21|Shrinking the Ground for Thousands of Miles and Sandy Winds and Sands

Xie Ren cried and laughed, was about to let Ruo Xie rush to re-grasp one, only to feel that the white silk on his wrist violently loosened. He secretly screamed in his heart.

This sudden sensation wasn’t that the other end of the wakizashi had been loosened, but that something even more terrible had happened.

Sure enough, the red shadow on the ground suddenly got much closer to him, and before long, it came within his reach.

Miroku actually came caught in the storm as well!

Xie Ren shouted at him, “Don’t panic!” As soon as he opened his mouth, he ate a large mouthful of sand, but by now, he had gotten used to eating it. Although he shouted for Sanlang not to panic, in reality, he also felt that Sanlang would not panic at all. As expected, the teenager was rolled into the mid-air, if the evil quickly put up, close the distance between the two, Xie Ren see clearly, his face half a bit of panic color is not, simply give him the book he can immediately in the sand and dust in the peaceful look, Xie Ren even a little doubt that he is not intentionally be rolled up.

Ruo Xie circled the two men’s waists a few times, tying them together, and Xie Ren hugged Saburo, adding, “Go again! Don’t arrest anyone this time!”

So Ruoxi flew out again. This time, the catch is …… Nanfeng and Fuyang!

Xie Ren, physically and mentally exhausted, said to Ruoxi, “I told you not to arrest people, and this ‘people’ doesn’t mean people in a narrow sense …… Okay.” He rushed down below and said loudly, “Nanfeng Fuyao! Hang in there! Never hold on!”

On the ground, Nanfeng and Fuyao naturally wanted to hold on, and each of them stood still, but the wind and sand were too fierce and too wild, and in a short while, without any surprise, there were two black shadows that were also swept up by the tornado.

Now, all four people were spinning in the air, the dark yellow heaven and earth, that tornado was like a crooked pillar of sand supporting the sky, while a white damask connecting the four silhouettes were spinning endlessly in this pillar of sand, spinning faster and faster, rising higher and higher. Xie Ren was frantically eating sand while frantically yelling, “How come you guys are coming up too!”

Seeing nothing but sand or sand, hearing nothing but wind or wind, they had to both hiss at each other at the top of their voices. Fuyao ate the sand while pooh-poohing, “That’s for you to ask this stupid white aya! What’s wrong with it!”

Xie Ren grabbed the “stupid white damask” with both hands and said helplessly, “Ruoxi ah Ruoxi, now the four of us are relying on you, this time, don’t make a mistake, go!”

With sadness, he scattered his hands again. Nan Feng roared, “Don’t count on this stuff! Think of something else!” At this moment, Xie Ren felt another tightening in his hand, and his spirit lifted as he said, “Wait, give it another chance! It’s caught again!”

Fuyao yelled back, “But don’t lasso a passerby again! Let people go!”

Not to mention, Xie Ren was also worried about this in his heart. He tugged on Ruoxi, and when the other end didn’t move, he was relieved and said, “No. It’s not! That end is very heavy and stable!” He also said, “Collect!”

Against that wild tornado, Ruoxi sharply closed her short. The four silhouettes hurriedly moved away from the wind pillar, and gradually, in the midst of the roiling yellow sand, Xie Ren could make out a semi-circular black silhouette below.

The outline was enormous, about the size of a small temple. If the other end of the evil was lassoed, it was such a thing. And by the time they were close to the ground, he could finally see that it was a huge rock.

In the midst of this degree of wind and sand, the sandstone seemed like a solid and silent fortress, and was undoubtedly an excellent shelter from the wind.

They had come all the way here, and clearly had not seen such a rock, so I really didn’t know how far that weird tornado had taken them. As soon as the four of them landed, they immediately circled around to the leeward side of the rock. As soon as they went around, Xie Ren’s heart lit up and said, “This is truly a blessing from the Heavenly Officials.”

Originally, this rock leeward side, there is a hole. This hole is as wide as two doors, the height is slightly shorter than a door, but an adult stooped low, also enough to go in. The hole is not regular, crooked, but also does not seem to be naturally formed, it may be man-made carving.

Once Xie Ren went in, he found that the rock had almost been dug into a hollow, and the space inside the cave didn’t seem to be small, but it was darker inside, so he didn’t explore all around inside, and only sat down where the light could reach him first, patting the yellow sand off Ruo Xie’s body and wrapping it back around his wrist.

Nanfeng and Fuyao are spitting sand, mouth, nose, eyes and ears are into the sand, not to mention the folds of the clothes, take off a shake, sink all the fine gravel. Among the four, the one who looked the most unharmed was still Sanlang, bending down to come in and then meaningfully dusting off the little bit of sand and dust outside of his red coat, and it was gone. Aside from his black hair being slightly disheveled and tied askew, that cozy demeanor was not affected in any way. However, his black hair was originally tied up crookedly for Xie Ren, and it didn’t matter if it was a little more crooked.

Nan Feng wiped his face twice and broke into a curse. Xie Ren poured out the sand in his bucket hat and said, “Hey, I really didn’t expect that you guys would also be blown up into the sky. Why don’t you guys make a jackhammer?”

Nan Feng said while pooh-poohing and spitting sand, “Make it! It’s useless.”

Fu Yao shook his outer robe viciously while viciously saying, ”What kind of place do you think this is, this is the desert land in the extreme northwest, and it’s not my general’s home turf. To the north is the territory of the Pei family’s two generals, and to the west is the territory of Quan Yizhen. For hundreds of miles around, you simply can’t find a single Xuanzhen temple.”

One must know that there was still a proverb on earth – a strong dragon cannot suppress a snake on the ground. Therefore, the two of them as the Southeastern Martial God and Southwestern Martial God’s Magisterial Vice Generals, in not belonging to their own territory to cast spells, the play of mana is inevitably subject to limitations. Xie Ren looked at their appearance, both were very suffocated and exasperated, thinking that it was the first time that they were blown up to the sky by a gust of wind and were unable to land in circles, and said, “It’s really bitter for you guys.”

Saburo sat down on the ground next to him, one hand on his cheek, and said, “Are we just going to stay here and wait for that wind and sand to pass?”

Xie Ren turned to him and said, “It seems like this is all that can be done now. As powerful as that tornado is, it’s not going to be able to roll such a large chunk of rock up into the sky as well.”

Miroku said, “As you said before, this gust of wind and sand is indeed odd as hell.”

Xie Ren suddenly thought of something and said, “Sanlang, let me ask a question.”

Miroku said, “Just ask.”

Xie Ren said, “That Half Moon Kingdom Master, is he a man or a woman?”

Miroku said, “Didn’t I say that? Female.”

Xie Ren thought to himself that this was really the case, and said: ”Before we rested in that small abandoned building, didn’t we see two people walking past the front of that building? Their footwork was light and strange, definitely not mortal. Among them, that white-robed person was a white-robed female crown.”

Fuyao skeptically said, “Look at that person’s clothes and robes, it’s not easy to tell if it’s a man or a woman, and the figure is also taller than the average woman, do you really see it clearly?”

Xie Ren said, “Seeing it clearly, there can be no mistake. That’s why I’m wondering if that could be the Half Moon Kingdom Master.”

Nan Feng said, “It’s possible. But she was accompanied by a man in black, so who could it be?”

Xie Ren said, “It’s hard to say, but that person walks faster than her, and his skills are by no means below hers.”

Fu Yao said, “Is it possible that it’s the other of the Demon Road’s dual masters, the Fang Xin Kingdom Master?”

Xie Ren said, “This one, I think the reason why the Demon Dao Twin Masters were called together might just be because it’s good to make up an even number to remember, just like the Four Evils of the Ghost World or something like that, not enough to make up four.”

Hearing this sentence, Sanlang laughed out loud again, Xie Ren looked at him, he said, “It’s alright, I just think what you said makes sense, one of the four evils is indeed just making up the numbers, go on.”

Xie Ren then continued, “In reality, they should not be related. I’ve heard a little bit about this Fangxin State Master, the State Master of the Yongan State, and this Halfmoon State Master is at least a hundred years apart in terms of the time of his birth.”

Fu Yao felt incomprehensible and said, “You don’t know about the four evils of the Ghost World, but you know about the Fang Xin State Master of the Yong An Kingdom on earth?”

Xie Ren said, “Sometimes if I collect rags and pass by, I’ll get to know them a little bit. It’s not like I go to the ghost world to collect rags, so of course I can’t understand them.”

At this time, the sound of the wind outside the cave weakened a little. Nan Feng stood slightly outside and patted the rock to check its material, gazed for a moment, and lowered his head, “Why was this rock dug out like this?”

He probably thought that the appearance of a rock like this here was very suspicious. This Xie Ren was not surprised and said, “There are not a few rocks that have holes dug like this. In the past, the people of the Half Moon Country would occasionally dig a hole in the rock like this in order to escape the wind and sand when they were out grazing and couldn’t make it home in time, or to spend the night temporarily. Some of the holes weren’t dug, they were blasted.”

Nanfeng wondered, “How do you graze in the desert.”

Xie Ren said, “Two hundred years ago, this place wasn’t all desert, there was also an oasis.”

At that moment, Miroku said, “Brother.”

Xie Ren turned around and said, “What’s wrong?”

Miroku pointed and said, “On that rock you’re sitting on, there seems to be writing.”

“What?” Xie Ren first bowed his head, then got up, only to realize that the place where he was sitting was a stone slab.

Wipe the dust, that above the slate, there are really words, just carved shallow, the handwriting is not very obvious. Half of the slate was still buried in the sand, and the writing extended all the way upwards, hidden in the darkness.

Since there are words, it must be something to look at. Xie Ren said, “I don’t have much mana left, which one of you will hold up a palm flame and help me shine, thanks a lot.”

Nan Feng then snapped his fingers, and all of a sudden, a ball of flame was held up in his palm. Xie Ren unintentionally glanced at San Lang, and he wasn’t surprised, after all, he had even seen the Shrinking Ground Thousand Miles, Xie Ren felt that no matter what the two parties showed to each other in the future, there wouldn’t be any surprises. Nan Feng moved his palm to where Xie Ren was pointing, and the flame illuminated the writing carved on the stone slab. The writing was very odd, as if it was a toddler’s random scribbles, slightly tilted, Nan Feng said, “What is this writing?”

Miroku said, “Naturally, it’s the writing of the Half Moon Kingdom.”

Xie Ren said, “Nanfeng is afraid to ask what the writing means. Let me see.”

He cleared the sand and gravel from the slate all the way to the top row, where the characters were particularly large and seemed to be titles. And these few symbols appeared repeatedly on the stone slabs. Fu Yao also held up a palm flame on the side and said, “You know how to read Half Moon Text?”

Xie Ren said, “To tell the truth, before that what’s-his-name Half Moon Demon Road came out, I collected rags in the Half Moon Kingdom.”

“……”

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing, just curious how many other places you’ve collected rags.”

Xie Ren smiled and lowered his head to continue reading. In a moment, he suddenly said two words:

“General.”

Nanfeng and Fuyao said at the same time, “What?”

Xie Ren looked up and said, “I said, this stone slab, these characters written at the top, are ‘General’.” After a pause, she added, “However, there is another character after ‘General’. But, the meaning of this last character, I’m not quite sure.”

Nan Feng seemed to be relieved and said, “Then you can look at it again.”

As soon as Xie Ren nodded her head, Nan Feng held the palm flame and moved her hand slightly further forward. This move, Xie Ren suddenly felt that something was not quite right. At the edge of the line of sight, there seemed to be something extra.

He pressed his hands on the stone slabs carved with words and slowly looked up.

Just above the stone slab, a ghostly flame illuminated a stiffly muscled human face in the darkness. This face, with two eyes looking down, was staring at him.

“啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊！！！！！”

It wasn’t them who screamed up, but the stiffly muscled human face.

Nan Feng’s other hand also held up the palm flame, and the flames of both hands jumped up so high that they finally illuminated the entire interior of the cavern.

Fang that flame shone out, is a person who has been hiding in the darkness, at this moment he rolled and crawled to the side to retreat, shrinking to the edge of the cavern depths, and that edge has actually already shrunk seven or eight people, hugged into a ball, shivering.

Nan Feng drank, “Who are you people?!”

This drink filled the entire cavern buzzing, Xie Ren originally was just that burst of screaming shocked the vague pain in the ears, at this time had to cover the ears. The wind and sand is too big, the noise covers the ears, they speak in low voices to be inaudible to each other, and after entering the cave, the first began to discuss the Half Moon Master, and then concentrated on deciphering the slate, actually has not been aware of the cave is still not saying a word to hide other people.

Those seven or eight people shivered, and only after a long time did an old man around fifty years old say, “We’re a passing caravan, ordinary merchants. The wind and sand are too strong to walk, so we’re sheltering here.”

He was the most calm one in the group, and looked like he should be the leader. Nan Feng added, “Since you are an ordinary passing merchant, why are you sneaking around and hiding here?”

The old man was about to speak, a 17 or 18 year old boy beside him said loudly: “We were not sneaky, you suddenly rushed in, who knows whether you are good or bad? Later vaguely heard you have been saying, what half moon master of state, what ghost world, hand will also set fire out of thin air, we thought that you are that half moon soldiers, come out on patrol to catch people to eat, where else would you dare to make a sound?”

The old man seemed to be afraid that his words would be impulsive and anger the other party, and said, “Tiansheng, don’t talk nonsense.”

That teenager thick eyebrows and big eyes, born with a tiger’s head and brain, was said by the elders, immediately stopped talking. Xie Ren’s ears finally stopped hurting, put down his hand, and said in a pleasant manner: ”A misunderstanding. A misunderstanding. Everyone doesn’t need to be nervous, all relax.”

After a pause, he then continued, ”We are certainly not any Half Moon soldiers. I am the master of a Daoist temple, and these several people are all …… people within my temple, learning the art of Qi Men Dun Jia. You are ordinary merchants, we are also just ordinary Taoists, there is no malice, it is just that we are the same people who are sheltering from the wind, and we happen to enter the same cavern.”

His voice was gentle, and when he spoke so slowly, he was quite capable of calming people’s emotions. After repeated explanations and assurances, the expressions of the merchants eased down.

Who knows, Miroku suddenly laughed, “Where, I see that these merchants are not ordinary, modest.”

The people were puzzled and looked at him. Sanlang said, “Isn’t it true that ‘half of the people who cross the Half Moon Pass disappear’? Knowing that there are such rumors, you still dare to pass through here, which is considered very courageous. How can you say it’s ordinary?”

Upon hearing this, the old man said, “This young man, that’s not necessarily true. In fact, the rumors are mostly exaggerated, and there are many caravans that have passed through here and walked peacefully.”

Miroku said, “Oh?”

The old man said, “As long as we find the right person to lead the way, and don’t mistakenly enter the territory of the former Half Moon Kingdom. That’s why we’ve specially found a local to lead the way this time when we crossed the border.”

The teenage natural said, “Yeah! It’s still up to the bandwagon. This journey is thanks to Brother Ah Zhao. He took us to avoid a lot of quicksand, and when he saw the wind picking up before, he hurriedly took us to find a place to hide, or else we might be buried alive by the sand now.”

Xie Ren glanced over, the azhao who led the way for them was very young, about twenty years old, born with a handsome and mute face, being praised by everyone also did not have much to show, only boringly said, “It’s nothing, it’s all a matter of duty. I hope this wind passes, and everyone’s camels and goods are all fine.”

“It must be fine!”

This group of businessmen had a very optimistic attitude, but Xie Ren always felt that things were not as simple as they thought.

If there will be no problem if we don’t mistakenly enter the ruins of the Half Moon Kingdom, then could it be that all those caravans that “disappeared more than half of them” in the past, were all because of their own unbelief and determination to send themselves to their deaths?

After thinking about it, he whispered to Nanfeng Fuyao, “The incident happened suddenly, when this gust of wind and sand passes, let’s make sure that these people leave safely before we go to the Half Moon Country’s homeland to find out what’s going on.”

He looked down again and continued to read the words on the tablet. He recognized the two characters of “General”, but that was because the word was still used quite a lot, and it was already two hundred years ago when he arrived in Half Moon Country. Even if he had learned it well at that time, after two hundred years, he would have forgotten everything, and now that he had suddenly regained it, he really needed a little time and patience. At this time, Sanlang said on the side, “Shogun Tsukuda.”

As soon as he said it, Xie Ren remembered. Isn’t this last character the meaning of “mound, tomb, cave”?

He turned around and wondered, “Sanlang, could it be that you also know Halfmoon Man?”

Miroku laughed, “Not many. Got to know a few out of interest.”

Xie Ren is used to him saying this. The Half Moon language itself is on the rarer side, so understanding it is already rare, and the word “Tsuka” is not a commonly used word, so if he really only “knows a few”, how could he happen to know this one? He said “not many”, I’m afraid it means “don’t be afraid to ask”, and immediately said with a smile: “Great. Maybe the ones you know are the ones I don’t know. You come over, we’ll look together.”

He gently beckoned and Sanlang went over. Nanfeng and Fuyao held palm flames at the side, illuminating the two of them. Xie Ren’s fingers slowly brushed over the text on the stele, discussing it with Sanlang in a low voice and reading it softly. As they read, their gazes grew more and more strange, and eventually settled down again.

That teenager in the merchant caravan was born young after all, young people are just curious, coupled with the fact that the two sides casually pulled a few words, he took it as a mixer and asked, “A few brothers, what exactly is written on this stone tablet?”

Xie Ren came back to his senses and replied, “This stone slab is a stele, and written on the stele, is the life of a general.”

Tien said, “A general from the Half Moon Kingdom?”

Miroku said, “No, it’s a general from the Middle Kingdom.”

Nan Feng doubted, “A general from the Central Plains? Then why would the people of the Half Moon Kingdom erect a mound for him? Didn’t they say that the two countries were in constant battle?”

Miroku said, “This general is very peculiar. Although the tablet calls him a general throughout, he is, in fact, only a lieutenant.”

“So did he get promoted to general later?”

“Not really. And, at first, he commanded a hundred, then he commanded seventy, then he commanded fifty.”

“……”

“In short, depreciated all the way.”

At this time, he heard Tiansheng say in disbelief: ”How can there be such a thing as an official getting lower and lower? As long as you don’t make any big mistakes, even if you don’t get promoted, you won’t get demoted. How much of a failure do you have to be to make it like this?”

“……”

Xie Ren formed his right hand into a fist, put it in front of his mouth, coughed lightly, and said seriously, “This little friend, it is not uncommon for this official to get lower and lower.”

“Huh?”

Miroku gave a laugh and said, “Indeed, often.”

After a pause, he continued, “The reason why this lieutenant is getting lower and lower is not because he is not good at force and is not worthy of his position, but because the relationship between the two countries is not good, but instead of always doing nothing on the battlefield, he gets in the way more often than not.”

Nan Feng said, “What do you mean by getting in the way?”

Miroku said, “Not only do you block the other side from killing your own people, you also block your side from killing the other side’s people. Block one time and you drop a level.”

He said leisurely, the seven or eight merchants also gradually sit close, as if listening to him tell a story, listening to quite engaged, listening to the side of the comments. Tiansheng said: “I feel that this lieutenant is not wrong ah? Soldiers fighting in the war is just a matter of not letting randomly kill the people, this is not a problem, right?”

“While it’s kinda blindly nice and inappropriate to do that as a soldier of a nation, there’s nothing wrong with it, by and large, is there?”

“Yeah, after all, it’s saving lives, not harming them.”

Xie Ren listened and smiled faintly.

The group of merchants in front of them were neither the people living along the border nor the ancients from two hundred years ago. Now that the Half Moon Kingdom had gone up in smoke, the people could naturally make light of it, sympathize with the sighs, and even praise it a few times if they brought it up again. Even if they didn’t agree, they could probably understand. But a hundred years ago, when the two sides were at war and had endless hatred, the consequences of this kind of behavior was definitely not a frivolous comment of “blind kindness”.

Among the group of people, only that Azhao, who probably knew a bit more because he was a local, said, “Today is today, and two hundred years ago was two hundred years ago. This school lieutenant was only demoted, and is already very lucky.”

Fuyang then snorted and said, “Ridiculous to the extreme.”

Xie Ren could almost guess what he was going to say and rubbed his brow.

Sure enough, under the firelight, illuminated Fuyao’s depressed eyebrows, he said: “In his position, then seek his duty, this person since the soldier, should always remember to defend their own country, in the front line to kill the enemy. When two countries fight, killing and wounding is no longer inevitable, such a womanizer will only make his own comrades loathe him, and the enemy generals find him comical and ridiculous. There won’t be anyone to thank him.”

His words were also extremely reasonable, so there was silence within the cavern. Fu Yao faintly said again, “At the end of the day, this kind of person will have only one end – death. And, most of the time, they die at the hands of their own people.”

Speechless for a moment, Xie Ren broke the silence and said, “Yeah. You’re quite right. Dead.”

Tien was shocked, “Ah! How did it die? Was he really killed by one of his own?”

Brewing for a moment, Xie Ren still opened his mouth and said, “This is not …… said above, it is once when both sides engaged in battle, fighting, the man’s boot laces were not tied tightly, he stepped on his own, and fell, so …… “

The people in the cave originally thought that this general must have died an incomparably sad death, and when they heard the words, they were all stunned, and they all thought to themselves, what kind of death is this? Laughter spewed out, “hahahahahahahahahahahahaha ……”

Xie Ren: “…… Then they were trampled to death and hacked to death by the soldiers on both sides who killed their eyes.”

“Hahahahahahahahahahahaha ……”

Miroku raised one eyebrow and said, “Is that funny?”

Xie Ren also said, “Ahem. Yes, it’s quite miserable. Everyone sympathize a little, do not laugh. Since it’s in someone else’s monument mound, give him some face.”

Tiansheng was busy saying, “I don’t mean any harm! However, this is too …… little …… haha ……”

Xie Ren couldn’t help it, because when he read this, he also wanted to laugh a bit, so he had to leave it out and continue to read with knowledge, translating it out and saying, “In a nutshell, even though this colonel did not have a good reputation amongst the army, some of the Half-Moon Kingdom nationals and the Central Plains people of the borderlands who had been taken care of by him referred to him as ‘General ‘ and built a simple stone mound for him here and erected a stone slab in his honor.”

Sanlang said, “Later, the people of the Half-Moon Kingdom also discovered the magic of this stone tablet: by kneeling to this stone slab three times, one can turn misfortune into good fortune in the Gobi.”

His tone of voice is really inscrutable very convincing, the look is also a serious, the crowd heard, several immediately worshipped up, all said that they would rather believe in it than not believe in it. Xie Ren was puzzled: “Ah? Is there this line? Is it so magical?”

Miroku smiled slightly and whispered, “No. I made it up. Since they’ve laughed at the party, it wouldn’t be too much to pay your respects now.”

Xie Ren took a look, and it was true, there was no more behind the stone slab. He originally had a few sighs, but now he was amused and also whispered, “Why are you so naughty?”

Miroku spat out his tongue. The two were laughing when suddenly, someone exclaimed, “What’s this!!!”

This scream, which seemed extremely shrill and buzzing throughout the cavern, gave people the creeps. Xie Ren looked towards the place where the scream was emitted and said, “What’s wrong!”

The person who had been there kneeling to the ancient stone monument rolled and fled away, saying in horror, “Snake!”

Nan Feng and Fu Yao reversed the direction of their arms, and the two palm flames illuminated the ground at that spot from afar. On top of the sandy soil, there was a long snake of brilliant color coiled!

The crowd panicked, “What’s with the snakes?!”

“How come this snake doesn’t make any noise at all? It doesn’t even know when it crawled in here!”

The snake was illuminated by the light of the fire, the snake body raised, seems to be extremely vigilant, ready to attack at any time. Nanfeng was about to chop over with a palm flame, but he saw a person walking slowly over, casually catching the snake’s seven inches and pinched it, lifting it up with his left hand, and holding it up in front of his eyes while observing it, while saying, “Is it not common to have snakes in the desert?”

The one who is this reckless is naturally Sanlang. As the saying goes, the snake strikes seven inches, if this snake is pinched to death seven inches, the fangs are even more vicious, it is also not powerful. The snake’s tail in his left arm softly wrapped several times, now the distance is close, Xie Ren fixed eyes, the snake’s snake skin seems to be translucent, you can see the inside of the bright purple-red, purple-red is also mixed with strands of black, reminiscent of the color of the internal organs, very uncomfortable, and the snake’s tail is actually flesh-colored, and a section of a section, as if the birth of a layer of hard shells, does not seem to be the snake’s tail, rather like a scorpion’s tail. A scorpion’s tail.

Seeing this section, Xie Ren’s complexion suddenly changed, saying, “Beware of its tail!”

Before the words left his mouth, the snake’s entangled tail suddenly let go of Miroku’s arm, and the tip of the tail seemed to turn into another snake’s head as it flicked backward and stabbed violently!

That tail stabbed extremely fiercely, but Sanlang was his right hand swiftly out, casually catch, then that tail also easily caught. He pinched the tail, like holding something funny, and showed it to Xie Ren, laughing: “This tail is interestingly born.”

The snake’s tail had a fleshy red thorn at the end of its tip. Xie Ren breathed a sigh of relief and said, “It’s good that I didn’t get stabbed. It really is a scorpion-tailed snake.”

Nan Feng and Fu Yao also came over to look at the snake and said, “Scorpion Tail Snake?”

Xie Ren said, “Not bad. It’s a kind of poison unique to Half Moon Country, the number is still quite rare, I’ve never seen it, but I’ve heard of it. The body is like a snake and the tail is like a scorpion, but the toxicity is even more violent than both of them combined, no matter if you are bitten by its poisonous fangs or stabbed by its poisonous tail, you will …… be struck by the poisonous fangs of the poisonous fangs of the poisonous fangs.”

When he said this, he saw Sanlang turning that snake coil over and over in his hand, sometimes lengthening it, sometimes pressing it short, sometimes twisting it as a towel, just short of tying it in a bow, speechless for a moment, he advised in a warm voice, “Sanlang, don’t play with it, it’s very dangerous.”

Miroku, however, laughed, “It’s fine. Brother doesn’t need to worry. This scorpion-tailed snake is the totem of the Half-Moon Kingdom Master, so it’s a rare opportunity, so of course I should take a closer look.”

Xie Ren was stunned and said, “The Half Moon Kingdom Master’s totem?”

Sanlang said, “Precisely. It is said that that Half-Moon State Master was able to manipulate this scorpion-tailed snake precisely because of that, and the Half-Moon people thought that her magic power was limitless and worshipped her as the State Master.”

As soon as he heard the word “manipulation”, Xie Ren felt bad, thinking, this but all talk about “manipulation”, that is never a large group of a large area, immediately said: “Everyone now hurry out first, this scorpion-tailed snake is afraid that more than one ……”

Before he finished his sentence, he heard a scream, “Ah!!!”

Several people exclaimed, “Snakes!” “So many snakes!” “There’s one here too!”

In the midst of the darkness, seven or eight purple-red scorpion-tailed snakes actually crawled out noiselessly. They came extremely suddenly, simply do not know from which hole crawled out, they also do not attack, just quietly staring at this group of people, as if in the examination of this what. This snake crawling and attacking are silent, even the general viper spitting mail “hiss” sound are not, is really dangerous to the extreme. Nanfeng and Fuyao struck over with two palm flames, a large ball of blazing fire exploded inside the cavern, and Xie Ren said, “Get out!”

The crowd where still dare to stay in the cave, busy escaping out. Fortunately, the sky was slightly twilight, the tornado had long gone away, and the wind and sand outside was also much smaller. The group retreated to the open area, running, someone said: “This monument is also too scary! How come after three times of worship, we still encountered this kind of thing instead!”

Xie Ren thought to herself that it was fortunate that they didn’t know that the last sentence was made up by Sanlang, but then she heard someone else say, “Yeah! It’s about as effective as worshipping that raggedy immortal! The more you worship, the more bad luck you have!”

“……”

To be hit by an arrow even in such an eight-pole place, Xie Ren was speechless. Suddenly, Tiansheng exclaimed, “Uncle Zheng!” The old man he was supporting collapsed. Xie Ren snatched forward and said, “What’s wrong?”

That Zheng old man full of pain, trembling raised his hand. Xie Ren caught his hand to see, his heart sank, only to see his tiger’s mouth a purple-red color, swollen high, swelling can barely see a very small hole, so small a wound, for fear of being stuck in the moment also can not be detected, and immediately said: “Everyone quickly check their own body has no wounds, in case there is a hurry to use the rope to tie up!” And then turned over his wrist to look at the meridians, there is a visible purple and red color is crawling up his meridians. Xie Ren thought this snake venom is very powerful, was about to unlock Ruoxi, but saw Azhao tore off the cloth to the old man’s small arm center a tie, tied dead tight, blocking the poisonous blood backflow flow on the heart. His action is rapid and incomparable, Xie Ren secretly a praise, a look up, do not need him to say more, Nanfeng has taken out a medicine bottle, poured out a pill, Xie Ren to the old man to serve, born panicked and shouted: “uncle, you’re okay, right? Azhao brother, uncle will not die, right?

Ah Zhao shook his head and said, “When bitten by a scorpion-tailed snake, within two hours, one will surely die.”

Born was stunned and said, “What …… about that?”

Elder Uncle Zheng was the leader of the caravan, and the merchants also said anxiously, “Didn’t this little brother give him medicine?”

Nan Feng said, “What I gave him was not an antidote either, it temporarily renewed his life. At most, it will help him delay two hours to twelve.”

The merchants were all in a flurry: “Only twelve hours?” “In that case, isn’t this the only way to wait for death?” “Is this poison hopeless?”

At that moment, however, Miroku slowly walked up and said, “There is help.”

The crowd looked at him. Tiansheng was overjoyed and turned his head, “Brother Zhao, why didn’t you say earlier if there was help, you scared me to death!”

Azhao was silent, however, and shook his head a little wordlessly. Miroku said, “Of course he can’t say. How do you say if the person who was poisoned is saved while others may not be?”

Xie Ren said, “Sanlang, what do you say?”

Sanlang said, “Brother, do you know the legendary origin of this scorpion-tailed snake?”

Originally, legend has it that hundreds of years ago, a lord of the Half Moon Kingdom went into the deep mountains to hunt, and inadvertently caught two demon spirits transformed into poisonous creatures, a venomous snake spirit and a scorpion spirit.

These two poisonous creatures practiced in the mountains, not asking questions and never harming anyone, but the lord of the Half Moon Kingdom wanted to kill them on the grounds that they were poisonous and would harm people sooner or later. The two goblins begged the lord to let them live, but the lord was brutal and forced the two goblins to give up their tails in front of him and a group of ministers, so that they could drink for fun at the banquet. At the end of the banquet, the king killed the two poisonous creatures. The only one who could not bear it, but did not dare to disobey the lord, was the queen, who plucked off a leaf of vanilla and threw it over the bodies of the two poisonous creatures.

The poisonous snakes and scorpions transformed into evil creatures and were very resentful, cursing that the offspring born after they crossed their tails would stay here forever and kill the people of the Half Moon Country. As a result, the scorpion-tailed snakes only infested the area around the Half Moon Country, and once bitten or stung by them, the poison was swift and the death was miserable. However, because of the kindness of the Queen’s leaf, the vanilla leaf that the Queen used to throw over to cover them that day is an antidote to this poison.

After speaking, Miroku said, “That herb is called Good Moon Grass, and it also only grows within the former territory of the Half Moon Kingdom.”

The merchants heard, have said, “This …… this kind of myth and legend, really can believe?”

“This little brother, human lives are at stake, don’t joke with us!”

Sanlang but smiled and said nothing more after telling Xie Ren. Tiansheng, on the other hand, asked that Ah Zhao for confirmation, “Brother Zhao, is this brother in red clothes telling the truth?”

After pondering for a moment, Ah Zhao said, ”I don’t know whether the myths and legends are true or false. However, within the territory of the Half Moon Country, there is indeed Good Moon Grass growing. And the Good Moon Grass can indeed cure the Scorpion Tail Snake’s poison.”

Xie Ren said, “That is to say, those who are bitten by the scorpion-tailed snake only have a ray of life. And this ray of life can only be obtained by traveling to the former lands of the Half Moon Kingdom?”

No wonder there are many passing caravans and travelers, knowing that “every time they pass through the border, more than half of them go missing”, will still break into the Half Moon Country’s homeland. It’s not because they are determined to die, but because they might die if they don’t go in!

The scorpion-tailed snake was the totem of the Half Moon Demon Dao, and could be manipulated by her, so the appearance of this scorpion-tailed snake would definitely not be a coincidence. Relying on a few Magi alone could not guarantee that these people would be unharmed, and it was unknown whether more Scorpion Tail Snakes would appear. Xie Ren raised her two fingers against her temples and ran the Psychic Formation, wanting to see if she could shamelessly borrow a few more minor Magi. To his surprise, it failed to work, and there was no sign of it. He put down his hand, feel strange, thought: “I mana is not so fast used up, right? I counted it in the morning, and clearly there is still a little bit left.” Then he turned to Nan Feng and Fu Yao, “Which one of you try to enter the psychic formation? I can’t get in on my side.”

A moment later, those two were all gloomy, and Nan Feng said, “I can’t go in either.”

In places where evil auras were overwhelming, some of the Magi’s mana would be affected, temporarily weakened or blocked. I’m afraid that right now, they are experiencing such a situation.

Xie Ren paced back and forth in the original place for a while, raised his head once, and said, “Maybe because this place is too close to the ancient country of the half moon, the psychic spell is blocked …… At this time, he suddenly glimpsed an unusually blinding red color out of the corner of his eye.

Nanfeng and Fuyao were trying to enter the Tongling Formation on this side, while the other merchants were busy checking their bodies for tiny wounds, only that teenager, Born, was only anxious about holding Elder Zheng, and was oblivious to the fact that a purplish red scorpion-tailed snake was crawling up his spine silently and without a sound.

And it was coiled on Born’s shoulder, fangs aimed not at the teenager’s neck, but at the arm of Miroku, who stood idly by.

The snake lifts back and protrudes!

The moment before that fang was about to stab Sanlang, Xie Ren probed out with one hand and pinched its seven inches with unparalleled precision.

With his hand strength, this pinch can originally direct the snake’s seven inches pinch burst, fried it a liver and brain splash, however, he did not know whether the snake’s flesh and blood with toxins, do not dare to move, then went to pinch the snake’s tail. Who knows, the snake body slippery slippery extremely difficult to catch, Xie Ren a pinch, only feel a round soft cold things from the cracks of the fingers slipped away, the next moment, the back of the hand will come from a pinprick of pain.