There's something weird about this place
Gu Heng walked up the mountain along the path, drawing his bow and preparing arrows, searching for bushes and holes where monsters might roam.
But after searching for more than an hour, there was indeed no trace of the beast in sight.
Just as the waiter said.
There were supposed to be monsters in this place, but since that group of mysterious red-robed people came, not a single one has disappeared. What happened to them... no one knows.
If someone else came, he would definitely not be so ignorant and continue searching without knowing the consequences.
After all, someone who acts so mysteriously and treacherously and can make all the monsters in the mountains disappear must not only be a cultivator, but also a very powerful cultivator!
A normal person would never think of finding out what those people in red robes are doing.
Thinking that there is a high probability that they will get themselves implicated, basically, those who have self-awareness will not come here to seek death.
But Gu Heng just wanted to continue looking to see what bizarre secrets were hidden here.
He also has self-awareness.
Nothing else, he is already a Nascent Soul cultivator, so why should he be afraid of someone harming him? Moreover, if the strength of the Nascent Soul stage is not good enough, he will use the temporary experience voucher to transform into "the best in the world" to increase the strength of the opponent.
That's fine too.
No matter where those red-robed men come from, if they intend to do bad things here, then he must make sure that these guys return in defeat, right?
It's exciting just thinking about it.
"How do we find those red-robed people? They are sneaking around in this mountain, and this place is pretty big... huh?"
Gu Heng was worried about how to find the "secret" of the group of red-robed people, but just as he looked up, he happened to see a wisp of blood-colored smoke passing over the top of the treetops and heading straight to the west!
there?
Gu Heng's eyes flickered slightly. This blood smoke was obviously not a naturally occurring phenomenon, so there must be a ghost. Since there was a ghost, he might as well chase it and see what happened.
He followed the blood smoke, tracing its trajectory, and passed through the dense forests. But when he took a step out, Gu Heng's footsteps suddenly stopped.
"This taste…"
He frowned.
The strong smell of blood was suffocating.
Gu Heng held his breath.
He saw a giant python about several meters long lying beside the dried-up riverbed. It had become very smelly, and there were even many broken limbs of monsters scattered all over the riverbed!
The giant python was the largest one among the corpses.
Good, now we know why there is no trace of these monsters.
It turns out they all died here.
But the strange thing is, why don't these monster remains stink? Logically speaking, these monster corpses with dried blood should have been infested with maggots and smelly.
Moreover, Gu Heng circled around and found that these monsters seemed to have died within a specific range, and the number was fixed at one hundred!
wrong.
There must be something wrong.
Such a fixed number, and a definite "range"...
This made him think of the word "evil magic" - although he had just become a cultivator not long ago, there were some major events in the Xuantian Realm that even mortals knew clearly.
For example, evil cultivators!
The so-called evil cultivators are a group of people whose cultivation methods are extremely treacherous and whose intentions are extremely evil. They like to conduct various kinds of blood sacrifices, worship power, or use some particularly disgusting and bizarre unconventional methods...
all in all.
Not a good person.
Although Gu Heng felt that this was just a difference in the methods of cultivation and there was no such thing as evil, the reason why everyone hated evil cultivators was precisely because they had no bottom line or morality in their killing.
"Should I stay away from these guys..."Gu Heng muttered to himself, wanting to leave.
No matter what happened here, Gu Heng vaguely felt that those red-robed men were most likely evil cultivators, and their purpose in killing monsters and torturing corpses was probably to set up some evil method that no one else knew about!
He was not afraid of evil cultivators, but he would not provoke such a madman if possible. It was true that he liked secrets, but it would not be good for him to get himself into trouble.
Otherwise, let's go?
But as soon as he moved, he heard a rustling sound.
He looked suddenly and saw a small snake tail swaying in the pile of monster remains. Then, a tiny snake head slowly poked out from the pile of corpses!
Black scales and green vertical pupils.
Before Gu Heng could think more, the little black-scaled snake suddenly pounced on him and went straight to his neck!
He was startled, but he was quick to grab the snake, held it in his hand, took a look at it, and then folded it in disgust!
The little snake died instantly.
You can tell at a glance that this is not a good snake. It might have some deadly poison that can kill you instantly.
The smaller the snake, the more dangerous it is.
After easily crushing the snake to death, Gu Heng thought about it and decided to continue walking inside.
If there really is something dangerous going on inside and he can't handle it, he can just use the "teleport" skill to run away, which is also very fast.
…
In the Western Regions, in a dark valley somewhere.
The Yin energy scattered and rose up, and the Yinma Demon Lord was sitting cross-legged in the place where the Yin energy was the heaviest in the valley.
He opened his eyes.
Looking at the bloody smell in front of him, there was a huge bone cocoon as big as a person.
There are exactly eighteen of these cocoons!
These bone cocoons are the key to the "arrival" of the practitioners from the demon world!
"The speed of absorbing flesh and blood is still a bit slow, but there seems to be no faster way..."
The Yinma Demon Lord pondered.
This "Styx Cocoon" is a unique item in the Demon Realm, and its function is very simple, which is to allow the practitioners in the Demon Realm to be "reborn" in this bone cocoon, and then descend to the Xuantian Realm with their full cultivation!
This is a very unusual and alternative method of cross-border communication.
There are eighteen corresponding cocoons in the Xuantian Realm in the Demon Realm, and the real body of Yinma Demon Lord is also sitting in one of them.
Once his real body relies on this "Styx Cocoon" to cross over to the Xuantian Realm, this incarnation of Taoism, which is only at the tenth level of the Demon Stage, can retire.
But, this process will take a long time.
It has never been an easy task to cross two worlds. It could have been very simple, but the Five Realms Passage was gone, and Yinma Demon Lord had no choice but to choose such a thankless method.
These Styx cocoons need to absorb flesh and blood to complete their "transformation".
The one that absorbs the flesh and blood is the "Ghost Snake" that accompanies this Styx cocoon!
There are a total of eighteen Netherworld Snakes, all of which have now been released to be taken outside by the "evil cultivators" from the Xuantian Realm to absorb their flesh and blood.
Wait until they are full of blood and flesh, then bring them back and inject the full and fresh blood into the cocoon... This cycle repeats over and over again until the result of "breaking out of the cocoon and being reborn" comes.
Therefore, those Nether Snakes are extremely important.
If the snake dies, the Styx cocoon will surely wither and die, and there will be one less powerful demon from the demon world who can make it.
However, the Nether Snakes themselves were also very powerful. Each one had a fixed strength of the fifth level of the Demonic Entry Stage, and they could not be threatened in this Xuantian Realm.
"Crack!"
Yinma Demon Lord looked at the eighteen cocoons, and suddenly one of them quickly withered and died, and then shattered.
He immediately let out a sharp explosion!