Lin Xin held a torch in one hand and a sword in the other as he slowly explored the road, stopping from time to time to listen carefully to what was going on in front of him.
Xiao Lingling followed him and carefully used her unique sensing method to sense danger in the surrounding environment.
"Brother Lin Lin." She suddenly approached Lin Xindao softly.
"What's the matter?" Lin Xin replied in a very soft voice.
"Have you ever felt that someone is following us all the time?" Xiao Lingling said in a voice like a gnat.
In this quiet environment, although her words were low, Lin Xin could still hear her clearly due to the close distance between them.
"Can you feel it?" Lin Xin didn't expect Xiao Lingling to be able to detect the traces of the man in the dark. When he met the big rooster just now, he had been thinking about how to lure the man out. Now that Xiao Lingling said this, he
Suddenly something came to my mind.
"Well, I can feel it a little bit." Xiao Lingling nodded. "I suspect it was the guy who deliberately threw the signal bomb to provoke the rooster monster just now."
Lin Xin pondered for a while.
"Don't worry, you will find an opportunity."
Xiao Lingling said no more.
The two of them stopped and walked, resting every few hours, eating something and drinking some water. Then they continued on their way. It was basically impossible to distinguish between day and night in the cave. They could only judge whether it was time to sleep or rest based on their physical condition whether they were sleepy or not.
Already.
The black cave passage continued diagonally downward for about a day. The temperature was getting lower and lower, and some thin layers of ice and hoarfrost gradually appeared on the cave wall.
But some fine branches and dry firewood gradually began to appear in the passage, as well as many blood-colored symbols on the walls, which looked a bit strange.
"This should be close to the gathering place of blood beasts." Lin Xin walked to a pile of firewood that had been extinguished, squatted down and touched the remaining warmth of the ashes of the fire.
"It's been cold for a while."
"Can we still be burned? It's getting colder and colder here." Xiao Lingling crossed her arms and looked a little unhappy.
"Find a suitable place to make a fire and rest." Lin Xin looked down the passage. "Is there any firewood that has been burned out?"
The entire passage is about ten meters wide and more than ten meters high. The cave wall is full of pits and depressions in many places, like a very shallow cave.
He looked around, using the light of the torch, and quickly found a recessed hole in the wall.
"Come here."
The two of them picked up all the firewood they could collect around them and piled it into the hole in the wall. Then, using the angle of the depression to avoid the wind, they used flint and steel to light some dry firewood leaves.
The fire soon lit up in the hole in the wall.
The orange-yellow halo swayed slightly, and along with bursts of thick smoke, it quickly spread in the passage and floated to both sides.
Lin Xin stood at the entrance of the cave with a sword in hand, focusing on the situation.
"This kind of smoke will definitely attract nearby creatures. I'll wait for a while."
"Then I'll make some hot water and food." Xiao Lingling said quickly.
Lin Xin responded and was about to continue speaking when he suddenly fell silent and looked carefully towards the front of the passage.
I saw a black-haired horseman holding a sickle, slowly walking towards this direction step by step, making a hissing and sniffling sound as he walked, as if following the smell of fireworks.
Lin Xin coldly faced him with his sword.
"Just in time to test the strength of this blood beast."
What he drew was an ordinary long sword. Before the blood beast could react, he took a few steps and struck out with the Big Pine Yang Needle with a shaking hand.
Chi Chi Chi White light floated towards the centaur at six o'clock. Before it could react in time, it fell hard on its arms holding the sickle.
As soon as the Songyang needle was touched, Lin Xin felt that the blade of the sword was slightly obstructed, as if it was piercing through thick leather glue.
It didn't penetrate very deeply, but I heard the centaur roar.
'mother!'
It exerted force with both arms, and the sickle swept over fiercely, slashing towards Lin Xin's neck.
The huge black scythe turned into a black shadow and smashed towards me, like a black python, bringing up gusts of evil wind.
"Yuanyang Yiqi!" Lin Xin did not flinch, and used the strongest sword move of Wuyan Sword Technique. His sword surrounded a large amount of scorching air and faced him fiercely.
Sword and sickle collide head-on.
Bang!
The hot air rushed towards the centaur at the moment of the collision, causing it to roar in pain. The black hair all over its body was scorched, curled up and stuck to its body, and its arms holding the scythe were also burned.
It blistered and hit the previous wound.
The arm was in pain, and it made a sickle sound and fell to the ground.
The huge force also made Lin Xin take more than ten steps back before slowly standing still and releasing the huge force.
A trace of rosiness flashed across his face,
"What a strength."
At this time, the horseman's arms were covered with hot and raised blisters. It turned around and tried to escape. As soon as it took a few steps, Lin Xin caught up with it and stabbed the back of its neck with a sword.
The first sword penetrated, but he was not dead yet, only a small part of it penetrated. Lin Xin once again burst out his inner energy and increased his strength.
laugh.
The sharp sword penetrated the centaur's neck, and its tall body suddenly became stiff and motionless. After a few seconds, black blood surged down the wound.
Lin Xin pulled out the sword blade fiercely and shook off the black blood on it.
With a bang, the centaur finally fell down.
"It took two consecutive tricks to kill him. It was a bit difficult for me with my fourth-level innate energy, let alone other ordinary second- and third-level disciples." He walked up to the horseman and kicked the big guy to confirm it.
He stopped moving. Then he slashed at the centaur's head with his sword.
At this moment, the centaur on the ground suddenly melted and quickly turned into a black liquid that evaporated. The rising black smoke faded into the air and disappeared in a few seconds.
Only a small piece of blood-red bone was left on the ground.
Lin Xin's sword also hit the empty space.
He was slightly curious and looked at the bone fragments on the ground.
The bone fragments are blood red, half-moon shaped, and are as smooth and moist as glass. They are only as big as a thumbnail.
Lin Xin picked up the bone fragments and observed them carefully.
"Is this the so-called blood beast skull?"
"Brother Lin, are you okay?"
Xiao Lingling shouted from behind with some fear.
"It's okay." Lin Xin replied. He sensed his own inner energy and calculated secretly. "There is still half of the inner energy. This trick is really not something that can be used casually. After using it twice, it can dismount the horse in seconds.
People, but the consumption is huge. It seems that Xiantian only increases the innate Qi, but the total amount of internal Qi is still not enough."
He stayed in the passage for a while, and when he felt there was no movement, he returned to the cave and bent down to sit down.
The fire was already burning brightly, and the warm heat immediately drove away the chill in the air nearby.
Xiao Lingling was taking out some prepared metal utensils, pouring out water and dried meat, and hanging them on the fire to bake and make soup.
Not long after, when the water in the pot boiled, the dried meat began to turn and roll as it cooked.
Xiao Lingling took out another stack of white dry cookies and gave one to Lin Xin.
"Brother Lin, this is a special dry food cake. One piece can be worth a full meal."
Lin Xin took it and squeezed it. He felt that the cake was thick and a little hard, as if it was pressed tightly.
He took it off and put it into his mouth. It was almost like dry and hard steamed buns, some were sweet and some were sour.
Xiao Lingling filled a bowl of broth by herself, then took out her own black chocolate beans and started eating them with the cake.
"Du Shi Dan can be eaten with hot soup, and the effect will be slightly better."
Lin Xin also took out the chocolate beans. This was the Du Shi Dan that Xiao Lingling said.
The two quickly ate and drank, collected the food and its leftovers, and sat around the campfire to keep warm and rest.
"Brother Lin, do you think those people from the Poison Gang will catch up from behind?" Xiao Lingling no longer had the charm of the past, but as if she had taken off her mask, she hugged her legs and sat on the fire.
He looked at the flames blankly, regardless of his dirty clothes.
"I don't know." Lin Xin shook his head slightly. "I don't know if the square is the only passage we came in. If there are other passages, then they may not come in."
"It's just the two of us." Xiao Lingling lowered her voice, "Actually, Brother Lin." She opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but she paused again.
Lin Xin waited for her to continue speaking. After waiting for a long time, he saw her staring blankly at the fire, not knowing what she was thinking.
"What do you want to say?" He began to slowly adjust his breath and internal energy, turning the food he ate into replenishing his internal energy, and at the same time regaining his physical strength as quickly as possible.
Xiao Lingling looked a little lonely.
"It's nothing." She reached out and grabbed a strand of hair on the right side of her hair, and gently twisted it around her hand.
"I originally thought that I could make good use of others, and use those lustful men to steadily improve my cultivation step by step and protect myself. It was only this time when I entered the hole that I realized that my thoughts were really naive." She flashed her face.
A wry smile passed.
Lin Xin didn't know how to answer the conversation. This woman seemed to regard him as a trustworthy good person, so he didn't say much and simply listened in silence.
Xiao Lingling seemed to have been holding it in for a long time and finally had a chance to talk.
"Brother Lin, actually you don't know that before you saw me, I was chased by another monster who could pretend to be someone else. I met Senior Brother Guang and another guy who was usually very attentive to me."
When she said this, she paused and couldn't help but let out a chuckle.
"With my small-scale light skills and strong sensing ability, I narrowly avoided being chased many times. I begged Senior Brother Guang to save me. But he seemed to be frightened by the monster that could disguise itself as someone else, and he was afraid that I was also pretending. Regardless.
No matter what I say, they won't let me get close or save me."
"Isn't this normal?" Lin Xin added softly. "You don't have to worry too much, after all, they won't be able to tell whether you are real or fake for a while."
"But Brother Lin, you can!" Xiao Lingling suddenly raised her head, staring at him with bright eyes, looking straight into his eyes. "They have been surrounding me all day long, but they still can't tell whether I am real or fake, but Brother Lin, you
But he recognized me right away."
There was something in her words, and there seemed to be something deeper that she didn't say.
Lin Xin couldn't bear to continue, so he just lowered his head and avoided her sight.
"You are thinking too much."
Xiao Lingling couldn't help but lower her head, but her cheeks seemed to be a little red from the fire.
The two were speechless for a moment, Lin Xin silently adjusted his breath to restore his inner energy, and Xiao Lingling concentrated on helping him sense the safety around him.
It was quiet in the passage, except for the faint sound of the burning fire.