Our purpose in coming out to find the Originium Statue is to save Wei Shengnan's life.
The Wei family took this matter very seriously, and the attendants they sent to us were all seasoned veterans.
After we started fighting with the four people in the woods, a bloody battle ensued.
The battle started suddenly and ended quickly.
Within two minutes, the four people opposite them were lying in pools of blood.
One of the Wei family members shook the blood off his knife and said to me, "Mr. Duan, although this is a remote mountain forest, it's not an uninhabited area. You should rest first, and we'll clean up the battlefield and dispose of the bodies."
Let's go together.
Although I don't know what these things are, judging from the temperature of their corpses and the splattered blood, they are indeed living creatures.
Another Wei family security guard grabbed the clothes of a corpse, trying to drag the person away, but as soon as he made contact, he showed a strange expression: "Something's wrong!"
I gripped the knife tightly in my hand warily: "What's wrong?"
"This body is too light."
The Wei family members lifted the corpse with just two fingers: "This guy weighs only a few pounds at most, how could he be an adult?"
Seeing his action, I kicked the corpse next to me.
I felt like I didn't use much force, but I managed to throw the body quite a distance.
"Splash!"
Before I could make a move, another sound came from the woods behind me.
We were on edge at that moment. Hearing the sound, the monkey whirled around: "Damn it! Who's there?"
"Gentlemen, don't be nervous! We are from the Hu family."
A response came first from inside the woods, followed by a young couple, a woman in her early thirties, and an elderly man in his sixties or seventies with white hair, all of whom emerged from the bushes at the same time.
"You're from the Hu family again? How come there are so many people in your Hu family?"
The monkey's eyes widened: "I think they're fake too, let's chop them down first!"
"slow!"
The young man stepped forward, his voice booming like a bell: "You've been tricked! If you don't wake up soon, beware of your murderous intent turning against you!"
The other person's words seemed to have some kind of magic, instantly invigorating me.
The girl then shouted, "You all better look carefully at where you are!"
As the girl shouted, I suddenly felt the light around me dim.
I turned around and looked.
We were still in the same woods, but there were no tents or campfires around.
There was only a pile of branches on the ground, and four dead chickens were scattered around.
Only the four people who appeared in front of us remained unchanged, and they were shining flashlights at us.
Seeing our expressions, the boy explained, "Beast-taming telepathy is a magical technique of the Huang family, a kind of illusion."
I looked at the dead chicken on the ground, my thoughts a bit muddled: "Then how can you assure us that you are the real deal?"
"Before we get to this, I suggest you try to vomit up what you've eaten."
The old man said, "This competition among the five immortal families is only to compete for the position of leader. It won't cause any deaths, but it's not a good thing for what you eat to stay in your stomachs for too long! You should feel fortunate that the Huang family didn't intend to harm anyone, otherwise what you ate would most likely have been poison."
The young woman smiled and said, "We've been here for a while now. If we really wanted to harm you, we would have done it already."
As she spoke, she took out her phone and played a video.
In the video, we monkeys and a few others sat blankly in the bushes, with four chickens beside us. I was talking to one of the chickens in a strange way, but the chicken just clucked and didn't say anything.
During this time, the four people in front of me kept shining their flashlights in this direction, but I was completely unaware.
The audio in the video was exactly the same as what I had said before, and I felt a chill run down my spine: "Since you knew who we were all along, why didn't you help us sooner?"
“These chickens are here not to harm you, but to find us. If we get too close, they will notice us.”
The old man said bluntly, "If you hadn't killed them, we still wouldn't have shown ourselves."
After listening to the old man's words, I reached down and started gagging, and soon vomited.
Fortunately, what came out wasn't insects or stones, but just a pile of rotten leaves.
I leaned against a nearby tree, expelling the powerful substance, before looking at the others: "So, everything I just experienced was just an illusion, right?"
"You can't say that. This is a kind of magic used by shamans! Even if you were filming with your phone, the person you filmed would see the video, and it would be the same if you showed it to outsiders."
The old man shook his head: "We were able to make these monsters appear because we used special methods. These chickens eat human flesh and are raised in a special way. They are even more sinister than you can imagine."
Looking at the dead chickens on the ground, I had a particularly unreal feeling.
I was afraid that I was still trapped in the illusion and couldn't get out, and I couldn't confirm the identities of these people, because Old Ma only told me to go to Mount Bliss, and didn't tell me anything else.
The girl didn't explain anything to us, but said to the old man, "It's getting late, and we don't know if the other families have used any tricks here. We need to hide our presence."
"I'll take care of it."
The old man left a message, turned around, and disappeared into the woods.
Immediately afterwards, the young man and woman began gathering firewood nearby. The young woman, seeing us standing there, rolled her eyes and said, "You came here to help us, but you see others working and don't you know how to lend a hand?"
The young man continued, “The four of us are the representatives of the Hu family participating in the Five Immortals' Succession Struggle. In the next few days, we will need to work together! I know you were just frightened, but the situation in the next few days will be even worse than what you just experienced! I don’t know why the old immortal asked you to come and help, but what I am about to experience is something you have never heard of before.”
"You just said that all four of you came here to participate in the competition?"
I frowned: "Wasn't that old man the elder who brought you here?"
"Among these four people, I am the youngest in terms of seniority."
The old man appeared behind me at some point and laughed, “Unlike studying Buddhism or Taoism, where people choose immortals, immortals choose people! Some people may be chosen by immortals when they are five or six years old, but others may not descend to immortality until they are decades old! I belong to the latter. I have only been practicing for a year, so I can be considered a newcomer as new as I can be.”
At this moment, the young girl also came out of the woods carrying a bundle of firewood and asked the old man, "Is everything taken care of?"
"Um."
The old man pointed at the girl and said to me, "This is our senior sister, Xu Le."
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