The Wheel-Turning Master.

Chapter 46 Working together
Master Qi fell to the ground, his eyes gradually becoming dull.

There was a bloody hole in his chest and blood was flowing under his body.

The sword energy of Lin Bai and Pei Ning had just pierced through his body, and there was no hope for this man.

Pei Ning's clothes were full of holes, his hair was disheveled, and his face and hands were covered with tiny wounds, oozing blood.

Lin Bai entered the dust a little later than Pei Ning, and his situation was slightly better.

Although the two men were in a mess, they only had superficial injuries and were not seriously injured.

But now thinking about it, Master Qi was clearly risking his life in the end, but his hands and feet were tied up while he was fighting, and he was also disturbed by the purple air, so he probably only used 20% of his abilities.

But even so, the dust was really strange. Once you entered it, you would feel a lot of resistance and you couldn't tell the direction, as if you were being stabbed by countless tiny sharp blades.

Lin Bai relied on the calmness he gained from practicing his flying knife skills and the clarity of mind he gained from practicing sword techniques, which enabled him to move forward with an unstoppable momentum and achieve success.

After wiping the blood off his face, Lin Bai looked at Pei Ning.

Pei Ning was born fair, and now his face was covered with bloodstains, which made him look even paler.

The two looked at each other, both feeling like they had survived a calamity.

"Go find Elder Tong! I shot through his legs, he can't run far!" Lin Bai said.

Pei Ning nodded.

The two men didn't care about Master Qi's body. They just went out of the cave one after the other and followed the bloodstains on the ground to look for Tong Ruhu.

After searching for a mile, the bloodstains suddenly disappeared, and neither the footprints nor the bloodstains. The two looked around, but there was no trace of the person.

"This old fox is really scheming!" Pei Ning laughed while holding the sword.

"Today, including Master Qi, none of us, including Ah Da, let alone Ah Er, has less thoughts." Lin Bai also laughed.

Neither of them was stupid. They followed the blood and footprints back and took a closer look.

After walking about two hundred feet, I noticed that the depth of the footprints had changed.

"Elder Tong must have fled for a while, but his leg injury was too severe to support him, so he bandaged the wound. Then he grabbed his shoes with his hands, turned his feet upside down, and returned along the original footprints, and then chose the opportunity to escape using lightness skills." Lin Bai made his inference.

"Great minds think alike." Pei Ning clapped his hands.

Lin Bai flew up and jumped onto the tree to check, and sure enough, he found a faint bloody handprint on a branch.

The two men immediately chased in that direction, and after two miles they saw bloodstains again.

After walking forward cautiously for a while, they saw Elder Tong supporting himself with his hands, head down and feet up, hopping forward and running away.

"Elder Tong, please stay!" Lin Bai said.

Upon hearing this, Elder Tong actually stopped moving. He turned over and slumped against a boulder, his forehead dripping with sweat and his brain was congested. He was barefoot and didn't know where he had lost his shoes. He just gasped for breath.

Pei Ning didn't say anything, just held the sword and stared at him cautiously.

"Lin Zhuanlun!" Elder Tong took a deep breath, wiped the sweat off his face, and gritted his teeth and asked, "What kind of poison did you put on the arrow?"

"I am a doctor by profession, how can I use poison?" Lin Bai explained immediately, "It's just that before entering the mountain, I put the arrowhead in the toilet for a night."

Tong Ruhu was stunned for a moment, his face became uglier, and he said, "You are the flying knife assassin Tian Shuliang. You also killed Rong'er, and you also took away Pei Wuyong's things. Is that right or not?"

Lin Bai held the sword and bowed, accepting it.

"Elder Tong, why did Pei Wuyong kill the immortals?" Pei Ning asked.

"Pei Wuyong is dissolute but loyal, and it's naturally because of women." Elder Tong smiled, not hiding anything, "When Chen Xianshi was looking for pleasure, he succeeded in one fell swoop, cut off his limbs, destroyed his internal organs, forced Chen Xianshi to take out the magic formula from the magic weapon, and then absconded."

After he finished speaking, he turned to Lin Bai, his eyes burning, and continued: "Your origins are clear, but in such a short period of time, your skills are not inferior to Pei Ning's. You are either a martial arts genius that only appears once in a century, or you have mastered the magic of immortality! Have you started to study it? How does it taste?"

"The wonders of nature are beyond description, but it's a pity that no one has provided me with a daughter-in-law for my enjoyment." Lin Bai said.

Earlier in the cave, Lin Bai had heard Master Qi say that Elder Tong had sent his daughter-in-law away, so he was mocking him. "A mat weaver and shoe seller!" Elder Tong was indeed embarrassed.

"If you want his daughter-in-law, I will help you to find her when we get back. I will give her to you, including his daughter." Pei Ning looked at Lin Bai with a smile.

"I just said it casually..." Lin Bai knew that he had accidentally touched Pei Ning's lungs, because her father also wanted to offer her to the immortal master.

"Pei girl, we are both from the Qingyang Sect. Do you really want to kill me today?"

Elder Tong showed a pleading look, "I will never tell anyone about what happened today! From now on, I will respect your father... and you as the most respected one."

"I don't believe the words of a man who would give his daughter-in-law to someone else." There was still blood on Pei Ning's face, and he pointed his sword directly at Elder Tong.

Elder Tong no longer begged for mercy. He struggled to stand up, leaned against the boulder, and held his sword against the opponent.

"Pei girl, when I was learning swordsmanship, you hadn't yet..."

Before Elder Tong finished speaking, he felt a chill in his ears. Just as he was about to draw his sword to defend himself, he felt a pain in his throat, and it was clear that he had been hit by a flying knife.

After a few grunts, Elder Tong fell to the ground, twitched a few times, and then stopped moving.

Lin Bai stepped forward and sighed, "This Elder Tong is still brooding over the matter of sending his daughter-in-law away. I wonder what he was thinking when he woke up in the middle of the night." As he spoke, he reached out and touched the corpse.

"He will only feel the bed is cold." Pei Ning sheathed his sword and said with a smile, "A boy like a tiger stealing an ass will be known to the whole sect."

"Damn it!" Lin Bai's expression changed immediately and he asked, "Is his daughter-in-law pretty?"

Pei Ning just smiled but didn't answer, then turned and left.

Lin Bai did not dare to ask any more questions and continued to search the corpse, but he found nothing, only an elder's token.

When the two returned to the cave, Master Qi was already dead.

Pei Ning swung his sword and cut off his finger, took out a copper ring, and said, "Touch it."

Lin Bai was used to doing this kind of thing, but still got nothing.

"It should all be in here." Pei Ning threw the copper ring to Lin Bai.

Lin Bai took it and felt a slightly cool touch. The material was like copper but not copper, like wood but not wood, but it was three times heavier than the flying knife.

Sunlight leaked through the cave. Lin Bai raised his hand to take a closer look and saw strange patterns on it.

"How do we take out the things inside?" Lin Bai asked.

"If you learn the magic, you will be able to open it naturally." Pei Ning said.

"Then..." Lin Bai threw the copper ring to Pei Ning and smiled helplessly: "To learn the immortal method, you need to open the copper ring; but to open the copper ring, you need to learn the immortal method first." He clapped his hands and continued: "The person who can open the copper ring has been killed. If you don't kill him, you can't get the copper ring..."

Pei Ning was not disappointed at all. Instead, he smiled and said, "Don't we still have the silk cloth? Let's look for the place on the silk cloth. Maybe we can find it."

"It's too difficult. I can only see that it is the place where streams converge. But Tianlang Mountain is so big and there are so many streams in the mountain. I don't know when I will find it." Lin Bai was speechless.

"Everything depends on human effort." Pei Ning threw the copper ring to Lin Bai again, then smiled, "Put it on, don't lose it." She watched Lin Bai put the copper ring on his finger and whispered, "Thanks to you today."

"What are you going to do next?" Lin Bai asked.

"What else can we do?" Pei Ning smiled brightly, brushed off the dust on his body, and said, "If no one saw it, then it wasn't us who did it. You are still Lin Zhuanlun, the mat weaver, shoe seller, and widow, and I am still the daughter of the state master."

"There is still one immortal master left." Lin Bai reminded.

"Master Qi mentioned before that he was injured by some demon woman from 'Nine Yin Mountains'."

Pei Ning smiled, "I'm afraid that Jiuyin Mountain is not in harmony with Master Qi's sect, and Master Qi is not the only one who can do it."

"Master Qi is the strongest among the three overseas masters. If the remaining Master Zhang knew that Master Qi died under the Jiuyin Mountain, he would probably not dare to go out." Lin Bai took over the conversation.

The two of them were in cahoots, laughing extremely happily. Even the black crows above the cave were making a lot of noise.

(End of this chapter)