In the depths of the secluded dense forest, there are green trees and weeds everywhere, and the dense branches and leaves block the gentle sunlight in the sky, only a little bit of broken sun shines through the cracks, illuminating the forest place, and also falling on the figures of several people in that line.

The faces of the three disciples of the Xuanjian Sect were all ugly at this time, and Nangong Ying on their side was also frowning slightly, and it didn't look like she was in a very good mood, and at the same time, on her shoulder, there was a yellow mink about the size of a squirrel, with two eyes that were black and shining, and it looked very flexible, but it had never been seen before.

In the open space in front of them, under a thick tree, a large hole had been dug in the ground, and under the dirt about two feet deep, the figure of a spirit sword was revealed at this moment.

Although it is covered in dust, although there are wear and tear marks, this spirit sword still shines with a faint spiritual light, and the blade is sharp, and these people can recognize it from this appearance and style, not to mention that the word Xuanjian is clearly engraved on the hilt.

The atmosphere in the forest was a little solemn and stiff, Geng Cheng had a calm face, leaned over and picked up the spirit sword that was buried in the soil, and after looking at it carefully, he nodded slightly, but his face became more and more ugly, and he said in a deep voice: "It's Qian Yi's spirit sword." ”

The spirit sword of the Xuanjian Gate is given by the master, and the Xuanjian disciples will never leave their bodies, and at the same time, for most of the Xuanjian disciples, the spirit sword is almost the most powerful spiritual weapon magic weapon on their bodies, and it is impossible to bury it here for no reason.

In other words, the spirit sword is here, and Qian Yi is missing, so if there are four words - more evil and less auspicious.

Geng Cheng, Fu Jundinghe and the others glanced at each other, and then they all turned their heads to look at Nangong Ying, Nangong Ying seemed to know what they were thinking, shook her head slightly, and said: "Your batch of spirit swords is made by the Heavenly Sword Palace's 'Sword House', and then distributed to the lower door of the three swords, I also practiced in the Sword Mansion, and I know that there is a 'red phosphorus' in the forging spirit material, which can naturally emit a faint odor, which can just be smelled by Xiao Jing, plus there is no red phosphorus vein here, so I can barely find this spirit sword." But other than that......"

She sighed softly and shook her head, and the little mink lying on her shoulder seemed to hear her name, raised its head and squeaked twice, Nangong Ying turned her head to look at it, reached out and touched it gently.

Geng Cheng was silent, and only after a while did he say astringently: "The spirit sword was inexplicably buried here, and it was separated from Senior Brother Qian Yi, it seems that Senior Brother Qian is afraid that he has encountered some accidents." ”

Nangong Ying didn't make a sound, Fu Jun and Ding He next to her had a trace of anger on their faces, although their relationship with Qian Yi was average before, but after all, they were all brothers in the same sect, and they would at least have a little greeting when they met on weekdays, and now Qian Yi suddenly looked at the accident, and they naturally had a bit of hatred for the enemy.

"Who did it, and he had the audacity to dare to touch our disciples of the Xuanjian Sect?"

Ding He was a little vicious, gritted his teeth and said angrily.

Nangong Ying glanced at Ding He and didn't speak, while Geng Cheng stomped his feet and said to Fu Junding and the two: "Anyway, look around carefully." ”

Since the spirit sword is here, maybe Qian Yi should also be not far away, as for whether it is dead or alive, there must always be a result.

So the three of Xuanjianmen separated and continued to search carefully in this forest, but Nangong Ying did not step forward to help, she stared at the big pit in front of her with bright eyes, looked at the inner wall of the pit and the new soil dug up, and after muttering for a while, she slowly squatted down.

There seems to be some subtle differences between the two layers of soil, and some places with loose humidity are difficult to distinguish if you don't look closely, maybe they are caused by the mysterious murderer digging up the soil a few days ago? She thought for a moment, and then said in a low voice: "Xiaojing, if that person really killed Qian Yi, why did he go to great lengths to bury this spirit sword, and it was buried separately from the corpse?"

The yellow mink squeaked twice more, as if in response to something, and as if casually calling, it opened its mouth and yawned.

Nangong Ying didn't pay attention to it, and after pondering for a while, she stood up again, looking around the dense forest, as if she was in deep thought.

What kind of person is that, after killing Qian Yi, he didn't immediately fly away and abandon the corpse, but would seem so worried about the consequences, and carefully wanted to cover up and erase all traces?

Her gaze swept across the forest, looking at the direction in which the three disciples of the Xuanjian Sect in front of her were searching, faintly inquiring, but at this moment, suddenly Ding He's voice suddenly came from the front, and shouted loudly: "Senior brother, come here, there seem to be traces of a fight here." ”

Nangong Ying raised her eyebrows, and immediately walked over there, Geng Cheng and Fu Jun were even more urgent, and arrived one step earlier than her, only to see that following Ding He's point, they really saw some traces of broken branches and fallen leaves and mud on the ground in a forest clearing, that night Shen Shi and Qian Yi fought fiercely in this forest, the movement was really not small, although Shen Shi carefully covered it up afterwards, but it was impossible to completely erase all traces in any case.

Nangong Ying looked at this piece of land, her eyes turned, and she suddenly sighed, and walked to the side of a small tree with a thick wrist on it, there was a charred black mark on it, she stared for a moment, her white fingers lightly drew in mid-air, swept up a little, and looked like an invisible spiritual power followed her gesture, flew from the air, passed through the edge of this small tree, and then gently rubbed the trunk.

Her brows slowly furrowed, and there seemed to be some doubt in her eyes, and she said in a low voice, "Fireball Technique?"

At the same time, a few shouts soon sounded next to him, and it was Geng Cheng and the others who immediately discovered a few remnants left after casting the Five Elements Spell. However, after this, Geng Cheng and the others looked at each other, their expressions were strange, you must know that Qian Yi is already the Taoist of the Ning Yuan Realm, and in the battles he participates in, it is almost impossible for these low-level Five Elements Spells to appear, and it is almost useless for others to cast them on Qian Yi, and Qian Yi himself will not cast them, because when he reaches the Ning Yuan Realm, he has stronger and more effective magic spells than these Five Elements Spells, such as the spirit sword.

Could it be that this is actually the wrong place, not the place where Qian Yi did it?

The faces of the three people of Xuanjian Sect were all ugly, and they suddenly only heard that Geng seemed to remember something, and said: "When we separated a few days ago, the last person who was with Qian Yi was the disciple of the Lingxiao Sect, called ...... What's it called?"

Next to him, Fu Jun said, "Shen Shi." ”

Geng Cheng nodded, frowned, and said, "Why don't we go to him and ask......"

Before he finished speaking, Ding He said angrily: "Senior brother, do you think that guy who has only refined Qi Realm can kill Qian Yi?

Geng Cheng was silent, and then shook his head with a wry smile, obviously even he didn't believe it, sighed, and stopped mentioning it. It's just that at this moment, Nangong Ying, who had been standing on the side and had been silent, suddenly frowned, and after a moment of silence, she spoke:

"No, let's go find this person. ”

"Huh?" Geng Cheng and the other three were all surprised, and turned their heads to look at her together, Nangong Ying didn't say anything more, her eyes swept over the traces left by the Five Elements Technique around her, and there was also some faint doubt in her eyes.

"Squeak squeak", but it was the yellow mink named Xiaojing on her shoulder, who called a few more times for some reason.

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On the shores of Silver Moon Lake, among the reeds.

The wind with moist water vapor blew over the reeds, causing ripples in these pale yellow and soft reeds like lake water, and somewhere below the "water surface", in front of Shen Shi and the little black pig, a demon beast with a fierce eye slowly walked out.

Gray-brown fur, pointed mouth and small eyes, two fangs exposed in the mouth, let out a low roar, the appearance looks like a giant rat, but the body is extremely large, almost the size of a big dog, the most conspicuous place is a fist-sized sarcoma on the back, trembling slightly as the monster moves. At this time, this strange rat demon beast was staring at Shen Shi viciously, and its gaze swept over the white radix root that he was holding in his hand from time to time.

"Gray Tumor Rat!"

Shen Shi recognized the origin of this demon beast, and frowned slightly, this kind of rat demon is a second-order demon beast, with quick movements, greedy and brutal temperament, it is not easy to deal with, and looking at its appearance at the moment, it seems to be very interested in the white radish root in his hand.

Thinking about it, not all the demon beasts are stupid, some high-level demon beasts that condense the demon pill have opened up their spiritual wisdom, and many demon beasts like to forage for spirit grass, because the spiritual power contained in the spirit grass is the great tonic they naturally love.

It's just that when he got the second-grade spirit grass in his hand, Shen Shike didn't have the slightest intention of transferring it. His palm turned slightly, and in an instant, the white radix disappeared from his palm and had fallen into the ruyi bag.

Seeing that the delicious white radishroot suddenly disappeared, the gray tumor rat suddenly became furious, roared at Shen Shi, and didn't care about the little black pig that was vigilantly watching it halfway, and pounced on Shen Shi.

The little black pig was stunned for a moment, first nervous, but then found that the target of this very vicious-looking gray tumor rat did not seem to be himself, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and then quickly turned around and ran, ready to burrow into the reeds on the side.

Unexpectedly, there was a flower in front of him, but Shen Shi swept over at some point, with a smile on his face, he picked up the little black pig and said, "I heard that you are very hard, don't be lazy, go and try it." ”

After that, regardless of the anxious annoyed and terrible screams in the mouth of the little black pig, he threw it casually, but threw the little black pig directly at the gray tumor rat that roared and pounced.

A black shadow smashed head-on, the gray tumor rat was startled, and its body subconsciously took a step back, but then it was clear that it was a little black pig that looked smooth and shiny, not even fangs, and looked harmless and timid, and suddenly roared, opened its big mouth and bit it.

The little black pig was so frightened that he hugged his head and screamed, his voice was poignant, Shen Shi on the side frowned, and took a step forward, thinking if he was wrong, and when he was about to come to the rescue, suddenly out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw a faint gray luster suddenly appear on the body of the little black pig, and under the skin and flesh, a piece of gray armor the size of a palm was faintly revealed.

Shen Shi's body paused, stopped, looked at the little black pig in front of him, with a bit of complicated emotions in his eyes, seemed to be a little happy, but also a little inexplicable sadness and nostalgia, sighed softly, and said in a low voice:

"Sure enough, it's 'thick armor'. ”

In addition to foraging for spirit grass on weekdays, gray tumor rats hunt more for meat, after all, there are not many spirit grasses, and it is impossible to find them from time to time. The black pig in front of him has been like this, it is simply a delicacy delivered to the door, and at the moment, he was unceremonious, and he bit the back of the little black pig with one mouth.

It's just that when it enters the mouth, it doesn't seem to be the same as when it bites its prey, instead of the pleasure of going deep into the flesh, it feels like its fangs are trapped in a layer of extremely tough thick skin, and no matter how hard it tries, it can't penetrate it.

The gray tumor rat was shocked, jumped back, stared at the little black pig curled up on the ground with his head in his arms, and thought to himself What kind of pig is this, such a tough and thick pig skin is really the only time in his life!

The little black pig slowly raised his head, as if he noticed something, and hurriedly turned his head to look at himself at first glance, only to see that except for a few white marks on the pigskin, there were no other scars. The little black pig was also stunned for a moment, but after a moment he came to his senses, and was overjoyed, and suddenly turned back to the gray tumor rat, and howled twice vividly, looking triumphant and fearless.

At this time, a strong wind suddenly blew from behind, Shen Shi appeared behind the little black pig, kicked out the little pig with thick skin and flesh that even the second-order demon beast couldn't do with it, and flew directly to the gray tumor rat, the little black pig in mid-air turned around and screamed in annoyance, but only heard the master standing in place, a ball of fire ignited in his hand, and his words were relaxed and relieved, and he seemed to be very happy and said:

"When you fight in the future, you are in front of you, and I cast spells in the back......"