Chapter 62: Neither Demon nor Immortal 2

At night, the black spirit in the other room did not rest either.

He was sitting cross-legged on the bed in meditation when the jade pendant on his waist suddenly flashed. Wu Ling immediately took it off and placed it in his palm, then left through the window and walked out of the city.

He was very fast and reached his destination in a breath. It was dark at night and surrounded by an unfamiliar deciduous forest. Apart from him, there was no one else within a hundred meters.

He stood there and waited for a while. A dead leaf floated in the air and landed on his shoulder. Wu Ling immediately turned around and shouted loudly towards the empty darkness in front of him, "Senior!"

"Hahahaha, kid, your control over spiritual power is getting better and better." As a majestic old man's voice rang out, the air in front was twisted, and then a sloppy and casual old man with white hair and beard came out from the middle. He had a tattered water bottle hanging around his waist and he was holding the dry leaf in his hand. A closer look at his eyebrows and eyes revealed that he was three points similar to the Tea Doctor just now.

Wu Ling's eyes lit up with joy as he saw him. He drew his sword from behind and slashed at the old man mercilessly. "Senior, come and see if you have made any progress in your training in the mountains these days."

The old man was forced to retreat repeatedly by his powerful and fast sword moves, and he kept scolding, "Well, you kid, you give me such a big gift as soon as you meet me."

The two fought for only a few rounds, and in the end, Wu Ling was easily knocked to the ground by the old man.

Wu Ling lay panting on a fallen leaf. After a few seconds, he seemed to remember something important. He suddenly turned over and sat up from the ground. He looked at the old man and asked, "Senior! Why did you suddenly appear here this time? I haven't seen you leave that place since the first day I met you!"

The old man glanced at him casually and asked in a bad tone, "What? Am I an old locust tree growing on the mountain of Wanjian Sect? You won't let me go down the mountain to stretch my old bones?"

"Ah, no, no, no! Senior, I didn't mean that. I just felt confused when I saw it for the first time." Upon hearing that he was unhappy, Wu Ling denied it repeatedly and stood up to apologize to him.

The old man looked a little better after hearing this. He snorted and glanced away, then slowly explained to him, "The man in the Demon Suppression Tower did escape. Has your master sent you any news recently?"

"No, I haven't received any news from the sect recently." Wu Ling shook his head.

"Really?" The old man muttered, "In that case, you should continue traveling according to your original plan."

"Yes! Senior." Wu Ling didn't know what the senior meant by saying this to him, but since he said so, he must have his own reasons. If the senior didn't intend to explain, he wouldn't ask.

He believed that if such an elder wanted to harm him, there was no need to come up with such a roundabout way to deal with him.

Seeing that he agreed, the old man turned to ask another question, "Do you know the person who traveled with you during the day?"

"Fellow Daoist Yan? Of course I know him." When Wu Ling mentioned Yan Xi, he couldn't help but smile. "Fellow Daoist Yan is really a very powerful person. The thousand-year-old monster we encountered on Mount Miyang was very strange. It was thanks to Fellow Daoist Yan's timely appearance that I was able to save my life. After that, I traveled with Fellow Daoist, and he was also..."

"Alright, alright, it's good that you know it all by yourself. There's no need to tell me so much." Seeing that Wu Ling was going to talk about Yan Xi for three days and three nights, the old man lost patience and interrupted him with a wave of his hand. Then the space behind him became distorted again. Before he disappeared, he left a last word to Wu Ling, "I'm leaving now. Take care of yourself."

"Goodbye, senior!" Seeing him leave, Wu Ling waved goodbye quickly.

-

Early in the morning, Wu Ling and Yan Xi hurried to Wu Hai Mountain, which was not far from the town where they were resting. Wu Ling said that he was going there to represent the Wan Jian Sect to attend the discussion meeting of Wu Shang Xuan, and Yan Xi immediately expressed his desire to go with him.

Wu Ling was naturally happy to be able to continue traveling with Yan Xi, and he never thought of asking the reason.

But soon after the two of them left the city gate, Wu Ling keenly noticed a strange mother and daughter sitting on a haystack in the distance.

"Friend Yan, look over there."

Yan Xi looked in the direction of his finger, and saw a mother and daughter. Both were dressed in rags, with many wounds on their exposed skin. The mother stared at the air in front of her with a dull look in her eyes, while the daughter fell asleep in her arms with a tired look on her face. They seemed to be refugees who had fallen on hard times here.

There was no telling how many people like this there were in the world, but now that they had appeared before Wu Ling, he would definitely not sit idly by. When Yan Xi was thinking this, Wu Ling had already walked up to the mother and daughter.

"Madam." Wu Ling bent down and asked the woman in a friendly manner, but the woman's eyes did not change at all because of his appearance. Yan Xi also walked over at this time, and when he got closer to him, he found that many of the wounds on the woman's body were not ordinary, and seemed to be caused by demons.

Wu Ling obviously noticed this as well, so he stretched out his index finger and lightly tapped the woman's forehead. A trace of spiritual power was transmitted into the woman's body, and when he withdrew his hand, the woman had already woken up.

When she saw the two of them, her eyes widened, and then her body began to tremble as tears streamed from her eyes. She sobbed while holding her daughter and fell off the haystack. She fell to the ground and bowed to the two of them, "Master! Master! Please save us!"

Wu Ling was startled by her and suddenly didn't know what to ask. Yan Xi stepped forward, bent down, helped the woman up, and asked gently, "It's all right, madam. I don't know what happened to you. Can you tell us so that we can help you solve it."

His words had the power to calm the mind. The woman nodded and obediently told him her experiences truthfully. It turned out that the two of them were originally ordinary farmers from Nanyang Village, a hundred miles away. The village had always been prosperous for a hundred years, and nothing bad had happened. Until not long ago, an evil dragon suddenly appeared, destroyed the mountains and forests, slaughtered the villagers, and abducted many people back to its lair. They were lucky enough not to encounter the evil dragon, but they were separated from all their relatives and friends. They were rescued by a kind-hearted ship merchant and escaped. They heard someone on the ship say that there was an immortal master who was willing to help mortals kill demons, so they hurried over.

But after arriving here, not only could they not see the Immortal Master, they couldn't even get through the city gate. In despair, the two of them...

Hearing this, Wu Ling couldn't help but say, "Madam, let me find a place for you and your daughter to live first, and then I will get rid of the monster and rescue the villagers."

The lady was stunned for a moment, and then the tears that had just stopped began to flow again, "I really don't know how to thank the two immortal masters."

Wu Ling just smiled politely, then turned to Yan Xi and said, "Thank you for waiting for me for a while, Daoist Yan."

Watching Wu Ling turn around, Yan Xi suddenly said to the system, "Why do I feel that this story is quite similar to that Xi*ji. 】

【Hmm?】The system didn’t understand what he suddenly said.

But Yanxi did not explain further and turned to talk about something else, [Did you arrange this mother and daughter together? ]

[No, I don't have the ability to use magic in front of the protagonist. I just used a trick to make them appear at this time. The village and the monsters already existed in the plot, I just let them meet the protagonist in advance.]

Yan Xi understood what he meant. The incident in Nanyang Village was actually because the Feiyun Secret Realm was nearby, and its imminent opening caused the spiritual energy there to leak out, thus attracting many demons.

It was also an unprovoked disaster.

While they were talking, Wu Ling had already settled the mother and daughter and walked towards Yan Xi, "I'm really sorry, Brother Daoist Yan, we may not be able to go to Wu Hai Mountain for the time being..."

Yan Xi smiled slightly and interrupted him, "Are we going to deal with the ghosts in that village first? No need to apologize to me. It doesn't matter whether we go to the meeting or not. Human lives are at stake. Let's go there first."

"Friend Daoist Yan, you really think so."

Hearing him say this, Wu Ling was very happy, and sincerely felt happy that he could meet like-minded friends in this experience.

Yanxi was also very happy. He was sincerely happy that the protagonist this time was so righteous that he would obediently walk into the trap with just a little bait.

The two people had different thoughts, but they ended up in the same place.

-

On the way, Wu Ling, who looked unusually serious, asked as he hurried on, "Fellow Daoist Yan, what do you think that monster will look like?"

Yan Xi shook his head. "It's hard to say. After all, the magic dragon is a legendary ancient creature. There is no way it can appear in a mortal village. It is probably just an ordinary monster. The lady just saw it wrongly in panic."

"I think so too. It seems that this trip won't take much time." Wu Ling agreed.

The two of them cast a spell and moved quickly, and it didn't take long for them to reach the foot of the mountain that the woman mentioned.

The mountain paths were complicated and the village was so remote that even if they followed the map, they couldn't pinpoint the exact location of the monster. Fortunately, Wu Ling, as the son of destiny, had good luck and met a villager who had just escaped at the foot of the mountain.

The villager was covered in dirt and grime. When he saw the two men, he bowed down and said, "Immortal! Immortal! You are here to save us, right?"

Wu Ling had never received such a gift from others, and he immediately felt a little uncomfortable. He immediately reached out to support the young man and said, "Don't be like this, old man. It is our duty as monks to eliminate demons and defend the way. Old man, please point out the location of the demon to us quickly, and then I will take you to a safe place."

"No, no, no, please don't send me away, immortals. I, my mother, and my baby have all been captured by monsters. I still remember where I escaped from. I will lead the way for the two immortals."

The old man, who was crying with tears and snot, turned around and met the eyes of Yan Xi, who had not spoken a word from beginning to end. When he saw him, the old man, whose tears had not yet dried, subconsciously threw a wink at him.

System: Plantong.

Yanxi: ...

In short, everything went as expected, except for the few monsters that already existed on the mountain.