Since entering the stalagmite forest of Dengbei Mountain, in addition to the disciples of the Chenyang Sect, the disciples of the Lotus Sect, the Yunlan Sect, and the White Crane Sword Village almost all chose the same way to find the golden hairpin Shilan at the same time, that is, to group the members.

For example, in the Lotus Sect, except for Xu Yan, Gu Xueqing, who was the first to break away from the team, and another outer disciple were each in a group, the remaining three factions were based on their factions and became a group on their own.

Compared to the Lotus Sect, the disciples of the White Crane Sword Village were grouped very regularly, because they divided the twenty people into four groups according to the average value, in groups of five.

Eight days passed quietly.

In the stalagmite forest near the north, a sword light flashed.

After Cai Zhenjing slashed the last second-level spirit beast under her sword, her chest began to rise and fall, and her mouth was panting violently. It can be seen that she is very tired at this time, and even the eyes that have been very clear in both directions have long been gone, only deep sorrow and gloom.

On her body, a long lilac dress had long been tattered, and it looked rather a bleak appearance of ragged clothes, and as she moved her body, her skin would even be revealed from these cracked holes from time to time, and her skin as white as ice and snow would be revealed.

Of course, compared to the ragged clothes, what was really shocking on her body was the blood stains on her long dress, some of which had dried up, and some of which had just splashed up, but whether it was new blood or old blood, it made her originally lilac skirt turn into a terrible dark purple.

Fortunately, too many of these bloodstains came from the spirit beasts in this mountain forest, and only a very small part of them were her own or her fellow disciples.

Cai Zhenjing finished dealing with the last spirit beast in the herd of beasts that suddenly burst out of the dense forest, and then she was able to spare her free time, turned around to check on the only male disciple in her team, and immediately found that there was already a large hole like a bowl on his abdomen, and within the wound, there was a steady stream of blood gushing out.

Obviously, with such a serious injury, no matter what method was used, it was no longer possible to stop the blood flowing out of his body.

Cai Zhenjing looked at his pale face that was about to die with some guilt, she had been taught by her master to learn the ruthless sword, but she couldn't help but flash a trace of primordial touch in her heart at this moment. She knew that the reason why he became in this situation was purely to save himself, so he used his body to resist the attack from the spirit beast that was supposed to fall on her.

It was he who gave his life in exchange for her chance to continue to survive.

The male disciple stared straight at Cai Zhenjing with a look full of life, his lips trembled as if he wanted to say something before he died, but he couldn't speak at all, and then, he didn't even have time to close his eyes, he completely stopped breathing.

Seeing the tragic death of his fellow disciple in front of him, including Cai Zhenjing, the four people present were undoubtedly a little heavy.

After a long time, Cai Zhenjing knew that she had to make a choice. She couldn't help but take a deep breath before she said slowly: "Just leave him here, we have a more important mission, don't we? ”

Without waiting for the other three to speak.

Cai Zhenjing suddenly turned his head to look in the direction of a stalagmite, and said coldly: "Who is so sneaky, if you have the ability, you will come out and see it, why hide your head and show your tail!"

"Fairy Cai is really keen, I just accidentally mixed a few leaves under my feet, and I was discovered by you, admire, really admire!"

Looking at the seven young men in earthy yellow robes who slowly walked out from behind the stalagmites after being discovered by themselves, Cai Zhenjing's face became even colder, and she said in a cold voice: "Who is my Dao, it turned out to be a disciple of Chenyang Sect, why, you accepted so many benefits from my White Crane Sword Village, and didn't help us find the golden hairpin Shilan, but secretly followed us to what you did?"

When Yan Ziyi heard this, he couldn't help but smile, shook his head and replied: "Fairy Cai's words are wrong, we have just arrived here, how can we say that we are secretly following you?

Cai Zhenjing was not good at taking advantage of her tongue, she was dumbfounded for a while, she hesitated for a moment before she replied coldly: "Since this is the case, then I wish you all the best in finding the golden hairpin Shilan, junior sisters, let's go!"

"Wait!"

"I wonder if this senior brother has anything else to say?"

"Isn't Fairy Cai going to bury your fellow disciple before leaving, so let him expose his corpse to the wilderness, he will most likely be eaten by the animals wandering here, there is not a single bone residue left, how can this be done by the same disciples?"

"If a person is born in heaven and earth, and he should return to heaven and earth after death, why should he care about his corpse, and what will happen to him in the end?"

Yan Ziyi couldn't help but be stunned when he heard such ruthless words, he thought for a moment before he said leisurely: "I heard that in your White Crane Sword Village, there is a sword technique called 'Ruthless Sword Technique', which is very powerful, but those who practice this sword technique must take the lead in cutting off their own love roots before they can appreciate its essence, so it seems that Fairy Cai must have appreciated the essence of this sword technique, right?"

Cai Zhenjing's face was frosty, and he didn't answer, but said: "If Your Excellency leaves us just to say these useless nonsense, then you have to forgive us for not being able to accompany me anymore, and we still have important things to do, so say goodbye." ”

Cai Zhenjing was obviously quite impatient, and of course the other party's words also touched her bottom line, so after saying this, she stepped directly and wanted to leave quickly.

Yan Zi recalled that she was like this, and immediately glanced at several fellow disciples beside him, and then they quickly ran to the front of Cai Zhenjing and the four of them, blocking their way.

When Cai Zhenjing saw this scene, her face was gloomy and she asked, "What do you mean by this, do you want to take the initiative to tear up our previous agreement?"

Yan Ziyi paced in front of her, and replied with a smile: "Fairy Cai can't talk nonsense, we don't mean this, we just saw a few fairies fighting with these animals before and were almost exhausted, so we are a little worried about your next safety, Fairy Cai, why don't you escort the four of you all the way in the next trip?"

Cai Zhenjing had long realized that the other party must have bad intentions, where would he agree, so he still said in a stiff tone: "Your Excellency won't bother with this matter, I have my own plans in my heart, please get out of the way!"

Yan Zi recalled that the other party was determined, obviously it didn't make sense, so he gradually lost his patience, although the smile on his face did not decrease, but his tone was already a little cold and said: "Fairy Cai, do you really not understand, or are you pretending to be innocent? With your current state, are you leaving?"

When Cai Zhenjing heard this, he immediately tore his face and pulled out the long sword in his hand, and pointed at Yan Ziyi in front of him, and scolded: "Presumptuous! I see that you are killing yourself, I will count down three times now, if you don't get out of the way, don't blame the long sword in my hand for being ruthless!"

Yan Zi recalled that she put the long sword against her chest, but she was not afraid, his eyes narrowed slightly, his hands were behind his back, and he smiled and said, "Fairy Cai, you can try the sword." ”

......

A quarter of an hour later.

Except for Cai Zhenjing, the other three female disciples of the White Crane Sword Village all fell to the ground and vomited blood, and were seriously injured, and Cai Zhenjing himself was also detained by the two disciples of the Chenyang Sect.

She was bleeding from the corners of her mouth and her face was very pale, but she was in much better condition than her peers.

Yan Ziyi waved his hand to the other three fellow disciples with shining-eyed eyes, and then saw that each of them had lifted a female disciple of the White Crane Sword Village out of the area and walked into the distance.

Seeing this, Cai Zhenjing said sharply: "Where did you get them, what do you want to do?"

Yan Ziyi didn't answer at all, just stared at her body calmly, and after a while, she couldn't help but sigh and said: "I have to admit that Fairy Cai's appearance and figure are indeed rare in the world, hey, it's a pity that I don't have this mouth." Without waiting for Cai Zhenjing to get angry, Yan Ziyi suddenly said to Cai Zhenjing: "Fairy Cai, do you know why you can still stand here so unharmed at this moment?"

Cai Zhenjing stared at him coldly, disdainful of replying.

Yan Ziyi smiled and said, "It's okay, you'll know soon." Then, Yan Ziyi waved her hand at the two disciples who were holding her and said, "Take it away." ”

Cai Zhenjing's long sword has been thrown in place by them, and her qi mansion has long been exhausted, even if she wants to commit suicide at this moment, she will definitely not be able to do it, she can only be very passive, and be taken away by this group of disciples of Chenyang Sect.

And just after she walked out a short distance, she vaguely heard the cries for help of the fellow disciple who had been taken away by the other three people first, and the bursts of lewd laughter that accompanied these cries for help.

When Cai Zhenjing heard this voice, she still didn't understand the ins and outs of the matter, and immediately gritted her teeth and said to Yan Ziyi, who was in the lead, "You ...... You dare to treat my disciples of the White Crane Sword Village like this, my senior sisters and sisters will never let you go!"

When Yan Ziyi heard this, he suddenly stopped, turned around and sneered at her and said, "Oh, yes? Then I have to tell you a very unfortunate news, your senior sisters and sisters, we met twice before you, and now you can send your senior sister, but don't worry, my senior brother has already brought someone to find her, and I believe that you will be reunited soon." ”

Seeing that Cai Zhenjing wanted to say something, Yan Ziyi, who was noisy about her, directly took out a piece of cloth and stuffed it into her mouth.

About two quarters of an hour later.

Cai Zhenjing didn't know that in the dense forest on both sides of the road she had just passed, the three junior sisters who were in the same group as her all died naked in the forest. If anyone could see this, they could see that between their legs, there were scarlet blood stains that were gradually curdling. And what Cai Zhenjing didn't know was that in the past few days, her other eight junior sisters had the same fate as them at the moment, and the remaining two other male disciples of the same sect?

It was chopped off and used to feed the spirit beasts in this mountain forest.

......

In the previous discussion, Xu Yan and the others did not choose to go to the stalagmite forest in the west, which naturally took into account that Zhou Xian, who took the safest road, would enter the mountain from that direction, but just like Chen Qinghe and them, Zhou Xian and they also did not find the slightest shadow of the golden hairpin and stone orchid, which couldn't help but make him feel very angry.

As a result, except for Chen Qinghe, Bai Bing and others, who had been discussed with Xu Yan in advance by the Lotus Sect, did not leave for the northern region, and the disciples of the other three sects almost all entered the northern hinterland of Dengbei Mountain one after another eight days later.

Looking at the gray mist floating in the forest in front of him, Zhou Xian couldn't help frowning, obviously he also realized that there was toxicity in this fog, and with nothing he had gained in the past eight days, it undoubtedly made him have the same hesitation as Xu Yan at that time.

However, in the end, he still took out a 'poison avoidance pill' and took it, and took the three Chunzi Sect disciples behind him into this sea of fog together.

As for the other Chunzi Sect disciples who were originally following him, they had already died in the mouths of the spirit beasts in this mountain wilderness.

......

Since he participated in the Hundred Mountains Spring Hunt held in the Spirit Beast Mountain Range, then someone was destined to die in this harsh and primitive environment.

But if you want to say which sect's disciples have the largest number of deaths in the hands of spirit beasts, it should belong to the Yunlan Sect led by Zhou Yu, because since the first night he entered the northern hinterland with the disciples of the sect, his team was very unfortunate to encounter an extremely large group of spirit beasts, and then on this night, he was bitten to death by the ferocious spirit beasts as many as six people, plus the casualties that have been accumulated and accumulated in the past eight days, he never expected that he had not yet met the disciples of other sects, and there were eleven people in the team, which couldn't help but make his mood as bad as his younger brother Zhou Xian, or even much worse。

And the only thing that was lost in the Yunlan Sect belonged to the Chenyang Sect, although they were originally martial arts disciples, and their bodies could be described as strong compared to sword cultivation, but they were still bitten to death by spirit beasts. In addition, in order to deal with the female disciples of the White Crane Sword Village, they also paid a lot of price when facing the other party's resistance, and three of them were killed by the other party in exchange for their lives.

Therefore, among the four major sects, the number of people still alive is:

Yunlan Sect, nine people.

Chenyang Sect, eleven people.

Since most of the disciples of the White Crane Sword Village died in the hands of the disciples of the Chenyang Sect, there were only six people left. But what's even worse is that in addition to Cai Zhenjing, who has been captured alive, their senior sister is also taking the other four people in the same group at the moment, frantically fleeing towards the northern hinterland, because the one who is chasing after them is the eldest disciple of the Chenyang Sect, Wu Hao.

No one knew that after the passage of eight days, it was the Lotus Sect that had been united by the three major sects that had the most remaining disciples.

Except for the one who was killed by him at the beginning of Zhou Xian's side, and the two who were bitten to death by the spirit beast later, only one of the three people who followed Bai Bing was killed, and the others, such as Chen Qinghe's Xia Zi Sect disciple, Qiu Yuanjin of the Winter Character Sect, and Gu Xueqing and her other Chun Zi Sect outer disciple who broke into the Spring Hunting List together, all survived unharmed.

This was a result that no one would have expected, after the eighth day, among the twenty people of the Lotus Sect, there were actually sixteen left.

......

After Xu Yan put this hundred-year-old golden hairpin stone orchid into the storage bag, the giant snake in the cave pit had completely woken up, and at this moment, Xu Yan had fully understood that this beast was indeed the guardian of this century-old golden hairpin stone orchid. And as it woke up, its own powerful aura was also rising, and in the blink of an eye, it had reached the level of a third-level spirit beast.

However, Level 3 was not the end of it, and a moment later, it had successfully reached the peak of Level 3, just like the Blood Wolf King.

Xu Yan looked at it with some uneasiness, helplessly, he could only watch it break through to the fourth level. In the end, the giant snake broke through from level four to level five, and it was not until it was in the middle of level five that it stopped showing signs of continuing to climb.

"Tear up!"

The huge snake letter spit out from its mouth, and it turned out to be the same as its eyeballs, all of which were multicolored colors, which made Xu Yan couldn't help but think of a spirit beast, the Colorful Sky Swallowing Python.

It is recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas of Five States" that when the Colorful Swallowing Python grows to the highest level, it can reach the level of a seven-level spirit beast, and before that, every time it rises to a level, its eyeballs and snake letters will grow an additional color, in addition, it is very sensitive to the sense of smell of the spirit treasure of heaven and earth, almost where it exists, there will be the existence of the spirit treasure of heaven and earth, so it is called by the author of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas of Five States", 'medicine beast'.

The spirit beast that woke up in front of Xu Yan's eyes was obviously the creature described in the scriptures. The mid-level giant snake spirit beast, with multicolored eyes and snake letters, guarding the side of the hundred-year-old golden hairpin stone orchid, these are completely unmistakable information descriptions about it.

Xu Yan watched it spit out snake letters at him fiercely, and a sense of crisis arose, he knew that this was the other party's inertial action before attacking, and for snake spirit beasts, spitting out snake letters was its habitual behavior when detecting prey.

Sure enough, after determining Xu Yan's location, this behemoth, which can only be called a colorful sky-swallowing python, rushed towards him frantically.

The huge snake tail suddenly pulled out of the huge pit, setting off a large wave of water, and then its snake tail swept horizontally from the air, bringing a sense of oppression as if it could shatter the space, where its snake tail passed, the grass and trees flew and all turned into pieces, and it seemed to want to use this tail flick to smash Xu Yan in front of him into a pile of minced meat.