On the hill on a rainy night, Bazi calmed his rapid breathing and said to Ji Yuan.
"Sir, that is Nanwangzhai."
In fact, the whole process from walking out of the deserted village to surveying the battlefield and then arriving at the bandit's stronghold took a very short time. Even if it was flying in the clouds, the speed of short-distance flight would definitely not be too fast. In addition, due to the factors of road recognition and the possibility of flying over the head, it was not as efficient as shrinking the ground and traveling quickly.
Although Bazi did not need to run the entire process, his body was exhausted in this short period of time, mainly due to the mental stimulation.
Ji Yuan looked at the dark mass of villages in the distance on the hill. From his Dharma eyes, the anger was still strong, but he knew it was just an illusion, because the anger was no longer rising, just like the smoke turning from black to white after a fire is put out. It looked like it was still strong, but it was actually out.
Grabbing Bazi's collar, Ji Yuan jumped, lightly tapped the wind and rain with his feet in the air, crossed a distance of several hundred feet and landed directly in the Nanwang Village.
The whole village was silent, without a sound at all; even the horses in the stables were motionless.
In Ji Yuan's Dharma eyes, the entire village was not only lifeless, but even devoid of soul energy. It was obvious that all the essence of the people and horses had been sucked dry before their death.
At such a close distance, Ji Yuan could also smell the strong stench of corpse.
"More than one? Underground?"
Ji Yuan frowned, waved his hand, and the Qingteng Sword flew up in a spin.
"Goo... What, more than one?"
Bazi swallowed and asked nervously, but before Ji Yuan could answer, he felt a huge force coming from his collar, and he suddenly lost weight.
"Hey hey hey!"
Ji Yuan threw Bazi directly into the sky, and almost at the same moment Bazi flew into the sky, the ground exploded.
"Bang..." "Bang..." "Bang..."
Three ragged corpses jumped out and pounced on Ji Yuan. At the same time, another one approached from behind and stretched out his claws to claw at Ji Yuan's ankle.
These strange corpses were like afterimages and were extremely fast, but they were not enough in front of Ji Yuan.
Ji Yuan dodged the monster's attack and moved to the left like he was ice skating. He used the powerful palm technique of the Iron Punishment Battle Letter and, based on his spiritual energy, struck the side of the monster with a heavy palm.
With a "bang..." sound, it was as if hitting thousands of layers of leather. The monster corpse that was hit was like being hit by a giant beast, and flew backwards for several feet to one side. Then with a "bang", it crashed into a house in the mountain village. Then, with a "boom..." sound, it blew up the wall at the other end of the house and fell heavily on the ground. It can be seen that the palm of Ji Yuan was very powerful.
But after the palm strike, Ji Yuan himself actually felt a strange rebound force, but he deliberately did not dissipate the force. His body slid to the side due to the huge force, and his feet plowed up mud on the ground in the process.
The other two strange corpses took the opportunity to change direction, leaving a trail of afterimages and pounced on Ji Yuan who was retreating again.
"Huh..."
A sound like a whistling wind was heard, and a red-gray breath spewed out of Ji Yuan's mouth, hitting the two evil monster corpses that were chasing them.
As soon as this breath appeared, a faint light appeared, illuminating the surrounding dark night.
Swish... the two strange corpses were instantly dyed with a flame color, and the two bodies seemed to have turned into red-hot charcoal. The heat and flames burned the raindrops falling on their bodies and made a "sizzling" sound. A large cloud of white steam was steaming around them.
“Roar…” “Roar…”
In the brief time that the burning corpses were still conscious, their survival instinct made them roll into the puddle nearby, but the fire could not be put out at all.
The entire burning process took only two breaths, after which the two "fire men" lost their light, completely turned into ashes and collapsed in the puddle.
Ji Yuan glanced at the ground and saw that the person who had just grabbed his leg had disappeared.
This "good opportunity" that Ji Yuan deliberately created for them was not enough to lure the one underground out, let alone lure the others out to attack. This shows that they are not evil creatures that only know how to kill and suck, but are intelligent.
"A zombie or something? Can it burrow underground? It's so slippery..."
While talking to himself, he moved faster and faster, leaping directly over the house that was pierced through and coming to the side of the strange corpse that he had hit with a palm.
It had just stood up when Ji Yuan stepped onto a piece of broken wood beside it as lightly as a floating catkin, stretched out his right hand and waved his sleeve.
With a swish, the strange corpse on the ground disappeared and was directly put into the sleeve.
"It seems there are several more? Humph!"
Ji Yuan looked intently at the surroundings of the village, jumped lightly, grabbed the guy who was screaming “Ah ah…”, and then landed on the roof of a shed in the village.
In the sky, the blade of the Qingteng Sword glowed fluorescently.
"Zheng"
The magic sword was unsheathed, and a silver streak suddenly appeared, and a thin straight line appeared between the mountain village and the magic sword in the sky.
"boom… "
The sword energy cut a big hole in the ground...
Almost at the same moment...
"boom"
Amidst a loud bang, a silver sword light exploded from the lower side of the mountain, and the sword energy had directly penetrated the mountain body.
For a moment, the mountain was shaking slightly with a rumbling sound.
Bazi was able to avoid falling down only because Ji Yuan held up his collar with one hand. His legs were completely limp.
. . .
In the deserted village, on the beam of an abandoned house, a paper crane was hiding on it, pulling its head to look down.
There was a fire outside and a fire inside. The paper crane was right in the center of the beam, avoiding the heat from the fire.
Although paper cranes do not have obvious intelligence, their instinct to seek good fortune and avoid danger is extremely strong. They can often sense some very subtle things and are extremely sensitive to some subtle auras and things with special properties.
At the beginning, Du Changsheng used the paper talisman to summon a low-end version of the Hercules. When the Hercules changed from the talisman paper state, a strange and mysterious change occurred. The little paper crane also felt it at that time, and took Ji Yuan to look for it.
Ji Yuan left the paper crane here as a precautionary measure. After all, sometimes ordinary people don’t react quickly enough and lack the ability to detect crises in advance.
At this moment, Paper Crane was not only focusing on the yellow paper talisman held in Huang Zhixian's hand, but was also observing the actions of everyone below.
Some warriors dried their coats, and then asked their companions to take off their inner linings and put on their coats, and then dried other clothes; over there, a little girl ate the softened dry biscuits with warm water; and a man tightened his body and held back a fart, pretending that nothing had happened...
The paper crane didn't quite understand all these scenes, and didn't even have any idea of what was going on. It just saw them, especially the man who farted. That action was meaningless to the paper crane, but it still watched it very seriously.
But at this moment, an aura that made the paper crane uneasy emerged outside. It instinctively looked for Ji Yuan's figure, but the owner was not there at this time. Then the paper crane stared at Huang Zhixian, or the yellow paper talisman man in the other's hand.
After a while, the two horses outside also started to get restless.
“Hiss…hiss…”
“Hiss… Plurulu…” “Doudou… Doudoudoudou…”
These are two old horses, skinny but very smart. They were stamping their feet restlessly outside, neighing constantly, and trying to break free from the reins.
Hearing the noise of the horses, the people on Han Ming's side became very concerned, as horses were their important assets.
"We need to go out and check on our horses. What if they run away?"
"Yes, yes, yes, let's go out and take a look!"
Han Ming and another young man stood up. Huang Zhixian looked at the darkness outside and saw that these two were ordinary people who didn't know martial arts, so he also stood up and said.
"Let me go and show you."
Seeing that Huang Zhixian was about to go out, the paper crane on the beam flapped its wings and flew down from above, and flew in front of Huang Zhixian. Huang Zhixian felt something passing in front of his eyes, and before he could see clearly what it was, he felt a pain in his finger.
"Hiss...ah..."
A small cut was pecked on Huang Zhixian's left thumb. He loosened his hand in pain and the yellow talisman paper slipped from his palm.
"There is a bird that bites people..." "Hiding in the house to avoid the rain?"
"No, it's a paper bird!"
"It, it can fly by itself?"
Huang Zhixian cried out in surprise after seeing the situation clearly, and everyone around him stood up subconsciously.
However, a paper bird was flying back and forth in front of the door, which was alarming but not to the point of being frightening. Several people looked curious.
The paper crane flapped its wings and flew to the edge of the talisman paper on the ground and stopped. One of its wings flapped up and down and touched the yellow paper talisman on the ground.
At this time, some people realized that the yellow paper man actually emitted bursts of yellow fluorescence like smoke.
Huang Zhixian looked at the wound on his finger and saw that the yellow paper man on the ground was already stained with blood.
The paper crane turned its head to look outside, then changed its angle and flew to the side of the yellow paper man, still using its wings to touch the talisman paper.
Now Huang Zhixian understood what it meant. He looked outside, frowned, hesitated for a moment, and tried to shout.
"The Rex is summoned."
Brush~
The yellow paper suddenly turned into a smoky and fluorescent yellow cloud, and an unusually majestic figure emerged from it. After a very short time, the yellow cloud dissipated.
A burly divine being appeared on the spot. He was over ten feet tall, wearing a golden helmet and golden armor. His face was as red as ruby, and his hair and beard were like steel needles. The fluttering yellow scarf in front and behind him also gave off a sense of mystery.
Huang Zhixian was considered a strong man, but in front of the warrior in golden armor, he seemed like a half-grown child.
The golden-armored warrior looked down at Huang Zhixian, then looked at the paper crane on the side.
After being obviously silent for two breaths, the warrior in golden armor turned sideways, faced the paper crane flying in the air, and bowed respectfully.
"Your Majesty!"
After paying respectful salute, the warrior in golden armor turned towards the door, lowered his head to avoid the door frame, and stepped out in one step.
Everyone in the room looked incredulous, staring at the golden-armored god.
When the golden-armored deity walked outside, he took a bow stance, swung his left arm forward, and raised his right fist, and the yellow fluff in front of and behind him fluttered back and forth.
With the sound of wind tearing through the air, the fist of the warrior in golden armor blasted out like a cannonball, hitting the ground diagonally in front of him directly.
"Woo..." "Boom..."
The ground was torn apart, and a crack extended dozens of feet in an instant.
"boom… "
The ground a dozen feet away exploded, and a black shadow was knocked out of the ground by this blow.
Rumble, rumble, rumble…
The ground was shaking slightly, and everyone in the house behind the golden-armored warrior felt as if they were standing unsteadily. Dust kept falling from the roof, and it took a while for it to calm down.