Leaving dry food and water with Xu Xiang, the four of them set off northward.
It would take at least half a day for Xu Xiang to get from the top of the mountain where he was currently to the mountainside on the opposite side. Even if he could successfully retrieve it without borrowing it, the four of them would have gone far.
As the saying goes, every gain must come with a loss. Not going to see Lin Lan can ensure that the motives of the four people entering the mountain will not be known to outsiders. However, if you don’t go to see Lin Lan, there is no way to find out the news about Lingshan. Lin Lan used Lu Wu’s inner elixir in exchange for it. There are many things, including Huo Huan Bu, and Huo Huan Bu is only produced in the Flame Mountain. Lin Lan's possession of Huo Huan Bu means that he has probably been to Lingshan. If Lin Lan is willing to inform everyone about the situation in Lingshan, everyone can Save a lot of trouble.
Wu Dongfang naturally took this into consideration. The reason why he did not go to see Lin Lan was for three reasons. First, for safety reasons, he and Lin Lan only had one transaction. They were not familiar with each other and could not be considered friends. To prevent Lin Lan from getting greedy, he summoned helpers to plot against them.
Another consideration was to delay time. Before he left, he had already agreed with the prince on the time to leave the mountain. He would stay in the mountain for fifty to sixty days, but now only seven days had passed. If Lin Lan was not bad, he would have told him The situation in their Lingshan Mountain cannot be slowed down.
The last consideration is more obscure, and that is the relationship between indigenous and foreign wizards. Foreign wizards and indigenous wizards are hostile to each other. He has no good impression of the foreign wizards who hide in the mountains when they are about to die. He does not want to have too much contact with them. On the contrary, You can consider cooperating with the indigenous wizards. Yu Gong, the indigenous wizards are the masters here, and the foreign wizards are uninvited evil guests. Personally, the indigenous wizards should be more familiar with Lingshan. Cooperating with them can get more detailed information. In addition, he is also very interested in the spells of these indigenous wizards. Cultivation should not be the privilege of some nobles. The door to practice should be Open to everyone.
That’s what I think. It’s hard to say whether it’s possible to do this. After all, to the indigenous wizards, they are also foreign wizards. They are predators who extract inner elixirs and dig up spiritual objects. If you encounter an indigenous wizard, the other party is unlikely to Show them a friendly attitude.
During the northern sweep, Wu Dongfang had been thinking about various possibilities in his mind. If he thought carefully before encountering problems, he would not be in a hurry when things happened.
Since the Kunlun Mountains at this time were not exactly the same area as the modern Kunlun Mountains, he couldn't figure out where the four of them were currently. However, according to the prince, it was three thousand miles from the dragon's claws to the dragon's head. It was estimated that the four of them had previously flown by. Based on the distance and the current speed of the four of them, Wu Dongfang made a general judgment. If nothing unexpected happened, he should be able to reach the leading area of Kunlun Mountain at noon tomorrow.
At this time, Kunlun Mountain is a closed area. There are many strange animals, birds and insects inside, which are much more dangerous than outside. However, the mountain is not a scene of monsters dancing around. For example, the meat-eating monster sheep and brain-eating monster bees that Lu Wu brought out are everywhere. It was rare in the mountains, and the four of them were flying through the air, so they encountered few obstacles on the way.
At nine o'clock in the evening, the four of them settled down to rest again. As usual, Wu Dongfang built four earthen huts, and each of the four lived in one room, sitting cross-legged and meditating.
Wu Dongfang already had Taixuan cultivation at this time, so Qi training became dispensable for him. He was the first to fall asleep after practicing Qi for several weeks.
At two o'clock in the middle of the night, Wu Dongfang heard the sound of slight footsteps. After listening carefully, he found that the footsteps were not from outsiders, but from Xun Shuang who lived next door. For some reason, Xun Shuang was walking very slowly and was obviously walking towards him. The room is close.
With doubts in his heart, Wu Dongfang turned over and sat up. The four people's rooms were next to each other. It didn't take long for Xun Shuang to walk to his door. Seeing that he had already sat up, he waved to him.
Wu Dongfang put on his shoes and went to the ground and stepped out.
Xun Shuang made a silent gesture and led Wu Dong towards the north. He walked to a cluster of shrubs in front of the house and squatted down, raising his hand to point to the northwest mountains.
Following Xun Shuang's pointer, Wu Dongfang looked to the northwest. He didn't sense any alien aura, nor did he see anything unusual.
"Five miles away, there is a white night owl squatting on the big locust tree on the mountainside." Xun Shuang reminded in a low voice.
"There are a lot of these things in the mountains." Wu Dongfang yawned. The night owl Xun Shuang mentioned is the current owl. There is indeed an owl squatting on the tree. It is white, but it has no aura and cultivation. It's not big either, but its coat color is quite special.
"Look at its left paw." Xun Shuang said.
Wu Dongfang couldn't see the owl's left talon from his position, so he tilted his head and tried to see it more clearly.
"Be careful, don't let it see you." Xun Shuang said hurriedly.
Upon hearing this, Wu Dongfang increased his speed and slowly tilted his head. When he tilted his head at the right angle, he saw the owl's left talon. There was a small yellow copper ring on the owl's left talon.
The presence of a copper ring means that the owl has an owner. An owned owl is staying around the four-person camp, most likely spying on the four people.
"It stayed on the tree for more than half an hour, without hooting or moving." Xun Shuang looked directly at the owl in the distance.
"Don't disturb it yet." Wu Dongfang said.
"What should I do?" Xun Shuang asked in a low voice.
Although the two were talking in a low voice, Xin Tong and Fei Xuan still heard the sound. They did not come out rashly, but whispered in the room to ask what happened.
"There is a tame owl snooping in the distance. Don't come out to avoid being discovered by it." Wu Dongfang said.
After Wu Dongfang finished speaking, the three of them did not answer. After careful consideration, Wu Dongfang spoke again, "You continue to rest, and I will keep an eye on it. It will leave sooner or later. When the time comes, I will follow it to see who is spying on us."
Fei Xuan and Xin Tong in the room agreed. Xun Shuang took out a water essence bead from the bag on his waist and handed it to Wu Dongfang, then turned and returned to the room.
Wu Dongfang looked back at Xunshuang. Xunshuang was very alert. In today's terms, his nerves were always tense. In addition, Xunshuang was also very attentive. He handed over the water beads just in case, in case he was in danger while following the owl. , he can summon three people to come to help.
After Xun Shuang entered the house, Wu Dongfang withdrew his gaze and stared at the owl through the cover of bushes. It was unlikely that this owl appeared here by chance. It should have been assigned by someone to monitor them, but this owl's There is no way to deduce who the owner is. They do not belong here. After entering the mountain, they made a lot of noise. Everyone in the mountain and every mature beast have a reason to monitor them.
Although it was summer, it was still very cold in the second half of the night, and the humidity in the mountains was heavy. It started to fog in the early morning. Just when the sky was getting dark, the owl flapped its wings without warning and flew westward close to the treetops.
"It flew away. I'll go take a look. Please pay attention to your safety." Wu Dongfang greeted the three of them and asked Chu Tudun to follow behind. The others could not hide their whereabouts when moving. This was the reason why the three of them could not go together. .
The owl didn't fly very fast, and its flying height was not high. It kept flying close to the treetops. Wu Dongfang followed leisurely behind.
Two hundred miles later, the owl stopped on a big tree. There were no villages or caves around the big tree, and it was an uninhabited area.
After staying in the tree for more than ten minutes, the owl swooped down from the tree and caught a mouse returning to its nest. It returned to the tree and began to tear, but although the guy tore, it did not swallow. A mouse was caught by it. Tear into pieces.
Wu Dongfang took out the wine jar and drank to keep out the cold. The owl spent more than ten minutes destroying the mouse. After cutting the mouse into pieces, the owl squatted on the tree and became motionless.
There was no nest in the big tree where it stood, and no owl droppings.
Just when Wu Dongfang was gradually losing his patience, the owl flapped its wings and flew westward again. By this time, it was already seven o'clock in the morning, and the fog in the mountains was heavier. Wu Dongfang shortened the tracking distance and always followed the owl two miles behind. within.
The owl fluttered its wings and flew westward without stopping for two hours. At around eight o'clock in the morning, it was still flying westward. The estimated distance was nearly a thousand miles.
Wu Dongfang began to mutter in his heart that the owl and its owner shouldn't live so far away. This place was thousands of miles away from where the four people settled. Why did the owl's owner need to send the owl to observe the situation thousands of miles away.
At this moment, a large falcon appeared in the distance, above the owl. The owl did not notice the danger and was still flying westward unhurriedly.
The falcon above adjusted its position and swooped down quickly, grabbing the owl from the air. Seeing this, Wu Dongfang hurriedly cast Heaven and Earth Together, and chased after the falcon to snatch the owl before it lowered its jaws.
The falcon screamed and flew away. Wu Dongfang frowned and looked at the owl in his hand. There were two scratches on the owl's wings and back. Neither of these wounds were fatal, but the strange thing was that the owl had already expired at this time.
He had clearly seen that the falcon just grabbed it and did not bite it. How could this owl suddenly die
After shaking it with its wings, the owl's head drooped. It was really dead, not pretending to be dead.
Wu Dongfang cursed secretly and followed him for a long time, running thousands of miles away. In the end, his work was in vain.
The dead owl must not be able to lead the way. Wu Dongfang took off the copper ring on its foot and was about to throw away the owl's body when he suddenly found that its left paw had some broken skin. The broken skin was where the copper ring was previously attached. parts.
Looking at the copper ring in his hand, it is a very ordinary copper ring without any markings. The style of this copper ring is somewhat similar to the live gold ring worn by rural women. It is not put on, but wrapped around.
This situation shows that the copper ring on the owl's talon was probably wrapped recently. It was a little tight and the skin was worn during flight.
Wu Dongfang vaguely felt that something was not right. This owl was white. White owls were relatively rare. It would be easy for them to detect the situation by sending it out to spy on the situation. This person seemed to be afraid that they would not be suspicious, and he would use the owl's talons to There is a copper ring wrapped around it. This is not to spy on the situation, but to attract attention.
"Oops, let the tiger leave the mountain!" Wu Dongfang's heart trembled, and he urged his spiritual energy to fly eastward. This owl was probably controlled by someone using some kind of magic to attract him away from the camp, and the other party's ultimate goal was to lure him away. He took the opportunity to attack Fei Xuan and others...