Chapter 261 Returning To The Old Place
Qinghe County.
Two rays of light came from the sky and fell directly into the county town.
Lin Sheng glanced at the surrounding environment with a look of regret on his face. The once glorious Qinghe County no longer existed, only ruins and lifeless remains.
The air was filled with the smell of decay and decay, and except for a few corpse vultures wandering among the ruins, there was no sign of any living creatures.
Nangong Aotian glanced around, and finally looked at the black soil under his feet. He picked up a handful of black soil and rubbed it, feeling the sticky touch on his fingertips.
He said in a deep voice: "There was a tide of beasts here. The soil was soaked in Monster blood and became like this."
Lin Sheng glanced at the dirt at Nangong Aotian's fingertips, sighed slightly, and walked deeper into the ruins.
Unexpectedly, Qinghe County was not destroyed by the invasion of the Northern Territory Demon Lord, but was instead destroyed by Monster.
A large county that hunts monsters is hunted by monsters instead. Things in the world are unpredictable.
Not long after, Lin Sheng walked to the former East Street. The Spirit Medicine Pavilion had also been reduced to ruins, and the gilt plaque broken into two parts seemed to tell the story of its former glory.
"This is where my dream begins." Lin Sheng pointed at the ruins on the ground and grinned.
Nangong Aotian looked at the plaque on the ground and remained silent. He didn't know what his brother meant by his words, and he couldn't sympathize with him.
Lin Sheng did not continue to recall and sigh, "Oh, let's go and see the Dongjiaopo Secret Realm."
Nangong Aotian nodded and was about to rise with his sword when he suddenly saw a figure flashing through the ruins in his peripheral vision.
"Someone!"
Before he finished speaking, Nangong Aotian raised his hand and grabbed the ruins. With a bang, the ruins exploded. One of the figures was taken over and fell to the ground with a bang.
It turned out to be a corpse vulture as huge as a human being, but there was a crack in the abdomen of the corpse vulture, and now the face of a middle-aged man was revealed.
Suddenly seeing the weird-looking corpse vulture, Nangong Aotian was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that this was not a corpse vulture, it was clearly a person pretending to be one.
Nangong Aotian looked displeased: "Why are you so sneaky and hiding in the dark?"
The man was thrown so hard that stars were shining in his eyes, and he could not hear the questions clearly. His hands and feet were so panicked that he crawled out of the belly of the corpse vulture, shouting for mercy.
"Immortal Master, have mercy! Immortal Master, have mercy! I didn't mean to offend Immortal Master. I just came over to take a peek because of the movement. I have no other ideas."
Lin Sheng looked at the corpse of the corpse vulture with great interest. This was a real corpse vulture. The abdomen was hollowed out but the feathers on the body were retained. If you don't look carefully, it is not easy to find the cracks covered by the feathers.
When he arrived, he found several corpse vultures wandering in the ruins. Unexpectedly, one of them actually hid a person and escaped his divine consciousness.
Of course, Lin Sheng's spiritual consciousness scanned very casually and did not investigate carefully.
However, it cannot be denied that there are indeed many smart people in this world.
Nangong Aotian's face softened slightly: "Is there a beast tide happening here?"
The middle-aged man shook his head: "Returning to Immortal Master, the beast tide did not break out here, but the beast tide broke out in Shiwan Mountain two years ago."
"Then why did this place become what it is today?" Nangong Aotian frowned slightly.
"The Immortal Master must have been hiding from the world for a long time, right?"
The middle-aged man asked cautiously, and without waiting for Nangong Aotian's answer, he continued: "Three years ago, many Immortal Masters in the city suddenly left, and in the following month, many more Immortal Masters came."
When talking about the arrival of many Immortal Masters, the middle-aged man showed a hint of fear on his face.
"Those Immortal Masters went around recruiting disciples and tricking them into cultivating immortals. In fact, they used them to practice martial arts. After just one month, all the mortals in the city were dead."
"Those Immortal Masters couldn't catch anyone, so they went to the Hundred Thousand Mountains to catch Monsters to practice their skills. These ruins were all smashed by those huge Monsters."
Nangong Aotian's eyes narrowed slightly: "Since the Demonic Cultivator used human blood sacrifice to practice, why can you survive?"
The middle-aged man looked hesitant when he heard this and did not dare to speak for a while.
"Say!" Nangong Aotian's voice became colder, and his murderous intent suddenly emerged. After spending time with Lin Sheng for a long time, he didn't realize that his personality had changed invisibly.
The middle-aged man was taken by the momentum, his face immediately turned pale, and he trembled: "If you go back to the Immortal Master, my late father has made friends with those Immortal Masters..."
The voice became smaller and smaller, and by the end, the middle-aged man's voice could hardly be heard. He lowered his head and trembled all over.
Seeing the middle-aged man's reaction, both of them understood that this man had survived thanks to the protection of the Demonic Cultivator.
"You live here now?" Lin Sheng asked suddenly. Qinghe County had been turned into ruins, but this person could still survive in it.
Hearing Lin Sheng's words, the middle-aged man who thought he was about to be in trouble felt slightly relieved and said repeatedly: "Return to Immortal Master, the villain lives in the monk's temple in the bamboo forest outside the city."
"Oh?" Lin Sheng looked surprised. If he guessed correctly, the monk's temple he was talking about should be the temple where the monk knew he lived.
"Have you lived here alone for three years?" Nangong Aotian looked puzzled. The place was filled with Monster Qi, which showed that there were Monsters. It was impossible for mortals to survive here.
The middle-aged man shook his head: "I am not alone. There are two masters, Huixin Huiming, and dozens of common people in the temple."
"Two masters?" Lin Sheng raised his eyebrows slightly, subconsciously thinking of Monk Zhichou's two disciples.
The middle-aged man nodded repeatedly: "Yes, the two masters Huixin and Huiming are the owners of that temple."
Nangong Aotian suddenly said: "The Demonic Cultivator performed a blood sacrifice in the city, how did those two monks survive?"
"They hid in the secret room, and the demon... Immortal Master didn't find them."
The middle-aged man explained; "The Immortal Master didn't stay here for long at that time, and many people escaped."
Nangong Aotian frowned slightly: "Since many people survived, why wasn't this place rebuilt? Instead, it looks like this now?"
"Returning to Immortal Master, because a beast tide broke out in Shiwan Mountain, some Monsters came here and ate a lot of people..."
As he spoke, the middle-aged man smiled bitterly: "Many people ran away, but I know that those who ran away must be dead. There are no towns within dozens of miles of the county, so where can they run."
He was hiding all the way when he came, but when he returned, he was arrogant and fearless. With the Immortal Master behind him, those monsters that often haunted the ruins had long since disappeared.
Bringing the man-eating devil back to the village...
"Hehehe, where to run? Run into Monster's belly."
In the fields, a dozen men were busy, and several children were playing in the fields with their little yellow dogs. Each of their faces was filled with smiles.
"Two Immortal Masters are coming with me." The middle-aged man no longer cared about the corpse of the vulture on the ground, and led the two of them quickly outside the city.
"You idiots, have your brains gone crazy by farming every day? If you offend the Immortal Master, who will rescue you?"
"You..." The middle-aged man was shocked and angry. If these words were heard by the Immortal Master...
Lin Sheng nodded slightly: "That's fine, let's go and have a look."
He immediately yelled: "Shut up! Don't talk nonsense anymore. Immortal Master can hear the gossip in the world. If you want to die, don't involve me!"
"It's okay." Lin Sheng looked indifferent and didn't care, and walked towards the temple.
"It's quite good." Lin Sheng smiled slightly and walked towards the path in the bamboo forest.
"Old Zhuangtou, are these two Immortal Masters really here to save us?" A man asked in a deep voice.
Nangong Aotian glanced at the people in the field who were still looking frightened, shook his head, and followed Lin Sheng's pace.
The once quiet bamboo forest has now become much livelier and a little more lively. Compared with the lifeless Qinghe County, this place feels like a paradise.
The middle-aged man's face lit up with joy when he heard this. The red-clothed Immortal Master in front of him looked a little scary, but his words were quite friendly. He might be able to save everyone in the temple from leaving.
The middle-aged man shook his head: "There is no Immortal Master in the temple, but the Buddha statue in the temple appeared and drove the Monster away."
The bamboo forest outside the city is still the same as before, looking unchanged.
The middle-aged man nodded with a flattering smile on his face: "If you don't believe Immortal Master, you can go to the temple with me. Everything I said is true."
"Let's go to the temple. There are Buddha statues there to protect us. The devil will definitely not be able to get in!"
"That's right, Qinghe County is gone, and two Immortal Masters suddenly came. I don't believe it."
Lin Sheng chuckled: "If you can survive in that monk's temple, there must be an Immortal Master in that temple."
Another person echoed: "That's right, one of the Immortal Masters' clothes seems to be dyed red with blood. He must be a man-eating demon."
As soon as he finished speaking, someone retorted in a low voice: "How is that possible! If the Immortal Master didn't catch us and eat us, how could he save us?"
"Oh? Such a thing could happen?" Lin Sheng was slightly surprised. When he went to the temple to offer incense, he didn't find anything special about the Buddha statue.
"It's pretty good here." Nangong Aotian suddenly said, obviously he also saw the scene in the bamboo forest.
His consciousness swept through the bamboo forest, and Lin Sheng saw an unknown small temple in it, as well as a simple wooden house built around the small temple.
That is hope for life.
When they suddenly saw someone coming, all the men working in the fields changed their expressions and looked at Lin Sheng and Nangong Aotian with horrified expressions.
Some even picked up the children playing in the fields and ran away to the temple, shouting loudly.
The middle-aged man's complexion changed slightly, he didn't dare to think about it anymore, and secretly prayed that everything would be safe.
After saying that, the middle-aged man hurried towards the temple. At this time, he was also a little worried. What should he do if these two Immortal Masters were really man-eating demons?
Seeing this, the middle-aged man quickly stepped forward and explained: "Don't be afraid, these two Immortal Masters are here to save us. They are different from the previous demon... Immortal Masters."
When the middle-aged man saw this, he glared at everyone in the field with an expression of hatred.
"The devil is coming, everyone run!"
After saying this, the middle-aged man looked at Lin Sheng and Nangong Aotian, and said with fearful expressions: "You two Immortal Masters, don't be surprised."