However, compared to everyone flying in the air, this speed is much slower.
The ship traveled for ten consecutive days, during which the immortal stones in the three teleportation formations were replaced five times before finally arriving at the Deserted Continent.
Gu Qing stood in the cabin and looked out. He saw a hazy mist in front of him. The air was moist and mixed with a hint of fishy smell. In front of him was a wide area with seven or eight small hills on it. In the middle
It is a sunken valley, with thousands of years old trees on the island connected together, which is very spectacular.
"Set off."
At Ouyang Lintian's command, everyone stood up one after another, got out of the boat canopy, and set foot on this strange and mysterious land.
When Gu Qing was on the boat, he had been contacting the demon soul tablet in his body, but since the tablet jumped for no reason, it returned to calm. He communicated several times, but got nothing. But when he set foot on the island
The moment it came up, the Demonic Soul Monument suddenly seemed to wake up again, beating three times in a row.
"Hey, how could this happen?"
Gu Qing was greatly surprised and couldn't help but mutter.
"Fellow Taoist Ancient Master, is there anything wrong?" Ouyang Lintian heard his words, a trace of confusion flashed in his eyes, and he asked doubtfully.
Gu Qing regained his composure, shook his head and said, "It's nothing. I just felt that the fairy spirit on this island was sparser than the outside world."
"So that's it. In fact, this island is very strange. In some places, the fairy spirit is very sparse, and in other places it is extremely strong. There were monks who even opened caves on this deserted island to use the rich fairy spirit in it.
Cultivation of spiritual energy was only stopped when powerful ancient monsters repeatedly appeared and the monks were tired of dealing with it." Ouyang Lintian seemed to know everything about the deserted continent.
Gu Qing nodded silently, feeling that this place was becoming more and more mysterious. Thinking about the major families in Jinlei City, he suddenly had an unusual interest in this place. It seemed that there should indeed be some secrets hidden here.
The area they arrived at was the location of Luohuang Mountain. Since it was impossible to fly in the air on this continent, everyone could only walk on foot. Although Luohuang Mountain only covers a few hundred miles in radius, walking like this would not be a good idea.
It would be impossible to complete a full circle without taking ten and a half days.
"Look, everyone, the ancient trees here seem to have been cut down." A monk standing far away from everyone suddenly pointed forward and said.
Everyone was startled and followed them quickly. Sure enough, there was a dense tree in front of them. The branches and leaves were cut off, and a path was dug out leading to the top of the mountain. The branches and leaves were cut very neatly, and they were obviously cut off with sharp tools.
. So, this means...
"Ahem! This shows that someone has climbed Luohuang Mountain before us." Gu Qing's eyes flashed and he made an accurate judgment.
"Could it be that several other families took action in advance?" someone asked.
"What should we do now? The family ordered us to occupy Luohuangshan in advance. But now, it seems impossible to complete the task."
"Unless we take it back."
…
Everyone started talking about it, but in the end there was no conclusion. This was because Mu Mansion did not specify that it wanted to start a war with other families.
"Okay, everyone, don't jump to conclusions too early." Ouyang Lintian raised his hand and said, "Follow me up the mountain and remember to leave our family's mark along the way. If we meet monks from other families, we will have another chance.
Act. Before that, this mountain was a no-man’s land.”
As the captain, Ouyang Lintian's words naturally carry full weight. After hearing the words, everyone nodded and stopped discussing the matter casually.
One of the monks immediately took out a small flag with a head carved on it from his arms and planted it on the ground. With this small flag as evidence, it represented the existence of Mu Mansion's forces.
Under the leadership of Ouyang Lintian, everyone began to walk towards the mountain along the path opened by the group of people in front. Soon, they found a small green flag among the grass and trees.
On the front of this small flag, there is the word "xiao" engraved in ancient tripod script, and behind it is a python with black scales all over its body, with a sharp blade stuck in its head.
"It's the symbol of the Xiao family. It seems that the Xiao family came one step ahead of us." A person recognized the meaning of the flag and said.
"Pull up these flags and destroy them."
Ouyang Lintian looked gloomy and gave the order decisively.
Everyone was stunned when they heard this. According to the agreement of the major families, since the Xiao family's family symbol is left on Luohuang Mountain, it means that the mountain has been owned by the Xiao family. And if the other party's family symbol is forcibly removed, it will
It means an open challenge to the Xiao family.
But when everyone thought about it, the Xiao family was just a small aristocratic family in Jinlei City, and could not compare with a behemoth like Mu Mansion.
Since Ouyang Lintian gave the order, everyone was not polite and directly pulled up the small flag, rubbed their hands together, and a flash of spiritual light turned it into powder.
Under the leadership of Ouyang Lintian, everyone continued to move forward, carefully searching for signs related to the Xiao family on the way, and destroyed them one by one, doing so cleanly.
However, everyone can't help but worry. Such an approach will inevitably arouse the anger of the Xiao family. Once they meet the other party, a fierce battle will inevitably occur. But they don't know what kind of cultivation level the Xiao family leader has this time.
If you are a monk in the psychic stage, it will be difficult.
Therefore, the further they walked, the more cautious everyone became.
Suddenly, Gu Qing stopped, waved his big hand in the air, grabbed a handful, and then took a sniff in front of the tip of his nose, his face changed slightly.
"What's the matter, fellow Taoist priest?" Ouyang Lintian asked in surprise.
Perhaps due to the suppression of the strange fog on the deserted continent, everyone's consciousness was difficult to separate from their bodies, so they could only use their eyes to observe the place dozens of feet in front of them.
Therefore, they cannot control everything around them like before. This situation makes it difficult for many people to adapt to it for a while.
"It smells of blood." Gu Qing said firmly, "It's not far ahead."
"The smell of blood? Could it be that the Xiao family encountered a monster? Let's rush over and have a look." Ouyang Lintian naturally did not suspect anything and decided immediately.
Everyone hurriedly walked forward and soon found a corpse hanging on an ancient tree. The chest seemed to have been torn apart by some sharp blade. It was too horrible to look at. Moreover, judging from the signs on the corners of the corpse's clothes,
, is clearly a guard of the Xiao family.
From the corpse, there was a strong smell of blood and stinky rot, indicating that the person had been dead for some time.
"Strange, strange." Gu Qing looked at this person and murmured to himself.
"Why is it strange?" everyone asked.
Due to Gu Qing's amazing performance in the Mu Mansion competition, these people were greatly admired. He has become one of the most important figures in the team besides Ouyang Lintian. His every move can attract others' attention. This
The first time I heard him speak again, it immediately attracted the attention of others.
Gu Qing was unaware of these subtle details, and just said to himself: "It stands to reason that even if this person dies, his companions still exist, and his body will never be exposed in the wilderness. However,
Isn't it strange that his body is still here after so many days?"
Everyone thought about it carefully and felt that it made sense. They thought that if one of their team members died, if one of them was still alive, for the sake of being a bodyguard of the Mu Mansion, they would collect his body.
Buried in the ground. Not like now, hanging alone on the treetops.
"So, this person was either executed because of the internal fighting among the Xiao family, or all the Xiao family guards died." Ouyang Lintian's heart sank.
"You'll know exactly what happened when you go to the front and take a look." Gu Qing said calmly.
In fact, he had already used his Third Eye to see that there was an extremely weak aura of the monster beast remaining in this person's wound, proving that this person was harmed by a monster beast.
However, he should not say this at will, lest his secrets be exposed. But he knew that he and others might be in big trouble.
Everyone no longer paid attention to the corpse on the treetop and continued to walk forward. After less than five miles, they came to a small stream and were stunned by the scene in front of them.
I saw more than ten corpses lying on the beach beside the creek. Each corpse was torn into several pieces. It was extremely bloody. A stench came from the corpses, making everyone feel sick.
.Everyone immediately held their breath and felt much better.
Two of the corpses had clear traces of scratches by monsters, and three blood stains penetrated deeply into the skin, which was shocking.
"Hiss!" A monk took a breath of cold air and said in a strange voice that changed the tone, "If it is as Captain Ouyang said, all the members of the Xiao family died here."
"It is very possible that a powerful ancient ferocious beast is hidden here. Everyone, please be careful." Ouyang Lintian immediately reminded everyone.
In fact, there was no need for him to remind them. Everyone only needed to take a look at the miserable scene in front of them and they knew what to do. Several of them, under the command of Ouyang Lintian, began to search a beach and stream in front of them, while others searched the bushes behind.
, while Gu Qing and another monk who stayed behind were inspecting these corpses.
Gu Qing squatted next to a corpse, carefully pinched the man's bones, and checked several other parts, and said: "This man is the strongest among all the corpses, and he is in the early stage of pseudo-psychic.
Judging from the condition of his death, it was obvious that he had experienced a fierce fight and was not killed by a single blow. Judging from this, the monster that attacked the Xiao family guards was at least in the middle stage of pseudo-psychicism and was not particularly difficult to deal with.
."
"This is the only place where we can comfort ourselves. However, it is not ruled out that there are other stronger monsters that have not attacked. Being able to kill so many Xiao family guards at once is enough to explain a lot of things. Therefore.
, we still can’t be careless." Ouyang Lintian said with a bitter smile.
When Gu Qing wasn't paying attention, a hint of gloomy color appeared in Ouyang Lintian's eyes, but it flashed away and no one else noticed.