Fantasy, starting with a treasure bowl

"This servant thanks you, young hero, for saving my life...!"

"Young hero, I am eternally grateful for your life-saving grace!"

"This place is dangerous, young hero, please take good care of yourself!!"

Seeing that Lu Feng was not one of the bandits from the Evil Village, and that he had even taken the initiative to cut off his shackles, the young female slaves who had been imprisoned in the dungeon for a long time kowtowed and thanked him, then fled the place without looking back.

After all, they had been imprisoned in this dark and sunless dungeon for months, not only living a miserable and inhumane life every day, but also becoming slaves to the lust of a group of evil bandits, making their lives worse than death!

So now that they finally had a chance to escape, these young female slaves were naturally overjoyed and dared not stay there for even a moment longer.

"Bai Qianqian isn't here after all..."

Seeing that most of the young female slaves imprisoned inside the dungeon had escaped, but Bai Qianqian was nowhere to be found, Lu Feng raised an eyebrow, pondering, "Could this woman have already escaped...?"

"Well...!"

Just as Lu Feng was about to turn and leave, he suddenly heard a faint, mosquito-like groan coming from a corner of the dungeon.

"That's... Bai Qianqian's dowry maid?"

Turning around at the sound, Lu Feng was stunned for a moment.

In a corner of the dungeon, a ragged young woman slowly struggled to her feet. Her face was deathly pale, devoid of color, and her eyes were somewhat dazed. She was none other than Bai Qianqian's former maidservant.

"You are...Young Master Lu?"

The young maid also looked over, and when she realized that Lu Feng looked somewhat familiar, she was also stunned for a moment. "Young Master Lu! Please, please... cough cough cough!"

Before she could finish speaking, the young maid coughed up blood and collapsed to the ground again. At the same time, her delicate body was trembling violently. She seemed to be seriously injured and tortured beyond recognition. She could barely stand up!

"Young lady, are you alright?"

He quickly leaped to the young maid's side. Just as Lu Feng was about to reach out and help her up, she grabbed his ankle, saying haltingly, "Young Master Lu! I'm alright, but it's Miss who's been taken away...!"

"Please, I beg you, you must rescue the young lady...!"

The young maid's voice grew softer and softer, and at the same time, the life force in her body almost disappeared, as if she was only hanging on by her last breath.

"Young lady, although I don't know much about your Bai family's eldest daughter, she's not some weak woman who can't even kill a chicken. In fact, her strength and methods are both superior to mine. Right now, she shouldn't need my help, right...?"

Faced with the young maid's request, Lu Feng's expression turned strange, and his tone was somewhat intriguing.

After all, Bai Qianqian had tricked him in public, and even Lu Feng himself hadn't noticed her little trick.

But how could a mere bandit stronghold possibly do anything to Bai Qianqian?

"No, no...! The young lady... uh!"

Faced with Lu Feng's questioning, the young maid shook her head repeatedly. However, before she could finish speaking, her head tilted to the side, and she became completely lifeless, turning into a pool of white bones and corpse water on the spot!

"Dead?"

Upon seeing this, Lu Feng's pupils also contracted slightly. He quickly stepped forward to examine the corpse. "Something's not right! This way of dying is almost exactly the same as what happened to Bai Ze and the others back then...!"

"To be able to turn into bones in the instant of death, could this method be... a corpse puppet?"

Lu Feng's heart skipped a beat, as if he had suddenly remembered something.

After all, a normal human corpse cannot turn into bones the instant of death, let alone turn into a pool of liquid on the spot.

Only a corpse puppet crafted through certain methods can possess such a strange phenomenon.

Because the corpse puppet itself is a humanoid puppet made from a corpse, once the soul parasitizing inside the corpse puppet dissipates, the entire corpse puppet will also disintegrate on the spot, turning into a pile of white bones and corpse water.

"I knew it..."

After briefly examining the maid's remains, Lu Feng nodded silently. "Like Bai Ze and the others who escorted the bride in the past, these maids who carried the bridal sedan chair were not normal living people, but merely a group of corpse puppets..."

"Not only can they create a large number of corpse puppets from dead bodies, but they also possess the extremely rare and powerful nine-star spirit-grade talisman, the 'Binding Essence and Locking Body Talisman'...!"

"It seems that the real young lady of Jinling City, Bai Qianqian, is now likely doomed. As for the woman impersonating 'Bai Qianqian,' her background is probably not simple either...!"

The image of Bai Qianqian from the past suddenly flashed through Lu Feng's mind, and he couldn't help but clench his fists, his face showing slight apprehension.

Although the maid-like corpse puppet repeatedly mentioned before its death that Bai Qianqian had been taken away from the dungeon by the bandits of the Evil Village, Lu Feng had no intention of rescuing her at the moment.

Firstly, Bai Qianqian's strength and skills far surpass his.

Secondly, Lu Feng currently has no information about the other party's whereabouts.

Besides finding Bai Qianqian, Lu Feng was more concerned about the location of the facehugger mother.

After all, facehuggers are monsters left over from the ancient war between immortals and demons. If these monsters are not eliminated, they will surely become a menace in the future!

"It's time to leave here...!"

Having made up his mind, Lu Feng did not linger in the dungeon any longer. He turned and left, setting the dungeon ablaze!

.....

Meanwhile, in the stronghold of the villains, in the council hall

"Big brother, I'm back!"

Yin Wei strode into the hall, then bowed respectfully to the burly, dark-faced man in the main seat opposite him, his words full of deference.

The dark-faced giant was not tall, less than five feet, almost like a dwarf. He was also blind in one eye, and his appearance was extremely sleazy, making him no different from any other passerby.

However, the Yuan Power aura emanating from the other party was quite remarkable, far surpassing that of Yin Wei, the second-in-command, and he had already reached the sixth level of the Yuan Sea Realm. His strength was not weak, and he was none other than Yang Feng, the infamous leader of the Evil Man's Stronghold!

"Second brother, you've worked hard."

Yang Feng slightly raised his eyelids, then said unhurriedly, "I heard you not only led your brothers to pull off a big heist just now, but also reaped quite a reward?"

"Big brother is indeed well-informed."

In response to Yang Feng's question, Yin Wei grinned, then waved his hand, "Men, bring that pretty young Bai woman up here!"

"Such a stunning beauty should naturally be reserved for the Boss's exclusive enjoyment...!"

"Yes, Second Boss!"

As soon as he finished speaking, two henchmen from the side of the hall hurriedly retreated and then brought up a ragged, graceful girl in white. It was none other than Bai Qianqian, who had been missing for a long time!