Just as Li Mai was lost in thought, a dark figure appeared in front of her. "What happened?"
Li Mai looked at Gu Zhe standing in front of her and raised an eyebrow. "So you really have been watching me all along?"
Gu Zhe shook his head. "No, I can sense when you call out to me with focused concentration. I was just about to have dinner with your brothers and your mother."
Li Mai wanted to say that those weren't her brother and mother, but she kept quiet. Now it was her turn to beg him, and there was no need to argue with him.
“Zhou Quan is always troubled by his past life memories. I helped him seal his past life memories some time ago, and now his strength is much weaker. We came back to the village to worship our ancestors these days, but just now I sensed the aura of a mutated beast. I hope you can go and help him.”
After Li Mai finished speaking, she glanced at him and said, "Thank you for helping me. After I give birth, I can visit the brother and mother you mentioned when I have time."
A slight smile appeared between Gu Zhe's brows. "Alright, don't worry, I won't let anything happen to him."
After saying that, he disappeared from the spot.
Li Mai released her divine sense and sensed that he was heading in the direction where Zhou Quan's aura was. Li Mai was relieved.
Based on her judgment, Zhou Quan and the others should be in the mountains near the old village.
When Zhou Quan left the village, he placed a protective barrier around it. Although it wasn't as strong as before, it was still enough to deal with ordinary people or low-level cultivators.
With her spiritual power assisting her, protecting the people in this village shouldn't be a problem.
In the mountains west of the village, Zhou Quan was currently fighting several mutated beasts.
Not far behind these mutated beasts, on a cliff, stood a man in black, holding two children in his hands—Zhou Chun's two children.
Zhou Chun's mother was lying at the man's feet, already lifeless.
Meanwhile, Zhou Chun was tied up and struggling on the ground in the middle, crying and begging Zhou Quan to save him.
Zhou Heng, Zhou Zhong, and the others were hiding behind a large rock. They wanted to go out and help Zhou Quan, but an invisible barrier was holding them back. They couldn't make a sound or move, and could only anxiously watch from the crack in the rock as Zhou Quan fought against the five monsters.
They called them monsters because they had never seen those wild beasts before; they should even be called a strange creature.
The man on the cliff frowned as he looked down, cursing under his breath that it was still no use. These mutated beasts were too weak in their abilities. Even though Luo Ying's mutated beast bloodline aura was weak at this moment, the five of them combined were no match for him.
It's simply impossible to use them to arouse Luo Ying's ferocious beastly nature.
As the other party was squinting and thinking, he suddenly sensed a fluctuation of spiritual energy. He forcefully flung his hand, throwing the two children off the cliff and crashing them into Zhou Quan. He then quickly disappeared from the spot.
The next moment, Gu Zhe appeared where the man in black had been standing, glanced quickly at the mountains below, and then disappeared in pursuit.
Zhou Quan, who was fighting the mutated beasts below, seemed to sense something and looked up, just in time to see this scene. He was about to go to save the children when the mutated beasts suddenly flew up and flew directly towards the two children, opening their mouths wide to devour them.
Zhou Quan narrowed his eyes, leaped into the air, and unleashed a blazing fire-type spiritual flame at the beasts. At the same time, he used his left hand to release a burst of spiritual power, quickly catching the two children and landing them on the ground. He then flung the two children into the barrier on Zhou Heng's side.
Then he turned back to deal with the mutated beasts.
These mutated beasts are hybrids of exotic beasts and ordinary small beasts. They are not old, their cultivation strength is insufficient, and their strength is weak. They were forcibly awakened into mutated beasts with drugs. Therefore, they are not strong and are even more afraid of Zhou Quan's exotic fire power from the exotic beasts.
Therefore, Zhou Quan dealt with them for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, and finally managed to kill all the mutated beasts. He then used his spiritual fire to burn them to ashes.
At first, he didn't plan to use the spirit fire in front of Zhou Heng and the others, after all, he would have to explain it. Who could suddenly breathe fire from their hand? However, at that moment, in order to stop those mutated beasts and save the two children, he had no choice but to use the spirit fire.
When Zhou Chun saw the children being thrown down, he frantically shouted for Zhou Quan to help him save them, even saying that he would be willing to die if Zhou Quan helped him save the children.
But Zhou Quan didn't have time to listen to his screams at that time; he was too busy saving the child and dealing with the mutated beasts.
At this moment, seeing that Zhou Quan had finally killed those strange-looking beasts and could even throw a ball of fire from his hand to burn their corpses to death, Zhou Chun was once again terrified, his eyes widening in shock, and he even wet his pants in fright.
In fact, not only Zhou Chun was frightened, but Zhou Heng and the others were also frightened. However, at this moment, they had to help take care of Zhou Chun's two children who had been thrown down and had fainted from fright, so they didn't have time to worry about their own fright.
Zhou Quan waved his hand at them, and the things binding them disappeared. Zhou Heng and Zhou Zhong finally felt that they could leave the big rock.
Zhou Quan glanced down at the two children, squatted down, reached out and touched their foreheads with his finger to feel for a moment before withdrawing his hand. "The children are fine, they just fainted from fright."
After saying that, he stood up, looked up at the mountaintop, and then gave Zhou Chun a cold look. "I'll settle accounts with you when we get back to the village."
After saying that, he leaped up and went straight to the top of the mountain to check, where he found only the body of an old woman.
Helpless, he could only take Zhou Chunniang's body downstairs first.
Zhou Quan waved his hand at Zhou Chun, and the ropes binding him broke. He stood up and rushed towards his mother, crying out for her, but unfortunately, his mother would never wake up again.
"Brother Quan, what do we do next?" Zhou Heng asked, frowning as he looked at Zhou Chun, who was wailing over there.
“Let Zhou Chun carry his mother back to the village, and you carry the children.”
Zhou Quan gave the order, "You guys go first, I'll go check out the surrounding mountains."
He knew that the mutated beasts were temporarily gone. He could sense that these things were coming for him, so they shouldn't be endless. They would only appear when those men in black appeared.
His suggestion to go and look around was also to reassure Zhou Heng and the others.
When they returned to the village, some people were still there. The clan chief saw that they had brought Zhou Chunniang and the others back and looked at Zhou Quan in surprise, "Xiao Quan, what's going on?"
Zhou Quan looked at Zhou Chun with a gloomy expression, "You can ask him yourselves. I'm going home for a bit, I'll be right back."
After saying that, he looked at Zhou Heng and said, "I'm going home first and I'll be back in a bit. You guys keep an eye on this area and assist the clan chief in interrogating Zhou Chun to get all the details out of him."
After saying that, Zhou Quan quickly left the ancestral hall and headed home.
While he was on the mountain, he sensed the presence of Gu Zhe. He decided to go home and ask Li Mai if Gu Zhe had come, or if she had summoned her.
As for Zhou Chunniang's funeral arrangements, he couldn't be bothered with them. He was already being generous enough by bringing him into the village.
It's unbelievable that yesterday they refused to let his family into the village, but today they personally rescued his children and even brought him in.
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