Several martial arts masters from Liangshan Pass stared at Xu Renli with their eyes like daggers.
This burly man with slightly dark skin and blood fluctuations was only a low-level martial artist. According to the rules, he did not meet the conditions for exploring the barbarian-occupied areas.
"Give."
Xu Renli looked indifferent and took out an exploration certificate. Three golden suns shone on the surface, which was extremely conspicuous.
"This... what level of exploration certificate is this?"
One person looked surprised. He stretched out his hand, his palm trembling slightly. As soon as he touched the three-round golden sun exploration certificate, he retracted it like lightning, as if it was hot!
"Senior Wuzong! This is actually an exploration certificate at the level of senior Wuzong!"
"What? This person is actually a high-level martial arts master?"
"How is this possible? Judging from the fluctuation of energy and blood alone, he is just a low-level martial artist!"
Several people were shocked and confused, looking at Xu Renli.
He Ming was the only one, his palms sweating nervously, and he glared at Xu Renli in annoyance, "Brother Xu, in order to get through the customs, you actually issued a fake certificate?"
To put it bluntly, you can just apply for a fake certificate. Why do you need to apply for such a high-level exploration certificate? Isn’t this because there is no silver in this place?
It’s over!
Once Xu Renli is discovered, he may be punished. If he is found in school, Xu Renli's third-level teaching qualification may be revoked!
"Are you a senior martial artist?"
A martial artist spoke, looked at Xu Renli suspiciously, then pondered for a moment, and said cautiously.
"Sorry, your status is too high. I need to report to our Captain He at Liangshan Pass. Please wait here with peace of mind..."
Xu Renli nodded, "Okay."
He Ming's face darkened, he quietly pulled Xu Renli's sleeve, and whispered, "Brother Xu, you have done such a good thing, now...brother, I will be unlucky too!"
At this time, a hearty laughter came from not far away.
"Haha, no wonder there were magpies chirping in my ears this morning. It turns out a friend is here... Just let me go."
I saw a rugged man in his forties wearing battle armor, striding towards me.
A martial artist hesitated and said, "Captain He, he..."
"I know everything."
Lao He gave the other party a color, and then handed the exploration certificate to Xu Renli, with a smile on his face.
"Xu...Brother Xu, you have passed the customs and can go to the barbarian-occupied area immediately. As a friend, Lao He would like to remind you that the small barbarian tribe in the valley last time was wiped out by us... In the past month, within a radius of a hundred miles,
, no trace of the barbarians has been found yet.”
"Thank you Captain He for the information."
Xu Renli responded with a smile, then turned his head and urged He Ming, who had a dull look on his face.
"Old man He, hurry up. We only have one day. We must return to school before dinner...I still have to eat the food cooked by my apprentice."
He Ming, "..."
Soon, the two of them walked slowly down a section of the battle wall, deep into the barbarian-occupied area on the other side, and disappeared into the barren mountains and forests.
On the battle wall, a martial artist couldn't help but said.
"Captain He, the energy and blood in that man's body is obviously that of a low-level warrior! But he is holding a high-level warrior's exploration certificate. It was either picked up or forged. How can you..."
"There is a third possibility."
Lao He's eyes were deep, he withdrew his gaze from a distance, turned around and walked towards Liangshan Castle, and said one sentence.
"That's... he was once a famous high-level martial arts master, but now his strength has declined!"
"What?"
Several martial artists were stunned.
If Xiang Yuan were here, he would definitely recognize Xu Renli, but that guy was patrolling the other side of the battle wall.
Barbarian-occupied areas.
Xu Renli was familiar with the road and came to the outside of the valley. He looked at the destroyed wooden houses and found traces of burning.
This barbarian tribe was indeed destroyed by Lao He's people.
Once the clan leader dies, all the warriors in the clan will be killed or injured. There is no way they can stop a group of human warriors, so it is reasonable for them to be destroyed.
"Brother Xu, cough...Brother Xu."
Outside the valley, Heming stood on a large rock with a very complicated expression. He looked at Xu Renli and hesitated to speak.
He Ming, the top martial artist and leader of Liangshan Pass, had just treated Xu Renli with courtesy and enthusiasm, but there was a hint of flattery hidden in it, and He Ming could clearly feel it.
Thinking again of the three-wheel golden sun exploration certificate, Heming suddenly had a bold guess in his heart, which made him breathe quickly and his heart beat ten times faster!
Maybe, could it be, maybe... Brother Xu was once a high-level martial arts master?
"Ha ha."
Xu Renli suddenly laughed a few times and strode away from the place.
.
"Old man He, those are the past events, nothing more than a passing moment... I am now a third-level instructor in this school, a very ordinary one."
admit?
This is admission!
He Ming was very excited and extremely excited. However, when he thought about how Xu Renli behaved like a veteran in exploring barbarian-occupied areas before, he couldn't help but feel ashamed.
"Ahem, Brother Xu, wait for me...Actually, this is my first time coming to Liangshan Pass. An old friend taught me what I just did!"
Xu Renli, "..."
The mountains are undulating, the vegetation is sparse, and everything is desolate as far as the eye can see. Even the sky is dark and the atmosphere is suppressed.
The two of them walked deeper along the side of the valley and walked for more than ten miles without seeing a single living creature, let alone a barbarian.
An hour later, the two of them arrived near a river.
Blah blah blah.
The river was flowing, but it was not clear. Instead, it was blood red. Some human broken arms and limbs, internal organs or heads were floating in the river.
Xu Renli's color changed slightly, and when he got closer, he found that these human limbs had been rotting for a long time, and some corpse insects were crawling around.
"Are these all our compatriots?"
The old man Heming's face turned pale. He just glanced at it and quickly turned his head away, unable to bear to continue looking.
"right."
Xu Renli nodded, bent down, grabbed a severed arm, carefully examined the degree of decay, and finally came to a conclusion.
"The time of death should be between half a year and a year."
Can this be seen?
He Ming was surprised.
"Old man He, let's go upstream. You may find something unexpected!"
"good!"
Xu Renli was originally just looking for strange plants that could increase Qi and blood, but now that he found human limbs, he might be able to follow the clues and find a barbarian tribe.
Even if you kill the barbarians and destroy these executioners, you may still be able to find those strange plants near the barbarian tribes.
So, the two of them followed the flow of the river, passing through three hills and around a cliff, and finally found the upper reaches of the river, which turned out to be a lake halfway up the mountain!
At the foot of the mountain, huge simple wooden houses are scattered in an orderly manner around a hundred-meter-high blue sky tree.