Chapter 23 Out

Night.

The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. The silver light passed through the dense leaves, casting spots of light in the forest.

The Spiritual Beast Mountain Range was very quiet, except for the occasional calls of some spirit beasts.

"Li An, how did you know Sister Xu?"

Tan Qingxue sat on a crossbeam and asked Li An with a bored look.

Li An was leaning against a dense tree, resting his eyes. He opened his eyes and looked at Tan Qingxue.

Why did the other party suddenly care about this?

"Sister, I met Sister Xu because of selling rice once."

He spoke calmly, but he was thinking in his heart.

"Sister Xu has always told me that you are very smart and alert... You are the first person that Sister Xu can praise so much."

Under the moonlight, Tan Qingxue's pretty face looked very beautiful, but her eyes were like moonlight, as if she could see through people's hearts:

"You are also the luckiest person I have ever met, you can even meet Yuanchuncao..."

She paid attention to Li An, thinking that she must expose your true colors today!

Let you hide your shortcomings in front of me!

Li An was alert in his heart. Tan Qingxue had always ignored him, and now she wanted to test him?

Has he been exposed to some flaw? This is unlikely.

It seems that Xu Qiuhui and Tan Qingxue must have said something.

He thought for a moment and said, "It's all thanks to Senior Sister Xu's advice."

While speaking, he took out the talisman pen that Xu Qiuhui had sold him, and sighed softly, "I don't know how Senior Sister Xu is doing in the inner sect now..."

He gently stroked the talisman pen, as if he loved it very much, and couldn't help but say, "Senior Sister Tan, did Senior Sister Xu...really mention me to you?"

There was some happiness in his words.

Tan Qingxue was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized... Could this Li An like Senior Sister Xu?

This is normal. Sister Xu is a proud daughter of heaven in the sect, and of course there are many people who like her.

"Senior Sister Tan?"

"Oh... yes, she mentioned you."

"That's great... I remember that Senior Sister Xu likes to eat the second-ripened spiritual rice from Lingzhi Mountain, and she also likes the Qi-boosting talisman. Can you ask Senior Sister Tan to send some to me later?"

The topic was successfully diverted.

Soon after. "Sister Tan, I'll go check the surroundings."

Li An got up and left.

Tan Qingxue couldn't help but feel a little complicated. After the conversation just now, she found that Li An seemed to know Sister Xu better than she did...

When mentioning Xu Qiuhui, Li An's words were sincere and detailed, and at the same time, he also revealed the inferiority and helplessness of a low-level disciple in this regard.

After all, what kind of person is Sister Xu? As an inner disciple, she has a bright future.

What about Li An? His aptitude in talismans is mediocre. After all these years, he is still at the third level of Qi training...

It's just a fool's dream.

"Sister Xu also told me that Li An is so experienced in dealing with people. Perhaps, this is just because Li An is cautious in flattering people on weekdays..."

She couldn't help shaking her head, and suddenly felt that it was not her fault, but Sister Xu who was wrong. Li An is just a very honest person...

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In the woods.

Li An was thinking.

I have to find a reason to leave Tan Qingxue and others tomorrow.

Just now, he used some chatting skills and tricks to divert the topic. After all, he had many wives and concubines in his previous life and was not lacking in experience with women.

But he was worried about continuing the contact.

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In the early morning, the chirping of birds spread throughout the mountains and forests along with the rising sun.

"Today we are going to the Cold Mist Forest, where the Black Needle Giant Ape once appeared."

Tan Qingxue spoke, and several people set off immediately.

The Cold Mist Forest is full of camphor trees, which are poisonous in themselves. The poisonous gas emitted by the forest day and night directly forms a layer of mist in the forest. No one dares to go in on weekdays.

Tan Qingxue took out the detoxification pill and gave one to each person.

This surprised Li An. Tan Qingxue really spent a lot of money for this operation. Although the detoxification pill was not of low quality, it cost about ten spiritual stones for one pill.

His life seed has its own detoxification function, but he still took the detoxification pill without any change in his expression.

"It shouldn't be here." Li An observed the surroundings and sniffed the air. The feces of the black-needled giant ape smelled extremely bad. In this humid and poisonous environment, it would spread far away, but he didn't smell it. Therefore, he dared to follow in with confidence. "Hey, these are the footprints of the black-needled giant ape!" Since some footprints were found under a thick old tree. "Parasitic spiritual vines!" Li An looked happily at the bushes of the thick old tree. A blue vine took root in the old tree and had produced a lot of blue fruits. "There are so many first-grade spiritual fruits!" Jiang You was surprised and climbed up the tree immediately to take all the spiritual fruits. There were six in total. Because everyone found them together, they were divided equally. Li An got one, and Tan Qingxue gave him ten spiritual stones. "It seems that the black needle giant ape came here just to eat this parasitic spiritual vine... As expected, this beast is very sensitive to spiritual medicine!"

Cao Zhirou couldn't help but speak.

Although they hadn't found the black needle giant ape yet, they were all very motivated.

They turned back, but just as they walked out of the cold fog forest, a voice came from the front:

"Hey, it turned out to be Sister Tan from the Fu Hall!"

There were seven or eight young disciples waiting outside the forest. The leader was a handsome young man with a small furnace pattern embroidered on the left chest of his robe.

Disciple of the Alchemy Hall!

"Brother Qingyuan,"

Tan Qingxue frowned slightly, "Why are you here too?"

Qingyuan smiled: "We are looking for the black needle giant ape... Junior sister Tan, you are not the same as us?"

Tan Qingxue's heart moved, "No... We are looking for other spiritual medicines, Brother Qingyuan, have you found clues about the black needle giant ape?"

Qingyuan shook his head: "No, the black needle giant ape is very cautious. It should be the maturity period of the second-grade spiritual medicine, so it hid."

"Junior sister Qingxue, you just came out of the cold fog forest. I guess you should use the detoxification pill to suppress the poison. The detoxification pill is not effective. The toxin will still remain in your body."

"I have some detoxification pills here, I will give them to you."

He smiled and stepped forward, took out a small bottle and handed it to Tan Qingxue.

Tan Qingxue's eyes were full of surprise, "Brother Qingyuan, the detoxification pill is very valuable, I'll give you the spirit stone..."

Qingyuan smiled and said, "Junior sister Tan, you are being polite. The reason I gave you the detoxification pill is that I hope you can tell us when you find the black needle giant ape."

Tan Qingxue thought for a while and said, "Okay, thank you very much."

She took the pill and turned away with Li An and others.

They didn't walk far.

"Qingxue, Qingyuan is so generous, it's not normal..." Cao Zhirou reminded.

"Yes, I think so too."

Tan Qingxue took out the detoxification pill directly and threw it into the grass on the side. Even though the detoxification pill is quite precious, it's better to be careful in this retail mountain range.

Li An couldn't help but shake his head secretly. The moment Tan Qingxue took the bottle, he had already been tricked.

The problem is not the detoxification pill, but the bottle!

It should be coated with a colorless liquid medicine, and the smell is very light. In this forest, with the smell of rotting grass and trees, bird and animal feces, ordinary cultivators can't detect it at all.

Although Li An couldn't guess what the liquid medicine was, he realized that from now on, Tan Qingxue, the hunter, had become the bait of the Alchemy Hall!

Hey, there is a bunch of miscellaneous spiritual grass there!"

Suddenly, Li An pointed to the front and saw a stream flowing through the forest, flying down at the cliff of the forest, and there was a bunch of green miscellaneous spiritual grass in the middle of the cliff.

"I'll get it."

Li An spoke excitedly, ran over immediately, and climbed down the stone wall carefully.

"Li An, it's too dangerous, there's no need!"

Tan Qingxue frowned and reminded.

This Li An's petty spirit really delayed things, she still had to go to the next place!

"I'll be quick..."

Li An climbed down quickly, but suddenly, his foot slipped and he screamed. He rolled down the cliff and his figure was quickly hidden by the trees.

"Li An!"

The people standing on the cliff were all surprised.

Tan Qingxue was even more anxious and hurried forward, but the cliff was too steep and it was difficult to get down at once. She could only stand on it and call, but no one responded.

"This kid deserves it... With his third-level Qi training, he will not survive if he falls from here."

Jiang You said sarcastically: "He is greedy for small profits and forgets his life. After all, he is a chores and he is asking for death."

"It will take us at least an hour to get to the bottom of the cliff, and we may not find him... Qingxue, it's not necessary."

Cao Zhirou also said: "If he is not dead, he must be seriously injured, which will only hinder our plan. If he is dead, what's the point of finding him? We should go to Laotengpo according to the plan."

Tan Qingxue was a little entangled in her heart, mainly because Qingyuan and others were also looking for the black needle giant ape, and she had to hurry up.

"Li An!"

Tan Qingxue stood on the cliff and shouted, and her voice echoed in the mountains.

After a pause, she finally made up her mind: "Let's go first, and look for him when we come back."

Although she had a brief exchange and interaction with Li An, she didn't care much about Li An's life and death.

"What a pity, the tree ganoderma and the parasitic spirit vine fruit... come back and take a look."

Jiang You also whispered.

...

And they left for a long time.

One hundred and fifty meters on the cliff slope, Li An held the star dagger in his right hand and stabbed it deeply into the stone wall. The whole person was hanging on the stone wall, tightly attached to the cliff.

He calmly used his left hand to swing over the star dagger, and blood suddenly appeared on his palm. He ignored the pain and grabbed the cliff stone with his hand to remember it. Then, his right arm suddenly exerted force, and the cliff stone was instantly pulled down along the cliff by him, and he used the force to jump onto a small gentle slope.

Using the power of life seed, the wound on the palm of his hand quickly scabbed.

This stone rushed down the cliff with blood stains, which would create traces of someone being injured and rolling down, which ordinary people could not see.

But Li An still did not climb up, but waited for a long time.

About half an hour later, with his strong hearing, he finally heard a whisper:

"It seems that one of them fell from here?"

"It's hard to survive if you fall from here."

Someone was talking.

"We have to make sure no one survives, otherwise when the sect investigates, it will inevitably reveal its true colors... Qin Wei, go around the bottom of the cliff, if he is still alive, kill him!"

This is the voice of Qingyuan!

After the order was given, the voice disappeared quickly.

A quarter of an hour later, after confirming that the person had left, Li An quickly climbed up the cliff slope.

He carefully used his life seed to hide his breath, searched for a while, and found the bottle of detoxification pill discarded by Tan Qingxue in the bushes on the side.

He didn't rush to pick it up, but opened the storage bag, took out a bunch of first-level middle-grade talismans and star daggers from the storage bag, put them in his sleeve pocket, and then used the storage bag as a glove, picked up the bottle, and rubbed it in his hands several times!

"What a pity for my tree ganoderma and parasitic vine fruit..."

He felt extremely painful, but there was no other way.

After doing all this, he stood up, urinated on the side, then tore off a corner of his robe, wrapped a layer of soil moistened by urine, and then carefully pushed the bottle of detoxification pill into the soil with a branch.

He tied the corner of the robe to ensure it was sealed, and put it into his sleeve.

He then carefully carried the storage bag to avoid being contaminated by the smell of the storage bag, touched the edge of the cliff again, and threw the storage bag down the cliff.

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