Xiao Dai shook his head. "I can't detect it. I don't have much mana left now, how can I detect it? However, I did vaguely sense the scent of that stinky fox. I don't know if you picked up its scent over there before, or if it's really nearby..."
Hearing this, Duan Qingxi frowned slightly but did not speak.
The Ninth Saint seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. Duan Qingxi and his group searched for him for a long time but couldn't find him. However, they encountered many strange things along the way, eliminated many monsters, and helped several villages and towns solve strange phenomena.
After wandering around like this for about half a month, they received news from the dean that someone had suddenly broken into the king's palace and intended to assassinate him. Yun Shen and the national teacher happened to be there at that time, and Yun Shen was seriously injured in order to protect the king, and was also poisoned by a very rare poison.
Even the Imperial Master could not dissolve this poison. He took the elders of the Imperial Academy to look through ancient books overnight and found out that in order to detoxify, they had to go to Yeling Mountain to look for the seeds of the Holy Spirit Tree.
"Ye Ling Mountain?" Ye Ling asked doubtfully, "Is there really such a mountain?"
Rong Xu was not too sure and said, "There should be one, otherwise why would the Imperial Master ask me to go? Besides, I vaguely remember my father mentioning this place, but I don't know if it's true or not, and how to find it..."
Duan Qingxi looked at the letter sent by the Imperial Master and remained silent.
Yun Ting walked over to her, patted her shoulder gently, and comforted her: "Le'er, don't worry, I believe Uncle Yun will be fine."
Duan Qingxi nodded, but it was obvious that his expression was not very good.
Yun Ting didn't know what to say for a moment. He could understand Duan Qingxi's current mood. After all, it was her father who was poisoned and injured. Now that the task was handed over to her, she must want to rush to Yeling Mountain immediately to find the seeds of that tree, but they didn't know where the mountain was. It felt like you saw your loved one in trouble in front of you, but you had no way to save him.
The others looked at Duan Qingxi, not knowing what to say. They wanted to comfort her, but they felt that such weak words of comfort would be of no use at all and would only make Duan Qingxi feel worse.
They were currently staying in an inn in a small town, with an average of two people in one room, and Duan Qingxi had a room all to himself.
After she returned to her room, she sat down at the table and poured herself a cup of tea in silence, but she didn't drink it or even touch the cup.
Seeing this, Xiaodai lay down on the table and looked at her, and asked worriedly: "Are you okay?"
Duan Qingxi shook her head. "I'm fine. I just feel... I don't know why, but I suddenly feel a little confused..."
Xiao Dai didn't know what she was confused about. Even though he knew it wasn't appropriate to say this now, he still had to remind her, "I'm telling you, we've been here for too long. Slowly, we'll start to lose our sense of the outside world. We'll just stay in this dream and eventually disappear completely. You have to hurry and break this dream..."
Hearing this, Duan Qingxi looked at it speechlessly and said, "You said before that we could leave when the time came, but now it's like we have to quickly decipher this dream? Can you be a little more reliable?"
Xiao Dai was speechless and said, "I originally thought this was just an ordinary dream of Helian Sheng, that he was at most trapped by a nightmare, but who knew that the Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox was also here, which means that our coming here is very likely related to it. How could a fox like it just let us come here for a simple dream?"
After a pause, it continued, "This stinky fox knows more than us. It must have discovered something, perhaps something that it can gain by trapping us here. In short, it won't let us leave easily, nor will it give us the opportunity to leave. So, I think... if we want to leave here, we'll have to rely on ourselves."
Duan Qingxi didn't want to talk anymore. He picked up the teacup and drank the tea in one gulp.
She had been feeling uneasy and uncomfortable because she hadn't been able to find the Nine Saints. Now she knew Yun Shen was poisoned and dying, and her only hope lay in the seeds of the Holy Spirit Tree. She didn't even know where the Holy Spirit Tree was...
Now, Xiaodai wanted to tell her that if she didn't dare to come in and find a way to leave here, they might never be able to leave each other in this life.
It’s really... annoying!
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