With the addition of young men and women, our food became more abundant. Over the next two days, the young people were able to bring back some delicacies from the mountains and wild game.

After talking with them, I learned that the young man and the young woman were a pair of senior and junior students; the man's name was Wang Qing and the woman's name was Wang Hong.

These two people only share the same surname and are not related by blood. As for where they learned their teachers, they tacitly did not say so, and I did not ask.

Two days later, in a forest on a mountaintop, all eight of us gathered around a corpse.

Wang Qing turned over the corpse on the ground and turned his gaze to me: "The body is still very fresh. The time of death was no more than three hours ago. There are no external injuries. It should have died of illness."

Looking at the half-dug pit not far away, the monkey guessed, "Could it be that this person caught a cold from being caught in the rain a few days ago, and his teammates wanted to dig a pit to bury him, but they got scared and ran away when they saw other teams coming?"

"Won't!"

I shook my head: "The location of that pit is the auspicious spot of this dragon vein. The other party dug it up just to see if the token had been buried. When they didn't find anything, they gave up burying their teammate in order to save time."

Wang Hong circled around the surrounding woods and returned to us: "There were only two people who had been here, which means we are still in the lead."

Wang Qing looked away from the corpse and asked me, "Your feng shui skills are pretty impressive, aren't they? What are the chances we can find the next token?"

I pursed my lips and said, "The terrain here is complex. Each mountain can be a main peak. The shapes and formations are mixed, and the main and secondary peaks are in harmony. In terms of feng shui, it is a mixed formation. However, Fengmen Village is not asking us to find the dragon vein this time, but to find a token based on feng shui. Therefore, each of these peaks may contain a token. We can only check them one by one."

Wang Hong's expression changed immediately: "Are you kidding me? There are more than a dozen main peaks here. If we really want to find them, even if we only visit one peak a day, it will take us ten days to half a month to find them."

The monkey retorted, its neck stiff with arrogance, "Otherwise what? If you hadn't stolen our token, we'd probably be inside Fengmen Village by now!"

"Alright, now is not the time to argue."

I interrupted the monkey's complaints and said to Wang Qing, "That's the situation right now. If you continue to come with us, you might be delayed for half a month and you'll also encounter other teams. If you want to leave, I won't say anything."

Wang Qing replied nonchalantly, "I can't just take your tokens for nothing. If we encounter other teams, consider it a favor I did for you."

Although his words sounded quite righteous, I knew in my heart that he just wanted to verify whether the stone Jiang Man gave him was a real token.

With one team already ahead, I climbed to a high point to observe the mountain's terrain and then fell into deep thought.

Seeing me standing on the rock lost in thought, Jiang Man came over and asked, "Is something wrong?"

“The previous team was faster than us. They are already on their way to the second mountain by searching one by one. If we search in the same way, we can only follow behind them! If they don’t find it on the second mountain, we will have to chase after them to the third mountain. If we go directly to the third mountain, and they find the token on the second mountain, it will be a waste of our time to continue searching.”

I was at a loss: "I'm wondering which option we should adopt."

Wang Qing walked over and said, "Let's go to the second mountain. Judging from the corpses, the other side shouldn't have been gone for too long. If we speed up, we still have a chance to catch up with them. If they take the token, we can also intercept them."

I hesitated for a moment, but still felt that jumping over the second mountain was too risky, so I jumped off the rock: "If the other party really finds the token, they will definitely be afraid of being robbed, so they will naturally not take the same path back. Hopefully, we can still make it in time!"

In order to catch up with the group ahead, we all quickened our pace.

In the afternoon, when we went up the mountain, we found that the location of the auspicious burial site had also been dug out.

The monkey squatted on the ground, examined the soil that had been turned over, and shook its head, saying, "It's untouched sediment, which means this place was only dug up once. Those people probably didn't find anything."

When I heard that these people had come up empty-handed again, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "It's still light out. Let's head towards the third mountain tonight and make the most of their rest time. If we can walk for a few more hours, we'll have a chance to catch up with them."

Just then, a small bird landed on Wang Hong's shoulder, and she immediately became alert: "Someone is coming this way, and they're very close."

A few days ago, while I was camping, I noticed that there were more birds around the campsite, but I didn't think much of it.

It wasn't until this moment that I realized that Wang Hong had attracted all these birds.

One of these two martial arts brothers and sisters can control poisonous spiders, and the other can manipulate birds. I wonder what kind of kung fu they learned.

Although I didn't know if Wang Hong's judgment was accurate, I still told everyone to hide, and we hid in a grove of trees.

Jiang Man crouched down beside me, hiding herself, clearly also somewhat wary of Wang Qing and the other man's abilities: "Duan Shenxing, these two people's abilities are too strange. They always give me a weird feeling. If we get the token before the other group, the fact that we gave them the stone will definitely be exposed. We have to think of a way to get rid of them before the two sides turn against each other."

Although Wang Qing and I got along fairly well, I never forgot the hostile relationship between us: "I've been thinking about this all the way. I don't know what those fellow disciples do, but they're obviously trained fighters with exceptional stamina. It'll be hard to shake them off, and if we really have to fight, we're not confident of winning."

"Splash!"

At that moment, the bushes in front were parted, and the bearded group of men who had been wounded by Wang Qing's flying arrow came into view.

Seeing the hole dug in the ground, the bearded man gritted his teeth and cursed, "What did these bastards eat to grow up like this? Their stamina is incredible! We rushed as fast as we could, but we were always one step behind them!"

Another person stepped forward and examined the soil: "The soil is wet, which means they haven't gone far. If we don't rest tonight, we'll definitely catch up with them!"

When I saw the bearded group, I was overjoyed. Seizing this rare opportunity, I used my spear to suddenly poke at the bushes.

Upon hearing the voice, the pale-faced youth on the other end immediately became alert: "Who goes there? Show yourself!"