Heading south from Jian Xie's lair, Shangguan Hong was still a little excited. After all, he could finally find Tang Ping and the five people after suffering for several days in the Thousand Needle Pine Forest.
She flew high, far away from where she believed Tang Ping was, and she could get rid of most of the middle-level monsters and birds in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest, and flew quickly towards the south. , this time she showed off her speed without reservation, flying through the air for a while. After holding a cup of tea, in front of her was the mountain peak in the middle of the Thousand Needles Pine Forest. After crossing it, she continued to the south far away, under the moonlight. I saw the outline of a tall mountain below, where the nest of the trumpet bird was located.
The arrow pigeon's nest is in a depression, and the trumpet bird's nest is on the highest peak in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest.
After crossing the mountain peak in the middle, he flew some distance south. He was worried that his trace would be discovered by Tang Ping and the others. After all, it was rumored that the sword cultivator named Li Jian had amazing telepathic power. Danger could be detected from a distance, so Shangguan Hong gradually slowed down and lowered her altitude. The closer she got to the highest mountain, the more cautious she became.
At the same time, the closer he got to the place where the Xiaoxiao bird nested, the more Shangguanhong felt that tonight was unusual.
She could already vaguely see the outline of the mountain peak in front of her, but as Shangguan Hong flew closer and closer, she discovered that the moonlight around her was getting darker and darker. Tonight was a full moon night. At this time, the moon was in the middle of the sky, and the moonlight was shining brightly, at least that was the case when she came all the way from Arrow Swallow's lair. She never paid attention to it, but after crossing the mountain peak in the middle, she looked closer and closer. In the south, the moonlight seemed to be getting darker and darker, which Shangguanhong realized inadvertently.
After noticing something strange, Shangguan Hong hunkered down in the air.
Looking back, the pine forest to the north was silent under the moonlight, but comparing her north and south sides, there was indeed a difference between light and dark. From this, she was convinced that the moonlight was unusual. Looking up again, she saw the same moon that was as silver as a disk in the sky. , why would such a thing happen? Shangguan Hong observed and compared again, and still found that the forest sea below seemed brighter as he went to the north, while the forest sea below seemed to get darker as he went to the south, especially near the peak where the Xiaoxiao bird nested. , just like the arrow pig nest seen before, it was also dark, and the mountain peak where the trumpet bird nested was like a lonely lightless island in the black ocean, and the moonlight seemed to be hidden there. Something in the mountain peak seemed to be swallowed up silently. Originally, there was an extremely powerful existence there. When Shangguan Hong saw this scene, she felt that the mountain peak was both weird and terrifying.
Shangguan Hong suddenly realized that she was almost at the boundary between the light and darkness of the moon.
Further south, she entered darker territory.
And turning to the north, she was back under the bright moonlight.
Tonight, she had already heard three distant bird calls. Judging from the sound, it must be the trumpet bird that made that call. Other demon birds do not have such powerful abilities. Judging from the direction, the sound It also reached her ears from the south of the Thousand Needles Pine Forest, where the nest of the Trumpet Bird was located. From this, she was even more certain that the sharp chirping sound was made by the Trumpet Bird.
Shangguan Hong suspected that Qian Chao disturbed the Xiaoxiao bird when he was setting up the formation, so it chirped like this, but what was going on in the darkness in front of it?
Is it caused by Qian Chao's formation or some other reason?
Is it Hao Xiaoniao’s method?
In short, this kind of situation shouldn't happen.
The most realistic question is, what should she do next?
Should he just turn around and stay away from possible danger?
Or should she continue to move forward to find out what happened, maybe there would be a chance to get rid of those five people in one fell swoop, so that she could feel happy?
Shangguan Hong is a fierce woman and a ruthless person. She believes that the more dangerous the situation, the more opportunities will appear. Therefore, after she has determined that Qian Chao is setting up the formation, Shangguan Hong grits her teeth and continues to launch the attack. The body flew forward.
When heading south, how could Shangguan Hong know that this was a wrong decision?
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There are only two mountains in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest. One is in the middle, with a spiritual spring below it. However, this mountain has no name on the map. The tallest mountain where the Haoxiao bird nests has a name, Jifeng. The Haoxiao bird's nest is not on the top of Jifeng, but halfway up the mountain.
The vision that Shangguan Hong saw was certainly not caused by Qian Chao's formation, because Qian Chao was in the sect at this time, and an unexpected and very important guest came to his residence at this time, and they were talking. .
This vision was caused by Ah Jiu.
Ah Jiu followed Qian Chao's words and got the two small wooden signs with animal tendons from Qian Chao's hands. After that, she waited patiently beside Fairy Guhuo for a few days. When the time was almost up, she could no longer do it. Suppressing his temper, he quietly flew out of the Five Spirit Sect and headed straight for the Thousand Needles Pine Forest.
However, Ah Jiu is unlikely to be as confident in Qian Chao's methods as Tang Ping, so she must be cautious when cooperating with Qian Chao for the first time. Secondly, what she has to deal with tonight is Hao Xiaoniao and Jian Zhi. These two guys have always been coveted but have never been able to get their hands. The reason is that as mentioned before, the strength of these two guys is on par with hers. If she has to, A life and death fight, Ah Jiu is confident that she can win, but she will definitely get injured all over her body afterwards, and the gain outweighs the loss. Even though Qian Chao said that he had arranged a formation to trap both the Arrow Pig and the Xiaoxiao Bird and weakened them, it was Ah Jiu who actually attacked these two guys, not Qian Chao.
What if Qian Chao's formation is not as powerful as he said?
What if the two small wooden signs given by Qian Chao cannot offset the impact of the formation he arranged?
All these made Ah Jiu hesitate before taking action, so the first thing she started was to test.
Ah Jiu’s first target was the Xiaoxiao Bird. In her opinion, the Xiaoxiao Bird was actually easier to deal with than the Arrow Pig. Well, if Ah Jiu had chosen the Arrow Pig at first, then maybe Shangguan Hong would be the target at this time. He had long been frightened and fled the Thousand Needles Pine Forest.
During the probing process, Hao Xiaoniao naturally discovered Ah Jiu, because they had had several encounters before today, all of which were tentative, with no winner or loser. Hao Xiaoniao naturally recognized Ah Jiu. enemy.
Although Ah Jiu is about the same strength as Hao Xiaoniao, Ah Jiu is a spiritual bird that has always been with Fairy Guhuo and has a master. But the Hao Xiao Bird is not like that. It has always been in the wild and is called a demon bird. Although there is only one word difference between spiritual bird and demon bird, there is still a big difference reflected in Ah Jiu and Hao Xiaoniao.
The biggest difference is that Ah Jiu is now considered to have great intelligence. He can transform into a human form, speak human words, and make careful plans for himself. It can be said that Ah Jiu is now a fairy in the world's legends.
This is not the case with the Hao Xiao Bird. Although Ah Jiu is very afraid of it, the Hao Xiao Bird is currently in a confused state of mind and unclear. It is still just a ferocious demon bird that is born with powerful methods. All its reactions and actions All come from instinct.
One more thing to say here is that in the world of cultivation, monsters and birds without masters can also activate their spiritual wisdom on their own, but that requires them to survive a long period of time before they have the chance to reach this point, and they have achieved this. If so, such monsters and birds would be far more powerful than the current Xiaoxiao Bird. Such monsters and monsters would be a monk’s nightmare. Of course, it is possible for them to become friends with the monks, but this situation is rare. There are few, even if there are, they are just legends recorded in the legends of monsters.
Facing Ah Jiu's temptation, Hao Xiaoniao could do very little.
Because it is now affected by two formations at the same time. One is that the spiritual veins gathered by Ji Feng become an indestructible cage under the influence of Qian Chao's formation. Hao Xiaoniao has tried it countless times. , and could never escape from it; the other was Qian Chao's enhanced version of the Soul Locking Formation. After staying in this formation for these days, Hao Xiaoniao was already very weak.
Faced with Ah Jiu's temptation, the Xiaoxiao Bird certainly sensed the approaching crisis, but it could only make a threatening cry in an attempt to scare Ah Jiu away.
The trumpet bird chirped three times in total, all when Ah Jiu came close to it during the test. These three chirps were spread far away and were heard by Shangguan Hong who was also in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest. Especially By the time of the last call, Shangguan Hong had already guessed that the reason why the arrow pig was not attracted by her salivation scent was probably because its nest was arranged by Qian Chao, and then after hearing the third call of the trumpet bird, , she thought that Qian Chao was setting up a formation at Hao Xiaoniao, so she abandoned her arrows and rushed south.
Ah Jiu's test was naturally three times. For the first time, she found that the Xiaoxiao bird was indeed unable to fly away from its nest and come to fight with her in the face of her provocation. At the same time, its chirping sounded weak.
The second time Ah Jiu confirmed that Xiaoniao was indeed a lot weaker, but he could barely maintain an aura of being strong on the outside but strong on the inside, which made Ah Jiu feel much more at ease.
However, in the first two tests, Ah Jiu did not dare to fly within the range of Qian Chao's formation, but she had to do it if she wanted to succeed. Therefore, after gathering up her courage while hovering in the air, Ah Jiu finally made up her mind. , directly spread out its huge wings and flew into the formation that trapped Hao Xiaoniao...
Then she flew out safely. Ah Jiu noticed that the Hao Xiao bird was about to pursue him when faced with such a provocation from him, but instead it hit hard against a transparent wall and fell back. All he could say was A cry that sounded extremely sharp but lacked power, and the most important thing was that Ah Jiu finally confirmed that the two small wooden signs strung with animal sinews given by Qian Chao were really useful!
The ring of animal tendons is now hanging on the neck of one of Ah Jiu's nine heads.
Mr. Qian is really good at it!
Ah Jiu thought to himself, now that the results of the test have come out, it’s time to take action!
At this time, Shangguan Hong was faced with the strange phenomenon at Jifeng and then made up his mind to go and see what happened.
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Chaos suddenly appeared in front of Shangguan Hong.
It was chaos, not smoke or clouds. The silver disk-like moon was always hanging high in the night sky, but the peak where the bird nested in Shangguan Hong's eyes was shrouded in chaos, as if that peak was located The whole world suddenly had its own color, as if the mountain peak was covered in it. This change made Shangguanhong immediately alert. She didn't know that this was Ajiu's accumulation of power and preparation for a fatal blow to Hao Xiaoniao. , she thought this was Qian Chao, this was Qian Chao's formation about to be completed, and she became even more anxious about this.
However, she always felt that she had to avoid the eyes and ears of Tang Ping and others, especially Li Jian, so after seeing the inexplicable chaos in Jifeng, she took a detour and prepared to stay away from the side. close to avoid being discovered.
This move saved Shangguanhong's life.
Shangguanhong's original flight direction was from the peak in the middle of the Thousand Needles Pine Forest to Jifeng. Then when she was still far away from Jifeng, she started to make a big detour. Just as Shangguanhong was already far away. After connecting the line between Jifeng and the peak in the middle, she suddenly discovered that there was a faint electric light appearing in the chaos that enveloped Jifeng.
Then she heard a cry like a baby crying at night from the chaos. It sounded like the sound of countless children letting go of their throats and crying loudly at the same time. The sound was so loud that it was confusing and even more frightening. It's extremely scary when it's spread out in the night!
Shangguan Hong's figure immediately froze. She had never heard this strange and terrifying cry before, but she had heard someone mention it. It was her master. Qiu Huahe once said that her master's uncle had the spirit of a fairy. Qin Ajiu, the cry of that nine-headed bird with the blood of ancient true spirits is as ugly as the cries of many children...
Shangguan Hong could only think of this, because what happened next made it impossible for her to think at all!
Countless sharp rays instantly tore apart and dispersed all the chaos shrouding Jifeng. At the same time, fierce turmoil occurred in the vast space of Jifeng south of the Thousand Needles Pine Forest. There were countless sharp, tough and powerful swords between heaven and earth. Infinitely long silk threads rushed from the horn bird's nest in all directions, up and down, vertically, horizontally and densely, whistling and cutting away with overwhelming force. The worst was to the north, where the large forest was in turmoil at this moment. The cutting caused sawdust flying, branches were broken, and the section was so smooth that when the big trees fell, they slowly slipped from the section. However, they did not wait for the big trees to slip, and then the wind suddenly rose and roared suddenly. , under the moonlight, countless pine trees that had long been incomplete were uprooted and mixed in the huge waves of mud and sand that rose into the sky, rolling and rushing towards the back, and then an extremely sharp and ear-piercing sound was enveloped behind the wind and waves. half of a Thousand Needle Pine Forest.
That was the last sound the trumpet bird made!
Jifeng after the storm, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and the moonlight was bright. The outline of Jifeng was extremely clear under the moonlight. Halfway up the mountainside of Jifeng, a pair of huge wings were slowly folding in, and finally they were hidden in the darkness of Jifeng. Missing within the outline.
Fortunately, Shangguan Hong was far away. Fortunately, Shangguan Hong was far away from the main direction of the sharp scream. But even so, Shangguan Hong was already lying on the ground helplessly. In the storm just now, she was like a piece of wind. Like blades, it first rolled along with the power of this huge wave and then fell weakly. It rolled to the ground for an unknown distance before finally stopping. At this time, Shangguan Hong was lying on her back, her hair was messy, her eyes were white, and her face was like gold paper. Blood seeped out first from her two ear holes, and then from the corners of her eyes and nostrils. She was originally expressionless, as if she was unconscious, and then suddenly With a violent cough, a fountain of blood spurted out from her mouth, staining her dress!
Fortunately, the black fur cloak was still wrapped around her body and had not been lost.
Just like this, Shangguan Hong lay in agony for who knows how long, and then he saw a pair of huge black wings flying diagonally above and heading straight to the north.
At this time, Shangguan Hong realized that things were far from as simple as she thought. At this time, it no longer mattered whether Tang Ping was in Thousand Needles Pine Forest. The most important thing for her now was to leave here immediately, and she was seriously injured. Being in a forbidden area, if the time was longer, she might never have the chance to go back!
Tang Ping, I’ll keep this account in mind for you!
