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"here it is………"

Mo Hanyu spoke softly, looking around with a somewhat confused look.

"——Single Zhangshan?"

The two stood at the foot of the mountain and looked up at the mountain without a single blade of grass or tree.

This was really abnormal, and Mo Hanyu was a little hesitant.

"How do you know the name of this mountain?" Qin Xiao suddenly asked.

"...Is this the name of the mountain?" Mo Hanyu's eyes became even more confused, "I don't know...I just feel this subconsciously."

Qin Xiao's eyes darkened and he said nothing more.

Mo Hanyu looked at the steep mountain wall.

The two men stood by the stream. On the left was the Shanzhang Mountain with strange rocks protruding from it. The soil on the mountain was black, and it looked very strange from their angle: the mountain wall was covered with protruding rocks, and it seemed that the mountain was made up of countless stones, and there was not even moss growing on it.

Mo Hanyu looked over and could see the top of the mountain from another angle. The mountain was so high that it reached the clouds, and one could faintly see that there was snow piled on the peak.

Qin Xiao took out the water container he had made before - it was made from a branch he had cut two days ago when he came in.

The container was specially carved into a pear shape, and a simple stopper was made on the top to prevent water from leaking out.

Qin Xiao first filled the stream with water to prevent any accidents on the road.

"Do you really want to go up?" Mo Hanyu looked at Qin Xiao.

Qin Xiao nodded.

Mo Hanyu did not raise any more objections and followed him up the mountain.

Because there are no trees on this mountain, you can see everything at a glance. Except for some hidden potholes, there are basically no blind spots.

But that doesn't mean there aren't pitfalls.

Qin Xiao walked around the shallow gravel hole on the ground.

"...Is this left by the previous person?" Qin Xiao was still a little confused because he didn't sense any other aura nearby.

Mo Hanyu looked around, but there was no place to hide.

Suddenly, Mo Hanyu's gaze focused and looked towards a place not far away, which stopped on a tall standing stone, where the bird was tilted to look at it.

"...What is that?" Mo Hanyu frowned.

Qin Xiao looked in the direction he pointed. From a distance it looked like an ordinary pheasant, but upon closer inspection he found that it was very different from a pheasant.

There are patterns on the head, white wings and yellow claws.

It tilted its head and stared at them without blinking.

"White Nue?" Qin Xiao had a vague impression of it. He remembered that he had seen it before.

Qin Xiao looked at Mo Hanyu: "Are you hungry?"

Mo Hanyu looked at him and thought for a moment: "A little bit."

The two hit it off immediately and then turned their attention to the bird.

Bai Nue turned his head in confusion.

……

Qin Xiao held the dead white nuke upside down and prepared to find a place to eat the meat.

As I was walking, I felt something was wrong.

Mo Hanyu paused and looked at the pile of rocks behind him.

The stone trembled slightly, as if there was something hidden behind it.

But Qin Xiao had already seen that ferocious eye.

The thing seemed to know that they had noticed it and slowly walked out from behind the stone.

When Qin Xiao saw it, his expression changed.

The creature looked like a leopard, but was as tall as an adult. It had a hunched back and lowered its head while staring at them intently, as if it would attack at any time.

While the creature was staring at them, Mo Hanyu was also looking at it.

Its tail was very long, wrapping half of its body. Perhaps it felt that it was in the way, so it held it in its mouth. This creature looked very strange. It had leopard patterns on its body, but it had a human face with an eye in the middle, giving people the illusion of being stared at by its own kind.

It shook its ears. Mo Hanyu found that its ears were wide and big, shaped like cow ears, and fanned them on both sides of its cheeks.

It slightly revealed its fangs, growled threateningly, and stared at the prey in Qin Xiao's hand.

Qin Xiao understood what it meant.

Qin Xiao: ...That’s a nice thought.

As soon as Qin Xiao saw its huge body, he knew it must have done this many times. So could he compromise so easily? Of course not.

So Qin Xiao stared at it and whispered to Mo Hanyu, "Run."

Mo Hanyu, who originally thought he was going to fight it head-on based on his posture: ...?

Qin Xiao ignored his surprise, turned around and ran away with the white nue in his hand.

Mo Hanyu was stunned for a moment and then followed closely.

The two men, one in front and one behind, ran all over the mountain as they were chased by the wild beast.

"Why don't you take action?" Mo Hanyu wondered.

Qin Xiao glanced at him in surprise: "Why do you think you can fight?"

Mo Hanyu recalled the beast's strong muscles and tall body, was silent for a moment, then looked back at the beast's running posture as if the mountains were shaking, and understood.

"Because you can't beat him?" Mo Hanyu asked.

Qin Xiao glanced at him and said, "There's no need to fight it even if you can defeat it. Why fight it to the death?"

"So are we just going to let it chase us?" Mo Hanyu asked. "We can't just let it chase us down the mountain."

Qin Xiao looked at him like a fool and said, "It's not stupid. It will give up naturally if it can't catch up."

Although Qin Xiao said so, Mo Hanyu looked at the persevering beast behind him and felt that it might not be as smooth as Qin Xiao said.

Unexpectedly, the beast stopped after running for a while. It stopped far away from them, tilted its head to look at them, and panted heavily.

Qin Xiao didn't run anymore, but stood in the distance and stared at it.

The beast shook its head, as if giving up, and sat down.

Qin Xiao calmed his breathing slightly, backed away from it, and pulled Mo Hanyu with him.

Seeing that the beast had no intention of standing up again, Qin Xiao pulled Mo Hanyu into the tall and steep pile of rocks.

"...I really won't chase you anymore." Mo Hanyu murmured.

Fearing that other wild animals might come to steal the food, Qin Xiao built a fire on the spot and roasted the bird to eat.

When Qin Xiao was doing this, Mo Hanyu felt that he could not help, so he just watched from the side. Seeing that Qin Xiao's movements were skillful, it was obvious that he had done this more than once or twice.

The taste of Qin Xiao's food was not very good, but just enough to be eaten. However, Mo Hanyu did not dislike it and swallowed it with a normal expression.

Qin Xiao obviously thought that as long as it was edible, he didn't have any high requirements for the taste. After eating hurriedly and taking a short rest, he got up and continued to walk up.

Seeing Qin Xiao move, Mo Hanyu followed Qin Xiao without hesitation and watched him climb the almost vertical cliff.

"...and why did you choose this path?" Mo Hanyu looked up at Qin Xiao above his head.

"Because I think this way we can get up the mountain faster." Qin Xiao kept moving.

Both of them moved very quickly. After climbing up the rock wall, they had climbed up most of the mountain in less than half a day.

Mo Hanyu stood on a huge rock, looking down at the steep mountain wall below. It was so high and dangerous that he could hardly believe that they had just climbed up from below.

The temperature here is much colder than that at the foot of the mountain. Mo Hanyu almost shivered when the wind blew.

Qin Xiao looked at the top of the mountain which seemed not far away, paused, and sighed: "There is nothing here, let's go."

"We haven't reached the top of the mountain yet? What if——"

Qin Xiao shook his head: "No, there is no need to go there. The treasure is not here."

"So what exactly is the treasure he's talking about? Is it money, natural treasures, or rare animals?" Mo Hanyu stroked his chin, "There's no range, how can we find it?"

Qin Xiao had no idea either, and shook his head: "I'm not sure, but there is really nothing special on it, just a few wild beasts that chased us just now."

Mo Hanyu paused, then readily agreed: "Then let's go."

Qin Xiao: ...

It was already afternoon when the two climbed up here, and the sun was about to set.

Mo Hanyu looked at the red sunset in the sky and hesitated again: "Are you sure you want to go down the mountain now?"

Qin Xiao looked at him and said, "It's not safe on the mountain. There are many scorpions nearby. If we continue to stay here, we don't know if they will come over. If they are all the same size as the previous one, it will be very troublesome."

Mo Hanyu had no objection after hearing this and nodded: "Got it."

……

"...Why is there a baby crying nearby?" Qiu Puryue stopped and looked around.

This mountain is full of rocks of all sizes. But Yin Xihui wanted to rub them to make fire, but after rubbing them for a few times, not only did it not catch fire, but it also rubbed off some of the gray substance on the surface, revealing the crystal clear dark green inside.

"…Is this jade?" Yin Xihui recognized it immediately. He weighed it twice and touched the surface of the jade. He found that the two seemingly inconspicuous small stones in his hand actually contained jade of quite good quality.

Qiu Puyue looked around, squatted down and picked up a palm-sized green stone, crushed it, but found that there was no jade like Yin Xihui's inside.

So Qiu Puryue picked up a few more and found that except for the one just now, the rest were almost all jade, but the jades were big and small, some were only the size of a fingernail, and some were entirely jade except for a thin layer of lime on the outside.

"Here..." Qiu Puryue looked at the crushed jade piece in her hand in surprise, and then looked around.

Yin Xihui took the two larger pieces of jade from her hand and knocked them: "These should be quite valuable... It's a pity that they are broken."

Although he said this, there was no expression of regret on his face.

"...Could this be the treasure you are talking about?" Qiu Puryue looked at him.

Yin Xihui looked around and shook his head: "Probably not."

"But aren't these very valuable?" Qiu Puryue was puzzled.

"Yes, but these may not be the most precious." Yin Xihui sat on a big rock and looked at her. "So many people came here in the past. Could it be that only the two of us found these? People in the past must have discovered these too, and there must be people who would risk their lives to take them away."

"But from what Feng Yaoshan said, it's obvious that the treasure could be taken away by one person. The mountain here is full of such stones. It's obvious that it's impossible for one person to take away so many, unless he has the ability to move the mountain." Yin Xihui exerted a little force with his fingers, causing cracks to appear on the stone under him.

The pressure continued, and soon, the stone was forcibly broken into two halves. Yin Xihui jumped down before the stone fell to the ground, pointed at the jade with gradient colors inside and said: "This can be said to be the best, but there are many such stones on the mountain, and one person can't take them all away..."

"And the mountains here are very strange, don't you think? Many creatures we don't recognize have appeared along the way." Yin Xihui looked around, "Let's keep going, I don't think this is the place to rest yet."

"So what do you think the treasure he is talking about is?" Qiu Puryue asked, standing up.

Yin Xihui said: "I think it will be something that is rare but extremely precious."

“For so many families to flock to it and even send their descendants here to fight for it—although few people have this idea now, it must have been an extremely precious thing in the eyes of people at that time.”

"It could be a technique, or it could be strength." Yin Xihui said.

"...Power? That can't be passed on to others, right?" Qiu Puryue wondered.

"How could that be?" Yin Xihui smiled, "I remember that you corpse binders can absorb other people's cultivation and life?"

Qiu Puryue paused and shifted her gaze: "But it's different from what you said. We need direct contact, but what you said is like being able to extract your own strength and put it in one place..."

"I didn't say I was sure, did I?" Yin Xihui smiled, not really caring. "Anyway, I don't want it. No matter if it's a world-shaking technique, unparalleled power, or a world-shaking monster... I don't want it. Why should I think so much about it?"

"Besides, even if someone in our class really got it, the first thing they would consider is whether they can take it out, and how to keep it after taking it out. I believe that a treasure that attracts the attention of so many families will definitely cause a stir if it is taken out."

"But... doesn't Qin Xiao want it?" Qiu Puryue hesitated.

Yin Xihui thought for a moment and said, "So now we can only hope that they can find it."

"...Will you part ways with them after you get out?" Qiu Puryue asked, clenching her fingers.

Yin Xihui seemed surprised by her question: "Of course."

When Qiu Puryue heard the answer, she knew it was expected, but she still couldn't help feeling disappointed.

"I'm from Lei Ting, and they're from Yuhua. I can't just follow them to Yuhua, right?" Yin Xihui stared at her strangely, "Why are you planning to go to Yuhua with them?"

"Ah?" Qiu Puryue was stunned.

Qiu Puyue blinked: "...No, of course not."

"That's all." Yin Xi smiled. "They are really nice people after these two years of interaction. It's not a bad thing to have two more friends."

Qiu Puryue thought of his last name and opened her mouth to say something.

"but……"

"Hey, it's okay." Yin Xihui seemed to know what she was thinking and shook his head, "I don't have much presence at home, and they won't pay attention to me."

Qiu Puryue wanted to say something but stopped herself, and finally turned her head away.

Now, Qiu Puryue was looking at the place where rocks were piled up in the distance, feeling a little hesitant.

“…Why is there a baby crying?”

Yin Xihui's expression changed: "...There is definitely no way there is a baby in this place."

Qiu Puyue thought of something: "Could it be that it was from before..."

"How is that possible?" Yin Xihui immediately knew what she was thinking and pulled her back, "Don't go over there, let's go."

Qiu Puyue looked over there with confusion, then walked away with Yin Xihui.

The baby's crying suddenly stopped.

Yin Xihui and Qiu Puyue's hair stood on end in an instant.

Almost instantly, Yin Xihui turned his head towards the pile of rocks and drew his bow.

A dark shadow suddenly rushed out and charged towards them with its huge and strong body, obviously intending to attack them.

Yin Xihui loosened his bow, and a beam of red light shot towards the black shadow. It hit the black shadow's feet and exploded with a loud bang. The hot air waves could be felt on their side.

The figure looked taller than the two of them combined. Yin Xihui didn't hesitate and turned around and said, "Let's go."

Qiu Puyue said: "I can--"

"Don't use your tricks yet." Yin Xihui grabbed her hand that was about to release the blood spell and quickly explained to her, "We don't know if this is an attribute or what, so don't act rashly. Confirm its identity first."

Having said that, he pulled Qiu Puyue and ran away.

Qiu Purue looked at him stiffly as he pulled her hand, then broke free: "Okay."

Seeing that she understood, Yin Xihui said nothing more.

Qiu Puryue looked at the unidentified creature that was persisting behind her and pursed her lips.

The creature's footsteps sounded like horse hooves, so Yin Xihui chose to climb higher. The two climbed to the top of the rubble before stopping and looking back at the creature standing hesitantly under the rubble.

The creature looked really strange. Its body was clearly like a cow, with red hair, but its feet were hooves of horses. It lifted its hooves and pawed the ground like a horse, looking at the two people anxiously.

When Yin Xihui saw its face, he couldn't help but gasp.

"...Why does this face...look a bit like a human?" Qiu Puyue said tremblingly.

Although it looks like a human, when you look at its sharp teeth, you can tell that it does not belong to a human.

"...Was it the one that was crying just now?" Yin Xihui listened to the faint shrill sound and confirmed the source of the baby's crying just now.

"...It wants to lure people there and eat them!" Qiu Puryue realized something and slammed the stone next to him.

The stone lost its balance and rolled down.

It almost hit the creature on the head.

The beast looked even angrier, looking up at them with murderous eyes.

Qiu Puryue: ...

Yin Xihui: ...

Qiu Puryue: "Do you believe me if I say I didn't mean it?"

Yin Xihui looked at its angry expression and said, "Obviously it doesn't believe it."

Qiu Puryue: ...