The scarred, burly man laughed and said, "I'm at the peak of the Separation and Union Realm, and several of my good brothers are at the mid-Separation and Union Realm. I didn't realize you, pretty boy, were so capable. In that case, why don't you consider joining our team? If you join, we'll have enough people, and we'll set off immediately to Jade Mountain to find that demonic beast!"
Night Breeze didn't immediately agree, pretending to think about it.
Mu Yuqing transmitted her thoughts: "Senior brother, are you really going into the mountains with these people? I don't think they're good people."
"It doesn't matter whether they're good people or not, they can't threaten us anyway," Ye Feng said.
Seeing Ye Feng deep in thought, the scarred, burly man leading the group said in a seductive tone, "I still have a map of Jade Mountain. This map is different from the ones sold in Jade City. I personally marked many dangerous areas on it. With the map's help, finding that monster will definitely be much easier!"
Ye Feng finally nodded and said, "Alright, in that case, my sister and I will join your team. However, if we really find that monster, how will we divide the reward given by the city lord?"
“Of course, it’s split equally among everyone,” the scarred, burly man said without hesitation.
"Okay, let's do it that way."
Ye Feng nodded in satisfaction, and then led Mu Yuqing to join the small team, entering Jade Mountain with these burly men.
The burly man with the scarred face walked at the front, leading the way for Ye Feng and Mu Yuqing.
Others occasionally turned around, but they were mostly sizing up Mu Yuqing, and would occasionally cast greedy glances at her.
Mu Yuqing felt uncomfortable all over, and even felt nauseous.
She already disliked these guys who reeked of sweat, and now she disliked them even more.
"Second Senior Brother, I'm increasingly convinced they're not good people," Mu Yuqing said telepathically.
"I don't think they're good people either," Night Wind said telepathically.
"Then why do you still believe them?"
"I believe they won't do us any harm. If they have indeed seen the monster and can lead us to its hiding place, that would be ideal. If they intend to harm us, then we should simply wipe them out and take the map and everything they have," Ye Feng said bluntly.
Mu Yuqing's eyes widened, her beautiful eyes revealing surprise.
After looking Ye Feng up and down a few times, Mu Yuqing said, "Second Senior Brother, you used to disdain doing things like murder and robbery!"
"How can you call it murder and robbery? We didn't kill them on our own initiative. We only acted when they threatened us. This is called self-defense!" Ye Feng said seriously.
Ye Feng and Mu Yuqing were communicating through telepathy, so the burly men couldn't hear their conversation at all.
Telepathic communication is not actually reliable. High-level martial artists can use their telepathic fluctuations to eavesdrop on the telepathic communication of martial artists of lower levels and learn the content of the telepathic communication.
Ye Feng is a Human Immortal in the Returning to Emptiness Realm, while Mu Yuqing is at the peak of the Divine Travel Realm.
These burly men were merely minor martial artists at the Separation and Union Realm; of course, they had no ability to eavesdrop on Ye Feng and Mu Yuqing's telepathic communication.
Unbeknownst to them, Ye Feng and Mu Yuqing had already entered the depths of Emerald Jade Mountain.
The sky had already darkened.
"Have we reached the place you mentioned where we encountered that monster yet?" Ye Feng asked.
"We're here, we're almost there, it's just ahead," the scarred, burly man said, pointing ahead.
As he spoke, the scarred, burly man quickened his pace and strode toward that direction.
Ye Feng and Mu Yuqing finally arrived at the place the scarred-faced strong man had mentioned, the place where they had encountered the monster before.
However, there was no sign of any demonic beasts here; instead, there were more than a dozen corpses of human warriors.
Moreover, Ye Feng's divine sense swept over the bodies of these human warriors and he discovered that there were no spiritual artifacts or storage rings on them.
That's very strange.
Because if these human warriors were killed by demonic beasts, their corpses might be devoured, and their magical artifacts might be taken away by the demonic beasts, but storage rings would definitely be left behind.
The storage ring itself does not emit any true energy fluctuations and will not attract the attention of demonic beasts.
Moreover, the storage ring is so small that it will most likely be ignored by the monsters.
However, the storage rings of all the dozen or so human warriors' corpses had vanished.
This means there are three possibilities.
First, they were killed by demonic beasts. The reason their corpses didn't have storage rings was because they never had them to begin with.
Second, they were killed by demonic beasts, but later a martial artist passed by and picked up the corpses, taking away all the valuable items such as storage rings and spiritual weapons from them.
Third, the real killers were not the demonic beasts, but the martial artists. Their magical artifacts and storage rings were naturally taken away by the martial artists who killed them!
There are three possibilities, with the latter two being more likely, while the first one is negligible.
After all, storage rings are also graded. Higher-grade storage rings have more space, can store more things, and are more valuable, while lower-grade storage rings are not valuable.
As long as you're a martial artist, there's nothing you can't afford!
"Is this the place where you encountered that monster? Why are there so many martial artists' corpses here?" Ye Feng asked.
"Because they were all killed by that monster," the scarred-faced warrior in the lead said with a laugh.
"Do you think I would believe that?" Night Wind retorted.
"It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not, because you're about to die here. But don't worry, we'll take good care of your sister!"
The scarred, burly man laughed loudly and gave Mu Yuqing a fiery look.
The other burly men also cast greedy glances at Mu Yuqing, staring at her delicate figure from head to toe.
"It seems that you killed all the martial artists here. They were most likely tricked into coming here by you. Am I right?" Ye Feng said calmly.
"That's right! You guessed correctly, they were all killed by us. But what good does it do you to know the truth? It doesn't change the fact that you're going to die here soon!"
"Young man, blame yourself for being too foolish and naive!"
"You don't even know us, yet you dare to follow us into Jade Mountain. You're truly courting death!"
"We've taught you a lesson, but the price is your lives!"
The group of burly men all started making sarcastic remarks.
The burly man with the scarred face at the head of the group waved his hand emphatically: "Stop talking nonsense, let's all attack and kill that man!"
In an instant, all the burly men rushed over.
Night Wind remained calm, as did Mu Yuqing.
Mu Yuqing's face showed a look of disdain.
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