The area southwest of Panxi Mountain is not entirely swamp. There is a lush forest near the central area.
Deep in the forest, there are towering ancient trees with scattered branches, staggered hanging vines and intertwined roots. Their leaves are densely packed, blocking out the sky and the sun, and making the light extremely dim.
Under a huge tree surrounded by three or four people, the dazzling white jade orchid swayed gently in the breeze.
Jade Orchid is a third-level spiritual grass. Like Purple Star Grass, it is also the main medicine for refining Purple Star Pill. This grass is rarely seen in the outer market. The price of a mature and blooming jade orchid ranges from two thousand to three thousand spirit stones.
No one who sees such a good thing will let it go.
A female cultivator in a green robe spotted this spiritual grass from a distance.
This is a monk from Zhao State.
This female disciple is in the early stages of foundation building and looks very young. A clear oval face, bright eyes and white teeth, good appearance.
Although the monsters in Panxi Mountain are not very strong, they have not encountered any major dangers in the past few days. The female cultivator still looked around vigilantly, and used her spiritual sense to explore several dark places, and finally determined that there were no monsters and no other cultivators. Be present.
She walked forward excitedly, squatted down, stretched out two catkins, gently grasped the stem of the spiritual grass with one hand, and held a small hoe in the other hand to dig up the soil in an orderly manner.
Not only can spiritual plants that are taken out by their roots retain their medicinal properties to the greatest extent, many of them can be taken back and planted again, waiting for a more suitable time to pick them.
The female cultivator carefully held the jade orchid and placed it in the palm of her hand.
It was in very good condition, and she couldn't help but be elated. The reward for this grass alone is worth several months' salary.
Suddenly, her scalp felt numb, as if she was being stared at by a monster that chose people to eat!
Before she could make a move, a pair of men's arms suddenly stretched out from the giant tree!
Each hand was covered with a sharp finger cot, and a bright black light shone on the fingertips.
These hands were as fast as lightning, like a huge iron pliers, clamping the female cultivator's neck with a little force.
The woman said nothing, her head fell down weakly, and then her body leaned softly under the tree.
A man in white robes appeared from the tree, quickly took off the storage bag from the woman's waist, threw the body and the jade orchid into the storage bag, and quickly disappeared into the giant tree. …
…
After leaving Qilin Mountain, Yang Zhen galloped all the way. On the first day, she left the road she had traveled behind and advanced two hundred miles.
At noon the next day, he walked another hundred miles to the center, and finally encountered two red dots on the jade certificate. When he looked for it, he saw that it was Zhao Yue'er and Zixue!
The three of them were extremely happy to see each other.
On the third day, the three of them divided into three routes, left, middle and right, ten miles apart. They headed towards the center, stopping and stopping along the way to pick up spiritual herbs and look out for each other if there was any danger.
They get together again at noon and dusk.
On the fourth day, they finally walked out of the swamp and came to the woods.
Passing through this two-hundred-mile-deep forest is the heart of Panxi Mountain!
Here they met Dou Manxiong and Lan Caifang. There are seven or eight people beside these two people, all dressed in complicated clothes, all of whom are in the early stage of foundation building.
This group of people wandered in front of the woods, but did not dare to go deep.
Yang Zhen went over to greet her friends and asked in surprise: "What are you doing here?"
Dou Manxiong's fat face showed rare seriousness, and he whispered: "There is a killer in the forest, I don't know if it is a human or a monster. Several disciples have died."
"what happened?"
…
A Zhao Guo monk was called over, followed by several people.
The man looked sad and said:
"Three days ago, Junior Sister Liu and I entered the woods from here. Because there are many spiritual herbs here, the two of us agreed to go separately so that we can find more spiritual herbs..."
"We are ten miles apart, so we will check the jade certificate every half an hour. If the distance is too far, we will move closer to each other so that we can take care of each other."
Yang Zhen's heart trembled, and she secretly felt scared. He and Zhao Zi also walked in the same way in the swamp. If they hadn't met this group of people, they would still be like this after entering the woods.
Zhao Yue'er quietly held the man's right hand, her feelings self-evident.
From now on, we will no longer be greedy for small gains and separate from each other!
Sure enough, I heard the Zhao Guo monk crying:
"An hour and a half later, we were about twenty miles deep into the jungle. I contacted my junior sister for the second time, and suddenly I found that she had disappeared from my jade certificate and was nowhere to be found!"
"I hurried to the location where she appeared half an hour ago and searched everywhere, but there was no trace."
"Later, when I saw the shade and silence of the forest, I became a little scared, so I retreated along the original path."
"In the past few days, I have been wandering outside this forest. I originally wanted to find a few more senior brothers to go with me. Unexpectedly, the next day, I met this senior brother from Ju Guo..."
He pointed at a man in colorful clothes next to him, and then said: "This senior brother Hong is in the same situation as me. He is also a junior brother who lost his trace and had to retreat."
Next, the monk from Ju Kingdom told his story, which was exactly the same as that of Zhao Guo. The junior brothers also walked separately, and then after going some distance, the junior brothers could not be contacted...
After this person, there was another monk from the Qin State, and the experience was similar.
Three monks who were in the early stages of foundation building were all missing!
The times were three days ago, two days ago and yesterday!
The area outside the woods is nearly a thousand miles away. The monk Zhao Guo has traveled two hundred miles in the past two days, and he met these people. I don’t know if there are similar situations in other places!
Yang Zhen frowned and asked: "Do you think it is more likely to be a monk or a monster?"
The three monks from Zhao, Qin and Ju Guo looked at each other, and the Zhao Guo monk replied: "I think it should be a monk."
"Monsters usually don't think of destroying the jade ultimatum. After my junior sister disappeared, even the jade ultimatum lost its signal. It must have been man-made destruction."
This makes sense, but there are other possibilities.
"Maybe it's some kind of monster that ran out of the fifty-mile radius after half an hour, making you unable to contact you," Zhao Yue'er questioned: "It might even be a third-order or fourth-order monster that has lost its intelligence. Come on, it’s not surprising to destroy the jade ultimatum.”
Everyone nodded equally, feeling even heavier. If a third-level or fourth-level monster hides in this jungle, it will be almost everyone's nightmare.
Yang Zhen couldn't help but think of Youyou, and felt a pang of regret in her heart.
"The possibility of a fourth-order monster is unlikely," he mused: "Otherwise, even if you stay outside the woods, you may not be safe. If it is a third-order monster or a monk, there are twelve of us now, so why not go in together? This forest. Even if something happens, we can take care of each other. What do you think?"
These people were waiting outside because they wanted to wait until there were a large number of people and act together. After spending a long time together, they were all weaklings in the early stage of foundation building, so they hesitated.
Now, apart from Zixue, there are still a group of people in the early stage of foundation building.
Some people were hesitant and unwilling to take a stand.
Dou Manxiong and Lan Caifang agreed without hesitation, followed by the Zhao Guo monk, and finally, everyone agreed to go together.
…
At Yang Zhen's suggestion, the route into the mountain was the same as that of the missing Junior Sister Liu.
The woods are thick with bushes and weeds up to their knees. There is a thick layer of dead branches and leaves on the ground, which is one foot deep and one foot shallow when stepped on. Countless branches and broad leaves obscure the view ahead, sometimes appearing and disappearing.
The road in the forest is not easy to walk, but since everyone is a monk and has no interest in picking spiritual plants, the speed is very fast.
Only two-quarters of an hour later, Yang Zhen found the place where Junior Sister Liu disappeared.
The scene where the female cultivator died three days ago when she discovered Yu Fulan was fully revealed...
Monk, finger cot, kill with one blow...
White robe, man...
White robe? Yang Zhen looked at the white robe on her body, and her heart trembled!
Could it be that he is a monk from my Yunxiao Sect?
