When we reached the cliff, there was a canyon in front of us, with a mountain peak on the left and right. The Qianwu Ridge had many peaks, and the terrain was strange and strange. There were countless terrains with mountains in the mountains.
As soon as the little demon girl stood firm, Ximen Zhanying raised his hand and slapped her in the face. The little demon girl was flexible and dodged sideways and said angrily: "Why did you do it again?"
Ximen Zhanying sneered: "You just wanted to steal it again, didn't you?"
The little demon girl said angrily: "You fall into the hands of bad people, don't you want to escape? If you don't have the ability, you can't blame them."
Ximen Zhanying was about to step forward again, but Qining had already said: "Don't fight, Anao, you lead the way." His face was cold, which actually made the little demon girl afraid.
Ximen Zhanying snorted coldly, and the two of them clamped the little demon girl on the left and right. Although the little demon girl was cunning, her martial arts was not very good. Even if she fought Ximen Zhanying alone, she was not sure of victory. Here With the addition of Qi Ning, he was naturally under tight control.
The three of them passed through the canyon. As soon as they left the mouth of the canyon, Qining frowned.
However, he saw that there were many corpses lying scattered in the pile of rocks in front of him. He frowned and stepped forward, took a glance, and was horrified.
I saw that most of these corpses were broken into pieces and bloody. From the looks of it, it didn't look like they had been killed, but rather they looked like they had fallen to death.
Qining took a look at the clothes of these people and knew that they were members of various gangs that besieged Qianwu Ridge. Their corpses were in a mess. As he walked slowly past, he did not see the corpse of a Black Lotus cultist.
Qi Ning frowned, and the little demon girl smiled proudly and said: "I told you, I am not lying to you. It is easier to go up the mountain than to go down. None of the bad guys who attacked the Black Lotus Sect can go down the mountain."
"Master Marquis, look, they... they don't seem to have been killed by anyone." Ximen Zhanying knelt down and inspected a corpse, "His bones were all broken and shattered, as if... he fell to death. Yes." After saying that, he couldn't help but look up to the sky.
At this time, we were in a valley, with towering peaks in front and behind. Between the two peaks, there was cloud and mist, making it difficult to see the top of the mountain clearly.
Qi Ning nodded slightly, raised his head and said, "They seem to have fallen from above."
The little demon girl smiled proudly and said: "If they want to use the Eight Dragon Iron Lock, they must have fallen off the iron rope."
"Eight Dragon Iron Locks?" Qining was startled, "What is that?"
The little demon girl showed off and said: "They are on the mountain, they want to go to the Black Rock Palace...!" Pointing to the mountain peak in front, "The Black Rock Palace is on the Lotus Peak. Outsiders don't know the way and can't reach this valley. There is no way. Climbing from the bottom of the mountain, hehe, it’s useless for them to know. From the bottom of the mountain to the Lotus Peak, the road is full of traps, and people who are not from the Black Lotus Sect can’t go up at all.”
She spoke a little confused, but Qining understood that the fact that he could appear in this valley now and walk to the foot of Lotus Peak was nothing more than an accidental intrusion into Mihua Valley, and the Eight Gang Sixteen Naturally, the people sent could not come here and had to climb the mountain from other places.
In other words, the terrain of Lotus Peak is extremely special. It is an independent peak and is not connected to other peaks. It is surrounded by deep valleys and the place where you are is at the bottom of the deep valley.
"You mean, to climb Lotus Peak from other peaks, you need to pass through the Eight Dragon Iron Locks?" Qining looked up, "The peaks are all connected by iron chains?"
The little demon girl said: "Yes, if the people of the eight gangs and sixteen sects want to go to the Black Stone Palace of Lotus Peak, they can only walk on the iron chain. If something goes wrong, they will fall from the top?" Pointing to the messy corpse: "This gang The guy was so brave that he really wanted to climb the chain, so he fell off."
The clouds and mist were shrouding Qi Ning's sight of the iron chains connecting the peaks, but he was horrified in his heart. The distance between the two mountains was definitely not a few meters wide. It was hard to imagine how to connect the iron chains. arrive.
He already knew in his heart that the eight gangs and sixteen sects must have fought their way to the top of the mountain from all sides. However, when they reached the top of the mountain, they found that Lotus Peak was an independent peak with only iron chains connected in the middle. To eradicate the Black Lotus Sect, it was necessary to break through the Black Rock Palace. , with no choice but to attack through the iron chain.
But the Black Lotus Sect knows the terrain here well, and of course they will not just watch the heroes pass through the Eight Dragon Iron Locks safely. Therefore, if the heroes are stronger than the Eight Dragon Iron Locks, they must pay a heavy price. These people at the bottom of the valley The corpse is naturally a member of the gang who is stronger than anyone else.
"Master Marquis, they must have been dead for at least seven or eight hours." Although Ximen Zhanying was a woman, she came from the Shenhou Mansion, so she was naturally not afraid of corpses, and she naturally inspected the corpses. She raised her head and said, "There is also this Gu, he should have been dead for more than ten hours and fell a day ago."
Qining knew that he had been attacked by someone, and when he woke up, he was at the edge of a pool. In addition, he had been tossing around in the Misty Flower Valley for a long time, so it was probably two days since he went up the mountain.
"That is to say, the Eight Gangs and Sixteen Sects began to be stronger than the Eight Dragon Iron Locks at least a day ago." Qi Ning thoughtfully said softly: "Seven or eight hours ago, they were still attacking, but they don't know that now What is the result?"
The little demon girl said: "They must all be dead."
Ximen Zhanying sneered and said: "Didn't you say that the mist is poisonous and that all the members of the eight gangs and sixteen factions will be poisoned to death? If this is the case, why can they still attack the Black Stone Palace?"
The little demon girl said nonchalantly: "How do I know? Maybe you have some powerful people who have cracked the poison. That bad old man must have missed it this time." The bad old man in her mouth naturally refers to Poison King Swing Yi.
"Stop talking nonsense and take us up the mountain." Qining said in a deep voice.
Lotus Peak rises from the ground with the force of ten thousand feet.
The little demon girl led the two of them to the foot of the mountain. When they saw a winding and snake-like path leading up to the mountain, Ximen Zhanying couldn't help but said: "Master Hou, be careful of this little demon girl's trap."
The little demon girl said: "If you don't dare, you can't blame me."
"Why don't you dare?" Qi Ning said coldly: "If there is even the slightest mistake, I will kill you immediately."
The little demon girl said: "Anyway, this is the only way to the Black Stone Palace. There used to be guards on the way up the mountain. I don't know if anyone blocked it."
"Are there guards?"
"What kind of place do you think this is?" the little demon girl said, "Isn't the palace where your emperor lives also guarded? The Black Stone Palace is above, how can there be no guards?" Seeing Qining frowning, the little demon girl said, "Go up the mountain from here. There are a total of six checkpoints along the way, and usually there are three or four people guarding them, but this time you attack Qianwu Ridge, I'm afraid all the manpower will be mobilized."
Qi Ning thought for a moment and then said: "Zhan Ying, go and pick up two sets of clothes from those corpses."
Ximen Zhanying was stunned for a moment, but she immediately understood what Qin Ning meant. She knew that Qin Ning went up the mountain because he was worried about her, so she felt grateful inside. Without saying much, she went to find two sets of clothes and came over. They were all broken into pieces, with blood stains all over them. She reluctantly found two sets with less blood stains. Qining asked Ximen Zhanying to change clothes first, and then she changed into another set.
He and Ximen Zhanying were both wearing the clothes of Shenhou Mansion before, and they could be seen at a glance.
The clothes of the powerful people in the world are of various kinds. Although they look like Han Chinese clothes at first glance, they are still better than the clothes of the Shenhou Mansion.
Ximen Zhanying knew that if he wanted to go up the mountain, he must break through the six checkpoints along the way. Fortunately, there were not many people at each checkpoint. Now he had the little demon girl as a hostage. Once he reached the checkpoint and looked for opportunities to get rid of the guards, he could go up the mountain.
She had seen Qi Ning's martial arts with her own eyes, and knew that the young marquis was hiding everything. It shouldn't be difficult for her to join forces with him to deal with a few guards.
The road up the mountain is very narrow, but the ground is quite flat. It obviously took a lot of effort. After walking for less than a moment, the little demon girl already said: "There is a checkpoint ahead. Whether you can pass it depends on your own ability."
Qi Ning clung to the little demon girl, wary of her tricks. He walked around the stone path for more than ten steps, and he saw a fir fence in front of him. However, the fir fence had already been opened, and it was impossible for a person to lie on top of the fir fence. Not moving, there were still several corpses lying on the ground.
These people were all dressed in Miao costumes, with black scarves on their heads, weapons scattered on the ground, and black lotus flowers embroidered on their skirts.
"Are they from the Black Lotus Sect?" Seeing several corpses lying on the ground, Ximen Zhanying was shocked. He took a few steps forward, glanced at it, and said, "They were all killed...!" She had already Returning the cold blade to Qi Ning, he picked up a knife with his bare hands.
Qi Ning pushed the little demon girl forward. Ximen Zhanying had already picked up a knife to inspect the corpse. He quickly raised his head and said: "There are four people in total, three of them were killed by weapons. This person...!" Pointing to a corpse: "He was killed by extremely heavy palm force. His heart veins must have been shattered."
Qi Ning frowned and said, "In other words, someone is going up the mountain from here?"
However, Ximen Zhanying squatted on the ground, inspected the ground carefully, and quickly raised his head and said: "The footprints on the ground are messy. If my judgment is correct, there are at least ten or twenty people going up the mountain."
The little demon girl frowned and said, "How could this happen? No one knows this road except the people from the Black Lotus Sect."
"Little witch, don't think that the eight gangs and sixteen sects are all idiots." Qining sneered: "When these people attack the Black Lotus Church, don't they know that the Black Lotus Church has set a trap? Even if most people fall into the trap, this It is inevitable that some smart people will find other ways among them.”
The little demon girl was dissatisfied: "My name is Anao, don't call me a little demon girl? I'm not a monster."
Qi Ning ignored her, and the three of them went all the way up the mountain. After that, they passed several checkpoints in succession. Without exception, all the guards were lying dead on the ground. Qi Ning looked solemn and said: "There cannot be no connection between these checkpoints. If they were attacked, there should be a way to notify the next level, but all the levels were broken, which only means that the people who went up the mountain were very fast and did not give the guards a chance to send out a signal. "
Ximen Zhanying was also surprised and said: "This was naturally done by people from the Eighth Gang and Sixteenth Faction, but how could anyone among the Eighth Gang and Sixteenth Faction know this road? How did they get here?"
"Zhan Ying, how long have these people been dead?"
Ximen Zhanying immediately said: "It has been at least ten hours."
Qi Ning pondered for a moment and said, "I understand."
"What?"
"Just now we saw that the corpses in the valley were the last to fall seven hours ago. After seven hours, no one fell from the chains." Qining said: "The guard here died at ten An hour ago, that is to say, a group of people came up the mountain from here. After going up the mountain, they broke the Black Lotus Sect's deployment, so the people who were stronger than the iron chain were able to reach the top of Lotus Peak smoothly."
Ximen Zhanying also suddenly realized: "Yes, that must be the case. Lord Marquis, our people set up this strange army, and they have made great achievements." Thinking of the strange soldiers taking action, the situation may not be as serious as the little demon girl said, and he felt Xia Weisong said: "It is still unclear who will win and who will lose."
Qi Ning was confused and asked: "It's just that this group of people, which gang could they be?"