Night without Borders

Chapter 37: It’s over, just brush off your clothes and go away

Qin Ming did not peel the stone again. The environment in the mountains and forests did not allow him to be impulsive. If a beam of light rose here, his life would be in danger.

After the stone shrank two circles, it could barely fit into the sleeve of his animal skin robe, but he didn't do that.

Qin Ming walked out of the mountain, leaving the stones in the dense forest.

He noticed that someone was watching the intersection leading out of the mountain. For the special products in the node, all major organizations were watching it closely.

Not long after, he saw the woman in a fur cloak again. She was tall and stood in the snow, with her black hair fluttering in the wind, but he still couldn't see her true face.

"He is indeed fine." The crow was also there and had discovered Qin Ming. Symbols flashed across its purple eyes and it looked at him a few more times.

Qin Ming's face was calm, but there was a slight ripple in his heart. He didn't know how many pairs of eyes had scanned the person coming out of the mountain along the way. If he brought the stones with him, he would definitely be exposed.

The purple-eyed crow circled in the sky, wishing it could charge into the mountains as well. It said, “This place is incomprehensible. How could there be ten-color nodes? And they are fused with the five-color haze! I’m almost crying with greed. If I had known earlier, I should have asked your master to come in person and ask Old Crow to leave the black fog world. Let’s see who dares to stop us!”

The woman in the black cloak said, "Don't act recklessly. All the higher beings are now bloodthirsty. Let's wait for the right opportunity."

Qin Ming found Mu Qing, Cao Long and others outside the mountains. He discovered that these noble descendants were quite cautious and did not act rashly.

"Where have you been, kid? It's too dangerous in the mountains now." Black Sheep Knight Yang Yongqing asked him.

"I was chasing that talking bird, but I lost it." Qin Ming responded with a smile.

After hearing this, Cao Long immediately asked him where he had lost it. The bird had offended him badly and was still angry.

On this day, the commotion deep in the mountains was so loud that even ordinary villagers nearby were looking out. They had never seen a scene as brilliant as daylight in their lives.

The early night is almost over, and there is still no result in the mountains.

Qin Ming professionally asked his employer and confirmed that they would not go into the mountain. He shouted, "Uncle Xu, Uncle Liu, we should go back."

"Ah, why are you going back so early?" Old man Liu hasn't seen enough.

Qin Ming said: "Let's go back and eat. We've been hungry all day!"

Wei Zhirou, Cao Long, Mu Qing and the others couldn't help but look at him, thinking that this young man was really pure-hearted and simple. Even though such a big thing happened in the mountains and everyone was paying attention, it couldn't affect his mind to go back and have a meal.

"That's right. Even if we watch it for another three days and three nights, it has nothing to do with us. Let's go back and have dinner." said Old Man Liu.

Black Sheep Knight Yang Yongqing and Xu Yueping also left. Although the mountains were colorful, it was not their world.

At night, Qin Ming came to the entrance of the village and sat under the black and white trees, looking towards the direction of the mountains. It was as bright as day there, and all the colorful lights had not faded. It was so fresh that people couldn't help but yearn for it and want to get closer.

"This is the Black and White Mountain. Since it collapsed five hundred years ago, it no longer has the black and white scenery it once had. What a pity."

Qin Ming was surprised to see two women in the snow and hear such words.

He was a local and didn't even know the old names for Black and White Mountain. Normally when he went into the mountains he would just call different mountains East Ridge and West Gou. However, the two women from outside knew them better than he did.

In the wind and snow, the two women stood tall and graceful, their sleeves fluttering. They were wearing very thin clothes, and it was still far from the hot summer when the fire springs were most active.

When they approached the village entrance, they looked at the black and white trees in the fire spring.

"There are actually two black and white trees in this village. I guess they are the seeds left behind by the black and white mountains that have sprouted." The woman who spoke earlier spoke again.

She was dressed in white, which made her particularly eye-catching in the fiery night. She was covered with a faint white mist, but one could clearly see her pretty face with a little baby fat. She was obviously not very old, probably about fifteen or sixteen years old, with curved dark eyebrows and big watery eyes. She was very beautiful.

If it were Qin Ming, he would definitely not choose to wear white clothes. It would be too conspicuous when going into the mountains to hunt and it would not be suitable for survival in the mountains.

Soon he noticed that the girl in white was following the other woman.

Qin Ming realized something was wrong. The girl in white was clearly two steps behind him, so how could he ignore the woman in front of him? It was a bit strange.

The woman in front was dressed in plain green. She stood quietly in the wind and snow, carefully observing the two old trees in the fire spring.

There was thick fog around her, making her look hazy and her face unclear. She had a very ethereal temperament, like an immortal who was about to return home on the wind.

Qin Ming stood up and couldn't sit by the fire spring anymore, and greeted the two women.

They nodded in response, and the woman in green spoke for the first time: "What is the name of this village?"

"Shuangshu Village." Qin Ming informed him, and at the same time he took the opportunity to ask, "What is the legend of the former Black and White Mountains?"

The green-clothed woman spoke in a soft, pleasant voice, "Half of the land is pitch black, and the other half is as bright as day. The middle is blocked by thick fog. It was once a Jedi, but later it collapsed."

"Young man, it's rare that my lady actually talked so much to you." The girl in white had a lively personality, and she and the girl in green did not seem to have a pure master-servant relationship, after all, they dared to make such a joke.

The woman in green said nothing more. She took one last deep look at the black and white trees, turned around and left, walking towards the mountain. Although her steps were light, her belief seemed firm.

"What are your names, ladies?" Qin Ming asked from behind.

The girl in white chuckled: "Young man, don't overthink it. We will disappear soon. We are infinitely far away from you, separated by mountains and seas."

"I just asked for the name. How far is infinity? Aren't you usually not in the human world?" Qin Ming said.

The girl in white smiled and said, "Hey, you are so simple and lovely. Judging from the path you took, when you stand on the top of the mountain, there may be a slight possibility that you can see us from afar under certain circumstances."

"You talk too much and have no restraint." The woman in green scolded.

Qin Ming looked at their departing backs and was speechless. What kind of people were they? For a moment, he really wanted to beat the girl in white and ask her what nonsense she was talking about.

"You go back and call Jin Peng. I'm going into the mountains." said the woman in green.

"Okay!" The girl in white turned and walked in another direction.

Qin Ming's pupils contracted. The speed at which the girl in white left was too fast, even a little outrageous. A misty white fog flowed in front of her, blocking out all the wind and snow, and gradually wrapped around her whole body. In just a blink of an eye, she disappeared at the end of the earth.

The next day, Qin Ming led the team responsibly as a guide, because Mu Qing, Cao Long, Wei Zhirou and others finally could not sit still and began to explore the nodes outside the mountain.

Previously, four organizations had successively obtained mysterious items after paying the price of some of their members being severely eroded by the light fog.

All the newcomers were restless and searching carefully. There were figures everywhere in the mountain, trying to break into the dangerous underground node space.

As for the deepest part of the mountain, it was still as bright as day. The top leaders of the big organization and those high-level aliens had been tormented for a day and a night, and their eyes were red.

They came here to catch the mysterious creature, and at first they seemed to be fishing patiently, but now the fish has slipped away.

The two wonders merged into one and were still constantly shifting. Sometimes they would sink into the ground for a long time before emerging, bringing with them blinding light and thick fog.

Until now, no one had been able to get close enough to see what it was. In the end, these people took the risk, and despite the terrible erosion, they went deep underground from the node space, ready to cut off its path in the spiritual veins created by the skylight.

Even people like Ling Xu and Old Weasel who set up the scheme are not in the mood to fish now. Instead, they have "laid a nest" for themselves and plunged into the nodes and entered the underground world.

They had a feeling that after the fusion of the two mysterious items, they might have completed the final transformation and would be born soon, so they had to do their best.

Such competition became increasingly fierce, and some higher-level creatures died directly underground and were never able to come out again.

They disappeared into the ground, and everyone outside the mountain breathed a sigh of relief.

"Old Wang, don't go too far. I have already obtained this spiritual little tree. Are you going to rob it openly?!" In the distance, an old man covered in blood escaped from the node, holding a little tree about a foot high in his hand, with purple mist flowing.

"Stop him, the old man from the Cao family dug up the longevity tree, which can extend his life by ten years!" The old man surnamed Wang behind him shouted and chased after him.

"Seventh Uncle, come over here, let's see who dares to stop me?!" Cao Long shouted, sitting on a giant red bull that was taller than an adult, holding a large spear that was shining with cold light in his hand.

"Good nephew, bring some people to help me stop them."

An old man with broken black armor on his body ran over. In the process, he grunted and ate the small tree directly, even the roots with a little soil on them were not spared, and he chewed them up and swallowed them.

"You old bastard from the Wang family, I've already eaten everything, what can you do to me?" The old man from the Cao family laughed.

"Everyone, cut open his belly, the medicine is still effective!" shouted the old man surnamed Wang.

Nearby, six or seven old men were approaching with scary looks in their eyes. To them, longevity was more precious than any mysterious item.

"Old man Wang, you are really bad from head to toe. No wonder your youngest son Wang Nianzhu has committed so many evil things and become a wanted criminal, because you yourself are not that good either!" Cao Long's seventh uncle was very excited. Looking at the approaching old men, he said, "If you really want to kill me, don't blame me for disgusting you to death!"

He looked at the big yellow dog where Old Man Liu was sitting, then glanced at Yang Yongqing's black goat, and said, "If you really want to force me, I'll cut open the goat's belly right now and drink its urine. Then you can eat this life-extending medicine!"

Old Man Liu and others were stunned. What a ruthless guy. But why was he staring at the big yellow dog?
Next to it, Yang Yongqing's black goat urinated loudly. It was obvious that it had already become psychic and sensed that something was wrong.

The big yellow dog that Old Man Liu was sitting on also reacted and started to poop.

"I...why are you reacting so strongly?" Cao Laoqi was very angry.

“Okay, Cao Laoqi, if you are such a ruthless person, we will turn around and leave, and now we are watching here. Do you dare to do that?!”

"Enough!" Cao Long moved, urging the giant bull to rush forward, holding a large spear and chopping directly at the old man surnamed Wang.

"Young man, I know you are powerful, but...ah!" The long sword in the old man's hand was chopped off, his hands were covered in blood, and he himself flew out horizontally.

"My good nephew, you are so awesome now. All the lessons you learned in that huge city were not in vain!" Cao Laoqi was shocked and delighted.

Suddenly, several old men retreated.

Cao Long defeated the older generation figures, which made all parties fearful and no one dared to approach him, making their place quite safe.

During this period, Qin Ming asked people from the Mu family, Cao family, and Wei family what the mysterious items were and what their characteristics were.

For the people in Chixia City, these are now very public news and there are no secrets. A few random words can broaden the horizons of Qin Ming, Xu Yueping and others.

"Spiritual products such as plants and earth fluids are easy to pick and collect. The trouble is that special products wrapped in stone skins are often overlooked and can be missed if you are not careful."

Qin Ming learned a lot of useful knowledge and some of his doubts were resolved.

Unless the special products are dazzling and bright in themselves, otherwise after being peeled off, a little light from the sky will dissipate and everything will return to calm.

Qin Ming thought that the stone he picked up could be cut open and there would be no big problem.

As the night was coming to an end, he hid in a snow cave and peeled off the stone skin. Sure enough, a few wisps of sunlight escaped and sank into his body.

A hint of pure white jade light appeared under the stone skin, which was crystal clear.

"Is this the mutton-fat jade iron they are talking about?" Qin Ming only heard a few words and knew that it was a rare material and the weapons made from it were full of mystery.

Of course, although mutton-fat jade iron is rare, it is not priceless. Every time Tianguang descends to the ground, some materials of similar quality can be collected.

Even in the same place, it is possible to collect multiple pieces of mutton-fat jade iron.

He buried the peeled corner of the stone again. After making sure that it did not contain any spiritual substance that could be taken directly, he decided not to rush and could take it out later.

It was already late, Qin Ming had already finished his guiding mission and was ready to leave the mountains.

boom!
The earth was shaking and mountains were trembling. In the distance, there was an endless stream of rays of light, brighter than before, which hurt people's eyes and made people cry after watching it.

"What happened?" Everyone was shocked.

Deep in the mountains, there were colorful lights and mysterious items appeared. They were snatched away by people and rushed out from the cracks in the ground.

A woman was moving very quickly through the forest, but she could not hide her figure at all, because although the special items she obtained were sealed with stone skin, the strong fluctuations still spread in all directions and were always glowing. It seemed that it would take some time for them to be completely extinguished.

During this time, she called over a giant golden bird and immediately jumped on it. The giant bird carried her up into the sky and was about to escape to the horizon.

However, six higher creatures, including the moonworm, a winged humanoid creature, and a feathered woman standing on the back of a blue bird, blocked her way.

"Is it her?" Qin Ming was surprised. It was the woman in green that he saw at the entrance of the village last night. She was very young, but so strong that she dared to snatch food from the mouths of a group of higher creatures.

The woman in green was suppressed by the six masters and forced into the mountains again.

Qin Ming turned around and ran, at the same time displaying the skill of "harmony with the world" to the extreme, because he was not far away.

"Chi!" The woman in green was in mid-air. She broke the one-foot-long stone in her hand with force and took out the mysterious item directly from it.

The light in her hand became even brighter, five colors and ten lights intertwined in the void, tearing through the night sky.

The outermost part of the object was a light mist, and she didn't know what dazzling thing was wrapped inside. She pressed it towards a crystal red mole between her eyebrows.

The dazzling ball of light actually sank directly into it, and she, standing on the back of the big golden bird, was not suppressed and fell to the ground, but rushed towards the distance at a high speed along the mountains and forests.

"Chase!" All the strong men from the big organizations and high-level aliens chased after them.

It was not known how long it had passed before Qin Ming breathed a sigh of relief and walked out of the dense forest. He moved forward in the thick night and found the two broken pieces of stone one after another.

"Huh?!" He was shocked. After experiencing the erosion, baptism and adaptation of the sunlight in the cracks in the ground, he had a special perception. There seemed to be some faint fluctuations in the stone in his left hand.

(End of this chapter)