The sun sets in the west and the afterglow falls on the salt mountains.
The survivors of the Fuwei Escort Bureau had already left with the wounded and corpses, leaving only pools of blood and a man and a bird lying in the pool of blood.
The smell of blood attracts scavengers.
Several crows were standing on their corpses, pecking at the flesh.
Cao Jinxing and others have left long ago, and there are no travelers in the barren mountains and ridges, until now.
The three figures rushed to the foot of the Salt Mountain and saw the corpses of Jia Shi and Feng Jiu, both of which had been pecked by crows and were in disgrace.
The faces of the three people showed unbearable expressions.
"Sure enough, something happened..."
The leader had a boar nose on his face, his tusks exposed, and a ring of black bristles on his neck, as hard as steel needles. He spoke in a deep voice, exuding a ferocious ferocity:
"Look around for any clues."
"yes."
The left and right arms of the two people behind them were replaced by a yellow, black and white plush paw respectively.
It looked like the front paws of some kind of tiger-shaped beast. The muscles were knotted and extremely powerful.
The two obediently looked around.
As a carefully cultivated Grade A material, Luo Lie can be said to have given everything to Luo Lie, an important force in his plan to capture high-level exotic beasts!
Over the past five years, the 18 people named A have been carefully trained, and the first six of them are the descendants of carefully selected villagers. They have inherited the remains of alien beasts and have extraordinary talents.
After all the transplants, there were still twelve of the eighteen people left, but all six in the village were successful - originally it was just to increase the proportion of limbs of the same species and strengthen the superpowers based on the existing residual limbs.
Success is also normal.
The leader is one of them.
He is Jia Liu.
Before receiving the transplant, he already had the fourth level of innate realm. After receiving the transplant from the alien beast, he quickly mastered the supernatural powers, robbed the surrounding sects one after another, and robbed the treasures of heaven and earth, and his realm advanced by leaps and bounds!
In just one month, he has crossed three levels in a row and reached the seventh innate level!
His powers of observation were extraordinary, and he noticed that Jia Shi and Feng Jiu had special wounds.
"This seems to be an arrow wound..."
Jialiu murmured to himself: "The arrow missed the chest and broke the bones, and passed through the body... What a powerful force! It's not much worse than the second child..."
"here!"
A shout came from behind.
Jia Liu stood up and looked back. Jia Eleven and Jia Fourteen were staring at a piece of bluestone on the side of the road dozens of meters away. He walked over and saw that there was an arrow stuck on the stone, and the arrow cluster had been deeply inserted into the stone.
, surrounded by spider web-like cracks and stains of blood.
"There are horse hoof prints on the official road, which is divided into two groups."
Jia Shiyi shrugged his nose: "It has been a long time, and the smell of blood is very weak. The injured group went north, and the uninjured group went to Leling along the official road..."
"Leling should not be the goal..."
Jia Shi looked at the hoof prints on the ground: "The group going south was not large in number, but the horse hoof prints were big, the breeds were better, and they were either rich or noble... Maybe they were going to Jinan Prefecture... They were not afraid of Jia Shi
, even the Fengjiu didn’t have time to warn them, both of them were killed! Such a ruthless and decisive attack... it’s very likely that they came for us!”
Jia Shiyi frowned: "Could it be the backup hired by the recently destroyed families? Is there anyone who hasn't dealt with it completely?"
"Maybe, it's useless to talk about it now."
Jialiu knelt down and looked at the arrow inserted into the stone: "...the arrow body is long, the arrow shaft is thick, and he uses a big bow. He can even kill a wind vulture with one arrow. Even if he attacks by surprise, his archery skills are no small feat...
"
Jia Liu looked at Jia Eleven: "You go and tell the master what's going on here first, and Fourteen and I will go and find out."
"good!"
Jia 11 left first.
The remaining two people buried Jia Shi and Feng Jiu first, then looked at the hoof prints on the ground and said with a cold face: "Chase!"
…
In half a day, the cavalry team had passed Leling and settled at He Ji's old store in Shanghe County, Jinan Prefecture.
Entered the inn.
Cao Jinxing and others asked for a room, wine and food, and asked the waiter to help feed the horse. Then they sat in the lobby and waited for the wine and food to be served.
The owner is a fat man in his forties, dressed in a military uniform, very friendly. Seeing the extraordinary temperament of these people, he personally went to the wine cellar and brought two jars of fine wine that had been stored for many years.
It’s very to your liking, please forgive me for your distinguished guests.”
"The shopkeeper is very polite."
Cao Jinxing drank from the glass and said with a smile: "This wine is very good... We are coming from Hebei and planning to go to Yanzhou Prefecture via Jinan to visit relatives. Grandpa's birthday is approaching. Does the shopkeeper know of any shortcuts?"
"I see."
The shopkeeper suddenly realized that no wonder they were all so majestic and the only girl was as beautiful as a fairy. She turned out to be from a prominent family!
"Some, some."
The shopkeeper pointed south and said: "Follow the official road in front of the door and walk ten miles east to Moon Bay, leave Shanghe County, pass Zhangqiu, Tai'an, and then take Ningyang and you will be there."
Cao Jinxing was not surprised at all by his answer and said casually: "This seems to be a small detour. Wouldn't it be closer to go directly south and cross the Xiuyu Valley?"
"You can't go to Xiuyu Valley!"
When the shopkeeper heard this, he hurriedly stopped him and said, "My guest is an outsider and doesn't know anything. That place is even more dangerous than the underworld! You must not pass there!"
"..."
Lu Yi and others at the same table remained calm, but their ears perked up.
The show is here!
Cao Jinxing said: "Why is this?"
The shopkeeper sighed and said, "It wasn't the devil named Xu who did it! Many years ago, there was a sect called Yihua Sect in that valley. They were so unscrupulous that they actually used the arms and legs of wild animals to press them on people, creating a
A pile of half-human, half-animal, brutal and murderous monsters! Later, God was wise, and the sect was burned down by a fire, but not all the monsters died. After so many years, there were more and more of them!
Just a few days ago, the watchman saw a monkey demon killing people at night! Sixty of the sixty-nine members of the Yum Sheng Gate died in one night, and nine disappeared. They were all good guys! The owner of the gate had his heart ripped out.
, that’s a miserable thing, I heard it was because of an 800-year-old snow ginseng tree... what a sin!”
"Monkey demon?"
Cao Jinxing paused and said, "What does it look like?"
The shopkeeper said: "The watchman didn't dare to look too much. He only knew that he was ten feet tall and covered in white hair. On a hot day, his breath was filled with frost. Several people were frozen to death! The county magistrate did not dare to go deep.
After investigation, it is determined that there is a feud in the Jianghu, stealing wealth and killing people... But everyone knows that it is the monster from Xiuyu Valley who comes out to harm people!"
The shopkeeper had a heart-warming look on his face.
"..."
Cao Jinxing looked at Yiyi.
After the hunt at noon, Yiyi was no longer so afraid and resistant to the characters in Xiuyu Valley, and admired Cao Jinxing endlessly!
He was very smart and knew what Cao Jinxing meant. He lowered his head and said: "...Among the people named A, there is only one person with extraordinary talent and unusually tall stature, Jia Er. The strange beast he is talking about should be the original one."
[Xue Maitreya] who lives in the Kunlun Snow Mountain, Luo Lie brought it from the northwest, and I went to feed it..."
【Xue Maitreya】......
Cao Jinxing frowned slightly.
Seeing his hesitation, the shopkeeper thought he was determined and said earnestly: "Sir, please listen to my advice. A monkey demon is already so powerful. There may be other monsters hidden in the valley. Don't take any risks."
The old man’s birthday is important, but his personal safety is even more important! Even if it’s too late, he will understand..."
"Um."
Cao Jinxing smiled and took out a piece of silver and handed it to him: "Thank you for the advice, shopkeeper. Please accept the silver. In addition, I will bring two pots of shochu."
"...Too much, too much."
The shopkeeper was a little embarrassed.
"Take it."
Cao Jinxing said: "We are not familiar with the place, so we should rely on the shopkeeper to give us some advice."
"Then...thank you very much." The shopkeeper smiled as he took the silver and hurried down to get the soju.
Cao Jinxing sent a message to Yiyi: "Those named B are all experimental products, and those named A are the ones Luo Lie carefully selected for transplantation, right?"
"Um!"
Yiyidao: "There are eighteen in total. We only have eight-level exercises. Those who are the worst are all six-level. There are still six who have been taught by Luo Lie personally. They learned five-level exercises five years ago... It seems that they came from the northwest.
It was found out through torture from famous disciples..."
Cao Jinxing said: "...Then why is he arresting people?"
Yiyidao: "Perhaps to help him catch exotic beasts... I remember Luo Lie said that this is called 'fighting to support war'. The captured people can be transplanted and controlled with drugs to continue to help him search for heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
...The person who originally started the attack can also gain combat experience in the fight and become familiar with the superpowers..."
"interesting."
Cao Jinxing raised his eyebrows and took out a pen and paper from his Qiankun bag: "Write down the characteristics of these eighteen people, mainly those six."
Yiyi wonders: "But I don't know much... I don't know the name of martial arts yet..."
Cao Jinxing: "It doesn't matter, just have obvious features."
Yiyi: "Okay!"
Yiyi picked up the pen and concentrated on writing.
Lu Yi took a sip of wine and whispered: "We didn't dispose of the body at noon, and we didn't clean up the traces. Do you want to wait for someone to come to your door? Kill them one by one?"
"That's right."
Cao Jinxing smiled slightly and looked out the window: "They have arrived... Fang Ling, be careful at night, let the four ghosts guard your door, and leave the [Five Thunder Divine Machine] and the Seven Treasure Box."
"Um!"
Huang Fanling nodded solemnly, and then secretly said: "If there is a chance, I would like to give it a try... Do you... know how to..."
"try what?"
Cao Jinxing was stunned at first, then realized that she also wanted to improve her martial arts qualifications through transplantation, and asked him if he would dislike her half-human, half-animal appearance...
With Huang Fanling's medical skills, it may be possible to achieve the greatest effect with the smallest residual limbs of strange animals.
Even like Luo Lie, it is possible that it is not visible on the outside, but... having a transplant is different after all...
"You don't have to think too much."
Cao Jinxing said seriously: "I have never regarded you as a burden. This world is not limited to martial arts. Your medical skills and elixir methods can also be of great help... Furthermore, the alien beasts are not worthy of you. Even if you want to
For transplantation, we should also look for mythical beasts!"
I have never used you as a burden...
Alien beasts are not worthy of you...
Looking for the mythical beast...
Huang Fanling's face suddenly turned red!
The rarest and most precious things in the world are mythical beasts!
So...does he value me so much?
Huang Fanling was extremely moved. What she was most afraid of was that Cao Jinxing thought her martial arts was low and would use her as a burden - even if she followed her all the way, her original intention was to worry that he had fallen into Xu Qingwei's trick...
Xu Qingwei was once the head of a sect in Yaowang Valley. He was familiar with thousands of poisons and medicines, and his methods were endless. Outsiders did not know his methods, and he would fall into the trap if he was not careful...
She complained to herself more than once that she paid too little attention to martial arts in the past. She only had the supreme inheritance of Medicine King Valley, but she devoted herself to studying medicine. Even if she practiced amazing medical skills, so what, not only would she not be able to help, but she would also have to worry about others...
fine……
fine……
The person she likes is different after all...
Yiyi finished writing the information on the eighteen people and handed it to Cao Jinxing. Some of them he had never come into contact with at all, while others he had only heard about...
Cao Jinxing took a cursory glance and knew what he was doing, and then took out the [Feng Yang] and [Snake Pan] arrays, injected the Hunyuan Qi, released the wind snake, covering a 400-meter radius, and listened to the movements around him...
Lu Yi and others held their breath when they saw this.
The legendary [Eight Arrays]!
Cao Jinxing closed his eyes, and the wind snakes everywhere brought back various strange sounds.
The sounds of gongs and cups in the lobby, the grunts in the guest rooms above, the creaking of bed boards, the tramping of horse hooves and snorting in the stables in the backyard of the lobby, and the grinding of teeth by mice in the corner, and so on...
All kinds of sounds echoed in my ears.
Cao Jinxing's brain is like a high-speed computer, filtering what he wants from countless voices.
soon.
He found it...
…
backyard.
The waiter holding a lantern led the way.
The shopkeeper put the money in his pocket and happily followed him to the cellar entrance, ready to go down to get the soju.
"Shopkeeper, the guests here tonight are so generous! They were very polite, so I helped feed the horses, and the young guest officer gave me two coins... uh..."
The waiter's smile froze and he quickly covered his mouth.
The shopkeeper gave him a blank look and said, "Forget it, just take it if it's given to you. These distinguished guests are very polite, so we can't trick them into going down to the wine cellar to take out the two jars of 'amber incense' that I have collected."
"Wow!"
The waiter turned around in surprise: "You are really..."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a pain in the hand holding the lantern, as if he had hit a wall.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Looking back again, I found a black shadow like an iron tower in front of me, hiding in the shadow of the night!
The shopkeeper was startled first, and just as he was about to scream, a fluffy paw covered his mouth from behind!
The waiter's heart was beating wildly, and he subconsciously raised the lantern with trembling hands. With the dim red light, he saw the ferocious boar's head under the cloak!
"ghost--"
The waiter was so frightened that he lost his mind, but before he could scream, the man in front of him had already strangled his neck and choked the screams behind him!
"Go underground!"
Two iron hands grabbed the shopkeeper and the waiter respectively. Jia Liuyi used his true energy and used his natural abilities. The two people felt that the ground under their feet suddenly softened, revealing a black hole. They opened and closed their eyes, and they were already following the path.
The cave slid underground!
The entrance to the cave closed naturally and looked exactly the same as before, while the underground was surrounded by earth walls and the space was narrow.
This is the innate ability of the strange beast [Li Li] - it can control the gathering and dispersion of sand and soil in a small area, hiding itself underground to ambush!
The two were thrown to the ground.
"This is……"
The shopkeeper and the waiter looked at the two monsters in horror.
It is not difficult to guess from their terrifying appearance that these two people, like the "Monkey Demon", were born in Xiuyu Valley!
"Two heroes..."
"Shut up!"
Jialiu interrupted them with a cold snort, squatted down, looked at the two people and said coldly: "Who are the people who are eating in the lobby?"
"them……"
The shopkeeper swallowed his saliva and said cautiously: "They came to Yanzhou via Jinan Prefecture to pay their birthdays..."
"Best birthday?"
The two of them were stunned. They didn't expect this to be the reason. Could it be that they just happened to pass by?
Jialiu said: "What state are they in? What kind of martial arts do they know?"
The shopkeeper looked confused: "Two heroes... We are all honest country people. We don't know martial arts, let alone their depth..."
"waste!"
Jialiu gave a low drink, was too lazy to ask any more questions, and threw out a packet of medicinal powder: "Sprinkle this into their wine! If it's done, I'll spare your life, but if it doesn't work..."
"how?"
Suddenly, a clear voice came from the ground.
The faces of Jia Liu and Jia Fourteen changed drastically.
What was even more frightening was that Jialiu suddenly felt that the surrounding sand was no longer under his control, as if an invisible hand had forcefully taken over his control!
This has never been done before!
"Now that you have found a grave for yourselves..."
Right above the cave, Cao Jin pressed his hands on the earth, mobilized the Hunyuan Qi, covered the deep soil, and then used the unity of heaven and man to control the sand, smiled slightly, and said:
"Then die in there!"
The soil around Jia Liu and Jia Fourteen suddenly condensed into soil spears, stabbing their hearts fiercely!
A sudden change occurred in the cave, which frightened the shopkeeper and the waiter into screaming.
The earth spears were formed extremely quickly and the attack was extremely powerful. Jia Shi4 hurriedly raised his palms and used the "Tiger Claw Hand" to break more than a dozen of them. However, there were too many earth spears. He could only hold on for two breaths before he could not dodge.
In an instant, more than a dozen holes were poked out by earthen spears!
Puff puff puff puff puff puff!
Lines of blood spurted out!
A-14 was nailed to death in mid-air!
"??!"
Jialiu broke into a cold sweat when he saw it, and his liver and gallbladder were split apart!
Without saying a word, he tried his best to use the [Raccoon Power] ability, and dug deeper with both hands.
On the ground, Cao Jinxing sneered and relaxed a little.
Underground, Jialiu felt the changes in the soil and was ecstatic. He quickly released all his energy and seized the opportunity to rush down, finally escaping from the control of the invisible giant hand...
"Something's wrong, there's something wrong with this person!"
Jialiu was in a state of confusion. He quickly controlled the gathering and dispersion of sand and soil, walked underground, and rushed to the Xiuyu Valley. He said to himself in his heart: "The master must be warned to be careful! He did not transplant the residual limb of [Lili], but he can be like [Lili]."
He controls the earth just like Li Li... This is the unity of heaven and man. He can actually unite heaven and man! Something is very wrong!"