Chapter 164 The Remnants of the Demonic Path

In the dark and damp cellar, a few rays of light shone through the gaps in the wooden boards, and particles of dust were clearly visible in the light. On the straw-covered floor, unknown black insects crawled around.

Several men and women who looked to be only five or six years old huddled in a corner, bringing a little warmth to each other.

Creak, creak, creak!

There was the sound of wooden boards being trampled on above her head. Xingwei was startled and hurriedly opened her eyes and looked up.

The next moment, the wooden board used to cover the head was opened.

Before he could see the eyeshadow on it clearly, a black shadow was thrown down with a thud, and then the board was covered again.

"This environment is really bad."

A complaining voice came.

Xingwei hurriedly looked down and found that the person left behind was a child wearing brocade clothes.

The child looked pretty and pretty, and it looked like he came from a wealthy family. He stood up and patted the dirt on his body. When he found that it couldn't be wiped off, he simply gave up. After looking around for the last time, he found a place to sit leisurely.

Then he closed his eyes and rested his mind, as if falling asleep.

Xingwei was very surprised.

She has been here for more than ten days, and this is the first time she has seen such a calm person.

The boys and girls who were sent in earlier would usually cry for a long time and would not calm down until they ran out of energy.

And usually when they are brought in, they should be in a coma, and it will take half a day to wake up. Why did this person wake up just after he was thrown in?

Xingwei was curious and kept staring at the boy. After a long time, there was no movement.

"Did you really fall asleep? This is amazing!"

People like them have been locked up for several days, and they will only fall asleep when they are too tired to bear it. It is like falling asleep when the other party comes in, just like returning to their own home.

etc! Could it be that his brain was damaged?

Xingwei thought of the boy a few days ago. His head hit the ground first when he was dropped and his head was broken. He sat there that night, fell asleep and never woke up.

She stood up carefully, approached the boy, and stretched out a hand to see if he was still breathing.

The other children noticed her behavior and looked over.

Compared with adults, these children have a stronger tolerance. They have gradually adapted to this dark environment and have regained the unique curiosity of children.

Snapped!

Just when Xingwei was about to reach it, the boy suddenly reached out and grabbed her wrist.

"What's your name?" the boy asked with a smile.

"Huh? I, Xing, Xingwei!"

Xingwei answered instinctively.

She wanted to pull her hand back, but the other person's grip was too tight, and she couldn't move no matter how hard she tried.

Until the boy took the initiative to let go.

Xingwei was shocked. The other party was obviously younger than her, so why was he so strong?

"How were you arrested? Where are your family members?" the boy asked softly.

His calm and soft voice gave Xingwei a father-like feeling, making her relax unconsciously.

"My father passed away, and my mother went to help others. I was alone at home, and someone knocked on the door. When I opened the door, I fainted, and when I woke up, I was here!"

Xingwei said truthfully without hiding anything.

"Where are you guys?"

The boy looked at the others again.

The child had no defensiveness to begin with, and the boy's voice was full of intimacy, so he soon started talking one after another.

The boy didn't know where to take out food for them to eat, helped them treat their injuries, and told them stories.

The cellar, which should have been miserable, was now filled with joy and laughter.

After about two days, the cellar was opened again. This time, no new children were dropped. Instead, a strong man jumped out, lit a stick of sandalwood in his hand, and shook it in a circle. All the children were unconscious. Then he picked them up one by one and threw them out.

When they woke up again, they had arrived in a cave outside Fangshi.

Xingwei opened her eyes and saw the boy sitting on the ground, scratching around with a stone.

"Xu Da, aren't you afraid?"

Xingwei walked over and asked.

Although she has little life experience, she has heard many rumors from her mother's mouth and knows that there are demon cultivators and evil cultivators in this world, who like to capture some children and use them to refine elixirs and medicines.

Originally, they still had a glimmer of hope in Fang City, but now that they have been moved to the mountains, they are afraid that they will be doomed.

Although the children present were not very old, they could more or less guess what was going on. They were all very frightened, their faces were tense, and several of them cried.

Even she felt that she might never see her mother again.

If there is a next time, she will never open the door to a stranger again.

Only Xu Da, who appeared at the end, Xing Wei never showed a trace of fear from the beginning to the end.

"Being afraid is also death, not being afraid is also death, so why not make yourself happy." Xu laughed.

"Huh? It seems to make sense!"

Xingwei nodded her head unconsciously.

But I always feel like something is wrong.

Three more days passed in the blink of an eye. During this period, a dull-looking female disciple gave each of them a Bigu Pill.

On this day, the dull-looking female disciple came in again, kicked the sleeping children awake with her feet, and then led them out of the cave where they lived, turning left and right to an underground hall.

There is a huge cauldron in the center of the hall, surrounded by six monks wearing blue robes, sitting in six directions.

In a corner of the hall, there were dozens of children of similar age, standing there numbly, huddled together. Counting the group of them who had just entered, there were almost hundreds of them.

Beside the child, there were four men and women in gray robes, guarding the area to prevent the children from running around. The dull-looking woman also stood by after sending them away.

Everyone was waiting in formation, as if they were waiting for someone.

Not long after, a sinister-looking man in a red robe walked in.

"Are you all ready?"

"Return to the Lord! One hundred boys and girls are here!"

One of the six green-robed monks said with a flattering smile.

"In that case, let's get started! If we can refine the Bleeding Essence Pill, your share will definitely not be missed!" said the man in red robe.

"Thank you, Lord!"

Everyone bowed to thank them, their breathing becoming a little heavy.

The man in red robe sat on the throne, followed by a series of preparations for alchemy, and then he looked at the people guarding the children.

"Invest one for every thirty seconds, separate men and women. If something goes wrong, I can't forgive you!"

"yes!"

The five people hurriedly lowered their heads, then turned to look at the children, considering which one to vote for.

The children were so frightened that they squeezed into the middle like chickens that had just hatched. Only the boy named Xu Da stood motionless.

Xingwei stretched out her hand and pulled, but she didn't pull.

Shoot the first bird!

Several people did not tolerate Xu Da's obvious behavior. They caught him and threw him into the alchemy furnace. All the children were so frightened that they covered their mouths.

As Xu Da was thrown into the alchemy furnace, the flames that originally only covered the ground suddenly swelled and almost enveloped the entire alchemy furnace. The high temperature caused pain to the skin of people who were several feet away, not to mention the inside of the alchemy furnace.

Xingwei covered her mouth and looked at the alchemy furnace with fear, worry, and more of despair.

What makes everyone strange is that the child thrown in has not made any movement yet.

Wouldn't it have killed him when he threw it in?

Thirty breaths of time passed quickly, and the man in red robe also threw a lot of medicinal materials into it.

Just when the four monks in gray robes forcibly grabbed a child and were about to throw him in, the man in red robes suddenly spoke and asked them to stop.

"The last one hasn't been refined yet, please wait a few more breaths!"

After a few breaths passed, the man in red robe organized again, and this time he even frowned.

"What's going on? After all this time, I can still feel the breath of life inside? Is this kid incorrigible?"

The red-robed man kneaded the magic formula with his hands to increase the firepower. The six green-robed monks also took action at the same time under his instruction. The power of the flames increased significantly, and it had a tendency to transform like red spiritual fire.

Just like this, another thirty breaths passed, and the breath of life inside not only did not weaken, it seemed to be a little stronger.

"Damn! Damn it! Damn it!"

The man in red robe's face had turned ugly. He had been preparing carefully for so long, but he didn't expect such a change to occur at the beginning.

"Add spiritual wood into it, I want to see if it is really made of iron!"

Although he realized something was wrong, the man in red robe had no intention of stopping.

According to his guess, the other party probably had something to save his life, which was activated in times of crisis.

These children were all captured from Fangshi. Their parents were practitioners, so it was normal for them to have some life-saving means.

It's just that his own men were too useless and didn't find them.

But no matter how life-saving things are, it is impossible to withstand endless high temperatures.

If you take it out at this time, the previous efforts will be in vain. It is better to simply refine it directly.

As time passed, a quarter of an hour, half an hour, and an hour, even the children began to realize that something was wrong.

Even if the iron lump was thrown in, it should have turned into molten iron. Why is there still life in it?

The six green-robed monks who were assisting in the alchemy had sweat on their faces, and most of their spiritual energy had been consumed.

At this time, the man in red robe was struggling internally. He felt that something was wrong, but he did not dare to stop.

"It seems like you only have these methods. It's really boring."

A childish voice came out from the alchemy furnace, and then the furnace lid, which weighed a thousand kilograms, was lifted up by a childish hand. The child they threw in walked into the air step by step, as if stepping on a ladder. .

"Xu Da?!"

Xingwei couldn't help but scream.

The other kids looked at him like they were monsters.

At this point, even fools like it, this child is definitely not a child.

"Activate the formation!"

The red-robed man shouted loudly, and the six green-robed monks and him put their hands on the ground at the same time. The dense red runes immediately rose up, turned into a flying sword that acted as a bloody aura, and shot towards the boy.

"How dare you show off your little second-order formation in front of me!"

The boy spread his five fingers, and the flames of the alchemy furnace quickly gathered, forming layers of defense around him, blocking all the flying blood swords. No matter how many people pushed, they could not break it.

"Fire control? How can someone have such strong fire control?" the man in red robe said in shock.

His cultivation has reached the perfection of qi training, and he is only one step away from building the foundation. With the help of six subordinates in the middle stage of qi training, and controlling the formation at the same time, this power cannot be blocked so easily even in the foundation building stage. As a result, The opponent just used the most ordinary fire-bending technique to block the attack.

This person is too strong and invincible!

A high-level escape talisman appeared in his hand, and the man in red robe was about to escape.

As for the life and death of his men, he didn't bother to care.

As a demonic monk, it is normal to sacrifice others to fulfill yourself.

"Want to run? Haha!"

The boy smiled coldly, pinched his fingers together, and a small ball of flame quickly turned into flying needles, which were shot out instantly.

Puff puff puff!

All the monks in the room were shot through the head by flying needles in the blink of an eye.

There was no one left to resist, including the most powerful man in red robe.

The children were so scared that they huddled together and did not dare to speak. At this time, they were also afraid of the boy.

Only Xingwei took a step forward but hesitated to speak.

The boy jumped down from the alchemy furnace. At the same time, a blue magical bird with a long tail like a peacock flew out of his body and flew around several corpses. Pull out one soul after another.

Yes, the boy in front of him is Xu Mu.

As for the green flying bird, it evolved from the blue sparrow. Xu Mu called it Qingluan. Its strength was not much weaker than the ordinary golden elixir. He specially used it to protect this clone.

After reading the memories of these people, he knew their births and origins.

It turned out to be a group of casual cultivators who had inherited the magic way. Because they heard that Baihefang City had a large population, they built a secret base nearby and wanted to capture children to make alchemy. However, they were very unlucky and caught Xu Mu on his head.

"It seems that the forces outside Fang City need to be strengthened. I'm afraid there will be fewer similar situations in the future!"

Although the demonic sect has been destroyed, the demonic inheritance is difficult to destroy. In the process of exterminating the demonic remnants, many people must have obtained the inheritance.

The cultivation of the demonic path is different from that of the righteous path. Especially in the early stages, you can make rapid progress by relying on some evil methods.

This supports those practitioners with poor talents and insufficient resources to take risks.

This kind of thing cannot be banned under any circumstances.

In other words, the demonic path is already part of the immortal path, but their actions are more extreme and their methods are more ruthless.

It has only been 30 years since Tongyou Sect and its affiliated forces were destroyed, and there must still be many demonic monks left.

These remnants of the demonic path dare not go to the hinterland of the sect. If they want to survive, they can only focus on Fangshi, which they have just started to rebuild and is close to the original demonic path area.

According to the news from Chi Feiyan, the area originally managed by the Demonic Path was the real hardest-hit area. Demonic monks often appeared and the fighting never stopped. It would probably take at least a hundred years to completely eliminate the remnants of the Demonic Path.

Xu Mu picked up the red-robed man's storage bag, turned around and walked out of the cave.

"Xu, Xu Da! What should we do?"

Xingwei asked boldly.

"Just wait here. The guards from Fangshi will come to take you back later."

Xu Mu smiled, waved his hand, and disappeared in front of everyone.

He didn't have time to send these little brats back. The reason why he used a trick to sneak into the team was just to see what these people were doing. Now that he had had enough fun, he naturally wanted to go back.

Soon after, the city guards who were instructed by the main body rushed in, cleaned up the mess, and sent these children back to their various parents.

"Uncle, do you know where that Xu Da is?"

Xingwei couldn't help but ask the guard.

"have no idea!"

The guard shook his head.

"We just received an order from above to come and eliminate the demonic monks! But since the surname is Xu, it should be someone from the Xu family!"

To be able to kill so many demonic monks, only masters in the foundation-building stage can do it. The only force with foundation-building strength in Fang City is the Xu family, the manager of Fang City, and the other party's surname is Xu. He must be a member of the Xu family, but specifically, Which one is not something that a little guard like him can know.

There were also instructions passed down from above, telling them not to spread the news, let alone make inquiries.

"Master of the Xu family?"

Seeing that the guard didn't know, Xingwei could only bury her doubts deep in her heart and just thought that she must thank him properly if she had the opportunity in the future.

On the other side, the avatar who returned to Fangshi was personally delivered to Liyang City, and then escorted by people arranged by Chi Feiyan to take a flying boat to the Tianhe Sect to participate in the Tianhe Sect's ten-year apprenticeship ceremony.

At this time, the main body passed through the space rift and went to Suxin Palace to see the two children who were about to be born.

Half a year later, the clone arrived in Tianhe City and went to Tianhe Sect to register with his newly acquired identity.

"I wonder if my clone can get away with it?"