai Zhaoce's side, he smiled and said, "Your Excellency is not a disciple of the Zhongzhou Divine Martyr's Hall?"

At this time, Bai Zhaoce saw the people on the opposite side clearly, and knew that those people were not hostile, so he waved his left hand and signaled the seven disciples behind him to all retreat.

Bai Zhaoce looked at Wu Zhenren's side, arched his hand and said, "Bai Zhaoce, a disciple of the Lower Divine Martyr's Hall, has seen his predecessors!"

Wu Zhenren on the other side saw that he was heroic, but he was also a dragon and phoenix among people, and he smiled "hehe" and said: "The old man is Wu Zhenren, the master of the Taimiao Temple in Youzhou, dare to ask Bai Shaoxia This time he is also going to the blood bat sinkhole?"

Bai Zhaoce had already heard the news that Qibao Ling was in the Blood Bat Tiankeng, but he felt that something was not normal, so he also wanted to go and explore it in person!

He said, "Yes! ”

As soon as Bai Zhaoce finished speaking, Wu Zhenren on the other side, Ma Xiangu and Bian Peng, who were next to him, were both angry at the moment. The man named Bian Peng looked like a dove with a hoof, dressed in a camel-colored robe, and he said angrily to Bai Zhaoce: "I didn't expect that Your Excellency is a disciple of the Divine Martyr's Hall, and it is also for your own selfish interests, and you can't get the Qibao Ring!"

Bai Zhaoce was silent when he heard this, and then laughed out loud......

"What do you mean by this!" asked Bian Peng on the other side, puzzled.

Bai Zhaoce stopped laughing at this moment, and he said heartily: "Now the various factions that have entered this desolate forest, who is not here for the Seven Treasure Bells and spirit beasts, since I have entered this forest, of course I am here for them!"

At this time, the woman named Ma Xiangu beside Bian Peng, she listened to Bai Zhaoce's somewhat arrogant tone, and also said angrily: "Since this is the case, what is the difference between Your Excellency and those cult demons, then don't blame me for being polite!" After she finished speaking, she sacrificed the magic weapon on her body, wanting to rush forward.

"Master Ma, slow down!" Wu Zhenren over there stopped her desire to rush, and then said: "The old man sees that Bai Shaoxia is not hostile to us, you might as well listen to what he said first!"

Under the stop of Wu Zhenren, the horse fairy Gu withdrew the glowing magic weapon in her hand, and looked directly at Bai Zhaoce with a pair of eyes, waiting for Bai Zhaoce to say something.

Bai Zhaoce looked at the three of them opposite, and then said with a straight face: "Presumably the three seniors know that in recent days, the forces of various factions have either been attacked by strange beasts in the forest, or they have killed and fought with each other.

Wu Zhenren, Ma Xiangu and Bian Peng on the opposite side, they were all stunned when they heard Bai Zhaoce say this. Immediately, Bian Peng arched his hand, his face was a little apologetic, and he said with a smile: "It turns out that Bai Shaoxia is here for the cult demons, just now I, Bian Peng, are a little impulsive, thinking that you are those traitors who came to compete for spirit beasts, if you have any offense, please forgive Bai Shaoxia!"

At this time, Bai Zhaoce approached Bian Peng and the others, the cold arrogance on his face faded, and he turned to seriously arch his hand and said: "Senior Bian, there is something wrong with the younger generation, I should have explained my intention to come this time earlier, I am really ashamed!"

Wu Zhenren smiled "haha" at this time and said, "It's okay, since the misunderstanding has been resolved, there is no need to say anything more." Don't hide it from Bai Shaoxia, I waited for this time to come here to stop the cult demons, I think that the world is in turmoil today, the cult is rampant and evil, this time there are spirit beasts born in the desolate forest, and all forces and cults are also involved in it, it is inevitable that there will be a fight!"

After Wu Zhenren finished speaking, Ma Xiangu beside him spoke: "Bai Shaoxia, I am Ma Xiangu, the head of Cihang Zhai in Youzhou, a few years ago the Tianwei Cult captured the land of Youzhou, and we waited for the three sects to be brutally murdered, and resisted to the death several times before they were able to escape from the clutches of the cult.

At this time, Wu Zhenren next to him nodded slightly with Ma Xiangu's words, a look of grief and sorrow flashed in his eyes, and the old hands that had been eroded by wind and rain were trembling slightly......

After a while, Bian Peng, one of the several people, also said angrily: "Yes, the cult demons are arrogant and domineering, and they do all kinds of evil, which is a great harm to my righteous path faction, but unfortunately I haven't seen any trace of them in the past few days, otherwise they will definitely be killed to prove the way of heaven!"

Bai Zhaoce listened to the words of the three of them, thinking about the brutal behavior of the cult demons over the years, his heart was not as angry.

Then, I only listened to him: "The evil cult demon has always acted treacherously and cunningly, and now his whereabouts are very secret, I don't know what sinister things he will do in secret." ”

He then said, "Therefore, the younger generation is trying to unite with other righteous path forces, and everyone will unite to fight against the cult together!"

Wu Zhenren, who was opposite him, looked a little stunned at the moment, then sighed, and said helplessly: "Now I don't know how many sect forces have been consumed by the desire for profit, and they have become ruthless for their own selfish desires, but it is ridiculous that they still claim to be the righteous sect!"

Wu Zhenren would say this, he naturally saw the complexity and contradictions of the current world, and Bai Zhaoce couldn't empathize!

He bowed his hand to Wu Zhenren: "The seniors are extremely right! But the younger generations believe that among them, there will definitely be righteous people like the three seniors, as long as we unite them, they will be an indestructible force, we must stop the cult demons, and we must not let them seize the spirit beasts first!"

At this time, Wu Zhenren and Ma Xiangu and Bian Peng next to him both showed a look of appreciation, and then Wu Zhenren said: "Well, Bai Shaoxia is really chivalrous and courageous, which makes the old man and others admire him!"

"The seniors praised it falsely!" Bai Zhaoce replied.

Then, Bian Peng, one of the several people, said to Bai Zhaoce: "It is reported that the artifact Qibao Bell is under the blood bat sinkhole, I don't know what Bai Shaoxia thinks?"

When Bai Zhaoce heard this, he thought for a while, and then said: "According to the opinion of the younger generation, I think this news is a bit strange, but I don't know who has found the trace of Qibao Bell, but why he released this news, there are many doubts in this, and I can't solve it!"

Wu Zhenren said at this time: "This time, we will go together, and we will find out if this news is true or false!"

Bai Zhaoce thought the same way, he agreed and said: "For today's plan, we can only go to the Blood Bat Sinkhole and see what is going on!"

......

When night came, to the south of the barren forest, several rocky mountains were high and protruding, and the overall color showed a fiery dusk tone, which seemed incompatible with the surrounding green forest.

Among them, on a high rocky mountain, its top is covered with trees, and it is verdant, as if it is an island in the forest, which is quite unique.

The night was hazy, with shadows of the trees and gusting winds.

Suddenly, several black shadows appeared in the jungle, and at first glance there were as many as a hundred people, almost about two hundred, all of them were already holding strange weapons in their hands, and the cold light was clear in the night.

Those people didn't know where the mysterious force was, only to see the strange whereabouts one by one, and then all of them quickly climbed towards the few fiery rock mountains not far away, a long-planned lurk, followed by a murderous undercurrent......