Chapter Ninety-Six: The Mountain Patrol Demon
The four of them recalled the dangerous experience at the mouth of the valley just now, and they were still secretly afraid in their hearts!
"Senior Brother Li, thanks to you this time, otherwise it would have been difficult for us to escape!" Lu Yao said gratefully.
"Yes, I can't imagine that Brother Li is not only proficient in Taoism, but also so good at swordsmanship!" Liuchen also said with admiration, "By the way, look at Brother Li's sword moves just now, the momentum is majestic and powerful, I don't know what kind of swordsmanship it is?"
"This swordsmanship is called the Xuantian Ethereal Sword Technique, this is my master's exclusive secret technique!" Li Xi said.
Liuchen nodded when he heard this, and then asked suspiciously: "Brother Li, your Dao cultivation is strong, and your swordsmanship is also extremely exquisite, it doesn't seem like you come from some nameless scattered cultivation sect?"
How can you say this! Li Xi couldn't help but think embarrassedly. Could it be that I told you that I actually have no sect, and it has only been a few months since I officially cultivated immortals, and I was still deceived by the old man of Tai Bai Xing, and even the Taoism and swordsmanship were taught to me by a grumpy system sister!
Li Xi thought for a while and said, "Well, I seem to have heard my master mention it before, saying that our sect seemed to be quite famous thousands of years ago, but with the passage of time, the sect has gradually declined. In my generation, it is even more so, in total, I have been accepted as a single disciple, and there are no other descendants!"
"Oh, that's the case, it's a pity!" Liuchen said with regret, "In fact, for thousands of years, in my Huaxia Cultivation Realm, there are countless powerful and famous sects that have died out in the long river of time, which is really embarrassing!"
"By the way, Senior Brother, what should we do next?" Lin Jing asked beside him.
Liuchen thought for a while and said: "The monster is powerful, and my sword is temporarily damaged, it will take a few days to recover, and it is not appropriate to break into the valley now, it is indeed a little difficult to do!
Li Xi thought to himself, whether this valley was where the original mountain gate of the Divine Sword Gate was located, and why there were monsters in it, these were all things he had to figure out no matter what.
He said: "Brother Liuchen, we still don't know the situation in the valley now, and the valley can't break through. I don't think it's better to do this, let's ambush outside the valley first, wait for the opportunity to catch one or two little demons, find out the situation in the valley, and then make a plan?"
"I think it's okay!" Liuchen agreed, and Lu Yao and Lin Jing also agreed.
Liuchen said again: "Senior Brother Lin Jing, I'm afraid I have to trouble you to go back to the master's door, tell the master about the situation here, and his old man will instruct us what to do next!"
"Obey, Senior Brother Liuchen!" Lin Jing said. Immediately, he said goodbye to everyone, and galloped away in the direction of the master's gate.
Li Xi, Liuchen and Lu Yao hid their aura, and quietly sneaked back to the entrance of the valley, and under the cover of the woods, they set up an ambush, waiting for the lone demon to appear.
The three of them waited for a whole day, but none of the youkai appeared. Just when they were a little discouraged, they only heard the sound of a gong "Wow!", and finally two little demons walked out of the valley in the distance and walked outside.
I saw that one of these two little demons was a monkey spirit with a sharp beak monkey gills, and the other looked like a fat tanuki spirit. The monkey spirit swaggered ahead against a big knife, and the fat tanuki spirit held a gong in his hand, knocking as he went, and sang something in his mouth.
The three of them slowly approached, only to hear the fat tanuki spirit knock on the gong, and sing: "The king sent me to patrol the mountains~, I will turn the world around~!
The monkey spirit looked vigilant, and the farther away it was from the valley, the more nervous it became, clutching the big knife tightly in its hand, and its eyes were looking around.
I heard the tanuki spirit "Wow!" again, struck the gong, and was about to open his mouth to sing. When the monkey spirit heard this, he hurriedly turned around, covered the mouth of the tanuki spirit with one palm, and said again and again: "My tanuki grandpa, don't knock, don't sing, it's so far away from the valley, be careful not to be heard by those humans!"
"Brother Monkey, let go, woo~!" The tanuki had its mouth covered, and a slurred sound came out of its mouth. Finally breaking free of the monkey spirit's palm, it said: "Brother Monkey, I see that you are usually quite bold, why are you so cautious today! Didn't those humans have been beaten by the king a long time ago and fled, how could they still stay around here? Brother Monkey, you are too worried!"
When the monkey spirit heard this, his face turned red, and he said: "Brother Tanuki, it's not that I'm too worried, and you didn't see it yesterday, how cruel and terrible those four humans are, so many brothers have been beaten to cripples, and even the three brothers of the tiger, the black bear, and the leopard have all been murdered! Although they were driven away by the king in the end, in case they didn't go far, we didn't send food to others for nothing by virtue of our two cultivation." ”
After that, I saw it quietly approaching the tanuki's ear again, and said softly: "And I heard that two days ago, like us, the two goods of Xiong Daxiong Er, who were sent out by the king to patrol the mountains, were found dead outside!"
"What!" The tanuki was taken aback and said in surprise: "I know those two second goods, although their brains are a little stupid, but the kung fu in their hands is extremely strong, and they are much more powerful than the two of us!"
"Isn't it!" the monkey spirit nodded again and again, "It is said that the death of those two stupid bears was extremely miserable, one head was gone, the other body was split in half, and the intestines flowed out." I heard that those humans even dug out their hearts and swallowed them raw!
The tanuki spirit imagined the tragic death of Xiong Da Xiong Er, and was suddenly frightened and shuddered, and said in a trembling voice: "Monkey, Brother Monkey, I think we have gone far enough, so it's better to go home." Anyway, we've come out too, and we've completed the task of patrolling the mountains!"
"I think it's okay! Anyway, our brothers have come out, and no one can gossip about us!" said the monkey spirit, who wished to go back sooner.
Just as the two monsters turned their heads and were about to go back, suddenly a man's voice sounded next to them.
"Divine power!"
Li Xi directly used the Divine Power Technique on these two monsters, and these two monsters suddenly felt a tyrannical and powerful aura enveloping them. Under the pressure of this breath, the two monsters shook their legs and sat on the ground, and beads of sweat the size of beans instantly appeared on the faces of the two monsters.
"Humans are coming, help!" The monkey spirit with deep cultivation suddenly turned over and ran towards the valley with both hands and feet.
"Not good!" Li Xi said. Because of yesterday's battle, Li Xi felt that his vitality had not fully recovered. In a moment of carelessness, he didn't completely control the two monsters, so that the monkey spirit was out of the control of the divine power.
"Flying Sword Technique!" I saw Lu Yao's finger pointing at the rushing monkey spirit, and a streamer shot out of her scabbard, instantly flying behind the monkey spirit. The sword light flashed, and the streamer sank into the back of the monkey spirit, and then came out of its chest, bringing out a large area of blood mist.
After this streamer circled in the air, it swooped and flew back into Lu Yao's scabbard at a rapid pace. Only then did the monkey staggered a few steps forward before falling headlong to the ground, without any life.
When the tanuki spirit saw that the monkey spirit was killed so easily, he trembled with fright, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and begged for mercy: "Immortals, spare your life, don't kill me!"
Li Xi sneered a few times and said, "It's okay if we don't kill you, as long as you can answer a few questions from us!"
"Yes, yes, all the great immortals, I must know everything, and I will say everything!"
Li Xi saw the appearance of the tanuki spirit, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "You tell everything you know about the white-haired giant ape and the situation in the valley, if you hide the slightest bit, you will not be forgiven!"
"Don't dare, don't dare!" said the tanuki in a trembling voice. Then it told everything it knew.
It turns out that this valley was not owned by the white-haired giant ape in the first place. About five hundred years ago, this youkai stumbled upon this valley. Sensing that this valley was rich in spiritual energy and was a good place to cultivate, it had the idea of taking this valley for itself.
It's just that there is already a human cultivator sect in this valley who has set up a mountain gate inside, so the white-haired giant ape can't directly occupy the valley for a while. So it secretly gathered a group of little demons who were cultivating nearby, and on a dark and windy night, it suddenly attacked this valley. Kill and catch the human monks who cultivated in this valley, and then completely occupy this valley. The white-haired giant ape also called himself the king of the spirit ape, and in the past hundreds of years, he has recruited troops and horses, recruited little demons, and has become the overlord of this mountain.
"How many youkai live in that valley now?" Liuchen asked suddenly.
The tanuki spirit replied, "I don't know the exact number, but I estimate that there are seven or eight hundred." But most of them are little demons like me, and it's rare to have a few dominant-level monsters like tigers, bears, and leopards. ”
"Hmm~, are those captured human monks still locked up in the valley? How many are there?" Li Xi asked, he was still very concerned about the situation of the Divine Sword Sect.
"The humans were all locked up in the prisons of the valley, numbering more than a hundred. The Spirit Ape King seemed to have given them a poison, causing their vitality to be sealed, and they could only be imprisoned obediently. Tanuki replied submissively.