in2ebook Chapter 261: Going Further and Further Off the Track
Chapter 261: Going Further and Further Off the Track
The old man was holding an extremely small black gilded compass in his hand. On the compass was a small needle that was glowing red and was constantly swinging back and forth.
He followed the position indicated by the compass needle and circled back and forth on the mountainside.
"Master, is the needle pointing to the right place? Why is it getting further and further off?"
Zhan Tianba kept muttering to himself with a look of doubt on his face.
Ouyang Zong glanced at the compass in his hand and said with certainty, "I am definitely not in the wrong direction. The direction indicated by the compass is right here. Let's try again."
The soles of Zhan Tianba's flip-flops had been worn down to a thin layer. He followed Ouyang Zong around like a headless fly, looking exhausted.
"Grandmaster, why can't we even use our spiritual power? We still have to search everywhere step by step."
Upon hearing this, Ouyang Zong stopped and slapped Zhan Tianba on the back of the head, making his already messy hair tremble.
"Asshole! The Dean's Order was left behind by the first dean of Nanzhan College. It is not only a sacred object of our college, but also related to the prophecy. Of course, we must use our spiritual power to find it ourselves so that the Dean's Order can feel our sincerity. Only then may it appear sooner."
After saying this, Ouyang Zong hammered his sore legs and waved to Zhan Tianba.
"Tianba, come here."
Zhan Tianba was confused and walked to Ouyang Zong's side.
The next second, Ouyang Zong dodged and jumped onto Zhan Tianba's back. He crossed his legs and sat on Zhan Tianba's back, pressing his body to bend again and again.
"Tianba, Master, I am old and my legs are not in good condition. Please carry me on your back for a few steps."
After saying that, he stretched out his hand on Zhan Tianba's back, looked at the compass in his hand, and pointed a direction to Zhan Tianba with his other hand.
"Go over there."
Zhan Tianba: “…”
In this way, the two of them circled the mountainside several times.
But suddenly, the needle on the compass, which had been moving continuously towards the south, suddenly turned and moved to the northernmost part!
Ouyang Zong's face changed and he jumped off Zhan Tianba's back.
He stood with his hands behind his back, jumped from the ground to mid-air, his body standing in the void, and threw the compass in his hand above his head.
After the compass turned several circles in the air, it began to shake violently, and the needle kept glowing, pointing to the northernmost direction.
Ouyang Zong's face was solemn. He reached out to take back the compass and dropped it to the ground.
Zhan Tianba hammered his waist and asked with concern: "Master, what's wrong?"
A trace of guilt flashed across Ouyang Zong's face.
He coughed twice, then spoke slowly with an aloof look of a sage.
"Ahem... Tianba, some spiritual fluid accidentally got on this compass..."
If I remember correctly, it seemed that he was a little drunk after drinking the spiritual wine, fell asleep with the compass as his pillow, and then drooled on the compass.
"?" Zhan Tianba was shocked, his nostrils widened in disbelief, "So what?"
"So, since we left the academy, the compass has been affected by the spiritual energy of the spiritual fluid."
"So...the direction we followed the compass in was wrong?"
"Ahem... It's like this. Just now, the spiritual energy of the spiritual liquid on the compass dissipated, and the compass returned to normal, and the needle pointed to the correct position."
Zhan Tianba was speechless.
But it has been almost half a month since I left the college. Now is not the time to dwell on minor mistakes.
"Master, where is the compass pointing to?"
Ouyang Zong studied the compass carefully for a while, and finally stared at the needle with burning eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Longyang Forest, the northernmost part of Nanzhou Continent."
Hearing this, Zhan Tianba was stunned for a moment.
Isn’t this the place where the academy sent its disciples to complete their mission a few days ago?
When Hu Lai summoned him a few days ago, he told him about this matter. He never expected that the dean's order would appear there.
Ouyang Zong wanted to say something, "Tianba..."
"Master, stop talking, I understand."
Zhan Tianba had an expression of admitting defeat, his whole body was filled with an air of despair, and he twitched the corners of his mouth.
He patted his back and motioned Ouyang Zong to go up.
Then the two of them left the mountain.
...
These days.
That senior brother and Feng Xin successfully found Lin Yuer and others from Yaowang Valley in the next city.
They asked Lin Yu'er and others to testify, and sent a message to Hu Lai, successfully informing the people of the Crazy Alliance that the murder of the five people had nothing to do with Nanzhan College.
When the Crazy Alliance saw that it was Yaowang Valley who testified and also knew that Yaowang Valley was appointed by Nanzhou Academy this time, they chose to keep quiet and left Nanzhan Academy.
Ruan Xi and a few others, on the other hand, had been secretly keeping an eye on those people in the city who were marked by her.
As Ruan Xihe expected, she found that these people would meet with a mysterious man every night and report what they saw and heard on the streets every day.
This day.
At night, it is dark and hazy.
Ruan Xihe, Xiao Yin, Xia Yuanbai and Jimo Qianyi left the inn and went to the street as usual, secretly staring at those people.
Time passes minute by minute.
As the night deepened, the streets gradually became deserted.
And the thin mist that had inexplicably appeared at night and made it difficult for them to breathe when they first came to Qingcheng was gone during this period of time, completely vanishing.
In the past few days, all the strange phenomena in Qingcheng disappeared without a trace, as if they had never appeared.
But Ruan Xihe knew that this was like the calm before the storm, and everything was an illusion to make people relax their vigilance.
The person Ruan Xihe was staring at was the vendor selling candy figures.
At this time, the boss began to pack up his stall and prepared to leave.
Ruan Xihe's eyes focused, and he pasted an invisibility talisman on his body, and his figure was instantly hidden.
She tiptoed, stepped on the wall and windowsill, and jumped onto the roof beside her. Her movements were very agile, and if it weren't for the powerful Spiritual Master, she would never be discovered.
After closing his stall, the boss walked along the street and went to a mansion.
Ruan Xihe thought for a moment, then took the lead and stepped onto the wall, standing on the courtyard wall.
After he entered the yard, he piled the items from his stall into the yard, then reached out and tore off the skin on his face.
His true face was hidden in the darkness, and with his back facing her, Ruan Xihe couldn't see clearly what the stall owner looked like.
At this moment, the door of the house in the courtyard was opened from the inside, and a figure wrapped in a black robe walked out of the house.
"How are things going today?"
The man in black robe slowly walked up to the stall owner, his voice was hoarse and unpleasant, and it was obvious that his voice had been deliberately changed.
The vendor boss smiled sinisterly: "There are many more people in the city today. I have seen that they are all qualified. They should like them."
He emphasized the word 'they'.
Moreover, the vendor's voice was obviously different from that during the day.
"Haha, not bad, next, you..."
The man in black robe laughed hoarsely and stretched out his hand to tear off the black robe hat covering his head.
His hand had already touched the brim of the hat, and with a gentle pull, an extremely thin jaw was revealed.
Just as the black-robed man's hand continued to pull down, about to reveal his lips and nose, a rather abrupt voice suddenly came from outside the wall.
"Is it here?"