Chapter 60 Return to Dahuang Mountain
It was already mid-July. During this time, Qingshi had a feeling in his heart, as if he was subconsciously telling himself to do something, but he couldn't remember it.
It wasn't until that evening that Qingshi was successfully promoted to rank, Qingshi prepared a table of delicious food for himself to reward himself, and when he took out the wine bottle, he suddenly remembered that he should go to Dahuang Mountain to pick peaches.
Aishan peaches usually bear fruit once every three to five years. The last fruit was four years ago. Qingshi was not sure whether it had fruited last year or next year, but he had a feeling that it would probably be this year.
Qingshi put away the food and wine, took out his communication device and sent a message to Chen Tianye asking if he was at home. Chen Tianye replied that he was at home. Qingshi drove the boat to the accommodation area of the Martial Arts High Court on the west bank of the lake.
There is a peninsula on the south side of the west bank of Dalu Lake that extends several hundred feet into the lake. There are more than a hundred small buildings built on the shore and on the peninsula, near the water or on the mountain. The shape is similar to that of Qingshi House. This is the accommodation area of Martial Arts High Court. Yes, Chen Tianye's dormitory is on a hill, and the house number is Huaguoshan No. 9. Qingshi has been here once before.
Arriving at Gate No. 9 of Huaguoshan, Chen Tianye was already standing at the door to greet him. When he saw the bluestone, Chen Tianye smiled and said, "Why did you think of coming to see me? You are not here to bring me wine!"
"Not only will we give you wine, but we will also provide you with delicious food." Qingshi said with a smile.
"Really? That's great. I haven't eaten for several days." Chen Tianye smiled widely and quickly led Qingshi to the terrace and sat down at a small square table. The terrain here is higher and the view is very good. Watch the sunset. The beautiful scenery of Dalu Lake is very good.
Qingshi took out seven or eight vessels filled with delicacies and placed them on the table. Then he took out a pot of fire and said, "There are all delicacies from mountains and seas, but this wine is the last pot."
"Ah! I understand," Chen Tianye said as he took the jug and poured wine, "You want me to accompany you to pick wine-making materials, right?"
"That's right," Qingshi said, "I feel that the patch of Ai Shan peaches should be ripe this year, and I want you to accompany me for a trip."
In the past few years, Qingshi would occasionally think of the encounter with Wu Yulin in Dahuang Mountain. Later, recalling all the details at that time, Qingshi always felt that Wu Yulin was not alone, but her companion was not there at the time.
Therefore, Qingshi always felt that going to Dahuang Mountain again would not be so smooth, so he felt more relieved after inviting Chen Tianye. Chen Tianye was a second-level Yuan Dan realm martial artist, and he was not an ordinary Yuan Dan realm martial artist. Genius among geniuses.
Chen Tianye naturally agreed wholeheartedly, and the two of them ate, drank, and chatted for a long time. After deciding to set off in three days, Qingshi left.
The next day, Qingshi finished attending the class of Elder Zhang of Alchemy Academy and was going to ask for leave from Dean Jin. Qingshi estimates that a round trip to Dahuang Mountain will take about ten days to half a month.
As soon as he walked out of the classroom, he saw Elder Yang waving from the side. Qingshi walked over to say hello. Elder Yang said: "Elder Liu Changqing of the Task Management Office asked you to go there. There should be an assigned task."
Qingshi said goodbye to Elder Yang and walked towards the task management office. He thought to himself that it was probably the task that Master wanted to hone himself and asked Senior Brother Mo to assign him. The last assigned task was still very rewarding for him, but he didn't know that this What is the mission again?
After arriving at the task management office and explaining his purpose, Qingshi was taken to Elder Liu's office on the third floor and met Liu Changqing.
Liu Changqing smiled kindly and asked him to sit down, and said straight to the point: "Qingshi, last time you reported the killing of Wu Yulin of the Five Poison Cult, the college took it very seriously and asked me to sort out the case of the Five Poison Cult again. We found that There were two other people who escaped with Wu Yulin, and these two were also the last two remnants of the Five Poison Sect so far. When you met Wu Yulin a few years ago, did you find any signs of others?"
Qingshi said: "I didn't see anyone else at that time, but when I think about it later, I always feel that she should have a companion. Otherwise, it seems impossible for her to live alone in such a simple environment for nearly twenty years. And there are Judging from the things she left behind, if she had accumulated the spiritual fruit and poisonous weeds she planted and harvested for nearly twenty years, she would not have left so little, so she must have dealt with a batch every once in a while. If If she didn’t go out and deal with it by herself, then someone should come to help her. Considering that she later had difficulty moving after breaking her leg, it’s almost certain that someone came to help her.”
"Well, very good," Liu Changqing nodded and said, "Your speculation also confirms our guess and preliminary investigation results. Among the remnants of the Five Poison Sect who escaped that year, the other two together with Wu Yulin were a brother and sister. The elder brother Yin Zhen and Wu Yulin are lovers, and their sister is named Yin Yu. Both brothers and sisters are animal trainers, specializing in taming poisonous insects and fierce beasts. We doubt that they and Wu Yulin will be separated."
"Animal tamer?" Qingshi nodded, "Yes, Wu Yulin seems to have some skills in taming animals. She once commanded two monkeys to attack me back then."
"Well, that further confirms our speculation," Elder Liu said. "It is reasonable for Wu Yulin to learn some beast-taming techniques from the Yin family brothers and sisters. Well, in this case, I am even more convinced that this assignment is on target. "
With that said, Elder Liu took out a bound file and handed it to Qingshi, while saying: "The college suspected that the Yin family brothers and sisters were hiding in the Great Wilderness Mountain. We sent an airship to investigate and found that there are six places in the Great Wilderness Mountain where human monks have been living for a long time. Two of them still have traces of a large number of spiritual beast activities, so we decided to send students to investigate these two places. You are Wu Yulin’s killer and are familiar with the Great Wilderness Mountain. You are both an array master who can take advantage of the mountain terrain, and an alchemy master. If you are not afraid of poisons, you are naturally the most suitable candidate. Now the college has tasked you to form a team of five people to complete this assigned task. You are fully responsible for it. The specific details and requirements are all in this file, as well as the requirements for the Yin family brothers and sisters. The introduction is also included. After you form the team, you must first submit the personnel list and departure date. This task cannot be shied away from. I hope you will take it seriously and try your best to complete it."
Qingshi quickly stood up and said yes. He thought to himself: I was about to go to Dahuang Mountain, and the college assigned me this task. What a coincidence. It seems like this is God’s will.
Returning to his residence, Qingshi carefully looked through the file's introduction to the Yin family brothers and sisters. More than 20 years ago, the two were about fifty years old, and both were at the low level of Qi Condensation Realm. Considering their cultivation talents, it is estimated that they are now Cultivation will not break through the Yuan Dan realm.
The academy doesn't know what their beast-taming abilities are, but the most powerful spiritual beasts in the Great Wilderness Mountains have reached level five, and their combat power is basically equivalent to ordinary human monks at the mid-level Yuandan realm. Therefore, it is speculated that they may have the ability to tame level five spiritual beasts at most. ability.
The dossier lists three types of fifth-level spiritual beasts in the Great Wilderness Mountain. One is the Wild Mountain Wilderness, the second is the Red-Eyed Tiger, and the third is the Iron-Armored Barbarian Bull. Each of them is introduced. In addition, there is a map of Dahuang Mountain in the file, and two suspicious locations are marked.
Qingshi looked at the relevant requirements of the mission again. The purpose of the mission was to explore these two suspicious locations. If the Yin brothers and sisters were found, they could be killed directly. If they were unable to do so, they could be reported to the academy for processing.
The personnel requirement is that the team has a total of five people, and at least two members must be at the Yuan Dan level or above. After Qingshi is selected, he can ask the selected person to participate as the person in charge of the assigned task, and the selected person cannot refuse except under special circumstances.
In addition, the academy prepared a small airship that can seat five people, five communication magic weapons and some elixirs for this mission.
There are only more than twenty Yuan Dan realm masters among the students in the college, and Qingshi doesn't have many choices. Apart from Chen Tianye, Qingshi calls Duan Wutian. The other two people, Duan Wutian, said that he would make the arrangements, so Qingshi had to leave it to him. In the end, he brought two female generals, Duan Xiaoyu and Han Xueyan.
Han Xueyan is also from the Martial Arts High School. Along with Duan Xiaoyu, he is a disciple of Gu Feier, one of the nine council elders of the academy. Gu Feier has accepted five disciples, and the eldest disciple is Zheng Fanyi.
Qingshi reported the list and itinerary, but Liu Changqing had no objection and distributed airships, communication equipment, elixirs and other items.
On July 24th, the weather was fine. Early in the morning, Qingshi and his party of five took an airship and flew to Mingshan Kingdom in the north.
This airship is small, and everyone can only sit in fixed positions and cannot move around at will. The speed of the airship is not very fast. It takes about a whole day to travel thousands of miles.
It was Qingshi's first time to fly this kind of airship. The operation of this small airship was very simple and very similar to the boats used in the lake, so he quickly became proficient. Chen Tianye and Duan Wutian had both flown this kind of airship, so the three of them had It's easy for people to take turns driving.
In the early morning of the next day, after a day and night of flying, the boat had already arrived in the Mingshan Kingdom. After the sun rose, Duan Wutian found that the boat's course was a little off, so he corrected the deviation and continued flying.
After more than an hour of this, the airship finally reached the boundary of the Great Wilderness Mountain. Qingshi lowered the flying height and tried hard to identify the underground signs.
After flying along the mountain for about half an hour, Qingshi finally saw the small village at the foot of the mountain that he had visited before. With reference coordinates, he adjusted the direction of the airship and flew towards the mountain. Not long after, he saw the grand canyon. , the airship quickly landed at the east end of the canyon.
After getting off the airship, everyone stretched their bodies and limbs. Among them, Duan Wutian was the most familiar with driving an airship, so Qingshi handed the airship over to Duan Wutian for reporting.
Qingshi led everyone towards the small basin in the west, paying attention to the surroundings as they walked. Compared with four years ago, there seemed to be not much change here. There were no traces of humans and even fewer traces of animals. Not long after, everyone came to the edge of the small basin, but Qingshi still didn't find anything different.
Qingshi took out some pills and gave each person a poison-proof pill to hold in their mouths. He told everyone that the air contained poisonous gas, not to breathe hard and to speak as little as possible, and then took the lead into the small basin.
Not long after, Qingshi led everyone to the edge of the poisonous water pool. They saw that the simple stone bed built by Qingshi on the west bank was still there. The surrounding vegetation was lush and there were no traces of anyone digging it. However, the few mahuang fruits did not bear fruit.
Qingshi didn't bother digging for herbs, so he took everyone north and soon walked into the Aishan peach forest. They saw that the peach trees were full of fruits, about one-third of which were ripe.
According to Qingshi’s experience, these fruits should be ripe for up to ten days, and the remaining fruits will be fully mature within the next half a month. The mature fruits can only hang on the tree for half a month at most before they fall to the ground and rot. Lose.
Everyone had heard what Qingshi had said about the Ai Shan peaches beforehand, and now they were so happy to see thousands of fruits hanging on the branches.
Qingshi gave everyone instructions in advance, so everyone did not hear Qingshi's words and did not pick them rashly.
Qingshi walked around the peach forest, but frowned.
Chen Tianye asked: "Is there anything wrong?"
"Yes," Qingshi replied, "Do you remember those monkeys I told you about? It is said that those monkeys should come to eat peaches, but I found no trace of monkeys coming." Tai was on the airship when he arrived. Boring, Qingshi told everyone about his experience here a few years ago.
"That's right!" Duan Xiaoyu said, "Not only monkeys, but also no other animals were seen along the way."
Qingshi thought about it for a while but couldn't figure it out. He reached out and picked a ripe peach and looked at it carefully. However, there was no difference at all, so he asked everyone to pick a few and try it out.
Qingshi took a bite of the peach and savored the fresh and delicious spiritual fruit. He couldn't help but murmured: "It must be weird that the monkeys don't come to pick such a good peach. Since there is nothing wrong with the peach, it must be the monkey." There is a problem with the group, and it might be related to the Yin family brothers and sisters who are the trainers."
