Master, you go first!

"Here, here's a piece for you." Gu Jiu handed Xiao Bai a piece of barbecue.

"Thank you, senior brother."

As night falls, apart from the whistling wind, the Gobi desert is filled with endless darkness.

……

Ten days passed.

Gu Jiu planned to spend more time wandering on the plateau. This place was inaccessible. He didn't meet anyone in ten days, only one or two passing monks.

But he won't gain much from wandering around like this. It's not that there are no monsters here, but they are very rare.

That night, Gu Jiu and Gu Jiu still found a place to rest, while Xiao Bai meditated and practiced beside them.

After a while, Gu Jiu brought the roasted lean meat to Xiaobai, and Xiaobai smelled it.

"Wow, it smells so good."

It didn't take long to finish the barbecue. The smell of meat made Xiaobai extremely satisfied. Suddenly, Xiaobai said,

"Brother, I seem to have discovered a problem."

"Huh? What's the problem."

"Do you remember the smell issue? I told you before that there is a person in the Immortal Sect who smells very strange."

"Well, remember, the elder who led the team."

"I think it may have something to do with the practice."

"Tell me carefully."

"These days, I have discovered that since I absorbed the spiritual power of the kangaroo monster, my own smell has also become turbid.

Could it be that that person also practiced a technique that can absorb the spiritual power of others, which caused his smell to become turbid? "

After hearing this, Gu Jiu thought about it carefully. He felt that Xiaobai's inference was reasonable. There were many similar techniques in the world of immortality.

It didn't matter if she didn't want to, but suddenly it felt wrong when she thought about it. Although Shen Nian didn't say whose disciple she was, but with such a factor around her, Gu Jiu felt very worried.

Gu Jiu immediately took out the message array and sent a message to Shen Nian. It was already nighttime and he would not disturb her.

Gu Jiu told Shen Nian a rough guess and asked her to pay attention to the person leading the team that day and avoid him as much as possible.

The flying book turned into a stream of light and disappeared into the sky, like a bright shooting star in the night sky.

At this time, there was silence in the cave where Shen Nian was located in the Lingyun Immortal Sect.

The letter came and appeared in front of Shen Nian in the blink of an eye. He opened it to check and Shen Nian frowned.

After reading it carefully, she found that Gu Jiu didn't know her current situation, but only guessed about Zhu Mo's abnormality. She was a little relieved, but she was afraid that Gu Jiu would find out and come to Xianzong regardless of it.

After reading it several times, there is deep concern and worry between the lines. Shen Nian felt uncomfortable and wrote a reply,

"Already aware, I will pay attention."

I want to write something more, but I feel unable to put pen to paper. I put the pen down and then sent it out.

……

After more than ten days, Gu Jiu and Xiao Bai still found nothing major on the plateau.

That night, as usual, the two of them found a sheltered place on the desert to rest.

At night, Xiaobai noticed that there seemed to be a faint flash of light in the distance. He stood up and took a look, but there seemed to be no light.

"What's wrong with Xiaobai?" Gu Jiu asked after noticing Xiaobai's movements.

"Why did I seem to see a light over there just now?"

"where?"

Xiaobai pointed in the direction she saw, to the north, almost to the center of the plateau.

"That direction, senior brother, would you like to go and take a look."

"Let's go and take a look."

Gu Jiu also stood up and followed Xiaobai towards the place where she found the light.

Arriving at the place Xiao Bai mentioned, Gu Jiu looked around and saw nothing unusual.

"Is this here? It doesn't seem to be anything special."

"It's here. There seemed to be a red light flashing just now." Xiaobai nodded.

The two of them looked around in confusion, but found nothing. Gu Jiu simply came down and rested on the spot.

A long time passed, and Xiaobai kept vigilant without rest. Another burst of red light flashed, and this time Xiaobai caught him in a weathered boulder.

Xiaobai quickly called Gu Jiu and flew towards the stone.

Gu Jiu looked carefully. There was nothing special about this stone.

"Is there some treasure inside this stone?" Gu Jiu groped for the stone.

"Who knows? How about opening the door."

Xiaobai said and took out the magic weapon sword. Gu Jiu felt that it was not impossible, so she stepped aside and allowed Xiao Bai to use it.

Several streaks of pink sword energy passed by, and the weathered stones began to fall off layer by layer.

There was a burst of dust and smoke. After a while, the smoke dispersed. Gu Jiu took a closer look.

"Here, there is actually an altar."

"Brother, what is this?"

"I don't know when the altar was preserved. It should be very old. There is one in the South China Sea. The previous sect leader discovered it."

"Oh, what's the use of this?"

"I don't know. I haven't found any use for it before. I just found the spirit stone mine around the altar."

Gu Jiu told Xiaobai. After saying this, he suddenly realized the problem. Since there was a spirit stone mine next to the altar last time, will there be one in this one too?

Thinking of this, Gu Jiu immediately found a few Earth Escape Talismans, pulled Xiao Bai and went underground.

Gu Jiu circled the altar and escaped down several hundred meters, and sure enough, he discovered the spirit stone vein.

Gu Jiu grabbed a top-quality spiritual stone and pulled Xiaobai back to the ground.

"Haha, Xiaobai, you are really good at it. Another vein of spiritual stone."

"Hey," Xiaobai couldn't be happier. "So I'm so lucky."

After discovering the mineral vein, Gu Jiu felt it carefully. Sure enough, the aura here was better than that in other places. However, maybe the mineral vein was too deep, so he couldn't feel it unless he was careful.

Just when Gu Jiu was happy, something happened.

The top-quality spiritual stone in Gu Jiu's hand was sucked by the altar and instantly shattered into powder.

There was a bright red light on the altar, and red light and shadow appeared, wrapping around Gu Jiu like a spider's thread.

Gu Jiu suddenly felt bad. What the hell is this? Did you do it without saying hello?

Gu Jiu wanted to resist, but found that she was completely controlled and had no way to do anything. Xiao Bai was very anxious next to him. He swung his sword and slashed at the lights and shadows. However, the sword energy penetrated directly without making any progress.

Gu Jiu was lifted into the air and floated to the middle of the altar. At this time, golden text lit up on the altar. Gu Jiu couldn't understand it, but it was curved and somewhat like the number six in Roman writing.

The golden text flashed several times, and a black magic weapon plate appeared on the altar, much like the array plate that Gu Jiu often used, as well as a black mysterious jade slip.

Then the red light and shadow disappeared, and the two things flew to and stopped in front of Gu Jiu, as if they recognized their master.

Gu Jiu came to his senses, what kind of operation is this? Forced to give treasure?

Gu Jiu saw these two things hanging in front of him, so he reached out and took them down. There is nothing special about the black formation plate, it just seems to be very solid. He looked at the jade slip. It was a bit darker than the jade slip he had found before, and he couldn't understand the name written on it.

Gu Jiu picked up the jade slip and put it to his forehead to explore.

The result was another unexpected situation.