I slept on a tree branch one night, and when I woke up, it was already dawn.

When sleeping in the forest, you still sleep on a tree branch. It is definitely not as comfortable as a big bed at home.

However, the two of them are not squeamish people. They have endured a lot of hardships, so sleeping like this for a night is nothing.

They washed their faces and mouth with the mineral water they brought, ate something casually, and then the two of them continued walking forward.

Along the way, we encountered many abandoned thatched houses, which looked like they had not been inhabited for a long time.

Standing in front of a half-collapsed thatched cottage, Xiao Jiu lowered his voice and asked, "Master, have all the people in this mountain moved away?"

Chen Xin'an looked unhappy, shook her head and said, "I don't know either!"

I didn’t expect that this place would turn out like this when I came back this time.

Where have all those masters gone?

Taking a deep breath, Chen Xin'an said to Xiaojiu: "No matter whether there is anyone or not, we have to go find Master Wei's courtyard.

After I finish this work, I will go look for people inside and see if anyone else lives here!"

Xiaojiu nodded and continued to move forward with him.

When we came to the big crooked-necked tree, not far away was Master Wei's small courtyard.

But Chen Xin'an was stunned when she stood under the tree, because this area was full of grass and trees, and there were no houses at all!

"Why are they gone? There used to be quite a lot of people living here, there were five or six families!

Master Wei, Sangu Mei, Big Trumpet, Lao Niutou...

Where have they all gone? Have they moved away a long time ago?"

Xiaojiu stood next to Chen Xin'an, comforting him and saying, "Master, don't worry, the terrain here is almost the same, are we going astray?"

Chen Xin'an shook his head with a wry smile, sighed and said: "Even if I close my eyes, I won't find the wrong place here, so how could I go astray?

By the way, come on, let’s go and have a look in front!”

Chen Xinan ran forward with his backpack on his back, and Xiaojiu quickly followed behind him.

Soon he came to a patch of grass. Chen Xin'an bent down and looked carefully for something.

"Master, what are you looking for?" Xiao Jiu asked strangely.

Chen Xin'an didn't say anything, she just lowered her head and walked forward, but not very fast.

Suddenly, an excited look appeared on his face, and he said to Xiaojiu: "Here it is! It's still there!"

Xiaojiu quickly ran over and stood beside him. When he lowered his head, he saw that it was a rough bluestone slab!

"What... is this for, young master?" Xiaojiu looked at the bluestone slab at his feet with a strange look on his face and asked Chen Xin'an.

Chen Xin'an stepped on the stone slab, assumed a martial arts posture, and said while punching:

"This is the practice stake I have used since I was a child. The pits on it were all made by me."

Xiao Jiu stared dumbfoundedly at Chen Xin'an practicing on the stone slab, and was shocked beyond measure.

"Master, this slate doesn't look thin, it must be very hard.

How could you step into so many pitfalls?

Even if it was so powerful, why didn't the stone slab crack?"

Generally speaking, if this kind of hard stone slab is damaged by a large amount of force, it will crack and break.

It's a bit weird to see the pits formed by the footprints made by one foot after another.

This slate is not tofu!

Chen Xin'an's boxing posture is very strange, as if she is doing Tai Chi. Every move is very slow, but this is obviously not a Tai Chi boxing stance.

Each of his feet landed in the holes on the bluestone slab without any deviation.

Xiao Jiu suddenly realized it, looked at Chen Xin'an and said, "Master, this is where you practice your inner strength?"

Chen Xin'an nodded and said to her: "Yes! My inner strength was brought in by Master Wei.

He took me to practice Qigong under the waterfall in the back mountain. When I came back, I had to punch and walk on the bluestone.

You must beat out all the power that hit you under the waterfall from your body!

As time went by, the footprints on the bluestone became deeper and deeper, forming pits one after another, and my inner energy began to show up."

Naturally, Xiao Jiu had never heard of such a practice method, but she wouldn't be surprised.

The inheritance of ancient Chinese martial arts has a long history, and each master has his own unique method of leading his disciples.

It was like Master Meng used many ingenious methods to train her.

"So, this must be Master Wei's courtyard, right?" Xiaojiu looked at Chen Xin'an and asked.

Chen Xin'an nodded, slowly stopped working, stopped his posture, walked down from the stone slab, opened his backpack, took out the folding engineer shovel from it, and started digging.

This is a big project, and even Chen Xin'an has a hard time doing it.

Xiaojiu stood aside and wanted to help him, but he refused.

This kind of purely physical work is not something girls can do.

Chen Xin'an spent the whole morning digging holes here.

With the bluestone as the center, a five-meter radius was the scope of Chen Xin'an's digging.

We don’t dig deeply in any place, and the depth is about 70 centimeters at most.

After working until noon, Chen Xin'an's hands had already developed blisters. After they burst, blood and pus came out. Now they are miserable.

"Master, stop digging! Drink some water and eat something quickly!" Xiaojiu grabbed Chen Xin'an's arm and forced him to stop.

Chen Xin'an thrust the shovel into the ground and took the mineral water bottle handed over by Xiaojiu.

But just a natural action of drinking water, Chen Xin'an was actually doing it extremely hard at this moment!

He was holding the bottle in his right hand and it was shaking so hard that the water spilled all over him and he couldn't put it into his mouth!

Xiao Jiu looked distressed, with red eyes, took Chen Xin'an's mineral water bottle, put it to his mouth and fed him water, and said carefully: "Master, are you sure the thing is really down here?"

Chen Xin'an sighed and shook his head.

He didn't know if Wei Qingyang really meant something else when he repeated this incident. It was just a guess, and it would be normal if he guessed wrong.

Xiaojiu comforted him and said, "It's okay, young master. How about we make sure again? You make a call or something, and we can come back to pick up the things after we figure it out."

Anyway, you can’t dig anymore, look at your hands, if you keep digging like this, the injury will be more serious!”

Chen Xin'an sighed and said: "There is no time! There are only five days, three days have passed, and there are only two days left.

If those things are not found, Master Wei will die!

Those people will not let him go."

What is even more serious than Wei Qingyang's death is that the Hongtang Society will fall into civil war, then fall apart, and eventually die out completely.

It's just that Chen Xin'an doesn't care about such a result at all, so he doesn't take it seriously.

What he is most nervous about is Wei Qingyang's safety!

Hearing what Chen Xin'an said, Xiaojiu couldn't persuade him any more and just said with distress:

"Then I'll apply the medicine for you first, then you take a break and let me take over for you for a while!"

Chen Xin'an looked at Xiao Jiu's concerned look, nodded and said, "Okay!"

Putting down the things in his hands, Xiaojiu opened his backpack and took out the bag that had been prepared in Dongshan, which was filled with first aid items.

The two of them sat on the bluestone floor. Xiaojiu held a bottle of alcohol and said to Chen Xin'an: "Master, please bear with it, it will hurt a little!"

Chen Xin'an nodded and smiled at her.

Xiao Jiuyi gritted his teeth and poured the alcohol in his hand onto Chen Xin'an's open hands.

Seeing the white foam rising from the wound, Xiaojiu felt the severe pain for Chen Xin'an, but Chen Xin'an's face was calm and calm, as if he didn't feel anything.
Chapter completed!