Faced with Ning Qianqian's call, Chu Xingchen stopped.
He slightly turned his head, his eyes looking at Ning Qianqian, who had a tangled expression.
Although the Ning Qianqian in front of him had stopped him, her vigilance might not have weakened.
He needed to play it a bit to better allow her to tell the truth.
"What's wrong?" Chu Xingchen asked, then turned around, his eyes calmly looking at Ning Qianqian.
Ning Qianqian had a tangled expression, then still carefully asked:
"Great Immortal, which sect are you from?"
Chu Xingchen spoke without hesitation: "Central Continent, Ten Thousand Laws Immortal Sect."
Chu Xingchen had no embarrassment about lying, after all, the girl in front of him had never told him the truth, had she?
Deception was mutual.
Especially since he didn't know the details of the thin girl in front of him. Furthermore, the sect name of the Heavenly Dao Alliance was too grand, and he was afraid that the girl in front of him would be too scared after hearing it.
Ning Qianqian revealed an expression of having admired the name for a long time.
But in reality, Ning Qianqian, as a mortal, had never stepped into the world of cultivation, so how would she know anything about Central Continent?
It would be an exaggeration to describe this world as boundless, but it was already very large.
Even a small border country had a territory of tens of thousands of miles.
The Southern Zhan Continent was already a great world, and the Qingfeng Sect was in a remote place, but it was also a well-known name here.
As for the place where the spiritual veins of the Southern Zhan Continent converged, there were even more sects.
For this place, Central Continent was already like a world away.
If it weren't for Ning Qianqian's father telling her that they were going to the Qingfeng Sect, Ning Qianqian, as a peasant from a mountain village, would not have known the name of the Qingfeng Sect.
Ning Qianqian asked this purely to vaguely inform the masked man in front of him that she was not as ignorant as she looked.
Don't try to fool her, although it might not be of any use, but it was better than doing nothing, wasn't it?
But... Central Continent, she had heard her father say that it was the legendary holy land of cultivation.
What's more, the sect name of the Ten Thousand Laws Immortal Sect sounded very powerful.
The Ten Thousand Laws Immortal Sect!
Then listen to the Qingfeng Sect!
Wasn't it very obvious who was stronger and who was weaker?
What's more, the Ten Thousand Laws Immortal Sect sounded more like a famous and righteous sect.
But she heard that when dealing with such famous and righteous sects, you had to learn to sell misery first.
Gain the sympathy of such a Great Immortal, and then they would feel sorry for you and lend a helping hand.
Just like the beggars on the street.
Although Ning Qianqian was unwilling to do this kind of thing, because her father said that it would lose face for her ancestors.
But losing face for her ancestors and losing her life, Ning Qianqian felt that... her father should choose to lose face, right?
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Anyway, she herself would definitely choose this way. What's more, from the current point of view, her own abilities were completely insufficient to save her father, so she could only try her luck first.
Ning Qianqian adjusted her emotions from the past few days, tears suddenly flowed out, and at the same time, she recalled the expressions of the beggars she had met, consulted them as appropriate, and then said with a slightly tragic expression: "Great Immortal! Do you know that this Qingfeng Sect..."
Seeming to have reached a choking point, Ning Qianqian wailed.
But faced with Ning Qianqian's self-sentimental crying, the face behind Chu Xingchen's mask couldn't help but twitch...
Because at this moment, Ning Qianqian's expression was twisted together like a contortion, and her occasional sobbing looked extremely like a twitch, which looked very comical.
Moreover, her crying looked like it was all acting, especially when she looked at him with her eyes, it had a somewhat sneaky feeling.
Snot and tears were mixed together on her dirty face.
Perhaps... she thought that she looked pitiful like this?
Did this child not know that her acting was not good?
Who could cry so abstractly?
But since Ning Qianqian was going this route, then should he cooperate?
Taking back the desire to complain, Chu Xingchen took a deep breath, with a shocked and doubtful tone:
"What's wrong with them?"
Ning Qianqian wailed and began to say like pouring beans:
"My father and I lived in Ningjia Village. My mother's health was not good and she left early. It was all thanks to my father's hard work that I grew up."
"This year, the village suffered a disaster, and we couldn't eat a meal every two days. At this time, people from the Qingfeng Sect came and tricked my father into cultivating immortality."
"They said that as long as you cultivate immortality, you can have anything you want. My father was stupid and thought they were telling the truth. He only asked them for food for me and left with them."
"My father just abandoned me like this, and many older brothers were also tricked away together."
Chu Xingchen sighed slightly, looking at the dirty and thin Ning Qianqian in front of him.
This father was not stupid, perhaps he just wanted to leave a hope for his daughter.
"Then how do you know they are liars?"
Hearing the question, Ning Qianqian quickly took out a tightly wrapped cloth from her tattered clothes, and her trembling little hands quickly unwrapped the cloth.
The thing wrapped inside was not a precious thing, but a handful of dry yellow soil.
Chu Xingchen frowned slightly, looking at this handful of yellow soil.
Ning Qianqian held this handful of yellow soil with trembling hands, and at this moment, it seemed that there was genuine emotion, her expression was grieved:
"Not long after those immortals left... all the food they left behind turned into yellow soil."
"The aunt next door and Niu Zi ate the white steamed buns given by this immortal, and they were bloated to death by this yellow soil not long after."
"Many people died in the village... many, many people."
"Father was tricked, and older brothers were also tricked."
"They can't cultivate immortality at all. Those people from the Qingfeng Sect are not good people at all. They will also die... I only have my father left. My father can abandon me, but I can't not save my father."
"I want to show this to my father, so that my father will believe me."
Chu Xingchen didn't reply, but reached out and pinched the yellow soil in front of him. At this moment, the yellow soil still had some residual spiritual power that had not dissipated.
He didn't expect that the Qingfeng Sect wouldn't even give the food for exchanging lives.
Faced with Ning Qianqian's expectant gaze, Chu Xingchen only felt a little helpless.
At this moment, it wouldn't be a big problem if he said that he would get some spirit stones from the mine and then slip away. However, it was not easy to rescue people under the support of Golden Core Real Person and Qingfeng Sect.
Or rather, he would probably not be able to protect a mortal.
However, nothing was absolute. A blind move would inevitably lead to failure.
Chu Xingchen sighed and looked at the thin little girl in front of him with sincere eyes.
There were no real shoes on the little girl's feet, only a few vines tied to her feet.
There were also dried dark red bloodstains on the vines.
Ning Qianqian, who had been exposed to the elements, had a dark face, and her slender and weak body seemed to be blown down by the wind.
This mountain range was very rugged and difficult to walk, and there were many cliffs. He didn't know how the little girl in front of him had traveled through mountains and rivers.
Faced with what kind of difficulties she was able to get here. He didn't know how long she had been trapped in the maze, not to mention that there were wild animals roaming in this mountain range.
Looking at Ning Qianqian in front of him, Chu Xingchen said seriously: "The matter of saving your father is not urgent now. I have to go back and make a plan first. Are you willing to come with me now?"
Anyway, Chu Xingchen still had a demand for spirit stones. As long as the plan was proper, Ning Qianqian's father should be able to be rescued as well.
Ning Qianqian hesitated slightly when she heard this. She wanted to see if she could have a chance to find her father again here, although she knew the chance was slim, but she didn't even want to miss such a slim chance.
"Can I wait for you here? I..."
Before she finished speaking, Chu Xingchen raised his hand to interrupt: "You are not stupid, you should understand that leaving you behind might not be good for your father."
Ning Qianqian was silent for a while, then nodded, but pleaded:
"Then if you don't want to save my father, can you bring me back here?"
"I don't walk this road as easily as a Great Immortal. It's actually a bit difficult for me to walk."
Chu Xingchen lowered his eyes to look at Ning Qianqian in front of him. At this moment, she seemed to have taken off all the traces of performance.
Only those eyes had endless pleading in them.