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In the green world, under the blue sky of the morning sun, on a flower-filled hillside, a young man lies on his back on the grass, his head rests on his crossed arms, his knees are crossed, and he looks at the quiet and peaceful village and a field overgrown with young seedlings under the hillside, with a happy smile on his face.

"This is where we live from now on, A-Xing. ”

"Well, where Brother Xu is, I'll go. Beside the man, there stood a sixteen-year-old girl, who replied firmly with a slight shyly smile.

A gust of morning breeze blew across the hillside, blowing the girl's long hair, and the girl brushed a strand of hair on her face, looking at the village below the hillside, her eyes were full of anticipation.

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In the morning, Nano and Ziyuan had breakfast with the villagers, and during the meal, almost all the villagers had sad expressions.

Nano watched the villagers carefully, listening to their conversations.

"Two more youths have been captured, ala——!s," a middle-aged man sighed and shook his head.

"If you continue like this, everyone will die sooner or later. ”

"What's going on?" asked Nano in a whisper.

"It's Mona, and she's very unhappy with our deforestation. ”

"Mona?"

"A six-meter-tall mountain jackal, it's the guardian of the spirit. A few days ago, I suddenly came here and bit a lot of people to death. ”

Na Wu thought about how to save the two people who were taken away last night, but after thinking about it, if such a big mountain jackal appeared in this small village, it was impossible for only two people to be taken away.

Continue to inquire, the name did not know, last night only saw a few jackals in the distant mountains and forests, a night guard quickly knocked on the bang, people came to the wall with knives and guns, they found that two villagers as if they had fallen into the direction of the jackal, no matter how people shouted, they did not react, until they disappeared into the darkness with the jackals.

"It's all to blame on those people, if it weren't for them, we wouldn't have provoked the Guardians. A man said suddenly angrily.

But there was no one who responded, and most of the villagers lowered their heads and ate their breakfast.

Nano also knew that it was they who agreed to smelt iron and forge swords in the first place. And, it seems, the village is now actually controlled by the chief's men.

After breakfast, Nano and Ziyuan went to visit the seriously ill old man again.

The old man was lying on his clothes, his whole body was wrapped in white bandages, and his voice was high and low.

"Uh...... It's strange, it's really strange, why can't I remember, it happened ten years ago, it's impossible not to remember. ”

Seeing that the old man still didn't think about it, Na Wu and Ziyuan wanted to leave, and at this time, Ah Xing walked in with the simmered medicinal soup.

"Uncle Ho, it's time to take medicine. ”

Ah Xing took the medicine and wanted to feed it to the old man, but as soon as he saw Ah Xing, the old man immediately became very frightened and shouted, "Don't, don't." And also struggled to spill the bowl in A-Xing's hand.

Ming Wuduo took a look at it, and then left with Ziyuan.

"What's the matter, Brother Na Wu?" Seeing that Ming Wu seemed to have something on his mind, Zi Yuan asked.

"You pay a little more attention tonight. ”

"Keep an eye out for what? We can't be caught by jackals, and we haven't cut down trees. Ziyuan said he didn't care.

Nano didn't say anything more. The two continued to wander around the village. The people in the village still worked diligently as usual, but they didn't talk much, and their expressions were all rigid.

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At dinner, during small talk, the villagers have generally begun to reveal some dissatisfaction with their current life.

In the morning, there were only one or two, and it was only one day, how could it change so quickly?

At night, just like last night, Ziyuan heard the sound of villagers banging on bangs in the middle of the night.

And in the morning, I heard that the mountain jackal had taken away two villagers. At this point, unease began to spread among the villagers, and almost everyone felt that they should stop making iron and forging swords. However, due to the guards in the village, the villagers could only continue to work.

After visiting the sick old man again to no avail, Na Wu said, "Let's leave here tonight." ”

"Why is it night?" Zi Yuan was a little puzzled.

"There will be jackals coming over in the evening, and we will follow behind and see what is going on. ”

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At dinner, all the villagers did not talk as much as they had in the previous two days, everyone just lowered their heads, ate their meals, and seemed to have a tacit understanding, almost all of them finished at one time.

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In the middle of the night, Nano and Ziyuan did not sleep, but secretly hid on a wall and observed the situation in the village.

At about eleven o'clock in the evening, the sound of villagers banging on the bangs was heard as scheduled, and the two quietly rushed over. Sure enough, two figures walked out of the village and into the mountains in the distance, where several pairs of eyes twinkling in the moonlight were looking at the village.

"Are you going to save those two villagers?" Ziyuan whispered.

"No, follow behind. ”

The two of them carefully followed the three jackals, which were only 3 meters tall, unlike the 6-meter-tall Mona that the villagers said. The two villagers, who seemed to have fallen into evil, followed behind the jackal and slowly walked towards the west mountain. The Sword Casting Immortal Mountain is in that direction, the so-called Watching the Mountain and Running a Dead Horse, although it seems to be close to the Immortal Mountain, Ming Wu and Ziyuan followed it for a long time and did not see the specific location of the Immortal Mountain.

After climbing over three hills and passing through several forests, the three mountain jackals that had bewitched the villagers finally stopped.

On the side of a large, calm lake, there is a village that has been abandoned for a long time.

And this village seems to be at the foot of the Sword Forging Immortal Mountain.

"How it feels like I've been here before. As soon as he entered the village, Ziyuan muttered to himself with some confusion.

Ming Wu couldn't help but glance at Zi Yuan, he only knew that Zi Yuan was taken to the Imperial Sword Ridge at the age of seven, but he didn't know anything about his background. Remembering that he had just come here a few days ago and saw the Sword Casting Immortal Mountain, Ziyuan was not surprised at all, and Nano seemed to understand something.

At the end of the village, under a giant tree, three jackals stopped, and the two villagers knelt in front of them.

At this time, I only heard the sound of huge footsteps coming from a distance, and under the cold moonlight, a huge figure slowly walked towards the two people, which was the 6-meter-high mountain jackal that the villagers said, Mona. Mona stopped in front of the kneeling villagers, stretched out her huge tongue and licked the faces of the two, and then, suddenly opened her huge mouth and swallowed the two directly, without biting or blood.

Ziyuan looked at this scene in shock, his hand had already touched the handle of the demon knife, he originally planned to save people, but he had been unstoppable.

Na Wu reached out and grabbed Zi Yuan's arm holding the knife, "Calm down, the soul protectors are all enlightened beings, and they are not something we can deal with." "Na Wu is very clear about the strength of the Guardian Spirit, in the past, it was the two Guardian Spirits there that destroyed the Dragon Bone Mountain in an instant.

Just when the two thought it was over, Mona spat out two more people, who didn't seem to change. The villagers who were spit out, led by the three mountain jackals, slowly walked along the same path.

"This ...... What the hell is going on?" both Na Wu and Zi Yuan were a little shocked.

At that moment, a jackal stopped, raised its head and began to scan its surroundings.

"It's not good, it's been discovered!" Ming Wu shouted in his heart, and pulled Ziyuan to escape.

However, in a blink of an eye, it was surrounded by those three mountain jackals.

"Who are you?" said Mona.

"We were originally wild people living in this vicinity, tonight the night is sultry, out for a walk, actually found a deserted village in the mountains, so I wanted to come and see, I didn't expect to meet the guardian spirit here, it is really a blessing. Nano explained.

"Really, I don't think you look like you're trying to destroy the forest here again. Mona grinned, her eyes turning a little angry.

"We hate people who destroy nature the most in our lives, and we really can't stand the living environment of human beings outside, so we came to live in seclusion at the foot of this fairy mountain. Nano hurriedly said.

"Hahaha," Mona burst out laughing, "everyone in this area knows that I, Mona, have never been soft on people who destroy forests, and I have never hurt ordinary creatures. But your first reaction when you see me is to run. You humans are cunning by nature, and if you want to lie to me Mona tonight, I'm afraid you're thinking too much. ”

Mona didn't give the two of them a chance to explain, and threw herself at them with a huge claw, just then......

"Stop, Mona Spirit, please let them go. A sweet and crunchy girlish voice came from overhead.

Nano, Ziyuan, Mona, and the three small mountain jackals all looked up to the sky, only to see a huge tiger claw eagle stretching its wings and falling down here on the edge of the moon shadow.

On the huge talons of the eagle stood a sixteen-year-old girl, with short hair, a well-proportioned figure, a little more robust than ordinary girls, wearing a white fur coat and skirt, like a princess of some savage tribe, and holding a spear more than a man high in her hand.

With the whirring sound of huge wings flapping, the eagle slowly landed and stood on the ground, even taller than Mona.

"It turned out to be Guluo and her human daughter, is there something wrong with you?"