Originated from mountains and seas, life never ends

When Qin Xiao returned, he found that Qiongqi had woken up and was licking its paws slowly.

Qiongqi glanced at Qin Xiao. He knew what the two of them talked about, but he was not interested in communication between humans, so he didn't ask anything.

They didn't stay here for long. They simply had a meal and then got up and set off.

……

At night, Yin Xihui sat alone by the campfire, roasting a freshly skinned rabbit.

He temporarily separated from Qiu Puyue because he accidentally fell into the river while boating together...

Fortunately, Yin Xihui was a good swimmer and did not drown in the turbulent mountain river.

Qiu Puyue saw him fall into the water and wanted to go down. But because the water was turbulent and high, Yin Xihui stopped her. Although Qiu Puyue could swim, she was only able to swim without drowning. If she went down such a fast-flowing river, she would get into trouble.

There was no way. The last thing Yin Xihui said to Qiu Puyue in a hurry was to wait for him at the bottom of the mountain.

After emerging dripping from the river, Yin Xihui confirmed the direction and followed the river northward.

They had been traveling by water for a long time before. Because the current was turbulent and the riverbed was rough, and the raft they made was crude and unreliable, he fell into the river when he lost hold of it during a bumpy ride.

Nearly drowned.

Yin Xihui shook his head, his brows slightly furrowed as he thought of something.

He walked along the river for nearly a hundred miles and encountered quicksand again. After walking for an unknown amount of time, he finally saw the mountain, but he did not meet Qiu Puryue here.

Did you just leave?

Yin Xihui frowned slightly and closed his eyes.

The crackling sound of the flames licking the branches echoed in his ears. Yin Xihui had become accustomed to the strange calls in the woods, and the voices seemed far away from him, so he simply ignored them.

There was a sudden slight sound from the bushes in the distance. Yin Xihui looked up, stretched out his hand to summon a bow and arrow, and aimed the red arrow at the dark trees, ready to strike at any time.

A white hand reached out from the darkness and grasped the tree trunk.

Yin Xihui was stunned for a moment, a little hesitant: "...Mo Hanyu?"

The white-haired boy came out from behind the tree and looked at him with an unclear gaze.

Yin Xihui couldn't help but gasp when he saw his condition.

"What’s wrong with you?!"

There was blood at the corner of Mo Hanyu's mouth, and his body was covered with bloodstains. His hair was disheveled and covered with dust. His body was in a disheveled state, and his ice-blue pupils stared at him in doubt, as if hesitating about something.

Seeing this, Yin Xihui narrowed his eyes slightly, and after confirming that it was Mo Hanyu himself, he put down the bow.

Seeing him like this, Mo Hanyu loosened his hand and walked over.

The firelight illuminated his face, and Yin Xihui discovered that there were several wounds on his face that looked like they were cut by a knife, but they had already scabbed over.

"Yin Xihui?" Mo Hanyu pinched his elbow. Yin Xihui saw that blood was oozing out of his forearm.

Mo Hanyu looked at the fire, loosened his grip slightly, took out a burning branch, blew it out, looked at the charred part with sparks, gritted his teeth, and put it on his wound.

The burning charcoal pressed against the dimly lit arm, making a teeth-grinding "sizzling" sound.

Yin Xihui looked at it and couldn't help but frowned.

Mo Hanyu gritted his teeth and tried hard not to scream, but his breathing became heavier and his arms trembled slightly.

The wound stopped bleeding and Mo Hanyu threw it back into the fire.

"Where is Qiu Puyue?" Mo Hanyu sat down cross-legged and looked at Yin Xihui.

"She and I got lost. Where is Qin Xiao? Why aren't you with him?" Yin Xihui asked.

"...They got separated not long after they separated." Mo Hanyu frowned when he heard the question, "The process was a bit outrageous."

Yin Xihui paused, and although he was confused, he did not ask any more questions: "Where are you going now? What are these injuries?"

"I'm going to Huanshan." Mo Hanyu did not hide anything and said, "Of course I have met an opponent."

"Really..." Yin Xihui nodded, "Where is Huanshan?"

"I don't know, but it should be here." Mo Hanyu said softly, "Have you found the way out?"

Yin Xihui shook his head regretfully: "Not yet."

"It's been almost a year." Yin Xihui counted on his fingers, "We still have at most three years."

"It's been such a long time since we last met. I see you're doing pretty well." Mo Hanyu said.

"...Oh no." Yin Xi smiled, "I was just lucky, and Qiu Puryue and I just separated not long ago, I was relying on her."

Mo Hanyu glanced at him and said nothing.

The atmosphere became quiet.

Yin Xihui looked at the rabbit on the fire, and when he felt that time was enough, he took it down and gave its two hind legs to Mo Hanyu.

Mo Hanyu thanked him, took it and started to eat it.

"...What are you going to do after you get out?" Mo Hanyu suddenly spoke while biting his bones.

"Ah? Go home." Yin Xihui was puzzled and looked at him while eating.

Mo Hanyu didn't say anything else and avoided Yin Xihui's gaze.

"—Hey, here you are?"

An unfamiliar voice suddenly exploded, and Mo Hanyu stood up instantly. Ice spread from under his feet, covering nearly a hundred meters in the blink of an eye.

The flames went out instantly and the surroundings suddenly darkened.

Yin Xihui narrowed his eyes and was about to say something when he was pulled up by Mo Hanyu and turned around and ran away.

"go!"

The two of them shuttled through the woods at a very fast speed. Yin Xihui drew his bow and shot a white arrow, which sank into the tree. Unlike other arrows, the tail of the white arrow was connected to a very thin thread. Yin Xihui used his Qi, and the thread automatically tightened and took him to the tree.

Suddenly, a black line of ice appeared in front of Yin Xihui. Yin Xihui was startled and instinctively dodged it. Looking around, the lines of ice were intricately intertwined in the woods, and if he was not careful, he would bump into it.

"Mo Hanyu?"

"Don't hit those lines." Mo Hanyu breathed quickly and spoke concisely.

Yin Xihui did not hesitate and swiftly passed through the obstacles. At the same time, Mo Hanyu waved his hand and launched an attack behind him.

Yin Xihui suddenly noticed a black shadow on the ground chasing him. The shadow was very large and looked like a snake. But when Yin Xihui looked up, he could not find any trace of the snake.

At this moment, Yin Xihui also realized that this was the person who injured Mo Hanyu, and it seemed that Mo Hanyu was no match for him.

"What are they doing this for?" Yin Xihui looked at Mo Hanyu beside him.

"Ring." Mo Hanyu's face looked a little bad.

Because they were fleeing in such a panic, the two did not pay attention to the direction, and as a result, they almost fell off the cliff as soon as they came out of the woods.

Fortunately, Mo Hanyu reacted quickly and used ice to connect the cliff and extend it a few meters outward, preventing the two from stepping on empty air and falling directly.

Yin Xihui could only stop and clench the bow in his hand.

Mo Hanyu frowned and looked behind him with an unclear expression.

A huge snake head appeared from between the trees, looked at the two people, and spit out its core. Then a figure walked out of the woods. The snake shrank and crawled onto the man.

"Hand over the ring." The man said coldly, and stretched out his right hand slightly. The black snake then coiled around his arm, raised its neck, and stared at the two of them.

Mo Hanyu was tense and didn't even blink.

Suddenly, as if he sensed something, it was as if a bolt of lightning had passed through his body. Mo Hanyu turned his head sharply, but he was still a step too late.

"Get out of the way——"

Yin Xihui felt a chill on his back, and the biting cold was like ice needles piercing into his spinal cord. Then, an almost invisible silk thread gently wrapped around his neck.

A voice came from behind, with a hint of smile in it.

"I advise you not to move now."

When Yin Xihui heard the sound, he was about to turn his head, but the soft and light silk thread left a bloody mark on his neck.

"I told you, don't move." The person behind him spoke in a frivolous tone, sounding even nonchalant.

"We have no ill intentions. We just want your rings..."

Mo Hanyu looked at the boy beside him with cold eyes. He was indeed smiling, but his smile revealed danger.

"Your attributes have been overdrawn, right? Even though you are an innate evil cultivator, such a long tug-of-war will still exhaust your physical strength. For example, how long can you last on this piece of ice where we are standing now?"

The boy had an immature face and looked thin and frail. His hair was short and reached his ears. The dark green clothes he wore were tattered and ill-fitting.

I couldn't see his features clearly at night, I could only vaguely see his sharp jaw in the moonlight.

Mo Hanyu seemed to sense something and looked back at the cliff in confusion.

"We don't mean to take your lives. Leave the ring and you can go." The young man holding the silk thread spoke again, staring at Mo Hanyu as he spoke.

The boy in front of the woods withdrew his hand. The black snake coiled around his arm like a shadow.

I don't know what Mo Hanyu was thinking, as if he was possessed, he raised his foot and jumped down.

Jumped down...

Jump off a cliff???

"I go!"

Before Yin Xihui could react, the young man behind him exclaimed first, took a step forward to try to stop him, and several silk threads stretched out from his fingertips and stretched downwards at a rapid speed, but still caught nothing.

Yin Xihui felt his movement and was about to take advantage of this moment to escape, but was entangled by the shadow under his feet and fell heavily to the ground.

what? !

Yin Xihui was secretly shocked. He just raised his foot to untie the silk thread around his neck when a dark shadow suddenly appeared under his feet. The shadow actually crawled up along his feet. At the same time, he felt something crawling on his feet. The thing tightly wrapped around his ankle, causing him to lose balance and fall to the ground.

As Mo Hanyu leaped forward, the ice under his feet showed signs of breaking. Before it broke, the young man grabbed Yin Xihui by the scruff of the neck and threw him next to his companions.

"He jumped off a cliff?" The young man still seemed a little incredulous.

His companion did not respond, and seeing that the thread was wrapped around Yin Xihui, he loosened it. The strange feeling in Yin Xihui's ankle disappeared instantly.

Yin Xihui looked up and found that this person also had a very young face. They seemed to be about the same age, and most likely from this year's class or the past one or two years.

This man was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, and there were shadows constantly moving on his right arm. The shadows were not only moving on his arm, but also on his neck and face - of course, there was no sight of any other places. Unlike the other man, this man had a bandage on his face, covering one eye, and I don't know if it was intentional, but the bangs on that side were longer than the other side, just covering the eye.

When Yin Xihui was thinking about what to do, there was another sound in the woods in front of him. The three looked at the same time and saw that the person who came was carrying two scabbards, one knife in his hand and one hidden in the scabbard behind his back. The person who came raised his head slightly and stared at the three people with an unclear look.

"Qin Xiao?" Yin Xihui was overjoyed, but then he thought of something and his expression became strange.

Qin Xiao glanced at him and said nothing.

Yin Xihui noticed that the two people next to him became alert almost at the same time. It was obvious that they noticed the hideous bloodstains on Qin Xiao's body.

"...You--" The young man holding the silk thread had just opened his mouth when he saw Qin Xiao throwing something at him.

"I picked it up on the road. You want the ring, right?" Qin Xiao looked at Yin Xihui, his dark pupils making it impossible to see his mood.

Not feeling Qin Xiao's murderous intent, the young man took the thing Qin Xiao threw to him. As soon as he took it, he felt a sticky and cold touch.

The companion next to him turned his head to look and found that they were two blood-stained rings.

The expressions of the two men changed, but they did not relax their vigilance. They still looked at Qin Xiao steadily without saying a word.

"Now that you have got what you wanted, why don't you leave?" Qin Xiao said, tightening his grip on the knife handle, his intentions obvious.

Hearing Qin Xiao's words, the young man's expression relaxed. He looked at his companions, then looked at Qin Xiao, smiled at him and thanked him.

The young man collected the string from Yin Xihui, turned around and left with his companions.

Only after the two of them left did Qin Xiao turn his gaze to Yin Xihui: "What's going on?"

"...Mo Hanyu led him here." Yin Xihui got up from the ground, stretched his muscles, and looked up at Qin Xiao. "He told me that you two were separated. You—"

"You run so damn fast! Are you going to save someone, buddy?"

Yin Xihui was startled, and saw another person coming out of the woods, pinching his waist and talking to Qin Xiao breathlessly.

Yin Xihui couldn't help but get nervous when he saw his body size.

Qin Xiao glanced at him and said, "You are too slow."

"..." The man seemed to be angry. He held on to the tree and began to breathe heavily. It was obvious that he was tired.

Yin Xihui looked at the man who was breathing heavily, then at the calm and composed Qin Xiao, and blinked in confusion.

The man noticed Yin Xihui, raised his eyebrows and whistled: "Is this your brother?"

Qin Xiao ignored him and looked at Yin Xihui: "His name is Qin Yun'an, I met him on the road."

Yin Xihui nodded thoughtfully and smiled at Qin Yun'an. Suddenly he thought of something and turned to Qin Xiao and said, "It's over! Mo Hanyu jumped off the cliff!"

Qin Xiao:……?

Qin Yun'an: "Jump off a cliff?"

Yin Xihui pointed to the edge of the cliff, where the ice had disappeared without a trace: "He just jumped down."

Qin Xiao: ...

Qin Xiao walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down.

It was pitch black and bottomless.

"He was talking about your friend, too?" Qin Yun'an asked curiously after seeing Qin Xiao's reaction, "He jumped off the cliff? He was forced to do so? Hmm..."

Qin Xiao heard what he said and turned his head to look at him, thinking that he was going to say something.

"...Did the guy surnamed Mo get the protagonist's script?" Qin Yun'an suddenly had an idea and said to Qin Xiao with great interest, "You know the stories I listened to before I came here, in which the protagonist was chased and had an adventure after jumping off a cliff. He would meet some peerless master or unique secret method, and then he would be very powerful after he came out! It's not a problem for one person to beat hundreds of people——"

"Where is the treasure you told me about?" Qin Xiao asked.

Qin Yun'an's high spirits seemed to be doused by this basin of cold water. He shrank his neck and pouted: "It's right under this cliff - eh? Wait??!"

Qin Xiao:……?

Yin Xihui:?

Yin Xi looked at Qin Xiao darkly.

Qin Yun'an glanced at Qin Xiao secretly.

Finally, the two looked at each other and felt a little embarrassed at the same time.

Qin Yun'an: It's over! Someone got there first!

Yin Xihui: It’s over! Will these two become enemies?

When Yin Xihui heard the conversation between Qin Xiao and the others, he immediately understood the purpose of Qin Xiao keeping this man by his side, and instantly understood the purpose of their coming here, and there was no doubt about the treasure...

To attract so many families, this treasure must be extraordinary, and the benefits are great enough to shake people's hearts. Moreover, Qin Xiao expressed his intention to want this thing from the beginning. What if Mo Hanyu got it...

Yin Xi turned his eyes to Qin Xiao again.

These two won't fight, right?