Returning from the abyss

Chapter 1317 Selected

Not long after, Erlong came out of the cold house, holding a bag of food he found in the corner.

"Have you killed them all?"

"Blind woman, have you been here all this time?"

Erlong looked at the thin woman standing outside with a look of disdain on his face: "Is it fun? Do you want to do it with the ones inside?"

"Killing so many people, it seems like you must have kowtowed quite a few times?"

"Can't I just break those little devils' necks one by one?"

"Beggars who freeze to death are common, but a group of beggars killed will attract attention. You don't have any other means to kill without leaving any traces." The blind girl laughed, "The most important thing is that I am blind, so my ears are more sensitive. I heard the sound of your kowtow."

"Are you looking for death? Do you want me to kowtow to you four times?"

The blind girl put her hands into her sleeves, chuckled and said, "I really can't bear it... Were you beaten badly? I can't see it, but..."

"Hmph, forget it."

"Don't be so arrogant. If you are discovered, you will be eliminated." The blind girl said, "You should use this tool well. This is what you should do. If you only know how to bully the weak, I'm afraid your value will soon be gone."

"At worst, I can try to see if the young master can bear four of my heads." Erlong licked his lips, "With such ability, who would want to be a beggar? Blind woman, don't you want to--"

"No, I want to live longer." The blind girl didn't even wait for him to finish, "The one who can give it to me can naturally take it back. Every sip and every bite is destiny. I just want to live a good life."

Erlong walked away bored.

The blind girl sighed slightly, walked to the intersection and waited for a while, then she groped her way to a few soldiers patrolling the street and pointed out the direction of the house.

"The beggars on this street didn't come out today. Please go and check on them."

After directing the soldiers over, the blind girl looked towards the corner of the street, nodded, and walked away.

"Hey, mother-in-law, that Erlong is definitely not a good guy. Are you sure you can hand him over to him?" The middle-aged scholar frowned and said, "Such an arrogant and perverse person is really dangerous."

"Of course they are suitable... Young Master doesn't want to choose loyal people." Grandma leaned on her cane and turned around slowly. "We are just helping Young Master to test the functions of these refined things. Of course, we choose people who can be used, not loyal. After all, loyalty is nothing to Young Master."

"Ah... I understand. Where is the blind girl, Yan Li?" the middle-aged scholar asked again, "It seems that she has discovered us."

"Haha, without eyes, I will naturally be more perceptive in other aspects."

But after Erlong left that place cursing, he prepared to find another beggar's den or something like that. He had just entered the city, but he could roughly guess where the beggars who were still alive in the city lived.

In this kind of cold weather, all the cold-proof houses are occupied, and there are not many abandoned places that can keep people warm.

Just then, he and Lu Ning passed by each other.

"Hey, she's a lady from a wealthy family." Erlong took a glance and immediately lowered his head.

No matter whether the sword on the waist is really a skill or just for show, Erlong cannot afford to offend such a person. Even if he got a treasure like "The Fourth Kowtow", he would not dare to go against someone who obviously came from a wealthy family.

This made him feel suffocated.

After testing the fourth kowtow, he already knew what was wrong with this thing.

Erlong pinched a copper coin hanging on a rope around his neck, his eyes becoming increasingly gloomy.

The "Fourth Kowtow" can only be used on one person. The time interval between each kowtow cannot be too long, and the target cannot be changed in the middle.

Only after kowtowing four times can he kill the person, and this is the only "result" that will satisfy him.

He walked unsteadily, unaware that someone was following him.

  After all, how could a beggar with no martial arts skills possibly notice that Lu Ning was following him?

She just used her lightness skills to hide her voice, and she caught up with Erlong without using any skills to hide.

Why is there a living soul attached to the back of a beggar?

Since the influence of the innate purple qi on her became less and less, she would try it out frequently to see what was happening around her. The current situation in Xingyin City required constant attention.

Living souls are not common in this world, because living souls are usually contained in the body and cannot be seen normally. However, dead souls roam the world. Lu Ning has seen some people who have some dead soul attached to them - this is a normal phenomenon.

  How can a living soul possess a body? Why can a living soul leave the body? And why is he staring at him?

The books on refining magical instruments that she obtained mentioned that those that could contaminate living souls were mostly related to some evil arts.

She could see that the beggar knew no martial arts, so that must be some other problem.

Following Erlong, she walked into a group of dilapidated shacks. The houses here were basically built with broken wood and bricks, and most of the people living in them were homeless poor people.

Soon after Erlong entered, he heard shouting and crying. Lu Ning had no intention of upholding justice. After all, although a group of poor people lived here, there were still some soldiers patrolling.

"Hey, what's the noise?"

Soon two soldiers rushed over, walked into the shed with disgust on their faces, and dragged Erlong out.

"You deserve to be killed! What are you doing here?"

The soldiers were not in a good mood towards those who were still making trouble at this time. They picked up sticks and started beating them. Erlong was soon beaten to the ground and rolled over screaming in pain. He was desperately begging for mercy.

  Lu Ning was a little confused. How could a guy who was suspected to be a cultist be just like this?

"Ah... an unrepentant person."

A gentle voice sounded not far away. Lu Ning saw a blind girl tapping the ground with a bamboo stick and slowly walking towards here.

  But her movement did not alarm anyone. Erlong was still being held down and beaten by two soldiers. Even if he said he would give the two soldiers money, it would be useless. Now that the situation in Xingyin City was tense, who would dare to accept a bribe?

When the two soldiers were finally tired of beating him, they dragged Erlong away, probably intending to throw him into a cell.

The blind girl - Yan Li just listened, and then walked into the shed where Erlong had just been dragged out.

There were several women and children there, but no young men, and they were all skinny. The blind girl squatted down and placed a few copper coins on the ground.

"Buy some food and firewood, and don't leave any money." Yan Li stood up and walked out of the shed.

"I can't see it, but I can hear it and smell it. The sound of the cold wind whistling, and the clean smell that should belong to someone who doesn't belong here."

She slowly turned her head, and Lu Ning knew that she saw herself.

"Why did you follow him here? What are you curious about?"

  This woman is different from the ruffian beggar just now. She has some basic skills in martial arts. Besides martial arts, she may have some other different skills?

Lu Ning suddenly had a premonition of danger. She hurriedly tilted her head back slightly and prepared to practice her internal energy. But at this moment, she felt the innate purple energy in her body begin to surge. The pain that had been almost relieved came back again!

She was very familiar with this feeling. When she almost went astray during her breakthrough in the Senluo Nine Transformations Heart Technique, her true energy was also surging like this.

Why did this guy suddenly attack her? Was her behavior being monitored?

Lu Ning was not surprised but happy. Although she found it by accident, she did find the clue that made her uneasy in Xingyin City. Now she just had to subdue this woman and try to get the information out of her.

It's not difficult.

She silently recited Buddhist scriptures to suppress the innate purple energy surging in her body, then drew her sword and pointed it at Yan Li.

"Let's try it."

Yan Li smiled slightly, tapped his face with his bamboo stick a few times, and then suddenly realized: "You are really young, I thought you should be at least a more experienced person... I guess you have never been hurt during the time you have been in the martial arts world."

Lu Ning walked towards Yan Li in silence, but she did not rush forward. Yan Li's attack just now was very strange, and she felt familiar with it, but she could not tell at the moment.

"Ah, you didn't just rush towards me?" Yan Li sighed slightly, "You are so young, why are you so experienced? Have you really never experienced any life-and-death struggles? Why are you so sensitive to matters between life and death?"

Lu Ning quietly took out a flying knife, but she had a feeling that the sound of the flying knife breaking through the air might be avoided by the blind girl's wind-detecting device.

"Look, I don't dare to move. Of course I can try to leave, but you are more unknown to me than I am to you. I have to take action against you, but I must declare that I have no ill will towards you-"

Yan Li smiled lightly and lowered his wrist half an inch.

"The moon waxes and the stars wane."

This time it was not the innate purple qi, but the ghost flag on Lu Ning's body began to vibrate, and began to emit yin energy as if it was out of control.

out of control?

Lu Ning felt that she had figured out some of the other party's tricks. She immediately threw out the ghost banners in her hand, made a hand gesture, and activated the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains Technique.

This spell can only lift some light objects, and even people. However, the ghosts still have some strength. Under Lu Ning's command, they snatched the bamboo stick from Yan Li's hand and ran away together. Yan Li could not sense the ghosts, and she did not even hear any sound, but felt a force taking away the bamboo stick from her hand.

"Ah..." She put down her empty hand with a sense of loss and slowly raised her head.

But Lu Ning still didn't move forward. She threw the flying knife. Yan Li turned slightly, but the flying knife also deviated slightly, scratching Yan Li's shoulder. Lu Ning knew that she couldn't feel the little ghost, so she asked the little ghost to help deviate the trajectory of the flying knife.

"Poisoned?" Yan Li immediately felt the numbing and itchy sensation from the wound.

"Don't you want to use that ability of yours to heal it?" Lu Ning asked in a low voice.

"Well……"

Lu Ning has discovered what that familiar feeling is. This ability is somewhat similar to another ability she once acquired, although it is a very distant memory - at that time, she could make the wound continue to tear and expand, and this blind girl also used a similar method.

However, she had to make contact at the time, while the blind girl seemed to be able to perform the trick remotely.

Black blood flowed out of the wound and soon turned into normal red. The wound was even slowly healing. Yan Li couldn't see it, but she could feel it.

"How did you realize this so quickly? Is it really a talent? It's really enviable, and completely different from me."

Yan Li finally took a step forward. The originally thin snow mud began to gather under her feet, and then separated into ice and mud again.

"I just followed the guidance to come here, and then became the chosen one. I can't see the truth, but I can barely know that I am on the right path. I sensed you, and that is the guidance I received."

Lu Ning didn't understand what she was saying at all.

"You must have killed someone before, right? Can you kill me? If I die here, it means the instructions I followed were wrong. But, I have never made any mistakes." Yan Li slowly opened her arms, and a silver bracelet quickly circled around her left wrist, even beginning to emit light.

This is it!

Lu Ning immediately wanted to command the little ghosts to snatch the bracelet, but she found that all the little ghosts were running around like crazy, and she could no longer command them by making hand gestures.

"Who chose you?" As she asked this question, she threw a talisman into the sky.

As the green flames quickly burned the talisman paper, Yan Li opened his mouth unnaturally and replied, "Young Master."

The soil and ice exploded, forming two vortices that swirled around each other but never touched each other, engulfing Yan Li. Lu Ning took a deep breath and did not act without authorization - the only mantra talisman she had made had already been used. If she continued to chase after him, the strange ability would probably create more unpredictable threats.

It's easy to tell if there's a "young master" behind the scenes. Next, I can look for Lin Xiyin to check. Judging from this title, it's probably related to some sects. If it's really a demon sect, it might be easier.

The mud and snow fell and gathered together, but Yan Li was gone.

At the same time, outside the brothel Chuguan, Ning Ke found a servant who was out shopping, knocked him unconscious, and then pulled him over for a careful examination.

There was a dark brown spot on the left corner of the boy's eye, which was not much different from the color of his skin and could not be seen clearly from a distance. When Ning Ke turned his head over, he saw a spot of the same shape on the right corner of his eye, which was completely symmetrical with the left corner.

She knew where Lu Ning's abnormal feeling came from.

There are no people in the world whose left and right faces are completely symmetrical. No matter what, there will be some differences. If you really see such a person with completely symmetrical left and right faces, you may not realize what the problem is at first glance, but you will subconsciously have that subtle sense of "inhumanity", which of course comes from common sense.

Lu Ning did not approach, nor did he verify. Ning Ke now knew this, but he also understood that the person behind him could probably find him with the help of this servant's perception.