Mortal Bones

After a while.

"Brother Taiping."

Duan Xiaoyu, whose face was as white as paper, came to Xu Taiping with some embarrassment, rubbing his hands in his sleeves, not having the courage to wield his sword alone to fight Murong Song and the others.

"It doesn't matter to you, right?"

Xu Taiping put away the token for communicating with Huang Que, and then turned to look at Duan Xiaoyu.

"Uh-huh!"

Duan Xiaoyu nodded sheepishly, then turned around and started looking around.

"Are you looking for this?"

Xu Taiping handed Duan Xiaoyu a beautiful long knife with a red sandalwood scabbard and a handle wrapped in white shark skin.

"Um!"

Duan Xiaoyu nodded vigorously, carefully took the knife from Xu Taiping's hand, and then hugged it with both hands. The timid look on his face was wiped away. Even the delicate Liu Yemei suddenly looked more beautiful. Somewhat heroic.

"It's called Suzaku. The knife was hammered out by my father, and the scabbard was made by my mother."

She said with a bit of pride on her face.

"It's a beautiful knife."

Xu Taiping nodded.

"It's more than just pretty!"

Duan Xiaoyu doesn't seem to like the word beautiful.

But after saying this, she seemed to feel that she was a little out of sorts, and immediately turned her head away with an embarrassed look.

Xu Taiping took a deep look at Duan Xiaoyu, said nothing, and just stood up silently.

"Are you leaving?"

Duan Xiaoyu asked with some vigilance.

"Well, I have to go, I have something to do."

Xu Taiping nodded and tied the Spring Tiger Sword around his waist.

"What are your plans?"

After tying the knife, he turned to look at Duan Xiaoyu.

"I...I want to find Murong Song to avenge my brother."

Duan Xiaoyu hesitated for a moment, and finally said with firm eyes.

Xu Taiping was a little surprised by Duan Xiaoyu's answer.

"You must think I want to rely on you, right?"

The sensitive Duan Xiaoyu noticed the surprise in Xu Taiping's eyes.

"If you want to go with me, that's not impossible."

Xu Taiping nodded.

Upon hearing this, Duan Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment, then shook his head vigorously and said:

"Although it may be safer for you to follow Brother Taiping, I can't. If I keep relying on you, Brother Taiping, in the end I will definitely not even have the courage to avenge my brother."

Xu Taiping nodded when he heard this and said:

"Okay, let's just say goodbye."

Duan Xiaoyu obviously didn't expect Xu Taiping to agree so simply.

For a moment, I didn't know how to answer the call.

"By the way, take this."

When he was about to go downstairs, Xu Taiping suddenly stopped and threw a small porcelain bottle to Duan Xiaoyu.

"This is?"

Duan Xiaoyu looked at the rough little porcelain bottle with some confusion.

"There are three elixirs in it that can restore vitality."

After Xu Taiping said these words, he walked quickly downstairs without looking back.

"Thank you, Brother Taiping!"

When Xu Taiping walked downstairs, Duan Xiaoyu finally came to his senses.

"Although Brother Taiping looks cold, he is actually a warm-hearted person."

While saying this, she threw a pill into her mouth.

Her energy had been completely depleted, so she just needed a pill to replenish it.

In addition, she was not particularly short of elixirs, so she didn't take the elixir that Xu Taiping gave her too seriously, just treating it as an ordinary elixir for replenishing Qi.

"Um?"

But as soon as the pill entered her stomach, she felt something was wrong.

Most of the ordinary qi-replenishing elixirs speed up the recovery of true energy, but this elixir simply pours true energy directly into your body.

More importantly, he can make the energy in your body surge to twice what it is now.

"I, I, I... wasted a magic pill!"

Duan Xiaoyu looked like he was about to cry but had no tears.

Using this kind of elixir to restore true energy is simply a waste of natural resources.

…

An hour later.

Pine Valley.

"Click, click..."

Following the sound of a machine turning, a column of cyan light shot up into the sky, tearing a hole in the dark sky and allowing sunlight to shine in.

But soon, the billowing demonic energy swarmed in again, the sky closed again, and the cyan light pillar dissipated.

Seeing this scene, Xu Taiping let out a long breath.

At this moment, he was in an abandoned well in a manor in Pine Valley, stepping on a compass with barely legible writing under his feet.

"The formation in Pine Forest Valley has been opened, and now there are two remaining locations: Didicui Cliff and Bingying Cave."

He picked up the summons given by Jiufu and looked at it again.

I saw that there was still the last message from Huang Que——

"Go to Pine Forest Valley, Didicui Cliff, and Bingying Cave respectively, and open the teleportation array eyes hidden in them. We will be able to enter the Xianhu Cave from the outside without being restricted by age and cultivation level. At the same time, the teleportation scrolls in your hands can also be used in Used in Xianhu Cave."

"In addition, several junior brothers from Xiaoyao Sect are also trapped. If you meet them, you can say my name and take care of each other."

In addition to these two sentences, Huangque also conveyed the specific method of opening the formation eye, and the steps were very clear.

According to Huang Que, if it had not come to a critical moment, Master Yuqing would not have even planned to tell the location of these formation eyes, let alone how to open these formation eyes.

"There are so many things to do in the Nine Prefectures. I'll have to pay more later."

Xu Taiping said teasingly in a low voice and put away the message.

Fortunately, Songlin Valley is not far from Xingluo Lake, and he collected the herbs needed to refine Cao Huandan and Juqi Dan on the way here, so the delay was not too much.

What made him very headache was that there were several ancient beasts sleeping under Songlin Valley where he was now, Dicui Cliff and Bingying Cave where he was going next.

Although the beasts were not as scary as the wild beasts, if they really met, according to Sister Lingyue's calculations, the best situation would be that both sides would suffer losses.

So every step Xu Taiping took now was on the tip of a knife.

"Bang!..."

"Swish!"

Just when Xu Taiping was about to go up, there was a sound of fighting outside the well.

Xu Taiping was immediately alert and took out a piece of gray cloth from the green gourd. As he injected spiritual power into it, the gray cloth quickly grew larger.