To the north of Shimen City, a giant sword is inserted diagonally into the mountain. The sword is covered with moss and vines. Under the sword is a mountain path leading to Cuiyun Ridge in the northwest.
Jianmen Pass is the boundary between Jieshi Ridge and Cuiyun Road. After passing Jianmen Pass, there are vast tracts of primitive dense forests, extending all the way to the edge of Guixu Sea. This is the territory of the Yulong tribe.
As usual, Lu Nanzhi came to Jianmen Pass and waited. The reason why Jiang Yuebai chose this place instead of the city was to make it easier to escape.
From here, they went into the jungle under Cuiyun Ridge. It was said that the terrain there was more complicated than that of their Ten Thousand Mountains. Jiang Yuebai was a demon, and the jungle was like a back garden. If anything happened, it would be safest to hide in it.
The morning fog was thick and a cold wind blew from the direction of Cuiyun Ridge, dispelling the stuffiness on the Jieshi Ridge side.
A tapir with a slightly long nose and a pitch-black body emerged from above Lu Nanzhi's head, looking sleepy.
As soon as it opened its mouth, Lu Nanzhi couldn't help but open his mouth and yawn, and a few tears squeezed out of the corners of his eyes. The man and the beast moved in unison.
"Stop it. I slept too long yesterday and I still have to wait for Xiaobai. I can't sleep any more."
"貘" (tap) is homophonic with "魔" (demon), and it was an unexpected discovery made by Lu Nanzhi in the hall full of demon stone pillars.
Perhaps it was fate that the first stone pillar she checked, the nightmare, was it.
A dream suddenly came back to his hometown at night, and Lu Nanzhi named it Youmeng.
It only had the last breath left at that time, and if Lu Nanzhi had not investigated carefully, he would not have discovered its existence.
After rescuing Youmeng from the pillar, Lu Nanzhi found some original demonic energy and gave some to Youmeng to let it catch its breath.
Although Youmeng is a demon, it is a very gentle demon. It will only enter other people's dreams, create horrific illusions to scare people, and feed on the fear in people's dreams.
It was by chance that Lu Nanzhi discovered that Youmeng could provide her with great help.
In the nightmare created by Youmeng, time can be stretched very long. Lu Nanzhi studied sword techniques in it. Although it could not improve his cultivation, it would not cause any impact on himself.
But what she comprehended in the nightmare, she only needed a little practice to master after waking up. The nightmare gave her a lot more time, which helped her much more than the "Chaos Nirvana Kung Fu".
After all, she already had the complete inheritance of the Ice Demon and was determined to follow the path of swordsmanship and could not switch to other pursuits halfway.
Lu Nanzhi refused to go into the nightmare with Youmeng to play, so Youmeng had to retreat back into Lu Nanzhi's sea of consciousness.
After waiting for half a day, a little girl of eight or nine years old came up the mountain path. She was wearing a green skirt and a bamboo hat, jumping and humming a little tune.
Lu Nanzhi took a quick glance and saw that the child was in the middle stage of foundation building. He couldn't help but sigh, this is indeed the upper realm, such a young child has such a profound cultivation.
At her age, she seems to be only in the middle stage of Qi training
The little girl walked up to Lu Nanzhi, stopped, lifted her hat and looked up, revealing a young and lovely face. Her pair of golden pupils were very special, with a bit of cat-like cunning that was inconsistent with her age.
"Sister, may I ask if Cuiyunling is heading in this direction?"
Lu Nanzhi pushed the mask on his face and said "hmm" lightly, looking like he didn't want to talk too much.
"Thank you, sister. You are so nice. You must be very beautiful, right?"
The little girl had no intention of leaving. She stood at Lu Nanzhi's feet and kept laughing.
Lu Nanzhi frowned, said nothing, and was secretly on guard.
"Beautiful sister, it's fate that we meet. Can you tell me your name?"
The little girl acted very familiar and kept moving forward. Lu Nanzhi didn't know her identity, so he didn't want to act rashly. The girl with golden pupils must be of rare bloodline, and there must be someone behind her.
Lu Nanzhi's eyes turned cold, and he jumped onto the giant sword at Jianmen Pass.
When she turned around, the little girl appeared beside her in an instant. Her movements made Lu Nanzhi feel very familiar.
"Sister, don't you like me? But I like you very much. Can you come home with me?"
Lu Nanzhi looked at the naughty smile on the little girl's face again and suddenly smiled.
"Stop it, Xiaobai."
She stood on tiptoe, holding her hands beside her face with a mysterious look on her face, "I'll tell you quietly, my name is... Zhu! Jiu! You!"
Buzz!
Lu Nanzhi's sea of consciousness shook and his scalp instantly went numb. Even though he was certain that the person in front of him was Jiang Yuebai, he was still frightened by those three words and broke out in a cold sweat.
Phew~
Jiang Yuebai couldn't hold back and laughed out loud when he saw Lu Nanzhi's shaking pupils and drastically changed eyes.
"Hahaha, Anan, you are still scared by me, hahaha."
Lu Nanzhi was so angry that he laughed. He stretched out his hand and poked the little Jiang Yuebai on the forehead, "What you said is much more terrifying than a nightmare!"
Jiang Yuebai pressed her belly and pinched her face, which was sore from laughing. "Don't laugh anymore. The face of the Chaos Saint Body will also be sore. This feeling is so real that it is exactly the same as my original body."
Lu Nanzhi suddenly frowned, "What's wrong with you? Could this really be Zhu Jiuyou's body? Have you taken over her?"
At Jianmen Pass, the original Jiang Yuebai put away the invisibility jade talisman and revealed his true appearance.
Lu Nanzhi breathed a sigh of relief after seeing this. It would be better to stick with the original Xiaobai. Otherwise, she was so young, and going out with her would be like taking care of a daughter.
"This is not the place to talk. Let's go back to the courtyard of Shimen City first. I've calculated that we have been in there for twelve years. I don't know what happened to Xie Jingshan."
Jiang Yuebai put Zhu Jiuyou's clone into the Lotus Cave Heaven, and quickly rushed back to Shimen City with Lu Nanzhi.
When they returned to the courtyard they had been away from for a long time, the jade talismans on them could actually activate the courtyard's protective formation, which meant that the courtyard was still leased to the three of them. It was unknown how long Xie Jingshan had renewed the lease.
The two men stepped into the yard and saw overgrown weeds, thick dust, and many spider webs in the corners of the house. It was obvious that no one had lived there for a long time.
"Xie Jingshan went out?"
The two came to the main hall and saw a letter on the tea table, pressed by a teacup.
Using the Dust Purification Technique to sweep away the dust on the letter, Jiang Yuebai opened it and saw Xie Jingshan's sloppy handwriting.
[Jiang Yuebai, Lu Nanzhi:
You two have been wandering around the world for more than three years and you haven't come back yet. You haven't even written me a letter. You have completely abandoned me, right
Fine, if you don’t want to take me out to play, I’ll go out and play by myself. If you have the guts, don’t look for me or write to me. If you write to me, I won’t reply. Whoever replies is a grandson!
Xie Jingshan left
Jiang Yuebai and Lu Nanzhi looked at each other, and the image of Xie Jingshan gritting his teeth and writing a letter at the table appeared in their minds.
Jiang Yuebai smiled and said, "I guess there must be a lot of letters Xie Jingshan has written to us at the Eastern Star Alliance headquarters."
Lu Nanzhi nodded, "He never fulfilled his threats. You take a rest first. I'll go get the letter back and let him know that I'm safe and where he is."
Jiang Yuebai sent Lu Nanzhi to the door. As soon as he opened the door, he saw two foundation-building cultivators running over in a hurry.
"Hurry up, the admission tickets for the Mingshanlou auction are about to go on sale. They have a lot of rare items. If you go too late, you won't get anything."
Jiang Yuebai looked at Lu Nanzhi, "Mingshan Tower, is it the shop that Xie Jingshan took over? I remember he seemed to have said that when he succeeded, he would change the original Mingfang Pavilion sign to Mingshan Tower."
Lu Nanzhi thought for a moment and said, "It seems to be the case."
Jiang Yuebai smiled, "The young master of the Xie family of Shanhai Tower is indeed worthy of his reputation!"
At that time.
Xie Jingshan was sitting in the Qianyu Dragon Boat heading to Fulong Mountain when he suddenly sneezed several times.
"A-choo! I just don't believe it. I write it every day, and you two still can't see it. Wait until I negotiate this deal with the Fulong Sect, and then you will have to beg me if you want to go to the West Sea!"
Rubbing his nose, Xie Jingshan continued to write the letter angrily.
The fourth update is over, see you tomorrow~
(End of this chapter)