Chapter Forty-Eight: The Night of Death's Run
Along the way, Luo Haoyang felt a little uneasy inexplicably, he had never participated in the task of exploring the secluded realm before, this time he came, or relied on the care of his cousin Luo Ting, if it weren't for this rare opportunity, it would not be his turn to be a person, unlike what he expected, the secluded realm was not as dangerous as he imagined, and even the abundant aura made his long-dormant realm show signs of breakthrough.
Compared with other promising Luo family disciples, Luo Haoyang is much more ordinary, without sufficient resources, after becoming a monk, his strength has always stagnated in the lower level of Yuxu, and Luo Tianchen, the young family master of the same age as him, has reached the upper level of Yuxu because of his family's hard work, and he can be regarded as a middle leader.
In all fairness, there are many means for mortals to become monks, and it can even be said that many are not difficult to obtain, but the road after becoming a monk is much bumpy, and every time you are promoted, you need a large amount of heaven and earth aura as an accumulation, if you only rely on your own ability to absorb, even if you spend your whole life to break through the void, the assistance of the pill can be said to be indispensable.
Although this mission is arduous, if it can be successfully completed, then Luo Haoyang will most likely be able to get some pills as a reward, and in combination with his hard cultivation in the secluded realm during this period of time, it is no longer so unattainable to be promoted to the middle level of Yuxu, no matter when, if you want to be taken seriously, it is essential to improve your own strength.
Although there are many monks in the Luo family, most of them are monks who have stayed in the lower level of Yuxu for a long time, and their strength is not much different from Luo Haoyang, and the monks of the middle level of Yuxu are only the other two Luo Lingyu and Luo Nanyi who are responsible for leading the team, and the Qingxu monks are only Luo Qin and Luo Ting.
Luo Haoyang thought about it and found out what made him uneasy, the original task of placing the soul coffin had been completed, and they were supposed to return to the guard with the border army, but the sudden appearance of the blood pool and the powerful demon beasts bred in it caught them off guard, and now a person who stole the red yarn Bodhi appeared for no reason, and then there were those strange believers they surrounded and suppressed before, this series of events was full of weirdness, making it difficult not to connect these things together.
Thinking of this, Luo Haoyang raised his right hand and motioned for everyone to stop, there was still some distance from the smoke pillar, but for safety reasons, he decided to avoid confronting Yan Zheng head-on, but first reconnoitered, and after discovering Yan Zheng's traces, he called the other two teams and asked them to come to support.
Luo Haoyang took out a thing wrapped in layers of yellow rune paper from his arms, and after uncovering it, he revealed a delicate bird carved like obsidian, he entered his spiritual power into it, and then raised his hands and threw the bird into the air, and the bird immediately swelled up, turning into an eagle falcon and flying towards the direction of the smoke pillar.
Luo Haoyang's Demon Shadow Heart Devouring Mantra was not cultivated enough to manipulate the wolf shadow to investigate, so he had to use the long-cherished Dan Beast, the Dan Beast, as the name suggests, is refined by the immortal master who is proficient in the way of Dan Mercury using the captured demon beast, the refined demon beast is reduced in size, easy to carry, and its own strength can be retained seven or eight times out of ten, and then sealed by the rune paper, and with the user to drip blood to recognize the master, when you need to use it, you only need to unseal it, you can let it show its original form, for the user to drive.
The pitch-black falcon skimmed the sky, its sharp eyes scanned the entire forest, looking for traces that Yan Zheng might have left behind, but after a search, it found no signs of human activity, unexpectedly, around the pillar of smoke, the falcon did not find anyone, it folded its wings and landed quickly, but there was only a pool of blood on the ground that had not dried up, the falcon dipped the blood on the ground with its sharp beak, and then spiraled into the air and disappeared into the clouds.
Luo Haoyang sat cross-legged on the ground, waiting for the scouting falcon to return, while his entourage stood beside him, fiddling with the blades in their hands from time to time, and the other three teams did not send any signals, and it seemed that they had not found any trace of Yan Zheng.
One of the attendants muttered, "This thief is really fast, so many of us haven't been able to catch up." ”
Another attendant took over, "If you dare to steal our Luo family's things, you must have eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall!" Who doesn't know that in the Northeast Province, our Luo family has the greatest power. ”
"To be able to escape from the hands of the steward, this thief's strength is not weak." An old entourage who had previously worked on a Netherworld mission said, "The place he fled into was already deeper into the Netherworld, and it was only going to be more dangerous." ”
There was a sharp roar in mid-air, the pitch-black figure swept across the sky, the eagle falcon gathered its wings and fell rapidly, landing lightly on Luo Haoyang's shoulder, Luo Haoyang took out a red pill from his arms and threw it to the eagle falcon, the eagle falcon took the pill and swallowed it in one gulp, and then let out a sharp sound with satisfaction, and rubbed Luo Haoyang with his head.
After becoming a Dan Beast, he can't hunt normally, and can only rely on this specially refined Royal Beast Pill to raise, this Eagle Falcon is a gift from Luo Haoyang's parents, I think it should be handed down from his ancestors, and the Dan Beast will be worn out every time it is used, so Luo Haoyang is carefully maintained on weekdays, and he is not easy to use it until an important moment, and now in order to quickly find Yan Zheng and avoid extraneous branches, he still decisively chooses to use the Dan Beast.
Through the eyes of the eagle falcon, Luo Haoyang saw the situation around the pillar of smoke, there was no Yan Zheng there, only a pool of blood that had not dried up, they all fell into the golden cicada's plan to get out of the shell, Yan Zheng deceived his tracking technique with blood, causing the direction of their tracking to deviate.
Luo Haoyang was a little annoyed, he didn't expect that so many of their monks would be played around by a mortal, he reached out and dipped some of the blood on the eagle's beak, and then pinched the magic trick in his hand, and launched the tracking technique again, as the pale ink-colored aura around him surged, another pillar of smoke appeared from behind them, pointing in the opposite direction.
This kind of carving insect skill can only deceive for a while, but it can't deceive a lifetime, let me find you, Luo Haoyang showed a smile on the corner of his mouth, he stretched out his hand, signaled to the sky, called the other teams to look at the newly marked location, and then took the entourage around him and took the lead in chasing in the direction of the smoke pillar.
The evening is coming to an end, and the netherworld is about to usher in its night, Yan Zheng, who is wearing the shadow devouring cloak, looks at the night sky that is gradually darkening, and secretly breathes a sigh of relief in his heart, there is only a waning moon in the sky, and the light emitted is not strong, the visibility at night is very poor, and the Luo family has never chased after them, depending on the situation, they should have been gotten rid of, Yan Zheng decided to rest for a while tonight, and set off again tomorrow to join the large army.
Yan Zheng stopped in front of the mouth of a somewhat narrow cave, he picked up the dead branches on the ground, lit them with the flint he carried with him, and then threw them into the depths of the cave, the burning dead branches illuminated a corner of the deep cave, and he could clearly see that there were miserable white bones scattered in it, which had been broken to pieces, and had obviously been abandoned here for a long time.
It is estimated that there was a certain demon beast in this cave before, but then the demon beast left here, and this cave has been abandoned since then, after burning for a while, the dead branch gradually extinguished, indicating that there was oxygen to breathe in, and after repeatedly making sure that it was safe, Yan Zheng was relieved to get in, he wrapped himself in the shadow devouring cloak, and then gradually fell asleep.
In a haze, he noticed that someone had walked into the cave, it was not that the person's footsteps revealed his actions, but the metal blade touched the rock and made a sound, Yan Zheng immediately came to his senses, what he encountered at this moment could never be the border army, but the Luo family who had chased him so far, it seemed that someone had discovered his golden cicada's plan to get out of the shell, and searched for his traces again.
Because the entrance to the cave was too low, the Luo family attendant could only hunch his waist and slowly move inside, and after walking the way into the cave, the inside became spacious, he walked carefully, trying to minimize the sound, through the dim moonlight outside, he vaguely saw a huddled humanoid object next to the rock in front of him, the humanoid object was covered with a black cloak, almost integrated with the surrounding ground, if it weren't for the good eyesight of this attendant, I am afraid that he would have missed it.
It's not wrong, this person must be the Yan Zheng who stole the Luo family's treasures! The Luo family's entourage drew the long knife at his waist, quietly walked over, and slashed at the humanoid object on the ground!
But the long knife did not produce the feeling of cutting into the flesh, but dried up directly with the cloak, and it turned out that there was no one under the cloak at all, but a few rocks and hay!
Yan Zheng suddenly appeared from the side of the cave, knocked down the Luo family attendant fiercely, and then held the wrist of the Luo family's attendant, the steel breaking technique was immediately opened, and the tide composed of scarlet blood and qi set off a storm in his body, the power in Yan Zheng's hands doubled, and the Luo family attendant who was holding his wrist felt that his wrist was almost broken, he couldn't help but let go of his hand, and let the long knife in his hand fall to the ground, Yan Zheng grabbed the long knife and sent the sharp blade into the lower abdomen of the Luo family's entourage.
But the Naluo family retinue did not die immediately, he clenched the hilt of the knife with both hands, knowing that making a sound at night would attract the attention of the demon beast, but he shouted around without hesitation, "I caught him!" He's here! ”
Yan Zheng was shocked, and then slammed a heavy elbow on his temple, the Luo family attendant spurted blood from his mouth and nose, and fell to the ground, Yan Zheng wanted to pull out the long knife inserted into his abdomen, but he didn't expect this Luo family attendant to be so brave, holding the handle of the knife with both hands, Yan Zheng tried many times but failed, the shouts of the Luo family's attendant must have attracted the attention of others, he couldn't delay any longer, Yan Zheng gave up pulling out the long knife, got out of the cave, and fled into the forest in embarrassment.