This sentence was said very softly, as if he was talking to himself, and I don't know if others heard it.
The team walked in silence for another half an hour. After rounding a gravel slope, the road became slightly smoother, and the sea level to the east was a little clearer than before under the dark red sky.
At this speed, we can reach the beach in two days' walk.
Lin Chuan suddenly stopped.
"No, we can't go any further."
He turned around and faced the four people behind him. The moon-white brocade robe was stained with a lot of dust from the gravel slope, and his eyes were bloodshot, but they were no longer as gloomy as before.
"I was wrong. Senior Brother Ming goes into that forest alone. Even if he has great abilities, he will still face groups of the Golden Core Realm Demon Beast and the mutated environment that has not been visited for thousands of years." He glanced at Ling Shuyao and then moved his eyes to the other three people. "Together, the few of us can at least help him share part of the pressure. There is enough time to get the seawater and enough time to return. But if Senior Brother Ming stays in the forest for a moment longer, the danger will be even greater."
He took a deep breath.
"I want to go back to find Senior Brother Ming. I can't let him go in alone. He is our teammate."
"I brought him into the team. We can't let him leave alone at this time. This is abandonment!"
"Those who want to go with me can do so. The rest can go ahead and get some water from the beach and then come back to meet me."
When he said this, his eyes stopped on everyone's face for a moment, and finally stopped on Ling Shuyao's face, as if to leave a step for her. After all, she had just joined the team, and she had only known Qin Tiexin for a few days, so there was no need to accompany a group of semi-strangers on an adventure.
Du Heng took the broadsword off his shoulder and placed the tip of the sword on the ground.
"You should have said this a long time ago, count me in."
Hearing Lin Chuan's words, Liu Suifeng's eyes seemed to light up. He flicked the edge of the array disk with his finger, and Spirit Rune made a very short buzz when he pointed it down. The dense aura on the array disk reflected a very light cyan color in his eyes.
"Brother Chuan Who are you looking down on when you ask this? I will definitely go. Without my array, what difference is there between you and the blind in the forest."
Xu Ying didn't speak. She counted Qi Recovery Pill, Antidote Pill, and Clear Heart Pill in Storage Bag. amount, then raised her head and found Lin Chuan looking at her. The two looked at each other for a moment, Xu Ying said nothing, but Lin Chuan understood.
Lin Chuan finally turned to look at Ling Shuyao.
"Fellow Daoist Ling, you--"
"Fellow Daoist Lin." Ling Shuyao interrupted him, "If I am in danger and my teammates abandon me, I don't know how heartbreaking it will be. Since we are traveling together, there is no reason to abandon my teammates halfway. What's more, the master has saved me many times at Spirit Pivot Treasury, so I should go as well."
Liu Suifeng spread his hands towards Lin Chuan: "I have already told you that Fellow Daoist Ling is from the same group as us."
Lin Chuan glanced at the faces of the four people, and finally nodded, without any unnecessary rhetoric, and only said one word.
"Let's go."
The five figures turned around at the same time and rushed back along the gravel slope they came from.
Du Heng took the lead and rushed to the front. The broadsword hit his shoulder and made the shoulder armor clang. Liu Suifeng reactivated the formation disk while running, and quickly moved his fingers across the disk to find the previously marked path. line; Xu Ying stuffed the sorted elixir bottles into the cuffs where they were most accessible while running; Ling Shuyao's fingertips flashed with light, and the scout puppet in the storage ring was ready to be released at any time.
Lin Chuan ran at the back, one hand pressed on the hilt of the sword, and the other hand clenched and unclenched unconsciously.
He regretted it a little.
I regret that I should have insisted on going in with Mingjue. How could I have made the decision to let him go in by himself?
Senior Brother Ming said that he had a "reason to go". Lin Chuan did not ask further questions at the time because he respected the choice of a companion who had fought side by side and trusted him enough. But looking back now, a man who has never A person who is willing to cause trouble to others suddenly says that he wants to venture into a dangerous place alone that even monk Golden Core may not be able to escape unscathed. The weight of that reason must be much heavier than what Qin Tiexin said.
As companions, what they should do is not respect his choice, but shoulder it with him.
The return speed was faster, and in less than half an hour, the five of them were back on the hillside outside Pure Land Chan Temple.
The ancient locust tree is still standing at the entrance of the trail. Where Qin Tiexin entered, the traces of the shrub being pushed aside by the Zen staff are still there, the cuts on the broken branches are still fresh, and several shallow pits poked by the tail of the Zen staff can be seen on the ground, with even spacing and a steady pace.
Lin Chuan took out the jade communication talisman from his arms and injected spiritual power into it.
The jade talisman lit up for a moment and then dimmed again. Tried again, still the same.
The spiritual force field in the dense forest is too chaotic, and the signal sent by the jade talisman cannot penetrate the layers of mutations Spirit Plant and residual restrictions.
"It can't be passed in." He took the jade talisman back into his arms and his voice was a little deep.
Liu Suifeng squatted at the entrance of the path and placed the array disk on the ground. The light cyan detection light spread along the surface of the soil. A very light golden track emerged on the array disk, which was the faint spiritual power left by Qin Tiexin's progress.
The trajectory is still very obvious, and it has not been too disturbed by the mutant spirit field in the forest.
"It's the master's spiritual power traces. You can go in from here. The remnants are still very fresh and nothing will happen for an hour at most." Liu Suifeng raised his head, "But it's not necessarily true further in. The spiritual power field in the forest is too chaotic. My detection spiritual light cannot sweep far, and the distance it can capture is limited."
"That's enough." Lin Chuan said.
Ling Shuyao flipped his wrist, and a scout-type puppet that was only half a man tall fell silently from the storage ring to the ground.
This puppet is made of a lightweight spiritual wood frame, with extremely fine dark copper gears embedded in the joints. It has slender limbs and a flat torso. The whole body is coated with a layer of dark green matte paint. It only made a very slight rustling sound when it landed on the ground, and a few dead leaves were crushed. There was no other sound under the soles of its feet. It bowed slightly, and the two fluorite sensors embedded in its head turned half a circle forward, emitting a very light green detection beam, cutting out a small bright fan-shaped area at the edge of the dense forest.
"Letting it go ahead can help us explore the path and detect danger."
Liu Suifeng adjusted the sensitivity of the warning array plate on his waist to the highest level, and inserted a miniature array flag on each side of the left and right sides. The aura of the array flag overlapped with the detection beam of the scout puppet, extending the detection range from the front to the front, rear, left, and right directions of the entire team.
Du Heng drew his broadsword and retreated to the right wing of the team.
The khaki Spirit Rune on the broad sword was half activated, and the blade glowed with a deep dark gold luster under the dark red skylight.
Xu Ying began to divide the elixirs. Three of the top-quality light cyan Qi Recovery Pill can replenish 30% of spiritual power in one breath; two of Antidote Pill have an absolute inhibitory effect on plant toxins and corpse poisons below Golden Core Realm; and a dark red Blood Burning Pill is stuffed in Lin Chuan's hand.
"Don't use it unless it is absolutely necessary. The internal strength will double in half an hour, but you will collapse for at least a day after the effect of the medicine wears off." When she spoke, she did not look into Lin Chuan's eyes as usual. She just lowered her head and neatly retracted the medicine bottles into her cuffs with her fingers.
Lin Chuan carefully took Blood Burning Pill into his arms, and distributed Qi Recovery Pill and Antidote Pill to everyone.
He walked at the end, always holding the hilt of the sword with one hand, and took out the jade communication talisman with the other hand and took a look at it, but still couldn't pass it in.
He held the jade talisman in his hand and whispered six words in a low voice, so soft that only he could hear it.
"Senior Brother Ming, wait for us."