The night sky is dotted with stars and the bright moon is in the sky.
Shen Xiu was sitting on the central stone bench in the courtyard. In front of the bricks under his feet was the motionless foreign attacker who broke into the house.
The man in black was lying on the ground now, and the black mask had been taken off by Shen Xiu and thrown aside.
Under the mask was an ordinary-looking middle-aged man with large joints, a thick build, and thick calluses on his wrists. He was a good martial arts practitioner.
It's just that at this moment, his hands and feet are like twisted rattan, forming an awkward shape. At this time, his eyes are closed tightly, and he is no longer breathing.
Shen Xiu would never show mercy to those who wanted to attack him.
Through some operations just now, he had politely asked out the person behind the incident. It was the grey-haired Tong Tongguang, the veteran second minister of Shang Lin Yun's family.
The purpose of sending people here is to destroy him.
Shen Xiu was not surprised at all by the result of the question.
When he went to Yun's house for the first time, this old guy showed up and threatened him openly and covertly. He probably blocked his way of making money and promised to make it look good.
This idea gradually came to light in his subsequent contacts with the Yun family, and it was confirmed that it was probably a nephew of the old guy who also took a fancy to the position of the Five Enshrinements.
Tong Tongguang, who was also recommended to the Yun family, was almost successful this time, but was robbed by Cheng Yaojin who came out halfway.
Shen Xiu was skeptical about the imminent success of this project. As for the possibility of a dominant family in the worship service, if the Yun family had some ideas, they would not let it happen.
This old guy is obviously not a big-hearted person, and he thinks that he was the one who got in the way and occupied this position.
Now that I want to do something to him, this is nothing more than a normal thought.
After asking, Shen Xiu took advantage of the moonlight to dig a big hole in the courtyard and buried the body under a peach tree, which was regarded as fertilizing it.
The second time Chen Xiu went to Yun's house, he hung out in front of Tong Tongguang. Tong Tongguang was obviously very surprised.
One day after that, when Tong Tongguang went out alone and passed a remote place, Chen Xiu looked for an opportunity and broke his head.
After that, no one in the Yun family was an eyesore, and it was unpleasant to look for him in front of him. The Yun family put up a list of Zhang Zhao's offerings.
The days went on bit by bit, and Shen Xiu continued to go back and forth to the Demon Mountain realm, filling his pockets with money bit by bit.
On the way, he often went to and from Shopkeeper Ning's place, looking for any money-making businesses.
"Really? You know the latest news. Some people saw some traces of Phoenix Ghost Vine near the southern edge of Monster Mountain.
This is the main side medicine for making the Realm Breaking Pill. One plant can be sold for a hundred taels of silver. I also have some news. Do you want to sell it to you for ten taels of silver? "
Shopkeeper Ning behind the counter said with a smile on his face.
Somehow, Shen Xiu felt that some of his last words seemed to be the key point.
So after Shen Xiu paid the price of ten taels of silver, shopkeeper Ning stood up and walked to the row of cabinets at the back.
Various things were neatly arranged on the cabinet shelves, and one of the compartments contained bundles of sheepskin files.
Shopkeeper Ning flipped through it casually, and then pulled out a roll from the bottom layer.
Apparently it contained clues about Feng Guiteng's search. Shen Xiu took it and opened it, and a few neat lines of words suddenly appeared on the parchment.
In mid-November last year, a resident of Dayang Town outside the mountain passed near the cliff and faintly saw the Phoenix Ghost Vine.
Below is an annotation of the time and place where the Phoenix Ghost Vine was seen, as well as the approximate range, all clearly marked on it.
As for this clue, there is neither too much nor too little, but I am afraid it will take a lot of time to investigate them one by one.
After all, the resident's memory of that day is no longer clear, and the range marked here is the ten-kilometer radius of the cliff.
The probability of finding a medicinal herb within a radius of ten kilometers is really not very high.
It's just that the Phoenix Ghost Vine is expensive, so now he can only look for it.
The Monster Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, and it is not completely turned into a forbidden area. As a peak among many peaks, it only occupies an absolute part of it.
The rest is an area that will definitely be desolate or undeveloped, and the clue to the location of the Phoenix Ghost Vine given by Shopkeeper Ning is an insignificant piece of territory on the southern peak of Monster Mountain.
After reaching the four realms of martial arts cultivation, the energy in the body has formed a simple cycle and is running endlessly. The physical strength and endurance have increased greatly compared with before.
After traveling more than thirty kilometers, it took him less than half an hour to enter a redwood forest that blocked the sun.
The trees in this redwood forest are generally several feet high. The branches and trunks in the forest are crisscrossed and connected to each other, making the space under the forest dark, like the afterglow after the sun sets.
These are somewhat similar to the scenes in the Monster Mountain Forbidden Area.
As soon as he stepped into this redwood forest and stepped on the dead branches and leaves, Shen Xiu felt a cold air coming over him.
Looking for the direction in the forest, Shen Xiu followed the cliff recorded on the clues. After arriving, he searched for half of it but could not find it. At this time, Shen Xiu remembered the reminder from shopkeeper Ning that the Phoenix Ghost Vine mostly grows in dark and cold places. land.
So I searched around, and after passing a certain distance, a deep lake came into view.
This lake is hidden deep in the redwood forest. It is surrounded by weeds and thorns. It is very remote and seems to be rarely visited.
However, this lake didn't look big. After searching an area with no results, Shen Xiu continued to move forward, intending to search every area.
After walking for a while, at this moment, a few sparse and incomplete words came from the dark redwood forest ahead, and he stopped for an instant.
"...how are the placement of those runes..."
An old voice sounded in the forest, and the answer was the voice of a middle-aged man.
"It has been arranged. When will it be triggered..."
"The timing is not right, we need to wait a little longer..."
"I don't have much time. I met an elder from the Yuanyang Gang a few days ago. He looked at me twice..."
"...That rune needs to absorb spiritual energy, I'm afraid it won't take a while..."
"I suspect that Elder Zhai Qiu is aware of me. I'm afraid I can't stay any longer..."
"Absorb enough, and it should be able to break open by then..."
"Elder, are you listening to me..."
From far away, Shen Xiu could still hear the suppressed anger in the middle-aged man's words.
The word "elder" bites very hard.
Obviously, if it were not limited by status and strength, he would probably kill the elder in front of him alive.
