Two monks took several female nuns and stuffed them into an iron cage on a carriage, where they were locked up with a group of other female nuns.
"No, we don't want to go back. There is a man-eating demon there. If we go back, she will eat us all!"
Those female cultivators cried and resisted, but the gap in their cultivation levels was too big, so their resistance was completely ineffective.
"What nonsense are you talking about? If you dare to talk nonsense again, we brothers will eat you up right now!"
Jiang Li was still meditating and regulating his breathing in the ruins. An excess of spiritual energy from the great battle had flowed through his body. After he had recovered, he made another breakthrough in his Qi training.
At this time, he heard a small convoy coming from a distance.
"Second brother, do you think something really happened in the old den? Otherwise, how did these women escape when Big Brother was here?"
A dozen monks riding on magical horses were driving three carriages loaded with large cages, and those cages contained some young female monks.
Most of the cultivators had expressions of despair and confusion on their faces, while a few female cultivators had expressions of fear on their faces.
Judging from their voices, these female monks seemed to have escaped from their old nest, but they happened to meet them on their way back from capturing slaves and were captured again.
This group of people are the notorious human traffickers in the world of immortal cultivation.
In the world of cultivating immortals, the trade of various humanoid creatures has actually been developing quite well.
For example, when Jiang Li first entered the world of immortal cultivation, he led their caravan to capture a lot of scale monsters along the way.
In addition, there are fox demons, cat demons, etc. that are forced to transform by being fed transformation pills.
Those with a bad image can be used for mining and logging, while those with a good image can be sold to high-end service places.
In addition to these humanoid creatures captured from the wild, real human monks are the high-end goods in this market.
For example, the Red Lantern Street in Fengyang City, where as long as you pay more, they will take you to select some women who have become commodities.
If nothing unexpected happens, these captured low-level female cultivators will be sold to those places and consumed at will for the rest of their lives.
There are many casual cultivators who engage in murder and robbery.
But this kind of people usually bully the weak and fear the strong. If they hit a wall, they will easily fall. But there is really not much profit for the independent cultivators who are much weaker than themselves.
Therefore, many independent cultivators found that they could not steal anything, so they simply started to steal people. And the market for female cultivators was obviously much better than that for male cultivators.
This kind of scum usually spreads some untrue information.
For example, a respected old lady in the world of immortal cultivation, whose life span is coming to an end and who has no successor, plans to seek a predestined cultivator to become her disciple and entrust all her life's learning and magic weapons and spiritual stones to him.
And its skills are only suitable for female practitioners... This is how it is.
Jiang Li could hear this kind of rumor, similar to one about paying a large sum of money to have a child, every time he went to the Xiuxian market.
They didn't seek to deceive all women. It would be best if they could only deceive those who were not very smart and weak female cultivators.
Once you fall into their trap, there is no chance of getting out.
"Don't worry, my brother is a Jindan cultivator, and we have someone above us. The surrounding forces all enjoy my tribute, and no one will deliberately target us."
"As long as this group of female furnaces can satisfy Master Xijiang, and exchange a bottle of Nascent Soul Pill from him, the boss will have the opportunity to step into the Nascent Soul realm. By then, we will also be a Nascent Soul force. With your benefits, how can you miss it?"
The other monks were very excited to hear what the second brother envisioned for the future.
But as they walked, they discovered something was wrong.
"Brother, if I remember correctly, there should have been several mountains here?"
"Why has it turned into a swamp now? Are we in the wrong place?"
A human trafficker walked forward curiously and grabbed a handful of mud from the swamp, and then his eyes became terrified.
Because the hand that he had grabbed the mud with for his own sake melted right before his eyes. In just two blinks of an eye, not even a bone was left.
This is a blue-ringed dragon head. It has drained all the venom in its body to create a poisonous swamp. Just one touch is enough to kill these guys.
But this is not the end yet. Jiang Li, who had been disturbed from regulating his breathing inside, had appeared behind the group of human traffickers without him noticing.
Next to Jiang Li, there was a coffin floating in the air. The lid of the coffin slid open, and countless roots emerged from the depths of the dark coffin. The human traffickers had no power to resist, and were all tied up by the roots and dragged into the burial space.
Locked in a cage, a group of fledgling female cultivators stared at the scene in front of them in amazement.
In their eyes, these dozen or so cultivators who could easily form a golden core and establish a foundation were already big shots whom they could not resist.
But now it's so simple, all these big shots are gone.
The person who appeared before them was a young and handsome male monk. He was wearing a robe embroidered with mountains and his eyes revealed a mysterious look.
Jiang Li threw out a few leaves casually, and the heavy lock on the cage with talisman paper on it was easily cut in half.
The female practitioners should have said something to ask for help or express their gratitude at this time.
But at this moment, they just stared at Jiang Li blankly, their faces flushed. They even forgot to come out of the cage.
Is this a hero saving a beautiful girl? No! This is a god descending from heaven! This male cultivator must be the Taoist companion sent to me by heaven!
Ambiguous scenes flashed through their minds crazily, and hearts almost jumped out of their eyes.
"You mentioned a demon that eats people before. Where did that demon appear? What does it look like?"
Jiang Li ignored their behavior. He had seen this kind of situation many times in Chongshan League. After he obtained the blood of the Human Emperor, his temperament became more noble, and the situation in the future should be even more serious.
Jiang Li had no woman in his heart. Instead, he was more interested in what these female cultivators had said before.
The man-eating demon appeared right after he left.
After some detailed inquiries, the final result was almost the same as he expected.
The location was the town hundreds of miles away where he and Yang Ruozhi separated, and the devil they were talking about was a woman who looked very thin and like a skeleton.
The woman attacked the town and ate all the human trafficker monks who stayed behind, which is how they were able to escape.
Jiang Li understood that the person who did these things was obviously Yang Ruozhi, whom he rescued, or should we say she was Mu Yulan.
【Name: Mu Yulan】
【Gender: Female】
[Occupation: Monk]
[Level: Jindan Stage Realm]
[Spiritual Root: Top-grade Water Attribute Spiritual Root]
[Status: Severely injured, near death, possessed]
[Danger level: None/Extremely dangerous]
This was the information Jiang Li obtained after he released an identification operation when he discovered the other party.
However, the two columns [Status: Severely injured, dying, possessed] and [Danger level: None/Extremely dangerous] seem a bit strange.
Despite being seriously injured and on the verge of death, this person was evaluated by the identification technique as being extremely dangerous and capable of inflicting a fatal blow to Jiang Li.
This is almost impossible for a Jindan cultivator.
Unless she was hiding some ancient artifact, but under the circumstances at the time, she didn't even have two kilograms of meat left, so where would she hide anything?
Then the only possibility is the "possession" in her status column.
Being possessed by memories in the Ghost King Wasteland is actually not uncommon at all.
However, a ghost that can be identified as extremely dangerous to Jiang Li by identification techniques is definitely not an ordinary one.
After she woke up, the lied name she gave made Jiang Li figure out most of the situation.
"The tablet of the late eldest son Du Xianzhu", "The tablet of the late eldest daughter-in-law Yang Ruozhi"
These were the two tablets that Jiang Li saw in front of the coffin when he was tricked into the ghost marriage mansion.
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The tablet of Du Xianzhu is still in his hands.
And Yang Ruozhi is the name of the ghost king of underworld marriage.
Such a coincidence could hardly happen.
The only explanation is that the Ghost King Yang Ruozhi suffered some serious trauma in the series of battles.
Only by possessing the body of Mu Yulan, who has a special physique and is born without a longevity, can they rely on each other and survive.
And it was precisely because of the existence of the Ghost King in Mu Yulan's body that he was able to hold on in that extreme state for so long, and recover so quickly after being rescued by Jiang Li.
As for why the other party did not forcefully attack Jiang Li, it was probably because when Jiang Li came out of the illusion of the underworld, he used the Ghost Lantern Cold Flame, which was extremely powerful and had a very strong effect on restraining ghosts.
Perhaps because of this, the Ghost King did not dare to have any other thoughts about Jiang Li when he was weak.
In addition, even in that body, Mu Yulan still seems to be the dominant one.
After a great disaster, there will be good fortune. With such a "grandfather" type of elder sister suddenly living in his body, Mu Yulan's rise is unstoppable.
Jiang Li looked in the direction of the town he came from, but had no intention of going over to find out what was going on.
Who knows, they might have a chance to meet again in the future.
At this moment, the Chongshan Alliance Leader's Order hanging around his waist suddenly vibrated.
Someone was contacting him.
He had only been out alone for a dozen days, but he didn't expect something bad to happen again.
He picked up the phone and found out that the person who contacted him was Wanshi hermit from Chongshan League, who was a direct descendant of Jiang Li.
The first words that came out of the token made Jiang Li serious.
"Alliance leader, our hometown is being targeted."
After understanding the situation, Jiang Li's brows couldn't help but frown more and more.
The news came from the Manjianghong Inn, which was built by Jiang Li and Yan Hong.
The ones who reported the news were a group of rat spirits that had just become intelligent, and a few yellow-skinned foxes that had been living in mortal graves for many years and stealing offerings.
After Jiang Li became the leader of Chongshan League, he took advantage of his position to open his Manjianghong Inn in every corner of Chongshan.
Each inn only needs to be manned by cultivators at the foundation building stage or even the Qi training stage. The only things they consume are some earthly food and spiritual ore residues, which are almost negligible to Jiang Li.
During this period, Manjianghong Inn developed quite well.
Among the tens of millions of little demons in the mountains and lands, he has already gained great prestige.
They were keen on selling intelligence and some small items from their own collections to the inn.
After the stall expanded, Jiang Li was finally able to gain a few treasures from it.
The value of those treasures alone is enough to offset all previous acquisition costs.
The inconspicuous little monsters scattered throughout every corner of Dachong Mountain also formed a complete and imperceptible intelligence network.
After all, who would be suspicious of a rat running by on the street at any time? Even if he was suspicious and killed the rat, Jiang Li still had thousands of snakes, insects, rats and ants as spies.
As a monk, you can't just catch and kill every living thing you see on the roadside.
And just a few days ago, this nest of rats witnessed the massacre of an entire mortal village.
In the following days, a series of similar incidents were reported.
It was not taken seriously at first until the intelligence personnel trained by Yan Hong himself discovered the anomaly when they were collating the intelligence. Then they reported it up the chain of command until it reached Jiang Li.
According to the descriptions of those who witnessed the incident, the perpetrators had very similar characteristics; they were a group of human monks in red robes and bloody swords.
The disappearance of a mortal village is actually not worth mentioning in this era.
A common massacre of a village by bandits could result in such a result.
But the same incident happened continuously for several days in a row, and the distance between the locations where the incidents occurred was beyond the ability of ordinary people to cross.
And the most important thing is that the red clothes and bloody sword are basically the symbol of the Wantu Clan in the Eastern Region.
At least according to the current situation of Chongshan League, there is no such group of casual cultivators who like to wear red clothes and kill people in Dachongshan.
So it is very likely that it is the Wantumen’s vanguard reconnaissance force.
"Wantumen, are you really ready to take action?"
The Wantu Clan, which had previously obtained the Blood King's Crown, finally defeated the innocent immortal cultivation world similar to the Dachongshan with an overwhelming advantage, and launched an inhumane massacre there.
It is said that during that period, there was little rain in the entire Eastern Region because all the dark clouds were concentrated on the massacre site.
But the heavenly thunderstorm in that situation still did not kill the Venerable Wan Tu. Afterwards, some people even said that the cultivation strength of the man wearing the Blood King's Crown had improved by a great step forward.
Now, because of the secret of the medicine garden, or perhaps the Blood King's Crown's recognition ceremony requires more innocent lives and sacrifices.
The demon sect that takes pleasure in killing has set its sights on the immortal cultivation world in Dachong Mountain.
Jiang Li led the Chongshan League into the Eastern Region in order to resist that behemoth.
We must never let Dachongshan make the same mistake again!
He put away the coffin, stepped on the flying sword and flew into the air, turning into a stream of light and disappearing in the direction of Dachong Mountain.
(End of this chapter)