"When did you go to Black Cloud Mountain that day?" Jiang Wen asked.
The old ranger pondered for a long time, then described the weather and time of day. Jiang Wen compared it and found that Xue Changming and his party had indeed been tricked over.
When Xue Changming and the others entered Black Cloud Mountain, they were just in the process of killing Crimson Bite. At that time, Crimson Bite made a final desperate struggle, and even destroyed the temple.
Who knew what connection this temple had with the clouds and mist of Luo Hong Abyss, that it could actually send Xue Changming and his party to the distant Fallen Goose Valley in Cang Province. It really is fate playing tricks on people, and the world is unpredictable.
From this perspective, his actions contributed in some part to the danger Xue Changming encountered.
Jiang Wen felt a pang of guilt for three seconds, and continued to ask the old ranger about what happened next.
The old ranger recalled that experience, and a look of horror appeared on his face.
"We were originally planning to go to the border of Tai Province, to take a look at Skyrend City. Young Master Xue said that he was an old acquaintance with the Divine General of Skyrend City, and wanted to borrow his troops to explore Mount Buzhou. Who knew that after entering the border area of Tai Province, we encountered all kinds of strange things."
"Strange things? What strange things?"
"Do you remember those guards of Young Master Xue, one named Lu Huaimin, and one named Wang Yong?"
"I remember," Jiang Wen nodded, of course he remembered that fierce man. It's just a pity he was a bit foolish, but he was still a bit interesting.
"Then that Wang Yong went mad, attacked us in the middle of the night, and even killed our horses. Then we watched him eat his own hand, saw his teeth being squeezed out. He, his entire face became strange, as if bark was slowly being peeled off…" The old ranger recalled the scene at the time, still with lingering fear.
"The three of us fled overnight at that time. Later, Young Master Xue suddenly said that we couldn't go to Tai Province. We had to leave the land of Tai Cang quickly, otherwise, there would be signs of death. So we rushed towards Cang Province overnight, and encountered a lot of trouble along the way."
"That group of people call themselves Divine Disciples, and the leader is called the Chieftain. And that Chieftain always wears a pig-faced mask, and his appearance cannot be seen clearly."
"Pig-faced mask." Jiang Wen subconsciously looked at the twelve zodiac statues on the table, one of which was a pig. "It seems they are people from the God-Worshipping Society."
"God-Worshipping Society?" The old ranger was confused, he had never heard of this name.
"They are just a bunch of shameless thieves," Jiang Wen said disdainfully, he had no good feelings for the God-Worshipping Society. Whether it was the events that happened in Tai Cang City, or the events that happened in Su City, or even the movements of this Mount Buzhou, they were all inextricably linked to this God-Worshipping Society.
What puzzled Jiang Wen was that the God-Worshipping Society and the Orthodox Divine Path did not seem to be the same group. But they were intertwined with each other.
After all, Li Yunshang had also guessed that the God-Worshipping Society had some kind of connection with the Son of Heaven in the Imperial Capital, but the people of the Orthodox Divine Path wanted to overthrow the Great Qian.
If Li Yunshang's guess was correct, then the Orthodox Divine Path should be the Son of Heaven's lackeys, and not try to destroy the peace of the Great Qian by all means. Of course, the God-Worshipping Society was not much better, and the things they did were no worse than the rebellious traitors of the Orthodox Divine Path.
Jiang Wen found it difficult to understand these things. After all, the Son of Heaven was the Son of Heaven of the Great Qian, if he was really the person behind the God-Worshipping Society, how could he allow the God-Worshipping Society to run rampant in the twenty-four provinces of the Great Qian, and even now want to absorb the power of the earth's veins of this Mount Buzhou.
Did they really not know what kind of consequences would occur if the power of the earth's veins of Mount Buzhou was completely absorbed?
"Young Master Jiang?" The old ranger called out.
"What is it?" Looking at the old ranger, he frowned slightly and asked.
"Although I don't know what Young Master Jiang is worried about, I hope I can help Young Master. I have something here that Young Master Xue gave me before we parted. He said that if I meet a strange person, I should give this thing to him. Now that Young Master Jiang is here, he must be the strange person that Young Master Xue was talking about, so I will give this thing to Young Master Jiang." As the old ranger spoke, he tore open his pants, borrowed a weapon from Jiang Wen, and stabbed it fiercely into his thigh.
Suddenly blood splattered everywhere, and the skin on his thigh was torn open. The old ranger's face twitched, and he gritted his teeth and pulled out the tip of the sword. The veins on the back of his hand bulged, and his fingers trembled as he gripped the flesh of his thigh tightly.
Hearing the old ranger's cold sucking sound, he saw him take out a jade pendant from the flesh of his thigh. The jade pendant was small and exquisite, with dragons and phoenixes carved on it. In the middle was written a word—Qian.
The old ranger handed the bloody jade pendant to Jiang Wen, covering his thigh that was constantly bleeding.
Taking the jade pendant, Jiang Wen took out a pill and crushed it. He threw it on the old ranger's wound, and the finger-length wound on his thigh quickly healed. After recovering, the old ranger thanked Jiang Wen gratefully.
"You are loyal, you actually hide things in this way," Jiang Wen said with emotion. Hiding a jade pendant in one's own flesh and blood, who would dare to do this without courage and boldness. That pain is not something to be taken lightly, I am afraid it is tormenting the old ranger at all times.
"I have no choice, if I don't resort to this strategy, I am afraid it will be difficult to hide it from those people," the old ranger said with a wry smile. "Although I don't know what this jade pendant is for, it was left by Young Master Xue after all, even if I lose my life, I will send this thing out."
Cleaning it with a water talisman, and also washing the old ranger's body. Jiang Wen took out a Taoist robe and threw it to him, letting the old ranger wear it for the time being. And he looked carefully at the jade pendant, wanting to know why Xue Changming wanted to send this jade pendant out.
Jiang Wen had seen the patterns on this jade pendant before, Li Yunshang had a similar thing. It's just that hers was not a jade pendant, but a token.
Not seeing anything obvious, Jiang Wen slowly poured in his mana. He saw the jade pendant floating in the air under the effect of mana, and the dragon and phoenix emitted colorful light.
A projection appeared, and the scene above was still Black Cloud Mountain, which Jiang Wen had seen before. It's just that the projection quickly switched, and then it turned into Mount Buzhou. The picture changed again, from Mount Buzhou to a stone gate. The stone gate was exquisitely carved and seemed to be under a certain cave.
The projection dissipated, and the jade pendant fell back into Jiang Wen's hands. He had seen the projection just now, and the scene that appeared just now seemed to indicate a certain treasure house.
"Could it be that there is a treasure house under this Mount Buzhou? That group of people captured Xue Changming for the sake of the treasure house?" Jiang Wen speculated and put away the jade pendant.
Then a talisman in his arms lit up, it was A'Gu and Hongluan who sent a message.
"Fellow Daoist Jiang, I have discovered an extremely important thing."
As soon as Hongluan finished speaking, Jiang Wen's figure disappeared into the formation. Only the paper man was left standing beside the old ranger, looking at him and comforting him: "I will stay here with you, this place is very safe."
"Thank you."
