Haiping suddenly laughed. When Master Huang was astonished, he nodded and said with a smile:
"You have now become one of our equals, and you are now considered an equal!"
"Don't dare!"
Master Huang quickly raised his hands and said with a sigh:
"If it weren't for the help of seniors, I don't know when the Master would be able to come true... How can I have the honor to call my senior fellow Taoist?"
Haiping shook his head, smiled, and said no more.
Soon after, the refreshing aroma of meat filled the entire cave. Master Huang burst into tears as he ate - he had missed so many meals in the past ten days... There were only two thighs and a piece of rib meat left of the horned tiger.
.
boom!
Early the next morning, the entrance to the cave sealed by Master Huang was shattered by a blow from his real body. Cold air flowed in. The heavy snow outside had stopped, and the five men and one beast rushed out.
Zhang Baoer looked at the one-horned horse with a tiger-skin saddle angrily. This guy just refused to leave. In the end, he found out that he was thinking about the body of the old man with a sharp beard. He probably knew his own affairs. After eating, the two cave masters
Finally, he didn't dare to eat more... He had no choice but to wait until Zhang Baoer used a space ring to pack up the body alone, and then he happily went on his way.
Soon after, the group came to the place where the avalanche occurred that day, and then went straight up along the avalanche route.
However, two days later, they found nothing.
At noon that day, Haiping stopped everyone, took out the map and muttered with Jiang Xiaoming for a while, and then said to Zhang Baoer with a serious face:
"Half a day further up, there is the 'Heavenly Forest'. The avalanche should have started near the forest or at the edge of the forest... Well, there are many demon kings and beast kings in the forest, as well as many Kongfu and Zhenfu monks!"
"Forest in the sky?!"
Master Huang suddenly shouted with ecstasy:
"It is said that snow silkworms appear somewhere in the forest in the sky!"
Zhang Baoer suppressed his laughter and glanced at the tiger hat on his head, and then glanced at Jiang Xiaoming, whose eyes were full of entanglement and pleading. After thinking for a while, he nodded and said:
"Let's continue! As long as we don't meet the late-stage Demon King or Beast King, it won't be a big problem with our current strength."
Hearing this, Haiping nodded and said:
"There should be very few in the later period... However, Xiao Ming has never entered the Sky Forest, and I haven't been there for hundreds of years! You should be careful on this trip!"
Seeing that he was about to turn around after finishing speaking, Zhang Baoer couldn't help but ask:
"Cleaning water, so..."
Before he could finish speaking, Haiping nodded and said:
"There is a tornado cloud above the forest. If the rumors are correct, that thing should be somewhere deep in the wind and cloud... Let's talk about it then!"
Then, the group of people continued to go upwards, but in order to be careful, the speed slowed down, and it was not until the next morning that they arrived at the edge of the forest.
And that avalanche... started from here!
"how so……"
Jiang Xiaoming stared blankly at a piece of rag on a tree branch. He was sure it was the clothing of a Snow Sword Sect disciple, but... except for this piece of cloth, there was nothing else around!
Hai Ping swept away the broken trees around him, then pointed at the snow tunnel and said:
"It seems that something strange is happening... I'll peel back the heavy snow and see if I can find anything else!"
After saying that, he and Master Huang immediately took action.
Zhang Baoer drove his horse to Jiang Xiaoming and comforted him:
"Uncle Jiang, don't scare yourself. Until the truth is known, everything is just speculation!"
"Um!"
Jiang Xiaoming nodded and joined the two people after putting away the rags.
Soon after, after a sigh of relief, a group of people gathered around a scratch mark left on the rock and looked at it.
Haiping wiped his beard and muttered:
"If I guess correctly, the destruction here is caused by two spiritual beasts, one is the front-eyed wolf and the other is the golden wind bear! There are no humans involved... They are probably fighting for the man's body, thus causing the avalanche!
"
Hearing this, everyone nodded. Zhang Baoer raised his head and looked at the deep forest of black, white and green above, and said in a deep voice:
"The clothes of the disciple of the Snow Sword Sect are in tatters, probably scratched by branches. He probably ran out of the forest... and died here, causing a fight between the two beasts... Let's go! Let's go into the forest!"
After saying that, the group continued to move upward.
Sure enough... not long after, they found a tree with broken branches, a drop of blood still stained on it, and vague footprints of the subordinates, some of two animals and some of humans.
It seems that because the trees blocked the wind and snow, the footprints under the trees were preserved.
Everyone was refreshed and continued to move forward along these traces... Finally, at noon, they discovered a place with obvious traces of a fight.
Although the place was covered with animal footprints and severely damaged, after investigation, Jiang Xiaoming, an experienced guide, and Haiping, after discussion, came to an accurate judgment:
"There are two Zhenfu level masters fighting here. In addition to the two, there are seven or eight others, but..."
"But what?!"
"One of them is probably... not a human!"
"Um?!"
Zhang Baoer was stunned for a moment, and then asked with a surprised look on his face:
"Demon King?!"
Haiping nodded and said solemnly:
"The transformation is very complete, and the footprints are almost the same as those of humans... At least he is a mid-stage demon king! Judging from the hair left behind, this demon should be a front-eyed wolf among wolf demons!"
After listening, everyone's expressions became solemn. Monsters are more difficult to deal with than beasts, because monsters are very smart and can even speak human words. When fighting with them, in addition to facing their hard strength, they also have to face their strength.
Strategy.
Although they are not as good as humans in some places and their strength is not as good as beasts, they always live within the laws of the jungle and have very rich combat experience.
Zhang Baoer, on the other hand, looked excited. He had grown up in these legends such as "The Legend of White Snake" and "Journey to the West". Naturally, he was full of curiosity about demons. How could he not be excited now? Although Tang Tiantian and
Xuan Zhan and the others are all demons, but... he can't help but get excited. After all, he can be considered a member of the demons now.
"Can you find their footprints?"
Hai Ping asked with a strange look on his face.
Haiping shook his head and said:
"No! They all flew away from here...we can only find where those people came from."
Jiang Xiaoming looked sad, and Zhang Baoer was also a little disappointed. After sighing, he said:
"Then let's follow their path... Regardless of whether they will return or not, it would be good to understand why they are being chased by the Demon King."
What he said... made sense, so everyone started looking for it again.
In the afternoon, everyone was planning to set up camp, but they all looked shocked...
The reason is this. Just when he decided to stop, Zhang Baoer, who was facing the wind, wrinkled his nose and said that there were people in front of him, and there seemed to be quite a few of them!
After they walked patiently for half an hour, they looked across the mountains of snow-covered treetops and saw a human camp established on a slightly lower ground.
The camp is not small, covering an area of about ten acres, with a total of fifty or sixty leather tents surrounding a huge wooden house covering an area of three to four hundred square meters.
At this time, the sky had begun to darken, bonfires had been lit in the camp, and smoke was curling up. Although there were few people walking around outside, there was a lot of bustling noise.
"Walk!"
After everyone looked at each other and found that the people walking around did not look like one or several forces, they decided to go - since it was not a combination of one or several families, it meant that this was a gathering place like a cliff cave...
Moreover, there were no patrols or sentries.
Not long after, a group of people descended from the forest and arrived here through the forest.
They also discovered that the footprints they had followed all the way back came from this camp.
Jiang Xiaoming looked puzzled. As an 'indigenous', he didn't know about this camp, let alone when it was established.
But...it can be seen from the surrounding wooden piles that this camp was established no more than a year ago.
After a moment's hesitation, they walked into the camp without fences and gates under the gaze of five or six pairs of people in the camp.
"Eh?!"
While looking around, Zhang Baoer's sharp eyes suddenly fell on a large tent in the distance at the edge of the camp and saw the back of a person who had opened the curtain and entered.
"Master?! What's wrong?"
The talkative Master Huang immediately noticed something strange about him. Zhang Baoer suddenly smiled, pointed at the tent and said with a smile:
"There is an acquaintance there!"
With that said, the group of people came to the curtain of the tent.
Although they couldn't see clearly what was going on inside, everyone looked surprised because they really noticed the aura of an acquaintance.
As soon as Zhang Baoer got off the horse with Cai'er in his arms, the curtain was opened, and Wu Yan'er, with a look of surprise and big eyes shining, stuck out her head from inside.
"Brother Zhang! How did you get here?!"
A group of people came out through the curtain, and the two old women and those people from before were actually there.
After greeting each other, Zhang Baoer shook the ice and snow off Cai'er's hood and asked instead:
"Why are you here?"
Wu Yan'er pouted her little mouth angrily, almost able to hang an oil bottle on a string. She blinked her beautiful eyes a few times, glanced left and right, and then hummed:
"Come in and talk again!"
Zhang Bao'er and others followed Jian Ruliu's advice and went in. They also wanted to go in when they saw the Unicorn Horse, but the leather curtain opening was not big enough, so they had to lift the bottom of the tent directly, causing a lot of heat loss inside.
As soon as he entered, the soundless array was arranged by an old woman.
After Zhang Baoer and the others sat down with Wu Yaner and the two old women, before Zhang Baoer and Wu Yaner could speak, the two old women looked at Master Huang in astonishment and said:
"Real house?!"
They are really twins, almost speaking in unison.
Master Huang took off his tiger head hat and pressed it on his thigh, then nodded with a smile:
"Lucky! Lucky!"
hiss!
Even Wu Yan'er couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. They hadn't seen each other for more than ten days, and in the blink of an eye, this guy had transformed from a Kongfu to a real powerhouse.
Suddenly, the three of them suddenly realized a problem. After taking a look at the tiger head hat in Master Huang's hand, they looked at the coats on Zhang Baoer and others.