When he was approaching Yin, the firewood gradually went out, Xu Yan looked at the coals that were about to burn out in the fire, and came back to his senses from meditation, he did not interrupt Bai Bing and Chen Qinghe, who were cultivating, and walked out of the canyon by himself, preparing to go outside the canyon to pick up some dead wood stumps, even if they were soaked in rain, it didn't matter, he could dry them with martial arts true qi first.

Furong Gorge is the last peak of Wugong Mountain, and after this canyon, you have stepped into the real Spirit Beast Mountain Range.

Xu Yan didn't go too far, and only took the night pearl that Qiu Yuanjin temporarily lent him in his hand, with this faint light, he undoubtedly became a very rare point of light in the endless darkness, but what he didn't know was that in this silence and darkness, the light source in his hand would mean.

A sound similar to the sound of slapping leaves came from a distance, Xu Yan was keenly aware of this sound, so he immediately stopped the half-dragged dead tree in his hand, only to find that the galloping sound of slapping leaves was getting closer and closer to him.

Xu Yan waited calmly, no longer moving, until some kind of creature that caused this sound in the darkness, when he was only about ten zhang away from him, he suddenly threw the night pearl in his hand towards the mountain road, and at the same time, he pinched the seal in his hand, and quickly levitated in front of him with the help behind him.

The night pearl drew a gorgeous arc in the night sky, Xu Yan stared at it coldly, and sure enough, just as the pearl was about to land, a black shadow suddenly turned around and rushed towards it.

After Xu Yan saw the black shadow, he didn't hesitate, and immediately stretched out his hand, and Fuyao burst away.

A roar sounded from the darkness, the sound was not too loud, and then, it turned into a weak whimper, Xu Yan dragged the huge dead wood with one hand, and slowly walked towards the landing point of the night pearl, until he walked to the night pearl, only to find that the leopard next to him nailed to the cliff wall by his sword was actually a leopard that had just become a spirit beast.

Seeing that it was such a first-level spirit beast, Xu Yan was immediately a little disappointed, this kind of spirit beast was a little more aura than ordinary beasts, and it had a little more aura in its flesh and blood, and it didn't even form a Neidan. Therefore, its use value is really not much.

It can be said that the most precious thing about a spirit beast is that inner pill, because this is the essence of a spirit beast, and it is used to refine the pill with various spirit herbs, and the effect is excellent, which is why cultivators and alchemists will take a fancy to it.

However, although the leopard in front of him is all over the body, there is no place to take it for alchemy, but at least it can also be used to improve the diet, after all, compared to ordinary beasts, its flesh is much firmer and tasty.

Xu Yan didn't immediately pull out the fuyao that had been inserted into its throat, but waited for it to continue struggling, bleeding non-stop, until it revealed a trace of death in its eyes and was dying, and then he controlled Fuyao to fly back into the sword box behind it. Then, Xu Yan bent down to pick up the 'culprit' on the ground that caused the bloody case, that is, the Pearl of the Night, and then dragged the dead wood with one hand and the leopard with more than two hundred catties with the other, and walked back in the direction of the canyon.

Seeing Xu Yan walking back unharmed, Bai Bing, who had woken up after hearing a non-obvious roar, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, but Xu Yan saw that the other party was standing outside the canyon at the moment, but his face was stunned, and he asked, "Senior Brother Bai, why are you standing here?"

When Bai Bing heard this, he replied with a wry smile: "When I was meditating and cultivating just now, I heard the roar of a spirit beast, and I thought that a spirit beast had sneaked over, and then I found that I couldn't see you, so I came over to take a look in the direction of the sound, but junior brother, you can really do it, and you came out to hunt in the middle of the night." ”

Xu Yan saw that he had a misunderstanding, and immediately cried and laughed, so he had to explain: "How can I have this leisure, but when I saw that the charcoal fire in the fire was about to burn out, I thought about picking up some firewood, but I never thought that the light of the night pearl would attract this animal to pounce on me, so I solved it easily. ”

When Bai Bing heard this, he couldn't help laughing, and then replied: "So that's the case, the little junior brother has a heart." ”

Xu Yan looked at his smile that looked extraordinarily gentle under the weak firelight, but he couldn't help but think in his heart, how could there be a man in this world who could be so delicate? However, he looked at the other party's familiar eyes, but he still couldn't remember where he had seen it, so he didn't think about it anymore, and then he threw the leopard in his hand to the latter, leaving a sentence: "Since Senior Brother Bai is here, don't be idle, you can drag this animal back." ”

Before Bai Bing could recover from his stunned expression, Xu Yan had already bypassed his body and walked towards the canyon.

Seeing this, Bai Bing shook his head helplessly, and then smiled wryly and reached out to lift the leopard, which was more than two hundred pounds, and then stumbled under his feet, and almost didn't fall into a.

It is indeed a little too embarrassing to let a sword cultivator do this kind of strength work, and Bai Bing didn't expect that this leopard was so heavy, when he stomped his feet angrily, he was a little angry, but at the same time as he was angry, he also suddenly remembered that Xu Yan had just dragged the dead wood with one hand and the leopard with the other hand, and the dead wood in the other party's hand was as thick as a bucket and about five zhang long, so he would never light this leopard.

"Little junior brother, it seems that there are a lot of secrets hidden in you!" Bai Bing looked at Xu Yan's back slowly moving away, his very good-looking eyes couldn't help but squint slightly, and then muttered to himself: "That's right, the stronger your strength, the more beneficial it will be to me." ”

Xu Yan didn't realize from beginning to end that his casual actions would reveal the secret of his great strength, in his worldview, the weight of more than two hundred catties is simply a normal weight, even if it is a healthy village man, there are many people who can lift this weight, so even if he saw Bai Bing, who was out of breath who dragged the leopard back with great difficulty and was tired from it, he just felt that the other party had acted a little too much.

Bai Bing angrily threw the leopard corpse in front of him, and without saying anything, he walked back to his original position with a depressed face, and began to close his eyes and cultivate. Seeing this, Xu Yan didn't know the other party's intentions, so he shook his head helplessly and cleaned up the leopard by himself.

Bai Bing naturally didn't immerse himself in cultivation so quickly, so he couldn't help but sneak a glance at Xu Yan, and found that the latter had already begun to tidy up the leopard, and at the corner of his mouth, he couldn't help but gently sweep a charming arc.

Time passed quickly, and when the sky was slightly white, Xu Yan had already roasted the two front legs of the leopard to a fragrant smell, and some people even woke up because they smelled the smell of meat in their sleep.

Bai Bing approached Xu Yan, his delicate and small nose couldn't help but inhale the fragrance, and said in amazement: "Yo, junior brother, I didn't expect your skills to be really good, even leopard meat can be roasted so fragrant, in my opinion, you can go to the market to open an inn, and you will definitely be able to prosper in business." ”

Xu Yan didn't care about Bai Bing's ridicule, just smiled and took out several packets of seasonings from the storage bag, sprinkled them layer by layer on the golden leopard legs that had been roasted several times, and then took out a dagger and cut off a large piece of roast meat on the leopard legs, handed it to Bai Bing and said, "Taste it?"

Bai Bing was not pretentious about this, reached out and took a bite gently, and immediately couldn't help but admire: "Wow, this taste can be compared to the barbecue made by the chef in the Fulu Inn, I didn't expect that in this deep mountain and old forest, I can still have this blessing, tsk, little junior brother, you really don't think about it, go down the mountain to open an inn?"

Xu Yan knew that most of the credit for the deliciousness of this barbecue was in the seasoning specially made for him by the cardinal, so he would not be shameless, but replied with a smile: "How can I have this ability, Senior Brother Bai will never fail to eat it, the key point of this barbecue is actually on the seasoning, right?"

Hearing him say this, Bai Bing's face was stunned, and he asked curiously, "What's the difference?"

Xu Yan shook his head with a smile and replied bluntly: "Of course not, this was given to me by someone else." ”

After Bai Bing Wenwen, he instantly thought of someone, and his heart was already enlightened, but he still pretended not to know on his face and said, "Oh, it turned out to be someone else's gift...... I don't know who gave it to the little junior brother, or the little junior brother will also help me to ask for a little, so that when I travel on a mission in the future, I can grab the head of the spirit beast and bake it and eat it, instead of eating the broken baked cakes in the storage bag. ”

Where would Xu Yan reveal something about the cardinal, and directly refused and said: "Who is it, I am indeed inconvenient to tell Senior Brother Bai, but what about the seasoning, I can help you ask after the spring hunt is over, as for whether she will agree, I am not sure." ”

When Bai Bing heard this ambiguous answer, he couldn't help but roll his eyes and said, "Is this also a secret?"

Xu Yan smiled at this, but then he heard Bai Bing muttering to himself, "It shouldn't have been given by someone you like." ”

Xu Yan knew that the other party was deliberately saying it to him, so he couldn't help but glance at him, and Bai Bing didn't know why he was a little weak after seeing his thoughtful eyes, but fortunately, Xu Yan didn't delve into this matter, he changed the topic and asked: "The Fulu Inn that Senior Brother Bai said before, but the Fulu Inn in Wangchuan City?"

When Bai Bing heard this question, his brain circuits inevitably couldn't keep up, so he sighed, and then reacted and replied: "Yes, it's that Fulu Inn, what's the matter, the little junior brother has also been to Wangchuan City?"

Xu Yan shook his head and didn't answer, but continued to ask, "Senior Brother Bai is not from Wangchuan City?"

Bai Bing replied: "Yes, what?"

Xu Yan sighed, and after hesitating for a moment, he replied with a smile: "It's nothing." ”

Seeing Xu Yan's grotesque reaction, Bai Bing's eyes couldn't help but have a hint of suspicion, and secretly thought, "Could it be that the other party already knows his identity?" Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sink in his heart, and asked tentatively: "By the way, since the little junior brother has never been to Wangchuan City, how did he learn about the Fulu Inn?"

Xu Yan heard this question, but calmly replied: "This is what my village uncle in my village told me, he is familiar with the shopkeeper of the Fulu Inn, and originally wanted to introduce me to the Fulu Inn as a shopkeeper, but later, under the fate of the meeting, I learned that the Lotus Sect was recruiting beginner disciples, so I came to try it with luck, as for the rest of the ......."

Xu Yan shrugged his shoulders, spread his hands and said, "You should also know." ”

When Bai Bing heard this explanation, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, and secretly said that he was really suspicious, so he nodded and said, "So that's the case." Then, in order to resolve his somewhat stiff tone at the moment, he pretended to joke and said: "But then again, junior brother, your barbecue is really good, I think you should really go to Fulu Inn to be a cook, maybe it's not too late to go, hey, time is not made, I'll go and ask the other junior brothers to come over and eat a little first." ”

Xu Yan nodded and didn't answer again, but his eyes were looking at Bai Bing's back as he left in a hurry, and then a hint of shrewdness flashed in his deep eyes.

......

Until everyone had left Furong Gorge, there were still people talking about Xu Yan's barbecue, but obviously they were all saying good things like the barbecue was delicious, and Chen Qinghe's younger brother Chen Qingshan, because he had known Xu Yan for a long time, even joked directly to him: "Little junior brother, your barbecue tastes so delicious, but you can feed my mouth, and you have to be responsible for all the food before returning to the sect." ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help laughing.

Xu Yan knew that the other party's words were joking, so he also smiled and nodded, saying that there was no problem, and after that, everyone went all out to climb the back mountain.

Two hours later, near noon, Xu Yan and the others finally walked into the range of Dengbei Mountain, but this place was still quite far away from the real deep mountain, the location of the 'Golden Hairpin Stone Orchid'.

After entering the range of Dengbei Mountain, everyone found that the mountain situation here is completely different from the previous Wugong Mountain, the reason is that the mountain here is very peculiar, there is not only a large mountain at all, in the periphery of Dengbei Mountain, it is composed of small peaks with undulating hills, and in the deep mountain location, it is composed of thousands of huge stalagmites.

On the stalagmite, the trees are sparse, and only at the top of the place can there be lush greenery, like a huge stone pillar standing here.

After Xu Yan and the others entered the area of Dengbei Mountain, they walked with great difficulty for almost two hours, and then they successfully saw the spectacle belonging to the stalagmites. For disciples who had already seen this kind of scene, they would no longer be surprised by this, but people like Bai Bing, who had come to the depths of Dengbei Mountain for the first time, couldn't help but be amazed after seeing this kind of spectacle.

He looked at each stalagmite that was almost thirty or forty zhang high, and exclaimed: "I didn't expect that among the Hundred Mountain Ancestors, there are such strange mountains, I originally thought that the thirty-two Little Lotus Peaks in the sect were shocking enough, but compared with this mountain, they would undoubtedly be too different." ”

Chen Qinghe, who was standing at the front of the team, said with a smile after hearing this: "Senior Brother Bai, it is good to climb Beishan Mountain, but in fact, it is nothing, and when you reach Huangmaojian, you will know that the deeper the mountain, the more pleasant the scenery." ”

Bai Bing replied with a smile: "The ancients, when I walked to the poor place of the mountain and sat and watched the clouds rise, when I heard the senior brother say this, I couldn't wait to continue to move forward." ”

Chen Qinghe said with a smile: "Senior Brother Bai doesn't need to be in a hurry, after we complete the first task, isn't the second task in Huangmaojian? ”

Chen Qinghe glanced around, and then said: "Judging from the current situation, the disciples of the other three sects should not have arrived here yet, it seems that we have taken the lead in choosing the most dangerous path, but it is getting late today, and it is obviously impossible to go to the stalagmites to look for 'Golden Hairpin Shilan, I will take you to a relatively safe place to spend the night first, and when the sky opens tomorrow, we will set off to look for medicine." ”

Half an hour later, everyone followed Chen Qinghe to a valley, which was extremely quiet and green, and there was a clear stream flowing in the middle, but as twilight fell, there would be bursts of night crows in the valley from time to time, which made people feel creepy.

Fortunately, although the night crows are extremely terrible, their own strength is not strong, but they belong to the primary spirit beasts, and they belong to the bird spirit beasts, which basically feed on mountain snakes and stone frogs, but they are not interested in large animals.

Everyone set up their tents under the cliff, and then lit a fire in a place where the rain could not be drenched, in this kind of place, it is obviously not possible to have no fire at night, after all, most spirit beasts will be congenitally afraid of flames, like the kind of spirit beasts that are not afraid of fire, such as 'Blazing Tiger' and 'Purple Cloud Luan' are a few after all, and they will not appear in this range. Especially Ziyun Luan, this spirit beast is said to like to live in the range of volcanoes, and can only survive in high-temperature areas, and it is also an extremely fierce spirit beast itself, as long as it hatches from the eggshell, it has a strong strength equivalent to a sixth-level spirit beast, if they appear in an area like Dengbei Mountain, it will undoubtedly be an indescribable disaster for all the disciples of all the cultivation sects in the Hundred Mountains Ancestor.

Besides, what is the concept of a sixth-level spirit beast?

Spirit beasts of this level, their spiritual wisdom has been greatly opened, although they still can't be compared to humans, but their sense of smell of life and death crises is already very keen, for example, cultivators of the same level, if they want to hunt them, it is basically wishful thinking, only those sword cultivators who have really stepped into the upper three realms, or martial arts powerhouses who have been able to control the sky in the realm of seven or above, have a chance to hunt.

However, these are still too far away for Xu Yan at the moment, unless they are really bold and reckless, and privately step into the depths of the Sword Cultivation Mountain that is said to be equivalent to the Middle Third Realm, they will have the opportunity to encounter such a powerful spirit beast.

The time of the night passed extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, it was already approaching, and the disciples of the Lotus Sect who had been walking for three days in a row had undoubtedly fallen into great exhaustion, therefore, most of the disciples had fallen asleep at the moment, after all, they were not martial arts disciples like Xu Yan, they could last so long in terms of physical strength, but compared to last night, there was one more person who kept vigil tonight, and that was Chen Qingshan.

Xu Yan, the two Chen brothers, and Bai Bing, the four strongest members of the team took on the duty of keeping vigil, which was normal, but what was not normal was that in the dark jungle in the valley at this moment, there was a pair of dark red eyes staring at them from afar.

Immediately afterwards, there were countless pairs of dark red eyes, which opened one after another.