There were nearly ten people, and now they had traveled nearly two thousand miles westward into the mountains.
Along the way, we encountered many battles. Thanks to Huan Ling's powerful spiritual power, which can drive away disasters and avoid evil, and Shangguan Wan'er's powerful cultivation, there were no dangers.
But at this moment, the group of people actually saw a small town among the mountains.
"Mangyan Town!" At the head of the town, there is only a broken piece of the name of the town, and even the name on it is incomplete. As for the name of the town that Yang Ning can tell, he can still see it from the animal skin.
Mangyan Town is the only town store that Yang Ning can see on the animal skin map among the hundreds of thousands of mountains. It is also the only way for Yang Ning and the others to go deep into the mountains.
"Be careful." Yang Ning warned carefully, and the group began to enter.
sand……
rustle……
Sand and gravel crunched under the feet of the group of people, and heat waves hit their faces from time to time.
A street divided the town into two sides, and no one could be seen. It seemed that the town was no longer inhabited.
Entering the town, the highest buildings on both sides only have two floors, and many of them are dilapidated and seem to be ready to collapse at any time.
"I'm afraid this town could collapse at any time." Yao Xinhen complained as a group of nine people walked on the street, with only sand and gravel under their feet.
"There is a shop there." Yang Ning pointed to a small sail not far away with the word "shop" floating in it, and the group moved closer.
Stepping on the small steps to enter the shop, the reason why it is called small steps is because this step is only two steps starting from the gravel road. The moment you step on it, the wooden steps have a feeling of breaking. Feel.
The store is very small, at least from what I can see so far. After entering the store, I only see a counter, which is full of traces of time.
"Is there anyone there?" Yang Ning shouted towards the counter.
"Guest...guest officer..."
There was a sound from behind the counter. The person was actually hiding behind the counter, and then he saw a head popping up from behind the counter.
His voice was old and his figure was stooped. What surprised everyone the most was that this man was actually a dwarf. He was only about 1.4 meters tall. He had some cultivation, but compared to Yang Ning and his group, he was really too weak. He was only at the first level of Mountaineering Realm. The cultivation level of the environment.
"Old man, can you prepare a few rooms for us?" Yang Ning asked.
"Ahem..." Feng Zhu, who was still in his late years, walked out behind the counter and coughed lightly: "You guys want to stay in the hotel..."
"But judging from the unusual clothes of the guest officers, I guess they are from outside, right?" The dwarf looked at Yang Ning and others for several nights, and then said, leading Yang Ning and others towards a door behind the counter: "Are they from outside?" Come with me."
Passing through the wooden door is a courtyard with four wing rooms, but each one looks a little dilapidated and has not been repaired for a long time.
"In our town of Mangyan, there is no such thing as a shop with a shangfangtongpu. This shop has four rooms, so please make do with it." The old man walked unsteadily, as if half of his feet had already stepped into the soil. .
The old man took Yang Ning and his party to see the four wing rooms. They were very shabby, and Yang Ning even doubted whether such a building would be blown down in one breath.
But doubts are doubts. If he is really blown down in one breath, he will really have to sleep in the open.
"Old man, why are there no people on the streets in this Mangyan Town?" Yu Bing asked seemingly unintentionally.
"Ahem..." The old man responded intentionally or unintentionally: "The young people in the town have to work hard for a living. In addition, the living conditions here are already crying. Many people in the town have already gone to the outside of the mountains, saying that outside the mountains, There is a broader world. In the past few years, almost everyone who can leave has left. Only us old men and women are left to miss our hometown, so we stayed..." The old man said, after arranging a house for Yang Ning and his party. , and left the wing.
After Yang Ning signaled the old man not to disturb them, a group of people quickly wrapped up the four rooms. Although the details of Mangyan Town are not yet clear, it is better to be careful. Although the owner of a small shop looks like he is only one meter tall, He is a dwarf of four, but it can be seen from his cultivation that this town is definitely extraordinary. Otherwise, why would a small shop owner need to cultivate in the mountain climbing realm?
Yang Ning took out the animal skin and began to study the map. According to the instructions above, they had entered the hinterland of Shiwandashan. Logically speaking, this should be very close to the core area of Shiwandashan, but the surrounding environment was... Instead, it became flat, and there were even some places where you couldn't see any hills at a glance.
"Perhaps this is the scene deep in the mountains." Yang Ning murmured and continued to study the map.
Night always comes quietly.
At night in Shiwanda Mountain, the temperature drops very quickly. The originally hot and unbearable environment quickly becomes cooler as the sun sets in the west, and there is even an occasional breeze, always accompanied by a cool feeling.
After Yang Ning and his party followed the agreement, the four rooms were quickly determined.
Yang Ning and Yang Pi shared a wing, and they also lived in the wing closest to the store.
The starry sky in the dark night was endless. Yang Ning opened the window and looked at the night scene. Occasionally, there were scattered dots that decorated the night sky. There was no moonlight and it was very dark.
Yang Ning closed the window and meditated with Yang Pi on their respective beds without falling asleep.
Soon, the night reached the end of the fourth watch, and the night gradually became darker.
Yang Ning's spiritual power not only enveloped the four rooms, but also extended directly and enveloped the entire town.
Suddenly, Yang Ning meditated on the bed and opened her eyes.
"Are you here?" Yang Ning whispered, and Yang Pi also opened his eyes.
Yang Ning's mental feedback showed that from the town's head, the rickety figure of the inn owner was seen greeting some people at the town's head.
It was an unfamiliar aura, but Yang Ning could easily feel that the aura of these people was much higher than that of the innkeepers.
Yang Ning's eyes gradually became cold.
If the innkeeper is a loyal and honest person, Yang Ning will not be stingy and leave a little fortune for him when leaving. But now it seems that it is no longer needed.
"You will not live if you do something wrong." Yang Pi said coldly and continued to close his eyes.
Soon, nearly thirty people appeared in Zhentou under the leadership of the innkeeper. Each of them had a cultivation level above the mountaineering realm. The person with the highest cultivation level actually broke through the barrier between immortals and mortals and reached the level of mountain climbing. Reached the seventh level of mountaineering realm.
Yang Ning did not alert the snake, she gathered her mental strength, wrapped up the entire inn, and pretended not to notice them.
Soon, the fifth watch arrived.
There is no moonlight in the dark night. The night at this time is the darkest time of the night. It is not an exaggeration to say that you can't see your fingers. There are even occasionally one or two cold winds blowing from the night sky.
"Here we come..." Yang Ning closed her eyes tightly and said something, as if to remind herself and Yang Pi, but at the same time, other people in the four rooms also became alert at this moment.
Although I don't know where these people come from, it is obvious that they have done this many times, otherwise they would not be so familiar with the road and come straight to the inn.
The group of people were very careful and even moved very quietly. They walked through the wooden door of the store in an orderly manner and surrounded the four rooms.
Yang Ning opened her eyes.
At the same time, everyone in the four houses became alert.
I only heard one of the more than thirty people headed by a strong man at the seventh level of mountaineering realm, saying, "Are you sure they are outsiders?"
The dwarf old man nodded.
"Brothers, let's take action." Following the order, more than thirty people seemed to have received the signal for a general attack.
Rumble…
The four wing rooms collapsed instantly.
Sawdust flew everywhere.
Then there were screams.
"ah……"
"my eyes……"
"laugh!"
"ah……"
At one time, no less than ten people were killed instantly.
"Not good!" The leader immediately realized something was wrong, because all the people who died were the people he was talking about.
"Kill them." Following the leader's move, the remaining twenty people frantically bombarded the ruins.
"Hmph!" From the dark night, a streak of blood-red sword light rose. Yang Ning showed no mercy and killed the sword master, instantly colliding with the leader.
In just one round, the leader was severely wounded by Yang Ning's sword, and a miserable sound was heard.
"ah……"
Others were penetrated by several sharp arrows, and the smell of blood filled the surroundings.
"Who are you?" Yang Ning asked in a cold voice in the dark night. As for the innkeeper, Yang Ning did not kill him. He was already trembling with fear in a corner.
"Who are you?" Although he should be restrained, the leader of the seventh-level mountaineering realm still has some backbone.
"It's us who are asking you, not you who are asking us." A talisman ignited in Yao Xinhen, and instantly shot through the knees of the leader.
"Ah..." The scream of pain that penetrated the bone marrow came again.
"You guys just wait to be punished by Lord Vulcan, haha..."
He actually died from the loss of his meridians in the midst of laughter.
"Uh..." Yao Xinhen was speechless for a while and said, "Okay, I just wanted him to speak quickly so as not to waste time. Now it's fine, I don't have to ask anymore..."
Yang Ning was even more speechless.
But it's not like there's nothing left to live for.
Because the innkeeper is still alive.
"Little old man, I didn't expect that there are quite a lot of clever ideas." The little old man was grabbed by the neck by Yang Zhen's tall body, and he was a little breathless.
"Tell me about it." Yang Ning stared at the little old man, his eyes twinkling.
"Don't kill me, don't kill me..." The little old man was obviously afraid of death.
"Then tell me, and I'll kill you if I tell you." Yao Xinhen said.
"They are... the messengers of Lord Vulcan." The little old man trembled, and Yang Zhen grabbed his fate by the throat. As expected, he was greedy for life and afraid of death.
"Lord Vulcan?" Yang Ning was stunned. This was the second time they heard the name "Lord Vulcan".
"Who is he?" Yang Pi asked forcefully.
"Lord Vulcan is everything in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, an omnipotent god." The dwarf old man said, with a hint of fear in his eyes.
"Haha..." Yao Xinhen suddenly sneered, came to the dwarf old man, and said: "It seems that we are still too kind..." Yao Xinhen said, and the talisman ignited.
"I...I...I really don't know anything else..." The dwarf old man was about to cry, fearing that the person in front of him would be unhappy and he would really shoot him.
In the end, Yang Ning and his party did not kill the dwarf old man, but they got two useful pieces of information from the dwarf old man. That is, they all believe in the same sect, that is, the Vulcan Sect, and this Vulcan Lord, He is the highest leader of the entire sect.
"The Vulcan Cult." Yang Ning whispered, because there was no record of the Vulcan Cult on the entire piece of animal skin. In other words, when the ancestor of the Yang family got the animal skin, there was no information about the Vulcan Cult.
"No, this so-called Vulcan Cult actually dares to capture Li. I'm really impatient." Yao Xinhen was filled with hatred because he learned from the dwarf old man that Li was captured by these people. , and then was sent to the Vulcan Mountain.
"Let's go take a look." Yang Ning said.
The group of people walked towards the west in the light of morning light.
