When Xu Yan woke up, the sky was already close to twilight, so in the valley he was in, he had already fallen into darkness. And the moment he woke up, he saw a dazzling purple rainbow in the endless deep blue sky, which was passing quickly from north to south.

In just a moment, Xu Yan, who had roughly guessed the ending, shook his head and didn't think much about it, but immediately after, a soft and pleasant voice sounded in his ears, and he only heard her say: "I didn't expect the Holy Maiden to be so fast, she has already cultivated to the point where she can fly with a sword." ”

Xu Yan heard her envious voice, so he turned his head to look at her, and then found that not far from his side, the beautiful woman who had helped light the bonfire in advance was also looking at the fleeting Changhong from afar at this moment.

He hesitated for a moment, but finally told her the truth: "Actually...... There is nothing to envy about this, to use the avenue of the rest of my life in exchange for being able to gallop between heaven and earth, in my opinion, no matter how you look at it, it is a loss-making transaction. ”

Cai Zhenjing, who had already been honest with herself, untied her heart, and looked extraordinarily gentle and virtuous against the backdrop of the bonfire, quietly retracted her gaze looking at the sky after hearing this.

She turned her head to look at Xu Yan, who was solving her puzzles, and a shallow smile appeared on her face, but then she refuted his opinion a little stubbornly, and said to herself: "I think it's good to have such an opportunity, after all, many people spend their lives in the way of the sword, and they can't really fly with a sword, let alone be able to take in the beautiful scenery of these mountains and rivers under their feet." ”

Xu Yan heard the melancholy in her words, and those deep eyes couldn't help but squint slightly, but he didn't plan to continue to delve into this issue, but stood up, suddenly thanked her, and said: "I accidentally fell asleep before, I'm really a little ashamed, thank you Miss Cai for coming for a few hours and helping me protect the Fa by my side." ”

Cai Zhenjing heard this, but shook his head and replied: "If this little thing is worthy of Xu Gongzi's thanks, then Xu Gongzi saved the little girl's life three times and twice, what can the little woman use to repay Xu Gongzi's kindness to the spring?"

Although Xu Yan has noticed Cai Zhenjing's attitude towards him, there has been a great change compared to the beginning, and he no longer treats him coldly and as if he was facing a great enemy, but he can still know that her temperament is actually quite stubborn and serious, and she is very assertive, not as delicate and gentle as ordinary women. Therefore, for such an independent and somewhat upright woman, even if he did have a life-saving grace for her, he didn't want to hide that he actually did it with a strong purpose at the beginning.

Xu Yan looked at her calmly, and couldn't help but sigh softly in his heart, but in the end, he still said to her truthfully: "Actually, at the beginning, the reason why I wanted to save Miss Cai's life from Yan Ziyi's hands, and finally let you leave like that, was just to let you successfully go back alive, and through your mouth, you could expose the ugly thing of collusion between Yunlan Sect and Chenyang Sect, so as to provoke hatred between you White Crane Sword Village and them." As for this time, it was I myself who was in danger of falling off the cliff, heh, if I really want to talk about it, it was that I fell down this cliff with Miss Cai, if it weren't for me, your holy woman would not have been so cruel to you at all, so Miss Cai didn't have to take those 'life-saving graces' to heart. ”

Cai Zhenjing couldn't help but feel a slight pain in her heart when she heard Xu Yan suddenly tell the original truth so straightforwardly, but then she felt relieved for a while, and she couldn't help but think in her heart, "How can there be such an honest and direct person as him in this world?"

She was silent for a moment before she said slowly: "No matter what the purpose, what Xu Gongzi saved was the life of the little woman, maybe in your eyes, this is just for the sake of the interests between the sects, but for me, it is a very beautiful and lucky thing to be able to experience the meaning of life again and continue to breathe in this world, so no matter what, I have to thank you." ”

Xu Yan knew that her stubborn temper had come up again, so he didn't insist anymore, so he could only follow her. However, when he learned that she had learned how to face her life squarely, he was sincerely happy for her, after all, he disliked the kind of person who thought that he could sacrifice his life at any time for the sake of benevolence and morality. For example, she was like this before, but with this experience, it is obvious that she will not be like this in the future.

You know, everyone only lives this life, and if everyone dies, what is the use of that false reputation?

So, Xu Yan didn't refuse her spiritual kindness anymore, just nodded at her, and said in a calm tone: "It's great that Miss Cai can think like this." ”

......

The night passed.

There was no abnormality in the valley, and the credit for this was naturally due to Xiao Cai's deliberate request by Xu Yan to release her own breath after reaching the sixth-level spirit beast, which avoided those low-level spirit beasts who were eyeing Xu Yan and the others in the dark and ready to attack at all times, but finally chose to leave.

Therefore, at the source of this evil stream, there is only the sound of the falling waterfall, which is in the ears, accompanied by Xu Yan in the dark night, constantly recuperating his injuries.

When he came back from meditation, the sky was already bright, and after Xu Yan slowly opened his eyes, he controlled his mind and checked his physical condition roughly, and after a while, he breathed a sigh of relief. The result was not much different from what he had expected, and everything was back to normal in his body. For example, the two qi mansions in his body were completely filled with qi after a whole night of meditation, and the sword wound on his back was completely healed under the treatment of his long Bible, and even after experiencing this battle with Bai Bing, his martial cultivation physique had strengthened a lot.

As long as they are not injured by their opponents in battle, such as being broken by the tricks and meridians that have been opened, then after that, they will only become stronger and stronger, besides, Xu Yan himself is a former martial arts giant, and he has long been extremely familiar with this way of cultivation and knows it by heart.

After Xu Yan checked his physical condition, he glanced around, and then found that Cai Zhenjing, who was beside him, woke up earlier than him, and she had already roasted the hind legs of a spirit beast that he hunted from the mountains last night, and the fragrance was fragrant.

Xu Yan got up and went to the waterhole to rinse his mouth, and after washing his face by the way, he walked back to the fire and ate some barbecue with Cai Zhenjing, and waited until the two of them were almost full, and then he said to Cai Zhenjing: "Counting today, there are only about seven days left before the end of the spring hunt, but we are still in the hinterland of the mountains, so if we want to rush back before the end of the spring hunt, we must hurry." ”

Cai Zhenjing, who already had a bit of a 'being in Cao Ying's heart in Han', heard Xu Yan's words, and had no objections, nodded and replied: "Well, then let's leave quickly." ”

For Cai Zhenjing, although she instinctively hoped that her sect could win this spring hunt, in the end, when she learned that she had become a chess piece that could only be ruthlessly discarded in this competition for interests, she felt a little chill in her heart, and even made her loyalty and belief that had always been towards the sect not as strong as before.

In this whole matter, Cai Zhenjing knew very well that Bai Bing was to ensure that the White Crane Sword Village would win the spring hunt in the end, so he ruthlessly blasted Xu Yan down the cliff, because only if he died, the golden hairpin stone orchid and white fruit in his storage bag would not be sent back to the Lotus Sect.

But why was she also knocked off the cliff together?

She thought about it now that there should be a reason why she was unwilling to obey the other party's orders and thus provoke the latter's resentment, but at the same time, there should also be the latter in that case, to the extent that she had to do it as a last resort. Therefore, in fact, Cai Zhenjing does not hate Bai Bing, or rather, she even feels that in a sense, this also allows her to offset a lot of the burden in her heart in the matter of owing the favor to the sect, and it is precisely because of such a result that she feels that she will be more at ease when she does that thing after the spring hunting.

As for what the end result would be? She didn't know, she had to leave it to fate.

Following behind Xu Yan, along the winding stream in the valley and constantly going south, Cai Zhenjing has always been silent, she is not the kind of woman who talks a lot, only in her heart, she will be like most women in the world, often imagine the joys, sorrows and sorrows that come from life, but what she is thinking about at the moment is only the man in front of her.

"It's back to the days when you didn't have to think about anything, you didn't have to worry about anything, you just had to follow the other person closely, and everything was decided by him. Cai Zhenjing thought so, but then she was annoyed by her rather 'shameless' emotion.

Because from birth to the present, in the past twenty years, she has actually long been accustomed to facing life and the unknown alone, so she really doesn't want this sense of dependence on others now, but unfortunately, this is already uncontrollable after she likes the man in front of her.

......

After Xiao Cai woke up and reached the sixth level spirit beast, Xu Yan didn't have to work as hard as before, and he needed to concentrate his attention on this mountain and river, because compared to his own divine perception range, there was no doubt that Xiao Cai, who had been able to reach a range of about ten miles, was much stronger than him.

Xiao Cai, who learned from Xu Yan that he had fallen asleep and the whole thing that had happened, finally couldn't help but say to Xu Yan after Xu Yan stopped speaking: " You human beings are really complicated enough, and you can say that you can turn your face to your savior, but you are also ha, in order to covet that sword technique, you can so hastily agree to accompany Bai Bing, who is obviously not a good thing, to go to Dushan to hunt for treasure, hey, blame me for sleeping too early, otherwise I will definitely not let you go, you see, now you are retribution, right? If I hadn't woken up in time at a critical moment, you might have fallen to your death. ”

Without waiting for Xu Yan to say anything, Xiao Cai, who was in the sea of knowledge, continued: "Also, you should have heard of the four words "red face and troubled water, right?" The fair-skinned beauty behind you, but before, I almost planted you in the hands of the monster in Mitsui Creek, but I didn't expect you to be involved with her again, Xu Yan, you shouldn't really like her, right? I think her attitude towards you now is also quite a little bird-like." ”

"Don't talk nonsense. ”

Xu Yan's tone was unfazed, not affected by Xiao Cai's ridiculous tone in the slightest, and he continued: "Even if there was no Miss Cai, I wouldn't have entered Sanjing Creek before, but in other things, such as going deep into this Dushan Mountain, I have nothing to do with her. ”

Seeing Xu Yan's explanation, Xiaocai didn't care, but then she stopped at the point of being quite acquainted, and did not continue to ridicule the latter on this topic, but suddenly became a different face, and sighed worriedly, and said: "Hey, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, anyway, do you like her or not, what's the matter with me?" If we just go down the evil stream like this, and when we are about to get out of the area of the yellow hair, won't we run to Mitsui Creek again?"

For this question, Xu Yan only had helplessness in his heart.

After they had walked along the creek for a whole day, he found that there were still only steep and cold stone walls between the peaks on both sides of the valley, and there was no other fork in the road for them to leave, so they seemed to have no choice but to keep walking south along the stream.

He was silent for a moment before he replied in a low tone: "Haven't you also reached the level of a sixth-level spirit beast now, plus me, you may not be able to fight that monster." ”

When Xiaocai heard that there was going to be a fight, her tone instantly fell, and she replied quietly: "It's true that I entered the sixth level, but that monster is really terrifying, you are not afraid, because you have not entered its body to feel its horror, but you have felt its red mist before, that poison is terrible enough, right?" Let me tell you, it can be almost pervasive, and even if my cultivation has improved a lot now, I still don't have much certainty, my real name venom can be compared to it, and the most important thing is that if I spit out this mouthful of my real name venom, my cultivation may have to fall back to the level of a fifth-level spirit beast, so wouldn't the eggs of the Neidan, the Transformation Grass, and the Wild Griffin that I ate before all be wasted......"

Hearing Xiaocai say this, how could Xu Yan not know her intention to avoid war, and immediately said angrily: "Whether we can fight or not, we have to fight, unless you can find another way out and take us out of this evil stream, otherwise, in about a day, we will have to go to the area of Mijing Creek." ”

Seeing Xu Yan say this, Xiaocai already knew the geography of this mountain and river very well, but he didn't think about it, so he replied bluntly: "You don't have to test me...... I can tell you unequivocally that you will never be able to leave this evil stream until you have learned how to fly with your sword. ”

"That's it, so you have to fight without fighting, of course, if you really don't want to fight that monster, it's not impossible, you just have to wait to be swallowed alive. ”

That is, Xiaocai has not yet cultivated to the transformation stage, otherwise she couldn't help but roll her eyes after hearing Xu Yan's rogue words, but in the end, it just muttered and said: "Didn't I complain and complain before the matter came, and didn't I really not fight...... Can't I even complain?"

Xu Yan was speechless for a while in the face of her childish words, and he was speechless.

......

Time flies.

The day passed quietly.

Near noon, on the top of the Hundred Mountains Ancestral Mountains in Lingzhou, in that blue sky, there were no clouds. However, since it was close to midsummer, the sun was close to noon, and when it hit people, it was already quite hot.

However, even in such a hot weather, there were still a lot of disciples walking around in the sun on the Lotus Sect's martial arts training square.

The heads of the major sects sitting in the tent had different expressions, because at this moment, there were only six days left before the end of this spring hunt, and none of the disciples they sent out came back in advance to report the situation. However, around the third quarter of today, on the downhill path of the Lotus Sect, two young disciples who had been in the dust finally walked back.

However, after they came to Lian Wu Square completely, the faces of Ye Jiawen, the sect leader of the Yunlan Sect, Wu Shixing, the sect leader of the Chenyang Sect, and Song Yu, the Taishang Elder of the Chunzi Sect, couldn't help but be shocked by this.

In the end, it was Wu Shixing who took the lead in asking Wu Hao: "What's the matter, why did you come back so many days in advance, what about the others?"

Wu Hao's face was a little embarrassed when he saw his father sitting on him asking a question, and he was thinking about how to answer, but then just after them, another group of young disciples came up from the downhill road. Wu Hao looked sideways, and after seeing the four people in front of him clearly, the big eyes with thick eyebrows couldn't help but feel a slight chill, but in the end, he didn't care too much about it, but Zhou Xian, who was beside him, couldn't help but change his face after seeing the four people.

Without waiting for the people present to speak, Ning Zhiyuan, a disciple of the Xia Zi Sect who had not successfully entered the top twenty in the previous selection competition, hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Senior Brother, why is Senior Brother Qingshan's right arm gone?"

Han Yu, the elder of the Xia Zi Sect who was already sitting quietly in the main tent, saw this scene, and immediately walked quickly to the four of them, he looked at Chen Qingshan, who was in a very bad condition, with a gloomy face, and without waiting for the latter to speak, he said directly: "Don't say anything now, wait until everyone comes back, and then you will announce the things you encountered in the spring hunt, Qinghe, you first send Qingshan back to the Little Lotus Peak to heal, Qiao Mu, you also go back to rest, this spring hunt, hard work for you." ”

Chen Qinghe immediately understood what his master meant, and said in a deep voice: "Yes, master." ”

......

At this moment.

At the foot of the Yellow Maojian Mountain of the Hundred Mountains, in the evil stream.

As Xu Yan had predicted before, they finally walked to the range of Mijing Creek, but after they saw the three strange waterholes clearly, whether it was Xu Yan, Cai Zhenjing, or Xiaocai, who was hidden in his cuffs and only showed a small head, they all looked horrified.

Because they saw a scene on those three waterholes that they had never seen before.