Chapter 5: Three Years Ago (1)
"Captain, it's a little strange today! We entered the secluded forest early in the morning, and the speed of our march was not slow, it was almost noon, why didn't we encounter a spirit beast?" A lean man in black with a heavy sword in his hand whispered in Yue Feishuang's ear. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"It's unusual, we quicken our pace, we dig deeper, and if we still do, we have to turn back. Yue Feishuang's brows were tightly locked, and his eyebrows were full of doubts.
"Could it be that if we don't gain anything this time, we really return in vain like this?" The thin man looked helpless and unwilling, his cultivation had just reached the late stage of the Transformation Pill Realm, and the cultivation of the captain Yue Feishuang had even advanced to the Infant Transformation Mirror. Originally, this time it was to go deeper into the secluded forest to hunt more powerful spirit beasts, and even legend has it that powerful spirit beasts are usually born with spirit treasures. But now they have gone nearly a hundred miles deeper than usual, but they still haven't seen a single spirit beast, let alone a spirit treasure.
"Li Xian, don't be disappointed. Today's events are too strange, and although we have improved, we are not enough to cope with everything in this forest. Yue Feishuang looked at the lean man and comforted, then turned his head to look at the other team members behind him, who also stared at Yue Feishuang with puzzled expressions, as if they were waiting for his final decision.
"Besides, there are so many brothers following us, we must not risk their lives, it is said that it is almost the same to go deep into such a region, and at most a hundred miles deeper is our limit. Yue Feishuang continued to Li Xian.
"Let's go! Let's go deeper, and if we find nothing for a hundred miles, we will retreat at once, and we must get out of the secluded forest before the sun sets. Everyone follow me closely, don't act recklessly!" As he spoke, Yue Feishuang took a little tiptoe and swept out lightly, and his toes touched the weeds and dead leaves all over the ground, without making the slightest sound, which shows the depth of cultivation.
The other team members followed closely, with a slight rustling sound, and the cultivation was obviously much lower than Yue Feishuang, Li Xian dragged at the end, cautiously, and the heavy sword in his hand was clenched again and again.
In this way, a hunting team of eight people shuttled through this quiet forest. Although it was noon, the dazzling sunlight still could not penetrate the dense foliage above the forest, and the forest was so quiet that even the low chirping of herons and snowbirds on weekdays was silent. The towering giant trees exude a simple atmosphere of vicissitudes, and the branches at the top of the giant trees are covered with dense green branches and leaves the size of a cattail fan, covering the sky and the sun, and the thick vines and plants are coiled around the body of the tree. The interior of the forest was damp and foggy due to the lack of sunlight, and the dead leaves on the ground turned into dark green silt, waist-high weeds grew in every corner of the forest, and shrubs several people tall could be seen everywhere.
"Stop!" Suddenly, Yue Feishuang let out a low sigh and stopped galloping, and the seven team members behind him also stopped, looking at each other, they didn't find anything abnormal, but they trusted the captain's judgment very much.
Yue Feishuang approached a giant tree, and with a flick of his knife, a pale blue sword flashed across the tree, cutting off the vines that were wrapped around it. The vines fell, and the surface of the covered bark was covered with a scarlet claw mark, exuding a faint smell of blood. Before Yue Feishuang could step forward to take a closer look, he heard a slight sound of fighting in the distance, noisy and intense, but it came and went. Yue Feishuang leaned down, his ears pressed against the grand roots of the giant tree, his eyes slightly closed and his brows were locked, and he had already made a judgment in the blink of an eye.
"West, thirty miles, go!" Before the words fell, he galloped towards the west.
The team members behind him followed closely, and Li Xian quickly caught up with Yue Feishuang and asked in a low voice, "Captain, what happened?
"Our people are in danger. With a short answer, Yue Feishuang didn't say anything more, but ran faster, and the cold aura in his hand was swallowed, and it gradually transformed into a long knife of Senhan.
After running for a stick of incense, Yue Feishuang's hunting team finally arrived at the place where the sound of the fight came from just now. This is one of the few clearings in the forest, where giant trees grow unbridled in the surrounding area, surrounded by an irregular circle, and between the two giant trees on the east side grows a very tall shrub, which seems to be an entrance. Yue Feishuang came from this direction, standing under the bushes, looking at the clearing and gasping for air.
The scene in the clearing was tragic and abnormal, pieces of bloody armor were torn to pieces, scattered everywhere, broken blades, slashed or horizontally on the ground, the whole clearing was bloodstained, exuding a disgusting and strong bloody atmosphere, more than a dozen corpses fell everywhere in the clearing, stumps and broken arms were blurred with flesh and blood.
Yue Feishuang looked around and took a deep breath, until now he hadn't seen what exactly was the hunting team that had killed these more than ten people. It doesn't look like a spirit beast did it, but what can it be if it's not a spirit animal? Such a strange environment, such a tragic scene, even he himself did not dare to rashly enter this clearing.
Although Yue Feishuang didn't want to collect the corpses of these clansmen in the depths of this secluded forest, he couldn't let his brother take risks. Joining the hunting team requires being prepared to die in the secluded forest at any time, after all, there is a price to be paid to get a better cultivation spiritual object, and the greater the gain, the higher the risk.
Yue Feishuang raised his right hand and wanted to make a retreat gesture, but at this moment, there was a sound in the center of the clearing. Staring at it, I saw a one-armed corpse crawling slowly towards them, the only remaining arm was holding on to the ground and moving forward with difficulty, although the head was raised, but the facial features could not be seen clearly on the bloodstained face, only a pair of eyes were still shining, as if there was a desire to survive.
"He's still alive!" Yue Feishuang whispered, "You wait here, I'll save him, if there is a situation, Li Xian immediately lead people to retreat, withdraw from the forest, don't look back and don't care about me, this is an order!" Before Li Xian could answer with everyone, Yue Feishuang flew out towards the man, and the aura around his body surged, forming a thin piece of ice-blue armor covering his body, and the long knife in his hand was clenched, and the cold was even worse. After a few breaths, he landed beside the man, leaving Li Xian and a group of team members waiting anxiously in the rear.
Yue Feishuang stretched out his hand to help the person up, but suddenly there was a flash of essence between his eyebrows, and he retreated sharply. Because he did not perceive the slightest fluctuation of aura in this person, there is only one such person, and that is the dead.
But before Yue Feishuang could make a move, the corpse in front of him suddenly exploded, bursting out with pieces of blood mist, enveloping it. Yue Feishuang's long knife danced rapidly, drawing a half-moon shape in the air, the sword qi condensed into ice, the cold qi rose, and the blood mist was also condensed into pieces of snow and frost scattered down.
At the same time, Yue Feishuang's pupils shrank, and he saw that the giant trees around the clearing actually writhed, no! to be precise, the vines wrapped around the giant trees were scurrying like swimming snakes. Suddenly, the sound of breaking wind behind Yue Feishuang sounded, and when he looked back, Li Xian was holding a heavy sword against the spikes sticking out of the bushes, while the other team members were rushing in his direction.
"Captain, we can't get out," said one of the team members before he could reach us, "the bushes seem to be alive, blocking our way and forcing us in, and the deputy said that he blocked the bushes, let us come and join you first." ”
Before Yue Feishuang could answer, he saw Li Xian cut off a few spikes, get rid of the entanglement of the bushes, and rush over.
"Captain, what should I do?" Li Xian asked with a gasp, it can be seen that the entanglement with the bushes just now has consumed a lot of his aura.
Yue Feishuang didn't answer, just opened his eyes angrily and looked at the sky above the center of the clearing. Everyone also followed his gaze, only to see that the thick vines in the air were intertwined like pythons, and the end was actually transformed into a huge snake head, opening its huge mouth, and the scarlet snake letter kept swallowing, exuding a disgusting smell of rot.
"I'm in trouble now!" Yue Feishuang's heart tightened, but he put away his panic in an instant. After all, he has been a member of the hunting team for five years, from a small team member to today, his strength has been honed on the edge of life and death several times, and he is the captain of this team, and everyone's lives are in his hands. Everything does not allow him to panic, he must calmly face the predicament in front of him, even if everyone is dead here in the end, he must not sit still, but also fight with his life.
"Formation!" Yue Feishuang shouted, only to see the other seven team members quickly separate, in the shape of the Big Dipper, Yue Feishuang stood in the center of the formation, just stepping on the North Star in the eye of the formation. The aura around everyone surged, converging into a star-studded Big Dipper star map, and the aura flowed between the stars in the form of flowing water, converging towards Yue Feishuang in the North Star position.
This is one of the star formations handed down by the Yue family since ancient times, and different formations can be cast according to the level of the user's cultivation. The Big Dipper Star Array in front of him belongs to the primary formation, and it is said that the powerhouse of the Digital Transformation God Realm can actually conjure up the entire Luohe Star Map when he uses this array.
"Half Moon Frost Fly!" Yue Feishuang let out a low sigh, his right hand clenched the long knife, and the fingers of his left hand were bent and stretched, forming a complex seal. At this time, the long knife formed pieces of frost, transformed into an ice blade dozens of zhang long, and swung fiercely towards the vines in the air like a snake's head biting. The wind that blew from the blade body rushed towards the vines with countless flying frosts. The vines were instantly frozen into sculptures, and the sword qi slashed, and the ice sculptures shattered in response, and fell to the ground and dissipated into water vapor.
Before Yue Feishuang could feel comfortable, countless vines regrouped in the air, and the vines on the trunk were also ready to move, stretching out their hideous tentacles.