Long Ping and others only saw the thing clearly after getting closer. He took a step back in horror.

His face was pale and he almost fainted from scare!

It was a black finger with a small finger like a sharp hook, which looked very much like a human finger, but it was as thick as a baby's arm, and it was covered with blood frozen to dark red.

"This, is this a claw? It's that"

"What are you talking about when you enter the house?" The girl turned around and entered the wooden house without waiting for Long Ping to speak.

Li Qing nodded, and a thorn in his hand pulled out from behind and jumped onto the branch of a dead tree.

"Ah? You're."

"Brush! Brush! Brush!" A few strokes, the top of the tree trunk was cut off for several sections.

"Bang!" The fallen tree trunks happened to be jumped down and held them in his arms.

"Let's go, there's no firewood in the house, right? I'll give you some more."

The bonfire was rekindled in the cabin and the room suddenly became warm.

Li Qing dragged the dead subordinate outside and buried it in the snow.

Li Qing seemed a little afraid and gave a gift to the girl next to the fire, which was a common use of cultivators to hold fists.

The girl returned a bow and sat on the ground.

Long Ping looked at them in surprise. He had never seen any other practitioners except Li Qing and the people in the strange village.

But judging from Li Qing's etiquette just now and his slightly respectful expression, the girl was obviously also a practitioner, and the two seemed to know each other?

"Did you come here from the cliff lake? I don't know that the 'Sky Watch Guard' has arrived here, so please forgive me for being rude and please forgive me."

Li Qing said after saluting again.

This girl was Yu Linglong who was sent here by her "master".

She came here day and night, looking for Joyna and the others to complete the tasks assigned by her master.

The red bead on her head was given spiritual power by the rocker before leaving, and she could feel nearby spiritual power at a longer distance. In addition, she already had a keen sense of spiritual power, which was even more powerful as a tiger.

In fact, she had known that there was someone on the cliff opposite her, and she was a powerful practitioner, but she had been lurking on the roof secretly.

"Well, you actually know the 'Sky Watch Guard'. It seems that you know a lot. Which school of cultivator are you?"

"The Lord laughed. Compared to Ispatin, I am just a small local guard."

"Local guard? Guardian of Guge Mountains!" Yu Linglong's eyes began to flash.

"Are you the guardian of the 'Ancients'?"

"Uh, yes."

Yu Linglong's expression flashed with a hint of uneasiness.

"Wait." Long Ping shouted in a low voice.

"Why are you here? Have you been following us for so many days?"

After saying that, his eyes looked at Li Qing in disbelief, and his expression became confused.

"Yes, not." Li Qing pursed his lips and said.

"After you left, the Great Elder asked me to protect you secretly. But you also saw that two of you died and I failed. I have the responsibility to protect you. Maybe you were dispersed and I had only one person, so I chose to protect you, not your subordinates. But"

There was obviously something hidden in Li Qing's words, and he didn't want to tell them truthfully.

"You mean, another person who went out to hunt, was he dead?"

Although Long Ping had already guessed that one person was seriously injured and struggled to crawl back, while the other person was missing.

Then they probably encountered something, and it was very likely that they were the ones who had green eyes!

However, he still wanted to get a more specific answer from Li Qing.

The girl named Yu Linglong seemed to care about these things. She listened without saying a word.

"Can you tell me what that thing was just now? What you brought back was its finger?"

Li Qing smiled bitterly, knowing that the appearance of this thing could not be hidden no matter what.

"That creature is wild cry. In the past, outsiders called them 'Snow Man'. This is a creature that you cannot know. They are very ancient humanoid creatures, but they"

Li Qing said halfway and got stuck again. He didn't know whether he should explain all this to them.

"What's wrong? Tell me, is the 'bird' you mentioned before referring to this thing?" Long Ping really wanted to know about that creature.

"No! Much more terrible than that"

After that, Li Qing fell silent.

This is the secret of the guards of these "ancient people" and should not be told to outsiders.

However, there was a person who quickly broke the silence.

"They are corrupted by the 'Black Evil'? Right?"

Li Qing and Long Ping were both surprised when they heard this!

The person who talks is naturally the girl - Yu Linglong.

"How did you know? Did you see it all?"

Li Qing asked in surprise and revealed the truth of the matter - the girl was telling the truth.

"Hmph—You are not the only ones who can detect this kind of thing. Our Ispartine has long been."

Suddenly, she realized something and did not continue to talk. She just shook her head gently and bit her lips, as if there was something indescribable.

"Ah! Sure enough, this kind of thing cannot be hidden from your eyes and ears! This kind of mutation has appeared many years ago. But it was just a few individual cases at that time, and it did not attract so much attention from us now."

Li Qing lowered his head and began to ponder.

After a moment, he raised his head and looked at Yu Linglong.

"Honor, is it something you have come here that must be related to this?"

"That's right! I didn't expect to meet you ancient guards on the way to find them."

"Wait, are you looking for us? But I have never seen you before! Do you know Joyna and Xiao Wu? What's going on?"

The girl said thoughtfully: "Joina and Xiaowu? Are these their names?"

"Of course I don't know you. It was someone you know who asked me to come to you. He also asked me to help you. This is a task for me."

"What?! Who is 'he'? What's the mission?"

Long Ping's mind was getting more and more questions.

First, Li Qing protected us along the way, and then this girl, who was obviously a stronger girl named "Sky Watcher", was there anyone who gave her the task of protecting us?

I don’t know what to say. They have been secretly protected by others.

"You must know, that man-'master'."

Yu Linglong said it without hesitation.

"Ah? Master? It turns out that he sent you!"
Chapter completed!