"Would it be a bit unethical for us to leave like this?"

"What's moral and immoral? I've been on the mountain for three years, and I haven't learned any martial arts. The elders have always asked me to carry water and water the fields. Why should I die?"

"That's right, they only care about those who have been up in the mountains since childhood, and we are just doing odd jobs."

"Anyway, I don't want to die at the hands of the Zhenbei Army."

A group of Yunshan Sect disciples who were about to leave along the back mountain path were talking as they walked.

Most of them are disciples of the outer sect, and their treatment is very different from that of the inner sect and direct disciples, so they usually feel dissatisfied. Now that things are approaching disaster, they naturally will not choose to live and die with the sect.

If we have to force them, it may lead to civil strife.

I think the leader Liu Yunfeng and the elders also understood this, so they were allowed to leave on their own if they wanted to.

"These guys..."

Behind the crowd, Zhu Xu's eyes were red, and he clenched his fists as he listened to others slandering the sect.

He wanted to rush up and argue with them immediately, but Wang Qing, the second senior sister next to him, held him back and said, "Junior brother, don't be impulsive."

"Second Senior Sister! You also heard what they said about the heads and elders!"

"...After all, after they come down from the mountain, they won't call themselves 'disciples of the Yunshan Sect'. It's equivalent to quitting the sect, so they can say whatever they like."

"But..." Zhu Xu felt that what Wang Qing said made sense, and his expression darkened.

"It would be great if master, senior brother and the others were still here..."

"Junior brother, Master fought for the chance of survival for us with all his life. We must cherish it. After we come down from the mountain, we will go to the Central Plains together and practice martial arts well. We must avenge Master and the brothers in the future."

"Um!"

The two made up their minds and quickened their pace.

The group of people followed the back mountain path and soon came to a cliff.

This is the secret way down the mountain.

Ordinary people can't get through here, but most of them practice martial arts and have light skills, so they can still get there safely if they are careful.

But some people with low martial arts skills and poor light skills had to find vines, tie them around tree trunks, throw them down the cliff, and climb down.

For a time, all the disciples who were good at Qinggong used Qinggong to step down the cliff.

Others held on to the vines and climbed down bit by bit.

Zhu Xu and Wang Qing are both pretty good at Qinggong, so naturally they won't climb down slowly.

The two of them used Qinggong to descend from the cliff and landed on a rock.

Looking up, there is a dense forest ahead. Through the dense forest, there is the road to the south of Cangzhang County. Along the road, you can go deep into Mozhou and go to the Central Plains.

Soon, the disciples all came down from the cliff, and some unlucky ones failed to hold on properly when climbing down and fell to their death.

In response to this, other disciples did not say anything except exclaiming.

He didn't even think about burying it.

At this point, everyone just wants to get away from this Tao Hulu Mountain as soon as possible, and they don't care about other people at all.

The group of people entered the dense forest one after another.

Zhu Xu and Wang Qing came down early and were walking in front. Zhu Xu said: "Sister, where do you think we are going in the Central Plains?"

Wang Qing shook his head: "I don't know either."

The two of them were very confused about the future. They said they were going to the Central Plains, but the Central Plains was so big that they had no idea where they would go.

"Go to Liyang!" A look of longing appeared on Zhu Xu's face, "Master said before that Liyang is the place with the most people in the world, and there are dozens of large and small martial arts schools in the city! Wherever we go, we can be better.

Practice your martial arts skills!"

"Well, it's really good to go there." Wang Qing said.

Zhu Xu said: "When we get to Liyang, we will first make a tomb for our master and brothers, and then..."

stop!

A sound broke through the air suddenly!

Wang Qing was startled: "Be careful!"

puff!

The arrow sank into Zhu Xu's throat in an instant. Before the latter could finish speaking, he was knocked to the ground by the huge momentum of the arrow.

He grabbed the sharp arrow with both hands and said "ho ho" in his mouth: "Sister, sister...save..."

This arrow seemed to be a signal, and immediately afterwards, a large number of sounds broke through the air.

This was accompanied by screams one after another.

"ah!"

"There's an ambush! There's an ambush in the woods!"

"Run back quickly!!"

"It's the Zhenbei Army! Ah!!!"

Rest rest rest rest rest rest!

Puff puff puff...

Lots, lots, lots!

The sound of sharp arrows piercing the air, the sound of arrows falling into the body, and the sounds of arrows hitting tree trunks are continuous.

There were at least hundreds of people ambushing in the forest, and a sneak attack took away the lives of forty or fifty people.

"No! Junior brother!"

Wang Qing was lucky enough not to be hit by the first round of arrows. She threw herself on Zhu Xu, who was still staring at death, and couldn't stop crying.

Her mind was in chaos now, and she had no idea why there was an ambush here.

You must know that few people know about this cliff. Even people from the Yunshan Sect would never leave it. How did the Zhenbei Army know about it?

She also recalled Liu Yunfeng's previous confession that the two of them were the last traces left by Layman Xuanzhu. If they died, not only would the Four Seasons Sword Technique of Layman Xuanzhu be lost, but even the traces of his existence would disappear completely...

"Kakaka"

There was a sound not far behind her, which brought Wang Qing back to her senses. She knew that it was the sound of the crossbow being strung up again and ready to be fired.

"I will fight with you!!!"

She didn't run away because she knew it was useless. She just got up and rushed towards the Zhenbei Army in the rear, hoping to kill a few more enemies before she died.

What greeted her was just a new wave of arrows.

"No, I don't want to die!"

"Get away! Don't block me!"

"They are catching up, hurry up and crawl!!"

The dozens of disciples who had not died in the first round of arrows all ran back the same way.

They ran back to the bottom of the cliff. The vines were still there, and these people rushed to grab them and be the first to climb up.

But everyone wanted to be in the front, and for a while you pulled each other into a fight.

Some disciples who are good at martial arts and light skills want to jump up the cliff in the air, but it is easy to come down from the top but difficult to go up from the bottom.

Only two or three people had hope, and just when they were about to reach the top, another round of dense arrow rain came and shot them dead in mid-air.

"No!"

"Spare your life! Spare your life!"

Seeing that the soldiers in the dense forest were chasing after them, the disciples who had no time to escape knelt down and begged for mercy.

But it was of no use at all, because Su Yuan temporarily transferred the command authority of this army to Shen Lian.

The order Shen Lian gave them was to ambush in the dense forest and kill anyone who came down from the cliff.

Therefore, these soldiers summoned by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry did not understand what begging for mercy meant. They pulled the trigger with expressionless faces and harvested the lives of all the remaining people.

Another round of arrows.

It was completely quiet now.

Afterwards, the soldiers put away their crossbows, pulled out the ring-shou knives they carried, and began to check separately. When they found that someone was still alive or pretending to be dead, they would add another knife.

Soon, the inspection is completed.
Chapter completed!