The summer night in the mountains is cool, and there are frogs croaking in the distance, and the night is quiet.
Mu Xiyun returned to the room to clean up the herbs in the Qiankun bag, and suddenly felt a little bit. There was a soft sound by the window behind him, and a figure flashed in.
Before turning his head, a warm hand touched his forehead. After laughing and hiding for a while, Mu Xiyun turned to look at the person who came. "I'm all right."
Gu Qingqiao naturally withdrew his hand and taped it on his forehead, "Well, don't burn it. Have you taken the medicine?"
"Ate."
Gu Qingqiao pulled Mu Xiyun over, and under the dim candlelight, Xiyun's soft eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, and he couldn't see enough.
Mu Xiyun waved his hands in front of him, "We are leaving, we will leave in three days, what are your plans?"
"So soon?" Gu Qingqiao frowned, "How is your health? Do you want to rest for a few more days?"
"I'm fine." Mu Xiyun looked up at him: "Elder Huang is going to that sealed valley tomorrow, can you accompany him?"
"Of course," Gu Qingqiao said: "According to your description, the people behind the Shahe Gang are inseparable from the affairs of Lingshan. If you go and see, you may find more clues. It is not safe for Elder Huang to go alone. My name is Go to Zhang Jinjin and the others together."
"Um. Then... what are your plans?"
Gu Qingqiao looked at Mu Xiyun, Xiaoxianjun's eyes flashed with fear, but his eyes were full of hope. He couldn't help but feel warm in his heart, he couldn't help reaching out his hand, took Xi Yun's shoulder, embraced the fear and expectation in his arms, and whispered in his ear: "Fool, of course I'll go with you, don't think about it. Leave me."
Gently breaking away from Gu Qingqiao's embrace, Mu Xiyun's ears turned red. He lowered his head and picked up the teacup on the table, avoiding Gu Qingqiao's gaze, and said incoherently: "Uh, that's fine, I'll tell Elder Huang tomorrow and let him go directly to the inn. And, um... guide, I'll go Tell the old village chief. You... you rest early, and you have to travel tomorrow... "
The teacup was tossed between her hands, Mu Xiyun raised her hand to drink water, but found that the cup was empty, and quickly put it back on the table. Gu Qingqiao leaned against the window and looked at it funny, although he wanted to tease him, but if he stayed any longer, the little fairy in front of him was afraid that the cups, saucers and tea sets would fall.
He stretched out his hand to cover Mu Xiyuan's helpless hand, and said softly, "Then I'm leaving, you have a good rest."
Mu Xiyun finally raised her head, "Oh, okay."
There were unfamiliar emotions in those eyes, dazed and helpless, like a lost child. Gu Qingqiao can't wait to take people home immediately and never show them to others again.
He closed his eyes, forced himself to jump off the window sill, and then walked over the wall.
Mu Xiyuan let out a long sigh and stayed in front of the window for a while before going to bed to rest.
Early the next morning, after finishing everything, Su Yanjun and Huang Zelin went to the inn, while Mu Xiyuan and Qin Le started to complete the entrustment of the surrounding people.
There were various entrustments. They sent five letters that day, drove away evil spirits for two families, bought food and utensils for the shantang in the town, and even helped a little doll find a lost kitten.
Although the immortals who came to cultivate have an obligation to help the surrounding people, there are not many people like them who are enthusiastic to help regardless of the size of the matter. The residents of the town were very grateful. When the two returned to Longpao Village in the evening, they also carried a large basket full of food delivered by the townspeople.
Giving the basket to the old village chief cheerfully, Qin Le wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "I've finished all the commissions on my side, how about yours?"
Mu Xiyun was cleaning up the herbs that had been drying in the courtyard, and when he heard the words, he replied: "Not much, I have cleaned up these herbs today, and tomorrow I want to go to Linghu to pick up some dragon's whiskers. They don't use much of this herb. But the general people on the Linghu side are not allowed to approach, and each medicine hall needs to entrust the cultivator to help, and it is easy to run out of stock. I will pick more tomorrow, and they will be more convenient. "
"Okay, but my water is too poor to dive, so I can only help you." Qin Le said embarrassedly.
"It's okay, I don't need much, I'll do it alone." After Mu Xiyun answered, she felt something was wrong in her heart. After a while, he suddenly remembered, pulled Qin Le and asked, "Xiao Le, you speak more fluently than before!"
Qin Le smiled a little embarrassedly, and said, "I quietly asked Elder Huang, and he said that one is because I used to be timid and tended to be nervous when speaking; Get through. He passed me a set of methods to open up the meridians. I have been practicing this exercise in the spirit array for the past few days, and yesterday I finally succeeded."
"That's great! Xiaole, congratulations!"
"Thank you, thank you! And thank you for taking me for so long, which made me a lot more courageous."
The two looked at each other and laughed. After chatting for a while, they went back to their rooms to wash up.
Mu Xiyun put her hands behind her head, lying on the bed in a daze. where are they now? What happened to the barrier in the mountains
The barrier in the mountain has disappeared.
The group did not bring a guide this time. The gentleman's sword is well-known and knowledgeable, and he will never forget the road he has walked through, and he has taken everyone to the valley where the purple core grass grows.
A month later, the grass roots in the soil have sprung up again, and a layer of fine hairy grass has grown in the valley. It is estimated that it will become the same as before.
Several people turned around and continued to move forward. After two hours, they reached the valley where the previous few people fought.
As soon as the sensitive sister Mo Yan approached the valley, she immediately became alert. Mo Yan pulled out a silver hairpin on his head and turned into a pair of steel thorns in his hand, and his body flashed like a cloud of smoke towards the mouth of the valley.
Su Yanjun wanted to step forward to help, but Zhang Jinjin stopped him and said, "My sister has had an adventure, and I got the advice of a senior thief. She is very good at being light and hiding. Brother Su, don't worry."
Hearing his explanation, Su Yanjun sighed inwardly that Jinjin Pavilion was rich enough to recruit such talents. How could he know that Zhang Jinjin was just talking nonsense to cover up Mo Yan's identity as a demon.
In less than a stick of incense, Mo Yan had turned back. She inserted the silver hairpin in her hand back into her hair, and said to the crowd, "There is no one inside, there is only the smell left over from the formation."
Everyone was relieved and walked towards Taniguchi together.
The enchantment in the valley has dissipated, but the lake water has not disappeared, and the bottom of the valley has returned to the appearance of a small lake.
The two guys from Gu Qingqiao and Jinjin Pavilion came prepared, took out a knife and axe from the Qiankun bag, and cut down trees to make rafts. Put on the water pad again, dive into the water, and salvage at the position pointed out by Su Yanjun. The first thing that was picked up were some weapons and supplies. More than an hour later, a man surfaced, carrying a cloth pocket in his hand, which were filled with bottles and cans.
Huang Zelin and Mo Bing, two medical idiots, saw the medicine pill, so they didn't care about anything, and immediately began to identify. Mo Yan and Zhang Jinjin hurriedly stepped forward to help clean up, and followed Su Yanjun to the cave where he lurked before.
Huang Yi, who was tied in the hole, had long since disappeared, and only half of the cloth belt was left on the ground. It is also his fate that he escaped the fate of flooding because he was bound.
After a little tidying up, Huang Zelin and Mo Bing got busy.
Su Yanjun and Zhang Jinjin gathered firewood to make a fire, and Mo Yan made some food. When it was getting late, the three of Qingqiao also returned to the cave. Everyone ate dinner together, the three doctors continued to study the medicinal herbs, and the others rested on the rock wall.
"This time, you are going to go to the next array, right?" Zhang Jinjin raised the topic.
"Well," Su Yanjun replied, "Moyunshan disciples inspect the magic circle, and each circle stays for a month. Once they come to inspect the magic circle, they can also use the spiritual energy of the magic circle to practice. Starting in March and April, every place will be one day at a time. About a month, plus the time on the road, returning to the mountains is just around the time of the New Year."
"Your faction is really thoughtful!" Zhang Jinjin sighed. He pointed to Gu Qingqiao, and said sincerely: "My cousin, this time, was seriously injured. Fortunately, I invited two beauties and Elder Huang to heal him. He must have been seriously injured. I want him to go to various dharmas with you. Do you think it is suitable for the formation of cultivation? As for the spiritual stones and expenses required for cultivation, Jinjin Pavilion will bear it."
Along the way, Su Yanjun and Gu Qingqiao didn't have much interaction, but seeing that Mu Xiyun and Qin Le were both on good terms with him, after the day, Gu Qingqiao and the two guys did a lot after their busy schedules. The matter also made Su Yanjun very fond of him, and he would not object, so he agreed after a few words of humility.
Across the two guys, Qingqiao smiled at Zhang Jinjin and gave a small thank you. Zhang Jinjin waved his hand and closed his eyes.
A crescent moon hangs in the sky, and a cool breeze blows from the mountains. The three doctors were still discussing something in a low voice. Gu Qingqiao silently put his hand into his sleeve pocket, lightly stroked the cyan hairband inside, and smiled as he fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Gu Qingqiao took two buddies for another trip, looked around the main tent, and found nothing. Back to the cave.
Huang Zelin and the sisters discussed it in the middle of the night, only to wake up just now.
"In addition to some commonly used medicines, these medicine bottles are mainly a kind of poison." Huang Zelin said.
"Poison?" Everyone was taken aback.
"Yes." Mo Yan frowned and continued: "This medicine is very toxic. If someone eats it, it will cause a coma, or even death on the spot. These bottles are full of this medicine. She pointed to seven or eight vials in a row, "but the amount of medicine in each bottle is different. They seem to be experimenting with how to improve this medicine with purple core grass."
Su Yanjun pondered: "I remember hearing the Taoist in gray robe say that someone entrusted them to reduce the dosage, and it would be the same as usual after being eaten. They were using purple core grass to suppress the medicinal properties."
"Suppression?" Huang Zelin seemed to be inspired, and the three discussed again.
Zhang Jinjin told the three doctors, "Bring the medicine to the three doctors, let's go back to the inn to discuss. The conditions in the mountains are difficult, and I don't know what the risks are."
The three were deaf.
The rest of the people smiled bitterly, waited for them for an hour, and then took turns to persuade them, and then set off back to the village.
In Longclaw Village, Mu Xiyun spread the herbs to be dried in the courtyard early in the morning, prepared some utensils, and took Qin Le to the Linghu Lake.
Looking for Senior Brother Shouzhen to borrow a boat, the two came to the lake.
Linghu Lake is actually not big. The island in the middle of the lake, together with the isolation barrier, occupies most of the lake surface. On weekdays, the water and medicine are collected outside the barrier, and the boat can reach the destination with a casual stroke.
With Qin Le staying on the boat, Mu Xiyuan took off his robe and jumped into the water.
The weather in June is not too cold to launch. Mu Xiyuan took a deep breath, gathered her spiritual power in her eyes, and dived underwater.
Dragon's whisker is a aquatic plant that mostly grows on the bottom of the water. Because the whole grass is slender and long, it moves with the waves in the water like a beard, so it gets the name "dragon beard".
The land of the spirit formation is full of spiritual power, and there are many fairy flowers and grasses, and even ordinary water tanks are particularly lush. The water of Linghu Lake is clear and can be seen very far at a glance. Almost as soon as Mu Xiyun stepped into the water, he found a large clump of Dragon's Beard grass, swaying gracefully in the depths of the lake.
After paddling a few times, he came to the Dragon Beard Grass, stretched out his hand and picked a large bunch. After coming to the surface and handing it to Qin Le, he dived again, remembering that he saw a bunch of good-looking beside the enchantment not far away, and Mu Xiyun swam directly in that direction.
The water plants are dense, and there are many other algae sandwiched between the dragons and the grass. Mu Xiyun picked and picked them and harvested a lot.
Pulling out a particularly large one, Mu Xiyuan's peripheral vision seemed to see a bright black.
The pebbles at the bottom of the lake are generally gray, and the surface is bumpy, but the roots of this bunch of dragon whiskers are black.
It was a beautiful layer of boulders, the size of half the palm of a hand, with a smooth and black surface. Under the changing light and shadow at the bottom of the lake, it looked beautiful and mysterious.
On a whim, Mu Xiyuan reached out and picked up a piece, intending to take it back as a souvenir.
It had been a while since he was in the water, and Mu Xiyun was holding his breath to the limit. He turned around lightly and floated toward the lake.
Suddenly, his body trembled, as if a sledgehammer was hitting his heart, and the qi, blood, and spiritual power of his entire body quickly reversed, and his body seemed to be imprisoned and unable to move. Mu Xiyun only felt a stagnation in her chest, and with an ahh, a large string of crystal-like bubbles rushed out of her mouth, but they couldn't float up again.
As her body sank into the water, Mu Xiyun opened her eyes and watched the shimmering light on the lake gradually fade away. The air bubbles in her mouth were still escaping, her chest was aching like needles, and her mind gradually became dizzy.
The fingers slowly loosened, and the small black stone slipped from the fingertips and silently fell back to its original place.
There seemed to be a muffled sound from the water in the distance, and a slender shadow was thrown into the water. The shadow only searched left and right for a moment, and then came swiftly from the lake. Before Mu Xiyun could react, he felt a strong hand wrapping around his waist, and the other hand supporting the back of his head.
Immediately afterwards, a dark shadow approached, blocking the shimmering light on the lake, and something warm and soft blocked his lips.