At the foot of Yunwu Mountain, Sanchakou Inn.
Sanchakou Inn is located at the foot of Yunwu Mountain. It is the border between Yecheng and Wucheng, and it is the only inn within a hundred miles.
Outside the entire inn, it was completely dark.
It was already dusk and time to light the lamps.
The doors of the two guest rooms connected to each other on the west side of the second floor of Sanchakou were both open, and the faint candlelight swayed in the wind, which sometimes blew strongly and sometimes weakly.
In the first guest room on the west side, a young man was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed and his palms on the back of a woman who looked weak.
A young man with a very bad face was standing at the door of the room, his eyes fixed on the corridor on the second floor of the inn, as if he was guarding something.
At the same time, a large group of people were setting out from Wucheng, holding torches in their hands and moving hurriedly towards Yunwu Mountain.
"Hurry up, everyone! Whoever catches any of them will be rewarded with ten ounces of gold!"
"It's the young master! You must catch up with them quickly!"
It was pitch dark and the only sound one could hear was the voices of people asking and answering questions among the group of people holding torches.
"Young Master! I don't know what kind of person Ye Feng is. He escaped several times!"
"Hahahaha! What kind of person is this? He's just a conceited loser! Now that I have a secret weapon in my hand, let's see where he can escape to! Go, chase him!"
The words fell slowly amid the rapidly moving torches.
All that was left was the sound of hurrying footsteps, the barking of night owls and dogs in nature, and the rustling of leaves in the wind.
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The main hall of the Wu family in Wucheng.
A fifty-year-old man was pacing back and forth in the hall, looking anxious.
"Someone come here!" The fifty-year-old man frowned and shouted loudly outside the hall with a serious look.
As soon as the shouting ended, a Wu family guard came running from outside the hall.
"Any news about the eldest lady?" The white-haired old man looked at the person who came anxiously and shouted sternly.
The Wu family guard who came was also a young man in his early twenties. Seeing the old man's expression, he lowered his head in fear and stammered, "Reporting to the city lord, there is no news about the eldest lady yet!"
It turned out that the fifty-year-old man in the Wu family hall was Wu Yue, the lord of Wucheng and the head of the Wu family. The reason why he was wandering around the hall was because his daughter Zhou Xia had been out for a day and had not returned yet.
"Master, master, have you found Xiaer?" A woman's voice came from outside the hall, and her voice was full of worry and expectation.
As soon as the voice fell, a woman with an anxious look walked into the hall from outside, followed by a maid.
The woman who came was elegantly dressed, of medium height and had a blessed face. She was none other than Zhou Xia's mother, Zhou Yunfan.
Seeing his wife's anxious face, Wu Yue scolded the young man who came, "Get lost! Tell them that if they don't find the young lady today, they can't come back! Get lost!"
Hearing Wu Yue yelling at the boy, Madam Zhou Yunfan's anxious eyes were filled with tears as she sobbed, "Master, Master! Xia'er, Xia'er..."
Facing the lady's sadness and worry, Wu Yue saw the maid Xiaoqing behind her.
Xiaoqing's face was full of doubt, as if she had hidden something from them, and there was fear in her eyes.
"Xiaoqing! You know where Xiaer went, right? If you don't tell the truth, I will kick you out of the Wu family!" Wu Yue looked at Xiaoqing angrily and yelled.
Seeing Wu Yue's anger, Xiao Qing fell to her knees and cried, "Master, Master, please don't chase me away, okay? I'm telling you, I'm telling you right now that the eldest lady went hunting in Yunwu Mountain this morning with Miss Luo from Yecheng!"
"What! Xia'er went to Yunwu Mountain!" Wu Yue was shocked, his expression full of anxiety.
As the lord of Wucheng, Wu Yue was naturally no ordinary person. Although he didn't know the details of what happened on Yunwu Mountain during the day, he knew that a life-and-death feud had taken place on Yunwu Mountain.
That's why when he heard Xiaoqing say that Zhou Xia went to Yunwu Mountain, his face was full of surprise and anxiety.
Just then, someone outside the hall reported.
"Come in!"
As soon as Wu Yue finished speaking, a Wu Jiawei with a suspicious look on his face ran in from outside the hall.
Wu Jiawei lowered his head and said, "Master, our people just came to report that they saw the eldest son of the Meng family, Meng Xing, leading hundreds of Meng family guards to the direction of Yunwu Mountain!"
Upon hearing that Meng Xing took the Meng family guards to Yunwu Mountain, Wu Yue fell into deep confusion.
Because I had heard about the battle that took place in Yunwu Mountain during the day, and Meng Xing and the Meng family guards were there.
Therefore, when he heard again that Meng Xing was leading hundreds of Meng family guards towards Yunwu Mountain in the dark night, he fell into deep doubt.
Who was Meng Xing fighting with in Yunwu Mountain during the day? And why was he fighting
Now, why would he mobilize such a large force with hundreds of Meng family guards in the pitch-dark night
When Wu Yue was completely immersed in all these strange things, voices were heard again outside the hall.
The words coming at this moment were full of excitement and excitement.
"Master, Madam, the young lady is back!"
"Xia'er is back, Xia'er..." After hearing the news that Zhou Xia was back, Madam Zhou Yunfan's face lit up, and the entire Wu family hall was in an uproar.
Zhou Yunfan ran towards the door of the hall with infinite joy on his face, and Wu Yue, who was deeply puzzled, turned around and looked towards the door of the hall with surprise and expectation.
"Mom, Dad! Xia'er is back!"
When the words fell, Zhou Xia and Zhou Yunfan were already hugging each other.
Seeing Zhou Xia's haggard and miserable face, Zhou Yunfan's heart was broken, and he said distressedly: "Xia'er, Xia'er, what happened to you!"
After eighteen years, Zhou Xia finally felt the true sense of home today and realized how important her parents were to her.
Zhou Xia coughed a few times, covered her chest with her right hand, and her face was extremely pale.
When Wu Yue saw his daughter's face and her right hand covering her chest, he looked at her anxiously and worriedly, holding her pulse with one hand.
When Wu Yue felt Zhou Xia's pulse, his brows, which had just relaxed, suddenly frowned again, and his face became heavy.
"Xia'er, what happened? How did you get internal injuries? Where's Miss Luo? Didn't she come back with you?"
Wu Yue sensed from Zhou Xia's pulse that the energy in her body was abnormally disordered, and her tendons and veins also showed signs of being injured.
"Dad! This is what happened..." Zhou Xia explained the whole story with a sad face.
"What! Meng Xing actually allowed the people from the Western Region Gate to hurt you! I'm going to kill that guy right now!" Wu Yue was furious after hearing Zhou Xia's explanation.
"Dad! You must stop Meng Xing. I know Meng Xing's character. He will never give up. Now Luo Ying has the poison from Wan Du Mountain, and Ye Feng saved my life. I beg you to save them!" Zhou Xia said excitedly.
Wu Yue, who was originally going to find Meng Xing to ask for an explanation, felt unusual when he learned that his daughter was actually rescued by Ye Feng from the Ye family in Yecheng.
Because he had already received an order from Luo Zheng of the Luo family in Yecheng to kill Ye Feng at all costs, and now Luo Ying was poisoned by an incurable poison, so he suddenly didn't know how to respond.
"Madam, let Fu Xia go down and have some rest first!" Wu Yue, who didn't know what to do for a moment, found an excuse to let Zhou Xia, Ye Feng's daughter, who was crying and shouting that she had to go and save Ye Feng, leave the hall first.
Seeing his daughter Zhou Xia's pleading eyes as she left the hall, Wu Yue looked up to the sky and sighed, saying silently in his heart: "Xia'er, Daddy is sorry, Daddy Ye Feng can't and must not go to save her!"
Because Wu Yue knew that Luo Zheng hated Ye Feng so much that he issued a killing order for Ye Feng to every city lord in the Nine Cities, so between power and favor, Wu Yue finally chose power.
At this moment, another Wu Jiawei came running in from outside the Wu family hall with a hurried look on his face.
Luo Jiawei, who entered the hall, lowered his head and said, "Master, this is a letter from Ye Cheng!"
When Wu Yue heard that it was a letter from Ye Cheng, he took the letter nervously. He tore open the envelope eagerly and began to read the contents of the letter.
When he read the whole letter, his face became solemn. He took the letter in his hand to the candle and burned it to ashes.
At the same time, in the first guest room on the west side of the second floor of the Sanchakou Inn, the young man who was sitting cross-legged in meditation withdrew his palms, evenly breathed in and out, opened his eyes and stood up.
He was none other than Ye Feng from the Ye family in Yecheng.
The woman into whom he had just transferred his true energy was her aunt Luo Ying.
"Young Master! You look so bad! Are you okay?" Ye Qi, the guard at the door, took the Ye family's healing pill after entering the inn. Now he is much stronger than before. He looked at Ye Feng with concern.
In fact, Ye Qi wanted to tell Ye Feng that the poison that injured Luo Ying could not be cured by true Qi alone. Seeing Ye Feng injecting true Qi into Luo Ying again and again, he was worried that Ye Feng's vitality would be depleted and he would miss out on important things when he returned to Yecheng.
However, due to Luo Ying, he did not say it clearly.
"Ye Qi, I'm fine. How's your injury?" Ye Feng said with a concerned expression.
"Master, Ye Qi's injury is not important. What's important is you, Master! There are so many people in the Ye family who rely on you for protection. Master, you have been injecting Qi into Miss Luo again and again. When..."
"Ye Qi, let's go outside!" Ye Feng knew what Ye Qi was going to say, so he interrupted him and looked back at Luo Ying lying on the bed. He was secretly sweating. Fortunately, Luo Ying hadn't woken up yet, otherwise, hearing what Ye Qi said would be a blow to her worse than death.
In fact, Luo Ying, who was lying in bed, had woken up a long time ago. When Ye Feng closed the door, she got out of bed with a face full of sadness.
Ye Qi was right. Luo Ying knew that he was poisoned by the poison from the Ten Thousand Poison Mountain. There was no other antidote in the world that could detoxify except the Ten Thousand Poison Spring on the Ten Thousand Poison Mountain.
Every time he saw Ye Feng wasting his energy to save his life, Luo Ying thought that transferring his energy over and over again would not be able to remove the poison from his body, but would instead harm Ye Feng.
It was only after going through Yunwu Mountain that Luo Ying finally realized that the inexplicable feeling she had for Ye Feng was love, her love for Ye Feng.
When Luo Ying thought of Ye Feng injecting his inner energy into him again and again and his face becoming increasingly weaker, his heart ached.
In order to stop the one she loves from suffering, Luo Ying's face was filled with tears. She took out a pen and paper and wrote down her heartfelt words to say goodbye to Ye Feng.
Filled with sadness and reluctance, Luo Ying wrote in the letter to express her gratitude, reluctance and love for Ye Feng.
After writing the letter, Luo Ying's eyes were filled with tears. She placed the letter in front of her bed and gently opened the door.
Ye Feng lived in the next room. The light was still on. Luo Ying looked at the room where Ye Feng lived with tears on her face and said, "Ye Feng! Goodbye. If there is an afterlife, I will still be your aunt..."
After saying this, Luo Ying turned back reluctantly, took heavy steps down to the second floor, left the inn and walked into the long night.