When Ouyang Xiaoleng and Ouyang Hongye arrived outside the city of Miancheng, it was almost dusk, and a few clouds in the purple sky surrounded the red sun and slowly sank westward, making the entire city seem to be shrouded in a faint rouge. Since they didn't know much about the situation in the primeval forest, it would be too dangerous to enter at night, so the two planned to go into the city and find an inn to stay overnight, and then set off for the depths of the dense forest early the next morning.

Although it is this time, the streets of Miancheng are still very lively, and the small vendors on the street keep shouting, hoping to make another profit at the last moment of the day. Ever since Thousand Riders and Lingyu revealed the true colors of the black fish spirit who pretended to be Yasha, and destroyed the black market of Weasel's slaves, the city has become more vibrant than ever.

Although this place is not as prosperous as Wangcheng or Dongyao, every resident in the city is filled with an indescribable happiness and joy, and almost as soon as he enters the city, Ouyang Hongye feels this. But Ouyang Xiaoleng didn't care about this, all he wanted was to quickly find a place to settle down and fall asleep, and when he opened his eyes again, he could go to the place where Qingyun might be imprisoned in Xia Qiu.

Soon after entering the city, they found a small inn, which had two floors, with a restaurant for eating and drinking downstairs and guest rooms upstairs. After Ouyang Xiaoleng ate something casually downstairs, he went back to the upstairs room and went to bed early. Ouyang Hongye stayed behind to drink alone, and when the guests were almost gone, he called the innkeeper to sit with him, and took the opportunity to ask the boss about the recent situation in Miancheng.

In fact, the owner of this inn is not the first time to show off what he knows to the guests who came to Miancheng outside, and seeing that Ouyang Hongye is also interested in the legendary incident that happened in Miancheng recently, he pretended to be mysterious and said to him: "Speaking of which, a big event and a strange thing have happened in Miancheng recently!" ”

"Oh? Tell me about it! Ouyang Hongye poured a glass of the wine he had just bought for the boss, handed it over and asked.

"The big thing that happened recently is that before you came, a black fish spirit who pretended to be a yaksha and ran rampant in this city, and the weasel who appeared before him was a loan shark and forced people to a dead end and had to sell themselves into slavery, these two villains have caused the residents of Miancheng to suffer greatly! As a result, a few days ago, two young heroes suddenly came, not only exposing the true face of the black fish spirit, but also subduing the weasel and his men!" Speaking of this, the boss's eyes shone with admiration.

"And what's that weird?" Ouyang Xueye thought to herself that the choice of staying to investigate the situation was really correct.

"Two hundred miles west of Miancheng is a primeval forest, I don't know if you know?" The innkeeper asked rhetorically.

"Well, my brother and I want to go hunting in that woods." Ouyang Xueye casually lied.

"Young man, I see that you are quite well-dressed and talkative, and you must not be a prince or nobleman, but also a son of a wealthy merchant. I advise you and your brother not to venture into that forest unless it is for the sake of survival! The innkeeper drank the contents of his cup to hide his nervousness at the mention of the primeval forest.

"What do you mean by that?" Ouyang Xueye asked.

"There was a camp outside the forest, and it was inhabited by hunters who lived by hunting, and their leader was called Lao Yi. The hunters had been living there for ten years, and they had always hunted in groups, and with the protection of the gods of the earth temple in the forest, there had never been an accident in which a companion had been killed or disappeared by a beast. But recently, there have been many hunters who have disappeared into the dense forest for no reason, needless to say that the corpses have not even left a single clue, everyone says that there are monsters in the forest. The innkeeper's hand holding the cup trembled a little.

"Is it really that evil?!" Ouyang Hongye poured him another glass of wine and said.

"But isn't it, why am I lying to you?!" The innkeeper looked at him with fear in his eyes.

Listening to the innkeeper's words, Ouyang Xue Ye remembered what Ouyang Yong had said, there was still a way to make the Earth Temple manifest without being able to get the tribute, and that was to pour enough blood into the altar to cause the resonance of the Source Sin Blood Pool to force the Earth Temple to rise. If that's the case, those hunters are likely to have fallen victim to the Earth Temple.

On the other hand, he also became interested in the two legendary teenagers in the boss's mouth, so he changed the topic back and asked the boss, "Where did those two teenagers come from?" ”

"It seems to be from Dongyao, I don't know the specifics, after they dealt with the two bullies in Miancheng, they soon opened up, and they didn't give everyone the opportunity to thank them, alas......" The innkeeper sighed with some regret and said.

"Dongyao?" Ouyang Hongye was stunned when he heard this, thinking that those two teenagers were most likely Qianqi and Lingyu, but why did the two of them suddenly come to Miancheng? Could it be that they also know about the Source Sin Blood Pool, so they came here for Xia Qiu? If that's the case, why didn't they inform Wang Cheng, wouldn't they still be angry with Ouyang Xiao. He said goodbye to the boss with these questions, and when he returned to the room, Ouyang Xiaoleng was lying on the bed with his back to the door, and he was sleeping on the bed near the door.

Early in the morning, Ouyang Xiaoleng was the first to wake up Ouyang Hongye and wake up Ouyang Hongye, smelling the smell of wine all over his body, and frowned. The two of them went straight to the outside of the primeval forest, and sure enough, they saw the hunter's camp in the innkeeper's mouth, and the early morning light hit the white tents like a layer of gold on them.

In the past, the hunters had already set off to hunt in the dense forest, but now they were all sitting in the open space in the middle of the tent chatting, and when they saw someone coming, they all raised their heads to look at Ouyang Hongye and Ouyang Xiaoleng on the horse.

"What are you doing?" A five-year-old Orion stood up and asked.

"We're from the royal city, and we're going to hunt in the woods." Ouyang Hongye replied first.

"You don't look like hunters." Another Orion, who was sitting there with most of his face covered by a cloak, also stood up and said.

"Thousand Riders!" Ouyang Hongye and Ouyang Xiaoleng almost immediately heard that it was the voice of Qianqi.

The Thousand Riders lifted the hat from their cloaks and asked, "Why are you here?!" ”

The other black cloak also lifted his hat and stood up, Ouyang Hongye and Ouyang Xiaoleng saw that it was Ling Yu, he waved his hand to the surprised hunters beside him and said, "These two are our friends!" Then he pointed to the tall Orion who stood up first and said, "This is the leader of the Orions, called Lao Yi!" ”

"Hello!" Ouyang Xueye first greeted Lao Yi, and then continued: "We are here for the Source Sin Blood Pool, and I heard that Xia Qiu was taken there by Qingyun to perform the soul exchange technique. ”

"What? Soul Change?! Qianqi was frightened enough by these words.

"Well, exactly!" Ouyang Xiaoleng nodded in response, and he no longer felt embarrassed to see Qianqi again.

"We heard that the Yaksha had appeared near Miancheng before, so we chased it to Miancheng, only to find out that it was just an impostor, but despite this, the impostor told us that the real Yaksha had indeed appeared outside the city. Later, after the two of us solved some things in the city, we just wanted to go back to Dongyao, but outside the city, we heard that the hunters had disappeared in the primeval forest one after another, so we came here directly to investigate the clues. When Ouyang Xiaoleng met again, Qianqi had already lost his anger, but responded very calmly.

"Tell me what you've investigated." Ouyang Hongye asked again.

"Lao Yi told us that just a while ago, the number of fierce beasts in the forest suddenly surged, and there were many more tree people guarding them, so it is not easy to enter the depths of the dense forest." Lingyu took the topic and responded.

"We've been hunting in this forest for nearly a decade, and we've never seen so many cats, jackals and treemen, and they used to be controlled by the gods of the Earth Temple, and they wouldn't attack us hunters at all, but lately they've been out of control, and I suspect they captured our companions." The Orion Leader, Lao Yi, clenched his fists angrily as he spoke.

"How many people are missing?" Ouyang Hongye asked.

"Originally, there were more than thirty men in this camp, but now there are only a dozen or so left!" Lao Yi replied.

"The two of us tried several times to forcibly break through the defense line of the tree man and the cat jackal, but we didn't succeed in getting close to the Earth Temple, I was going to send a letter to my father and you so that I could call for some help, but I didn't expect you to come at the right time!" Qianqi stretched out a hand to Ouyang Xiaoleng's hand.

"Qingyun plans to use the Origin Sin Blood Pool sealed by the three temples to perform the soul exchange technique on Xia Qiu, the Earth Temple is the first of them, and the entire soul exchange technique will take forty-nine days, so we must rescue her within this time!" Ouyang Xiaoleng clenched his grip tightly without hesitation and said to him, at this moment, the determination to save Xia Qiu had pulled the hearts of the two teenagers back together.

"Qingyun, that dog thief, actually came up with such a vicious trick!" Qianqi was so angry for a while that he felt that the blood all over his body was pouring to the top of his head.

"I've heard that there is no possibility of reversing the use of this method to exchange souls, right?!" Ling Yu felt his entire body tremble.

"Hmm...... So we had to get her body out before then, and her soul was now in the Immeasurable Heavenly Realm with my father, and with the help of that little hacker we were channeling. Ouyang Xiaoleng turned his gaze to Ling Yu and said.

"Well, if only I were here, I'd love to hear her too!" Qianqi said with some regret.

"That's it, no matter what, I must rescue Sister Xia!" Ling Yu replied with a firm gaze.

"Although our ability is limited, we can also help you, we still have some experience in dealing with cat jackals, the cat jackals here are different from other places, they are bigger and more aggressive!" Orion Leader Lao Yi interjected.

"Thank you, you don't have to venture with us!" Ouyang Hongye said a little reluctantly.

"We live by hunting, if you can really deal with those cats and jackals and tree people, and find out what happened to the god of the Earth Temple, we can also regain our way back, or we will have to hug each other and wait for death." Lao Yi lowered his head and looked at the other Orions and said.

The other hunters followed suit:

"The Boss is right!"

"yes, you can also find those missing brothers!"

"Well, yes!"

"I haven't seen a tree man like that yet." This was the first time Ouyang Xiaoleng had heard of the existence of tree people, and he was inevitably a little curious.

"They were originally the dryads protecting the Earth Temple, and they should be considered the subordinates of the Divine Lord. Half-human, half-tree, each tree man is about five meters tall and uses countless vines as arms to attack enemies, and the explosive fruits that grow in their canopy are their weapons. The power of the explosive fruit is very huge, if they blow up ordinary people, they will definitely die, even if the demon power is strong, the skin will be opened. Lao Yi said with a serious expression and lifted his right sleeve, there was a dark scar on his arm, "This is left before, although it was only a little bit collapsed by the sparks splashed by the explosion fruit when it landed, but it still left a big wound." ”