Grudge Breaker

Chapter 250: The Blame
"Ye Wujiu!"

Ding Heran sent a targeted message calling out Ye Wujiu's name, and without caring about anything else, he jumped up and landed at the mouth of the deep pit that had been closed due to the collapse.

Since the last desperate battle with the Class A earth-type man in black in the Pingyang woods, Ding Heran's magical abilities have improved significantly. He actually already possesses the strength of a quasi-Class A sorcerer, and his magical powers also show a clear Five Elements affiliation - Fire.

Therefore, at this moment, this piece of scorched earth was no different from normal temperature to him. In the absence of poison and miasma, there was no need to set up a defensive barrier.

"Wujiu! Ye Wujiu!"

While Ding Heran continued with the directional communication, he leaned over and shouted unconsciously towards the closed cave entrance - naturally, he heard no response.

He quickly forced himself to calm down, knelt on one knee, placed one palm on the scorched earth, closed his eyes and concentrated on feeling the movement.
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"Rumble, rumble..."

There seemed to be a crack under the scorched earth, with faint sounds of thunder coming from inside, and it seemed as if some giant beast was running away rapidly through the crack.

what is that?
Flames, giant beasts... Could it be that the evil spirits are causing trouble?

Ding Heran thought to himself that if it was a fight between two evil spirits, it would be entirely possible that such a disastrous situation would occur.

The Huodou was originally the fighting beast of the Fire God Zhurong. It was as black as ink, had a pair of pointed ears, and looked like a giant vicious dog. Later, it was able to multiply and gathered in the south of the "Fire-Disgusting Realm" in the upper realm.

This mythical beast feeds on fire, and its excrement resembles burning black charcoal. Although it has a slight fishy smell, it can burn for years without extinguishing. It is an important means of keeping warm for ordinary people in the bitter and cold places of the upper realm, such as "Buzhou Mountain".

Although the huotou is brave and aggressive by nature, it is a typical social animal with a strong sense of territory and will not easily leave its birthplace.

Therefore, they rarely go to other places to cause harm, let alone go down to the Meijie to cause chaos - unless someone does it on purpose.

Ding Heran sniffed. It was hard for him not to associate the fishy smell in the flying smoke and ashes with the excrement of the Huodou. Although he had not seen the situation underground, Ding Heran was almost certain that the disaster here was related to this ferocious beast.

The Huo Dou were notoriously difficult to deal with. He had heard Uncle Fei mention this before when he was talking about old stories from Si Chen Mansion. It was said that a thousand years ago there was a puppet master who had created nine phantom spirits one after another, which was a strange story in the three realms for a time.

This man was also very proud, and intended to seek out various raptors and divine beasts to fight with, on the one hand to strengthen his own phantom spirit, on the other hand to show off his strength to the world - but he was seriously injured in the battle with the evil spirit, and four of the nine phantom spirits were bitten to death, which shows how ferocious he was.

Thinking of this, Ding Heran became even more nervous. The space in the pit was limited. If he encountered a fighting monster, even Ye Wujiu would be in trouble if he couldn't use his full strength!

"Ye Wujiu! Wait! I'm here to save you!"
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Ding Heran stood up and took two steps back, muttering something, casting spells with his left hand, and spreading his right hand with his palm facing upward. He saw the ashes and dust floating around the deep pit quickly condensing towards his palm.

There seemed to be a colorless flame in his palm, which instantly refined the embers and dust that entered it, and each grain was as bright as the stars in the Milky Way - these "stars" all rotated in one direction, and soon formed a miniature star map flame in his palm, which seemed to fill the entire universe.

"open!"

Ding Heran shouted loudly and pushed the star map flame in his palm towards the blocked cave entrance!

It was like rusty iron encountering aqua regia and sulfuric acid. The moment it came into contact with the "star map flame", the black scorched earth was gradually "corroded" and melted, and it was only a matter of time before the pits were exposed.

But the biggest problem at the moment is the issue of time. Ding Heran was anxious and gathered strength in his palms again. He used his own magic power to create countless fire bombs and smashed them into the closed pit.

"Oh!"

With a sonic boom of moderate size, the cave entrance that had been closed due to collapse was seen again. However, the gap was limited and only wide enough for an adult to crawl through.

Ding Heran supported himself against the wall with both hands and leaned his head against the crack, looking inside hastily. It was pitch black inside and nothing could be seen. The rumbling sound that he had heard through the scorched earth layer before had long disappeared.

"No blame!"

"Ye Wujiu!"

He shouted subconsciously, leaned his head forward, and crawled into the pit!

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"You're calling the soul?"

A calm but slightly unpleasant voice sounded behind him. Ding Heran was startled, and before he could react, he was pulled out of the cave by an invisible magical force.

Ye Wujiu looked calm and composed, with his arms folded as he looked at Ding Heran, who was covered in dust and dirt from drilling a hole.

"No, you...what are you doing, I..."

Ding Heran spoke incoherently, pointing at the cave entrance, then at Ye Wujiu, then at himself, and then at the cave entrance again, with a look of confusion on his face.

"Go up first and then talk."

Ye Wujiu tilted his head and gestured towards the outside of the deep pit, only to see several resentment-breaking masters who were traveling with him standing respectfully beside Mo Tingfeng and Song Weichen. It was obvious that they had returned from somewhere else.

Ye Wujiu saw Ding Heran doing something stupid in the pit, so he came to look for him. "Oh..."

Ding Heran was dejected, and suddenly felt that his "super cool" spell casting action just now was "super stupid".
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"My Lord, Brother Wei."

Returning to the scorched earth pit, Ding Heran bowed awkwardly to Mo Tingfeng and Song Weichen. The prefect of Mengshui had disappeared at some point, presumably having led his team away.

Mo Tingfeng looked at Ding Heran with a smile, but in fact he had been observing him for quite some time - his magical power was obviously a level higher than before, but his ability to "become confused in an emergency" seemed to be even worse than before.

Song Weichen wanted to tease Ding Heran. But after listening to Ding Heran's "blood-splitting wails", she was starting to think that he and Ye Wujiu were a good match...

But when she saw Ding Heran, who was dragged back and looked depressed and deflated, she quickly swallowed the "joke" that was about to come out of her mouth.

Ye Wujiu had actually already appeared with his team.

He arrived so early that he even ran into Prefect Yin and said goodbye to him.

He arrived early and heard Ding Heran howl his name at least three times. Even though he was not happy, he still felt a little uncomfortable. If Mo Tingfeng had not stopped him and said that he wanted to see how far Ding Heran could perform his fire magic, he would have gone out and kicked him in the ass.

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"Everyone is here, let's get down to business. Wu Jiu, what's going on down there?"

Ye Wujiu saluted towards Mo Tingfeng with a serious expression, then nodded to the two resentment-breaking masters behind him. The latter understood what he meant and presented two things.

One of them was the scabbard of a heavy sword; the other was a small piece of burnt fire starter.

"Your Excellency, both items were found in the pit."

Ding Heran was stunned when he saw the scabbard. It was the scabbard of a heavy sword, made entirely of dark wood and wrapped in mermaid skin. There were silver-plated carvings at the head and tail of the scabbard, and embellished with turquoise. The largest turquoise was engraved with the word "Gongsun". He was very familiar with this thing.

Gongsun Miao, a martial arts master in the past, founded his own school with swords. No one in the world could match him in weapons, and he was regarded as a sword master. Five hundred years ago, he suddenly disappeared from the world for unknown reasons, and only his legend remained in the world since then.

This scabbard comes from Gongsun Miao's inherited sword, which is said to be passed down only to descendants.

"I remember it very clearly. This is the thing of the man in black who fought with Wu Jiu and me in the Pingyang Forest. It is the scabbard of the sword of the A-class earth warlock. There is only one of this thing in the world. It is impossible to mistake it."

Ding Heran rushed to speak, unable to explain what he felt at the moment - he and Ye Wujiu almost died at the hands of the man in black, an opponent with such a huge disparity in combat power, but he lost his scabbard here.

No swordsman would normally drop his scabbard unless it was a matter of life and death.

Thinking of this, Ding Heran felt very complicated. If the man in black was a hasty escapee, how terrifying would the opponent he was facing be?
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"Sir, my judgment is consistent with He Ran's. This scabbard was carried by the A-class earth-type warlock in Pingyang Forest at that time."

Unlike Ding Heran, Ye Wujiu was always calm, with a peaceful expression and no one could tell what his mood was.

He pointed at the half-broken fire starter and was about to speak, but Mo Tingfeng raised his hand to stop him, signaling him not to say anything more.

"In the whole world, there is only one person who has a fire stick that can survive being burned by the power of the furnace. That person is the bounty hunter Fire Stick."

Mo Tingfeng pondered for a moment, then told Ding Heran and Ye Wujiu some of the information about the night he received the Red Eye warning in Pingyang Woods.

"These two people had met in the Pingyang woods before. It is no coincidence that they appear here together now. We are just not sure whether they are enemies or friends." Mo Tingfeng said.

He looked at the charred circular pit in front of him with confusion. Although "Huo Zhezi" was a quasi-A-class fire sorcerer, it was impossible for him to cause such destructive power - even an A-class sorcerer might not be able to do it.

"Wujiu, besides these two items, are there any other discoveries down there?" Mo Tingfeng asked, "Besides the two of them, is there a third person?"

"Maybe not a human."

Ding Heran interrupted.

"I just felt a giant beast running underground, but... is it the evil beast causing trouble?"

When Ye Wujiu heard Ding Heran mention the Huodou, he was stunned and then shook his head.

"My Lord, in addition to these two objects, there are three carbonized corpses underground. Judging from the remaining Qi, they all have combat power of at least Class B or above."

"In addition... we did track down a strange creature with fire all over its body. He ran very fast. Although we only captured the residual Qi, we can be sure that he is definitely not a Huo Dou."

Ye Wujiu had a strange expression on his face, and a hint of panic appeared on his originally calm face.

"That strange creature gives me the feeling of being human... but not a living person."