Xia Chen said respectfully: "Master, please give me your instructions."
"Within a month, whether you rescue the girl or not, you must return to the sect." Han Dongyu looked at him and said, "Otherwise, you will bear the consequences."
Xia Chen's shoulders stiffened slightly, then he regained his composure and said, "Yes, the disciple will be back within a month."
One month is very tight. According to what Li Yatong said about the distance between Lingzhuang and Zhengxuan Sect, it would take at least half a month to go back and forth. This means that there are only ten days in between to find and rescue people.
Moreover, Lingzhuang is only the vaguest place, which means that even the most rough investigation will take at least seven or eight days, not to mention looking for clues. How can it be done in a month?
But Xia Chen still agreed, and it was useless to beg Han Dongyu for more time. With this time, it was better to get on the road immediately.
After leaving the medicine garden, Xia Chen went to Chen Qiushui's small courtyard again. So far, Chen Qiushui has not moved into the new cave mansion and is still living in the original small courtyard.
"Just give you a month? How is this possible?" Chen Qiushui said in surprise.
"Yeah, it's not enough, but there's nothing we can do." Xia Chen smiled bitterly. He didn't come here to complain, but had other things to do, but by the way, he just wanted to vent his dissatisfaction.
"How about I go find Han Dongyu and ask him to give him a few more days?" Chen Qiushui asked tentatively.
Xia Chen shook his head. He is Han Dongyu's disciple. If Chen Qiushui is allowed to speak for him, won't it make Han Dongyu more suspicious? Oh, my disciple won't tell me what he has to say, but he will ask you to say it. What's the point?
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Chen Qiu Shui Bingxue was smart and naturally understood the key. He sighed and said: "I told you that I would go with you, but you didn't listen. If I were here, Han Dongyu would not only give you a month, but he
He didn't restrain you before, why did he do it this time? Doesn't he want to save that girl? "
Xia Chen was silent and hesitated for a long time before saying, "Han Dongyu wants to do harm to me, so he doesn't want me to go too far."
"What!" Chen Qiushui was shocked. This was shocking news. She saw how Han Dongyu treated Xia Chen and couldn't believe it no matter what. However, the words coming from Xia Chen's mouth could not be false.
She suddenly realized the seriousness of the problem. Xia Chen had never told her about this before. Xia Chen must have noticed that Han Dongyu was unfavorable to Xia Chen. Xia Chen shouldn't have said it before.
But now, this threat should be very close at hand.
"What can I do?" Chen Qiushui asked directly.
Xia Chen glanced at her, feeling quite relieved in his heart. Chen Qiushui didn't say how to eliminate the threat because everything was calm and nothing happened. And even if she was promoted to a first-level magical monk, she couldn't find an old first-level magical monk.
He can only help Xia Chen indirectly.
"I want Yuan Stone, senior sister." Xia Chen said straightforwardly. His biggest reliance is Xiao Hei, and Xiao Hei needs to consume Yuan Stone. The amount of Yuan Stone can directly determine the size of his trump card.
"The more, the merrier," he added.
"I originally saved some, and later I was promoted to a first-level magical monk. The ancestor gave me some more. There are more than twenty yuan in total. I will give it all to you." Chen Qiushui said.
As she spoke, she took out a bag from the cabinet and threw it to Xia Chen.
"Senior sister, what about you..." Xia Chen asked.
Chen Qiushui knew what he wanted to ask, and smiled and said: "First-level magical monks have a supply of at least ten yuan stones every month, so you don't have to worry about me. If these yuan stones are not enough, I can borrow some more for you.
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"That's enough." Xia Chen shook the bag, and twenty Yuan Stones were enough to blast the seriously injured Blood Puppet Poison Lord into dregs. These Yuan Stones were enough to deal with a first-level monk with peak magical power.
He had confidence in his heart, and couldn't help but feel envious. He thought that it would be better to be a monk with the first level of supernatural power. Every month he would sit still and sit still, he would earn ten yuan stones. When he wanted yuan stones, how could he not rely on borrowing and grabbing them?
A cornucopia of prodigal wealth, I don’t know when it will be possible to copy Yuan Stone as quickly as copying paper money...
After coming out of Chen Qiushui's yard, Xia Chen went to see Li Yatong again. After a few hours of rest, the eldest lady of the Li family recovered fairly well, and her eyes were somewhat energetic, but there was still a very frown between her eyebrows.
Melancholy.
Xia Chen knew that she was worried about Li Qitong, so he comforted her a little, asked about the circumstances of her escape carefully, asked Sun Li and others to take care of her, and then returned to the medicine garden.
He originally planned to go down the mountain this time and not come back until he broke through the realm of supernatural powers. But he didn't expect that Han Dongyu only gave him one month, which immediately disrupted his plan. In any case, it would be impossible to break through the supernatural power in one month...
It seems that after returning, the only way to use the method of pretending to be a realm is to use it, Xia Chen thought to himself.
Eight days later, Xia Chen appeared at the place Li Yatong mentioned in Lingzhuang.
Looking at the endless mountains stretching as far as the eye can see, Xia Chen couldn't help but smile bitterly. This Lingzhuang is indeed as Li Yatong said, with some villages and market towns scattered here and there, but they are also too far apart. The two nearest villages or market towns are dozens of miles away.
They are far away, and it is obvious at a glance that these people are ordinary people, and there is no mysterious sect of cultivation.
It seems like this is a huge project, Xia Chen thought.
Along the way, he asked about the Xue family or the practice sect, but the villagers and townspeople not only had never heard of any practice sect, but they didn't even know what practice was. Instead, they looked at him with strange eyes.
It wasn't until I asked about the seventh market town that an old man in his sixties tentatively asked: "Young man, are you looking for monsters? This is a taboo for mountain people."
"Monster?" Xia Chen was startled, then his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes, old man, I am just looking for the monster. Do you know where the monster is hiding?"
If there are cultivators with amazing methods, wouldn't they be just monsters to these ignorant mountain people?
The old man looked at him with turbid eyes for a long time without saying a word. It was not until Xia Chen felt that his heart was frightened that he shook his head and sighed: "Young man, although you look a bit ugly, you are young, why do you have to seek death?"
?Those monsters can scare a person to death. I heard they eat people without spitting out their bones. Don’t get carried away."
Xia Chen thought to himself, am I that ugly? He said loudly: "Old man, it's okay, I look a little bit ugly, I can scare those monsters to death, and I can be considered as killing harm for the people."
The old man was very happy. He patted him on the shoulder and praised the young people today as being better and more enlightened than his descendants. None of his descendants could catch up with Xia Chen. If Xia Chen hadn't been a bit awkward, he might have.
Marry your granddaughter to Xia Chen.
When Xia Chen asked about the specific location of those "monsters", Xia Chen left as if fleeing. For him to marry the old man's granddaughter, he might as well go into the mountains to feed the monsters.
In the next five days, Xia Chen wandered around the "monster" land, but he didn't see even a single monster hair, let alone a cultivator. Looking around, there were wild animals and plants all over the mountains and plains. If
Traveling is a good place, but unfortunately I can't see any spiritual sects, which makes me very anxious.
Could it be that the old man had tricked him? Or he hadn't found the right place? According to Li Yatong's description, there was thick fog where she escaped, but after entering Lingzhuang for such a long time, why didn't she find any fog anywhere?
In the evening, Xia Chen sat silently by a fire, frowning, wondering if he really had to go home empty-handed? How could he see Li Yatong when he went back? How could he explain it? But if he didn't go back, Han Dongyu had already said that there would be consequences for him
conceited.
As for the consequences... Xia Chen doesn't know, and he doesn't want to know. However, Master Han is very angry, and the consequences must be very serious. He doesn't have the strength to challenge others yet.
Xia Chen, who was deep in thought, did not notice that a ferocious and huge shadow was slowly approaching from a distance of a hundred feet away. The huge body walked on the soft dead branches and leaves, but strangely did not make any sound.
Xia Chen didn't notice anything at all, but his eyes were filled with deep thoughts. He looked at the sparks flying in front of his eyes, and his expression was uncertain.
The huge shadow kept approaching, getting faster and faster, like sprinting for 100 meters, but it still made no sound strangely, and even the wind did not fluctuate. If you didn't look back, you wouldn't have noticed such a silent movement.
attack.
Just when this ferocious shadow was only a few feet away from Xia Chen, it suddenly jumped up, turned into a rapid black shadow, and shot towards Xia Chen, delivering a fatal blow.
Xia Chen still didn't turn around, but suddenly made a slight stroke with his hand, and a blazing edge suddenly flashed out, accurately cutting the ferocious black shadow into two pieces.
A low, painful whine came from half of the black shadow's mouth, but it soon turned into a painful whimper, and then became silent.
Although he didn't look back and didn't hear any sound, with Xia Chen's keen senses, how could he not detect the clumsy sneak attack behind him?
Xia Chen slowly turned around and glanced at the guy on the ground who had just died and attacked him. He couldn't help but be slightly startled: "Spirit-loving rat?"
The spirit-loving rat is a type of monster. All monsters, even the weakest underage monsters, are ten times more ferocious than adult beasts. Although they are rats, the spirit-loving rats are much more powerful than tigers and lions.
However, the dead soul-devouring rat did not have the tall and ferocious figure that it had during the sneak attack. It was only about a foot long from beginning to end. The reason why it had such a tall figure was entirely due to its bluffing. This is a monster.
One of the beast's magical talents.
However, this talent is enough for the spirit-loving rat to frighten beings that are weaker than it. However, if it faces an enemy that is more powerful than it, it will be like superfluous and of no use.
Even those with acquired sixth-level cultivation can easily defeat the underage spirit-loving rat. However, because this little thing looks quite cute, many female practitioners tend to have overflowing sympathy and keep it as a pet.
Xia Chen looked at the soul-eating rat that had split into two pieces, dripping with blood, and could no longer be called cute, and suddenly showed a thoughtful expression.