Chapter 150 Teng Snake Ancient Land
"It's okay. You've done enough. Too much is as bad as too little."

"Does the outside world know that you are acting under the name of Trinity?"

Weier met Jiang Mo's gaze and shook his head slightly:

"I didn't tell anyone, but the assassins I killed all thought it was related to you and that you were the one behind all this."

"Let them speculate."

Jiang Mo had a brief talk with Wei Er and ordered him to stay in the mountain for the next period of time and not go out, and then let him retreat to recuperate.

In the evening, as night was falling, Lu Jin, who had just returned from the back mountain, learned that his uncle had gone out of retreat. He did not even have dinner, so he went back to his room to get a letter and hurried to the fourth floor of the Sutra Library.

"Uncle Master, your letter was given to you by my Third Uncle."

Lu Jin's hair was disheveled, his white gown was torn, and even his handsome face had become unkempt, with a little burnt dust on his body.

"How's the training going today?"

Jiang Mo took the letter, opened it and read the contents. In addition to the routine greetings, there were also some miscellaneous contents asking him to take good care of Lu Jin.

At the end of the letter, there was a description of the prosperity of the foreign country across the ocean, with a few black-and-white photos of the city, and an invitation for him to visit when he had time.

Hearing the uncle's question, Lu Jin told him frankly: "It went smoothly, and it's an improvement over the last time. The fire from the True Flame Treasure Land didn't hurt my body, but my clothes got burned because I didn't have time to take care of them."

Jiang Mo looked at Lu Jin and found that he was not tired at all, but full of energy, so he asked:

"I'm going down the mountain later. Would you like to follow me? Just treat it as a wandering trip to visit some ancient place."

"Uncle Master, I am willing."

Lu Jin was very happy about the sudden news and asked, "Do we need to make any preparations?"

"Don't have such high expectations. You might return empty-handed. Go take a shower and change your clothes. I'll wait for you here."

Jiang Mo took out the map of the Teng Snake Ancient Land, grabbed it in one hand, and turned it into Qi. The mountains, forests, and various text symbols seemed to come alive, floating in the air and wriggling, extremely clear.

"Good disciple, I will go now."

Lu Jin stared at the mysterious map for a few seconds, and then his brain reacted as if he had been electrocuted. He immediately went downstairs, prepared his clothes and took a shower.

During this period, Jiang Mo took the time to meet with Si Chong, told him that he was going out, and asked him and Cheng Zhen to look after the sect. If there was an emergency, they could crush the silver-white jade stone left behind.

Xu Shi.

The moon was bright in the sky, and the hazy mountains looked like a giant beast lying across the sky. Jiang Mo looked up at the starry sky, feeling relaxed and happy, and waited quietly on the stone steps in front of the mountain gate.

After a while, Lu Jin, who had just finished his bath, came over quickly, looking refreshed and asked, "Uncle Master, have you told the sect that we are going out?"

"Ah."

"I've already told your uncle, let's go."

Jiang Mo pinched off a piece of Qi cloud, which turned into a silver wooden boat, carrying him and Lu Jin, soaring into the sky and disappearing into the vastness.

The strong wind whistled, making the two people's hair flutter. Above their heads was the bright starry sky, and the boundless night surrounded them.

Lu Jin looked at the map floating in Jiang Mo's palm, but he could not recognize the winding and continuous mountains, especially the dense annotations marking various complex routes, which surprised him:
"Uncle Master, where is this?"

"Teng Snake Ancient Land."

"?" Lu Jin looked doubtful, as he had never heard of this before.

"Remember the visit from the head of Wanxiang Hall some time ago?"

Jiang Mo brought up the old matter again and let Lu Jin know the whole story.

"In the past, his master and a group of elders were killed by Quan Xing's Han Suxiao for this cave blueprint;"

"Later, I killed that old ghost in the gambling house. In order to express my gratitude, Master Ji gave me this blueprint."

"It records the cave where the strange snake turned into a dragon. It is a great opportunity. Unfortunately, no matter how many people have tried to find the way, they have never been able to find the way. As a result, this map is like a piece of waste paper."

Lu Jin's pupils shrank slightly, and he was not sure: "Uncle Master, can that snake really become a dragon? Is it just a lie from our ancestors?"

Hearing the doubt, Jiang Mo suddenly felt that he had made some progress, and smiled comfortingly: "Snakes turning into dragons, and people becoming immortals, are all sayings left by the ancients."

"Snakes are sinister and lowly, dragons are sacred symbols; humans are fragile and insignificant, and immortals are free and unfettered;"

"In essence, it is all about looking at and understanding the level of life from a human perspective."

“Therefore, I am willing to believe that only here, hundreds of years ago, there may have existed a snake that was enlightened and able to cultivate qi.”

The silver boat crossed the sky, starting from the coastal area where the Trinity Gate was located, and continued to move northwestward into the inland.

Lu Jin looked at the current location mark, getting closer and closer to the mountain range marked on the map, and couldn't help asking:

"Then where is this?"

"Taixuan Mountain is located on the edge of the inland area, bordering the Western Regions and the Northern Desert. There happens to be a natural lake nearby. The snake's cave should be between the two places."

Jiang Mo placed his fingers on the red routes and speculated, "The reason why these predecessors failed is probably because there is a Qi system hidden here. They couldn't break it or even find it, so they couldn't get in."

Suddenly, Lu Jin thought of a serious consequence and blurted out, "Master, what if we get lost?"

"There are two ways to leave. Either you go to heaven and I use the escape technique to return to the water pool in the back mountain. Or I activate the true method to refine the mountain and the lake, understand the path, and the qi system will naturally become ineffective."

Jiang Mo was not worried about being trapped inside, he was just thinking about where the snake cave was hidden.

After several hours, the speed of the silver boat gradually slowed down and it was less than a few thousand meters away from its destination.

Looking at the towering Taixuan Mountain shrouded in clouds and mist, Jiang Mo slowed down the speed of the Qi Cloud and dived towards the deep forest.

"clatter"

Following Lu Jin who landed on the ground, his face was solemn. As a second-level rebirth man, he should have been immune to all evil and diseases, but he inexplicably felt a chill.

The air here is extremely sticky, and the fog is heavy. The bright moon hanging high in the dome is shrouded in dark clouds, and the surroundings are pitch black. From time to time, rustling sounds can be heard from the bushes, and the low roars of various animals make the atmosphere even more weird.

"Uncle Master."

Lu Jin looked alert, with a bad feeling in his heart. This mountain gave him a very eerie feeling.

"Keep your Qi and calm your mind, and practice the Dharma according to the situation."

Jiang Mo could also sense the abnormality of this mountain. He was not afraid. A trace of fire ignited in his right hand, which turned into a fireball, illuminating the dark mountain road ahead.

As the fire suddenly burst out, countless mosquitoes and animals fled and dared not approach.

"Walk--"

Jiang Mo held the map in his hand and calibrated the position, and found that he was at the end of the red route, which was within the Qi Bureau. This was also the area where previous generations had disappeared or returned empty-handed.

In a trance, Lu Jin felt a chill on his back and a gust of cold wind behind him, which was getting closer and closer. He turned around suddenly and found that several dark shadows were passing through the jungle, making sharp animal calls, and they were suspected to be primates.

"Uncle Master, it seems like something is targeting us."

Lu Jin's intuition was very sharp, which was honed through his repeated battles with the Quan Xing monsters. This subtle and extremely dangerous feeling lingered in his heart and could not be shaken off.

"It doesn't matter. If they have malicious intentions, I will kill them."

Jiang Mo turned his head and fixed his sight on a patch of grass. Suddenly, several mandrills hiding there were frightened and fled in all directions.

"Is that a mountain goblin?!"

Lu Jin clearly sensed that those thin and special strands of Qi were completely different from the true Qi of humans. In other words, the fleeing mandrills were very likely to possess intelligence.

"The world is so vast that nothing is impossible. Refining Qi is not just a human privilege. Some animals can also become enlightened if they accidentally eat magical medicine."

"Since this Taixuan Mountain can give birth to a strange snake that can fly in the clouds, it should be home to many strange beasts that can control Qi."

Jiang Mo walked along the mountain road, and Lu Jin followed behind. Their figures soon disappeared in the fog.

The hazy mountains looked like a bloody mouth lying on the ground, filled with murderous aura. Pairs of different-colored eyes lit up in the dark corners, staring straight at the two blurry figures.

Soon, Jiang Mo and Lu Jin walked nearly a thousand meters calmly. They encountered many wild beasts along the way, but they were all afraid of fire and curled up in their nests without moving.

As they went deeper into Taixuan Mountain, the evil energy became increasingly severe. The rugged mountain road was littered with bones, and all kinds of clothes had long since rotted away, emitting a foul corpse smell. There were also rusty and damaged weapons such as iron swords, ring-handled knives, daggers, bows and arrows.

Looking around, all the signs represent the fate of those who have lost themselves in this foggy forest.

Lu Jin was shocked and said with a serious expression:
"Uncle Master, some of these corpses and clothes are faded and decayed, while some are still recognizable. However, whether it is the torn robes or the severely cracked skulls, they are particularly abnormal. Perhaps they were killed by mountain spirits and wild monsters?"

"It is also possible that they were confused by this situation, had a mental breakdown, and killed each other."

Jiang Mo continued walking while observing the corpses. The blueprint was no longer effective, and he and Lu Jin traveled through this unrecorded deep jungle.

After walking only a few dozen meters, I saw streaks of blood on the ground. Even though the blood had dried and seeped into the soil, it was self-evident that it was human blood!

"Cough cough."

At this moment, a cold wind blew, an old cough sounded slowly, and a dying figure leaning on a cane was looming in the fog ahead.

"?!"

There was a cold light in Lu Jin's eyes, and the evil energy that was blowing towards him made him feel uncomfortable.

At the same time, red-gold traces appeared in Jiang Mo's eyes, and he looked at the ambiguous figure with interest.

"My two little friends, do I look like a human or a fairy?"

The horrifying words, hoarse and low, echoed in the dead silent forest.

Lu Jin's pupils suddenly shrank. When he was a child, he loved listening to all kinds of folk stories told by his uncle. Now, when he encountered this scene, he suddenly thought of the story of the yellow-skinned man in the Northeast asking for a title.

However, Taixuan Mountain is thousands of miles away from the Northeast Province!!!
The gray shadow before his eyes was definitely not the immortals he knew who were kind to people and worshipped by burning incense.

While he was still in deep thought, Jiang Mo answered with a cold voice, like a stone that caused a thousand ripples.

"I think you are a beast."

(End of this chapter)