Seeing this, Ye Qianming immediately investigated the surrounding situation and the bones lying in the blood. He discovered the knife marks on the bones. He was reminded by Yu Jin to see a temporary simple fire, and he had a general understanding of the situation.
"Did Qian Ming see anything?" Yu Jin was a little uneasy. He was not a person who was averse to killing, but he always felt that this cave gave him an indescribable depression.
Ye Qianming deduced: "There should be hunters here. The spirit beasts living here are the parents of that kitten. They should be Nether Yuan cats, a kind of spirit beasts who are proficient in spiritual consciousness. I am with my master.
I’ve seen it in my collection of books.”
Thinking of this, Ye Qianming couldn't help but frowned: "The Nether Yuan Cat behaves secretly and is good at spiritual awareness. If it is targeted by ordinary hunters or low-level casual cultivators, it should be alert. Moreover, its ability is not weak. It can kill the adult Nether Cat.
Yuan Mao removed the bones and peeled the skin..."
Ye Qianming's hair stood on end, and he quickly turned to Yu Jin and said, "We may have thought wrong. The ghost did not encounter us accidentally, but encountered us during a deliberate hunt!"
Yu Jin was puzzled at first, but then suddenly realized: "You mean, he and the ones who killed these two spiritual beasts are the same one, no, the same group of people?"
"That's right, in the dangerous areas outside the pioneering land, there should be a group that hunts monks and spiritual beasts, and there should be more than one strong man in the foundation building stage!"
Yu Jin also felt something bad: "It's not suitable to stay here for a long time, take Yaoyao back quickly... something happened outside!"
The two heard Yuyao and Xiaobai's cries from outside, and rushed out. They saw more than a dozen people in bandit costumes appearing in the originally deserted jungle, surrounding Yuyao and Xiaobai.
Yuyao got up, holding the kitten in her arms, with an arrow stuck in her calf, obviously injured.
The leader of the bandits was a man with a scar face. He stared at Yuyao's body and smiled maliciously: "I was still wondering why those monsters rushed over, but it turned out that they were reporting a little beauty to me!
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"Ouch!" Xiaobai stood in front of Yuyao and wanted to protect him, but without the support of the formation, how could he be the opponent of these bandits?
Although it bit a bandit, it was still brutally captured and placed in a trapping cage. Scarface's eyes lit up when he saw the beast, and then he ordered his men to continue their attack.
"Brothers, don't hurt that beauty. I want to play with her slowly, hehe..."
"Everyone will have a share then..."
"hey-hey……"
"They are not ordinary bandits, they should be in the same group as Guiying!" Ye Qianming swept his consciousness and found that half of these bandits were monks with low cultivation levels. The leader, Scarface, had the highest cultivation level, similar to Ye Qianming.
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"Yujin, I'm nine and you're five!" Ye Qianming shouted, and the cold stone sword and the flying needle flew up together, turning into several streams of light and flying towards the bandits.
"Who?" Scarface was shocked. Just as he was about to draw his sword, he was knocked to the ground by Cold Stone Sword. Taking advantage of Scarface's panic, twelve flying needles entangled the other bandits in pairs.
At the same time, Yujin's Huaguang Technique from afar also arrived regularly, disturbing the remaining bandits.
Ye Qianming took advantage of the panic moment to chop down the two bandits in front of him to the ground, and then circled behind Scarface with lightning speed.
Ye Qianming put the cold stone sword on Scarface's neck and shouted: "Put down your weapons!"
When Scarface's life was threatened, he turned pale with fear and said in a trembling voice: "Listen to this brave man, put it down, put it down..."
Although the bandits still wanted to threaten, in the end they could only put down their weapons and stare at Ye Qianming warily.
Ye Qianming signaled Yujin to take Yuyao and the kitten away from the bandits, and asked them to put down Xiaobai's cage, and asked Scarface: "Who are you, and why are you hunting humans and animals in the Cold Stone Mountains?
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The scarred face laughed apologetically and said: "My strong man, this is all a misunderstanding. We are all ordinary people who have been forced by the government to survive, so we have no choice but to go to the mountains to become bandits. We really have our own reasons."
"Nowadays, ordinary people have achieved cultivation? It seems that there is no need for any academy or sect, Brother Yu, don't you think so?" Ye Qianming said with a smile.
Yu Jin also responded with a sneer: "I think the teachers who come to the academy will think that you are self-taught geniuses, and they can't wait to teach you everything you have!"
"My friend, your ability to make up lies is too bad. It's better to tell the truth." Ye Qianming said, Leng Shijian got closer to three points.
Scarface quickly begged for mercy: "I said, I said, we are actually bandits from the Ghost Snake Cave. Because we practice evil arts, we can only hide our names in the Cold Stone Mountains and hunt spiritual beasts and people who go deep into the mountains."
"Oh? If you dare to do such a thing under the eyes of Hexia City and Academy, aren't you afraid of being discovered?"
Scarface smiled mysteriously and said: "Of course I'm afraid. After all, this is the jurisdiction of Hexia City. We would not have dared to be so blatant before, but now, someone is protecting us..."
Ye Qianming was shocked. Being able to protect these evil cultivators under the eyes of many foundation-building cultivators must be a big shot in the city!
"Could it be the Liu family or the City Lord's Mansion? It could also be the Academy or the Yu Family... No!"
Ye Qianming suddenly realized that the other party was trying to weaken his attention!
Sure enough, as he expected, the originally submissive Scarface suddenly burst out while Ye Qianming was thinking, and shot a black energy into his chest. The younger brothers also took advantage of the situation and surrounded them, trying to capture and kill the three of them!
But Ye Qianming was not slapped in vain. The moment he was attacked by surprise, he swung the cold stone sword and slashed open Scarface's abdomen, causing him to vomit blood!
"Fourth Brother!" The surrounding men gave up the siege and hurriedly ran to help Scarface, but they looked at the murderous sword mark on his abdomen in horror. This sword mark with the evil-suppressing move cut Scarface's body.
The entire abdomen was cut open, almost killing him with one blow!
Ye Qianming's move was definitely not caused by overwhelming strength. He was similar in strength to Scarface, but his spiritual consciousness was much higher, so a sneak attack was of little use.
And the scarred face was obviously confident in the palm with black energy just now. He thought that he could injure Ye Qianming hard with at least one blow, so he took the risk and used more time to prepare for the attack.
But this also gave Ye Qianming time to react and hit him hard with the power of the three-color treasure weapon!
"But why don't I feel anything?" Ye Qianming was confused. There was indeed an unknown black energy hitting his chest just now, but he was not hurt at all.
Although he wanted to see clearly, the enemy was still concentrating and did not dare to be distracted.
The scarred face was originally full of confidence, thinking that even if he was seriously injured, he could change his opponent.
But after seeing Ye Qianming standing there as if nothing was wrong, he immediately panicked. The calculations and pride hidden under the mask of panic were gone. Coupled with the serious injury to his abdomen, he quickly pulled his men back.
go.
"Get out quickly, get out quickly, go back to your home!"
The men acted as ordered and quickly took Scarface away. Before leaving, they threw two poisonous smoke bombs to hinder Ye Qianming's pursuit.
When the poisonous fog dissipated, the bandits had long since disappeared, and the cage holding Xiao Bai was nowhere to be seen.
"Oops, Xiao Bai let them catch him!" Ye Qianming quickly threw a bottle of demon exorcism juice to Yu Jin and said, "Brother Yu, you go out and get reinforcements first, I'm going to rescue Xiao Bai!"
"Qianming, the front is dangerous!" Yu Jin waved quickly, but Ye Qianming was determined to go and rushed out with the cold stone sword.
"I'm afraid something will happen to Xiaobai, so you go back first and bring in the reinforcements——"
Yujin wanted to say hello, but she could only stamp her feet and quickly left here with the injured Yuyao and the kitten.
In the woods of the Cold Stone Mountains, Ye Qianming tracked Xiaobai's spiritual power all the way. This was because Xiaobai had passively rented spiritual power from the spiritual power bank before, so Ye Qianming could always vaguely feel Xiaobai's spiritual power from then on.
direction, just like he could vaguely feel the spiritual feedback from Tianshi Mansion.
Ye Qianming was frightened all the way. As he slowly penetrated into the mountains, there were corpses of various monsters and spiritual beasts in many places. Some were even respectfully placed on small altars. They were obviously the bodies of certain people.
A cult ritual!
"I'm afraid this ghost snake cave is scarier than I imagined."
If using monster beasts for sacrifice can still be considered the norm for evil cultivators, then using more cherished spiritual beasts for large-scale sacrifices is more likely to indicate that the purpose of their sacrifices is more precious than the spiritual beasts.
Ye Qianming was stunned by the number of corpses of spirit beasts he saw along the way. What could be the object of sacrifice with so many spirit beasts?
Ye Qianming's scalp was numb and he couldn't imagine it.
"Xiao Bai must be rescued quickly..."
Ye Qianming thought about it and suddenly took out the Five Ghost Flag. One side of the Five Ghost Flag was stained with demonic energy. Ye Qianming then remembered that he had temporarily placed it on his chest when he was observing the magic weapon before, but it helped him block the scar face.
That black energy saved his life.
Suddenly, the Five Ghost Banners seemed to feel the corpse aura of the deceased. The demonic aura covering it spread out, bringing back the bones of five spiritual beasts and monster beasts. The bones floated in front of Ye Qianming and giggled.
Standing, like a little devil waiting for help.
"Is this how to use the Five Ghost Flags?" Ye Qianming thought for a while and finally decided to make this magic weapon his own.
"Although the risk is very high, the ghost shadow is not good at spiritual consciousness, which gives me an opportunity. Moreover, there must be other foundation-building experts in the ghost snake cave. I must use more methods."
Ye Qianming learned weapon refining from old man Leng Shi, and naturally knew how to erase the ghost's consciousness mark. Then he planted his own consciousness mark, and immediately felt the connection with the five ghost flags.
Ye Qianming picked up the Five Ghost Flag, waved it at the skeletal corpse that surrendered in front of him and said, "Take it!"
The five white bones were immediately put into it, and Ye Qianming released them again. After repeating it twice, he became familiar with the method and temporarily put away the five ghost flags.
"As the name suggests, this magic weapon can only hold five skeleton imps, but it is still quite powerful in battle anyway."
Ye Qianming put away his thoughts and followed Xiaobai's aura with all his strength. After the sun set and night fell, he finally discovered the location of the ghost snake cave.