It roared loudly and tried to escape. I immediately took out a piece of wood with five elements runes from my right pocket. It happened to be the one storing earth energy. I pinched the five elements earth spell with my left and right hands, pointed the sword at the red-eyed monster, and shouted, "Earth, come!"

Suddenly the ground rolled over and the stone road shattered. The broken stones formed a strange stone figure, which actually used the grappling method that I was good at. I saw the stone figure quickly grab the opponent's shoulder and elbow joints with one hand and pull them back. With the other hand, he suddenly pressed the opponent's neck forward and kicked the opponent's knee. Immediately, the red-eyed monster's joints were stuck, and he knelt on one knee, unable to move.

At this moment, even though it has no pain nerves in its body, its joints are restrained and it is temporarily unable to move. Unable to move, it can only be exposed to the sun. It is afraid of the light, and the light causes it to be constantly burned and blackened, as if it were on fire. It screams and lets out endless wails!

The piece of wood in my hand that stored earth qi had also been exhausted and turned into a rotten black color. The stone figure also returned to its broken state and became a pile of loose stones. After all, it was just some kind of Taoist evolution derived from the qi of the five elements. It was the mystery of the Golden Que Sword, but it surprised me. I didn't expect there was such an operation.

The setting sun left behind a last ember and finally sank into darkness, leaving behind a patch of pitch black. The pupils of the red-eyed monster had also become dilated, and the blood color no longer returned to normal brown. Its entire body had been burnt, leaving only a pitch-black pile with no discernible shape. What could be found was that it seemed to be just a layer of skin, and the skin was burnt so that the inside was almost empty. Presumably, after the maggots had been burned, the filling had disappeared without a trace.

I sighed, then stood up and went to see how Yunwen and Bailu were doing. However, at this moment, I saw a red smoke rising from the body that had been burned to ashes. I felt something was wrong, so I immediately reached out to touch it, but my fingers were burned. I immediately withdrew my hand, and soon the red smoke disappeared without a trace.

"What the hell?" I couldn't help but mutter.

At this time, I turned around and saw Yunwen and Bailu sitting on the ground, panting. They were no longer crazy or twitching, but just staying still. I walked towards them carefully...

"Brother Zhou Bo, where is this?" Bai Lu suddenly asked.

I was startled. After all, he had just been standing still, and suddenly made a sound, as if he had come back to life.

"The ancient city of Xiying is what is commonly known as Canyon Xiying. Are you feeling better?" I asked.

"It should be fine. After you killed the red-eyed monster just now, the bugs in your body stopped moving. I don't know why. So Sister Bailu should be like me, with no symptoms of the poison." Yunwen suddenly spoke too, which scared me again.

"Logically speaking, there is no connection between them and there shouldn't be a chain reaction. Why did the red-eyed monster die and the poisonous insect in its body die as well?" I said puzzledly.

"Maybe it's not dead, but the caster's consciousness is no longer controlling it. If it doesn't move, it will be expelled from the body soon." Bai Lu said.

"Yes, witchcraft has often been reduced to a topic of conversation since ancient times. For some witchcraft, the caster can use certain means to make it effective. For example, special drums can stimulate the effect of the witchcraft when beaten, making the victim suffer unbearable pain. The red-eyed monster may also use some method similar to frequency change or even mind control to control the witchcraft worm. Once it dies, these methods will disappear." Yunwen said.

"But there was already one in Bailu's stomach before. If it was such a simple method to control the insect, then why didn't Bailu die at the post station? After all, as long as it relied on consciousness or some kind of frequency, wouldn't the red-eyed monster be able to kill Bailu by standing outside the door?" I asked.

Yunwen sighed and said, "It must be deliberately not killing us. If it had, we wouldn't have taken the initiative to push Sister Bailu out to find it. It was trying to lead us to this altar area and then kill us all at once."

I thought about it carefully, and it was true. This guy had played a lot of tricks. He spared Bai Lu's life and used the ghost claw flower to create an illusion, just to lure us here, to the altar area where living people were once refined into corpses. He wanted to kill us here, but he didn't expect that we arrived a little early and he was too hurried. He was one step behind and lost the whole game in the end. I broke through the dark clouds and let him be burned to death by the setting sun.

This is a case of being too clever by half, digging one's own grave, tying oneself up in knots, and bringing about one's own destruction!

Those who do evil will eventually perish. It has learned the bad habits left by the Blood Eye Clan, harming countless people and lives just to prolong its life. How can the final outcome be good? It can only kneel on the ground, unable to move, waiting for God's punishment.

But I don't understand why they had to kill people in this place? This place is just an empty space, and except for the bridge and the river, it is basically the same as the surrounding area. What is the principle behind this?

Thinking of this, even though he had defeated the life-thief in the dark, he was still somewhat uneasy.

"Alas... I hope the poisonous insects in your stomach can be expelled or digested." I said.

But I suddenly realized that there was something strange about this statement, and Yunwen and Bailu immediately looked at me with contempt. Bailu even said directly: "Brother Zhou Bo means that we have eaten corpse maggots and we need to digest them properly? This concern is really considerate."

I am speechless.

snort!

The two girls got up and left, scolding me coldly. I was embarrassed and could only hurriedly push the wooden ox and horse and follow them.

Before Sanfu ran away, he threw all the supplies on the ground, and I picked them up one by one and took them with me.

Night has fallen in this desolate and dilapidated ancient city. I actually never thought that the three of us could stay another night in this place known as the city of death. Life is so unpredictable.

After that, we wandered around the streets of the city for a long time. As it was getting darker, we couldn't get out of the city. Yunwen also said that she planned to look for the lost Sanfu tomorrow to prevent it from being left in the city. So we planned to find a house here to stay for one night. Tomorrow, after we find the horse and everything is ready, we will prepare to return to the post station.

Along the way, Yunwen also mentioned the recent situation to Bailu, and I turned on the light energy effect of the Golden Que Sword from behind to light the way. Anyway, it couldn't use much of my spiritual energy to light the way.

The ancient city of Xiying is very mysterious, with cold winds often blowing. In addition, the night gets colder as time goes on, so we can only find an ancient house nearby. Seeing that the door is open, we go in. This house is closer to the canyon on the right, and is located three houses away from the sacrificial area. There is an old tree outside the door, which grows crookedly.

After entering the house, I looked around for some firewood, lit it directly with the Golden Sword, and borrowed the Five Elements Fire Storage Wood Chips to make the whole firewood burn brightly. With this excellent converter, I basically say goodbye to the time of drilling wood to make fire.

With the firelight, the whole room became bright. There were cobwebs everywhere and the wood was rotten, giving it an old look. But I seemed to see a familiar hilt of a sword on the wall by accident, but the light was dim, so I was not sure.

As soon as they sat down, everyone took out the food ingredients prepared in advance from their backpacks, set up the stainless steel pot, and got some water from the military kettle. They could only eat some black fungus and wild vegetables boiled in plain water to fill their stomachs.

"Brother Zhou Bo, thank you for thinking of rescuing me. Otherwise, I might have already reported to the underworld by now." Bai Lu said.

"Don't thank me so quickly. It's my duty to save you. After all, your being poisoned is directly related to me. Besides, I owe Yingchun a life. Her disappearance is also related to my temper." I said.

"Forget it. It's Yingchun's fault that she has such a bad temper. I just want to make a long-term plan here. I'll stay here for a week to see if I can wait for my sister. If I can't find her, I'll build a grave for her here. What do you think? " Bai Lu said with a lonely look.

"Of course, Sister Bailu, we also hope to find Sister Yingchun." Yunwen said, then looked at me.

"No problem. The threat has been lifted. We just have to stay here for a week, so we have to plan carefully for food, water, and shelter," I said.