Chapter 43: The Rise of the Magpie

The night of turmoil has finally passed.

Nie Yan stayed overnight in Xiaolong Town with his injuries, and as soon as he walked to the familiar courtyard, he vomited a mouthful of blood.

No matter how genius he is, he is a human being in the end, and after repeated battles, he has also been traumatized inside, if it is not for the solid foundation laid in the small dao world, this night of fierce battles, the ups and downs of love, I am afraid that it will hurt the essence.

He needed to recuperate.

But not to stay here, this sad place.

Many things have remained their original appearance, but they have all disappeared, as if their fate has also settled.

Nie Yan was injured more seriously than he thought, so he stayed in the small courtyard of Xiaolong Town until the third day before leaving.

It's also a night, just like when I first met Wanwan, with a sky full of stars.

Nie Yan held a torch and carried a huge package on his back, and slowly walked out of Xiaolong Town.

In the afternoon, he carved a formation here, which is a simple small flame array, this formation is generally used for heating in the small dao realm, and it will not be like some large formations with fire attributes, a little time, can attract flames, and spontaneous combustion without fire.

With such a high-level formation, Nie Yan would not either.

So in Xiaolong Town, the temperature is just a little higher than outside the town.

No one knew what Nie Yan meant.

Half an hour later, Nie Yan finally walked out of Xiaolong Town, this time his pace was slower than anyone else's, and he once again took a closer look at the former Xiaolong Town.

Outside the city gates, where his father once stood, it was here that his father decided to stay in the town and start his life.

Now, Nie Yan is also standing here, ready to leave completely.

The wind of the summer night still carried a hot breath, blowing across Nie Yan's face, Nie Yan looked at the black silhouette of the entire town, no matter how he looked at it, there was a breath of vicissitudes and dilapidation.

"Since you were destroyed fifteen years ago, it must be a pain to keep. This gave me the wrong fate, and it must be a mistake to stay. Tonight, let's let all of them go. As he spoke, Nie Yan threw out the torch in his hand vigorously, and the torch flew up the city wall with a dazzling red light.

There, there were some flammable things that Nie Yan had specially found in the afternoon, piled up in a pile.

With a 'boom', the flames rose into the sky, and also illuminated Nie Yan's face, and he couldn't see clearly what his mood was?

These flammables, plus the small flame array, are enough.

There was a sigh from Nie Yan in the wind, and then he left without turning back.

Burning down Xiaolong Town was just a ceremonial act of saving the Zài, and it was Nie Yan who made up his mind to cut off a Qiē memory about Wanwan, because the bones of his parents had been taken away by him, so Xiaolong Town For Nie Yan, the rest was just memories related to Wanwan.

Three days ago, the horse left here was still there.

Nie Yan untied the reins, rode his horse and galloped, his long hair was blowing in the wind, and the flames were already soaring behind him, and a tear slipped from the corner of Nie Yan's eyes, and was quickly blown away by the wind and dissipated in the air.

Seven days later.

Nie Yan returned to his hometown village and took his four children with him.

Three months later, in a certain town in southwest Shu, there was an inconspicuous family.

It was an eldest brother with four children.

Half a year later, in the winter.

The eldest brother of the family left the house, leaving only four young children.

Half a month later, a news came from the border of Shu and spread in the circle of demon hunters.

A fierce tiger who had been causing trouble on the border was met by a young cultivator after destroying a small village deep in the mountains and devouring more than a hundred lives.

After chasing the murderer in the mountains and forests for more than ten days, he drew his sword and cut off the head of the fierce tiger, handed over a claw, and gave it to the demon hunter who was guarding a certain county.

That's the official demon hunter, and only then will he be officially accepted as a demon hunter.

The reason why this news has attracted the attention of people in the circle is not how powerful the fierce tiger is, because this fierce tiger has not yet completely become a demon. But this fierce tiger is unusually cunning, Shu Road is difficult, and the intersection between Shu and Yunnan is extremely complex terrain, dense jungle, the fierce tiger relies on the familiarity of the terrain, making chaos everywhere, but never staying in one place for a long time.

And because of its ferocious nature, it carries a lot of human lives, and after becoming a demon, it is afraid that it will become a big disaster, and many demon hunters chase and kill, all of which are used by its familiarity with the terrain and careful cunning to get rid of.

Now, he was beheaded by a teenager.

After the incident with the fierce tiger, the name Nie Yan left a little mark in the hearts of many people in the demon hunter circle.

But that's just the beginning.

In the spring of the following year, a nest of weasels who pretended to be fairies, used mortal bodies to pretend to be ghosts, collected tribute, and secretly devoured babies and oppressed young girls.

More than forty 'yellow demons' did not escape a single one.

In the autumn of the following year, the snake demon entrenched in the underground of an old mansion in a small town was also found by this young man and killed underground.

You must know that this snake demon is cunning, and only eats ten people every year, never exceeding this number, because it is not fixed in small towns to cause chaos, and will also go to surrounding towns and villages, which has never aroused the suspicion of the locals, and even the demon hunters have never noticed.

After all, in those days, there were not many missing people, and a small town and surrounding villages and towns, ten people were not too noticeable.

Unexpectedly, there was such a snake demon making trouble.

When the news came out, there was an uproar in the circle.

So far, the two things that this young man named Nie Yan has done in just one year can be regarded as 'feats', how can ordinary demon hunters do it lightly? By the time of this winter, Nie Yan's name had been known to most demon hunters, and they couldn't help but praise him when they mentioned him-a hero is a teenager.

However, in the winter of this year, this young man named Nie Yan made another truly 'earth-shattering' event.

On the south-facing side of Weishui, there has always been a monster that has given demon hunters quite a headache.

It was a fierce dragon, not thinking about turning into a dragon, but interested in cannibalism and destroying ships.

Every year, how many boats are destroyed and the people on board are dragged into the water and devoured.

However, the local people generally make a living by fishing, if they do not go out of the boat, it is equivalent to cutting off the livelihood of many local people, and they can only endure the viciousness, grit their teeth and go out of the boat, and life and death are determined by the destiny of heaven.

Later, for the livelihood of the whole village, some people came up with a way to sacrifice boys and girls, only asking for mercy, but they didn't expect to really get peace.

So much so that later, a trend of sacrificing boys and girls to the gods in that area has been formed, and I don't know how many children have been victimized for this? Even so, there are still dozens of shipwrecks in a year, but they are much better than before.

It is in this torment that the local people live.

The demon hunter circle has long heard of the notoriety of this fierce Jiao, and there have been well-known demon hunters who went to kill and suppress the fierce Jiao, but they disappeared in the river inexplicably.

Later, the official demon hunters organized a team of more than a dozen people to kill and suppress the fierce Jiao, but they didn't want only three people to survive.

Fierce Jiao is also a big demon from a certain Cheng dù, but it is not a big demon in the complete record, and it is said that although it is difficult for the demon hunter to kill it, it is not so.

The crux of the problem is that the lair of the fierce Jiao is in a rather dangerous section of Weishui, and on the water, the combat power of the demon hunter will be limited, and once the fierce Jiao hides underwater, the dangerous place, there are many whirlpools, and the water flow is rapid, as long as you go into the water to kill it, it will generally be killed.

This is quite a headache, which makes the demon hunter circle helpless.

The murderous matter was put on hold for the time being.

And many people pin their hopes on a new demon hunter - Emperor Tong, his demon hunting methods are quite novel, it is rare to attack with music rhythm, and it is strong by water. It's just that in this year, I went to a deep mountain somewhere, and it was said that I was going to kill a big demon, and I couldn't find anyone.

But I don't want to, in the winter of this year, that fierce Jiao was killed by this young man named Nie Yan in the south of Weishui.

Someone was fortunate enough to witness the battlefield that had just ended, and the fierce blood of the Jiao stained almost the entire surface of the river, like a hellish horror.

It was in this pool of blood that a young man, also covered in blood, emerged from the river and swam to the shore only to find that he was holding a huge black skin in his hand, with flesh and blood attached to it!

That's a lot of strength!

Originally, demon hunters acted with strict rules to avoid the common people.

One is to avoid accidental injury, and the other is to avoid panic and chaos in the world.

However, for thousands of years, there are still some that cannot be completely avoided, so many people have witnessed it with their own eyes, and finally passed it on as a local legend.

It is also because of the constant wars in China, and the migration of the population due to natural disasters*, so many inheritances have been broken, and legends have also been broken.

Therefore, this seemingly strict rule is sometimes not so strict if it is not intentional.

The battle between Nie Yan and Fierce Jiao was originally in a dangerous river that was inaccessible, and someone saw it that day, and it was indeed a coincidence, and it could not be coincidental.

It was this incident that made Nie Yan's reputation even more famous.

Because his legend began to circulate among the local people.

It is said that on that day of sacrifice, a pair of children of the Zhang family happened to be selected because of the right conditions, just on the edge of Weishui, the parents broke their bowels, the children were frightened and cried, and they saw that it was another human tragedy, but they didn't want to come A young man wearing a black cloak with an iron sword hanging from his waist