The night sky is dotted with stars and the bright moon is in the sky.
Shen Xiu was sitting on the central stone bench in the courtyard. In front of the bricks under his feet was the motionless foreign attacker who had broken into the house.
The man in black is lying on the ground now, and the black mask has been taken off by Shen Xiu and thrown aside.
Under the mask is an ordinary-looking middle-aged man with large body joints, a thick build, and thick calluses on his wrists. He is a good martial arts practitioner.
It's just that at this moment, the hands and feet are like twisted rattan, forming an awkward shape. At this time, the eyes are closed tightly, and there is no breathing.
Shen Xiu never shows mercy to those who want to attack him.
Through some operations just now, he has politely asked out the person behind the scenes. It is the grey-haired Tong Tongguang, the veteran second minister of Shang Lin Yun's family.
The purpose of sending people here is to destroy him.
Shen Xiu was not surprised at all by the result of the question.
When he went to Yun's house for the first time, this old guy showed up and threatened him openly and covertly. He probably blocked his way of making money and promised to make it look good.
This idea gradually came to light in his subsequent contacts with the Yun family, and it was confirmed that it was probably a nephew of the old guy who also took a fancy to the position of the Five Enshrinements.
Tong Tongguang, who was also recommended to the Yun family, was almost successful this time, but was defeated by Cheng Yaojin who came out halfway.
Shen Xiu was skeptical about the imminent success of this project. As for the possibility of a dominant family in the worship service, if the Yun family had any ideas, they would not let it happen.
This old guy is obviously not a big-hearted person, and he thinks that he was the one who got in the way and occupied this position.
Now that I want to do something to him, this is completely normal.
After asking, Shen Xiu took advantage of the moonlight to dig a big hole in the courtyard and buried the body under a peach tree, which was regarded as fertilizing it.
The next day, Shen Xiu went to Yun's house and wandered in front of Tong Tongguang. Tong Tongguang was obviously very surprised.
One day after that, when Tong Tongguang went out alone and passed by a remote place, Shen Xiu looked for an opportunity and broke his head.
After that, no one in the Yun family was an eyesore, and it was unpleasant to look for him in front of him. The Yun family also posted a list of Zhang Zhao's offerings.
The days went on bit by bit, and Shen Xiu continued to go back and forth to Xiaoyaoshan, filling his pockets bit by bit with money.
On the way, he often went to and from Shopkeeper Ning's place, looking for any money-making businesses.
"Really? You know the recent gossip, it is said that someone saw some traces of Phoenix Ghost Vine near the southern edge of Xiaoyao Mountain.
This is the main auxiliary medicine for making the Realm Breaking Pill. One plant can be sold for a hundred taels of silver. I also have some news. Do you want to sell it to you for ten taels of silver?"
Shopkeeper Ning behind the counter said with a smile on his face.
Somehow, Shen Xiu felt that some of his last words seemed to be the key point.
So after Shen Xiu paid the price of ten taels of silver, shopkeeper Na Ning stood up and walked to the row of cabinets at the back.
There are various things neatly arranged on the cabinet shelves, and one of the compartments contains bundles of sheepskin files.
Shopkeeper Ning flipped through it casually, and then pulled out a volume from the bottom layer.
Apparently it contained clues about Feng Guiteng's search. Shen Xiu took it and opened it, and a few neat lines of words suddenly appeared on the parchment.
In mid-November last year, some residents of Dayang Town outside the mountains passed by the cliff and faintly saw the Phoenix Ghost Vine.
Below is annotation of the time and place where the Fenggui Vine was seen, as well as the approximate range, all clearly marked on it.
As for this clue, it is neither too much nor too little, but I am afraid it will take a lot of time to investigate them one by one.
After all, the resident's memory of that day is no longer clear. The range marked here is the ten-kilometer radius of the cliff.
The probability of finding a medicinal herb within a radius of ten kilometers is really not very high.
It's just that the Phoenix Ghost Vine is expensive, so now he can only look for it.
Xiaoyao Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, but it is not completely restricted. As one of many peaks, it only occupies a very small part of it.
The rest is an area that will definitely be desolate or undeveloped, and the clue to the location of Fenggui Vine given by Shopkeeper Ning is an insignificant piece of territory on the southern peak of Xiaoyao Mountain.
After reaching the level of martial cultivation in the four realms, the energy in the body has formed a simple circulation throughout the sky, running endlessly, and the physical strength and endurance have greatly increased compared to before.
After traveling more than thirty kilometers, it took him less than half an hour to enter a redwood forest that blocked the sky and the sun.
The trees in this redwood forest are generally several feet high, and the branches and trunks in the forest are criss-crossed and connected to each other, making the space under the forest dark, like the afterglow on the horizon after the sun sets.
These are somewhat similar to the scenes in the Xiaoyaoshan Forbidden Area.
As soon as he stepped into this redwood forest and stepped on the dead branches and rotten leaves, Shen Xiu felt a cold air coming over him.
Looking for the direction in the forest, Shen Xiu followed the cliff recorded on the clues. After arriving, he searched for a long time but could not find it. At this time, Shen Xiu remembered the reminder from shopkeeper Ning, saying that the Phoenix Ghost Vine mostly grows in dark and cold places. place.
So I searched around, and after passing a certain distance, a deep lake came into view.
This lake is hidden deep in the redwood forest. It is surrounded by weeds and thorns. It is very remote and seems to be rarely visited.
It's just that this lake didn't look big. After searching an area with no results, Shen Xiu continued to move forward, intending to search all areas one by one.
After walking for a while, at this moment, a few sparse and incomplete words came from the dark redwood forest ahead, and he stopped for an instant.
"...How are the placement of those runes..."
An old voice sounded in the forest, and the answer was the voice of a middle-aged man.
"It has been arranged. When will it be triggered..."
"The time is not right, we need to wait a little longer..."
"I don't have much time. I met an elder from the Yuanyang Gang a few days ago and he looked at me twice..."
"...That rune needs to absorb spiritual energy, I'm afraid it won't take a while..."
"I suspect that Elder Zhai Qiu is aware of me, and I'm afraid I can't stay any longer..."
"Absorb enough, and it should be able to break open by then..."
"Elder, are you listening to me..."
Even though Shen Xiu was so far away, he could still hear the suppressed anger in the middle-aged man's words.
The word "elder" bites very hard.
Obviously, if it were not limited by status and strength, he would probably kill the elder in front of him alive.