After listening to this, Ranran nodded in admiration.

If you think about it carefully, all of Xishan's former disciples were indeed extraordinary. Qin Xuanjiu was lucky enough to always escape death, Zeng Yi was born with ingenuity, and Wang Suizhi's ability to find wealth everywhere was truly amazing.

Qiu Xier was fascinated by this miraculous skill and kept asking herself whether she could also learn this magical skill.

Zeng Yi smiled bitterly: "Such extraordinary skills are innate, how can they be trained? But why did Wang Suizhi recruit so many orphans born in the last month?"

Yu Tong added food to his son's bowl and said, "What else can I do? It's just my old habit coming back. I need to find something fresh and tender to please my eyes..."

At this point, Yu Tong stopped talking hastily, because her master was also recruited by Mu Qingge to be a pleasing sight. She said this for fear of touching the scar in her master's heart.

However, Master Mu has nothing to do with Xishan now. She has a disciple who can bring fortune, so she is not short of money. It is her own business if she likes to have more disciples.

As long as she doesn't bother her master, it will be fine.

Besides, when Wang Suizhi brought the orphans back to see their master, a few followers nearby spoke up and told him about their meeting with Xue Ranran.

Mu Ranwu, who had just finished regulating her breathing, slowly raised her head, stared at Wang Suizhi and said, "What do you think of that girl?"

Wang Suizhi didn't know what his teacher meant by asking this question, so he answered truthfully: "She is a kind girl..."

Mu Ranwu's ulterior motives immediately turned to him, and she asked calmly, "Is it because she took care of the old widow? Back then on Tianmai Mountain, you were slandering me...but it was this kind-hearted girl you mentioned."

After being reminded by his master, Wang Suizhi suddenly became alert and quickly clasped his fists and said, "Please rest assured, Master, I will definitely remember and will not be deceived by her illusion again... But it seems that Old Fourteen has a good personal relationship with Su Yishui. Now the master and apprentices in Xishan are still living in the stable under Old Fourteen's name."

Mu Ranwu thought of Zeng Yiguang's bald hands, but didn't care much.

If a useless person wants to hang out with Su Yishui, then let him hang out with her. After all, my sister has all her capable disciples by her side, so she doesn't need a useless person with a disabled hand!

Wang Suizhi saw that his teacher seemed to be still angry, so he said in relief: "Master, you have begun to recruit apprentices again. In the future, when you find a famous mountain, I will definitely build a palace for you that is as good as the West Mountain. You can create your own school and develop it. By then, the West Mountain will not be able to compare with you... But Master, you must cherish your reputation and not give others the opportunity to slander you. I saw that someone from Gaokan came to visit you a few days ago..."

Mu Ranwu glanced at him and smiled slightly, "Although I have never had a personal relationship with King Yiling, he has long admired the way of immortality, so it is normal for him to send someone to visit me. Why? Do I need to report my every word and action to you?"

Wang Suizhi waved his hands and said he dared not. The master always did what he wanted, how could he report everything to his disciple?

Mu Ranwu said no more and waved her hand to Wang Suizhi to go down. These apprentices of my sister were taught by her to be strict. It seems that I need to be more cautious in my contact with Gaokan. After all, she now has to rely on these apprentices for help.

Moreover, Gao Kan's Yiling King was also a hopeless person. Mu Ranwu felt frustrated when she thought that she had given him the beast talisman, but Xue Ranran and his gang had plotted against her and made Ranran show his face in front of the three major sects.

She was surrounded by useless guys, and her skills could not be improved. Seeing that she was gradually being chased by Xue Ranran, a sickly person, it was really frustrating.

So Mu Ranwu decided to find another way, to find some simple ways to recover the skills lost in the palace.

Thinking of the method that Tu Jiuyi mentioned to her inadvertently, Mu Ranwu was unwilling at first.

She knew that the spiritual energy she had snatched from her sister was the spiritual energy of immortal cultivation, not the kind of spiritual energy of demon cultivation.

If she really followed Wei Yan's method, she would be straying from the right path. But thinking of the fact that Xue Ranran had fought with Jiuhua Kaiyuan Zhenren and had the upper hand, Mu Ranwu no longer cared about good and evil.

Wei Yan also relied on robbing others of their spiritual power to quickly improve his own skills, so Tu Jiuyi's method of replenishing was feasible.

But she had to do it secretly so that no one would notice. Because she was reincarnated from a tree, she needed a child of the most yin element to be a match.

So she asked Wang Suizhi to adopt a child born on the yin day of the last month.

Gifted children often develop spiritual abilities faster than adults. Once these children have a foundation, she will absorb the spiritual energy into herself. At most, those children will be weak and sick, and no one will notice.

Looking at the dozen dirty children Wang Suizhi had brought, Mu Ranwu breathed a sigh of relief. After all, she had a foundation, so how could such a talent go to waste?

Sister, in this life, I will never let you surpass me!

The battle at the border ended faster than expected.

Because hundreds of Gaokan soldiers were captured before the war, and a divine figure suddenly appeared in the previous battle, all kinds of theories about gods and ghosts suddenly emerged.

Gaokan was originally superstitious about ghosts and gods, and this incident had a negative impact on the morale of the people. Prince Yiling was furious and repeatedly asked his new national teacher Mu Xianshi why he had no solution to the problem.

But Mu Ranwu ignored him and only relied on her military apprentice, hiding in Wuma Town and unable to come out. In the end, none of the messengers he sent came back.

King Yiling suspected that the envoy was killed by Mu Qingge, but no one found the envoy alive or dead. He was furious and suspected that he was fooled by Mu Qingge again. Was she still working for Daqi and setting a trap for him?

For a while, the vindictive Prince Yiling completely hated his Master Mu.

Although the war was temporarily over, it continued for many days. The land was filled with grief, and the unburied corpses attracted crows to circle around.

When Gao Kan's army retreated, Mu Ranwu led his disciples to walk on the wasteland where the two armies had fought. It was already autumn. The autumn wind was bleak, but in the gradually yellowing grass, bright red flower buds grew...

Mu Ranwu squinted her eyes and looked at the flower buds on the ground. She felt that these flowers looked familiar...

She suddenly remembered that before her sister entered the underworld in her previous life, she had also seen such a gorgeous and strange red flower near the entrance to the underworld.

She couldn't help but look up at the sky, only to see that it was covered with dark clouds, a sign of the gathering of extremely cold and yin energy. Even if she hadn't read the "Brahma Teachings", she could guess that this was a sign of changes in the heaven and earth.

Thinking about the fact that Master and Apprentice Xishan have stayed here and never left, are they waiting for something?

While thinking this, someone came from the other side of the wilderness. Su Yishui and his disciples from Xishan also came here.

Mu Ranwu glanced at Qin Xuanjiu behind her and felt confident. What if Su Yishui found out that she was fake?

According to his character, he absolutely does not want his sister to continue to use Mu Qingge's name. That dog emperor does not care who he is. Compared with Xue Ranran who follows Su Yishui wholeheartedly, Su Yu needs a Zhan Niang who can stand by his side, whether it is true or false. As for Wei Yan, it seems that he does not want to expose Xue Ranran's true identity.

So Mu Ranwu was very calm and relaxed now. However, her strength was still weak, so it was not suitable for her to confront the Xishan faction head-on.

Moreover, what was so strange about these red flowers? She had to go to Xishan to find out first. So after seeing Su Yishui and the others coming, Mu Ranwu just said coldly that she was going back, and turned around and left without even waiting to greet them.

When Ran Ran saw the God of Wealth Wang Suizhi, she wanted to greet him in a friendly way and thank him for his advice last time. But Wang Suizhi glared at her coldly and then turned away.

Ranran couldn't help but feel embarrassed and stuck out her tongue at Qiu Xier beside her, but before she could complain, she was attracted by the red flowers in the wasteland.

The killings on the border between the two countries finally accumulated enough negative energy, and strange flowers bloomed on the blood-stained land...

This was the most intense battlefield when the two armies fought each other. Blood flowed like a river, and the red flowers there were the most luxuriant, almost connected into one.

You have to know that this is the grassland in the depths of autumn, and the green grass has begun to turn yellow. It is a strange and bizarre thing that red flowers that cannot be named appear at this time of year.

After the soldiers of the two countries withdrew, the herdsmen's horses and cattle also began to come to the wasteland to graze. However, wherever there were red flower buds with hooks like eagle's beaks, the horses and cattle would not approach, and would just stand there and cry even if the herdsmen whipped them until they were worn out.

Ran Ran looked at the flower buds in front of him, only to find that they were dark red in color, like solidified blood clots, and shaped like ferocious eagle's beaks, exuding a murderous aura.

She couldn't help but think of the sentence in "Brahma's Teachings": "The eagle-billed demon flower blooms in response to blood." Are these flowers growing on the bloodstains the eagle-billed demon flowers recorded on the tree?

It seems that the master's guess was correct. These ferocious flowers did bloom on the battlefield littered with corpses.

"…Why are there so many hawk-billed flowers? Are there going to be evil monsters in this world again?"

Ran Ran looked over in the direction of the sound and saw an old herdsman sitting on horseback suddenly speaking in a hoarse voice.

"Uncle, do you know these flowers?" Ranran asked curiously.

But when the old herdsman turned around, Qiu Xier beside Ranran was so scared that she screamed.

It turned out that the old man was thin, with two dry and sunken eye sockets on his wrinkled face, and both eyeballs were missing.

The weather has been overcast recently, with no sunlight. In such gloomy weather, seeing such an old man suddenly beside the strange sea of ​​flowers in the wilderness would really scare the timid people to death.

Ranran was also shocked, but she was more puzzled as to how he could see so many hawk-billed flowers without any eyes.

But looking at the old man, apart from his scary appearance, there is no spiritual energy flowing in his body. He is just an ordinary person.

Qiu Xier also asked: "You...are you a human or a ghost? How can you see these flowers without eyes?"

The old herdsman said in a cold voice, "I used to be a soldier at the border. I once followed Empress Zhan in the battle of Fan Yao. I went through life and death and lost my eyes. At that time, the battlefield of Fan Yao, which was full of corpses, was also full of these flowers. Once you see it, you will never forget its appearance... Little girl, from the sound of your voice, you are still young. Stay away from these flowers. They are not good things. Although I don't have eyes, I can see them. Do you think they are very evil?"

After saying this, the old herdsman urged the old horse under his crotch, turned his head to listen to the sound, and hurried back with the flock of sheep.

Ran Ran asked from behind him: "Excuse me, will these flowers eat people?"

The old herdsman said without even turning his head: "They don't eat people, but they can make people eat people. Don't look at them, and don't smell them, or you'll lose your soul..."

As he spoke, accompanied by the sound of the old horse's neck bell, the blind old herdsman urged the old horse to get away from the red flowers as soon as possible.

Ran Ran looked at his back, turned around and wanted to talk to the master, but found that the master had been staring at the patches of red flowers.

She quickly reached out to pull him and whispered, "Master, what's wrong with you?"

Su Yishui seemed to come back to his senses. He barely suppressed the redness in his eyes and said to Ran Ran and the others, "Let's go quickly. These flowers are just buds now. Once they bloom, they will emit poison. If people smell it too much, they will lose their nature."

After hearing this, Gaocang and Yuchen, who had already stepped into the sea of ​​flowers, hurriedly retreated.

Just when everyone was about to stay away from these flowers, a westerly wind suddenly blew in. When the wind blew through the sea of ​​flowers, the buds that looked like eagle beaks suddenly opened slowly, like eagle beaks suddenly opening, and blood-red stamens were spit out from the eagle beaks, like little tongues, trembling in the wind.

In an instant, the entire sea of ​​flowers was filled with the fragrance of flowers, and a rich aroma spread.

Ranran reacted the fastest. She quickly took out a tranquilizer from her arms, rolled it into two small balls, and stuffed them into the nose of her master next to her.

He already has the evil nature of the spiritual spring in his body. If he is poisoned by the magic flower, he will simply become a human killing machine.

Su Yishui seemed to think that this was ungentlemanly and turned his head away, but he couldn't resist Ran Ran and was stuffed in anyway.

He helplessly watched Ran Ran stuffing the stuff into her nostrils again, and said, "Just hold your breath, why do you have to do this?"

According to the master's cultivation, he could hold his breath underwater for three days and three nights without any problem. As long as he didn't smell it, there would be no problem. But Ran Ran was worried and thought it was safer to keep it plugged.

Although Ran Ran could not reach the level of her master, she could still hold her breath for a stick of incense. But she also stuffed two pills into her nostrils to seal them.

But the eldest senior brother and Xier, who were standing in the sea of ​​flowers, were obviously unprepared. By the time Ranran wanted to stuff their noses, they had already inhaled all the fragrance and pollen into their noses.

In an instant, their bodies were shrouded in a faint red halo.

Then, suddenly, Qiu Xier's eyebrows and eyes seemed to be painted by a brush, her facial features became three-dimensional and beautiful, and her figure became more curvy...

Ran Ran was also stunned. Isn't this a miracle? After hearing what Ran Ran said, Qiu Xier immediately took out the small bronze mirror she carried with her. When she saw herself in the mirror, she couldn't believe it. She walked to the puddle next to her to look at her reflection. She immediately fell to the ground beside the puddle in surprise and disbelief, stroking her face and saying, "I... How did I become so beautiful? I became a peerless beauty!"

But when she was further away from the sea of ​​flowers, her expression gradually became ordinary. Qiu Xier tentatively walked into the sea of ​​flowers again, and her nose became straight again.

Looking at Gao Cang again, when he inhaled a mouthful of pollen and a red light appeared all over his body, he felt the heat rising from his dantian and some spiritual energy that he couldn't suppress. So he screamed strangely, waved his hand and a spirit ball flashed out, hitting a big tree in the distance. The tree fell down immediately. His skills should not be underestimated.

Gao Cang also laughed wildly with surprise: "I have become stronger. Did you see that? I have become so powerful!"

However, when he was moving away from the sea of ​​flowers in ecstasy, the true energy in his dantian was suddenly empty, and he could no longer split mountains and cut rocks.

So he didn't believe it and went closer to the sea of ​​flowers, breathing in the fragrance.

Ran Ran looked at the scene in astonishment and asked anxiously, "Master, what happened to them?"

Su Yishui frowned and said, "These pollens seem to be able to stimulate people's potential and satisfy people's greatest desires..."

Ran Ran's eyes widened when she heard this, because she found that the third sister looked a bit like Master Mu Xian. Becoming a beauty who outshines all the other beauties was indeed the third sister's greatest wish.

But this flower actually has such a good effect? ​​Isn't it something that everyone should fight for? Why did the old herdsman just now warn people not to get close to this flower?

At this time, Su Yishui said, "Get them out quickly, otherwise if they inhale too much pollen, they will probably become addicted, and then they will become slaves of these magic flowers."

Yutong and Yuchen also stuffed the pills given by Ranran into their nostrils, covered their mouths with towels, and quickly held their breath and flew into the sea of ​​flowers to pull Gao Cang and Qiu Xier out. Qiu Xier's appearance became ordinary again, and Gao Cang's magical powers disappeared in an instant.

This time they were both a little unwilling. Although they had heard their master say that the pollen was extremely evil, they kept looking back at the sea of ​​​​Eagle's Beak flowers as they were pulled by Ranran.

Su Yishui waved his hand and set up a spiritual shield to cover the sea of ​​flowers to prevent the scent of the flowers from leaking out.

These magic flowers are the symbol of the entrance to the underworld, but looking around, apart from the endless fields of strange red flowers, there is nothing else unusual, and no entrance to the underworld can be found.

When the four of them returned to the city, Zeng Yi heard the strangeness of the magic flower and couldn't help but worry: "Since they are so evil, it's better to destroy them as soon as possible."

Su Yishui shook his head and said, "Even if these flowers are burned, they will still bloom as usual the next day. They will bloom for seven days before disappearing on their own."

Ran Ran blinked and said, "That means we must find the entrance to the underworld within seven days, otherwise we don't know when we will be able to show up next time."

Su Yishui took out the key to the underworld and whispered, "All things carry Yin and embrace Yang. Noon is when Yang is at its peak and Yin begins to grow. The flowers will bloom today at noon. Let's go to the sea of ​​flowers again at noon tomorrow."

Ran Ran nodded and turned to ask the third sister to go to the small kitchen with her to cook. But when she turned to look at Qiu Xier, she found that she was staring blankly at the small copper mirror, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

Ran Ran called her several times before Qiu Xier came back to her senses. She pointed at her eyes and said, "Ran Ran, do you think my eyes are much bigger than before?"

Ran Ran looked at it carefully and said, "No, it's still that big."

Qiu Xier was a little anxious: "Didn't you look carefully? It's obviously bigger!"

Ran Ran couldn't persuade her, so she said, "Okay, it's much bigger now, let's go cook."

Qiu Xier finally showed a happy expression. When she entered the small kitchen, she said, "Today I just smelled a little pollen and my eyes became bigger. Do you think if I smell more, will my appearance become much more beautiful?"

Ran Ran looked up at her warily and said sternly, "Didn't you hear what Master said? That flower is an evil thing. When you smelled the pollen, your appearance actually changed. Aren't you afraid?"

Qiu Xier was a little disappointed. She pouted and broke the firewood, mumbling, "You are so pretty, of course you don't understand. You don't know how much I hope I can be more beautiful like you."

Now Ranran is no longer the thin and frail girl she was when she first came to the mountain. The fully developed beauty of an 18-year-old girl is really a cause for envy.

Qiu Xier thought her parents didn't give her a good foundation, so she didn't expect anything. But she didn't expect that she would be reborn after smelling a little pollen today. Her appearance suddenly became so much brighter.

As for Gao Cang, he also seemed a little absent-minded. When everyone was eating at the table, he was holding a stone hammer and ringing a bell in the yard, muttering that he seemed to have more strength than before.

Second Senior Brother Bai Baishan did not go to the sea of ​​flowers because he was in the horse shop making new weapons with Senior Uncle Zeng. But seeing how confused they were, he couldn't help but be glad that he didn't go.

He had been deceived before, mistaking a black-haired man for the beautiful Rou'er, and he knew very well how it felt to be bewildered. If he was deceived again, there would be no hope for him to return to the West Mountain.

Nothing happened that night. As usual, Su Yishui had to go into the mountains and add chains before night fell and the evil spirit arose.

That time, Ranran accompanied him into the mountains and spent the whole night. The next day, their clothes were wet with morning dew, so Su Yishui ordered her not to go again, otherwise, she would easily disturb his mind at the foot of the mountain.

So even though Ranran couldn't sleep, he had no choice but to stay in the horse shop.

By nightfall, she could no longer sleep and tossed and turned on the bed. Finally, she simply got up, put on her clothes, and prepared to meditate and practice qigong.

In the past two days, she was finally able to control two swords steadily, but there was still a long way to go before she could control five swords...

Just as she was quietly reciting the Qigong and circulating the spiritual energy in her Dantian, she suddenly heard some noise coming from next door.

Ranran had amazing hearing while meditating, and he immediately realized that the noise came from Qiu Xier's room.

At first she didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that the third sister was getting ready to go to the bathroom. But after a while, she heard a moaning sound.

Ranran frowned when she heard this, and immediately opened her eyes. When she went out, she saw her senior brother Gao Cang just climbing over the wall.

When Ranran called him from behind, he didn't even turn his head.

Ran Ran knew that something was wrong, so she quickly turned over and flew over the wall to chase the two people running in front.

Among the disciples of Xishan, Ranran was the best at light body skills. Logically, he should have been able to catch up with the two people early.

But no one knew what happened to Gao Cang and Qiu Xier today. Their legs seemed to be powered by gods, and no matter how hard Ranran tried, he could not catch up with them.

Under the hazy moonlight, their bodies seemed to emit a faint red light, which looked extremely strange.