Volume 1 Tribulation Chapter 104 Triumphant Return (3)
After passing Niushou Mountain and entering the realm of Shangzhou, Xu Chen breathed a long sigh of relief, which meant that they would not encounter any more danger.
It's just that the two of them have a bittersweet relationship, and they are no longer as harmonious as when they first came down the mountain, so there is not much language communication along the way.
Xu Chen didn't mind this, while he was in a hurry, he had been thinking about how to deal with Huang Zhongjie.
Although the owner of Huang Zhuang said in public that the person who rescued Huang Xiaoxue would become his son-in-law, Xu Chen was still young, and now he was wronged, how could he have the mind of marrying a wife at this moment.
What's more, he has found that although Huang Xiaoxue is not a wicked girl, he feels that this young lady has a brutal, arrogant, and even a little eccentric personality through verbal conversation, it can be said that in addition to her amazing appearance, she basically has the bad temper of those young women, if she really marries such a woman as a wife, then what good life can she have in the future!
Therefore, Xu Chen thought about how to refuse this family business after seeing the owner of Huang Zhuang, and then took the bounty and smeared the oil on the soles of his feet and left, and continued to look for Song Wuji's seniors.
At this time, there were more and more pedestrians, and seeing that the two of them were riding a horse together, Xu Chen was embarrassed to get up, so he went to the market to hire a car to tie behind the horse, and he asked Huang Xiaoxue to sit in the car before he could hurry with peace of mind.
After another hour's journey, the two came to the pass, and the general guarding the pass saw that Xu Chen had saved Miss Huang and hurriedly opened the gate to welcome him in.
The two chatted about the lead because they couldn't help but feel a little sad when they heard that all the heroes were dead, and then learned that the three evils in Jiangnan had all perished, so he turned his sadness into joy, and hurriedly arranged for the soldiers next to him to arrange a banquet to entertain Xu Chen.
Xu Chen was embarrassed but had no choice but to sit with him, but before he returned to Qingping County, Xu Chen was also afraid of drinking and making mistakes, so after drinking a few glasses with the soldiers, he excused himself for not drinking enough and did not raise a glass. When the banquet ended, the day had fallen to the west mountain, and the general guarding the pass was worried that the two would have an accident when they were on the way at night, so they forced them to rest in the barracks for one night.
Xu Chen greeted Miss Huang out of politeness, and then waited outside the house until the lights went out before going back to his house to rest.
But as soon as he closed his eyes on the bed, his mind was full of heroes, and he couldn't help but feel irritable and couldn't sleep, so he went out of the house to find a secluded forest and began to cultivate.
He has basically not cultivated since he came to Qingping County, so he also wants to take this opportunity to cultivate for a few hours to see if he has grown.
I don't know if it was because of physical fatigue or a great injury to his vitality after several vicious battles, Xu Chen's cultivation this time was simply extremely moldy, not only did he not gain anything at all, but even the true qi in his body was not as smooth as before.
Xu Chen knew that if he continued to forcibly cultivate like this, he would be in danger of going mad, so he had no choice but to stand up and go back to his room to sleep.
Before he had taken ten or so steps, he noticed a strange wind blowing behind him, and suddenly felt a chill on his back, as if there was a ghost blowing at him behind him, Xu Chen couldn't help but be shocked, and quickly looked back, but found nothing, and the strange wind disappeared inexplicably.
"Hehe, it seems that I have become a little suspicious when I come back from Black Wind Mountain. Xu Chen chuckled, turned around and left.
But at this moment, a strange thing happened, and a terrible laugh suddenly sounded around him, and goosebumps rose on his body when he heard it.
"Who is it, don't pretend to be a ghost here!" Xu Chen knew that something was wrong, and quickly condensed his true qi in his palm, and his eyes looked around.
He was still greeted by a cold laugh, but no figure appeared under the moonlight.
Xu Chen sneered, and slashed the condensed ice sword towards the place where the laughter came from, and the sword light that burst out of the sword body was enough to blast the boulder into pieces!
But after this blow flew over, it disappeared into the void without showing any power, and just when Xu Chen was surprised and suspected that he had a delusion, he heard a low howl coming from the place where the sword disappeared.
Xu Chen was immediately overjoyed, knowing that this sword had hit the enemy hiding in the shadows, and hurriedly cast another spell to strike another thunderous blow at the same place.
The effect of this sword attack was even worse than the previous sword, and there was no movement after the sword disappeared. The strange laughter could not be heard, Xu Chen held his sword and observed for a long time and did not see an enemy sneak attack, so he had to smile bitterly, convinced that he was hallucinating.
Suddenly, he felt that his shoes were wet, and he couldn't help but look down in surprise, but he didn't know that the cold sweat that scared him was about to flow out.
The ground that had been hard was now a sea of blood, it was slowly flowing, and gradually spreading upward, but it was only a moment of daze, and this sea of blood had already overflowed his knees.
Xu Chen looked up in surprise and found a big tree not far away, he hurriedly stood up and fell into the branch to observe the surrounding movements.
This look shocked him even more, the military camp actually disappeared, and below was a sea of blood that could not be seen at a glance connecting the heavens and the earth, Xu Chen couldn't help but exclaim, thinking to himself Did I see the hell alive?
Before he could think about it, something white in the sea of blood came out, and when he looked closely, it was actually some skeletons with ghost fire burning in their eyes, and the miserable white bones were holding strange-shaped weapons in their hands, and at this moment they were swimming towards the big tree where Xu Chen lived.
"Oh no, I mistakenly fell into the illusion set up by the monster!" Xu Chen suddenly realized that the encounter he had experienced when he was in Tsukasui Mountain made him unforgettable to this day.
He couldn't help but curse to himself: "Alas, I'm really stupid, it's clear that the monster from Black Wind Mountain has been following me all the way, and now it's starting to trouble me!"
Soon the skeletons all came to the bottom of the tree, and they scrambled to climb up, as if they were going to break Xu Chen's body into pieces before they would stop.
Seeing the danger coming, Xu Chen didn't panic, since he knew that it was an illusion, then this monster who cast an illusion was also hiding nearby, as long as he could find out where he was hiding, it would not be difficult to break this illusion.
But the sea of blood is vast and can find the whereabouts of the enemy, Xu Chen can only force out this guy by solving the predicament in front of him first, so he gritted his teeth, and the cold ice sword in his hand slashed downward, and immediately smashed the few skeletons closest to him, and countless bone shatters fell into the sea of blood and never bubbled out again.
Xu Chen saw that his tricks had an effect, so he hurriedly swung his sword and kept slashing down, and in the end, he smashed all these skeletons and sank into the sea of blood.
The darkness fell silent all of a sudden, Xu Chen was so tired that he was out of breath, and before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the sea of blood under his feet bubbled up, and the bubbles became bigger and bigger, until finally they turned into a black rumbling whirlpool. In Xu Chen's astonished gaze, many skeletons like the ones he had seen before drilled out of the whirlpool one after another.
Seeing such a vision, Xu Chen couldn't help but cry out bitterly, it seems that these skeletons can't be destroyed, this hateful monster wants to consume himself here.
But the figure of the monster has not even seen a single hair so far, and Xu Chen has no choice but to raise his sword and slash at those skeletons that are about to get closer.
Just when he was tired of it, he suddenly felt something strange on the left side of his body.
Turning his head, he saw the light of a spark not far away, and although it looked a little faint in the night, it floated on the water like a fire that would never be extinguished.
What's going on, is there anything strange about that place? Thinking about it, Xu Chen instinctively raised his sword and flew towards the place where the light flickered.
In order to prevent the sword move from failing like before, Xu Chen slashed out five sword rays in a row this time. Although he didn't know what would happen later, Xu Chen decided to take a look, because the sudden light looked a little unusual.
"Poof!" Xu Chen's attack finally had an effect, and the light disappeared in an instant, and the muffled sound was very similar to the sound of a sharp blade slashing into a person's body, which most likely meant that he had hit an enemy hiding in the shadows.
Suddenly, there was a strange buzzing sound in his ears, the space in front of Xu Chen's eyes rippled like ripples, and the illusion disappeared, he returned to reality, and when he raised his eyes, he saw the military camp in front of him, as well as the pass lying quietly under the night in the distance.
At the same moment, a black shadow suddenly jumped up from the place where Xu Chen had attacked just now, and fled into the distance.
"Do you want to escape?" Xu Chen's confidence increased, and he hurriedly flew after him, the whole person was bathed in moonlight, and his body seemed to be plated with a layer of silver, emitting a terrifying light.