Chapter 107: Feng Ling Town

  "Lu Bu's Tiger?"

  Kong Zhuo was somewhat unexpected, as far as he knew, he seemed to be called by another nickname.

  But looking at the serious expression of the little girl in front of him, with a hint of tension still visible on her tightly closed face, he couldn't help but laugh. "Luo Fu's Tiger? I don't know, but I'm Kong Zhuo, and my old nickname was Luo Fu's Pig!"

  Luocha pig

  As soon as this loud and resounding name came out, the little girl smiled, and it seemed that her laughter had some special infectious power. As soon as he heard that crisp "heh-heh" laugh, Kong Zhuo's mood also became more relaxed.

  It has nothing to do with any technique, it's just the feeling that this little girl in front of him brings to Kong Zhuo.

  So he now has a few good impressions of this young, somewhat naive and wild little girl.

  "Ah, how did you find me? Young Master said my Stone Concealment Technique has reached perfection!" The little girl looked puzzled, as if being seen through was a difficult thing to understand.

  "Your earth escape technique is not bad, but in front of me, it's better to stop this trick from now on!" Kong Zuo smiled and said, but also patiently explained, "I am a person with a pure earth attribute physique, so I am very sensitive to the earth element's primal force. You hide well, but after all, you are a person, not an earth element's primal force, so it is easy for me to discover that your body and the surrounding earth element's primal force do not match!"

  "Really!" The little girl nodded as if she had suddenly understood something.

  "Little sister, you came here, is there something you want to give me?"

  Looking at this little girl just sitting there in contemplation. She seemed to have some intention of sitting down to cultivate, Kong Zhuo couldn't help but ask with a smile.

  "Oh, right!" The little girl heard Kong Zuo say that and suddenly remembered her own business. She lifted her head, scratched her hair with some embarrassment, took out a black stone from a small bag hanging on her waist, and handed it to Kong Zuo. "Here, this is what the young master asked me to deliver to you, don't lose it!"

  The Young Master Shao, of course, refers to Fang Shaobai.

  Since the last time they met, both of them felt that the world had become more bizarre and they needed to be more cautious in their actions. At the same time, they almost simultaneously discovered that if they could communicate with each other with their current identities, they might be able to grasp some initiative in their hands, so when they really encountered some troublesome things, they would be better able to cope. That's why Kong Zan said "Let's keep in touch from now on".

  The little girl in front of him was Fang Shaobai's contact person, named A Xue.

  As for Kong Zhuang, to be honest, he is still a lone commander now, so he can only rely on himself.

  Taking over the small black stone, Kong Zhuo said. "Xiao Mei Xue, thank you, go back and tell Shao Bai that I thanked him!"

  "Shao Zongzhu told me to tell you. Don't be polite!" Ah Xue chuckled and said, then suddenly stopped in her tracks and disappeared into the ground.

  "What an interesting little girl!" Kong Zhan smiled and shook his head, suddenly feeling a bit amused. He himself was only in his early twenties, yet he seemed to have already acquired the kind of weariness that usually comes with middle age. Was it because he had matured too quickly, or was the world just changing too fast?

  Nobody can say clearly.

  He shook his head and sighed. Kong Zhuo crushed the black stone in his hand, a wisp of gray mist appeared and disappeared, floating in front of Kong Zhuo, then, out of the mist, Fang Shao Bai's figure emerged.

  Of course, this is just an illusion, and it was stored in the black stone beforehand. In short, it's a small illusion technique, but the content of the illusion is not ordinary.

  In the illusion, Fang Shaobai said everything that Kong Zhuan wanted to know, but he didn't know much. He is now the young master of the Tian Xie Sect, but it was the Ku Ying Sect, one of the seven sects of the Demon Gate, who created this situation. They disguised themselves as the Liu Lin family in the Long Tai Xian Huai and plotted to seize the Xian Huai.

  Fang Shaobai only knew that the dry shadow sect was the most active among the seven demon gates recently, and seemed to be planning something big. Fang Shaobai could only remind Kong Zhuo to be careful.

  "Be careful!" Kong Zuo chuckled strangely and took a step forward, looking back three times, being cautious and suspicious.

  "Never mind, let's take it one step at a time!" With a wave of his hand, the illusion disappeared. "I'd like to see what kind of conspiracy is going on here!"

  This is a very general term and in some sense it's just a geographical location at the southernmost tip of Middle-earth.

  Very long ago, this place was once a thoroughfare for Middle-earth to the southern countries. However, in that terrifying catastrophe 10,000 years ago, heaven and earth changed places, the Dipper shifted, and the blue sea had already turned into mulberry fields. The originally flat plain was replaced by boundless, endless mountains, so this ancient path of Nanhuang was naturally abandoned.

  As time passed, the originally barren land gradually gained some vitality. These people lived by relying on the mountains and rivers, and gradually became indigenous to the southern wilderness of the Great Mountains. They also developed their own indigenous civilization, but their level of civilization was generally low, compared to the civilized Central Plains region, it was just a barbaric land.

  One hundred years ago, the war to destroy demons, the demon gate retreated, and most of the remnants retreated here. The practitioners of the right way did not pursue too much, giving them a chance to survive.

  Why didn't the cultivators of the Orthodox Way pursue at that time, and Kong Zhuan couldn't understand, but he understood now. With the passage of a hundred years, the primordial energy of the Demon Gate seemed to have gradually recovered.

  In fact, in a certain sense, the war against demons 100 years ago was not as victorious as the Orthodox Cultivation Sects had claimed. The demonic sect was not defeated, and although its flesh and blood were injured, its foundation remained intact. Its internal memory still existed, so within 100 years, this demonic sect had formed control over the entire Southern Wilderness region. The indigenous residents of this land mostly believed in the demonic sect, revering it as their superior. An opposing situation had quietly formed between the demonic sect and the Orthodox Cultivation Sects of Central Plains. However, since the ancient path of Southern Wilderness was connected to Central Plains, the demonic sect's activities near this path were always very restrained, carefully maintaining an unspoken balance with everyone. Unexpectedly, this balance has now been broken by the demonic sect first.

  In the south of the ancient road, near Zhongtu, there is a small border town called Fengling Town. This Fengling Town is the southernmost town in Zhongtu and also the transfer station between Nanhuang and the entire Zhongtu, located on the ancient road of Nanhuang. After passing through Fengling Town, it is the endless expanse of Nanhuang.

  So, although Fengzhong Town is located in a remote area, it is also bustling with merchants coming and going continuously. When spring and summer arrive, the scene can be described as "cars and horses flowing like water", which is not an exaggeration.

  However, now this small town which was originally supposed to be prosperous is filled with a dead atmosphere.

  The street was shrouded in a thin layer of light gray, and the air was filled with a pungent smell. There was also a hint of blood.

  The stalls on both sides of the road were scattered all over the ground, with some fresh fruits and vegetables that had been left there for who knows how long, all rotten. They seemed to have fallen here many days ago.

  The streets that were once quite spacious now seemed somewhat disordered. Several horse-drawn carriages lay overturned in the middle of the road, next to which were several dead horses.

  Desolate. Silent, eerie.

  Now and then, in the town, there still echoed a strange, human-like humming sound and several eerie cries.

  It was under such circumstances that Zheng Wanqiu and Zhou Ziren arrived in Fengyin Town, and soon after, He Hongfen also arrived.

  Zheng Wanqiu and another person who were searching in the town saw He Hongfen, both of them were somewhat surprised.

  "Aren't you supposed to be with Kong Zuan? How did you end up here too!" Zheng Wanqiu's voice carried a hint of sarcasm and ridicule.

  "It's a different path!" He Hongxian didn't mind the words with a strong sarcastic tone, but just smiled slightly, with 70% bitter intention and 30% shameful intention in her smile. It was this 30% shame that made Zheng Wanzhou and Zhou Ziren both unintentionally look at He Hongxian with changed eyes.

  "He Daoyou, Zheng brother's personality is straightforward and honest, if there's any offense, please forgive me!"

  "It's nothing, it's nothing!" He Hongxian said with a bow.

  Zheng Wanqiu felt a bit awkward and coughed, changing the subject. "He Daoyou, have you found anything unusual on this journey?"

  "Actually, there isn't!" He Hong's face lit up with a smile, and in that instant, a captivating aura emanated from her body. The two people's hearts, already somewhat unstable, simultaneously quickened their beats, and their bodies involuntarily leaned forward, their faces flushing red.

  "Hmm... cough..." He Hongxian lightly cleared her throat, pulling the two out of their daze. Looking at the two with flushed faces, she covered her mouth and smiled, "Hongxian just feels that this small town's atmosphere is a bit off, filled with dead air, as if there isn't a single outsider!"

  Before the words had fallen, a strange and eerie howl came from afar, the howl was mournful, yet carried a hint of bloodlust, causing the two people who were almost entranced by He Hongfen's gentle voice to suddenly clear their minds.

  "What a sound!" Zhou Ziren said, turning around and looking in the direction of the sound. However, a thin layer of fog had already formed there, and with his eyesight, he couldn't see through it. Something was hidden behind the white mist, gradually getting darker in the distance.

  Zheng Wanqiu also couldn't see it.

  But as they turned their heads away, no one noticed that a strange red glint flashed in He Hongxian's eyes.

  Then came an exclamation of surprise

  Before they knew it, a thin fog had enveloped the entire town, and the sky had gradually darkened. Along with He Hongxian's cry of surprise, the two people's gazes moved simultaneously, then fixed on that place.

  A figure emerged from the mist, walking slowly and leisurely, as if strolling in a courtyard, and had already approached within ten zhang of them before being discovered.

  But when they saw clearly that it was a person's shadow, they were all stunned. What kind of person is this? It's obviously just a rotting corpse!

  The entire body was almost naked, with only two pieces of rotten and moldy tattered cloth hanging loosely. The skin on the body was pale white, without a hint of blood color, and black blood vessels were visible under the surface, which was somewhat eerie. In fact, this pale white skin was still relatively intact, while other parts of the skin had already rotted away, revealing dark red flesh underneath. Several large maggots crawled on top of the rotting flesh, and most of the facial skin had also rotted off, leaving one eyeball in its socket and the other hanging outside, connected to the eye socket by a dark purple blood vessel, making for a grotesquely eerie sight.

  "This fog is problematic!" Zhou Ziren took a deep breath and suppressed the shock in his heart. "Everyone be careful!"

  Zheng Wanqiu and He Hongxian nodded at the same time.

  Indeed, this fog is problematic.

  Although the corpse was disgusting and strange, it was just a dead object after all. Normally, even if it were only ten feet away, let alone a hundred feet away, that stench would not be able to deceive their senses. However, now this guy had approached within ten feet, and if it weren't for He Hongxian's sharp eyes, Zheng Wanqiu and Zhou Ziren still wouldn't have noticed anything. This could only explain one thing: the mysterious fog was interfering with their spiritual awareness.

  Just as the two of them were secretly on their guard against each other, one after another dark shadow appeared vaguely around them.

  One, two, three, four...

  The faces of all three changed!