Returning from the abyss

Chapter 1312 Secret Technique

A tall shadow suddenly appeared on the river bank. It did not look like a human, but rather like a horse, except that its head was replaced by several thick arms. These arms did not move much, but instead were like petals, caged around the neck of the demon.

  Wen Rong felt her hair stand on end just by looking at this thing. Although its shape was not that weird, she could still feel the threat from it, even stronger than the threat posed by her life!

"Fortunately, this thing only chased us to the riverside. It seems that my judgment was correct..."

The demon stopped moving, so Wen Rong quietly climbed down from the room. She wanted to take this opportunity to complete her mission to sue the demon.

She quickly went around to where the last painting was, which was a little distance from the river. She was very confident in her ability to hide and was sure that she would not be easily discovered by the demon.

"This is it..."

Wen Rong found the location in the painting with ease. With her familiarity with Xingyin City from her visits over the past few days, she could find the place with her eyes closed.

At the moment when I felt relieved, a voice suddenly came from the darkness.

"Wen Rong?"

"Ok?"

Wen Rong subconsciously turned her head and reached for her weapon, but a breath suddenly appeared behind her that frightened her to the point of her body becoming rigid. This fear was an external effect, but it worked well for someone as timid as Wen Rong.

She felt a pair of huge fingers pinching both sides of her head. She felt a dull pain in her head, and the feeling of death almost swallowed her up.

"stop."

The man in the darkness walked out, and as he whispered an order, Wen Rong felt the fingers leave her head.

In the dim moonlight, she saw the other person's appearance.

The man was about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, with a handsome face, and was dressed in a cloth shirt commonly seen among martial artists. The sword on his back was also just an ordinary object. He walked out at a leisurely pace, and his eyes were a little scrutinizing towards Wen Rong.

"Qiu Suying...it's you. I was scared to death." Wen Rong let out a long sigh, and the tension and fear just now also dissipated.

"You shouldn't let your guard down so quickly." Qiu Suying frowned slightly, "We may be enemies."

"Haha, this isn't a confrontation scene, so where does the hostility come from? My camp is very flexible." Wen Rong waved her hands repeatedly, "I didn't expect it was you - wait! Could your identity be..."

"I'm the descendant of Qiu Weishuang, that's right." Qiu Suying crossed his arms. "So my identity needs to be kept secret. In this case, I usually only use an alias when traveling around. If there are no other tourists I know in this scene, you who know my real name will be the only threat..."

"No, wait, if you didn't kill me just now, you definitely didn't mean to kill me directly." Wen Rong waved her hand quickly, "I'm very useful. Didn't we cooperate before?"

"I doubt it." Qiu Suying narrowed his eyes. "Your tool is very useful, but you can be easily exposed due to unexpected circumstances. This is very dangerous for me."

"That's not right? Then what are you doing out here?"

"Obviously, since I don't know that many people, I might be at a disadvantage if I go it alone in this scenario."

"Then join forces? Just like before?"

Qiu Suying looked at Wen Rong again with suspicion, and after a while he nodded slightly.

"Go to the City God Temple in the west of the city tomorrow and bring the will with you." Qiu Suying turned around and said, "Be discreet, you know. Also, don't respond to people calling your name casually."

He walked into the shadows and disappeared.

"What are you doing..."

Wen Rong sighed. Qiu Suying's appearance was undoubtedly good news for her. From the last cooperation, this young man was calm and steady, and was good at dealing with various emergencies. He was a very reliable external brain.

But what did he mean by the last sentence? Qiu Suying would not say any nonsense...

She suddenly remembered that after she ran away from Zhenjian Villa, there were rumors in the world that the young master had his head torn off and died in a strange and miserable way, and the murderer claimed to be a descendant of the Demon Cult.

Thinking of this, Wen Rong couldn't help but touch his head and broke out in a cold sweat.

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The next day, when she woke up, she was very grateful that she had woken up successfully instead of being killed by the mysterious means of some demon she encountered yesterday.

She wiped her face and hurried to the City God Temple. Qiu Suying didn't like people breaking their promises, although she wouldn't show it, but she knew that if she came a few more times, it would be over.

When she rushed to the City God Temple, she saw Qiu Suying standing in front of the City God statue in the temple, looking up at the statue.

"I'm not late, am I? You didn't tell me the time yesterday." Wen Rong ran into the temple gate.

"Call me Liu Zheng from now on." Qiu Suying said.

"Oh." Wen Rong nodded, and then asked, "Why did you make an appointment specifically for this?"

"Give me the will."

"Here."

Wen Rong threw the will over, Qiu Suying reached out to catch it, unfolded it and took a look at it, then gave it to Wen Rong.

"Your mission is to steal it?"

"And use this thing to cause trouble later. By the way, what's your mission? What's your identity? Are you seeking revenge?"

"What revenge are you looking for? Qiu Weishuang deserves to die." Qiu Suying shook his head. "I won't tell you my mission, but Xingyin is about to become the next center of trouble. Are you sure you want to stay here?"

"Now I'm sure I'm leaving."

"Okay, then you can do something to add some chips for the future." Qiu Suying said, "I saw the fate report yesterday. Do you know what its ability is?"

"Hard. Ordinary weapons, even the swords of Zhenjian Villa, can't cut them. I don't understand their actions. Was it you who created the demon that was tracking them yesterday? Did they sense something and show your traces?"

"The essence of the command must not be to kill people. I was verifying its logic of action, but I didn't expect to run into you." Qiu Suying waved his hand, and the door of the City God Temple closed. "Come with me. Before you leave, I will give you something to save your life." "Okay, okay!"

Wen Rong followed Qiu Suying around to the back of the temple. In a house that had been empty for a long time, there was a huge copper furnace with an indigo flame burning inside. Qiu Suying walked to the furnace, calculated for a moment, and said, "Wait a moment."

"what is this?"

"Qiu Weishuang passed down the art of sacrifice and refining." Qiu Suying didn't like to explain, so he simply said, "The thing you want to take away will be ready soon."

"The one you had yesterday was also made from refining?"

"The Soul Refining Sect still needs to be revived, so of course this method must be used." Qiu Suying said, "I have already reminded you, don't cross the line, Wen Rong."

"I know. I just asked casually." Wen Rong said with a smile.

After waiting for a moment, Qiu Suying suddenly made hand gestures and began to slap something that Wen Rong could not identify into the furnace. After he slapped it eight times, the flame in the furnace suddenly became stronger. In a few breaths, it reached the roof, but did not ignite the beams. At its peak, it suddenly went out, and the surrounding air quickly cooled down from the hotness.

Qiu Suying picked up an iron rod from the ground, opened the lid of the stove, and with a wave of his hand, a heart-protecting mirror with simple patterns floated out from inside and landed in his hand.

"Isn't it hot?" Wen Rong asked subconsciously, and then she saw Qiu Suying looking at her as if she was a fool.

"Go to the Qingyun Temple on Luocang Mountain in Longxi. There are seven Taoist priests in the temple, named after the Big Dipper. They are actually demon kings. Take this mirror and capture them."

Wen Rong was really dumbfounded when she heard this: "Who?"

Qiu Suying threw the mirror to her.

"No, wait a minute. I've changed my mind. I'd better stay here and see what happens..."

"You have just made a decision, and I have given you the right things to do according to your decision. If you are ready to go back on your word, you won't be needed to participate later." Qiu Suying frowned.

"I'm not going back on my word. You suddenly asked me to fight seven demon kings. Isn't that asking me to die?" Wen Rong said quickly. "You know my strength. If you want me to steal something from there, I can do it. But catching a demon king? I can't even beat a demon general right now!"

"Who asked you to fight?" Qiu Suying pointed at the mirror. "The Soul Reflection Mirror requires you to do it secretly, and don't get caught. It's because you have the keyhole, a prop that is easy to hide, that I gave this task to you."

"Is that so? I'm relieved then." Wen Rong immediately regained her smile. "Is there anything else I should pay attention to?"

"The temple master Guang Hengzi is one of the contemporary evil stars. It is best to take action when he leaves the temple."

The gentle smile froze.

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Lu Ning sat cross-legged on a low peak in the mountains. With a wave of his hand, flames ignited around him. After the ritual was completed, the Ghost Banner fell back into Lu Ning's hands.

The name "Five Ghosts Moving the Mountain" and the other names are just bragging. Even with the ghost flag, Lu Ning can only command the little ghost to fetch the designated object from a place she knows and bring it back to her. She can neither move living people nor objects that are too large. This method that is boasted loudly is just a way for some unorthodox methods to steal some gold, silver and jewelry from rich people. With their ability to sacrifice ghosts, they can't even harm people.

Lu Ning took out a few other half-refined items. Only after they were made did she know what they were used for.

In the vast space, Lu Ning refined the gold coin dart he had received from the escort leader Tang Qian into a carrier. This method was also used to scare people. Although it could indeed make things much bigger, the time was very short. At the beginning, Xuan Yangzi took back the gourd not because the demon had no resistance, but because the time was up.

After the Shenxing Qianli is tied to the horse, the running speed will be tripled. You have to keep reciting the formula. It can be used normally, but it is easy to get a mouthful of dust when the wind blows. It is easy to imagine that this was invented for people who are wanted to escape.

As for teleportation, it is a means of escaping in the name of death. Lu Ning has already prepared the sign, but she doesn't know where to find a usable soul.

"After spending a few days in the mountains, it's time to leave."

She gathered her things, stood up, led her horse through the woods, and began to walk down the mountain.

In the mountains and forests of the south, there is a chill at this time. Autumn seems to have left early, and winter is beginning to show its claws.

"The Ice Age." Lu Ning walked into the mist in the mountains, and her whole body became blurry. As she walked down the mountain, the mist gradually dissipated, and Lu Ning's face seemed to be covered by a layer of gauze, blocking her obvious Central Plains features.

Although the early arrival of winter is not a typical example, the ice age is prone to chaos and famine due to food shortages. If this is the case in the south, the bitter cold in the north may be even more difficult to endure.

Perhaps when she completes her second mission, something extraordinary will happen.

After walking along a mountain road, Lu Ning suddenly heard a whistle, and then a dozen people rushed down from the mountain, including men, women, old and young, holding farm tools in their hands, and some even just holding stones. They shouted in a dialect that Lu Ning couldn't understand, pretending to be aggressive, but everyone's steps were weak and they looked like they had no strength at all.

Lu Ning shook her head slightly and spread her hands to them, and those people immediately set their sights on her horse.

Was there a famine in southern Xinjiang? This was normal. Their farming ability was not strong, and there was not enough hunting in the mountains, so famine was easy to occur. At this time, if someone instigated them, they could easily gather a force to go to the border of Wei to rob food. This was also a thing that had existed since ancient times.

Although thinking about these things, Lu Ning had already raised a breath of fresh air from her mouth, paused for a moment, and exhaled. As a stream of purple mist spurted out, the shadow of a fish demon with five eyes suddenly appeared in the air, immediately scaring these people so much that they ran back into the mountain screaming.

It's just a bluff, but it works very well.

Lu Ning had no intention of paying more attention to it, but as she went deeper into southern Xinjiang, she encountered such situations of starving people robbing the road at least four or five times. Fortunately, no one was crazy with hunger, so she could scare them away with a little fear.

This situation has become more serious in the hinterland of southern Xinjiang. In a mountain city that was not small to begin with, there is now no trace of life. The scene in the city made Lu Ning feel a little uncomfortable - everything edible had disappeared. Lu Ning found a small number of bones, some of which were from animals and some from humans, and none of them were intact. Judging from the fact that some of the bones were found inside the stove, something extremely tragic must have happened in the city.

But that's not quite right.

Although Lu Ning had never actually seen the tragic scene of thousands of starving people, she also knew that a large-scale famine would definitely cause people in a wider area to dig out and eat things like tree bark, grass roots, snakes, insects, rats and ants. The robbers she had seen before were not so hungry that they would not care about anything. It was as if the famine that could cause people to eat each other was only confined to this city.

The city was under siege, and probably remained so for at least several months.

But this is a mountain city, which is harder to encircle than a city on the plain. In addition, this city is not surrounded by walls like ordinary cities, but just a large settlement. If people want to run away, can they not run away?

There must be something behind this.

After reading so many unorthodox books, Lu Ning also knew that causing a large number of people to fall into the same panic and then killing them was one of the means of refining evil weapons.