Chapter 252: Old Past
Qu Wuming hurriedly lowered his body, covered the innocent hidden robe on his body more tightly, and looked into the distance.
I saw that the direction of the chaotic sound happened to come from the location of the largest village in the middle.
Far away, you can only hear people shouting something in the village, and someone blowing a high-pitched whistle.
A moment later, the four villages on the periphery also moved at the sound of this whistle, and many female ghost servants who had been busy in the village grabbed the nearest young ghost servants and hid in the nearest house with a scream, while the male ghost servants grabbed all the available weapons nearby and ran in the direction of the lookouts around the village and the entrance and exit of the village.
For a while, the five villages were already full of chickens and dogs, and they were in a mess.
Among the five villages, in the direction of the buildings that were suspected to have ghost servant cultivators living in the direction, at this time, there were already a different number of ghost servant cultivators rising into the air, each releasing the power of divine consciousness and probing towards the source of chaos.
Qu Wuming saw the number of ghost servants and cultivators who jumped into the air from a distance, and he couldn't help but feel a little tingling in his scalp.
Without him, that's a lot of people......
There were as many as seven or eight ghost servant cultivators who exuded the peak cultivation of the Divine Transformation Stage alone, and among the several ghost servant cultivators who rose into the air in the largest building complex in the center, it seemed that two or three of them had cultivated at least above the early stage of refining!
The reason why he was able to come to such a conclusion was because Qu Wuming had already felt the power of the divine consciousness swept by those ghost servant cultivators as soon as they took off into the air!
You must know that at this time, the straight-line distance between Qu Wuming and them is at least ten miles away!
If the cultivation is below the refining period, even if it is a normal peak cultivation in the Divine Transformation Period, it is impossible to extend the power of divine consciousness so far!
However, fortunately, the distance was very far, and the divine consciousness power of these two ghost servant cultivators had become very weak when they extended here, although they swept to the top of the mountain where Qu Wuming was, they were unable to peek through the cover of Qu Wuming's hidden robe, and they quickly swept it over, and did not find any abnormalities.
The chaos in the ghost servant village quickly calmed down after the appearance of these cultivators.
Almost all of the ordinary ghost servants were hidden in the houses, and those who remained outside were almost all monks among the ghost servants and male ghost servants with weapons in hand.
It seems that everything is about to return to normal.
However, Qu Wuming was condescending, and soon discovered a trace of strangeness in the village.
In the village closest to Qu Wuming, there was a ghost servant man with a spear in his hand, who seemed to be cautiously approaching the direction of the village wall, and there was still a distance of more than ten zhang before he could leave the village.
In front of it, the ghost servants and guards who originally guarded the village lookout had already been replaced by low-level cultivators among the ghost servants, guarding the entire village impenetrable.
On a lookout, the two ghost servant cultivators also seemed to have spotted this ghost servant man who was still wandering around without listening to the command, and began to shout and wave to him from a distance.
Now, Qu Wuming was able to understand the language of the ghost servant, and vaguely heard that the ghost servant cultivator seemed to be shouting, telling the ghost servant man to go back and not go near the wall.
However, the ghost servant man with the spear ignored the shouting from the watchtower, and still approached the direction of the fence step by step......
Finally, the ghost servant cultivators on the lookout realized that something was wrong, and one of them raised his hand and offered a rope-like magic weapon, and shot it towards the ghost servant man with a whoosh.
The ghost servant man was still walking in the direction of the village wall, and Leng Buding was struck by the rope, and was tied up like a silkworm chrysalis.
Seeing this, the ghost servant cultivator on the lookout didn't know what to curse in his mouth, raised his hand, and the rope flew back upside down, flying up to the lookout with the ghost servant man.
Just as the ghost servant cultivator was about to drag the ghost servant man up and ask questions, the ghost servant man suddenly trembled, and he easily broke free of his magic weapon, reached out and plunged his hands forward, and plunged them straight into the chests of the two ghost servant cultivators.
These two ghost servant cultivators didn't seem to have a very high level of cultivation, and under the blow of this ghost servant man, they didn't even snort, and they fell down like two messes of mud.
Qu Wuming could see clearly from the top of the mountain, and guessed that the ghost servant man had already used the power of his divine sense to imprison the bodies of the two ghost servant cultivators, so that they could not make any abnormal noises at all.
After killing the two of them silently, the ghost servant man flew down from the other side of the lookout like a ghost, and jumped over the wall of the village, and in a flash of black smoke on his body, his body had turned into a looming phantom, and drifted straight to the outside of the village.
Qu Wuming frowned slightly, and when he was secretly wondering whether to change places—because the direction in which the ghost servant man was heading was the mountain where Qu Wuming was hiding—a cold snort had already come from the direction of the ghost servant village.
The next moment, I saw that hundreds of dark golden pillars of light suddenly rose in a radius of more than ten miles nearby.
Those pillars of light were extremely tall, each one was a hundred feet high, and the golden light was shining, like pillars of heaven, reaching into the sky.
Each pillar of light is not very thick, only about two zhang in diameter.
On the pillar body, there were faintly countless runes fluttering, Qu Wuming looked at the nearest pillars of light, and found that those runes on them turned out to be the ancient immortal realm characters he knew.
"This ...... It seems to be some kind of ancient array! Qu Wuming only looked at a few pillars of light, and he could already see the extraordinaryness of this array, "No vain hidden robe...... I'm afraid it's useless. ”
There was a burst of light on Qu Wuming's no-nonsense robe, and in the blink of an eye, it had regained the appearance of a gray hooded robe, and there was no concealment effect at all.
And the ghost servant man who sneaked out of the ghost servant village was even more unbearable, he was originally turning into a phantom and was rushing forward, and suddenly the concealment exercise failed, and his escape technique was also broken at the same time, and he couldn't help but roll to the ground with a sigh, like a rolling gourd on the ground a few times, the robe on his body was also rolled full of mud, and the hood on his head was also thrown behind his back.
It was at this moment that the figure of the ghost servant man changed dramatically, the originally thin and slender body quickly became thick, and his dark skin became white, and when the ghost servant man stood up, he had turned into a middle-aged man wearing a black cloak!
The middle-aged man obviously didn't expect that the ghost servant clan would have such a large array, and it could actually cover such a vast area, and before he could escape smoothly, he was able to break through the hide.
Xu is a master of art is bold, and the middle-aged man saw that his whereabouts had been exposed, so he simply stopped hiding, and suddenly jumped up, turning into a golden light and flying straight into the distance!
At this time, Qu Wuming had already seen the middle-aged man's face from a distance, and couldn't help but laugh secretly in his heart: "Huh? It's him?! ”
It turned out that the middle-aged man was not an outsider, but an "acquaintance" of Qu Wuming.
This person's name is surnamed Xing Mingxin, and now he is the elder of the Yin Yang Ghost Sect in the Eastern Regions Continent, and he is good at the technique of ghost summoning and the art of moving space - before joining the Yin Yang Ghost Sect, he was originally a casual cultivator, and there was a flower name called "The First Thief of the Ghost Dao", it is said that as long as it is something that he fancies, no matter how secret it is, there is a way for him to steal it out and keep it for himself without knowing it.
And this person also has a refining specialty, after many treasures are stolen by him, he will be re-transformed and refined, and when he takes them out and uses them in the future, he may have changed beyond recognition, even the original owner may not be able to recognize them......
Seeing this person, Qu Wuming probably guessed one thing - no matter who ended up with the cloak of the Northern Xinjiang Snow City branch of Xianghe Zhai, I'm afraid that he would regret it before he left the Northern Xinjiang Snow City, right?
This Xing Xin and Qu Wuming have been grudges for a long time, and they have long wanted to kill each other, but they have never been able to do so.
It's not that the two had any personal grudges at first, the cause of the feud between the two is not even an accident......
At that time, Xing Xin had not yet joined the Yin Yang Ghost Sect, and was just a casual cultivator who was a thief.
One morning, Qu Wuming passed by a place called Huajia Village, originally just passing by, but accidentally found that there was a noise in the village, the men in the village gathered in the village with sticks and farm tools, as if they were searching for something from house to house, and there was a cry from several families, and the sound seemed to be full of sadness and despair.
Qu Wuming, who appeared on a black donkey, quickly attracted the attention of the men in the village, and many people gathered around him, asking Qu Wuming where he came from, whether he had been to Huajia Village last night, and whether he had seen anyone leave Huajia Village on the way.
After several inquiries, Qu Wuming learned that it turned out that hundreds of households in Huajia Village had collectively been stolen. Moreover, most of the lost items were relatively valuable items such as gold, silver, and jewelry at home.
You must know that although this Huajia Village is a relatively wealthy village among the ten miles and eight villages, most of them are just ordinary people, and the gold, silver and jewelry accumulated by every household are not too much, and even many of them are ancestral heirlooms.
And the saddest thing that those families cried the most was because there were patients in the family waiting to get medicine and see a doctor, but they lost all their money overnight, and their neighbors had no money to borrow, so they cried so desperately.
Qu Wuming learned about the situation in the village, and he couldn't help but feel helpless in his heart, not long after, the local government had also received a report and sent two arresters to investigate, one of whom was about fifty years old, and he was still a cultivator in the Qi refining period.
Qu Wuming was already traveling around at the time, and he didn't have anything important to hurry, so he revealed his identity to the head catcher, hoping to help from the side.
The head catcher was naturally overjoyed, and hurriedly thanked Qu Wuming, and took Qu Wuming to visit and investigate from house to house.
After some investigation, the headhunter's brows also became more and more wrinkled, because many clues pointed to a result - the thief was not an ordinary thief, but a cultivator, and the cultivator's cultivation did not seem to be low.
After several inquiries, the headcatcher finally locked on a special character......