A Big Move

Shen Leyan, who had vomited a lot, held the five or six kinds of non-toxic and delicious wild mushrooms that he had finally picked out, recalled the embarrassment he had just made, and prayed silently in his heart.

[If only there was any way to make Lu Yuanyi and Senior Brother Zheng lose their memory on the spot. ]

[This way they won’t remember what I just did, and won’t tell those things to others…]

[꒦ິ^꒦ິ]

He picked the non-toxic wild mushrooms according to the reference, and threw all the picked ones into Senior Brother Zheng’s spiritual ring space.

The spiritual ring space is as large as ten cubic meters, and it is usually an inconspicuous ring. It is very convenient to carry things, but the price is a bit expensive. If he wants to buy one, the restaurant will probably run for nothing for a month.

 “Don’t worry, Junior Brother. There are many kinds of poisonous mushrooms. It is common to have some strange reactions after being poisoned.”

Zheng Ziheng sorted and arranged the mushrooms in the spirit ring space for him. His light-colored eyes seemed to carry the misty rain of Jiangnan in the rain curtain, and his smile was gentle.

“Your hands are all muddy. Wipe them with a towel.”

Shen Leyan smiled back.

After picking all the edible mushrooms nearby, Shen Leyan wiped his hands and looked at the fruits piled up into several small hills in the spirit ring space with satisfaction.

“It took us some time to pick these. It’s getting dark. Let’s go find the Green Blood Snake Grass?”

They took pills to prevent poisonous insects and miasma before entering the southwest jungle, and they hardly saw many insects and snakes along the way.

But the closer they walked to the place where the Green Blood Snake Grass was found last time, the more traces of insects on the tree trunks and grass leaves there were. Some poisonous insects were as big as rats, with transparent wings on their backs buzzing, as if they could fly up and pounce on people’s faces at any time.

As a native northerner, the biggest insect Shen Leyan has seen is a cockroach, which is only the size of a fingernail.

Seeing a group of ugly black insects flapping their wings, making a sound like an airplane engine trying to take off, he immediately hid behind Zheng Ziheng and covered his head with his sleeve.

Zheng Ziheng let him fiddle with it.

“… Junior brother? Such small insects are very common in the southwest, and they are not poisonous.”

[In the southwest, such insects are called small insects? !]

He felt that this little insect could fly over and slap him directly.

Lu Yuanyi, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped. His voice was slightly deep, and he looked more solemn.

 “The road ahead is not easy to walk, Shen Leyan should stay here.”

Shen Leyan listened to the advice and didn’t even bother to ask “why”, and nodded obediently.

Zheng Ziheng frowned worriedly: “Master, is it a bit too much to leave junior brother here alone…”

Shen Leyan found a relatively open place to stand and said optimistically.

“It’s okay, there are no other cultivators here except these insects. If Master Lu and Senior Brother Zheng are worried about my safety, just leave me a life-saving magic weapon – any magic weapon of the holy level or heaven level will do, I am not picky.”

Lu Yuanyi threw a spiritual ring over: “Do you think the magic weapon of the holy level or heaven level is cabbage on the roadside?”

He urged his spiritual power to open the spiritual ring space, and there was a crystal stone inside, with a faint white halo around it.

He touched it lightly, and the crystal stone immediately turned into a stream of light and enveloped him. The halo disappeared without a trace after touching his skin.

 “This is the Heavenly Heart Crystal, which can block the full force of a Mahayana cultivator for you. You wait here, we will return to find you before dark.”

Shen Leyan coughed: “Thank you, Sect Master Lu… What if two Mahayana cultivators come here together to hunt monsters, and I am killed by negligence? How about…”

The Jiang Xue Sword on Lu Yuanyi’s waist was unsheathed in an instant, and the cold air swept towards him.

“Ah——”

“The Jiang Xue Sword is left to you. The Mahayana cultivators in the Nine Realms will recognize this sword, and they will give me face and spare your life.”

Shen Leyan: “…”

He held the Jiang Xue Sword. When the coldness on the Jiang Xue Sword was restrained, he would not feel uncomfortable.

He slowly poked and killed two insects that tried to crawl onto his feet with the tip of the sword, and the corners of his lips rose.

“Thank you, Sect Master Lu!”

After a few breaths, the other party’s figure disappeared from the spot. Zheng Ziheng rubbed his head soothingly and told him “Don’t run around”, and then he used his spiritual power to go deeper into the jungle.

With the protection of the Heavenly Heart Crystal and the chilling aura emitted by the Jiang Xue Sword after killing a big demon, the monsters nearby would basically not blindly treat him as prey.

It was still an hour before dark.

Shen Leyan tore off a piece of clothes and put it on the ground. He sat down, inserted the Jiang Xue Sword into the ground to prevent poisonous insects and snakes from approaching him, and closed his eyes to meditate peacefully.

“Boom–“

A loud noise like dozens of century-old trees falling down caused the ground to shake violently.

The rolling smoke and dust rushed over from the depths of the jungle. In the heavy rain, it looked like a dark gray monster with bared fangs and claws.

 The insects and snakes dormant in the grass on the ground were also startled by the loud noise and crawled out from their hiding places. For a moment, the ground was so crowded that there was almost no place to stand. Only the small area where the Jiang Xue Sword was was relatively quiet.

Shen Leyan was controlling his spiritual power to flush the dark corner of a meridian beside his dantian, when he was suddenly shaken by the shaking ground and almost fell on his back.

Fortunately, the Jiang Xue Sword had spirit, and the hilt of the sword blocked him, so he didn’t fall down and kiss the densely packed poisonous insects on the ground.

“That’s…” He glanced at the Jiang Xue Sword, and the frost on the Jiang Xue Sword surged, as if the sword spirit wanted to return to its master quickly, “Is it Sect Master Lu and Senior Brother Zheng fighting with something?”

The surrounding trees were too tall, and he couldn’t fly the sword, so he couldn’t see the scene in the distance.

But looking at the smoke and dust, the fighting over there must be quite a lot.

He let go of the Jiang Xue Sword.

“Since there is a fight, you can go find Sect Master Lu. I still have the Heavenly Heart Crystal, and there shouldn’t be anyone or monster here who can hurt me.”

The Jiang Xue Sword shook left and right, as if shaking his head, and after a while wrote a few words out of thin air.

 “My master ordered me to protect you and I can’t leave.”

“Can you sense the exact location of Sect Master Lu?”

“Yes.”

“Then take me there, is that okay? I’ll hide when we get there, and you go up to help Sect Master Lu.”

Seeing that the Jiang Xue Sword had no objection, he used the Jiang Xue Sword as a hiking stick and walked step by step towards the direction where the loud noise came from.

“Jiang Xue Sword? Sword spirit? Do you think I’m walking too slowly? By the time we get there, Sect Master Lu might have finished fighting.”

The Jiang Xue Sword made two “buzzing” sounds in his hand, and suddenly pulled itself out of the ground, with the tip of the sword pointing deep into the jungle.

Shen Leyan’s arm was pulled straight at once.

“What are you doing——”

The Jiang Xue Sword suddenly accelerated forward, as if he had grabbed a powerful, deflated balloon, and was dragged forward by the long sword without touching the ground.