Chapter 44: Cause and Effect
Amidst the miserable death of that middle-aged cultivator and the mournful screams echoing out, the old ancestor of the Vajra Sect, who was searching for Xu Qing within the city, raised his head violently.
As a Foundation Establishment cultivator, his five senses were extremely sharp, and at this moment, when he heard the mournful sounds in the distance, his face instantly turned somber, and with a leap into the air, he stepped into the air towards the place where the sounds were coming from.
Although there were heterogeneous beasts around, but he was after all a Foundation Establishment powerhouse, as long as he didn't encounter a bizarre existence, or a large number of heterogeneous beast swarms, he didn't care.
Even if it was a dense heterogeneous quality, although it had an effect on him, with his cultivation, as long as it didn't exceed a month in the forbidden zone, it wouldn't cause too much trouble.
So after determining the direction, this Vajra Sect Old Ancestor roared out, using the power of his cultivation to make his voice carry farther.
"Wrap that kid up and wait for me!"
Between the words, his figure in mid-air, his speed exploded, and from afar, he looked like a meteor whistling, cutting through the sky.
At the same time, at the battlefield of the party, another Vajra Sect Elder, at the instant Xu Qing approached, did not hesitate to suddenly retreat.
He had heard the old ancestor's roar, but he didn't want to die needlessly here.
Even if he was chastised by the Old Ancestor afterwards, he admitted it, but it was really Xu Qing's fury that was too heavy, and while he struck out viciously, the killing intent in his eyes made him unwilling to take any chances.
So at this moment, he retreated extremely fast, and even directly used the flight talisman, retreating hundreds of feet in a flash.
Xu Qing's eyes narrowed, he also heard the low roar of the old ancestor of the Vajra Sect from far away, but did not pause to fiercely chase out, on the way to pick up his own iron sign, was about to use the same flight talisman, but the next instant his face changed violently, his breathing stagnated without hesitation turned around and sped in the opposite direction.
At the moment Xu Qing turned around, flying in mid-air Vajra Sect Elder, his complexion instantly horrified, he felt an eerie coldness coming from the face, but also noticed a huge figure that appeared beside him.
That figure's face had no five senses, only a head of long hair could be seen flowing, seemingly a woman, while the body under the face was huge and incomparable, wearing a long white dress.
At this moment a large number of faces in this faceless female long skirt densely emerged, bursts of mournful crying instantly spread all around, infinite weirdness pervades the eight directions, and even the sky of the moon, are directly into the color of blood.
From afar, the figure of the vajra clan elders in front of that giant, as mole crickets, insignificant, but also in that white dress faceless female body countless faces crying and watching, this vajra clan elders body trembled violently, the expression changed, and even slowly also followed the weeping.
In this weeping, his eyes revealed a strong to the extreme fear, as if his weeping, itself is uncontrollable.
Until the sound of its crying and white dress faceless female body of the countless faces crying sound fused together, not distinguish between them, gusts of white breath from this King Kong Sect elder seven orifices scattered, speed drilling into the body of white dress faceless female, the next moment ......
Vajra Sect Elder's body directly into a dry corpse, breathless, fell to the ground.
At the same time, the face on the body of the white-skirted, faceless woman, there was suddenly one more face, it was that Vajra Sect Elder.
His face was expressionless as he floated on the white skirt, emitting the sound of weeping.
This scene was seen by Xu Qing, as well as by the Vajra Sect Elder who had rushed over at this moment, and both of them were physically shaken.
Xu Qing took a deep breath and suppressed the vibrations in his heart as he fiercely accelerated and sped towards the city.
It was just that although Xu Qing could leave, the old ancestor of the Vajra Sect who had rushed in from afar, at this moment, his scalp was numb and his body didn't dare to move.
It was because the white-skirted, faceless female, was walking towards him.
Vajra Sect ancestor is very clear, in the face of such an existence, can not move in a hurry, otherwise, the end will be the same as his own elders, so in his fear and trepidation, the white dress faceless woman passed by his side, gradually away.
Only then did the Vajra Sect's Elder Ancestor breathe a sigh of relief, but a trace of doubt somehow rose in his heart.
"Twice encountered this bizarre existence ...... Why do I have a feeling that it seems to be helping that little brat ......"
"Evil!" The old ancestor of the Vajra Sect gritted his teeth and looked in the direction that Xu Qing was far away, feeling more and more that he had to remove the other party, and at this moment, he dashed out at speed, urgently chasing after him.
In the darkness of the night, various hisses rose and fell, echoing from all corners of the city, and the sounds of chewing, crying, and cold laughter filled the eight directions.
Under the moonlight, a broken wall seemed to have become a demon, making the eerie feeling within the city even more intense.
Xu Qing, who was speeding within it, even though he had already familiarized himself with the hissing and strangeness of the place, he still looked pale, and had a feeling as if he was being gazed at by countless gazes with malice, and these gazes, which transformed into icy coldness, seemed to be invading his body.
Until his whole body is more and more cold, Xu Qing passed by the place where he hunted vultures that day, and with a sweep of his eyes, his eyes instantly shrunk ......
Not far away, beside the abandoned carriage that had fallen into the silt, the blood-colored ragdoll that was originally supposed to be hung on the carriage's yoke had actually switched positions at the moment, and instead of hanging there, it was placed on the carriage with its back facing Xu Qing, so that it could not be seen in front of it.
Xu Qing's scalp tightened as he flew away from here.
Not long after, the Vajra Sect's old ancestor chased after him to this place, and as he swept his gaze vigilantly over the surroundings, he saw the carriage, and also saw the blood-colored doll that was facing him head-on, sitting on the carriage.
The doll's inlaid eyes, translucent and dim, and the wet red of its entire body was eerie, and it was looking eerily at the Vajra Sect's Old Ancestor.
The pupils of the Vajra Sect's old ancestor slightly contracted, his heart was hairy, his footsteps instantly slowed down, cautiously and slowly leaving this area step by step, and only then was he relieved and accelerated again.
However, he did not chase and approach too much, he had already realized the evil nature of the teenager in front of him, and at the same time knew that the other party had the means to make the heterogeneous quality instantly thick, so he did not intend to get too close to force his hand, but instead, he was prepared to keep an eye on the other party by virtue of his cultivation, and waited until the dawn, and then struck out to kill.
Although as a Foundation Establishment cultivator, having to deal with a Qi Condensation so carefully, the matter was detrimental to the Foundation Establishment's face, the Vajra Sect's Old Ancestor decided to play it safe first under such circumstances.
Therefore, he slowed down his speed and followed behind without any haste.
Xu Qing in the front, also noticed this, he originally in his mind all simulated the means of counterattack, has also completed the preliminary preparations for shadow manipulation, black Dan even held in the hand, waiting for the other party to approach.
He is certain that the other side to withstand their own means, although not fatal, but also will be in a mess, a short period of time can not get away, and although he will also be seriously injured by the other side, but so seriously injured to escape, will be more real, not easy to cause suspicion, to facilitate their own next step of the lure plan.
But this Vajra Sect's old ancestor was clearly Foundation Establishment, but was still so cautious, which made Xu Qing even more vigilant.
However, although the other party was not close, Xu Qing felt that his seduction plan, still had to be carried out, so he increased his speed and went straight in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion.
Getting closer and closer.
The location of the City Lord's Mansion, in the center area of the city, where the heterogeneous quality was a bit more dense than the rest of the city, but the number of heterogeneous beasts was somehow getting less and less.
This change made the old ancestor of the Vajra Sect, who was chasing behind him, change his face slightly, and the sense of crisis within his heart, was very strong at this moment.
He raised his head to look at Xu Qing's back in front of him, and then to the collapsed building to the side, his footsteps suddenly lurched.
Instead of continuing to chase after him, he began to retreat.
This scene took Xu Qing by surprise, at this moment, he was still a hundred feet away from the City Lord's Mansion, and the old ancestor of the Vajra Sect, who was chasing behind him, was actually retreating.
"It's still a little late to retreat now!" Xu Qing gritted his teeth fiercely, and his right hand suddenly lifted up and swung violently, instantly a large amount of black dan spread out in all directions.
This time, in order to accomplish his goal, Xu Qing directly used half of the black dan he had left to go out, and at this moment, it landed in the surroundings and exploded in unison!
In an instant, it seemed as if this place had turned into a huge whirlpool, causing the heterogeneous matter from all directions to surge forth, affecting the void and distorting the surroundings, causing everything within reach to become blurred.
The density of the heterogeneous quality was even more astonishing.
This scene caused the face of the Vajra Sect's old ancestor who was retreating to change, but it was more of a puzzlement because Xu Qing's body, too, was in the midst of that dense heterogeneous mass.
If things continued like this, not to mention the problem of alienation, the strange beasts and weirdness that were attracted by the heterogeneous matter would also cause Xu Qing, who was within it, to die without a burial ground, which was tantamount to suicide.
Just at the moment when the Vajra Sect's old ancestor was puzzled, a hundred feet away within the City Lord's Mansion, it suddenly shook intensely, and a horrifying hiss that shook the heavens and spread throughout the four directions, suddenly spread out in all directions.
The earth trembled and the blood moon in the sky blurred.
The old ancestor of the Vajra Sect's face changed, the feeling of a life and death crisis was instantly strong, his pupils contracted, his body backed up sharply, his eyes staring dead ahead at a silhouette that flew out from within one of the City Lord's Mansion-like buildings!
Those figures were all dry and thin one by one, but with black flame wings, their whole body was incredibly dense with heterogeneous qualities, and wherever they passed, the void seemed to be distorted.
This scene would have made the Vajra Sect's old ancestor's heart startled, and what made him pale and suck in his breath even more was that at this moment, with a roar, the City Lord's Mansion collapsed with a loud bang. A huge hole in the ground was revealed.
A dry figure with a height of a hundred feet was climbing out of the hole under the roar that shook the sky!
From afar, the figure was slender and resembled a withered tree, and the exposed portion of it was a hundred feet, but at this moment, it clearly hadn't fully climbed out yet, and it seemed to be only the upper half of its body.
It then waved its arms, and the ten fingers of its hands instantly spread out a large number of rotting vines, shooting out in all directions and stabbing into the ground.
The furthest few, even pierced in front of the Vajra Sect's old ancestor.
Seemingly using this as a support point, that huge withered tree-like figure was accelerating to climb out.
"What the fuck is this thing!!!" The Vajra Sect's old ancestor trembled furiously inside, cursing out in horror as his entire complexion changed drastically like never before, erupting with all his speed as he frantically retreated.
But what made him even more frantic inwardly was when he saw those flying winged figures that were attracted by the heterogeneous matter rushing out, they originally rushed out from the City Lord's Mansion after targeting the heterogeneous thick area that the child had formed with unknown means.
But for some unknown reason, these flying winged figures even quickly drilled out of that area again after rushing into it, and one by one hissed as they looked around, then they all locked onto him and came whistling.
"What is this situation! Where are the children!!!"
All of this made the eyes of the Vajra Sect's old ancestor widen, even though he was amazingly fast, he was still quickly caught up, and between the roars the Vajra Sect's old ancestor was forced to only make a move, and his Foundation Establishment cultivation had to be fully erupted.
Only then did it make those rushing winged figures collapse, but strangely enough, they regained themselves in an instant and continued to pounce, and in the distance, inside the giant hole where the City Lord's Mansion was located, that terrifying existence was about to climb out completely.
The crisis of life and death made the old ancestor of the Vajra Sect more and more frantic inwardly, and at this moment, while he was entangled here, at the edge of that heterogeneous rich area in front of him, the ground next to a wall, a crack existed there.
Right now in this crack, Xu Qing was carefully hiding within it, vigilantly looking along the gap to the outside world.
When he was within this ruined city, following the trail of the flying birds, he had found a total of two safe shelter points, one being his stone cave, and the other ...... being this crevice!
This crevice was also the place where he had escaped the pursuit of the foreign beasts when he had obtained the gong method in the City Lord's Mansion, after his chest had been heavily wounded.
It was only because it was too close to the City Lord's Mansion that Xu Qing hadn't chosen this place as a temporary residence in the first place.
Under the catastrophe of the gods opening their eyes, all things and beings can not escape extinction, only the flying birds ...... for some reason, most of them survive.
At the same time they seem to instinctively can find some location, although not absolutely safe, but relatively speaking like a blind spot in general, it is easy to be beasts and bizarre ignore.
Of course this is only relative, such as right now there is no Vajra Sect old ancestor attraction, then Xu Qing Fang's approach, is in search of death.
At this moment, seeing the Vajra Sect's old ancestor in a sorry state, and noticing the huge figure struggling to climb out of the City Lord's Mansion's huge pit, Xu Qing also sucked in his breath, but he quickly clenched his teeth fiercely, and with a shake of his body, he rushed out and threw out the black dan once again towards the chased Vajra Sect's old ancestor in the distance.
In one breath, he threw more than ten more pellets.
The black dan landed on the ground and burst open, and the heterogeneous quality of this place was already incredibly dense, and at this moment, with the bursting open of the black dan, it seemed to have broken through a certain critical point in an instant.
In an instant ...... a gaze with malice that had originally converged on Xu Qing as he left the crack and regrouped on him, directly moved away and looked towards that area where the heterogeneous quality was even more dense, while at the same time in multiple locations within this city, whether it was a heterogeneous beast or a bizarre one, they all paused and looked towards there in unison.
In the next moment, it sped away!
A hissing roar of rage to the extreme came out from the mouth of the Vajra Sect's old ancestor as Xu Qing sped away without turning his head back, utilizing the moment when those beasts and bizarre creatures were attracted by the heterogeneous area to escape at full speed.
The old ancestor of the Vajra Sect also wanted to escape, but those winged figures were entangled with him, even if he wanted to retreat, it was still unavoidable to be slowed down, and at the moment there was even more anxiety in the anxiety, and in the bottom of his heart, his hatred for Xu Qing was incomparably strong.
And at this time Xu Qing, in the distant street speed faster and faster, see has pulled away from the city master's mansion, just about to head to the direction of the city wall, but at this moment ...... a cold breath, pounced on the face.
In front of him, there is the sound of weeping echoing, wearing a white dress of the faceless woman, and he came from the distance.
At first glance, the other party was still in the distance, but at second glance this bizarre figure had appeared in front of Xu Qing.
The speed was so fast that Xu Qing was simply unable to dodge, and at this moment, his breath caught in his throat and his pupils contracted, his body was instantly covered by ice cold, and his mind was instantly blank, as if frozen.
And that came the faceless woman, the body of the densely-packed faces emerged at a rapid pace, all crying miserably, their cries into Xu Qing's mind, transformed into fluctuations, causing Xu Qing's expression to be affected, uncontrollably changed, and it looked like it was about to cry just like those faces.
But just at this time ...... the faces on the white-skirted faceless people, a part of them suddenly stopped crying, they looked at Xu Qing godlessly, their expressions gradually changed, slowly actually revealed a smile, opened their mouths seemingly to say something, but there was no sound coming out.
Very quickly, stop crying faces more and more, until finally ...... almost half of the faces on the white skirt faceless woman, actually stopped crying, all look at Xu Qing, one by one reveals a smile, expression flooded with softness.
They were all moving their lips slightly, seemingly opening their mouths softly, saying two words that no one else could hear.
In the midst of these smiles and spoken words, Xu Qing's entire being froze there, staring blankly at the many faces on this huge faceless female in front of him.
Without waiting for him to fully see, this white-skirted faceless woman moved her body away and walked past him until she was far away, and the sound of weeping once again echoed ......
Xu Qing stiff body, at this moment also recovered, he breathed sharply turned his head violently, staring blankly at the white dress faceless woman who walked farther and farther away, its white silhouette, in this dark night, as if a burning fire......
Fang just now, those faces that showed a smile on the other side ...... Xu Qing felt familiar.
Deja vu ......
Especially one of them, he remembered, that was the ...... old man of the medicine store that he had carried to incineration to make him rest in peace.
Xu Qing was silent, looking at the distant figure, vaguely understanding something, for a long time, he bowed his head and made a deep obeisance, murmuring softly.
"Thank you."
Those smiling faces from before said those same two words.
"Thank you."
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This chapter is nearly 5000 words
