Xu Yan and Gu Xueqing stopped staying and began to leave the downhill road after making sure that the old village chief was completely out of breath, but just as they walked down the mountain, Zhang Chengming, who had already learned that the old father was crying like a child, suddenly rushed to them.

For his inexplicable obstruction, Xu Yan and the others frowned slightly, not knowing what he meant.

Seeing them looking at him, Zhang Chengming was a little ashamed of the weakness he was born with, and hurriedly wiped his tears, and then said to Xu Yan and the others: "Before my father dies, let me tell the two little immortals that after leaving Zhangjia Village and returning to the mountain road inside, you must go to the official road at the fork not far ahead, and don't go straight into the range of Danxia Mountain." ”

Xu Yan nodded and thanked the other party for his kindness, and then said: "Your father ......" He hesitated for a moment, and finally didn't continue, just walked over and patted the other party's shoulder for comfort, then stopped and slowly left on the mountain road, but when he walked to the pavilion at the entrance of the village, another figure blocked their way.

Zhang Ting saw that Xu Yan and the others were about to leave, so she hurriedly walked out of the pavilion, and then saw her hand over a small bamboo basket, and said softly to Xu Yan: "That...... Fortunately, you haven't left yet, this is a little light food that I just made in a hurry, and the taste may be a little worse, but Engong took it to eat on the way, when Engong came to my house before, because I focused on my younger brother, I didn't expect to stay with Engong to have lunch and then leave, I was really a little ashamed. ”

Xu Yan did not refuse her kindness, stretched out his hand and took it with a smile and said, "Then thank you girl." ”

Zhang Ting was relieved to see him accept his bamboo basket, for some reason, the man in front of him looked several years younger than her on the surface, but it gave her a completely different feeling.

Xu Yan saw that she fell into silence, so he continued with a smile: "Then we will leave first." But after he walked out a few steps, he suddenly turned around and lifted the bamboo basket in his hand, smiled at her and said, "Thank you again for coming to see us off, and your lunch, we will definitely finish it at all." ”

When Zhang Ting heard this, she couldn't help but look up at him, looking a little flustered, and then she nodded sneeringly, but only she knew that her heart was actually warm at the moment, and when Xu Yan really left, she suddenly remembered that she didn't know his name yet.

Looking at the downhill road that had long been gone, Zhang Ting sighed softly.

"Hey~ I'm really stupid!"

Zhang Ting, whose face was as beautiful as a lotus flower that bloomed in the middle of summer, thought silently in her heart.

"Is there a chance to meet again?"

A question like a mystery began to spread in Zhang Ting's heart and began to look forward to it.

......

"Little junior brother, you ...... It seems to be quite a woman. ”

After the two returned to the old road, Gu Xueqing, who had already stopped to eat something and then hit the road, joked with a smile.

When Xu Yan heard this, he immediately looked embarrassed, but he didn't stop what he was doing, but directly opened the bamboo basket that Zhang Ting gave him, and then took out a very good, riceball-like light food wrapped in tung leaves, and handed it to the latter, before he replied: "Senior Sister Gu, don't scold me." ”

Gu Xueqing took the food handed over by the other party, thanked her, and took a bite before she continued: "How can you be cold, senior sister, this is telling the truth, don't you feel it yourself? The girl who brought you food obviously has a lot of good feelings for you, otherwise why would she be so restrained, just to send some food." ”

Xu Yan was speechless for this, so he was silent.

Seeing that he chose to resist with a silent attitude, Gu Xueqing no longer planned to continue to tease him, but changed the topic and said, "She should be the female doctor who everyone in the village wants to protect her, right?"

Xu Yan nodded and replied, "Hmm." ”

"No wonder the eldest son of the Luo family will have evil intentions towards her......"

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"Because her appearance is indeed extremely good-looking and exquisite, doesn't the old saying say that trees are very popular? With her excellent appearance and background, she was seen by the eldest son of the Luo family, who had a big career, can she not be remembered?"

Hearing this, Xu Yan knew that among the people in the world, there were actually countless such people, but he shook his head with disagreement, and said with a long sigh: "Listening to Senior Sister Gu say this, it turns out that it is a mistake for women in this world to be good-looking." ”

Gu Xueqing thought for a moment before she replied quietly: "In the world of the jungle, that's it!" She paused for a moment before turning into a smiling face, raised the rice ball in her hand, and said to Xu Yan: "Her skills are very good." ”

Xu Yan nodded approvingly and replied, "Well, it's really good." But when he said this, he couldn't help but think of another figure in his mind.

After a brief lunch, the two got up and continued to walk to the back, but after they walked out for about ten miles, they saw a fork in the road, and the direction should be towards the official road outside, and then lead to Najingning Town.

When Gu Xueqing saw Xu Yan stop, she asked, "How are you going to go, junior brother?"

After Xu Yan took out the map and read it, he still replied: "Let's go straight, if we go to the official road, and then pass through Jingning Town, then we have to go around a big circle, and the time will inevitably add two more days for no reason, we will go north this way, I don't know what unexpected situations will be encountered later, we need to delay some time halfway, now we can save a little time." ”

Gu Xueqing didn't object to his opinion, just frowned, and said truthfully: "I don't have an opinion on how the little junior brother wants to go, but when leaving Songyang Town, Uncle Qiao seems to be intentionally letting us avoid the range of Danxia Mountain, and now those people in Zhangjia Village are also saying the same, shouldn't it be really haunted over there?"

Xu Yan hadn't mentioned to Gu Xueqing before that he had met the three sect masters of the Danxia Sect in Songyang Town, so it was normal for the latter not to know the specific truth, but the other party, as a cultivator, would actually believe the ghosts and monsters rumored by the people in the market, which made him can't help but have a black line on his face.

Xu Yan put away the map in his hand, no longer planning to continue to hide the truth from her, and replied bluntly: "If there are really ghosts and monsters in Danxia Mountain, it's a pity that there is no, but there is an unknown sect that occupies the mountain over there as the king, and has done evil to passers-by for many years, so that people who pass by near Danxia Mountain have their lives to enter alive but not to come out, so this has been falsely spread by later people, and there is a ghost theory." ”

When Gu Xueqing heard that someone was robbing and doing evil on the road again, the disgust in her heart instantly exploded, and she said coldly: "Why is it such a dirty thing." She hesitated for a moment, and then asked suspiciously: "But since they are a cultivation sect, don't they know that if they attack the mortals in the market at will, sooner or later they will be exterminated by the Great Zhou?"

Xu Yan naturally couldn't answer this accurately, so he fell silent.

Gu Xueqing suddenly asked, "By the way, how did the little junior brother know about this situation, have you been to this sect?"

Xu Yan shook his head and replied, "You should still remember the huge palm print in the north gate of Songyang Town." ”

"What does junior brother mean that you met someone from the Danxia Sect in Songyang Town?"

"Yes, and they are the three sect masters of the Danxia Sect, but I only killed one of them, and Uncle Qiao also killed one person, but one of them ran away smoothly. ”

"Old Uncle Qiao, he is also a cultivator?"

Xu Yan saw Gu Xueqing's reaction, so he replied with a smile: "People can't be good-looking, don't look at Old Uncle Qiao on the surface to look loyal and honest, but in fact he is very violent, and now he has entered the realm of seven grades, and it is effortless to deal with some small fish and shrimp." Xu Yan saw that Gu Xueqing was in deep thought, so he continued to say to her: "By the way, Old Uncle Qiao's identity is a little special, although I told you that he is a cultivator, but you remember to hide this matter in the Alone Company, especially not to talk to Senior Brother Qiao." ”

Gu Xueqing didn't ask about the specific reason, but just nodded and agreed.

......

"We've been waiting here for almost two days and two nights, why haven't they come yet, isn't it that they didn't take this road at all, but took the official road outside?" On a hidden hillside near Danxia Mountain, Cao Haiping, who had been waiting for rabbits here for almost two days, couldn't help but say when he saw that today's sky was slowly moving towards twilight.

After Gao Yuan heard this, his face was also a little ugly, he turned his head to look at the second sect master of the Danxia Sect who was beside him, and asked, "Which way do you think they will go?"

The second sect master and the three brothers of the Danxia Sect didn't find a chance to attack Xu Yan, so they were killed by Lao Qiao and fled, naturally they couldn't know Xu Yan's future movements, but he knew that as time went by, once they could meet Xu Yan, the greater the danger to him.

Don't look at Gao Yuan did promise not to kill him at the beginning, he was very safe, as an old fox who wandered the rivers and lakes, the second sect master actually didn't dare to take it lightly at all, because his intuition was telling him that if the man in front of him waited until he had no use value, there would be half a chance that he would be killed to make a difference, after all, the extermination of the Danxia Sect, even if the former had brutally slaughtered hundreds of people in the entire sect, but if there were three sect masters, he couldn't even bring back the head of a sect master, and the convincing power was far from enough。

Therefore, the second sect master hesitated for a moment before he replied: "I really don't know which way those young people will take, but if they want to leave Songyang Town and successfully enter Jingning Town, this mountain road is undoubtedly the shortest one at the moment, and it can save at least two or three days, if they know this road, they should not go to the official road outside." ”

Gao Yuan was obviously not satisfied with this ambiguous answer, so he raised his eyebrows with an ugly face, and then he asked: "Then will it take two days to travel from here to Songyang Town?"

Regarding this question, the second sect master did not dare to make any deception, and replied bluntly: "Not at all, even ordinary people with faster foot strength can definitely reach the time of a day, and for cultivators, it will only take about three hours if the speed is even." ”

As for the news that there was a fork in the front that could turn to the official road outside, the second sect master did not mention it very interestingly.

Gao Yuan saw that his tone was so sure when he said this, and he didn't have the slightest feeling that he was lying, so he finally nodded. He pondered for a moment before he said to Cao Haiping on the side: "Brother Cao, no matter whether those young people will pass by here or not, we will wait until it gets dark tonight, if they haven't come yet, then we will return to Jingning Town first, anyway, we have left eyeliner in the town, they will not be blind, turn a blind eye to them passing by, you can rest assured, they will not escape from our palms." ”

Cao Haiping could only nod helplessly and agreed.

So, time passed slowly again in the lurking of the three of them, until about four quarters of the unitary hour, when the three of them saw a man and a woman walking slowly towards the distance of the mountain road, but when they saw that the other party was a poor scholar and an ordinary woman, their faces showed a trace of disappointment.

Gao Yuan saw the gaze of the second sect master, and always stared at the two people below who were about to walk down the slope, and immediately showed a trace of displeasure on his face, and said coldly: "What, robbery has become inertia? These two people are obviously mortals in the market, do you still want to continue to attack them?"

The second sect master saw that the other party had a misunderstanding about him, and he couldn't say anything in his heart, and was thinking about whether he should defend himself, but then when he succeeded in seeing the scholar's face clearly, his eyes suddenly became cold.

Although the other party had changed into the iconic robe of the Lotus Sect disciple at this moment, he would never forget this face, as well as the honest and dark old face in Songyang Town, not to mention that the time between them was only two days.

The second sect master looked at the two people under the slope, and at this moment he had already crossed the position where the three of them were, and said to Gao Yuan beside him: "It's him, it's this scholar, he is the personal disciple of the Lotus Sect Master." ”

When Gao Yuan heard him say this, he said with some suspicion: "Are you sure? ”

Seeing that he didn't believe him, the second sect master said in a calm tone: "Whether it is or not, you can't see it just by looking at it, just let me try it." ”

Gao Yuan frowned and asked, "How do you want to try?"

The second sect master broke off a wooden branch next to him, and was about to throw it towards Xu Yan not far away, after Gao Yuan saw this, he immediately added: "It's just a temptation, don't hurt people at will!"

The second sect master didn't think that the person in front of him said this, but out of the kindness of a woman, if a person was soft-hearted, it would never be possible to slaughter his entire sect and be indifferent, therefore, the reason why the other party made a dissuasion was nothing more than to show that he was out of his own position, but if the wooden branches thrown out could not hurt people, how could he test whether the other party was a cultivator or not?

Boom!

The wooden branch was like an archer from the army, and a powerful arrow feather shot from the hillside to the back of Xu Yan, who was walking.

Gao Yuan felt the strength of the second sect master's throw, and couldn't help but be angry in his heart, if the other party was really a poor scholar from the market, this arrow would be enough to make him seriously injured, if he was unlucky, he would penetrate through his back and stab him in the heart, and if he couldn't keep it, he would have to die immediately.

However, without waiting for Gao Yuan to make any verbal reprimand to the second sect master, this wooden branch, which had been flying in mid-air for a short time, was easily turned around by the scholar and held it firmly in his hand at the critical moment.

Seeing this scene, the second sect master said in a low voice: "See, if this scholar is not a cultivator, don't say if he can do it next, even if he can't even react, he will be pierced in the back by me with an arrow." ”

Gao Yuan was irrefutable about this, of course, after successfully testing out the other party, which was their target task at the moment, he didn't need to care about these details anymore.

The three figures jumped down the hillside together, and then after a few dodges, they stopped in front of Xu Yan and the others, who had already stopped.

Xu Yan's cold gaze swept over the three people in front of him one by one, and then he saw one of the sect masters of the Danxia Sect who had escaped from him a few days ago.

Without waiting for Xu Yan to speak, Gao Yuan said to him coldly: "I didn't expect you to be quite smart and know how to change your outfit to make it real, but you think that you can escape our ambush, then you are too naïve." ”

Xu Yan didn't pay any attention to him, just looked at the second sect master of the Danxia Sect, and said indifferently: "Why, you escaped by luck that night, so you went to hire two helpers to kill me?"

When the second sect master heard this, he replied angrily: "Stinky boy, you really dare to put gold on your face, your cultivation is not comparable to mine, and you are so ashamed to speak, if it weren't for the sudden attack of the old horseman, do you think you would be able to come here alive? I want to see how wild you can go if the old horseman doesn't follow you today." ”

Xu Yan saw that he looked down on himself in his words, and he didn't care, but instead said with a hint of sarcasm on his face: "Since you are so confident, then why do you have to find two helpers to come and ambush me together?

When the second sect master heard this, he was so angry that he wanted to defend a few more words, but Gao Yuan took the lead in snatching the words, only to hear him say coldly to Xu Yan: "Young man, you are wrong, we have no friendship and relationship with him, if it weren't for your appearance, we would even have to spend some extra strength to kill him." ”

When Xu Yan heard this answer, he couldn't help frowning, and he couldn't understand what the other party meant, but before he could say anything more, he saw Gao Yuan turn his head and say coldly to the sect master of the Danxia Sect: "Since we all have the same ultimate goal, then you go and kill him." ”

After hearing this, the second sect master was undoubtedly a little hesitant, after all, he had felt the other party's cultivation, and it was almost the same as him, but Gao Yuan's next sentence immediately dispelled all his hesitant thoughts.

I heard Gao Yuan then say to him: "As long as you can successfully kill him, I can completely save your life because of this credit you have saved!"