Fu Ziyi and Baili Xiuwen walked one after the other. With the help of Baili Xiuwen's spatial magic, the two moved very fast. Along the way, Fu Ziyi kept appearing, then following Baili Xiuwen into the spatial tunnel, and then coming out again.
They didn't know where Xu Yuehuai had gone. The only information they had was the road they had taken before they lost contact. Now, he and Baili Xiuwen were investigating along that road.
Zi Sangyi and Nangong Yu followed closely behind. Zi Sangyi had a high cultivation level and was fast, so Nangong Yu and the others behind him couldn't catch up at all. He also had no intention of stopping to wait for them.
As his disciple, Xu Yuehuai had done a lot for the sect over the years, but she hadn't even had a chance to enjoy her life yet. Now that she was on the verge of death, even if the man in black didn't say those final threatening words, he would still do everything in his power to find Xu Yuehuai and pull her back from the brink of death.
He did this simply because the person he wanted to save was Xu Yuehuai; there was no other reason.
Zi Sang realized that Qi Guze must have sent someone because Xu Yuehuai's situation was urgent. With that thought in mind, he sped up even more, leaving those behind him unable to keep up.
When Fu Ziyi and Zi Sangyi noticed something was wrong, Zi Sangyi also noticed it at the same time. The two of them went down together and saw several corpses lying in the only open space. The traces around them clearly indicated that a great battle had taken place.
Baili Xiuwen was slightly exhausted. Although this method was fast, it was also extremely taxing on spiritual energy and physical strength. If used too often, it would overload the body and become unbearable.
Fu Ziyi's eyes were red with an unnatural glint as he looked at the traces. For a moment, he lost control, and that familiar feeling, which he hadn't felt in a long time, surged up again. Baili Xiuwen noticed his abnormality immediately and stepped forward to grab his wrist. "Calm down now. The most important thing is to find Xu Yuehuai. Don't go crazy."
Baili Xiuwen went through all that trouble to bring this person here. If he lost control as soon as he arrived, Baili Xiuwen would really want to curse him out.
Fortunately, Fu Ziyi can still distinguish between what is important and what is urgent, and he can suppress the restlessness and depression in his heart.
The straw nearby clearly showed signs of being trampled on, and the two followed the trail all the way up the mountain, where the scene was even more shocking.
When Zi Sangyi arrived, she happened to witness the same scene as them. However, when her gaze fell upon the eldest and second eldest brothers lying on the ground, her pupils suddenly dilated, as if she had seen some kind of monster. "This is evil energy..."
For a moment, Fu Ziyi and Baili Xiuwen were both attracted by his voice. Fu Ziyi thought it was the culprit, but when he looked up, he saw Zisang in the air, and his restless desire to hit someone arose.
Fu Ziyi ignored what he was saying, but Baili Xiuwen, who was standing to the side, glanced at the ground when he heard that it was evil energy. His eyes narrowed sharply the moment they met the object on the ground.
Whose body is this evil energy coming from? These two people were killed by evil energy, but Xu Yuehuai has been cultivating spiritual energy from beginning to end. Could it be Linghu Zhou?
Suspicion arose, but the group suppressed their doubts and continued searching for Xu Yuehuai's whereabouts in the area.
The fifth brother and the others searched the area but found no trace of them. His eyes showed displeasure. "Do you think those two might still be in the cave we just discovered?"
Upon hearing this guess, the other two exchanged a glance, both finding it impossible. The youngest cautiously retorted, "Fifth Brother, didn't we already check that place? There's nowhere for anyone to hide. After we came out, we immediately searched the surrounding area, but there was no one there. They couldn't possibly still be there."
The fifth brother glanced at the youngest brother and then said, "We've been searching this place for hours, and we haven't seen a single person. Besides the possibility I just mentioned, do you think there's anything else?"
One question silenced both of them; indeed, that was the case.
They had searched the entire area, but there was no sign of anyone having been there.
So, under the pressure from the fifth brother, the three decided to go back the way they came to see what was going on. When they returned to the cave, nothing had changed. Everything inside the cave was the same as when they left, and no one had ever been there before.
The fifth brother, unwilling to give up, touched all the surrounding walls, worried that there might be an illusion like the one at the entrance, but he was wrong; there was no such illusion.
The fourth brother coughed to break the awkward atmosphere and said, "Fifth brother, sometimes it's good that you're confident, but I think you shouldn't be so suspicious about some things. There's no one here at all, but you insisted that there was. Now everyone has come back for nothing."
The fifth brother's face was so black it could drip ink. The youngest brother stood aside, not daring to speak. The two men in front of him were of higher rank than him, so he could only obediently listen to them.
He sensed that a major battle was about to begin.
Sure enough, the fifth brother looked arrogant and disdainful as he looked at the fourth brother. "Who do you think you are, daring to tell me what to do? I advise you to stay put and do what I say, or you won't even know how you die later."
The fourth brother felt that the people in this team never used any new words when they spoke, and their threats were always the same. The fourth brother laughed for no reason. "Fifth brother, don't forget, I am the highest-ranking of the three of us now. When we go back and report things, I will be the one to do so."
The fifth brother scoffed, "You are the oldest, but are you going to act as my elder and talk to me about age and rank? Don't be ridiculous. Here, it's always been whoever has the power who calls the shots."
The youngest brother stood silently by, watching the drama unfold. He didn't know how the two of them started arguing, and he could only stand there. Taking sides at this point would be tantamount to pushing himself to his doom.
The group was making a lot of noise. Fu Ziyi and the others heard the commotion and came over. Little did they know that their deaths were about to come.
When Fu Ziyi saw that they were wearing the exact same clothes as the men in black lying on the ground, even their accessories were exactly the same, he knew that these three people were a group.
Having suppressed his violent aura all the way, he suddenly unleashed it. He manipulated the ghosts underground and rushed in front of the group in a matter of moments. The fourth brother was caught off guard and was injured, while the fifth brother escaped the calamity thanks to his superior strength.
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