Three months have passed, and the merchant ship is drifting on the vast sea, and it is extremely far away from the Donglin Continent.

As far as the eye can see, there is nothing to be seen in all directions except the turquoise water, the blue sky, and the large clouds.

Sometimes, merchant ships sail for half a month without seeing an island.

If you are an ordinary person, you will not be able to endure this kind of unchanging scenery and boring life.

But for monks, three months is just a time to meditate, between closing and opening their eyes.

On this day, as soon as it was dark, there was no one on deck, except for the sound of footsteps, and a stout, bald, shirtless man stepped out of the cabin.

Behind him, there was also a man in Tsing Yi with an extremely cold expression, who was the one who stopped Qiao Yuan and the others when they first got on the boat before.

"Shi Zhan, what do you think of Shi Chong's changes in the past few months?"

Standing at the bow of the boat, the bald and shirtless man casually placed a soundproof prohibition, did not look back, but looked ahead, and asked loudly.

The man in Tsing Yi frowned slightly, adding a sense of slaughter to his already extremely cold expression.

"The eighth child has always been stupid, although he has good talent, but he has no interest in cultivation, let alone self-control, and his changes during this period of time do seem to be a different person, which is not in line with his nature, there must be a ghost in this matter. ”

"Even you know that there is a ghost in this matter, can Shi Nantian not know?"

The corner of the bald and shirtless man's mouth hooked up a sneer, and there was a dark color in his eyes.

The man in Tsing Yi showed a thoughtful look on his face, pondered for a moment, and said in a low voice.

"What the fourth uncle means is that the patriarch deliberately concealed the truth. ”

"I have also probed Shi Chong's body and found nothing abnormal, but how can a person suddenly change so much, no matter what, it must be inseparable from those four people. ”

The bald and shirtless man shook his head, and the cold light flashed in his eyes, causing the temperature around him to plummet a lot.

Such an obvious hint, how could the man in Tsing Yi not understand.

"Fourth Uncle wants me to kill those four people?"

"Don't reveal your identity. ”

The bald and shirtless man nodded, leaving this last sentence, and then turned and walked to the cabin.

The waves were surging, and the sea breeze at night seemed even more bitter and cold, but it did not lift the shirt of the man in green clothes, but only let the coldness on his face slowly turn into murder.

Shi Zhan is a member of the Shi family, although his cultivation qualifications are quite high, but his identity and bloodline are relatively humble, so he can only rely on the bald and shirtless man to serve him.

So far, he has already cultivated the Jindan Great Perfection, and he is only one step away from the Yuan Infant Stage.

In his opinion, Qiao Yuan and the four of them are already rabbits waiting to die, just killing them will definitely offend Shi Chong and indirectly offend the patriarch, so he must think carefully and try not to cause the slightest movement.

Time passed slowly, until late at night, a dark shadow suddenly flashed in the cargo hold.

The black shadow couldn't see the body and physiognomy clearly, and there was no breath on its body, wandering in the darkness, like a void ghost.

Quietly, the black shadow immediately came to the door of the first room of the cargo hold, and did not open the door, but shuttled in through the crack in the door, without even making the slightest sound.

The silence in the room was like an abyss under the sea, and a suffocating danger was rapidly approaching inside, a girl who was sitting cross-legged on the bed and cultivating.

Qiyun's eyes were closed, and he didn't even twitch his eyelashes, apparently unaware that death was coming.

The black shadow flickered, and immediately came to her for a moment, a pitch-black palm did not bring the slightest strong wind, it seemed to be slow, but in fact it was extremely fast towards her dantian.

If this palm falls, it is conceivable that Qiyun will definitely be destroyed and die, and there will be no chance to resist and make a sound.

But just when the palm was less than an inch away from her lower abdomen, a sudden change occurred, and a big hand as white as jade suddenly appeared out of thin air, tightly clasping the pitch-black palm.

At the same time, Qiyun suddenly opened her eyes and saw the two palms in front of her, she did not hesitate or panic at all, she held her hand lightly, and her green jade fingers directly pointed at the black shadow in front of her.

An astonishing chill emanated from its jade fingers, instantly condensing a thin layer of ice on the black shadow's body.

The black shadow was startled and wanted to pull away, but his hand was tightly grasped by the other hand, and he couldn't break free at all.

Turning his head to look, what he saw was a young man in white with a delicate face but an extremely cold expression, who was Qiao Yuan.

"Master!"

After Qiyun counterattacked, he immediately turned his head to look at him, his eyebrows and eyes curved, revealing a smile like a flower.

"Dare to sneak up on my apprentices, and look for death. ”

Qiao Yuan snorted, there was no superfluous movement at all, and the powerful coercion in the middle of the Yuan Infant spread out through his right hand, directly invading his body.

There was a thudding sound, and the coercion was like a torrent pouring down, and the snow-capped mountains collapsed, raging wildly in his body.

In just a moment, the black shadow collapsed to the ground, and its body trembled uncontrollably, and it didn't even have the strength to speak.

As soon as Qiao Yuan's right hand moved, the coercion immediately spread out, only to hear a stabbing sound, and the black cloth on the black shadow's body shattered inch by inch, revealing the true body hidden inside.

Dressed in a cyan robe, it was none other than Shi Zhan, who was ordered to assassinate Qiao Yuan's four people.

His face was as pale as paper, no longer as cold and murderous as before, and his eyes contained a deep sense of horror and horror.

Shi Zhan did a lot of calculations, but he didn't expect that the person he wanted to assassinate actually had a mid-Yuan Infant monk.

"It's him!"

Qiyun stepped forward to see Shi Zhan's face clearly, and couldn't help frowning, she remembered that this person and Shi Chong didn't seem to be quite right.

Qiao Yuan looked down and also recognized Shi Zhan, and the murderous intent in his eyes made him tremble more and more violently.

"Say, why did you come to assassinate Qiyun?"

Shi Zhan clenched his teeth and did not speak, because he knew that even if he said it, he would still die, so it was better to fight for it.

Thinking of this, his dantian quickly swelled, and it looked like he was planning to blow up the golden pill.

Qiao Yuan sneered, and quickly pinched out a few seals, pointed on his dantian, and sealed his cultivation.

fell into Qiao Yuan's hands, if he let him blow himself up, it would really be a joke, and from now on, Qiao Yuan would not have to cultivate.

He saw that Shi Zhan was an unyielding person who would rather die, and he was too lazy to talk nonsense, so he raised his hand directly and landed on his heavenly spirit, and the powerful divine sense probed into his sea of consciousness and performed the soul searching technique.

Soul searching, as the name suggests, is to search for other people's sea consciousness souls with divine consciousness to find the key information in it.

This technique is quite vicious, it is very likely to cause irreparable damage to people's sea of knowledge, and there are restrictions, the cultivation of soul seekers is much higher than that of those who are soul searched, so Qiao Yuan rarely uses it, and generally lets Cang Tai search for other people's memories with strong soul power.

But he didn't have the slightest mercy for this stone battle, if he hadn't appeared in time, I'm afraid Qiyun would have been poisoned by him.

A terrible scream sounded, and Shi Zhan's body twisted and trembled like a reptile, constantly rolling on the ground, but his heavenly spirit fell tightly in Qiao Yuan's hands.

Qiyun on the side was frightened, and couldn't help but wrinkle her nose, don't look over.

It wasn't until a stick of incense had passed that Qiao Yuan let go of his hand, his expression gloomy as water.

"Master, what did you find?"

Qiyun hurriedly stepped forward, didn't look at the fainting Shi Zhan, and asked curiously.

Qiao Yuan sighed lightly.

"Things are getting more and more complicated, and we have been implicated in the infighting of the Shi family. ”

"Infighting?"

Qiyun lowered his eyes, after staying on the ship for so long, they naturally knew that the people of the Shi family were not in harmony.

The Shi family has two late Yuan Infant monks, who basically don't care about family affairs, but leave them to the patriarch Shi Nantian and the other two Yuan Infant middle stage monks to deal with.

The two were named Shi Batian and Shi Antian, of which Shi Batian was the bald and shirtless man, and he was also the one who instructed Shi Zhan to assassinate Qiyun.

The three mid-Yuan Infant monks of the Shi family are like brothers on the surface, but secretly they are constantly fighting.

Shi Batian wanted to seize the power of the patriarch, but Shi Antian wavered, wandering between the two, never showing to help either of them.

This time, Shi Batian sent Shi Zhan to assassinate Qiyun, just because he couldn't see Shi Chong change drastically, hoping that by getting rid of them, Shi Chong would become that idle boy again.

It's a pity that he didn't expect that Shi Zhan would actually miss, and he also lost himself, exposing his plan.

"Master, since they like infighting, why don't we make a move to drive the tiger and devour the wolf. ”

Qiyun's shrewd eyes rolled slightly, and the corners of his lips immediately hooked up a smile.

Qiao Yuan's eyes flashed, looked at Shi Zhan, who was unconscious on the ground, and nodded.

Killing him is obviously useless, and it will startle the snake, so it is better to let him perform a play.

Qiyun playfully spit out her fragrant tongue, hurriedly walked out of the room, and invited Su Zhen over.

With his control of the mind and the prohibition, it is naturally not a problem to control another stone battle.

Early the next morning, just after dawn, Qiyun came out of the cargo hold and onto the deck.

Since Shi Nantian favored her and decided that Qiyun was his daughter-in-law, he did not have any restrictions on her movements, and the ordinary people of the Shi family were respectful and respectful when they saw her, and did not treat her as an outsider.

At this moment, the deck was empty, and Qiyun stood at the bow of the ship, as if waiting to watch the sunrise.

But at this moment, a black shadow suddenly burst out and attacked her.

The two immediately fought together, and it didn't take long for Qiyun to lose the upper hand, and several injuries were added to his body, and he was in danger, as if it would not be long before he would be murdered.

But at the most critical moment, Shi Chong suddenly appeared and blocked a blow for Qiyun.

A mouthful of blood spurted out, and Shi Chong's body flew out upside down, directly hitting the formation around the big ship, which immediately alarmed the two late Yuan Infant cultivators, as well as Shi Nantian and the others.

Without thinking, the black shadow immediately fled towards the stern of the boat, but under the noses of the two late Yuan Infant monks, how could he escape.

Several earth-shattering coercions spread, and immediately enveloped the black shadow, causing it to fall to its knees and tremble.

"Bold thief, dare to commit murder here, accept your life!"