Netherworld Painted Skin Scroll

Chapter 71 Ranshan Sect

Lao Guo must be being modest. According to his experience, for something like "gathering a group of people from the underworld to go treasure hunting in Ranshan", the people he can find, although not the best, should be those who are somewhat famous in their respective industries. In the eyes of ordinary people, both Lao Guo and Lao Deng should be considered as real masters.

But now it seems that the cultivation of people in this world is much more difficult than he thought. He learned the Huai Lu Bao Xia Chapter from Zhao Qi, but he thought it was not a very good method and should be suitable for ordinary people to practice, so he taught it to Xue Baoping, but she found it very difficult to learn.

From this perspective, maybe it's not that she has poor talent, but that the Huai Lu Bao Xia chapter is already considered a good thing that is extremely difficult to access in the eyes of ordinary people, and the threshold to practice is very high.

The martial arts that Lao Guo practiced should be the kind that Zhao Qi had sneered at before - if one did not practice it well, it would cause some kind of illness or hidden danger. If one could get a method without such hidden dangers and practice it smoothly, it would be a rare achievement.

I used to think that the beginning of this life was pretty good, and now it seems that it is almost perfect.

Li Wuxiang breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at Lao Guo: "You don't need to be so nervous. I usually don't kill people when I don't want to."

Lao Guo wiped the sweat off his face and said, "Yes, young man, why would you bother with people like me?"

After walking for another two hours, Li Wuxiang and Lao Guo saw the mountain. A mountain range stood out from the plain. At first, it was just a shadow behind the dense forest. After an hour, it turned into a pale blue low wall. When the sun was about to set in the west, it showed its true appearance - large pieces of stone walls that stood out from the plain were reflected in gold by the sun, surrounded by dense vegetation and lingering clouds. This was the location of the Ranshan School, hidden among countless large and small peaks.

After they entered the mountain trail, there was more horse manure on the road, and the weeds on the road also had signs of being trampled. They led the horses up a winding mountain road and turned twice, and then they saw the third person Li Wuxiang had met in these days.

This man was hung on a tree on the cliff, blood was gushing out of all his orifices, his chest and abdomen were cut open and turned over, his intestines were flowing out, hanging down to the ground in a sticky mess.

Li Wuxiang stopped to take a closer look and asked Lao Guo, "What kind of custom is this in your Jianghu?"

Lao Guo looked solemn and swallowed his saliva: "This is... Oh, this seems to be called 'open-minded'..."

Li Wuxiang was stunned: "A joke from hell?"

"No, no, I'm not kidding... I'll go take a look ahead." Lao Guo held the sword and hurriedly ran up the road. When the mountain road turned another corner, he saw the fourth person -

He was also hung on a tree, his clothes were open. His chest and abdomen were not cut open, but only a large incision was made, with two organs, one red and one green, hanging out - the dark green one should be the gallbladder, and the brown-red one should be the liver.

Li Wuxiang also looked at the corpse and said, "Don't tell me this is called 'loyalty'."

Lao Guo said with a bitter face: "Yes... Alas, young man, I'm afraid we won't be able to get any good treasures this time."

"How to say?"

Old Guo sighed with a sad face: "I told you on the way that we like to take advantage of others... This habit is hard to change, so if a group of people get together, they will inevitably get into trouble."

"Sometimes, like this time, we need to get together to do something, but there are constant troubles, and things become difficult to handle. But if there is someone in the group who can convince everyone, they will ask everyone to make a temporary agreement - no one is allowed to take advantage of anyone else before the matter is done. At this time, if someone still can't help but cause trouble... then we have to use that person to establish authority, so that others will remember the importance of being open-minded and loyal to each other." "This is the first time I've seen this scene. I've only heard about it before. It must be Xu Xianren's method, and everyone else is convinced. So I guess..."

Li Wuxiang nodded: "The leader is ruthless and arbitrary, and he must take the lion's share of the benefits. So you feel that you can't fish in troubled waters."

"Yes, young man, why don't we just not get involved? If you want to see something new, I can take you somewhere else. There is also a big city nearby..."

"I just wonder if there are any treasures in Qiran Mountain that are hard to find." Li Wuxiang pulled the reins of his horse, "Besides, I haven't seen an immortal yet."

Going further up, the road went deep into two mountain walls. The rock walls on both sides were towering, with lonely and steep pines and cypresses growing on them, as if two huge palace walls blocked the setting sun's afterglow, making people feel that this place was dark and unpredictable, and suddenly there was a majestic atmosphere. Looking up again, I saw that this mountain road went straight up, and there were stone steps between the dust and weeds, extending to a terrace at the top. When the two walked up, they saw a mountain gate.

This mountain gate is a stone building. It must have been very majestic when it was built. There are three gates, one large and two small. Now after thousands of years of erosion, only the patterns on the stone can be vaguely seen. Four characters "Ranshan Dongtian" are engraved on the top of the gate, but the handwriting has become very faint.

More than a dozen horses were tied to the horse posts on both sides of the terrace, with two men guarding them. Just like what we saw before, one was "open-minded" and the other was "loyal." Li Wuxiang led his horse over, found an empty post and tied his own horse to it, untied the bag that Xue Baoping had packed for him from the horse's back and put it on his back, and untied his long sword and tied it around his waist.

Walking up the wider stone steps behind the mountain gate, I finally saw living people.

Apart from the mountain gate I just saw, the Ranshan Sect actually has no main gate, but only a screen wall. It is also made of blue-gray rock, with black tiles on the top. There is also a painting on the screen wall, a mountain scene with mountains, rivers, houses and palaces, embedded in the middle, but the traces on it have been eroded by wind and rain and are blurred.

About thirty people gathered in front of the screen wall. Some people outside were whispering in groups of three or four. A circle of people inside surrounded the two people. When Li Wuxiang walked over, he heard a man ask, "...What did Xu Xianren tell you?"

He saw the man being questioned through the gap in the crowd. Compared with the people around him, this man was relatively young, about 27 or 28 years old, with a slightly dark complexion, thick eyebrows and small eyes, and a very nervous face: "I didn't see Xu Xianren. I was just like everyone else. I heard that Xu Xianren asked people to go up the mountain to search for treasure. I was still thinking about whether to come, and suddenly someone threw him into my yard at night-"

He pointed to the side - sitting on the ground was a young man with his hands tied, his hair loose, wearing a short working outfit, staring at everyone with horror.

"Then I heard people talking outside, asking me to bring him to Ranshan and hand him over to someone who was going up the mountain, saying that this person knew what treasures were on the mountain. I went out and didn't see anyone, so I asked who it was, and the person said, 'Xu Xianren!' I brought him here right away - I didn't tie his hands, so he is still the same as when he was thrown in."

The man who asked the question turned around and looked at the people around him, and everyone frowned. Li Wuxiang saw him clearly at this time - he was a tall and slightly fat man, who looked more muscular than Zeng Jianqiu in the past, and he was holding a stick with iron wrapped at both ends.

The sturdy man sighed, squatted down, grabbed the boy's face, and looked left and right: "Okay, then who are you? Do you know what other treasures are on this mountain?"

The young man was speechless and frightened. The strong man smiled and said, "Don't be afraid. My name is Feng Ji. Now I have the final say among this group of people. Did you see the four people on the road when you came here? If anyone dares to touch you without my order, that will be the end - speak up, and I will keep you safe!"

The young man then whispered, "I... I used to be a disciple of Ranshan. There is an illusion on our mountain... It's full of treasures!"

　The second update will be at 33 am, welcome the new leader moe!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)