Chapter 46: Going Down the Mountain
The quiet night was broken by shouts and screams.
The originally empty streets were now crowded with monsters that came down from the mountains. The residents of Mingzhou City were very familiar with these monsters.
Live by the mountain, eat by the mountain; live by the water, eat by the water.
Many parts of the monsters are good materials for refining weapons and elixirs, so the cultivators in Mingzhou City always overcome their inner fears and go to the nearby mountains to hunt monsters.
Most of the time, monks hunt lone monsters in groups, and do not go into the mountains to compete with powerful monsters with profound cultivation.
Therefore, humans succeeded repeatedly, and the sporadic resistance of the little demons could only kill a few people.
But tonight, the situation has completely reversed.
Those monsters that seemed to have no intelligence at all formed groups like humans, went deep into houses, and looked for people who were left alone.
In the dead of night, humans were much less vigilant than during the day, and in a short while, the monsters that suddenly came down from the mountain succeeded in many ways.
The wailing sounds resounded throughout Mingzhou City.
Normally speaking, human cultivators are not necessarily completely weaker than monsters and should have the power to fight back.
However, monsters have a savagery that humans do not possess. They will directly eat the bodies of human monks alive. If they are not eaten well, the severed limbs will be thrown on the streets, leaving a trail of blood.
No matter how cruel and ruthless a person is, he will be stunned by this sudden bloody scene, losing the best opportunity to counterattack, allowing the monsters to advance straight in.
Unprepared humans can only run away like a headless fly.
Fan Qingyue held a long knife in his hand. With a flash of the knife, the claw that was about to twist off the panicked passerby's head was chopped off directly.
The bright red blood splashed directly onto the passerby's face.
The deafening howl of the monster frightened the passerby to the extreme. He didn't care about anything else and ran away as fast as he could while his legs could still move and the monster had not yet caught up with him.
Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan were exposed to the group of monsters.
The monsters didn't have much intelligence, they only realized who had hurt them, so the group of monsters turned around and attacked Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan.
After Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan exchanged a few rounds, they realized something was wrong.
They had all taken on the task of helping to clear out monsters in Qingyun Sect, and monsters did not always appear in groups.
After all, this broad concept covers three major types of creatures: those that fly in the sky, those that run on the ground, and those that swim in the water. Moreover, they prey on each other. Not to mention that they do not have the intelligence to maintain a group, even if they do, the naked blood feud between them makes it impossible for them to be so united.
Jiang Tan frowned as he looked at the invading monsters. The more he looked, the more he felt a sense of déjà vu.
"Brother, don't you think the situation in Mingzhou City where the monsters invaded is very similar to that in Jinxi City?"
Fan Qingyue also noticed this and said in a deep voice, "Indeed, so there are no traces of demonic cultivators behind the incident in Mingzhou City, right?"
However, now is not a good time to discuss these things.
The cultivators in Mingzhou City have generally recovered. A group of cultivators gathered near the elders of the Ye family and launched a counterattack against the group of monsters.
This instead aroused the anger of the monsters, and their attacks became more and more intense.
In Mingzhou City where a fierce battle was in full swing, no one noticed a petite figure moving among the terrifying halo of swords, sabers and spells.
She looked like she was about to cry, and couldn't help but shout, "How could this happen?"
Jiang Tan saw the girl at a glance, drew his bow and shot an arrow through the monster that was trying to attack the girl, and instantly took the girl away from the danger zone.
"Why are you here?" Jiang Tan asked curiously.
And this girl was none other than Su Mei, whom they had not seen for a long time after parting in Jinxi City.
The climate in Mingzhou City is hot, but she still wears the hat with furry ears.
Su Mei sniffed, tears still lingering in the corners of her eyes. She said, "I was looking for someone, but I forgot who it was, so I wanted to ask my dad, but I couldn't even find him."
"I wandered here, and they still don't listen to me."
"They must be crazy," Su Mei whispered to Jiang Tan while looking at the group of monsters, "Daddy told me that deep red pupils are the sign of a demon."
Jiang Tan was startled and suddenly raised his head to look at the group of monsters.
Those monsters are fearless and brave, and without exception, they all have a pair of deep red pupils.
"It must be the demonic cultivators behind this," Jiang Tan said with certainty, "We must not let the demonic cultivators succeed in their scheme."
Fan Qingyue immediately integrated the power of the origin of gold into the long sword.
The sound of metal clashing was incessant, the brilliance of magic flickered in Mingzhou City, and the monsters were not easy to deal with either, so the battle situation became tense for a while.
Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan both focused their attention on dealing with the monsters. They only had time to put Su Mei in a place far away from the war and did not notice anything abnormal about Su Mei herself.
She was still a little unwilling to believe it, and tried to call out to the demonic beasts, but it was of no use.
This seemed to make her think of something desperate, and she walked into the monsters alone, still trying to wake them up.
However, the possessed monster didn't care about anything else and just kept venting its brutal murderous intent.
The monster opened its bloody mouth, revealing its sharp white fangs, and in an instant, it was about to swallow Su Mei whole into its stomach.
And just at this moment, a red shadow flashed by.
Lu Fei held the sword in one hand and Su Mei's collar in the other, and led her out of danger.
He had been walking towards the inexplicable force that attracted him, but the wailing of the crowd stopped him in his tracks.
The worry overcame the instinct to pursue, so he rushed towards the noisiest place, and then he saw the scene of Su Mei in danger.
"Is your brain okay? Why did you go towards the group of monsters?" Lu Fei asked with a frown, obviously not understanding Su Mei's behavior.
However, Su Mei's big eyes blinked, and a few crystal tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes.
She whispered, "It shouldn't be like this..."
Her expression and tone were filled with an incomprehensible sadness. At least Lu Fei didn't understand why she was sad.
But he was really powerless to stop the woman's tears, so he could only drive her back to keep her away from the monster, and then set up restrictions to prevent her from going forward to avoid danger.
Then Lu Fei stepped forward with his sword and threw himself into the counterattack against the monster without hesitation.
Su Mei was originally sad about some things her father had mentioned to her.
"No matter what race a living being originally belongs to, once possessed by the devil, they will only become enemies."
Tears blurred her eyes as she saw Lu Fei's back as he turned and left. In a trance, that back seemed to overlap with the back she had caught a glimpse of when she was very young.
Obviously, she should not remember anything about her childhood, but the impression that time was so deep that the figure remained in her mind.
Su Mei blinked, trying to see more clearly, but after the tears rolled down, there was only a very clear world in front of her eyes, and she could not find the thing that inexplicably evoked a sense of familiarity in her.
She looked around and found that she had met Jian An Ning's disciples, but where had Jian An Ning gone?
At the same time, somewhere in the unknown.
It was pitch black here, with no sunlight. It was silent and there were no mountains, rivers or trees. There was only an endless field, a river flowing quietly, and red flowers blooming on both sides of the river.
Jane Anning lay in the flowers, staring at the dark sky, her chin supported by one hand, a gourd in the other, and a bronze mirror placed beside her.
The woman in the mirror who looked exactly like her was saying maliciously, "Are you really not afraid?"
"If he really remembers everything, won't he inevitably resent you?"
"Who told you to lie from the beginning?"
Jian Anning remained silent, fiddling with the gourd until the voice in the mirror became sarcastic and harsh. Then she said, "I'm not lying."
The person in the mirror laughed instantly, as if he had been amused by some funny joke.
"Then why did he think your name was Jane Anning?"
"Human beings are foolish enough to be blinded by appearances and are completely incapable of seeing the truth. When they learn everything, they will undoubtedly regard you as their sworn enemy."
Jian Anning stopped what she was doing, lowered her eyes to look at the blooming flowers, and said, "No."
"He also saved me."
The person in the mirror chuckled and said, "Save?"
"You call that saving you? How did you become so hopeless? How could you believe in human language without any constraints?"
"I almost don't recognize you anymore."
Jian An Ning turned the mirror upside down with an expressionless face, raised her hand to pick a bright red flower, squeezed out the bright red flower juice, and dripped it into the wine in the gourd.
However, the voice of the person in the mirror continued to come, lingering in Jane An Ning's ears like a devil's sound.
"You hate me, don't you?"
"No."
"If that's the case, why did you seal me away? We should be the closest and most intimate beings in this world."
Jian An Ning sighed deeply and grabbed the mirror.
The shadow in the mirror that turned into black mist instantly condensed into a human figure exactly like Jane An Ning, looking at her with a smile, as if he had not said anything just now.
"What did you do again?"
The face in the mirror that looked exactly like hers smiled even wider and asked, "Guess?"
The person in the mirror said this, and knocked on the mirror surface that seemed to be non-existent in the mirror world, and said: "If you are willing to let me out, I might tell you."
"Otherwise, you will have no choice but to come to me for help after being deserted by everyone."
The words of the person in the mirror were full of provocation, as if he had already encountered the tragic situation of Jane Anning coming to him for help.
"Oh," Jian Anning laughed nonchalantly and said, "I can go to the human world and see what happened myself."
"I'll also let him know everything about the past."
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