Seeing that it was effective, Wang Jiuling was overjoyed and quickly continued speaking.

"Emperor Duan, do you still remember me?"

"In the Mount Hua Sword Tournament, you were afraid of Emperor Duan, so you made your move..."

Qiu Qianren's eyes began to tremble wildly.

"Ho! Ho!!"

He roared, but instead of regaining his senses, Wang Jiuling went completely mad.

"Aaaaaah!!!"

He struggled frantically, his terrifying strength causing even the camel to lose its footing.

When one of the two Mongolian men holding onto the iron chain lost his grip, Qiu Qianren simply pulled them off balance, causing them to stumble.

Wang Jiuling reacted quickly and grabbed at Qiu Qianren.

With a tearing sound, Qiu Qianren's clothes ripped at the shoulder, and he yelled as he slapped Wang Jiuling.

But he was quickly acupunctured by Wang Jiuling.

Wang Jiuling secretly realized he had overthought things. This provocation was not only useless, but also caused trouble.

"Hehe!!"

Looking at Qiu Qianren, who was still making strange noises even after his pressure points were sealed, Wang Jiuling sighed.

Just then, he narrowed his eyes and looked at Qiu Qianren's left shoulder and chest area.

There were some crooked and twisted marks there, which looked like they had been made by something.

But Wang Jiuling could tell at a glance that the scars were words!

Wang Jiuling quickly went up and pulled Qiu Qianren's clothes off his shoulders, but soon frowned.

This guy hadn't showered in ages; he was covered in mud and filth.

The words written on the scars were somewhat illegible.

Wang Jiuling quickly brought water and poured it on Qiu Qianren's shoulder, then found a cloth and vigorously wiped it.

After finally wiping it clean, Wang Jiuling glanced at it.

"Silence, silence, valley, go..."

"Is it all...true?"

"Be careful of joy@$"

After shortening the characters into shorter sentences, Wang Jiuling came up with two sentences.

"Silent Valley, shall we go to Quanzhen?"

"There's another one... Be careful of what's wrong... The scabs on the last two have already fallen off, you can't see them anymore!"

"Silent Valley, go to Quanzhen, be careful of Huanxi..." Wang Jiuling muttered these words, then checked Qiu Qianren's upper body again, finding nothing else.

At this moment, Qiu Qianren stopped roaring upon hearing the words "Silent Valley".

When Wang Jiuling looked up, he saw Qiu Qianren's eyes darting around.

Without a second thought, Wang Jiuling quickly found paper and pen, poured water, and hastily ground some ink to apply to the paper.

He shoved the pen into Qiu Qianren's hand.

"Silent Valley! Quanzhen Sect! Do you still remember them?"

"Write it down quickly! What is Silent Valley? What do you know about it?"

Upon hearing these words, Qiu Qianren's gaze suddenly froze. He tilted his head, stared, as if deep in thought.

"Ho! Ho!"

He wanted to speak, but couldn't because his tongue was broken.

"Write it down!" Wang Jiuling grabbed Qiu Qianren's hand and made him write.

Qiu Qianren looked down at the paper in his hand, hesitated for a long time, and then began to write with trembling fingers.

He hadn't been writing for long when he suddenly threw down the brush, clasped his hands together, and his eyes were bloodshot.

"Heh...heh..."

Clearly, he was caught up in some memories and couldn't pull himself out.

Wang Jiuling had no choice but to take the paper and look at it.

The characters were crooked and twisted, and it took Wang Jiuling a lot of effort to straighten them out before he wrote them down himself.

Looking at the information he had compiled, Wang Jiuling read it aloud.

"Master is in the Western Regions. I must go to Silent Valley to rescue him. I remember I need to go to the Quanzhen Sect..."

Gone.

That's all I wrote.

Could something have happened to Master Yideng? What is he doing in this Silent Valley? Was Qiu Qianren sent by Master Yideng to fetch reinforcements?

Going to the Quanzhen Sect to ask for reinforcements, could it be that you're looking for him?

Wang Jiuling frowned, he was extremely anxious at the moment, Qiu Qianren had given him too little information.

Couldn't you write a little more?

Unfortunately, Qiu Qianren was completely unresponsive at this moment, and Wang Jiuling could only make his own deductions.

Based on Xuanjian's previous deductions, it seems that Qiu Qianren is following the caravan back to the Central Plains.

That almost certainly means that Qiu Qianren is going to the Quanzhen Sect.

Master Yideng rarely lets Qiu Qianren leave alone for so long when he is traveling the world with him.

Master Yideng must have encountered some trouble or emergency that prevented him from leaving, leaving him no choice but to risk sending Qiu Qianren to fetch reinforcements.

But instead of having Qiu Qianren seek out fishermen, woodcutters, farmers, and scholars, he was sent to Zhongnan Mountain.

Wang Jiuling guessed that Master Yideng probably wanted him to get this information.

"Master Chongyang...it must be related to Master Chongyang!"

Wang Jiuling immediately came to the answer.

He looked at the words on the paper.

"The Western Regions...Silent Valley!"

At this moment, Camel Boss walked over. "Taoist Master, this..."

Wang Jiuling looked up. "Brother Tuo, can we speed things up?"

Camel Boss paused for a moment, then thought about it.

"Okay! Now that we're in Dulan, we'll take one less day of rest!"

Now that Wang Jiuling has become the employer of the camel caravan, whatever he says goes.

The camel caravan left Xiangpi Mountain and traveled all the way to Dulan.

After leaving Chaka, the caravan finally experienced a slight water shortage, as they were now on the outskirts of the desert and supplies were significantly reduced.

At the supply depot in Dulan, the caravan completed its final resupply.

Previously, they had to cross the Xiangpi Mountain, and the camels couldn't carry too much weight. Now that they've reached Dulan, the next step is to go directly into the uninhabited desert area.

The camel caravan prepared plenty of fresh water, dried meat, warm clothing, and other supplies. After resting for a day, they set off from Dulan.

They set off from Landu to Nuomuhong, where large areas of salt marshes began to appear along the way.

Moreover, from here on, it's basically all sand, making it difficult to put weight on your feet.

Wang Jiuling tried it out, and even with the Golden Goose Skill, it was still extremely physically demanding.

Furthermore, the speed decreases drastically, and the advantage of lightness skill is completely lost here.

"Taoist Master! This desert isn't something you can cross with just martial arts!" Camel Boss joked.

It's not just the sandy terrain; many surfaces along the way look hard, but when you step on them, you find yourself trapped in salt marshes.

On the second day after they set off from Landu, the camel that was leading the way stepped halfway into the salt marsh.

In the end, it took everyone working together to barely pull the camel up. Even the camel was sinking, let alone people.

So from this point onward, everyone could no longer walk and had to ride camels to continue their journey.

Upon arriving at Nuomuhong, they found that the oasis supply points there had long been closed due to the typhoon season. Helpless, the group then went to Golmud, where the situation was the same.

"Ah, this is where the real desert begins!"

Old Sand Fox said this when he set off from Golmud.

Soon Wang Jiuling understood what he meant: they were going from Golmud to Mangya.

According to the camel driver, the journey was at least several hundred miles long.

After entering the desert, the group passed through a small oasis and then began their journey through the so-called Devil City.

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