"Ning Yao!"
"Sister Ning!"
Everyone exclaimed in surprise.
After entering the Cenji Mountains, Su Yuntian and He Rong's team had not encountered any living people from other families, so they were overjoyed to see "Ning Yao" appear.
He Rong was particularly happy.
He knew that his nephew He Ziren was obsessed with Miss Ning. When he saw "Ning Yao" appear, he thought that He Ziren must be nearby.
The heroic Luo Hongyan, her silk dress stained with grass debris, came in exhausted, looking around with her bright eyes.
After searching for a while, she didn't see the person she was looking for, so she asked again with a cold look, "Where is Pang Jian?"
"Who is Pang Jian?"
Su Yuntian asked curiously.
"It was the young man who came out of this Crescent Lake carrying a bamboo basket and a spear."
Luo Hongyan frowned and looked around for a long time, her face full of impatience, not willing to waste a moment.
Secretly, she instructed the gray eagle that led her here to search everywhere.
"Oh, you're talking about that boy!"
Su Yuntian came to his senses and pointed in a direction with a smile: "He went over there and has been gone for a while."
“Whoosh!”
The dark gray eagle that was hovering over Crescent Lake suddenly flew high into the sky from somewhere and headed towards the location where Su Yuntian pointed.
"Sister Ning, why are you alone?"
Su Meng's round face was filled with smiles, and she took the initiative to step forward and ask.
Luo Hongyan looked at her in confusion, and after thinking for a moment, she said, "Well, Su Meng, long time no see."
Su Meng smiled and said, "It's been a long time since we last met. I think you're almost forgetting me."
She turned around in place, then stood on tiptoes to make herself a little taller, and said, "When we last met, I was still a child, but now I'm this tall."
Luo Hongyan didn't care about her. She said something polite and wanted to leave.
"Ning girl, where is Ziren?"
He Rong frowned, looked left and right but didn't see He Ziren, so he said anxiously: "Ziren went to the Ning family because of you. From the information I got, he should have followed you from beginning to end. Now that you have arrived in this mountain range, it is impossible for Ziren not to come in!"
Su Yuntian and others were also surprised.
"Ning Yao" now appeared alone, acting as if she was anxious to find Pang Jian, which made them confused.
Being stared at suspiciously by them, Luo Hongyan narrowed her eyes and lowered her head, and asked the real owner of the body for a while, and then said sadly: "Ziren, Uncle Yuanshan, and the other people from the Ning family who came in with me, including many people from the Zhou family, all died at the hands of the dark ghost Hongtai."
"Dark ghost?!"
The Su and He families were furious.
"It's at the Black Water Pond on the other side of the mountain. Except for me, Zhou Qingchen, and Han Duping, the rest of us should not have escaped the attack of the dark ghost."
Luo Hongyan sighed, and while using the "spiritual evil" in the gray eagle to search for Pang Jian's whereabouts, she pretended to be sad and said, "The young man named Pang Jian is the guide I invited from outside, and he is also one of the survivors."
She looked at Su Meng and asked, "By the way, did you see a giant python rushing out of Crescent Lake with him?"
Su Meng was in shock, thinking about the atrocities committed by the Dark Ghost. Hearing this, he answered honestly, "He came up to grill a few fish, talked to us for a while, and then left us."
Hearing that the Dark Anaconda had no companion, Luo Hongyan secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said calmly, "That's good. The black and white king python was the mount of Dark Ghost Hongtai. The fact that it didn't catch up means that he got rid of it."
"That kid hid a lot of things from us!"
Su Yuntian said angrily.
When Pang Jian was chatting with them, he did not mention that he had been attacked by a dark ghost, nor did he say that he had had contact with the Ning family or the Zhou family, which made Su Yuntian very dissatisfied.
"There are only corpses on the other side of the mountain. There may be some dark ghosts moving around. There is no need to explore there."
Luo Hongyan explained the danger over there, and before Gray Eagle could find Pang Jian's trace, she said, "I have something to ask Pang Jian, so I'll leave first."
"Ning girl, how about we go together? It's too dangerous for you to go alone!"
Su Yuntian said hurriedly.
He Rong, whose nephew had died, didn't say anything for a long time. When he saw her leaving in a hurry, he suddenly realized: "We should go together!"
Luo Hongyan, who was about to leave, looked back at these people, hesitated for a moment, and said reluctantly: "Okay."
…
A forest with branches covering the sky.
Pang Jian, who said goodbye to the Su and He families, felt a sense of freedom as if the sky was high and birds could fly freely. He galloped through the forest and shuttled between the gaps of the lush ancient trees.
Sometimes he would stomp the ground and rise up, rushing into the air like a sharp sword, and then falling to the ground with a bang.
Sometimes, it would nimbly hang on the branches, using the force to swing to the branches of another ancient tree, swinging like a monkey in the jungle.
He was brandishing a spear in his hand with great force.
With just a simple poke, he could pierce a tree so big that it required several people to hug it.
There was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and his slightly narrowed eyes were as thin as a knife blade, shining with a captivating brilliance.
After the second round of body tempering with Phoenix Marrow, all the bones in his body were tempered. Now, not only his arms and sternum, but also his legs and toes below the waist and abdomen were filled with brute force.
With a powerful leap, he was able to fly nearly ten meters in the air over the forest, and when he landed heavily on the ground, his feet felt neither pain nor numbness.
The feeling of overwhelming power made him want to find someone to have a hearty battle with.
"It was the Phoenix marrow I harvested twice that transformed my body and allowed me to undergo such a transformation. If I am not mistaken, there is a drop of the most magical Phoenix marrow that has not yet shown its magical power in the bronze medal."
Looking at the bronze door pendant hanging on his chest again, Pang Jian felt that it was more and more mysterious.
Half an hour later.
Pang Jian, who was a little tired, shot a roe deer, prepared it simply, and then started a fire to roast it. Soon the roe deer meat was filled with aroma.
While eating the firm meat, Pang Jian discovered that his appetite had greatly increased since he woke up in the dark stone path, and he was extremely greedy for meat.
He ate up a roe deer weighing dozens of kilograms in no time. Looking at the bones on the ground, he suddenly heard the familiar cry of an eagle.
Looking up, I saw a dark gray eagle reappear in the sky.
"Why is it staring at me?"
Pang Jian frowned in confusion.
When they flew over Crescent Lake, the eagle circled and observed him from many angles. It watched for a long time before leaving reluctantly.
After he said goodbye to Su Yuntian, He Rong and others, the eagle came again, and no one knew what it wanted to do.
Pang Jian suddenly felt that the eagle's target was him, not the people from the Su and He families.
Pang Jian felt unhappy being targeted by such an eagle. He looked at the dragon-patterned spear, thinking about the tremendous power that had surged in his arm before, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.
At this moment, he suddenly had a wonderful feeling that he was the king of the Silent Mountain Jungle.
Every blade of grass, every tree, every bird, every beast, every insect and every sparrow in the mountains were all private property within his jurisdiction.
“It feels good.”
He muttered to himself as he disappeared into the dense branches of the ancient tree.
This time, he did not rush out from the branches and leaves suddenly, but hid carefully.
He looked at the dim sky through the gaps between the leaves, waiting patiently.
After a while, the dark gray eagle flying in the air, having not seen him for a long time, could not help but lower its altitude and wanted to investigate from a closer distance.
When Pang Jian realized that the eagle was within his range, the dragon-patterned spear was thrown out suddenly like lightning.
“Puff!”
The dragon-patterned spear accurately locked onto the eagle, without any error, and pierced the annoying eagle directly from bottom to top!
The dragon-patterned spear hung on the eagle's body and fell into the woods dozens of meters away. Pang Jian, who had succeeded in getting it, rushed over like an agile cheetah.
Before he reached the eagle, a "spiritual evil spirit" with the cultivation level of Tongmai Realm floated out of the eagle's body in time and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Pang Jian rushed over, first pulled out his dragon-patterned spear, then looked at the fallen eagle and sneered, "Why didn't I see you staring at me everywhere when I was hunting in the mountains before?"
There were many goshawks in the Cenji Mountains, and he couldn't tell which one was which. But when he went hunting before, he never found himself being specially "cared for" by these goshawks.
After killing the eagle, Pang Jian felt a lot more relieved. Since he was not hungry for the time being, he had no intention of eating the eagle.
The Cenji Mountains are extremely large, with all kinds of wild beasts roaming everywhere. With his current combat power, he can eat any wild beast he wants, so he naturally won't care about this eagle.
He set out again, heading towards the northernmost part of the Silent Mountains, another location defined as a restricted area by his father.
With the experience at the Black Water Pond, he vaguely felt that several restricted areas in the Cenji Mountains might be chosen by Fenggu as stabbing points.
Having realized the wonders of the Phoenix Marrow, he decided to go to another restricted area to try his luck.
In the far north, the "strange fog" and boundary wall mentioned several times by Zhou Qingchen and others also made him infinitely curious.
The place where the "strange fog" is located was listed by his father as the first forbidden area of the Cenji Mountains, and he was not allowed to set foot in it at any time.
But now that his strength has greatly increased and he has witnessed the wonders of the world of cultivation, he has the desire to climb step by step to the top of the mountain in the upper realm, so he no longer wants to follow his father's instructions.
…
It's late at night again.
Pang Jian, who had been tired for a long time, stopped practicing "Hutian Yangqi Jue" for the first time after eating and drinking his fill.
Feeling extremely sleepy, he found another secret base.
This is a withered tree with a hollow trunk. He also made a "door" with cracked bark.
He didn't know that in this dark night of the fourth realm, there was a gray "evil spirit" that was always watching his movements.
Pang Jian, who finally felt relieved, fell into a deep sleep in the tree hole. He slept soundly and contentedly.
When he woke up, it was already daybreak.
Pushing open the cracked bark door and walking out, Pang Jian suddenly saw a familiar figure sitting under the shade of a big tree not far from him.
The girl took off her simple and capable outfit and put on a satin dress. Her black hair and long eyelashes were covered with crystal dewdrops.
She was like a woodland spirit in the morning mist.
Her thick eyebrows and straight nose made her look very heroic, but in the misty fog, she seemed to suddenly have a kind of feminine, hazy and soft beauty.
Two completely different temperaments converged on her at this moment, making her beauty suddenly sublime.
Pang Jian rubbed his eyes, stared at her again, and asked in surprise: "Ning Yao?"
"Didn't expect I was still alive?"
The woman in the thin white mist opened her eyes with a cold expression, then stood up and walked over slowly.
Dozens of meters away.
When the people from the Su family and the He family saw her stand up, they also saw Pang Jian who suddenly appeared, and both families were stunned.
"I have something to discuss with him, please don't disturb me."
When she was almost in front of Pang Jian, Luo Hongyan stopped and turned back, looking coldly at He Rong and others with a warning look.
Those people frowned, wondering why she was so cold and distant.
Pang Jian was stunned. Only then did he realize that not only was she there, but also the He and Su families whom he had met not long ago.
"Let's talk inside the tree hole."
Luo Hongyan, who had been waiting for Pang Jian to come out, placed her fair jade hand on his chest, pushed him in first, and then followed him into the tree hole.
Seeing this scene, He Rong's face suddenly showed anger.
Su Yuntian scratched his head, unable to figure out the relationship between the two, and his heart was full of doubts.
"them… "
Su Meng's mouth was so wide open in surprise that an egg could be stuffed into it.
In the tree hole, Pang Jian felt a little awkward.
He prepared this tree hole for himself, and he never thought it would accommodate a second person.
When he was alone, the space in the tree hole was just right. Suddenly, one more person appeared, and the tree hole seemed narrow.
The two inevitably had physical contact.
When breathing, Pang Jian could smell the faint fragrance on the other person. He didn't know the other person's intention, so he had to remain silent.
After entering the tree hole, Luo Hongyan behaved in a calm and confident manner, with a strange and aggressive look in her bright eyes.
She looked at the tiny gap between the two people's chests, and the strange look in her eyes grew stronger.
"I'm sorry, I sincerely apologize to you, it was all my fault before!"
She suddenly apologized sincerely, and her eyes fell from the gap between their chests to Pang Jian's face.
"I shouldn't have threatened you when I went to get the first phoenix bone. There is no difference between you and me in status. I paid for you, and you are not a servant of my Ning family."
"Because I'm used to ordering those servants around and being high and mighty, my behavior was a little inappropriate."
As she said this, she bent down to apologize, and the gap between her and Pang Jian no longer existed.
She "accidentally" touched Pang Jian's chest, and suddenly seemed to react, and hurriedly straightened her body.
Pang Jian, who was somewhat confused by her, took a deep breath, and the gap between their chests healed again.
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