Chapter 23.
Chapter 23 Out
Night.
The moon stars were sparse, and the silver crossed through the dense foliage, shedding spots of light in the forest.
The Spirit Beast Mountain Range was very quiet, with only the occasional cries of some spirit beasts coming from afar.
“Li An, how did you and Sister Xu meet?”
Tan Qingxue sat on a horizontal log and seemed rather bored as she glared at Li An.
Li An, on the other hand, was resting his eyes with his back against a large, dense tree, and was resting his eyes as he opened his eyes at the words and glanced towards Tan Qingxue.
Why did the other party suddenly care about this?
“Elder Sister, I met Elder Sister Xu because of a rice sale.”
He spoke calmly, but in his heart, he was pondering.
“Elder sister Xu has always told me that you can be smart, and you are also very vigilant …… You are still the first person who can make Elder sister Xu praise you so much.”
Under the moonlight, Tan Qingxue’s pretty face looked very beautiful, but her gaze also seemed to be like moonlight, as if she was trying to penetrate people’s hearts:
“You are also the person I met with the best luck, even Yuan Chun Grass can be met ……”
She focused on Li An and said that she must make you show your true colors today!
Let you hide your clumsiness in front of me!
Li An was alert in his heart, Tan Qingxue had been very neglectful of him, and now she actually wanted to test him?
Was he being exposed to some kind of break? It was unlikely.
It seemed that it should be Xu Qiuhui and Tan Qingxue who had said something.
After a brief thought, he immediately said, “It’s all thanks to Senior Sister Xu’s mention.”
While saying that, he took out the talisman pen that Xu Qiuhui had sold him in the beginning, and sighed softly, “I don’t know how Senior Sister Xu is doing now, in the Inner Sect ……”
He gently rubbed the talisman pen, seemed to be extremely loving, couldn’t help but say, “Senior Sister Tan, Senior Sister Xu, did she …… really mention me to you?”
The words seemed to be somewhat happy.
Tan Qingxue was stunned for a moment, suddenly perceiving …… that this Li An, does he like Senior Sister Xu?
This is quite normal, sister Xu is a proud daughter of heaven in the door, of course there are many people who like her.
“Senior Sister Tan?”
“Oh …… right, she mentioned you.”
“That’s great …… I remember that Senior Sister Xu likes to eat Spirit Plant Mountain’s second ripe spirit rice, and also prefers qi replenishing talismans, can you ask Senior Sister Tan, to send some over for me?”
The topic was successfully sidetracked.
Not long after.
“Senior Sister Tan, I’m going to patrol the surroundings.”
Li An got up and left.
As for Tan Qingxue, she couldn’t help but feel slightly complicated in her heart, after the chat just now, she realized that Li An seemed to know Sister Xu even better than she did……
When mentioning Xu Qiuhui, Li An’s words were sincere and meticulous, and at the same time revealed the inferiority and helplessness of a low-level disciple in this regard.
After all, what kind of character was Sister Xu, an inner disciple with unlimited prospects.
Li An? Talisman above the qualification is mediocre, so many years or practicing qi third layer ……
The man is just a fool’s dream.
“Elder Sister Xu also told me that Li An is so old fashioned in dealing with the world, perhaps, this is just because Li An is careful to curry favor on weekdays ……”
She couldn’t help but shake her head, suddenly feeling that it wasn’t she who was wrong, but rather Senior Sister Xu was wrong ah, Li An is just a pretty honest person well ……
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And in the woods.
Li An, however, was thinking.
He would have to find a reason to leave Tan Qingxue and the others tomorrow.
Fang just now, he used some chatting skills and heart to steer away from the topic, after all, in his previous life, he had many concubines and was not inexperienced with women.
But further contact, he wasn’t comfortable with it.
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Early in the morning, the chirping of birds spread throughout the mountains and forests along with the sunrise.
“Today, go to the Cold Mist Forest, where the Black Needle Giant Ape once appeared.”
Tan Qingxue spoke, and the few people immediately set off.
Cold Mist Forest is full of cold camphor trees, cold camphor trees themselves have spiritual poison, patches of woods emit poisonous gas day and night, directly in the forest formed a layer of mists all over the forest, on weekdays no one dares to go in at all.
Tan Qingxue took out the antidote to poison dan and sent one to each person.
This can’t help but make Li An surprised, Tan Qingxue for this action, really is blood money, antidote poison Dan although also not into the product, but one will have to be about ten pieces of spirit stone it.
His Life Seed came with an antidote function, but he still looked unmoving and took the Antidote Dan.
“It shouldn’t be here.”
Li An observed his surroundings and delicately sniffed the air.
The huge stench of the Black Needle Giant Ape’s feces was incomparable, and in this hot and humid poisonous miasma environment, it would emanate even farther, but he didn’t smell it.
That’s why he dared to follow inside with confidence.
“Hehe, these are the footprints of the Black Needle Giant Ape!”
Since some footprints were found under a thick old tree.
“Parasitic Spirit Vine!”
Li An, on the other hand, looked at the thick old tree’s bushes with delight, a from of blue vines, rooted inside the old tree, had already borne a lot of blue fruits.
“First grade spirit fruit, there are actually so many!”
Jiang You was pleasantly surprised, and immediately climbed up the tree and took down as many spirit fruits as he could.
There were six in total, and since everyone found them together, they were divided equally, with Li An getting one, while Tan Qingxue replenished him with ten spirit stones.
“It seems that the Black Needle Giant Ape came here just to eat this Parasitic Spirit Vine …… Sure enough, this beast is very sensitive to spirit medicine!”
Cao Zhirou couldn’t help but speak.
Although they hadn’t found the Black Needle Giant Ape yet, several people were motivated.
They turned back, but just as they stepped out of the Cold Mist Forest, a voice had already come from their face:
“Hehe, so it’s Senior Sister Tan from the Rune Hall!”
Only to see seven or eight young disciples, waiting outside the forest, the leader of which was a rather handsome young man, and on the left chest of his vestment robe, there was a small furnace tripod pattern embroidered.
Alchemy Hall disciple!
“Senior Brother Qingyuan,” Tan Qingxue frowned slightly, “Why are you guys here as well?”
Qingyuan smiled, “We’re looking for the Black Needle Giant Ape. …… Senior Sister Tan, you guys wouldn’t be in the same boat as us, would you?”
Tan Qingxue’s heart stirred, “No …… we’re looking for other spirit medicines, Senior Brother Qingyuan, you guys found the Black Needle Giant Ape clue?”
Qingyuan shook his head, “No, the Black Needle Giant Ape is very cautious, it should have reached the maturity stage of the second grade spirit medicine, so it’s hiding.”
“Senior Sister Qingxue, you guys just came out from the Cold Mist Forest, I guess, you guys should have used the Antidote Pill to quell the poison, the Antidote Pill’s potency won’t work, the toxin will still stay in your body.”
“I have some Poison Resolving Pills here, so I’ll give them to a few of you.”
He smiled and stepped forward, taking out a small bottle and handing it to Tan Qingxue.
Tan Qingxue was surprised in her eyes, “Senior Brother Qingyuan, the Poison Transformation Pill is worth a lot, I’d better give you the spirit stones ……”
Qing Yuan laughed, “Senior Sister Tan is out of place, the reason I am giving you the Poison Transformation Pill is because I hope that when you find the Black Needle Giant Ape, you can just inform us.”
Tan Qingxue pondered for a moment and said, “Good, then thank you very much.”
She accepted the elixir and turned to leave with Li An and the others.
It wasn’t far to walk.
“Qingxue, Qingyuan is actually so generous, it’s not quite normal ……,” Cao Zhirou reminded.
“Yeah, that’s what I thought too.”
Tan Qingxue directly took out that Poison Transformation Pill and then casually threw it in the grass to the side, even though the Poison Transformation Pill was quite precious, one still had to be careful in this retail mountain range.
Li An, however, couldn’t help but secretly shake his head, the moment Tan Qingxue took the bottle, she had already been trapped.
What was problematic was not the Poison Transformation Pill, but the bottle!
It should have been coated with a colorless medicinal liquid, and the flavor was extremely faint, in this mountain forest, under the smell of rotting grass and trees, bird and beast droppings and other smells intermingled, an ordinary cultivator would not be able to detect it at all.
Although Li An couldn’t guess what exactly this medicinal liquid was, he sensed that from now on, Tan Qingxue, the hunter, had become the Alchemy Hall’s bait!
One could no longer follow Tan Qingxue and the others.
“Hehe, there’s a from of miscellaneous spirit grass there!”
Suddenly, Li An pointed ahead, only to see a small stream flowing through the mountains and forests, flying down at the cliffs of the mountains and forests, and there was a tuft of verdant Mixed Spirit Grass halfway down the middle of the cliffs.
“I’ll go fetch it.”
Li An excitedly opened his mouth and immediately ran over, carefully climbing down the stone wall.
“Li An, it’s too dangerous, there’s no need!”
Tan Qingxue frowned and reminded.
This Li An had this small-mindedness, when it really delayed things, she still had to go to the next location!
“I’ll be quick ……”
Li An quickly climbed down, suddenly, his feet slipped and he let out a miserable scream, his entire body rolling down the cliff slope, his figure quickly obscured by the forest.
“Li An!”
The few people standing on the cliff slope were surprised.
Tan Qingxue was even more anxious and rushed forward, but the cliff slope was too steep and it was difficult to go down for a while, so she could only stand on top and call out, but no one responded.
“This kid made a fool of himself …… with his cultivation of the third level of qi practice, falling from here, I am afraid that he will not survive.”
Jiang You opened his mouth and said somewhat mockingly, “Greedy for small gains and forgetful of his life, after all, he is from a handyman’s background, taking his own life.”
“We go around to the bottom of the cliff, it will take at least an hour, and it is not necessarily possible to find him …… Qingxue, there is no need.”
Cao Zhirou also said, “If he’s not dead, he’s bound to be seriously injured as well, and will only slow down our plan, and if he’s dead, what’s the point of finding him? We should go to Old Vine Slope as planned.”
Tan Qingxue was a bit torn in her mind, mainly because now Qingyuan and the others were also looking for the Black Needle Giant Ape, she had to hurry up.
“Li An!”
Tan Qingxue stood on the cliff slope and shouted, her voice echoing through the mountains.
Pausing for a split second, she finally made up her mind, “Let’s go first, and when we come back, we’ll look for him again.”
Although she had briefly exchanged and spent time with Li An, Li An’s life and death was not so much that it made her pay much attention to it.
“It’s a pity that the Tree Ganoderma and Parasitic Spirit Vine Fruit …… will come back to look.”
Jiang You also whispered.
……
And a long time after they left.
One hundred and fifty meters from the slope of the cliff, Li An was holding the Star Mangled Dagger in his right hand, stabbing deep inside the stone wall, and his entire body was hanging from the stone wall, clinging to the cliff.
He calmly used his left hand, and swung it over the Star Mangled Dagger, and his hand was suddenly flooded with blood, he ignored the pain, and grasped this piece of cliff stone fiercely with his hand to mark it, and then his right arm fiercely exerted force, and this piece of cliff stone was instantly pulled by him and rolled down the cliff wall, while he used the force to leap up to the place where a small gentle slope was located.
Operating the power of the Life Seed, the wound on his palm quickly scabbed over.
This rock rushing down the cliff, still carrying blood, would create traces of someone being injured and rolling down, and ordinary people wouldn’t be able to see it.
However, Li An still didn’t climb up, but waited for a long time again.
After about half an hour, his extremely strong ear power finally heard human voices whispering:
“It seems like one of them, one of them fell from here?”
“It’s hard to survive a fall from here.”
Some people were murmuring.
“We have to make sure that no one survives, otherwise when the sect traces it, it will inevitably reveal the cloven foot …… Qin Wei, you go around to the bottom of the cliff, if he is still alive, exterminate him!”
This was that Qing Yuan’s voice!
After the command, the human voice quickly disappeared.
A quarter of an hour later, confirming that the visitor had left, Li An quickly felt his way up the cliff slope.
He was careful, running his Life Seed to hide his aura, and after searching, he found the bottle of Poison Transformation Pill that Tan Qingxue had discarded in the bushes on one side.
He didn’t pick it up in a hurry, but opened his storage bag, took out a bunch of first-order mid-grade spirit talismans and the Star Mantle Dagger from the storage bag, and slipped them into his sleeve pocket, then used the storage bag as a glove, picked up the bottle, and rubbed it in his hands several times!
“It’s a pity that old me’s Tree Spirit Ganoderma and Parasitic Spirit Vine Fruit ……”
His flesh ached immensely, but things had come to this, there was no other way.
After doing this, he stood up and urinated on the side, then tore off a corner of his vestment and wrapped up a layer of soil that had been moistened by urine before using a tree branch to carefully pluck that Antidote Dan bottle into the soil.
Tying this corner of the robe to ensure it was sealed, he tucked it away into his sleeve.
Only then did he carefully carry the storage bag to avoid staining the scent on the storage bag, touching the edge of the cliff wall once again and throwing the storage bag down the cliff.
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(End of chapter)