The priest looked down at Long Zhi with complicated eyes.
After a while, he said: "Didn't you not believe in fate before? Even if you poison yourself, you will let Long Dai become the acting Witch King."
Long Zhi sighed and his eyes became distant.
Yes, when he saw his aunt being bound by the so-called fate, he tried his best to make her escape from her fate, but in the end she still followed the path arranged by fate.
"Master."
A cold voice appeared, and the priest's hands shook.
He saw Long Zhi turn around and kneel down towards him: "Once you are a master, you are always a father. The disciple's life was saved by the master. Even if the master and his aunt are now at odds with each other, the master is still the disciple's master. "
The priest reached out and touched Long Zhi's head: "Master, I understand that your aunt is doomed to fail. We must find the Teng family boy in the prophecy."
Long Zhi raised his head, looked into the priest's empty eyes and said, "Master, Grandpa Ha has failed. Do you think you can reverse Hu Sen's will?"
"I am the high priest of the Witch Clan, a person who can see through destiny. Teng Sen must bear his responsibilities." The priest's tone was firm and cold.
Long Zhi silently smiled bitterly. Although the master gave up on him, he chose Hu Sen.
It's a pity that Hu Sen was not raised by the old patriarch of the Teng family.
And Hu Sen was smart and rational enough. Like himself, he chose to follow the woman who had escaped her fate.
"Master, I went to the capital and did a fortune-telling in front of Mrs. Fu. She was the one who destroyed the clan and was also the one who saved it."
The priest turned his head and looked over, his empty eyes filled with darkness.
At night, according to the map and signs, they traveled all the way to explore and avoided all the settlements of the Wu tribe.
Before morning light arrived, they finally stopped in front of a cliff.
Yang Jiu looked at the steep mountains opposite, pointing with trembling hands: "That's the Wu Clan's maze! The Marquis and the others are trapped in it!"
Wen Qingzhu recalled the map and looked at the left and right sides. There was no way through here at all!
The guard captain cupped his hands and said, "Madam, I will go here first to inquire and see if there is a way through."
"Um."
While waiting, Wen Qingzhu took out the book recording the herbal medicine.
I turned to the place where the topography of this valley was recorded.
Not much has been recorded about the mountain in front, and it is obvious that it is full of dangers.
But since it is recorded, there must be a way in.
Wen Qingzhu looked at the records on the previous and next pages repeatedly. There was a very rare golden monkey mushroom in this mountain.
It is a top-quality food ingredient and a rare detoxifying medicinal material.
After being silent for a long time, Wen Qingzhu kept staring at the golden monkey mushroom on the tree.
Maomao was originally following Yang Jiu, but he saw Wen Qingzhu's expression was very solemn.
After hesitating for a moment, he came over.
"Sister, did you encounter any problems?"
Wen Qingzhu pointed to the mushroom pattern on the tree: "This is the golden monkey mushroom. It is in the mountain in front. We want to go there, but there is no record of how to get in."
"Is this called the Golden Monkey Mushroom? My dad brought some back before and cooked them all for my grandpa to eat. He was poisoned while chopping wood."
Maomao seemed to be trying his best to recall, but that incident happened a long time ago.
He didn't remember much.
Wen Qingzhu was slightly startled, grabbed Maomao's hand and asked, "Has your father ever brought back this kind of golden monkey mushroom?"
"Well, grandpa has been poisoned for several days. Mom said that only this kind of mushroom can save grandpa. Then dad went out and came back three days later with this kind of mushroom, but his shoulder was also injured!"
Maomao remembers very clearly that there was a deep wound on his father's shoulder, which was left from that trip.
Wen Qingzhu immediately asked: "What tools did your father bring when he went out? What were the injuries like? What did he say at that time?"
"I, I can't remember clearly." Maomao knew that this matter might be helpful to Wenqing's reconciliation.
But that was all three or four years ago, when he was only six or seven years old.
"Don't worry, think slowly, and say whatever you can think of." Wen Qingzhu suddenly felt that his saving Maomao might not be random.
After calming down, Maomao began to talk about his father's wound: "There is a deep wound on father's shoulder that can be seen to the bone. At night, I overheard the conversation between father and mother, saying that there was a very powerful jackal in the mountains. , maybe they are used to poisonous insects, some ordinary poisons can’t do much harm to them, my father was injured because of his carelessness.”
"A jackal that's not afraid of poison?" Wen Qingzhu became even more worried.
If this is really the case, I'm afraid Fu Lie's situation will be even worse.
In the maze.
Fu Lie led more than a hundred people to form a circle, with everyone's backs facing in, holding a knife in one hand and a torch in the other.
Yang Liu was in the encirclement, bandaging Fu Lie's wounds, and said with a cold expression: "Master Marquis, we must find a way out as soon as possible. All the brothers are already injured!"
Fu Lie, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, opened his eyes, glanced around the people around him, and said solemnly: "The jackals in this mountain are different from those elsewhere. Their claws are poisonous, but our poison has no effect on them, so Now, we can only kill these jackals one by one!"
"But there are more than a hundred of these jackals! They are all fierce and agile, and ordinary traps have no effect on them!"
Fu Lie stood up and looked at the pairs of green eyes in the darkness in the distance.
"This is our only way out! And I don't know what happened to the other two teams! Qingqing may have solved the problem in Jinzhou, and maybe he has arrived in Cangzhou now!"
"What are you going to do, Lord Marquis?" Yang Liu stood up and put on the armor for Fu Lie.
Fu Lie looked at the cliff to the east and said, "There is a kind of burning black oil over there. If we can dig out more, we can burn these jackals directly!"
"But over that cliff -" Yang Liu was even more worried. There was a poisonous snake with red body and black spots over there.
They are no less dangerous than jackals.
"Don't worry, I know what they are probably afraid of." Fu Lie's eyes were firm. After being trapped here for so many days, the surroundings were gradually becoming familiar to him.
Among the books he took from Qingqing, one of them recorded the things that the poisonous snake was afraid of.
It happened that when they arrived here, they happened to encounter a large area.
On the cliff side, Wen Qingzhu finally knew how Maomao's father got over this cliff.
It was dark now and they could not see what lay below the cliff.
According to Maomao, his father carried a cross-shaped hook. There was a protruding cave somewhere on the cliff where you could lower the rope.
At the same time, there is a long pine tree on the cliff opposite. Then they can use the hook and rope to trap the pine tree on the opposite side, and they can get over.
Under the leadership of Yang Jiu, they quickly found the location of the protruding cave.
After tying the rope, Yang Jiu went down first.
After checking the situation below and confirming that there was no problem, I shook the rope.
Then everyone went out one by one.
It's just that it's still dark, so I can't see clearly what's happening on the other side.
Even those with the best eyesight can only see a black shadow.
Yang Jiu tried to throw a torch over, but there was indeed a very lush pine tree on the opposite side.
But the water vapor in the cliff was too heavy, and the torch went out soon after being thrown over.
Wen Qingzhu thought for a moment, took out the luminous bead and handed it to Yang Jiu: "Put this bead on the hook. Although you can't see the whole picture, you can at least see whether the hook is locked."
"Okay." Yang Jiu immediately did as he was told and added the night pearl to the hook.
This method was very effective. After many attempts, the hook was firmly entangled with a branch of the pine tree opposite.
"Someone must go over now, preferably the one with the lightest weight." Yang Jiu looked back.
The lightest person here is Wen Qingzhu, followed by Xi'er.
"Then I'll go over!" Xi'er stepped forward without hesitation.
Wen Qingzhu was actually a little worried. If he became unstable and the hook came loose, he would fall from the air and hit the cliff wall, and he would most likely be seriously injured!
"Madam! I'd better go!" Although Yang Jiu is not light, he is not heavy either.
Immediately afterwards, many people took the initiative to ask for help.
Wen Qingzhu thought for a moment and finally decided: "Xi'er, you better go and be careful."
"Okay!" Xi'er didn't hesitate. After testing whether the rope was strong, she grabbed the rope and went out.
Watching her slowly crawl towards the pine tree, everyone's hearts were in doubt.
I'm afraid that if the other side is not tied tightly, the rope will loosen.
Fortunately, Xi'er climbed to the other side smoothly.
She stood on a thick branch and fixed the rope first.
Then she raised her head and said to the person opposite: "Okay!"
Under the dim starlight, Xi'er raised the luminous pearl in her hand to show that she was fine.
But what made everyone's scalp numb was that a strong shadow suddenly appeared behind Xi'er.
Yang Jiu immediately opened his mouth, but the guard captain immediately covered his mouth.
Wen Qingzhu quickly calmed down, took out another luminous pearl, raised it to his mouth, and made a mouth shape to Xi'er.
"There's something behind you! It's big! It looks like a human, but it could be an orangutan or a monkey."
Xi'er felt a chill in her back instantly, wondering why she didn't feel anything.
No one dared to speak at this time for fear of disturbing the shadow behind Xi'er.
As time passed by, the sky slowly became brighter.
They also slowly saw clearly what was behind Xi'er.
That is-
When his vision became clearer, Wen Qingzhu's head exploded instantly.
Is that thing behind Xi'er a human or some kind of animal
Him, or use it to be more precise.
There was black hair on the face and body. Judging from the body shape and the outline of the head, it should be a human.
It had a pair of human black eyes, staring closely at them.
That’s right!
It's watching over their side...
Wen Qingzhu followed the line of sight of the hairy man.
Maomao!
He is staring at Maomao hiding behind Yang Jiu!
Wen Qingzhu suddenly remembered that Maomao's father had been here before and took this same path.
But how did he discover this path
Is the inhuman person opposite me an enemy or a friend
As they nursed back to health, there were no trees to cover their side, and soon beads of sweat broke out on their heads.
Xi'er opposite has maintained that posture for a long time. If this continues, her body will become stiffer and stiffer, and she may not even have the strength to escape in the end!
After a moment of silence, Wen Qingzhu decided to test the other party with Maomao.
She gave Yang Jiu a look. After Yang Jiu understood, he slowly backed away with Maomao.
Sure enough, the thing on the opposite side started to follow Maomao's movements.
Wen Qingzhu asked Yang Jiu to bring Maomao up again.
Immediately afterwards, the thing's eyes followed Maomao as expected.
Wen Qingzhu felt relieved, turned to look at Xi'er, and motioned to her to come over if she had a chance.
Xi'er blinked, indicating that she understood.
But now, her lower body was numb.
As the sun rose, Xi'er could also see the shadow next to her with a sideways glance, and could probably guess how big the thing behind was.