Chapter Ninety-Nine: Tracking
The Hao family, for the people of Jingyue City, can be said to be known to everyone. But Jingyue City is only a second-rate city in the Great Jing Kingdom, and the Hao family is just a big family in this city.
There are hundreds of such families in the entire kingdom, so except for the people from Jingyue City, few others know about the Hao family. Not to mention, know the Hao family's jade card.
But Ling Fan and Tang Yiyao, as members of the Ling family who were once members of the same big family of Jingyue City as the Hao family, are very familiar with the Hao family's jade plate.
That's why when I see it at this time, I will recognize it at once.
However, after the two of them were surprised, Ling Fan immediately fell into deep thought, but Tang Yiyao's face remained unchanged in surprise.
"Ling Fan, wasn't the Hao family destroyed by you, how could the Hao family's jade plate still appear here!"
Such a jade plaque will only appear in the hands of the descendants, although Ling Fan's destruction of the Hao family does not guarantee that everyone in the Hao family will be killed, but everyone who is familiar with the descendants of the Hao family will definitely not be left behind by Ling Fan.
"No, there is one more person who escaped, and that is Hao Haowen!"
Seeing Tang Yiyao's eyes even more surprised, Ling Fan didn't explain much, and pulled Tang Yiyao as if he was outside the village.
Since Hao Haowen's jade plate was found here, even if the murderer of this village slaughter incident is not him, it must be related to him. So it is obviously no longer necessary to stay here at this time, and now for Ling Fan, the most important thing is to find Hao Haowen.
It was not easy to find Hao Haowen, but Ling Fan was not without the slightest clue.
At least at the auction in Jingzhou City, he had seen Hao Haowen once, and at that time next to Hao Haowen was Ning Xueqi of the Ning family!
Seeing that Ling Fan's eyes flashed fiercely, although he didn't explain, Tang Yiyao didn't ask much. Just followed behind Ling Fan, quickly walked out of Qingshui Village, and walked in the direction of Izumo Mountain.
At this time, the purpose of Ling Fan and the others is to return to the academy, in Ling Fan's mind, wanting to find Hao Haowen directly, is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack, if this incident is really Hao Haowen's doing, then he will definitely hide, and it will undoubtedly be more difficult to find him.
However, since Hao Haowen has contact with Ning Xueqi, he can try to find Hao Haowen's traces through Ning Xueqi.
Ling Fan had already thought of a way in his heart, of course, such a way was definitely not to ask Ning Xueqi Hao Haowen where he was, after all, with the relationship between the two, not only would they not ask about the result, but they would even startle the snake.
If he wanted to find Hao Haowen's traces unconsciously in the other party, Ling Fan thought of the way to follow them.
Ning Xueqi's whereabouts were easy to determine, as she was also a student of the academy. And her stunning appearance is the object of many students' crushes, and there are many people who pay attention to her whereabouts, so it must not be difficult to find out her whereabouts.
With a plan in mind, Ling Fan didn't want to delay more time, and pulled Tang Yiyao to hurry back to the tenth cave of the academy, and Ling Fan quickly gave orders to several of the most trusted disciples of the sect.
The news of the search for Ning Xueqi must not be leaked, because once the news is leaked, it will not only be possible for the Ning Gang to have an excuse to find trouble in the Dao Sect, but it is more likely to make Ning Xueqi alert and no longer see Hao Haowen.
The process of waiting for news is always irritating, although I am very sure, I am still a little worried in my heart, worried that I can't find Ning Xueqi's trace, and I am worried that even if I find Ning Xueqi, I won't be able to find Hao Haowen.
Women are always emotional, sitting next to Ling Fan, seeing that Ling Fan was unable to concentrate on cultivation because of irritability, Tang Yiyao immediately spoke out to comfort her.
At the same time, a woman's sixth sense may be extremely accurate, not long after Tang Yiyao comforted her, a disciple reported back and found Ning Xueqi's traces, and Ning Xueqi had been staying in the Ning Gang.
"Call those people back, you work in pairs to monitor the Ning Gang, and once Ning Xueqi appears, immediately send one person back to report it, and the other person will continue to follow. ”
Watching this Dao Sect disciple leave in a hurry to carry out Ling Fan's mission. Ling Fan breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at Tang Yiyao with relief.
Tang Yiyao was the only one who knew Ling Fan's analysis and plan.
The reason why Ling Fan told her was not only to trust her the most, but also to reassure Tang Yiyao.
After all, a few years ago, Ling Fan had a good impression of Ning Xueqi at that time, although Ling Fan at that time and Ling Fan were not the same person now, but Tang Yiyao didn't know.
Now he wants to look for Ning Xueqi's traces again, he doesn't want Tang Yiyao to misunderstand anything.
Women are indeed sensual, and it is precisely because of sensuality that once they are misunderstood, they are even more terrible.
As Ning Xueqi's traces were confirmed, Ling Fan's impetuous heart gradually settled down.
Slowly, Ling Fan and Tang Yiyao sat in the stone room, and they also entered the state of cultivation.
The process of cultivation seems tedious, but the cultivator is unaware.
Soon, a week passed before I knew it. It wasn't until there was a rush of footsteps outside the stone room that Ling Fan's originally closed eyes suddenly opened.
Seeing that the door of the stone room opened softly and a young man walked in, Ling Fan immediately asked out loud, "What, is there any news?"
"Report to the sect master, Ning Xueqi has come out, looking at her like she wants to go down the mountain!"
"Good!"
Ling Fan frowned in response, patted the ground with both palms, jumped up, glanced at Tang Yiyao, who was still cultivating beside him, and without saying a word to wake up, he stepped out, and had already walked outside the stone room, and immediately rushed out of the cave according to the path pointed out by the young man.
And at the same time that Ling Fan disappeared into the cave, Tang Yiyao also opened his eyes.
When Ling Fan woke up, she had actually woken up, but he was still pretending to cultivate, that was because she knew that Ning Xueqi already had the strength of the Ning Yuan Stage, and she herself could not guarantee that she would not be discovered by the other party in the process of tracking.
Although she wanted to follow Ling Fan along, she didn't want to affect Ling Fan's plan because of her.
She didn't want to pull Ling Fan back, so for her, if she wanted to keep up with Ling Fan's pace, the only way to do it was to cultivate, and to cultivate harder!
What Tang Yiyao thought in his heart, Ling Fan didn't know.
At this time, he had already chased straight in the direction of the downhill.
A hundred zhang away from the foot of the mountain, Ling Fan caught up with another Dao Sect disciple who was following Ning Xueqi.
Ning Xueqi's location was determined again, and this time Ling Fan chased after him alone, and it was not until he reached the foot of the mountain that he found Ning Xueqi's traces.
Ning Xueqi walked quickly, also alone. It looked like he was very careful, and he didn't greet anyone along the way, but simply stopped at the foot of the mountain for a few moments, as if to confirm the direction, and finally walked briskly towards the north of Mt. Izumo.
Although Ning Xueqi walked fast, it was not difficult for Ling Fan, who was good at speed, to keep up.
Ling Fan followed cautiously, always maintaining a distance of dozens of zhang, and constantly using the surrounding trees as a concealment to avoid being discovered by the other party.
But Ning Xueqi had been walking for nearly a hundred miles, but she still didn't have the slightest intention of staying, seeing that she was about to walk out of the range of Jingzhou City, which made Ling Fan a little suspicious of his previous guess.
"What is she doing here? Isn't she seeing Hao Haowen?"
However, just when Ling Fan was suspicious, Ning Xueqi in front of her suddenly stopped in place.
Seeing Ning Xueqi's movements, Ling Fan naturally stopped.
Seeing Ning Xueqi in front of him standing in place and looking left and right, as if he was observing something, Ling Fan immediately held his breath and remained motionless, so as not to be discovered by the other party.
A moment later, when Ning Xueqi didn't notice anything, she suddenly changed her previous direction and burrowed into the woods on her side.
This forest is not large, but it is also the largest forest in Jingzhou City.
Among them, towering trees stand tall, and it is not uncommon for birds to sing and beasts to roar.
In this way, Ling Fan followed for another half an hour, until Ning Xueqi found a hut in the forest, and then stopped.
"Hao Haowen, are you there?"
Standing outside the wooden house, Ning Xueqi's voice came slowly.
Hearing Ning Xueqi's voice, Ling Fan's heart suddenly rejoiced. At the same time, he immediately set his sights in the direction of the wooden house.
"Miss Ning, why are you here?"
A strange sound came from inside the wooden house, but this kind of sound was very familiar to Ling Fan's ears.
With a sound coming from the wooden house, a short and fat boy slowly walked out of the house.
The young man first nodded to Ning Xueqi, and then glanced around a few times, as if to observe whether anyone was following Ning Xueqi.
"Hao Haowen, I came here this time to inquire on behalf of the Seventh Elder, and the next target ......"
Before Ning Xueqi's words were finished, she was suddenly interrupted by Hao Haowen.
I saw that Hao Haowen at this time suddenly had a sharp voice on his face, and the rich yin qi in his body emanated, and a gray flying sword was already hanging above his head, and he was shouting in his mouth.
"Come out, I've seen you!"