Even without cheats, we must survive the apocalypse

He casually threw Scorpion's headless corpse aside, wiped the sticky and disgusting flesh and blood from his hands, raised his eyes and glanced elsewhere in the hall. The chaotic and complicated waves of true energy had slowly subsided.

It was over very quickly.

At Gu Yunxi's feet lay two corpses with their heads and bodies torn apart. The blood, fire and true energy were so intense that even their flesh and blood were burned and quickly shriveled up. She shook her hands, dispersing the true energy sword, and her profile seemed to reveal a look of regret that was still unsatisfied.

She came here with a heart full of rage, and killing two evil cultivators was not enough to quell her rage. Perhaps after finding the children kidnapped by the evil cultivators, she would show some gentleness... if the children were still alive.

"Leave one person alive. Sister Yunxi, if you have any questions, just ask."

Huang Yanyao kicked the living evil cultivator indifferently. Lu Mu stared at her and saw that the faint black lines at the corners of her eyes quickly disappeared. Then the aura around her became slightly higher. On the other hand, the evil cultivator she had saved was too weak to stand.

He seemed to have lost all his cultivation.

She sucked away the evil cultivator's power and vitality.

"You...what kind of evil method is this..."

The evil cultivator's pale face was filled with fear and panic, and his words were weak and powerless. He didn't look seriously injured, but even so, he gave people the feeling that he would soon die, like a candle in the wind.

"Evil method?"

Huang Yanyao glanced at him lazily, with a hint of teasing in her eyes, "Stupid traitor."

How can the devouring power of the Taotie spirit be compared with that of the evil demons?

Huang Wumeng's skills are indeed complementary to her innate spiritual talent. Huang Yanyao has never been good at cultivation, and she does not have so much free time to spend on meditation, but her cultivation level is still rising rapidly.

In the eyes of others, this can probably be considered an "evil method".

Of course, what is there to explain about following an evil cultivator who is doomed to die?

"Where are all the children you captured?"

Following a scream from the evil cultivator, Gu Yunxi's short boots had already broken his left wrist. She did not seem anxious, and her cold tone matched with her increasingly powerful feet, which looked like a willful sadism.

The evil cultivator's face twisted in pain, and he gritted his teeth and said, "If I...if I tell you...will you let me go?"

Gu Yunxi curled her lips in contempt, her eyes suddenly turned cold, she put two fingers together and drew them across, with two muffled sounds, his legs were broken.

"what!"

The heart-wrenching pain made the evil cultivator roar like mad. His eyes were wide open, veins on his forehead were exposed, his eyes were red as blood, and he looked crazy. He struggled to escape, but how could he escape?

"If you don't tell me, I can make you die slowly."

Gu Yunxi squatted down, propped her knees with her elbows, and supported her cheek with the back of her hands. She said nonchalantly: "I have thousands of ways to make your life worse than death, but I don't care whether an evil cultivator like you dies painfully or not. I only care about the living."

The evil cultivator could no longer bear the fierceness rolling from her body. A sharp and hoarse roar came out of his throat. He raised his head tremblingly, his eyes red, "Those children are all...under the main hall. There is an underground palace there. It is the location of the palace protection formation of the Tongshi Palace..."

This kind of city has two formations. One is used to protect the city and is only opened when foreign enemies invade. The other is to protect the Tongshi Palace. This is so that if the large formation outside the city is broken, the rest of the people can rely on the palace protection barrier to continue to resist foreign enemies.

Gu Yunxi looked impatient. She kicked the evil cultivator away and brushed the hem of her skirt in disgust: "Stay away, don't dirty my skirt."

The evil cultivator's entire body was twitching, his eyeballs were bulging, and blood bubbles were coming out of his mouth. He was like a drowning fish, unable to turn over.

Having his cultivation force taken away from him had already exhausted him, and death was only a matter of time.

As for giving him a quick death?

Gu Yunxi had no intention of keeping her word to the evil cultivator. The beast did not deserve such treatment.

"Can you sense the children's aura?"

Lu Mu walked to Murong Xue's side. She nodded, and her true energy surged. She followed the thread of energy that the tracing array had just outlined and searched for it. After only three or two breaths, she found her target.

Behind the chief seat in the hall, there was a hidden door. She broke it easily, revealing a corridor leading directly underground. It was dark and gloomy, deep and long, with no end in sight.

Gu Yunxi was the first to rush down. She was most worried about the children.

The "protagonist" always shows his emotions on his face.

They walked to the bottom and found only eight pillars in the empty underground palace. A lifelike fairy phoenix totem was carved on the top of each pillar. In this empty space, hundreds of skeletons, whose flesh and blood had not yet completely decayed, were piled up in a haphazard manner.

The patterns of the palace protection formation had been completely destroyed and was ineffective, but a new formation had been outlined on the ground with blood, and had been almost fed by the flesh and blood of these skeletons. At the center of the formation were dozens of children, who were tied up with chains and unconscious.

Besides this, there was another person...but he looked like a human.

His limbs were cut off, and his body was emaciated. Dozens of chains pierced his bones and flesh, and he was tied up and nailed to the main pillar. It seemed that it was his blood that drew this new evil formation.

Lu Mu recognized him.

He is the military commander named Jiang from Zhaotian City.

Chapter 108: The Erased Tangle

Seeing that the children were still safe at this time, Gu Yunxi pursed her thin lips, and her pupils, which were dyed with a layer of bloodthirsty scarlet, also showed a little more calmness.

It is understandable that the despicable and unscrupulous evil cultivators used these children as objects of blood sacrifice. After all, what else can they do with the weak children?

They arrived in time. If they were later, or had not planned to enter Zhaotian City at all, what would be the final result?

Thinking of this, Gu Yunxi actually felt a little scared.

"He looks familiar."

Gu Yunxi frowned as she looked at the "blood man" who was tied to the pillar and whose human form could hardly be seen.

"That's General Jiang from Zhaotian City. We must have met each other before."

Lu Mu pointed it out to her.

The man whose limbs were cut off and whose flesh and blood dried up like firewood, leaving only a skeleton, was the most powerful and the most powerful person in Zhaotian City. If his cultivation had been abolished and he was tied here, even his flesh and blood would have been used to draw the formation...

Lu Mu felt that the ending of the Zhaotian City leader was not very good.

Gu Yunxi slowly approached and looked at him with a hint of sadness in her eyes.

She still remembered General Jiang, at least she still remembered his extreme disgust towards evil cultivators, his dissatisfaction towards King Nanling, and his helplessness towards orders... Such a brave and powerful general, but because he followed the wrong master, he has now fallen into such a situation.

Jiang Tongjun, who was dying and could die at any time, opened his eyes. The eyes that once contained iron and sharp shadows were now filled with unbearable despair and lifelessness caused by the pain.

Only this time, in the eyes covered with blood, there were four unfamiliar figures.

His remaining sanity told him that these people were not evil cultivators, so he suddenly had the strength to move. Even the slightest movement would involve his broken body that was strangled and pierced by the chains, bringing even more intense pain, but Jiang Tongjun was already numb.

He opened his mouth, but could only make hoarse hoarse sounds; the evil cultivator had destroyed his throat.

Gu Yunxi lowered her eyes and looked at the hope filled with scars in his eyes.

She hesitated for a moment, but finally raised her hand and gently stroked it.

A blood mark appeared on Jiang Tongjun's neck, quickly taking away his already weak life force.

"……Pitiful."

Huang Yanyao stood beside Gu Yunxi and murmured.

Of course she didn't know this military commander. She just felt that the commander of a city ended up like this, and King Nanling really didn't care much about his subjects.

Lu Mu put his fingers together and tapped lightly, and the black Shura fire instantly pounced on the bloody evil formation, completely burning the formation in a few breaths. The children were all alive, but just unconscious, so Gu Yunxi had to wake them up one by one.

"Where is this?"

"Where are my parents? I want to go home to find them..."

The children were all dazed and looked blankly at the strange yet familiar scene before them. Some of the younger ones woke up and started crying. It was not difficult to imagine what the evil cultivator had done to their parents after abducting them.

I'm afraid he has become an orphan.

Gu Yunxi and Lu Mu both had a deep impression of the oldest boy. He recognized Gu Yunxi at a glance and exclaimed in surprise, "Fairy Sister!"

It is true that Gu Yunxi did not think that she looked fairy-like, but she saved him and their entire family, so in the eyes of this young man, she was a fairy.

Gu Yunxi patted his head and smiled, "Good boy, we are late."

The boy blinked blankly, "I know."

He was kidnapped five days ago, along with his twelve other brothers and sisters. He had no way of resisting because he had seen the methods used by the people who kidnapped them... Compared to them, the bullies who bullied them were considered good people.

Fortunately, the worst has not happened yet.

……

Children are naive and easy to deceive. Gu Yunxi just took out some candies and coaxed the crying children into silence.

As it was getting dark, the children were placed in the dilapidated courtyard. The oldest boy saw that there was still some unspoiled food left in the house, so he cooked a pot of porridge. Although it was not enough, it could at least fill their stomachs.

Lu Mu observed him... He was at the peak of the Mortal Body Realm.

The young man has grown quite strong, thanks to the body-building pills he gave him, but he started practicing Taoism too late, and he is afraid that he will never have any amazing breakthroughs in this life. However, it has never been a problem for him to reach the peak of the Xiantian Pigong realm, and this strength is enough to protect his relatives.

Gu Yunxi sat in the yard in a daze, watching the dusk deepen. Soon the moonlight would appear from the clouds, and the blood-red setting sun would shine on the city, making it look particularly lonely.

Lu Mu was right next to her and could see the confusion that emerged on her face and then was suppressed.

He knew where her dilemma came from.

It is definitely no longer safe for these children to stay in Zhaotian City. The evil cultivators have already killed the commander and the generals, and even the garrison troops are deeply trapped in the manipulation of the poisonous insects and cannot extricate themselves. Perhaps after nightfall, the city will fall into complete chaos.

There are also bandits roaming in the mountains outside the city... Those desperate criminals who hang their heads on their belts don't care whether there are evil cultivators in the city or not, they all come to rob.

So Gu Yunxi wanted to take them back to Huang Yanyao's territory, but taking such a bunch of encumbrances with them on the road would only slow down the process, and the children could not bear the monks' way of traveling, so they needed time now.

It would take at least six to seven days to rush from Zhaotian City to Nanling King City without stopping, and the formation that was intended to seize the fortune of Xianhuang Country might be on the verge of success... It might not matter if she was missing, but she didn't want to leave Huang Yanyao at this time.

Gu Yunxi is now faced with a choice.

But Lu Mu knew what she would choose, and she would not abandon Huang Yanyao and leave.

"Yan Yao has already informed Li Heng and asked him to send a thousand soldiers and four officials to Zhaotian City. Calculating the time, it will take about four to five days to arrive."

He stood behind Gu Yunxi, his voice low and pleasant, his fingers already entangled in her hair, bringing out a delicate fragrance.

Gu Yunxi did not move, allowing Lu Mu's hand to continue to move down, touching her earlobes, neck and collarbone, and caressing there gently and slowly.

"Do you want to stay?"

he asks.

"I don't want to. Sister Yanyao needs me. Even if she doesn't need me, I have to accompany her."

“But you’re also worried about these kids.”

"You can't kill all the evil cultivators. Now that a few have died, maybe a few more will come in a few days. Besides the evil cultivators, there are other troubles... It's not safe for these children to stay here alone."

After hearing this, Lu Mu sighed and kissed her neck. "I think I can trust that little guy. He is very smart and his cultivation is improving quickly. I will keep them safe."

Gu Yunxi tilted her head slightly, her eyes fixed on Lu Mu's resolute and handsome eyebrows. After a long while, her lips moved and she said, "Okay."

Chapter 109: The Silent Royal City

In Gu Yunxi's opinion, Sister Yanyao is more important.

But even after rescuing these children, they cannot just ignore it. She is struggling with her feelings, but Lu Mu just needs to help her get rid of them.

Because Lu Mu would not let these children stay in this city for four or five days and face other unknown dangers. He has so many treasures that some of them he may not use in his lifetime, so he can just keep them for them.

"They are still inside. Can you please not be so... close."

Anger appeared on Gu Yunxi's face. Feeling Lu Mu's lips leaving wet marks on her neck again, she reached out and pushed him away.

Although she was ashamed to admit it, she actually knew that Lu Mu's actions towards her were becoming more and more intimate. She was still a little resistant, but not as distant as before, and she didn't want to be that distant.

It's rare to make friends with such a high-quality man.

"shy?"

"I'm not your Junior Sister Murong, so don't make her jealous and make things difficult for me."

Gu Yunxi stared at him.

"She's not one to get jealous easily."

"But I am a woman, and I know how terrible it is for a woman like her to be jealous."

"So you think you can make her jealous?"

"...Yes, I'm not good-looking enough, and others don't like me, especially you!"

Gu Yunxi hit Lu Mu on the head.