Twenty minutes later.
"it does not matter."
Looking at the outline of the town gradually outlined in front of her, a smile slowly appeared on Tang Wan's face, which had originally looked hopeless. Finally, she looked at Zhou Li, who was silent, and her lips almost reached behind her ears. "Misjudgment is also a part of life that you have to go through, Zhou Li, it's okay, I won't laugh at you."
Zhou Li stood in front of the road sign that read "Brownwood Town", with his hands on his hips, lost in thought. Tang Wan, who was on the side, escaped from Zhou Li's clutches, put his hands behind his back, and jumped on tiptoe to look at the small town in the distance. After a while, Zhou Li raised his head and said solemnly:
"Something's wrong."
"well."
Tang Wan sighed immediately after hearing this, stretched out his hand, put it on Zhou Li's shoulder, shook his head and said, "Zhou Li, people make mistakes and horses make mistakes. You can't make more misjudgments because of a momentary mistake that makes you angry. Listen. My, let’s calm down, before...”
Putting Tang Wan's little hand on his shoulder and holding it tightly, Zhou Li's eyes suddenly became sharp. With a graceful arc passing through the air, Tang Wan was directly thrown to the road sign by Zhou Li's beautiful over-the-shoulder move. Zhou Li squatted beside her, looked at Tang Wan who was struggling to stand up, and was about to die with him, and said:
"Look at the dirt under this sign."
Tang Wan and Zhou Li have always been both reasonable and arrogant. After Zhou Li said this, Tang Wan felt as if he was being unreasonable. She lowered her head and carefully looked at the soil under the road sign. After a moment, she frowned and said:
"New mud and old mud are mixed together."
"Um."
Zhou Li nodded, stood up, looked at the town in the distance, squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the outline, and then said:
"It hasn't rained recently, and there are no animals passing by near the footprints. However, the soil under this road sign is a mixture of old and new soil, and most of it has new soil on top and old soil on the bottom. It must have been moved by someone."
As a member of the Tang Sect, Tang Wan also noticed something was wrong with this place. She frowned, bowed slightly, and subconsciously became alert.
"Is someone trying to ambush us?"
Faced with Tang Wan's question, Zhou Li did not answer immediately. He rubbed his chin, thinking, as if observing something. After a moment, he shook his head and said:
"It doesn't make sense. If he really wants to ambush us, there is no need for this person to touch this road sign, which will only increase his vulnerability."
"so···"
Tang Wan looked at Zhou Li and said, "Shall we go take a look?"
Hearing this, Zhou Li patted Tang Wan's shoulder kindly and said, "You know, people like you are the engine of mass destruction in horror movies."
"well?"
Tang Wan was stunned, and then asked in confusion: "For the sake of spreading the child?"
"This way of writing your problems on your face is a far-fetched one."
"Ouch."
Tang Wan looked at Zhou Li's unyielding gaze and suddenly realized, "Then let's find another way?"
"nonsense."
Zhou Li waved his hand angrily, and then the two of them turned around and left the road without hesitation.
The moon and stars were sparse, and the magpies were flying south. When Zhou Li and the two left the road leading to the village, a change occurred.
"It shouldn't be."
Not long after Zhou Li left, there was the sound of dirt rubbing under the road sign. With the appearance of a somewhat smooth and rounded head, a scaly "man" with a stooped body emerged from the soil, squatted beside the road sign, scratched his chin and said to himself: "Why don't you leave?"
He raised his head and tilted his head to look at the road signs, his small eyes full of confusion. Just when he was about to reach out and take off the street sign, a sharp sound of breaking wind sounded from behind him.
Boom!
With a muffled sound, the man covered in scales suddenly staggered, fear flashing in his eyes. Instinctively, the man directly inserted his hands into the soil, preparing to use the earth escape technique. However, at this moment, a white mist suddenly flashed in front of him.
Fuck! lime!
Following a shrill cry, the scaly man immediately covered his eyes with his hands, holding back the Earth Escape he was about to perform. The fear in his chest reminded him that if he didn't do something, he would become a piece of meat on the chopping board and be slaughtered by others. Therefore, even if his vision was blocked, this man made a final struggle.
The scales on the body were all tied up, and the sharp edges flashed with cold light one after another. The man covered his face, and the sharp blades on his body burst out instantly. In an instant, the cold light and blood rain condensed by the blades enveloped him, tearing apart all living things that could be torn apart.
After a moment, the man collapsed weakly on the ground. He gasped for breath, and darkness gradually dispersed in front of his eyes. Slowly, the man lost consciousness and collapsed to the ground like a salted fish being penetrated from below.
"Are you going to pinch it? You can also use Blade Storm."
After a while, Zhou Li walked out from the side, patted the remaining lime on his hand, and said with lingering fear: "Thankfully I left one hand to throw away the lime bag."
Tang Guan, who was squatting aside, stuck out her little head. It was obvious that she was the one who had just kicked the weirdo in front of Zhou Li with a big flying kick. At this time, she was a little frightened, and her little face turned pale. If Zhou Li hadn't pulled her out of reflex just now, she would be like a raw fish fillet now.
"So, what is this thing?"
Looking at the "man" lying naked on the ground in front of him, Tang Wan took two deep breaths, walked to the other man's side, kicked Zhou Li and asked, "Monster?"
"It doesn't look like...it's not."
Zhou Li stretched out his hand, pulled out the few scales from the other party's body, looked at it carefully and said, "There is no evil spirit."
After finishing speaking, Zhou Li took out a dagger from his waist and casually made a bloody cut on the strange man. He gently picked up a drop of blood with his fingers and said after a brief feeling: "It doesn't have the blood energy of others. , should be a spirit. But... there should be restrictions set by monsters in his body."
After hearing the word demon, Tang Wan's expression suddenly became serious. In the Ming Dynasty, all things have spirits. People can channel spirits and practice Qi, while animals and plants can be cultivated through two different methods: "demon addiction" and "extraction", and finally transform into human form, or even become immortals.
The so-called demon addiction is that animals or plants make up for their own shortcomings by hunting and killing living beings, devouring the blood energy in the living beings, and finally transforming humans with energy.
This method is extremely bloody and cruel. Even if it does not cause any killing and only consumes blood, it will be infected with violence and eventually turn into a "monster". Therefore, monsters are often bloodthirsty and cruel, take pleasure in killing, and have incomplete spiritual intelligence.
The essence is another way of "cultivation". The so-called essence is to refine the innate energy in the body of animals or plants, and finally perceive the "spirit" in nature, and open up spiritual wisdom by extracting the spirit of nature with the energy in the body. Those who practice in this way are generally called "spirits".
Spirits are not as bloodthirsty and cruel as monsters, but they have human hearts and spiritual intelligence, so they are easily tempted by the world and eventually become pawns in the hands of humans. And the snake spirit that was drained by the prostitute before was a kind of spirit.
Now, what appeared in front of Zhou Li and Tang Wan was such a monster.
A spirit controlled by a monster.
