"I don't know."
Pang Jian shook his head, looking confused.
He only remembered that the "Eye of Brand" suddenly changed. When searching the crowd for the person who infused the message, the bronze plate his father left him suddenly became hot.
That's all.
Naturally, he would not tell his secret to anyone present, so he could only respond by saying that he didn't know.
"Don't know? The Blood Moon's Branded Eye wouldn't choose a guy like you for no reason?" Shangguan Qin refused to give up.
"That's enough!" Zhou Qingchen coughed lightly, interrupting Shangguan Qin's shouting, and said solemnly: "Pang Jian, did you see any other scenes next?"
"Anything else?"
Pang Jian thought seriously and said, "The vines killed the Blood Moon practitioners, quickly devoured their flesh and blood, and then retracted back into the cracks in the ground. Just like now, the vines have eaten up all the people in the Shangguan family, and it's time to retract into the ground."
Everyone's expressions turned unhappy.
"Is there anything else?" Zhou Qingchen asked with a heavy heart.
"After that, the next scene I saw was you rushing here first." Pang Jian replied.
Once these words were spoken, it meant a complete closed loop. The scenes and images that Pang Jian saw from the "Eye of Brand" later were all what Zhou Qingchen had personally experienced.
The young master of the Zhou family pondered, recalling how Pang Jian was miraculously unaffected when the demonic screams erupted in the pile of rocks, as well as the special favor of the "Eye of Brand".
He guessed that there must be some mystery in Pang Jian that he couldn't see clearly, otherwise it could not be explained reasonably.
"It should be safe over there now."
While everyone was thinking, Pang Jian spoke again and said to Shangguan Qin: "If you go back now, you should be able to safely collect the remains of the deceased in your Shangguan family."
Shangguan Qin's face, which was originally beautiful and charming, was now full of panic and helplessness. She had not yet recovered from her shock and said coldly, "I don't believe a word you say!"
She had a deep prejudice against Pang Jian and wanted to find ways to capture Pang Jian and pry open the secret in his heart.
Pang Jian seemed to be blind to her prejudice and said, "I would like to go back and get back for you the things that your Shangguan family's servants left behind."
The hatred in Shangguan Qin's eyes did not diminish at all, and she gritted her teeth and said, "Are you so kind?"
"You can go with me." Pang Jian suggested.
Shangguan Qin hesitated, her eyes showing hesitation, and soon she said coldly: "I don't believe you."
"What about you? If anyone doesn't believe it, you can look back with me." Pang Jian looked at everyone.
Zhou Qingchen was surprised. When he was about to say that he wanted to go back with Pang Jian, he suddenly noticed Ning Yao's words and fell silent.
"I'll accompany you."
Unexpectedly, Ning Yao, who had been silent all this time, actually spoke on her own initiative.
Seeing everyone looking at her, Ning Yao calmly explained, "It's not that I don't trust Pang Jian, I just think there's still danger over there, so it would be better for me to accompany him."
"Xiaoyao, the situation over there is still unclear. It's not a good idea for you to go back now, right?" Ning Yuanshan looked worried.
"It's okay. Pang Jian dared to go there, so why should I be afraid?"
Ning Yao rode her warhorse very close to Pang Jian, then patted her warhorse's forehead and whispered a few words in the horse's ear.
Immediately, she straightened her slightly raised chest and sat up straight, and suddenly said, "You and I are on the same horse."
Regardless of whether Pang Jian agreed or not, she suddenly jumped up, landed gracefully behind Pang Jian, and rode on the same horse with him.
Between her and Pang Jian, there was a bamboo basket that Pang Jian was carrying, which just separated the two of them so that they were not too close.
Her two hands also naturally rested on Pang Jian's waist and urged him, "Let's go."
Pang Jian's body and the expression on his face became noticeably stiff.
Because when Ning Yao's hands fell towards his waist, Ning Yao's spiritual power was secretly surging in her palms, which showed that this girl had no good intentions at all.
The two of them rode on the same horse, but Pang Jian not only did not feel comfortable, but he felt like he was sitting on pins and needles.
"Why aren't you leaving yet?" Ning Yao said coldly and impatiently.
The spiritual power in her white jade hands became more turbulent and active, as if a dormant poisonous snake was about to swim out.
Pang Jian felt a chill in his heart. Without saying a word, he grabbed the reins and rode his horse towards where Tianfeng's bones were.
"Ms. Ning, let me remind you friendly that Pang Jian is a guide who is familiar with the Cenji Mountains, and I like him very much. I hope you can take good care of him." Zhou Qingchen shouted, "If you can't take good care of him, I'm afraid we won't be able to take good care of Uncle Yuanshan either."
Ningyuan Mountain suddenly changed color.
He never expected that Zhou Qingchen would actually threaten Pang Jian with his own life at this time to prevent Ning Yao from killing Pang Jian.
"He is the guide hired by my Ning family. I know how important he is. There is no need for you to remind me, Young Master Zhou." Ning Yao snorted coldly.
Zhou Qingchen smiled and said, "That's good."
“Bang, bang!”
Amid the dense sound of horse hooves, Pang Jian, riding on his chestnut warhorse, gradually disappeared from everyone's sight.
"Nephew Zhou, Pang Jian is just a hunter in the mountains. Is it necessary to start a war over him?"
After Ning Yao and Pang Jian left, Ning Yuanshan said with a bitter face, very embarrassed: "Using me to threaten Xiaoyao, isn't that a bit of an overreaction?"
The others also found it puzzled and couldn't help but listen attentively, wanting to know Zhou Qingchen's answer.
Even Han Duping and the Zhou family's servants felt incredible because of Zhou Qingchen's special care for Pang Jian.
"It's the hunter you mentioned who just saved all of our lives!" Zhou Qingchen was no longer polite and said sternly, "Repaying a favor is such a simple truth. Do you still need me to teach you? If Pang Jian hadn't reminded us in time, would our Zhou family, as well as you and Ning Yao, really think we could have left alive?"
Ning Yuanshan was speechless. After asking himself, he found that it seemed that he was indeed wrong.
For example, Liu Qi, and those who followed them and died in the pile of stones.
In his opinion, Pang Jian was not even as important as Liu Qi, so he could not accept Zhou Qingchen using him to threaten his niece.
"What really works is not that little hunter, but our Blood Moon's Eye of Brand!" Shangguan Qin screamed angrily.
"Without him, the Eye of Branding would have chosen me. After I got the key information, I would have reminded everyone to evacuate quickly. Moreover, if it was me who got the message, Roman would not have died, and neither would the other people in my Shangguan family!"
In her heart, because Pang Jian was recognized by the "Eye of Brand", she blamed all the responsibility on Pang Jian.
"Senior Shangguan."
Zhou Qingchen's face turned cold. He stopped calling her "Aunt Qin" and scolded her rudely, "Why do you think that the Eye of Brand should choose you? Although you have practiced the Blood Moon's entry-level Blood Wheel Skill, you have not passed the Blood Moon's test. You are not a Blood Moon practitioner at all!"
"You can practice the Blood Wheel Technique only because the elders of your Shangguan family gave this technique to you privately."
Zhou Qingchen, who was riding a pitch-black warhorse with an upright figure, snorted and sneered again: "Even I don't think that the world should revolve around me. Why do you think you will be favored by the Eye of Branding?"
"What are you talking about, Blood Moon? Senior Shangguan, when will you be able to be truly recorded in the genealogy of the Blood Moon of the Upper Realm like me, then you will be qualified to say the word 'we'!"
Shangguan Qin's face turned pale with confusion after being scolded by him.
She suddenly realized that although the young master of the Zhou family in front of her was always polite and always addressed her as "Auntie Qin", there was still a significant gap between the Shangguan family behind her and the Zhou family.
In addition, she has not been recognized by the Blood Moon, is not acknowledged as a member of the Blood Moon, and indeed cannot refer to the Blood Moon as "we".
Zhou Qingchen is indeed one of the top geniuses in the Fourth Realm. He was recruited by Hongshan shortly after he was born, and his name was also recorded in Hongshan's genealogy at an early stage.
Her Shangguan family is not as good as the Zhou family, she is not as good as Zhou Qingchen, and the power she currently controls is also not as good as hers.
So she could only suppress her anger and remain silent helplessly.
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The other side.
Pang Jian, whose whole body was stiff, always felt that as long as Ning Yao's hands on his waist spurted out spiritual power uncontrollably, his internal organs would be shattered.
Along the way, Pang Jian's forehead was slightly sweaty and he was always in a state of tension.
"Pang Jian, you must remember that you are taking my Ning family's money, not Zhou Qingchen's."
It was not until he was out of everyone's sight that Pang Jian heard Ning Yao snorting coldly in his ear from behind.
"When danger suddenly emerged, you should have told me first and let us leave with you! You took my Ning family's money and rode my Ning family's warhorse, and you actually warned Zhou Qingchen first!"
Ning Yao used a little force with her jade hands and pinched the flesh on both sides of Pang Jian's waist and abdomen, causing Pang Jian to gasp.
Pang Jian grimaced in pain, fearing that Ning Yao's spiritual power would secretly come out of her fingers and he would die suddenly the next moment.
Fortunately, Ning Yao only pinched him hard. Although he was in unbearable pain, he knew that Ning Yao wanted to teach him a lesson this time and did not really want to kill him.
"The gray ape is my friend. After I explained clearly, Zhou Qingchen tried his best to keep it for me. You and your uncle didn't say a word." Pang Jian said in a deep voice.
"It's your friend, not my friend. What does it have to do with me?" Ning Yao sneered.
Pang Jian said no more.
Soon, the war horses returned to the brutal scene.
A strong and pungent smell of blood filled the space in front of them. After Pang Jian stopped, he immediately saw the tallest skeleton.
The bloody skeleton belonged to Roman. All his internal organs and flesh were missing, his bones were covered in blood, and his eyeballs were taken away by vines. His empty eye sockets were filled with despair.
The vines only ate away the flesh and blood. They did not take away the utensils used by Luo Meng and the Shangguan family, nor the gold and silver objects worn on their bodies, and scattered them next to the bones.
Ning Yao covered her nose, pushed Pang Jian, and said with disgust: "Go and collect Shangguan Qin's belongings."
She was a clean person by nature and thought that objects stained with blood were too disgusting. Only because Pang Jian was around did she not want to do it herself.
"good."
Pang Jian, who had already realized the situation, jumped off his horse, and regardless of the blood stains on the objects, he collected them and tied them up with a hemp rope.
Ning Yao never got off the horse. Instead, she stared at him while looking at the dried bones and the Wuding ferry.
She always felt that Pang Jian must have his own plans for his return, and that he was definitely not doing things for Shangguan Qin out of kindness.
"I plan to take a look inside the Wuding Ferry." Pang Jian suddenly said.
Ning Yao's mind moved, and she thought to herself that it was indeed the case. She pretended to be surprised and asked, "Wuding Ferry? All the people who went there to explore before have died. Are you sure you want to go?"
Pang Jian nodded: "Those people died because the Eye of Brand required blood. It was a bloody sacrifice. Now that the Eye of Brand has exploded, the cabin is of course safe."
After saying this, he made a gesture to go over.
"I'll go and see!"
Ning Yao suddenly dismounted, flew over the narrow cracks in the ground, and quickly headed towards the Blood Moon's "Unfixed Ferry".
She shouted in an unquestionable tone: "You stay here, and if there is any unusual movement outside, you must notify me immediately!"
"Okay." Pang Jian frowned.
Ning Yao turned her head and saw Pang Jian's dejected expression. She became more and more convinced that there was a rare treasure left by Blood Moon inside the "Wuding Ferry", and Pang Jian had already known about it through the "Eye of Brand", so he insisted on coming back.
"He's not very big, but he has a lot of thoughts."
Ning Yao secretly murmured that this quiet boy, perhaps because he had been hanging out in the silent mountains for a long time, fighting wits and courage with those older hunters, did not seem simple and honest at all.
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