Returning from the abyss

Chapter 1304: Mountain People

Lu Ning actually knew more about the situation in the mountains, she just didn't want others to notice anything unusual. The simulation of the distribution center was all-encompassing, and a single-person mountain combat training was naturally included.

She just knew that things were not peaceful in the mountains.

Even though Teng Liuyun asked her to investigate earnestly, as if he regarded her as his only hope, Lu Ning didn't think that the person who was appointed as the general person in charge of the war in Southern Xinjiang would do such a desperate thing. If it were her, she would not be satisfied until she had sent all the people she could.

Because of this, she was not in a hurry to complete Teng Liuyun's task immediately, but intended to first understand the distribution of forces in these mountains. Under the premise that there are monsters in the mountains, the living environment of the people in southern Xinjiang has also been squeezed. Monsters and humans cannot be equal, and one side must suppress the other to coexist.

  And how many monsters are there in this mountain?

Yuchi Long alone had discovered three of them. These were probably just ordinary monsters that didn't know how to hide. Monsters like Zhenjian Villa that were good at hiding and used lethal means were considered difficult to deal with. But now Lu Ning had also tested it. Even a monster like the ginseng spirit couldn't be killed by her no matter how hard she tried.

She couldn't do it, but Teng Liuyun could? I'm afraid he also knew about this problem and secretly found a demon-suppressing official.

  =

Lu Ning's guess was basically accurate.

Lin Xiyin was using her sword to cut meat from a pig that was as big as a hill, while Ning Ke stood by with his arms folded, waiting.

When the demon-suppressing officer reaches the level of Si Yi, it is no longer enough to rely on martial arts and strategies to deal with demons. The ghost mask used by Ning Ke is a type commonly used by the demon-suppressing department. By borrowing the power of demons, as long as the demon-suppressing officer is mentally strong enough, he can suppress demons.

Of course, there are also those who fail to suppress the demons and are instead eaten by them. The Demon Suppression Division is indeed very capable in this regard. All such demon suppressors are eaten by the demons themselves and then dealt with by the special personnel who recover them. Since the establishment of the Demon Suppression Division, there has been no such incident where demons that use magic to get out of control have run out to harm people.

Ning Ke glanced at Lin Xiyin. She had already jumped off the demon's body and started a fire to prepare for the barbecue.

People cannot eat demons, as eating demons will turn them into demons themselves. Of course, a small amount is fine. But Lin Xiyin is in a different situation, she must eat food from both sides. Unlike Ning Ke, whose ghost mask is just a mask, the demons that Lin Xiyin raises are all in her body.

"Hey, I won't eat this. I have thick skin and flesh. I'm so big but I only have so little demonic power. I don't even have enough strength to tear it into pieces." The mask started chattering again.

"Who asked you?" Ning Ke snorted, "She absorbs whatever Lin Xiyin eats."

"Hehehe, she is so young, and she only raises little ones. Jinghong, Duigu, Dingsuihou, and Mobizao are not raised yet, so of course they eat little. I can help you fight directly."

"These few are all at the level of demon kings. You don't have the ability to deal with them now."

"Then there is you, right?" Ghost Face said confidently, "The youngest genius in the history of the Demon Suppression Division, who can already kill the Demon King alone. You are so strong, and so am I."

"So you understand?" Ning Ke asked back.

"Understand what?"

"I can use you because I am strong, and you can be replaced at any time. I don't mind your nonsense, but I need you to absolutely obey my orders in action." Ning Ke kicked the dead demon on the leg, closed the compass in his hand, and invisible flames burned on the huge body, turning it into demonic energy, and then gathered into a single, which was the red pill that Ning Ke had used to feed Ghost Face before.

Ghost Face chuckled and said in a flattering way: "Of course, I knew that a genius like you wouldn't really let me spend that much effort."

"Shut up."

Ning Ke walked towards Lin Xiyin. Lin Xiyin raised her head while grilling meat and said, "Is this face still not honest?"

"How can a demon be honest? You have to keep an eye on your guys too."

"I won't let them become demon kings." Lin Xiyin said with a smile, "Only when our strength overpowers them will they be willing to sit down and talk. I won't risk my life for strength."

"There are not many demons in this mountain." Ning Ke said, "If you follow me, it won't be enough to offset your consumption."

"It's good to let these guys starve for a while." Lin Xiyin didn't care too much.

"I have decided to get rid of the demons in this mountain. I will take you to kill a demon king."

"...Wait a minute." Lin Xiyin didn't react for a moment, and after thinking for a while, she said, "I know you killed a butterfly, but that kind of newly born monster is not on the same level as the monster king that has been entrenched in southern Xinjiang for a long time."

"I know."

"If we run into the real body of the demon king, I will definitely not be able to defeat him. Are you...are you a little too confident?"

"The Linye Silkworm, the most flamboyant one, I'm going to kill it." Ning Ke said, "Aren't you very curious about my strength?"

"I want to see it for myself, but I have to stay alive. Even if you bring a demon king, I will go with you to give it a try." Lin Xiyin took a bite of meat, "I have heard from my father since I was a child that the demon king is not easy to mess with."

"Scared?"

"Provocation doesn't work on me. I'm a step-by-step person."

Ning Ke's eyes looked a little strange: "Are you saying that you came directly to Southern Xinjiang with me?"

"That's called standing up for the weak." Lin Xiyin corrected, "Anyway, unless we find a demon general to practice with first, I won't go to seek death with you. Even if you have the strength, I don't."

Ning Ke said helplessly: "Okay, I'll look around the mountain to see if there are any monsters."

"That's right!" Lin Xiyin nodded, but suddenly raised her head and looked at the sky seriously. Her eyes echoed the red shadow in the sky, and after a moment she lowered her head.

"what happened?"

"May your wish come true, Ning Ke." Lin Xiyin said in a deep voice, "There really is a demon general in this mountain, a mandrill."

Ning Ke knew why Lin Xiyin looked like she was facing a formidable enemy. A demon general was only a rating of a demon, but demons like mandrills would really bring a bunch of demon subordinates with them. When a demon-suppressing officer encounters a demon, he will always win if he fights alone, but once the number of demons increases, the demon-suppressing officer has no other choice but to divide and conquer them.

"Behead." Ning Ke said.

"It can only be like this." Lin Xiyin nodded in agreement, and then she suddenly said, "Someone is approaching over there."

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Lu Ning found a cave.

The weather in the mountains was changeable. It was sunny just now, but now it started to rain. As soon as she found the location of a southern Xinjiang village, she had to find a place to shelter from the rain.

Although her internal strength had improved to some extent, it was not really immune to all diseases. Moreover, Lu Ning also found that her internal strength of coldness could not do things like "circulate qi and evaporate the moisture on clothes" as described in some martial arts stories. It could only freeze her clothes, making her feel even more uncomfortable.

The situation in the mountain was more complicated than previously thought. Lu Ning saw the flood of demons and wisely did not go there. But others did not have such convenient demon eyes as hers. Although the few people who entered the mountain had martial arts, they would eventually be overwhelmed. "Nowhere is stable anymore."

She lamented the current situation of Wei. This was not something Qin Zhong and the others could pull back with their skills. The demons and humans grew stronger while the humans declined. As Wei, the core country, gradually declined, the demons also became restless.

There wouldn't have been so many demons in Southern Xinjiang, it was just a place of miasma at best. In this case, the problem Teng Liuyun faced was not the killing caused by setting fire to the mountain, but whether he had the ability to burn the mountain.

But the people of Southern Xinjiang were also strange. How could they live in such a ghost place? Lu Ning had investigated the only mountain village she had found and found that the people in the village were really living a normal life. Since she didn't know the living habits of the people of Southern Xinjiang, she couldn't tell whether there were people from Southern Xinjiang here.

There was no way they didn't know what was happening in the mountains.

As she was thinking, the rain stopped. Lu Ning stood up and prepared to find the next village to see what was going on, but when she turned her eyes, she found that a demon was quietly moving towards her.

"Golden demon..."

Lu Ning could naturally tell that this demon wasn't very strong, and was about the same as the ginseng spirit before. But it could conceal itself and sneak over, which was like it had some intelligence.

She continued to move forward along the river with caution, and the demon followed her at a moderate speed. Even if Lu Ning intended to stop, it would stop.

The problem seemed to be getting more troublesome. Lu Ning was not afraid of fighting with demons, but she would have a headache with this kind of guy who obviously had ulterior motives.

She wasn't the type to wait until the other person made a move.

At the moment of passing through the two trees, Lu Ning also injected fungi into the tree trunks. Then she deliberately waited for a while before controlling the distance and letting the demon walk into the range of the trees.

Then, the two trees collapsed at the same time. The bacteria inside spread out. Although the other party reacted quickly, the bacteria created by Lu Ning were alive.

The demon's outline was outlined by the fungus that fell on its body, and even Lu Ning felt his scalp tingling when he saw it.

This monster is simply a ball of lines, with a spherical body made up of fine filaments in the center, and a large number of arthropod-like thread-like legs protruding from it in a disorderly manner. Relying on these legs, it can move quickly no matter which side it faces the ground.

Before Lu Ning could do anything, she heard a shout from inside the bushes: "Monster! Ahhhh!"

A man dressed in a yellow robe and dressed as a Taoist priest came crawling out from the bushes. Only then did Lu Ning notice the human aura on him.

The Taoist priest fled behind Lu Ning and said tremblingly, "I felt a chill on my back while walking along the way. It turned out that this thing was following me! Lady, if you have the ability to make it show its true form, I hope you can capture this monster and save my life!"

Lu Ning discovered that as the Taoist priest moved, the demon also moved. She suddenly realized that the demon was not following her, but was chasing the Taoist priest.

"I can save you, but what do you want to give me?" Lu Ning asked.

"Ah?" The Taoist was stunned. "I have nothing..."

"How did you do it without me being able to detect it? I want your skills. Oh, if you have anything else, I want that too."

"Aren't you taking advantage of someone's misfortune?" The Taoist was stunned.

"I don't want your real money. If you don't give it to me, I'll leave." Lu Ning turned around slightly. Don't think that she couldn't see that there was something wrong with this Taoist priest. Although he didn't mean to do anything evil, he wanted to drag her down with him.

“No, no, no, I’ll give it to you, I’ll give it to you…”

"Okay." Lu Ning patted the Taoist priest casually, and a bacterial colony stuck to his neck. She then looked at the strange-looking demon, drew out her long sword and danced with it.

This demon has a very low desire to attack, I don't know why, but it will always be right to kill it.

As the internal force was injected, frost began to accumulate on the sword, and the Taoist couldn't help but take two steps back. Lu Ning stared at the demon, and the bacteria wrapped around it also cooled down as Lu Ning activated his internal force.

If the erosion effect of the colony is minimal on the monster, you can use other methods to assist the attack.

"Go!"

As Lu Ning thrust out her sword, the demon's filamentous body was immediately cut into two pieces. But the ice crystals wrapped around it were also shattered. The demon broke through the ice, rolled in the air, and was about to disappear again.

At this time, the Taoist priest hurriedly threw a gourd over. Lu Ning thought he would use the gourd to suck the demon in, but unexpectedly, the gourd grew in the wind and became several times larger in the air. With a crisp crash, the demon was smashed down and suppressed.

“Wonderful, wonderful!” The Taoist priest clapped his hands repeatedly. “I have been fighting with this Tun Jie for several days, but I can’t do anything. I finally made it drunk with the Red Dust, but I didn’t expect it to have the magical power of hiding. Fortunately, the heroine has great magical powers!”

Lu Ningcai didn't listen to his flattery: "Now that you have caught it, where is the thing I want?"

The Taoist priest no longer looked timid as before: "Lady, I have mastered many strange and wonderful skills. Even if I wanted to teach you one by one, I'm afraid you won't be able to learn them all in a short time."

"Even though you know so much, you can't subdue a demon?" Lu Ning wondered.

"Isn't it because we don't have any means of attack?" The Taoist priest was a little embarrassed. "I thought I was just helping General Teng to find out the truth, but I didn't expect there were so many monsters in the mountains. It really scared me."

"Teng Liuyun?"

"This old guy is dishonest. He told me that the people in the mountains are all from southern Xinjiang. Only after coming in did I know that demons are rampant and there is a demon general coming out of the mountains. If he hadn't been tricked into coming in, I would have gone to him to get an explanation."

As the Taoist priest spoke, he wrapped the demon with a few yellow talismans, took the gourd back and hung it around his waist.

"But I will not go back on my promise to the lady. I'm sorry that I cannot teach you the secret techniques of our sect, but I can teach you some mountain arts." He took out a thin booklet from his waist bag and threw it over, which was caught by Lu Ning.

"Who is your master?" Lu Ning asked.

"Xuanmen is a small sect, not worth mentioning." The Taoist waved his hand, "I am Yuyangzi, just remember my name."

"…You have some skills, but since you don't intend to teach me everything, I will ask you a question."

"I'll tell you everything I know." Yu Yangzi said with a smile.

Lu Ning muttered to herself, "You didn't want to talk about your master just now," and then asked, "Do you know what innate purple qi is?"

Yu Yangzi clapped his hands and laughed: "There are seven kinds of innate true qi in the world. The innate purple qi is conceived when the sun rises. It is a righteous and bright qi. However, the young lady has a pure yin skill. If you use it with this skill, I am afraid it will be a waste of time and effort. If the young lady wants something, she should pursue the Taiyin essence qi."