In the pearly cave, Qi Qingsong was drowsy from drunkenness.
He sat lazily on a wooden chair, swinging his legs, drinking and pouring out his heart.
On the cushion next to him, Pang Jian leaned against the hard rock wall, didn't say a word, just drank silently.
Qi Qingsong, who was drunk, seemed to want to pour out all the troubles he had been feeling over the years.
He began to talk about how glorious he was in the past, and how much the Sword Tower valued him when he was an inner sect disciple.
He also talked about some disgusting behaviors committed by his former inner sect fellow disciples after he was demoted from an inner sect disciple to an outer sect disciple.
Pang Jian, who is usually a man of few words, played the role of a listener very well.
He listened patiently to Qi Qingsong's story of his past.
We also learned that Qi Qingsong had a long period of depression before entering the Bagua City trial.
During those years, he didn't even have anyone to talk to, and he experienced the fickleness of human nature.
Pang Jian didn't know how to comfort him, so he just drank silently and listened to him talking to himself.
Gradually, Qi Qingsong began to snore softly in the cave and fell asleep without any precautions.
"A genius who once fell to the bottom and now shines again."
Pang Jian looked at him and commented softly.
After a long time.
“Boom boom boom!”
The hurried knock on the door not only woke up Pang Jian who was in meditation, but also suddenly woke up Qi Qingsong who was in a deep sleep.
"Well, I actually fell asleep."
Qi Qingsong seemed a little embarrassed. He rubbed the corners of his eyes with his sleeves, wiped the saliva from the corners of his mouth, and smiled calmly, "It seems that I really trust you."
Pang Jian nodded slightly.
"I'm Zhao Yuanqi!"
A cold and arrogant girl's voice came from outside the door.
Qi Qingsong, who had just had a nap, took a deep breath and asked in surprise, "Zhao Yuanqi from Hongshan?"
"call!"
Suddenly, a strong aroma of wine wafted out from every pore of his body.
In this way, the alcohol that affected his mental clarity was excreted from his body in a very short time.
When Pang Jian stood up and opened the stone door, Zhao Yuanqi moved closer and smelled a pungent smell of alcohol.
"You two..."
The silver-haired girl carrying the big gourd frowned and said with a cold and delicate face: "How much wine did you drink while hiding in the cave?"
Outside the cave, Jiang Li, who was looking inside, was also choked by the strong smell of alcohol.
"I didn't drink much, but I can't drink much, so I wanted to drink a few more sips."
Qi Qingsong said frankly.
He waved his sleeves, and a sharp sword intent and a strong wind swept all the smell of alcohol out of the cave.
When the smell of alcohol in the cave had almost dissipated, the silver-haired girl snorted lightly and then entered the cave.
She immediately closed the stone door.
Once the stone door is closed, ordinary people cannot hear the conversation inside unless they are in a state of concentration like Lei Kun.
—This is also the wonder of the cave on the first peak.
"This token..."
Her eyes showed a strange color. She looked at the token pressed by the amethyst and asked, "To prevent those with ulterior motives from snooping?"
Qi Qingsong nodded with a smile.
"You two..."
Zhao Yuanqi, who had something to say, frowned and looked at Qi Qingsong, appearing a little hesitant.
Pang Jian took the initiative and said, "Friend."
Qi Qingsong, who had regained consciousness, smiled brightly: "Yes, Pang Jian and I are good friends, the kind that can talk about anything!"
He deliberately added the word "good".
"Oh, in that case..."
Zhao Yuanqi, who heard that the two had a feud, seemed a little skeptical, but she didn't hide anything and said seriously: "Pang Jian, I asked someone and found out that the person you and Senior Sister Jiang were talking about was probably captured alive by Old Monster Cao."
"Old Monster Cao?"
Pang Jian stood up suddenly and said with a sullen face: "We have no grudge against Old Monster Cao!"
After thinking about it carefully again, he was sure that they had no connection with Old Monster Cao. He really didn't understand why the controller of Yuanmang Broken Land would capture Luo Hongyan alive.
"hehe."
Qi Qingsong narrowed his eyes and smiled, saying, "So, you went to help Pang Jian get information."
"What do you think?"
Zhao Yuanqi stood in the center of the cave, looking at him without fear, not feeling the slightest bit uneasy because he was an inner sect disciple of the Sword Tower.
"It's just a coincidence."
Qi Qingsong curled the corners of his mouth.
He tapped the wooden table with his fingers, and gradually stopped smiling. He said solemnly, "Pang Jian, I came here specially to talk to you about this matter. My information is more accurate and detailed than hers, because it comes from Old Monster Cao himself!"
Pang Jian pretended to listen attentively.
Zhao Yuanqi was slightly surprised, nodded, and admitted: "My information is rather vague, but someone saw Old Monster Cao and a beautiful woman wearing a veil having a conflict at a huge meteorite outside Yuanmangtian."
Zhao Yuanqi told the truth.
Pang Jian took a breath and said coldly, "We attended his gathering and followed his rules. Why did he suddenly kill us?"
"It's like this..."
Qi Qingsong stated the fact that he had been planning to convey.
The rally organized by Old Monster Cao did not require him to preside over it in person in the past few days, so he went out recently.
On his way back, when he passed by a meteorite scattered outside Yuanmang, one of the rare treasures on his body suddenly gave off an alarm.
Surprised, Old Monster Cao used his rare treasure to explore and saw that inside a meteorite, there was an array that could lock souls engraved, and many evil spirits gathered inside.
Lingyun Sanren from Sanxian Island was also among them.
Old Monster Cao immediately became suspicious, and used the rare treasures on his body to kill those evil spirits and force the master to show up himself.
Not long after, a beautiful woman wearing a veil flew out from his Yuanmang broken land angrily.
A conflict broke out as soon as the two sides met.
As a result, the woman was captured alive by Old Monster Cao.
During the battle, the woman actually used the secret method of Blood Moon. She also knew how to condense spiritual evil. This surprised Cao Laoguai even more. After capturing her, he immediately contacted the elders of the Yin Ling Temple.
The elder of the Yinling Temple immediately confirmed that the woman he captured alive was the remnant of the Blood Spirit Cult that had been suppressed by them for many years.
At the same time, Jiuyuan also came after hearing the news.
Blood Moon, Yinling Temple, and asking Cao Laoguai for the woman at the same time.
Old Monster Cao didn't want to offend either side, so after thinking for a while, he decided to sell the captured woman as a rare treasure for the last day. He was also prepared to set a price of one million spirit stones and let Blood Moon and Yinling Temple get it by drawing lots.
"Old Monster Cao told me about this, and also said that the woman's body was recast with the Crystal Snow Lotus."
After Qi Qingsong finished speaking, he added: "As soon as I guessed, I knew it was Luo Hongyan from the City Lord's Mansion that day, and I immediately thought that you should also be in Yuanmang. Coincidentally, you actually took out the horn of the seventh-level ice crystal beast to sell, and Jiang Li even called out your name, so I came here specially."
Zhao Yuanqi nodded: "It is indeed more detailed than my information."
Pang Jian frowned and forced himself to calm down, then sat down on the mat again.
He finally understood why Luo Hongyan suddenly disappeared without a word.
Luo Hongyan, who did not have a special device to hold spiritual evil objects, placed the spiritual evil on a meteorite outside Yuanmang in case of emergency.
Because the hideout was suddenly attacked by Old Monster Cao, she was worried that all the spiritual demons were dead, so she hurried over to check.
As a result, he was suppressed by the high-level old monster Cao.
Since this incident happened outside the Yuanmang Broken Land and Old Monster Cao deliberately concealed it, very few people knew about it.
"Blood Moon, Yinling Temple, Old Monster Cao..."
Pang Jian muttered to himself, with a fierce look gradually appearing in his eyes.
"Pang Jian, I heard that the woman surnamed Luo is a remnant of the Blood Spirit Cult. The Blood Spirit Cult used to have a bad reputation. Old Monster Cao was quite polite to me, but my status and position were not enough to make him release the woman surnamed Luo."
"Besides, this involves the Blood Moon and the Yinling Temple. I really can't help."
Qi Qingsong, who understood the situation before coming over, expressed his opinion with a wry smile.
Then, he took out a blue robe commonly worn by disciples of the Sword Tower, with a Sword Tower logo on it.
He placed the robe on the wooden table and pressed it with a silver token with the Sword Tower logo.
"This token will allow you to become an outer disciple of the Sword Tower. I'm afraid that neither you nor I can save her, but I can take you away from Yuanmang safely. As long as you wear this robe and hang this silver plate around your waist, no matter what your relationship with her was before, I can keep you safe."
Qi Qingsong said sincerely.
Zhao Yuanqi was stunned for a moment, and said, "It seems that you don't need me to introduce you to Hongshan."
She had thought about it on the way here.
She planned to use her identity in Hongshan to introduce Pang Jian to Hongshan so that Pang Jian could avoid the disaster.
Zhou Qingchen and Han Duping had already made it clear to her that Pang Jian was just a hunter from the Silent Mountains of the Fourth Realm.
Before she met Pang Jian, she promised Zhou Qingchen and Jiang Li that when Pang Jian showed up in the future, she would use her identity to recommend Pang Jian to Hongshan.
This trip happened to coincide with Luo Hongyan's accident. As long as Pang Jian ignored Luo Hongyan, she was confident that she could take Pang Jian away safely.
"You are an outer disciple of my Sword Tower. Killing Zhu Yuanxi, who is at the Blood Moon Innate Realm, is not a big problem. However, you must not get involved with Luo Hongyan. The Blood Spirit Cult is too sensitive."
Qi Qingsong persuaded.
"Well, the Blood Spirit Cult is notorious, and it would be a great pleasure for the people to see it destroyed. You should not have anything to do with this cult."
Zhao Yuanqi also nodded slightly.
"You two should go out first and leave me alone. I need to think things over on my own."
Pang Jian was in a heavy mood and would no longer listen to the two people's advice after learning the truth about Luo Hongyan's disappearance.
"Okay."
Qi Qingsong expressed his understanding. He stood up from the wooden chair and said, "I will be in Yuanmang recently. You can contact me with the silver token. If you have any questions, just tell me. As long as I can help, I will never refuse."
After saying that, he looked at Zhao Yuanqi again and said, "Little girl, leave him alone."
Zhao Yuanqi said nothing and was the first to step out of the cave.
Qi Qingsong then left.
After leaving the cave, he gently closed the stone door and said to the people outside: "He is in a bad mood, don't bother him in the next two days."
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(End of this chapter)