However, Luo Jiujiang returned to the snowy surface and explored it with his senses for a moment, only to find himself pointed in a direction completely opposite to the cave. The two of them hurried for a moment before finally encountering Fengxue Fengren. The four of them exchanged glances, each stunned for a moment.
"Sister Xue, Xiao Ren, what are you doing..." Luo Jiujiang couldn't help but blurt out as he watched the scene before him, "Your injuries aren't serious, are they?"
Feng Xue's clothes were covered in large, dark, clotted bloodstains, emitting a strong, fishy smell, as if she had been splattered with blood from someone's wound. A trace of blood pooled at the corner of her mouth, and her eyes, now colder than ever, were now even more resolute and gloomy. Her cultivation had somehow reached the fifth level of Qi Refining. Xiao Ren's condition was slightly better, but he also looked disheveled after the fight.
At the same time, Feng Xue also asked, "Where are your clothes?"
Not long ago, two people were sent out in good condition, and when they came back, one of them had changed his clothes?
Xie Chuncan warned, "Don't overthink it. The robe Jiujiang is wearing belongs to Lu Qi."
Feng Xue hadn't really thought about it inappropriately, but Xie Chuncan's words sounded dishonest, and he forced her to think about it: "...your circle is really messy. No, what does this have to do with Lu Qi?"
Luo Jiujiang hesitated and said, "Is it about him, uh, about him dying after digging through the wall?"
"What?" Feng Xue was genuinely taken aback. She had no idea of the rather sinister secrets within the stone hall, and upon hearing the news, she was horrified. "How shameful! He died because of poaching? Wait, are you two..."
Xie Chuncan: “…”
Luo Jiujiang: “…”
The three of them looked at each other for a moment. Except for Xiao Ren who was completely out of shape, they all felt a kind of sour feeling that could only be understood but not expressed in words.
As the master of Xie Jiang, who had died while digging the wall, this incident was indeed related to Lu Qi. He was the shortest of the three bodies present. Luo Jiujiang was still a teenager, not yet fully grown, and only his clothes would fit him best. If he didn't wear his, would he be naked?
However, the atmosphere at the moment didn't seem convenient for explaining to Feng Xue that "Lu Qi is the only suitable person." Luo Jiujiang paused, then pulled out the bottle of Foundation Establishment Pill he'd obtained in the stone hall from the storage bag at his waist and handed it to Xiao Ren: "We've got the Foundation Establishment Pill. Take it at your own discretion. Take care of yourself while digesting the medicine. Don't rush and damage your foundation. Once you've advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage, the four of us will leave this place."
After Xiao Ren returned to the innermost part of the snow cave to digest the medicine, the three of them briefly exchanged experiences. Xie Chuncan and Luo Jiujiang had little to say, aside from the stone hall's emphasizing, that hunting and killing were a common occurrence, as they'd expected, just feeding them three times a day. However, when Feng Xue casually mentioned biting off Hua Biliu's arm, Luo Jiujiang's eyes widened, finally understanding the source of Feng Xue's bloodstains.
"Sister Xue, you..."
"I wasn't that powerful back then." Feng Xue said with half-closed eyes, "I just took advantage of his underestimation of his enemy. Plus, the arrogant are afraid of the crazy, and the crazy are afraid of the desperate. Who told me that I didn't want to live so badly at that time?"
Luo Jiujiang sensitively grasped the key words in Feng Xue's words: "At that time?"
"My strength has improved a bit now. After all, I..." Feng Xue didn't say anything else, but just pursed her lips.
She didn't say much, and Xie Chuncan, unusually understanding, didn't press the issue. Instead, he went on to describe the deployment of the men involved in the previous manhunt, and the two of them compared their current information. When Xie Chuncan learned that the cave where the four had originally lived was now Hua Biliu's base, he belatedly realized how perfectly Luo Jiujiang's perception had improved.
"I almost fell into a trap." Xie Chuncan sighed.
"Brother Xie, you're wrong. If we've taken the wrong path, we'll be catching them all in one fell swoop," Luo Jiujiang said casually. He seemed a little absent-minded at the moment, his face not facing them directly, but half-turned towards the cave entrance.
Xie Chuncan said unhappily, "You think too highly of me. Brother Xie must have been a spider that lived for a hundred and twenty years in his previous life to be able to weave such a large web."
"Then Brother Xie, quickly think about how you lived in the Spider Cave in your early years." Luo Jiujiang sighed and jumped up. Almost at the same time, Feng Xue also stood up. Luo Jiujiang put his hand on the rough handle of the knife, "The net you and I are using is to catch the Taotie - they are coming."
Feng Xue said nothing, but just twitched his nose slightly. In the biting wind that was carrying snow and cold, a scent of blood and malice was faintly drifting towards him.
The fishy smell was much thicker and stronger than when they met in the cave before.
Along with the fishy wind came a sky filled with dark clouds. Hua Biliu didn't make his usual grand entrance, nor did he ride in his bright red sedan chair, resembling a bride. Instead, dark clouds rolled across the sky, and a ferocious beast rode the wind. One of its four legs had been severed, and the wound hadn't yet healed. Blood splattered down like rain, staining the falling snow a blinding crimson.
Before he got close, the roar came first. Even though he didn't understand the language of the beasts, it was not difficult for Luo Jiujiang to hear the hatred and rage contained in the roar.
Feng Xue probably understood what Hua Biliu was howling about, but at this moment, without even raising his eyelids, he just sneered, "You're just barking like that, who can understand you? Just try to silence your crow's mouth."
The strange beast's eyes immediately opened wide, almost slashing with bloodshot. It spoke in human language, its voice deep and rich, no longer the tender and innocent voice of Hua Biliu: "Hua Biyue, if you dare to cut off my arm, I will tear you apart alive, rip out your heart and entrails, take your soul and pin it to the depths of the death zone, and refine it with fire and gold every day until your three souls and seven spirits can no longer be gathered together and it is difficult for you to enter the cycle of reincarnation. Only then will you be free!"
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