Chapter 25: Distress
When Wan Ning applied to the Gatekeeper Spiritual Cultivator to leave the sect, he was met with a lot of suspicion, after all, a new disciple like him who had just entered the sect for less than half a day and left in a hurry might be the only one in the entire sect. However, fortunately, his identity token and other items were indeed not fake, and the Gatekeeper Spirit quickly let him go.
"If I remember correctly, we went down from the cliff here, followed the stream to the east, and arrived at the town at the foot of the mountain, and then we took a car from the post station to Chang'an Mansion, and it is estimated that we will arrive at the destination late this night. ”
Wan Ning left the Aoki Sect, stood in front of the seemingly deserted cliff, took out a map of Zhao from the storage ring, and said to the small plum blossom floating beside him.
"I know, when you arrive at Zhou's house, call me out when you're ready to catch ghosts, and I'll sleep for a while." ”
Little Plum Blossom yawned and burrowed back into Wanning's Divine Sea, after all, Plum Blossom naturally doesn't like hot weather.
Wan Ning hummed in response, he relied on his strong body, and he didn't even need spiritual control, holding the vine stone wall with his bare hands, and jumped to the bottom of the cliff in a few clicks.
He patted the dust on his white robe, picked up a puddle of water in the clear stream with his hand and drank it into his mouth, and then trotted all the way in the direction of the stream.
Half an hour passed, and Wanning, who was slightly out of breath, came to a quiet town, and after a little inquiry, he learned the location of the local post station. Wanning was lucky, just in time to catch the last carriage bound for Chang'an Mansion.
"It's not dark yet, why are you closing the shift so quickly? ”
Wan Ning reclined in the carriage, looked at the groom who was driving in front of him, and asked curiously.
"This son, do you know that there have been more ordinary copycat bandits on the path from us to Chang'an Mansion recently. They are not only strong in martial arts, but the average official family can not help it, but also brutal by nature, as long as they meet them, it is difficult to escape from the clutches, fortunately they only haunt at night, we can still breathe, and we can barely get by. ”
The groom said with a sigh.
"That's horrifying, I hope we won't encounter such vicious bandits. ”
Wan Ning replied noncommittally, his current identity is delicate, and he is still in a hurry to go to Chang'an Mansion, and it is naturally better to have fewer accidents on the way.
"Look at what is said, your mouth is opened. ”
Xiao Meihua said suddenly, with her inspiration, she had already sensed that several uneven spiritual powers were rushing towards her.
"Shut up... Or do I shut up..."
Wan Ning also sensed the vision, and said a little depressedly, he spread his divine thoughts, and saw a few bandits with sharp beaks and monkey gills not far away, holding weapons, very vicious.
Wan Ning originally wanted to reflexively flee from this place, and he could do it easily with his cultivation, but when he thought of the powerless chariot groom, he didn't run away with the groom himself. Moreover, he had already entered the encirclement on the opposite side, and now it was too late to remind the groom to turn around, so it was better to wait and see.
"I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, if you want to cross this road, leave to buy money!"
With a noisy statement that was too cheesy to be cheesy, a bandit leader jumped down from above the canyon with a bunch of small minions and intercepted Wanning's carriage, while a big fat man threw down a huge tree behind him, cutting off the way back.
"Yes!!Yes!!It's a bandit!Big brother spares his life! The little one didn't bring any money when he went out this time, take this carriage, please raise your noble hand and let me live!"
Seeing this scene, the undershirt groom's face was frightened, he trembled his legs, immediately stopped the carriage, knelt on the ground, and without saying a word, kowtowed twice to the small leader "Dong Dong" led by him.
"I said, 'Who's in that wagon?' ”
The little blue-clad leader snapped his nostrils with a big grin and asked the horseman who was kneeling on the ground.
"It's... It's a Taoist priest who went to Chang'an Mansion..."
The groom replied tremblingly.
"Oh, it's a Taoist priest?
The little leader touched his chin, picked up a pebble and smashed it on the door of the carriage. As for why Mafu said that Wan Ning is a Taoist priest, it is his self-introduction, anyway, Wan Ning's trip to Chang'an Mansion is indeed to get rid of ghosts, and it is not wrong to say that he is a Taoist priest.
"Something is wrong with that man in blue,"
Xiao Meihua stared at the little leader with a pair of beautiful eyes, and her expression was a little solemn.
"I think so, he has too much corpse on his body, almost like a dying man. ”
Wan Ning frowned and said. In a group of bandits, the little minions holding machetes and swords have normal complexions, and at most they are the cultivation of the eighth stage of the day after tomorrow.
However, the blue-clothed man led by this not only has the realm of the innate fifth stage, but the corpse qi on his body is also extremely heavy, but the whole person looks vigorous and conscious, not like a living corpse, which makes Xiao Meihua and Wanning feel strange.
"Hey, I'll talk to you!
Seeing that Wan Ning ignored him, the man in blue said a little angrily, and as soon as he waved, the little minions around him immediately narrowed the encirclement and looked at the carriage more tightly.
"This king, we have something to say. ”
Wan Ning slowly stepped out of the carriage, glanced around the surrounding environment, and said with a fist at the man in blue.
"You don't bring a Taoist flag or wear a Taoist robe, what kind of Taoist priest is Laoshizi. Listen, and the groom lying over there, I have given me special grace today to allow one of the two of you to leave this place, and you can choose for yourselves. ”
The man in blue looked at Wan Ning, looked at it, and then said suddenly.
"Great King, Great King, He has a pure gold demon exterminating treasure on his body, you go and take his life! His treasure can be sold for money! I will also give you all the carriages! Please spare my dog's life!"
Seeing a glimmer of life, the undershirt groom quickly raised his head, burst into tears, and pleaded loudly.
"What are you talking about, I don't have any pure gold treasures. ”
Wan Ning replied aloud, looking a little displeased. If he hadn't been worried about the horseman's life, he would have slipped away a long time ago, so why would he take the risk to accompany him through this encounter.
And Wan Ning as a guest officer, Ma Fu should have done his best to ensure the safety of the former, but he did not expect that at this moment, he did not hesitate to make false lies, attract the attention of the bandits, and at the cost of Wan Ning's life, let himself survive.
"Oh, is it true? The pure gold treasure is still a little interesting, then the groom, you can get out first, the rest of the matter has nothing to do with you. ”
The man in blue smiled, his expression was a little playful, and then he walked up to the groom, personally helped him up, and said softly.
"Yes, thank you, thank you, the king!"
The groom didn't have time to pack up the things in the car, and he didn't even give Wan Ning an apologetic look, only the joy of the rest of his life after the catastrophe, and then crawled and rolled out of the bandits' encirclement.
"Sure enough, there is something hateful about the wretched. ”
Wan Ning shook his head, sighed and said. Before the young man could finish speaking, he saw an iron claw suddenly stick out of the ground, and then a mysterious man in iron skin broke through the ground and caught up with the horseman who was about to leave.
Before the groom had run a few meters, he was pierced through his lower abdomen by an iron grasp, and he lowered his head and turned slowly—
In his last moments before he died, the groom saw the mysterious man tear out the bloody intestines in his body and stuff them into a cold iron helmet, followed by a piercing chewing sound from inside.
"Okay, this fellow Daoist, the unrelated person is dead, please come back to the cottage with me, and we will seriously discuss the rest of the matter. ”
The mysterious man dragged the bloody corpse of the groom and slowly walked into the dense forest next to him. The man in blue, who was familiar with all this, spread out his hand and said to Wan Ning with a smile.
"Is there anything you can't say here, you don't need to go back to the cottage. ”
Wan Ning twisted his neck, made a "click" sound, and then replied lightly to the man in blue.
"If you start from Aoki Town, you are still a spiritual cultivator, you must be from Aoki Gate, if Aoki Town under the mountain is slaughtered, it is not a scene you like to see. ”
The man in blue cracked his dry lips and smiled bloody.
"Then I'll settle you here. ”
At this point, Wan Ning didn't need to do any more scenes, besides, slaughtering civilians was one of the most hated things in his two lives.
"Are you sure you can deal with a bunch of us? Don't you forget, there's a guy eating next to you. ”
Wan Ning looked at the man in blue and opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by him: "Even if you can defeat us, there is a more powerful cottage king waiting for you, he is a master of the Ning Yuan Realm, are you sure you can handle it?" Even if you can escape, it is still the same sentence, can the residents of Aoki Town escape." ”
"Such a powerful group should not come here to fall into the grass. ”
After a while, Wan Ning said in silence. Not to mention the combat power of the man and the iron man in front of him, just a Ning Yuan Realm spiritual cultivator can be mixed up in the Eastern Expedition Forest, why should he risk losing a bad reputation to become a robber.
"You want to know why? Just come with me, we don't mean to embarrass you, we just want you to do us a favor. ”
The man in blue said, and then beckoned the iron-clad mysterious man who came out of the dense forest to stand beside him, the mysterious man took off his helmet and spit out a human bone, and the exposed face made Wan Ning and Xiao Meihua startled.
"No wonder there's no breath, it's a corpse puppet! That guy is the corpse controller!"
The two of them said in unison, and the reason why the man in blue was so angry finally came to light.