Chapter 42: Demon Beasts
Ah Mu waited for a few days at the main peak, and Director Zhong finally interrogated her, but said:
"Senior Sister Jiang, the fifth detachment has encountered some trouble outside, and it won't be able to come back for a while, otherwise you can go directly to find them!"
So, Amu bid farewell to his master, lightly packed up, stepped on the "blue waves", and went down the mountain for the first time since he joined the sect for ten years.
Galloping all the way, sometimes stopping to recover spiritual power, and so on, until the fourth day, Amu came to a small city called "Yi Cheng".
Compared with a medium-sized city like Yecheng, Yicheng is less than a quarter of its size, and when walking on the street, almost all of the people who come and go are low-level monks below the fourth level of Qi cultivation, and none of them have been seen above the foundation.
Amu inquired a little and walked towards a restaurant in the city.
Zheng Rong, the captain of the fifth detachment of the inspection team, was waiting for her there at the moment.
When he saw Zheng Rong, he was dressed in a strong suit and looked at the window, and he didn't react until Amu pushed the door open and walked in.
Seeing Amu surprised for a while, he suddenly laughed again: "I have been watching, waiting for a foundation building monk to come in from below, but I haven't waited, I didn't expect that Senior Sister Jiang is like those low-level qi cultivation cultivators, and she didn't show a trace of foundation building breath." ”
Amu stepped forward to salute and replied: "Walking outside, don't dare to be too high-profile." ”
Zheng Rong laughed: "If such a young foundation building monk is high-profile, it will indeed affect his mood and be detrimental to others. ”
Amu was embarrassed and smiled helplessly.
Zheng Rong joked, so he introduced the situation of the fifth detachment to her.
"In addition to me, there are eight members of the fifth team, and you are the ninth. ”
It's nine again, Amu thought to herself, she really has a relationship with nine.
"At this moment, there are two members of the team in Yicheng, who are following me to investigate the matter of Senior Brother Yuan, and the other six are investigating other matters in other places. ”
Ah Mu pondered and said: "Senior Brother Yuan, before I came, Director Zhong also mentioned one or two things to me, it is said that Senior Brother Yuan was confused by demon cultivation, and he has not reported to the sect for nearly fifty years, nor has he contacted his family, and his family is very worried, so he asked Senior Brother Yuan's friend to ask the sect for help." ”
Zheng Rong nodded, with a serious expression: "It is true that he has not been in contact with his family for fifty years, but during this period, he has returned to the sect, and the most recent time was five years ago. ”
Amu breathed a sigh of relief: "If you go back to the sect, at least you can prove that Senior Brother Yuan's life is worry-free, and he has not hurt Senior Brother Yuan's life for fifty years, presumably that demon cultivator has another purpose and doesn't want to kill him." ”
Zheng Rong was not relaxed at all: "I suspect that it is not a demon cultivator, but a demon beast!"
Ah Mu's heart jumped: "How can Senior Brother Zheng see it? If a demon beast wants to turn into a human form, it needs to be at least in the infant stage!"
In this kind of small city with poor spiritual power, will there be a primordial infant demon?
Zheng Rong frowned: "I have seen Senior Brother Yuan and that demon beast with my own eyes, although they are in human form, the breath of the demon beast can never be wrong!"
Amu raised his eyebrows: "Where can I see it?"
"The Yuan family. Zheng Rong recalled: "It was the Yuan family who asked the sect to help them find Senior Brother Yuan.
But all along, although Senior Brother Yuan rarely returns to the sect, he has not lost contact with the sect, we helped them contact Senior Brother Yuan, let him go home, and the Yuan family said that Senior Brother Yuan also brought a demon cultivator back, please go and deal with it.
We just came to the Yuan family in Yicheng, and only had a face-to-face with Senior Brother Yuan and the demon cultivator, and that night Senior Brother Yuan and the demon cultivator left overnight, and they have not been traced yet. ”
Ah Mu was a little puzzled: "Senior Brother Yuan is acting like this, is he avoiding you?"
Zheng Rong was also puzzled: "We didn't have any conflict that day, I wanted to capture that demon beast directly, but I was stopped by Senior Brother Yuan-
We suspect that it was the demon beast that saw us coming and coerced him to leave the Yuan family!"
This possibility is extremely high, Ah Mu was groaning, and suddenly his consciousness moved, and someone was rushing towards them.
She looked at Zheng Rong, but Zheng Rong said:
"It's okay, it's our team. ”
Soon, a young man hurriedly pushed open the door and walked in, opening his mouth and saying:
"Squad leader, I've found Uncle Yuan!"
After speaking, he found that Amu in the room was stunned for a while.
Zheng Rong introduced in a timely manner: "Gao Jie, this is your Uncle Jiang, who has just joined our fifth team. ”
Gao Jie was stunned again: "Jiang-Uncle Jiang?"
Such a young girl, is it actually the foundation building period?
Listening to what they called each other, Amu smiled slightly:
"You don't have to be like this, just call me Amu, in the future, I will also be a member of the fifth team. ”
Uncle Jiang couldn't scream, Gao Jie scratched his head embarrassedly, and said in a low voice, "Ah Mu." ”
Seeing that the two had known each other, Zheng Rong asked, "You just said that you found Senior Brother Yuan?"
Gao Jie immediately cheered up: "Yes, we found traces of their appearance in a mountain forest on the side, and some of the villagers below the mountain saw them enter the depths of the mountain forest. ”
"Have you gone in and looked for it?"
"Yes," Gao Jie was a little depressed: "But for some reason there was a heavy fog in the forest, which made it difficult to find the direction, and I walked around it for a few days, but I couldn't get out of a mile, so I had to come back." ”
Zheng Rong's face was ugly, and he looked at the two of them: "I'm afraid, my guess has come true." ”
Ah Mu asked, "Senior Brother Zheng, what do you know?"
Zheng Rong nodded: "I can be sure that the one who is with Senior Brother Yuan must be a demon beast, not a demon cultivator!"
"Demon beast?" Gao Jie was shocked: "The demon beast that has turned into a human form, is it the Yuan Infant Stage?!"
No, it can't be meta-infancy.
Ah Mu thought in his heart, if it was the Yuan Infant Period, he would never avoid Zheng Rong and them.
But Zheng Rong is so sure, then-there is only one possibility!
Ah Mu and Zheng Rong glanced at each other, and blurted out at the same time: "Phantom beast!"
"Phantom Beast?" Gao Jie was stunned: "What is a Phantom Beast?"
Amu explained: "The phantom beast is a kind of demon beast that is good at illusion, and it can be transformed into a human form during the foundation building period, and the fog you see in the mountains and forests, nine times out of ten, is also done by the phantom beast!"
Gao Jie suddenly thought of something, and suddenly realized: "If the phantom beast can be transformed at will, then Uncle Yuan is very likely to be confused by the beauty image of the phantom beast!"
This is not easy to answer, after all, Amu has never seen the human form conjured by the phantom beast.
Zheng Rong was silent for a long time, and said: "Although I can't see through the cultivation of that phantom beast, since I can feel its demon beast aura so clearly, I guess Senior Brother Yuan has been with it for a long time, and he also has a sense of it, so it is unlikely that he will be confused by it......"
He still felt that it was more likely that Senior Brother Yuan was coerced by phantom beasts!
"It's useless to think too much, why don't we go and explore together?" Amu suggested.
Zheng Rong nodded: "That's exactly what I mean." ”
Under the guidance of Gao Jie, several people came to a lush mountain forest.
Looking down from above, the heart of the mountain forest is completely shrouded in fog, and nothing can be seen clearly.