Lu Chen stared closely at the mercenary captain who was behaving strangely in the spiritual formation, not worried at all that he would break out of the spiritual formation.
True energy surged out crazily, pouring into the unconscious mercenary's body without any reservation. After a few breaths, the mercenary's body began to expand.
"Explosion formation?" Lu Chen exclaimed.
Explosive formation relies on many foreign objects to trigger an instant shock wave, causing the spiritual formation to explode. This method is used by many monks. It can rely on the bodies of companions to explode the formation. This is the first time Lu Chen has heard of it. As for the mercenary captain, he Even more determined to kill him.
"Come here!" The mercenary captain glanced at the mercenary who was resisting the flames and said in a deep voice. Hearing this, the latter's face changed drastically. Seeing the cruel look on the man in front of him, he gritted his teeth and walked to the mercenary who fell on the ground. He was really shocked. Yuan crazily poured into the opponent's body.
"What a beast. He actually knocked out his own companion and relied on his body to explode. There is no difference between alive and dead for such a person!"
boom!
There was a loud noise, and the mountains were shaken. The surrounding earth and rocks rolled down, the shock wave continued to spread, and a deep pit appeared three feet away from Lu Chen.
"The explosion formation, this power is really not simple." Lu Chen looked ugly, but it did not have much impact because the fire formation was forcibly exploded. The fire formation was only a first-grade spiritual formation, which was obviously too much for Lu Chen today. Simple, not to mention he has already understood the vision formation.
At the bottom of the pit, the two figures did not move. The subordinates above were already bloody and it looked like they would not survive.
"Huh!" Lu Chen snorted coldly, and the real energy in his hand condensed into a long sword, which appeared in the pit.
"Lu Chen, you are going too far."
As the long sword approached, a roar suddenly came from below the bloody mercenary, and a black shadow shot out from under him, narrowly avoiding the fatal blow.
"Did I deceive others too much?" Lu Chen sneered, "I have traded my companions for the chance to live several times. People like you don't deserve to live at all. What's more, if you didn't want to deal with me, you wouldn't leave your life here. .”
"You..." the mercenary captain was at a loss for words, "Huh, the worst we can do is to defeat you. Even if I die, I will hold you on my back."
Regarding the mercenary captain's threat, Lu Chen sneered, "I told you, you really think highly of yourself!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he punched out suddenly. The metallic luster on his fist flashed, and he immediately approached the mercenary captain.
"You...are a strong martial artist?" The mercenary captain had a look of fear on his face. When he raised his hand to resist, a metallic fist struck his chest.
Looking at his sunken chest, the mercenary captain looked regretful and his eyes widened, "So fast!"
With a wave of his hand, all the corpses from last night were put into the deep pit. The soil rolled and buried everyone.
The dead were gone. Even though they wanted to kill him, Lu Chen still didn't want these people to die in the wilderness and bury them. He just raised his hand to let them have a place to live after their death.
"Huh?" After burying the body, Lu Chen seemed to realize something. He suddenly raised his head and looked to the north, where the woods were dense. On a dead tree, there were two figures standing on the dead branches.
The figure on the dead branch seemed to be aware of Lu Chen's gaze, and just glanced at it casually, tapping his toes, and the few ups and downs were gone.
"You're going to let him go like this?"
"What else do you want? If you find these rubbish, they will come looking for you in the future, so why should I rush?"
"You can't blame me for that. Who knows what went crazy with those guys? I really want to kill him!"
"You can go if it's beneficial, I won't stop you!" An echo came from the front, and the figure gradually disappeared.
…
Misty voices kept ringing, but unfortunately the distance was too far for Lu Chen to hear clearly.
"Master Lu, are you okay?" Uncle Wen looked at the figure looking north with a worried look on his face. He followed his gaze and saw that there was nothing else but trees there.
"Uncle Wen, I'm fine, what are you doing?"
Lu Chen was puzzled as he looked at the merchants who were packing up their goods and preparing to go back.
"Without the protection of mercenaries, it is impossible for us to reach Fengchou City. We can only go back to Gucheng first. Hey, it seems that we will have to find a familiar mercenary team in the future." A businessman sighed and looked at the young man in front of him with a grateful face. If it hadn't been for him, none of them would have survived.
They originally asked him to follow them along the way, but they didn't expect that the other party actually saved several of their lives and escaped disaster.
Several people walked in front of Lu Chen, and with a pop, everyone knelt down!
"Master Lu, don't worry, what we said will definitely stand true. From now on, children of the Lu family will get 50% off when they come to my store!"
"mine too!"
"Although my shop is shabby, I will do it as long as I promised Master Lu. Thank you Master Lu for saving my life!"
…
Seeing the gratitude on the faces of the businessmen in front of him, Lu Chen also cupped his fists in response.
"Everyone, I made a promise with you all to go to Fengchou City together, but I have something to do. Although I can't reach Fengchou City, the previous city is still okay. I don't know what you mean?"
Lu Chen, who originally planned to go to Fengchu City, changed his mind after this incident. Fengchu City is the base camp of the Bai family. Although the Lu family and the Bai family are family friends, after being forced to break off the engagement, he no longer has a good impression of the Bai family. .
In this desolate mountain, he would be plotted and attacked by mercenaries. He couldn't guarantee that he would be safe when he arrived at the Bai family's base camp. If the Bai family really turned against him, he might not even have a chance to escape. After thinking about it again and again, Lu Chen made up his mind. , if you don’t have certain means of self-protection, it’s better not to go and take the city.
Going to the city before Fengchou City, firstly, because that city is not small and has many things that the isolated city does not have. Secondly, these businessmen in front of me came from the isolated city after all, especially Uncle Wen, who watched himself grow up. In a critical moment, he dared to risk his own life to communicate with himself, which was very rare.
"This..." The businessmen were unable to recover for a while.
"Master Lu, isn't this inappropriate?" Uncle Wen looked embarrassed. They could naturally see that Lu Chen went to Gangnancheng just to deliver them safely.
"Uncle Wen, there is nothing appropriate or inappropriate. You come out of Gucheng. If there are such mercenaries in the mercenary guild in Gucheng, you need to take good care of them. Besides, your promise is a big advantage for the Lu family."
Children of the Lu family receive a 50% discount in these merchants' stores. To be honest, even profiteers cannot make much profit with this kind of discount.
"This..." Lu Chen said this. They were still a little embarrassed. After all, the identity and strength of the people in front of them were there. Although they had a little money, in the face of absolute strength, they would not let go of this money at all. In my eyes, unless the benefits you give can make those strong people work for you.
In this world, the strong will prevail after all!
"Let's go!" Lu Chen shouted as he got on his horse and took the lead in the direction of Fengchou City.
"Follow me, everyone, follow me. Master Lu is here to protect me. I don't think there is anyone else who doesn't have the guts to dare to cause trouble!"
On the road again, the group was not slow at all. After more than ten days, they could already see the outline of the city. Although they encountered a lot of troubles along the way, they were all attacked by monsters. They were walking outside all year round. The routes that merchants travel are naturally accumulated over the years. Powerful monsters will not appear unless there are special circumstances.
Gangnan City!
A city that is not much smaller than Fengtori City, but it is different from Fengtori City. Dragons and snakes are mixed together, and all forces are entrenched. Every day, there are fights in the duel field over trivial matters.
Sometimes it is one person, sometimes it is a team, or even worse, the entire force or sect fights. The loser is almost wiped out, and the winner also suffers heavy casualties.
However, fighting between sect forces is generally difficult to encounter. After all, Gangnan City is too complicated. Even if the enemy is destroyed and your own power is weak, it will not be long before other forces wipe it out. This kind of thing has not happened in the past. Gangnancheng is too common.
The group paid the city entrance fee and walked in towards the city gate.
"Uncle Wen, are you charging a city fee to enter the city?" Lu Chen was puzzled. This was the first time he had encountered this kind of thing. Regardless of the isolated city or the dozens of forces in the original alliance, he had never heard of anyone's city. There is also an entry fee.
"In this slightly larger city, there is indeed a city entry fee, but it is all voluntary. You don't have to pay it. You can just sleep outside the city. If there is any problem, the city will not take action. Of course, this is only at night. Normally The city will not charge entry fees during the day, unless some giant cities are trying to limit the population!"
Lu Chen was stunned when he heard this, and then nodded and followed the flow of people into the city.
"Come on, go!"
"That's right, if you're slow, you won't have a chance!"
…
Not long after entering Gangnan City, there was a sudden surge of people in the originally peaceful city, all running towards the northeast.
"Uncle Wen, what is this?"
Uncle Wen shook his head and was puzzled. They had been to Gangnancheng many times, and today was not a holiday, unless...
A thought suddenly flashed through Uncle Wen's mind and he turned his head, just as other businessmen also looked over, "Have you guessed it too?"
The businessmen nodded, a hint of shock flashed in their eyes.
"What should we do?" A businessman looked at the carriage behind him with an embarrassed look. The goods on the carriage were all brought out this time. In addition, the businessman who was killed by the mercenary captain and lost his mercenaries left them with these businessmen. The goods are indeed difficult for them.
"There's an inn over there. Come quickly. This is no small matter. I haven't encountered it in a long time."
Lu Chen was confused. Until now, he still didn't know what happened in Gangnancheng. It actually attracted so many people to watch. Even businessmen like Uncle Wen who had just entered the city wanted to go and have a look.
After placing the goods and carriage properly, Uncle Wen picked up Lu Chen and ran to the northeast of Gangna City.
"Go this way!" As the crowd was too crowded, Uncle Wen suddenly waved and led a few people into an alley.
"Old Wen, that's a dead end!"
"Stop talking nonsense. No matter how slow you go, you won't be able to see the shortcut."
After Uncle Wen finished speaking, he ducked into the alley, followed closely by Lu Chen. The rest of the people looked at each other, "Old Wen has been to Gangnancheng many times. Maybe he knows some secret passage."
After saying that, the group of people nodded and poured into the alley.
