C23 (2/2)

In that moment, it was as if the gap between her and Jun Ling had unknowingly widened by a lot. Suddenly, she realized that the words she had said just now, were actually filled with the suspicion of being emotionally kidnapped.

It was as if he was telling Jun Ling that he had to listen to me since you were arranged by my father. If not for my father, you wouldn't even have the chance to enter the Navy Tide Academy.

Words were in itself a double-edged sword. Saying bad things or saying bad things would have a completely different result. A single sentence could accomplish things and also cause failure. A vicious person's words could stir up a storm.

and the rest did not dare say anything as they stared at Jun Ling and Leng Ning. They did not have any opinions to express, and it was better to pretend to be mute.

Jun Ling looked deeply at Leng Ning, and without saying a word, he immediately stood up and leaped onto the tree trunk, sitting on the tree branch with his back against the tree and slowly closed his eyes. His spirit energy protecting his body could still resist the cold, and Leng Ning under the tree had also let out a light sigh, which seemed to be causing him to feel uncomfortable.

The night gradually grew colder, and by the side of the bonfire, Leng Ning and the others fell asleep. The flames were extinguished, and white smoke drifted into the air. The mountain range once again fell into silence.

In the early morning of the next day, when the sun's rays penetrated through the layers of clouds and sprinkled down, the Dark Demon Mountain Range's fog seemed to be like that of a fairyland. When Jun Ling opened his eyes, he only felt that there was only mist in front of him.

”This fog...” ”There's something wrong.”

Jun Ling became cautious, even if it was just a mist, it was still too strange. He looked around and didn't see any signs of Leng Ning and her group, only the bonfire he had burnt out last night.

The roiling mist engulfed the Dark Demon Mountain Range, and the intersecting trees seemed to have solidified. Like smoke coming out of a censer, the thick mist rolled down from the depressions between the two peaks like a waterfall.

He did not stay here for too long, but still followed his memories and entered the forest stealthily. This dense mist was a little strange, and he had to be more careful, and in a short period of time, Jun Ling's figure had already traveled more than a hundred meters through the mountain range, but every part of his journey was blocked by a strange mist, so Jun Ling could only stop his basic body.

”Hmm?”

Just as Jun Ling stopped in his tracks, his sharp sense of smell detected a strange smell. That smell was mixed in the dense fog and it was extremely difficult to discern it, but he did not know why Jun Ling was able to catch a whiff of that indifferent and elegant smell.

Closing his eyes, he slowly caught a glimpse of the direction that the smell came from. After a few breaths, Jun Ling opened his eyes, his thin lips slowly rose as he tiptoed forward.

Under a stone slab in the forest, a milky-white plant stood tall, and from its stamen it continuously emitted a thick white mist, which then spread throughout the mountain range. From the stamen that was spraying out the thick mist, a small cluster of thick milky-white liquid slowly flowed out, crystal clear and emitting a pure smell, and the light itself was translucent like jade.