On the second day, the five people gathered at Qian Chao's residence and tasted Qian Chao's fine spiritual tea before starting to practice.
"Sister Yan, what good thing did your master give you that day? I see that senior Zhong Yao is very grateful?" Tang Ping held the tea cup and suddenly thought of the day when Yan Xuan became his master.
After hearing this, Yanxuan put down the tea cup in his hand, gently touched his eyebrows with his fingers and said:
"I don't know either. When I asked my master, she only said that she would know after building the foundation in the future. The master said that it was a method that could be used in the future. Later, when I looked in the mirror, there was nothing between my eyebrows. Well... ...Brother Qian, can you see what is hidden between my eyebrows?"
After hearing this, Qian Chao closed his eyes first. When he opened them, the blue light flashed in his eyes, and the original kernels and whites of the eyes were almost invisible. He stared at Yanxuan's eyebrows for a while, and then the blue light gradually disappeared. , then Qian Chao dipped his finger in the tea cup and drew a phoenix with wings soaring into the sky on the table. The lines of the phoenix were simple, but all the extraordinary aura that a divine bird should have was revealed. , several people came over to take a look when they saw it, and they couldn't help but marveled.
"It looks like this, but it's very small," Qian Chao pointed at the table and said, "It's not much bigger than the tip of a finger. It looks light red to me, and it's hidden between Sister Yan's eyebrows."
Tang Ping held the tea cup and looked at it carefully, then raised her eyes and looked at Yanxuan's face for a while, which made Yanxuan feel a little uncomfortable and glared at her angrily:
"You girl, keep staring as if you can see!"
"Well, it seems that if we want to know what secrets there are in the center of Sister Yan's eyebrows, we can only wait until the foundation is established in the future. I really can't see anything. Sister Yan, do you usually feel anything in the center of your eyebrows?"
Yanxuan shook his head and said:
"Okay, don't talk about me anymore, let's talk about what happened yesterday."
"Well, okay," Tang Ping immediately sat up straight after hearing this and said, "Brother Lu and Brother Li don't know about this yet. Just yesterday, Sister Yan heard a story in the Baicao Courtyard of Qixia Mountain. The news seems to have something to do with the Qingluan we have seen before. Someone saw a strange big bird fighting with several extremely ferocious monsters in a place called Shouwo Mountain outside the sect. From what they described Judging from the situation, it was very similar to that of Qingluan. Later, I went to Qixia Mountain with Sister Yan to inquire about it in detail. Unfortunately, they all heard it from others. Yan and I I asked many people one after another, and they all said the same thing, but I didn’t find out who actually saw that scene outside. But when I turned around, I asked others about the situation of Shouwo Mountain, and they all said that there was a place there. It is a dangerous place, and it is best for ordinary disciples not to go there, lest they encounter danger from which they cannot escape..."
Tang Ping paused after saying this. Yesterday, she did ask in detail about the situation in Shouwo Mountain. The explanation she got made her a little worried. People said that Shouwo Mountain was not a place for ordinary disciples. There were even kind-hearted people who repeatedly warned Tang Ping not to go there, lest she encounter any trouble. This made Tang Ping very conflicted. On the one hand, even if she didn't find out who met the Qingluan outside, She also planned to go there to see the strange bird for herself. Even if it was just a false rumor, she would only be willing to confirm it herself; but on the other hand, people said that Shouwo Mountain was a dangerous place. , if she asked several companions to take this strange risk with her for her own business, she would feel very sorry, so she looked at Qian Chao, wanting to hear what he had to say.
"Hey, what are you afraid of? What about guarding Wok Mountain and being so ferocious? Let's go and have a go and see how powerful the guys are there!" Lu Pingchuan rushed to say.
Qian Chao said:
"Not necessarily. In my opinion, this matter is still somewhat suspicious..."
"What is it?" Tang Ping asked anxiously.
"Well, Sister Yan talked about this matter yesterday. After you left, I checked the maps carefully, including the ones that Senior Tang gave me. Well, in my opinion, Shouwo Mountain should not be a place where spiritual veins gather. Tang Girl, your master, Senior Guhuo, said that Qingluan should lay eggs in places where spiritual veins gather, and it doesn’t have to be where large spiritual veins gather. Smaller spiritual veins gather in places where the spiritual energy is richer. Dense is enough. I haven't found any records of spiritual veins gathering in Shouwo Mountain. It may be that the small spiritual veins there have not been recorded, but think about Pinghai Peak, which can be marked on the "Blossoming Flowers" map. If there is really a suitable place for green luan to lay eggs in Shouwo Mountain, it should be drawn in Mr. Zhuang's "Blooming Flowers Map", and it is also the same in the maps that Senior Tang gave me. From this, I have some ideas. Suspect……"
Tang Ping immediately said:
"Do you suspect that someone outside has manipulated the spiritual pulses, so the spiritual veins there have changed from not converging to converging?"
"Well, I do have this suspicion..."
"Did Wen Liang and the others get involved?" Li Jian asked from the side.
"It is possible," Qian Chao said after considering it, "but this is just a guess. If Qingluan really chose Shouwo Mountain as its spawning place, and the spiritual veins there are really gathered together. , instead of the small spiritual veins that were not identified and were already gathered, then someone should have manipulated the spiritual veins somewhere, and this caused the changes in the spiritual veins of Shouwo Mountain. , If that’s the case, then Wen Liang is indeed quite suspicious.”
Lu Pingchuan only understood half of it, and he said:
"Hey, maybe this time we can not only help Sister Tang find the bird egg, but also catch Wen Liang, right?"
Tang Ping heard that Qian Chao had not finished what he said, so he said:
"How can it be that simple? Mr. Qian, you seem to have something to say. Keep talking."
"Well, I was shocked when I thought about this yesterday. At that time, I thought that maybe I could find some traces of Wen Liang's manipulation this time. However, later I thought about this matter again and again, and felt that this matter Maybe it’s not that simple, Girl Tang, let me ask you, ever since you heard about this incident, have you been burning in your heart and wishing you could go to Shouwo Mountain to see what’s going on?”
"Well...that's right, caring leads to chaos. That Qingluan's egg is really important to me..."
"Well..." Qian Chao nodded, "That's the key. Don't talk about you. Since yesterday, I have been thinking about where the Green Luan Egg really is..."
When Tang Ping's eyes widened and she was about to speak, Qian Chao waved his hand to signal her to continue listening.
"But after all, it was Sister Yan who heard this from others in Baicao Courtyard. You, me, Sister Yan, didn't think much about it when we heard the news. For a while, we just thought it was true, even if it was If you continue to spread rumors, according to your temperament, you will definitely go to Shouwo Mountain to have a look for yourself, and then you can feel at ease whether it is true or not, right?"
Tang Ping seemed to have thought of a possibility, and her face looked a little ugly. It's not that she couldn't take into account what Qian Chao just said. The reason why she didn't think about it was because of the four words she said - caring leads to chaos. After hearing what Yanxuan said yesterday, her heart suddenly became hot. Get up, after all, if she can get the Qingluan egg, it will be her third natal spiritual beast. It is too important to Tang Ping, so she focuses on finding out the rumors. He didn't put any thought into it.
"Could it be that...that rumor is false?" Yanxuan said with some doubts.
"It's impossible for us in the sect to know whether it's true or not..."
"Then..." Yanxuan became even more confused.
"Yesterday after Sister Yan and Tang Yatou left, I went to Chengqi Hall at night. Speaking of liveliness, Chengqi Hall was even more lively than Baicao Courtyard. All kinds of news could be heard there. I found a few people who were busy all day long. The senior brother who was refining weapons in Chengqi Hall and had better ears and eyes inquired about it. Strangely enough, although some people in Chengqi Hall had heard of the rumors that Sister Yan heard in Baicao Courtyard, the people who knew about it were There are only a few, which makes me a little confused. Although the sect is large, when it comes to being well-informed, Chengqi Hall comes first. However, things that are not widely spread in Chengqi Hall are in Baicao Courtyard. Sister Yan heard it, so I suspected..."
Having said this, Qian Chao looked at Tang Ping.
"Girl Tang, besides you, who else in our sect wants to get their hands on the Qingluan Egg?"
"Shangguan Hong..." Tang Ping said the name softly.
"That's right, Shangguan Hong..."
"Brother Qian," Lu Pingchuan heard more clearly here, "are you saying that the lady named Shangguan is causing trouble in all these things? There are many powerful people guarding Wo Mountain, is she trying to trick us into harming her? "
Several people looked at Qian Chao.
"This... is what I'm not sure about," Qian Chao looked at his companions. "Last time at Pinghai Peak, we met the Shangguanhong sisters, and the senior Qiu Huahe, for the egg of Qingluan. , even her master came out to help search for it, which shows how attentive Shangguan Hong is to the Qingluan egg, and according to the publicity of this Shangguan senior sister, if she has really found the egg, Tang Yatou , do you believe that she has come to show off in front of you a long time ago?"
Tang Ping nodded after listening.
"Regardless of why she is like this, at least now it seems that Senior Sister Shangguan is interested in you, right?"
Tang Ping nodded again.
"However, if you take a step back and think about it again, if this matter has nothing to do with Shangguan, and she just heard the news recently like you, what do you think she will do?"
"You should be eager to leave the sect to find the Qingluan egg." Tang Ping said.
"If this matter has nothing to do with that Shangguan Hong, and it is a rumor deliberately spread by someone, who do you think the person behind it is really dealing with?" Qian Chao asked.
Tang Ping thought about it seriously and said:
"Although I have offended people in the sect, I don't have any life-and-death enemies. If what you said is true, and someone wants to set up a plot in Shouwo Mountain, Shangguan Hong may be more likely to be dealt with than me."
Qian Chao nodded and said:
"That's right, that senior sister Shangguan had made countless enemies before. Later, after the great tide in Cold Spring Valley, although her relationship with many senior brothers had eased a lot, they still had deep grudges and there was little contact between them. Maybe someone had suffered from her in the past. Too many people still hold a grudge against her, so they plan to deal with her."
Tang Ping thought for a moment and said:
"Are you saying that this matter is directed at Shangguan Hong? Someone deliberately spread this news just to make Shangguan Hong fall into a trap?"
Qian Chao sighed:
"It would be easy like this. What I'm really worried about is that Shangguan Hong may have seen through this matter, and... for some unknown reason, you, Senior Sister Shangguan, has had undue thoughts towards you, Senior Qiu Huahe. You and senior Gu Huo are brothers in the same school, but Shangguan Hong doesn’t know why. Several times we met, I felt that she had a special kind of deep fear for you. You can also feel this yourself. In my opinion, Shangguan Hong I saw through the layout of Shouwo Mountain, but I didn’t break it. Instead, I started to use this situation to deal with you..."
"What……"
"Listen to me, even if we are safe or sound or even escape with a narrow escape, we probably won't be able to find Shangguan Hong if we trace it afterwards. Don't forget, you and Sister Yan will not be able to find Shangguan Hong until the end. I don’t know who actually saw the big bird outside the sect, and I don’t know who spread the rumor. In the end, I can only find out who is guarding the layout of Wo Mountain. In this way, no matter whether it can deal with us or not, it will not matter to us. For that senior sister Shangguan, there are only benefits!"
Tang Ping was silent after hearing this, and so was Yanxuan.
Li Jian said:
"Killing with a borrowed knife, even if the plan fails, the next step is still to kill with a borrowed knife. This woman is so scheming!"
Lu Pingchuan said angrily:
"Hmph, Brother Qian, can we make her suffer a big loss?"
Qian Chao sighed, looked at Tang Ping again, and said:
"Girl Tang, what I said above are just guesses, but they are also relatively reasonable guesses. The reason why I tell you all this is to let everyone understand that no matter what, there is a great danger waiting for you at Shouwo Mountain. Follow us. The Green Luan Egg is extremely important to Tang Yatou, so we can't give up the opportunity to find out just because someone may be causing trouble. What I mean is, we must go, in case that The Green Luan's Egg is right there. If we don't go there, we'll miss it. But after we go there, we have to rely on Brother Li a lot, and secondly, we have to listen to me on how to get in and out. Also, if I If I find anything unusual, I want everyone to get out of there, and everyone must follow me out immediately, and you must not hesitate."
Li Jian nodded.
Lu Pingchuan said:
"Well, okay, just listen to Brother Qian."
Yanxuan also nodded.
Finally Tang Ping said:
"Then it's up to you. If it's true as you said later, this Senior Sister Shangguan..."
Qian Chao said:
"That's what happens in the future..."
