"Strange, where did everyone go?" Jiang Lin asked in confusion. "There's still rice cooking in the pot here, but the people are gone."
"Judging from the appearance of this rice, it must have been cooked not long ago, at most it was put into the pot with dinner last night."
Ruan Xiyan frowned slightly. Something was wrong; something was really wrong.
How could there be no one in the entire village? And these people are cooking; they won't suddenly leave.
"Xi Yan, there seem to be subtle signs of a struggle here," Luo Wanyin said, looking at the tables and chairs that had been thrown to the ground.
Ruan Xiyan walked over and observed the marks on the ground.
"The traces were not large, which suggests that there was a significant difference in their strength. They only struggled and resisted briefly before being taken away."
Jiang Lin ran out and checked the other houses in the village.
"Sect Master, this house still has some traces, but some other houses don't even have any traces, as if the people just vanished into thin air."
“This village is remote, and there aren’t many powerful people in it. The newcomers are extremely strong, far superior to them. It’s normal that they could easily take them away,” Ruan Xiyan analyzed.
"The entire village disappeared overnight. Who has such power? And where were they taken?" Luo Wanyin looked around.
"This is the edge of the Twilight Thunder Sect's territory. Although this village is located in a remote area, it is still under the jurisdiction of the Twilight Thunder Sect."
"Such a huge event as the disappearance of an entire village, how could the Twilight Thunder Sect not have received any news at all?"
“It’s not impossible that someone might steal from their own doorstep.” After saying this, Ruan Xiyan returned to the village street, closed her eyes, and released her spiritual energy.
Does this village have the aura of a magic formation?!
Ruan Xiyan opened her eyes, revealing a pair of blood-red pupils, and then headed in one direction.
Seeing this, Junyu followed Ruan Xiyan's steps.
"The sect leader's eyes..." Jiang Lin looked at Ruan Xiyan's bloodshot eyes with surprise.
"What? Are you scared?" Luo Wanyin glanced at him.
"No! How could I be afraid? The sect leader's blood-red eyes are so cool, and they can even change color!!" Jiang Lin exclaimed in surprise, his mouth agape, before continuing to speak.
He already thought the sect leader was very powerful, but now, seeing the sect leader's captivating blood-red eyes, he felt even more mysterious and unpredictable, and his admiration for the sect leader reached its peak.
"Quiet down, don't disturb Xiyan," Luo Wanyin said gently in response to Jiang Lin's exclamation.
Knowing that Ruan Xiyan was handling important matters, Jiang Lin nodded knowingly and covered his mouth with his hand.
Ruan Xiyan walked to the four corners of the village and struck the empty ground with her attack.
When a large pit appeared in the ground in all four directions, a black flag was erected in the very center of the village, which was the key point of the formation.
Black demonic energy emanated from the black flag.
Jun Yu stepped forward, “Demonic energy.”
“I’ve sensed this foul and murky demonic energy before from the black beads inside those living dead bodies.” Ruan Xiyan’s eyes darkened.
If she had only suspected the Twilight Thunder Sect before, she was now certain that the disappearance of the villagers in this village was inextricably linked to the Twilight Thunder Sect.
However, what would the Twilight Thunder Sect need so many villagers for? Most of them were still helpless and powerless.
Ruan Xiyan looked at the black flag standing at the core of the formation and shattered it with the power in her hand.
The key element of the formation in the village was destroyed, and the formation that enveloped the village vanished.
A small hole appeared on the flat ground in front of them, only wide enough for one person to pass through at a time.
Be careful.
Just as Ruan Xiyan was about to clear the way, Jun Yu grabbed her hand.
"Ayan, follow behind me." Junyu said as he stepped into the cave.
Ruan Xiyan smiled and followed Jun Yu into the cave.
The cave was pitch black; you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.
Ruan Xiyan took out a luminous pearl from her spatial storage. With the luminous pearl, they were able to see the path in the cave and walked along it.
The further you walk towards the end of the path, the stronger the stench of blood becomes.
Jiang Lin's face scrunched up from the pervasive stench. "It's such a strong, fishy smell, it's pungent!"
He walked at the very back, looking at Luo Wanyin with a calm expression, and then awkwardly shut his mouth.
Elder Luo, a young girl, didn't say anything, so he should stop complaining to avoid being scolded by Elder Luo again.
After passing through a narrow alley, Ruan Xiyan and her companions arrived at a basement.
When Luo Wanyin saw the scene in the basement, she was startled and instinctively took a step back, bumping into Jiang Lin who was following closely behind her.
“Elder Luo, if you’re scared, you can hide behind me,” Jiang Lin said, glancing into the basement.
When Jiang Lin saw the scene in the basement, his face instantly lost all color and turned extremely pale.
There were strange blood patterns drawn on the basement floor, and the source of the blood was the severed limbs scattered around the basement.
The bodies were cut into countless pieces, and the thick, pungent stench of blood filled the basement, making people want to vomit.
The flesh and blood on the body parts, which had been drained of blood, had all disappeared, leaving only a pile of white bones on the ground.
Anyone who saw the scene before them would feel a chill run down their spine.
Luo Wanyin paused for a moment, then walked out of the alley. "What a cruel method. What kind of person would do something so heinous? Killing someone is one thing, but dismembering them like this is another."
“Judging from the tattered robes on the ground, they must be the missing villagers from the village,” Ruan Xiyan said in a low voice.
"However, the size of these body parts and bones are all that of adults, not children. Logically speaking, it is impossible for there not to be a single child in the entire village."
Luo Wanyin observed carefully and found that, just as Xi Yan had said, there were no children among the corpses.
All the adults in the village died tragically here, so where did the children go?
And even if you're going to kill someone, you don't have to dismember them into eight pieces, do you? How much hatred is involved?
Ruan Xiyan's hand brushed across the blood-red pupils, and something invisible to the naked eye came into view.
Under the blood-red eyes, blood energy continuously flew towards a fleshy ball hanging from the ceiling of the basement.
The more blood energy it absorbs, the smaller the fleshy ball on the roof becomes, and the more intense the demonic energy lingers around it. Once the corpse loses its blood energy, it will completely turn into bones.
"What is this?" Ruan Xiyan murmured.
“It’s Corpse Sacrifice Technique, a forbidden technique of the demon race,” Jun Yu suddenly said.
He narrowed his eyes as he looked at the demonic power on the fleshy ball; it turned out that the one who had fled here was the Corpse Demon King.
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