Villain Master, my disciples all want to backstab me

It was in this situation that the person holding the red piece said the first words.

"..."

The player holding the black pieces said nothing, but just observed the direction of the game.

Chapter 125 Someone from the Shentu family is coming! (6k)

After a short silence.

The red-robed man spoke again, "Don't play deaf. I know you heard me. You've already lost this round. Resign and let's move on to the next one."

"..."

The man in black robe still didn't speak.

The red-robed man seemed a little angry, but he forced himself to hold back his anger. He simply held his chin with one hand and continued, "Tell me, do the family head and his men know that we're trapped here? We've been here for decades, and we haven't seen a third member of the clan come to rescue us..."

"Even if you're busy hunting down the remnants of the Jiang family, there should be an explanation, right?"

"..."

"Are you so fucking old that your brain can't work anymore? Speak!"

"... Damn, I think you're really stupid. Just stay here and figure it out!"

The red-robed man finally lost patience and cursed loudly, then stood up. "It's a rare opportunity to see some living outsiders. I'll go play with them... Don't try to steal my chess pieces while I'm gone, or I'll kill you too when I come back!"

"..."

As the red-robed man turned to leave, the black-robed man finally spoke. His voice was hoarse and muffled, like the sound of a chainsaw sawing through a bed leg. "Those people must have had some tricks to get through the 'Dead Forest' so easily. You'd better be careful. I don't want to be the one collecting your bodies."

"Collecting bodies?"

The red-robed man was stunned for a moment, then sneered, "I'd rather collect your body! You look half dead. If I hadn't been playing chess with you here, you would have died in this Cangwu Forbidden Land a long time ago. With your appearance like this, even if you get out, who would still recognize you as the infamous 'Shentu Jixue' from back then?"

"Well, I won't argue with you any more. Maybe the person who came in this time is someone from my Shentu family or the Jiang family. It's a good opportunity to ask them for news from the outside world... I'm leaving. See you in an incense stick!"

talking.

The red-robed man took a step forward, and in the next second his body turned into a ball of blood-red smoke and disappeared from the spot.

After she leaves.

The man in black robe slowly raised his head, revealing a face hidden under the cloak.

It was an extremely old face.

If he were an ordinary person, with a face like that, he'd probably be at least eighty years old. And if he were a cultivator... even if Qing Lingzi had lost fifty or sixty years of his lifespan and was already over four hundred, he wouldn't look as old as him. His decrepit appearance made one feel like he was about to be buried in the grave.

The man in black robe looked in the direction where the man in red robe left for a while.

Then he turned around and looked at the stone tablet behind him.

There, lines of words written in blood slowly emerged in that moment:

"...It seems we have to go through this woods."

"Try to suppress your breath as much as possible. Don't make any noise or touch anything directly. Stay close to me."

"..."

"Tingxue, that shadow just now was..."

"Sorry, I didn't see clearly..."

"..."

——These words, surprisingly, were everything Bai Yuan and his group had said since they entered the "Cangwu Abyss"! Yet, they were all faithfully recorded on this huge stone tablet made of unknown material!

now.

The man in black robe narrowed his eyes, and his gaze swept over the blood words one by one, and finally returned to the top of the stone tablet, lost in memories.

——The top few lines correspond to what he and the red-robed man said when they first came here.

but……

too long.

It had been so long that he had almost forgotten the meaning of those words, and even more so the reason why he had stepped into this [Cangwu Abyss]. It was as if that had happened not just a dozen years ago, but decades, even hundreds of years ago!

It’s like a lifetime ago!

"so……"

"Why did we come here in the first place?"

The man in black robes placed his fingers on his temples, trying to think. Through this arduous effort, a series of blurry and fragmented images vaguely emerged in his mind:

That seems like a long time ago.

A dark rainy night, a desolate and deserted dead city, a blood-stained bluestone road, a strange human head lantern, the still youthful self and the red-robed man...

and also……

There was also the girl from the Jiang family who was running away in panic.

Just as he and the red-robed man were about to capture the girl, a female cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage descended from the sky and struck him with a palm strike at the most unexpected angle. She then snatched up the Jiang family girl and fled into the bell tower in the heart of the Dead City. He and the red-robed man were in hot pursuit… His memory blanked out at this point.

When I came to my senses again, I had already entered the [Cangwu Abyss].

and so……

What was the name of that female cultivator?

It seems to have the word "blood" in it, just like his own name...

The man in black robe thought hard, and he didn't even notice when his fingers pierced his temple and penetrated into his brain - to be precise, he was conscious, because his old face was distorted by pain.

However, he didn't care and even began to stir his brain with his fingers, as if he thought that doing so could help him recall those memories that seemed from his previous life.

Creak, creak...

Amid the sound of churning brain matter.

The black-robed figure raised his head, his face twisted and old, as he gazed at the sky. It was as pale as the wasteland, devoid of the sun and moon, starlight, or white clouds or flying birds... Wait, birds?!

Yes!

"I remember now, it's 'Kite'!"

The black-robed man suddenly shuddered, his entire body trembling with excitement. The image of the Nascent Soul cultivator appeared in his mind: the demon cultivator named "Blood Kite," who had only the appearance of a young girl back then!

The joy of successfully recalling the past surged into the black-robed man's heart, making him eager to share this joy with others. However, when he looked up, he found that the red-robed man opposite him had disappeared.

and many more……

Where did she go again?

The man in black robe showed a puzzled expression on his face, and then he stirred his brain again.

This time, however, he didn't dwell on it for too long. After all, the red-robed man had just left, and they had been in this haunted place together for who knows how many years, so they were already incredibly familiar with each other. So, he quickly cast his gaze in the direction the red-robed man had just left, narrowing his cloudy eyes with a hint of unease.

This kind of emotion has not appeared in him for many years.

The last time it appeared was in the dead city called "Cangwu County".

"Could it be..."

wow-

The man in black robe stood up, knocked over the chessboard in front of him, and then strode out in the direction where the man in red robe had left.

……

the other side.

Bai Yuan and his group continued walking in the vast wasteland.

The footprints of the three people and the beast were broken when they were halfway there.

So now, several people were completely guided by Bai Yuan's feelings, and they randomly chose a direction to continue moving forward. Ji Tingxue left pieces of green tea leaves along the way as temporary signposts.

"Master, what's going on in this wasteland? It feels a bit too big. Haven't we passed by here before? There are tea leaves marks left by Sister Tingxue over there!"

Ye Shuang'er came closer, a little tired, and asked Bai Yuan in a low voice.

"Don't worry, just walk a little further."

Bai Yuan said soothingly.

As mentioned before, this road is not the regular route to enter the [Cangwu Abyss], so Bai Yuan himself had never experienced it as a player. He only learned some about it from the strategy posts on the forum, so his impression of it is a bit vague compared to the "Yuankong Secret Realm".

She only vaguely remembered a stone tablet within this "Bone Wasteland," guarded by two elite monsters. They seemed to be members of the Shentu clan sent to search for the Jiang family's legacy, and had become trapped here when they entered the Cangwu Abyss. Trapped for so long, and with the surroundings being too monotonous, they had become insane.

As long as you defeat these two elite monsters and sacrifice their blood to the stone tablet in the center of the wasteland, you can open the teleportation array to the depths of the [Cangwu Abyss] and return to the Jiang Family dungeon along the normal route...

However, the post did not mention the location of the stone tablet.

There is really no way to mention the location.

Because, no matter how big the map in the game is, it is still limited. Moreover, as long as you keep walking in one direction, you will always find a way in and out.

But from what they saw now, this wasteland was incredibly large, even larger than the "Dead Forest" they had just encountered. Without a navigation map, trying to find a stone tablet over ten feet tall in such a vast expanse, resembling the Taklamakan Desert, was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Bai Yuan had prepared several compasses in advance, but none of them worked properly here. The magnetic field in this area was incredibly strong, and the needles would just spin wildly, unable to indicate the correct direction.

The art of divination might be useful, but Bai Yuan doesn't know how to do it.

So I can only try my luck first.

There was no sun in this wasteland, but as time went on, Bai Yuan and the others could still feel the ground getting slightly hot. The bone powder was like sand in the sun, emitting extremely high heat, causing the surrounding temperature to rise rapidly.

Bai Yuan and his companions once again returned to the white tiger's back, and the latter grew bone wings again, circling over the wasteland.

When flying to a certain place.

The white tiger suddenly paused and looked in a certain direction with its huge head.

Bai Yuan's eyes flickered the next moment, and she looked over. Amidst the pure white, she caught a faint glimpse of red. Like a plume of rising smoke, it appeared three or four miles away. It looked like the image of bone powder burning under intense heat.

however……

"Something's wrong."

Bai Yuan's mind moved, and he activated the [Galaxy Fantasy Veil].

The red smoke seemed to have noticed them, and its swaying movements paused for a moment. Then, a sharp voice came straight from its direction and penetrated the ears of Bai Yuan and the others: "We found you, new little mice..."

When we said "found it", the red smoke was still several kilometers away.

By the time you say "newcomer", he's already here!

At that moment, a blood-red giant palm suddenly appeared in mid-air and slammed down towards Bai Yuan and his group with incredible swiftness. It caused a large area of ​​starlight to ripple and shake, and a large amount of bone powder rose from the surrounding wasteland, like a huge white storm rising into the sky!

boom--! !

There was a buzzing sound.

The power of this attack was comparable to Yu Qiuming's [Cold Poison Palm], but it was still inferior to the "Root Spear" from the forest earlier, failing to penetrate the [Galaxy Illusion Veil]'s protection. It also failed to cause any substantial damage to Bai Yuan and the others who were encased in the talisman formation.

After one palm.

The person who came seemed to let out a light "eh", and his figure turned into smoke again and disappeared, appearing from the void.

It was a woman in a red robe.

She was clearly quite old. Although she looked meticulously groomed, the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes and the fine wrinkles on her forehead could not be concealed. She looked like a middle-aged woman. Yet, her eyes and expression clearly showed that of a young person.

The scarlet long gown wrapped around his extremely thin figure, and the cuffs of the gown were embroidered with a dark golden pattern that looked like flashes of lightning.

——It is clearly an ancient character “申”!

In the entire cultivation world, there is only one faction that would embroider this text on their bodies! That faction, along with the Jiang and Ji families, is one of the eight ancient cultivation clans.

"Is he from the Shentu family?!"

Ji Tingxue frowned slightly and recognized the identity of the person.

Bai Yuan also nodded slightly, ready to take action.

——It seems that this person should be one of the two "elite monsters" mentioned on the forum. Judging from her appearance, she should also be in the Nascent Soul Realm, which seems to be slightly stronger than Shao An and Yu Qiuming at the time, but not as strong as the Spiritual Transformation Realm.

In this case, the fully stacked [Chixiao] and the [Linglong Dice] with three chances left can be saved a little and there is no need to use them so early.

if possible……