After hearing Meng Zhixue's words, all the students speeded up, bypassed the bandits, and ran towards the mountains.

As the mountain goes deeper, the road becomes more rugged. On the side of the road, you can occasionally see patches of farmland cultivated on the deep mountain slopes, planting some crops. At this time, everyone can ride horses on this rugged mountain road. The movement became slower and slower, but only Meng Zhixue's snow deer and square inch white horse, one agile and the other strong, could barely maintain the previous speed.

It was originally planned by everyone to arrive at Heishan Ridge in the afternoon, and after inspection, they can go back, but when they arrived at Heishan Ridge, they saw that the western sun had hung on the top of the mountain, and they were about to fall. Go down the mountain.

　　 The night in the mountains is coming fast, and there is already a faint dusk at this time.

　　 "Yuqian Town is here..."

　　 was also at this time, Yu Qingli had read the map and whispered to everyone.

Everyone rode their horses down a hillside, and looked forward, they saw a small town, hidden in the night, with huts and stone mills, small bridges and bamboo forests, dim and dim, without a trace of light, nor the crowing of chickens. The dog barked, and the night wind passed through the middle of the town, sweeping the branches and leaves, passing through the dilapidated window, and there was a whining sound, which gave people a depressed and gloomy feeling.

"This Yuqian Town was built by those refugees who poured into the mountains to reclaim wasteland. There are many such villages in the deep mountains. Yuqian Town is already relatively large, with hundreds of households and hundreds of villagers. Seven days ago, but in one day, everything disappeared!"

Meng Zhixue said in a low voice, "Before I came, I got the master's order. He guessed that there are many spirits in the mountains, and those spirits never talk about the bottom line. They love taking people and preempting the weather, so this is a strange thing. Most of it is the work of the spirits. We do not need to be troubled here. We just need to explore the village and see if there are any traces of the spirits abducting people in this village!"

　　 Everyone nodded and said, "It shouldn't be too late, go on!"

　　 When everyone came to the village, they dispersed left and right, and went to check the traces of the village.

　　 Wherever you go, you will leave a trace. This is Emperor Roselle... No, this is common sense in the past life!

　　Qi refining students in this world may not know this sentence, but obviously they also know the truth.

After 　　 dispersed, from the east end of the village to the west end, various means were deployed, and houses were inspected one by one.

　　 Someone overturned the cabinet and came back soon, saying: "The copper plate is still in the cabinet. These people must not leave voluntarily!"

　　 Someone took out the compass, walked around the village, turned around in a moment, and said: "There is no problem with geomantic omen, it won't be a demon!"

Someone picked up a cage, circled the village, and then looked at the small red-billed house sparrow with its neck awkward and said: "The white sparrow who is most afraid of ghosts has not been scared to death. There are no ghosts left in this village, nor is it the work of ghosts!"

　　 someone added: "There is no ghost left, and it even shows that the people did not die in the village!"

　　 "There are no traces of fighting in the village, and it should not be the bandits..."

He Zhenzhang frowned and said: "If the bandits have taken this village and captured it, they will leave traces of fighting and fighting anyway. The villages in these mountains are not friendly. The world is difficult. If the bandits come, they I dare to resist!"

　　 Everyone came back after investigating, moaning for a while, frowning slightly.

The village is very strange. It is clear that all the people in the village, young and old, have disappeared. However, when I observe now, I find that there is no trace of fighting and struggling, not even a trace of blood. Some people are still cooking in the kitchen. Baogu porridge is just cooked dry. Some people have half-eaten pickles on the table, and some people have freshly cut fish fat on the bed...

　　 At first glance, it seemed that all of a sudden the whole village had left.

　　 "There are some methods for evil repair, or you can use the method of contemplation to quietly lead the villagers away without leaving a trace..."

　　 After a while, someone began to guess.

He Zhenzhang on one side heard the words, but said: "If there is evil cultivation to cast the spell, then the other party must be extremely clever, and I am afraid that he has already cultivated to the golden core divine realm. Only in this way can a contemplation technique be used to capture all the people in the village. Stay and leave the village obediently. Otherwise, at least four or five foundation-building evil practitioners can perform this step together. However, if there is a spirit refiner in the gods, why bother to come to us like Liuhu. The place did this sneaky deed, and if four or five treasure realm evil cultivators came to our Liuhu city at the same time, several masters in the academy and the city guard would certainly have noticed. Therefore, the possibility of crossing evil cultivators is not Big……"

　　 also when everyone was pondering, Yu Qingli, who checked the most carefully, walked over.

　　 He whispered: "I found a few **** fox skins in a house in the west of the village!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard the words. They all came to a hut in the west of the village. They saw that there were bows, arrows, knives and guns hanging on the wall of the hut, and there were some hunting clips. They knew that this should be the residence of hunters in the village. Looking at the wall again, the few fox skins hung in the air have been air-dried for nearly half. I think it has been seven or eight days. After looking at each other, they have a vague answer in their hearts.

　　……

　　……

　　 "This place is not far from the Demon Cave of Qinghu Mountain!"

Yu Qingli slowly said: "These monsters, the most flawed, must be reported. They would come out from time to time to deceive and harm others. If the hunters in the village inadvertently hurt their kind, then gather a group of monsters in the mountain, together. It is also harmful to people when going out of the cave. Everyone must remember that the fox demon is naturally good at contemplating souls. If they do it together, the ordinary villagers may not be able to resist!"

　　 Everyone nodded silently.

　　 There is nothing new under the sun!

　　 Before they came here, they had suspected that the disappearance of this village was related to the spirits in the mountains.

Now that I have discovered this fox skin, I have verified my conjecture. Moreover, whether it is from the traces in the village or the means of controlling the people, the only thing that can do this step is the evil repairs that pass by. The spirit of the mountain is weird!

　　 Then at this moment, Meng Zhixue frowned slightly and said: "There is still some evidence missing!"

　　 When everyone heard the words, they were silent.

Their mission on this trip is to find out the truth about the disappearance of the villagers in the village. The Academy directly asked them to come over and see if there were any demon in the village, and if they were asked to come over to verify whether this was a real demon cave. As a result, I have checked it now, and in fact, I can leave, but seeing Meng Zhixue still hesitate, and the sky is getting dark, I can only discuss it temporarily.

　　 "When we came, we saw that there was a ruined temple on the mountain outside the village. Why not take a rest there first!"

　　 Tsuru Zhenzhang proposed, and everyone agreed.

The village can be accommodated, but these dilapidated thatched huts and sour quilts are something they can't tolerate. Besides, they will go deep into the mountains to investigate the case in the middle of the night, and they will not leave voluntarily, so as not to get away. Resting in the ruined temple is the best.

　　 Anyway, they were all Qi refiners, breathing out, and the night passed.

"That demon cave has been located outside of Liuhu City for hundreds of years, and troubles are often caused. If they were willing to have nothing to do with Liuhu City, they would have tolerated them here. Unfortunately, the gang of demon monsters still refused to stop, Liuhu City. Most of the disasters that have happened in recent decades are related to them. If the kidnappings in this town are really related to them, then they are really looking for death..."

　　 "It's time to get rid of this gang monster!"

　　 "Before, I only heard demons hurt people occasionally, but now I dare to take the people of a town into captivity. It's really damn!"

　　 "Our generation of Qi refiners should have been responsible for killing demons. How can we let demons run rampant?"

　　 In the temple, everyone is still discussing, chatting, and they are getting more and more angry and murderous!

Fang Cun raised a fire at this moment, took a good rest, and said with some suspicion: "I don't see that it must be those demons. If they really retaliate, they would kill these villagers directly. , Why have to take it away?"

　　 A group of students from the academy around listened to it. It was just when the crowd was indignant, it seemed that they had been splashed with cold water.

After a while, one of the students smiled faintly: "Second Young Master Fang is still short in practice, but he doesn't know it. This kind of demon is very different from my Qi refiner. For the Qi refiner, it’s a thief. Qi is the number one crime in the world, and no one dares. But the monsters regard this as a matter of course and righteousness. They love stealing the weather. As the source of cultivation, these monsters want revenge and kill directly. , It's a waste. It takes people away and cannibalize innate aura a little bit. This is called vicious..."

　　 Everyone else laughed ~lightnovelpub.net~ and said: "Yes, this is common sense!"

　　 "……"

　　 "……"

　　 Listening to their jokes, Fang Cun bowed his head and did not answer, thinking to himself.

The monsters love to steal the innate aura. Fang Cun naturally knows it. Among the monsters he removed, many of them did so, but what surprised him was that the monsters in the mountains did not know how to practice. Airmen are the most jealous of such things. Waiting for someone to be unable to restrain them, causing one person and two people, it is fine, but it is a big joke to take the people of a town all at once.

　　How can these demons have such courage?

　　 Seeing Fang Cun lowered his head and said nothing, Meng Zhixue thought he had been hit, and moved slightly, as if to comfort him, but did not know how to speak.

　　 At this time, everyone suddenly heard outside the temple, there was a faint howling of wolves and ghosts, and there was some crying.

　　 All the students were startled, spun and jumped, and rushed out of the temple one after another.

Standing on a high slope, looking towards the northeast, you can see that in the far night sky, under the bright moon, smoke rises like a fire, but the smoke does not just float. But like a living thing, it is transpiring and hovering, it is like a monster, and when you look closely, you can see that blood is emerging, but it is revealed when someone is being slaughtered...

When all the students saw this, their expressions had changed drastically. Someone hurriedly used magic power in their eyes, and they saw a glare flashing in their eyes. When they looked intently, the distant scenes were getting closer and closer, and their expressions suddenly changed. Sternly, he shouted: "There are demons slaughter the village!"

　　 When they came, they had seen from a distance, there was a small village in that direction!

　　 Fang Cun could not help but be slightly surprised when he heard the words: "Is monsters so rampant?"