Relics of the Day

Qin Jiuyan remained silent and just stared at her.

Jiang Jingyuan also looked at Qin Jiuyan in front of him and asked, "How is it?"

Qin Jiuyan's mouth twitched, and he said with difficulty: "Okay..."

She was wrong. She should have waited until tomorrow morning to find Jiang Jingyuan...

In the darkness, the girl, half yellow and half blood-red, raised her lips and said with a look of great joy, "I knew you were the most reliable!"

Qin Jiuyan glanced at her, said nothing, and turned around silently to face the back.

"rustle……"

As they talked, pairs of brass-colored lantern-like eyes, densely packed in the misty forest, quickly approached the two of them.

Qin Jiuyan glanced casually with her gilded eyes. The copper bells wrapped around her red dress moved without wind. The copper bells swayed silently, but seemed to make some kind of bewitching sound, driving away or pulling countless figures of all sizes in the jungle to bypass the two of them and crawl into the darkness behind them.

Jiang Jingyuan was also distracted for a while.

She suddenly came to her senses and turned around, and saw a faint golden light passing in front of her. Jiang Jingyuan subconsciously took a half step back and looked again.

The man in red beside him raised his fair right hand. Each of his five fingers was wrapped with a golden thread that flashed with sharp cold light. The golden thread pointed straight in the direction from which Jiang Jingyuan came. In the dark void, it suddenly split into hundreds of golden threads, which penetrated into the depths of the jungle like a dragnet.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Jingyuan suddenly seemed to remember something and quickly said, "There was a girl in green clothes who was with me."

Qin Jiuyan's five fingers on her right hand, holding countless golden threads, moved slightly. She did not look back, but just said "hmm" softly.

Countless faint golden rays flashed across the pairs of brass-colored eyes in the darkness, moving forward and brushing against a light green robe.

Under heavy pressure, a light green figure danced and swiftly passed through the huge formation formed by layers of black shadows. Cold lights cut through the night one after another, and countless black-robed figures behind her fell to the ground with a bang.

However, Yu Linhuan's expression remained solemn. She turned her wrist, gripped her sword tightly, and rushed straight towards the three people standing in front of her who were looking at her!

"clang--"

“Ding-dang——”

Suddenly, there was a flash of swords and knives in the darkness. A three-edged sword brushed past her flowing black hair. Yu Linhuan suddenly retreated backwards, and at the same time, he held the long sword with his backhand to block another three-edged sword flashing with a cold light that was coming from the side.

Yu Linhuan felt that the situation was getting a bit tricky. She could easily defeat any one of the three people in front of her, but when these three coordinated well together, she could only defend and retreat...

When she thought of Jiang Jingyuan, whose situation was unknown, waiting on the other side, her eyes suddenly became fierce, the air around her surged, and she raised her sword and slashed at the person in front of her again -

Rather than running away and letting them chase us like wolves and tigers, it would be better to kill them all right now!!!

As her thoughts raced, the long sword in Yu Linhuan's hand had already stabbed into the heart of the person in front of her. She caught a glimpse of two triangular-shaped long swords coming towards her neck!

Yu Linhuan did not retreat. She weighed the defensive magic weapon she was carrying, and stabbed the sword in her hand into the heart of the person in front of her more fiercely. Scarlet blood splattered instantly -

She must kill one person first with this sword!

As long as one of them died, the remaining two would not be a threat at all, and it wouldn't matter even if she got injured.

Just when Yu Linhuan was fully prepared to withstand the damage, she suddenly caught a glimpse of the two figures next to her suddenly stiffening, and the two triangular swords in their hands fell to the grass with a "click".

“?!”

Yu Linhuan was stunned, and the long sword in his hand pierced straight through the body of the person in front of him.

…………

Jiang Jingyuan watched the thousands of golden threads disappear into the darkness ahead and retracted them into Qin Jiuyan's hands. He wondered blankly, was it resolved so quickly...

But it was only for a moment, and her heart returned to its usual calmness. No matter what, as long as the problem was solved, it would be fine.

As her thoughts raced, the scene she had seen in the tree earlier raced through her mind, finally settling on the exquisite brass birdcage. Jiang Jingyuan paused, and suddenly remembered something.

——The strange bracelet made up of thirteen eyeballs that has been kept in her storage bracelet until now.

A chill crept up her arm, and Jiang Jingyuan's pupils trembled. She thought, "Could this be such a coincidence? Could they be in the same group?"

Jiang Jingyuan narrowed his eyes, thinking rapidly in his mind: "Also... at Bai Zhou Mountain, when Hua Simiao and I dealt with Li Xianyou... Hua Simiao said that the things he took out belonged to the Yu Tu Sect. And from what Hua Simiao said, only the Yu Tu Sect could be so cruel and ruthless...

"So, could those people we just met be from the Yu Tu Sect?"

Not only did he use Xu Qinglin's method of making winged people, but he also improved it to be reusable... Even in this era, this can be considered extremely cruel!

After making a preliminary judgment, Jiang Jingyuan collected his thoughts and looked forward again.

She happened to see a piece of light green clothing emerging from the darkness ahead where countless black shadows were rustling and crawling.

Yu Linhuan walked over and saw a thin long shadow crawling in front of her toes, then it paused obviously, then went around her clothes and moved away from the side. She couldn't help but twitching her lips.

Looking up, he was caught off guard by a group of yellow eyes in front of him, some crawling on the ground and some hanging on the trees. Yu Linhuan paused for a moment, and the air flow spread out around him. The figures around him that almost merged into the darkness instantly turned into dust and dissipated.

She raised her foot and walked towards the two people in front.

Seeing that those who were supposed to die had died and those who were supposed to come had come, Qin Jiuyan retracted the golden thread wrapped around his five fingers, turned his head to look at Jiang Jingyuan beside him, and asked, "Are you going to leave now or rest?"

Jiang Jingyuan did not answer, but looked at the girl in green walking towards him.

Yu Linhuan smiled and said without hesitation: "Whatever the boss says is..."

Before she finished her words, the smile on her face suddenly disappeared. Yu Linhuan's eyes widened slightly, and she shouted to the two people in front of her in panic: "Fog..."

What? !

Before Jiang Jingyuan could react, he suddenly felt a chill on his back.

It was light and thin, like a gauze blown by the breeze, or like a pool of cool spring water, gently sticking to her back, wrapping around her waist and holding her in his arms.

She was in a trance, as if she was lying on a pool of spring water, gradually sinking, and thin gray-white clouds lingered in front of her eyes, and in an instant, they obscured the sky and the earth.

The slightly cool water surprisingly didn't make her feel cold. Instead, it soothed all the unnoticed fatigue in her body and mind with tenderness and sweetness. She felt so comfortable that she wanted to sleep forever...

Jiang Jingyuan kept his eyes open for an unknown amount of time before he gradually came back to his senses.

Her eyes were as bright as day...

No, this is daytime.

Jiang Jingyuan stared blankly at the vast scene before him, somewhat unable to believe it.

Without the obstruction of towering trees, the bright sunlight of the day cast its rays all around. Jiang Jingyuan stood on the stone path paved with small stones, looking straight up and seeing a tall rock face not far away. Lush trees formed a vast forest on both sides of the rock face, surrounding it with trees, leaving only a large open space in front of the rock face.

"This is..." Jiang Jingyuan was stunned and couldn't help muttering.

Logically speaking, she should have been fully on guard and nervous after suddenly encountering such a bizarre and strange incident, but perhaps it was because the sunlight was too dazzling, illuminating the scenery in front of her like a dream. It was clearly just a deep forest and a rock wall, but Jiang Jingyuan could only feel an inexplicable melodious admiration in her heart.

"remains."

Jiang Jingyuan was caught off guard when he heard a voice next to him.

She turned her head and saw Qin Jiuyan standing beside her. She immediately looked around and didn't see Yu Linhuan.

Are they the only two who came here... Jiang Jingyuan recalled and remembered Yu Linhuan's panic-stricken behavior in the deep forest at night.

"Mist... is it fog?" Jiang Jingyuan thought to himself, "Did the fog swallow Qin Jiuyan and me from behind, but Yu Linhuan didn't enter the fog?"

Thinking about it, she took out the communication card and sent a message to Yu Linhuan. After a long time, she stared at the message on the communication card that had not yet been sent, wondering if it was blocked by interference again?

Was this also done by the same group of people before?

After a pause, Jiang Jingyuan felt that something was not right. She looked at Qin Jiuyan beside her again and saw that Qin Jiuyan's face was not smiling casually, which was rare. Instead, it was...

Jiang Jingyuan repeatedly thought and analyzed the expression on Qin Jiuyan's face.

She always appears calm and composed, but is actually easily affected by strong emotions, which are difficult to analyze and understand.

At this moment, she sensed some extremely strong emotions from Qin Jiuyan, but when she looked at Qin Jiuyan, Qin Jiuyan's face was... calm... right?

Jiang Jingyuan couldn't understand.

But she knew that the matter that could make Qin Jiuyan behave so strangely must be something more than simple.

"Ruins...ruins?"

Jiang Jingyuan suddenly thought of what Qin Jiuyan had just said, followed Qin Jiuyan's gaze, and turned to look at the rock wall not far ahead.

The emerald green, either gathered or scattered, clung to a large rock wall with some natural potholes. Jiang Jingyuan's sight slowly moved upwards, and suddenly stopped at a place on the rock wall.

It was a huge cave that was obviously carved out by humans. From the angle Jiang Jingyuan and Qin Jiuyan were standing on the ground, looking up, they could see a tall human-shaped statue.

It's a statue!

Vines are entwined around it, branches and leaves stretching out wantonly. It is an exquisitely painted statue that has gradually faded over the long years!

"Is this the ruins Qin Jiuyan mentioned?"

"Is there anything special about this relic?"

Countless questions flashed through Jiang Jingyuan's mind. She was about to look away and turn to look at Qin Jiuyan beside her, but she suddenly caught a glimpse of something in her peripheral vision. She abruptly turned her gaze back to the huge cave high up.

Beside the tall, painted goddess statue, a graceful figure had been quietly standing there. That person... that person...

His eyes widened little by little, and Jiang Jingyuan saw that the man's clothes were exactly the same style as the tall statue next to him, but the colors were more vivid and bright.

The beautiful figure slowly turned and faced outside the cave. She showed Jiang Jingyuan...

A smile...

Jiang Jingyuan felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.