Flint is a must-have for people in the martial arts world, and Zuo Wuji of course also brought it with him. He quickly lit some twigs, and then used a broken chair in the temple and some picked up firewood as fuel. There was no need to chop it with a knife, he could just crush the wood with his hands and break it off.
The food given by the patrol people in the town is called buns, but in fact it is mainly steamed buns. There are not many with real fillings. Fortunately, it is not easy for this hard bun to go bad. After making a fire and roasting it to soften it, it still gives off a floury aroma. It is much more appetizing than eating pills.
"Master, give it to me."
"Master Si, have another one. This one has fillings."
Zuo Wuji handed the first two steamed buns to Yan Fei and Lu Chengfeng one by one, and then baked some for himself. Such a small bag of steamed buns was not enough for the three of them to be full, but it was enough to fill their stomachs. Zuo Wuji was also thinking about hunting some wild boar or deer to eat tomorrow.
Zuo Wuji ate the most happily among the three. Lu Chengfeng always liked to eat with wine, and Yan Fei had almost no extra expression when eating. Only Zuo Wuji ate with big mouthfuls and looked very satisfied.
"Alas, it's still too little."
Zuo Wuji was still a little unsatisfied after finishing the last bun, but he was ready to make the bed. There was still a lot of hay in the temple. However, Yan Fei glanced outside and at Lu Chengfeng, then said to Zuo Wuji.
"Wuji, don't fall asleep tonight."
Zuo Wuji paused and his expression immediately became serious.
"Master, do you mean something will happen?"
Innate masters have some special intuition, and Yan Fei is even more outstanding. He didn't find any problems, but he always felt that Lu Chengfeng also frowned and looked at the dilapidated door at the entrance of the temple. These rotten wooden boards had no protective effect at all.
"Looks like we'll just have to rely on ourselves. Hey, Wuji, want a bite?"
"good!"
Zuo Wuji took the wine jug from Lu Chengfeng with a smile and took a big gulp. The wine brought a warm feeling to his stomach. Although it was turbid wine, the taste was not too bad.
Of the three people in the temple, only Lu Chengfeng and Zuo Wuji were lying down wrapped in quilts, while Yan Fei was sitting cross-legged beside the fire. While the people in the temple were resting, a team of people patrolling on the edge of the town were looking at the fire from afar in the direction of the ruined temple.
"These foreigners have very strange accents. I can only understand a little bit by gesturing and guessing. I don't know where they come from."
The leader was an official, and the people around him also heard what he said and muttered.
"Maybe it really was a monster transformed?"
"It doesn't look like a monster."
"It could also be that there were traitors helping the monsters. I heard that there have been several such incidents in some places. Those traitors sneaked into the town and helped destroy the magic array set up by the wizard from the inside, harming most of the people in the city!"
The officer nodded.
"That's indeed possible, so it was definitely the right decision not to let them into the city. Not to mention them, even people with local accents need to be careful. We can patrol tonight, but we also need to keep a close eye on this dilapidated temple."
"Got it!" "Don't worry, Brother Lin."
"I'll cheer up."
"That's good!"
The patrolmen were divided into three teams. Although they were outside the city, they were not far from the city wall, and one team always kept their eyes on the ruined temple. There were also people patrolling the city all night, and there were two mages on duty.
As the night deepened, the bonfire in the dilapidated temple became weaker and weaker. Lu Chengfeng's wine jug was placed aside, and he had already started snoring softly. Zuo Wuji was also covered with a quilt and breathing evenly. Yan Fei sat cross-legged by the bonfire, with his sword across his knees, motionless.
“Woo…Woo…” “Patta, pat, pat…”
The wind picked up at night, and the door of the dilapidated temple was rustling in the wind. Yan Fei opened his eyes instantly, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes. Lu Chengfeng, who was lying on the side, became more and more relaxed, but he could attack at any time. Even Zuo Wuji had already put one hand on his flat stick.
But the sound of the wind only lasted for a while and soon became weaker. Yan Fei looked in the direction of the door and closed his eyes again after a long time. Zuo Wuji muttered "what a spoils the fun" in a low voice and continued to fall asleep.
After that, there was no unusual movement throughout the night, and it seemed that the night would pass peacefully. But before dawn, Yan Fei opened his eyes again, and Lu Chengfeng sat up from the quilt half a breath later. Zuo Wuji also sat up after hearing the movement of his two masters.
"Brother Lu."
"Hmm, the smell of blood..."
Zuo Wuji was slightly startled. He calmed down and sniffed hard. After a while, he indeed smelled a very faint smell of blood. Although he was not very old, he had experienced the brutal war between Dazhen and Zuyue, so he knew that this smell was very fresh.
Yan Fei nodded slightly at the two of them, then slowly stood up. Lu Chengfeng and Zuo Wuji followed one after another. Two breaths later, the three of them restrained their breath with the intention of Wusha Yuan Gang, and quietly left the ruined temple with the help of lightness skills. Following the smell of blood, they quickly walked to the side. Only thirty feet away, the three of them saw a dead body in front of a patch of weeds.
"two… "
Lu Chengfeng frowned. The two people on the ground looked extremely dead. Half of their faces were gone, and their chests were collapsed with a big hole.
"It looks like the heart was eaten, and there is much less blood."
Zuo Wuji didn't think anything of it at first, but when he heard Lu Chengfeng's words, he suddenly got goosebumps all over his body.
During the battle to destroy Zu Yue, although it was heard that the enemy also had mages and even monsters, they rarely encountered these people of the martial arts world. In most cases, they would be dealt with by the Dazhen masters, which was completely different from the current situation.
"There are more over there."
Yan Fei ran over first, and Zuo Wuji and Lu Chengfeng hurriedly followed. Sure enough, they found another person behind the weeds on the lower slope more than 20 steps away, and his death was also very tragic.
"From the patrol?"
"Yeah, that's right."
Lu Chengfeng raised his head and looked into the distance. There was a group of people holding lanterns walking along a fixed track outside the city.
"Let's go and ask."
The three of them performed lightness skills extremely well, and they leaped in front of the patrol team in a few leaps, as if flying over the grass. They frightened those people and they all raised their weapons.
"Is it a human or a ghost?" "What human?"
The local dialect was a little difficult to understand, but I could roughly understand what they were saying, so Lu Chengfeng quickly explained with gestures.
"Don't panic, everyone. We are the outsiders who are staying in the ruined temple. Someone in your patrol team is dead! Someone is dead!"
Lu Chengfeng handed the object he took from the dead body to the alert man. It was a blood-stained chest pendant, but the patrol team members did not dare to take it.
"Don't come near, throw it on the ground."
Lu Chengfeng frowned and threw the accessories in his hand to the ground. The patrolman shone a lantern on him and his face suddenly changed.
"Liu Laosan's chain!" "Did something happen to him?"
"Brother Lin, what should we do?"
The leading officer was stunned for a moment and then suddenly became alert.
"No, there's something wrong with you three, retreat! Shoot them with magic arrows!"
"Shoot them!"
There were a total of more than a dozen patrollers in this group. Five of them at the back just put their arrows on their backs and shot. The arrows, which seemed to be shot without any pattern, actually emitted fluorescent light when they were shot out.
Brush, brush, brush…
Five arrows approached Yan Fei and the other two in an instant. After dodging them by leaping forward, the three of them actually turned, and the sound of arrows breaking through the air followed their dodging movements, and their speed was getting faster and faster.
"Zheng..."
Yan Fei had no choice but to draw his sword. The long sword turned into a silver light in his hand. The sword light flashed a few times
“Dangdangdangdang…”
All five magic arrows were hit. When their speed slowed down, Lu Chengfeng approached instantly, and his palms appeared like phantoms, grabbing the five arrows firmly in his hands.
These arrows continued to twist in Lu Chengfeng's hands like spirit snakes, and were extremely powerful. Lu Chengfeng snorted coldly, and his blood and energy suddenly burst out, and his body made a muffled "boom" sound.
"Crackling", the five arrows flashed a few times and then completely stopped moving.
"Shoot again, shoot again, we retreat!"
When the patrolmen saw that their magic arrows were actually taken away by the "demon", they retreated in panic and wanted to shoot arrows again, but Yan Fei and the other two had already used their lightness skills to get away.
"We are not monsters! Be careful of that Liu Laosan you saw, he is dead!"
Lu Chengfeng was once known as the Gentleman of Yunge. He was very good at all kinds of social interactions and had a great ability to learn languages. After a short exchange, he had already figured out some of the local dialect. The sound he roared out actually had a bit of dialect flavor, which made those people understand. Although people were retreating, the second wave of arrows was not shot out.
"We are not demons, but warriors on a journey. We will kill them if they do evil, regardless of whether they are human or demon. Be careful of Liu Laosan. Use arrows like yours to deal with them!"
Lu Chengfeng roared in the direction the patrol team was retreating.
"Master Four, they have already fled far away."
The patrolling people were not ordinary people either. They all knew martial arts, so if they insisted on escaping, their speed would certainly not be slow. Moreover, it seemed that they had some other things on them, which made their escape speed even faster. In Zuo Wuji's sight, only a little light from the lanterns was left.
"Believe in ghosts and monsters instead of people!"
Yan Fei said this in a cold voice, and his mind briefly recalled the scene when the nine of them met Ji Yuan in the mountain temple, and he found it quite ironic.
"Master, Fourth Master, what should we do?"
Yan Fei glanced sideways at Zuo Wuji.
"What are we here for?"
After leaving these words, Yan Fei and Lu Chengfeng immediately used their lightness skills to leap forward, while Zuo Wuji quickly followed with his flat stick.
The powerful energy and blood of the three people, which was different from that of ordinary warriors, was gradually emanating from them at this moment. Yan Fei was even faintly communicating his own vitality with the vitality of heaven and earth. He had a strange feeling due to the stimulation of the environment, as if he could faintly sense a slightly smelly and oppressive breath.
“Ouch—”
A loud wolf howl could be heard faintly in the distance, and there seemed to be screams coming from the city.
"Boom..."
There was a roar accompanied by a slight vibration. In Yan Fei's sight, the town that originally seemed somewhat bright in the dark night seemed to have suddenly become a lot darker.
"The town is getting dark?"
"Ah? What's dark?"
Zuo Wuji asked curiously, Yan Fei shook his head and said nothing, the three of them quickly approached the town, then jumped onto the top of the city wall with light skills. It was called a city wall, but in fact it was just an earthen wall, where people could barely stand, but of course it was no problem for martial arts masters.
The city still seemed relatively quiet, even the screams seemed distant, but the three could see some people like soldiers in the city running around, and soon the noise became noisy, with waves of screams and shouts, as well as some strange howls.
"Walk!"
Yan Fei gave an order and flew away as light as a swallow, with Lu Chengfeng and Zuo Wuji following behind him.
"Wuji, follow us closely. Demons are different from warriors. You must use all your strength and not hold back. A fatal injury to an ordinary person may not be fatal to them. You must be ruthless and heavy-handed!"
"Know!"
In a few words they were close to the monster. Rays of demonic light changed with the monster's claws. The crowd was screaming. The soldiers' disorganized attacks were completely ineffective against the monster in the shadows.
“Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh…”
Several magic arrows were shot out, turning into light and hitting the shadows.
"Roar… "
The shadow suddenly rushed forward, sweeping its claws across the archers, instantly tearing both the people and their bows apart. The local lord in the city was holding a glowing tree root stick and was dancing with another monster. Seeing this scene, he was immediately furious and swept the monster in front of him with the stick, knocking it away.
"Damn evil..."
"Roar… "
But immediately three or four monsters pounced on and entangled the land god, and another monster climbed over the city and entered. The two wizards in the city did not move. Hundreds of people armed with weapons fought hard with the land god.
"Run! The monster is coming! Run! You will die if you don't run!"
"Run..."
Some of the soldiers lost their minds and turned around and ran away first, which triggered a chain reaction, and soon more and more people fled.
"Asshole, don't run, come back! The God of Land is here..." "Puff..."
The leading general was killed by having his heart ripped out before he could even finish his roar. Now even the people around the general began to scatter. Several monsters were chasing them to kill them, and the direction with the largest number of people was a group of shadows with sharp light constantly tearing people's lives apart.
"Hahahaha, let us see what the monster is capable of!"
Lu Chengfeng laughed loudly, and together with Yan Fei and Zuo Wuji, he jumped from the roof of one side into the battle group, and ran directly into a shadow coming towards them. Ignoring the people fleeing around them, Yan Fei drew his sword and thrust forward, Lu Chengfeng's fists and palms were as fast as the wind, and Zuo Wuji waved his flat staff, and the three of them worked together to attack the shadow.
"Bang", "Bang", "Bang", "Puff", "Puff"...
The attacks came down densely, causing the demonic energy to shake.
"Roar… "
There was a roar in the shadows, like the howling of a violent wind, which forced the three people to retreat. Yan Fei retreated three steps before stopping, Lu Chengfeng retreated four steps, and Zuo Wuji retreated six steps and used a flat stick to support his back. The three people looked at the target.
"What?" "Huh?"
In front of him was a monster that was incredibly huge, like a leopard standing up and covered in armor. Fists, palms, sticks, and even Yan Fei's sword, the martial arts that he was proud of, only left minor marks on the monster. Not to mention fatal injuries, the bleeding had already stopped.
Zuo Wuji was shocked and subconsciously looked at Lu Chengfeng and Yan Fei. Seeing that they also looked solemn, he could not help but tighten his grip on the stick. Sweat appeared on his forehead and his back was burning.
"Warrior, a weapon that has not been consecrated? Not bad, hehehehe..."
The monster's voice was hoarse, carrying a strong sense of hostility and oppression.
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