mysterious forerunner

Chapter 176 Heat

Zhang Qingxiang raised his head and saw that the dim sunset had completely sunk into the mountains outside the village.

The winding mountain looked dark at this time, like a giant python entrenched on the earth.

"Don't be reckless!" Zhang Qingxiang reminded himself.

When it comes to rescuing people, the biggest fear is that the person gets caught in the act instead of being rescued.

The courtyard that Zhang Qingxiang came out of just now is relatively large in the village.

Along this small road in the village, the closest houses are two simple adobe houses.

The chimney is also made of mud and is seven or eight feet shorter than other houses.

The yard was fenced with a wooden fence, which may have been considered not strong enough. The fence was tied with various thorny thorns.

Black smoke was also rising from the chimney of this house.

Zhang Qingxiang quietly came outside the yard and looked inside through the gap:
There was a couple in the yard. The man was short and hunchbacked, and the woman was broad and round.

The woman was constantly scolding her husband: "You are the most useless in the whole village. Not only can't you make a perfect sword, you can't even get good materials!"

"Look at the materials you got back. All of them are so sick that they are about to die. How can you make a good sword?"

"If we can't make a good sword, the mountain god won't bless us. How can we live forever?"

There were several wooden stakes erected in the yard, and four people were tied to them. They were all wearing hospital gowns and dying.

Zhang Qingxiang used the secret technique of [Tian Ting] to explore the entire courtyard, and after confirming that there were only the couple, he rushed in without ceremony.

The couple immediately transformed into beasts. The fat woman was quite tough, but she was still vulnerable to Zhang Yanei's men.

After killing these two monsters, Zhang Qingxiang carried the four patients back to the previous courtyard and told Dr. Liu: "Take care of them...do your best."

Then Zhang Qingxiang quickly rushed to the third courtyard.

This family is also "prosperous", with six people living in four large rooms.

When Zhang Qingxiang rushed in, a family of six were dancing around the stove, wildly, shouting: "It's done, it must be done this time!"

"I have never seen such good material before. The mountain god must like it."

"I finally made my own perfect sword!"

Zhang Qingxiang's heart sank. After sweeping away with [Tiger General's Spear] and killing all the weird things, he looked at what those people were surrounding... It turned out to be a big vat.

The smell of blood and potion mixture was pungent.

There is a woman with excellent appearance and figure soaked in it.

The woman's eyes widened in horror as a sword embryo was driven into her body from the top of her head.

The sword embryo is still steaming...

"It's Guan Tong."

Zhang Qingxiang has read Guan Tong's information.

She must have come to Ping An Hospital tonight to buy blood. She would never have imagined that it would turn out to be the night of soul-breaking.

From the yard to the chimney house, there are traces of fighting.

Guan Tong was a professional and put up a fierce resistance. This group of six weirdos also paid a high price for trying to capture her.

In addition to Guan Tong, this family also has another room where five people are imprisoned. Zhang Qingxiang rescued them, but Shi Fangjie was not among them.

This family did not have an "ancestor" who could refine a "peerless sword", so Zhang Qingxiang didn't waste much effort. After he told these people to hide in the house and not run around, he quickly crossed the path and arrived at the fourth house.

Shi Fangjie was wearing [Huan Yan], and Zhang Qingxiang couldn't even ask anyone about him because he didn't know what this kid looked like now.

The fourth house, the fifth house, the sixth house...

More and more people are rescued. On average, one person from about five families will refine a peerless sword and become the "ancestor".

The sky is getting darker and darker, and by the time we reach the tenth house, it is completely dark. There is no moon here - I don't know if it is not there tonight or not at all.

But under the earth, there was a layer of dark red light, accompanied by the whirring sound of burning flames, and it was not impossible to see the five fingers.

Zhang Qingxiang frowned. When he was outside, he took a quick look and saw that there were about thirty or forty households in the village.

But after coming in, I felt that there seemed to be more than this number.

Zhang Qingxiang killed twenty families in one breath, but the path in the village was winding and winding, as if it would never end.

It seems that there are countless families living along this road.

Zhang Qingxiang killed the 32nd family, stood at the door and looked forward. He didn't know how many families there were in the dark red light.

"Not quite right."

"Judging from Xiong Zhenlin's description, the arrival of this mysterious scene is very special."

Generally speaking, mysterious scenes arrive quietly, sealing an area with mysterious power, and everything inside falls into the scene unconsciously.

And this one was stirred by a big hand in the void.

Although I didn't witness it with my own eyes, I can still imagine the grandeur at that time.

In Zhang Qingxiang’s previous life, everyone had a joking term for such mysterious scenes: with special effects.

Scenes like this are extremely weird.

Of course it will also be extremely dangerous.

But until now, even those "ancestors" who really compete with Zhang Qing are not enemies of the three parties.

"Their strength will not exceed level four."

"Is it necessary to finally defeat the so-called [Mountain God] in order to solve this mysterious scene?" The Mountain God is probably at the sixth level... Zhang Qingxiang looked at the black python-like mountain in the distance, thought for a while and decided to save those ordinary people first, at least to Find Shi Fangjie first.

The next house is different from other households in the village.

This house is a large tile-roofed house with a courtyard wall that is one foot high and the area is several times larger than other houses.

"The landlord in the village." Zhang Qingxiang complained, hid under the wall, and then activated [Tian Ting].

This secret skill is actually a combat auxiliary skill that can keenly sense all subtle changes in energy in the environment.

But it can also be used for range detection. Any movement of living creatures will bring up weak air currents.

But under Zhang Qingxiang's [Tian Ting], the courtyard was completely silent.

You can't even feel the air currents brought by the night wind.

"Something's wrong."

"This courtyard seems to be blocked by something."

Zhang Qingxiang took a few steps back, stepped lightly on his feet, and used the secret technique of "Creep Footing" to rise three feet into the air and look down at the courtyard from a high position.

In the center of the courtyard, a huge stove was set up.

The crimson flames were burning brightly inside, and four-foot-long tongues of fire spewed out from the six vents around the stove.

Four skinny villagers were struggling to pull the bellows to blow air into the stove.

They were sweating profusely and panting, but everyone's face, covered with sweat beads, looked extremely excited.

There were seven or eight people being pushed into a big pit. No matter how they resisted or cried, it was meaningless.

The huge furnace outlet is facing the big pit. As long as the outlet is opened, the surging molten iron will pour into the pit, instantly melting the people inside!
It was clearly a "hot" courtyard, but all the smells and sounds did not leak out at all.

Because at the highest point of the entire courtyard, on the top of the main hall, there was a strange eye made of blood floating!

The strange eyes are huge, with vertical pupils and narrow pupils.

If you look closely, you will see that the pupils are clearly a sword filled with evil spirits!

The eyes sealed off the entire courtyard and monitored all directions. It even shoots out a few beams of dark yellow light like a searchlight from time to time, illuminating some dark places to prevent any "material" from escaping.

Zhang Qingxiang was overlooking the entire courtyard outside, and the blood monster immediately noticed him. He turned his eyes towards him and pointed at the "peerless sword" inside -

Swish!
A dark yellow sword energy shot dozens of feet through the air and swept towards Zhang Qingxiang.

Zhang Qingxiang did not dodge, intending to test the quality of this "sword". Then a huge shield instantly appeared in front of him.

【Shield Leaf】.

when--

There was a loud noise, and the shield leaf was struck by the sword energy, and it suddenly stepped back, leaving a deep mark on it, and it was almost cut in half!
Zhang Qing was surprised. This "unparalleled sword" was far more powerful than the previous ones. The sword energy alone almost broke through the fourth-level [Shield Leaf]!
Whoosh!
Zhang Qingxiang's body fell, and after landing, he continuously transformed and changed positions, and then opened his mouth to spit out a cloud of mist, using [Mirage] to hide his body.

The huge strange eye flew high from the roof and rushed up more than ten feet. Instead, it was positioned condescendingly. Then the eyeball rotated and the dark yellow light swept the surrounding area of ​​100 feet, searching for traces of the intruder.

The light swept across Zhang Qingxiang's body, and he remained motionless.

The light seemed to pass by without any feeling, but the next moment a sharp sword energy shot out with a whoosh.

[Mirage], which has never been seen through in this scene before, is ineffective against the blood monster eyes!

Zhang Qingxiang reached forward and thrust out the [Tiger General's Spear] at the critical moment, colliding firmly with the sword energy.

boom!
The void shook, the sword energy rolled back, and Zhang Qingxiang also slid back several meters.

The blood monster eye's seal on the entire courtyard failed, and all the noisy sounds inside could be heard.

Some villagers roared angrily: "What a coward! For disturbing our sword-making ceremony, our ancestors will kill him!"

More than a dozen people in the yard roared in unison: "Kill him!"

The doctors and patients who were captured were also shouting: "Someone is coming to save us!"

"Is it from the secret case team?"

"That old monster is so scary. Can he win..."

Zhang Qingxiang held the [Tiger General's Spear], crouched slightly, and stared at the strange bloody eye.

The sword energy released by this thing is too fast.

Behind Zhang Qingxiang, the [Four Arms] have been opened, but they are quietly invisible.

whoosh-

Zhang Qingxiang's feet flew forward, and [Creepy Foot] reached its limit. He instantly crossed a distance of more than ten feet and appeared near the blood monster's eye, thrusting out the spear condensed with blue light with all its strength.

boom!
The bloody eyeball was directly poked and exploded, but the splashed blood was quickly recovered, condensed and formed three feet away from Zhang Qingxiang, and then a sword energy swept over.

Zhang Qingxiang is no longer in his original position. He keeps thrusting with the spear in his hand, and every time he can poke out the blood monster's eye, and every time it can reorganize, and then counterattack with sword energy.

Zhang Qingxiang let out a long roar and became a little more powerful: "Let's see how many times you can regroup!"

In the big room, a fierce voice suddenly sounded: "Keep making swords, don't miss the time!"

The dozen or so villagers in the yard were all watching the battle with their heads held high. After being scolded by the voice, they hurriedly continued their work.

Pull the bellows, add coal, and make the furnace burn extremely vigorously.

A villager in his sixties held a long iron hook in his hand and stared at the quality of the molten iron in the stove.

"It's still a little short of heat!"

(End of this chapter)