If Wen Xu had not acted in time, Wu Fang might have split Blue-Faced Fangs open with a single slash.
"Why did you stop me? This thing is a scourge! The villagers outside town were bewitched by it into sacrificing people to satisfy their own desires. Plenty of cultivators have fallen victim to them. These are the very things that sent me fleeing here in disgrace!"
Chapter 298: Old Geezer
After entering the Lotus Pond Secret Realm, Wu Fang had not headed straight for the town. He had left Thunderclap Manor decades ago, and after so long with the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, he preferred to scout his surroundings and secure an escape route before making other plans. Besides, the three prodigies of Yonglu Mountain were here too. However urgent he felt, Chen Zui was probably even more eager.
That being the case, he might as well proceed at his own pace. He was not particularly keen on sparring with someone the moment he arrived, either. With that in mind, Wu Fang joined a few others and found a nearby village to stay in.
The village was small, but its people were simple and warmhearted. It was autumn, the busy farming season, so since they were staying there, they naturally helped with the work. It was far harder than they had imagined, but even with their cultivation suppressed, cultivators recovered much faster than ordinary people.
After three straight days of tedious farmwork from dawn to dusk, even Wu Fang had nearly given up, let alone his loosely allied companions. On the third day, three of them left the village. Only two stayed on with Wu Fang.
Yet there was nothing remarkable about the village. It was an ordinary place where ordinary people lived. There were no abducted women or children with