Since Ding Qi got the herbs, time flies, and half a month has passed quickly.

During this period, Ding Qi had visited the mountain forest several times. However, he was not in a hurry to get back the batch of herbs sealed in Qixia Mountain.

In the past half a month, he had already known that the people of the Qingyun Sect had already scattered a large number of people around Qixia Mountain for the sake of that batch of medicinal herbs, to search for any suspicious people, and to investigate the various forces that might have appeared there during the time of the incident, hoping to find the lost batch of medicinal herbs.

But until now, nothing has been gained.

With Ding Qi's cautious character, he naturally knew that it was not the time to get that batch of herbs back. He needed to wait until the limelight had passed before he could safely retrieve the batch of herbs.

However, after half a month, Ding Qi has also seen it. After the Qingyun Sect searched for such a long time in Qixia Mountain, they did not find that batch of medicinal herbs, and they had already roughly concluded that they would not be able to find that batch of medicinal herbs in Qixia Mountain. It won't take long for the Qingyun Sect's manpower to completely disappear from the surroundings of Qixia Mountain.

At that time, Ding Qi could take back the batch of herbs with peace of mind.

The Qingyun Sect now believed that the batch of medicinal herbs had already been dismantled by the forces that had taken away the herbs at that time, and they had transported them away in the shortest possible time before they arrived.

On this day, Ding Qi planned to go to the vicinity of Qixia Mountain and Liangcheng again to inquire about the recent movements of the Qingyun Sect. Let's take a look at them, when will they completely withdraw the scattered manpower from the surrounding area of Qixia Mountain.

This kind of thing, Ding Qi has done it several times in the past half a month, and he has already mastered it.

Coming to Liangcheng again, Ding Qi could see the disciples of the Qingyun Sect wearing the unique costumes of the Qingyun Sect from time to time, haunting the streets and alleys of Liangcheng, looking like they were investigating something.

Ding Qi walked on the streets of Liangcheng, casually glanced at these Qingyun Sect disciples, and narrowed his eyes slightly, revealing a thoughtful look.

"It seems that the Qingyun Party's exploration of Liangcheng will continue for a while. After all, Liangcheng is the road to Qixia Mountain. If there is really someone who wants to transport that batch of medicinal herbs to the outside world, they must pass through Liangcheng. Merely...... Hey. Ding Qi thought of the batch of herbs that he had sealed in the cave, but there was an inexplicable smile on his face.

That batch of medicinal herbs, Ding Qike never planned to transport them out of Liangcheng.

This piece of scheming of the Qingyun faction is probably going to be in vain in the end.

Thinking of this, Ding Qi couldn't help but shake his head.

Although there are quite a lot of Qingyun sect disciples in Liangcheng now, compared to some time ago, the number of sect disciples who are active in Liangcheng has greatly decreased. Obviously, the Qingyun faction has gradually shifted the focus of the search from the surrounding areas of Liangcheng and placed it in other cities.

Even Liangcheng is already like this, and the search on the side of Qixia Mountain has been evacuated more thoroughly. On the way to Liangcheng this time, Ding Qi also made an investigation of the situation in Qixia Mountain, and only a few people from the Qingyun Sect were active there. Not long after, Ding Qi would be able to go to the mountains to take out the medicinal herbs, refine the elixir, and cultivate the innate skills.

After figuring out the situation in Qixia Mountain and Liangcheng, Ding Qi was finally completely relieved and had a plan to go back.

Just as Ding Qi was thinking like this, and took a step, about to leave Liangcheng, a group of Qingyun Sect disciples came from the direction Ding Qi was advancing in the distance.

Ding Qi didn't know how many times he had encountered this similar situation during this time, and he didn't pay much attention to it. Thinking about this group of disciples, it is also one of the teams arranged by the Qingyun Sect in Liangcheng to investigate suspicious people.

Just as Ding Qi was about to bypass, as usual, next to this group of disciples, a rather familiar voice came from among the group of Qingyun Sect disciples and entered Ding Qi's ears.

Hearing this familiar voice, Ding Qi was slightly stunned.

His eyes widened as he looked at one of the Qingyun Sect disciples who made a familiar voice in surprise. Ding Qi didn't expect that today in Liangcheng, he would actually meet someone he knew.

The person he was looking at now was Ding Qi's childhood friend, Zhang Tao.

Since meeting that side two years ago, Ding Qi and Zhang Tao have never had any contact. Now, Ding Qi didn't expect to see him again in Liangcheng.

The current Zhang Tao was surrounded by a group of disciples of the Qingyun Sect in the center, slowly coming towards Ding Qi's side. It seems that in this group of disciples, the status is quite high.

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"Senior Brother Zhang, this time the sect opened the Ancestral Master Hall, Senior Brother doesn't know what kind of harvest it will have. ”

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"I heard that there are several rumored martial arts warriors in the ancestral hall, which were obtained by the ancestral master when he looted half of the Xia Kingdom. Senior brother went in this time, and the elders had already instructed that senior brother could take one of them. This was an opportunity that none of the elders had ever had at the time. ”

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"But this kind of treatment is normal for Senior Brother Zhang. After all, this is the first time in nearly ten years that the sect has opened the Patriarch Hall, and it was specially opened for Senior Brother Zhang. According to the testament left by the ancestor of the Kaipai back then. With Senior Brother Zhang's martial arts qualifications, which are rare in the world, it is necessary to make an exception to open the Ancestral Master Hall. ”

......

Listening to the topic faintly coming from this group of Qingyun Sect disciples, Ding Qi also figured out what they were talking about around his childhood friend, the Qingyun Sect disciple.

The Qingyun faction actually wanted to make an exception to open the so-called Patriarch Hall for Ding Qi's childhood friend.

Although Ding Qi didn't really know what the Patriarch Hall was. However, from what he knew from the other party's conversation, he opened it for the first time in ten years, and could get a martial arts weapon from it, he could judge that it was by no means a simple matter.

At the same time, Ding Qi was also secretly frightened by the high status of his childhood friend in the sect. After all, Ding Qi clearly saw that the Qingyun Sect disciples around Zhang Tao, who were obviously much older than Zhang Tao, also called Zhang Tao 'Senior Brother Zhang' non-stop.

You must know that these people are all core disciples of the Qingyun Sect.

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"This time I opened the Patriarch Hall, just thanks to the love of the elders in the sect, what virtue and ability does Zhang have, it's just a coincidence. Listening to the constant praise from the mouths of the surrounding Qingyun Sect disciples, although Zhang Tao was arrogant, he still said modestly.

"This is also Senior Brother Zhang's amazing qualifications, and the elders are so fancy. If it were put on ordinary core disciples like me, the elders would never give me such an opportunity...... ”

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"However, some of the herbs escorted by the sect this time were specially allocated by the sect to Senior Brother Zhang for cultivation, but now they are lost, which is really a pity!" one of them said with a look of pity on his face.

The rest of the Qingyun Sect disciples around them, when they heard this person's words, they all agreed, and showed a look of pity and regret.

Subsequently, the topic of this group of Qingyun Sect disciples also unconsciously turned to the matter of the sect's loss of medicinal herbs this time.

As this group of Qingyun Sect disciples talked, they were getting closer and closer to Ding Qi. Just as Zhang Tao finished talking with one of the Qingyun Sect disciples and turned his head, he thought that he had found something, but his eyes suddenly froze.

Then, he looked in the direction of Ding Qi in a daze.

Ding Qi's childhood friend finally found him.

Several Qingyun Sect disciples next to him also discovered the abnormality of Zhang Tao. Seeing Zhang Tao suddenly stunned, these people followed Zhang Tao's gaze suspiciously and looked towards Ding Qi.

These people only saw that there was a person in an inconspicuous gray robe standing opposite. Seeing this, the puzzle on the faces of these people was even stronger.

"Senior Brother Zhang, you don't know that person. One of them asked Zhang Tao with a surprised face.

It wasn't until the person next to him asked that Zhang Tao recovered from his previous stunned state.

"Oh, no...... I don't know. Zhang Tao was stunned for a moment, and finally replied.

Hearing Zhang Tao's answer not far away, Ding Qi was stunned for a moment, and then narrowed his eyes slightly.

Not long after, seeing the figures of Zhang Tao and others disappear from the same place, Ding Qi stood quietly in place, and finally sighed helplessly.

Then, Ding Qi took a step, slowly left Liangcheng, and walked towards Qixia Town.

At the same time, Zhang Tao probably would never have thought that it was his childhood friend who robbed the sect of the herbs accumulated for more than a hundred years more than ten days ago, and the culprit who disturbed the entire sect.

Ding Qi is the person whose Qingyun faction has tried their best to hunt down.

On the way back, Ding Qi thought back to what happened today and what happened to Zhang Tao, the expression on his face was gloomy and uncertain, and from time to time he showed an extremely strange look, looking like he was puzzled about something.

However, the reason why his face was so strange at this time was not because Zhang Tao was a stranger before. Regarding Zhang Tao's change, Ding Qi was only slightly surprised at the beginning. But then, Ding Qi was shocked to find that his heart was gradually unable to rise any waves.

Today's events, from beginning to end, just made Ding Qi sigh a little.

Suddenly, Ding Qi realized that he was angry in his heart, and he didn't even have the slightest fluctuation in his heart about today's events.

In this regard, Ding Qi felt extremely strange, and his face gradually became strange.

Ding Qi didn't know that since he cultivated his innate skills and successfully experienced the demon training, his state of mind had completed the complete transformation from mortal to immortal. Unconsciously, all kinds of mundane things have gradually become impossible to really put in his heart.

Today's events naturally can't stir up any waves in his heart.

It seems that it is not only Zhang Tao who has changed. Actually, even I ...... Eventually, it turned out to be ...... We've all changed. Ding Qi shook his head with a wry smile, thinking with a sigh in his heart.

For this change, Ding Qi's heart is quite complicated, and for a while, he no longer knows whether this change is good or bad.

Suddenly, Ding Qi realized that he was no longer the ignorant and simple boy who had just come out of the mountain village.

The original days are long gone.