The Legend of the Devil
Ch. 148 - The Valley of the Rock headquarters
Hundreds of candles were lit inside Fan Yuan's residence, the man had not returned since that afternoon.
Xiang Yi Bai was sitting on a wooden table writing something on paper.A small tap on the table could be heard ruling the room, the sound of a pen scratching the paper enlivened the silent place. The room was brightened by the candlelight that filled the surroundings.
In the corner of the room, a large bookshelf filled with books lined up neatly. There Xiang Yi Bai spent his free time while relaxing. But he seems to be not calm at all.
The storm hit with strong winds and heavy rain. Xiang Yi Bai felt a cold as well as cool air piercing through the open window next to him.
The window was wide open and the roar of the wind was clear, echoing in the empty room. Xiang Yi Bai swiftly stood up and walked towards the window, feeling a cold gust of wind on his face. He closed the window carefully, making sure that no rainwater entered the room.
Xiang returned to his chair and began to write back. He created a dove out of his power, tying a paper scroll containing the message he had written since.
After that, his mind was distracted by the sound of the wind getting louder and the rustling sound of leaves outside the window. He tried to focus himself on meditating but the window reopened, and the loud sound of the wind made him unable to concentrate. There was a bad feeling coming and it was very disturbing to him. He stood up again and closed the window tightly.
But his gaze was momentarily locked onto a shadow from within the forest, very quickly but he was able to confirm that his eyes were not mistaken, that figure was a human. There were no black-clothed bodyguards in this place, then who was the person that Xiang Yi Bai had just seen just now?
The man gave a small peck ignoring all thoughts that made him disturbed.
A moment his mind was fixed on the troublemaker, he murmured a little.
"Hopefully the foolish disciple will not do anything, I will make his rib soup later" he said, closing the shutters.
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In the middle of the dense wilderness, strong winds accompanied by rainstorms suddenly shook everything he passed. Huge trees swayed and some of the branches were broken, the rumbling sound of the storm wind rang out loud, flying the leaves of the trees into the air.
Some of the trees even looked shaken and almost collapsed by the force of the wind. Under the wind and rain that did not stop, a puddle of mud formed on the ground that had previously been wet by the rain that fell.
A flash of shadow appeared in the middle of the forest followed by another shadow, so quickly.
Each of these forest paths was filled with tall trees towering to the
upon. The branches of the tree move violently due to the storm's increasingly strong wind indicates heavy rain will fall, and make a noise in the quiet forest. .
A chase occurs in the wilderness.
Two robed men carried a girl and were chased by a young man with a white mask.
The two robed men felt threatened by the young man's existence and one of them immediately pulled out a weapon.
A flash of light from Xue Zhan's sword appeared, he jumped from one branch to another branch that was very far away and managed to hit the foot of one enemy in front of him.
Xue Zhan jumped over the men who were now sitting on the branches of a large tree, they were chasing on the trees and for half an hour were fighting speed. It seemed that the two people were getting exhausted and it was time for Xue Zhan to attack.
The young man jumped up and took a kick towards the head of one of the two robed men. The kick hits the target and gets the person thrown a few meters back.
The young man with the white mask quickly moved and caught his arm, then with one nimble hand move, he let out a fairly violent fist strike and dropped his opponent to the ground.
Successfully subverting the other Xue Zhan was intent on chasing the other.
But unfortunately Xue Zhan's legs held back the man, he did not let go of Xue Zhan who wanted to chase after Yin Jiao. The young man tried to escape but it seemed that he had no other way but to kill the person. Without stalling any longer Xue Zhan unsheathed the sword and within seconds after that a head fell on the grass stained with blood.
Unfortunately, even though only a few seconds apart, the man managed to bring Yin Jiao away. Xue Zhan cursed inwardly.
Though he was on Yin Jiao's side back then, when they spoke he sensed an unusual presence in the surroundings and Xue Zhan could not guess where the source of the power was because it was too abstract and numerous. Seeing that there was no movement where Yin Jiao was, Xue Zhan thought that the evil energy was coming from somewhere else.
So he decided to find out where the evil energy came from.
Xue Zhan had never expected that what they were after back then was Yin Jiao and Xue Zhan leaving him to fight alone until he was injured.
Xue Zhan clenched one hand in annoyance, he followed the faint scent of Yin Jiao's blood still smelling. Pretty far chasing, though, her red eyes combed every corner of the forest without anything being missed until she finally rediscovered the man who had brought Yin Jiao and was heading towards a secluded place that was inside the stone clap steep in the misty valley.
The place was like empty and uninhabited, but when Xue Zhan noticed once again inside were dozens of men in black clothes and also faces covered in cloth lined up. Their heartbeats were barely audible, they were like statues.
Xue Zhan was on top of the steep rocks, reducing the noise he caused. Although it was only breathing, Xue Zhan was confident that the people down there could track it down. From that height was not much that Xue Zhan saw.
His eyes caught a figure in complete black clothes protected by arm guards, an iron belt and an extremely powerful fiery red sword. He had a dense killing aura and his carrier was extremely unusual. Just as Xue Zhan had met the person who had killed twenty thousand people, that was how he saw from the figure. The man stopped in front of Yin Jiao.
From where it was now, Xue Zhan could hear the conversation beneath him.
"Thanks to you we managed to invite this guy for free. You're useful too, heh."