Chapter 99 Spring Hunting in Hundred Mountains (39)
"I wonder what Sister Bai can do?"
Seeing Xu Yan breaking the casserole and asking the truth, Bai Bing finally took out another map from his storage bag, handed it over to him, and explained: "Dushan is different from other mountains among the ancestors of Baishan Mountain. For example, compared with the yellow-haired pin we are in at the moment, its area is pitifully small. Even the smallest upper mountain range among the three sections of the Yellow-haired pin, is more than ten times larger than it. I think as a junior brother, he should have discovered this after reading this map, right?"
It took Xu Yan just a few breaths to read the map in his hand and immediately showed a thoughtful expression on his face. However, he didn't understand what the other party wanted to express, so he asked curiously: "Is this related to the method that Senior Sister Bai said?"
Bai Bing shook his head and said, "It counts as related, but it doesn't count."
When Xu Yan heard this answer, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, remained silent, and waited for her next explanation.
Bai Bing suddenly said to him: "Before I answer this question, I want to ask my junior brother a question first. I wonder if you have heard of Ziyunluan?"
Hearing this question, Xu Yan, who had carefully read the "Five Prefectures Mountains and Seas", nodded and replied: "I have learned a little about the scriptures. It records that when these bird spirit beasts hatched from their eggs, they have the strength of a level 6 spirit beast and prefer to live in a volcano with extremely high temperatures, but it seems that their number is very rare."
Bai Bing replied: "Yes, this is the general characteristic of them, but there is one of the most important information among their living habits, which is unknown to the world."
"Um?"
"That is, they cannot see things at night or in dark environments, and this is why they like to live in areas with magma rolling all year round."
"Senior Sister Bai means that Ziyunluan is born with night blindness?"
"Yes, Ziyunluan can only see things clearly during the day. I believe my junior brother should have guessed that this Dushan is the only active volcano among our ancestors of the hundreds of mountains, that is, the peak where Ziyunluan lives."
"I wonder where Senior Sister Bai got this information from?"
"Because I have read the most original version of "Five Prefectures Mountains and Seas", there is a page in which the content describing Ziyunluan has written its blindness. However, for some reason, after this scripture began to be widely circulated from the Five Prefectures, this point was directly erased. Haha, but this is not important, isn't it? What's important is that we know this."
"Sister Bai means that in this single mountain, the most dangerous source is the Ziyunluan. Once we wait until the night comes before entering the mountain, there will be no danger, right?"
"It's not all. Although the overall area of Dushan is not vast, even besides the peaks of the volcanic mountain, there are only two peaks, Nandong Peak and Daming Peak. In addition to Ziyunluan, there are also other powerful spirit beasts living there, but they are not as strong as Ziyunluan. Therefore, we need to be extremely careful whether we enter the mountain at night or during the day."
Hearing Bai Bing say this, Xu Yan nodded again and replied: "I understand why you mentioned the area of Dushan from the beginning. Your original intention should be that the smaller the overall area of Dushan, the more conducive it is to us to have a greater chance of escaping when we are discovered by other spirit beasts other than Ziyunluan, right?"
After hearing this, Bai Bing nodded with great appreciation and replied, "Yes, that's what I mean." She continued, "Although we have the current cultivation level, there are indeed huge risks in entering Dushan. However, if we don't take this opportunity to go to Nandong Peak, which the fifth generation sect master has practiced, I am really unwilling to accept it. After all, in the Lotus Sect, even the entire sect has been turned upside down, but no one can find the old man's profound sword technique that was famous all over the world before ascending. I think there is probably only this place left, and it will be the last hope to find that sword technique."
Seeing Xu Yan fall into silence, Bai Bing did not continue to add fuel to the fire, because she gradually realized that the other party was the kind of extremely rational and very cautious person, not the kind of idiot who could fool him by just a few words. If she blindly wanted to confuse his final decision through her own emotions, the result would be counterproductive.
It was not until a cup of tea that Xu Yan finally made a decision. He looked up at Bai Bing and said calmly, "Okay, I'll go to the Dushan Mountain with you, but I'll agree in advance that if we really find the sword technique of the fifth generation of sect master in the southern cave, we must refer to it together."
After hearing Xu Yan's words, Bai Bing couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, and replied in a very straightforward manner: "Should you do this!"
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Shortly after the previous battle, Zhou Xian and Wu Hao fled the scene first. Immediately after them, Chen Qinghe and others chose another way to leave at Xu Yan's suggestion, but Xu Yan did not realize that at that time, one of them escaped from the scene long before Zhou Xian and Wu Hao.
This person is not someone else, he is Yan Ziyi, who is very good at looking around and is ready to escape when the situation is wrong.
However, compared to Zhou Xian and Chen Qinghe who could directly choose to escape from the south and Yan Ziyi, who was in the north of the battle circle, could only wait until he completely avoided Xu Yan and others, and then go around a big circle before he could escape to the south.
After spring hunting came to this point, for a person like him who was not particularly critical in itself, it was a complete end to this dangerous period and had gone through many difficult journeys of escaping from death like a nightmare. However, in the last battle, he once again chose to escape at the last battle, so he never dared to return to the Chenyang Sect. Because he knew very well that if Wu Hao saw him appear safely and sound again, the other party would definitely take action to end his life directly.
Among the nearly 10,000 disciples of the Chenyang Sect, Yan Ziyi knew that he was not an important person at all, otherwise he would not have been selected by the senior elders in the sect to participate in the Baishan Spring Hunting. Perhaps for most disciples, this was just an ordinary sect mission, but Yan Ziyi thought in private that it was obvious that the sect asked them to come here to act as cannon fodder.
Yan Ziyi walked carefully in this forest that still belongs to the middle section of Huangmaojian Mountains without using too fast, because he wanted to hide himself in the forest as much as possible without any movement. Now, not only Xu Yan wants his life, but even his own disciple Wu Hao, must want his life. Therefore, in such a situation of being surrounded by enemies, he had to keep himself in a vigilant guard. He firmly believed that once he had to do so, he would
He could successfully escape from this yellow-haired tip, so from then on, he could fly high in the sky and leaps with the vast sea and fish, and successfully join other martial arts sects in Lingzhou to continue his practice. Even if he couldn't make it in Lingzhou, he could go to Zhongzhou, Jianzhou, and Youzhou. No matter how bad it was, he would not even go to Hanzhou. However, just as he was about to leave this dense forest and went to the road he had walked before, he suddenly heard a slight sound of slapping leaves in his ears.
This sound of the leaves hitting is not very obvious. Even when the mountain wind is slightly strong, it can make such a sound. However, Yan Ziyi still noticed that the seemingly unusual movement of the array. He immediately stopped his figure and tried to shout around: "Who?"
After a word, everything is quiet.
This made Yan Ziyi look suspicious, and she couldn't help but think in her heart, "Is it because I am too suspicious?"
Although he thought so in his heart, Yan Ziyi bent down very carefully and picked up a gravel as big as a red date from the ground, and then threw it hard towards the general direction of the sound.
"call out!"
After the gravel was blessed with Yan Ziyi's force, a rushing sound of wind broke out in the air. Immediately after the gravel completely hit the green leaves in front of him, a "pop" sound broke out again.
Yan Ziyi opened her eyes and saw that the stone she threw fell into the forest, just like the stone that had been thrown into the lake, it did not cause much trouble. Finally, she removed all her vigilance and thought to herself that she was too suspicious.
So he stopped hesitating and immediately wanted to turn around and leave the place immediately. But before he could turn around, he suddenly noticed an extremely dangerous aura with the innate intuition he had practiced after practicing martial arts, and was approaching his back quickly.
He didn't dare to pause at all, and Yan Ziyi didn't even choose to turn around. He controlled his half-squatted body and suddenly rolled forward to the side.
A "boom" sound!
Just as he rolled out, a powerful sword energy had indeed arrived through the air.
After Yan Ziyi stopped, he couldn't help feeling a pain. He didn't expect that after he made this reaction as soon as possible, he was still injured by the person who suddenly used the cold sword behind him.
Looking at his bloody calf in an instant, Yan Ziyi's heart sank immediately. This injury was not too serious on weekdays. Even if he was given two hours, he could recover as usual with the effects carried by the pills. However, at the moment of his death-lost escape, he would undoubtedly become quite fatal.
"Who is it? If you have the ability, show up and see him. Hiding in the dark and using a sword to hurt people, aren't you afraid of being ridiculed?" Yan Ziyi couldn't help but shouted angrily, but the movements in his hands did not stop. He immediately pulled off a large piece of cloth from his body and wrapped his injured calves several times.
However, after he said something, no figure appeared in the forest. Instead, there was another sword energy that was stronger than before, flying towards him.
Yan Ziyi couldn't help but get furious when she saw this scene, but at the same time, a feeling of fear arose in his heart.
Because at this moment, he clearly felt that the other party wanted to kill him.
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After Xu Yan fully agreed to go to Dushan with Bai Bing, the two of them quickly left their original positions. As he said to Chen Qinghe before, he had not had much time to stay in this mountain and river. He had to hurry to Dushan. In addition, what he said before, in order to complete the third task of spring hunting, he naturally had to do it by the way, but if he really couldn't meet it, he had to give up.
Xu Yan and Bai Bing quickly shuttled through the mountains and forests, like two cheetahs with strong body shapes. It was still a long distance to enter the Dushan Mountain from the middle section of the Yellow-Haired Spike because they had to pass through the entire upper section of the Yellow-Haired Spike.
However, just as the two of them ran northward for about three quarters of an hour and were about to reach the junction with the upper mountain range, they felt a strong sword energy in a certain mountain forest in front of them.
Xu Yan and Bai Bing, who were running rapidly, looked at each other, and a hint of suspicion flashed across their faces. Obviously, they could not guess which sword cultivator would stay in this area.
After a cup of tea.
Xu Yan and Bai Bing completely came to the surroundings where sword energy appeared, but in order not to alert the snake, they stopped in front of this dense forest and continued to run, but instead turned into slow walking.
Bai Bing, who was following Xu Yan, saw that he was so cautious, couldn't help but send a message to him and asked: "Who would the person who used this sword energy? Is it possible that Zhou Xian will be returning?"
After hearing this, Xu Yan pondered for a moment before he replied: "It shouldn't be true. Not to mention whether Zhou Xian dared to do this, even due to his situation after he escaped, he should have suffered considerable injuries. It is impossible for him to recover in such a short time."
"But apart from Zhou Xian, most of the sword cultivators in the other two sects participating in Spring Hunting have been killed or injured? They can't be the eldest brother, right?"
Seeing that the other party was randomly guessing, Xu Yan did not analyze with her, but said calmly: "Sister Bai, don't worry. As long as we get closer, will the truth be revealed?"
After ten breaths.
The two people who walked quietly finally arrived at their destination, but the person who appeared in front of them was not a sword cultivator.
This man looked like he was only over twenty years old and was a man, but at this moment, his physical condition was really miserable. Not only was his whole body covered with sword injuries, but his own hands and feet were cut down and left aside.
The blood that overflowed from him had dyed the entire forest where he was lying red.
Seeing the young man lying on the ground dying but who was familiar but could not be familiar, Xu Yan's eyes did not show any pity, because it had been a day or two for him to kill this person. It can be said that the reason why Zhou Yu showed such a strong murderous intent to him later must be that the person in front of him provided important information to the latter, because although he had seen all the four disciples of Chenyang Sect at that time, Xu Niu and the identity and status of Li Zifan and Zhang Chun, who had long been deposed by him, would have no direct intersection with Zhou Yu.
Xu Yan looked down at Yan Ziyi, who was lying on the verge of dying on the ground, without saying too much, but said calmly: "I didn't expect you to have such an ending." Seeing that Yan Ziyi was silent, Xu Yan asked again: "Who hurt you like this?"
When Yan Ziyi heard Xu Yan's question, he couldn't help but recall the familiar and incredible face he saw at the last moment. He didn't expect that in the end, this person cut off all his hands and feet and ended his life.
He looked at Xu Yan with his eyes blankly, and could clearly feel that death was approaching him. In the end, he did not choose to answer Xu Yan's question directly. Instead, he showed a hint of ridicule on his face and said weakly: "It's just a success and a defeat."
After saying these six words, Yan Ziyi, who had always been very cunning and cautious, died.
Seeing this opponent who originally thought he would become his life-and-death enemy, but eventually died in such a miserable ending, Xu Yan had no expression on his face and did not experience too many emotional changes. He just looked around and glanced at the forest in front of him with his eyes.
Obviously, the people who killed Yan Ziyi had predicted that they would pass here, so they evacuated the scene early before they arrived. However, why did the other party torture Yan Ziyi so badly and let him bear so much pain before he died slowly? This is what Xu Yan didn't know. Moreover, although Xu Yan believed that although he was not a kind person, he would not have such cruel and perverted methods.
With his style, he will only quickly eliminate the enemy's lives in a very clean and neat way.
Of course, the cruel scene in front of him made Xu Yan feel how strong the hatred that the person who killed Yan Ziyi was about the latter was.
Seeing Xu Yan turning around Yan Ziyi's body and continuing to walk north, Bai Bing following him, he didn't forget to glance at the completely dead Yan Ziyi on the ground. There was no trace of pity on her beautiful face, but instead showed a trace of disdain. Then, she spitted at his body.
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After Xu Yan and Bai Bing completely left the place, a figure dressed in tattered clothes and looked very embarrassed appeared in this area again. The man held a sword in one hand, and on the sword in his hand, it could still be seen that there were many scarlet blood stains left on it that had not yet dried up. There was no doubt that this man was the one who killed Yan Ziyi with his own hands.
Chapter completed!