Cave No. 56.
Hearing the lazy voice of the person knocking on the door, Pang Jian and Jiang Li's expressions both changed slightly.
"This evil star..."
Jiang Li's face was filled with worry, and she said anxiously, "My junior sister is not here! One of his arms was broken because of you, so he came here on purpose, perhaps to seek revenge on you!"
"Don't worry, this is the first peak of Yuanmang."
Pang Jian quickly regained his composure and said in a deep voice: "Cultivators who have settled in the First Peak are strictly prohibited from fighting each other. No one is allowed to break the rules."
While trying to comfort Jiang Li, he was unsure of Qi Qingsong's intention, so he stood up and opened the stone door.
Outside the cave.
Qi Qingsong was dressed in blue, his attire not much different from when he was in Bagua City. His broken arm had grown back and he had a bright smile on his face.
"Hey, you're here too."
Without waiting for Pang Jian's invitation, Qi Qingsong first nodded with a smile to Jiang Li in the cave, then pushed away Pang Jian who was blocking the door and walked in on his own.
"Have you two finished talking about your business?"
Qi Qingsong sat on the wooden chair, as if he was the host, looking at Jiang Li and Pang Jian with a smile.
Jiang Li opened her mouth to speak.
Qi Qingsong spoke again: "Pang Jian and I have something to say. If you don't have anything important to do, come to him next time."
Jiang Li took a breath, gathered her courage, and said softly: "Qi Qingsong, my cultivation level is low, I am not your opponent. But my junior sister Zhao Yuanqi and I have the best personal relationship. If you dare to do that to Pang Jian..."
Qi Qingsong laughed in silence, shook his head and said, "What are you thinking about? This is the first peak of Yuanmang. I dare not refuse the face of Cao Laoguai. I just haven't seen my good friend for a long time, and I just want to catch up alone."
"friend… "
Pang Jian subconsciously looked at the arm that Qi Qingsong had grown back.
He thought of the Bagua City, when he was approaching with a gun in his hand, and the man was shouting loudly, saying that he was his friend.
After leaving Bagua City, Qi Qingsong, who had climbed two realms in a row, became an inner disciple again from an outer disciple of the Sword Tower.
Recently, this person has been gaining popularity in the second and third realms, and has already reached the Dongxuan realm.
So, when he said the word "friend", Pang Jian felt that it was a malicious sarcasm.
Thinking that this was the first peak of Yuanmang, Pang Jian hesitated for a moment, then said to Jiang Li: "It's okay, I'll talk to him alone."
"Well, then..."
Jiang Li was worried and looked back at Qi Qingsong every few steps.
When they left the cave, she didn't forget to say, "I'm outside. If you need anything, just let Pang Jian know."
After saying this, she closed the stone door.
Outside the cave.
She saw a man and a woman talking together, looking towards Cave No. 56 from time to time, and exclaimed in surprise: "Ah, you guys!"
The woman was the one who had always been with Pang Jian at the trading floor.
"It's really Qi Qingsong from Jianlou..."
Han Ting, who had just returned from the trading floor, saw a young man in blue entering Pang Jian's cave. Seeing Gao Yuan standing on the stone road with a look of surprise, she found out the identity of the man after asking.
Just as she was feeling shocked, she saw Jiang Li coming out and nodded in a friendly manner with a smile.
Jiang Li forced a smile, stood with the two of them, and asked curiously: "You..."
"Brother Pang's friend."
Gao Yuan quickly expressed his opinion.
Han Ting just said "hmm".
She didn't know how to define the relationship between her and Pang Jian. She felt that it didn't reach the level of "friends", but she didn't deny it.
When Jiang Li heard that the two were friends of Pang Jian, she said seriously: "It's really... very lucky to be his friend!"
Inside the cave.
Without waiting for Pang Jian to speak, Qi Qingsong frowned and said, "Give me your token for attending the meeting."
"Why?"
Pang Jian wondered.
"If that thing is here, it will be inconvenient for you and me to talk."
Qi Qingsong pointed at the table and signaled Pang Jian to place the token on it.
Pang Jian came over as he was told and threw the token where he pointed.
A piece of crystal clear amethyst suddenly appeared from Qi Qingsong's palm. Inside the amethyst, beams of purple lightning intertwined and formed a mysterious pattern.
It was this piece of amethyst that he placed on Pang Jian's token, like a shield to isolate something.
"With this order, whenever the names of Old Monster Cao and Madam Hua are mentioned, as well as some key sensitive words, Madam Hua will be able to sense it vaguely."
After covering the token with amethyst, Qi Qingsong's expression immediately relaxed a lot.
He lazily leaned his back against the wooden chair, crossed his legs, and said, "Old Monster Cao boasted to me that they had turned the First Peak of Yuanmang into a large array. If the vitality of the people who came here suddenly dropped sharply, or their souls were annihilated here, Madam Hua would be able to detect it immediately!"
"First Peak, Madam Hua has been planning since she started drilling through the rock wall to build the cave."
"As long as someone has an accident at the First Peak, Madam Hua will know immediately and will immediately send someone to investigate, or even take action herself."
Qi Qingsong explains the mystery
He thought about what he had done in the cave these days, using the bronze medal to transport the golden obsidian and the sun stone to the fifth realm, and getting the horn of the ice crystal beast from the fifth realm, and suddenly he felt a chill.
"I can't spy on it. I can only listen occasionally."
Qi Qingsong smiled and shook his head, explaining, "Madam Hua doesn't have that much energy to eavesdrop on the conversations of all the residents of Yuanmang First Peak. She only notices when someone mentions Old Monster Cao and her name, and maybe she will pay attention and listen carefully."
"At one point in time, many people mentioned her name and Cao Laoguai's name at the same time, and she couldn't keep up with both."
"Don't worry, it's not as mysterious as you think."
Qi Qingsong said calmly.
"oh."
Pang Jian then sat down on the mat, leaning his back against the hard rock wall, frowning and asking, "How did you know I was here?"
"The horn of a level 7 ice crystal beast is worth 400,000 spirit stones. This is the largest transaction in the market today."
Qi Qingsong smiled calmly and said, "You made such a big noise, it's impossible not to attract attention. In the trading floor, Jiang Li even called out your name, and I found out it was you after asking around.
"Besides, I also guessed that you should be in Yuanmang Broken Land."
Qi Qingsong frowned when he said the last sentence.
"Do you know I'm in Yuanmang Fragmented Land?"
Pang Jian shouted in surprise.
"call!"
Qi Qingsong suddenly took out two blue-and-white porcelain wine jars from his storage bracelet and threw one to Pang Jian. He tore open the seal of the other one and took two sips of wine before saying, "Let's drink and talk."
"oh."
Pang Jian tore open the greasy paper in the same manner and immediately smelled the strong aroma of wine.
After taking two sips, feeling the mellow wine entering his stomach, his body gradually warmed up.
Compared to Zhou Qingchen's wine, the wine in Qi Qingsong's wine jar was not spicy enough and was extremely soft and smooth in the mouth.
"You kid, I had no grudge against you in the beginning. You were only at the Tongmai realm, but you dared to stab me with a spear just for that big fool Zhou Qingchen." Qi Qingsong sighed with emotion, looked at Pang Jian with strange eyes, and said angrily: "And twice!"
Seeing that he started to bring up old things right away, Pang Jian said nothing and just lowered his head to drink.
"After you failed, you sent Zhou Qingchen into the mirror tunnel while being chased by Dong, and you stayed behind."
Qi Qingsong drank as he spoke, and gradually there was a hint of sleepiness in his eyes.
Pang Jian took a glance and thought... he didn't seem to be able to drink very well.
This guy seemed to drink just to say things in his drunken state that he would not normally say.
"Pang Jian, I learned that after you came to Yuanmang and settled in the First Peak, you faced a choice..."
Qi Qingsong took a few more sips of wine, his face already red, and he frowned and said, "When we were in Bagua City, you forced me to cut off one of my arms. I once said that I would be your... friend. You know, that was of course not sincere."
Pang Jian nodded slightly.
"so!"
Qi Qingsong snorted coldly and said, "So, with my current cultivation in the Profound Realm, my status and position in the Sword Tower, and the fact that Old Monster Cao deliberately tried to curry favor with me, I can avenge what happened that day!"
"The moment you step into this cave, I can be your enemy. I will ridicule you first, and then ask Old Monster Cao to find an excuse to drive you out of the First Peak."
"As long as you leave the First Peak, I can take action against you immediately and wash away the humiliation you inflicted on me in Bagua City."
"Remember, twice! No, three times!"
Qi Qingsong first stretched out two fingers.
After thinking about it, he felt that it was not enough, so he added another finger and said angrily: "Letting me cut off my arm is one time! You dared to attack me, Qi Qingsong, twice with your Tongmai realm cultivation, which is also a humiliation to me!"
Pang Jian drank in silence and listened to him pour out his heart.
"The boy from the Tianbao Li family is naturally of extraordinary status and position, and he has a very good impression of you. However, after I broke through two realms and became an inner disciple of the Sword Tower again, his Li family status can no longer suppress me!"
Qi Qingsong smiled proudly, revealing his madness: "I was one of the most talented people in the Sword Tower back then, but I encountered some setbacks because of my pursuit of the unity of man and nature and the breakthrough."
"After I achieved the state of unity between man and nature that I longed for and was promoted to the innate state, I broke free from the demon in my heart!"
"I took back everything that belonged to me!"
The more Qi Qingsong talked, the more excited he became, and the more he drank, the more excited he became. He gulped down the wine.
He didn't use his spiritual power to remove the effects of the wine, and since he couldn't drink much to begin with, he gradually got drunk.
He boasted about himself for a while, went around in circles, and finally got back to the point.
"One is to avenge the humiliation I suffered in Bagua City, and the other is to let go of the hatred and fulfill the promise I made under your coercion... to become your friend."
"I thought about it for a long time, and finally I chose the latter. I want to be friends with you, Pang Jian."
"I know you have something special and you have your own secrets, but I, Qi Qingsong, am not afraid of you. I even believe I can get rid of you at the First Peak of Yuanmang!"
"I will choose the latter and become friends with you, just because of the way you treat that stupid big guy Zhou Qingchen!"
"I also long for a friend who would risk his life to cross the border and face an impossible enemy. I also hope to have a friend who would rather die than let me leave alive."
"I, Qi Qingsong, have never met a friend in my life who I can show my back to without worrying about betrayal or stabbing in the back!"
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(End of this chapter)