A beast in human form
Jianchou, who had already turned around to leave, just reached out and touched his face when he heard this, and smiled faintly: "Mr. Ruhua, thank you for the compliment. It's mutual."
each other
Does this mean that he is a beast in human form
This is a very impolite reply.
Mr. Ruhua propped up his chin with the fan, and seeing Jianchou start to walk forward, he moved his feet and slowly caught up with him, saying in a voice like a hum: "This young master has cultivated for many years to become a beast in human form."
"… "
After practicing for many years...
When everyone heard this, they all fell silent.
Xiao Jin Zuoliu shuddered. Lu Xiangleng turned around to look at Ruhua Gongzi, but lowered her eyes and smiled, then walked to Jianchou's side.
Xiahou She was still silent, as if he didn't exist, and followed slowly.
There were six people in the group, but Xie Buchen was missing. However, no one asked a question and they just walked forward as if nothing had happened.
It seemed that no one was worried about Xie Buchen's safety, and no one cared about Xie Buchen's identity as the thirteenth true disciple of Kunwu.
If no one else mentions it, Jianchou naturally won't mention it either.
She walked forward, her five senses sharp to the extreme, observing the situation on this long white jade path.
The white jade path is very wide, but there are no railings on either side.
When people walk on the long path, if they glance away, they can see the abyss below. They cannot see the bottom at a glance, and no one knows how deep it is under the clouds. When the wind blows, there seems to be bursts of terrible whimpering sounds coming from under the canyon.
That is the sound of the echoing wind.
Jianchou knew it, and everyone else knew it too.
But the heart trembling caused by this shaking sound cannot be concealed in any way.
Even though they were all top-notch talents in cultivation, they all seemed to be quite cautious when passing this section of the journey.
Especially since some of their people had already entered before them. Even a "purely kind" person like Jianchou could come up with such a "brilliant" idea of setting up an array to harm people, so how could others be any worse
You need to be careful about any plots and traps along the way, for fear of losing your life by accident.
However, until he was halfway through the journey, Jianchou still didn't find any traces of the formation.
Mr. Ruhua suddenly became puzzled: "Since they dared to set up a formation at the door, how could they show mercy when we entered the hidden world? But we didn't encounter any formations again. Could it be that they are confident in the formation they set up outside the hidden world? Will they be able to kill me?"
"That's not necessarily true."
Jianchou continued to walk forward and said, "Even if you are half dead, you can still fight. A genius who can defeat Zhou Chengjiang after only three days of foundation building can't be too bad at the Jindan stage. We didn't see any corpses along the way, nor did we see any signs of destroying the corpses. Either no one has died yet, or they put the bodies into the Qiankun bags after killing people."
"… "
After Jianchou said this, Zuo Liu suddenly felt a chill on the back of his head, and Xiao Jin was looking at Jianchou stupidly.
The flowery young man couldn't help but twitch his lips: "You actually have such thoughts in your mind, are you still a woman? Can a normal person put a corpse into a Qiankun bag?!"
"Isn't this the end?"
Jianchou turned around and looked at him, his eyes full of smile.
Lu Xiangleng immediately noticed that after Jianchou started her analysis, her attention shifted away from the ground below, and she didn't seem to be worried at all about any other formations or the like.
After pondering for a moment, she suddenly smiled: "So that's how it is. Daoist Jianchou means that the two parties that were fighting on the Cloud Platform before are now chasing each other?"
She is worthy of being the medicine girl Lu Xiangleng.
Jianchou nodded, "If we fight, there must be a grudge, not to mention that one of the parties is Xie Buchen. If I have an opponent chasing me relentlessly, and one bites me to death, even if I want to harm others, I will not have the time to do it. Not to mention, the two parties are one in front and one behind. If the former has set up a formation to harm others, the latter will have broken it when he passes by. Even if the latter wants to harm others, I am afraid he will not have the time. There are many treasures in the hidden world. God knows what will happen if someone gets there first? So we can go on this journey with peace of mind."
"That makes sense..."
Zuo Liu thought about what Jianchou said and found that it was indeed true. His eyes lit up and he couldn't help clapping his hands and exclaiming in praise.
Ruhua Gongzi frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and was about to say something, but when his eyes moved to the front, he was stunned again.
At this moment, they had already passed two-thirds of the long white jade path, and opposite them was the tall and steep mountain they had seen earlier.
The huge platform was extremely smooth, as if it had been cut in half by a sword.
However, at the end of the long white jade path, there was a large pool of blood, and there was a corpse lying in front.
At that moment, Ruhua Gongzi glanced at Jianchou and Lu Xiangleng, and said only one sentence: "It seems that we should not speak carelessly."
Jianchou didn't comment.
She didn't pay attention to her feet at all. Her body suddenly became lighter, like a crane flying in the clear sky. She flew straight over the long path of white clouds and landed at the end of the path. She saw the appearance of the corpse.
A thin young man in black had a half-broken jade pendant hanging on his waist. The remaining half had broken into small pieces and scattered all over the platform.
This man died in a very tragic way. There were several scars on his forehead, chest, and back. Several spots on his lapels were completely soaked with blood. A large pool of blood flowed out of his body, flowed under him, and then slowly fell into the abyss along the edge of the long white jade path.
“Tick-tock.”
The blood, which had already slightly coagulated, dripped another drop and then swayed and stopped moving.
“Hula.”
There was a sound of breaking air behind me.
Jianchou knew without looking back that the other five people had arrived.
She didn't look at the expressions of the people, but just leaned down, stretched out her finger, and gently touched the black-clothed man's forehead.
A trace of blood.
There is also a little bit of familiar smell.
The hermit's sword intention.
"What did Senior Sister Jianchou find out?"
Seeing the dead body, Zuo Liu felt a little scared. He silently took a step back and quietly raised his feet, moving a little further away from the blood.
After asking this question, he turned around and saw Xiao Jin standing very close to Jianchou. He didn't know if he was scared silly.
Jianchou flicked his finger to remove the blood on his fingertips, clapped his hands and stood up: "Very fresh, he died not long ago, probably around the same time as us. The wounds on his body are superficial, the fatal one is the one between his eyebrows, Xie Buchen's Hermit Sword Intent. He still has the energy to kill, and he was chasing after him."
Although this opponent's golden elixir has been shattered, traces of his cultivation can still be seen.
He killed his opponent who was in the Jindan stage with one strike even though his wounds must have not yet fully healed...
Mostly sneak attacks.
But even a sneak attack is terrifying.
As Jianchou is the person who knows Xie Buchen best among all the people, it is natural that he would not speak without purpose.
Moreover, even if Jianchou did not speculate this way, others would have speculated the same result.
She paused, her eyes lingering on the corpse's brightly colored robe for a moment, then suddenly turned around and asked, "Where is this style of clothing from?"
"Southeastern Wilderness." Ruhua Gongzi gave a positive answer immediately. "But whether it's the jade pendant on his body or the embroidery on his clothes, there is nothing special about it. I can only guess that he is from the Southeastern Wilderness Demon Sect. As for which sect..."
As he spoke, he turned his gaze to Xiao Jin.
He was wearing a short animal skin coat, holding a big watermelon tightly in his arms, and was still looking at the corpse lying on the ground.
There was a strange look on Xiao Jin's face.
After hearing what Ruhua Gongzi said, he turned around, blinked, took a bite of watermelon to calm himself down, and wondered, "Why are you looking at me?"
If I remember correctly, Xiao Jin said before that he wanted to go back to the Southern Region.
In other words, Xiao Jin was from the Southern Region, and everyone speculated that he was from the Southwest Family in the Southern Region. Although the Southeastern Wilderness was not in the same area as the Southwest Family, the Southern Region had some understanding of the Southern Region, so it would definitely be more reliable to ask Xiao Jin to identify it.
Jianchou answered for Ruhua Gongzi, pointing at the body on the ground and saying, "We would like to ask Daoist Xiaojin to help identify it. Whose family is this from in the Southeast Wilderness?"
"I just saw it." Xiao Jin rolled up his sleeves and wiped his chin which was stained with red watermelon juice. "There are three demon sects in the southeast wilderness now, Shanyin Sect, Puppet Sect, and Heroes' Tomb. The Puppet Sect manipulates mechanical puppets and even dead people; most of the people in the Heroes' Tomb are women, or they look..."
Having said this, Xiao Jin looked at Ruhua Gongzi inexplicably, and then as if frightened, he immediately retracted his gaze and his voice trembled.
"Anyway, the Hero's Tomb is a place where appearance is valued. This unlucky guy shouldn't be able to get in. I've also seen people from the Shanyin Sect wearing this kind of clothing, so it's very likely they are there."
Shanyin Sect
When Jianchou and others heard this, they all murmured in their hearts.
Because the Southeastern Wilderness is far away from the Central Region, news is rarely exchanged there. In addition, demons are rampant there, large-scale battles occur from time to time, and the forces are extremely chaotic. It is one way today and another way tomorrow. Often, after a period of time, the news will be completely different.
Apart from the Puppet Sect, which had a stronger foundation and was somewhat familiar to Jianchou, other sects like the Shanyin Sect and the Heroes' Tomb were completely unknown to Jianchou and no one else.
The only thing that is certain is that the Shanyin Sect is one of the three demon sects in the southeastern wilderness. It has now sent people into the hidden world of Qingfeng Temple and is being hunted down by Xie Buchen. At least one person has died.
"Let's go."
Jianchou's mind was very clear and he knew the general situation, so he stopped asking questions.
It doesn’t matter how many people from Shanyin Sect came. What matters is that Xie Buchen is chasing them.
As for the Hermit's Sword Intent directly killing a Jindan Stage cultivator, Xie Buchen could do it, and so could she.
As long as we catch up with them, what needs to be settled can be settled easily.
Jianchou stepped over the corpse, walked forward, and stepped onto the huge platform.
The empty and almost desolate square in front of the mountain stretched out before his eyes; at the end of the square was a cliff with thousands of blades, as if it had been cut by a knife. Standing on the square, one could see countless terrifying sword marks densely distributed on the cliff, as if someone had practiced swordsmanship here on the mountain wall.
In the center of the mountain wall, a huge hole was chiseled by a sword, like the entrance to a cave suspended in mid-air, pitch black.
At the edge of the cave entrance, three words were engraved in murderous strokes: "Hesitation!"
There are not many paths here, and there are cliffs on all sides, and there is no trace of the people from Shanyin Sect...
If they hadn't all fallen off the cliff and died, I'm afraid they would have entered this cave.
Jianchou walked to the foot of the cliff and stopped.
"Wow! What a high cliff!"
Xiao Jin, who came over with a watermelon in his arms, looked at him in astonishment.
Zuo Liu was also amazed, but when he stood next to Jianchou and looked at the cave together, he began to feel uneasy: "But this cave looks so dark... They are gone, did they go in?"
"This cave was mentioned in the jade slip given by Junior Sister Xiaowan." Lu Xiangleng had a good memory and looked at the cave and said, "This cave is called Yi Zhuan Zhuan. People with weak wills will suffer if they enter it, but it is also one of the necessary ways to enter the hidden world. They must have gone in."
After saying that, she turned and looked at Jianchou, as if she wanted to ask them whether they wanted to follow or not.
But unexpectedly, when I looked up, I found that Jianchou's gaze was fixed on a certain place on the mountain wall.
Lu Xiangleng was a little surprised. She followed Jianchou's line of sight and was startled for a moment: "What is this?"
On the mountain wall, about four or five feet above the ground, there was a black and white mark.
There were a dozen black and white chess pieces, and there seemed to be no pattern in their arrangement. The black pieces were in one group, and the white pieces were in another group. The camps were very clear, but there was only one black piece and one white piece floating outside of the camp, and seemed to have nothing to do with the black and white camps.
Jianchou's gaze fell on the black and white chess formation, and also on the two black and white pieces that were free. He was in a trance for a moment.
The memories of the past came flooding back to her uncontrollably.
Under the old tree, next to the chess table.
In the past, the third son of the Xie Marquis Mansion, Mr. Xie, gently picked up a black piece with his slender fingers and knocked it on the edge of the chessboard, making a crisp sound.
"Those with far-reaching plans are like this exquisite chess game. Look, the white piece that was placed at the beginning is isolated and helpless among the black pieces, like a small boat floating in the sea. But..."
“Pah.”
He pressed the black piece in his hand into the chessboard and made a few moves. The situation on the chessboard suddenly changed.
The black and white pieces suddenly became like water and fire.
And the white piece that seemed useless and even a failure at the beginning, actually merged with the attacking white dragon at this moment, becoming a sharp blade that pierced into the heart of the black camp!
That hand seemed to have the power to control the universe. With a flip of its hand, it had reversed the outcome of the entire chess game.
Looking at her sitting next to the chess table with a confused look on her face, the man shook his head, picked up the tea brewed on the table, took a sip slowly, and said with a smile: "In fact, there are not so many big principles. This white piece seems harmless, but it is like an insider, lurking in the enemy camp. No one can discover its function until the critical moment..."
The sound faded away.
The old black and white chess game suddenly overlapped with the black and white chess pieces embedded in the mountain wall in front of him.
"Senior Sister Jianchou, Senior Sister Jianchou?"
Zuo Liu had already shouted twice, but Jianchou was still just looking at the mountain wall, as if he was in a trance. Finally, he gritted his teeth and shouted twice more.
At this moment, Jianchou finally came to his senses and turned to look at everyone.
"Sister Jianchou, are you okay?"
They thought that there was something strange about the black and white chessboard and that it had taken away Senior Sister Jianchou's soul.
Unexpectedly, she suddenly turned around and scared everyone.
Jianchou shook his head: "Nothing, I just understood the meaning of the black and white chessboard."
"What do you mean by staying?"
This was a strange statement, and everyone was puzzled. Ruhua Gongzi asked directly, "This black and white chess piece was pressed into the mountain wall by a palm, and the traces look very fresh. Could it be that the Taoist friend Kunwu left it?"
"Exactly."
Seeing that the smile on Chou's lips deepened, he didn't keep him in suspense.
"He left the chess game behind to tell us that he has disguised himself as someone from the Shanyin Sect and is traveling with them."
"What?"
Little Jin Zuoliu and even Ruhua Gongzi never thought that Jianchou would say such a thing...
In other words, they didn't expect Xie Buchen to do such a thing.
Disguised as someone from the Shanyin Sect
Travel with them all the way
The people from Shanyin Sect are not pushovers, especially in such a tense situation where they just fought, how could he possibly hide it from other people's eyes
and…
Let’s not talk about how Jianchou knew the information contained on the black and white chessboard. Let’s talk about Xie Buchen. He clearly had an old grudge with Jianchou, so why did he leave this information here
Are you facing some difficulties? Or do you want to wait until we meet and find a suitable opportunity to join forces
No one can see through it.
Lu Xiang looked surprised.
Xiahou She also frowned and stared at the chessboard, as if trying to see something else.
Jianchou's gaze swept calmly and carefully across the faces of his five companions.
All five people were normal, nothing unusual.
She lowered her eyelids, looked away, and raised her head to the cave called "Yi Zhuan Zhu" on the top of the mountain. A layer of gloom covered her heart.
She didn't finish her words to the crowd.
On the black and white chessboard left by Xie Buchen, there are two black and white chess pieces floating outside. If the white one represents Xie Buchen, the "traitor" who has entered the Shanyin Sect, then what does the black one represent
There was a gleam in his eyes, and it seemed that there were complicated threads tangled in his mind, but his face was calm, without any sign of abnormality.
She flew up, and rode on the clouds. In two breaths, she stood in front of the entrance of the cave.
The cave was pitch black and it was impossible to see what was going on inside.
Jianchou looked at him with a smile on his lips, "Now that Daoist Brother Kunwu Xie has taken the risk alone and joined the Shanyin Sect, he is bound to encounter many difficulties. It is time for us to 'save' him from the water and fire."
Well, if you accidentally kill two evil demons while "saving" people, and then find out that they are the thirteenth true disciple of Kunwu Hengxu Zhenren...
Well, you can't blame her, right
So, it's time to show the deep friendship between Yashan and Kunwu.