The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, becoming a disciple of Yue Buqun

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He brought a few changes of clothes with him on this trip.

Jiang Ning got up and walked to Maodou's side, picked up one of the packages from the ground next to it, took out one item from the package and handed it to Maodou.

He bought that outfit in Shaanxi. He had never worn it before and planned to wear it when he visited the Emei Sect. After all, it wouldn't be appropriate for him to travel all the way from Shaanxi to Sichuan and then go to see the people of the Emei Sect in such a dusty and travel-worn state.

Fortunately, Jiang Ning bought an extra one, which was just right for this Miao girl to use.

Gan Lan was still a little embarrassed after taking the clothes.

"Brother Jiang..."

Jiang Ning got up and waited under the eaves outside the temple.

The rustling sound of changing clothes could be heard inside the dilapidated temple, but it was drowned out by the sound of heavy rain outside.

"Brother Jiang, I'm all changed. You can come in now."

The sound of cabbage came from inside the dilapidated temple.

Jiang Ning came to his senses and turned to enter the temple.

Gan Lan was wearing Hanfu at this time, but Jiang Ning's clothes were men's clothing, and he was a head taller than Gan Lan, so Gan Lan's clothes looked rather loose and baggy.

Ganlan's hair had been dried by the oven and hung loosely down her back. Her face was flushed as if illuminated by the firelight, and her lips were red and tender.

When Jiang Ning came in, Gan Lan turned her head away a little shyly.

Jiang Ning returned to his previous seat, leaned against the Buddha statue, turned his head, and fell asleep immediately.

"Hey?"

The cabbage, who was initially a little shy, was stunned and caught off guard.

Gan Lan looked down at her figure, which was curvy and shapely. She was very confident in her figure and appearance, but Jiang Ning's behavior made her start to doubt her own charm.

Gan Lan pouted as she watched Jiang Ning's retreating figure.

She was a little worried at first, but now she doesn't have to worry anymore.

The rain that had fallen all night finally stopped. Jiang Ning patted Maodou to wake it up and prepared to leave.

"gone."

Upon hearing Jiang Ning's words, Maodou yawned sleepily.

Jiang Ning didn't sleep a wink last night. He appeared to be sleeping, but he was actually on high alert. He wouldn't be able to sleep peacefully with a stranger suddenly appearing around him.

"Brother Jiang".

Jiang Ning and Mao Dou walked a distance before Gan Lan chased after them, having changed back into her Miao ethnic clothing.

"Brother Jiang, where are you going?"

Gan Lan caught up with Jiang Ning and stopped to catch her breath.

Jiang Ning looked at her and said, "I plan to travel around a bit."

"Can I come with you?"

Gan Lan stared at Jiang Ning with wide eyes, her face full of worry, and said, "I'm just a girl, I can't run far by myself. If they catch me again, I'll be in big trouble."

Gan Lan looked at Jiang Ning with a pitiful expression: "Brother Jiang, I believe you are a good person. Please help me out of here. If you take me out of here, I won't bother you anymore."

Jiang Ning remained silent upon hearing this, his eyes revealing a deep contemplation.

"Is that good~"

Seeing that he remained silent, Gan Lan reached out to tug at Jiang Ning's sleeve.

Jiang Ning took a step back and finally relented: "Okay."

"Thank you, Brother Jiang. I knew you were a good person."

Gan Lan beamed with joy, her eyes brightening, and she immediately handed over the clothes Jiang Ning had lent her.

"Brother Jiang, here's the clothes you lent me yesterday."

Jiang Ning glanced at the clothes in her hands; they were neatly folded and had a faint floral scent.

"No need, you can have it."

Upon hearing Jiang Ning's words, Gan Lan hugged the clothes to her chest as if she had received a cherished treasure.

"Really? Thank you, Brother Jiang Ning!"

Kale smiled and her eyes narrowed like crescent moons.

……

"Brother Jiang, is Shaanxi fun?"

"Brother Jiang, where have you been?"

"Brother Jiang, why do you always have such a long face and never smile?"

"Brother Jiang, why aren't you saying anything?"

"Brother Jiang..."

After leaving that dilapidated temple, Jiang Ning traveled for another two days. Along the way, Gan Lan would talk about their Miao customs and ask Jiang Ning questions, chattering away incessantly.

"Brother Jiang!"

As they passed a stream, Ganlan suddenly shouted and pointed at the water.

"We've walked for so long, let's take a break, I'm very thirsty."

Jiang Ning and she walked for half a day before finally seeing a stream.

"it is good."

Jiang Ning nodded, then sat down under a tree.

"Brother Jiang, wait for me!"

Upon hearing this, the cabbage ran happily to the stream, bent down to drink the water, and then picked some larger leaves, stacked them together, filled them with water, and ran back.

"Brother Jiang, are you thirsty too? Have some water."

Gan Lan carefully carried the water to Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning looked at her, and finally a smile appeared on his face. He took the water that she had scooped up with a leaf from her hand.

"Thank you."

A smile appeared on Gan Lan's face upon hearing this.

"No need... uh..."

As soon as Gan Lan uttered those words, her face suddenly flushed red.

A hand suddenly reached out and grabbed her throat tightly.

“Brother Jiang…”

Gan Lan stared wide-eyed at Jiang Ning in disbelief.

The clothes Jiang Ning gave her also fell off her body and onto the ground.

"Who asked you to come?"

The smile on Jiang Ning's face had disappeared, and he spoke slowly.

At this moment, he held the cabbage tightly around the neck with one hand, his face turned to the ground, and with his other hand he slowly poured the water from the leaves onto the clothes that had fallen to the ground.

"I...I don't understand...what you...mean."

Gan Lan tried to call out, but the hand gripping her throat tightened even more. Veins bulged on her forehead, her brain gradually became oxygen-deprived, and speaking became increasingly difficult.

Water seeped into the clothes, and the clothes gradually turned green. A pale white worm, about the size of a grain of rice, was writhing and rolling around.

Chapter 131: Emei Sect

Jiang Ning remained calm as he looked at the green-tinged clothes lying on the ground and the writhing worms on them.

Jiang Ning glanced at the cabbage.

"Miao people".

Then I looked at the fleshy worm that had fallen off my clothes and was wriggling on the ground.

"Skilled in using poisons."

I looked at the green stains on my clothes.

"Skilled in poisons."

Jiang Ning finally looked at Gan Lan and said, "It seems you're a member of the Five Poisons Sect."

Gan Lan looked at Jiang Ning with surprise in her eyes.

Seeing her shocked expression, Jiang Ning knew he had guessed correctly.

The Five Poisons Sect, also known as the Five Immortals Sect, is one of the two major poison sects in the North and South, along with the Hundred Medicines Sect in the Central Plains.

Most of the members of the Five Poisons Sect are Miao people, who mainly live in the Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Hunan regions and rarely go to the Central Plains. However, the mere mention of the Five Poisons Sect sends chills down the spines of many martial artists in the Jianghu.

"The fact that you came to find me means that you already knew my identity beforehand."

Jiang Ning looked at her and said slowly, "I have no grudge against you, but you still attacked me, which means that someone ordered you to do so."

“I rarely have enemies, so it shouldn’t be my enemies who are sending you to deal with me.”

"Since they are not my enemies, then they are the enemies of my Huashan Sect."

"For decades, our Huashan Sect has had no enmity with other sects except for fighting against the Demonic Sect."

Although the Qingcheng Sect and the Huashan Sect had a feud before, now that Yu Canghai and his disciples are dead, the enmity is naturally over.

"The only mortal enemy of the Huashan Sect is the Demonic Sect."

Jiang Ning looked at her: "It seems the Demonic Sect sent you to deal with me."

Gan Lan stared at Jiang Ning in shock, her face filled with disbelief.

Jiang Ning continued, "If the Demonic Sect wanted to deal with me, they would have sent people to hunt me down directly, instead of sending you to approach me. This means that someone within the Demonic Sect sent you to do this, but that person doesn't intend to kill me, or at least doesn't plan to kill me for the time being."

"The Miao people have always been arrogant, and your leader is a Miao woman. The only person who can command you is a high-ranking female member of the Demonic Sect."

Jiang Ning looked at her and suddenly said, "Did the Holy Maiden of the Demonic Sect send you here?"

There are very few female high-ranking members in the Sun Moon Sect. So far, the only member of the demonic sect that Jiang Ning has come into contact with is Ren Yingying, whom he met once in Xiangyang City.

Gan Lan looked at Jiang Ning as if he were looking at a monster.

The other person's meticulous analysis sent chills down her spine.

The Five Poisons Sect has indeed submitted to the Sun Moon Sect, but they are only under Ren Yingying's control; no one else in the Demonic Sect can command them.

Looking at her like this, the answer is self-evident.

Jiang Ning narrowed his eyes slightly.

Has that demoness come to Sichuan now?

The journey from Mount Hua to Sichuan is over a thousand, nearly two thousand miles. If Ren Yingying had noticed earlier, it's impossible that he would have waited until he reached Sichuan to make his move. There's only one possibility: that demoness also saw him in Sichuan, and thus had the Five Poisons Sect attack him.

"You...you...when...did you find out...that I...deliberately approached...you......"

Gan Lan spoke haltingly, her neck gripped tightly by Jiang Ning, making it extremely difficult for her to speak. He threatened to snap her neck at the slightest movement.

Jiang Ning looked at her and smiled, "From the moment you entered the dilapidated temple."

Ganlan looked incredulous.

"You're being too deliberate."

It was indeed intentional. At the time, Jiang Ning was just sheltering from the rain in a dilapidated temple when Gan Lan and those Miao people came and surrounded him. At first, Jiang Ning wasn't sure if what they said was true or false, so he said that sentence to test them.

If they were really after him, they would inevitably drag him into it. Sure enough, when he said he didn't know him, the Miao people were stunned for a moment, and then they steered the conversation toward Jiang Ning, which made Jiang Ning realize that they were after him.

But what truly exposed them was that Gan Lan's behavior was too unusual, as if she had fallen in love with Jiang Ning at first sight.

Jiang Ning never considered himself as handsome as Pan An. Women would pounce on him the moment they saw him, and without exception, every woman who did so had an ulterior motive.