Chapter 122: Sparrow Tongue Flower

  Yu Yan's mouth twitched and he looked at this flying head with even more astonishment, his heart truly bewildered.

  Even these two painful howls were very similar to those of the stray dogs on the city streets. Watching this phantom wolf's body twist into several ugly poses in mid-air, Xia Yan did not immediately follow up with another sword strike.

  "Huh?"

  Xia Yan was slightly surprised to see the phantom wolf adjusting its posture in mid-air, just as its body was about to collide with the tree trunk. It slapped its four limbs onto the trunk with a loud thud. This way, it wouldn't be easily injured.

  With a "bang", the phantom wolf crashed into the tree trunk and fell to the ground, rolling around in distress. The white-haired head shook slightly, and it got up to make another escape.

  Xia Yan let out a bitter laugh, so this was the exceptionally powerful Phantom Wolf from the rumors? Apart from its speed, it was completely useless, probably even a stray dog would be more ferocious than it.

  Xiahou Sheng had said to Xia Yan the night before that there was once an instance where over a dozen strong practitioners of the post-heavenly stage surrounded and killed a Phantom Wolf in Heifeng Mountain, but they all ended up failing and even got injured. Now, it seemed like Xia Yan really found it hard to believe what Xiahou Sheng had said.

  The Phantom Wolf's body twisted and its limbs moved again, continuing to flee into the dense forest.

  Xia Yan's mouth curled up in a cold smile, and with a swift swing of his sword, he swept it across. However, this strike did not directly aim at the Phantom Wolf's body, but instead landed in front of its fleeing direction.

  Peak

  A large tree was split in two by a sword energy, with a loud cracking sound. The entire trunk was completely severed and slowly fell over.

  The wolf's body trembled, and it suddenly stopped. Its head slowly turned around, looking back at Xia Yan, its eyes filled with a terrified expression, its mouth open and panting, pitifully staring at Xia Yan not far behind.

  Immediately, the four hooves kept pawing at the sand on the ground, just like a local dog fawning on its master.

  Seeing this scene, Xia Yan furrowed his brow and felt quite helpless.

  "Wah wah"

  The shadow wolf kept making low, pleading sounds, its green eyes staring at Xia Yan as it wagged its tail and almost pounced on Xia Yan to show affection.

  "To kill? Or not to kill?"

  Xia Yan struggled in her heart, this ghost wolf that looked like a mongrel dog was really not intimidating at all.

  Shaking her head, Xia Yan sighed softly.

  "Never mind, it's just a beast after all. I suppose it won't dare to cause trouble in the manor again." Xia Yan waved his hand at the Phantom Wolf, letting it leave.

  However, what made Xia Yan incomprehensible was that Huan Ying Lang did not choose to leave this time, but instead walked towards Xia Yan and slowly approached him.

  Xia Yan's heart tightened, his long sword gripped tightly in his hand, and he concentrated on being vigilant.

  Rumors say that the Phantom Wolf is extremely cunning, but it's better to kill him directly rather than letting him escape. Xia Yan's sword flashed slightly, and he was about to draw his sword, but stopped himself.

  At this time, the shadow wolf was like a small cat, crouching on the ground and slowly crawling towards Xia Yan, its belly sliding on the ground.

  Such a posture is obviously impossible to make an effective attack.

  The Phantom Wolf also knew that Xia Yan was on guard against himself. That's why he made such a gesture, with innocent eyes in his double pupils.

  "What's this muddy dog going to do?" Xia Yan was even more perplexed.

  Logically speaking, the Phantom Wolf should have escaped immediately, so why didn't it escape and instead tried to please itself?

  Squeak

  The Phantom Wolf stopped one meter away from Xia Yan, making a strange sound in its mouth, like the cooing of an infant. One of its front paws also stretched out, pointing to a direction in the thicket, and its head nodded and shook alternately.

  Xia Yan did not relax his vigilance, and as long as the Phantom Wolf made any move that was unfavorable to him, he would strike out with a deadly sword. But now, the Phantom Wolf seemed to want to express something to him.

  She looked in that direction and hesitated for a moment before saying: "You want to take me there?"

  Xia Yan asked the Phantom Wolf.

  When Xia Yan spoke, Huan Ying Lang hastily nodded his head quickly, even drooling.

  "This mutt can understand what I'm saying?" Xia Yan was shocked!

  Rumors have it that only relatively powerful spiritual beasts can understand human language, but this phantom wolf is absolutely not a spiritual beast. So "how did it understand what I said?"

  Xia Yan was shocked and looked at Phantom Wolf, his heart also stirred up a huge wave.

  "Whatever, since it's going to take me there anyway, I'll just go and see. With my current abilities, even if I encounter danger, I have the ability to protect myself." Xia Yan thought for a moment before making his decision.

  "You go first, I'll follow." Xia Yan pointed in that direction again and turned to speak to Huan Ying Lang.

  The phantom wolf let out a long howl and quickly stood up, shaking its short tail as it ran towards the forest.

  Xia Yan followed behind, one man and one wolf, and again rushed through the jungle.

  This time, they rushed for nearly an hour, deep into the Black Wind Mountain for dozens of miles. Xia Yan was on guard against the Shadow Wolves all the way, no matter what, this was a very powerful wild beast, Xia Yan didn't

  Suddenly, the Phantom Wolf stopped in front of its rapidly advancing form, its four hooves firmly grasping a layer of fallen leaves that flew about due to the wolf's impact.

  Xia Yan saw the shadow wolf suddenly stop in its tracks. He was more than ten meters behind the shadow wolf, and a peregrine falcon also flipped over, landing steadily on the ground.

  "Wah wah"

  The shadow wolf turned around and made a series of swift claw swipes and gestures towards Xia Yan.

  Xia Yan looked at it for a long time before suddenly understanding. The Phantom Wolf wanted Xia Yan to look at the mountain cliff not far away.

  On the cliff, there is a small clear spring flowing down from top to bottom. The cliff forms a 90-degree vertical surface. It's about 100 meters high. Moreover, there are no protruding rocks on the cliff wall, and it looks very smooth.

  "What is this place?" Xia Yan looked at the cliff and said in a low voice.

  Hei Feng Shan, it was Xia Yan's first time here, so naturally he didn't know what this mountain cliff was called.

  "Why did you bring me here?" After a moment of contemplation, he spoke again without getting to the point, and turned his gaze towards the wolf-like shadow of a dog not far ahead.

  When he heard Xia Yan's voice, the Phantom Wolf scratched the ground anxiously, its eyes flashing. However, it couldn't speak, even if it could understand what Xia Yan was saying. Xia Yan also couldn't understand its meaning.

  Suddenly, the shadow wolf ran to the edge of the cliff, exerted itself with a leap, and scratched at the cliff with its four claws. However, the bare cliff had nowhere to borrow force from. The shadow wolf soon fell down again in embarrassment, its fur all gray and disheveled.

  After falling to the ground, the Phantom Wolf made another desperate leap, and like before, it quickly fell down again.

  Xia Yan suddenly realized that the phantom wolf wanted him to climb up to the top of the cliff. But what was on top of the cliff? What was the purpose of the phantom wolf's actions?

  Looking at the Phantom Wolf's expectant eyes, Xia Yan fell into deep thought once again.

  After a while, Xia Yan decided to go up and take a look. The Phantom Wolf's performance was so hard-won, it couldn't just be to harm itself, right? Moreover, no matter how spiritual a wild beast was, it wouldn't think of using the tactic of "killing with a borrowed knife", would it?

  Xia Yan was determined in his heart, and then he flew forward with a swift movement. When he arrived at the edge of the cliff, Xia Yan carefully observed the cliff. This cliff was indeed very smooth, and there was no place to set foot.

  However, relying on his unpredictable movements and the sharp long sword in his hand, climbing up this hundred-meter-high cliff was still possible.

  ”

  Xia Yan let out a breath, and then the inner force circulated in his body for a cycle before he turned back to glance at Huan Ying Lang, and then his body sprang up, quickly climbing upwards.

  With a long sword in hand, he left small holes on the rock wall, and his feet kept treading on the rock wall. Soon, Xia Yan climbed up to a height of thirty meters on the cliff.

  The phantom wolf below, happily jumping back and forth. The green eyes are full of excited eyes.

  I'm afraid anyone who sees this scene will have a common idea: is this a beast?

  That expression is even more human than humans!

  "Chirp Chirp"

  Xia Yan concentrated his inner strength on his palms and feet, using the time it took to drink a cup of tea, he finally reached the top of the cliff.

  The top of the cliff is not large, only about 40 or 50 square meters in diameter. In the center of the top, there is a very small spring eye, and the stream that flows down from above is exactly where this spring eye emerges.

  "Huh?" Xia Yan's expression paused for a moment.

  He saw two scarlet plants growing right next to the spring.

  "This is"

  When Xia Yan saw these two plants clearly, he was suddenly shocked!

  "It's Sparrow Tongue Flower!"

  A herb capable of astonishing Xia Yan. Clearly no ordinary item.

  That's right, these two sprigs of Sparrow Tongue Flower are indeed one of the special medicinal herbs marked in the Rare Treasure Atlas. Its efficacy is extremely broad, and many high-grade elixirs require this Sparrow Tongue Grass. Moreover, Sparrow Tongue Flowers are extremely difficult to obtain, and their value is immeasurable.

  "Haha, I didn't expect to find the rare and precious 'Swallow's Tongue Grass' here!" Xia Yan was overjoyed, this was a treasure that had fallen into his lap.

  At this moment, Xia Yan carefully and cautiously dug out the swallow tongue flower from the rock. The bright red swallow tongue flower emits a faint, intoxicating fragrance. The value of swallow tongue grass is like that of Bi Shui Zhi Xin, both are things that can be encountered but cannot be sought after. For an alchemist, swallow tongue grass is even more important than life itself.

  "Right, it was that phantom wolf that brought me here. Could it be because of the swallow's tongue flower?" Xia Yan hesitated for a moment, thinking of the phantom wolf. He looked at the two stalks of swallow's tongue flowers in his hand and couldn't help but hesitate, "It seems that's indeed the case. But what did it want to do with these swallow's tongues?"

  This is it.

  With a flash of her eyes, Xia Yan picked up the swallow tongue flower and carefully searched the top of the cliff again. After finding nothing else, she flew down to climb back down to the ground.

  The speed of going down was much faster than the speed of going up, and after falling more than ten meters, Xia Yan inserted his long sword into the cliff to slow down. Soon, they arrived at the bottom of the cliff.