In order to ensure that these people would not wake up, Ye Li used heavy force. He estimated that some of them might have been seriously injured.
But after all, these bandits are not good people. Compared with the innocent lives he is about to save, he has no hesitation in taking action.
When the moon climbed overhead, the entire village, except for the rear area of the center, was dead silent.
Ye Li knocked out all the patrolling guards, secret sentry guards and sleeping bandits in the front area of the stronghold.
Xie Qi's room was still bustling with activity. The two smug men were drinking happily and even singing folk songs from their hometown when they were children.
Listening to the song the two were humming, Ye Li breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, singing shows that the two are in high spirits and will not leave in the short term.
Now is a critical moment. If Qian Yue comes out, he will definitely find something wrong immediately because all the guards around him have disappeared.
Ye Li wiped the sweat that seeped from the edge of his mask. Although he had extraordinary physical strength, he had already killed nearly a hundred people with his bare hands, including many talisman masters in the Lingwu period.
Not only is the amount of exercise huge, the key is to keep the mind highly concentrated. Being deep in the enemy camp, Ye Li might be discovered if he was absent-minded.
If he were discovered at this moment, everything he had done before would be in vain.
Not daring to delay too long, Ye Li took a breath and started to continue his actions.
Without the various surveillance points on the periphery, blind spots appeared in the central area.
In addition, most of the bandits in the secret sentry posts gradually fell asleep, so Ye Li's infiltration was much easier than he had expected.
The most crucial point is that Ye Li's mastery of his soul-moving talisman "Jing Yaming" has become increasingly higher, and the effect of this talisman has completely exceeded his expectations.
The attack of the soul-moving talisman itself is not easy to be detected. People with weak spiritual power cannot feel the fluctuation of the soul-moving spiritual energy at all. Ye Li can use it openly in the mountain village.
There were several times when he used the Crow's Cry the moment he was discovered, causing the bandits who were about to warn their companions to fall into chaos in an instant.
The Spirit Mist Bandits had the shortest period of confusion, only two to three breaths, while the ordinary Wu Fu Master Bandits had three to five breaths, the length of time depended entirely on the strength of their will. But even if there were only two breaths of confusion, it was very deadly. For Ye Li's speed, two breaths were enough for him to attack several times.
The only thing was that after using the Crow's Cry several times, Ye Li's spiritual power was a little tight, and he had to swallow the pills he had bought before to help restore his spiritual power.
Finally, at three o'clock in the morning, Ye Li knocked down all the secret sentries and patrol guards in the central area to the ground, and he successfully arrived at the large bamboo house where the hostages were held as Hu Qingshan said.
Hu Qingshan had said before that this might be the place where the hostages were held, which meant that he was not sure. Therefore, Ye Li did not dare to enter directly. He could only stick to the outer wall of the bamboo house and eavesdrop on the movements inside.
After listening quietly for a while, Ye Li discovered that there were indeed quite a few people in the bamboo house, and now there were bursts of breathing and snoring sounds coming from them.
After feeling that everyone inside seemed to be asleep, Ye Li carefully transmitted his spiritual power into the room, and the situation inside immediately appeared clearly in front of his eyes.
This huge bamboo house was actually a prison cell, divided into many compartments. All the people were shackled and lying in the haystacks, three or five people in a room.
There were two guards dozing off at the door. When Ye Li's spiritual power swept over them, they seemed to feel something slightly, frowned, turned over, and fell into a deep sleep again.
The fact that they could faintly feel his spiritual power showed that these two guards were both spiritual talisman masters in the Spiritual Mist Stage, otherwise they would not be able to detect the fluctuations of his spiritual power at all.
However, there was a gap between the two of them and Ye Li in terms of realm. They only had some feelings but could not truly perceive him. It was as if he was swept by the breeze and did not attract their attention.
After seeing this situation, Ye Li also became bolder. He penetrated a large amount of spiritual power into each cell and began to check the people inside.
Soon, he found Li Xifeng and the three Chen brothers who were imprisoned in a cell, and then found Tie Xiaohua and Hongdou in the cell next door.
Afterwards, he used his spiritual power to investigate the people in the other cells. It seemed that these people were the other traveling merchants captured by Xie Qi.
Most of these people were at the Spiritual Mist Stage. They had slight reactions when being swept by Ye Li's spiritual power, but they immediately fell into a deep sleep again.
After knowing that there were only two guards inside, Ye Li relaxed and flashed to the door of the bamboo house.
With the exploration of his spiritual power, he instantly found the location of the bolt behind the bamboo house's door, then quickly inserted a knife into the wooden door and cut off the entire bolt with one force.
Although the sound of breaking the door was not loud, it was still shocking enough for the two guards who were nearby. They woke up with a startle from their sleep.
Seeing Ye Li pushing the door open, their first reaction was to warn everyone.
However, before they could make any sound, an invisible gray ripple instantly exploded in front of the two people.
The two guards who had just been awakened from their dreams suddenly heard a terrifying and miserable crow's cry in their heads. For a moment, their hair stood on end and countless terrifying images flashed through their eyes, as real as real scenes.
Frightened by these crazy and terrifying scenes, the two of them forgot where they were for a moment. In their confusion, they could only open their mouths and make bursts of "ho ho" gasping sounds from the bottom of their throats.
Ye Li took advantage of the brief gap created by the cry of the crows, and rushed in front of the two men. He put his hands together to form a pair of double-handed swords, and slashed them hard on the sides of their necks.
The powerful impact caused the two men's eyes to roll back and they fainted.
The noise here also woke up the people in the cell one after another. When they saw Ye Li in black clothes and a fiery red mask, they were all a little surprised.
However, seeing that Ye Li was attacking two guards, these traveling merchants all kept quiet tacitly. After all, the guards were also their enemies, and they had no reason to shout for their enemies.
Hongdou was also awakened from her dream at this time. The little girl had been captured here for several days and had been living in fear almost all the time. Her originally porcelain doll-like face was already covered with some black dirt.
Looking at Ye Li who suddenly appeared, Hongdou seemed a little scared and silently shrank into the arms of Tie Xiaohua beside her. Tie Xiaohua hurriedly hugged her, gently touched her head, and comforted her softly.