Adoption brings disaster

We walked into the woods and escaped the constables. It was really hard to escape all the way. Now that there were no pursuers, we were naturally in a very good mood.

It is said that the Taoist's White Rat Magic Skill is really powerful. My true energy has been exhausted a long time ago, and I can only rely on the stick Qianxi gave me to walk with difficulty.

I didn't expect that just by walking into the woods for a short while, my true energy had recovered at least 30%. With the true energy in my meridians, the burning sensation disappeared without a trace. It was really comfortable.

I have the true energy in my body, so my movements are much easier. However, I am also severely dehydrated after chasing him all the way.

The discomfort caused by severe dehydration cannot be restored by true qi. Other things are fine, but the throat is extremely uncomfortable, like the cracked land, rough and painful, as if someone is scraping the throat with a knife.

Qianxi saw that I was suffering from lack of water, so he lay on the ground to listen, then flew to a tree to take a look, and then led us around the forest left and right, and soon we found a spring.

Qianxi got some grass nearby, crushed it and put it into the water. After a while, he started drinking it in big gulps.

I saw Qianxi drinking it. Although the water felt a bit dirty, she was so thirsty that she couldn't bear it anymore. She didn't care about anything else and could only drink a few big gulps in a row. She stopped only when her stomach was bloated.

After drinking the water, my throat felt much better and I felt more energetic.

"I actually underestimated Qianxi. I didn't expect you to have such abilities." I gave him a thumbs up and boasted.

"Don't underestimate Qianxi. When he was little, he trained with his master in a mountain like this. He was responsible for feeding five or six of us alone."

Liushui treated Qianxi like his own brother and was extremely proud when he spoke of Qianxi. He added, "Those pheasants and rabbits were like fools, letting Qianxi catch them. You don't know how skinny Qianxi was back then. When he brought us rabbits bigger than his face and roasted them for us to eat, we were so ashamed."

"Pheasants and rabbits are so stupid that it's easy to catch them. It's not a big deal at all." Qianxi said embarrassedly.

"Don't listen to his nonsense. My brothers thought they couldn't let a little brat serve them, so they went to catch them. These beasts are really tricky. My brothers have such good Qinggong skills, but they couldn't catch a single one. It's funny to talk about it now."

Qianxi felt even more embarrassed by the compliment. He scratched his head and said, "There should be wild rabbits in this forest. You guys sit here for a while. I'll get one and roast it to fill your stomach."

I was used to being served in the palace, so when I saw Qianxi going to catch a rabbit, I naturally sat down and waited for him to catch the rabbit and prepare it for me to eat.

As soon as Qianxi left, Liushui stood up and looked at me, saying, "Why are you still sitting there? I'm going to go get some firewood. You clean up here and build a fire pit. Qianxi will be back soon."

How could I dig a hole? Besides, I was always served by others. Now they asked me to do the digging, but I had no idea how to do it. I could only break a wooden stick and clean up with difficulty.

Qianxi was really quick and efficient. I had just cleared the weeds on the ground when she came back carrying two fat rabbits.

Seeing me working hard to dig a hole with a stick, Qianxi took the stick and chuckled, saying, "This is not how you dig a hole. Let me dig the hole, and Qianqiu can go get some firewood."

I used to be very good at doing these things, but after so many years of having everything handed to me, how could I do such rough work? I had no choice but to listen to Qianxi and go to the woods to find some firewood.

When I came back, Liushui had already returned. I don’t know where they got the stones, but the stones were flat and clean, perfect for using as chairs.

Liushui and Qianxi were sitting on a rock. Qianxi was roasting a rabbit while Liushui was chatting with him. There was another rock next to them, which should be my seat.

I had been walking for a long time and my feet were very tired, so I threw the firewood I had picked up aside, sat on a rock, and watched Qianxi roast the rabbit.

I was really hungry, and now my mouth is watering just by smelling the fragrance of the rabbit.

Qianxi saw Liushui and I staring at the rabbit intently, and said with a smile, "The rabbit will be roasted soon. Your Highnesses, please be patient for a moment."

Qianxi was also very familiar with roasting rabbits. Sure enough, after a while, Qianxi cut the roasted rabbit meat and shared it with us.

Not only that, they were very considerate and wrapped it in clean leaves. I just wanted to eat at that moment, so the moment I got the rabbit meat, I grabbed a piece and stuffed it into my mouth.

The moment the rabbit meat entered my mouth, tears were about to fall from my eyes. I was so hungry that everything tasted good, and Qianxi’s was really delicious.

After eating a rabbit leg, we felt better because our stomachs were full. The three of us then ate the rest of the rabbit clean, and finally we were full.

I felt sleepy after eating, and I sat down weakly on the stone, looking at the sun that was about to set, and said aggrievedly: "This morning I complained that the bed in the inn was too hard, but I didn't expect that I would have to use the sky as a blanket and the ground as a bed tonight. Why is it so miserable to travel the world?" After saying that, I started to cry.

Liu Shui was also a little worried and said, "We are used to living in this mountain, but there is no seasoning at all. I am afraid that the food will have no taste in the next few days. What should we do?"

When Liushui mentioned the seasoning, I became even more heartbroken and cried, "My secret seasoning was in the bag, but now it's gone."

"Okay, don't be sad. We need to find a place to stay for the night." Qianxi stood up and said, "This forest is not very safe at night. You never know if there will be any wild animals."

As we were talking, it was already dark. I looked around and it seemed like there were demons dancing everywhere. The sound of the wind was like countless ghosts laughing sinisterly. The branches of the trees swayed like evil spirits demanding lives. The flying birds and running mice all looked like terrifying monsters in my eyes.

The more I looked, the more I thought about it, the more scared I became. The more scared I became, the more I dared not move. I could only move closer to the fire and was unwilling to leave.

Seeing that I hadn't moved for a long time, they noticed something was wrong with me and asked, "Qianqiu, what's wrong with you? Hurry up and leave."

I felt guilty and didn't dare tell them I was afraid of ghosts, so I could only chuckle and say, "Why don't we get a torch before we go? It's pitch black here, we can't see anything, and we're not sure if we'll step on anything."

Qianxi listened and said with a smile: "Don't worry about that. Our clothes have been treated to keep snakes, insects, rats and ants away. Don't worry, you won't step on those things."

They thought I was talking about snakes, but I actually meant ghosts. Thinking of ghosts made me even more scared, so I laughed dryly and said, "Let's make a torch before we go."

"Some things are missing. Even if we make a torch, it won't burn for long. It's getting late. Let's go." After Qianxi said this, he and Liushui left without looking back.

As I watched them walk away, I always felt something blowing at me from behind. I was so scared that I rushed over screaming and grabbed Qianxi's arm and refused to let go.

Qianxi looked at me, who had been hiding my head behind him, and suddenly had evil thoughts in his mind. He said sinisterly, "When I was a child, I often heard the old people say that in deserted forests like this, ghosts are most likely to appear. They will build walls to trap you to death in the mountains and forests, and then have a good feast."

"Qianxi, stop teasing Qianqiu." Liushui saw that I was scared, so he stopped Qianxi and said, "Can't you see that Qianqiu is shaking all over?"

"I'm not kidding him, there really is such a saying."

"Didn't you notice?" I completely ignored Qianxi's words and just said in horror.

Qianxi didn't understand what I was talking about and asked, "What did you find?"

"Qianqiu, you are still making trouble with Qianxi." Liushui's words were full of speechlessness.

"Have we been here before?" I pointed to a branch in the distance and said, "I originally wanted to get this branch down for firewood, but I couldn't get it down, so I gave up. I've seen it three times since then."

Qianxi thought I was frightened and saw it wrong, but she didn't take it seriously and said, "Could it be that Qianqiu was frightened and saw it wrong?"

"No, the direction we were walking was opposite to the direction Qianqiu was picking firewood. We were walking forward all the time and shouldn't have come to this place." Liushui said seriously.

After hearing this, ten thousand horror stories immediately appeared in my mind, and I almost fainted from fear.

"Since this is where Qianqiu collects firewood, it must be not far from where we just rested. Let's go back first, and you follow me closely." Qianxi said and walked in one direction.

Qianxi took us around for a long time before we got back to the previous place. It definitely didn't take me that long to collect firewood.

Qianxi reignited the fire and said sternly, "It should be a formation. You stay here and don't move. I'll go see what this formation is and see if I can break it."

There was fire, and it was said to be a formation, not some ghost wall. Plus, Liu Shui was with me, so I wasn't that scared.

Although I wasn't that scared, I still wanted to say something to dispel the fear in my heart, so I said, "I can't believe Qianxi actually studied formations."

"This child has been interested in formations since he was young. I couldn't give him anything else in the palace, so I could only go to the library and find him many formation books. Over the years, he has read at least 800 formation books, if not a thousand. He should be considered a formation master in the martial arts world."

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Liushui and I were chatting casually, and soon Qianxi came back. He was very proud and brought us some wild fruits.

"I thought these wild fruits were quite good. I tasted one and it was quite sweet. I picked a few more and wasted time."

Looking at Qianxi's Versailles look, I suddenly wanted to hit him, but I decided not to. If he didn't take me out, this formation would be no different from a ghost wall to me.

"Don't be so cocky." Liu Shui said, "Tell me quickly, can this formation be broken? It's already this late."

"Now I have good news and bad news." Qian Xi held up two fingers and said, "Which one do you want to hear first?"

"I'm giving you two choices now. One is to be beaten up by me, and the other is to be beaten up again." Liu Shui said, "Qianxi, which one do you want to choose?"

"How boring! You won't even join me in making trouble." Qianxi said with a pout. "The good news is that this formation is very simple. Not only me, but even His Highness Liushui can break it easily, because this is the protective formation of Shuiku Mountain."

"This is indeed good news. At least we don't have to be trapped here. So what's the bad news?" I asked.

"It's very dangerous inside, and there's no turning back."

This was strange, and I didn't understand what it meant for a moment, so I asked, "What do you mean it's very dangerous? Isn't this the place where you are in Shuiku Mountain?"

"According to Master, if someone was deliberately plotting against you, they wouldn't trap you in a safe place. They would definitely surround you with numerous experts, and also set up all sorts of dangerous traps."

Their master must have said this often. Before Qianxi finished speaking, Liushui continued, "So the place where we practice must also be dangerous, more dangerous than other places, so that we can escape when we encounter desperate situations."

No wonder Shuikushan’s lightness skills are the best in the world. It turns out that they were all achieved at the cost of their lives.

"Then what does it mean that you can't turn back?" I asked.

"That's exactly what it says." Qianxi explained, "This formation requires a specific route to enter and exit. We're probably entering from the Kan position. Calculating the time, we have to exit from the Zhen position in the afternoon three days from now. Otherwise, it will be very dangerous."

I actually cannot understand this formation. If one person enters from the Qian position and the other enters from the Dui position at the same time, how can the formation know who is who? It is not artificial intelligence.

However, the most incomprehensible time travel has happened to me, so there is nothing much to complain about this formation.

"What can we do? We can only follow the requirements of the formation. We don't have the prince's martial arts skills, so we can't break the formation by force." Liu Shui said helplessly.

We have been struggling for so long and it is already late at night. The formation of Shuiku Mountain is strange. Only the center is safe. Other places will become dangerous as time goes by.

Therefore, if we sit here any longer, it will be dangerous. We did not dare to delay and followed Qianxi to the center.

Qianxi is truly a genius at formations. In less than an incense stick of time, we arrived at the center of the forest. Qianxi looked at the formation and then led us to the center of the formation.

"Qianqiu, follow me closely. Every master designs a different trap. We have to be careful."

We followed Qianxi for another half hour, during which time Qianxi dismantled no less than ten very dangerous traps. As for those that were not so dangerous, many were dismantled by Liushui.

After walking for another half an hour, we finally reached the center of the formation, where we saw a wooden house.

This wooden house has not been used for a long time. The main beams have been eaten by insects and it is no longer habitable. We can only use branches to build a roof next to it and stay there for one night.

Predict what will happen in the future, and listen to the next decomposition.