Chapter 5 The strange cave in Xuyou Mountain
"Then do you know where your parents were kidnapped?"
The little girl pointed to the southeast.
"I...I only heard that they were kidnapped in that direction."
Looking at the little girl's face, Zhou Di fell into hesitation.
The little girl now has no father, no mother, and no one to rely on. If she were abandoned here, it would definitely bring disaster. But now that he finally knew the clues, how could he give up? In a dilemma. Zhou Di didn't know what to do for a while.
After a long silence, Zhou Di first buried the bodies of the two old men in the woods not far away.
"Little girl, what's your name?"
"My name is Jinxia."
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The little girl followed the tall young man towards Xuyou Mountain.
Zhou Di originally left some silver coins for Jinxia, but the little girl insisted on following him. Even though Zhou Di told her that Xuyou Mountain was a very dangerous place and the journey was far away, the little girl was unwilling to leave.
Zhou Di sighed, feeling helpless. In the end, he had no choice but to take the little girl with him to Xuyou Mountain.
In order to avoid the patrolling Demon Cult disciples, the two only traveled in the middle of the night and hid in a cave to rest during the day.
Three days later, Zhou Di finally arrived at Xuyou Mountain. If he didn't have to take this little girl with him, Zhou Di could actually reach it in one night.
In the middle of the night, Zhou Di and two people were walking in the mountains in the dark. They just passed a corner of a ravine when suddenly, a sentry tower appeared in front of them.
The little girl was so frightened that she stepped back, but accidentally tripped over a tree branch and fell to the ground with a plop.
"who?!"
Several demon sect disciples on the sentry tower immediately turned over and climbed down, running towards Zhou Di and the other two.
Zhou Di suddenly came to the little girl's side. He picked up the little girl regardless of whether men and women were intimate or not, and left in an instant after a few light steps.
Several demon sect disciples who were on sentry duty came to where Zhou Di was just now and saw only a broken tree branch but no one.
"Search separately. If you find anything, shoot the fire arrow immediately." The leader said.
Several people immediately separated and searched around the mountain forest.
Zhou Di and the two were hiding in a mountain forest. As time went by, people gradually came here, and he could only find another place to hide.
"How's it going? Can your legs still walk?"
Zhou Di whispered to Jinxia.
Jinxia nodded, indicating that she was fine, but she still limped when she walked.
"Forget it, I'll carry you on my back."
Zhou Di is tall, even if he bends down, he is almost as tall as a little girl.
Jinxia wanted to refuse, but Zhou Di urged: "We don't have enough time."
Jinxia didn't want to be held back, so she stepped forward and hugged Zhou Di's neck.
"Hold on."
Zhou Di's soul dispersed and kept traveling through the mountains and forests, and soon he was far away from the group of demon sect disciples.
"Delaying it like this is not an option. We have to find a place to hide first."
If it were normal, Zhou Di would have dug a hole with his fists. Now that he was being hunted, once he dug a hole, such a big movement would definitely attract their attention. Forced into desperation, he could only look for a natural cave here.
After climbing over a large mountain, Zhou Di found a somewhat unexpected boulder at the foot of the mountain. After putting Jinxia down, Zhou Di moved the boulder away. Sure enough, there was a hidden cave inside.
The two entered the cave carefully. In order not to be discovered by the Demon Cult disciples, Zhou Di slowly closed the boulder from the inside and sealed the entrance of the cave.
Sure enough, not long after, a group of pursuers ran nearby.
"Damn it, I heard something moving here, but why didn't I see anyone?"
"Maybe you heard wrong."
"Let's go and continue searching to the east."
As the footsteps gradually faded away, Zhou Di breathed a long sigh of relief and then began to look at the cave.
The entrance to the cave was sealed, and the entire cave was pitch black. In order not to scare little girl Jinxia, Zhou Di did not use lightning to illuminate it, but took out a fire seal from his arms. After taking a few breaths, the fire seal slowly lit up. rise.
The dark cave was lit by weak flames, but it frightened the little girl. Jinxia hugged Zhou Di's thick arms, pointed around and said tremblingly:
"Brother Zhou! Then... what are those things???"
Zhou Di looked up and saw ten strange buildings half as tall as a man standing in front of him.
Above the building is a house-shaped cabin. There is a small altar-like platform on the front of the cabin, and underneath are increasingly thicker four-corner stone pillars. Each side of the stone pillars is carved with different patterns, including ferocious animal faces, skulls and other weird shapes. Patterns, in addition, there is a circle of chains wrapped around the stone pillar, and under the stone pillar, there is a mass of unknown ashes.
Having traveled all year round, Zhou Di could tell at a glance that the ashes were not charcoal ash, but the ashes of burned corpses. When he looked at these strange buildings, Zhou Di's expression changed.
"Could it be that...these are soul niches???"
The demon sect's techniques are extremely weird, and many of them practice by refining living people, which is not tolerated by the world. However, the demon sect itself is so powerful that even the other seven sects are not willing to take the initiative to provoke them.
"Is it possible that all the people who were kidnapped were used by the Demon Cult to refine soul niches?" Zhou Di guessed in his heart.
"Brother Zhou, I'm scared." Jinxia's arm holding Zhou Di kept trembling, obviously frightened by the patterns on the stone pillars of the soul niche.
Zhou Di waved his halberd, and a flash of cyan lightning flashed, and all ten soul niches were smashed into rubble.
"We can't go out for the time being, so we can only stay here for a while."
The little girl nodded, and then Zhou Di began to treat Jinxia's ankle injury. The real energy was injected into the little girl's ankle. The pain was so painful that she couldn't help but gasp, and she couldn't help but let out a light "hmm".
"I told you not to follow me a long time ago. Now you know it hurts." Zhou Di shook his head and said.
Upon hearing this, the little girl became stubborn and closed her mouth hard without making any sound.
After a while, the bruise on Jinxia's ankle completely dissipated. The little girl moved her ankle and it became intact as before.
Afterwards, Zhou Di took out a kettle and a few pieces of dry biscuits and handed them to Jinxia.
"After a long night of running around, you should eat something to replenish your strength."
As soon as he finished speaking, the rock at the entrance of the cave suddenly broke into two halves, and an arc of light struck from the outside inward.
"careful!"
Zhou Di immediately dropped the kettle and pulled the little girl in front of him. The sharp arc of light flashed past the braid on the little girl's back and almost hit Jinxia's head.
A figure in black walked in holding a long knife.
"This is my training place, who allowed you to come in?!"
The tip of the shining knife scratched the ground, leaving a long black mark.
Because of the late night, the figure in black could not see the appearance of the two people in the cave. He could only tell that the two people were a man and a woman.
