Chapter 77 Present

Chapter 77 Present

Chapter 77 Present

Although it was a dark night, it was not difficult to find the people who had just been fighting near the back mountain - everyone was fully focused during the fight and felt that there were enemies everywhere nearby. By comparing with each other, they would naturally remember them clearly.

Seven people were found. Xu Xianren asked them to stand near the rock wall and threw a leather bag the size of a baby's fist on the ground: "This contains the dregs of the elixir, the dregs from refining the Huangya elixir. Although it can't help you disperse your energy and build your foundation, taking it is equivalent to two or three years of meditation and practice, and it can also be used for medicinal baths to heal injuries. From now on, the rules are like this - if you have even a little clue about that person, you can get this thing from me. Did anyone of you see anything near here before? Any strange sights are fine!"

One person immediately said, "Xu Xianren, I saw him. I saw that person standing here before. I thought you had to wait until you found him before you could speak."

"where is it?"

"I saw him at the top of the mountain before! He jumped on a tree at the top of the mountain and smiled at me. I guess he had already run into the mountain!"

Xu Xianren nodded, and tilted his head to Feng Ji beside him: "Kill him."

The man was stunned, and only had time to utter a cry, before Feng Ji attacked him with a stick. He immediately took a step back and said, "Master Xu, I am telling the truth!"

As he spoke, he threw a bullet on the ground. A cloud of dust exploded in front of everyone. When the dust dispersed a little, he was already more than ten steps away, about to disappear into the darkness. Feng Ji did not chase him, but just stuck his iron rod into the ground, formed seals with both hands, and tapped the rod more than ten times in succession. He also pressed his fingers on a bulge on the iron rod head, and a drop of blood oozed out.

The stick immediately vibrated non-stop, and with a buzzing sound, it flew out from the ground. After three breaths, another buzzing sound was heard coming from far away. Feng Ji opened his hand and caught the stick with a snap - the tip of the stick was full of red and white brain matter.

Xu Xianren sneered and swept his eyes across the faces of these people: "If you want to die, just come and fool me - did anyone else see anything?"

The row of people were silent. Xu Xianren frowned and was about to tell them all to get out of here, but suddenly he saw a swordsman with a sword on his waist staring at the bag of elixir residue on the ground, his throat rolling up and down.

He pointed at the man and asked, "What's your name?"

The swordsman suddenly raised his head: "Ah? My... my name is Lao Guo."

"What do you have to say?"

Lao Guo wiped his face, stammered a few times, and then said, "Xu Xianren, I was afraid that I said something wrong before... I also saw a person here before, climbing to the top of the mountain--"

"killed."

"Hey, hey, hey, he didn't climb up!" Lao Guo bent down quickly, "He was climbing and suddenly disappeared, and then I saw him on the ground! I was not sure, I thought I was drugged, I really didn't see clearly!"

Xu Xianren raised his hand and asked: "Where did he go?"

"I didn't see it clearly either. Then I heard you say go back, stop fighting, and look for someone. If I knew that person was me, I would have followed him!"

Xu Xianren nodded and raised his chin towards the leather bag on the ground: "Take it."

Old Guo suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the skin bag, and muttered to himself: Alas, you spared me, and I, Old Guo, am grateful. This can be considered as a good deed. I didn't say where you went!

In the middle of the night, Xu Xianren first asked people to search in all directions. When there was no result, he asked people to line up in two rows, with ten people in each row, three or four steps apart from each other on the left and right, and four steps apart from each other in front and back. Starting from the screen wall, they slowly lifted up all the broken walls on the ground bit by bit to search.

By the time midnight had passed, the ruins of the Ranshan Sect had been plowed twice, and then Xu Xianren asked everyone to go to the back mountain.

He felt that he could now be sure that Li Wuxiang was hiding somewhere in the mountain behind.

The layout of Ranshan was very central. The thing was running towards the mountain gate before. After using his magical power, it should have landed behind Taiyi Palace, which was the location mentioned by the swordsman. This demon was really brave. He actually hid in a dangerous place instead of running away immediately. However, no matter how brave he was, he would not hide in the same place.

So Xu Xianren called out a wanderer in the crowd - he was short, with a yellow face, and his name was Sun Dihuang.

"Start looking from that side." Xu Xianren said to him, and then he led everyone to retreat a dozen steps, "Anyone who is breathing, report it!"

After everyone had left, Sun Dihuang walked to the stone wall, unbuttoned his clothes and belt, and exposed his chest. Then he took out a talisman, chanted something, and lit it after he finished chanting. The ashes fell into his palm and mixed with the water bag around his waist. He took a big gulp, and then his stomach deflated first, and he took a big breath again -

He sucked in the surrounding air, and his stomach suddenly expanded into a ball. He frowned and closed his eyes, savoring the air for a while, then exhaled and said to Xu Xianren: "These are just animals, there are no big ones."

Xu Xianren nodded his head to the side, and Sun Dihuang walked out another dozen steps and continued to inhale and explore.

After walking from the west to the east of the cliff, Sun Dihuang finally shook his head breathlessly and said, "Xu Xianren, there is no human smell here. There is definitely no one. The biggest thing is just a nest of badgers, and maybe a big snake."

"Big snake? What kind of big snake? Or what does it mean?"

"It's just... looming? Sometimes I can smell it, sometimes I can't. Maybe the snake's lair is very deep, and it's swimming in there, in and out--"

"Where is the nest? Point it out."

Sun Dihuang walked to the middle of the mountain wall and pointed at a crack in the rock in the distance - it was very narrow, a person could only stick his head in, and it was about four feet above the ground.

Xu Xianren walked to the crevice five steps away and looked at it, then smiled coldly in his heart. The thing should be hidden in there.

The magical power he had just used was enough to cover the six feet of the mountain wall. If there really was a big snake inside, it would be trapped and there would be no way it could swim deep into its nest.

So, the true form of that thing is a long worm? It does have some skills, it can change its form at any time, and can also show its true form at any time.

He stepped back a few steps and said to Feng Ji, "The man is in here. Send someone to get him out." Feng Ji looked at the cave entrance, then at his four brothers, and waved to another Jianghu guest, "Friend, please go and take a look. It will be fine if you can see the man in there. Xu Xianren will remember your merit."

The man who was called hesitated for a moment, and Xu Xianren raised his hand and threw a small leather bag filled with elixir residue on the ground: "If you see him, come back and get it."

The man then let out a long breath, took off a long stick from his back, and untied the gun head from his waist. After putting the two together, he walked to the cave entrance, took a deep breath, and thrust the gun in. There was a sound of "dang", which seemed to have pierced the bottom of the cave.

He waved the gun again, making the tip of the gun swing left and right in the cave. When he felt that every blind spot had been reached, he grabbed the front end of the gun with both hands, slowly walked over to the cave entrance and looked inside - everyone around him took a deep breath and gripped their weapons tightly.

The man looked at the entrance of the cave, became a little braver, threw the torch in his hand into the cave, and then slowly put his head in.

Xu Xianren let out a light breath and waited for the thing inside to kill this man - it was the first time he saw a demon, and although he didn't think it was powerful enough, it was always better to be prepared to see the other party's methods first.

But the next moment, the man retracted his head.

"No one is inside." He breathed a sigh of relief. "I can see clearly. There is nothing."

"No?" Xu Xianren frowned, took two steps forward, but stopped and nodded to Feng Ji, "Go and have a look."

Feng Ji sighed, walked to the stone cave, and only stuck his head halfway in. He took a look and shouted, "Torches!"

Feng Er handed him a torch, and he threw the second one in. He looked for a while before turning around and said, "No, it's just a hole this small. There's no place for people to hide. But there should have been someone in there before - besides the marks he made with the tip of his gun and the rocks he pried off, Xu Xianren, that person should have been in there before."

Xu Xianren frowned and was about to go over to check when he suddenly heard a sound behind him. He turned around abruptly, and behind him was still darkness, with only the outline of the broken walls reflected by the moonlight.

He was about to turn back when he suddenly caught a glimpse of something on the ground two steps away. He walked over and picked it up—a thin and soft piece, like freshly peeled human skin, but without any blood, and with tiny diamond-shaped patterns underneath, as if it had been peeled off by someone with superb skills using an extremely sharp knife.

This must have just appeared, because there is still a fleeting warmth on the skin!

Is this the demon's skin? Is he really not in the cave? But the next moment, Xu Xianren's brows relaxed and he laughed loudly: "Whatever tricks you have, use them on that cave! Flood it with water, burn it with fire, and use poisonous smoke. Let's see how long he can hide!"

Feng Ji was stunned: "Xu Xianren..."

"It's because we found his hiding place that this thing is anxious! Want to lure me away? Ha, no matter what magical powers you have, you can't escape from my grasp today! Go! Go quickly!"

A group of Jianghu people didn't understand what was going on, so they could only listen to him display his magical powers. They were all casual cultivators, and although they had built a foundation, their wealth and fortune were basically spent on the internal and external medicines of their own flesh and blood. They didn't have any particularly strange magic weapons, and the methods they used were nothing more than fire, poison, etc.

But more than 20 people put all their efforts into the narrow cave, and the effect was amazing. When the sky was bright, a large piece of the cave entrance broke down, which was enough for a person to stick half of his body in. The stones in the cave were almost burned black and red, and smoke was coming out from the cracks. The smoke also contained poisonous gas, which turned half of the mountain wall yellow-green. Thanks to Xu Xianren who asked them to take out the antidote and personally distributed some pills and powders to avoid miasma, they did not suffocate themselves.

But after half an hour of this, Feng Ji could no longer hold his temper. Just as he was about to walk over to Xu Xianren to persuade him to stop, he suddenly heard the crowd in front of the cave entrance exclaim, and then they all silently dispersed far away.

He turned his head sharply and saw a martial artist's head rolling to the ground, his body falling down with a thud.

"Who did it?!" he immediately asked.

The crowd was stunned for a while before someone spoke up: "None of us did anything - Cheng Si was just having fun. He said the smoke in the cave was too choking and he wanted to urinate on the fireworks, but as soon as he got close... his head fell off!"

"Bullshit!" Feng Ji was furious. He shook the stick in his hand and was about to speak when he heard a voice coming from the cave -

"Only one fell. If you continue to play with this Xu Xianren here, maybe everyone will have their heads chopped off."

Feng Ji was stunned, and immediately took a step back. He turned around in astonishment and saw Xu Xianren sneering and taking a step forward: "You beast are really good at endurance. What, you can't stand the taste of fire poison? Let me tell you, if you fall into my hands, you will not be able to stand it later!"

He then shouted to the people in front of him: "This beast is at the end of his strength! Otherwise he wouldn't show up! Whoever kills him will be rewarded with five Huangya Pills!"

……

At this time, Li Wuxiang was not at the end of his strength, but he was also in a bad condition. But it was not because of the fire and poison, but because he knew how to enter the hidden Ranshan Sect.

Previously, Lao Guo was spared because he wanted him to reveal his whereabouts to Xu Xianren and lead them to search from the end of the mountain wall. But he didn't know what was wrong with his brain, he actually felt grateful for the mercy of sparing his life. This made Li Wuxiang feel that he could no longer see through the minds of these desperate wanderers.

Fortunately, Xu Xianren was smart and confident enough, and felt that he would not stay hiding there, so he finally gave him some time.

——Just a few breaths before Sun Dihuang smelled something resembling a giant snake going in and out of the cave, Li Wuxiang finally picked up the half-broken brick in his hand.

Before that, he had tried various methods, but all to no avail. Although he was reduced to a human skin, it was extremely uncomfortable to stay in such a narrow cave, so he gradually became anxious, and then turned into a subtle self-destruction. He felt too lazy to think of any other methods, so he might as well kill his way out.

When faced with such a situation, Li Wuxiang would usually allow himself to be a little willful for a while - in fact, if handled well, this could also be a way to relieve stress.

So he held the broken brick in his hand, listened to the voices outside searching for him, and let the thoughts in his mind wander randomly until a word suddenly jumped out -

A stepping stone.

Then, he let out a sigh and knocked on the piece of paper with the broken brick as if to vent his anger.

　Two chapters merged into one
　　
　
(End of this chapter)