Mortal Bones

"grumble!"

After seeing the bathtub behind Xu Taiping that exuded a strong medicinal smell, the little monkey Ping'an was so frightened that he shrank back and backed away.

"Just throw the letter to me."

Xu Taiping felt dumbfounded and stretched out his hand to the little monkey Ping An.

A few days ago, after he poured the acupuncture and resuscitation soup into the bathtub, he went out for some business. Unexpectedly, the little monkey happened to sneak in. Out of curiosity, he actually jumped in and soaked for a while. As a result, he collapsed in pain. It was inside and kept in the gourd for several days before it recovered.

From then on, whenever it saw the bathtub, it would walk around the road.

"It's, it's the messenger from the Lord of the Seven Peaks, delivering, delivering."

The little monkey stretched out his hand and handed the letter to Xu Taiping.

Because Xu Taiping had no intention of deliberately concealing the existence of Ping An, Ping An usually looked after the yard when he was away. So now, when a letter is delivered, it takes a few merit coins to get it.

"The Peak Master has sent another letter? It can't be related to Elder Sansan, right? Speaking of which, I have been practicing swordsmanship for eight or nine days. It seems that I have never even seen Elder Sansan's face. Could it be that he is not showing favor to me? Too satisfied?"

Xu Taiping guessed with some worry.

After opening the letter, what caught Xu Taiping's eyes was still a line of very scrawled characters.

It took him a while to finally recognize it clearly——

"The fourth child has been chopped down. Those of you who are not in retreat, please come to me and meet me at the Baicao Hall on the peak!"

Compared with the scrawled handwriting, the writing style of the letter is much more popular.

"Fourth brother? Fourth senior brother? Fourth senior brother was killed?"

Xu Taiping looked surprised and confused at the same time.

His fourth senior brother at the Seventh Peak was originally named Zhou Liang. Later, he became obsessed with swords and changed his name to Yiyi Dao.

Although the two of them didn't have much contact, as far as he knew, the fourth senior brother's cultivation level was already at the level of Wangyou Realm. His sword skills were extremely superb, and he didn't have many opponents at the same level.

"Just go and take a look and you will know."

He shook his head and decided not to think about it so much for the time being.

So he quickly put on his clothes, and then while releasing Bai Yu from the gourd, he told it to follow Ping An: "I'm going to Qifeng Baicao Hall. You two are looking after the house. No one is allowed to enter. If someone breaks in, go into the Fan Tower and lock the door of the Fan Tower."

"Okay Xu Taiping."

Ping An nodded obediently.

"Know it!"

Bai Yu lay on Ping An's head and yawned.

"By the way, I still have to leave a message for Elder Sansan. It would be bad if he comes today and doesn't find me."

Just as he ran out of Hongqiao, Xu Taiping turned around again.

He returned to the yard in a hurry, took a relatively flat and clean wooden board in the yard, and then quickly carved words on it while running towards Laoyuetan.

…

The seventh peak.

Baicaotang.

When Qifeng's disciples are injured, almost all of them come here for treatment.

When Xu Taiping arrived, almost all nine disciples of Seventh Peak's generation were present.

He even saw his senior sister who had never shown up.

In addition, Xu Taiping saw the unconscious Fourth Senior Brother Yi Dao lying on the hospital bed at a glance.

"Fourth Senior Brother is actually so seriously injured?"

Xu Taiping was really surprised.

He could sense that the Fourth Brother's aura was very weak at this time, but the strange thing was that he only had a stab wound on his chest.

"The knife wound on his chest is a bit weird. The knife energy in the wound is constantly eating away at the true energy and blood in his body."

Fairy Lingyue's voice suddenly sounded in Xu Taiping's mind.

"No wonder he's so weak."

Xu Taiping suddenly felt enlightened.

"But his wounds have been treated by your doctors from Qifeng. He should be able to wake up after a while."

Fairy Lingyue continued.

Xu Taiping nodded secretly and breathed a sigh of relief.

Although they are not very familiar with each other, since they are both disciples of Qifeng, they naturally do not want to see anything go wrong with the fourth senior brother.

"Taiping, come here, come here."

At this time, Zhao Linglong finally spotted Xu Taiping and immediately waved to him in a low voice.

"Sister."

Xu Taiping walked over quickly.

"Senior sister, what's going on with Fourth Senior Brother?"

He asked Zhao Linglong in a low voice.

At this time, the peak master was still discussing something with his second senior brother Qing Xiao and his senior sister, and it seemed that he ignored them for a while.

"I don't know exactly what happened. I need to see what dad, senior sister and second senior brother say."

Zhao Linglong shook her head.

She has been practicing swordsmanship in seclusion during this period, and she doesn't know much about the outside world.

"Cough cough cough..."

At this time, the peak leader Zhao Qian suddenly coughed a few times, suppressed the noise in the hall, and then waved to everyone: "Come to the lobby, don't disturb the fourth son's rest. Let's talk outside if you have anything to say."

…

In the lobby of Baicaotang.

"Now that everyone is here, second brother, please tell everyone about fourth child."

After arriving in the lobby, Zhao Qian glanced at Qing Xiao who was standing aside.

Qing Xiao nodded, then cleared his throat and said:

"Everyone, at midnight yesterday, some disciples patrolling the mountain found the seriously injured and unconscious Lao Si on Ziyun Slope. When he was brought to Baicao Hall, he almost failed to be treated."

"What's even more strange is that Dr. Liu from Baicaotang only saw one wound on the fourth child, and it was a minor stab wound."

"Later, after careful diagnosis and treatment by Dr. Liu, I finally discovered that there was a strange sword energy above the stab wound, which was constantly eating away at the fourth child's true energy and vitality."

"After discovering this, Doctor Liu and the Peak Master joined forces to save the fourth child's life from the gate of hell."

Hearing this, all the disciples in the hall were in an uproar.

Xu Taiping secretly admired Fairy Lingyue in his heart. After all, as soon as she came in, she relied on her soul to tell the truth about the fourth senior brother's injuries.

"So, the person who seriously injured Fourth Senior Brother was also a knife user?"

Zhao Linglong said with some surprise.

"Judging from the wounds, the other party did use a knife, but it doesn't mean it's not a human being."

Qing Xiao said with a stern face.

Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked again and felt that there was something in the second senior brother's words.

"Second Senior Brother, do you mean that the person who injured Fourth Senior Brother was not a human, but a demon?"

Wu Liang, the eighth child, couldn't help but ask.

Qingxiao did not answer, but looked at the senior sister beside him.

The senior sister of Qifeng is named Jiang Zhi. She is a very petite woman with a delicate face like a porcelain doll. If Zhao Linglong hadn’t introduced this senior sister to Xu Taiping, you would have said that she was Zhao Linglong’s younger sister. Xu Taiping Believe it all.

"You haven't been in Qifeng for a long time, so you probably haven't heard of the rumors about the red-haired sword ghost, right?"

The eldest sister asked Xu Taiping and others in her extremely clear and melodious voice.