The morning light is dim, and the rosy glow falls on the courtyard.
"Yingzi, wake up. Wake up quickly."
Xu Ying woke up in a daze and saw the old lady next door and the constable in her yard.
"What's wrong with me?"
Xu Ying felt a sadness blocking her heart, and she couldn't help crying.
"There was a thief in your house. I'm glad you're okay. Don't cry. It's all over." The lady next door hugged Xu Ying and comforted her.
Xu Ying's tears welled up more and more, and her heart was broken. "Auntie, I seem to have forgotten something... It's very important... very important..."
The old lady patted Xu Ying on the back and said, "It must be your husband. He will definitely come back. Don't worry."
Xu Ying sobbed and shook her head, "It's not... it's not him... something is lost... it's gone..."
Xu Ying burst into tears and couldn't stop crying. She hit her head but couldn't remember what she had forgotten.
Meow~
Hearing a cat's meow, Xu Ying looked up suddenly and saw a small tabby cat standing on the courtyard wall against the morning light. Its dirty fur was dyed with golden light, which was heartwarming.
Xu Ying staggered to her feet and cried with joy. The tabby cat jumped up from the wall and threw itself into Xu Ying's arms.
"Danggui, that's great, you didn't lose it..."
Meow~
…
The woods outside Qingxi Town.
"He looks so well-dressed, but he's actually a poor fellow! A scum who killed his wife to prove his faith! Bah!"
Jiang Yuebai put away a ninth-grade small sword, dozens of spirit stones and usable elixirs and talismans, threw the clothes and other rags in Qi Yusheng's storage bag on the corpse, and burned it clean with a fire cloud talisman.
Looking back in the direction of Wuwei Temple, they haven't sent any message so there should be nothing wrong.
"There is no clue in finding the tiger demon, let's go to the Mixian Ridge that grandpa mentioned to investigate."
After scattering the ashes, Jiang Yuebai clapped his hands and stood up.
Meow~
Hearing the cat's meow, Jiang Yuebai saw Danggui running towards him from a distance. When he got close, he put down what he was holding in his mouth. It turned out to be a colorful poisonous snake.
Jiang Yuebai didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He squatted down and rubbed Danggui's head hard.
"Little Danggui, I appreciate your kindness. I used Qi Yusheng's blood, essence and soul to save you because you were willing to sacrifice your life for Xu Ying."
Meow!
Danggui bit Jiang Yuebai's sleeve, with stubbornness revealed in her cat-like pupils, and she was determined to repay Jiang Yuebai.
Jiang Yuebai scratched his head in distress, "Let me think, you are also a demon in Leyou Mountain, so you only know where the tiger demon that controls the ghosts to kill people is?"
Meow meow!
Angelica's eyes lit up and she nodded vigorously, hopping to the side and smearing the ground with her paws.
A mountain and a forest.
Danggui sat between the mountains and the forest, looking up and howling, imitating the ferocious look of a tiger monster.
Jiang Yuebai: … …
The dog paddle is more clearly drawn than this one, but the tiger monster looks very realistic and fierce.
Jiang Yuebai picked up a branch and pushed Danggui aside, then simply drew a diagram of the more prominent features around Leyou Mountain.
Danggui climbed onto Jiang Yuebai's shoulder and stretched his head to look around.
When Jiang Yuebai drew the Mixian Ridge, Angelica's eyes lit up, and a tiger came down the mountain, roaring in all directions.
Oooooh!!
Jiang Yuebai's heart trembled, "The tiger demon is in Mixian Ridge, are you sure?"
Angelica nodded and imitated the tiger's roar again.
Mixianling is located in a valley in the mountains and forests. It has a long and narrow terrain and is shrouded in clouds and mist all year round. There is a stone forest in it. It is said that it was the Bagua Mixian Formation set up by the general of the Yun Kingdom according to the method of Qimen Dunjia when he was resisting the pursuing troops of the Cang Kingdom.
That general was naturally the Yun Kingdom’s God of War Lin Jingyue, later known as Wuwei Shanren.
When Jiang Yuebai first listened to his grandfather's talk, he suspected that the inheritance of "The Five Elements Return to Truth" was related to Wuwei Shanren, and Li Jiuchuan also said that Wuwei Shanren lived on Leyou Mountain for a period of time.
"I understand. You should go back early so that Aunt Ying won't worry about you."
Jiang Yuebai stood up, while Danggui squatted there without moving, with his ears pressed against his head to pretend to be well-behaved, and his tail twitching with ulterior motives.
After thinking about it, Jiang Yuebai left a paper crane as a message for Danggui.
"Aunt Ying is just a mortal after all. You can't change that even if you have nine lives. When she dies a hundred years later, if you have nowhere to go, you can come to Tianyan Sect to find me."
"As long as you haven't done anything evil that harms lives, I can find a way to get you a title and let you stay in the Tianyan Sect to practice. So, little Danggui, you have to protect everyone well and don't do bad things, okay?"
"Also, don't dig up graves to search for treasures or souls anymore. The blood of the dead is of no benefit to your cultivation. Don't be impatient when it comes to cultivation. I'll trouble you to take care of my grandfather's grave, too."
Angelica bit the paper crane and nodded contentedly, then hopped away, startling a group of butterflies.
There was no one around, Jiang Yuebai raised his flying sword and headed straight for Mixian Ridge.
As it involves the inheritance cave, Jiang Yuebai didn't want to alarm other people, so he decided to explore it himself first.
After circling in the air, there were dense forests on the hillsides on both sides and a thick fog like the sea below, stretching for dozens of miles. Rugged rocks could be vaguely seen, their edges showing in the surging clouds and mist.
The point is, this piece of fog actually has the effect of blocking spiritual consciousness. It must be something that Wuweishanren did. To be able to do this, her cultivation level must have been quite high when she stayed here for a while.
"kill-"
Suddenly, a burst of shouting and killing sounds, accompanied by the collision of weapons and the neighing of horses came from below, echoing in the empty valley and forests, which was extremely strange.
Jiang Yuebai flew above the fog, startling the birds.
The fog surged and covered the flying sword and her feet. She lowered her head, her eyes unable to penetrate it. This fog was definitely not ordinary clouds.
There is a diary left by my grandfather in my grandfather's jade slip. Back then, he heard people say that there was a thousand-year-old ginseng in the Mixian Ridge that could save lives. He asked people to go into the mountains to collect the medicine, but no one dared to come. He had to come here himself, but he got lost.
After nine whole days, when the food and water were all gone, my grandfather thought he was going to be buried here. He accidentally touched a magic circle on a strange rock and was teleported to an underground cave. On the outer wall of the cave, he saw the Qi training chapter of "The Five Elements Return to Truth".
There were many corpses in varying states of decay in the cave, as well as the corpses of mountain animals.
In the years before him, many people had entered the cave, but unfortunately they did not have spiritual roots and could not practice the skills.
My grandfather relied on the water pool in the cave and the meat of wild animals to survive. He mastered the martial arts in the cave for more than 20 days. Finally, he used the meager spiritual energy to open a way out from the depths of the cave and escaped from Mixian Ridge.
In addition to that way out, there is also a mountain wall in the cave, on which is engraved an exquisite and complex rune formation. Grandpa cannot trigger the rune formation no matter what he does, and he feels that there must be a mystery behind it.
The fog was chilly and the sounds of soldiers shouting and killing rose and fell from time to time. Jiang Yuebai slashed several times downwards, but still could not see any trace of the tiger monster, nor did any minions come out to investigate.
"Could this tiger demon have entered the cave?"
Jiang Yuebai secretly speculated and turned around and rushed towards the location recorded by his grandfather.
If he entered from the normal entrance, it would be a long journey and the cave would be hard to find. Jiang Yuebai wanted to enter from the place where his grandfather came out that year, because now he was afraid that the tiger monster was inside.
The strength of an eighth-level monster is infinitely close to the initial stage of foundation building. When she killed the eighth-level Blood-fang Crocodile King and the eighth-level Poison Fire Spider King in the mine, she tried her best and won after escaping death many times. There were also elements of luck and geographical advantages in it.
Unless necessary, she didn't want to confront the eighth-level tiger demon head-on.
Buzz!
There was a strange sound in the wind, and Jiang Yuebai's heart was startled. He tilted his body and fell down with the flying sword.
Dozens of sword lights came from two directions, breaking through the wind and slashing past the place where she had just been, leaving behind strange hissing sounds.
The flying sword steadily supported Jiang Yuebai's falling body and pulled it up again. She held a knife in one hand and a ninth-grade upper-level golden talisman in the other, and was on full alert.
"Jiang Yuebai, you are really here. Now that you are not in the sect, I wonder who will come to save your life!"
Lin Suiwan approached on his sword with a sinister look on his face.
There were also two fierce cultivators at the ninth level of Qi training who attacked and surrounded Jiang Yuebai from two directions. They were the two who had just left the sect and were thrown off by Jiang Yuebai.
(End of this chapter)