Agu Jie sent the people into the Lost Land of Tulan, not far from the place of divine burial!
A hundred years ago, one day, Tulan was suddenly struck by a plague. Within a few days, tens of thousands of people died. Because the epidemic was severe and uncontrollable, the people living in Tulan were abandoned by the Heavenly Khan at that time.
In just over ten days, Tulan became a dead city.
Ever since then, everyone who passed through Tulan and stopped there died an untimely death. From then on, no one dared to set foot in Tulan again.
Gu Ruiji never imagined that Agu Jie would send those Lin Yuan people into Tulan.
What exactly did the Khan and the Bear Master want? They took these people away, even at the risk of attracting the attention of the Eagle Master. Could it be that they just wanted to send them to their deaths?
"Tulan?"
Buriigud furrowed his brows, at a loss for a moment.
"Does the Tegin also find it difficult to understand?" Gu Ruiji racked his brains but couldn't figure out what the Khan and the Bear Master were plotting.
Buriigud turned around, as if peering through the tent at Changming Mountain.
If they wanted to know what the Khan and the Bear Master were plotting, they had to first understand what had happened on Changming Mountain.
However, entering the mountain was out of the question!
...
Ying Wu took out the poison hidden in the assassin's back molar and choked him by the throat before tearing off the black cloth covering his face.
Hmm, a strange face!
"Speak, who are you and who sent you to assassinate Cheng Chongyu?"
"Heh heh~"
Everyone has their own specialty. Ying Wu admitted that he was not good at interrogation. Faced with the man's almost contemptuous cold laugh, Ying Wu almost broke his neck. At this moment, he really missed the Princess. Although it was disrespectful to say so, if the Princess were here, the job of interrogation would never fall to him.
Ying Wu thought for a moment, then severed the man's wrist with a sword.
"Speak?"
Ying Wu asked!
"Heh heh!"
Ying Wu lifted the lid of the charcoal stove and forcefully pressed the man's head onto the burning charcoal. Before that, Ying Wu had sealed the man's vocal cords. The man's body convulsed, and his skin and flesh sizzled as they were scorched by the burning charcoal. Soon, the air was filled with the smell of roasted meat.
Ying Wu lifted the man and asked again, "Speak?"
His skin curled up from the scorching charcoal, and his flesh and blood were blurred, with tendons and flesh seemingly connected. His right face and right eye were disfigured.
Even the flowing air on his face felt like a blade stained with saltwater. The pain made him tremble all over, and he couldn't speak.
Ying Wu patted his head and unsealed his voice. Instantly, a sharp scream tore through the night sky.
Ying Wu: "..."
Damn it!
Ying Wu held the assassin, neither moving nor fleeing. He simply shattered the assassin's jaw, then found a comfortable position and sat down.
After sitting down, he moved the token on his waist towards his dantian and placed the large ink character on the front of the token in the most conspicuous place.
Swish~
Soldiers in armor rushed into the camp, holding weapons, and surrounded Ying Wu heavily.
Cheng Zimo followed them in. His anxious expression suddenly froze when he saw the scene before him. It was obvious that he did not expect to see such a scene upon rushing into the camp.
"Who are you and why did you intrude into my Langhuan army camp in the dead of night?"
Cheng Zimo shouted sternly.
Ying Wu looked down at the assassin beside him. Just now, that was clearly his line!
Ying Wu pointed his finger at Cheng Zimo, then at the token on his waist. Cheng Zimo saw a large ink character.
...
On Changming Mountain.
Nan Shiying sat outside the dilapidated temple, with Xiao Man, Ying Yi, Ying Shi, and Ying Shi Er sitting around her.
While slaughtering the masked men, Ying Yi caught a rabbit, and Situ Kong was squatting by the campfire, preparing rabbit meat.
Situ Kong, who hadn't eaten meat for several days, swallowed his saliva while roasting the meat. His stomach rumbled again.
Hmm, it made sense to make such a sound in this situation!
The medicine Nan Shiying administered inside the dilapidated temple had not completely dissipated. She had mixed it with other poisons to mask the taste of that powder, so the dilapidated temple was now a source of poison. Nan Shiying felt that even she would suffer the same fate as those lunatics if she entered rashly.
The blood on the ground could still dry. The last two people who killed each other used almost all means to kill each other, including weapons, hands, feet, and teeth. Their bodies were like they had been gnawed by wild beasts, disfigured and beyond recognition.
Nan Shiying felt no sympathy for their fate, still believing that a funeral in a hallucination was a bit too merciful.
"A hundred years ago, a Heavenly Maiden appeared in Tulan!"
Ying Yi spoke slowly. Not all of these people were tough; some would always reveal something under extreme torture.
"The Heavenly Maiden could communicate with gods and ghosts, so she was revered and worshipped by the people of Tulan."
"From then on, the people of Tulan only knew of the Heavenly Maiden and, under her leadership, attempted to break free from the rule of the Liao Jiang Dynasty at that time, thus suffering a devastating disaster."
"The Liao Jiang cavalry besieged Tulan for months, cutting off food and water. Soon, the first person in Tulan starved to death, followed by the second, the third... The people of Tulan began to eat their own children and kill each other."
"When the fear of death and the desire for survival occupied their minds, all morality and faith were cast aside. The people of Tulan began to resent and feel indignant towards the Heavenly Maiden who had caused their current predicament. They suddenly thought that if they handed over the Heavenly Maiden, perhaps they could appease the Khan's anger."
"So, they stormed into the Heavenly Maiden's mansion."
"The most devout followers of the Heavenly Maiden fought against the people of Tulan. The Heavenly Maiden, unwilling to see the people shed so much blood because of her, decided to die."
"She surrendered herself and walked to the Liao Jiang cavalry. The Liao Jiang cavalry tore her apart to death."
"After her death, the wind and clouds suddenly changed. Tens of thousands of spiders emerged from under the ground of Tulan, and one of them was enormous. It swallowed the Heavenly Maiden's body in one gulp, her head, her limbs... The Heavenly Maiden was resurrected with the spider's corpse!"
"However, when the Heavenly Maiden was resurrected, she could not suppress the ferocity of the spider, so she brutally killed the people of Tulan and the Liao Jiang cavalry. When the Heavenly Maiden regained her senses, she looked at the corpses strewn all around and was filled with regret. She then sealed herself and fell into a deep slumber."
Xiao Man listened with great interest. This story was much more interesting than the stories in her previous books.
After Ying Yi finished his narration, he remained silent for a moment and then said, "Your subordinate believes that the true version of this story might just be—the feeding process of a giant spider."
Nan Shiying: "..."