The early morning on the Evil Ridge was not the slightest peculiar, and for Xu Yan, it was just a new day ushered in after spending an extremely ordinary night among the mountains.

However, compared to the previous period, after he roughly told Chen Qinghe about his experience again last night, he finally relaxed for half the night in the second half of the night, because he at least didn't have to stay in a state of full concentration all night.

After eating a simple breakfast, all the disciples of the Lotus Sect began to pack their bags, and then headed towards Huang Maojian, originally they should have entered two days ago, after all, the entire spring hunt was only one month, plus the time spent by everyone on the round trip, in fact, on average, each task could only be divided into about seven or eight days.

But now, this is only the first task, and it took them half a month, that is, fifteen days, so they only have about ten days to use the next two tasks, which is obviously a bit urgent.

The second task of the spring hunt is no longer to continue to search for medicinal materials, but to hunt the spirit beast in the yellow hair tip, and it has to be the kind of spirit beast that gave birth to the inner dan, because in the rules of the spring hunt, it is very clear that only the sect that hunts the most inner pills in this mission can win from it.

"Senior Sister Qiu, what are you doing?"

After everyone set off, Xu Yan, who was going to relieve himself, saw that Qiu Yuanjin was carving something on the tree on the side of the road with a dagger at the moment, so he couldn't help but ask.

Qiu Yuanjin heard Xu Yan's voice suddenly sound behind him, and suddenly shuddered as if he was frightened, and said in a somewhat panicked tone: "No...... It's nothing. She looked at Xu Yan's incomparably deep eyes staring at her, and her face immediately turned slightly red, but in fact, in the process, she had quietly recovered from the state just now. Then, I saw her reach out and put a strand of green silk scattered on her forehead back behind her ear, then she lowered her forehead, and her tone became a little shy and said, "Little junior brother, what are you looking at me like this?"

Xu Yan couldn't help but feel a little funny in his heart when he saw that she could change from being stunned to such a little woman's posture in an instant, but the expression on his face was always as calm as water, and he just turned his gaze away from the other party, Xu Yan replied: "I just came back from that side, and when I saw that Senior Sister Qiu was still in place, I came up to greet her, but I didn't mean anything else." ”

After Qiu Yuanjin spoke, his tone suddenly said with some resentment: "Oh, so that's just it, I thought that the little junior brother deliberately stayed and waited for me." ”

“......”

After a moment of silence, Xu Yan spoke: "If Senior Sister Qiu doesn't catch up again, Senior Brother and they will have to go away." ”

"It's good to hurry up and go away, so that I can be with you, junior brother, I don't think junior brother will be so ruthless, let senior sister run around in the yellow hair alone, isn't it?"

"Uh...... Senior Sister Qiu's words are not safe, it is too dangerous for you to follow me, it is better for you to follow Senior Brother and them, besides, ......"

"You idiot!"

Without waiting for Xu Yan to finish speaking, Qiu Yuanjin glared at him with some annoyance, and then ignored him and quickly chased after Chen Qinghe and the others.

Seeing Qiu Yuanjin's sudden change, Xu Yan's face was also slightly stunned, but he was not surprised by this, if he was still a fledgling hairy boy, maybe he would be confused by her behavior at the moment, but obviously she was thinking too much.

"Tsk, Xu Yan, you see that everyone is angry with you, why don't you catch up and comfort you?"

Hearing the schadenfreude voice in his consciousness, Xu Yan was angry and said, "You are just a young snake, what do you know about the relationship between men and women?"

Xiaocai snorted dissatisfiedly and replied: "If you count according to your human time, I am almost more than three hundred years old, which is enough for you to live two lifetimes, so I am not a young snake you said." ”

Xu Yan was directly speechless at this, thinking: Compare years with me, but then he just shook his head and smiled helplessly, and did not continue to argue, because he really couldn't argue with it about this issue.

In the end, Xu Yan glanced at the traces left by Qiu Yuanjin on the trees beside the road, but she couldn't help but recall this move she had been doing since he joined Bai Bing and the others yesterday, and a trace of suspicion flashed in her deep eyes, but then she was no longer entangled, and also walked quickly in the direction of Huang Maojian.

......

There is not only one way to enter the mountain of Huangmaojian, but from the side of the Lotus Sect, usually all the disciples will choose the pass of the Upper Evil Ridge, so it was almost half an hour after Xu Yan and the others left, and no one came to the place of the Upper Evil Ridge.

Among this group of disciples, the clothes were quite complicated, some of them were wearing the same linen robes of the Lotus Sect as Xu Yan and the others, some were wearing earthy yellow robes, and some were wearing cyan robes. There is no doubt that they came from behind Zhou Xian and his party.

After Zhou Xian and the others came to the Upper Evil Ridge, they did not immediately march towards Huangmaojian, but stayed here, and after everyone had a place to sit down, Zhou Yu asked Zhou Xian: "Third brother, are you really sure that the disciples of the Lotus Sect will take this road?"

When Zhou Xian heard this, he didn't answer immediately, but just glanced around and glanced at the scene slightly, and after seeing the familiar scene and a pile of new soil on the ground, he rubbed the soil on the ground with his foot, and then turned out a pile of black carbon piles, and then replied coldly: "These wood charcoal are new at a glance, and they should have spent the night here last night." ”

"Then what are we still staying here, hurry up and chase them, if we are faster, we may be able to catch up with them. ”

"Didn't you say that you were going to send out the two men to chase the woman before waiting for you?"

"Hey, don't care about them, besides, as long as they complete the task, they will come to Huangmaojian to join us, but the woman who escaped from Xu Yanbing in two ways before, can you recognize who she is?"

Zhou Xian didn't see Cai Zhenjing's face under the veil, just with a pair of eyes, he really couldn't identify who it was, so he shook his head with an ugly face, and just replied: "At that time, I just glanced at her in a hurry, how can I be sure who it is?" But among the female disciples of my Lotus Sect who participated this time, there are only Qiu Yuanjin and Gu Xueqing, if she is not Qiu Yuanjin, then it is naturally Gu Xueqing. ”

"Isn't Gu Xueqing a disciple of your Chunzi Sect, even if she doesn't deal with you on weekdays, she shouldn't be so close to that Xu Yan, and between the four factions of the Lotus Sect in spring, summer, autumn and winter, isn't it already a long time ago. ”

"That Gu Xueqing is a slut!"

Hearing Zhou Yu say these words, Zhou Xian immediately couldn't help but scold angrily, and for no reason in his mind, he remembered what the Chunzi Sect disciple who had been killed by his own order had told him before, when the disciple told him that after Xu Yan won him in the final, Gu Xueqing also went to congratulate his sworn enemy.

Zhou Xian's eyes suddenly became very cold, and then said: "I wish she was Gu Xueqing, anyway, I have long wanted the life of this slut, but I don't know, what is the strength of the two Yunlan Sect disciples sent out by the second brother before, I have to remind the second brother, that Gu Xueqing's strength is quite good, the second brother should not capsize in this kind of gutter!"

Hearing the slight sarcasm in the other party's tone, and only now telling him about Gu Xueqing's situation, Zhou Yu's face suddenly became very ugly, but he was still quite confident in his two fellow disciples, after all, they were also sword cultivators who had reached the peak of the three-story building. Therefore, Zhou Yu paused for a moment before replying in a deep voice: "The reminder of the third brother is really timely. Seeing that Zhou Xian's face remained unchanged, Zhou Yu continued: "As long as Gu Xueqing has not stepped into the four-story building, there will be no accident." ”

When Zhou Xian heard this, the banter on his face was unabated, and he said with a sneer in his mouth: "That's good." ”

The friendship between Zhou Yu and Zhou Xian is not particularly deep, which is completely different from when the former gets along with his eldest brother Zhou Tai, and even his relationship with the son 'Zhou Mi', who was originally his father's brother, is closer than with Zhou Xianlai, although the three of them are brothers, but after all, the ancestor only left the red candle to Zhou Xian before the immortal died.

This red candle is at most a famous sword for people in the world, but for the children of the Zhou family, it is an heirloom.

First of all, its source is one of the ten famous swords that his ancestors gave to the latter after their ancestors had made great achievements in the dry state. Secondly, it not only symbolizes the former glory of the Zhou family, but also seals the three powerful sword qi that his ancestor spent half of his cultivation to inject into it before the death of the immortal. These three sword qi cannot be driven by the bloodline of the descendants of the Zhou family, but it can determine its strength and weakness according to the user's own cultivation, which is undoubtedly equivalent to the fact that in the critical life and death battle, the sword wielder has three more chances to change his life against the sky. However, what Zhou Yu didn't know was that when Zhou Xian was fighting against Xu Yan before, he had actually used one of the sword qis.

Of course, if this red candle was only embodied in the sense of cultivation, maybe Zhou Yu would not be so dissatisfied, but the family's cultivation of Zhou Xianna as the next head of the family over the years made Zhou Yu really feel a trace of injustice and anger, because among the three brothers, Zhou Xian naturally didn't need to say more, and his eldest brother Zhou Tai, in order to calm his heart, the family had already obtained a place for him to directly enter the Sword Martial Arts Academy to practice.

Only he, Zhou Yu, was the only one, but he had nothing from beginning to end.

There is no red candle, and there is no key training for him, and even the only place he can enter Zhongzhou can only be won by himself after going through many obstacles now, and the most important thing is that the family also gave him a death order, this year's Baishan Spring Hunt is only allowed to win and not lose.

After Zhou Yu was silent for a long time, he stood up from a stone block, and then said, "Without further ado, let's hurry up and enter the mountain, Brother Wu, when we need to deal with the disciples of the Lotus Sect next, I will bother you to make more efforts." ”

After Wu Hao heard this, he grinned, but he didn't have the slightest intention of getting up, but he replied with great readiness: "It's easy to say, anyway, as long as your Yunlan Sect can give us the same reward for Chenyang Sect afterwards, you can kill whoever you want me to kill." ”

Zhou Yu's face looked a lot better when he heard him say this, but seeing that the other party didn't mean to get up, he was a little puzzled and asked, "Brother Wu, ...... this?"

Seeing that the other party asked knowingly, Wu Hao's face remained silent, and he replied bluntly: "Oh, I still have important matters to discuss with Senior Brother Yan, so we are going to enter the mountain later." ”

Zhou Yu didn't know what kind of medicine was being sold in the other party's gourd, so he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, but in the end, he still didn't show any dissatisfaction with this, but just said in a deep voice: "Then Brother Wu and Brother Yan can remember to hurry up, after all, there is not much time left for us in this spring hunt, we not only have to kill the disciples of the Lotus Sect, but if necessary, Brother Wu will also have to help us hunt some Neidan." ”

After Wu Hao heard this, he had a surprisingly good temper, nodded his head, and replied: "It's okay, it's all up to you." ”

Seeing the other party's statement, Zhou Yu naturally had nothing to bargain with the other party, so he could only turn his head and make a look at Zhou Xian on the side, and then took the only three remaining Yunlan Sect disciples and walked towards the yellow hairy tip with an iron face.

About half an hour later.

Seeing that Zhou Yu and the others in front of him had completely lost their figures, Yan Ziyi, who was sitting on the side, opened his mouth and asked, "I don't know if Senior Brother left me alone, what is the important matter to discuss?"

Wu Hao heard the other party take the initiative to speak, but did not answer, but slowly dispersed the smile on his face, until Yan Ziyi looked furious, he said in a cold tone: "When I separated from you, I handed over all eight disciples in the sect to you, and you finally came to see me alone, shouldn't you take the initiative to explain the reason in this matter?"

Hearing a hint of murderous intent in the other party's tone, Yan Ziyi immediately replied in panic: "Go back...... Back to Senior Brother's words, all the disciples of the sect died in battle this time, and the responsibility is not mine. Seeing that Wu Hao didn't make any answer, but the killing intent on his body was even worse, Yan Ziyi was already in a cold sweat, but he also immediately realized that the other party was obviously very dissatisfied with his answer.

Yan Ziyi wiped a handful of cold sweat from his forehead, decided not to hide anything, and said truthfully: " The reason why the brothers of the sect died one after another was that when we dealt with the disciples of the White Crane Sword Village, they killed the two of them desperately, and then we captured Cai Zhenjing alive, but in order to protect her from being sent to the senior brother safely, when she encountered the spirit beast group all the way north, she accidentally lost the lives of two disciples for this, but the most hateful thing is that after we entered the misty forest, we met that Xu Yan, even if it was even that Xu Niu, and finally died tragically in his hands, this matter really has nothing to do with me, senior brother, if you want to blame that Xu Yan, he hid his strength from the beginning, and the junior brother really didn't know, his martial arts cultivation has inexplicably stepped into the fourth grade. ”

When Wu Hao heard the other party's explanation, his face was still silent, but he couldn't help but sneer in his mouth: "You just said that in order to protect Cai Zhenjing, it can be delivered to me safely, so what about her?"

Yan Ziyi naturally wouldn't say that he had secretly attacked Cai Zhenjing halfway, otherwise why would he let Xu Niu and the others set up an ambush against Xu Yan in that valley? Could it just be that they could defeat Xu Yan? Obviously, it didn't stop there. Before Yan Ziyi gave this order, in fact, only he knew that he only had about thirty percent confidence that he could kill Xu Yan, and his real intention was actually to use Xu Yan's hands to kill people for him, because compared to Xu Yan, who was already an 'enemy', he was more worried that after this spring hunt, some of the three Xu Niu would leak out what he had done to Cai Zhenjing, especially the disciple surnamed Han.

At this moment, Yan Ziyi's face was panicked and aggrieved, but in his mind he was thinking about countermeasures very clearly, thinking about the countermeasures that would allow him to pass the test safely and survive smoothly, he said hatefully: "Cai Zhenjing was also killed by that Xu Yan, senior brother, you also know that the Lotus Sect was already in the position of the target of public criticism this time, Cai Zhenjing, as the core disciple of the White Crane Sword Village, was naturally his enemy, how could he show mercy to her subordinates." ”

A trace of suspicion flashed in Wu Hao's eyes, and he asked suspiciously, "Did you see him kill Cai Zhenjing with your own eyes?"

Yan Ziyi didn't know why the other party asked such a question, but he nodded without any hesitation and said: "Yes, at that time, the junior disciples of the sect reported to the senior brother in order to ensure that I successfully escaped, I saw with my own eyes that Xu Yan killed everyone present, he is a murderer who does not blink, senior brother, you must avenge the dead brothers of the same sect!"

After Wu Hao heard this, he couldn't help but hook a chuckle at the corner of his mouth, and replied: "I will naturally avenge them, but Xu Yan is not what you imagined, just a martial artist in the four-rank realm." ”

Yan Ziyi was instantly shocked, and stammered and asked, "Senior brother, are you...... What do you say, he ...... Does he ......?"

Wu Hao looked at him with a playful expression, but his eyes were cold and said: "Yes, his real cultivation has actually reached the realm of the fifth grade, but judging from the punch I fought with him, he should have just stepped into the fifth grade." ”

Yan Ziyi muttered, "This ...... How could this be, how could he cultivate so fast......"

Bang!

There was a bang.

Before Yan Ziyi came back to his senses, Wu Hao, who was standing beside him, suddenly stretched out a punch and hit him in the chest.

Yan Ziyi's body flew out upside down in an instant, and then fell heavily to the ground.

After a cup of tea, he struggled to get up from the ground, and blood kept spilling out of his mouth, but on his face, there was no resentment, but with a touch of respect, he said: "Much...... Thank you, brother, for your mercy. ”

Wu Hao looked at him coldly, and replied: "This time it's just a punch, if there is a next time, you'd better solve it yourself, otherwise, I will definitely make your life worse than death." ”

......

In the center of the stalagmite forest of Dengbei Mountain, there was a disciple covered in blood at this moment, who was half-lying on the ground and couldn't get up, and on her body, there were several deep wounds that were bleeding from the bones, but compared to the two corpses lying flat in front of her, which had been stabbed by her and completely dehumanized, her condition at the moment was much better.

In the end, although it was extremely difficult, the female disciple still managed to take out the last few recovery pills from the storage bag given to her by others, swallowed them, and then began a slow breath that lasted for several hours, but before the wounds on her body could scarred, she got up and left the place with a staggering step.

Before leaving, she did not forget to glance at the two corpses on the ground, and then in her incomparably beautiful eyes, a trace of disgust and resentment flashed.

Instead of heeding the man's admonition and continuing southward, she chose to head northeast.