Su Yuntian did not dare to take it lightly. He observed the lake surface to prevent any unexpected events.
It wasn't until Su Meng swam to his side and left the lake that the solemn look on his face diminished slightly.
"Who's at the bottom of the lake?"
Looking at his daughter, who was covering her chest with her clothes and her wet black hair stuck to her cheeks, Su Yuntian felt angry.
"I can't see clearly."
Su Meng, who had a round face like an apple and bright eyes, huddled in the grass with her clothes and shouted: "He didn't do anything to me, I was just scared by his sudden appearance."
"That person probably means no harm." He Rong kept urging his old friend to calm down.
Su Yuntian had a cold face and still stared at the lake.
Under the gloomy sky, the lake surface was illuminated by the light of the golden chariot and looked very peaceful.
distance.
Many subordinates loyal to Su and He also stopped their movements and looked at the lake curiously.
After a while, a person suddenly broke out of the lake and looked around blankly.
The man appeared in the middle of the lake, far away from them. His messy hair was stained with water plants, and he looked quite embarrassed.
He raised a spear in the lake, and fishes were strung on the long spear like candied haws.
"It must be a misunderstanding."
He Rong smiled slightly, held down the short blade in Su Yuntian's hand, and said: "He is too far away from Su Meng's position. He is definitely not trying to murder Su Meng or spy on anything."
Su Yuntian breathed a sigh of relief and suddenly shouted: "Little brother!"
When Pang Jian heard the news, he went and saw Su Yuntian, He Rong, and the torn apart golden chariot.
"Crescent Lake."
He also instantly realized where he was at this moment.
This freshwater lake in the Silent Mountains looks like a crescent moon when viewed from above, so it was called Crescent Lake by his father.
In the center of Crescent Lake, there stands a towering peak, and the other end of the peak should be the Black Water Pool.
Unlike Blackwater Pond, which was listed as a restricted area, the Crescent Lake area was a station he was very familiar with.
As a freshwater lake, Crescent Lake is rich in fish and shrimp. Wild animals often come to drink water nearby. It is also the place where he catches wild animals and rests.
He did not expect that there was a stone crevice at the bottom of Crescent Lake, which contained a secret stone path leading to the Blackwater Pool.
Seeing the familiar territory, Pang Jian felt much at ease and no longer worried.
Hearing the shouts from the man by the lake, he looked at Su Yuntian and He Rong in the middle of the wide Crescent Lake.
Soon, he guessed that this group of people, like Zhou Qingchen and Ning Yao, were part of the so-called exploration and search teams of the seven great families.
After a little hesitation, he swam towards Su Yuntian.
However, he did not actually swim to the shore where Su Yuntian stepped on, but landed a little further away from the two of them.
He pulled out flint and wood from a dense area of weeds and dead trees near the lake, and started directly lighting a fire to grill the fish.
He was very familiar with Crescent Lake because the lake was big enough and he had spare materials at several points around the lake.
He has similar secret spots in various areas of the Silent Mountains, and some of them also have reserves of dried meat and grain.
When he lit a fire and removed the fish from the dragon-patterned spear and replaced them with other wooden poles for roasting, Su Yuntian and He Rong started talking in surprise.
"He is very familiar with this place. Also, he seems to have prepared firewood, oil and salt a long time ago." He Rong touched his chin and said thoughtfully: "He should be a local."
"Just go over and ask."
After fully dressed, Su Meng walked out of the grass, rolled her eyes at the sneaky two people, walked straight to Pang Jian, widened her eyes and asked curiously: "Were you fishing in the lake before?"
"Um."
Pang Jian looked up at her and saw that this little girl was similar in age to his younger sister Pang Lin, about thirteen or fourteen years old.
She has a pair of big bright eyes on her round little face, and she has two braids, which makes her look very powerful when she sways.
"My name is Su Meng. I was washing myself in the lake just now. Didn't you see anything?"
Su Meng asked fiercely with her hands on her hips.
Pang Jian shook his head and said casually: "Crescent Lake is very big. I was fishing deep under the water and didn't notice there were people on it."
"Crescent Lake?"
Su Meng looked at the lake and felt that the name was very appropriate. Seeing that Pang Jian had already explained, she restrained the pretentious ferocity in her eyes and said in surprise: "Are you familiar with this place?"
"I am a hunter from Linshan Town. I often go hunting in the mountains, so of course I am familiar with this place."
Pang Jian said calmly.
At this time, Su Yuntian and He Rong also followed.
The two of them looked at Pang Jian. He Rong, who was always cautious, looked at the dragon-patterned spear on the ground and said, "Do you know how to practice?"
Pang Jian's expression remained unchanged, and he made nonsense: "There is an old man who came to the Cenji Mountains a few years ago to look for spiritual materials to make medicine. He asked me to guide him."
"I helped him find the spiritual materials he wanted, and he taught me a practice method and gave me this spear."
Although He Rong was suspicious, he did not continue to ask.
"My name is Su Yuntian, this is my daughter Su Meng, and this is He Rong."
Su Yuntian made his identity clear, lowered his guard, and said in a casual chat: "It's not peaceful here recently, there are some complicated situations. We came from the other side of the Silent Mountains."
"Little brother, since you are a hunter from the Cenji Mountains and live in the nearby Linshan Town, can you tell us if you have discovered any abnormalities recently?"
Su Yuntian humbly asked for advice,
Pang Jian grilled the fish and replied calmly: "Not long ago, huge dead bones fell from the sky. Then there were..."
He looked at the broken golden chariot and said: "Not long after, I saw this chariot, a huge sailboat, and a white tower sinking."
"In the mountains, the ground was shaking for a while, and the animals were roaring all day long. I waited until everything calmed down before going back to hunt again."
Hearing this, Su Yuntian and He Rong exchanged looks.
Suddenly, there was a crisp eagle call, which sounded from above the heads of several people. When everyone looked up, they saw a dark gray eagle hovering above their heads.
This dark gray eagle looked at the people below with strange eyes, and frequently looked at Pang Jian.
It was flying around in mid-air, as if observing Pang Jian from different angles, as if it wanted to confirm something carefully.
Pang Jian was a little annoyed by the sight of it, and when he wanted to draw his bow and shoot the strange eagle to death, he suddenly remembered that his usual bow and arrows had been discarded outside the Blackwater Pool.
The eagle flapped its wings above the heads of several people, and after flying for a while, it headed towards the other end of the mountain.
"Little brother, if you don't mind, you can be our guide."
After the eagle left, Su Yuntian took the initiative to invite him and said with a smile: "We are not familiar with the Cenji Mountains. We just came here not long ago. I am willing to pay."
Pang Jian, who had grilled several fish, was already feasting on it and said vaguely: "I'll think about it."
…
The other side of the mountain.
Blackwater pool.
Luo Hongyan, who possessed Ning Yao, suddenly closed her eyes, connected with the eagle hovering in the air with a spiritual thought, and observed the world below from multiple angles through the eagle.
After a moment, she hummed softly: "I found you."
Behind her, a gray figure that was clearer than Luo Meng floated quietly, and it turned out to be Hong Tai, the dark ghost.
The leader of the dark ghost who had cultivated to the marrow-cleansing realm still fell into her poisonous hands. She extracted his soul and condensed it into a "spiritual evil", turning him into a slave at her disposal.
"That kid never left the Blackwater Pond, but he emerged from the lake at the other end, which means there is a secret passage at the bottom of the pond."
"I just don't know if that dark giant anaconda with only a beast soul is with him."
Looking at the black water pool, Luo Hongyan thought that since Pang Jian had left, maybe the "dark giant anaconda" from the fifth realm would also join him.
Luo Hongyan, who was interested in exploring the black water pool, thought about it for a while and sighed: "The phoenix marrow was sucked into the bronze door by that kid. Only the bones of the dark giant anaconda are left under the water, and I can't take it away."
She immediately gave up the idea.
After a while, her eyes lit up slightly, and she suddenly thought of a brilliant new idea.
Wearing a red dress, she appeared as a spirit in Ning Yao's sea of consciousness, looking at Ning Yao who was imprisoned in the dark with a hazy figure.
"Ning Yatou, tell me your situation in detail, and don't force me to retrieve it through soul searching. I plan to use your body for a while, and I hope you can cooperate well."
"If you search for a soul, your soul will no longer be intact afterwards. You probably don't want that either, right?"
She threatened with a smile.
The illusory and blurry Ning Yao, her soul swaying like a candle in the wind, trembled: "What do you want to know?"
"Everything that happened after you met that kid."
Half an hour later, the hovering eagle flew over.
Luo Hongyan looked at the bag that had been thrown away by Pang Jian and terminated the employment relationship with Ning Yao, and she squatted down and picked it up again with a smile.
She landed on the eagle as Ning Yao and smiled sweetly: "I want to use this bag of broken silver again."
The eagle suddenly flew up.
Several "spiritual evil spirits" such as Hong Tai and Luo Meng turned into drifting gray clouds and followed the flying eagle towards the other end of the mountain.
…
Crescent Lake.
Pang Jian, who had eaten and drank enough, stepped on the fish bones on the ground to put the oil, salt and matches in their place, and then covered them with grass leaves.
Immediately, he stood up with the dragon pattern spear and said coldly: "It's time for me to leave."
He rejected Su Yuntian's invitation.
He found out that He Rong and Su Yuntian were indeed from the bottom two of the seven aristocratic families, and the direction these two families wanted to go was exactly the Black Water Pond on the other side of the mountain.
——He has no intention of returning to Blackwater Pool.
In the bamboo basket on his back, there are many spiritual stones for him to cultivate. He will never starve to death in the Cenji Mountains, and he does not have such an urgent need for money at the moment.
He just wanted to stay away from the crowd and find a place to test his body that had been tempered twice by phoenix marrow.
With Su and He's family nearby, it was inconvenient for him to do anything.
"Okay, we won't force you. By the way, since you were fishing under the lake, why did you turn a blind eye to the broken objects of the golden chariot?" Su Yuntian asked with a look of regret.
Pang Jian replied: "I thought no one would come. I thought I would check the gold items after I caught the fish and had enough food and drink. Now that you are here, I have no idea. I can't rob you anyway."
Su Yuntian laughed dumbly: "You are not greedy, you know how to advance and retreat."
He shouted softly and called an old servant. He asked the old servant to take a purse and hand it to Pang Jian. He said with a smile: "It's just some broken silver. I'll treat it as a reward for asking you for information. I'll wait until you leave."
After returning to the Silent Mountains, this silver coin... is of some use to you."
Pang Jian was a little surprised, but he didn't refuse politely. After taking it, he said: "See you later."
After he left, the people from the Su family and the He family still stayed in Crescent Lake.
They also went to the Crescent Lake to catch fish and used the firewood left by Pang Jian to cook.
A group of people were grilling fish around the fire and were eating happily when suddenly a woman came alone and shouted from a distance: "Where are the Pangjian people?"