The time goes back to midnight of the previous day.
There is a Wafeng Mountain at the junction of Jizhou, Chunhui Prefecture and Duming Prefecture. Inside the mountain is a deep ravine called Heifenggou, which got its name because it is difficult to see sunlight and is blown by mountain winds all year round.
Even if the local people go into the mountains, they will never go there, because if they accidentally slip into the Black Wind Valley, it will be difficult to climb out, and many mountain climbers have lost their lives as a result.
That night, a faint yellow glow flowed under the Black Wind Ditch. Madam Red staggered out of the soil, and a yellow talisman in her left hand turned to ashes.
"Hmm...Hmm..."
He raised his hand and looked at his right arm with trembling hands. The nails were completely charred and curled up, and the entire right arm behind the nails was also completely charred. There were many places where the bloody skeleton was exposed, and many places on his body were also charred. The feeling was even more heart-wrenching.
"Madam Red? What's wrong with you?"
As if sensing the chaotic evil spirit, a figure appeared and looked at the extremely embarrassed Madam Red in astonishment.
"Oh...oh...I got into trouble by accident...Help me in..."
The visitor did not dare to delay and hurriedly helped Madam Hong into a cave below the Black Wind Valley. There was another mystery inside the cave.
In the blood-red air there is an open space of a mountain residence. Although there are no pavilions or terraces inside, there are stone tables, stone chairs and carpets. There are also various wall rooms in the winding cave paths.
"Hmm?" "Madam Red?"
"how so?"
"The City God of Chunhui Prefecture actually has such a method?"
"Could it be that the old dragon took action?"
"Impossible! If that old dragon takes action, haha, Madam Hong might not be able to come back!"
Feeling Madam Red's aura, several surprised voices were heard in the cave, all of them were surprised as to why she had such a serious injury.
"Oh... stop guessing. This injury was partially caused by the City God of Chunhui Prefecture, but the main reason was that I was caught off guard by a mortal scholar!"
"mortal?"
"Yes, that scholar's righteous spirit has become impressive. I think he must have learned some self-defense skills from a Taoist master. I was greedy and didn't check, so I got burned by some kind of fire..."
Thinking back to that kind of firepower, Madam Red was a little scared, but although the fire was terrible, it was not impossible to resist. Even if she was caught off guard and hit by its full power, she was only slightly injured. It was just that the painful burning sensation was unbearable and lingered.
However, for a moment, Madam Red had a vague illusion, as if what she was hit by was just a ray of flame on the periphery of the raging sea of fire.
Seeing several demonic people around her, some reserved and some arrogant, looking at her from the entrances of their respective rooms, Madam Hong felt embarrassed and upset by their inquiries that were not very friendly, and asked the man who was supporting her:
"I will go back to the alcove to heal my wounds first. Is there any blood food in the cave?"
At this moment, because of the faint blood light in the cave, which was slightly brighter than the Black Wind Valley outside, the man actually only had half of his face. The lower half of his face was a hairy face, like some kind of beast with fangs.
"There are four more, all bought from the Jianghu gangs in Dingyuan Prefecture. Two of them are mortal warriors with relatively strong Qi and blood."
Taking advantage of the greed and ignorance of mortals is also a way to avoid inspections by earthly spirits. Obviously, these monsters are no longer the ignorant spirits who practiced hard in the mountains, and this is not the first time they have done such a thing.
"Yes, send them all to my alcove. After I recover from my wounds, I will personally go find new blood food."
When Mrs. Hong heard that there were four more, she felt a little relieved.
"Hey, if Madam Red wants it, of course it's fine!"
The man supported Mrs. Red, who used to be so graceful but now looked so miserable, to the depths of the cave. He watched her enter a cave room that smelled of powder, and then left.
Deep in another fork of the demon cave, there is a stone chamber. Behind the heavy stone door, several young men and women with desperate faces are huddled in the corner dejectedly.
Originally there were twenty people locked up here together, but after just half a month, only a few of them were left.
There was no food and only two buckets of water every day, but hunger was secondary. Fear was the root of their daily torment, because they had long known that they had been captured by a monster, the kind of monster that was thought to have only existed in the word of mouth of the older generation and would eat people without blinking an eye.
The people who were taken away before never came back, and no sound was heard either, but there was no need to think too much about what their fate would be.
However, not all people died at the hands of monsters. Three of them committed suicide because they could not bear the fear.
"Tick-tick...tick-tick..."
The sound of water dripping from the stalactites in the stone chamber made the dim stone chamber even more dead silent.
There was a sound of footsteps approaching in the distance. The four people in the stone room suddenly became nervous, and their breathing trembled slightly.
"Monster, the monster is coming...the monster is coming!"
"Woo... woo..." "Oh... I don't want to die..."
The monster with half a human face walked out of the stone chamber and looked inside. He could smell a strong odor of urine. However, the stone chamber was closed and there was no place for daily excretion, so it was not necessarily that someone was incontinent.
"hehe…"
The monster laughed and stretched out his hand to push. The stone door was slowly pushed open, making a "pop..." sound of friction with the stones on the ground accompanied by a burst of sparks.
"Don't be afraid anymore, you will be free today..."
After glancing at the two warrior men, the half-faced monster grinned again.
"You two might even be able to enjoy some good fortune before you die... Well, it seems unlikely today..."
The half-faced monster thought of Madam Red's condition and was afraid that he would not be in good mood today.
Not long after, four young men and women who had already fainted arrived at Madam Red's alcove. Looking at these four young faces, Madam Red just waited for the half-faced man to leave before she could not wait to move forward.
“Hiss…”
Madam Red opened her mouth and inhaled, and the sound gradually grew louder and louder. A blood-colored mist floated out of the seven orifices of the four men and women. The four unconscious people were twitching on the ground with their limbs, their skin gradually shriveled up, and their struggling movements became weaker and weaker.
After about a cup of tea, they had become four completely mummified corpses, and a thick bloody mist filled the interior of Madam Red's room.
Lying on a stone bed covered with animal skins, Madam Hong began to breathe in and out slowly. Wisps of spiritual energy from the Black Wind Valley slowly gathered in the cave and then floated into Madam Hong's room.
The spiritual energy and blood-colored mist mixed together and flowed into Madam Red's body through her small red mouth as she inhaled again. Visible blood began to spread on the charred half of her body.
At dawn on Mount Wafeng, the angle of the sun rose higher and higher as time passed, but in the depths of the valley there was an evil spirit.
It was not until the late afternoon that Madam Hong finally stopped her healing practice. The blood-colored mist in the cave had been completely consumed, and she had barely suppressed the burning pain, or rather, she had barely been able to endure the pain.
I don't know why, but I suddenly felt a great sense of uneasiness in my heart, as if a disaster was about to happen!
"Could it be related to this fire injury?"
After all, he is a skeleton blood demon who has practiced for many years. Although his evil spirit has obscured his heart, he still has some vague feelings.
The City God of Chunhui Mansion cannot see through the breath-concealing earth-escaping talisman, so he should not have such a feeling. And the old dragon in the river has never cared about things outside the river, and even though he has a deity, he is still a demon. What's more, the old dragon may not know anything about it now.
. . .
In the high-altitude gale, the Green Ivy Immortal Sword flew over an area of nearly a state. On its scabbard were eight characters "Spiritual Charm Green Ivy Hidden Edge Ten Thousand Feet", one of the characters had already disappeared in the flowing light. A surging sword intent permeated the entire sword body like a substance, tearing apart the gale within a ten-foot radius around it.
. . .
In the demon cave, the feeling that arose in her heart was unprecedented, to the point that Madam Hong was so restless that she thought about it and no longer cared about her face. She left the wall room and sat down at the stone table in the hall.
"Come out, I have something to ask you!"
Madam Hong shouted, and after a while, sounds came from all directions of the cave.
"Haha, Madam Red has recovered?"
"I don't think so!" "What's the matter?"
Three evil spirits filled the air, and three figures came to the cave hall, glancing at Madam Red who seemed to have recovered.
"Hmph, I will be responsible for getting the blood food for the next season. Now I want to ask you something."
Speaking of this, Madam Red recalled and pondered:
"Have you ever known a kind of fire that does not burn tables, chairs, wooden beds, curtains, cloth, stone or mud, and is red with a hint of gray?"
The monster next to it had also seen Madam Red's injuries before, but it didn't get a good look at her and hid in its own room. Now it was a little curious.
"There is such a flame?" "Some kind of real fire?"
"But it won't hurt anything?"
The three demons spoke one by one. Hearing this, Madam Red raised her arm with a sneer, and her silk sleeves slipped down, revealing her right arm, which was still charred.
“Is this also called not damaging the real thing?”
For a moment, the monsters couldn't figure out what was going on.
Another female monster covered her mouth and smiled.
"Sister Hong, are you scared? Do you think you've offended some immortal master? You've been hiding in Dazhen for so many years. Only Yuhuai Mountain can be considered an immortal residence. How can..."
Zheng~~~~~~~
At this moment, it was as if a silver string sounded in the sky, and the sound of swords being unsheathed suddenly rang out, passing through the mountain wall and straight into the cave.
When the four monsters heard this sound, they seemed to remember the horror of trembling in fear at the thunder when they were little goblins on a rainy day.
His scalp went numb in a flash, and almost by instinct, the four monsters dodged in four directions of the cave hall as the demonic aura filled the air.
Brush~~~
To the other three monsters, the next moment was filled with silver light.
"cut!"
A voice as majestic as the way of heaven and as calm as a whisper came with the light...
After a few breaths, the demon cave was no longer dark, because a large hole more than ten feet long and ten feet wide had been broken in the stone cliff above, and the afternoon sun was shining in.
The evil spirit of Madam Red had melted away like snow.
The three transformed monsters looked up with trembling faces, and hundreds of feet in the sky, an unsheathed immortal sword was pointing far below the Black Wind Valley. The sword's edge was so sharp and its sword intent was so powerful that even the scorching sun seemed inferior!