Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Canyon

Xiao Hei took the severed hand in his mouth, ran out of the grass, ran all the way to Shen Shi's body, and then his teeth loosened, and the severed hand fell to the ground with a pop.

Shen Shi squatted down, his eyes were cold, and he carefully looked at the severed hand, while the little black pig shook his body beside him, looking a little uneasy, and snorted twice at the wild grass in front of him.

Shen Shi lightly touched Xiao Hei's head, and finally his eyes fell on the wound of the severed hand, and it could be seen that the severed hand was probably broken at the elbow, and the fracture was quite flat, as if it was directly cut off by some sharp blade, including the wrist and even half of the sleeve.

After a while, Shen Shi stood up, glanced at Xiao Hei, and said in a deep voice, "Is there still over there?"

Xiao Hei nodded.

Shen Shi walked over to the weeds in front of him, the little fox that came out of here just now now has no idea where to go, it seems that he was scared away under Xiao Hei's sharp fangs, and as Shen Shi moved forward, he soon found that the weeds in the grass had a few traces of being trampled and squeezed, and there was a faint bloody smell in the air.

Shen Shi's footsteps paused slightly, but he didn't stay long, because at this time, he had already seen a corner of his clothes peeking out from the depths of the grass in front of him, and a figure seemed to be lying motionless in the grass, without moving.

Shen Shi glanced left and right, and after making sure that there was no danger, he walked over, brushed aside the knee-high weeds and took a look, only to see that there was indeed a man lying on his back in the weeds, his face was pale with horror, his eyes were round and unblinking, and his muscles were stiff and white, but he was already a dead man.

Shen Shi's eyes glanced at the man's arm, and sure enough, he saw that the person's right hand below the elbow was empty, and it was obvious that the severed hand that Xiao Hei took out just now was this person. This discovery did not make Shen Shi's face look better, but instead looked more and more solemn, because at this time, he had already seen from the clothes on this dead man's body that this person was only afraid that this person was a disciple from the Heavenly Sword Palace of the Four Righteous Sects.

Shen Shi frowned, checked the corpse, and finally confirmed two things, first, this strange disciple of the Heavenly Sword Palace should have died in the past few days, which can be roughly judged from the degree of corruption on the wound, and there are some other strange bite wounds on the corpse, which seem to be the marks of being bitten by some scavengers; 。

Shen Shi slowly stood up, and took one last look at the face of the dead Heavenly Sword Palace disciple, only to see that his eyes were still wide open before he died, and he was frightened with despair and even a little angry, which could be called a little deadly. He shook his head slowly, and the thought in his heart turned, the only ones who can be good at using the blade are naturally people, but in the earlier records, the Wentian Secret Realm almost appeared from the natives of the Secret Realm and only the powerful demon beasts, but after entering the secret realm this time, he himself encountered a strange and strange Blood Fang Clan, so his understanding of this was also shaken.

Could it be that in addition to the worst possibility, it is also possible that this Heavenly Sword Palace disciple was discovered and killed by someone from the secret realm natives similar to the Blood Fang Clan?

After thinking about it for a while, Shen Shi denied this possibility himself, judging from his communication with the Blood Fang Clan, at least in the vast area of this Dragon Wilderness, the Blood Fang Tribes should be the only indigenous tribe. Now because of the weakening of the Bloodfangs, there is no one strong in the tribe who can walk through that treacherous nameless swamp, but in previous records, the warriors of the Bloodfang tribe have explored farther and larger areas than here, and no other tribe has been found.

But if this is the case, since the murderer is not an indigenous tribe in other secret realms, and the Blood Fang Tribe is obviously not suspicious, because they will not pass through this swamp at all, then the murderer who killed this disciple of the Heavenly Sword Palace is almost ready to come out.

The corners of Shen Shi's eyes twitched slightly, he was silent for a moment, and then turned around and walked out, Xiao Hei glanced at him, and when he was about to keep up, he suddenly saw Shen Shi's body for a moment, suddenly turned around again, walked quickly to the corpse, and quickly rummaged through it as if he had thought of something.

After a while, his movements stopped, and then he stood up, but his face became more and more ugly, he snorted in his mouth, but his eyes were a little more determined, and he sneered and said to himself: "Sure enough, even the Ruyi bag was taken away." ”

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Shen Shi took one last look at the corpse, then turned around and walked away, the shadow that his body was covering slowly moved away from the face of this blind Heavenly Sword Palace disciple, and the scorching and dry sunlight shone on his pale face again. As the footsteps faded away, the grass calmed down from the shaking, and the surroundings gradually quieted down, except for this unknown corpse left in this barren and remote corner of the wilderness, and as time passed, he would gradually decay, his flesh and blood would be eaten or decayed by wild beasts, and he would become a skeleton that no one cared about, and finally turn into dust, and disappear in this strange world.

On the way to cultivate immortals, how many monks have fallen halfway like this, Shen Shi himself doesn't know how many he has seen, although he is still very young, but he has seen a lot of life and death, so in many cases his heart is hard enough to be moved.

But at the moment his face was not pretty, and as he left the weeds and returned to the wilderness outside, and began to walk on, his mind began to think carefully about the consequences of this incident.

Obviously, that Heavenly Sword Palace disciple was probably killed by another person who was also from the Four Righteous Sects and entered the Wentian Secret Realm to experience and explore. Although he had long heard of a similar rumor of a shady thing, witnessing this scene in the Wentian Secret Realm at this moment still made Shen Shi's heart feel a slight chill.

In addition, he was also a little surprised in his heart, it is said that this Wentian Secret Realm is extremely large, and the three or four hundred disciples of the Four Righteous Sects who entered it seem to be a lot, but in fact, the probability of meeting is not very large, in the past records, most of the people completed the entire exploration time alone.

Now that I think about it, although we didn't meet at the beginning, and the distance between them is not very close, but it is only separated by a swamp of the dragon wilderness, and this distance is obviously quite close. And most importantly, at the moment, it seems that there is more than one person who is very close to him, plus the unknown murderer, at least two disciples of the Four Righteous Sect have landed very close to him.

Shen Shi looked at the gray wilderness and sky in the distance, and for the first time felt that the monks who were also human beings seemed to be more terrifying than the unknown demon beasts in this wilderness.

In the following time, Shen Shi also considered whether to turn back directly, cross the swamp and return to the Bloodfang Clan, or explore in the other direction, after all, if you go further, there may be a very dangerous murderer hidden somewhere in that wilderness. But after a moment of deliberation, he gave up on the idea and moved on.

As a fellow disciple of the Ning Yuan Realm entering the secret realm to explore, Shen Shi gently touched the Ruyi bag on his waist, and Xiao Hei, who was following him, seemed to feel something, raised his head and glanced at Shen Shi. Shen Shi immediately smiled slightly, he was already tenacious, and in such a dangerous place full of dangers like a wilderness, he had already been in the demon world for three years, if he really wanted to talk about danger, he was not afraid of anyone.

As soon as he made up his mind, he had no distractions and continued to move forward, while paying attention to his surroundings along the way, but the unknown murderer seemed to have left the vicinity after killing that Heavenly Sword Palace disciple and taking away his belongings, so Shen Shi walked for half a day and never found anything abnormal.

However, Shen Shi didn't dare to relax carelessly, in order not to expose his traces as much as possible, he no longer flew with the sword, otherwise when he took Xiao Hei to control the Falling Snow Sword and flew through the air with a big sting, anyone with eyes would see it.

After walking like this for a day, in the evening of this day, when the sun was about to set, Shen Shi saw that a different terrain finally appeared in the wasteland in front of him.

It was a very wide canyon across this wilderness, at least thousands of zhang long, two or three hundred zhang wide, and there was a kind of red rock all over the canyon, and in many places even the sand was a little burnt red, so it was a little abrupt, and suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

Because the sky was a little dark in the evening, when Shen Shi stood on the edge of this canyon and looked down, he only felt that it was dark below, and many places were blurry and could only see some faint outlines of mountains and rocks, and the higher places could see more realistically, except for the stones and sand, there were almost no green plants. It seems that the whole canyon gives a crimson but desolate feel.

Shen Shi stared at the dim ground below for a while, and then looked at the opposite side of the canyon, only to see that the wasteland on the other side of the canyon in the distance had also fallen into a gray dimness, and it was not clear to see a little farther away.

Shen Shi pondered for a moment, then decided not to move forward, the wilderness after nightfall was more dangerous than the daylight according to his previous experience of traveling and exploring, at least when he descended on the first day of the Wentian Secret Realm, in the ruins of that dead village, it had been verified.

The canyon below was deep and full of rocks, and it seemed that it was easy to find a safe place to shelter from the wind, but Shen Shi had no intention of going down, but called Xiao Hei to the side, but it was a little farther away from the canyon. It's just that this wilderness is too desolate to see even a thicker tree, so in the end, Shen Shi can only take Xiao Hei to find a larger stone and sit down at random more than ten zhang away from the edge of the canyon, planning to spend the night like this.

"Hey, be alert at night, don't sleep in. Shen Shi looked at Xiao Hei lying at his feet, and said, "It's very dangerous here, you have to call it quickly if there is any movement." ”

Xiao Hei looked at the darkened sky, muttered twice, and then leaned closer to Shen Shi's side, leaned his head on his lap, closed his eyes, and fell asleep without saying a word, seemingly not paying attention to Shen Shi's words at all.

Shen Shi rolled his eyes, shook his head and ignored it, and after glancing around, he also closed his eyes and recuperated.

Night soon descended on the wasteland, and darkness poured in from all directions, completely engulfing the two of them, as well as the deep and wide canyon ahead.

In the darkness, there was a feeling that the canyon had disappeared out of thin air, and at some point, in this dark and silent wasteland, from some unknown place, from the depths of that darkness, a voice suddenly sounded.

"Ah...... Yes...... Ah......h

It was as if a high-pitched, high-pitched, mournful woman's cry floated out of the dark depths and drifted through this desolate and dark wilderness......