Chapter 277 It’s Better to Leave

Half a month after the end of the sword fighting competition, an astonishing news came from the Five Elements Sect: the leader of this sword fighting competition, Xiao Mian, died of his injuries!

This news was like a boulder smashed into a calm lake, raising thousands of waves.

With the end of the Yuanying Dharma Assembly, tens of thousands of cultivators left the Five Elements Sect and spread the news at the fastest speed. In just a few days, everyone knew about it.

Many cultivators who had seen Xiao Mian's grace at the sword fighting competition felt very sad. Of course, many of them also gloated over the news of Xiao Mian's death.

At this time, Xiao Mian wore Li Mudao's human skin mask, dressed in black clothes and a gauze hat, which was completely different from his long gown in the past.

Xiao Mian did not rush to Wanzongyuan, but headed east to his hometown, the small green mountain. Looking at the maze running safely, Xiao Mian first put down half of his heart. After bypassing the maze, Xiao Mian came to the graves of his parents and Xiao Chuxue.

As the saying goes, "When parents are alive, one should not travel far away, and when traveling, one must have a plan."

Now Xiao Mian's parents have both passed away, but this time he was traveling far away and his life and death were uncertain, so Xiao Mian wanted to pay homage to his parents again, although there were only two empty graves.

After that, Xiao Mian went to Lingchuan Market without stopping. In Wanxiangzhai, he learned that Chi Lianxia was brought back by Li Mama and was in seclusion to heal her wounds.

Xiao Mian wanted to meet Chi Lianxia, ​​but was sternly rejected by Li Mama. She said that after Chi Lianxia healed her wounds, she would try to form a pill, and it was not appropriate to be distracted. In desperation, Xiao Mian had to leave three healing spiritual herbs treasured by Li Mudao and left.

Xiao Mian was naturally grateful to Chi Lianxia.

Not only because Chi Lianxia was injured that day to help him test Lu Chengzhi, but also because Chi Lianxia had given Xiao Mian a jade slip. The secret technique engraved in that jade slip was the supreme technique of the Demon Shadow Sect - "The Great Method of Transforming Shadow Gods and Demons"!

Although Xiao Mian did not practice after he got it, he also studied it carefully, because he knew that he would have many things to do against the Demon Shadow Sect in the future. As the saying goes, knowing yourself and the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger. I think Chi Lianxia also thinks so.

Sure enough, that night, Xiao Mian faced the shadow servant of Yuan Yan Patriarch.

It was also because of the study of "The Great Art of Shadow God and Demon" that Xiao Mian thought of using the method of self-destructing gilded war puppet to contain the shadow servant.

Unfortunately, the shadow servant was at the level of a Jindan cultivator after all. In the end, if Xiao Mian had not used the Three Pure Lights by some strange coincidence, he would have died long ago.

Now that he heard that Chi Lianxia had also started to form a pill, Xiao Mian was happy for her, but he couldn't help thinking secretly that it seemed that he had to speed up his practice.

After all, when they were both in the foundation-building stage, Xiao Mian could still fight with Lu Chengzhi, but if Lu Chengzhi formed a pill, Xiao Mian would have to be killed.

With this in mind, Xiao Mian turned north and came to the Northern Wilderness Prairie where he had lived for several years.

The prairie remained the same, but things and people had changed.

Without time to sigh, Xiao Mian returned to the burial place of the Firelight Beast Clan, which was the big black stone where he first met Guitou.

After collecting the finger bone that he had abandoned here, Xiao Mian put it into the forbidden spirit box, so that he would not be afraid of the spiritual energy leaking out.

Seeing that the ten thousand year spiritual grass in the Yellow Spring Pond was still floating carefree, Xiao Mian first let go of most of his worries. After all, from the fact that the Yuanying Patriarch was willing to fight for it, it can be seen that the ten thousand year spiritual grass is definitely a rare treasure.

Although until today, Xiao Mian still does not know what grade and category the ten thousand year spiritual grass floating in the Yellow Spring Pond is, this does not hinder the status of the ten thousand year spiritual grass in Xiao Mian's mind.

If it were not for the fact that the ten thousand year spiritual grass could not be easily left in the Yellow Spring Pond, Xiao Mian would really not be at ease to let such a treasure out of his sight.

Under Guitou's instruction, Xiao Mian set up a rather exquisite illusion array near Huangquan Youtan, covering the entire Huangquan Youtan.

According to Guitou, in this way, even if an ordinary Jindan strongman accidentally entered it, he would not be able to see any clues - of course, this is just deceiving himself. If a Jindan strongman discovered this cave, not to mention the Huangquan Youtan and the thousand-year-old spiritual herbs in the water, even the flaming animal skins all over the mountain would be enough to drive them crazy.

Therefore, Xiao Mian could only hope that no one would find this place.

Fortunately, there was no spiritual energy in the entire Beihuang grassland, and there were no famous spiritual materials. Ordinary cultivators would not come to such a place at all.

While comforting himself, Xiao Mian planned to leave.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Guitou, who had helped Xiao Mian set up the illusion array, lingered and was unwilling to return to Xiao Mian's body.

"Ghost, you are not planning to live in seclusion here, are you? This place is cold and windy, and the sky is dark, which is in line with your aesthetics!"

"Get lost!"

An angry curse interrupted Xiao Mian's teasing. Ghost suddenly flew out of the secret cave and came to the big black stone and flew left and right, with a solemn expression, as if thinking about something.

Xiao Mian saw something strange, so he didn't dare to interrupt.

"This place is so familiar!"

"Nonsense! According to your own words, you have been here for thousands or tens of thousands of years. How can you not be familiar with it?" Seeing that Ghost pondered for a long time and only came up with such nonsense, Xiao Mian couldn't help but laugh and cry, but heard Ghost continued: "No! I mean this big stone! It feels so familiar..."

"Big stone? You didn't say you knew this big stone back then!"

"Nonsense! I just got out of trouble, my memory is incomplete, and my soul is on the verge of collapse. How can I remember so much? But thanks to your master uncle, since I absorbed his soul, my soul has solidified a lot, and I can remember a lot of things that I couldn't remember before. This big stone must be related to me!"

"Could it be that someone doesn't like you and uses this big stone to suppress you?"

"Bullshit! I have always been the one suppressing others, how can it be someone else's turn to suppress me?" Seeing Xiao Mian repeatedly confronting himself The ghost head cursed angrily, but just after he finished speaking, he was stunned and exclaimed: "This... this big stone, damn it! This is my magic weapon back then!"

"No way! You were suppressed by your own magic weapon?"

"I don't know! The incident back then seemed to be a big deal. Many people were fighting for something, many people died, and finally... finally... ah——!"

The ghost head, who was talking to himself, suddenly shrank and expanded, sometimes illusory and sometimes solid, obviously falling into the edge of going crazy.

Xiao Mian was horrified when he saw it, and quickly evolved the physical properties of the soul-fixing incense to the extreme to help the ghost head condense his soul body.

For a long time, the ghost head panted and cried out in fear.

"That was a close call! That was a close call! It's even scarier than the Yellow Spring Pond!"

"What happened?"

"I don't know! I only know that what happened back then was definitely unusual, and it left an unbearable impression deep in my soul. Once I want to recall it, I will fall into a state similar to being possessed, and in the end, my soul will inevitably fly away." Seeing that Xiao Mian was doubtful, Gui Tou muttered unhappily: "In other words: this soul has set a warning line: it would rather die than recall what happened back then. In the mind of the soul, what happened back then is more terrifying than self-destruction!"

"Could it be - Spirit War?"

"No! Although I have never heard of the word Spirit War, I don't have any awe for these two words themselves. Spirit War should have appeared after my demise."

"Don't think too much, old man like you. If you are dead, living one more day is a gain, so why bother about things that happened thousands or tens of thousands of years ago? "

"Hmph! What you said is really comforting!"

"May I ask, old Ghost, what exactly is this big black stone magic weapon of yours?"

"..., I don't know!"

"..., you are so cruel!"

"Don't worry, kid! Although I have forgotten a lot of things, with my taste back then, can the magic weapon that I can appreciate be a junk? This big black stone is definitely a magic weapon among magic weapons. Regardless of other things, just talking about the material, color, and shape, even many spiritual treasures are probably far behind!"

"Stop! Old man, let's go first!"

"Tsk! If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer a loss!"

No matter how much Guitou cursed, Xiao Mian just walked out of the secret cave without hesitation.

But privately, Xiao Mian kept every word of Guitou in his heart.

When Guitou completely recovers his memory in the future, or when he becomes strong enough, he will take the ten thousand year old spiritual grass in the Yellow Spring Pond, and take away the big black stone that the Fire Beast Clan regards as a burial place.

Although Guitou couldn't explain it after talking for a long time, Xiao Mian still believed Guitou's words.

After a while, he walked out of the secret cave and returned to Huoyun Ridge on a whim. He found a few huge red maples to operate on, but he didn't see any wood gold.

Seeing Guitou looking at him with a sneer, and remembering the helpless look of the Fire Beast Qingjing shaking his head, Xiao Mian knew that the wood gold might not be available anymore.

At this moment, he didn't care about the red maple in that ridge anymore, and Xiao Mian turned around and floated away.

Then he saw a black shadow galloping on the northern wilderness prairie, heading west along the windblown grass wilderness, decisive and unswerving.

Heading west, straight to Wanzongyuan!