On the cliff, Gu Qing glanced around.
"Someone is watching me secretly...
Is he someone sent by the Sun family? "
Gu Qing calmly withdrew his gaze.
As soon as he stepped on it, the Lanjiang Flying Sword suddenly appeared, turning him into a ball of white light and flying away towards the Xianhe Sect.
Sensing the two auras of Ruo Youruo Wu behind him, Gu Qing showed no expression. He walked all the way to a small valley within the Xianhe Sect, landed on the branch of a big tree, took out a futon and held it. A medium-grade spiritual stone sits cross-legged and meditates.
All the middle-grade water spiritual stones have been consumed.
At this time, the spiritual stone in Gu Qing's hand exudes a yellowish brilliance. It is a middle-grade earth-type spiritual stone.
Under the operation of Guishui Guiyi Gong, Gu Qing's aura was restrained. He sat on the tree trunk like a dead tree. Two rays of light fell in the forest outside the valley, revealing two figures.
"The trees here are so dense, that guy surnamed Gu must be trying to get rid of me and me by taking advantage of the favorable location!"
"Fourth Senior Brother, are you saying that he has discovered us?"
"Nonsense! After all, that person named Gu is also in the late stage of Qi refining. What state are we two in? You are at the fifth level of Qi refining, and your senior brother and I are at the sixth level. How can we not be discovered by him?"
"Fourth Senior Brother, then we have all been discovered, do we still need to follow him? Where is Sixth Junior Sister today..."
In the forest below, two figures had their calves submerged in the withered leaves, looking around and exchanging a few words.
A hundred meters away, Gu Qing looked at the two fellow students quietly through the gaps in the branches and leaves. His eyes were cold, like a beast waiting to ambush, just waiting to pounce down and kill the two prey.
kill.
Or not to kill.
Gu Qing weighed it in his mind and his eyes softened slightly.
Killing these two people would do more harm than good.
He put away the spiritual stone in his hand, and his body swept between the tree trunks a few times, and landed silently on the pile of yellow leaves.
Gu Qing glanced at the two people in front of him.
His cultivation is sparse, his steps are sloppy, his eyes are distracted...
At first glance, it looked like a monk who had not experienced much life and death. Most of the time, he hung out in the area of Wind Valley.
The two people were suddenly shocked.
The two of them were quite frightened by the unexpected presence of a person in front of them.
They didn't realize at all how the person in front of them came so close and where they came from. But after seeing the face they had been staring at for a while, they recognized that this was their tracking target. The person inside the door Gu Qing, a well-known deacon disciple.
"Oh, Senior Brother Gu, what a coincidence."
The man on the left is tall and plain-looking but somewhat festive. He nods and bows to greet Gu Qing.
The man on the right is a little smaller, slightly thinner, and has a rather outstanding appearance. He is sweating a little nervously. At this moment, he is also smiling and nodding towards Gu Qing.
Gu Qing's cold eyes seemed to have no focus.
The man on the left swallowed hard: "Senior Brother Gu, don't you remember me? I am Zhang Biao from the Ninth Peak!
When you were still at the Ninth Peak, I even treated you to a spiritual meal! I remember the last time I heard that you were back, I went to the Foreign Affairs Peak to look for you and wanted to catch up with you.
By the way, I'd like to offer you a lot of money to help me seal a few talismans.
Senior Brother Gu, listen to me, your seal drawing of spiritual talismans is really good. The power of the most common first-order low-grade spiritual talisman is increased by 30% through your hand seal drawing!
It's a pity that... that junior sister Ruan Xiang was stopped. If she hadn't stopped me, I would have gone to visit senior brother Gu long ago.
By the way, Senior Brother Gu, this is my Junior Brother Zhou Feng, the first new registered disciple of our Ninth Peak, and the 48th inner disciple of our Xianhe Sect. "
Zhang Biao rambled on and then pulled Zhou Feng beside him hard, causing Zhou Feng to cough lightly.
"Ahem! Senior Brother Gu."
Zhou Feng lowered his head slightly and spoke in a low voice.
Gu Qing's eyes were lowered, and a slight smile appeared on his face: "It turns out to be Junior Brother Zhang Biao and Junior Brother Zhou Feng! I wonder why these two Junior Brothers followed Gu Qing?"
he asked straight to the point.
A gust of wind blew, swirling up many fallen leaves. Gu Qing was dressed fiercely in black. There was a faint cold light in his lowered eyes, and Zhang Biao's mind changed rapidly.
"The Sun family asked me to follow."
Zhou Feng on the side suddenly spoke.
The chuckle on Gu Qing's face subsided, and he fixed his eyes on this frail young man who was sweating nervously just now, and said slowly: "What do the Sun family want you two to do with Gu?"
"Staring at you and disrupting what you want to do."
Zhou Feng spoke much more smoothly.
Zhang Biao on the side had a somewhat strange look in his eyes but said nothing.
Gu Qing stepped on the withered yellow leaves, stepped forward and patted Zhou Feng on the shoulder: "Then keep a close eye."
As he spoke, he tapped his feet lightly, swept a few times, and returned to the tree trunk where he was sitting before, closing his eyes and sitting quietly.
Zhang Biao and Zhou Feng were relieved.
They looked at each other.
"What should I do? Are you still staring?"
Zhou Feng sent a message to Zhang Biao and asked.
"Of course we are watching! Fifth Junior Brother, we are also looking for a tree trunk, far away from the one named Gu. This way, if the one named Gu goes crazy, we have a greater chance of survival."
Zhang Biao sent a message back.
Zhou Feng was speechless after hearing this.
The two of them found a relatively flat, thick tree trunk with few branches a hundred meters away from Gu Qing, and stared at Gu Qing from it.
…
"Leave the Su Shui Xuan Pearl in the tree nest naturally formed by the tree trunk, and use your illusory body to confuse Zhang Biao and Zhou Feng. It won't be a problem to fool Zhang Biao and Zhou Feng for a few hours."
Gu Qing has put on his black robe and bamboo hat and went to the Xianhe sect.
The journey was uneventful.
Less than half an hour later, Gu Qing turned into a ball of white energy at the entrance of the Cultivation Workshop, pressed down the escape light, and glanced around.
"There are many more monks. Judging from the costumes, many of them are from Chen Guolai." Gu Qing walked toward the Cultivation Workshop.
He spent nearly an hour in Wanbao Tower, Bailongxuan and other shops, selling many useless objects in the stele space, as well as all the first-order spiritual talismans except the first-order high-grade Yellow Wind Talisman at low prices, in exchange for a total of low-grade There were more than 4,200 pieces of spiritual stones. He converted these low-grade spiritual stones into thirty-eight pieces of medium-grade water attribute spiritual stones and stored them in the space of the stone tablet.
Then Gu Qing quickly left the Cultivation Workshop and rushed back to the Xianhe Sect. Next to the valley, he took off his black robe and bamboo hat, replaced the phantom body with his real body, sat cross-legged on the tree trunk, and quietly put away the He took the Sushui Xuanzhu and waited silently.
Four days passed in a hurry.
The sky was just getting dark that day, when a light gray ray of light fell in the forest, revealing Sikong Xuan's figure.
After glancing around, a trace of confusion flashed across his extremely handsome face. His figure swayed and landed on the same tree trunk as Gu Qing, standing next to Gu Qing.
The plain blue clothes made Sikong Xuan look even more dusty.
His head was covered with green hair, with a light gray hairpin stuck on it. He frowned slightly and looked at Gu Qing.
Gu Qing has black clothes and black hair, a cold face, and a bottomless darkness in his eyes. He has a milky-white Yaoqin placed on his legs, and he is caressing it with his long white fingers, which is slightly unpleasant. The sound of the piano dispersed into the wind.
"Hard to hear."
Sikong Xuan spit out two words.
Then he sat next to Gu Qing.
Gu Qing seemed completely unaware of Sikong Xuan's arrival.
After the music of the piano fell, he looked at Sikong Xuan with a chuckle: "Since Senior Brother Sikong has arrived, tonight should be the trade fair, right?"
"yes."
Sikong Xuan's response was still brief.
Gu Qing nodded.
He continued to speak with that slight smile: "Gu has taken over Senior Brother Sikong's place, and he still hopes that Senior Brother Sikong will pay attention."
"nothing."
Sikong Xuan said.
"Gu is here waiting for Senior Brother Sikong, but actually he wants to have a chat about the quotas for the three sects of acting." Gu Qing's expression did not change at all.
Sikong Xuan's expression moved slightly, and he turned to look at Gu Qing.
…
"That's the direct disciple of the Fourth Peak, Senior Brother Sikong Xuan!"
"It seems that Gu is here, waiting for tonight's trade fair."
"What should we do? If the person named Gu wants to participate in the trade fair, can we hold his legs and prevent him from participating? How about Junior Brother Zhou Feng, please contact Butler Sun and ask him to send a few people to the foreign affairs department. Feng is causing trouble? Isn't this person surnamed Gu very fond of Ruan Xiang? Ruan Xiang is no longer our sect, so we can just find a reason to tie her up. When the time comes, we will threaten this person surnamed Gu to make him unintentional. Participate in the trade fair..."
Zhang Biao spoke eloquently.
Zhou Feng listened to what Zhang Biao said and didn't respond. He didn't take out the sound transmission jade talisman to contact Butler Sun as Zhang Biao said.
Looking at the two figures, one green and one black, sitting together, Zhou Feng pursed his lips: "I think this matter..."
After a conversation, their mouths were dry, and the two of them stopped talking in tacit understanding, looking at each other and exchanging glances.
"This matter is not serious, so there is no need to contact Butler Sun, right?"
Zhang Biao asked.
"There's no need for that. I'm just attending a trade fair. It just so happens that I got a good bottle of elixir a few days ago, and I'm about to exchange it for some spiritual stones and buy magical weapons."
Zhou Feng responded.
…
Sikong Xuan looked at Gu Qing with condensed eyes and said two words briefly: "No need."
"Senior Brother Guo Zifeng, who had been in frequent contact with Gu before, said that he had gone out to practice for a few years. Under the persuasion of Senior Brother Guo Zifeng, Gu had agreed to transfer this quota to you for 80 pieces of middle-grade water attribute spiritual stones. Junior brother Mo Lingfei from the Fourth Peak."
Gu Qing's expression did not change and he said casually: "But before the matter was settled, Senior Brother Guo Zifeng was unable to contact us. May I ask Senior Brother Sikong Xuan if he knows why this is so?"
"I don't know." Sikong Xuan responded briefly.
"As far as Gu knows, there are two direct disciples in the Fourth Peak. In addition to Senior Brother He Chaoqun, the son of Elder He Tianxing, he is Senior Brother Sikong Xuan. And I heard that Mo Lingfei is also Senior Brother He Chaoqun, right?" Gu Qing continued to say. , he stared at Sikong Xuan from the corner of his eye, "I think the relationship between senior brother Sikong Xuan and senior brother He Chaoqun must be very good."
As soon as Gu Qing said this, Sikong Xuan's expression changed slightly.
Without waiting for Sikong Xuan's response, Gu Qing continued: "Gu is willing to transfer this quota to participate in the three sects of acting at a low price to Senior Brother Sikong Xuan. I wonder if Senior Brother is interested?"
Sikong Xuan looked at Gu Qing sharply.
a long time.
He curled his lips.
"The price is too high, senior brother can't afford it."
Sikong Xuan's message rang in Gu Qing's ears.
"A high-grade flying sword with earth attribute, a high-grade wood-attribute flying sword, and a high-grade fire-attribute flying sword." Gu Qing replied.
Sikong Xuan's eyes flashed slightly.
After a few breaths, he nodded gently.
"Okay, but senior brother, there is something that requires the cooperation of junior brother Gu." Sikong Xuan's message rang in Gu Qing's ears again.
"Time, place, what to do."
Gu Qing asked through a message.
"In half a year, we will go to Chucheng to pick up a few people. We will inform Junior Brother Gu when the specific time comes. The danger is not great and no monks above Qi Refining will take action. After the incident is completed, Senior Brother Gu will be supplied with some spiritual stones." Sikong Xuan Respond with voice transmission.
Gu Qing fell into noncommittal silence.
He caressed the Yao Qin gently in his hand, and the music sounded again.
Soon it was the zenith of the moon, and Gu Qing did not avoid Sikong Xuan, but directly put on a black robe and bamboo hat and entered the valley.
Most of the fellow disciples were wearing breath-cloaks to hide their appearance and cultivation aura. There were already many people coming at this moment, and more than eighty monks were scattered in the valley.
"Midnight has arrived, all of you are invited."
An old voice sounded, and a rickety old man did not hide his appearance. He took a few steps forward and moved his lips slightly: "Second-grade mid-level elixir, Wood Marrow Pill. This elixir has mild power and can greatly improve the monks in the late stage of Qi refining." cultivation level."
As he spoke, a jade bottle appeared in his hand.
"There are four chalcedony pills in this jade bottle, which can be exchanged for a hundred pieces of medium-grade spiritual stones, or a low-grade spiritual weapon."
The old man looked around at the cultivators and spoke in a deep voice.
"Second-grade mid-level elixir!"
"This... I can't afford to replace it."
"This fellow disciple seems to be Senior Brother Luo Xing from the Fifth Peak! I heard that this Senior Brother Luo Xing from the Fifth Peak has been practicing for nearly a hundred years and can refine several third-grade elixirs."
All the fellow disciples in the valley were talking about it.
Gu Qing looked at the bottle of wood marrow pill and was a little tempted.
