Chapter 16: Elixir Valley
Heading north out of the city, passing through a dense forest, Qi Yue followed the two of them to a towering peak, and the road up the mountain was full of thorns, but the strange thing was that the fat man who led the way in front of him could always find a path from some wild grass that seemed to be a dead end.
The road under your feet seems to be narrow and not easy to walk, but it unexpectedly leads to a cliff at the top of the mountain, and when you look around, you find that there is no road here, and there is an abyss in front of you.
The three of them stopped, and Qi Yue walked up to Jiang Yuan and asked tentatively, "Senior Brother Jiang, there is no way out in front of us, are we in the wrong place?"
"Hehe, Brother Qi, don't worry, we didn't go wrong. Look, we're going to the mountain on the other side," he chuckled, stretching out his hand to point ahead.
Looking in the direction of his finger, the other party does seem to have a road, but there is an abyss about seven or eight zhang away between the two mountains, and the mountain wind is howling in the middle, and it is difficult for even a good hand to pass.
Seeing the worry in Qi Yue's eyes, he patted him on the shoulder, "You look down!"
"Below?" I don't know what he means, I was puzzled, I took two steps forward, stretched out my head to look at the abyss underground, it turned out that there was an iron cable connected between the two mountains, and I didn't pay attention to it just now, but I don't know if this iron cable can bear the weight of people.
"This iron cable is made of thousands of tough iron, it has no other effect, but only the tenacity is abnormal, not to mention the three of you and me, even if there are hundreds of ten people standing on it at the same time, it is not a problem, it's just ...... I don't know if you can't pass with your light skills?" Seeing Qi Yue's embarrassment when he went down the mountain before, Jiang Yuan really didn't dare to compliment him for his light skills.
Knowing that his appearance at that time was really unbearable, it was no wonder that he would ask this, in order to regain his face, Qi Yue didn't say a word, and landed on the iron rope in the blink of an eye, stretched out his hands to balance left and right, and after being familiar with the strength of the mountain wind on both sides, he began to walk forward slowly little by little.
The two people behind him are extremely familiar with this place, and they also follow the figure and fall on the chain, but the movements of the two of them are much more chic than Qi Yue's actions, even the fat man who looks bulky actually hides a strange light skill, and his feet jumped up and swept directly over Qi Yue's head, and the seemingly heavy body fell on the iron rope without even shaking a little, and then even the foot counted, and the person was already standing on the opposite cliff and looking at the two.
Stunned in mid-air, Qi Yue, who was on the chain, his eyes were wide open, his lips were slightly open, and the light skills he was proud of on weekdays were compared with this fat man, and he was completely thrown out of the eight streets, "Sure enough, those who can enter the Ziyang Sword Sect are absolutely very human, this fat man's weight is at least more than double that of mine, this mountain stream is howling, even Senior Brother Jiang Yuan can only step on the iron rope and move forward gradually, and he can actually ignore the surrounding environment, just by virtue of this, this person should not be underestimated!"
Noticing that Jiang Yuan behind him was about to bump into him, he stopped being in a daze and continued to walk forward cautiously.
After the three of them went up the cliff, they walked straight along the road in front of them, the road was different from the previous mountain, it seemed that someone had carefully taken care of it here, not only the road was spacious, but even the flowers and plants on the side were in order.
After a cup of tea, the scenery in front of him suddenly changed, and the surrounding trees gradually became scarce, replaced by some strange flowers and plants that had never been seen before, and even Qi Yue could faintly ask about the fragrance of medicinal herbs wafting in the air.
"Uncle Jiang, everyone come out quickly! Someone from the sect is coming!" When Qi Yue was still paying attention to the flowers and plants, a house appeared in front of him, and someone recognized Jiang Yuan, and waved his hand excitedly and shouted into the house.
The silence of the mountains suddenly became boiling, and thirty-four people poured out of seven or eight rooms, and one by one they surrounded them as if they had seen the backbone of the Lord.
"Uncle Jiang, you are here!" An older disciple stepped forward from the crowd and bowed his hand.
Qi Yue noticed on the side, there were tears flashing in his eyes, as if he had been wronged.
"Well, where is the body of the casualty disciple? Take me to see it" Seeing that all the disciples were colored, his face was very bad, and he went straight to the topic as soon as he came up.
"Yes, Uncle will come with me!" the elder disciple bowed and replied, turning around and leading the group to the innermost room.
As soon as he entered the door, Qi Yue smelled an oncoming corpse smell, and it was early autumn at this time, and there were already some flies and insects in the house making a "buzz~" sound.
"Hmph!" With a wave of the long sleeves, the cyan true qi shot out, and when everyone didn't know what was happening, the fly traps flying in the room had already landed, and there was no movement after two slight twitches.
Knowing that Jiang Yuan was in a state of anger at this time, everyone didn't dare to say anything, and the disciples on the side stretched out their hands to uncover the white cloth on the corpses, a total of eleven corpses, each of which was sealed by a sharp weapon.
The older disciple walked over and explained to Jiang Yuan: "Senior uncle, most of these junior disciples were the disciples on duty last night, and all of them were attacked from behind and sealed their throats with a sword."
nodded, and asked with a solemn face: "Tell me more about last night's situation."
"Speaking of which, it is also a blessing, last night in the evening, there were several disciples drinking in the north of the city restaurant, and accidentally found that a group of people with strange deeds went out of the north gate, it was just an ordinary thing, and they didn't pay much attention to it, but some of these disciples happened to recognize that there seemed to be a cult disciple in this group, plus there was no important place for my Sword Sect in the north of the city, so they knew that the matter was very important, so they hurried back to inform me of the matter.
After learning about this, in order to prevent accidents, I hurriedly brought some elite disciples to check, but I didn't want these people to really come to attack my elixir valley, when we came, both sides had already fought, and I hurriedly brought people to join the battle.
These people obviously didn't know that we were coming, and they were caught off guard and hurriedly retreated, because it was too late at that time, in order to prevent the tiger from leaving the mountain, they could only send someone to inform the sect, and we waited here to wait for the sect to send someone to come" The elder disciple told the story meticulously, waiting for Jiang Yuan to decide.
"You're doing a great job, it's a big deal, it's rare that you can prioritize. What is your name?How long have you been in the sect?What are your current positions?" Jiang Yuan seemed to appreciate this disciple and asked three questions in a row.
The older disciple seemed to have realized that this was a turning point in his life, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he replied respectfully: "Uncle Yu, in Xia Zhengyi, he has been in the sect for seventeen years, and he is currently stationed at the outer gate!"
"Seventeen years, who are you cultivating now?, who is the master?" seemed a little surprised, with his qualifications, why was he still only an outer disciple now.
"Back to Uncle Hui's words, the disciple has never dared to slack off in his cultivation since he entered the sect, and now he is in the late stage of the transformation realm, and there is no teacher to inherit it!" I didn't expect that this seemingly ordinary and loyal disciple was actually a master of the transformation realm.
"Well, late transfiguration. After this incident, I will go to the sect elder to promote you to the inner gate, as for whether you can worship a certain elder at that time, it depends on your own creation!" I thought that Jiang Yuan was just admiring himself, but I didn't expect the other party to directly plan to let you enter the inner gate.
Happiness came too quickly, which made Zhengyi a little unbelievable, but after years of calm character, he recovered to calm in a moment, "Thank you Uncle for your support! The disciple will definitely live up to the cultivation of the sect in the future!"
"Get up" raised his right hand, as if he had just done a trivial matter. "Where are the corpses of the evil ways? Are they well preserved?" looked around the room, but there were no other corpses.
"This ...... Uncle Yu, those people have taken the corpse Gu in their stomachs in advance, and when I noticed it, it was already rapidly decaying, and I couldn't stop it, and those people now only have some remnants of their skeletons in the open space outside the valley. Zheng was ashamed, obviously even an old man like him didn't expect the enemy to be so ruthless.
"I can't blame you at this time, we didn't see the cruelty of these demons' foreign methods on the first day, take me to see it!"
Just as Jiang Yuan and the others went to check the bones, there were more than a dozen people lying on a dangerous peak outside the valley, staring intently at the situation in the valley.
These people were dressed in uniform clothes, their faces were anxious, and the strangest thing was that they all carried a coffin taller than themselves behind them, which was extremely strange.
At this time, a young and ugly-looking young man at the back quietly approached the leader, "Senior Brother Yansoul, the reinforcements from the Purple Sun Sword Sect have arrived, let's run away quickly!"
The eagle-nosed young man at the head dragged him past him and rebuked viciously: "Run?! If you dare to escape, I will break your legs! Don't you know the rules of the master? If we can't complete the task, we will be punished when we go back, and we may be turned into corpses!"
As soon as the young man heard the word "corpse", his body couldn't help but tremble, as if he remembered something terrifying.
When the people next to him saw him so timid, they all laughed at him, "Haha, senior brother, don't scare him, you must know that he will be scared to pee his pants!" "Yes, senior brother, this waste is famous for his cowardice inside the door" "Haha...... Haha!"
The cliff was full of ridicule, and the boy lowered his head deeply, and everyone thought that he was frightened, but no one noticed that his fists were clenched, and his nails were already in the flesh, and the anger in his heart must have reached the extreme.
After laughing for a while, the disciple named Yan Soul stretched out his hand to stop everyone, "Okay, everyone be quiet, so as not to be discovered!"
The disciple who had a better relationship with him next to him took the opportunity to lean over and ask, "Senior brother, do we really have to wait forever?"
Hearing him ask, the soul scolded in a foul mouth: "Damn! Who knew that reinforcements suddenly appeared last night, and we were caught off guard, and the division ordered me not to reveal my identity, so I didn't bring the corpses I was waiting for, and I wanted to turn the tiger away from the mountain, but who knew that the person in charge seemed to have a bit of a brain, and he was guarding all night and not giving us a chance! Now I can only wait for the opportunity!"
The surrounding disciples were filled with righteous indignation and echoed: "Who says it's not! This mission is so hidden, and the sect is picking out disciples like us who don't usually show up in the rivers and lakes, but it's really fucking evil! How did that group know that we were coming!"
"Yes, do you think there will be a mole between us and leak the news in advance?" After the disciple finished speaking, he swept over everyone with a scrutinizing gaze.
"Okay, don't guess! If you want me to see it, this waste must be too ugly to be recognized on the road!" one of the disciples pointed the finger at the ugly boy.