The starlight dimmed, and two heavily armed soldiers, torches held alof, searched a mountain forest.

Suddenly, as if seeing something, one of the soldiers picked up the crossbow in his hand and shot an arrow in front of him.

"What's wrong?"

"I don't know, it seems...... Someone. ”

The two soldiers looked at each other, and one of them threw the torch he was holding towards the point where the arrow landed.

The torches fell to the ground, creaking and burning, lighting up the surrounding circle.

The two of them drew their long knives, their eyes widened, and waited for a few more moments before cautiously touching them forward.

"The bolts are gone!"

"Look, it's blood!"

As soon as these words came out, the two immediately clenched the steel knife in their hands and shone around with torches.

"There are blood stains here, too, as if it went that way."

"Chase!"

The two of them held the hilt of their swords in one hand and the torches in the other, and walked briskly in the direction of the bloodstains.

After chasing for dozens of feet, they saw a sika deer lying dying in the jungle.

And the sika deer also had a crossbow bolt stuck in its abdomen, and blood continued to ooze from the wound, staining the ground red.

It was only at this moment that the two of them breathed a sigh of relief and slowly returned their knives to their sheaths.

"It's a deer for a long time, it scares me."

One of the soldiers walked over with a torch in his hand, still muttering.

The soldier looked at it carefully for a moment, pulled out the crossbow arrow from the sika deer's abdomen, and wiped the arrow on the grass at will, wiped away the blood, and then put the crossbow arrow into the quiver.

"Hey...... It's really a toss, what do you think above, let the 2000 army come to help the demon clan capture a human. He let out a long sigh.

"Hehe, that guy is not an ordinary person, I heard that he beheaded the beloved son of the Dragon King of the Jing River."

"Wow! Even the dragon dares to kill, and the courage is really not ordinary, but what does it matter to us? ”

"Hey, the Dragon King of Jinghe is the governor of the Eight Rivers Capital personally appointed by His Majesty, do you say that the imperial court can ignore it?"

"Governor of the Eight Rivers?!" The soldier's face was a little dazed: "Your Majesty made the monster the governor?" ”

"You see, it's lonely and unheard, there are not a few monsters in the mountains and rivers that have been canonized."

"Wait, then why do we have to exterminate youkai every year?"

"Actually, there is not much difference between this demon and a person, a monster who respects the laws of the court, the court naturally makes a wish to you as an official, and you dare to disrespect the laws of the court, whether it is a human or a demon, what awaits you is to raid the house and destroy the door."

As the two walked, they chatted with each other, and one of the soldiers said, "Damn it, I still can't figure out why this monster wants to be an official." ”

"You don't understand this, do you, because if you want to achieve the Great Dao, you need incense willpower, understand?"

Two soldiers, carrying torches, walked carelessly through the woods, occasionally shining into the darkness with torches.

"I don't understand, isn't the incense wish power what the temple Taoist temple asks for, and the monsters also need this thing?"

"Hey, of course, it is said that that thing can not only improve cultivation, but can even be directly used as mana."

When the two soldiers walked away, a body covered in tattered clothes and covered in blood slowly stood up from the haystack.

The moonlight poked its head out of the flowing clouds and illuminated Jiang Liu's shoulders.

The flesh on his shoulders was blurred, a consequence of his forced crossbow arrows.

A whole day of running, several times he was almost surrounded.

Fortunately, these were just ordinary soldiers, and they had no cultivation, and the few generals who cultivated during the foundation building period were also held in the temporary camp on the mountainside, posing no threat to him.

Enduring the sharp pain in his shoulder, he carried the bloodstained Flying Star Sword and cautiously followed in the direction of the two soldiers.

Jiang Liu is already a cultivator in the Condensing Realm, and it is natural to deal with these ordinary soldiers, but no matter how high his cultivation is, there is a time when his true qi is exhausted, and he is only a mortal in the flesh, and he can't be invulnerable, he can handle dozens of soldiers, and he can only choose to escape with hundreds of soldiers, especially when these soldiers are equipped with big yellow crossbows.

Quietly followed for a short distance.

One of the soldiers untied his water bladder from his waist and rested cross-legged on the ground.

Another soldier walked to the side of the tree, lifted his armor and began to untie it.

Behind a tree as thick as a bucket, Jiang Liu held his sword, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.

"You say, this valley is so big, we just have such a small number of people, can we find it?" The soldier sitting under the tree poured his saliva and looked up at the dark night sky in the distance.

"Hey, don't worry, I heard that the imperial court sent someone from the Demon Hunting Division to help us, with them, it's not easy to catch someone."

Lifting his trousers, the soldier suddenly heard a rustling sound in the bushes.

Squinting his eyes, before he could see clearly, an astonishing cold light continued to amplify in his pupils, and Jiang Liu held the Flying Star Sword out of the grass, the long sword penetrated his throat, and hot blood flew to the ground.

There was a muffled sound, and the soldier fell to the ground and died.

"Who is it?" The soldier who was on his knees immediately stood up in panic, raised his rhubarb crossbow, and hurriedly tried to wind it.

Before he could finish his strings, the long sword was already stabbing at him.

The next moment, the tip of the sword pressed against the soldier's throat, leaving a shallow scar.

Jiang Liu's face turned pale because of the pain in his shoulder, and the hand holding the hilt of the sword trembled slightly.

The soldier looked at the river in horror, shivering, feeling the chill coming from his neck, he opened his mouth slightly but did not dare to scream.

He knew very well that as long as he dared to speak out, the person in front of him could send him to see Lord Yama as long as the tip of the sword was gently handed forward.

Jiang Liu stared at the soldier coldly, his chest rose and fell slightly, and his mouth made a low voice like a beast: "I...... Ask, you, answer......"

The soldier swallowed a mouthful of saliva and nodded silently.

"Did you catch a woman... A woman dressed as a man? ”

"Yes, caught, she... I heard that she is the son of a certain high-ranking official in the court. ”

"So how is she now? Where are you being held? ”

"I was slightly injured, and I heard that I was under house arrest by the general, presumably... Presumably he should be locked up in the camp. ”

Hearing that Li Yu was only slightly injured, he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

But when he heard that Li Yu was under house arrest, Jiang Liu's heart rose to his throat again.

Under house arrest?

There should be no worries about his life, and with Li Chunfeng's official position, it should not be difficult to protect Li Yu's life.

As soon as he thought of this, Jiang Liu's brows stretched slightly, and he continued to ask, "The imperial court sent the Demon Hunting Division to arrest me, right?" ”

The cold voice made the soldier's heart tremble, but he still replied tremblingly: "Yes... Yes. ”

Jiang Liu's eyes narrowed slightly.