Duan Jiuxiu knew that the little girl's martial arts skills were not as good as his own, and he was not afraid that she would break the contract. He immediately picked up Zhou Zhiqin's long sword and swung it across his neck. Zhou Zhiqin's head was immediately dismembered.
This scumbag from a well-known family finally got the end he deserved.
Cai Zhao nodded: "This place is about ten feet away from the cliff to the west. Eight feet below the cliff is a flat ice platform. I made a slope there with loose snow. The slope is ten feet long, and at the end is the real ice platform. It’s such a steep cliff that you can go straight down the mountain if you fall down.”
"I'll count to three later and throw the jade bottle towards the cliff - I just tried it with an ice cube of about the same weight. I threw it very fast. The elders most likely couldn't catch up, so they had to jump. Go down the cliff and pick it up on the slope. The slope is very gentle, so the jade bottle won't roll very fast, but if you don't pick it up in time, it will roll down the cliff."
Duan Jiuxiu was so angry that he lost his temper and could only sneer again and again.
Cai Zhao started counting, "One, two, three..."
On the count of three, she suddenly threw the jade bottle towards the cliff, and then leapt away in the opposite direction.
Unexpectedly, Duan Jiuxiu's body flashed, and a long tendon rope suddenly flew out of his sleeve. The end was like a snake letter and it accurately wrapped around the jade bottle. His other hand had already made a move to strike at Cai Zhao.
Cai Zhao reacted very quickly, and immediately turned around and slashed with his sword. The beef tendon rope was immediately broken in the middle. The jade bottle in mid-air was stirred by the two forces and flew diagonally towards the northern cliff.
Duan Jiuxiu regretted deeply. There was still snow under the cliff to the west, but there was nothing on the cliff to the north. The jade bottle would definitely break if it fell. If he had known this, he should not have attacked Cai Zhao just for the sake of his whim.
In the midst of the lightning and flint, he rushed towards the jade bottle desperately. Cai Zhao turned around as lightly as a kite. No one noticed that a figure with fluttering clothes jumped straight down from the mountain. With a roar, the roof collapsed. Duan Jiuxiu was directly covered under the broken bricks, and even Cai Zhao was affected by half of his body.
"Why haven't you come down the mountain yet?!" A familiar, critical and condescending voice sounded.
Cai Zhao knew who it was without even raising his head.
Chapter 58
The visitor was naturally Mu Qingyan.
I haven't seen him for most of the day, and I don't know what he was busy with. A thin layer of stubble appeared on his graceful jaw. The gray-haired cloak was not on him. He was carrying a bulging bundle in his hand. It seemed that he was wearing the cloak. Tear off half of the wrapper.
"Why didn't you come down the mountain?!" His dark eyes stared at Cai Zhao displeased.
Cai Zhao touched his ears and said, "Aren't you still on the mountain?"
"You promised me before we parted!"
"It's all the same, so don't worry about it so much."
While talking, Duan Jiuxiu finally crawled out from under the collapsed roof, protecting the apricot jade bottle tightly with his hands. After getting up, he didn't even brush off the snow on his body before he opened the jade stopper. When he looked at it, he found that the bottle was empty. He immediately yelled: "Cai Zhao, you little bitch, how dare you lie to me? This is an empty bottle." ! Even your aunt dares to swear..."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, turn the bottle over and see if there is any." Cai Zhao quickly interrupted him.
Duan Jiuxiu stretched out his palm to catch the bottle, carefully turned the jade bottle upside down, and after a while, two drops of transparent liquid slowly fell.
he:"……"
Cai Zhao smiled: "Look, there is indeed the saliva of the Snow Scale Dragon Beast in the bottle. I didn't lie to you."
"Cai Zhao, you little bastard! You're entertaining me!" Duan Jiuxiu was furious. As he spoke, he rushed towards Cai Zhao, but unfortunately he couldn't get close enough. His eyes were filled with red light, mixed with a strong and pure internal force.
He knew something was wrong and quickly jumped back.
At this time, Qinong and Hu Tianwei, who saw the roof collapse from a distance, rushed over and immediately protected Duan Jiuxiu on the left and right.
Duan Jiuxiu raised a single palm to protect his heart, and then said: "Young master Yan has good palm power, you are not Cai Zhao's guard."
Mu Qingyan ignored him and asked Cai Zhao, "Did you tell them that I was your bodyguard?"
Cai Zhao muttered: "I also said that you went down the mountain and made a lot of noise about Duan Jiuxiu's master and apprentice. Now it's all exposed."
Mu Qingyan narrowed his eyes, "Are you just planning on cheating people to get by? Haven't you heard that the great road is open and honest and people can walk along it!"
Cai Zhao: "...When you accuse me of this and that, you act like a decent person from a well-known family."
Duan Jiuxiu was left out for a long time, and became even more angry: "You little bitch, you dare to destroy the saliva of the Snow Scale Dragon Beast, you will die!" With that, he was about to kill him with Qinong Hu Tianwei.
"If you have something to say, you have something to say." Cai Zhao put on a smile, "I was just joking just now. In fact, I hid the saliva of the Snow Scale Dragon Beast. I just gave it to the elder later."
"Fart! Do you think I will be deceived by you a second time?" Duan Jiuxiu was furious, "The saliva of the Snow Scale Dragon Beast cannot be left outside at all, and when everyone packed their bags in the ice cave yesterday, I could see clearly It’s clear that you didn’t bring any bottles or jars with you, how could you store your saliva!”
Qinong immediately praised: "The Lord is observant and meticulous, Qinong admires him extremely."
Hu Tianwei echoed.
Cai Zhao was very surprised: "Why should I bring bottles and cans? How difficult can it be to dig out a piece of solid ice and carve out a small ice bottle? Pour in the saliva, seal it with ice and snow, and hide it in a marked place." Well, it’s so cold here anyway, so I’m not afraid of the ice bottles melting.”
Duan Jiuxiu&Qinong&Hu Tianwei:...
Cai Zhao turned around and said, "I don't quite understand. Elder Duan's scheming... doesn't seem very good. His cultivation talent is mediocre, otherwise he wouldn't have been beaten by my aunt who is less than twenty years old. Then. What did the old leader of the Demon Sect fancy in him?"
Mu Qingyan said leisurely: "The old leader may have thought that Nie Hengcheng was too shrewd and capable, so he wanted to recruit a loyal and honest adopted son to balance him. But he was a little biased - loyalty is not loyal, but honesty is really honest. "
Cai Zhao: "You are so mean."
"Praise, reward." Mu Qingyan turned around, "Where's Zhou Zhiqin? Kill him."
Cai Zhao reacted conditionedly: "I didn't kill him... Well, did you also guess that he discovered Nie Hengcheng's magical power and connected the whole thing together?"
Mu Qingyan was startled: "So they have been struggling for a long time because of Nie Hengcheng's magical power?"
He was a very smart person, and he understood after thinking for a moment, "By the way, Chen Shu has been secretly passing on kung fu to his younger brother Chen Fuguang, and Chen Shu died in the encirclement and suppression by the Zhou family's children, so Zhou Zhiqin..."
Cai Zhao interrupted: "How did you realize something was wrong with Zhou Zhiqin?"
Mu Qingyan looked at the three masters and apprentices across from them, "Jin Baohui and Lan Tianyu were lax and almost leaked the secret several times along the way. Qinong and Hu Tianwei calmly interrupted each time."
Cai Zhao recalled for a moment, nodded and said: "Not bad, actually, Lan Tianyu almost revealed that he had been to this snow mountain on the first day, but was interrupted by Qinong pretending to have a sprain in his ankle."
Mu Qingyan: "However, after reaching the mountainside, they no longer stopped Jin and Lan. They said whatever they wanted."
Cai Zhao cleared his mind and said, "Because they didn't want us to go down the mountain alive at all. At first we were still close to the bottom of the mountain, and they were afraid that we would run away as soon as we realized something was wrong. Once we got above the mountainside, they no longer worried."
"Yes." Mu Qingyan said, "But isn't this strange? Not counting Jin Baohui and Lan Tianyu, Zhou Zhiqin and Dongfang Xiao are world-famous heroes. If someone from the Demon Cult wants to kill innocent people, they will not take action. Help?"
"Yes, why didn't I think of this?" Cai Zhao opened his eyes wide and murmured, "Although I have low martial arts skills, you, Zhou Zhiqin, Dongfang Xiao, have a good chance of winning against Hu Tianwei and the other three. Ah, why are they so sure they can kill us?"
"Of course it's because Dongfang Xiao and Zhou Zhiqin are already in the same nest as them. Once they start fighting, I will naturally be outnumbered." Mu Qingyan sneered.
"Have you said enough?" Duan Jiuxiu suppressed his anger, "Hurry up and hand over your saliva, and I might let you go!"
Qinong also said: "With the reputation of the Lord, I will definitely not bully a little girl like you, so please hand it over quickly."
Cai Zhao rolled his eyes: "Elder Duan might have let me go just now, but now that you know that no one in the mountain knows that you are still alive and that you have obtained Nie Hengcheng's magical power, you will definitely not let us go." It’s a shame that I can’t understand such a simple thing.”
Mu Qingyan had a gentle and patient look on his face: "Elder Duan, I'll teach you to be a good boy. In this situation, coercion is worse than deception. You should say that you share Nie Hengcheng's magical power with us, and we will be willing to hand over the saliva."
Cai Zhao frowned: "Only one bottle of saliva is enough for the five of us to practice?"
Mu Qingyan tilted his head: "So it's not enough. Then it seems that this method won't work. Forget it, the three of them, Master Duan and his apprentice, couldn't get down the mountain either."
Duan Jiuxiu was extremely anxious: "I don't know whether to live or die, but at this time, we are still boasting. There are three of us, and you are only two. If we are about to fight hard, you will definitely lose."
Cai Zhao suddenly noticed that the fur bundle in Mu Qingyan's hand was moving, "...what did you put in it?"
Mu Qingyan shook open the two corners of the fur bundle, and four white furry cub heads popped out immediately. Each one was only as big as a palm, and the claws were not even long. The round heads were arching towards each other, looking at each other blankly. Looking around.
"This is..." Although there is a huge difference in body size, these ears, these limbs, these teeth, as well as the faint blue eyes and white hair, Cai Zhao immediately thought of their adult versions, "This is the snow mountain white Mao Jian?!"
"They should be the cubs of the two that attacked us." Mu Qingyan said, "After you and I were separated at the entrance of the ice cave, I followed the white-haired cat that had suffered internal injuries and chased it all the way to its lair. I found These four little cubs.”
"What are you catching them for? Can they also be used to practice martial arts?" Cai Zhao was surprised, "Forget it, they are still young." Although the adult white-haired animals are ferocious and ferocious, these four fluffy cubs are now It was really cute and cute, and she couldn't bear it.
Mu Qingyan flicked her head and said angrily: "The mantis stalks the cicada, but the oriole is behind - can't you think more about it?!" As he said that, he raised the fur bundle in front of him and said loudly: " This hidden thing, get out of here!"
"I will crush these four cubs to death if they don't come out! Their parents died for you. The beast still has feelings for you, but you still refuse to come out?!"
These two sentences were spoken by Mu Qingyan's luck. The words were not very loud, but they spread far and wide like waves, shaking the surrounding cedars and falling snow.
Duan Jiuxiu was shocked and thought that this boy's cultivation was very impressive and should not be underestimated.
The others were at a loss as to who Mu Qingyan was calling.
Cai Zhao waited for a long time and couldn't help but said: "Who are you calling... uh...?" Before she could finish her words, she saw a piece of ice and snow rock behind the cliff suddenly moved.
Because of the distance, no one could see clearly what was going on. They saw a figure in a snow-white cloak slowly walking out from behind the ice and snow mountain rocks, and slowly walked in front of everyone.
When the man opened his hood and looked up, everyone except Mu Qingyan took a breath and couldn't believe what they saw.
——This person is actually the 'dead' Qian Xueshen!
"You...why is it you?" Cai Zhao was stunned, "I obviously saw you..." The frozen head with an expression condensed in the moment of panic rolled straight in front of her eyes, and she could see it clearly.
Mu Qingyan looked indifferent: "That should be one of Jin Baohui's guards. He was dragged into an ice cave and knocked unconscious by him when the ice cave shook violently for the first time. When the blue-eyed ice crystal python came, he pretended to dodge into the ice. hole, disguise the guard into himself, then wake him up and push him out."
"Originally, the body-changing method requires the person to appear after death, but if he is frozen before death, it may be able to delay the appearance - in this way, he has completed the golden cicada's escape plan!"
Duan Jiuxiu thought for a moment and blurted out: "The art of body-changing? You are a member of the Thousand Faces Sect!"
Then he said, "Why do you want to be our enemy? Who are you?!"
The look on Qian Xueshen's face was very unfamiliar, indifferent and calm. It was completely different from the cheerful young man Cai Zhao was familiar with in the past who loved to complain about laziness. He spoke slowly and asked Mu Qingyan, "Did you kill Xue Zhu?"
——Xue Zhu is obviously the name of the white-haired animal that suffered internal injuries.
Mu Qingyan rarely raised his voice and shook his head and said: "Duan Jiuxiu's Wind and Thunder Palm has been famous for many years. The internal organs of those who hit the palm will be shattered. Even the first-class masters can't withstand it. The white-haired animal has already reached the halfway point. It didn't work, so it crawled back to the nest close to the ground, and I found the nest by following the blood it vomited along the way."
He had always been hard-hearted and his men killed without any calculation, but when he saw the pleading eyes of the white-haired cat before it died, something moved in his heart - it was the reluctance and endless worry of a dying mother for her child.
Sometimes, animals know how to lick a calf better than humans.
After digging the four cubs out of the cave, he wanted to leave immediately, but found that they were whining with hunger, and their eight big blue eyes were looking at him with tears in their eyes, so he had to stop and feed them some dry food. Narrowly missed Cai Zhao.
"You treacherous villain! Are you finally willing to come out?" Mu Qingyan said coldly.
"I feel sorry for Xuefeng and Xuezhu." Qian Xueshen said in a low voice, then looked at Cai Zhao, "Xia Cai, I can't feel sorry for you either, but I didn't mean to deceive you."
He asked again, "When did Mr. Yan discover my flaw?"
Mu Qingyan: "It's the ice wall where the dead body holding the jade bottle of saliva is located - it's not a whole piece of ice at all, but a lot of ice fragments piled up and then poured with cold water to condense. I hit After hitting the entire ice wall, the force received when the palm is released is completely different."
"You are familiar with the terrain of the ice cave. We have to walk for an hour or two, but you can take a shortcut and go in front of us. The dead body and the jade bottle were arranged by you in a detour by pretending to be dead. There are also those on the ice before. That jade statue was the one you slipped out to decorate the night before as an excuse to relieve yourself, right?"
Qianxue Shen was indifferent: "Yes. The jasper statue was used by the ancients to remind people who went up the mountain that the ice behind was hollow, and underneath was a huge ice cave where giant pythons were. I moved the statue back a few dozen times. My husband, this is to ensure that you fall into the ice cave."
Cai Zhao found it difficult to speak out, "...Did you also kill Zhou Yulin and the innkeeper?"
Qian Xueshen nodded: "The innkeeper is their subordinate and should be killed. Zhou Yulin is not a good guy either. He pretends to be a well-known and upright handsome young man in the Jianghu of the Central Plains. Every time he returns to this frozen and desolate place where no one knows him, I used an alias after I got to the town, and either drank or got drunk, or abused the girls in the town."
"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it..." Cai Zhao said to himself blankly.
She had never met Zhou Yulin, but the children of the Zhou family in her imagination were either as gentle and considerate as Zhou Yuqi, or they were as hearty and laughing as brothers Zhou Yuqian and Zhou Yukun, fighting for their swords.
