Insect Infestation on Myriad Phenomena Mountain
The other person's slender neck was so fragile, as if I could snap it with just a little force.
At this moment, Liu San was extremely excited. He had already fabricated a reason in his mind for the other party to take the opportunity to escape, and for him to kill him in order to stop them.
Before he could even crush the female cultivator's throat, Liu San felt a sharp pain in his chest.
He instinctively looked down and saw a beautiful hand holding a long sword that pierced his heart.
"You... how could this be..." Liu San murmured, a trickle of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.
Sang Ying kicked the person away and with a little force, she retrieved the Floating River Sword.
Those on Earth, even in death, never understood why they had perished so easily.
With a casual flick of a Dust-Removal Instruction, the bloodstains on Sang Ying and Floating River disappeared.
"Cang Lian, get rid of this man!" Sang Ying ordered, and a handsome man in gorgeous clothes appeared out of thin air in the mine.
With a flick of his long sleeve, Liu San vanished from the ground without leaving a trace of blood.
After dealing with all that, Cang Lian finally had a chance to complain to Sang Ying, "You should have let me do it! How could you let someone like that run into you?!"
Cang Lian had always looked down on Liu San, a coward who bullied the weak and feared the strong. Especially when she saw that he wanted to hurt Sang Ying, she immediately wanted to take action.
However, because Sang Ying did not want to give Liu San a chance to inform her and intended to kill him with one blow, she barely endured it.
Sang Ying comforted him briefly, then said, "From now on, I'll need you to play the role of Liu San well. If you have the chance, it would be even better if you could take control of the guard leader."
Cang Lian's cultivation level is higher than Sang Ying's, so he could probably easily subdue even a leader.
Sang Ying planned to unite with the cultivators while dealing with the other guards. All of this had to be done secretly; if even a whisper leaked out, the people behind them would likely be impossible to catch.
Cang Lian naturally understood the importance of this matter. He possessed a Secret Method that allowed him to access all of another person's memories through a single drop of their blood. Therefore, impersonating Liu San should not be difficult for him, which is why Sang Ying dared to entrust this task to him.
After discussing it further, the two decided to head back. It was getting late, and if they didn't return soon, the other guards might come looking for them.
However, before leaving, Sang Ying secretly threw Green Vine into a corner of the mine.
There are only Spirit Stone and soil here; it should be enough for Green Vine to mess around with.
When they returned to the crowd, Sang Ying still looked as unremarkable as before, but she had many more scars on her body than before.
Wen Heyu and his companions witnessed all of this, and their resentment only grew stronger.
"Hey, look at you, you've calmed down quite a bit!" Someone noticed Sang Ying's injuries and teased "Liu San" a few times.
"Liu San" forced a smile at the man, suppressing the urge to lash out with his tail.
The break time ended quickly, and the chaotic sounds of mining resumed, as the mortals drifted off to sleep amidst the noise.
The night shift guards quickly replaced the previous group; they also looked very tired, and their vigilance was not as strict as the previous guards.
Sang Ying's hands kept moving as he mined, but Jiang Zhuoxue's voice rang in his mind at just the right moment. He had already found all the people who had been kidnapped. The cultivators were alright; although they looked much more haggard, they had all survived.
But of those mortals, fewer than five remained.
Among them, Chen Liu probably won't last much longer.
"Wen Heyu, who spoke to you earlier, seems trustworthy. You might want to get to know him. The Spirit-Sealing Lock around their necks are a bit troublesome; I haven't thought of a way to unlock them yet," Jiang Zhuoxue said.
The Spirit-Sealing Lock isn't anything particularly powerful, but the materials used are quite complicated, and it can't be forcibly broken with Spiritual Power.
While listening to his words, Sang Ying, without paying attention, suddenly swung her hoe down.
The stones fell with a rustling sound, and a rich Spiritual Qi burst forth. Sang Ying was startled and quickly used the broken stones to block it, firmly concealing the mid-grade Spirit Stone inside.
Fortunately, her movements were discreet enough that the guards, busy having fun, didn't notice anything amiss.
However, a mortal resting in the corner inadvertently caught a glimpse of this scene.
He suppressed his panic, and a sliver of secret hope quietly arose within him. That hoe strike couldn't have been dug out by a cultivator whose Spiritual Power was sealed; that person hadn't lost their Spiritual Power at all!
He closed his eyes, forcing himself to fall asleep, but the image of his mother kept appearing in his mind.
Can he still go back? Could that person have been sent by the city lord's mansion?
He didn't know, but he believed that his destiny was beginning to change today!
Cang Lian was now certain that he hadn't learned a single trick to deceive people from Sang Ying. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to be seen as suspicious by the guards at a glance, even with all of Liu San's memories.
The leader was clever; the moment he noticed something was wrong with Cang Lian, he tried to contact the manager. Fortunately, Cang Lian had been watching him closely, so he killed the leader before he could make a move.
Fortunately, the leader's room was far from the other guards' rooms, so the commotion there wouldn't reach anyone else.
Cang Lian quickly dealt with the leader, and after a flash of white light, a figure instantly appeared inside the room.
If anyone were present at this moment, they would immediately notice that this "Liu San" exudes a wooden, wooden aura.
Above everyone's heads, the enchanting Tuyao Flower was quietly bathed in moonlight.
With a soft rustling sound, an insect slowly crawled out of the soil and took a bite of the stem of the Tuyao Flower.
Then, the rustling sound grew louder and wider... Tuyao Flower fell one by one amidst this strange sound.
The rosy petals fell into the mud and quickly became nutrients that nourished the land.
The enchanting sea of flowers was gradually replaced by the dark brown of the soil; the demise of the flower sea seemed to foreshadow the decline of a certain power.
The next morning, before the prosperous Rizhao City had even awakened, there was a rapid knocking on the gate of the Jimo Household.
The servants quickly opened the door and led the monks, dressed in guard uniforms, into the courtyard.
Under the steward's guidance, the guard, who worked at the city lord's mansion, finally met the true person in charge of Rizhao City.
He collapsed at the feet of the Jimo Household patriarch, weeping sorrowfully, "Patriarch, the Tuyao Flower on Myriad Phenomena Mountain have been infested with pests! Most of the flowers have been eaten away, leaving only stems!"
His sorrowful mood seemed to affect the head of the Jimo Household as well. He pursed his lips, turned his face away, and spoke with a tone that seemed to suppress his grief, "The pest infestation is so severe that, in order to prevent it from affecting the rest of the flowers and trees on Myriad Phenomena Mountain, we have no choice but to harvest the entire sea of flowers as soon as possible!"
A note from the author:
Jimo Household Head: Luckily I held back, otherwise I would have burst out laughing in front of them.
See you tomorrow~ flap your wings