Sudden change
On the thirty-fifth day in the small secret realm, something strange happened.
Xu Shulou stretched and woke up from her dream. The moment she opened her eyes, she saw the blue sky. She mourned over the roof that had turned into ruins as usual, and then she found that all the brothers she had recruited a few days ago were gone.
Did you take the opportunity to escape?
Xu Shulou raised his sword, ready to let these people see the dangers of the world they would face after escaping. But just after flying a distance, he saw one of his brothers standing on the top of the mountain with his back to her, his back stiff and motionless.
Xu Shulou sensed something was wrong, lowered her voice, and slowly approached him from behind. But just as she was within a foot of him, the man suddenly turned his head. It was only his head that turned back, and the rest of his body remained motionless, only his neck turned around. His back was still facing Xu Shulou, but his face was facing her, his eyes were staring at her, and a strange smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Xu Shulou lowered his gaze to the shadow beneath him. In the shadow was a person who looked exactly like him. He was screaming and struggling in fear, as if he was trying desperately to break free from the shadow. When he saw her, he immediately shouted something to her, but no sound came out of his scream. Xu Shulou could only vaguely make out the words "Help" in one of his mouth shapes.
She was slightly startled. Was it that the shadow replaced the original living person, and the living person was trapped in the shadow?
The smile on the face standing in front of her continued to grow, and it was about to reach his ears, revealing a dark hole in his mouth. Xu Shulou slashed at the standing figure with a sword: "Stop smiling, your forehead is black, I will help you to transcend."
The man whose neck was twisted seemed to be extremely afraid of her sword. He twisted his body exaggeratedly, and his chest actually collapsed, just avoiding the tip of the sword. Then his arms stretched out, getting longer and longer, and finally stopped several feet long, attacking Xu Shulou at a tricky angle.
Xu Shulou had never seen this kind of fighting style, but as she said before, whether she had seen it before or not, if there was any bad intention, she would just chop it. She held the sword in her right hand and poked at the joint of the arm. The shadow monster dodged very quickly, and the arm directly formed an incredible arc. It seemed that it was about to dodge the attack, but Xu Shulou only feinted. In the blink of an eye, she had switched the sword to her left hand and swiftly chopped at his other arm.
The shadow monster couldn't dodge in time, and its arm was cut off by the sword. It fell on the grass beside it and gradually dissipated. Xu Shulou stared at the shadow monster and saw that he didn't grow a new arm. He breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the attack was effective.
The shadow monster suffered a loss and was about to bite him with its black teeth bared, but Xu Shulou's sword made him unable to defend against it. The angle of each sword strike was strange, making it impossible for him to tell where it would land. In a blink of an eye, he was hit by sword after sword, and was chopped into pieces. Xu Shulou also carefully lit a fire to burn the scattered small black shadows.
There seemed to be some sharp cry in his ears, and the person trapped in the shadow on the ground pulled apart a transparent membrane, squeezed out, fell to the ground and retched, spitting out large clumps of black shadows from his mouth, which were all burned one by one by Xu Shulou who set fire to them.
After the man finally finished vomiting, he knelt down on the ground and said to Xu Shulou: "This morning, all the monsters seem to have become stronger. Others are also in danger. Please go and save them!"
These people actually have some affection for each other. After being rescued, this person's first reaction was not to let her take him away. Xu Shulou pondered. The shadow monster was clearly the same one she had seen when she first entered the secret realm. It was not dangerous at the time. Why did it suddenly become much stronger? Is this also part of the trial?
She nodded: "Follow me, be smart."
The man was delighted: "Yes!"
Xu Shulou flew a distance away, looking around all the way. When he noticed something on the road, he quickly descended. The younger brother behind him followed him in confusion: "What did you see?"
When he saw the bloody human leg on the ground, which seemed to have been torn off by an animal, he couldn't help but retching again. He saw Xu Shulou pick up the broken leg and put it into the Qiankun bracelet. He was horrified and said, "What are you going to do? Even if the food reserves are not enough, you can't eat your classmates!"
Xu Shulou met his eyes that looked like he was looking at a pervert: "What are you thinking? If the person is still alive, I will pick up his leg and there is still hope that he can reattach it."
"..." The younger brother said, "Yes, yes, I forgot just now because I was scared."
Xu Shulou was furious. He was obviously the vicious robber who came to rob. Why did he speculate about an innocent girl like him who had done nothing? However, the situation was urgent and there was no time to argue with him: "Keep your eyes open and keep looking for him!"
"yes."
As Xu Shulou walked along, she rescued a few classmates who were in danger. The younger brothers who had always wanted to escape from her before now hugged Xu Shulou's thighs and cried, but she kicked them away one by one.
She found that all the monsters had been strengthened. Even the cute little deer before, the light waves they spit out from their mouths were deadly enough. Xu Shulou dodged it, and the light wave almost blew down a small hill behind her.
After a while, I stared at the deer that were just knocked unconscious, thinking of the shadow monster that was just chopped apart and burned, and said, "Are you still looking at the monster to see what's going on?"
"What else?" Xu Shulou asked back with confidence.
"No wonder you were so kind to my junior sister, but bossed me around," the younger brother touched his face, "It's because I didn't have a pretty face."
Seeing that Xu Shulou had found his brothers, I felt a little relieved.
Xu Shulou reminded him: "Don't relax, keep looking for people, shout as you go, someone may hear us and come to meet us."
The younger brothers nodded and started yelling at the top of their hoarse voices. In order to find someone, Xu Shulou couldn't use a soundproofing enclosure, so he just hoped to rescue someone with a more pleasant voice to replace these guys.
She soon met another classmate. This female cultivator silently joined their team, followed Xu Shulou with her head down without saying a word, as if she was frightened.
The other people who were rescued in the team were about to comfort her, but were stopped by Xu Shulou. She walked in front of the female cultivator and raised the tip of her sword to lift her chin.
The female cultivator looked up at her pitifully, but Xu Shulou sneered, "The girl's forehead looks a little dark."
I was extremely sensitive to this word at this moment, and I quickly looked at the girl carefully: "No way, is it that kind of shadow monster again?!"
Xu Shulou had already slashed with his sword, but the female cultivator suddenly opened her mouth wide and spit out a dark tongue, which rolled towards Xu Shulou's wrist.
Xu Shulou grabbed the tongue with his left hand and stretched it violently, then swung his sword with his right hand and chopped off the tongue. People who were about to come up to help couldn't help but look away, it was too brutal.
Seeing Xu Shulou split the female cultivator into countless black shadows, I lay on the ground and searched carefully: "Since it is also a shadow monster, there should be a shadow that trapped a person."
Xu Shulou pointed at the ground, and then I could see clearly that under the black shadow on the ground, I could vaguely make out a person's face. At this time, only the mouth and nose were exposed. If I had encountered it later, I would have been completely swallowed up.
Everyone suppressed their nausea and used their weapons to cut open a transparent membrane, pulling out a female cultivator whose face was a little blurry, facial features had shifted, and even her fingertips had melted. She had her eyes tightly closed, her face was pale, and she was breathing out more than breathing in.
Seeing their classmate in this state, everyone was horrified and sympathetic: "Can this person be saved?"
Xu Shulou stuffed a life-saving pill into the girl's mouth and shook his head after hearing this: "I don't know, let's take her on the road first. Is there a medic in the team? Please help take care of her first."
"good."
"We can't stay here anymore," Xu Shulou held the sword in his hand, "We must get everyone out."
"Why don't we go out and ask the Master for help?"
Xu Shulou pondered. She had thought about this when she saw the broken leg, but... "As a college test, this is a bit too much. The teachers haven't intervened yet. They may have been distracted by something."
"What?!"
Xu Shulou shook his head: "I can't say for sure. Those who are willing to follow me can continue to sweep the secret realm with me to find the remaining people. Those who want to get out now can also give it a try."
Everyone hesitated for a moment, because it was Xu Shulou who saved everyone's lives, and they also felt that it would be safer to follow her, so most people chose to follow her.
Xu Shulou led the team out again. She was a little anxious, wondering if her fellow brothers and sisters were still in the small secret realm.
After a while, the group met another classmate. This male cultivator seemed to be the lucky one. He had not encountered any monsters since this morning. He was a little skeptical about what everyone said and looked at them suspiciously: "Are you trying to trick me for the ranking? Trick me out and then let me stay?"
"Knock him out and take him away." Xu Shulou did not have time to explain. She was very prestigious in the team at this moment. After giving an order, several people rushed forward and knocked the confused male cultivator unconscious, and then carried him up.
Xu Shulou tried her best to sweep all the places in the small secret realm, and would rush to any cry for help, but she could not leave out any. After a few hours, forty or fifty people gathered in the team, which was exactly the number of people she had estimated to stay, including the three junior brothers from Mingyue Peak.
Xu Shulou asked his sixth junior brother: "Did you see anyone else?"
"I only met the second senior brother. He rescued a classmate who had a broken leg and was being chased by a monster, and took the man out to seek medical treatment." Ji Ci said.
"Didn't you see the Third Junior Brother and Junior Sister?"
"No, don't worry too much, Senior Sister. Maybe they have already left by now."
Xu Shulou nodded: "Okay, let's go out and take a look."
All the forty or fifty people followed her orders and left the small secret realm together. What greeted them was the empty Xuancang Academy. Even the teachers who were supposed to take turns guarding the small secret realm to prevent any changes were nowhere to be seen. There was a sound of fighting in the distance. If Xu Shulou was alone, he would probably go over to see what was going on, but at this time he had classmates around him, so he was cautious first.
A small monkey poked its head out from the potted plant. Xu Shulou immediately recognized it as one of the pets of her third junior brother Feng Yi. She strode forward, and the monkey jumped obediently into her palm, cleverly made a gesture to silence everyone, and stretched out its paw to point her in a direction.
"Let's go!" Xu Shulou led the crowd forward. Under the guidance of the monkey, they walked through the winding mountain roads and arrived at a place they had never seen before.
"There is a cave in Xuancang Academy?" Everyone couldn't help but be surprised.
Someone answered, "It's a habit in the world of cultivation. When I read the history of cultivation, it was mentioned that most sects built an escape passage or underground cave when they were established."
When they entered the cave, they saw a teacher who had fainted and about a hundred panicked students. Xu Shulou found Bai Roushuang, Feng Yi, and Song Ping among them, and felt relieved. Bai Roushuang came over and hugged her: "Senior sister!"
The little monkey hopped to find Feng Yi, who whispered something in its ear, and it left the cave again.
"I asked it to stay outside the small secret realm to prevent anyone from coming out and not being able to find us," Feng Yi explained. "Did you encounter any bad guys when you came here? It seems that the puppets in the sect had a fight with them."
"No," Xu Shulou shook his head. "What's going on here? Where are the other masters? What about the monsters in the small secret realm?"
"Today, the Nine Nether Immortal Venerable of Qingcheng Sect married a Taoist couple. That's a big event. The other teachers and even some students set out early to celebrate," Feng Yi smiled bitterly. "Only Teacher Li was left to guard the small secret realm, but he was attacked and seriously injured. He managed to beat the attacker and pointed out a place for the students to hide before he fainted due to exhaustion. Everyone took him here to hide."
Taking the students' safety into consideration, the masters took turns to suppress the monsters in this small secret realm. It was difficult to fight the monsters from inside the secret realm, but it was relatively easy to suppress them from outside, so the masters took turns to do it. Master Li, who was on duty today, fell into a coma, which led to a sharp increase in the strength of the monsters in the small secret realm.
Jiuyou Immortal Venerable? Xu Shulou smiled bitterly. The passionate love story between this Immortal Venerable and his Taoist partner must have been known to the entire Three Realms. After hundreds of years of arguing, they finally became a Taoist couple. It was hard to say whether those masters went to congratulate them for the sake of Qingcheng Sect or simply wanted to watch the fun.
If Xu Shulou wasn't in the small secret realm, she might have gone to join in the fun. But who would take this opportunity to attack a school?
Xu Shulou's mind raced, and in a flash he had guessed several possibilities. Everyone also put their heads together and even guessed about the invasion of demons and their desire to destroy the future of the cultivation world.
"Where are the other students?" Xu Shulou roughly counted the number of people. "Did they all run to Qingcheng Sect to watch the fun?"
"No, some people are taking advantage of the free time to go out for a stroll," Song Ping frowned, "That's exactly what I'm worried about. There are still bad guys searching outside, and I'm worried that they'll run into the bad guys when they come back."
Hearing this, Xu Shulou raised his sword and stood up: "You guys hide, I'll go out and take a look."
"Senior Sister!" Ji Ci was so anxious that she wanted to stop her, but Xu Shulou turned around and smiled at her fellow junior brothers and sisters. When everyone saw her eyes, they knew they couldn't stop her.
Everyone looked at her with eyes full of admiration as if she were a hero, and silently watched her walk away slowly against the light. They only felt that her back continued to grow taller, and her whole body was emitting a brilliant light.
"Oh, by the way," Yingxiong suddenly turned around, took out a broken leg from his Qiankun bracelet and handed it to everyone, pointing to the unconscious male cultivator who was missing a leg in the corner, "I found it in the secret realm, help me return it to him."
"..."Everyone looked at the bloody broken leg, and no one dared to reach out to take it. They felt that the solemnity in their hearts was completely destroyed.
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