An hour later.

Zhou Dayuan and his second disciple Zhou Xingwu and third disciple Zhou Jian stood together, and the eyes of the three of them all looked at the ground. On the ground, there were three bloody skunks, all of which had a common feature, that is, they all had a piece of clothing tied to their bodies.

Zhou Dayuan said with a gloomy face: "Zhou Jian, what's going on?"

Zhou Jian is a short man in his thirties, and he is the best at tracking. Hearing Master's question, he smiled bitterly and said, "The murderer of the fourth junior brother is a very careful and cunning person, and he is extremely good at anti-tracking. To prevent us from following us, he first caught three skunks, and then smeared their blood on himself to mask their scent. Then he tied his clothes to the three skunks and lured us away. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Jian said angrily: "This time we are laid off." I didn't expect the enemy to be so ferocious and cunning. ”

Zhou Dayuan snorted and scolded angrily: "Rice bucket!"

Zhou Xingwu and Zhou Jian both lowered their heads and did not dare to speak. Ever since the master learned that his only son had died, he became irritable and abnormal, and he wanted to catch the murderer immediately and cut him with a thousand knives. Now that the murderer has not been found, the mood is even worse to the extreme, if you dare to speak out at this time, I am afraid that Zhou Dayuan will beat them to death with one palm.

"Bang bang!" Zhou Dayuan slammed out more than a dozen palms in all directions, and the majestic palm force smashed the trees within a radius of more than ten zhang to the waist and broken, and the dust flew for a while.

After venting, Zhou Dayuan said with a cold gaze: "Zhou Jian, do you think the murderer may go in that direction?"

Zhou Jian shuddered at the master's cold gaze, and hurriedly said, "The intersection to Sanhe Town is guarded by our people, and the other two directions are not convenient for hiding. Therefore, the disciple felt that the direction in which this murderer was most likely to go was the direction of the Brute Mountain Range. Of course, there is also a possibility, that is, the murderer will not go there, but hide in this forest......"

"Hidden in the forest, don't go there?" Zhou Dayuan frowned, he felt that this possibility was the greatest. If it's hidden in the forest, it's hard to find. You must know that although this forest is only a radius of dozens of miles, the number of people brought out by Zhou Dayuan is only more than 100 people, and there are only more than 100 people......

After a deep groan, Zhou Dayuan said coldly: "That's it." Xingwu, you lead a few teams to search in the direction of the outer reaches of the Brute Mountain Range. Zhou Jian, you follow me, I will personally perform the technique of seeing and hearing from heaven to earth, and personally search for people in the forest!"

Hearing Zhou Dayuan mention the "art of seeing and hearing from heaven to earth", Zhou Xingwu and Zhou Jian both showed shocked expressions on their faces. This technique of seeing and hearing from heaven and earth is one of the secret techniques belonging to the Zhou family of Qingsang City, after it is cast, it can easily sense the sound of the wind and grass within ten miles, even a small gopher, can not escape the tracking of this secret art.

Although this technique of seeing and hearing is extremely powerful, the difficulty of performing it is very high, and it requires a master of the Nine Layers of Martial Arts to be able to perform it. Zhou Dayuan's strength is only in the early stage of the Martial Eightfold Martial Arts, and if he wants to forcibly perform this secret technique, he can only burn his own essence and blood and force out his own potential. In this way, it will inevitably lead to a great loss of the essence element, which will greatly affect one's own cultivation, and then affect one's status in the family.

Although Zhou Xingwu and Zhou Jian wanted to persuade the master to give up using the secret technique, the two knew that the master was in an extremely bad mood, and neither of them had the courage to persuade him.

......

The woods are full of trees, the weeds grow taller than people, and the rattans are like big snakes, climbing and entangled. In this dense environment, even the midday sun does not penetrate. Zhang Ye held a half-broken thick-backed knife in his hand, walking among the dead branches and leaves, and from time to time he could see one or two big snakes crawling lazily. Although these snakes are not poisonous snakes, their thick and colorful bodies make Zhang Ye feel creepy at a glance.

In addition to the big snake, what makes Zhang Ye even more nervous are the poisonous insects and poisonous spiders that hide among the leaves and grass. These little things are small in appearance, but they are extremely poisonous, and if you accidentally bite them, you will die immediately.

After walking more than ten miles cautiously, Zhang Ye came to a relatively open place. When he was breathing a sigh of relief, Zhang Ye suddenly heard a "squeak" scream from the left. ,

Zhang Ye's heart sank, and he hurriedly hid behind a big tree. When I looked closely, I saw a black wave suddenly surging between the trees on the left. This black wave is getting closer and closer, and Zhang Ye finally saw it clearly, it turned out that this black wave was actually composed of thousands of black-haired sharp-billed rats!

The black-haired sharp-billed rat is a species of rat endemic to the outskirts of the Brute Mountains, preferring to live in groups and being very agile in its movements. They have a pair of beaks, the beaks are hard and sharp, even a stone can bite off a piece, some huge beasts, Yujian, a dense swarm of rats, can only escape from the road.

"His sister's thing! As soon as I entered here, I ran into this group of things, and my luck was a little too bad!" Zhang Ye secretly complained, and before he was discovered by the rats, he climbed a big tree next to him like an ape.

"Squeak-" The black-haired sharp-billed rats quickly spotted the octopus leaves on the tree, and a group of black-haired sharp-billed rats immediately climbed up the tree poles. These small black-haired sharp-billed rats have an excellent ability to climb trees, and their bodies are moving rapidly on the smooth tree poles, like black shadows.

"Give me death!" Zhang Ye scolded secretly, the thick-backed knife was clenched in his hand, a faint knife light swung out, and a black-haired sharp-billed rat that jumped up was divided into two pieces by him.

Although the black-haired sharp-billed rat is a rodent, it likes blood the most. Smelling the blood of his companions, the black-haired sharp-billed rat became even more frantic and pounced with a "whooshing" sound.

"Boom, Boom, Boom-" Zhang Ye took out his knife again and again, and every time he cut out, there was a black-haired sharp-billed rat that was split in half, and in a few breaths, he had issued more than forty knives, killing dozens of black-haired sharp-billed rats, and the corpses of black-haired sharp-billed rats piled up around him, and the smell of blood and the unique smell of black-haired sharp-billed rats filled the woods.

Although he was killed again and again, the black-haired sharp-billed rat was even more excited, and when Zhang Ye slashed out dozens of knives, he heard the sound of "rustling" from a distance, and it was obvious that a large number of black-haired sharp-billed rats were rushing forward.

"His sister, listening to this voice, there are probably tens of thousands of black-haired sharp-billed rats coming quickly! Although the strength of this black-haired sharp-billed rat is relatively weak, it is definitely a dead end to be besieged by so many black-haired sharp-billed rats!" Thinking of this, Zhang Ye hurriedly changed his strategy, and the knife in his hand was still slashed out one after another, but his feet moved rapidly, and he jumped to another big tree with a "whew".

"Whoosh-" Zhang Ye jumped out of more than a dozen big trees in a row, and then grabbed a long hanging vine and swung from the air to another big tree dozens of meters away, finally getting rid of the siege of these black-haired sharp-billed rats temporarily.

Looking at the dense black-haired sharp-billed rats on the trees behind him, Zhang Ye couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly took out his desperate strength and quickly jumped towards the trees in the distance.

Zhang Ye jumped several miles in one breath, and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, when suddenly a creepy feeling suddenly rose from the bottom of his heart. He felt that his whole body was being seen by an invisible and insubstantial enemy!

Zhang Yeqiang used the true qi of his whole body, rejecting the feeling of being peeped at, holding the broken knife in his hand, and shouted: "Who!"