Evil Master and Disciple

Seeing Yue Yinling's serious expression, Ye Feng also reacted and his heart slowly began to hang in the air.

He was now basically certain that the original owner's death had nothing to do with these stolen spiritual herbs and immortal fungi, but was most likely caused by the knowledge of some secret.

Now, this secret is most likely in the locked iron box in front of us.

To open, or not to open.

this is a problem.

Should you silently endure the poisonous arrow that the murderer may shoot at any time, or stand up and expose the truth of the matter.

Which of these two options is more correct?

After pondering for a moment, Ye Feng chose the latter.

If fate is like a storm, let the storm come harder.

He doesn't want to live in fear every day.

He slowly reached out his hand.

Yue Yinling grabbed his wrist and said, "Are you sure you want to open it?"

Ye Feng smiled bitterly and said, "I have no other choice."

Yue Yinling stared at Ye Feng, then slowly let go of her hand.

Ye Feng studied the lock for a while, and suddenly remembered the bag that the two of them had dug out from the mass grave earlier.

There seems to be a key inside.

He immediately took the bundle out of the black silk bracelet.

After some searching, I found a bunch of keys.

There were six keys in total. He tried them one by one. When he tried the fourth one, the lock on the iron box made a slight click and the lock core popped open.

Ye Feng removed the padlock, took a deep breath, and then slowly opened the iron box.

Under the light of the fireball, the two could easily see what was inside.

It's a cloth bag.

Ye Feng took it out, unwrapped the cloth bag, and found a layer of kraft paper inside.

It's like a Russian nesting doll, wrapped in many layers.

Ye Feng was really worried that there was nothing inside.

However, his worries were obviously unnecessary.

When the last layer of wrapping was unwrapped, it was a rolled-up ball of cloth.

Ye Feng thought there was something else inside, but found that the cloth was the last layer.

He spread out the cloth and found that it was covered with lines, which should be a map.

Ye Feng didn't understand, so he asked Yue Yinling.

"Senior Sister Yue, what is this?"

After studying it carefully, Yue Yinling said, "This... this looks like a map of the Tianyun Mountains!"

"A map of the Tianyun Mountains? I went to so much trouble, and I just hid a map?" Ye Feng looked disappointed.

I thought there was some shocking secret, but it turned out to be just a map.

Yue Yinling shook her head and said, "The map isn't important. The key points are the places you circled in red."

Ye Feng was stunned and stretched his head to look. Sure enough, he saw dozens of small red circles on the map, most of which were surrounding Xingluo Peak.

There is a small red circle that is very special, with three red crosses next to it, which is obviously a special mark.

Ye Feng pointed at the small red circle and said, "Senior Sister Yue, what is this place?"

Yue Yinling said: "This should be Lihuo Peak."

"Leaving Fire Peak?"

"Well, this was once one of the four veins."

"The former Four Meridians? What does that mean, Senior Sister Yue?"

Yue Yinling explained: "The four peaks of the sea of ​​clouds today are the four largest mountains suspended in the sky, namely Qingling Peak in the east, Chiyun Peak in the south, Xuanzhu Peak in the west, and Tianxing Peak in the north.

These four veins only appeared after the Immortal Hunting War. Before the Immortal Hunting War in Jiazi, the Yunhai Sect also had four veins, all of which were on the ground.

They are Chaoxia Peak, which is a hundred miles east of Xingluo Peak, Lihuo Peak, which is more than a hundred miles south of Xingluo Peak, Luoxia Peak, which is seventy miles west of Xingluo Peak, and Canglong Peak, which is eighty miles north of Xingluo Peak.

The Immortal Hunting War caused heavy losses to the Yunhai Sect, so the then head master moved all the Yunhai Sect disciples on the four mountain peaks back to Xingluo Peak.

Later, when the Yunhai Sect gradually recovered its vitality, it created four large floating mountains in the sky, which became the four veins today."

Ye Feng finally understood.

It turns out that not only the Luoxia Peak occupied by Yun Shuang'er was abandoned, but also the other three peaks!

Lihuo Peak, located more than a hundred miles south of Xingluo Peak, was one of the peaks abandoned by the Yunhai Sect.

What Ye Feng couldn't understand was why the original owner left this map behind, and why he marked the Lihuo Peak area.

Is this map really related to the murder of the original owner?

What does this circled area represent?

At this time, Yue Yinling offered a very constructive suggestion: "Could this be the treasure map you drew?"

"Treasure map? Didn't you say I was the poorest person in Yunhai Sect before I came here? What treasure can I hide?"

"You're a poor fellow, but you've been stealing a lot of things over the years, like magic weapons, elixirs, talismans, even girls' belly fat... Maybe you've hidden all these things. This might be your treasure map."

Although Yue Yinling's explanation made some sense, Ye Feng pondered for a moment and shook his head, saying, "If I really had a treasure trove, this box of precious spiritual herbs and immortal fungi would not be hidden in the elephant tomb.

Besides, Lihuo Peak is so big, who can find it with just this small circle?

Also, there are twenty or thirty marked circles on this map. Do I have so many treasure troves?"

Yue Yinling thought about it and felt that it made sense.

But if this isn't a treasure map, what is it?

Before Ye Feng got into trouble, he wrapped this thing in seven or eight layers to prevent the map from being damaged. This map must be of great use.

But now both of them still don’t understand what the use is.

It is also impossible to determine whether Ye Feng’s burial is related to this map.

Since this guy thought at the time that he might be killed because he knew a big secret, and he left clues in front of the elephant grave, why didn't he just leave some words to write down the cause and effect of the matter?

What's the point of just leaving a map behind?

As a result, it is still unclear whether this map is related to the secret he mentioned.

The two of them studied in the bamboo house for most of the night. In the second half of the night, Yue Yinling finally thought that she should go back to Chiyun Peak.

I am a kind, virtuous and righteous fairy.

A man and a woman alone, in the wilderness, not returning home at night...

If this gets out, he will become the most famous person in Yunhai Sect.

"It's getting late, I'm going back."

"Okay, then I won't see you off! Be careful on the road!"

At this moment, Ye Feng's mind was full of questions, and he had no intention of pushing the cart, so he said it casually.

Yue Yinling chuckled a few times and said, "Ye Daba, Ye Junior Brother, Ye Shaoxia... these three thousand-year-old immortal mushrooms..."

Ye Feng raised his head and saw Yue Yinling's mercenary look. He frowned and said, "You don't want the immortal fungus, do you?"

Yue Yinling said, "You have three, give me one."

"No, this thing is too precious!"

"Hey, hey, hey, Ye Daba, aren't you just destroying the bridge after crossing it? Forget about how I saved you during the day. For your sake, I even dug two graves tonight and I'm almost exhausted. Shouldn't you show some appreciation?

I was planning to cooperate with you to open a tobacco shop. How can I do business with you since you are so petty?

Besides, I don't want too many. You have three, and I only want one."

Ye Feng looked at the furious Yue Yinling. He thought for a moment and said, "Senior Sister Yue, I really have to thank you for what happened today, but... what do you want the Xianzhi for?"

"Eat!"

"Eat? I heard that this immortal fungus is very useful for cultivators with low cultivation. With your cultivation level so high, is it really necessary for you?"

"Oh, to be honest, I've been stuck at a bottleneck for a long time and can't break through. Although this Immortal Ganoderma can't directly raise my cultivation to a higher level, it should be able to help me break through the current bottleneck. The inner sect examination that happens once every sixty years is coming soon. With this Immortal Ganoderma, I might be able to get a spot in the top ten.

And I won't take your Xianzhi for nothing. Someone wants to kill you, right? I will protect you! We are business partners after all."

Ye Feng was hesitating whether to keep these magical herbs for himself or return them to the medicine garden.

While he was lost in thought, Yue Yinling had quietly walked to the side of the three thousand-year-old fairy ganoderma.

While Ye Feng was not paying attention, she picked up a tree and ran away.

Steal, turn around, run, open the door, fly...

All the movements were done in one go and were flawless.

It's obvious that he is a repeat offender.

When Ye Feng reacted and chased outside the bamboo building, there was only a ray of fire left in the night sky, which was quickly disappearing into the distance.

Ye Feng jumped up and cursed, "Are you a robber?! I haven't even promised to give it to you!"

no respond.

Ye Feng walked back to the bamboo house cursing, and looked down to see the little green-haired boy squatting in front of the door, staring at him with curiosity.

"Go, go, go, go to bed. I don't have time to play with you tonight!"

Ye Feng returned to the bamboo house and rolled himself another cigarette.

He smoked while looking at the things he learned today.

He still felt that the key point should be on that map.

However, there were no other clues, and he didn't know what message this map recorded.

At dawn, Ye Feng stuffed all the things into the black silk bracelet.

Since a blood ganoderma was snatched away by that little gangster girl, Ye Feng naturally couldn't return these things to the medicine garden.

There were two left, and he planned to eat one himself and leave the other for Junior Sister Ling'er.

I am now practicing the Cloud Sea Art and the Hundred Soul Refinements. The speed at which my soul is condensing is very fast. As long as I eat a blood Ganoderma lucidum, I should be able to enter the fifth level of the Divine Control Realm in a very short time.

It is estimated that Junior Sister Ling'er has successfully established her foundation now. With this blood Ganoderma lucidum, the time it takes for her to reach the realm of flying will be greatly shortened.

Although this little girl took away most of the master's love after she came.

But Ye Feng felt that he was a man and the eldest senior brother, so he had to be magnanimous and could not retaliate against Junior Sister Ling'er because of such a small matter.

After all, in the next few hundred years, Junior Sister will be one of his closest relatives in this world.

After dawn, Ye Feng practiced the Soul Refining for about an hour, and then continued to chop bamboo.

He plans to build a tobacco curing room next to the bamboo house.

The bundle of yellow tobacco leaves that Yue Yinling gave him tasted too strong and pungent. This was because they were roasted in the wrong way.

In the world that Ye Feng came from, cigarettes were one of the most important social items.

Thanks to the fact that he used to be a otaku, watching short videos all day long, he also liked to watch these messy things.

I have watched many short videos on tobacco flue-curing and I know all the processes by heart.

Ye Feng was exhausted after dragging out more than a dozen thick green bamboos from the bamboo forest.

It's such a pleasure to sit on a recliner and smoke a homemade cigarette.

Then, the boy took out the map from his arms and began to look at it.

Seeing Ye Feng cutting down green pines and bamboos unscrupulously again, the old man guarding the temple was speechless.

He came to the bamboo building with a broom.

"Hey kid, you're chopping bamboo again? Are you really tired of living?"

"Ah! Old man, why are you here? I was a bit busy today, so I didn't make you breakfast. I'll make beggar's chicken for you in the evening!"

When Ye Feng saw the old man guarding the temple coming to question him, he quickly stood up, casually placed the map on the bamboo table beside him, and then put out the half-smoked cigarette.

The old man said, "Green pine and bamboo are not easy to grow. This patch of green pine and bamboo has been growing for almost four or five hundred years. You may have cut down some of them before, but why are you cutting them down again now? If you keep going like this, you will cut down all the bamboo in this patch sooner or later!"

"Old Senior, don't worry. This time, to prevent others from seeing me, I've divided the trees into sections. I'm not going to just pull them out in one place like last time. There's absolutely no way anyone will notice!"

The old man blew his beard and glared.

Is this what you want to say?

Suddenly, the old man saw the map on the bamboo table.

In an instant, a gleam of light flashed in his cloudy eyes.

He stretched out his wrinkled arm and slowly picked up the map.

His eyes were fixed on the red areas marked on the map.

The old man looked at it for a while, then looked up at Ye Feng and said hoarsely, "Is this the map that the little girl hid in the box she dug out from the elephant's grave last night?"

Ye Feng was greatly surprised and asked, "Old Senior, how did you know?"

“There’s nothing here that I don’t know.”

The old man's spiritual awareness spread over an area of ​​a thousand feet in radius, and he could hear any movement.

Spiritual consciousness is like a super radar. Although it is very powerful, it can only sense changes in the surrounding atmosphere.

Hearing is one of the main functions of consciousness.

The conversation between Ye Feng and Yue Yinling could be heard clearly by the old man guarding the ancestral hall a hundred meters away.

But he couldn't see.

So the old man already knew that Ye Feng had been buried and had lost his memory.

I also know about wooden boxes, fairy fungus, and maps.

But I can't see what the map looks like.

When he saw this picture at this moment, his face looked a little solemn.

Ye Feng noticed something was wrong and said, "Old Senior, is there something wrong with this map? Do you know what these red circles represent?"