After about half an hour, the group of eight finally arrived at the Baiyue Mountains. At this time, Wen Changming said to Ji Liao, "We are almost there."
"Yeah!" Ji Liao responded.
"Junior brother Ji, if we feel something is wrong when we arrive at Huang's house, we will run away immediately." The closer we got to the mission location, the more nervous Wen Changming became, and he told Ji Liao.
Ji Liao didn't pay attention to Wen Changming at this time, but frowned and looked at the ground beneath him.
Seeing Ji Liao's appearance, Wen Changming asked suspiciously, "What's wrong with Junior Brother Ji? But you noticed something wrong?"
Ji Liao frowned more tightly and said, "Brother Wen, I wonder if you have noticed that since we just stepped into the Huang family's sphere of influence, there has not been a single mortal in the mortal world below?"
Not long ago, there was nothing unusual in the mortal world below, but after Ji Liao passed through the sphere of influence of the Huang Immortal Cultivation Family, the scenery below suddenly changed. The most obvious thing was that not a single mortal figure could be seen.
At first they passed through some small villages, which were overgrown with weeds and had obviously been abandoned for many years. Ji Liao initially thought that it might be the result of a fight between mortals in Shendong, but after flying for a long time, they passed by more than a dozen small villages. Even in a small town, there is still not a single person to be seen. It is overgrown with weeds and wild animals. It is obviously completely deserted.
Wen Changming also frowned, as if reminiscing. After a moment, he said solemnly, "It's true as Junior Brother Ji said, it seems that no living person has appeared since just now."
Ji Liao looked solemn and thought in his mind. According to common sense, this is an impossible situation. Although the villages he passed were all deserted, there were still signs of life. If one or two villages were That's all, but it's too abnormal to not see a single person in a small town. Moreover, places where there are cultivating immortal families are basically places where mortals gather, because the cultivating immortal families will basically protect the mortals around them. If they encounter In the event of a drought, the Immortal Cultivation Family will cast spells to make it rain. If there is a flood, the Cultivation Immortal Family will cast spells to block the water. In short, the mortals living near the Cultivation Immortal Clan can live and work in peace and contentment without worrying about food and clothing.
But now we are approaching the territory of the Huang Immortal Cultivation Family, and there is not even a single person in sight. There must be something hidden in this.
"Is it a plague?" Wen Changming frowned and said.
Ji Liao shook his head and denied Wen Changming's words, "It's impossible. There will be no large-scale plague in a place where the Immortal Cultivation Family is located."
"Then this is..." Wen Changming knew that what Ji Liao said was right, but he couldn't think of anything to say hesitantly.
"This matter is definitely not simple, let me go and take a look!" Ji Liao said lightly, and then his mind moved, and the clouds fell down under him.
"Hey, Junior Brother Ji, Junior Brother Ji, be careful!" Wen Changming saw Ji Liao suddenly falling from the clouds, and immediately stopped flying and shouted in mid-air.
At this time, they happened to pass by a small village. This village was not big. It looked like there should be more than fifty households. The terrain here was flat. There was a winding stream not far outside the village, and on the other side of the stream. A large area of farmland has been cultivated on one side. It was obvious that people living here had plenty of food and clothing.
Ji Liao fell into a small courtyard overgrown with grass. The courtyard was surrounded by a half-person-high earthen wall. There was a three-room hut in the middle of the small courtyard. However, the hut was now dilapidated. The ridge of the roof collapsed and a layer of thick rain fell. Thick dust, covered with spider webs.
Ji Liao dispersed his consciousness and swept away towards the hut.
Everything in the house immediately came to his mind.
The hut was like a normal mortal life. There was a table in the main room and several chairs neatly placed around it. There was no appearance of the scattered seats during the escape.
Ji Liao's brows furrowed as his consciousness glanced towards the bedroom of the hut.
But they saw two skeletons lying on a wooden bed. The two skeletons were a man and a woman. They looked like they were husband and wife. At this time, the two skeletons were covered with quilts, revealing two deep white skulls. The flesh rotted directly inside the quilt, which looked extremely disgusting.
At this time, the quilt covering the two skeletons squirmed, and two huge mice emerged from the quilt. They glanced around, jumped off the wooden bed and ran away.
"It looks like he died in his sleep. Could it be poisoning?" Ji Liao whispered, and then his figure flashed and fell into another adjacent courtyard.
After the spiritual inspection, Ji Liao's brows furrowed even more tightly, but this time there were not two skeletons but four. The two elders and the two younger ones should be a couple and a pair of children. They were also covered with quilts, and they were obviously there. He suddenly died while sleeping.
"What's going on?" Ji Liao asked suspiciously.
I visited a few more houses, and the conditions were exactly the same. It could be seen that they all died in their sleep.
"This is definitely not the work of a mortal, it must be the work of a cultivator." Ji Liao whispered, and then he flashed, stepped on the white clouds and soared into the sky again.
At this time, the other people also noticed Ji Liao's strange movements, and they all stopped hiding and looked at Ji Liao suspiciously.
"Junior Brother Ji, have you discovered anything?" Seeing Ji Liao coming up, Wen Changming asked anxiously.
Ji Liaoluo pondered for a moment, then said, "There should have been people living down there, but for some reason these people died in their sleep, and now only some bones are left."
"Is this...is this true for every village?" Wen Changming hesitated for a moment and then asked.
"Yes!" Ji Liao nodded.
At this time, Mo Xiang's eyes flashed slightly in the distance, attracting Xue Ling'er nearby, and whispered a few words to Xue Ling'er.
Xue Linger nodded, looked at Ji Liao and Wen Changming, then pressed the bell and flew towards Ji Liao and the others.
Seeing Xue Linger flying over, Ji Liao and Wen Changming stopped talking and looked at Xue Linger.
Xue Ling'er circled around the two of them and landed in front of Ji Liao. She smiled playfully and asked, "Junior brother Ji, what were you doing just now? Did you find anything interesting?"
Ji Liao raised the corner of his mouth, "Nowhere, it's just some abandoned villages and a few skeletons!"
"Oh, I saw that you had been exploring the village below for so long, and I thought you had found some treasure." Xue Ling'er raised the corner of her mouth and said playfully.
"Hahaha, what kind of treasure can be found in a place where mortals live? If senior sister doesn't believe it, you can go down and check it out yourself." Ji Liao laughed and said.
Xue Linger wrinkled her nose and said, "I'm not going. What's so good about a dead person?"
After rolling his eyes at Ji Liao, the copper bell jingled and flew back to Mo Xiang.
The group of people flew towards the Baiyue Mountains again.
"According to Junior Brother Ji, what happened below was done by the immortal cultivators?" Wen Changming asked again as Guan Xue Ling'er walked away.
"It should be that mortals don't have the ability to kill all the people in a village without waking up one person from their sleep." Ji Liao thought for a while and replied.
"How is this possible? This is the sphere of influence of the Huang Immortal Cultivation Family. If something like this happens, the Huang Immortal Cultivation Family will definitely investigate it to the end."
"I don't know that either." Ji Liao sighed and replied.
He had a vague foreboding feeling in his heart, that is, the Huang family was guarding themselves, and these mortals were killed by them. But why they killed so many mortals, Ji Liao couldn't figure out.
You must know that the crime of killing mortals privately is not a small crime, especially for immortal cultivating families living in the mortal world. If they do such a thing, it is almost equal to self-destruction. Not only will they be squeezed out by other immortal cultivating families, but they will even attract sect forces. of killing.
After all, this is related to the reputation of the immortal cultivator, and the immortal cultivator is not an immortal at birth, but comes step by step from a mortal. If you do this, it will cause the mortals to be disgusted with the immortal cultivator, and the reputation will be ruined, then Who is willing to become an immortal in the future? How will the sect accept disciples in the future?
Especially the Immortal Cultivation Family, which has close ties with mortals. In order to keep their bloodline pure, members of the Immortal Cultivation Family generally marry within the clan within their direct lineage. Like the Ji family, there are always marriages with mortals.
Therefore, regardless of emotion or reason, immortal cultivators always work together to kill mortals.
Ji Liao's move attracted the attention of others.
After flying for a long time, they passed over an abandoned village. Hu Lai and Fang Lei, who had been at the front, also landed from the flying boat and landed in a small mortal courtyard.
After checking the village below like Ji Liao, the two of them also flew back with frowns on their faces.
The two people did not communicate with anyone else. After chatting with each other for a few words, they set up the escape light again and flew towards the Baiyue Mountains.
Ji Liao and Wen Changming looked at each other, said nothing, and leisurely fled behind the team.
After that, Mo Xiang and Zheng Tianlong both went to check out the village below. The team stopped and walked, and the journey of dozens of miles took half an hour.
Not long after, the plain gradually became rugged, and peaks rose from the ground, which turned out to be the Baiyue Mountains.
"The Baiyue Mountains are ahead!" Wen Changming said.
"Yes!" Ji Liao secretly clenched his fists and nodded in response.
The Baiyue Mountain Range is only a hundred miles away. From a distance, Ji Liao felt that the Baiyue Mountain Range was extremely steep, with ravines and valleys crisscrossing it, and the mountains were scattered in heights without the slightest pattern.
Not long after, the eight people arrived at the edge of the Baiyue Mountains. Just as they were about to plunge in, there was a sudden shouting.
"Stop! Who is it!"
Several people's expressions tightened, and at this moment, two rays of light suddenly flew out between the two mountains.
Ji Liao's eyes flashed slightly, and when he took a closer look, he saw two young men wearing earth-yellow Taoist robes in the escaping light.
Judging from their appearance, the two of them are not very old, but they look like they are in their twenties or thirties. They both have the seventh level of Qi cultivation. One of them is strong and tall, with a pair of copper-bell-sized eyes. With his thick fingers and thick black eyebrows, you can tell at a glance that he is a man who lives an extremely rough life. Under his feet is a huge long sword. The long sword is extremely sharp and shines with a dazzling cold light, making people dare not look directly at him.
The other man is seven feet tall and pretty handsome, but there is a ferocious scar from top to bottom on his right face, which ruins the overall image and gives people a fierce feeling, especially when he is stepping on A stone artifact that looks like a tombstone. This stone artifact emits a faint black light, which adds a sinister meaning to this person.
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