"Archmage!"
About a dozen miles away from the fighting site, two men in black robes rushed over, bowed and said, "We searched all the way, but found no clues."
"Um!"
An old man nodded and signaled them to return to the team.
After a while, several groups of people ran over and reported: "No discovery in the northeast!"
"Not found in the southeast!"
"We found something strange in the northwest!"
The old man looked around and suddenly asked, "Where are Bahu and Batu?"
"Not back yet." Someone replied.
Um
He frowned, obviously in a bad mood, a strange and cold aura emanated from his body, and his temperature dropped a few points in an instant. Everyone trembled, bowed their heads in silence, for fear of being involved for no reason.
Fire Island can only be entered by innate. Of course, they are not innate, but through some kind of secret technique, their physical fitness has been forcibly raised to a very high level, which can resist the erosion of fire spirit energy.
Some of the people here, if placed on the side of Qiyun Taoist Academy, would all be ranked masters. But facing the great mage, he was like a mouse seeing a cat, trembling and afraid to make any mistakes.
And this old man is the old man who talked to Zhang Wei at the beginning. He has gray hair, a strong body, and blood-red pupils, like a ghost from hell.
"Although the two brothers are flamboyant, they still work hard. They must have encountered some trouble. Agu, you brought someone..."
Just as he was about to give orders, he heard a shout from a distance: "Grand Master!"
Everyone turned their heads to look, but it was Batu who was clutching his shoulders, ran back staggeringly, panting heavily: "Master, no, it's not good!"
"what happened?"
"We took the ghouls to search, and met a man and a woman, and the ghouls were destroyed by them."
"What's it like?" he said in a low voice.
"They're all tall, with good looks, the women have magical weapons, and they're skilled at swordsmanship, and the men, the men..."
Batu's breathing became heavier and heavier, as if he was still dominated by some kind of crushing fear. After a while, he uttered a few words: "Awesome! Very powerful!"
"oh?"
The archmage was noncommittal, his face was as deep as a puddle of water, and he asked again: "What about your brother?"
"He covered me, maybe, maybe he was killed!" Batu showed a trace of grief and indignation.
"So you're stupid enough to escape by yourself?" His voice suddenly sharpened.
"me… "
Batu's eyes widened, with panic and panic, and suddenly there was a very familiar feeling. It's just that he was a spectator before, but now he is in it.
"Your combat strength is indeed good, but your mind is worrying. You have been injured to such an extent that you will need to consume a lot of divine liquid to recover... Your ancestors will remember your achievements, so don't worry."
When the words fell, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the opponent's head.
"ah!"
Batu struggled desperately, but unfortunately it was of no avail. He clearly felt his life energy, which was quickly sucked dry along that withered hand.
thump!
After only ten seconds, this person was limp on the ground like a shriveled stinky skin. And the red pupils of the archmage flickered, and the light became a little brighter, and he ordered:
"Agu, Getu, Kanmaner, you lead people to guard here. Don't let them pass at any cost!"
"yes!"
"Others, follow me!"
Saying that, the three mages each took two people to stay where they were. The rest, including five mages, twelve ghosts, and a dozen subordinates, hurriedly searched northwest.
…
Shamanism is a very special group.
It is not a religion, because there is no strict system and religious rules, it is only a collective term for those who have shamanic behavior. It used to be widely distributed among the nomads outside the customs, in the southwest and northwest. There are slight differences in different regions, but they are generally similar.
However, in modern times, in order to concentrate their beliefs and facilitate management, the adherents directly set up sects. In a strict sense, they are no longer pure shamanism, such as ancient astrology, asking gods, praying for blessings and other secret arts, all of which have been lost. Instead, it absorbed some things such as Tangut's esoteric Buddhism and necromancers, and even foreign religions from the Western Regions.
This archmage is the person in charge of the Northwest District.
For decades, they have infiltrated all levels, ambushed from top to bottom, and the amount of information they have mastered is extremely huge. Basically, when the Xia government learned about the concept of aura, they already knew about it.
A group of restless people are ready to move, and the main task of the Northwest District is to reopen an altar near Jiaohe City according to a map handed down by the ancestors.
"How far is it?"
The result of several generations of hard work is finally coming to the surface, and the archmage is also a little anxious, asking questions along the way.
"Just ahead, just ahead!"
The guide was sweating profusely, and walked for a while, then stopped suddenly, and said, "That's right there!"
Everyone stopped to watch, and saw that this is a road pass with a huge stone hanging on the top, casting a shadow. Below the mountain wall on the left, there is another hole, and the outer wall has signs of damage.
The entrance of the cave was originally just a gap in the mountain, still hidden in the shadow of the boulder, and could only bend down and climb in and out. If Gu Yu wasn't innate and felt the strange aura inside, he wouldn't have been able to discover it.
This is why Zhang Wei held him hostage.
Of course, they have refined ghouls now, they can smell the spirit of ghosts, and they are roaring towards the inside.
"Has anyone been here?"
When the Archmage saw the traces, his complexion sank, his thoughts turned a lot, and finally he managed to calm down: Forget it, the important thing is to find the main entrance.
Immediately, he took out a weird human skin scroll, identified the location, and said, "This is an insect breeding cave, the real entrance should be over there."
…
"The archmage was too cautious, and actually asked the three of us to join forces."
Agu is a strong man with a height of two meters, with thick arms and thick legs. Just looking at the outline of the muscles, one can feel a kind of domineering strength. He went around in circles back and forth, his words were quite unpleasant.
Getu was more calm, and said: "Don't underestimate the enemy, there are not many people who can come in now, if it is the two from Phoenix Mountain, we will be in trouble."
"Phoenix Mountain is amazing, but I always feel that it is exaggerated."
Agu touched the rock casually, and the pointed stone top was covered by his thick palm, and the broken stones fell one after another, turning it into a flat top.
He opened his mouth wide, still didn't care too much, and said, "We can't beat the archmage together, so the one named Gu can be even stronger?"
The internal level of shamanism is the archmage-mage-various deacons, leaders-ordinary believers-periphery. The three of them are all mages, and they can manage the level of a city. It is inevitable that they are a little unbalanced when they are sent out to restrain them at this moment.
"Okay! We haven't seen it with our own eyes, but the information we collected will not be fake."
The only female, Canmel, didn't bother to listen, and said, "Let's think about it, how..."
Ga!
She was like a duck whose neck was pinched, staring at the two people on the rock in a daze. Without any warning, without any awareness, it seemed to appear so suddenly.
"..."
When Agu and Getu realized something was wrong, they also raised their heads together, shaking their spirits even more.
brush!
The nine people showed their weapons one after another, as if facing a formidable enemy.
"Wow, there are so many people!"
Xiao Qiu looked at the field with surprise on his face.
Gu Yu frowned slightly, and said: "Don't practice moves anymore, hurry up and make a quick decision."