Chapter 189: Monster Hunt

Chapter 189: Monster Hunt

Chapter 189: Monster Hunt
Mu Yuan looked at the backs of the four people walking away and slowly sat back in his seat.

I felt a little emotional in my heart: I used to think that the other party had a firm determination and would achieve something, but I never expected that he would achieve what he has today.

Ye Yunqi held the jade token in his hand, his mind focused on it.

The jade token naturally records the mission information and also contains a simple map.

"Clear the demons in Lijia Village and complete this sect mission to earn ten contribution points."

He silently memorized the map and hung the jade token around his waist.

Because both Aniu and Lin Xiao have not yet established their foundation.

The group headed straight for Longmen Town at the foot of the mountain.

In Longmen Town, there is a prosperous market, and naturally there are corresponding car dealerships.

If you are not in a hurry, you can use an ordinary horse and car and spend some money, which is very cost-effective.

This kind of low-level sect mission doesn't have much reward in total, so naturally it won't cost too much.

"Yunqi, let's go buy some talisman paper to track the traces of monsters." Lin Xiao pointed to the talisman shop nearby.

Then the four of them walked over, and Lin Xiao skillfully bought some talisman papers and put them into the storage bag.

Ye Yunqi was a little curious: "What kind of talisman paper did you buy?"

"They are just some monster-hunting talismans. They are not of high-quality talisman paper, but they are cheap." Lin Xiao saw the curiosity in Ye Yunqi's eyes and took out a piece of talisman paper and handed it over.

Ye Yunqi held the talisman paper in his hand. The paper was rough, just like the yellow paper in his previous life. It was painted with cinnabar and mixed with a little spiritual power flowing.

Judging from the quality of the paper and the cinnabar, it is lower quality than ordinary sound transmission notes.

After returning the demon-hunting talisman, the group went to the carriage shop and hired a carriage with ordinary horses.

Lin Xiao said apologetically, "We haven't established our foundation yet, so we'll go there by carriage. If Yunqi and Senior Sister are in a hurry, they can go there first."

Ye Yunqi looked at Duanmu Ya: "Daoyou Duanmu, should we go first?"

Duanmu Ya shook her head: "I'll just follow you, do you plan to go first?"

"Haha, then let's take a ride in the carriage and experience it." Ye Yunqi was very interested. These days, he was either working as a laborer to refine things or concentrating on practicing. On the contrary, he didn't have much experience of the ordinary life in the world of cultivation.

Ye Yunqi and Duanmu Ya entered the carriage first, and after performing some cleaning operations, they sat down leisurely. The carriage was quite spacious.

However, Lin Xiao and Aniu were not seen getting on the car. Lin Xiao was only seen sitting outside the car holding the reins, while Aniu sat next to Lin Xiao somewhat awkwardly.

It turned out that in order to save costs, no coachman was arranged.

Ye Yunqi could understand the conversation between the two people outside.

Lin Xiao said: "Aniu, you go in and I will drive the car."

Ah Niu's voice was somewhat dissatisfied: "Let me do it, you can speak better, you go in."

Before Lin Xiao could reply, Aniu picked up the reins and skillfully started the cart.

"drive!"

The carriage started slowly, and a hint of embarrassment flashed across Ye Yunqi's eyes. In this case, he would have to sit in the carriage while the two of them drove. It would be better for him to fly over on his sword.

Lin Xiao seemed to have noticed this as well. He glared at Aniu, then turned and walked into the car.

The experience of riding in a carriage is definitely not as good as flying with a sword.

The road was a bit bumpy, but Ye Yunqi was tough and resilient. When he turned around, he saw Duanmu Ya had already used her spiritual energy to pull him up.

Ye Yunqi tried it for a while, but finally gave up.

Although it is less tiring than flying, it is not as fast as flying. All in all, it still consumes more spiritual energy.

He didn't care about the bumpy ride and simply withdrew his spiritual energy.

Ye Yunqi said to Lin Xiao, "Do ordinary sect disciples have such tasks?"

Lin Xiao shook his head. "Before the Monster Suppression Conference, all the monsters hid in the Monster Mountain Range, and there were not many mountain spirits and wild monsters born outside. Most of the disciples' tasks were to do odd jobs or go into the Monster Mountain Range to look for materials."

As they chatted along the way, Ye Yunqi felt that the cultivation in this sect was somewhat similar to his campus life in his previous life.

It took a long time for the carriage to reach Lijia Village.

Lijia Village is a relatively prosperous village with a large population in every household.

As soon as the carriage arrived at the village entrance, the people sitting under the big tree at the entrance cast their eyes over.

Aniu jumped out of the car, frowned, and looked around.

Ye Yunqi, Duanmu Ya and Lin Xiao also got out of the car.

An old man from the village walked over bravely, and everyone behind him looked at Li Da, who seemed to have considerable prestige in the village.

"Are you immortals here?" the old man asked carefully.

Lin Xiao glanced at Ye Yunqi and Duanmu Ya, and seeing that they had no intention of speaking, he responded, "We are disciples of the Sanqing Sect. We heard that there was some evil spirit disaster in the village, so we came here specially to eliminate it."

The old man was overjoyed: "Good, good, the immortal has arrived, we are saved."

"I don't know what to call it? And is the corpse that the monster was eating still in the village?"

"You can call the old man Li Da." Li Da nodded in response, "The body is still there. It's almost the seventh day. We were just discussing whether to bury the body or wait if the immortal didn't come. Fortunately, the immortal sympathized with us and came in time."

Li Da kept talking, then turned around and led the four people towards a house.

The family had a white cloth on their door, obviously preparing for a funeral.

As soon as I entered the room, I saw that it was set up like a mourning hall, with a thin coffin lying in the middle.

There were some family members around the coffin.

Before Ye Yunqi and his group could say anything, Li Da said, "Old Third Family, the Immortal has come. Let's open the coffin and let the Immortal have a look. If we can catch the monster sooner, the people in our village can rest assured."

Li Da seemed to be quite prestigious. After he spoke, the family members with mournful expressions did not dare to say anything, but just responded in unison.

Then he pushed open the coffin.

Given the current weather, the corpse has naturally decayed a bit over the past few days.

As soon as the coffin was opened, it smelled noticeably bad.

Duanmu Ya frowned, seeming to be a little uncomfortable.

Lin Xiao and Aniu walked forward, and Ye Yunqi also forced himself to look into the coffin.

Lin Xiao said, "It's true. This wound looks like it was caused by a wolf demon. Normally, a wolf demon would eat a person whole. But I don't know why it only took two or three bites this time and stopped."

"And judging by the way it's been rotting, it's been more than seven days."

"There are many missing cases in the village. Perhaps they were captured by the wolf demon."

After Lin Xiao finished speaking, the expressions of many people around him became more and more sad. Obviously, these people had some relationship with the missing person, and perhaps they still had some hope in their hearts.

Li Da's eyes were also a little heavy, but after all, he was older and more knowledgeable, so he suppressed his grief in his heart and said in a flattering way: "Please, immortal, save us."

Lin Xiao nodded, took out the demon-hunting talisman, waved his hand, and under the stimulation of spiritual energy, the demon-hunting talisman ignited without fire. The flame floated in the air, floated above the corpse, and then flew off in one direction.

"Fortunately, we arrived in time and the evil spirit has not completely dissipated. We followed the trajectory of the evil spirit's movement to investigate." Lin Xiao was a little surprised, "It saves us some effort." "Okay." Ye Yunqi nodded, and then the four of them followed the flames without further ado and left.

Some brave and strong men in the village also followed.

The flame flew all the way, occasionally flickering without light, and Lin Xiao would take out the Monster-hunting Talisman to replenish it. After all, this Monster-hunting Talisman was not of a high level and would not last long.

Soon they arrived at a valley in the nearby mountains.

There seemed to be an especially strong demonic aura in this valley, and the fire of the demon-hunting talisman was burning even more vigorously.

The burly man behind him sighed: "Yes, it's here, the body was found here!"

These people didn't know how long the body had been dead when it was discovered, so they had to count the seventh day based on the person who discovered it.

Lin Xiao frowned, then suddenly took out three demon-hunting talismans and lit them up in one breath.

I saw three talisman fires and the previous one, each running in different directions.

"It's bad." Lin Xiao frowned. "There's a lot of demonic energy here. It seems like the demon beast has been entrenched here for a while, so the demon-hunting talisman can't find the specific location."

The demon-hunting talisman can only find traces of demonic energy, but after all, it is a low-grade talisman paper, so it is impossible to tell the difference between new and old.

If the monsters have lived in this valley for a period of time, coming and going every day, they would leave behind many traces of monster energy.

This makes it impossible for the demon-hunting talisman to find the latest track.

Ah Niu scratched his head and said, "How about we split up? There are four of us now, and there are four flames here. We can each chase after one. It's just a small demon anyway."

Lin Xiao said helplessly: "What if it's not? Besides, there are far more than four tracks of demonic energy here. I just lit four balls of talisman fire."

Ye Yunqi frowned slightly, as if he was in a dilemma.

"It's better than just standing there. Why don't we just pick a random talisman fire and investigate it?" Ye Yunqi said.

Lin Xiao sighed: "This is the only way."

Then he warned the villagers behind him: "It will be dangerous if you go any further. We won't be able to take care of you then. You should go back to the village and wait."

The villagers dispersed, and the four of them followed a ball of talisman fire into the depths of the forest.

The four of them traveled together, deep into the mountains near Lijia Village.

There are often mountain elves and wild monsters in the mountains, so villagers often do not go deep into them.

There are few people here, and the trees are naturally towering, with an air of deep mountain and old forest atmosphere.

Ye Yunqi walked in front of the team, while Duanmu Ya followed closely beside him, taking care of each other.

With two Foundation Establishment Masters in front, they can also deal with emergencies.

Lin Xiao and Aniu were responsible for the rear guard to ensure the safety of the team.

And deep in the mountains, a wolf demon that looked like a werewolf walked into the valley and let out a low wolf howl: "Young Master, I saw the talisman fire of the demon-hunting talisman, and I have already pulled the talisman fire over here."

In the valley, a second-level foundation-building wolf demon, seemingly in human form, howled like a wolf, but it was faintly like a sinister smile: "Good! Hahaha! Well done."

It was surrounded by wolves and followed by a werewolf.

The people in Lijia Village did not encounter a fleeing little demon, but rather a young wolf demon from a wolf pack in the Monster Mountain Range, who fled here with two wolf demon guards in the chaos.

They gathered the original wolf pack in the mountains and killed a group of little demons.

These three monsters have already reached the second level of cultivation. The flesh and blood of ordinary mortals are almost useless to them, unless there are large numbers of mortals. But this is the territory of the righteous after all. If they come out to attack mortal cities, they will probably be captured and killed before they can succeed.

So he set his sights on the monks, hoping to attract a few Qi-cultivating monks.

In order to achieve this goal, he deliberately instructed the catalytic demon to attack humans, revealing the traces of the demon.

After Ye Yunqi and others walked in the mountains for a while, they gradually noticed something unusual.

The flame of the demon-hunting talisman burned hotter and hotter, and it was obvious that the demonic aura nearby was becoming more and more intense.

Ah Niu stopped and frowned slightly. He said to the others, "It seems that we are lucky. We can track down the monsters at random."

Ye Yunqi didn't believe in luck, instead he said: "Be careful of fraud."

Duanmu Ya nodded, and the magic weapon in her hand emitted a faint light.

Lin Xiao and Aniu also became nervous. They clenched their weapons and looked around vigilantly.

At this moment, a group of wolf demons suddenly rushed out from all directions.

Most of them are little demons in the early stage of Qi training, and are still in wolf form.

The leader was the young master of the wolf demon, who looked like a werewolf, and behind him were two guards who also looked like werewolves.

The wolf demon's young master looked at Ye Yunqi and others with greed in his eyes.

At the command of the wolf demon young master, the wolf demons pounced towards Ye Yunqi and his men.

Ye Yunqi and Duanmu Ya immediately displayed their cultivation level at the Foundation Establishment Stage. Powerful spiritual energy fluctuations emanated from their bodies, which repelled the wolf monsters that were rushing towards them.

Ye Yunqi waved the Xuanyuan Sword in his hand. A cold light flashed on the sword, and a sharp sword energy whistled out, cutting several wolf monsters into two pieces.

Duanmu Ya also used his magical power, and spells flew towards the wolf demon. An ordinary wolf in the early stage of Qi training would die if it touched it, and would be reduced to ashes if it touched it.

Lin Xiao and Aniu were not to be outdone. Although they were weaker, they also bravely fought against the wolf demon.

Aniu waved the hammer in his hand and engaged in close combat with the wolf demon.

When the wolf demon young master saw how powerful Ye Yunqi and Duanmu Ya were, he couldn't help but feel a little panicked. They were clearly foundation-building masters.

He didn't expect to meet a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, but he forced himself to remain calm and looked at the two guards behind him.

There are three wolf monsters on his side, all of whom are already at the second level of foundation building.

There were only two foundation-building monks in front of him, and he felt that he still had a chance.

If it were the same as in the past, most of the disciples sent by the sect for missions would be just three Qi training disciples, and when they encountered three wolf monsters in the foundation-building stage, they would often be unable to deal with them.

It’s a pity that it’s fate and time.

The young master of the wolf demon howled, and his figure flashed, rushing towards Ye Yunqi like lightning, his speed was astonishing.

He waved his sharp claws, creating a gust of fierce wind.

Ye Yunqi was not afraid at all. He moved his body and floated to the side as lightly as a cloud, avoiding the werewolf's attack.

At the same time, he swung the Xuanyuan Sword, and a sharp sword energy whistled out and went straight towards the werewolf.

The werewolf quickly dodged to the side, but the sword still grazed his shoulder, leaving a deep wound.

The werewolf roared angrily and pounced on Ye Yunqi even more frantically.

At the same time, two other werewolves joined the battle.

They surrounded Ye Yunqi and Duanmu Ya from both sides.

But Duanmu Ya's spiritual energy was surging, and lightning flashed around him. Seeing that Duanmu Ya possessed thunder magic, the two wolf demons' fur exploded. They did not dare to separate their forces and rushed towards Duanmu Ya together.

Duanmu Ya fought one against two and stopped the two wolf demon guards.

(End of this chapter)