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Song Zhiyou frowned. “You are looking for us.”
The young man held his breath for a moment before finally saying, “I mistook you for someone else. And I already returned the wheel. Fellow daoist, I… I have nothing else.”
Song Zhiyou looked at him suspiciously. “But I still have something.”
The young man was stunned.
“Fellow daoist, what’s your name?”
“I… I’m Zhao Nan.”
“Fellow Zhao, where did you come from? Did you encounter anything?”
At this, Zhao Nan’s eyes grew agitated.
“I saw someone kill people. They wore black robes, all of them. They killed anyone they saw, and even a sect disciple was killed by them.”
Song Zhiyou’s heart skipped a beat.
They.
A single black-robed evil cultivator was already terrifying, but Zhao Nan’s meaning clearly indicated there were more than one.
“How many black-robed people did you see?”
“Two. One tall, one short.”
Zhao Nan thought for a moment, then described further: “The tall one was twice my height. The short one…”
Zhao Nan looked around and finally settled his gaze on Song Zhiyou.
“Yeah, the short one was just as short as you!”
Song Zhiyou’s forehead veins bulged. “Short as you? Your whole family…”
Zhao Nan shook his head seriously and interrupted her. “No, I looked carefully. He was a bit taller than me.”
Song Zhiyou…
Song Zhiyou had nothing left to say.
It was true that Zhao Nan was the shortest of the three of them, but he didn’t have to be so honest.
The evil cultivator who fought Yuhengzi earlier was acting alone, and his height didn’t match what Zhao Nan described. So initially, she estimated there were at least three evil cultivators.
“Go on.”
“They were saying something about purifying the righteous path, extinguishing all its seeds.”
As he spoke, a look of panic appeared in Zhao Nan’s eyes.
Those two were so frenzied they left an indelible shadow on his mind.
Purify the righteous seeds?
Song Zhiyou frowned.
Fancy words. In reality, they were just bullying the weak, picking on the soft targets.
“Which direction did they go later?”
Zhao Nan immediately pointed opposite the direction he had come from.
He had fled that way to avoid them.
He thought he’d finally found an elder and could be saved.
He didn’t expect to run into Song Zhiyou, this killer.
Song Zhiyou looked at the direction Zhao Nan pointed and fell silent.
If she hadn’t asked Zhao Nan that question, she would be heading that way right now.
She might have been face-to-face with those two evil cultivators.
That path was her backup route.
Song Zhiyou was speechless.
Her luck was exceptionally bad.
She had chosen this route because it was the safest, farthest from the guard posts.
Yet she still encountered evil cultivators fighting elders.
Her backup route was flawless, but the evil cultivators had to go that way.
She already knew who was messing with her behind the scenes.
Damn Long Aotian, haunting her like a ghost!
Both routes were unusable now, blocked by evil cultivators front and back, with a comatose elder beside her. Song Zhiyou had to shelve the escape plan.
She waved at the two of them.
“This place isn’t safe either. Give me a hand; let’s move the elder somewhere safe.”
They complied, and Song Zhiyou led the way.
She remembered there was a dry branch valley near this road.
Hiding the elder in a ditch should be safe enough.
Near the spot, Song Zhiyou looked sideways and saw a groove branching off the hillside.
She followed the groove all the way to the bottom.
The bottom was covered with gravel and dry soil, with shrubs and weeds on both sides.
The deeper they went, the narrower and quieter it became.
It wasn’t particularly concealed, but compared to a cave or similar place, it was less likely to draw attention.
From elsewhere, it had natural cover. A normal person would glance over and automatically ignore it.
After settling Yuhengzi there, Song Zhiyou ran to the side, pulled out a piece of white robe, crumpled it, and stuffed it into her mouth.
Once the white robe entered her mouth, it turned into pure spiritual energy. Just that little bit replenished all the spiritual energy she had spent earlier.
That showed how much spiritual energy was in the evil cultivator’s black-feathered arrows.
Song Qingyao was stunned.
Song Zhiyou was eating paper again!
But when Zhao Nan looked over, she moved slightly to block his view.
Even though Song Zhiyou had some unknown quirks now, Song Qingyao would guard her secret and keep it hidden.
When Song Zhiyou turned back, she saw Song Qingyao giving her a reassuring look.
At a loss.
With abundant spiritual energy, Song Zhiyou made several more sheets of paper.
She took one out and drew a topographic map of the valley.
Actually, they were very close to the exit now.
But precisely because of that, they seemed bound to run into evil cultivators.
The same evil cultivator she had tricked before.
There were other paths, but those meant turning back and going a much longer way.
Most importantly, those places weren’t necessarily free of evil cultivators either.
Song Zhiyou fell into thought.
She called Zhao Nan. “Did Yun Mian say how long this formation plate can be used?”
Zhao Nan hesitated. “Fellow Yun didn’t say, but the plate she lent us before could be used for three incense sticks at most. This was the last one she brought out after those were gone.”
“At that time… Fellow Yun hesitated for a long time, very reluctant.”
“And then? She still took it out to earn spirit stones?”
Song Zhiyou’s face was expressionless.
She should have guessed. Yun Mian said at the hidden market that it could last three days, but in reality, it lasted three incense sticks.
A permanent one would probably last an hour and a half.
“No,” Zhao Nan said shyly. “I added more money.”
Song Zhiyou: “…”
“How long have you used it?”
Zhao Nan thought carefully. “Almost a day and a half.”
Hearing this, Song Zhiyou was genuinely surprised.
It seemed this plate Yun Mian was reluctant to part with was really different.
And Zhao Nan really valued his life. He probably hadn’t turned it off since getting it.
Song Zhiyou pocketed the formation plate and decided to scout the evil cultivators’ path.
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