"Wow—"
Sun Haiwei's figure broke through the water.
"Shang Xia, did you do it on purpose?"
Before Sun Haiwei landed on the edge of the pool, he was already angrily questioning Shang Xia.
Shang Xia was using the Jade River Sword to pry off the fingers of the third-order corpse, and immediately denied it when he heard this: "How is that possible? Senior sister, you also know the situation at that time, after all, it was a third-order earth walking corpse, and it was difficult for me to catch its traces at the first time."
Sun Haiwei didn't suspect him, so she found a sunny position on the edge of the pool and sat cross-legged, then took out a finger-sized 'medicine' bottle from the purse on her waist, and swallowed the 'medicine' inside into her stomach.
"Senior sister, but is it a 'medicine' for detoxification? Can you solve the third-order corpse poison?" Shang Xia asked with concern.
Sun Haiwei glanced at him and said sullenly: "Don't worry, but you need to protect me for a moment, don't be disturbed during my time of detoxification."
Shang Xia pried off the nails on the last walking corpse claws he could find, and said with a smile: "Senior sister, don't worry."
Sun Haiwei had already closed her eyes when she heard this, the vitality in her body was running, and faint vitality fluctuations began to flow up and down her body.
The face that leaned towards Shang Xia's side, when viewed from the side, seemed to be covered with a layer of pink, which softened the originally slightly heroic lines a lot, and the plain white added a bit of tenderness.
And Sun Haiwei's direct entry into the meditation also showed her trust in Shang Xia.
But just when Shang Xia peeked at her profile with a little appreciation, Sun Haiwei turned to him slightly as if he was aware of it, and said: "The third-order earth walking corpse, not only the ten nails are the extraordinary materials of the third order, I am afraid that the bones of that body have also absorbed a lot of gold and iron energy underground, and they are not inferior to second-order materials."
Sun Haiwei's statement was not unfounded, Shang Xia had used the Jade River Sword to slash continuously before, but he couldn't cut off the wrist of the third-order walking corpse.
Although most of the reason is that the earth walking corpse has the ability to 'manipulate' earth and petrification armor, the strength of its own body should not be underestimated.
It's just that Shang Xia looked at the body of the walking corpse that had already been torn apart, and after thinking about it, he had to peel off the entire skeleton from it, so he couldn't help but be too lazy to move, so he simply found a place to rest and began to restore the lost vitality in his body.
However, Shang Xia was not at ease, still paying attention to the movements around him, and at the same time playing with a vermilion 'color' nameplate that was neither gold nor jade in his hand.
This nameplate was the only valuable relic Shang Xia found from the third-order walking corpse.
The front of the nameplate is engraved with the four big characters of Youzhou Zhu, and there are some simple-looking decorations around it, while the back is only engraved with the word "situation".
"Youzhou Zhu clan...... Zhu Kuang? In this way, this walking corpse should have been a person from the Zhu clan in Youzhou during his lifetime, and his name should be called 'Zhu Kuang'? If you say so, this nameplate that can be used to prove its identity may be the famous 'red card' of the Zhu family back then?"
Shang Xia looked at the nameplate in his hand repeatedly, and at the same time tried to recall the memory of the Zhu family in Youzhou in his mind.
Before the advent of the two realms of war and the fall of most of Youzhou, the entire extraordinary martial arts world of Youzhou was honored by the five surname families, and among the five surname families, the Zhu family was the leader.
At that time, although the merchants in Youzhou could be regarded as an extraordinary martial arts family with a font size, at best, they were the top few among the extraordinary forces in the second echelon under the five surname families.
If the records of the Zhu family and the academy are correct, then the people with the surname Zhu who can have the "Zhu card" are all direct descendants of the Zhu family.
And according to the seniority, this Zhu family warrior named "Zhu Kuang", if he lives to this day, he should have a relationship with Shang Xia's grandfather.
It's just that there have been rumors that when Youzhou fell, the Zhu family seemed to be wiped out for some reason, and most of the few who escaped and survived were marginalized clansmen.
In the next twenty years, it seems that Zhu Ying is the only one left who can be confirmed as a direct descendant of the Zhu family.
This is still because there is a Liu family in Tongyou City.
"What is in your hand?"
Just when Shang Xia was lost in thought, Sun Haiwei's voice suddenly came.
"Hey, is the corpse poison in your body no longer a problem?"
Shang Xia said as she threw the nameplate in her hand to Sun Haiwei, seeing that her face was becoming more and more pale, she couldn't help but be a little worried: "Why do you look like you are seriously injured, senior sister?"
Sun Haiwei looked at the sign in her hand, and said helplessly: "The corpse poison is fine, but the injuries in my body are far more serious than I expected, and I am afraid I will have to stay here for a while to retreat and heal."
"Here?"
Shang Xia got up and looked around, and said, "I will open up a temporary retreat place for senior sister."
Sun Haiwei didn't respond, and when Shang Xia looked back, she saw that she was looking at the nameplate in her hand and frowning, as if she had thought of something.
"This won't be a 'red card', right?"
Sun Haiwei did not have Shang Xia's family background, she could only judge through some records in the Academy Sutra Pavilion, but she was not as sure as Shang Xia.
"It should be this thing, it seems that our luck is not too bad." Shang Xia smiled.
The two of them joined forces to kill a third-order earth walking corpse, which was an outlier.
It's just that there are very few extraordinary materials that can be used on things like living corpses, and even if they are useful, they are very tasteless, and they are mutated after a person dies, collecting materials from this kind of thing always gives people an awkward feeling, which is far less enjoyable than hunting third-order strange beasts.
Sun Haiwei threw the red card in his hand back to Shang Xia and said: "It is rumored that the Zhu clan members who can hold the red card are also a small number of the Zhu family, and they can freely enter and exit the Zhu family's family guardian formation, and even rely on the martial arts inheritance of the Zhu family, they can also enter and exit some secret places of the family, I don't know if it is true or not."
Shang Xia smiled and said: "Senior sister, don't you want to take a look?"
Sun Haiwei said angrily: "How much strength do you think I still have? Besides, there is only one red card, even if these rumors are true, it can only allow one person to enter the real Zhu family's ruins."
To be honest, in the previous battle between the two and the third-order walking corpse, Sun Haiwei did bear the greatest pressure.
On the contrary, Shang Xia mostly wandered around the periphery to attack, and although he consumed a lot of vitality in his body, he did not suffer much injury.
Even now, the original energy consumed in his body has been replenished.
Sun Haiwei glanced at Shang Xia, who was eager to try, and said in a deep voice: "Don't blame me for not reminding you, the coral forest is very weird, now not only Deputy Mountain Chief Liu and the others may be trapped inside, but even the people of the Yuejihui may be there, and until now, there has been no movement at all in the four heavens on Tongyou Peak, don't you think it's a bit weird?"
Shang Xia was startled and said: "Senior sister thinks Deputy Mountain Ji and the others...... Maybe it will come?"
"Maybe they have already come, where can we guess their whereabouts, and if Deputy Mountain Chief Liu and his party are trapped, it will be impossible for them to die without helping, right?"
Sun Haiwei barely got up, and it could be seen that she was indeed very weak now: "The best way is, of course, to hand over the red card to Deputy Mountain Chief Shang, or several other Four Heavens. However, you should help me open the coordinate ban arranged here now, so that Tongyou Peak can determine the approximate direction of this mine, and if there are any changes in the future, you can follow the map. In this way, this vitality stone pit can be controlled by us."
The forbidden coordinates of the Yuanqi Stone Mine were opened, and the task received by the two from the Kaogong Hall this time was considered completed.
Shang Xia wandered around here, and finally found that the vitality gathered here in the mine was the strongest, so he used the Jade River Sword to find a mine wall with denser primordial crystals in the mine, and opened up a simple retreat stone chamber for Sun Haiwei.
After Sun Haiwei began to recover from her injuries during the retreat, Shang Xia found another boulder and used the Jade River Sword to cut a simple portal to block the stone chamber to prevent Sun Haiwei from being disturbed during the retreat.
After all this last night, Shang Xia, who was a little idle for a while, suddenly remembered that he seemed to have overlooked something.
Walking out of the mine, after leaving for a distance, Shang Xia whistled into the sky, but did not receive a response from the Thunderbird.
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I was sick, and I barely finished this short chapter at night, hoping to get better tomorrow.