Li Shiwen's words hit Qin Ran's heart hard. He knew exactly what Li Shiwen was asking, but he didn't expect Li Shiwen to be so straightforward. So he was stunned, then nervous, then scared...
"Shiyin... She's very cute, I like her very much..." He replied vaguely, "She's my only disciple!"
"Ha!" Li Shiwen sneered.
As a man and as a brother, he had long felt that this master and disciple pair did not look like master and disciple, and Qin Ran's appearance now made him even more certain.
He rode over and pulled up the steel spear that Li Shiyin had thrown. The wolf king was still hanging on the steel spear. He raised the wolf king back with one hand, pointed it at Qin Ran, and said word by word: "Pay attention!"
The threat is obvious!
If it was any other matter, any other person, or any other time, with Qin Ran's cowardly personality, he would not want to care at all and would just find an opportunity to do it secretly. However, with Li Shiwen's warning, he had no way to fight back.
Because he has a guilty conscience.
When he first saw Li Shiyin in the Dao Hall, he thought about his Taoist partner instead of his apprentice. After that, when he brought Li Shiyin back to Danfeng, he suppressed his emotions every day.
Many times, he was not sure what he was thinking, whether he was bringing a Taoist companion home or taking a disciple home.
But precisely because it is unclear, it is certain that his heart has never been clean.
He liked Li Shiyin. No matter what reason he had for liking her, he liked this simple and silly girl. Otherwise, he wouldn't have given so much to her...
"What did you say?" But facing Li Shiwen, he could only play dumb, "I don't really understand..."
"What are you talking about?" At this time Li Shiyin flew over on a sword.
"Nothing!" The two men smiled at Li Shiyin.
Li Shiyin looked at them suspiciously, knowing that they were hiding something from her. But she didn't care, she snatched the steel gun from Li Shiwen's hand, raised the Wolf King and flew back, circling in the air, showing off her achievements to the cavalry.
"Shiyin was protected too well by us..." Li Shiwen looked at Li Shiyin flying in the air, "She is too naive and too silly."
Qin Ran also looked at Li Shiyin. He approved of her, but he didn't say anything.
A gentleman is judged by deeds rather than by heart. Although his heart was not clean, he was an excellent master to Li Shiyin. In a thousand words, he did not let her down.
And it is certain that no matter what happens in the future, he will never hurt Li Shiyin... because he really likes her.
Knowing that the general liked his sister, the soldiers under Li Shiwen's command played around with Li Shiyin for a while before going to clean up the battlefield.
They shot their arrows
The wolf carcasses with their fur intact were recovered and put away. This cavalry was well-trained and had done this kind of thing many times, so they were very skilled and it didn't take long for them to clean up the battlefield.
Li Shiwen integrated the army and continued his inspection.
"Which direction are you going?" Qin Ran asked Li Shiwen.
"We need to check out the entire periphery of Hengduan Mountains." Li Shiwen said.
"We are going to Xuanqin..." Qin Ran said.
Li Shiwen remembered that Li Shiyin said they were going to Xuanqin to forge swords, so he asked Qin Ran: "Why are you going to Xuanqin?"
"Find Xu Zhixie to forge a sword..." Qin Ran said, "Shiyin follows the path of swordsmanship, so she needs a natal sword."
Oh, it’s to forge a sword for Shiyin. Li Shiyin turned his horse around and led the master and his disciple to the border.
More than a thousand soldiers and horses marched towards the border of Xuanqin, dispersing some scattered monsters in the middle, and arrived at the national border when the sky was about to dawn.
Qin Ran, holding Long Qiqi, walked at the front of the team with Li Shiwen. When they arrived at the border, they looked across and found a cavalry quietly deployed not far away.
There are more than a thousand cavalrymen on this side and more than a thousand cavalrymen on the opposite side. The morning light shines over from the horizon, and the orange-red light makes the armor on the opposite side reflect faintly.
"What is this?" Qin Ran asked Li Shiwen in confusion.
"I'll take you here. The idiot on the other side is worried that I might cause trouble, so he's on guard against me!" Li Shiwen said with a smile, "It's a small problem, it won't be a problem."
Qin Ran nodded and called Li Shiyin over.
"General!" The soldiers on Xuan Qin's side asked their general, "What is Li Shiwen going to do this time?"
The general saw Li Shiwen and Li Shiyin talking from afar. He had dealt with Li Shiyin before and recognized her. Seeing this, he made a vague guess: "Is Li Shiwen using the army to send his sister away?"
"How extravagant!" He spat and cursed, "At this critical moment, why are these delicate young men and women coming to Hengduan Mountain?"
After the brother and sister said a few words and said goodbye, Qin Ran said to Li Shiwen, "This monster riot is very serious. It involves high-level monsters. It is not something that mortals can intervene. You must prepare for evacuation in advance."
"High-level monster? What's the specific reason?" Li Shiwen simply ignored Qin Ran's advice.
Qin Ran looked at him and shook his head, but for Li Shiyin's sake, he raised his hand and sucked the wolf king on his horse over.
"The ninth-level monster deep in the Hengduan Mountains..." He said as he found a willow catkin on the wolf king's head. The catkin had sunk into the wolf king's flesh and blood, and was no longer snow-white, but had turned blood red. He pulled out the catkin, wrapped it in bubbles, and showed it to Li Shiwen, "Do you see this catkin? This is the root cause of the monster's riot."
"Liu catkins? A ninth-level monster.
” Li Shiwen couldn’t understand.
"This is a magic willow that exists deep in the Hengduan Mountains. It erupts once every thousand years. If you can find documents from the previous dynasty, you may be able to find relevant information."
Qin Ran continued to explain, "This explosion of the magic willow is just a prelude. The real explosion of the willow catkins has not yet begun."
Li Shiwen took the catkins, looking uncertain, and replied, "I will check it out."
"Investigation is one thing, but early evacuation is the key. There are many people near the Hengduan Mountains." For Qin Ran, running away, safety, and evacuation are always the most important plans. He and Li Shiwen advised,
"I haven't seen the effect of the catkins on humans yet, but it is almost certain that there will be an effect. After all, humans are nothing special. Of course, even if it has no effect on humans, a real monster riot cannot be stopped by a mortal army.
"So... evacuate the people near the Hengduan Mountains as soon as possible."
Qin Ran advised so much, but Li Shiwen finally said: "I have my own considerations on this matter."
"Okay, I don't care what you do specifically. I'm just explaining things to you." Qin Ran shook his head, turned his horse's head, and walked towards the border with Li Shiyin. He left Li Shiwen with a final piece of advice, "Stay away from willow catkins. The current willow catkins are only in the initial stage, and there will definitely be changes in the future."
Li Shiwen held the bubble wrapped around the bloody catkins in her hand, looked at the backs of Qin Ran and Li Shiyin leaving, and suddenly shouted, "Be nice to my sister!"
Qin Ran had mixed feelings and waved his hand with his back turned to him.
"What are you talking about?" Li Shiyin asked Qin Ran with her eyes wide open, "Catkins, riots, monsters, etc."
There was a fool, but Qin Ran didn't want to say who it was.
He looked at Li Shiyin helplessly. Zhuifeng's mother had caught prey at the gate of Daojianmen. Li Shiwen had said that the monsters were rioting when he arrived at Danfeng. Huang Feiyu had warned him about it. They had seen it with their own eyes when they were trapped in the deep rain forest. They had experienced the riot of wolves last night. But...
"Alas!" He shook his head.
Long Qiqi looked at Li Shiyin with her eyes rolling around. Wasn't such a naive and stupid human being just waiting for her to deceive him
"You said you came from the Hengduan Mountains?" Qin Ran suddenly asked Long Qiqi.
"Hmm?" Long Qiqi came back to his senses, "Ah, yes!"
"Then do you know the Devouring Demon Willow?"
"No, I don't know!" Long Qiqi shook his head repeatedly.
Qin Ran frowned, looked down at her, and asked, "Really?"
"I don't agree with what you humans call it..." Long Qiqi said, "How would I know what the Devouring Demon Willow is?"
Qin Ran narrowed his eyes. This snake was deceiving him...