In the early morning, a rising sun crossed the mountains and emerged from Tianjue Peak.
Last night, it rained heavily for several hours, and the entire Jiuhua Mountains were washed clean.
Although hundreds of Jiuhua Mountain inner sect disciples searched the mountain for half the night despite heavy rain, almost turning the entire ground upside down, they still found no trace of Mu Jingyu. It’s true that you can’t see people alive, and you can’t see corpses even after death.
Qin Yunchuan and Shen Mengdie specially requested instructions from Master Yunyang and followed the inner disciples to search in Jiuhua Mountain. After Su Yingying fainted on the jade flute stage, despite taking the elixir, she was still overly sad when she woke up, resulting in physical weakness. She had been holding tightly the Xingluo Baijing given to her by Mu Jingyu and shedding tears silently. Zhou Yan could only follow Qin Yunchuan's instructions and stay to take care of Su Yingying.
Qin Yunchuan and Shen Mengdie walked along the Huaijiang River from Tianluo Peak, hoping to find traces of Mu Jingyu under Tianjue Peak.
It's just that Jiuhua Mountain is too vast, with dense mountains and dense vegetation. The two searched all night in the rain, but found no trace of anything suspicious. Coupled with heavy rains at night, the roads in the mountains became even more muddy and difficult to navigate.
Qin Yunchuan looked up at the Tianjue Peak towering among the clouds and said, "According to the location where Jingyu jumped yesterday, it should be near here. However, we have been searching here for two hours and haven't found any trace." .”
Shen Mengdie stopped and looked at the Huaijiang River that was rising due to the heavy rain and said, "Brother Qin, we have been searching in the mountains and forests all night. We speculate that Brother Mu fell into the woods. But have you ever thought that he might have fallen into the woods?" In the Huai River, was it washed into the underground river of that cave?"
Shen Mengdie's words immediately reminded Qin Yunchuan. Three years ago, when he and Mu Jingyu sneaked into the inner five peaks to search for herbs, they were chased by a fire beast. In a panic, the two of them were washed away by the water in the Huai River into a cave that was half exposed on the ground. They escaped temporarily.
"Yes, I almost forgot if you didn't remind me. There are really many underground river caves under the Huaijiang River! We people only want to search in the mountains, but we have never thought about Mu Jingyu Maybe he fell into the river. If Jingyu really happened to fall into the river, he might have been washed into the cave. Maybe, maybe he is not dead yet, but just unconscious!"
The more Qin Yunchuan thought about it, the more he felt that this was a great possibility. As soon as he finished speaking, he jumped into the Huaijiang River and began to look for the caves and underground rivers hidden under the river.
Shen Mengdie was also delighted and followed Qin Yunchuan into the cold river water.
After last night's heavy rain, the entire Huaijiang River surged by more than several feet. Some caves that were originally half exposed on the river have been submerged under the river. In addition, the current in the river is fast and dark. The two of them held their breath and groped in the river for a quarter of an hour, but did not find any underground river in the cave.
The two people poked their heads out of the river, shook their heads, and found no suspicious traces. Qin Yunchuan walked across the Huaihe River and motioned for the two of them to search separately. Then he plunged into the river again.
It's just that the Huaijiang River not only has this main stream, but also branches into several tributaries, winding among the peaks of Jiuhua Mountain, and finally converges into one vein and flows out of the Jiuhua Mountain boundary.
It is undoubtedly wishful thinking for Qin Yunchuan and Shen Mengdie to search the entire Huaijiang River and its tributaries in a short time.
It wasn't until ten minutes past noon that the entire Huaijiang River slowly began to fall back from its surge. A small cave was exposed in a very small tributary of the Huaijiang River.
The entrance to the cave is not big, barely big enough for an adult man to enter, and it is hidden under a thicket of bushes, making it extremely difficult to spot from a distance.
A few rays of sunlight passed through the dense bushes, illuminating the dim cave a little. Although the entrance to the cave is not large, it is extremely spacious inside.
Because it is half exposed on the river, the land in front of the cave is half submerged in the river water. I saw a thin young man, half of his body soaked in the river water, and half of his body lying on the ground in the cave. With the constant lapping of the river water, his body undulated slightly.
After a long time, the right hand holding half of the jade pendant trembled slightly. In an emergency, the young man suddenly choked on his mouth and nose by a sudden surge of river water.
After coughing violently for a few times, he woke up from his coma.
"Hiss...it hurts...it hurts so much!"
The young man pushed himself up and climbed up from the ground. Only then did he realize that his face was covered with wounds, and even his clothes were torn. The exposed skin inside was also covered with bright red wounds.
When I was in a coma just now, I didn't feel the pain was so unbearable. Now that I woke up, I immediately felt waves of pain sweeping through my body. I just wanted to reach out and check the scars all over my body. Suddenly he saw half of the jade pendant in his hand, and he screamed with joy.
"Nine-Luo Xuanhuang Pei, I finally found you!"
This young man covered with scars is naturally the same Mu Jingyu who jumped off the jade flute platform yesterday in order to catch the Nine-Luo Xuanhuang Pei.
However, Mu Jingyu was extremely anxious when he saw that the only jade pendant that Mo Yunshen left for him was accidentally dropped off the cliff by Master Songyang. Looking at the jade pendant floating in the sea of clouds, I jumped off the cliff without having time to think about it.
Although after hard work, I finally got the jade pendant in my hand. However, Mu Jingyu, who was in mid-air, did not have the ability to fly in the air. From a height of ten thousand feet, it fell straight down.
Although, Zhou Wenyi and other inner disciples took off with their swords in time to rescue Mu Jingyu. But after Mu Jingyu fell a hundred feet away, he was blown away from the jade flute platform by the strong wind in the mountain stream. By the time Zhou Wenyi and others reacted and began to expand the search area, Mu Jingyu had already fallen from the cliff into the dense forest.
Originally, Mu Jingyu thought that he would inevitably die. But he didn't expect that where he was about to fall, there was a towering ancient tree with a height of more than a hundred feet. This large area of ancient trees grew extremely luxuriantly, with not only thick branches, but also extremely wide and tough leaves, which were half the size of Mu Jingyu's body.
With the blockage of this towering ancient tree, Mu Jingyu avoided the fate of being smashed into a pulp. However, there were scars all over his body from these branches and leaves.
Under this ancient tree, there happens to be a tributary of the Huaijiang River. When Mu Jingyu passed through this ancient tree, he was almost knocked unconscious. When he fell into the river, he could no longer withstand the heavy blow from the sky and fainted immediately.
Fortunately, in the middle of the night, there was a heavy rain in Jiuhua Mountain, and Mu Jingyu was brought to this cave hidden in the bushes by the swollen river water.
The entrance to the cave is lower than the river level, but the terrain inside is gradually rising. Only after Mu Jingyu was washed into the cave could he avoid drowning in the river.
Mu Jingyu finally felt relieved when he looked at the lost and recovered Jiuluo Xuanhuang Pei. This is the only thought Mo Yunshen has left for him. If he is really screwed up, he will never forgive himself. That's why he jumped off the jade flute stage without thinking about the consequences.
Fortunately, only the rope of the jade pendant was torn off by Master Songyang, and the rest of the jade pendant was not damaged. Mu Jingyu endured the pain and found a piece of rattan beside him. He thought about peeling off a piece of rattan skin from it, kneading it into a rope, and then put the jade pendant around his neck again.
As soon as he took the piece of rattan in his hand, Mu Jingyu suddenly took a breath of surprise. I saw that this piece of rattan was extremely smooth at the beginning and was not as prickly as ordinary rattan. Holding the two ends with both hands, he bent them desperately and felt that they were extremely tough. He could not break them with just his strength.
Mu Jingyu looked at it carefully with curiosity, and suddenly a light flashed in his mind, and three words popped up.
"The God-Binding Vine? Haha, this is really the God-Binding Vine!"
Three years ago, when Mu Jingyu first entered Jiuhua Mountain, he was invited by Qin Yunchuan to secretly sneak into the five peaks of Jiuhua Mountain to look for some second- and third-grade herbs.
When he accidentally entered the territory of a fire beast and was chased by it, he jumped into the Huai River to escape its pursuit. During this period, Qin Yunchuan once tied his body with this god-binding vine, jumped up and pulled down all the dead branches and leaves in the spruce forest, and then stopped the fire beast's figure.
The two of them were knocked unconscious by the accompanying dead branches and leaves, and rushed into a cave. Although the two of them later took advantage of the darkness and slipped out of the cave, Qin Yunchuan left the sacred vine here.
Mu Jingyu stood up and looked at the cave under the dappled sunlight. I saw that there were still some ashes left on the fire he had raised, and half of the fire was half buried in the soil.
"Great, the Huozhezi I left here back then is still there!"
Mu Jingyu's clothes had been soaked in the river for a long time. When he came back to his senses, and it was already early autumn, he felt a little shivering from the cold.
Mu Jingyu endured the pain, and after searching for some dead branches and leaves in the cave, he took them all next to the fire fold, and rekindled a fire at the place where the fire was made.
Although three years have passed, the situation in the cave has not changed at all. Obviously, since he and Qin Yunchuan left here, no other person or creature has entered here.
Mu Jingyu set up a wooden frame next to the fire and hung the clothes he took off next to the fire to smoke. The blazing fire illuminated the cave brightly, and the entire cave became warm.
After putting on his clothes, Mu Jingyu carefully pushed aside the bushes and came outside the cave. In the past three years, he followed Qin Yunchuan and got to know many herbal medicines. Although these herbs cannot be refined into elixirs, it can still be done by simply processing these herbs and applying them to wounds to treat flesh wounds.
By the time the clothes were dried and the wounds were treated, it was already approaching dusk. Mu Jingyu hasn't eaten since yesterday evening. The meal I had for lunch yesterday had been consumed long ago. Fortunately, there are many fish and shrimps in this river. With his cultivation in the middle stage of concentration, he can still catch a lot of them easily.
The sky was getting dark, and after Mu Jingyu had a full meal, he burped with satisfaction. At this moment, a few faint shouts came from outside the cave. Mu Jingyu quickly climbed into the bushes and looked into the dim woods.
"Mu Jingyu... Mu Jingyu..."
As the sound got closer and closer, Mu Jingyu finally discovered that it was several inner disciples from Jiuhua Mountain who were looking for him in the mountain. Moreover, in mid-air, there were several vague figures flying with swords. Obviously, he is also looking for himself.
Mu Jingyu quietly returned to the cave and put out the still burning fire to avoid being discovered by the inner disciples who were looking for him.
Now, Mu Jingyu doesn't want to go back to Jiuhua Mountain. After a day of thinking, his mind had undergone a huge change. Originally, he had always wanted to practice hard in Jiuhua Mountain so that he could rescue Bi Yun when he grew up.
But in the past three years, the cruel truth told him that with his unworthy qualifications, it was simply wishful thinking to cultivate the supreme magical power and go to the Yaoning Palace to rescue Bi Yun.
Yesterday, after Mu Jingyu jumped off the jade flute stage, he suddenly understood this truth. While flying among the clouds, looking at the vast land of Kyushu, I felt a little crazy for a moment.
He remembered that Qin Yunchuan once told him that there are countless heavenly spirits and earthly treasures in the vast land of Kyushu, as well as countless blessed places and caves. The Tianling Dibao contains extremely powerful spiritual power. If you can take it, it can enhance your own cultivation, which is even more powerful than the panacea.
And in the blessed land cave, there are also many secrets of secret techniques and magical treasures and spiritual weapons left behind by many legendary strong men. If you can get one, it would be a great opportunity.
