Purgatory

Chapter 34 Crescent Lake

Su Yuntian didn't dare to take it lightly, he observed the lake surface in case of accidents.

It wasn't until Su Meng swam to his side and left the lake that the solemn look on his face lessened a little.

"Who's at the bottom of the lake?"

Looking at the daughter who was covering her chest with her clothes, and her black hair was sticking wetly to her cheeks, Su Yuntian felt furious.

"I can't see clearly."

Su Meng, who has a round apple-like face and bright eyes, huddled in a bush with her clothes on, and shouted: "He didn't do anything to me, I was just scared by his sudden appearance."

"That person shouldn't be malicious." He Rong kept telling his old friend to calm down.

Su Yuntian kept a cold face, still staring at the lake.

Under the gloomy sky, the surface of the lake, which was illuminated by the light of the golden chariot, seemed very calm.

distance.

Many subordinates loyal to Su and He also stopped their movements and looked at the lake curiously.

After a while, a person really broke through the lake and looked around in a daze.

The man appeared in the middle of the lake, far away from them, with water weeds on his messy hair, looking quite embarrassed.

He raised a long spear in the lake, and on the long barrel of the gun, fishes were strewn like strings of candied haws.

"It should be a misunderstanding."

He Rong smiled slightly, pressed the short blade in Su Yuntian's hand, and said: "He is too far away from Su Meng's position, and he definitely didn't intend to murder Su Meng, or spy on something."

Su Yuntian heaved a sigh of relief, and suddenly shouted: "Little brother!"

When Pang Jian heard the reputation, he saw Su Yuntian, He Rong, and the torn apart golden chariot.

"Crescent Moon Lake."

He also instantly realized where he was at the moment.

This freshwater lake in the Cenji Mountains looked like a crescent when viewed from above, so it was called Crescent Lake by his father.

In the Yaxin part of Crescent Lake, there is a towering mountain, and the other end of the mountain should be the Black Water Pool.

Unlike the Blackwater Pool, which was listed as a restricted area, the Crescent Moon Lake area was a camp he was familiar with.

As a freshwater lake, Crescent Lake is rich in fish and shrimp, and wild animals often come to drink water nearby, and it is also a place for him to catch wild animals and rest.

He didn't expect that at the bottom of Crescent Lake, there was a stone crevice, which contained a secret stone path leading to the black water pool.

Seeing the familiar land boundary, Pang Jian immediately felt much more at ease and no longer worried.

Hearing the man by the lake yelling again and again, he looked at Su Yuntian and He Rong in the middle of the wide Crescent Lake.

Soon, he guessed that this group of people should be the same as Zhou Qingchen and Ning Yao, and they were also the so-called exploration and search team of the Seven Great Aristocratic Families.

After a little hesitation, he swam towards Su Yuntian.

However, he didn't really swim to the shore where Su Yuntian stepped on, but landed a little farther away from the two of them.

He pulled out the flint and wood from a dense weed and dead wood by the lake, and directly started to light the fire to grill the fish.

He is too familiar with Crescent Lake, because this lake is big enough, and he has spare materials at several points by the lake.

He has similar secret points in all areas of the Cenji Mountains, and some of them have dried meat and grain reserves.

When he started a fire and removed the fish from the dragon spear and replaced them with other wooden sticks to roast, Su Yuntian and He Rong started discussing in surprise.

"He is very familiar with this place. Also, he seems to have prepared firewood and oil and salt long ago." He Rong rubbed his chin and said in a deep voice, "He should be a local."

"Just ask in the past."

Su Meng, who was fully dressed, walked out of the grass, rolled her eyes at the sneaky two, walked straight to Pang Jian, and asked curiously with wide eyes, "Did you fish under the lake before?"

"Ah."

Pang Jian looked up at her, and saw that the little girl was about the same age as her younger sister Pang Lin, only thirteen or fourteen years old.

On her round face, she has a pair of big bright eyes, and she wears two shofar braids, which look very powerful when she dangles.

"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 Moon Lake is very big. I was fishing deep under the water, and I 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 it, she suppressed the pretentious fierceness in her eyes and said in surprise, "You are very familiar with this place?"

"I am a hunter from Linshan Town. I often go hunting in the mountains. Of course I am familiar with this place."

Pang Jian said lightly.

At this time, Su Yuntian and He Rong also followed.

The two looked at Pang Jian. He Rong, who was always cautious, looked at the dragon-patterned spear placed on the ground and asked, "Do you know how to practice?"

Pang Jian's face remained unchanged, and he said nonsense: "There is an old man who came to the Cenji Mountains a few years ago to find spiritual materials for medicine, and asked me to guide him."

"I helped him find the spiritual material he wanted, and he taught me a practice method and gave me this spear."

Although He Rong was suspicious, he didn't continue to ask.

"My name is Su Yuntian, this is the little girl Su Meng, and this is He Rong."

Su Yuntian clarified his identity, let go of his guard, and said casually, "It's not peaceful here recently, and there are some complicated situations. We came from the other end of the Cenji Mountain Range."

"Little brother, since you are a hunter of the Cenji Mountains and live in the nearby Linshan Town, can you tell us if you have noticed anything unusual 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 was..."

He looked at the shattered golden chariot and said, "Not long after, I saw this chariot, a huge sailing ship, and a white tower sinking."

"In the mountains, the mountains shook for a while, and the beasts roared all day long. I waited for everything to subside before I came back to hunt."

Hearing this, Su Yuntian and He Rong exchanged glances.

Suddenly there was a crisp eagle cry, 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 also looked at Pang Jian frequently.

It flew back and forth in mid-air, as if observing Pang Jian from different angles, as if wanting to confirm something carefully.

Pang Jian was a little annoyed by it, and when he wanted to shoot the strange eagle with his bow, he suddenly remembered that his usual bow and arrow had been discarded outside the black water 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, come and be a guide for us."

When the eagle left, Su Yuntian took the initiative to invite, and said with a smile: "We are not familiar with the Cenji Mountain Range. We just came here not long ago. I am willing to pay for it."

Pang Jian, who had grilled some fish, was already feasting, and said vaguely, "I'll think about it."

……

the other side of the mountain.

Black water pool.

Luo Hongyan, who possessed Ning Yao, suddenly closed her eyes, connected with the eagle hovering in mid-air with a divine sense, and observed the world below from multiple angles through the eagle.

After a while, she snorted softly, "I found you."

Behind her, a gray figure that was clearer than Romon floated quietly, and it was Hong Tai, the dark ghost.

This dark ghost leader who had cultivated to the marrow washing level still fell into her poisonous hands, and was condensed into a "spiritual evil spirit" by her, and became a slave for her to send.

"That kid has never left the black water pool, but he emerged from the lake at the other end, indicating that there is a secret passage at the bottom of the pool."

"I just don't know if that giant dark 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 "giant dark anaconda" from the Fifth Realm would join him.

Luo Hongyan, who was determined to explore the black water pool, thought about it for a while, and sighed: "The phoenix marrow was sucked into the bronze gate by that kid, and only the skeleton of the dark giant anaconda remained under the water, and I couldn't take it away."

She dismissed the idea immediately.

After a while, her eyes lit up slightly, and she suddenly thought of a brilliant new idea.

Dressed in a red dress, she appeared in Ning Yao's sea of ​​consciousness as a spirit body, looking at Ning Yao who was imprisoned in the dark with a hazy figure.

"Ning girl, tell me about your situation carefully, and don't force me to search for it through soul searching. I plan to use this body of yours for a while, and I hope you can cooperate well."

"If you search for the soul, your soul will not be complete afterwards, and you probably don't want to do this, do you?"

She threatened with a smile.

Ning Yao, who was illusory and fuzzy, flickered like a candle in the wind, tremblingly said: "What do you want to know?"

"Everything after you met that kid."

Half an hour later, the hovering eagle flew over.

Luo Hongyan looked at the cloth bag that Pang Jian had thrown away and terminated the employment relationship with Ning Yao, and squatted down with a smile to pick it up again.

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 "spirits" like Hong Tai and Luo Meng turned into erratic gray clouds and followed the flying eagles to the other side of the mountain.

……

Crescent Lake.

Pang Jian, who was full of food and drink, stepped on the fish bones on the ground to put the oil, salt and matches where they were, and then covered them with grass blades.

Immediately, he stood up holding the dragon-pattern spear, and said coldly, "I should go."

He rejected Su Yuntian's invitation.

He knew that He Rong and Su Yuntian were indeed from the bottom two of the Seven Great Aristocratic Families, and the direction the two wanted to go was precisely the Black Water Pool at the other end of the mountain.

—he had no intention of returning to the 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 doesn't have such an urgent need for money at present.

He just wanted to stay away from the crowd and find a place to test his body that had been tempered twice by the phoenix marrow.

With Su He's family by his side, it was inconvenient for him to do anything.

"Well, 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 parts of that golden chariot?" Su Yuntian asked with regret.

Pang Jian replied: "I thought no one would come. I thought that I would collect the gold after catching fish and eating and drinking. Now that you are here, I don't have any ideas. I can't snatch you anyway."

Su Yuntian laughed dumbfounded: "You kid is not greedy, you know how to advance and retreat."

With a soft drink, he called an old servant and asked the old servant to take a purse and hand it to Pang Jian, and said with a smile: "It's just some broken silver, it's just a reward for asking you for news. When you leave After leaving the Cenji Mountains, silver taels... are still somewhat useful to you."

Pang Jian was a little surprised, but he didn't politely refuse. After receiving it, he said: "There will be a time later."

After he left, the people from the Su family and the He family still stayed in Crescent Moon Lake.

They learned well and went to catch fish under the Crescent Lake, and cooked them with the firewood left by Pang Jian.

A group of people were grilling fish around the fire, and when they were eating happily, suddenly a woman came alone and shouted from a distance: "Where is Pang Jian?"

"Ning Yao!"

……

(End of this chapter)