When she attacked him again, he quickly got up and ran away. Liang Tan laughed and rushed over. Cui Ling dodged with a smile. When he was rushing forward, other cultivators suddenly appeared.

The master and disciple immersed in the ocean of happiness: "..."

The cultivators who suffered heavy losses and were in a state of embarrassment: "..."

Liang Tan still had a smile on his face, but when he suddenly saw so many people, his expression suddenly became a little stiff.

Cui Ling was calm. After sitting down seriously, he did not forget to greet her: "Master, come here."

Liang Tan came back to his senses, put away the smile on his face in a second, walked up to Cui Ling with a stand, and began to massage his arm. Cui Ling just took a break, and his arm was no longer so sore, but he still took a breath from time to time, and then enjoyed Liang Tan's calm worry.

Zheng Qingqing, who was supporting Wu Cai together with Wu Wen, saw this scene and lowered her eyes to hide the gloom in her eyes.

The master and his disciple acted too peacefully, and the cultivators who had just experienced life and death several times felt a little unbalanced. One of the young cultivators couldn't help but feel sour: "Master Liang is really amazing. He can lead a mortal to this place safely."

Liang Tan glanced at him and said sincerely, "I am not as good as you. You can bring some old, weak and disabled people here safely."

"You..." The man was suddenly speechless.

That’s right. Now no one has spiritual power, and high-level cultivators have become a burden. Cui Ling, a mortal, has become the most powerful one.

When one person was defeated, another was about to take over. But before they could even feel jealous, Cui Ling drew out his sword and looked over coldly. Everyone: "..."

A deathly silence fell on the open ground. Cui Ling spoke slowly in the silence: "After all, you are all from a famous and upright family, so you should be more reasonable. My master has already told you before we set out that the five senses of the fierce beasts in the jungle have degenerated. As long as you don't move or make any noise, there will be no danger. How many of you listened to me?"

He paused for a moment, looked at the twenty or so people left in front of him, and raised the corners of his lips provocatively: "You all should have listened to me, otherwise you wouldn't be here."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions changed, and some of the younger ones even had red eyes. Liang Tan glanced at everyone and knew exactly why they had different expressions.

Because in the original text, some of these people, in order to protect themselves, directly seriously injured their fellow friends who were hiding nearby, forcing them to make noises to attract ferocious beasts, while they took the opportunity to escape.

She sighed silently, and just as she was about to speak, she heard Cui Ling's stomach growl. Liang Tan smiled and said, "Are you hungry?"

"Yeah." Cui Ling nodded.

As soon as he admitted it, the others seemed to be reminded, and their stomachs growled one after another.

Apart from those young disciples, even someone as incompetent as Wu Wen had been fasting for a long time. Now he suddenly felt as hungry as an ordinary person. For a moment, he could not remain calm like the young disciples. Instead, he felt panic and powerlessness.

The other high-level cultivators also gradually realized, because of hunger, that now was not the time for internal strife, so after looking at each other, they couldn't help but walk up to Liang Tan.

"Master Liang," the high-level cultivator no longer had the arrogance he had at the beginning, and he no longer dared to underestimate the status of the Liangtan Hehuan Sect. "May I ask how long it will take for this dense forest to end?"

Liang Tan glanced at him and said, "I'm not too sure, but based on my previous research, it will take at least three days." To be exact, it is a journey of three to five days, but she didn't say it for sure.

When everyone heard this answer, there was only one sentence in their mind:

This is trouble.

Under normal circumstances, even for ordinary mortals, their lives would not be in danger if they went without food or water for three days, but they still had to hurry on their journey and avoid ferocious beasts. What if they encountered danger when they were so hungry that they were dizzy and had no energy to deal with it?

Liang Tan saw that everyone's reactions were calm. She had quite a few steamed buns in her Qiankun bag. Although the Qiankun bag had lost its freshness-preserving function in the dense forest, the steamed buns themselves were not easy to spoil and could be kept for a few more days. They were enough for dozens of people to cope with the journey over the next few days.

But she wasn't ready to share it.

Cui Ling sat beside her silently, and the master and disciple pretended to be dead tacitly.

In the silence, someone suddenly asked: "Master Liang, since you knew the forest was so big, didn't you prepare food in advance?"

As soon as this person asked this question, everyone looked over at the same time, looking at Liang Tan as if he were a piece of fat meat. Cui Ling took a step forward unhappily, blocking the view of most people.

Liang Tan was not annoyed. Hearing this, he looked at the man calmly and said, "Many of your disciples have not yet reached the Golden Core stage. Don't they have any food with them?"

"It's too much trouble to bring food, so we brought spiritual spring dew." The man felt a little regretful when he mentioned this. In the immortal sect trials, they were used to bringing spiritual spring dew. No matter whether they were ordinary people or cultivators, one drop would make them go without food or drink for three days. But they didn't expect that this secret realm would make them lose all their cultivation and the spiritual medicine would lose its effect.

Today's Lingquan Dew is just ordinary sweet water in a porcelain bottle.

Liang Tan curled his lips: "What a coincidence, I also brought Lingquan Dew for my apprentice."

Wu Cai looked at her immediately.

"But you..."

"I have been fasting for too long and have long forgotten what it feels like to be hungry. I think it will be easy to survive three days, so I didn't bring anything extra with me." Liang Tan interrupted him first.

Her words also touched the hearts of other high-level practitioners. Those who originally suspected that she was hiding something immediately dispelled their doubts, and everyone fell into even longer silence.

After a long silence, Wu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up: "In such a dense forest, there must be some fruit trees. We can send a few people into the forest every day to pick fruit."

"Then who should be sent and who shouldn't be sent?" Someone immediately raised the question.

Wu Cai sneered, "It will take several days before we can go out, so we will naturally have to send people to pick the fruits every day. Now there are only more than 20 people left. For the time being, we will assume that it will take four days before we can go out. Then we will form groups of five or six and send one group to pick the fruits every day."

His method was relatively fair, and everyone looked at each other and silently agreed.

"...Then let's divide into groups now." A young disciple spoke.

As soon as he finished speaking, people from all the major sects stood together first, and then gathered with the sects they were familiar with, and soon they were divided into three groups. However, the three people from the Qingfeng Sect probably acted too ruthlessly before, and for a while no one was willing to form a group with them.

After a moment of not paying attention, Liang Tan, who had no choice, said: "..."

"Master Liang, then there will be only a few of us in one group." Wu Cai was able to take it or leave it, and immediately clasped his fists respectfully.

The corners of Liang Tan's mouth twitched, and he accepted this fact helplessly.

After the four groups were selected, the order was determined by drawing lots. Liang Tan was lucky and was selected as fourth.

When this result came out, Wu Cai and others were very satisfied. After all, if they had walked faster, perhaps the restrictions on their bodies would have been lifted before they went deep into the dense forest.

After everyone had decided on the rules, the sky became increasingly dark. The changes in the sky in the dense forest were not obvious, but it was still possible to distinguish between day and night. After nightfall, the temperature gradually dropped, but everyone continued on their way until they were extremely tired. They realized that at this moment, they not only needed food, but also sleep, so they stopped at the next flat ground.

Cui Ling took the lead and chose a spot with stones to block the wind. After sitting down, he waved to Liang Tan: "Master, come here!"

"Young man, shouldn't places like this be given to the elderly?" He occupied a good spot, and the high-level cultivators were immediately dissatisfied.

Cui Ling raised the corners of his lips when he saw the person coming: "My master is over a hundred years old, how old are you?"

Although he looked very old, the high-level cultivator who was actually only in his seventies: "..."

Liang Tan: “…”Thank you.

"Master, come here." Cui Ling ignored him.

Liang Tan glanced at him sideways and walked forward slowly. Cui Ling quickly wiped the ground with his sleeve, and the word "dog leg" was almost carved on his face.

Zheng Qingqing, who was standing by, clenched her palms, her eyes dark.

"Qingqing," Wu Cai called her in a deep voice, "Come and sit over here."

Zheng Qingqing came back to her senses and saw that the place he pointed to for her was the wind vent. After a moment of silence, she sat down obediently.

As soon as she sat down, she blocked most of the cold wind. Wu Wen breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at her.

What a dog, Liang Tan commented in his mind.

"Master, I will block the wind for you." Cui Ling said attentively.

Liang Tan rubbed his dog's head, then pulled him closer and sat next to him to keep warm.

The two of them didn't care, which gave the others too much to talk about. They looked at each other silently, with contempt for the Hehuan Sect in their eyes. However, as the night deepened and the wind grew stronger, the people who were originally holding their tempers together quietly, relying on each other's body temperature to keep warm.

Liang Tan was almost pressed against Cui Ling, but he was still very cold. In the end, he could only grit his teeth and remind her: "Take off your coat."

Cui Ling didn't hesitate and immediately took off his coat and put it on her. Liang Tan was stunned at first, then he didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "What's the hurry?"

After saying that, she took off her own clothes as well. Cui Ling was stunned. Just as he was about to ask what was wrong, he saw that she put the two pieces of clothes together.

Cui Ling immediately understood what was going on. After helping her put on her clothes, she took the two pieces of clothes and put them on the two of them. The clothes in the immortal world are always made to be flowing and loose. She deliberately did not wear riding clothes this time. Although her clothes were relatively small, they were still enough to wrap two people.

At least she was instinctively stunned when she bumped into Cui Ling's hot chest.

Wu Wen gritted his teeth and could only squeeze in with Wu Cai. Zheng Qingqing curled up quietly, alone, looking a little pitiful.

When Liang Tan looked up, she saw Cui Ling staring at her. She couldn't help but wonder how he felt at the moment: "Are you heartbroken?"

"How is that possible? There is only one woman in this world who makes me feel bad, and that's Master," Cui Ling said sweetly, and looked at Zheng Qingqing again, "I just want to see what happened to the person who ruined my life."

Liang Tan was silent after hearing this, and held his hand through his clothes. Cui Ling was stunned for a moment, and the cold hatred in his heart was gradually covered by warmth.

After a while, he whispered: "Master, I like you the most."

Liang Tan laughed, thinking he was just a child acting coquettishly.

As the night deepened, the cold finally stopped getting worse and remained relatively stable, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Zheng Qingqing, who had been alone, finally found a female cultivator to keep each other warm, and everyone calmed down at this moment.

And after the peace, sleepiness comes.

Despite the raging cold wind and the countless unknown dangers in the depths of the jungle, everyone couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell asleep.

In the silence, Liang Tan, wrapped in clothes, secretly took a bite of steamed bun from the Qiankun bag and stuffed it into Cui Ling's mouth when no one was paying attention.

Cui Ling: “…”

Liang Tan pressed his index finger on his lips, signaling him not to make a sound.

Cui Ling suppressed his smile and accepted her feeding seriously.

After feeding him three big steamed buns in a row, Liang Tan hid under his clothes and ate a steamed bun. After the Qiankun bag lost its function, the steamed buns could not stay hot like before, but Liang Tan, who had been hungry for a day, still thought they were delicious. He quickly finished a whole one, and then fell asleep contentedly with his head resting on Cui Ling's chest.

Cui Ling lowered her eyes, and from the angle above, she could see her thin eyelashes, which trembled when the wind blew, looking obedient and soft. In the dark night, he quietly raised the corners of his lips, his heart was as gentle as the ocean. When he was watching seriously, he suddenly noticed a sight. He looked up as if he had noticed something, and met Zheng Qingqing's eyes.

Cui Ling's eyes turned cold instantly. He gave her a warning look and then lowered his eyes.

In the darkness, Zheng Qingqing, who accidentally made eye contact with the other person, felt a secret excitement.

The long and torturous night passed quickly. After experiencing the difficulty of the dark night in the dense forest, everyone hurried much faster and walked for most of the day before stopping.

According to the rules, the rest of the group rested where they were, while the first group selected earlier went to the dense forest to pick fruits. Everyone in the group had their own division of labor, and for a while everything was in good order.

The journey was relatively smooth over the next few days. Apart from two people who were poisoned from eating carelessly while picking fruit on the first day, three people who died in a sect fight on the second day, and one who was taken away by a ferocious beast on the third day, there were almost no casualties.

In a blink of an eye, it was the fourth day. Before everyone had walked out of the dense forest, it was finally Liang Tan's group's turn to collect wild fruits.

Different from other groups that automatically formed a group, when Liang Tan and Wu Cai and others walked into the dense forest together, the atmosphere could be described as a mess.

Wu Wen was like a wild dog with facial nerve disorder, always wanting to show his teeth, but when he thought of Cui Ling's swordsmanship, he forced himself to hold back. After repeating this several times, his skin began to twitch. Liang Tan was really afraid that he would get facial paralysis again. Zheng Qingqing, who was standing next to him, had been sick for the past few days, and his complexion was getting worse. At this moment, he had no strength at all, and just followed Wu Cai and his son listlessly.

As for Cui Ling, he was also wary of the people from Qingfeng Sect and always kept Liang Tan by his side. Since entering the dense forest, his and Liang Tan's identities seemed to have switched. The little apprentice who needed protection in the past was now the big wolf that everyone feared.

As for Liang Tan, he felt at ease enjoying his apprentice's "filial piety".

In the stalemate, Wu Cai took the initiative to speak: "Master Liang, no matter what the grudges were in the past, we are now grasshoppers on the same rope. I hope we can work together and pick the wild fruits as soon as possible."

"It's just picking fruits. Why should we work together? I think it's more convenient for us to act separately," Liang Tan said, then turned around and left with Cui Ling.

"Wait a minute," Wu Cai called her.

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