Chapter 3 Footprints

Black sè peaks.

As soon as I stepped on that peak, a strong smell lingered in the air, a little choking, with a hint of sulfur. Ghost Li and Jin Zhu'er were both people with profound cultivation and could tolerate this kind of smell, but as they gradually penetrated deeper into this mountain, the yīn wind that gradually became stronger gradually made them frown a little.

It was a bone-chilling wind, and somehow, when it blew on the face, although the wind was not very strong, the misery of yīn was really chilling from the bottom of my heart. In addition, the faint screaming sound from the depths of the mountain peaks in front of them came out of nowhere, rising and falling, high and low, like an ape crying at night, and a fierce ghost laughing miserably, and it was also panicked in the ears.

The monkey Ash lay on the Devil's shoulder, gnawed the last wild fruit, threw the core of the fruit casually, and opened its three eyes to look around, as if it was not affected by these visions at all.

Jin Zhu'er's brows furrowed more and more, and suddenly said, "It seems that something is wrong." ”

The ghost was stunned, stopped, and said, "What's wrong?"

Jin Bei'er hesitated for a moment and said, "The last time I followed here, there were no ghosts crying wolves and yīn wind gusts all over the mountains, but later I came to the Demon Suppression Ancient Cave, and it seems that there are only a few." How come it's been a while, but it's like a ghost prison here?"

Ghost Li looked into the distance and said lightly: "Maybe this is a beast and demon lair, and the anger is too heavy, as it should be." When you come over, he has just come back to life, and of course there is no near-rì weather. ”

Jin Zhu'er thought about it, and only explained it like this. When rì was at the top of Qingyun Mountain, the beast god and the Zhuxian Sword Formation had a bloody battle, and they were severely damaged under the Zhuxian Ancient Sword, and anyone could see how powerful that sword was. However, even under the Zhuxian Sword Array, the beast god can still escape, and his cultivation is already enough to shock the world.

Jin Zhu'er's eyes flowed, and he suddenly said: "You say, if we really find the beast god in the Demon Suppression Ancient Cave, although he is already injured, but the two of us, can we really deal with him?"

Ghost Li shook his head and said, "How do I know?"

Jin Bei'er looked at him, and suddenly smiled: "Looking at your appearance, I'm afraid I'm not a little sure! In this case, what are you still doing here with me?"

She looked at Ghost Li and said with a smile: "Don't forget, in the Huqi Mountain, there is still a Baguio waiting for you to save her! If you die here, wouldn't you be too sorry for her?"

Ghost snorted, walked forward, and said, "This matter was ordered by her father to do it, I have too much Baguio, and I always have to do something." It's you," he smiled coldly, and said, "If you die here, I'm afraid you'll die, right?"

Jin Bei'er smiled coquettishly and smiled at his back: "Oh! You are really a good person, as long as we die together, don't say that this beast demon lair is a pigsty and cattle pen, that's also good." ”

Ghost Li sneered twice in front of him, obviously not believing in Jin Bei'er's words, let alone the slightest moved, just walked straight away. On the contrary, the monkey on his shoulder turned his head and smiled at the golden bottle, which was extremely rare, and seemed to be in a good mood.

Unlike the few women who Ghost Li had dated before, Xiao Ash was not as affectionate to Jin Bei'er as he was with Xiaobai and Xiaohuan, and it was the first time that he grinned happily like this.

The golden bottle was somewhat surprised, but it was not a bad thing, but it was also a little happy, and he was about to step forward to tease the monkey with a smile, but the monkey cracked his mouth and just laughed for a moment, and suddenly his mouth opened, but he spit out a black thing, and the speed was extremely fast, and he flew straight towards the place where the golden bottle was standing.

Jin Bei'er was startled, but she was not an ordinary person after all, she was not flustered, her feet spun slightly, and her body forcibly moved to the side for a few minutes, letting go of the weird thing.

I only heard a low pop, and the thing fell to the ground, but instead of bounce up, it smashed directly into the ground. Jin Bei'er looked back, but it was a wild fruit pit, I don't know when Xiao Ash still had one left in his mouth, and he tasted it, but at the moment he used it to tease her.

Jin Bei'er was teased by a monkey, his heart was slightly angry, his pretty face was a little whiter, he looked sideways, but he saw that the gray-haired monkey had turned around and sat on the shoulders of the ghost at some point, facing the golden bottle, holding his hands on his chest, swinging his two feet, looking at the sky with three eyes, his face was full of arrogance, and he had the legendary hooliganism, and even the long tail was dangling behind him, looking like I was bullying you, I was a hooligan who I was afraid of.

It's okay that Jin Bei'er didn't look at it, but when he saw it, he was even more angry, and walked a few steps to catch up with Ghost Li, and said angrily: "Why are you such an uneducated monkey, do you know how to spit out people with fruit cores?"

Ghost Li slowly turned his head, looked at the golden bottle, his face was a little strange, and said for a while: "Are you scolding it?" said and pointed at Xiao Ash.

Jin Wei'er nodded.

Little Gray was furious, and suddenly jumped up from the shoulders of the ghost, squeaked, his eyes were wide open, his hands were clenched into fists, and he kept gesturing, it seemed that he was angry, and he wanted to fight with the complaining golden bottle, and the momentum was compelling.

Jin Bei'er didn't expect this gray-haired monkey to reach such a point, he was stunned for a moment, took a step back, and then ignored it, and said loudly to the ghost: "I'm just scolding it, this beast is too hateful, you have to teach it well......

"You!" Suddenly, Ghost Li spoke loudly and shouted at Xiao Ash, and at the same time interrupted Jin Bei'er's words.

Xiao Ash was startled and paused, and Jin Bei'er was also taken aback, looking at the ghost.

I saw Ghost Li frowning, his face was stern, and he shouted at Xiao Ash: "I told you a long time ago, you have to read a lot of books, and you can only be reasonable if you know books, but you just don't listen." Why don't you learn the book "Strange Spirits and Demons" that I taught you last time? Go back and copy 300 copies of it for me and come back to see me!"

Xiao Gray's three eyes widened together, blinked, touched his head with his hand, scratched it again, and touched it again, obviously in a daze.

However, on the other side, the golden bottle was not much better, and after being taken aback, he couldn't help but sneer: "What nonsense are you talking about, even if this monkey is a human being, he has never heard of being able to read and write!"

Ghost Li turned his head and glanced at her, "Oh", as if he had just woken up, and said lightly: "In this case, even if you say so, it is not my fault that this monkey is not educated." Born with all things, why can't monkeys read, why, what?"

He looked at the golden bottle, sighed insincerely, and without saying much, turned back and walked forward.

The golden bottle was angry, and her face turned white.

The monkey in front of him pounced, fell off the shoulders of the ghost, and fell to the ground, but he didn't see any pain, but screamed loudly, danced with his hands, laughed wildly, sometimes laughed on the stomach, sometimes pounded the ground, and even had his limbs facing the sky, waving his tail, in short, laughing as rampantly as he could.

The more he looked at it, the more angry he became, and he was about to have a seizure, but Xiao Ash suddenly jumped up, "squeaked" and yelled at Jin Bottle, made a big grimace, and then fell on all fours, swished back twice, jumped on the shoulder of Ghost Li a few times, and then lay down again, where he looked back at Jin Bottler triumphantly, and made a grimace.

Jin Bei'er was furious, even her body seemed to tremble a little, and as soon as she bit her teeth, she raised her hand and waved forward, and under the warm sun, the edge of her palm glowed with a light purple light, which was extremely weird.

It's just that the palm of the hand is halfway up, but it stops in mid-air, and under the figure of the man in front of him, it seems that there is also a faint green glow in his hand.

Jin Bottle's pupils constricted.

After a while, she suddenly paused, then lowered her hand, closed her eyes, and breathed deeply. After her chest heaved a few times, her face had returned to its usual appearance. And the Qinghui in front of him also slowly disappeared, and as for his figure, he had already walked away slowly in the shrill laughter of the gray-haired three-eyed monkey.

Jin Bei'er was calm, and there was still a little anger in his heart, but at the same time, somehow, his face was a little hot. She has always turned sentient beings upside down, and she has always been good at playing with people's hearts, how did she know that she was played by a monkey today......

She snorted, put these things aside, and was walking forward, when suddenly she frowned, as if she remembered something, turned around and walked back slowly. In a short time, she had already walked to the place where the core of the fruit that Xiao Ash had just spit out provocatively landed.

The kernel is an ordinary mountain wild fruit core here, and there is nothing strange about it, but at this time, the kernel is completely sunk into the ground, and only a few hard shells are exposed. And this scorched black and strange mountain peak is not like the rest of the 100,000 mountains, with soft soil and hard rocks everywhere.

With a single spit out, Ash actually knocked the kernel into the hard stone.

Jin Bei'er's brows furrowed slowly, and she slowly stood up, looking in the direction where the ghostly figure had disappeared, and the yīn wind was blowing from that direction, and there seemed to be still the shrill laughter of the monkey in the wind.

Low, as if she was whispering to herself: "How can even this monkey have such a way, jīng is advancing so fast, what is this ......?"

The vast black sè forest has welcomed new visitors. It's just that this time, the number of guests is much higher than before. A procession of more than a dozen people walked through the jungle, among the leafy giant trees and vine-covered thorns.

It's just that this part of the journey, except for the fact that there was no expected beast attack, walked a little unexpectedly smooth.

The few people at the front of the team were not ordinary people, Lu Xueqi frowned slightly, and did not speak, but Zeng Shushu couldn't help but say to Li Xun: "Senior Brother Li, there seems to be something wrong here!"

Li Xun stopped, glanced around, then looked at Zeng Shushu, pondered for a moment, turned back to the disciples of the Incense Valley and said loudly: "Everyone rest here for a while, and we will continue to hurry later." ”

Everyone agreed, obviously it was not easy for anyone to go such a long way.

After settling the others, Li Xun and Zeng Shushu walked a little ahead, and approached Lu Xueqi at the same time, Lu Xueqi frowned, but took a step back.

Li Xun's face sank, Zeng Shushu was so clever, he immediately opened his mouth and said, "Senior Brother Li, you also found out, right?"

Li Xun nodded, and his eyes fell on the feet of the three of them, in the dense thorn bushes, although they were blurred, they could vaguely see the vague marks that someone had stepped on after the thorns were broken.

"Someone who has walked through this forest before us, and certainly not so long ago. He was sure of the truth, and at the same time a trace of worry appeared on his face that could not be concealed.

Zeng Shushu groaned: "Could it be Senior Brother Li, your fellow ......?"

Li Xun shook his head and said: "Impossible, only our team in the Incense Valley has gone deep into the 100,000 mountains, and most of the young generation of jīngying in the valley are here, and no one else will come in." ”

Zeng Shushu frowned and said, "That's strange, according to what the Lord of Yungu said, this news shouldn't have been leaked in the first place! Could it be that other sects also knew about this news and entered the 100,000 Great Mountain?"

Li Xun hesitated for a moment, but still shook his head, and said: "I don't think it should be, first of all, this matter is indeed still being kept secret, only our two factions know," he coughed lightly, lowered his voice, and said: "The beast god is the culprit of the catastrophe, if the others fall into the well and choose the cheapest, wouldn't it be ...... for the bloody battle between our two factions at the top of Qingyun Mountain."

Zeng Shushu stretched out his hand, with a smile on his face, patted Li Xun on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "What Senior Brother Li said is exactly what I want, and it is really the same as what the hero see......s!

The two of them looked at each other and smiled, but a cold snort suddenly came from the side of him, which came from Lu Xueqi's mouth, and both of them were stunned, and looked at it in a blink of an eye.

Zeng Shushu asked in a low voice, "Senior Sister Lu, what's wrong with you, could it be that we said the wrong thing?"

Lu Xueqi glanced at him coldly, turned his head, and sneered in his mouth: "The face is hateful!"

Zeng Shushu was stunned, and he couldn't figure out the meaning of Lu Xueqi's words for a while, and he didn't know whether she scolded herself or Li Xun, or both. He turned his head to look at Li Xun, and the two looked at each other, feeling embarrassed for a while, and didn't know what to say.

After a while, after all, Zeng Shushu was even thicker-skinned, snorted, pretended not to have heard anything, and said to Li Xun: "Senior Brother Li, since the news has not been leaked, and it is not your other disciples in the Incense Valley, then there are such traces here, I am afraid that there is something strange in it!"

Li Xun frowned, obviously struggling to think about it, and was just as he opened his mouth to speak, when suddenly Lu Xueqi, who had just turned around in front of him, said coldly: "Beast God!"

Zeng Shushu and Li Xun's bodies were shocked, and their faces showed stunned expressions.

After a while, Zeng Shushu nodded slowly, although he hesitated, but still said, "This...... Although what Senior Sister Lu said was more ...... It's whimsical, but when you think about it, it's really possible!"

Li Xun's expression on his face was not quite the same as Zeng Shushu's, he stopped talking, hesitated for a while, shook his head and said, "Forget it, let's continue to walk and take a look, it's useless to speculate here." ”

As he spoke, he said to the two of them, "You guys also take a rest, and I'll go back and see those juniors." ”

Zeng Shushu nodded and said, "Senior Brother Li, please!"

Li Xun said two more words of caution, turned around and walked back.

When Li Xun was far away, Zeng Shushu turned his head, looked at Lu Xueqi's back, and suddenly smiled: "Senior Sister Lu, weren't you scolding me just now?"

Lu Xueqi snorted coldly, neither admitting nor denying it, looking at the meaning, it was more tacit.

Zeng Shushu smiled bitterly, pondered for a moment, and slowly walked to Lu Xueqi's side, but lowered his voice and said, "Senior Sister Lu, I have something to ask you." ”

Lu Xueqi glanced at him, was slightly stunned, and saw that Zeng Shushu was actually very strict and serious at this moment, which was very different from usual, and said immediately: "What?"

Zeng Shushu took a deep breath, looked around, and then said in a low voice: "Senior Sister Lu, tell me honestly, is the Zhuxian Ancient Sword of this sect really damaged?"

Lu Xueqi's face turned white, her eyes flashed, staring at Zeng Shushu, even the Tianya Divine Sword in her hand, the pale blue light like autumn water, seemed to make an invisible humming sound, stretched out instantly, and then slowly retracted again.

Zeng Shushu changed slightly, only feeling that the woman in white in front of him was like ice a moment ago, but this moment seemed to have become a sharp and terrifying needle in an instant, and he couldn't help but take a step back, and said with a wry smile in a low voice: "Senior Sister Lu, don't be like this!"

Lu Xueqi stared at him coldly and said, "What do you mean by asking this sentence?"

Zeng Shushu smiled slightly, and said, "How can I say that I am also a disciple of Qingyun, how can I not care about this kind of thing? Senior Sister Wen Min, she temporarily returned to the mountain, I am afraid that it is just to report this matter to the masters, right?"

Lu Xueqi didn't speak, just looked at him coldly.

Zeng Shushu nodded and said, "Okay, okay, Senior Sister Lu, you see, I am not malicious, but there are some suspicious things here, and there are few opportunities along the way, so I will talk to you now." ”

Lu Xueqi glanced at him and said, "What's the matter?"

Zeng Shushu coughed and said in a low voice, "What kind of person do you think Yun Yilan, the valley master of Incense Valley, is?"

Lu Xueqi frowned and said, "What do you mean?"

Zeng Shushu smiled slightly, and said, "Let's put it this way, do you think the Cloud Valley Lord is a simple-minded person? Or is he a person who is as vicious as an enemy, who takes the righteous path of the world as his own responsibility, and is not at all defenseless against the Qingyun disciples who are also on the righteous path?"

Lu Xueqi snorted and didn't speak, but the disdain on her face was overflowing, obviously completely negative to Zeng Shushu's questions.

Zeng Shushu was not angry, it seemed that he had already known that Lu Xueqi would have this kind of reaction, and then said: "Since we all know that the Lord of Yungu is not this kind of ancient way warm-hearted or simple-minded person, then isn't it strange that he rashly asked the three of us about the destruction of immortals on the mountain and river hall?"

Lu Xueqi took a deep breath and looked at Zeng Shushu without saying a word.

Zeng Shushu was a little embarrassed and said, "Okay! I know it's really inappropriate to say this about a respected elder behind my back, but you see, these things are really a little strange when you think about them......

"There's nothing wrong with that. Lu Xueqi said in a cold voice, as if he didn't bother to care about Zeng Shushu's slightly open mouth, and said coldly: "Just say it, what is there to scruple about, from Qingyun Mountain to now, I don't think he is a good person!"

"Uh......" Zeng Shushu was surprised and amused, and he couldn't speak for a while. He never dreamed that Lu Xueqi, who had always followed the rules, would be more out of line than himself, and he would say his words of contempt for a certain respected senior. But looking back, it seems that there are really a lot of festivals between this beautiful and peerless woman, the respected senior and his disciples!

Looking at Lu Xueqi's face, Zeng Shushu somehow felt a little cold on the back of his neck, and intuitively wondered, did he inadvertently stab the hornet's nest......?

"How did he know the news of the destruction of the Zhuxian Ancient Sword, this is one of them. Lu Xueqi intercepted, the expression on her face remained unchanged, but there was a glimmer of light in her eyes, like a dazzling crystal, "Second, after he knew it, why did he sue us." He clearly knew that this news came out of his mouth, and we would inevitably report it back to the masters of Qingyunmen, so wouldn't there be changes between Incense Valley and Qingyunmen immediately?"

Zeng Shushu nodded again and again, and said, "I know that with Senior Sister Lu's intelligence, I must not fail to discover the important things involved. After a pause, he continued: "If you think about it carefully, the Lord of Yungu is nothing more than two situations, first, Qingyunmen has a jiān fine who gave him a message, and this news that even a Qingyun disciple like me has been kept strictly hidden, he actually knows, it can be seen that this Jiān fine status cannot be underestimated. But when he says this, isn't it possible that he will expose that fine identity instead?"

Lu Xueqi snorted and said, "Second, what is the purpose of his words to us? Is it to remind Qingyunmen that he already knows this secret, or is it to tell the division commanders that Incense Valley is no longer afraid of Qingyunmen?"

Zeng Shushu glanced at Lu Xueqi deeply, sighed, and said, "What I thought in my heart, it turns out that you have already thought of it, and I still want to remind you." But it's right to think about it, when you ask Senior Sister Wen Min to temporarily turn back to Qingyun, you just tell the elders about these things!"

Lu Xueqi was silent and nodded.

The corners of Zeng Shushu's mouth moved, and he suddenly sighed, and his voice was very emotional.

Lu Xueqi was slightly stunned and said, "What's wrong with you?"

Zeng Shushu smiled bitterly and said: "I, I am sighing for the ancient sword of Zhuxian in this gate, to be honest, although I think of these few rì here, I am still very reluctant in my heart to be true, I would rather guess wrong." ”

Lu Xueqi didn't speak, only turned her head silently and looked ahead. In the depths of the dense forest, it is dark and dark, and the future is not half bright.

Zeng Shushu let out a sigh, shook his head, and said, "Forget it, there is no way to think about it anyway, so I have to take one step at a time." I want to see what kind of medicine is sold in that Cloud Valley Lord's gourd?"

Lu Xueqi didn't answer, and her eyes inadvertently turned to the vague trace she had just discovered.

Zeng Shushu whispered on the side: "Actually, although the beast god you said is also possible, I always feel that it should not be him. ”

Lu Xueqi said: "Then who do you think it is?"

Zeng Shushu pondered for a moment and said in a low voice: "If what Li Xun said is true, and it is really not their other disciples in the Incense Burning Valley, I am only afraid that most of these traces are left by the remnants of the Demon Sect." ”

Lu Xueqi's body was shocked, she turned her head, and for the first time on her always cold and beautiful face, she said, "Why do you say that?"

Zeng Shushu pointed to the trace and said, "You see, although this trace is vague, it is obviously a trace left by human beings passing through this place. Since they had never been to the Incense Valley, there was no other sect in the Righteous Path in the world that was more familiar with the 100,000 Great Mountains than them, and it was hard to imagine that they would track it down here. But the Demon Sect is different, after the Great War between Good and Evil, the Demon Sect was expelled from Middle-earth by the righteous path, like such a place with poor mountains and bad waters, I am afraid that they will also come. So if it's them, I think it's very likely. ”

"What do you say, Senior Sister Lu?" Zeng Shushu turned his head and asked, but looking at Lu Xueqi's face, he couldn't help but be stunned.

The beautiful woman, looking at the footprint marks in a daze, looked a little pale on her face, but unexpectedly there was a faint blush, which was faintly revealing from the depths of her skin. In this desolate and cold ancient forest, she stood quietly, as if she had fallen into a strange dream, and could no longer hear the words of the people next to her.