The top-level junior sister also wants to act weak today

Jiang Yingxue raised an eyebrow, her gaze swept across the three of them, and landed on Chu Ying. With a hint of helplessness, she said, "Chu Ying, you've only reached the second level of the Lanxu technique, right? Are you really planning to die by rushing forward like this?"

Chu Ying said a little aggrievedly, "I just wanted to confirm whether what the woman said about hearing a child crying at the foot of the mountain was true. Otherwise, I'd be so upset."

As soon as Chu Ying finished speaking, she looked at Jiang Yingxue with a hint of probing and teasing in her eyes: "But you, why are you here too? Could it be that... we actually had the same idea?"

Jiang Yingxue's smile suddenly froze on her face. Obviously, Chu Ying guessed right.

Seeing this, Yan Chuan said directly: "Since everyone agrees, I will go to Mount Meng to explore the way. After all, saving people cannot be delayed."

Seeing Yan Chuan like this, Jiang Yingxue made up her mind: "I'll go with you."

"No." Yan Chuan immediately retorted: "I am the only one here who has practiced to the fourth level. The three of you have only practiced the Lanxu technique to the second level. You can't resist this poisonous fog. Even if you are in the Nascent Soul stage, you can't do it."

"No, I can." Jiang Yingxue looked at Yan Chuan coldly, her eyes like a pool of deep water: "I have practiced the Lanxu technique to the sixth level."

"The sixth floor!?" The three of them were shocked at the same time.

As soon as these words were spoken, the air seemed to freeze for a moment.

Chu Ying let out a loud roar: "You mean, you have reached the highest level of Lanxu Kung Fu?"

Cen Yizhi's tired expression instantly subsided: "The Sect Master has only reached the fifth level, and you are at the sixth level. That's impossible, right?"

"I don't know how to explain it, but I have indeed reached the sixth level. I can enter Mengshan."

Chu Ying heard this and looked worried: "Yingxue, you are not lying to save someone, are you? But -"

Before he finished speaking, Yan Chuan took over the conversation: "When I was about to go crazy, no one could get close to me. It was Yingxue who rushed in and woke me up. And at that time, Yingxue was completely unharmed. Even if she didn't reach the sixth level, she was at least at the fifth level."

When the two heard this, there was shock in their eyes at first, and then there was complicated silence.

The night breeze blew gently, ruffling Jiang Yingxue's hair slightly. Under the moonlight, her face looked a little more resolute than usual. "Alright, don't be surprised by this. Just keep it a secret for me. Now that it's late at night and my father is still asleep, let's go, Senior Brother."

"What about us?" Chu Ying looked at Jiang Yingxue. "Besides, what that woman said might not be true. Maybe she is hallucinating because she loves her son so much."

Jiang Yingxue nodded slightly. "So let's go to the foot of the mountain and take a look at the situation first. If it's true, it would be great if we could find where the children are. If it's false, my brother and I wouldn't have been injured by the poisonous fog. At most, it would have been a wasted trip."

She paused, her eyes sweeping across their faces, her tone adding a hint of caution. "By the way, I've left a note for Dad in the room, saying that the four of us should go for a stroll these few days since we have nothing to do. So you two have to cooperate these few days and make sure my Dad doesn't see us."

Chu Ying and Cen Yizi looked at each other and nodded: "Okay."

Taking advantage of the night, several people quietly left the residence of County Magistrate He and headed quickly towards Mount Mengshan.

The night was as dark as ink. The outline of Mount Meng was faintly visible in the distance, shrouded in a thick gray fog. The fog seemed to have life, swirling through the mountains, like the breath of a giant beast, carrying a faint sense of oppression.

They rested for a while under a tree and stayed at the foot of the mountain, waiting for the arrival of dawn.

Chu Ying sat hugging her knees by the tree roots, rubbing her arms vigorously to dispel the chill, her gaze occasionally gazing towards the hazy mountains. "Tell me, if these children are really in the mountains, what on earth is the person who captured them trying to do? Wouldn't normal people capture children to sell them? How could they hide in the mountains?"

"Yeah." Cen Yizi continued, pounding his leg. "Besides, Mount Meng is right next to this county. If they were going to hide, they wouldn't hide further away. It's like they were deliberately trying to get discovered by us."

"This is really strange." Chu Ying held up her chin and looked at Jiang Yingxue: "Yingxue, you are smarter. What do you think they want to do by capturing the child?"

"I think..." Jiang Yingxue said, drawing on the ground with a small branch, "He might want to capture the child and summon the demon king."

"Summon the Demon King?" Yan Chuan tilted his head and looked at Jiang Yingxue: "The Demon King five years from now?"

"Yes."

Upon hearing this, Yan Chuan's eyes were filled with surprise. "The Demon King descended into the world through summoning? Are you sure?"

Jiang Yingxue was suddenly stunned.

Yes, why didn't she think of this? Since the Demon King was summoned, if she stopped the villains from summoning him, wouldn't she be able to kill the Demon King in the cradle?!

"Yingxue?" Yan Chuan stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Jiang Yingxue.

"what?"

"How do you know that the Demon King descended into the world through summoning? These are not mentioned in the prophecy of Qingxing Palace. How do you know?"

Jiang Yingxue smiled guiltily: "I was just guessing. Didn't Chu Ying ask me to guess why the other party captured the child?"

"Oh, that's impossible." Chu Ying joked, "The Demon King still has five years to go before he's born. How could he capture so many children so early? In five years, the children will be adults."

"Yeah, I'm just guessing."

Jiang Yingxue didn't say anything else. Yan Chuan looked at her quietly from the side, but his doubts grew a little more.

The sky gradually turned pale, the darkness pierced by a faint glimmer of light, and the mist seemed to thin slightly under the morning light. Then, a faint sound emerged from the mountains. It started as a faint sob, then gradually became clearer, like a child's cry, echoing in the empty valley with fear and helplessness.

"Did you hear that?!" Jiang Yingxue looked at them suddenly.

Chu Ying was the first to stand up, her voice rising with excitement. "It's a child! It's really a child crying! They're really here!"

"It seems that the group of children are indeed here." Jiang Yingxue looked at Yan Chuan: "While we can hear the crying, let's go into the mountains quickly and find the direction."

After saying this, she looked at Chu Ying and Cen Yizi again, pointing to the Xianyun Sect jade token on her waist. "Thank you for guarding the foot of the mountain. I will definitely contact you through the jade token before sunset. If not, it means that something is wrong with us. You should immediately notify Master and ask him to send reinforcements."

Chu Ying pursed her lips tightly, her expression complicated, but she finally nodded: "I understand, Yingxue, be careful."

Jiang Yingxue didn't say anything more. She looked at Yan Chuan, and they both took a step forward and ran towards the direction where the crying sound came from.