"Brother Qiao, you bully Xiao Yao. ”

As soon as Zhan Yao bit her lower lip, water vapor immediately came out of her two big watery eyes, and she said with an extremely aggrieved look.

As she spoke, she waved her pink fist and kept beating Qiao Yuan's arm, making Qiao Yuan's face bitter and his headache terrible.

"Xiao Yao, don't make trouble, I'll show you the jade slip after I leave here. ”

Qiao Yuan comforted helplessly for a long time, but whether this girl lived or died depended on the double cultivation method of the Hehuan Sect, and in the end he had to compromise.

As soon as Zhan Yao heard this, the sly look of her beautiful eyes flashed away, and she hurriedly stepped forward to hug Qiao Yuan's arm and said affectionately.

"I knew that Brother Qiao was the best for Xiao Yao. ”

This change in attitude made Qiao Yuan dumbfounded, and secretly said in his heart how this girl had become this character after eating the Fushen Pill, and at the same time, he couldn't help but start to miss the simple, cute, and well-behaved Zhan Yao in his heart.

After appeasing Zhan Yao, Qiao Yuan carefully looked through the things on the ground several times, and after making sure that there was nothing suspicious, he turned around and looked at the skeleton that had been thrown aside.

This is the skeleton of a man, looking at the lines on the bones, Qiao Yuan can roughly judge that the age of this person should not exceed a hundred years old.

A Jindan stage monk who is less than a hundred years old, looking at the cultivation realm, can be regarded as a person with excellent qualifications.

The longevity of a monk in the Jindan period is between 400 and 500 years old, and this person will become a Jindan before he is 100 years old, and it is very likely that he will advance to the Yuan Infant stage in the future.

But this person was hunted down, and now he has fallen here, didn't the people of the Hehuan Sect notice it?

You must know that monks above the Jindan stage will leave their natal soul lamps in the sect, this person falls, and the natal soul lamp is extinguished, and the Hehuan Sect must know about it.

Now that he knows about this, why no one came here to retrieve his body, this is really unreasonable for a big sect.

Thinking of this, Qiao Yuan probed his divine sense into the storage ring, found a jade plate, and quietly checked it.

The jade plaque was the monk's identity token, and the divine sense imprint and spiritual power imprint inside it had dissipated, leaving only the monk's identity introduction.

"Yang Shengming, an early Jindan monk, an ordinary elder of the Fengluan Palace of the Hehuan Sect. ”

Qiao Yuan took his divine sense back, and then swept through the other three jade slips one by one, and found that those were all double cultivation techniques, and there was no other information.

Since there are no more clues, it is useless for Qiao Yuan to break his head.

He stood up and put the corpse back into the ground, and carefully scanned the neighborhood several times with his divine sense, until nothing was found, Qiao Yuan waved his hand and motioned for Zhan Yao to leave.

As soon as he walked out of the cave, the red-eyed python let out a wail, constantly swinging the python's head, and begging Qiao Yuan for mercy.

In fact, Qiao Yuan originally didn't plan to let go of this python, but after knowing everything, he knew that this python had nothing to do with the death of Bai Yue's mother, so he had the idea of letting it go.

But at this moment, Qiao Yuan had another doubt in his heart.

Four years ago, the red-eyed python could have killed itself, but it deliberately missed and wanted to capture itself or Bai Yue alive, what was it for?

Qiao Yuan frowned and asked about this matter with his divine sense.

The red-eyed python roared lowly, and a divine thought came out, but Qiao Yuan only heard two words clearly, and the red-eyed python exploded under his shocked gaze.

Qiao Yuan waved his sleeves, and immediately a light curtain shrouded him and Zhan Yao in front of him.

Flesh and blood splashed, hitting the light curtain and making a crackling sound, the sky seemed to rain blood, instantly dyed the place more than ten feet in a circle of red, looking extremely bloody and disgusting.

Zhan Yao was so frightened by this sudden scene that she hid directly behind Qiao Yuan, but when she saw the flesh and blood flying in the sky, her face turned pale instantly, and she bent down and vomited.

Even though Qiao Yuan had seen a lot of bloody scenes, when he saw such a scene, he couldn't help but lower his head and didn't want to see it.

After more than ten breaths, the surroundings finally quieted down, Qiao Yuan waved his sleeves, covered Zhan Yao's eyes, and flew towards the bottom of the mountain with her.

Bai Yue didn't feel any discomfort, but it followed Qiao Yuan closely and ran towards the bottom of the mountain.

When he arrived at the foot of the mountain, Qiao Yuan let go of Zhan Yao, whose face was as pale as paper, and raised his hand to caress her back.

Zhan Yao was just disgusted by that scene, but it was no big deal, and it didn't take long for her face to regain its rosiness again.

"Brother Qiao, why did the python suddenly explode?"

Qiao Yuan shook his head, he didn't understand the reason, but the divine thoughts that came out of the red-eyed python before he died made his brows furrow.

"Anyone?"

Qiao Yuan only heard these two words clearly, but the others didn't have time to listen, and the divine thoughts dissipated.

After thinking for a while, Qiao Yuan's eyes flashed, his face changed greatly, and a chilling guess suddenly appeared in his heart.

The word "someone" doesn't mean anything in other places, but in this deserted mountain forest, it's enough to explain something.

The "people" mentioned here are naturally monks, and the monks who have come here, except for Qiao Yuan and Zhan Yao, are the dead Yang Shengming.

Qiao Yuan and Zhan Yao can be automatically ruled out, and Yang Shengming almost only had one breath when he came here, so naturally the person this python said was not him.

The red-eyed python stayed in this deep mountain and old forest, and the people he had come into contact with except Qiao Yuan, Zhan Yao, and Yang Shengming, who else was there, after a little thought, Qiao Yuan could guess that this person might be Zhan Yuan.

Think about it again, when I was rescued by Zhanyuan by the river, was this incident a coincidence, or was it arranged?

With Zhanyuan's cultivation, he probably didn't need to do anything to kill this red-eyed python, just a look, but he let it go at that time.

There is also a red-eyed python that just came out of his divine thoughts, he immediately exploded and died, after thinking about this matter carefully, Qiao Yuan could guess that someone must not want the red-eyed python to tell the truth.

All kinds of inferences and speculations, whether related to Zhanyuan or not, all show that there is a person behind the red-eyed python who is silently paying attention to himself.

Thinking of this, Qiao Yuan felt a chill in his heart, and he was eighty percent sure that this person was Zhanyuan.

Although he had already worshipped Zhan Yuan as his teacher, Qiao Yuan felt extremely uncomfortable in his heart when he thought that the previous life-saving grace was just a scene directed by Zhan Yuan.

"Brother Qiao, what do you want?"

Zhan Yao waved his little hand in front of Qiao Yuan's eyes, and seeing that he didn't react, he hurriedly asked.

Qiao Yuan came back to his senses and looked at Zhan Yao and smiled at the corners of his mouth.

"I didn't think about anything, let's go. ”

After saying that, he took away the white moon, threw out the Jin Yao Sword, stepped on it and flew towards the sky.

"Strange!"

Zhan Yao's eyes showed puzzlement, and she muttered in a low voice, and then she stepped on the mahogany sword and quickly chased after her.

In the days that followed, Qiao Yuan often frowned and pondered, fell into silence, and sometimes didn't say a word for a day.

Zhan Yao had long been aware of Qiao Yuan's change, but no matter how she asked, Qiao Yuan just shook her head and said that it was okay, and sometimes she didn't even bother to say anything.

And Zhan Yao found that Qiao Yuan's gaze was no longer full of intimacy and tenderness, which made her mood also low, and the smile on her face rarely said goodbye.

In this way, the two have maintained this weird atmosphere between them, getting closer and closer to Qingfeng Village.

Maybe it was because he was about to return to Qingfeng Village, Qiao Yuan's mood was slightly higher, and he frowned and pondered a lot less, but he was still a little uncomfortable when he got along with Zhan Yao.

Back then, Qiao Yuan was chased to a desperate situation by the red-eyed python, if it weren't for the mysterious power that appeared in his body, Qiao Yuan would definitely be a pile of dung at this moment.

Thinking that this matter was carefully arranged by Zhan Yuan, Qiao Yuan's mood fell again, and his gaze at Zhan Yao was extremely complicated.

Three days later, Qiao Yuan landed in a mountain forest, and couldn't help frowning when he looked ahead, with a look of doubt in his eyes.

He remembered that in front of him was the Qingfeng Mountain, but as far as the eye could see, there were no mountains except trees and flowers.

After wandering around this area for several days, Qiao Yuan still didn't find Qingfeng Mountain, which slowly developed a bad feeling in his heart.

He was sure that the landform here was exactly the same as the landform near Qingfeng Mountain, and Qiao Yuan had also found Qingfeng River, but unfortunately Qingfeng Mountain couldn't find it.

After several days of searching, Qiao Yuan's expression became more and more gloomy, and the search range had expanded from a radius of five hundred miles to a radius of three thousand miles.

In the end, Qiao Yuan had to give up, he understood that the mountain would not run on its own long feet, either it was covered by a formation, or it had been removed by someone.

There are two possibilities, Qiao Yuan believes in the first one more.

He still remembered that when Xiao Fengqing sent him and Xiao Qingyun to leave Qingfeng Village, they stayed in one place for a while, and then Xiao Fengqing pointed to the void and dotted a few times before continuing to move forward.

Qiao Yuan desperately recalled where Xiao Fengqing stopped at the beginning, but they flew too high at that time, looking at the trees on the ground like ants, how could he remember that place.

But Qiao Yuan still didn't give up, he finally returned here, if he didn't take a look at Qingfeng Village, he was really unwilling.

In this way, Qiao Yuan wandered around the neighborhood for another month, but still didn't find anything.

"Brother Qiao, your family won't have left here already, right?"

This place is like a pure land, there is not even a low-level demon beast, Zhan Yao has long been impatient, she looked at Qiao Yuan's not very good-looking face, and said cautiously.

When Qiao Yuan heard this, he didn't make a sound, just lowered his head, and the thoughts in his mind were full of thoughts.

Zhan Yao's guess is not impossible, if Qingfeng Mountain is covered by the formation, Qiao Yuan has been here for more than a month, it is impossible for Xiao Fengqing not to know.

And if Xiao Fengqing knew that Qiao Yuan was here, even if he didn't open the formation and let him in, he would at least inform him.

"Could it be that Grandpa Xiao and they have really left here?"

Qiao Yuan secretly said in his heart, at this moment he felt that this guess was very possible, but he subconsciously didn't want to believe it.

After wandering around for another three days, Qiao Yuan simply built two huts by the Qingfeng River and stayed here temporarily.

"Brother Qiao, the aura here is so thin, we ......"

Zhan Yao looked unhappy and said in a low voice, but before she finished speaking, Qiao Yuan said lightly.

"If you want to cultivate, I'll send you to cultivate in the Space Bead. ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhan Yao's two big watery eyes immediately burst into mist, and tears rolled down like pearls, and she said with a sob.

"Brother Qiao, what did Xiao Yao do wrong? As long as you say it, Xiao Yao will definitely change it in the future. ”

Qiao Yuan stepped forward, wiped away her tears with a slightly soft gaze, and said softly.

"Xiao Yao didn't do anything wrong, it's Brother Qiao who is in a bad mood, don't think about it. ”

"Is it because Brother Qiao can't find his family? But isn't Xiao Yao Brother Qiao's family?"

Zhan Yao tilted her head, stared at Qiao Yuan with teary eyes, and asked extremely aggrieved.

Hearing this, Qiao Yuan's heart was suddenly stung.

Indeed, the two have been together for so long, and Zhan Yao has long regarded Qiao Yuan as a family member, but he is not.

"Xiao Yao is Brother Qiao's family, but it's just ......"

Qiao Yuan's eyes softened even more, and he looked at Zhan Yao and said very seriously, but halfway through his words, he was speechless, and sighed secretly in his heart.

After a long while, Qiao Yuan said softly with the usual gentle smile on his face.

"After a few days, Brother Qiao will accompany you home. ”