The long desert is different from the Central Plains. In the Central Plains, there are small towns and villages every tens of miles to less than a hundred miles.

There is only endless desert here.

What he saw in front of him reminded Li Xiuyuan of the time he walked in the wasteland with Overlord Chen to send Qin Miaoyu for marriage in the Shura Realm.

Even if the starry sky were changed, the situation would still be similar.

Unable to find a village where they could stay overnight, the two had no choice but to lead the horses and continue forward, hoping to find a leeward place to spend the night when the moon rose.

It was the first time for both of them to come here, and neither of them had much experience, so they just moved forward based on their intuition.

In the vast darkness, not far from the two of them, there was a forest of dwarf Populus euphratica.

There are a few scattered tents set up here, as if passing merchants and pedestrians are spending the night here.

The fires in the camp gradually extinguished, and presumably these people had fallen asleep.

Under the faint starlight, there are three black figures moving quietly in the Populus euphratica forest. If you look carefully, they are three men in black.

The three of them looked like bandits in the desert, because the bandits would not send out only three people.

These three men in black were actually a group of retainers that the Ma family master took with him when he fled Mingyue City overnight.

These guys knew that they would not be able to survive in Mingyue City because of their master's offense against His Highness the Crown Prince of Qin, so they had no choice but to follow the Huns.

How could life in the desert be so miserable, where could one be as nourishing as Mingyue City?

So these guys couldn't help but start robbing homes and houses, taking advantage of the darkness of night to rob pedestrians and merchants passing by in the wasteland.

Today I couldn't wait until a group of merchants passed by, and I became a fat sheep in their eyes. I was so excited that I couldn't control myself.

Because they were used to enjoying Mingyue City, they had developed certain habits.

But now Mr. Ma obviously could no longer satisfy some of their habits, so they focused their attention on the pedestrians in the wasteland.

The three men acted very carefully, and it was obviously not the first time they had carried out an assassination.

In less than a quarter of an hour, a faint stream of blood drifted in the wind, heading towards the wasteland.

The old man and Li Xiuyuan smelled the bloody smell almost at the same time.

The old man looked at Li Xiuyuan and said, "I felt a bloody breath, it should be not far ahead."

Li Xiuyuan looked up at the moon hidden in the dark clouds, frowned and said, "Go and have a look, it's right in front."

The old man seemed a little puzzled and asked: "How can there be blood in such a night?"

The consciousness released by Li Xiuyuan has locked onto the three men in black. He spread his hands and said: "There are bandits in front of us, maybe they are killers. We need to get there quickly..."

Before he finished speaking, he handed the reins in his hand to the old man and turned into a breeze and swept towards the Populus euphratica forest.

The moment the three men in black finished clearing a tent and got out of the tent.

Suddenly, they saw a mother and son standing quietly in front of an unextinguished fire not far away from them. Looking at the man in black emerging from the tent, the mother and son stood up in front of the fire in an instant.

Between life and death, the woman in front of the fire pushed her child away, yelled to run, then raised the arrow in her hand and shot at the three men in black!

This is the natural instinct of motherhood, she wants to protect her children in the most dangerous time.

With a whoosh, the sharp crossbow arrows instantly hit the three men in black.

One of the men in black snorted coldly, waved his hand and knocked the crossbow arrows fired by the woman to the ground with his long sword. After all, the woman was just an ordinary hunter, how could she compare with three monks?

The man in black knocked down the crossbow and rushed towards the woman with a roar.

Another man in black swept past like a whirlwind, heading towards the running little boy. In just a moment, he dragged the boy back to the front of the fire.

"Seeking death!" The man in black roared, stepped forward and knocked the crossbow out of the woman's hand, sending her flying away.

The woman was knocked to the ground in an instant. Although her injuries were not fatal, she watched helplessly as her child bit the man in black, only to be slapped unconscious by the man in black.

Under the grief in his heart, he couldn't help but let out a painful cry of death.

With a clanking sound, the man in black, who had been bitten by the little boy, unsheathed his long sword and tried to chop it off on the little boy's head.

The moment the long sword slashed down, a whirlwind whipped up in front of the fire, sweeping the little boy on the ground away from the fire and out of the sight of the three men in black.

The three men in black turned their heads, because they only heard the sound of horses' hooves, but could not hear the breathing of other people at all. They did not expect that there were other monks in this camp.

Because Li Xiuyuan didn't want the three of them to hear his breathing, these three guys couldn't hear it.

The old man who came from behind saw that Li Xiuyuan did not take action, so he created a whirlwind and saved the child from the sword of the man in black.

In his eyes, the three men in black in front of him were nothing at all.

He was thinking the same thing as Li Xiuyuan, wanting to find out whether these three were passing killers or bandits in the desert?

Before the man in black could speak, the old man put the boy on the ground and handed the reins to his hand.

He smiled and said, "Tie the horse up for me, can you?"

When the little boy came back to his senses and saw the savior, he nodded desperately and rode two horses towards the poplar tree not far away.

The old man looked at the woman lying beside the fire, frowned slightly and said, "Where did this killer come from?"

The three men in black remained silent because they not only saw the old man, but also Li Xiuyuan, who was hiding in the darkness not far away.

Although they could not feel the fluctuation of true energy from Li Xiuyuan, they could feel the coldness of Li Xiuyuan.

Even colder than the old man who took action in front of him.

Just when the old man was considering whether to take action, one of the men in black said: "You are not Huns, why are you helping these guys?"

Li Xiuyuan was stunned. He heard something from this guy's mouth, that is, the Huns the three of them robbed had nothing to do with him.

The old man was stunned and replied coldly: "Although we are not Huns, we will not let you roam the desert and kill people at will."

Before the old man finished speaking, the leader of the men in black interrupted him coldly and said: "We are killing Huns and have nothing to do with you."

Another masked man in black said coldly: "Since you are from the Central Plains, you should not care about the life and death of these Huns."

The last man in black said indifferently: "We are doing justice for heaven, don't you know?"

The three men in black spoke very quickly, as if the old man and Li Xiuyuan in front of them, as men of the Central Plains, should not interfere with their mission to kill the Huns in the desert.

The voices of the three people talking became louder and louder, as if they were scolding the two people in front of them, and they seemed to be emboldening themselves.

Li Xiuyuan, who was hiding in the dark, didn't even bother to take a step forward. In his opinion, it was enough to leave these three guys to the old man.

After all, to the old man after breaking through the realm, the three people in front of him are just like three clowns.

The old man said coldly: "I only have women and children in my eyes, not the Huns."

Then he looked at the three men in black and said: "I still have to go on my way, so you can wipe your necks and die. Don't embarrass me, an old man, okay?"

He spoke in a very serious tone, so it sounded funny.

The three men in black have killed countless passing merchants in the desert these days. They have become accustomed to such happy days.

The old man in front of them actually asked him to commit suicide by wiping his neck. This was the most unbelievable thing in the eyes of the three of them.

Because they couldn't understand the old man's cultivation, just like they couldn't understand Li Xiuyuan.

Thinking that the two people in front of them were crazier than them, they actually used their mortal bodies to block the golden elixir realm monks.

This is absolutely impossible.

Looking at the calm old man in front of them, the three of them just felt funny. They felt that they had been humiliated like never before since they started practicing Buddhism, so they were very angry.

They wanted to chop off the old man's head with a knife, and then deal with Li Xiuyuan, who was silent in the darkness.

The old man couldn't see the burning eyes of the three people, but he felt the fluctuations of the true energy on the three people's bodies, as well as the gentle trembling of the swords in the hands of the three people.

The old man thought for a while and said expressionlessly: "If you don't take action, I will."

"Old guy, you're looking for death!"

One of the men in black said without emotion: "Send your heads and I will let this mother and son go!"

Before he finished speaking, three men in black flew towards the old man, and before the old man could react, they chopped off the swords in their hands, and at the same time, they threw a black object over the old man's head.

Li Xiuyuan was stunned in the darkness and blurted out: "Fishing nets can also kill people? What kind of secret is this?"

Only old people who have been walking in the rivers and lakes for a long time know that the man in black is not holding an ordinary fishing net.

Instead, it was covered with thorns and nails. If I tried to block it with my hands, I would probably end up covered in blood and flesh.

Looking at the scene in front of him, anger finally flashed across the old man's calm eyes.

But before he could take out his long sword, Li Xiuyuan in the darkness had already taken action.

A bolt of black lightning flashed past, and the fishing net thrown by the three men in black instantly shot up into the air.

Just listen to a clanking sound, it is obviously the collision of thorns and iron nails, making a crisp sound.

Before the fishing net could fall from the sky, it exploded in mid-air!

Tsk tsk tsk!

Countless thorns and nails flew in all directions with a huge explosion. Hundreds of tiny crossbow arrows were shot towards the three black men in the dark night.

The reason why such a situation occurs is not because the fishing nets of the three men in black are fake.

But Li Xiuyuan, who was in the dark, hated the killer bandits most in his life for using hidden weapons to hurt people!
To be continued...