"What's going on? You obviously entered from here, how could you..." Shui Lan stared blankly at the scene in front of him, with a look of confusion in his eyes.

Soon after entering Nanzhou, the two carriages adjusted their positions.

And this is already the fifth time they have returned to the same place.

"Are you sure this is here?" Wei Tunan's expression looked a little gloomy, with some indescribable coldness in his eyes.

"I'm sure." Shui Lan gritted her teeth and turned her gaze to Chu Lan anxiously, "Your Highness, your subordinates..."

"No need to say more." Chu Lan spoke first, and Zhang Qingjiu stepped forward to put Wei Tunan and Shui Lan aside, "I guess some kind of formation must have been used here."

"Array?" several people said at the same time.

Zhang Qingjiu nodded and looked at Shui Lan with a more complicated look.

If it hadn't been for the heart-to-heart talk a few days ago, she might have doubted whether this person would deliberately lead them in circles.

"How could it be possible? Why do we need to set up a formation? This has never happened before." Shui Lan still didn't believe it. She shook her head and wanted to deny this statement, "I used to go back without any hindrance."

"Of course you didn't have the formation when you went back before." Zhang Qingjiu narrowed his eyes and returned to Chu Lan, "That's because you were the only one when you went back."

"What do you mean..." Shui Lan suddenly understood, but quickly retorted, "No, people in our clan will never do such a harmful thing!"

They have been walking around here for nearly a day, and it is already dark now. Just one look at what happens at night in the deep mountains of Nanzhou will make even people who have never been there know how terrifying it is.

And they obviously couldn't get out.

Although she spoke righteously, everyone could hear her obvious lack of confidence.

"People from the Wu Clan are best at using formations. If it was a formation, it would make sense." Wei Tunan frowned and nodded towards Zhang Qingjiu.

"What witch clan?" When Shui Lan heard this word, he immediately looked at Wei Tunan, his eyes a little more wary.

Wei Tunan was stunned for a moment, and looked at Shui Lan with a more complicated look. Finally, he snorted softly and shook his head, "It's nothing."

Although this girl is a descendant of the Wu clan, she obviously doesn't know about some of the past. She has always called herself "a descendant of the Qin family."

"Shui Lan, since you are the young patriarch of the clan, you must have learned the knowledge of formations, right? Take a closer look and see if you can find any clues." Zhang Qingjiu saw that Wei Tunan would not pursue further, so he continued to speak at the right time.

"Let me think about it, let me try." Sure enough, upon hearing this, Shui Lan immediately regained her composure and nodded heavily.

Chu Lan walked over, took Zhang Qingjiu's hand, "Get in the carriage and wait."

"No rush." ​​Zhang Qingjiu gave Chu Lan a reassuring smile and gently shook his head.

She has something that needs to be confirmed.

A quarter of an hour later, Shui Lan opened his eyes suddenly, spat out a mouthful of blood with a pop, his eyes were blank, "How could..."

"Mu Qing!" Zhang Qingjiu's expression changed slightly, and he turned to look at Mu Qing.

Fortunately, Mu Qing did not disappoint. The moment Shui Lan's body was about to collapse, he had already rushed forward.

"Hel her to lie down." Zhang Qingjiu took a deep breath, squatted down, and made seals with his fingers.

"Ajiu..." Chu Lan's pupils narrowed slightly.

"Don't worry, nothing will happen." Zhang Qingjiu glanced at Chu Lan and said, "She has suffered a backlash from the formation. If she is not treated in time, there may be endless troubles."

After saying this, Zhang Qingjiu formed seals with his fingers again.

Chu Lan's eyes darkened, and although she didn't speak again, she kept staring closely at the people around her, with worry clearly visible in her eyes.

Wei Tunan sighed softly, stepped forward and patted Chu Lan on the shoulder, "Don't worry, Xiaojiu'er will not do anything that harms others and does not benefit oneself, and there is no need for you to regard her as a useless person."

Zhang Qingjiu's formation only needed to force out the remaining formations that had just been swallowed up in Shui Lan's body. The person who set up the formation had to save a hand. Otherwise, with Shui Lan's skill, he might have been killed just now.

"Thank you." After Zhang Qingjiu received the seal, Shui Lan slowly opened her eyes, looking at Zhang Qingjiu with a little more unspeakable emotion than before.

She knew that what Zhang Qingjiu said was true.

She also knew that if no one saved her, she might die.

"No need to thank me." Zhang Qingjiu smiled faintly and let Chu Lan carefully pull her into his arms, "You have broken the formation, I can't let you bear everything by yourself."

"The formation is broken?"

"Can you tell?"

Two voices sounded at the same time, and soon after, other people also turned their attention to Zhang Qingjiu.

"So I said, please don't think that me coming here is a burden." Zhang Qingjiu curled his lips, flicked his sleeves, turned around and walked towards the carriage.

Looking at her back, the remaining people fell silent.

Wei Tunan touched his nose, patted Chu Lan's shoulder with a half-smile, stretched out his hand and gave a thumbs up, "Your wife is really amazing."

Shui Lan looked at the figure getting further and further away from her, and suddenly bowed to her.

If she said she knew the formation from the beginning, then the most important person in this team would be Shui Lan.

But she didn't do this. She let them see the difficulty of the matter and her dedication, and even saved her life at the last moment.

At this moment, Shui Lan finally understood that what Zhang Qingjiu was doing was to help her.

The formation was broken and the carriage continued to move forward.

Sure enough, after walking for a full hour this time, we didn't see the big tree with the red rope tied to it again.

But what they didn't know was that at the moment Shui Lan spit out blood, in a round house deep in the mountains, a figure sitting cross-legged also spit out a stream of blood.

It was a man dressed in black and wearing a black hood, whose face could not be seen clearly. Only a small white beard stood out in the dark room.

Not far in front of him was a hot spring pool filled with mist. The water in the pool was as white as milk. In the large pool, there was only a young man who had taken off his clothes and was half leaning against the wall of the pool.

Wiping away the blood from the corner of his mouth, the man's eyes were as cold as ice, and he snorted coldly, with a strange smile on his lips, "You traitor! Do you think you can bring them in like this?"

After saying that, he stretched out his hand again to form the seal.

"How about we take a rest first. I think it won't work if we continue walking." After walking for about half an hour, Wei Tunan opened the curtain and looked at the sky where only the stars and the sun were gone, and he frowned.

head.

Chu Lan nodded, Feng Zhi immediately pulled the reins, and several people got out of the carriage to light a fire.

As the fire rises, so does the warmth.
Chapter completed!