Seeing Jin Xiaochai's expression becoming increasingly unkind, Mo Ning and others immediately stopped laughing, but their eyes still looked like they were watching a good show.
Cai'er's behavior made Shi Mu feel angry and funny.
But after all, he brought this Cai'er himself, so he had to hand over to Jin Xiaochai and smooth things over:
"Uncle Jin, please calm down. You have a distinguished status and you won't be fussy with a parrot."
"Oh, since my uncle has a noble status, you will definitely listen to what I say, right?" Jin Xiaochai rolled his eyes, put down the whip in his hand, and asked with a smile.
Before Shi Mu could answer, a noisy voice sounded again.
"Shitou, you can't listen to this woman. She must want you to kill Cai'er. Cai'er is very obedient. Cai'er's meat is smelly and really doesn't taste good!" The parrot raised half of its wings, revealing
One eye cast a sly glance at Jin Xiaochai, and then he shouted in a low voice.
Shi Mu was speechless for a while, and when he saw Jin Xiaochai's eyes were about to burst into flames, he looked like he was about to explode. Before she could speak, he quickly turned to Cai'er and said sharply:
"Cai'er, Master Jin is the elder of my sect and his cultivation level is much higher than mine. If she insists on killing you to make soup, I won't be able to do anything about it."
"Uncle Jin, sir. Cai'er was just joking with you just now. Don't mind it. You are so beautiful and intelligent, and so wise and powerful, how could you like this stone..." The parrot heard this, and his little eyes showed a smile.
With a look of horror, he quickly said to Jin Xiaochai to please him.
"If you keep nagging, I'll pluck your hair out first without the need for Master Jin to take action." Shi Mu glared at Cai'er, forcing her to swallow her next words.
The three people watching Mourning wanted to laugh in their hearts, but they couldn't afford to offend either of the two people in front of them, so they could only lower their heads and hold back until their faces turned red.
"Forget it, this parrot is quite sensible. I'll forgive him because I don't remember the faults of villains. Shi Mu, come here. I have something to tell you." When Jin Xiaochai heard Cai'er's flattery, the corner of his mouth curled up slightly.
It seemed to be quite useful, so he put away the whip. After licking his fingers at Shi Mu, he turned over and mounted the maroon horse, turned the horse's head and walked out of the valley.
Hearing this, Shi Mu got on his black horned horse and drove towards Jin Xiaochai. Moning and the other three also got on their horses and followed closely behind.
Soon, Shi Mu and Jin Xiaochai were driving their horses side by side.
"Shi Mu, you escorted Princess Huowu all the way to the Holy Mountain. You should be quite familiar with the barbarian wasteland, right?" Jin Xiaochai asked.
"I've been in the wilderness for several months, so I can't say I'm familiar with it, I can only say I have a little understanding of it," Shi Mu said.
"This time when we go to Tianmo Sect, we could have taken the sea route. However, the situation along the coast is now tense, so we have to find another way and try to cross the barbarian wasteland. You can arrange the route for this journey." Jin Xiaochai said.
"Okay." When Shi Mu heard this, he responded solemnly.
Jin Xiaochai nodded, pulled the reins, and the maroon horse under him ran towards the mouth of the valley with all four legs like flying.
Seeing this, Shi Mu and the other four people also accelerated their horses and followed the maroon horse in front of them.
At this time, the mountain fog in the valley has gradually dissipated, and the sun is rising in the east. A dazzling ray of sunlight pours down slantingly, illuminating everything in the valley brightly.
Shi Mu and a group of five others faced the rising sun and left the valley on horseback, heading farther and farther to the west, gradually turning into five black spots.
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Ten days later.
Shi Mu and his party left the country via the border of Yan Kingdom. Not far after they walked out, they saw a large barbarian military camp sandwiched between two hills in front of them.
Next to the camp stood a large flag that was several meters high. The flag was fluttering in the wind, and a red scorpion was quite eye-catching on it.
The barracks here just block the entrance to the mountain road, like a checkpoint. People coming and going from the two tribes must pass through its inspection.
A moment later, inside the main tent of the barbarian barracks.
A burly barbarian man in his thirties with a sallow complexion sat on the main seat. On his left arm was a fiery red poisonous scorpion tattoo. At this time, he was looking at the big tent with an expressionless face.
Shi Mu and his party.
The aura on his body is powerful, and he has reached the middle stage of innate cultivation.
"Your Excellency is a strong man in the sect, and your men don't seem to be weak in skill. Do you dare to ask why you want to enter my wilderness?" The big yellow man looked Jin Xiaochai up and down and asked unceremoniously.
"Lord Dutong, I am ordered by the sect to go to the Lanqi tribe to purchase a batch of herbal medicines. I believe you are also aware of the security issues in the wasteland." Jin Xiaochai said with an unchanging expression.
The Lanqi Tribe is far from just a small to medium-sized plain barbarian tribe. They live in the depths of the wilderness beside the Qiti Mountains. They are rich in many famous and rare herbs, and there are many ferocious barbarian tribes along the way.
This was the excuse that Jin Xiaochai and Shi Mu had discussed long ago.
"Pay one hundred thousand taels of silver and you can go." The yellow-faced man pondered for a moment and nodded.
"Thank you, Mr. Du Tong!" Jin Xiaochai said with a slight smile.
After saying that, she turned her hand over and found a banknote in her hand, which she handed over directly.
The other party accepted it unceremoniously, and Jin Xiaochai and others quickly said goodbye and left.
Soon the big tent became quiet, and the yellow-faced man stood up and opened the tent door. He looked at the figures of Shi Mu and others walking away, with a somewhat intriguing and strange look in his eyes.
Two days later, late at night.
Shi Mu was sitting cross-legged and meditating in a tent, his breathing seemed to be absent.
Not far from him, the parrot Cai'er was also sleeping soundly.
Suddenly he opened his eyes, moved his right hand, and with a flash of black light, the black meteorite knife fell into his hand.
"Chi!"
There was a sudden sound of tearing cloth.
Immediately afterwards, a black shadow the size of a calf rushed in from the sound, rushing towards him with a strong smell of wind.
Shi Mu jumped up from the ground, and at the same time, the black sword in his hand flashed in the air, and a rain of blood fell in the air.
"Ouch!" A strange, low scream.
The incoming black shadow has been cut into two pieces from the neck by the black knife.
Shi Mu took a closer look and saw that it was a strange beast with a lizard head, a wolf body, and a poisonous scorpion tail.
"Scorpion-tailed beast!" His pupils shrank.
He vaguely remembered that this was a ferocious beast that lived in groups, had low cultivation level, and contained highly poisonous tails, making it quite difficult to deal with.
"Quack! What kind of weird thing is this? It's too dangerous." The parrot screamed in panic, flapped its wings and flew out from the hole.
At this moment, there were a few strange sounds, and three black shadows shot from three directions.
Shi Mu's right arm shook, and three black sword energy shot out of the air, disappearing into the black shadow's body in a flash.
Three black shadows immediately shot down from mid-air, letting out shrill animal howls.
Shi Mu stepped out of the tent in a flash. With a glance, Jin Xiaochai and Moning Du had also rushed outside the tent, holding weapons and fighting with the black shadows.
Looking around, the camp at this time was full of these scorpion-tailed beasts, and to the west was a large, dark mass, rushing towards us. There were about a thousand of them in total.
At this time, Jin Xiaochai's whole body was shrouded in a black light formed by a layer of whip shadow. At the same time, long whips made of condensation of true energy flew out from the black light. The flesh of the scorpion-tailed beast that was struck immediately exploded and turned into flesh.
Moning's entire body was shrouded in a layer of white mist, and the scorpion-tailed beast that rushed in soon became silent again.
Bai Shuixiu held a blue staff in his hand, and his whole body was protected by a layer of blue light. With a wave of his jade hand, five transparent spears with misty water appeared out of thin air. In one flash, two scorpions were shot out.
The tailed beast was nailed to the ground.
Qian Xiong held a black iron mace in each hand and danced into two black lights around his body. The bones of the scorpion-tailed beast that the black lights touched immediately broke.
"Most of these scorpion-tailed beasts only have early-stage strength, but their claws and tail hooks are highly poisonous. Be careful not to be touched." The fire on Shi Mu's knife flashed, and it immediately turned into layers of fire clouds to protect him.
Among them, he reminded at the same time.
Hearing Shi Mu's reminder, everyone was shocked.
"Everyone, please protect the horses!" At this moment, Jin Xiaochai suddenly thought of something, and while rushing towards the east slope of the camp, he raised his voice to remind.
Upon hearing this, Shi Mu and others quickly moved to the west where the horses were kept.
More than half an hour later, Shi Mu and others were on the east slope of the camp, protecting the horses. There were five to six hundred corpses of manticores lying around, densely packed with blood flowing into rivers.
The remaining three to four hundred manticores finally showed fear in their eyes, and they turned around and fled in all directions amidst the hissing sounds of "chichi".
"Quack!" At this moment, the parrot flew over from nowhere.
It circled above Shi Mu's head and then flew in a certain direction to the west.
The corners of Shi Mu's eyes twitched slightly, and he stretched out his figure and followed him like Li Hong's arrow. Jin Xiaochai and others followed after being stunned.
A quarter of an hour later, we were on a slope more than ten miles away to the west of Shi Mu and others' camp.
A few dozen feet west of the slope is a barbarian camp with a bonfire burning.
The big yellow-faced barbarian man at the checkpoint two days ago was sitting by the campfire with a gloomy look on his face, listening to the report of a barbarian totem warrior in front of him. There were more than twenty barbarian totem warriors standing beside him.
Next to the big man, lay a giant scorpion-tailed beast that was more than two feet long, exuding the rich aura of acquired perfection.
"who?"
Suddenly, the big yellow-faced barbarian man suddenly stood up, turned his head and looked somewhere outside the camp, and shouted.
"Lord Dutong, you commanded the ferocious beasts to attack us at night. Do you want to provoke a war between the human and barbarian tribes?" Jin Xiaochai walked out of the darkness with a whip in his hand and a cold face.
Shi Mu and the other four people also had weapons in hand and walked out with murderous looks on their faces, and lined up beside Jin Xiaochai.
"It turns out it's you, what a coincidence. Speaking of which, our barbarian wilderness is never peaceful at night, and it's normal for ferocious beasts to appear..." The yellow-faced man flashed his eyes and said with a smile.
Before he finished speaking, a harsh "pop" sound broke through the air.
Jin Xiaochai flicked the whip in his hand, and instantly a black whip shadow as thick as a thigh appeared out of thin air. The next moment, like a giant python, it wrapped around the big yellow-faced barbarian. (To be continued.)