After Xu Yan and Bai Bing left the middle section of the Huangmaojian Mountain Range, they soon came to the upper section of the mountain range.

Among the three mountain ranges in Huangmaojian, there is not much difference in the geographical area of the lower and middle mountain ranges, and only the upper mountain range has seen a sharp decrease, and even compared with the lower and middle two sections, the upper mountain range is less than half their size. And as Xiaocai fell into a deep sleep, Xu Yan did not choose to move at full speed as before, but controlled his speed in a relatively stable state after losing her natural danger sensor.

Walking forward in the upper section of the mountain range, although it is not common for spirit beasts to appear in the daytime like the entire yellow hair tip, as long as a cultivator breaks into this area, there will naturally be a huge danger, even Xu Yan will never dare to take it lightly and be careless here.

Bai Bing, who followed closely behind Xu Yan, was as light as a swallow, she never opened the subtle distance between her and Xu Yan, and the two of them maintained an inherent distance from each other, running in this mountain forest for nearly four hours, until the two of them came to a relatively complex and deep canyon in front of Xu Yan for the first time.

Seeing that Xu Yan in front of him was the first to stop, and his whole body was already covered with sweaty white ice, he finally couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then stopped.

She took a look at the surrounding environment, and found that in this area, there are strange rocks, including many boulders with a height of dozens of zhang, on which only the slightest weeds and some green mosses grow, but there are no trees at all. In addition to this, in the valley directly below where they were now standing, there was also a clear stream, which was undoubtedly the same one they had had been in front of the bare cliff at the other end of the mountain.

After Bai Bing calmed down his slightly anxious breath, he said to Xu Yan beside him: "Little junior brother, I thought you were going to take me into the range of Dushan in one go." ”

Xu Yan and Bai Bing looked around, his gaze did not wander, but focused very seriously on the huge canyon in front of them, where they had to pass through if they wanted to enter Dushan, and then shook his head and replied: "We have almost been on the road for a whole day, we must stop and rest first, and if the map given by Senior Sister Bai does not have too many errors, then we only need to walk through the area in front of us. Lingyan's canyon, you can smoothly enter the big dragon stream, and then, is the Holy Gate that connects the entrance of Dushan, here is not far from the Holy Gate, presumably as long as we walk a little faster, at most an hour or so can be successfully reached there, but today's sky is not early, we will camp outside this Lingyan for the night. ”

Hearing what the other party said, Bai Bing couldn't help frowning slightly, but she didn't have any objections, but after she glanced at the sky above her head, she said with some concern: "Why don't we go into the canyon to rest, isn't there a natural cave inside, I see that the sky is gloomy and gloomy, and it will probably rain later." ”

After Xu Yan heard this, he couldn't help but smile slightly on his face that had become unshaven after such a long time and had never had time to take care of it. He didn't directly refute the other party's opinion, but replied in a very calm tone: "Then let's see if it will rain at night, if it really rains, it's not too late for us to go in again." ”

Bai Bing didn't fully understand why Xu Yan had made such a decision, and before she could ask again, she saw that Xu Yan had already walked towards the clear stream in the valley.

He came to a not-so-deep pool, then crouched down and washed his hands, and when the stream was calm again, he saw his own reflection in the water. Looking at the sloppy appearance in the water that was slightly shaky but still clearly visible, Xu Yan shook his head helplessly, and then took out the dagger and cleaned up the stubble on his face.

I have to say that after cleaning up, Xu Yan looks quite good, after all, his facial features are very marked and three-dimensional, but because he has been on the run for a while now, it makes him look more vicissitudes after wind and frost than before, and there is a trace of youth and immaturity that he only had when he was a teenager.

Seeing Xu Yan, who came back after deliberately tidying up his face, Bai Bing, who was coughing violently instead of making a fire, suddenly gave him an angry look, and said, "Little junior brother, as a man, why do you pay so much attention to your appearance?"

Xu Yan heard the sarcasm in her words, didn't care, and immediately took over the dirty work she was doing, and replied truthfully: "What's the matter, but I just think that the beard is too long, which hinders the usual eating, especially when eating barbecue, it makes the beard greasy and not very comfortable." ”

When Bai Bing heard this, she felt that there was some truth, so she stopped teasing him, and then, when she saw that Xu Yan only took a few breaths, she easily lit the fire in front of her that she couldn't light anyway, and she sighed irrepressibly in her heart.

She was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked a question that Xu Yan was a little caught off guard, "Before the junior brother...... Why do you think I have something to do with the cardinal?"

When Xu Yan heard this question, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned, he didn't know why Bai Bing suddenly mentioned this.

His understanding of the cardinal is actually not very deep, especially in terms of life experience, plus Zhao Bailian has never revealed anything about her to him, but after he entered the sect and was accepted by him as a personal disciple, Zhao Bailian asked the cardinal to come to Liuyun Courtyard to be his maid.

Of course, she is a maid when she says that she is a maid, but in the past three years, except for taking care of his three meals a day, other trivial things basically don't have to do anything, but on weekdays, Xu Yan has to look at her face most of the time, until that night when Zhou Xian personally came to trouble him, the cardinal helped him level Zhou Xian's sword, Xu Yan suddenly reacted, it turned out that the cardinal was the person who Zhao Bailian personally arranged by his side to protect his safety. Other than that, the only thing he knew about the Cardinal was from her own mouth, she was born in the Lotus Sect and had never descended the mountain.

However, because Xu Yan learned that the woman in front of him was from the Bai family in Wangchuan City, and after he personally asked the cardinal from her mouth that it was her cousin, he faintly felt that there should be some connection between the Bai family and the cardinal.

Xu Yan didn't pause for too long on this question, so he directly gave Bai Bing an answer that sounded a little crying and laughing, and was very absurd, but couldn't help but make her breathe a sigh of relief, only to hear Xu Yan say: "If I said that I was just discovering that you were behind my daughter, and your eyes looked too similar to hers, so I connected you together, would you believe it?"

......

Without waiting for Bai Bing to answer, raindrops the size of soybeans fell in the sky, and then, a silver light lit up from the night, and this light flashed away, but it brought a deafening thunderclap, resounding in this heaven and earth.

Without the slightest hesitation, Xu Yan immediately got up with Bai Bing and left the place, and then walked quickly towards the dark Lingyan Canyon.

This is the first thunderstorm that has befallen Lingzhou this year, but it came a little suddenly, but fortunately, Xu Yan and Bai Bing were not too far away from Lingyan, so it was only after a short tea time, they came to the canyon, and as soon as they walked into the canyon, the rain in the night sky poured down.

Thanks to Xu Yan did not forget to take out a torch from the fire when leaving, he was able to see the general situation of the white ice in the canyon, after seeing the galloping rainstorm outside the canyon, she was only a little wet hair, so she patted her chest with palpitations, and said: "Fortunately, we walked fast enough, otherwise we would have been drenched in this rain, I will say, it will rain tonight......"

Hearing that Xu Yan beside him didn't pay attention to him, Bai Bing turned his head to look at Xu Yan, only to find that the latter's eyes were not fixed on the rainstorm outside the canyon like her, he just looked at the deep canyon behind her with a solemn face.

Bai Bing saw that his face was strange and solemn, so he followed his gaze and glanced into the darkness, but after making sure that he hadn't found anything, he couldn't help but ask curiously: "Little junior brother, why are you ......?"

Before she could finish the words in her mouth, Xu Yan's free left hand had already stretched out an index finger alone and placed it in front of her mouth. He made a silencing gesture and forcibly interrupted her.

"I feel a very unusual aura in this canyon, and I have to go ahead to check the situation, and you can stay here and wait for me. ”

Seeing that Xu Yan was communicating with herself in the way of sound transmission, and seeing that the other party's face did not look like a joke at all, Bai Bing's heart couldn't help but mention her throat at this moment, but she didn't want to stay here alone, so she also replied in the way of sound transmission: "No, I'd better go and check it out with my junior brother, in case I really want to encounter something, I can help you in time." ”

Seeing her answer like this, Xu Yan didn't refuse, nodded and said, "It's okay, then let's go together!"

This canyon, known as the Spirit Rock, is not a small area, so after Xu Yan and Bai Bing walked nearly a hundred zhang with torches in the canyon, there was still no sign of going to the exit, and they could even feel that there was still a considerable distance between them and completely walked out of this canyon.

So, the two of them continued to walk forward for more than fifty zhang, and after the two of them walked for almost one hundred and fifty zhang, but still found nothing, Bai Bing said again: "Little junior brother, it seems that there is nothing here, your expression just now really shocked me." ”

Although Xu Yan didn't see anything dangerous in this canyon with his own eyes, for some reason, the uneasy premonition in his heart did not ease in the slightest, he glanced at the depths of the darkness, and no longer planned to move on, just nodded to Bai Bing beside him, and replied: "Well, maybe I misperceived it, let's go back." ”

However, the moment they turned, about thirty feet away from them, a pair of huge eyes opened in the darkness.

The creature with these eyes was completely hidden in the darkness, but if Xu Yan could see it, he would be able to find that its eyes were even deeper and darker than the night he saw at the moment.

A boulder the size of a human head suddenly flew from the darkness towards the backs of Xu Yan and Bai Bing, carrying a piercing sound of breaking wind. Since Xu Yan had always used his divine sense to perceive this canyon, he sensed its breath as soon as this boulder flew out of this empty space.

So, his free left hand suddenly pulled Bai Bing on his side hard, pulled it into his arms, and there was a loud cry in his mouth, reminding: "Be careful!"

Bai Bing was caught off guard and was pulled into Xu Yan's arms, and she was immediately shocked, thinking that Xu Yan wanted to do something to her, so she couldn't help but want to take action against her and teach him a lesson, but after she heard the two words full of grim meaning that Xu Yan shouted at her, she immediately stopped her behavior.

After a breath.

Just as her body was pulled away, a loud bang erupted in the canyon.

"Bang"!

The sound was like a bell, and then the aftermath continued through the canyon.

When Bai Bing and Xu Yan saw this scene, Huo Ran looked at the end of the darkness, but before they could see anything clearly, they saw a black shadow, which suddenly crashed into Xu Yan's body at an extremely fast speed.

This collision was so powerful that it gave Xu Yan a feeling of four or five thousand catties, far exceeding the strength that Wu Hao could use after taking the Black Spirit Pill.

Without any accidents, Xu Yan's body was instantly swept away by this black shadow, and at the same time, since Bai Bing was still in his arms, the two of them flew out together for dozens of feet, and then fell heavily into the stream that shuttled through this canyon.

"Whoa~"

Xu Yan and Bai Bing made a large splash when they fell into the stream, but fortunately, the place where they fell was a pool of water that was estimated to be waist-deep, which alleviated most of the huge injuries they should have suffered.

The entire canyon instantly returned to pitch-black darkness, because the torch that Xu Yan held in the palm of his hand also fell into the stream at this moment.

Picking up Bai Bing who had fallen on him from the pool, Xu Yan didn't pause at all, and directly took out the Night Pearl from the storage bag that was originally lent to him by Qiu Yuanjin, but now it has become her only relic, and asked Bai Bing eagerly: "Are you okay, Senior Sister Bai." ”

Bai Bing, as a sword cultivator, although she was deliberately unloaded by Xu Yan behind her when she flew out upside down and fell into the pool, her physique was not too strong in the end, so when she was hit by the black shadow, she suffered a lot of internal injuries, and when she was picked up from the pool by Xu Yan, she was choked by the stream again because she had not prepared at all.

After coughing for a while, Bai Bing, who was held in Xu Yan's arms, gradually eased her breath, and then, her somewhat weak voice sounded and said, "No...... It's okay, junior brother, you can let me go. ”

After Xu Yan heard this, he reacted, and immediately let go of his hand from behind him that bypassed her delicate waist with one hand, but even so, he still felt the touch of the other party's thin robe clinging to his body after being wet by the stream.

Xu Yan didn't care too much about this matter, but bypassed her body, walked in front of her, and slowly walked forward in the pool, he held the glowing night pearl in one hand, and said to Bai Bing without looking back: "Senior Sister Bai, your injuries are not light, and you will go back to the shore to rest first, and I will go to deal with the beast first." ”

When Bai Bing heard this, her beautiful face couldn't help but stop talking, but in the end she still didn't refuse his proposal. Obviously, when she coughed before, the stream water she coughed up was mixed with a strong smell of blood, and Xu Yan must have noticed this before he said that.

"Hey!"

In the end, Bai Bing looked at his back slowly moving away in the faint light, just sighed faintly, and then carefully walked out of this waterhole according to his instructions.

After Xu Yan felt that he had opened a considerable distance from Bai Bing, he also walked out of the stream quickly, and then he suddenly threw the night pearl in his hand forward, and in his hand he quickly pinched the trick to control the sway behind him, and flew into his hand.

He quickly threw out a few brilliant sword flowers in the darkness, and a sword intent suddenly gathered quietly in the spirit rock, and then, after he saw the night pearl thrown by himself, as if it had been swallowed by something, he suddenly slashed the sword in his hand in front of him.

A silver thread lit up from Xu Yan's sword.

This silver thread didn't seem to have the slightest conspicuousness at all, but as this silver thread continued to shoot out, its light became stronger and stronger, until it was completely close to the black shadow that had captured the night pearl, it had already turned into a huge sword qi that was more than ten zhang long.

The seven-star sword qi burst and exploded.

In the entire canyon, there was a "boom" and a shocking sound.

Immediately afterwards, there was a silver light burning in the sky like a scorching sun, and a dazzling light burst out in an instant, illuminating the entire canyon.

Xu Yanqiang resisted the damage caused by this light to his eyes, and still opened his eyes to look at the black shadow that was slashed by his sword.

The next moment, he finally saw it for what it really was.

Xu Yan's face was full of shock, and he couldn't imagine in his heart that the monster who took the initiative to attack him in this canyon would be such a fifth-level spirit beast that had fully reached adulthood, 'Mountain Moving Ape'.

After the brilliant silver light lasted for a fleeting moment, it faded all its brilliance at the same time as the seven-star sword qi used by Xu Yan.

But the next moment, there was an incomparably angry roar, roaring through the darkness.