Chapter 873
Under the night, the entire Wan Ren Mountain was dead silent, and if one wasn’t in this place, no one would have thought that there were actually a lot of people on the mountain at this time.
Lin Ran followed the location provided by Feng Qi and felt his way up the mountain, and his destination was in a ravine at the back of the mountain.
When he arrived at the top of the mountain, Lin Ran found no trace of anyone, but he knew that Feng Qi must be hiding somewhere with his men.
Looking at his watch, it was only ten o’clock at night, so Lin Ran was in no hurry and began to take stock of his belongings.
“Patriarch, the boy is here!”
On another hill, in the darkness, a young man dressed in night clothes arched his hand and said.
“Well! I see it!”
Feng Qi gazed far away, and on the hill opposite to him, a very dim light was flickering, exactly where Lin Ran was.
“Looks like this kid is still worth training!”
Suddenly, a youth’s voice came to mind next to him.
“It’s one thing to be worth training, it’s another thing to be able to train up!”
Another youth’s voice rang out.
Feng Qi turned his head to look at the two and said indifferently.
“What, you three know each other?”
“Don’t know each other!”
Fire One Sword said indifferently.
Next to him, Li Mu Di was laughing.
“Clan Chief Feng, don’t listen to the kid’s nonsense, the last time the Ten Thousand Treasures Spell Formation, Lin Ran stole something from him and the two of them had a bit of a falling out!”
“A falling out? Big girl?”
Feng Qi laughed, followed by a cold look in his eyes as he said.
“Don’t forget what I said to you guys back then, to shoulder this kind of responsibility, you have to be united, in our team, any distrust or conflict is not needed!”
“Understood!”
Fire Yijian nodded, although he still had a few dislikes towards Lin Ran, he also understood that if the time did come in the future for the two to fight side by side, he wouldn’t care about this point of conflict between them.
“However, Clan Chief Feng, do you think he will be able to complete his mission? After all, the opponent this time is a Blood Demon!”
Fire One Sword said with a frown.
“This was arranged by my mentor, and I think my mentor naturally has his intentions in arranging this!”
Feng Qi said indifferently.
“Hey, we can only say that the kid is unlucky, most of the people he has taken in recently are those with very low vitality, who knows that this kid’s mission is actually a Blood Demon, he can only blame himself!”
Li Mu Di said with a bitter smile.
“Luck is sometimes a part of strength!”
Feng Qi was bland, clearly not taking this to heart.
“Alright, it’s getting late, you guys should also go down and get ready, do your own thing, the rest is all up to him!”
“Mhmm!”
Li Mu Di and Fire One Sword nodded their heads and promptly disappeared into the dark night.
…..
Time pa*sed by minute by minute, and soon the time came to eleven thirty, and at this time Lin Ran had already touched the entrance to the canyon in the back of the mountain.
The only thing left to do was to reach the appointed twelve o’clock, and he would enter the valley directly.
“Patriarch, it’s time!”
Soon, half an hour had pa*sed, and in the other direction of the canyon, Feng Qi was also in place with all his men.
“Very well! Get everyone in position, once Lin Ran enters the core place, we’ll make an early move!”
Feng Qi commanded.
“Yes!”
His men nodded and immediately went to make arrangements.
Feng Qi did not tell Lin Ran that the stalk of liquid that concealed his scent actually also allowed him to grasp Lin Ran’s location, so he could clearly sense what position Lin Ran was in at the moment.
“Has it started?”
Suddenly, Feng Qi looked up ahead as he felt Lin Ran’s position begin to move.
……
Under the darkness, Lin Ran quickly felt his way towards the entrance of the canyon, the closer he got to the canyon, the more Lin Ran also felt a sense of unease, a psychological omen that naturally arose as he got stronger.
“Be careful, there’s a formation ahead!”
The pillow’s voice suddenly rang out.
“Felt it!”
Lin Ran nodded, he too felt the presence of the formation.
“This is it!”
As he reached the depths of the entrance to the canyon, Lin Ran suddenly stopped before gently probing out his hand and releasing a strand of Healing Dao True Qi at his fingertips.
Soon, in the mid-air in front of him, a vortex with Healing Dao True Qi forming appeared, not too big just enough for a person to pa*s through.
“Go!”
Lin Ran greeted in his heart and instantly dived into the vortex.
Using his Medical Dao True Qi to open the formation barriers was the safest means for him to pa*s through the formation, while not letting the other party notice.
“Into the formation!”
Not far away Feng Qi nodded in satisfaction.
…..
When he entered the formation, the original darkness around him became a little brighter at this point, and Lin Ran saw that there was actually a very large fortress not far away.
This is a very big fortress, which he had not discovered before.
“It’s really lively in here!”
Even Pillow Book couldn’t help but exclaim.
“This formation is really powerful, if we didn’t know the location in advance, I’m afraid no one would have thought that there was actually such a hidden place in the middle of this sublime mountain range.”
Lin Ran couldn’t help but say in his heart.
“Be careful of the guards at the entrance of the fortress before you!”
Pillow Book warned, this fortress was a little too bizarre, and Pillow Book didn’t dare to explore it extensively, for fear of being discovered.
“Go around!”
Lin Ran found a way with a little thought.
He saw that at the entrance of the fortress, there were many people who seemed to be patrolling in black robes, and where he appeared at this moment, he was not far from them, plus the clothes he was wearing were similar to them, and immediately a big idea appeared in Lin Ran’s mind.
He first went to a hidden corner and grabbed the one closest to him when the others weren’t looking, and then made the other person faint, then draped the other person’s black robe over himself, took the other person’s luggage, and then actually blended into the crowd.
With the help of the scent masking medicine, he was not worried at all about being discovered by others, and as many of the people here were wearing black robes, Lin Ran was not worried about being seen face to face.
“Kid! You’re quite the thief!”
Looking at Lin Ran blending in with the crowd and no one actually noticing, Pillow Book couldn’t help but laugh as well.
“Alright cut the crap and go in and see what’s going on!”
Lin Ran said helplessly, and followed the crowd and entered the fortress.
And as soon as he entered the fortress, Lin Ran felt another layer of formation sweep past his body, it should be a formation to probe the situation, but that formation obviously didn’t notice Lin Ran’s abnormality and pa*sed away in a flash.
And the moment Lin Ran actually crossed into the town, he realised what it meant to be a purgatory on earth.
He saw that the entire fortress was dotted with many rooms, and in the middle of these rooms was a very wide and contoured road.
On both sides of the road, there were countless cages, and inside each cage was a person.
What was even more frightening was that the clothes on these people were in tatters, obviously beaten.
And those who were imprisoned in the cages were letting out miserable screams and angry curses from time to time, and the entire air of resentment inside the fortress was simply overwhelming.
“Look!”
Suddenly, the pillow book gestured for Lin Ran to look at the side.
Only then was Lin Ran surprised to find that underneath each cage, there was actually a section of culvert, and what flowed inside each culvert was actually that red poisonous liquid.
And these venom flowed light from underneath the cages, this design was obviously collecting something.
Chapter 874
“It seems that Feng Qi’s words are true, these are all the missing Feng Shui masters!”
Lin Ran couldn’t help but gulp, if Feng Qi hadn’t come looking for him, I’m afraid he wouldn’t have thought that such a human purgatory actually existed inside the Ten Thousand Rengshan Mountains.
“No! I have to find out what’s going on!”
Lin Ran thought in his mind, while slowing down his foot speed, and as he walked and observed, he soon discovered a pattern.
Not every one of these cages had people inside, and when no one was there, there would be screams coming from the room behind the cages, as if that room was a place of torture.
“Go!”
As he was thinking in his mind, suddenly, Lin Ran saw a man in black robes in front of him pulling a man out of the cage and rushing towards the room next to it.
The man’s entire body was already torn and almost finished, and his entire body was trembling where it stood, clearly on the verge of not being able to carry it anymore.
“Go and take a look!”
Lin Ran’s mind moved and immediately followed him over, taking advantage of the moment when the door to the room closed to follow him in with a flash.
“Who?”
The black-robed man noticed that someone had entered and immediately opened his mouth to scold.
But just as the words spat out, a cold ray of light followed and sliced across his neck, immediately spurting blood all over the floor, and the whole man fell straight to the ground.
“Dead!”
Lin Ran first crouched down to check, confirming that the other party was dead before turning his head to look at the man who had come out of the cage on his back.
“Who are you? How come you’re here?”
Lin Ran asked busily, the whole room was very dim, only a little bright light shone in, Lin Ran could not see the other person’s appearance at all.
“I …..”
The other party did not seem to react, and it was only after a full two minutes that he suddenly said excitedly.
“I …. I’m a disciple of the Clear Wind Sect, dare I ask! Are you here to save us?”
“Sort of! What’s going on here?”
Lin Ran asked busily.
“I don’t know either!”
The other party’s voice was tinged with tears, clearly the days he had spent these past few days had brought him to the brink of collapse.
It took a good few moments of reprieve before the youth spoke again.
“On the day I finished participating in the Ten Thousand Treasures Spell Formation with my other brothers, I wanted to come to Mount Wan Ren, after all, this is also a place favoured by the Feng Shui Sect, but who knew that I would be captured that night!”
“By the way, my name is Xu Qingfeng, I don’t know what is your name, benefactor?”
The youth was busy asking.
“Xu Qingfeng?”
Lin Ran was stunned at his words, then a flame lit up in his hand, the flame hit Xu Qingfeng’s face, his whole face was full of scars, Lin Ran saw that his eyes were full of fatigue, it seemed that if he came two more days later, he might not even make it through.
“You ….. Lin Ran!”
Xu Qingfeng also saw Lin Ran, and he froze, how could he have ever thought that the person who appeared in front of him at this moment would actually be Lin Ran.
“It’s me.”
Lin Ran revealed a bitter smile.
“I was quite surprised too, I didn’t expect you to appear here!”
“Hehe, yeah, I didn’t expect it either, I thought I was going to die twice, but who knew I’d run into you both times!”
Xu Qingfeng laughed to himself.
Thinking about how he looked down on Lin Ran back then, he felt ridiculous even thinking about it himself.
“I’m here for something else, I’ll send you back to the cage later, someone will come to rescue you soon!”
After a moment of silence, Lin Ran said.
“Someone is really coming to save us?”
Xu Qingfeng asked busily, there was no news more exciting to him now than someone coming to save them.
“That’s right! You wait patiently, someone will come to save you in less than half an hour!”
Lin Ran said, while he paused and asked.
“Tell me, who is the leader here? Where is it?”
“I don’t know where he is either, but it must be in the deepest part, I’ve only seen him once in all the time I’ve been captured here, and he’s not a person!”
Xu Qingfeng said with his whole body trembling.
“How so?”
Lin Ran frowned.
“That guy is a monster, his whole body’s skin is like highly burnt, there are scars everywhere, and he only has one eye, and it’s in the very middle!”
Xu Qingfeng was horrified to.
“Then what exactly did they grab you guys over for?”
Lin Ran asked.
“I don’t know, ever since I was caught in by them, I haven’t done anything but get beaten up every day!”
Xu Qingfeng said angrily.
“Getting beaten up?”
Lin Ran was stunned, and was busy asking again.
“And what about the culvert under the cage?”
“I don’t know about that either, the stuff inside that culvert is just like blood, it smells fishy and unpleasant, but it flows to the far end, so if you’re going to find the mastermind behind this place, you should be able to find out!”
Xu Qingfeng said.
“Mhm!”
Lin Ran nodded his head.
It didn’t surprise him that Xu Qingfeng could know this, after all, they were captives, so naturally there wasn’t much they could learn about.
Lin Ran then chatted with Xu Qingfeng for a while more, and only after finding no other information did he move to escort him back into the cage again, and then continued deeper towards the inside.
Lin Ran changed into the clothes of the man he had just killed, and found that he still had a plaque on his chest with a series of numbers written on it, “zero zero three!” I don’t know what purpose it serves.
As he went deeper and deeper, Lin Ran found many people like Xu Qingfeng, some of them were from the Yue Clan and some from other forces, but he did not find any from the Meihua Sect, apparently after the end of the Ten Thousand Treasures Spell Formation, the Meihua Sect should have gone back directly and did not come to the Ten Thousand Ren Ren Mountains.
As he went deeper and deeper, Lin Ran gradually realized that there were fewer and fewer people here, and it was becoming very difficult for him to continue to blend in with the crowd, but for some reason no one was stopping him along the way, as if everyone had their own business to attend to.
“Why is this venom getting darker and darker!”
After going about two kilometres deep, Lin Ran noticed that the originally red venom inside the culverts under those cages had become black, as if there were a lot of impurities mixed into it.
“Hmm?”
Suddenly, Lin Ran was stunned as he saw that, not far ahead, the road was finally at the end.
And at the end was a gate made of cast iron, with two very majestic faucets on either side of the gate, facing the culverts on either side.
As the black venom inside the culvert flowed under the faucets, wisps of black gas rose from the venom and slowly drifted into the faucets.
And the venom, which was still black, turned into its original red colour after the black gas floated out.
“This venom is transporting things!”
Lin Ran was greatly alarmed in his heart, seeing this scene he seemed to have guessed something, if that red venom was the transport belt, then the black things were obviously the things that were going to be transported over.
And all of these things were obviously extracted from those who had been captured, from their bodies.
“But that black mist, what exactly is it?”
An even greater doubt appeared in Lin Ran’s mind.
What exactly were they doing this for.
With this in mind, Lin Ran wanted to walk up and take a look.
“Stand still!”
Suddenly, two cold shouts sounded out in front of Lin Ran.
Only then did he notice that there were actually two tall black-robed men in front of him, holding two black sticks in their hands and looking at him from afar, emitting this fierce aura all over their bodies.
Suddenly, one of the black-robed men spoke up.
“Zero Three, what are you doing here when Lord Blood Demon has not summoned you? Is it because the prisoner is dead?”
