novelapdf Chapter 371 The Girl
Chapter 371 The Girl
"Click."
In the dense jungle, a man in blue casually snapped the neck of a demon beast and tossed the corpse aside. He wiped the blood off his face and turned his gaze to a spiritual herb in front of him.
"Jadeite flower, obtained."
The man put the spiritual herb into his storage bag, and a faint smile appeared on his face.
This person was none other than Zhang Lingyu.
The chaos that swept through the entire southeastern cultivation world officially ended with the fall of the Heavenly Evil Demon Lord. The demons and demonic cultivators who had originally occupied the Wu Kingdom also abandoned their resistance without hesitation the moment they lost their backer and retreated directly to the Wanling Mountains and the Chu Kingdom.
But how could the local forces like the Fire Cloud Sect easily let them escape?
Besides the Fire Cloud Sect, the cultivators who originally came to provide support also responded to the call of the sects of Zhao and Yue, and together they attacked Chu.
As a guest elder of the Jade Light Pavilion, Zhang Lingyu should have gone with them, but he stayed in the Kingdom of Wu.
Firstly, a large number of the demonic beasts and demonic cultivators failed to evacuate in time when they hastily fled the Wu Kingdom. Most of them were scattered in various places, including demon kings and golden core demonic cultivators who hid to heal their wounds.
Seeing that they could not return for the time being, and taking advantage of the lack of manpower, these scourges continued to gather their remaining forces to harass the Wu Kingdom's sects and families.
There's no way around it; someone has to deal with these messes.
As for the second point...
That's because of my own selfishness.
Over the years, the intelligence system has also been updating information from time to time about opportunities and rare treasures scattered throughout the Wu Kingdom.
Although most of them were Foundation Establishment level items, Zhang Lingyu accepted them without hesitation, adhering to the principle of accepting all comers.
In the past, it was almost impossible for a Golden Core cultivator to move around freely under the noses of the Fire Cloud Sect and the Purple Nether Sect.
This is the only opportunity he has now to travel so freely across most of Wu's territory.
For seven whole days, he traveled all over the Wu Kingdom, dealing with the lingering problems caused by demonic cultivators while also seizing almost all the intelligence and opportunities.
Not to mention the Foundation Establishment stage, there are three Golden Core stage cultivators alone!
They are respectively the Illusion Bamboo, the Dragon Bone Fruit, and the White Jade Fruit.
This is already quite good. Most of the famous mountains and blessed lands in the Wu Kingdom are under the control of the two major Nascent Soul sects and more than a dozen Golden Core forces. The barren spiritual energy in the other regions is simply unable to give birth to valuable spiritual objects.
As he was rushing to his next destination, a streak of silver light flew toward him from the distant horizon.
He reached out and took it; it was a message.
From Yuguang Pavilion.
"Is it over already...?"
Zhang Lingyu was somewhat surprised. It said that cultivators from the three kingdoms of Zhao, Wu, and Yue had begun to withdraw from the Kingdom of Chu and return to their respective sects to recuperate.
Let the local forces like the Fire Cloud Sect handle the affairs of the Wu Kingdom themselves, and let the cultivators of the Jade Light Pavilion return to their sects as soon as possible to report back.
Now that the Demon Lord has fallen and the Netherworld Sect has closed its gates, it should be a good time to launch a major offensive, seize a large amount of Chu territory, and weaken the strength of the demonic path.
Why give up now when there were so many good news stories recently...?
However, he didn't think too much about it; since they told him to leave, he would leave.
Anyway, we've already got what we were supposed to get. The rest are all Foundation Establishment level items, so it doesn't matter whether we take them or not.
However, before leaving, he still needed to go to one more place.
Having said that, he transformed into a streak of crimson-gold light and fled to a certain place.
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The setting sun is like blood.
A man in blue robes walked slowly through a village, surrounded by ruins.
The village had long since fallen apart; there wasn't a single intact house on the street, only blackened and crooked beams.
Most of the earthen wall had collapsed, and a few tattered strips of cloth hung diagonally on the broken wall, bearing deep claw marks and some kind of corrosive dark green slime.
The soil was trampled into a mushy mess, mixed with dark red, almost blackish patches.
That was blood that had dried up for too long.
Walking on the street, you can occasionally see a few bones scattered on the ground, or pieces of clothing covered in bloodstains.
The man walked silently to the old locust tree at the village entrance, where two or three stiff corpses were curled up.
He stood under the tree for a while, and in the shadows of the distant ruins, something seemed to move.
Upon closer inspection, he saw only a starving, emaciated stray dog, limping and sniffing among the broken tiles. It growled at him warily, and when there was no response, it quickly disappeared behind the broken wall.
"What a miserable sight!" Seeing such a desolate scene, Zhang Lingyu felt a pang of sadness.
The chaos that swept through the entire cultivation world of Southeast China was not only a great disaster for cultivators, but also for mortals.
The casualties among ordinary people in the states of Zhao and Yue were not significant, but the state of Wu suffered the most.
At the beginning of the war, although major sects such as the Fire Cloud Sect were doing their best to relocate mortals, this was limited to large towns, and villages in small mountain valleys like these were almost ignored.
When most of the Wu Kingdom fell, those mortals who were in the heart of the Ziyou Sect and had not evacuated in time became food for the monsters and the blood of the demonic cultivators.
One can imagine how desperate it must be to be hit by a horde of wild beasts rushing towards you from all over the mountains.
Although sects like the Fire Cloud Sect quickly reclaimed the Wu Kingdom, the mortals who died could never return.
A large part of the reason for this lies with the Bloodflame Sect, which sacrificed the mortals they had gathered one after another as they suffered repeated defeats.
Firstly, to heal injuries with blood and qi, and secondly, to delay the recovery of sects such as the Fire Cloud Sect.
Mortals are the foundation of cultivators. The spiritual apertures generated among cultivators alone cannot make up for the shortage of cultivators in a short period of time.
This incident has killed at least tens of millions of ordinary people, and it will take at least several decades or even hundreds of years to recover.
Zhang Lingyu was also born from an ordinary person, and the tragic state of the village before him was almost comparable to that of Xiaohe Village back then.
The former was caused by a demonic beast, while the latter was caused by a ghost.
He waited silently, watching the setting sun sink and the sky gradually darken.
The crescent moon hung like a hook, and a small figure suddenly appeared at the village entrance. After cautiously observing the village entrance for a while and finding nothing unusual, it slowly crept into the village.
Upon entering the village, they slipped into the already collapsed houses and began looting them one by one.
By the moonlight that fell on the ground, you could see that she was a girl who was about six or seven years old.
Her small body couldn't move the large items, so she could only rummage through the remaining miscellaneous items.
She searched several houses without finding anything, and her little hands were bleeding from the wood chips. But the girl didn't cry or give up; she continued to grope around.
Fortunately, perseverance pays off, and she actually found some good things.
A few tattered clothes and some moldy but enough food to stave off hunger...
Having obtained the goods, I intended to leave, but with the world in chaos and no end in sight, and with only enough for a few meals, I had to consider the future.
There are still quite a few houses left to search, so there might be even greater finds.
With this in mind, the girl continued to explore the center of the village, and unsurprisingly, she obtained some more items.
She wrapped herself in tattered clothes, slung them over her shoulder, and prepared to leave, but her gaze inadvertently drifted through a hole in the wall to the old locust tree in the center of the village.
That one glance was enough to terrify her.
people!
A person is standing under a tree.
The moonlight was dim, and with the distance between us, we couldn't see the person's face at all.
The girl's mind went completely blank; she couldn't understand why there was someone here, let alone a living person.
She dared not move, afraid that the slightest sound would attract attention, so she instinctively covered her mouth and carefully squatted in the corner to secretly peek, trying to see what the person was going to do.
But more than anything, I just wanted to wait for the other person to leave.
After all, there were people waiting for her outside.
After waiting for a while, there was no movement from the person under the tree. The girl's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, slowly settled down. Just as she was about to breathe a sigh of relief, she saw a horrifying scene.
The person slowly turned around, as if knowing there were people there, and stared at them!
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