Xu Feng walked forward and saw a peach wood sword broken into two pieces lying on the ground in the passage ahead, with a pool of blood next to it. It seemed that Yuan Yangzi had encountered the enemy here, fought with him, and was injured, and even his weapon was broken.
The peach wood sword that was broken in half had lost all its spiritual energy and was no different from rotten wood. It had no value at all.
Xu Feng's heart tightened. Yuan Yangzi must not die. He didn't know what Yuan Yangzi was going to refine. He needed to go to this strange Tushan to find materials. It didn't matter if he died. Xu Feng would fail to complete the mission and would be killed directly.
However, this also allows Xu Feng to be sure that he has always been on the right path. As for Yuan Yangzi, Xu Feng wants to see him alive or dead.
"The mission only requires finding the key figure Yuan Yangzi, and does not say that we must find Yuan Yangzi alive!" Xu Feng said in his heart.
Now that he had found the clue, Xu Feng continued to run forward quickly. As he walked, a light appeared in front of him, and it seemed that he had reached the end of the passage.
At the end of the passage, there was a large collapsed hole. After climbing out, I found that it was a gentle slope with low bushes everywhere. At this time, it was already far away from the mountain where the Skeleton General's tomb was located.
During the climb, Xu Feng found another pool of dried blood. After tracking for about two kilometers, Xu Feng saw a small river in front of him. The surface of the river was covered with gray fog, and even the water flowing in the river was as sticky as gray-green pus, emitting a foul odor.
Next to the stream, there is a large cave with many skeletons scattered around the cave. They look creepy and white, and some of them even emit a faint phosphorescence.
Xu Feng saw that in the cave on the other side of the river, two weasels, more than one meter tall, were gathered around a bonfire. On the bonfire was a large pot. The pot was filled with gray-green viscous water that seemed to be scooped from the river, and bubbles were bubbling.
The two weasels were shriveled up like mummies, with a thick black aura surrounding them and a strange force overwhelming them.
"Two second-level monsters!" Xu Feng narrowed his eyes and immediately judged based on the strange power emanating from them.
At this time, there were five or six humans lying limp in the cave. Judging from their attire, they should be climbers who formed a team to enter Tushan. The clothes on one of them startled Xu Feng, as he was wearing the clothes of an inner disciple of the Wanfa Sect.
Zhuo Weiping lay in the cave filled with a foul stench. His whole body was sore and he had no strength left. He felt completely hopeless!
After entering this secret realm, Zhuo Weiping met a group of climbers. From these climbers, Zhuo Weiping obtained a strange object of origin with almost no effort and completed the first ring. The price was to become the guard of this group of climbers and escort them into the depths of Tushan.
Because they had teamed up with this group of climbers, the content of the second round of the mission, which was originally to go to Chunyang Palace and look for Yuan Yangzi, had also changed. The path that the map indicated to Chunyang Palace had become a path to somewhere deep in Tushan, and the direction just happened to coincide with the route that this group of climbers were taking.
So Zhuo Weiping began to perform his guard duties and followed the group of climbers into the depths of Tushan. Unexpectedly, they encountered two monsters that transformed into weasel monsters. These two monsters were very powerful. They used a yellowish-brown mist to confuse everyone and then tied them all up.
Before, Zhuo Weiping had personally witnessed two monsters cooking and eating a person alive, and then throwing the bones out of the cave. He knew in his heart that sooner or later, they would be eaten by the two monsters like that person.
"If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have been greedy and obtained the strange origin things from this group of people!" Zhuo Weiping regretted in his heart.
The first round of the task was completed too easily, which resulted in a sudden increase in difficulty in the second round. Even if Zhuo Weiping had never encountered such a thing, he had heard of it.
I originally thought that I was lucky and had joined a big sect. My strength improved by leaps and bounds, and I would be able to make a name for myself when I returned to the real world in the future. But now it seems that I might die on the spot.
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At this time, Xu Feng was lying on the river bank, carefully observing the other side of the river. Since he found that a disciple of his sect was in danger, he had to save him if he could.
"Two second-level monsters are a bit tricky to deal with. Every time I swallow a monster, my body is in an undefended state, and I can only swallow one at a time. If another one attacks me at this time, it will become very troublesome!" Xu Feng said in his heart.
However, Xu Feng soon thought of the talisman that he had obtained before. If he could use the talisman to seal the two monsters in the body of the weasel monster, it would be much easier to deal with them.
However, by doing this, while killing the weasel monster's body, the weirdness would also be killed, and there would be no way to use the Eternal Devouring Technique to absorb the weirdness's power.
Thinking of this, Xu Feng stood up, walked to the river, pretended to be curious, and looked towards the cave.
Soon, Xu Feng attracted the attention of two weasel monsters. They smiled at each other, and then the two monsters suddenly bent down, ran on all fours like flying, and jumped across the stream with a light leap, and pounced towards Xu Feng.
"Someone is coming!" Zhuo Weiping and several other climbers were immediately excited, as if they saw hope. Although their bodies were sore and they could not move, it did not prevent them from turning their heads desperately and looking towards Xu Feng.
When they saw that Xu Feng was alone, the people lying on the ground immediately showed disappointment in their eyes.
"Hey, this person looks familiar..." Zhuo Weiping widened his eyes and looked straight at Xu Feng. After a long time, Zhuo Weiping seemed to have thought of something and finally a look of joy appeared on his face.
“First, the First Saint Son, the First Saint Son of the Wanfa Sect, no, the former First Saint Son! I heard that he lost his position as the First Saint Son because he did not participate in this year’s Saint Son Competition due to his cultivation technique. However, his strength is definitely among the best among all the Saint Sons of the Wanfa Sect. He is saved, he is saved!” Zhuo Weiping even had tears of excitement in his eyes. If he had not been paralyzed all over, he would have burst into tears on the spot out of excitement.
The two weasel monsters were controlled strangely. Their bodies had been refined by the strange power and became as hard as steel. Even their flesh and blood had been refined, making them look like mummies.
The weasel demon's claws were like sharp blades, swung at an extremely fast speed, leaving trails of afterimages in the air.
Xu Feng took two steps back, and with a thought, two soul fire talismans suddenly appeared out of thin air, blocking the attack route of the two weasel monsters.
Boom, boom! The weasel demon hit the soul fire talisman head-on and was blown away instantly. Even its refined steel-like body was blown open with a big hole. If it were any other monster, it would be seriously injured even if it didn't die. But for the weird, this body was just a shell. Not to mention getting hurt, even if the shell was crushed to pieces, it wouldn't cause any damage to their origin.
The next moment, Xu Feng suddenly felt a slight vibration under his feet. With a thought, Xu Feng's figure suddenly flew up. The next moment, the ground under his feet instantly turned into a sand pit, and gravel continued to surge towards the middle and sink downwards.
"You can also cast spells?" Xu Feng was a little surprised.
The strange attack method is either to use the body purely to launch physical attacks, or to use illusion-like abilities to confuse people's minds. This method is unpredictable and can easily make people fall into a state of fear and madness and be easily killed.
However, it was the first time that Xu Feng had seen such a strange way of casting spells.
Normal attacks were ineffective against strange things, so Xu Feng could only try to cast the Suppressing Talisman to see how effective this newly acquired talisman was.
Two talismans with a black and golden luster appeared out of thin air. Two seconds later, the evil-suppressing talismans, which were formed entirely from the power of robbery, flew towards the two weasel monsters.
Puff~ The two weird creatures even abandoned the bodies that had been refined for a long time. They turned into two streams of black smoke, rushed out from the seven orifices of the weasel monster, and dissipated in the air.
The talisman was pasted on the weasel monster, but it had no effect at all.
Xu Feng frowned slightly. He was invisible and intangible. If he wanted to hide, it would be difficult to be discovered.
Weird investigation!
Xu Feng casually condensed a healing talisman, stuck it on himself, and began to explore where the two monsters were hiding.
"Huh, they actually ran away?" Xu Feng showed a look of surprise on his face. The detection range of the monsters is three hundred meters, but within the range of three hundred meters, no monsters were detected, which means that the two monsters have already escaped far away.
"Can a second-level weirdness already leave the place where it is bound to the earth?" Xu Feng said thoughtfully.
Once a monster is born in a certain place, it will be confined to a small area. Theoretically, these two monsters should not be able to leave the cave where they were born. Unexpectedly, they escaped.
"The monster in the morgue before was also a second-level monster. Could it be that it has just advanced and has not yet mastered the ability to leave the place of restraint?" Xu Feng thought to himself.
There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!
Now that he had driven away the two monsters, Xu Feng's goal was achieved. He crossed the stream and came to the front of the cave. He condensed a number of detoxifying talismans and pasted them behind everyone.
After a moment, the middle-aged man in the inner sect disciple's uniform stood up with a look of gratitude on his face and bowed deeply to Xu Feng.
"Zhuo Weiping, an inner sect disciple of the Wanfa Sect's Five Elements lineage, greets the Holy Son!"
"Do you know me?" Xu Feng asked with a smile.
The Wanfa Sect has over a million disciples. Some large sects with over a thousand members may not even be able to remember their own disciples, let alone the disciples of other sects. At most, they can be like Xu Feng, who can tell that someone is a Wanfa Sect disciple by their clothing.
"Last year, I had the honor of seeing the heroic figure of Saint Xu at the Saint Son Competition!" Zhuo Weiping said excitedly.
"By the way, have you seen a Taoist priest here?" Xu Feng asked.
According to the traces we tracked, Taoist Yuan Yangzi had been here before, and from the strange actions of the two creatures, we can also tell that they must have seen the power of the Suppressing Evil Talisman, which is why they escaped so decisively.
"Brother, you are looking for Taoist Yuan Yangzi, right? The second ring of the mission is to find Yuan Yangzi. My mission guide originally pointed to Chunyang Palace, but after meeting this group of climbers, for some reason, the map guide changed to a place called Hujiazhuang deep in the Tushan Mountains!"
"Hujiazhuang?" Xu Feng frowned slightly and said to Zhuo Weiping, "Draw the map and let me see it!"
"This map is very simple, it only shows approximate locations." Zhuo Weiping said as he picked up a dry branch and started gesturing on the ground.
"This is where we are now. Hujiazhuang is right here!" Zhuo Weiping scribbled two strokes on the ground. One curved line represented a river, and the other short lines represented mountains. Xu Feng looked up and identified the direction. Hujiazhuang should be in a valley about a hundred miles southeast of where he was, over two mountains.
"Okay, thank you very much, I know where he is!" Xu Feng nodded to Zhuo Weiping, jumped up, and flew directly towards Hujiazhuang.
Zhuo Weiping watched as Xu Feng's figure quickly turned into a small black dot. His lips trembled slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end it just turned into a sigh.
Zhuo Weiping is too weak, and can only hold Xu Feng back if he's with him. Just like now, if Xu Feng is alone, using his Qi-controlling ability, it only takes him a dozen minutes to reach the valley where Hujiazhuang is located. But Zhuo Weiping needs to climb over two mountains on foot, and it would take at least four or five hours to get there.
"Forget it. He has already saved my life. I have already fulfilled the friendship between fellow disciples. It is wishful thinking to expect him to lead me to complete the task!" Zhuo Weiping shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Mr. Zhuo, should we leave here quickly? Those two monsters might come back at any time..." A climber looked around tremblingly, his eyes full of fear.
Zhuo Weiping's heart tightened. The weirdness cannot be killed. Xu Feng only destroyed their bodies and killed them once. He did not completely kill the origin of the weirdness. As long as the origin of the weirdness is not killed, it will not be long before the weirdness will be resurrected again.
Thinking of this, Zhuo Weiping immediately said: "Hurry up, let's get out of here!"
The group left in a hurry, not even bothering to pick up the backpack supplies left in the cave.
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On the other side, Du Zhu Mei'er and Li Han also hurried to the vicinity of Chunyang Palace. It was just dawn and the gate of Chunyang Palace had not been opened yet. Li Han was about to go forward and knock on the door, but was stopped by Du Zhu Mei'er.
"I really don't know how you have survived until now and become a level five peak apostle!" Poison Spider Meir couldn't help but roll her eyes. The difficulty of advancing to the secret realm this time was too great, otherwise, she would never team up with such a reckless man.
Li Han looked at Mei'er with a puzzled look, waiting for her explanation.
"There are people lying in ambush around here. If we go over and knock on the door now, won't we be sitting ducks?" Mei'er took a deep breath and whispered, "The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. This is a secret high-intensity battlefield. If we're not careful, we might get caught here!"
"Then what should we do now?" Li Han frowned.
"Wait!" Mei'er said, pointing to a slope outside Chunyang Palace, signaling Li Han to hide there, while she used her invisibility skills and slowly disappeared.
At the same time, the team of the dead also hurried to the Chunyang Palace. The bone demon Luo Tie, who was walking in front of the team, sensed the breath of the secret realm apostles around him. He couldn't help but reveal a mocking smile on his face. He did not hide his whereabouts at all, and strode towards the Chunyang Palace with everyone.
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(End of this chapter)