A reason for leaving Lin Shuai Nan, not eating or sleeping well, earned Xiu Xiu the opportunity to accompany them!
Su Xing Yan, Su Shan He, and Hua Yu Xiao were escorted back to Miao Jiang City by Yang Fei.
Now, Ling Feng had all the clues in hand, and with the Samsara Life and Death Gu in his possession, he wasn't afraid of those who wouldn't show themselves.
So now he just needed to wait quietly; they would eventually come to him.
It wouldn't be bad to go out and move around, using himself as bait.
After the group set off, they soon arrived at the scene of the incident.
"The source of the Gu poison is the three villages below. The village on the southeast side is the smallest and was sealed off the most promptly. Shan Han Yi has his men on the mountainside!" Ji Yun Yue said faintly.
Ling Feng nodded slightly, a glint flashing in his eyes.
As night fell, her cold, stunningly beautiful face gained an even more sacred aura under the moonlight.
The group was on a mountaintop. Ling Feng looked down; the scattered villages around were all located in a basin.
The transportation here was extremely inconvenient, and standing below, one might even feel a suffocating, windless sensation.
"Something is wrong here!"
Soon, the group sensed the abnormality around them. Guan Ya was the first to point it out.
The mysterious girl tilted her head slightly, "What do you mean?"
Guan Ya glanced back at Ling Feng. Seeing the encouragement in Ling Feng's eyes, he then pointed below, "Such a remote, barren, and reclusive place. If someone intentionally wanted to spread this Gu poison, there's no reason they would choose a place like this! This... it's more like..."
As he spoke, Guan Ya's face turned a little pale.
The mysterious girl, however, was growing impatient, pouting, "Like what?"
"Like a cage! Or a trap!"
Ji Yun Yue uttered Guan Ya's unfinished words with a chilling voice.
Upon hearing this, the mysterious girl's delicate body trembled. She looked down again, her pretty face also starting to turn pale.
Ji Yun Yue was right; this was a trap.
"Someone is deliberately luring us down!"
The mysterious girl frowned slightly, a cold glint flashing in her eyes.
Lin Shuai Nan, overhearing the conversation, suddenly let out a strange cry, "Tch! Whatever ghosts or monsters, they'll reveal themselves before this Grandpa Lin!"
*Slap!*
Xiu Xiu slapped the back of Lin Shuai Nan's head, sending him rolling down the mountainside.
He tumbled all the way down, his strange cries echoing through the valley like a late-night specter.
"You're the biggest ghost and monster here, humph!"
Xiu Xiu snorted coquettishly, completely unconcerned about Lin Shuai Nan rolling down the mountain.
Lin Shuai Nan had a special physique. Such a severe gunshot wound healed in two to three days, leaving no scar. This was just rolling down a mountain; he wouldn't get hurt at all.
In Su Xing Yan's words, Lin Shuai Nan was useless at everything else, but he was tough.
He had even inadvertently advised Xiu Xiu that if she ever followed Lin Shuai Nan, she could vent her anger on him whenever she felt like it, as Lin Shuai Nan could definitely take it...
Seeing this, everyone was stunned.
This worked too?
"Let's go, set off!"
Xiu Xiu called out and followed Lin Shuai Nan, who was still rolling down, down the mountain.
Seeing Lin Shuai Nan's miserable state, Guan Ya instinctively flinched. This woman was truly terrifying!
Ji Yun Yue's expression remained unchanged as she followed without hesitation.
The mysterious girl glanced at Ling Feng and said with a wry smile, "Now I have no choice but to go in, do I?"
"You don't have to go in if you don't want to. Stay here, and we'll call you when we get back."
Ling Feng said calmly, like still water, and headed down the mountain with Guan Ya without looking back!
The mysterious girl pouted. Staying here alone was worse than going down with everyone.
"Alas, this is knowing there are tigers in the mountains and heading straight for them!"
As the group descended, it was as if a pair of eyes slowly opened in the darkness, filled with sinister, cunning satisfaction!
"Young Master, it has been confirmed. Ling Feng and his group have arrived!"
Outside Shan Han Yi's tent on the mountainside on the southeast side, someone reported on bended knee.
Shan Han Yi walked out with a grim expression.
"What do you mean? What do you mean 'that group' has arrived?"
"This... Besides Ling Feng, there's the Saintess, Guan Ya from the Witchcraft Convention, and that mysterious girl who came in second place!"
"Damn it! Ji Yun Yue, that bitch, is actually with Ling Feng! I wondered why this bitch hadn't shown up after three days, but it turns out..."
Upon hearing this, Shan Han Yi was so furious his head felt like it would explode.
The reporter trembled, fearing that Shan Han Yi would lose his temper and kill him to vent his anger.
Shan Han Yi calmed down, looked around, and stared at the few people who had split into two groups in the darkness, then sneered.
"Heh heh, just as I guessed, they've split into two teams and gone to different villages! Very good, this way, it will be even easier to deal with Ling Feng!"
A cold light flashed in Shan Han Yi's eyes. He ordered the people around him, "Go! Find out exactly who entered which of the two villages!"
At Shan Han Yi's command, the few people in front of him could only nervously walk towards the villages below the mountain, but their pace was very slow.
What a joke.
The Gu poison was most severe in the two villages below. With midnight approaching, and thinking of everything that had happened in the villages before, their legs were trembling.
However, disobeying Shan Han Yi's orders had consequences they couldn't bear.
Finally, the few gritted their teeth, split into two groups, and went into the villages to investigate separately.
And Ling Feng's group had indeed split into two after descending the mountain, heading to two villages to check the situation.
Ji Yun Yue went to the village on the northwest side.
Seeing this, Ling Feng asked Guan Ya to follow Ji Yun Yue. At least Guan Ya was a witch doctor and had ways to deal with some emergencies.
The mysterious girl thought for a moment and finally decided to follow Ji Yun Yue and Guan Ya.
After all, on Ling Feng's side, only Ling Feng himself had combat strength.
In the eyes of the mysterious girl, Xiu Xiu and Lin Shuai Nan both had labels above their heads.
One was a spoiled young lady with combat power equivalent to zero!
The other was a crazy, non-mainstream, loser guy with combat power... in the negative!
These two were clearly liabilities, and Ling Feng might even be dragged down and killed by being with them.
Therefore, she made her choice easily.