"Is this... a formation?"
"It should be." Zhou Yanzhi said, pulling Xiao Yu and following the crowd quickly into the town. Xiao Yu subconsciously wanted to use his spiritual sense to check outside the city gate, but his spiritual sense was firmly blocked by the stone gate.
Xiao Yu's scalp tightened instantly. His spiritual consciousness, which had been "invincible" since birth, had actually suffered a "Waterloo" on the second day after arriving here?
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The two followed the crowd and walked quickly on the street. They found that many shops in the town were closed. Even the stalls on both sides of the street were empty.
Xiao Yu and Zhou Yanzhi looked at each other and quickly returned home.
Because of this incident, the two of them didn't cook dinner in the evening. Instead, they had a simple meal with the leftover soup from lunch. Naturally, they didn't have the big meal they had promised Sibao.
Apart from that, there was an eerie silence in Tulong Town that night.
Xiao Yu and Zhou Yanzhi always felt that something was going to happen, so they locked the door tightly and pasted many talismans on it.
Some were their own, and some were obtained from the vine forest. This was not enough, Zhou Yanzhi also used three dust-repelling talismans on the cave.
After finishing, he took out the blank talisman paper he had obtained from someone else's storage bag and started drawing talismans with Xiao Yu.
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"Ah!" It was already past ten in the evening when the screams rang out. Unsurprisingly, the two men were so frightened that they destroyed a talisman they were drawing.
Xiao Yu's spiritual sense reached out, and the scene on the street frightened him so much that he instantly withdrew it. Zhou Yanzhi's face was also not good, obviously he had also seen the scene outside. The spiritual sense shifted, and those who lived in the same cave as them were generally at the seventh or eighth level of Qi Refining, and some were even at the twelfth level.
But without exception, at this moment, the doors and walls of everyone's cave were covered with talismans, and everyone looked unhappy.
The humanoid creatures on the street looked like puppets of something. They "pried open" the caves one by one, hunted the people inside, and then dragged the "prey" to the gate.
Xiao Yu felt something and took out the seal of the land god and placed it on the table. Because of this action, at around one in the morning, when the monsters were increasing in number, they directly bypassed them and at least three caves on their left and right.
This strange 'hunt' lasted until 3:30 in the morning and only stopped at around 4:00.
Because Zhou Yanzhi had signaled him to be silent when the chaos first began, Xiao Yu's telepathic transmission was useless. It wasn't until the next morning that the sun shone upon the earth again.
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"'I'..." Zhou Yanzhi pointed at himself and made a training motion. "I only heard about it before, but I didn't expect it to be true!"
Xiao Yu signaled with his eyes: What is true?
"Do you know what the word 'accomplice' in 'a tiger's accomplice' means?"
Xiao Yu nodded.
Zhou Yanzhi said: "Those who came last night were similar to minions. However, they were not minions of tigers, but minions of the so-called black monsters that came yesterday afternoon. These black monsters look like velociraptors, but are not big in size, and their bodies are covered with skin and bones. They feed on humans or other wild beasts and demonic beasts.
Therefore, they are also called monsters.
It was said that the combat power of an average adult Black Demon Beast was equivalent to that of a Spiritual Origin Realm, and that advanced Black Demon Beasts could reach the Dan Yuan Realm. Therefore, in the Western Wasteland, the wisest course of action when encountering a Black Demon Beast was to flee and hide.
However, this magical beast possesses an innate skill. After killing and using up their prey, they infuse the remaining parts of their prey with an innate dark energy. This energy can begin to stiffen the lifeless corpse of their prey, transforming it into a puppet with two-thirds of their own combat power.
Then, at midnight, the puppets transform into unconscious ghosts and hunt their own kind. It's said that only in this way can the prey's soul be reincarnated; otherwise, they will be enslaved by the black beast for generations to come. Those killed by the puppets are their 'surrogate deaths.'
Xiao Yu: (⊙_⊙)? ...Isn't the world of immortal cultivation just about cultivating immortals? Why are there such strange things?
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