out of time

Chapter 101 The Trip to Hongyuan
On the top of the seventh peak, Master Qi looked coldly in the direction of the sea, and looked away for a long time.

"Come on, continue playing chess."

The servant said yes, and after setting up the chessboard, he hesitated and said in a low voice.

"Master Qi, where is the Third Highness and the child..."

Qi Ye glanced at the servant, and spoke lightly.

"You care about children."

The servant bowed his head and did not speak.

"It's the third child's nature to be unscrupulous. He usually has a gentle face, but in fact he doesn't have any feelings in his heart. This is how he stands out from the bottom of the mountain and walks in front of the old man. This is also what I like about him."

"As for the child, whether he can see through the mind of the third child, and whether he can figure out something from it, depends on his mind. In this troubled world, a fool can't live long."

After Qi Ye finished speaking, he looked towards the sky before dawn, where it was about to dawn.

Under the sky, in No.70 Nine Ports, Xu Qing sat on the deck of the Fazhou boat, with deep thoughts in his eyes. As the morning sun rose, the morning light dissipated into the night, and the moment it fell on him, Xu Qing's eyes became deep .

"First, Dabi was with the Mermaid Clan 30 years ago, and since then the Mermaid Clan has become an ally. The relationship between the two parties is naturally close, and the mermaid boy from Liufeng Shop that day saw the expression of His Highness full of fear, which shows that His Highness probably died in the Mermaid Clan 30 years ago. Mermaids kill a lot."

"Second, the disciples of Lord Qifeng should not openly violate their master's wishes. The attitude of His Highness the Second Highness towards the Mermaid Clan shows the problem, so it is not incomprehensible for the Third Highness to kill the Mermaid Clan!"

"Then, why did His Royal Highness invite the mermaids to come to Qixuetong again? Come and kill... and do it in front of me?"

"Third Highness, this has a different purpose. If I were Third Highness, under what circumstances would I do this, and under what circumstances would I kill in front of the visitor?"

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, and after a while, he had the answer in his heart.

"There is only one situation. I want to use the mermaid's excuse to blackmail the mermaid. I will do this. If I have no excuse, I will create one! At the same time, I will kill the people in front of the people, because I want to Killing is more valuable, and it is also cost-effective to sell favors while blackmailing the mermaid clan."

"The premise, this person is valuable."

Xu Qing recalled the scene where the captain told himself about the sea lizard island with a half-smile. The other party obviously had some channels that he didn't know about to inquire about some information.

If the captain can have it, maybe the third highness also has one.

In addition, Xu Qing remembered that when Sea Lizard Island escaped by himself, the sea locked his aura. He was at the bottom of the sea and couldn't see who it was.

"And Qixuetong allowed this to happen, it can only mean...the mermaid clan is going to be beaten!"

"In any case, leave for a while!"

Xu Qing was not sure whether his analysis was completely correct, so he planned to leave for a while to see if there was any follow-up to this matter. If everything was really calm, then it would not be too late for him to come back.

After all, he is only one step away from becoming a monk at the tenth level of Qi Condensation. After that, if he breaks through to Foundation Establishment, he will be qualified to go up the mountain and have the right to distribute the benefits of the Seven Blood Pupils.

The income of at least [-] spirit stones a month, and as long as the seven blood pupils exist, Xu Qing has been fascinated for a long time. Of course, compared with this, survival is more important.

So Xu Qing didn't hesitate, and chose to leave first and wait and see.

And he felt that he could take advantage of the time of leaving to do a major event that had been buried in his heart for a long time.

A cold light flashed in Xu Qing's eyes, and he wanted to pull out another thorn in his heart that had been buried for a long time.

That is...the Patriarch of the Vajra Sect.

If he didn't kill this person, Xu Qing would have trouble sleeping at night.

After making such a decision, Xu Qing didn't waste any time, put away the Fazhou at dawn, swayed his body, and went straight to the murderer.

"The Vajra Sect is a sect after all. Even though their strength is relatively weak, it is difficult to hide their migration and whereabouts. For Qi Xuetong, all movements within the sphere of influence are not secrets."

During the period when Xu Qing came to Qixuetong, as a member of the criminal arrest department, he had the right to look through the files in the department, knowing that a large part of the records contained changes within the range of Qixuetong.

Although the level of detail is not as good as that of the Intelligence Department, it is easier for Xu Qing to investigate than to go to the Intelligence Department.

So soon, after he came to the murder department, he went straight to the file.

And his reputation in the murder department is greater than outside. Apart from his emergence in Operation Yejiu, this is more from the heads of wanted criminals one after another.

So for his arrival, the disciples at the dossier were very polite and let Xu Qing check inside alone. After a while, Xu Qing finally found the clues he wanted from some messy news that Qi Xuetong didn't pay much attention to. .

"Departed from the sect?"

Xu Qing looked at the dossier in front of him, and slowly narrowed his eyes. The members of the Litu Sect are all crazy people. The attitude of other forces towards the Litu Sect is both disgusting and fearful, so they often stay away from it. , do not have too much contact with it.

"It shouldn't be because of me that I moved, but the compensation that the Second Highness demanded was so heavy that the Vajra Sect was seriously injured after paying, and was even more frightened, so they dared not stay within the sphere of influence of the Seven Blood Eyes."

Xu Qing rubbed his chin, remembered the movement of the Vajra Sect marked in the dossier, and left the murder department.

Walking on the streets of the port area, Xu Qing pondered for a while, went to several shops, sold the sundries and some sea lizard skins he got on the sea lizard island, and bought some things needed for going out, even poisonous weeds Also bought a lot.

In the end, he stood outside a shop specializing in talisman treasures. After thinking for a while, he suppressed his distress for Lingshi and stepped in.

A moment later, when he walked out, there was a special talisman on his body. This talisman could change a person's aura and appearance. Although it was not perfect, it was enough for Xu Qing to use this time.

At noon at this moment, although winter is coming, the geographical location of Seven Blood Eyes makes the winter here mostly warm, and the sun is still strong and slightly dazzling at this time.

So under the sunlight, Xu Qing's figure disappeared in a corner of an alley. When he came out from the other end again, his appearance had changed. He was no longer handsome and handsome, but a young man with a sallow complexion and a horse face. , The Taoist robe on his body was also replaced with an ordinary long gown.

The fluctuations in the cultivation base on his body have also changed, it is no longer the ninth level of condensed energy, but the third level of condensed energy.

He is well aware of the outside world, most of the Ninth Floor of Qi Condensation are well-known people, very conspicuous.Only scavengers at the level of the third level of condensing gas are the level that is both intimidating and unobtrusive.

Feeling the changing power of the talisman, Xu Qing was alert to his surroundings, but his face was expressionless, and he walked towards the teleportation array.

Instead of using the identity token to pay, he paid the spirit stone. Not long after, Xu Qing, who was standing in the teleportation formation, looked around on guard. With the radiance of the formation, his figure was submerged by the sea of ​​light and disappeared.

In the eastern part of Nanhuangzhou, at least tens of thousands of miles away from the former Vajra Sect gate, there is a sparsely populated area.

The wilderness here is called the Red Plain because of the red tooth-like grass growing there.

From a distance, the whole land seemed to be stained with blood. While it was shocking, the heterogeneity permeating it was also thicker than other wildernesses in Nanhuang Continent, so the ferocious beasts here were also more ferocious.

In this relatively harsh environment, there are naturally not many cities, and one can only be seen for hundreds of miles, and most of the buildings and styles are primitive and rough, and the slums here are mostly composed of scavengers.

Whether it is landform or population, Hongyuan is quite a bad place, so the families of Zitu look down on it, and Qixuetong doesn't care. Only because of the teachings of Litujiao, they prefer it. Develop believers in such a harsh area.

As a result, Hongyuan became the sphere of influence of the Leaving Sect.

At this moment, on the edge of Hongyuan, in the center of a simple city, the only teleportation array in Hongyuan jointly arranged by Zitu and Qixuetong is shining brightly.

A middle-aged monk with a sallow complexion in a black gown appeared in the teleportation array.

He was exactly Xu Qing who had transformed himself with the help of the Yi Rong Talisman.

As soon as he arrived, before he left the teleportation array, a rotten and foul smell came from all around with the wind. If someone who didn't experience too much suffering, he would feel a little uncomfortable with this smell.

But for Xu Qing, these are the normal conditions in the place where he used to be, but the rancid smell here is stronger.

Xu Qing looked calm, and walked out of the teleportation array under the indifferent eyes of the lazy guards around him.

In the city that came into view, all the buildings were gray and black, full of dilapidated buildings, and the ground was covered with all kinds of garbage, mostly feces.

There are very few people in the city, most of them are very wary, and they strongly repel each other.

Moreover, there were very few women, and even if there were, they all had vicious expressions on their faces. At the same time, in some corners of the alleys, there were also children hiding. None of them had innocent eyes, and some were lifeless and indifferent.

From time to time, screams and cursing came out of the city.

"More like a scavenger camp."

Xu Qing glanced around and walked forward calmly.

Along the way, Xu Qing ignored the cautious and ingratiating gazes he was looking at him, and he never stayed in this city for long. After leaving the city, his body speed suddenly exploded, and he roared away towards the wilderness.

The place where the Vajra Sect migrated was on this red plain, but it was only a little distance away from the city where Xu Qing teleported to.

When he came here, Xu Qing had looked at the map of this place while hunting for murderers, and now he locked on a direction in his mind and ran in the wilderness.

His speed was very fast, and the wind coming from his face was bitterly cold, and some snowflakes seemed to be mixed in there, and even some small hills in the distance were occasionally covered with thin white snow.

For Qi Xuetong, the warm winter here is gradually approaching severe cold.

This kind of cold awakened many memories in Xu Qing's mind, especially in the wilderness along the way, he also saw many fierce beasts and human bones.

"Troubled times." Xu Qing looked calm and moved faster.

In this way, time passed, and when the night came, as the night was cold, the wind was stronger, and the snow was showing sharply, Xu Qing, who had left the city and walked into the red plain, suddenly stopped and looked up. to the distance.

The wind blows from there, with some grinning and bloody.

Faintly visible in the wind and snow in the distance, there is a field of corpses, including poor people, guards, scattered goods and broken carriages.

This is obviously a convoy going to the city.

And at this moment, beside these corpses, there are more than a dozen desperadoes with ragged clothes, disheveled hair, ferocious and bloodthirsty eyes, most of them are covered with two or three layers of condensed energy.

Some of them were repairing the knife, some were rummaging for items, some were dragging the corpses to a distance, and some even lay on several naked female corpses to vent their animal nature.

Farther away, there is a faint fire, as if cooking in life, and there is still some residual heat coming with the wind.

Apparently, the convoy encountered such a group of desperadoes here, and all of them died tragically here.

The arrival of Xu Qing immediately aroused the vigilance of these desperadoes here. At this moment, they all raised their heads and stared at Xu Qing with vicious intent.

After noticing the third level of Qi Condensation on Xu Qing's body, these desperadoes laughed ferociously one by one, bursting out with murderous intent, and went straight to Xu Qing without saying a word.

They thought that Xu Qing could also be their prey.

Xu Qing looked coldly at the rushing outlaws. For him, he had seen too much of the killing before him since he was a child.

And the experience of the scavengers let him know that the so-called wilderness convoy dares to walk in the wilderness, and there are few good people themselves. When encountering weak people, most of them can actually turn into killing predators at any time.

This is the case in troubled times, so killing and being killed is very common. He doesn't have so much sympathy to flood and investigate who is good and who is evil.

But... since these people want to attack themselves, it's different.

(End of this chapter)