Unsurpassed Spirits

Chapter 207 Silver Horn Comb

Bang bang bang.

The male cultivator's body suddenly exploded with blood. These ice crystals exploded from inside his body. There was no defense at all, and it was difficult to resist with flesh and blood alone.

The male cultivator screamed immediately, and his light-colored clothes instantly smeared with blood. Severe pain shot through his body. He almost fell to the ground and took several steps back before he could regain his footing.

But this alone put him at a disadvantage.

Luo Qingli would never let go of any opportunity she could take advantage of. Before he could fully recover, she condensed her consciousness into a sharp arrow and stabbed it at the male cultivator's released consciousness. .

"what--"

There was another more heartbreaking scream, and the male cultivator suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head. The most vulnerable part of his body was severely damaged. He had no time to think, and his knees went soft and fell to the ground. He had not recovered from this burst. When he recovered from the offensive, he felt a sudden chill on his neck.

The Chen Shuang Sword cleanly scratched his neck, leaving a long and thin blood mark. The male cultivator's eyes widened, he raised the ax with difficulty, and looked at Luo Qingli in disbelief, as if he couldn't understand why he was like this. Easily defeated by a female cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building.

Before he could figure it out, the male cultivator's vision went dark and he died.

The sharp ax fell to the ground with a "clang" sound, and the male cultivator in the late stage of Foundation Establishment who was fighting with Yan Shitian shouted loudly: "Second Brother!"

Before he finished speaking, he felt a pain in his chest. Yan Shitian's golden wheel penetrated his robe and hit him all over the body.

In a battle between monks of the same level, any tiny shortcoming is enough to affect the final result. Although Yan Shitian had consumed part of his spiritual power in the stone prison before, since he can be among the top ten in the list of young talents in the Central Plains, personally There is no doubt about his strength, and it is no problem to take down the late-stage foundation-building male cultivator holding a long sword.

Both of them successfully defeated their opponents, and Ye Wangshu had also decided the winner. The flaming whip wrapped the female cultivator in a circle and tied her tightly.

Yan Shitian was very surprised by Luo Qingli's combat prowess. She won the first place in the alchemy test in Taoyao Immortal City. Her level of alchemy was beyond doubt, but he didn't expect that her strength was so outstanding, and she faced opponents with higher cultivation levels than her. A monk who has reached a small realm not only has no pressure, but can even solve the problem a little faster than him.

Seeing that the three of them were brought down, Luo Qingli also found a spirit-binding rope and tied up the unconscious formation master on the ground.

The two male cultivators in the late stage of foundation building have been killed, so one or two must be left alive to interrogate specific matters.

Ye Wangshu grabbed the handle of the whip, stepped on the female cultivator to the ground to immobilize her body, and asked in a cold voice: "Are you from the Honghua Gang?"

A flash of surprise flashed in the female cultivator's eyes, but it was fleeting. She struggled and twisted her body and denied it: "I don't know what you are talking about!"

Ye Wangshu narrowed his eyes and pointed at the two male cultivators on the ground who were in the late stage of foundation building, "You have seen the fate of your two companions. If you don't want to be like them, you should honestly explain everything clearly!"

The female cultivator smiled, looked around them, and chuckled: "I'm just a handyman. The two people who knew the inside story have been killed by you. I don't know anything. What do you want to know? Go down. Ask them!”

The female cultivator laughed out loud. Ye Wangshu tightened the whip. The female cultivator's body was immediately restrained even tighter, and all the tiny barbs on the whip were pierced.

"Whether you say it or not!"

"I told you I don't know anything anymore..."

The female cultivator was very tough, and Ye Wangshu couldn't ask anything at all. She was not good at extracting confessions, and the female cultivator refused to say anything. There was nothing she could do for the moment.

"I think you won't die until you reach the underworld..." Ye Wangshu raised his eyes and asked, "Qingli, do you still have the true and false talismans?"

Luo Qingli took out the only remaining true and false talisman.

Although this thing can distinguish the truth from the monk's words, it still has many disadvantages.

Just like although Lao Tian told them the clue about the underground village, there are still many details that he has not revealed. In the judgment of the right and wrong of true and false talismans, this does not fall into the category of lying, nor will it There is no reaction, so sometimes this thing is useless when used for questioning.

Moreover, there is one biggest shortcoming of true and false talismans. If the monk who is labeled with this kind of talisman is tough enough and refuses to say or disclose anything, then there is nothing wrong with it.

Ye Wangshu put the true and false talisman on the back of the female cultivator. The female cultivator suddenly groaned in pain, curled up on the ground and began to tremble. She let out a painful roar and her face suddenly turned extremely pale. .

Ye Wangshu was stunned for a moment, thinking that the female cultivator was playing some trick again, but after a while he realized that it seemed to be true.

She looked at Yan Shitian and Luo Qingli without knowing why. Both of them were equally puzzled by this situation. Luo Qingli was sure that what he took out was a real or fake talisman, but the female cultivator's reaction was really surprising.

Luo Qingli tried to take off the true and false talismans, but nothing changed. After a while, the female cultivator began to convulse and foam at the mouth.

She looked at them with longing eyes and begged intermittently: "Kill...kill, I...quickly!"

The three of them looked at each other. Yan Shitian grabbed the female cultivator's wrist. After a moment, he said solemnly: "Her vitality is constantly passing away..."

Not long after saying this, the female cultivator slowly stopped breathing.

Ye Wangshu suddenly screamed and took a few steps back. Unexpectedly, many large and small black insects crawled out of the female cultivator's seven orifices, gnawing at her flesh and blood.

Luo Qingli and Yan Shitian took two steps back together, watching helplessly as the female cultivator who was still fine was bitten by these insects in just a few breaths, until her flesh and blood became blurred, and her human form was no longer visible.

Ye Wangshu looked stunned, "What is this?"

Luo Qingli frowned. She had never seen such an insect before. She originally thought it would be some rare poisonous insect, but Yan Shitian said calmly: "This is a poisonous insect."

insanity?
Luo Qingli pursed her lips.

Among the three thousand Tao methods, there is a very niche category called the art of controlling poison. However, there are very few people in the Central Plains who know the art of controlling poison. Even the Twelve Dao Pagodas do not have one specially set up for it. In the demon cultivator, voodoo insects are used very frequently. In the ghost realm, the art of controlling voodoos is more comprehensive and complete than in the Central Plains.Luo Qingli and Ye Wangshu are not from the Central Plains, and have very few contacts with demon cultivators. There is no such thing as Gu in Nanzhao, even though the poisonous cultivators of the Jade Toad Sect often use poisonous insects to make poisons. and Gu are completely two concepts.

"Is it possible that these people have something to do with demon cultivators?" Ye Wangshu stared blankly at the blur of flesh and blood on the ground. No one could have imagined that just now, this was a living person.

Luo Qingli asked: "Fellow Daoist Yan, why did this female cultivator suddenly act like this? Where did this Gu come from?"

Yan Shitian pondered for a moment, "In Yan's opinion, this voodoo should have been parasitic in her body originally, but usually the voodoo was hidden and did not appear until Fellow Daoist Ye posted the true and false talisman, as if it was With a dose of catalyst, the Gu insects immediately rioted..."

He looked at the two of them and sighed softly: "This should be some kind of secret method. Once the monk who has been planted with this kind of poisonous insect is forced to confess or has his soul searched, this kind of poisonous insect will immediately kill the master, absolutely No one left alive.”

This was the first time Luo Qingli had seen this technique, but Yan Shitian had become accustomed to it, "Zhongyuan has more opportunities to deal with demonic cultivators. If these people are really related to demonic cultivators, they will be planted with this kind of poison. Yan feels that It's quite normal. Demonic Cultivators have always been ruthless and ruthless, and this method really looks like what they would do."

So even if these people are still alive, they can't ask anything.

Luo Qingli sighed secretly, set a fire to burn the body of the female cultivator and the Gu insects, and then glanced at the formation mage on the other side who was tied up by her and was still unconscious.

This person's body is probably filled with poison, so it will be difficult for them to know anything from him.

Ye Wangshu searched through the storage bags of these four people, trying to find any clues in their things, but in the end he found nothing.

However, when he saw the storage bag of the male cultivator who was beaten to death by Yan Shitian, Ye Wangshu found many things that only female cultivators would use, and he cursed angrily: "These people don't know how many innocent women they have harmed. I don’t know which female nun I got it from.”

Yan Shitian glanced hastily, and suddenly paused when he saw the silver-horned comb in Ye Wangshu's hand, "Fellow Daoist Ye, can I borrow this silver-horned comb for a look?"

Ye Wangshu handed it over, and Yan Shitian looked at it carefully for a moment.

The silver-horned comb is in the shape of a half-moon and is surrounded by intricate silver-edged patterns. It looks extremely valuable and is also a good defensive weapon in itself.

The reason why Yan Shitian noticed this silver-horned comb was because he had only seen it not long ago.

He is a casual cultivator and is also in the medicinal herb business. There are many drug stores opened in the Central Plains. In the drug store in Shouyue City, when the city lord's daughter came to the store to buy spiritual herbs, she once talked about it with the female cultivator who was traveling with him. This silver-horned comb is said to have been carefully crafted by skilled craftsmen in the city lord's palace.

Yan Shitian himself is a weapon refiner. Hearing these words, it is inevitable to take a few more glances. It is indeed very exquisite and somewhat impressive. But now, the silver horn comb in his hand is as good as the one of the city lord's daughter. two.

The weapon refiners of the City Lord's Mansion are all hired at high prices, and the items they forge are not the ordinary ones outside. This silver horn comb is probably the only one. Now that it has fallen here, does it mean that the daughter of the City Lord of Shouyue City has also Been to this place?
Earlier, the city lord of Shouyue City held a competition for his beloved daughter to find a bride. Before it was over, he heard the news that the woman had escaped from marriage. It is said that she has not been found yet, but what if the other party encountered something unexpected?

Thinking of this, Yan Shitian couldn't help but frown.

Seeing that he was still silent, Luo Qingli asked, "Fellow Daoist Yan, is there any problem with this?"

Yan Shitian sighed: "I once saw this silver-horned comb on the head of the daughter of the lord of Shouyue City."

"This..." The two of them were stunned at the same time and immediately reacted, "It can't be such a coincidence, right?"

They had seen that woman as bright as a peony from a distance when they competed in the city lord's palace to recruit a bride. She was a rare beauty, and she was still in the early stage of foundation building. If she really entered this gambling house, and then met them If you fall into a stone prison, it may be really bad.

"Two fellow Taoists, are you pursuing this place all the way because they abducted female cultivators to make furnace cauldrons?"

If Yan Shitian wasn't quite clear about the purpose of the two of them pursuing Zhuzhi San, now that he has accompanied them on this trip, he basically understands.

By now, the two of them had nothing to hide anymore, so they told Yan Shitian about the Honghua Gang.

"I asked the female cultivator earlier if she was from the Red Flower Gang, and she denied it. But from the look on her face, she was probably lying. Unfortunately, I can't tell anything now!" Ye Wangshu shook his head and sighed.

"This gambling house may be one of their strongholds. If there is a high-level monk staying here today, the three of us will have to report here."

Yan Shitian said helplessly: "How can you two shake such a tight-knit organization? Maybe the Hehuan Tao Tower is not just perfunctory, maybe they have really cut off the clues."

Of the three of them, two are monks from Nanzhao and one is just a casual cultivator from the Central Plains. The Honghua Gang has not attracted much attention in the Central Plains. If they want to investigate further, a big force must intervene.

Yan Shitian thought for a while and said: "In my opinion, let's go back to Shouyue City first, give this silver horn comb to Youran Sanren, and see if it belongs to his daughter. If so, then it is very likely that the city lord's daughter Having fallen into the hands of the Honghua Gang, Shouyue City will definitely not give up."

This method is obviously the safest, and the two of them have no objections.

Luo Qingli found the exit of the basement, and Yan Shitian picked up the unconscious formation master and walked out.

Of the four foundation-building monks, three were dead and one became a hostage in their hands. The Qi-refining monks from the Qianmen Gambling House earlier had already disappeared without a trace, and not a single shadow was seen.

Ye Wangshu looked at the magnificent facade, snorted coldly, and set fire to the gambling house.

The three of them took a hostage back to Shouyue City. Yan Shitian immediately received the message from the shopkeeper of the medicine shop: "I found someone to keep an eye on Lao Tian before, and sure enough, after we left, he wanted to run away. As a result, he was caught."

Lao Tian seemed to have given them useful clues, but in fact, there were many traps waiting for them there. It would be fine if they were told that they were in Qianmen Gambling House. If they were lucky enough to come back, the first thing they would do would be to find He settled the accounts, no wonder Lao Tian was in a hurry to run away.

Lao Tian was probably related to the Honghua Gang to some extent, and was also taken to the City Lord's Mansion by them.

The City Lord's Mansion has refused to allow outsiders since the martial arts competition to recruit brides. Yan Shitian handed over the silver-horned comb and was quickly invited into the City Lord's Mansion.

Above the lobby, Youran Sanren was holding the silver-horned comb in his hand, listening to Yan Shitian narrate the whole story, and found a lot of himself in the storage bags of the foundation-building monks in the gambling house. His daughter's belongings, a strong murderous look suddenly appeared on his face that was as dry as tree bark.

　Thanks to Xi Ruohua, Shang Biebieshang, and Heiteng for the rewards~
　　
　
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