Although Elder Lin Yuan is not of Liu family blood, he holds the second seat in the Deacon Hall, second only to Elder Liu Yongtai, and is also Elder Liu Yongtai's right-hand man.
Lin Yuan nodded, hesitated for a moment and then said: "Elder Yongtai, so many of us have died, which shows that the opponent's strength cannot be underestimated... How about we report it to him?"
Lin Yuan was worried that Liu Yongtai wouldn't be able to deal with him.
Elder Liu Yongtai sighed, raised his left hand and rubbed his temples, with a tired tone in his tone.
"The Ministry of Internal Affairs has long been dissatisfied with me. If I report it, I will definitely be held accountable. The top priority now is to catch the murderer!"
"Even if we catch the murderer, we won't be able to silence them, but at least we have something to say and we won't be too passive."
"If they really get away, then my position as chief of the outer deacon hall will be at an end!"
Lin Yuan hesitated for a moment and then said: "There are so many mountains nearby. It will take time for us to find that the signal flares pass by. If they really run away, we will not be able to catch up."
Elder Liu Yongtai said coldly: "People are still in the Misty Valley!"
"There is no shortage of people in our outer deacon hall. I have asked the patrolling guards to search within a hundred miles."
"They will be discovered as soon as they leave the Misty Valley. Don't worry, they can't escape!"
…
A forest in the Misty Valley.
Gu Yuan stopped and hesitated.
Stopping and walking along the way, he felt that he had obviously overestimated the tracking ability of this group of pursuers.
A stick of incense has passed since the two signal flares took off, and no pursuers appeared behind them.
Gu Yuan naturally didn't believe it. They didn't see the signal flare. He just doubted that these people didn't know how to track and couldn't find the traces they left deliberately.
Gu Yuan couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. He also wanted to attract all the patrolling guards.
He walked towards the road from the forest, thinking that he could only attract the pursuers by deliberately exposing himself.
Just as Gu Yuan was heading towards the edge of the forest, several miles away, Elder Liu Yongtai led his people to the vicinity of Misty Valley.
Now, he was scolding the guards patrolling nearby.
These guards are the lowest level beings in the Deacon Hall.
They never had the opportunity to face Liu Yongtai directly, and they did not even dare to refute Liu Yongtai's scolding.
"Trash! There is a small group of enemies operating within the family territory, but you didn't even notice their shadows?"
Liu Yongtai kicked down the captain of this team again, still unable to suppress his anger.
"What's the point of raising you?"
"Elder, calm down."
The captain of the patrol said bravely.
"We indeed found no trace of them, which means they are still in the Misty Valley and have not come out!"
Elder Liu Yongtai's face and muscles twitched. Seeing the captain's submissive look, he became even more angry. He was so angry that he wanted to kill the captain to relieve his anger.
But he also knew that doing so would not help, so he could only suppress his anger and said angrily:
"Expand the search scope, increase the intensity of the search, send out green flares when you find them, and send out red flares when you are in danger. You don't need me to teach you this, right?"
The patrol captain nodded repeatedly.
A deacon named Yao took the opportunity to say,
"The thirty outer deacons we brought from the Deacon Hall have completely dispersed. Each deacon brought a team of guards into the Misty Valley to search."
"Elder Yongtai, don't worry. As long as the other party is still within the scope of the Misty Valley, it will never be possible to hide him."
Just when Elder Liu Yongtai was feeling angry, another signal flare went up in the distance.
After the flare exploded in the sky, a pattern of light spots symbolizing the identity of the deacon flashed past.
Immediately afterwards, several more signal flares representing patrol convoys were launched into the sky.
Fortunately, the flares they sent out were all green, which fully demonstrated that they were still safe.
Everyone suddenly became energetic, and the guards also breathed a sigh of relief.
"Elder Yongtai, this must be the trace of the other party they discovered. Let's go to support him quickly!"
"Um!"
Seeing these green flares, Elder Liu Yongtai's mood just relaxed a little.
"Let's go there now, don't let them escape!"
"yes!"
With a promise, the three escorts led by the three inner gate deacons rushed towards the place where the signal was vacated.
At the same time, all the deacons and patrols scattered nearby spontaneously rushed towards the place where the signal erupted.
They were all hoping in their hearts that the deacons and guards surrounding the enemy would not kill them all too quickly, and that in the end they would be able to gain some credit.
However, the facts did not prove that they thought too much.
…
In the misty valley.
Beside the forest road, Gu Yuan wiped the blood from a long knife on the gray clothes of a corpse.
Gu Yuan raised his head and looked at the flares that had not dissipated yet, blooming like fireworks above his head.
He kicked the pile of flare fragments next to his feet again, thinking to himself: "They should know where to find me this time, right?"
And on the roadside by the forest, more than a dozen corpses were lying.
Looking at the clothes they were wearing, it was clear that they were the patrols and deacons who were supposed to "search" for Gu Yuan. They were indeed surrounded, but they were all dead.
Gu Yuan did not stand still and wait for the other party to come over. Instead, he listened to the noise in the distance and took the initiative to face the group of pursuers closest to him.
When Gu Yuan discovered this team, the team also discovered him.
This team is composed of a deacon in gray and more than a dozen guards.
The gray-clothed deacon was stunned when he saw Gu Yuan. Because of the voice-changing pill, Gu Yuan looked like a silly peasant boy, which was far from the image he had in mind.
An ordinary face, no matter how mediocre it may seem, his cultivation is still Qi.
To be honest, Gu Yuan's current image is extremely inconsistent with the scene of corpses on the ground behind him.
So much so that the gray-clothed deacon didn't take action at the first moment, and just waved a dozen guards to surround him.
At the same time, he shouted and asked: "Who are you and why do you trespass into the restricted area of my Liu family?"
Have you ever noticed a group of people passing by?"
"you ask me?"
Gu Yuan continued to approach the deacon while chatting.
"Stop, don't go away, I want to ask you something, are you here alone?"
The deacon felt something was wrong, but he didn't think clearly about what was wrong.
It wasn't until the distance between the two parties was less than ten steps that the gray-clothed deacon felt something was wrong. For a cultivator, this distance is only a matter of seconds.
But it was not because he felt danger, but because he felt that the young man in front of him was a little too disrespectful to him.
"You young man! How dare you be so rude to me? Do you know who I am?
Why don’t you hurry up...ah, poof!"
But before he could finish his words, Gu Yuan struck out with the Exploding Dragon Fist, and he spurted out a mouthful of blood.