"You actually believed it. This mountain is full of ferocious beasts. Who would dare to go up the mountain and sell maps? You're dreaming." Rong Zhen looked at him with a helpless look. He didn't expect that there would be people in the world who were more naive than him.

"Don't I just want to find that weirdo as soon as possible?!" Ji Heng shrugged helplessly. They have been out for more than half a month. If they don't get back within ten days, I'm afraid everything will be irreversible.

"Don't worry, I think that weirdo should be very close to us, but I don't know where he is hiding." Rong Zhen shrugged helplessly. There didn't seem to be any main house or wooden house nearby. Could it be that the weirdo was still living in the cave? If so, it would be too difficult to find him.

"By the way, Your Majesty, what does that weirdo like most? Why don't we lure him out first." Ji Heng thought about it. The mountain is so big. Searching blindly like this is like looking for a needle in a haystack. It would be better to think of a way to lure that guy out.

"According to what my wife said, his favorite thing should be ferocious beasts. Are we going to just catch a ferocious beast and lure him out?" Rong Zhen felt that this method was simply a fantasy. Not only did they have to avoid those things, but they also had to use them to lure this old guy out.

"Then what should we do? When can we find him? But the old guy must have something to eat and drink!" Ji Heng thought about it. Maybe he could find the old guy by the nearby spring or in the orchard. He wouldn't disappear completely.

"That makes sense. Let's go and wait by the nearby stream!" Rong Zhen and Ji Heng thought that they should split into two groups first. They should be able to see traces of the old man by the nearby mountain spring. The old man was hiding all alone in the deep mountains and forests, so he would definitely try to get some resources to survive.

The two of them watched for a whole morning but didn't see a single person, but during that time many animals came to drink water.

"Look, is there something tied to the horn of that Tibetan antelope?!" Ji Heng was surprised to find that there seemed to be something iconic tied to the horn of the Tibetan antelope, as if it had an owner. If it had an owner, then it would be easy to deal with.

"It seems like there is a red rope... Let's sneak up and take a look."

"Okay!" Ji Heng followed stealthily without saying a word.

After a lot of arduous investigation and search, we finally got some clues and found a relatively quiet courtyard surrounded by a fence. Looking in from the outside, it felt like a down-and-out man drinking wine.

"Should we go in and take a look?" Ji Heng crouched down, obviously impatient. Rong Zhen looked at Ji Heng's eager look, afraid that he would ruin his plan, so he said, "Don't be anxious, wait until the people inside come out."

"Okay... I'll listen to you this time!" Ji Heng seemed quite helpless. There seemed to be no better way except to listen to his orders and instructions obediently.

The two of them wasted another two hours outside the fence, but they only saw animals going in and no one coming out. Rong Zhen even wondered whether this was a place where people lived or where animals were gathered together.

The Tibetan antelope ran out again, followed by all kinds of strange monsters, some of which were hard to name. They did have the spirit of the animals described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. I just don’t know if they are human, or maybe the animals in the rocks had long been tamed by that strange man.

It's quite humane? Ji Heng was thinking, when a wild rabbit suddenly jumped to his legs, as if warning him of something. Ji Heng held the gray rabbit in his arms and said, "You must admit that the animals here are really humane. This little thing actually came to my door in person. It seems that it knows that I haven't had a good meal these days." Ji Heng snorted.

The rabbit unexpectedly took advantage of his unpreparedness and bit his palm hard, making him cry out in pain. Rong Zhen said with a helpless smile, "You deserve it. Who told you to bully the little thing?" Ji Heng rolled his eyes in annoyance, and finally saw an old Taoist with a white beard coming out.

His entire body was gray, and from a distance one would think he was a ghost, with white eyebrows, white beard, and silver hair. However, his straight figure did not reveal that he was nearly sixty years old.

With his tall and straight figure like a poplar, it was impossible to guess his age. "Could this old guy be the famous Poison King in the legend?" Ji Heng thought for a moment.

In order to prove that his idea was correct, he walked up to the Taoist with white beard. The Taoist with white beard did not seem surprised to see a stranger breaking in. Instead, it seemed as if it was expected. Rong Zhen was worried that Ji Heng would ruin things, so he walked up to see what the Taoist with white beard had to say.

"Excuse me, are you the Poison King?" Ji Heng asked directly. He didn't have that much time to waste on nonsense. All he needed to do was to know that the other party was the Poison King and take him away by force. It was that simple.

Ji Heng looked at the white-bearded Taoist priest in front of him, holding a Buddhist whisk in his hand. He looked like a living immortal who lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests! But he was not interested in these people who lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests. As long as he could go back with them obediently, it would be fine.

"You two know that you have committed a big taboo. My Jue Yin Valley is not a place where just anyone should come." The old Taoist with a white beard finally spoke, but his words sounded intermittent, as if he was out of breath.

What's worse is that he seemed to be threatening and warning the two. Rong Zhen bowed and stepped forward and said, "Senior, I apologize for the offense. We two came here to ask you something. We have a friend who is in danger and only you can save her, so we sincerely want to ask you to come down the mountain with us." Rong Zhen lowered his head and looked at him sincerely.

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He wanted to impress him with his sincerity, not believing that the Taoist priest with a flowery beard in front of him was really so hard-hearted. The Taoist priest laughed, stroked his white beard and said, "I haven't even told you my identity yet. Why are you so sure that I am the Poison King?"

Ji Heng rolled his eyes and said, “In fact, we have also heard some news from Lord Tang. You are the only living person practicing in this deep forest and Jueyin Valley.

So we concluded that you must be the Poison King." Ji Heng smiled, not believing that the Poison King they had been looking for for so long was not the real Poison King.

The old Taoist priest with a white beard in front of him walked to the round table and sat down. He sighed and said, "I have not cared about the world for a long time. The right and wrong of the world have nothing to do with me."