"Don't you know?" Feng Xue said hoarsely, staring intently at Luo Jiujiang's expression. "As long as you cultivate to the fifth level of Foundation Establishment, and go find those people when they gather, they will naturally take you away."
The man had told Luo Jiujiang about this matter, but Luo Jiujiang scoffed at this choice.
"From now on, I won't have to wear a badge under my skin anymore, and someone will tie it around my neck instead?" Luo Jiujiang straightened his collar and smiled. "That way, I might be able to leave this damn place, but I'll just go from being a free-range beast to being a domesticated dog."
A sharp cold wind blew up from the snowy peak again, whistling and blowing up the thin corners of Fengxue's robe.
Feng Xue half-closed her eyes, her expression seemed to be frozen by the cold weather. For a whole incense stick of time, she didn't even move a muscle on her face.
This kind of silence can certainly make people impatient and anxious, but in Luo Jiujiang's view, the other party's silence for a long time is enough to explain the problem.
She may not know how to leave here, but she really doesn't like this world and the upper world of this world, and she wants to leave.
Luo Jiujiang softened his tone and struck while the iron was hot, "I was rude just now and accidentally cut Miss Xiaoren's collar. I'm going to hazard a guess, maybe Miss Xiaoren asked her to take out her badge?"
He had just wounded the swordsman with a single blow, then he tumbled awkwardly on the ground to avoid the sword's tip. In between tumbling, he noticed an old scar on the girl's neck.
And there was no brand buried under her skin.
In an instant, Luo Jiujiang suddenly understood: This plate has always been gouged out by the opponent to identify the life or death of the host, but no one said that the host cannot take it out by himself.
Others didn't dare take out the sign because they were afraid of not being able to trade at the market, or because they feared they had enough cultivation but couldn't be taken away by someone from the higher realms. A bold inference from this is that the person who took out the sign himself might not need to trade at the market, nor did he want to be taken away by someone from the higher realms.
Assassins who practiced the art of water-breaking didn't necessarily have many thoughts of their own; they'd even risked their lives, let alone planning for the future. Therefore, this action probably reflected Xiao Ren's constant reference to "sister," meaning Feng Xue.
"Indeed, I asked her to do it." Feng Xue admitted faintly, "But I don't know any other way to leave here. I only know that in the entire Jinyun Lianhuan Realm, this is the only place that can lead to the outside."
Luo Jiujiang's brows furrowed when he heard the word "chain". He pressed on, "Does 'outside' refer to the passageway connecting to the membranes of other worlds here?"
Feng Xue shook her head: "'Outside' refers to... a spacetime filled with turbulence."
Luo Jiujiang had personally faced that void before, and he knew all too well the terror lurking there beneath the silence. As soon as Feng Xue uttered the word "turbulent flow," Luo Jiujiang's perception suddenly tensed!
Feng Xue refused to say anything more.
"You've come at a very bad time," she sighed. "I'm about to get into some trouble. Go away. If you think what I say is of any use, come back to me in seven days."
Her attitude was very aloof, and she had no intention of asking Luo Jiujiang to stay and face the trouble with her. Luo Jiujiang simply didn't want to go up to her to provoke her. After all, "trouble" was sometimes equivalent to "secret", and it was not good to know too much.
But before leaving, he asked Feng Xue for something else.
"I heard that snowbirds often appear here. My cultivation is not good enough, and I haven't yet mastered fasting. I wonder if I can catch one to fill my stomach?"
Feng Xue was stunned, as if Luo Jiujiang reminded her that there were such creatures here. "You can eat them. Catch as many as you want. As long as they are not extinct, it's fine." She paused for a moment and looked at Luo Jiujiang carefully, as if she just realized that he was still a teenager. "Xiao Ren, give him some salt."
Xiao Ren was a very honest girl. When she said "a little bit", she meant not a centimeter more. After a moment, Luo Jiujiang reached out and took the pinch of white salt that Xiao Ren gave him with a smile.
Feng Xue's face showed a little surprise mixed with sadness. She sighed and touched the hair of Xiao Ren who walked to her side.
"Thank you both for the salt." Luo Jiujiang smiled brightly. "By the way, may I ask, who is Xie Chuncan?"
With a swish, Xiao Ren immediately drew his sword from its sheath!
…She really does seem to react to the name.
Feng Xue said calmly, "He's a madman, but he's not the same kind of person as those beasts out there."
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After five days, Luo Jiujiang finally had something to eat other than snow water.
The snowbird was plump but agile, its fat thick, a mouthful of fat filling. The little salt that Miss Xiaoren brought wasn't even enough to grease one of its legs, so the roasted bird's flavor couldn't compare to the roasted chickens and roasted geese that Luo Jiujiang had once plagued the island.
But in today's world, this is already an impeccable meal.
Luo Jiujiang carefully wrapped up the remaining half of the snowbird and put it in his arms for future use. After using snow to cover the traces of the fire plucking feathers, Luo Jiujiang did not linger and quickly walked out of the boundary paved with stones.
Snow-capped peaks bordered dense forests, leaving a bare, pale landscape as far as the eye could see. Luo Jiujiang had been walking for about a moment when he noticed something strange—underneath the thick snow, he could hear the sounds of several breathing movements.
The sound was hidden very well. If Luo Jiujiang had not been on guard and had not had full perception, and had not been very familiar with this kind of ambush under the snow in recent days, he would have missed it.
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