Chapter 83 Chapter 83 "Bury it."
This evil energy is very faint, hidden and extremely difficult to detect.
A hint of thought flashed across Gu Jingyun's eyes.
He was able to detect demonic energy because of his high level of cultivation and his long-term battles against demons, making him very familiar with demonic energy.
Where is Ayan?
Earlier, when Xia Wenji was hiding in the dark and spying in the maze, it was Ayan who first discovered him. The same was true now.
Is it because Ayan is born sensitive, or...
The breeze blew across the valley, birds chirped, and branches and leaves rustled.
Gu Jingyun hugged the young man's hand tightly.
——Or maybe it’s because Ayan is actually a tree spirit, and his perception ability is even higher in the mountains and forests.
If the speculation is true, there would be a sufficient reason for Jiang Yan's insensitivity to reach its maximum.
Because he is a wooden spirit!!
The man had a complicated look on his face, and his eyes seemed to contain thousands of words.
Jiang Yan tilted his head in confusion, and asked with his eyes: [Do you want to take action? ]
Gu Jingyun shook his head imperceptibly.
Let's wait and see.
The place where the two of them stood was quite remote.
Gu Jingyun pretended to give orders to the Sirius Guards to do something, turned around with Jiang Yan, and walked towards Ji Ziheng.
On the other side, two Tianlang Guards followed the pale-faced Yang Yuan to his home.
Ji Ziheng was directing his men to collect the bodies and bones of the villagers. When he saw the young master approaching, he hurried forward.
"Young Master..." Ji Ziheng paused for a moment, and then continued with his words as if he hadn't noticed anything, "Young Master, what do you want me to do?"
Gu Jingyun asked a few questions about the situation in the village, and Ji Ziheng answered them one by one.
He asked Jiang Yan about the formation again. Jiang Yan temporarily concealed the information about "magic" and pretended that he was only good at formation and did not know any magic.
It won’t be too late to tell Gu Jingyun after we’ve caught the demon cultivator.
The three of them did not lower their voices when talking.
No matter whether he asked the village or the Blood Soul Formation, there was no movement in the bushes. Only when he asked how to deal with Xia Wenji's body, the demon cultivator in the bushes finally couldn't hold back, and the demonic energy changed slightly for a moment.
Among the three people, Jiang Yan was the first to notice this change, followed by Gu Jingyun, and finally Ji Ziheng.
...The evil cultivator wants Xia Wenji’s body?
Jiang Yan remembered another unnamed formation that was set on the Blood Soul Formation, and recalled the look on Xia Wenji's face when he was possessed by another body before his death, and felt vaguely uneasy.
Gu Jingyun patted Jiang Yan's arm soothingly.
The man turned around and called a Wolf Guard to stop him. "Go find Song Hua."
"Yes, young master!" the guard responded respectfully.
Song Hua was checking every corner of the village to make sure there were no more hidden formations.
When he received the young master's order, he was squatting on the ruins at the other end of the village, observing the bright red runes painted on the wall.
The personal guards conveyed the young master's instructions.
"Okay, I'll go right away." Song Hua patted the dust off his palms, "Use the image beads to record all the runes here. After recording them, cross them all out and tear down the wall. Don't leave any traces behind."
The guard replied, "Yes!"
After Song Hua finished his instructions, he quickly went to see the young master.
Those with high cultivation levels gathered together, and the demon cultivators in the bushes became more fearful and cautious, not leaking any demonic energy anymore.
Perhaps he used a magic weapon to conceal his aura, so even Gu Jingyun lost his sense of it, not to mention Song Hua who arrived late.
There is only one person who can still track the existence of the devil.
Gu Jingyun caught a glimpse of the young man's slightly tense jaw and knew that the evil cultivator had not left.
He asked Song Hua: "Have you thought about how to deal with Xia Wenji's body?"
Song Hua didn't know that there was a demon cultivator eavesdropping nearby.
Relying on the tacit understanding between master and servant over a hundred years of working together, he sensed that the young master's attitude was not right, and it seemed that there was something else behind his words.
Song Hua replied cautiously: "People who have committed heinous crimes should be wrapped in mats and thrown into a mass grave."
After a pause, he added: "However, I need to pick up Xia Wenji's head, put it in a box, and bring it back to Wanfamen as evidence of Xia Wenji's death."
Gu Jingyun hesitated for a moment, then asked, "What do you think, Ayan?"
Song Hua was slightly surprised.
The young master has a strong desire to protect the Immortal Lord, and will never let the Immortal Lord's eyes and ears be polluted by dirty things. It would be fine if he didn't avoid it today, but why did he ask for his opinion?
Song Hua looked at Ji Ziheng implicitly, hoping to get some hint.
Ji Ziheng then asked, "What do you think, Immortal Lord?"
Song Hua:? How come even you...
He was startled but remained expressionless.
The young man pretended to be sentimental and answered slowly: "Since he was once a fellow student of Master Song, we should always consider our old friendship. It would be better to bury him in the back mountain."
Song Hua's eyebrows jumped and he asked, "My Lord, where is Xia Wenji's head?"
Jiang Yan: "Put it in a box and take it to Wanfamen."
Song Hua: “…”
It’s almost the same as what he said, but why should we go to the trouble of helping Xia Wenqi repair his tomb?
After listening to this, Gu Jingyun made the decision: "It's settled."
"Go ahead, tell them to hurry up. Bury the body before dark and leave here."
"yes!"
Ji Ziheng and Song Hua bowed and then went about their business.
Song Hua wanted to ask, but he knew that walls have ears and this was not the best time, so he put it aside and focused on his work.
Jiang Yan and Gu Jingyun found Yang Yuan.
"We will send someone to take you back to Yizhou." Jiang Yan said.
This is for Yang Yuan's safety. If he is alone here, he may be killed by the evil cultivator.
The demon cultivator was following them closely!
When Yang Yuan learned about this, he hesitated for a moment, not daring to say a word. He even didn't dare to ask about the corpse of his enemy, and tacitly agreed to Jiang Yan's arrangement for him.
The main job of the Sirius Guard is not to collect corpses, but to deal with the remaining demon runes.
Once the runes have been processed, just leave a few people to find the government and law enforcement team and hand over the follow-up to them.
The rest of the people went to the back mountain and found a "good feng shui site" to bury Xia Wenqi's headless body.
Back mountain.
In front of an extremely simple grave.
A body wrapped in a straw mat was pushed into the soil. Jiang Yan took a half step forward and bent slightly, as if bowing to pay tribute.
After a few seconds, he stood up.
"Bury it."
The Sirius Guards acted quickly, shoveling dirt over to cover the pile, and then stuck a wooden sign with Xia Wenqi's name on it on the pile.
Gu Jingyun looked at Jiang Yan, and Jiang Yan winked at him.
"Go." The young master ordered.
It was almost sunset.
Gu Jingyun said in public that they had to take a shortcut back to the main road before dark, take the official road, and head straight to the next city.
Yang Yuan did not follow them to the back mountain. He stayed by the official road, waiting for everyone to come down from the back mountain.
Yang Yuan was holding a Qiankun bag in his hand - it was a gift from the Immortal King, and it contained the corpses of the villagers.
He watched the convoy go away, and then was escorted in the opposite direction.
The journey ahead is long and the mountains are high. I'm afraid we won't have the chance to meet again.
He was filled with mixed emotions and was deeply saddened.
Back then, I left my hometown in pursuit of immortality, but I never thought I would be deceived by villains. When I was rescued from the devil's cave, I thought I would live a peaceful life in the village, but I found that the village had been massacred and my relatives and friends were gone.
Yang Yuan let out a long sigh and started crying again.
**
Under the young master's order, the entire convoy galloped forward.
In the largest carriage in the team.
The carriage is equipped with a soundproof barrier.
Jiang Yan waved his magic wand, and after a moment, he frowned and said, "That demon cultivator is still following us."
"What kind of magic is this?" Gu Jingyun asked.
"Tracking spell. I set a mark on it, and it can sense where the mark I want to track is." Jiang Yan said, "But there is a distance limit. It will automatically disconnect if it exceeds a certain distance."
Gu Jingyun: "Won't we be discovered?"
Jiang Yan explained: "He is not a magician, so I can do it so easily. If it were someone with a higher magic level than me, this spell would be discovered."
After saying that, Jiang Yan told Gu Jingyun about the Blood Soul Formation in detail.
He spoke without reservation and made himself dry-mouthed.
"...In addition to the Blood Soul Formation, there is another unnamed formation whose function is still unknown."
Jiang Yan took out the magic book, opened it, and handed it to Gu Jingyun.
"Brother, do you have any impression of it?"
Gu Jingyun recalled carefully.
After a moment, he shook his head and said, "I've never seen it before."
Jiang Yan took back the magic book and muttered, "The Blood Soul Formation can refine flesh and blood into skeleton warriors. As for the other formation, could it be used to summon ghouls from another world?"
Gu Jingyun pondered for a while, and suddenly asked: "Ah Yan, what do you think the demon cultivator wants Xia Wenji's body for? Think about it from a magical perspective."
Jiang Yan thought about it.
"Necromancy can turn him into a skeleton warrior."
Gu Jingyun: "...Is it okay without a head?"
Jiang Yan said, "Of course, but without the head, their strength will be greatly reduced. Sometimes when a few skeletons are fighting, their heads fall off, and they will pick them up and try to put them back."
It won’t work if it completely falls apart.
Gu Jingyun was silent for a while.
Perhaps because he had imagined the scene, the man's expression was indescribable.
"Brother, have you never encountered skeleton warriors?" Jiang Yan asked.
Gu Jingyun shook his head: "I have only seen a kind of monster with green face and fangs that eats carrion."
"That's a ghoul, which can also be summoned using undead magic. It's similar to a skeleton warrior, except one has a human form and the other doesn't." Jiang Yan said.
Gu Jingyun asked the question he wanted to know most: "Can necromancy bring the dead back to life?"
Jiang Yan was surprised: "Are you afraid that the demon cultivator will revive Xia Wenji?"
"It's just a guess." Gu Jingyun said.
After all, the dead Yu Hanyi's body had been taken away, and now there is news that he is suspected to have come back to life.
Jiang Yan said ashamedly: "Maybe there are similar forbidden techniques. My major is not necromancy, but natural magic. I only have a vague understanding of it, so I dare not make a firm statement..."
"It's okay, Ayan has already helped me a lot." Gu Jingyun hurriedly comforted.
When talking about nature, Gu Jingyun became excited.
"Ayan, I have something to ask you."
"you say."
"It's about—"
Before Gu Jingyun finished speaking, Jiang Yan suddenly looked serious and interrupted him directly: "The demon cultivator will not follow!"
At the same time, the sound of horse hooves came closer and closer.
There was a gentle knock on the window sill of the carriage.
"Young Master, Immortal Lord, do you want to find a place to camp for the night?" Ji Ziheng asked.
“…”
Gu Jingyun closed his eyes.
Well, now is really not a good time to have a heart-to-heart talk.
Gu Jingyun removed the barrier and said in a cold voice, "Set up camp right here. Ji Ziheng, call the people and prepare for 'hunting'."
"Yes!" There was a hint of solemnity in Ji Ziheng's response.
The Sirius Guards were well-trained and had already taken quick action outside.
Jiang Yan looked at the man beside him. "Brother, what did you want to ask? Is it urgent? If not, let's talk about it later."
Gu Jingyun: "... Well, I'm not in a hurry."
What else can we do?
Those damn demons are such a nuisance.
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