Chapter 30: The Demon Slaying Team
When the situation in the court was changing, Tang Ying and Di Renjie had gradually cleared some small demon holes. Di Renjie's information was really accurate, and the culprit was the Mochizuki bookworm they had seen back then.
Over the course of a few months, the people rescued more than 100 people. But their biggest gain is not limited to this, but inadvertently attracted the attention of a large number of mountain experts.
Originally, there were many sects in the Central Plains Demon Elimination Guardian Dao, but the original cultivators rarely walked down the mountain, and everyone was scattered everywhere without news, so naturally they did not unite.
Coincidentally, there is no book, because Ming Chongyan collects and even creates and detains the souls of the dead, and it is also a treasure place to pick and gather aura, and the warlocks have no reason to stand idly by and watch the rampant demons, so they naturally encounter Tang Ying and Di Renjie.
Di Renjie traveled extensively when he was young. Some of the mountain masters even had a relationship with each other. This is the era of male superiority and female inferiority, coupled with the disgust of Wu Mei's control of the government, people outside the world are usually reluctant to deal with Tang Ying, and it is natural to regard Di Renjie as the core of action.
Tang Ying knew that if he wanted to forcibly pick his head, he might incur disgust, so he kept giving advice as an assistant on the side.
At first, these warlocks were very unimpressed by Tang Ying's fingers, and often said things like "women don't interfere, what ideas can women have". However, as more and more monster nests were destroyed together, everyone had to look at her with admiration.
First of all, Tang Ying is burdened with white fire, and he studied under Li Chunfeng, and his innate and acquired starting points are much higher than others. If Li Chunfeng was alive, she had no desire and opportunity to revise. So now this moment of crisis has created an opportunity for her to show her talents. The masters who have joined the team from various sects and factions certainly have a set of mastery in their own sects, but the white fire is a holy object for eliminating demons. Therefore, battles with Tang Ying are often twice the result with half the effort.
When the warlocks saw that this little woman had not only not held herself back, but had a lot of help, she was naturally not as resistant as before.
Secondly, Tang Ying had been in contact with Ming Chongyan's witchcraft since Yuan Tiangang's Qianling conspiracy, and later had close contact with Ming Chongyan many times, so he was naturally the one who knew the enemy the most in the team. She's like a complete database, and she makes the best deployment before she goes straight to the demon den.
Over time, her position in the team has also been solidified.
By the time winter reached this year, the nameless demon slaying team had grown to forty or fifty people. Most of them were mountain monks and their disciples. Except for a few people who were beaten by demons, none of them died in vain at the hands of monsters. Whenever they thought of this, Tang Ying and Di Renjie were quite pleased. At the same time, they also knew that in addition to killing a few pairs of "Mochizuki" bookworms, they had been wandering around the periphery of Ming Chongyan's demon army, and had not yet encountered a truly powerful opponent.
One day, everyone was resting in a small farm.
The minions in the vicinity have been almost cleared, and everyone should go deep into the mountains and forests to find more hidden nests of monsters to discuss.
Some people said that they knew about the bookworms eating people at present, and they had not heard of other different texts, and they should not be suspicious, and it was best to continue to target the bookworms, after all, these people originally came out to eliminate demons after accepting the requests of the people under the mountain. The reason why they say this is not only short-sighted, but also because the Tao is limited, and they don't want to lose their lives innocently.
Only a few advanced warlocks have said that they will always be passive if they are forever confined to eradicating minions and not looking for their roots.
Bookworms eat people to extract souls, and the souls are put into the puppet bodies of various beasts and dead people by others to create enemies with combat effectiveness. Among the many links, neither the person who made the puppet nor the youkai who turned the soul into an evil spirit were found. And the number of bookworms is also unknown, it is very likely that they have only dug the tip of the iceberg for a long time, and they can't shake Ming Chongyan at all.
Tang Ying and Di Renjie both knew that this person's analysis was quite reasonable. With Tang Ying's understanding of Ming Chongyan, if they really touched Di Renjie's core, he would definitely send a stronger enemy, or even go out in person.
However, the news obtained from Di Renjie's contacts in the DPRK and China. Ming Chongyan has been very active in the court recently, and he doesn't seem to take their behavior seriously. This can also prove that they really did not achieve their goal.
In her own wishes, she wants to dig further. But as soon as the idea came out, the cowardly group of people retreated. In a few days, most of them were gone.
Originally, there was no benefit to people subduing demons, but out of her own morality, she naturally had no reason to stay. It's just that there are fewer people, but they have to face more dangerous enemies, and they are a little powerless.
Tang Ying didn't know what to do, and when he hesitated, the enemy had already made some moves.
Their wandering in the mountains and forests have long been seen by a local evil spirit general. Originally, the death of a few bookworms was not a big deal, but when he listened to the report of his puppets, he remembered Ming Chongyan's order to hurry up and create puppets and hide their whereabouts as much as possible, so he thought that it would be left at that. But when he heard that there was a beautiful woman in the team, his mind changed again.
This evil spirit is none other than one of the people who appeared in the iceberg of the Taiye Pool in order to show his power like Tang Ying. He and several other generals used to run rampant in the ghost city of Chang'an, but in the era of Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang, the defenders were strong and powerful, so every year out of the position of being suppressed or even defeated, they had to suppress their anger until the defenders were disbanded.
When I saw Tang Ying that day, I looked familiar, but when I heard Ming Chongyan mention Li Chunfeng, I hated it even more. When he heard that Li Chunfeng had died, he wanted to find Li Chunfeng's soul and humiliate him, but he never found it. This time Tang Ying sent it to the door, and he couldn't help but ask his husband and wife to pay it.
After making up his mind, he immediately called his subordinates to find out the news of the evil spirit spies who had not yet assembled into the puppets, and when he heard that Tang Ying's team had left more than half of the time, he sighed that the time had come, so he deployed his subordinates like this, waiting for Tang Ying to throw himself into the net.
Since the team shrunk, Tang Ying and the others decided to go deeper into the mountains and forests. Three pairs of bookworms have emerged from this mountain forest, and it is the densest place they have ever passed. By all indications, there may be a base here that presides over the transformation of souls and produces large armies. Because the rest of the warlocks were more conscious, they unanimously agreed with her decision.
Now there are about twenty people, and there is no need to act in groups. Basically, everyone acts collectively within the line of sight.
The further you go into the forest, the more mutilated corpses of the beasts become. Tang Ying carefully distinguished these corpses, which were extremely similar to those that besieged Li Chunfeng in Xishan back then, and they should be the waste products that failed to make puppets.
This shows that they were right. Tang Ying hurriedly reminded his companions to be careful, the enemy may not be far away. But at this moment, a warlock suddenly exclaimed, saying that his apprentice was missing!