Chapter Eighty-Three: Mountains and Forests

Shen Shi was stunned for a moment, looking at Zhong Qinglu's eyes staring at him, but he didn't know what to say for a while. If you really want to talk about it in detail, of course, his several adventures are also because he does have the problem of spiritual crystal embarrassment in cultivation, and as for the private transaction with Zhong Qinglu when he was a teenager, it is nothing more than adding pounds to the hundreds, and the pressure is heavier.

He asked himself, even if there was no transaction of Yu Zhong Qinglu back then, and without the support of his family, in order to earn more spirit crystals faster, he would have gone to the demon island to venture hunting after all. So at this moment, there was a faint sense of self-blame in Zhong Qinglu's words, but Shen Shi was a little ashamed, hesitated for a moment, and then smiled bitterly:

"You're thinking too much, in fact, whether there was a deal with you or not, I was also going to Demon Island, have you forgotten, when we made a deal, I had already been to Demon Island a few times?"

Zhong Qinglu seemed to think about it for a while, and then her face looked better, and before she could continue to say something, Shen Shi said again: "And you see, even if I am in distress this time, in fact, I heard that there may be ...... in that tomb."

Halfway through his words, Shen Shi's body suddenly shook, as if he had thought of something, and looked at the surrounding stone chambers, only to see that there were only himself and Zhong Qinglu in this cave, and the other furnishings were as usual, all of them were in a familiar position, but looking at it, it seemed that there was a familiar figure missing here after all.

His face suddenly turned a little pale, and with a little difficulty, he turned his head to look at Zhong Qinglu, and asked astringently: "You just said that it has been seven days since the accident happened in Gaoling Mountain, so ...... Where's Blackie, where is it, is it okay?"

Zhong Qinglu was silent, and after a while, he said in a low voice: "I heard Senior Brother Du say that when I found you in that Gaoling Mountain that day, I saw you fainting and unconscious, and there were either corpses or ghosts around you, and I didn't see the little black pig you raised, I guess......"

She glanced at Shen Shi's stunned expression, sighed in her heart, and did not continue. But Shen Shi was at that moment, only to feel that there seemed to be a sudden muffled sound in his mind, as if something closest and most important had smashed to the ground, and he didn't react for a while, just looked at the empty cave in a daze, and didn't say a word.

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In the middle of the Gaoling Mountains, secluded forests.

Dense trees grew abundantly, forming a vast forest from the valley to the mountains, and in the woods deep in this mountain range, it has always been an inaccessible place for Terran monks, and it is also the residence of all kinds of beasts and monsters.

In the depths of the years, the towering ancient trees can be seen everywhere in the forest, vines and thorns grow everywhere, and all kinds of creatures are fighting each other to live together.

Then on this day, a little black pig came over.

It is said to be small, but in fact, its size is already a circle larger than before, although it still looks a little smaller than an adult pig demon beast, but with the pair of snow-white fangs that Xiao Hei has just grown recently, it already has a bit of fierce momentum.

It's just that Xiao Hei has been walking all the way, I don't know if he has always been lazy with Shen Shi before, he looks lazy, with half of the spiritual grass stalk in his mouth that he doesn't know what the name is, he walks a few steps and chews it, his demeanor is leisurely, and from time to time he will stop and find a tree trunk next to him to scratch it, or simply sit down and scratch his neck twice with his hind leg hooves, and then continue to walk forward lazily when he is comfortable, it seems that he is not in a strange place at all, and the beasts and monsters here are haunted from time to time with a sense of tension。

Looking at its appearance, the fur on its body is still black and shiny, but some places have been stained with a little dust, and I don't know how it has spent the past few days alone in this strange mountain forest, but it seems that at least until now, this little black pig does not seem to have encountered any major trouble.

This mountain forest is really large, stretching to several mountains and valleys, Xiao Hei walks in the forest, and he doesn't know where he should go. In the first day or two, it also tried various methods to find Shen Shi's trace breath, but after that earth-shattering earthquake, the two completely cut off contact, no matter how Xiao Hei searched, there was no news of Shen Shi.

By now, Xiao Hei has begun to slowly accept the reality that he may have to live alone in this mountain forest, although he is a little dazed and lonely, a little depressed, and a little bit of missing Shen Shi, but maybe it's nature, Xiao Hei is not too indulged in sadness.

In the middle of this, fortunately, because the forest in this Gaoling Mountain is inaccessible, there are many kinds of spirit grass, although it is not so exaggerated that Cheng Dù can be seen everywhere, but with his extremely keen sense of smell of spirit grass, Xiao Hei quickly solved his food problem in the past few days.

Walk around, you don't have to spend too much effort to find some spiritual grass hidden in the corner of the forest, and then continue to spend your days leisurely, it seems that this day is actually quite easy.

Xiao Hei opened his mouth and yawned a lot, feeling a little tired, in the past few days, he has either eaten or slept every day, or he has walked aimlessly, and the days are very simple. But when it came to sleeping, Xiao Hei looked up at the tall trees above him, and the thick branches were lying in the air, and he sighed for no reason.

When I followed Shen Shi in the past, every time I went to spend the night in the mountains and forests in the wilderness, Shen Shi would take it to climb to the tree to sleep, but now it was left alone, and I tried a few times clumsily, but I couldn't climb up.

Xiao Hei looked at the branches that were high above, and suddenly felt a little melancholy in his heart, and he hummed twice in his mouth, as if he had complained a few words, and the sleepiness just now was unconsciously gone, Xiao Hei hesitated, or continued to walk forward.

In the clearing under the trees in the forest, weeds and moss coexist with various thorn vines, competing for the few growth spaces, Xiao Hei turned a blind eye to the spiky grass blades under his feet, walking, and suddenly it paused, raised its head and sniffed twice in the air, its eyes showed a little joy, and it ran forward.

Bypassing a big stone in front of him, in the north of the stone under the shade of the tree, in a stone crevice, Xiao Hei quickly found a strange spirit grass with a slightly blue body, a foot high, and a beautiful small flower of royal blue bloomed at the top.

Xiao Hei suddenly laughed happily, threw the half of the grass stem in his mouth to the ground, ran over the two front hooves for a while, and then bit the spirit grass with his mouth and pulled it out hard, and immediately pulled out the whole blue spirit grass.

Xiao Hei grinned and smiled, looking very happy, and even couldn't help but stick out his tongue and lick this spiritual grass, looking satisfied, but its eyes immediately fell on the previous half of the spiritual grass stem, and after hesitating for a while, he suddenly turned his head to look around, only to see that there was silence in the woods, except for it, there was no trace of any human beast.

Xiao Hei waited for a moment, and after making sure that there was no one, he suddenly lowered his head and let his forehead close to the blue spirit grass placed on the ground, at that moment, he saw that between the black and shiny fur on its pig's head, in the middle of its forehead, a strange red light suddenly flashed, and then, the spirit grass on the ground actually disappeared out of thin air.

Xiao Hei raised his head, shook his head, grinned and smiled, looking very satisfied, and then bit the half of the spiritual grass stalk on the ground again, regained his lazy and leisurely and even a little inexplicable cynical appearance, and walked forward.

Hmm, a little black pig with an unruly demeanor in his mouth......

But this time after it walked forward for a while, its footsteps suddenly stopped, and for the first time it showed a little vigilance in its leisurely and lazy demeanor, and it stopped and looked ahead, only to see that in the depths of the woods in front of it, there were suddenly a few low roars, and after a while, a little light suddenly flashed, which was the refraction of the light in the forest falling on a sharp fang.

Behind the dense thorny weeds, it suddenly slowly parted to both sides, and then under the vigilant gaze of the little black pig, an extremely strong gray wild boar demon beast walked out, the whole body was gray color, and the fangs were sharp like a long sword, and it looked more than twice as big as the little black, and the strong Kong Wu was far superior, and at this moment he was looking at the weak little black pig with a smirk and fierce gaze.

And the movement in the wild grass did not stop, as the footsteps kept ringing, it was actually from behind the wild boar demon beast that four similar pig demon beasts came out one after another, looking slightly shorter than the previous one, but still much taller than Xiao Hei.

If Shen Shi is here, he will quickly recognize that this is a pig demon beast named "Gray Earth Pig", which is a distant relative of the stone skin pig in the demon world back then, and there are many of them in the Gaoling Mountains, which is a low-level but powerful and fierce demon beast.

Five gray earth pigs surrounded him with bad intentions, surrounded the little black ball that looked very weak, and surrounded the middle, and the huge gray soil pig in front roared at Xiao Hei even more fiercely, and then rushed towards Xiao Hei viciously.

There was a roar, and the birds near the forest were startled.

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"This is your wishful bag, put it away first. In the Shen Shi Cave Mansion of Jinhong Mountain, Zhong Qinglu looked at the dazed Shen Shi, sighed lightly in his heart, and then diverted the topic.

Shen Shi sat for a moment, raised his head and smiled bitterly, looked at the Ruyi bag in Zhong Qinglu's hand, and took it, but his fingers stroked the soft body of the Ruyi bag, but his heart was bitter.

Zhong Qinglu said on the side: "This Ruyi bag was left by Senior Brother Du, when I sent you back that day, Senior Brother Du was a good person, and in front of several of us, I took out your cloud talisman from this Ruyi bag and opened the cave, and I didn't look at other things, and I also told us not to move, so you can rest assured, the things in it have always been intact." ”

Shen Shi nodded, his mind was still a little uncertain, and he always passed the figure of Xiao Hei on weekdays in front of him, but after all, he knew that it was useless to think so much, it was better to heal his injuries quickly, and then try his best to find some hope in Gaoling Mountain, but this hope, even he knew that it was too slim, after all, how vast the Gaoling Mountain Range was, and where to find a small black pig, not to mention that the collapse of the day was so violent, and it was also a question whether Xiao Hei could run out under the soul abyss.

It's just that no matter what he thinks, he always can't accept the possibility that Xiao Hei may die, maybe ...... After returning from the demon world, only Xiao Hei was the only one who followed him, while the old white monkey and the stone pig were already separated by yin and yang.

He took a deep breath, suppressed the inexplicable pain in his heart, and casually probed his spiritual sense into the Ruyi bag, and then after the spiritual sense swept over, he was suddenly stunned, this bag was indeed as Zhong Qinglu said just now, and there were many items before him.

But the problem is that there are indeed a lot of original things, but at the moment, there are two more things in the wishful bag.

The blade of a broken sword, a small piece of black stone crystal, looked very ordinary and ordinary, without any spiritual power fluctuations, like useless sundries on the side of the road, not eye-catching at all.

But Shen Shi's heart set off a huge wave in an instant, of course he knew what the origin of these two things was, but the question was, how did they get into his wishful bag?

He recalled blankly, and vaguely remembered that day under the Soul Suppression Abyss, the fragment of this Immortal Killing Ancient Sword fell with that piece of black crystal and directly inserted it into his belly, which was why that drop of dragon true blood would enter his dantian qi sea, and then he didn't remember it very clearly.

Perhaps, when I opened my eyes again and saw the ghosts around me, I casually stuffed them into the Ruyi bag in a panic?

Is this an instinctive reaction of a poor man who is greedy for money...... Shen Shi smiled bitterly and shook his head.