Chapter 373 Encountering a Chase.
Outside the ancient city, in the mountains, Oscar and Xian Yun'er stood at the foot of the mountains, holding a map they had just bought from the ancient city. The map depicted the two forbidden areas of the Northwest.
However, as they scanned the map, Oscar and Xian Yun'er's expressions were far from pleasant; instead, they wore worried and distressed looks.
"Tap tap tap..."
"Do you think the information on this map is wrong?"
The map was now spread out on a stone slab. Oscar's fingers tapped incessantly on the map.
"Bang!"
"Hmph! Do they dare lie to me?!"
He slammed his hand hard on the stone slab, shattering it and the map on it.
Xian Yun'er suddenly stood up, her hands radiating heat as she slammed them on the stone slab. She was like a thoroughly enraged lioness, unapproachable.
Oscar, meanwhile, was heartbroken over the map. He'd bought it in the ancient city with gold melted down from a single gold soul coin—a considerable sum for him.
But he dared not utter a sound of complaint.
Just then, a blue figure rushed from the mountaintop. His speed was incredible; it seemed to create invisible waves in the air.
This was none other than Shenger, who had gone to scout the situation.
Arriving beside Oscar and Shenger, seeing the shattered stone slab and map, and Xian Yun'er's angry, murderous expression, he immediately understood what had happened, his eyelids twitching involuntarily.
"Ahem, I'm back."
Oscar coughed, and seeing that Xian Yun'er didn't react, he sat up straight, not daring to utter a sound. He could only sigh inwardly.
"Um… I went to check on the situation there."
"Stop dawdling, tell me!"
Even though Shenger was Xian Yun'er's brother, she didn't give him any face, ignoring any difference in strength. Her eyes glared fiercely, making Shenger tremble.
"Ahem, it seems something did happen over there, but it's a plain, heavily guarded, not the desolate place Brother Mo described."
As soon as he said this, the three of them stared at each other, an eerie silence settling between them…
"So what exactly happened?"
Picking up a larger piece of map fragment from the ground, Oscar frowned, examining the information and routes recorded on it.
"That doesn't make sense. If that's the case, there's no such thing as a wasteland. Unless the environment of this area changed after Old Mo received the information, causing the wasteland to disappear and become that plain in the distance…"
"I don't think that's possible."
While Oscar was speculating, Shenger shook his head in denial. His reasoning was quite sound.
"If a wasteland were to become a plain or a forest, it would take at least a thousand years. And someone as reliable as Brother Mo wouldn't give information with a very long timeframe. It would be information from within the last hundred years at the very least."
"But in this situation…"
"Bang!" Xian Yun'er punched a tree trunk beside her.
"Alright! Stop arguing!" As soon as she finished speaking, her gaze swept over the two of them.
"You two quickly come up with a plan, what should we do now?"
"This…" Oscar and Shenger were glared at fiercely by Xian Yun'er, and cold sweat immediately dripped down their backs. They couldn't help but look at each other, because they had no idea what to do.
But just then, "Hmm?"
Shenger, who had the highest cultivation level, suddenly looked up and then looked towards a direction deep in the mountains, his brows furrowing.
A moment later, under Oscar and Xian Yun'er's questioning gazes, he asked, "Have you two noticed anything? I have a feeling something's not right."
"A sound?"
Oscar and Xian Yun'er immediately looked around, but found nothing.
"Brother Shen, are you sure you're not mistaken?"
"Yeah, don't be so alarmed. What could be wrong here? We haven't seen anything in all this time."
Xian Yun'er gave Shen'er a disgruntled look. "The most important thing now is where we should go to find Brother Mo."
"This..."
Just as Shen'er thought he had misheard, suddenly, the sound of trees falling echoed from the mountains.
"I didn't mishear! There's definitely something going on over there!"
"Should we go check it out?!"
"Let's go!" Oscar didn't hesitate.
For some reason, he suddenly had a feeling that he had to go. And with such a commotion, he felt uneasy.
So, he gathered up the map fragments on the ground.
The next second, the three of them immediately ate Oscar's flying mushroom sausage and rushed towards the direction from which the sound came...
Meanwhile, in the mountains.
"These damned bastards!"
A man in a blood-red robe looked at the five black-robed figures with skulls chasing after him, his blood sword continuously unleashing several blood-red sword energies. However, these sword energies were aimed at the surrounding trees, attempting to use them to slow down the black-robed figures.
"You're wasting your time!"
One of the black-robed figures waved his hand, a burst of soul power striking a fallen tree, causing it to explode on the spot.
"You four, stop right there!"
Another black-robed figure immediately activated his martial soul, a cloud of black mist swirling around him. As the black mist contracted and fluctuated, a figure shrouded in black smoke slowly emerged.
Within the black smoke, the black-robed figure's hand moved.
A pitch-black chain, with a "clattering" sound, extended from the black-robed figure's palm.
Then, he gently trembled his hand, his arm shaking. The chain ripped through the sky in an instant, transforming into a black line aimed at the blood-robed man. More accurately, it was Ryder's sudden, violent thrust.
"You bunch of evil spirit masters, you're like persistent ghosts!"
Seeing the evil spirit master had already made his move, Ryder's face turned icy. With a flick of his blood-red sword, he had no choice but to fight back.
Looking at Jin Sanqian, who was carrying someone and running frantically ahead, and Wilda beside him, he ordered, "Sanqian, Wilda, protect that guy. And you two, be careful too!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he turned around abruptly. Then, his blood-red wings unfurled, and he hurtled straight towards the evil soul master…
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