no one knows better than me

A wisp of wind blew across the cliff top and surrounding fields very lightly, causing some invisible waves on the river below the peak, and the atmosphere fell into a strange silence for an instant.

Zhu Heng raised his eyes coldly first: "Look at me, are you suspicious of me?"

Mei Siye glanced calmly at Nuannuan and Wanwan next to her: "Then what happened to the disciples of Palace Master Zhu, are they all looking at us, are they suspicious of us?"

Nuannuan sneered, hugged the kite full of hostility and said: "There are only so many people here, either us or you, needless to say?"

At this moment, Zhuang Qingliu glanced at her suddenly, and asked with the donkey's head in the wrong direction: "Si'e, how long have we been walking since we entered the secret realm?"

Mei Si'e took a look at Nuan Nuan, and replied: "It's almost a day since I returned to Senior Zhuang."

"One day—"

Zhuang Qingliu nodded silently, but his eyes fell on Ji Wuduan's face quietly, and he said word by word: "When the four of us first entered the cave, Mr. Ji himself said that you could only enter for half a day--and after that, The eight of us rushed and ran, and it took a day to reach the edge of the secret realm. And you, back and forth? Half a day?"

After she finished speaking, everyone's eyes were fixed on Ji Wuduan's face.

Ji Wudu's eyes flickered a few times immediately.

Zhuang Qingliu naturally didn't skip these few times, looked him up and down with the same expression and said: "So which sentence you said is true?"

After a moment of silence.Ji Wuduan didn't refute, folded his arms and laughed: "Everything I said is true. Believe it or not, there is more than one place to go in the secret realm. I wish the palace master just explored the right side, and I went It's on the left, not a road."

Zhuang Qingliu thought for a while, and did not continue to delve into it, but instead asked: "Then before, you really only had half a day to enter the cave?"

Nuan Nuan seemed to be annoyed by her question, and couldn't help but took a step forward with her kite in her arms, but before she could speak, Ji Wuduan stretched out her hand to block her behind her: "Yes, Young Master Zhuang, we were in Furong before we came here." Take a short break in the town, it's easy to find out, it's about Mr. Yan's actions."

Zhuang Qingliu nodded, and said politely: "The last question, is it true that someone in your Immortal Mansion has disappeared here recently?"

Ji Wuduan said: "Really. And they are three very important people."

Zhuang Qingliu: "What kind of three people?"

Nuan Nuan was furious: "Isn't it the last question just now?"

Zhuang Qingliu ignored her, still looking at Ji Wuduan.Ji Wudu folded his arms and let out a sigh: "He is good at medicine and poison, and he comes from the First Palace of Medicine and Cultivation of the Zodiac Palace. He is the direct descendant of Palace Master Zhu. If Mr. Yan is willing, he can find out some information."

That being the case.

"Although there is no mutual trust at all, the unnecessary suspicion is unnecessary at the moment. As for whether the landing point of our exit from the secret realm has been changed, just go and see again now."

Zhuang Qingliu turned around first, and jumped off the cliff along the vines: "This time, each of you suspects someone in your heart, and the moment you leave the secret realm, just stare at each other."

Mei Hualan and Zhu Heng looked at each other deeply, and walked to the edge of the cliff expressionlessly.Several people quickly jumped down like dumplings and disappeared in midair.

The place where I landed at the beginning is still the Peach Blossom Spring, but this time, the path under my feet no longer changes by itself.Zhuang Qingliu quickly glanced casually at the few people in Changgeng Immortal Mansion, and none of them were surprised. Ji Wuduan even took out a pan and pointed out a way to go.

Everyone followed, and the bats in the cave disappeared without a trace. After the narrow passage, it was the same secret place again.

Ji Wuduan stood at the entrance of the cave with arms folded: "Just now, I walked to the right and got nothing. How about going to the left this time? Can you also verify my words and see if you can go back and forth in half a day?"

Zhuang Qingliu raised his eyebrows calmly: "Why not?" As he spoke, he lifted his foot and walked to the woods on the left first.

There were still some minor troubles on the road, but after half a day, they did reach the edge of another secret realm.At this moment, Mei Xiaohan waved his fan meaningfully and said with a smile: "We have reached the edge, but there is no mark left here. If we go out from here, can we end up in the same place as the Bian family?"

Nuan Nuan was immediately turned into a gourd by anger: "Then you go your way! We will go out from here!!"

Mei Si'e snorted, turned her head and left, not understanding the elder's intentions at all, and let the truth go to the sky: "We can't wait, if there is no follow-up behind the scenes, it will be clear at a glance who is in the circle!"

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Ji Wuduan couldn't listen anymore and rubbed his face helplessly, touched his chin with a smile and said without anger: "I still can't clear this up—so let's go there together, isn't it when we agreed to cross the secret realm? You have to keep an eye on the person you are suspicious of, and the person you are suspicious of is not on our side."

Zhuang Qingliu didn't talk to her, but just smiled and turned around to look at a few places to confirm the direction.

After half a day, the group of people who crossed the road came to the edge of the secret realm again, this time the place was the same as the first time, and the fresh memory left by the Bian family at the beginning has now passed a day and a night.

"Are you ready? I call one, two, three, let's set off together." Ji Wuduan said.

Eight people stood next to each other in a long row, no one answered his words, but the corners of their eyes were highly focused and scattered.Mei Sigui, who poked her head out from Zhuang Qingliu's collar, was also very curious, blinking her small bean eyes.

Ji Wuduan said: "One, two, three—go!"

The moment the twilight flashed, Zhuang Qingliu silently grasped Mei Hualan's hand under her wide sleeves.

Mei Hualan's thick eyelashes quivered almost imperceptibly in the light and shadow.

Zhuang Qingliu's side profile remained unchanged, his gaze still calmly set in front of her, but the hand that was holding Mei Hualan turned slightly, and finally interlocked with her fingers.

Silent movements, everything is silent.

Mei Hualan's back, which had always been straight, seemed to be stiff for a moment, and finally relaxed a little bit indistinctly.Zhuang Qingliu closed his eyes for a moment and then opened them. He just walked around casually and asked, "How is it, Mr. Ji? Is this the Xianluo you have been to before?"

Ji Wuduan: "Ha."

Zhuang Qingliu turned his head again, picked him up and asked, "Then what about the person you are suspicious of? How about it? Have you seen it clearly this time?"

Ji Wuduan's glass-like eyes rolled quickly a few times, touched his chin and laughed: "What did Young Master Zhuang say, this time the man didn't make a move, so naturally I didn't see anything."

Zhuang Qingliu glanced at his eyes with a smile, raised her foot indifferently and said, "Then this is over, let's go."

A group of people quickly followed together.

Although this episode doesn't affect anything, on weekdays in the Immortal Sect, some junior disciples love to compete with each other and compete secretly.Now that they have gone through this experience, Mei Siye and Nuannuan have already hated and looked down on each other invisibly, so they began to show each other along the way, chasing after each other, promoting each other, and fighting hard.

Fortunately, compared to the secret realm, most of the immortals in Xianluo are filled with spiritual plants and immortal grasses. They are born to drink water and bask in the sun. They are really gentle and good-tempered.Most of the flowers and plants will take the initiative to avoid Zhuang Qingliu docilely when they see Zhuang Qingliu. There is even a ginseng doll that has been cultivated enough to run and jump. She stretched out her small hands as if wrapping them around, hugging her calves and refusing to let go.

Mei Sigui, who was only poking his head out of Zhuang Qingliu's collar to look east and west, flew out dissatisfied. After turning himself into a huge one, he lowered his head and pressed his paw on the head of the ginseng doll, asking loudly : "Chirp?"

Mei Xiaohan squatted by the side and laughed straight, poking a small green leaf like an umbrella on the top of the ginseng essence with her finger and said: "See, she already has a domineering daughter, or you come with me Right, huh?"

The ginseng doll struggled out of Mei Sigui's claws, and ran away wiping tears on her face with two small tentacles-like hands.

Zhu Heng, who was leaning against the shade of the tree next to him, folded his arms and looked at Mei Xiaohan, then glanced at the ginseng doll running away from the corner of his eyes, and then jumped up and said, "I've finished drinking the water, let's go."

Judging from the current situation, there were five secret realms and Xianluo that were removed by Zhuang Qingliu back then, but now it is only the second one, and the marks left by Bian's family are getting worse and worse, indicating that his situation may be getting worse up.

After each of them took the water with them, they went out of Xianluo under the supervision of each other like the first time.After that, for about ten days in a row, they kept shuttling between several secret realms and Xianluo, but each time they were one step behind the mark, without even touching a single person.

It's as if someone is deliberately leading them all the way down.

Ji Wuduan even shaved his beard several times, but unlike Pei Yi who used a sword to slash all over, he lay down by the water with his eyes closed, comfortably being served by Wanwan and Nuannuan.After shaving, the self-consciously handsome young man got up and touched his chin and sighed: "It is reasonable to say that this is the last secret realm. No one really knows what it will be like when we go out this time."

Zhuang Qingliu ignored his nonsense, stretched out his hand on the edge of the barrier, and touched it tentatively. He only felt that it was a little cold outside, and there seemed to be a...very slight moist water vapor.

The noble young man behind said again: "Why don't we send a person to explore the way first? If there is nothing wrong, we can go back and talk about the situation."

The unknown always makes people curious and unavoidably fearful, but no one cares about him except for his caring warmth and gentleness.Standing in front of the barrier, Zhu Heng seemed to be thinking about something, Mei Hualan's face was expressionless, and Mei Xiaohan had already taken out her notebook scroll, as if there was nothing more important in the world except records and records...Mei Siye didn't know How about the sword skills, anyway, he drew his sword and was ready to fight at any time.

After Ji Wudu scanned back and forth, he felt that he was surrounded by a group of iron fools, and he was the only one who was witty alone.

Several people had no intention of waiting for him, including Zhu Heng, who had already raised his hand and pressed on the barrier without even looking back.Ji Wudu hurriedly followed with his second maidservant.

After taking a short deep breath, the barrier held by several hands turned into a snow-white light curtain. Immediately, the light curtain flashed and exploded like snow.

Mei Hualan was still holding her paralyzed face that would not collapse even when she went to the sea, but she was holding Zhuang Qingliu's hand firmly.Of course, Zhuang Qingliu just held her tighter, while the rest... seemed to be overwhelmed by the sight in front of them.

In front of them is a piece of... er, how to describe it, a vast world inlaid with small water pools like big beads and small beads?

Like a dome inlaid with bright pearls, thousands of pools of light like small lakes shine brightly and softly in the setting sun from the front to the infinite distance, and you can't see the end at a glance.And the air seems to be filled with countless small and fine water droplets, these water droplets reflect countless gorgeous curved bridge rainbows, and the rainbows make the light pools all over the ground communicate with each other, and they are arranged in a patchwork order on the quiet and silent land.

The most important thing is that on each of the shining pools of light, there seems to be a snow-white curved thing emitting jade-like waves.

Wanwan murmured: "...what is that?"

Mei Siye also let out an inhalation sound similar to a hiss: "Did I read it wrong? Those flowers... trees... Uh, did the roses bloom on the trees?"

After Zhuang Qingliu stood dazzled for a while, he suddenly stepped up and walked towards the nearest pool of light

The Guangtan is indeed a clear spring that seems to emerge from the depths of the ground, like the bright eyes of the earth.And above every deep and clear spring, there is actually a white clam the size of a room floating. The body of the clam is almost white jade.

Zhuang Qingliu stood still, staring at a pebble-sized clam pearl inside for a long time, then blinked suddenly: "Ah... this thing."

Why is this thing a bit like the one in Mei Hualan's study.

It’s just that that one is a shrunken and shrunken version, and this one has grown up, it’s a bit of a “female college student’s [-]th transformation look”. .

Moreover, this bright pearl inside also exudes an incomparably compelling aura.

Nuan Nuan, who was holding the kite, subconsciously took a few steps forward. Before reaching the edge of the pool of light, the huge white jade clam suddenly moved.

Snapped!

The open clamshell landed almost repulsively, shutting her outside involuntarily.Nuan Nuan's face froze, and she suddenly froze in place with a bit of paleness.

At this moment, a human voice suddenly sounded from behind: "Here, come to me."

Everyone turned around immediately, and heard that the voice came from another white jade clam behind.Although there are many white jade clams that can't be seen at a glance, most of them are separated by a long distance, and looking around, most of them are closed clam shells, not many open ones.

Zhuang Qingliu quickly turned around, and walked over in three steps at a time, and saw a man with a jade crown sitting cross-legged in the white jade clam, in the light of the spirit, and looking at the blue-patterned clothing on his body, it turned out to be People from the Lingbilan clan!

Upon seeing this person, everyone's expressions changed.Mei Xiaohan immediately took a step closer and stared at him carefully: "Are you from the Lan family?"

"Exactly."

The man was sitting in the white jade clam, his face was radiant, his face was extremely young, his age could not be seen at all, a huge pearl hung above his head, exuding a compelling aura, and there was a sword standing beside him, he said with a smile : "I am a young disciple from the branch of the Lan family, named Lan Tingyu. You are welcome to come to Taohuayuan too. There are still so many people here at once."

After seeing several people's attires, the man roughly said, "Are you all from Changgeng Immortal Mansion and Mei Family?"

Lan Tingyu was indeed one of the hundreds of people who disappeared on that list. Mei Xiaohan quickly turned her head and looked in all directions in amazement—could all the missing people come here in the past 20 years?

in a clam?

"Yes."

Mei Siye nodded quickly, and quickly asked instead of Mei Xiaohan: "When did you come in? Have you been here for so many years?"

"It's been almost 20 years since I came here, and I'm one of the first group of people to come here." Lan Tingyu's tone concealed a trace of complacency and pride.

Mei Si'e immediately asked again: "Then why did you come in and never go out again?!"

Lan Tingyu glanced at her inexplicably: "Didn't you see it? The aura here is compelling and beautiful, it is simply the White Jade Palace in the sky. The white jade clam is an incomparable paradise, and the Lingzhu is something that people outside can get for a lifetime." With my current cultivation base, ascension is just around the corner, so why do I have to go out?"

"what……"

At this moment, Nuan Nuan and Wan Wan's eyes clearly showed unconcealable excitement and ecstasy, Nuan Nuan blurted out: "The white jade clam seems to recognize people, how did you get in?"

Lan Tingyu laughed and said: "I recognize people, some of them are very tempered, you need to have a high level of cultivation to get in, you can come here first to experience it..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhuang Qingliu suddenly looked at Peng Nei and interrupted: "Don't you know me?"

This person has been here for many years, and Meihualan Zhuheng and the others hadn't become famous back then, so it was normal for him not to know each other.But don't you know Zhuang Qingliu?

Lan Tingyu took back what she hadn't finished, turned away from Nuannuan, looked at the nine-petal plum on Zhuang Qingliu, and said unexpectedly, "Huh? Do you know me?"

Zhuang Qingliu's eyes seemed to flicker, and he smiled and said, "Oh, I don't know. Just ask."

Nuan Nuan seemed very displeased with her intentionally interrupting her, and after glancing sideways at Zhuang Qingliu, she saluted Lan Tingyu with her kite in her arms: "Thank you, senior."

As he walked over quickly, Mei Xiaohan seemed to have seen something, his eyes fell on Lan Tingyu's back, and he blinked and asked, "What is behind you?"

Lan Tingyu said: "It's a jade seat, you can also come and have a look."

Mei Si'e suddenly gave an envious "ah", followed up and said, "Senior, can I go in and have a look?"

But Zhuang Qingliu grabbed her tightly and said word by word: "I suggest you don't go in."

Mei Siye stopped obediently for a moment, but turned her head in a daze and asked again, "Why?"

Zhuang Qingliu stared straight into Lan Tingyu's eyes: "Intuition."

Nuannuan's foot that was about to fall into the clam also paused, as if hesitating, Ji Wuduan also narrowed his eyes in thought, pulled her back with a hook, and said, "Why are you so anxious?"

Lan Tingyu's expression seemed to be a little lighter, and her tone was calm and unchanged: "What do you mean? If you don't come in, you won't come in. It seems that I only invited these two girls, and I didn't invite you?"

Ji smiled kindly and nodded for no reason: "Senior, I've offended you. It's just that we are here to find someone, and we are in a hurry. Let's talk about being a guest later. If it's convenient, senior, can you tell us if there are a few people who just came in in the past few days? , came here too?"

Lan Tingyu nodded: "As long as anyone who comes in, most of them can find here. There were indeed a few people passing by yesterday, and there seems to be a person from the Xuechuanbian family."

Mei Xiaohan and the others quickly looked at each other, and Ji Wuduan immediately asked: "Where did they all go after that?"

Lan Tingyu: "Of course I'm looking for a suitable white jade clam, or I've already found it. Anyway, they're all here. You can search for it, it's not hard to find it."

Ji Wudu blinked and saluted: "Okay. Thank you senior, let's take our leave first."

With that said, they all turned and left.

"Wait a moment."

After Lan Tingyu slightly curled her left little finger, her side face seemed to be distorted very quickly in the light and shadow, and then returned to its original shape in a very short period of time. She looked at Nuan Nuan and said, "Aren't you really going to come in and take a look?" ? I’m going to rest with the clam. The white jade clam, like Fudi, excludes outsiders from entering. It will be difficult for you to find someone as hospitable as me in the future.”

Rao Nuan Nuan himself, but also because of his sudden retention, a strange feeling and strangeness arose in his heart.

Lan Tingyu reached out and took off the gorgeous pearl on the top of her head, and said in a seductive tone: "Come in and have a look and touch it, if you can get a ray of fairy energy from the pearl, it will be enough for you to practice hard for a year."

The light and shadow in Zhuang Qingliu's eyes danced for a moment, then he turned his head and asked Lan Tingyu: "Senior, we are not familiar with this place. And you have been here for almost 20 years, if you are not in a hurry to rest, can you help us lead the way?"

The muscles of Lan Tingyu's side face seemed to twitch slightly, a surge of darkness welled up in his eyes, and he quickly suppressed it with all his might: "Just look for the white jade clam and the rose forest, there is something to lead the way. "

"is it?"

Zhuang Qingliu's gaze fell into his eyes, and he said slowly, "I'm afraid——you can't get out by yourself?"

- Boom!

Suddenly an incredible guess popped into everyone's mind, and the eyes looking at Bai Yuceng began to change subversively.

Seeing that she could no longer trick anyone in, Lan Tingyu couldn't hide her eyes filled with unspeakable anger and a fierce look: "What did you say?!"

Zhuang Qingliu raised the end of his eyes in surprise, and walked back and forth on Lan Tingyu's legs: "I just said that you can't get out, why are you so angry? Could it be that what I said is true?"

Lan Tingyu suddenly grabbed her sword, gritted her teeth and said, "I, fuck, you, ancestor, ancestor."

"..."

Zhuang Qingliu pulled Mei Hualan's hand, and said with a smile: "Don't do it, it's unnecessary. He can only be trapped inside forever, what else can make him suffer more."

Ji Wuduan also smiled and said: "Yes. Don't speak ill, and speak well. If you say you have any difficulties from the beginning, we may not save you."

The ferocity in Lan Tingyu's eyes immediately suppressed strangely, and she saluted courteously almost as if changing her face: "Okay, okay, please save me, dare to ask me how to save me?"

He probably saw Ji Wudu wearing a white jade crown, and thought he was practicing Taoism.But that's right, most of the people in Changgeng Immortal Mansion are Taoists.

Unexpectedly, Ji Wudu stroked his chin and thought for a while, then said: "If you want, I can save you into the Tao."

"..."

Lan Tingyu suddenly grabbed the sword tightly like a hungry wolf and jumped up from the spot, popped up and said: "——I want to kill you!!"

But strangely, when he pounced, it seemed that he was blocked by an invisible barrier at the mouth of the clam, and instead he hit his head hard and bled.

Mei Xiaohan was immediately attracted by the pile of things exposed behind Lan Tingyu after he bounced away from the spot, he hesitated and said: "That's a skeleton... the second rib seems to be left by a sharp weapon. scar."

Ji Wuduan's eyes narrowed instantly, and he stared sharply at the person inside the jade clam: "You tricked people into it just now to harm them, didn't you? Still have the guts to let us save you?"

Lan Tingyu was like a dead dog. After shaking her face convulsively for a few times, she suddenly let out a sound of "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh". Help...help...please help me...please...help me..."

Mei Si'e asked with some disgust: "What is the mystery of that white jade clam? You can't get out, but why can you trick people into it?"

Lan Tingyu: "Ah... help me, save me..."

As he said that, he lunged forward again suddenly, unexpectedly grabbed a little corner of Mei Xiaohan's skirt that floated into the clam, and raised his hand to pull her in!

Zhu Heng's eyes suddenly turned cold, and just as the hand holding the bow moved subconsciously, Mei Xiaohan not only stood firmly on the spot, but also turned his head to look at Lan Tingyu inexplicably, and then raised the sword in his hand and landed "Kacha" " With a sound, he directly cut off the hem of the skirt and gave it to the people on the ground, and then walked away in a hurry.

"..."

Zhu Heng's face changed inexplicably. After everyone turned away in disgust one after another, he glanced at Lan Tingyu out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly bent his bow silently, and shot an arrow sharply at the spot where he was grabbing Mei Xiaohan's skirt. With one hand, Lan Tingyu's entire palm was directly penetrated and deeply nailed to the ground.

After shooting, I didn't know what I was doing in a very weird way... So I suddenly turned my head and looked ahead subtly, seeing that no one was paying attention to turning back, I immediately retracted the bow and followed as if nothing had happened.

The sky has gradually darkened, and thousands of pieces of bright white jade clams flow and reflect the soft halo of the moonlight, bringing people an unparalleled visual shock... Unfortunately, most of the pieces are closed.

But in all the open clams, there is a person who has been missing in the Taohuayuan for the past 20 years. These people are exactly the same as Lan Tingyu. It will show its fierce face and show an almost crazy state.

Zhuang Qingliu shuttled back and forth among the white jade mussels, feeling more and more complicated in her heart.

At this moment, a woman with disheveled hair in a white jade clam on the left suddenly stared at them and said, "Wait."

Everyone here is scheming and just wants to deceive others to save themselves.Everyone was also busy looking for someone, and they no longer stopped in response to this kind of shouting, and they did not stop.

The woman with disheveled hair said in a mysterious voice, "One of you appeared here more than ten years ago. Don't you want to know who he is?"