Chapter 81

　　For some reason, San Yue suddenly remembered when he participated in the siege of the bizarre entities with so many gangs in Qing Si County.

　　At that time, he was really excited, feeling like his youth was burning.

　　"I wonder how Captain Ye and the other players are doing now..."

　　Just as San Yue was thinking this, he suddenly saw smoke and dust rising in the distance, rapidly approaching.

　　"San Yue."

　　"Yeah, I see it."

　　San Yue jumped up from the ground and activated [Lie Huo Yan] (Blazing Fire Eyes) to carefully look at the smoke and dust in the distance.

　　[Lie Huo Yan] is just a common technique of the Lie Huo Sect (Blazing Fire Sect). As a mountain-guarding disciple, he would receive special discounts, and the required sect contribution would be slightly lower.

　　As long as you attend a few more times, you can basically collect enough sect contributions to exchange for it.

　　Although San Yue is a salted fish, he only slacks off during work, and he still attends when he should. Therefore, he had long obtained the mere Lie Huo Yan and cultivated it successfully.

　　He even slacked off so much that he had no other powerful techniques to practice, so he had to use [Lie Huo Yan] as his main cultivation technique. So, in a sense, while other gatekeepers were not very interested in [Lie Huo Yan], he, a slacker, had cultivated [Lie Huo Yan] extremely well, far surpassing his peers.

　　And at this moment, with his third level of [Lie Huo Yan] fully displayed, his eyes immediately ignited with wisps of flame.

　　All the images in his field of vision were like air scorched by high temperature, presenting a sense of distortion.

　　But at the same time, he could see farther and locked onto the area where the smoke and dust were rising.

　　In the high-temperature distorted picture, two people were galloping on horseback, heading straight for the mountain gate of the Lie Huo Sect.

　　Because of the distance and the dust, his Lie Huo Yan could not see the specific appearance of the other party.

　　However, when he saw the horses under them, San Yue immediately relaxed.

　　Because the hooves of those two horses had fire-patterned spots.

　　Those were... True Blaze Horses!

　　Horses that only high-level disciples of the Lie Huo Sect were qualified to ride.

　　"It should be high-level disciples of the sect returning. Using such good horses and rushing so urgently, there must be something important. Let's go to the mountain gate and wait, lest we be discovered slacking off, and someone mentions it to the higher-ups, which would be uncomfortable."

　　Slacking off also requires basic principles; you can't let people catch you, right?

　　He slowly led Qi Yue back to his post.

　　The fellow apprentices guarding the gate with him were also lazily leaning against the mountain gate. One of them saw San Yue and Qi Yue return, only glanced at them, and yawned.

　　"Is there something going on?"

　　"I saw senior apprentices riding True Blaze Horses returning to the mountain gate."

　　"Got it."

　　Poking the companion next to him who seemed to be snoring, the Lie Huo Sect disciples guarding the gate rubbed their sleepy eyes, barely cheered up, got into position, and waited for the arrival of the senior apprentices.

　　Although the higher-ups of the sect have trapped the high-level officials of the Ji Bing Sect (Extreme Ice Sect) and are carrying out important matters.

　　In reality, as far as the ordinary days of the Lie Huo Sect are concerned, the orders they received were only to leave the mountain gate for about an hour, and then come back to continue guarding the mountain gate. No one knows what exactly happened above.

　　"San..."

　　Feeling the warmth from his palm and hearing Qi Yue's frightened voice in his ear, he suddenly turned around with a fierce force.

　　His body, which was originally running up the steps, suddenly rotated one hundred and eighty degrees. In the process of rotating, he slammed Qi Yue away with force, sending her flying towards the lush forest beside the stone steps.

　　"You go first!"

　　"San Yue!!"

　　At this moment, Qi Yue cried out in tears in the high sky, while San Yue, who stayed in place, shouted in a deep voice.

　　'This may be the most handsome moment in my life.'

　　The last thought flashed through San Yue's mind, and then... he saw it. The figure of the black-robed man was like black paint stretching the screen in an instant. He appeared in front of him in an instant, and his dark hand had already covered his face.

　　His legs trembled, and tears were about to burst out.

　　Only at the moment when life and death were approaching did he truly feel the terror of death.

　　However, everything was about to end.

　　It should have been like this. San Yue thought so, but just as the big hand completely covered his vision, San Yue felt a pause, and then... he heard a mumble-like whisper.

　　"Why is it you..."