"But, Mr. Jincheng, you don't know something." Tanakagawa added, "The full name of the young hero Aoyagi is Ryota Aoyagi. His Aoyagi is not the Aoyagi of ordinary people, but..."
"It's one of the nine Sakura warriors, the Aoyagi family of the Wooden Aoyagi family."
Li Guanqi took over the conversation and said with a smile: "Aoyagi Ryota has never reported his family status, but when he fought against your city lord, he revealed his superpower, which is the ability to control trees, coupled with his incarnation
The Shuren’s Liangyi form means that his identity as a member of the Green Willow Family of the Wood can be easily revealed.”
"Forehead."
Tanakagawa was obviously stunned, "Mr. Jincheng, you know."
"certainly."
Li Guanqi looked calm, "It was just a matter of course to take the scabbard. In fact, I came here for him. I got news about him in the nearby Mi City, and he was very famous there.
Ryota Aoyagi, born in the Aoyagi family of the Sakura Kyūbu, is a mid-level Four Elephants level samurai who calls himself... a knight.
The reason why Aoyagi Ryota is famous in Honey City is because the honey trade in Honey City is controlled by a gang called the Honey Water Gang.
But when Ryota Aoyagi went there, he heard that the Mi Shui Gang exploited workers, and also heard that the small leader of the Mi Shui Gang raped civilian girls, and then he directly uprooted the Mi Shui Gang and killed most of the Mi Shui Gang members.
, the gang leader who was at the peak of the Four Elephants level was beheaded by him.
I don't know how to evaluate his behavior.
Do you draw your sword to help when the road is rough?
Maybe.
But he was so stupid that he completely ignored the consequences.
He destroyed the Honey Water Gang, but paralyzed the entire Honey City economy.
Good intentions lead to bad things.
That's not a damn good thing.
I want to find Ryota Aoyagi, have a sword fight with him, and then knock him on the head again to make him use his brains when doing things next time."
"..."
Tanakagawa and others looked at each other, and finally remained silent.
In their understanding, anyone who wants to cause trouble for the other party despite knowing that the other party is from Sakura Kyubu is either a fool or a strong person. It is estimated that the origin is not trivial, and they are not someone they can offend.
"So, where is he now?"
Li Guanqi asked again: "I just made inquiries in Liuye County, but found that no one knows about him. He seems to have disappeared two days ago."
"He should have gone to Darkcrow Forest."
Tanakawa held the wine bowl and said with a slight hesitation: "Two days ago, I happened to bump into him on the street. At that time, he was eating tofu nao in a tofu shop. Then the lady boss was crying there, so he asked the lady boss why she was crying.
.
The landlady said that her daughter went to the Darkcrow Forest with her father, but she did not come back for a whole day.
Then Qingliu Shaoxia told the proprietress that he would help, and after that, he picked up the sword and left.
So, if you can find Young Hero Qingliu somewhere... the Dark Crow Forest is the most likely."
"Raven Forest?"
Li Guanqi frowned slightly, "Why is it called this name?"
"As the name suggests."
Tanakagawa spread his hands, "That forest was the territory of a dark crow hundreds of years ago, but the dark crow hasn't appeared for two or three hundred years, and the demon species and curse spirits in the forest somehow...
It also became extinct.
When I was a child, people in Liuye County still kept a distance from it, but gradually, nowadays, people in the city dare to wander around in that forest."
Li Guanqi's brows furrowed even more when he heard this.
Dark crows are a powerful species of demons.
They are born at the two-level level. They only need to live for 400 years to basically become four-level demon species, and they are born with the ability to use a kind of soul illusion, which is extremely terrifying.
However, dark crows like to live alone, and usually lay eggs and then run away.
Unless it is mating period, two Murkrows will not appear in an area.
"My intuition tells me that the dark crow has reappeared."
Li Guanqi stood up from the wine table and looked at Tanaka River in front of him with a solemn expression.
"Where is Raven Forest? Point me in the direction."
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…
"Quack——"
"Quack——"
"Quack——"
The night was dark, and thick clouds covered the sky. Not even the moonlight could shine through, making the forest below look even darker and deeper.
A few crows chirping from time to time add a dark atmosphere to the forest.
"crow?"
The bushes were shaking, and there was a "rustling" sound, and then a tall figure with white hair and blue eyes, wearing black clothes, slowly walked out of it.
Li Guanqi looked around, listening to the sounds of the crows, and narrowed his eyes.
Murkrows like to keep crows as their pets.
But this information doesn't mean anything. After all, where there are no crows, there will be crows.
The most important information is actually...
Li Guanqi looked sideways.
There was a bloodstain on a banyan tree in front of me, similar to the kind of bloodstain formed by running here and holding the trunk of the tree with blood on your hands.
Li Guanqi stepped forward, twitching his nose and smelling the smell of blood.
Then, the extraordinary senses belonging to different-blood humans began to be stimulated to the extreme by him.
The entire Darkcrow Forest, the smell of the leaves of different trees, the smell of flowers, the smell of dry grass, the smell of wet grass, the smell of certain demon species' nests, the unique smell emitted by certain insects...etc., etc., the whole
A forest with thousands or even millions of different flavors overlapping together.
But in the end.
Li Guanqi was like peeling off a cocoon, and among the vast number of different smells, he found the smell of blood, which was exactly the same as the blood stains on the tree next to him at the moment.
"Found it."
Li Guanqi turned his head, his blue eyes flashing a cold light in the dark night.
"call out!"
He tapped the ground lightly with his toes, and his whole body disappeared in an instant like a shadow in the wind.
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…
Li Guanqi followed the smell of blood and tracked him all the way through the Dark Crow Forest.
And as the distance got closer, he also smelled another smell of blood belonging to humans of different blood.
final.
He came to the deepest part of a cave.
"well……"
Li Guanqi stopped, looked at the pile of corpses in front of him, and sighed softly.
These corpses were both human and animal, some were rotten, and some had turned into bones, but without exception, all had their heads bitten off, leaving other parts untouched at all.
This is exactly what Murkrow eats.
Just eat the brain.
At the top of the pile of corpses were the blood-stained corpses of an adult man and a little girl, both of whom had their heads bitten off.
If nothing else, these are the husband and daughter of the tofu shop owner... who have been dead for more than two days.
"really."
Li Guanqi walked up to the two corpses, stretched out his finger from the severed head, dipped a little blood on it, put it to the tip of his nose and smelled it carefully.
"Soul blood."
The world is so big and there are countless different kinds of bodies.
One of them is not special, but it is indeed different from ordinary people's physique - the soul-blood body.
As for special abilities, I don't have any.
This kind of person has no special abilities, only the characteristic that the blood in the body will mix with the soul power that has escaped from the body, forming a situation where the blood and soul breath are intertwined.
And this constitution is hereditary.
What are the benefits of a soul-blood body?
No.
Not one.
What's the downside?
a lot of.
In the world of magic, magicians generally believe that this is a genetic disease, with the scientific name: Soul Fusion Syndrome.
Because this kind of constitution has no benefits at all, but has many negative effects.
For example, the dissipation of soul power can sometimes cause confusion and inability to concentrate.
But this is still a small problem.
The most frightening thing is that some monsters and cursed spirits who like to eat souls are very likely to be confused by this "fusion of soul and blood" smell, thinking that it is some kind of soul-like heavenly material and earthly treasure, and then smell the smell.
The son ran over.
And Dark Crow likes these soul-like things.
Obviously, the husband of the tofu shop proprietress has a soul-blood body, and he has also passed it on to his daughter.
Then the two soul-blood bodies came to the forest together, and when the Dark Crow smelled it, they thought some heavenly material and earthly treasure had been born, and ran over happily.
It turns out that's not the case.
And the dark crow is not a grass-eater. Even if it doesn't have any natural resources, if it encounters a pair that confuses its perception of humans, it will become angry and won't let them go.
So the father and daughter were immediately captured by the crows and taken to the cave to eat their heads.
The people of Liuye County thought that the Dark Crow in the Dark Crow Forest had just left after not showing up for two or three hundred years. This idea was totally wrong.
It should be recuperating.
According to what Tanakagawa said before, plus Li Guanqi himself, he really didn't find any demon species or cursed spirits along the way, which is enough to prove one thing.
——The dark crow did not leave, but was recovering from its injuries deep in the forest.
And in order to recover, the four-elephant-level dark crow also ate all the demon species and curse spirits in the forest.
In order to recover from his injuries, Dark Crow himself chose to live in seclusion and disappeared from the sight of mankind for two to three hundred years.
This creates the illusion of security that "the Crow Forest is free of Crows, and there are also no Demons and Cursed Spirits".
"Ryouta Aoyagi is not here, but..."
Li Guanqi squatted down and looked carefully at several fresh footprints on the ground, "New footprints within two days, and there are footprints coming in and footprints leaving, leading all the way to the outside of the cave."
"Once the Murkrow has brought his prey in, there's no chance he'll let it out again.
This should be that of Ryota Aoyagi.
Ryota Aoyagi must have been here before.
But it happened that the Dark Crow was not in the nest at that time, and Ryota Aoyagi discovered the dead father and daughter, so he followed the Dark Crow's trail and chased them all the way."
Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes slightly.
Ryota Aoyagi is also a fourth-level alien-blooded human. With Ryota Aoyagi's senses, he was able to find this cave as soon as he came to the Dark Crow Forest two days ago.
In other words, Aoyagi Ryota has been tracking Dark Crow for two days.
If nothing else, the two should have met.
Who wins and who loses?
Hard to say.
The Dark Crow is not just a fish. In terms of talent, it can compete with the dragon clan. After living for 400 years and reaching adulthood, not only will the physical body reach the fourth level of strength, but even the soul will be upgraded to the fourth level.
Coupled with their natural soul illusion, it can be called a forest nightmare.
But Ryota Aoyagi is no bastard either.
He is not a common martial artist. He is a son of a wealthy family with the sixteenth surname of Daluo. His soul realm is most likely equal to his own cultivation level. If he has a fourth-level martial arts cultivation level, he should also have a fourth-level soul.
Coupled with the soul defense skills of the Qingliu family, Dark Crow may not be able to defeat him.
"Aoyagi Ryota's footwork obviously has nothing to do with agility. His footsteps are powerful and heavy. Fortunately, the footprints are still very clear."
Li Guanqi stood up, followed the footprints on the ground, and swept deep into the woods ahead, starting a new round of tracking.
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…
In the silent forest, a black shadow passed by quickly. His movement was light and agile. He incorporated the essence of "Three Thousand Ghost Shadows" into his footwork and ran as fast as a ghost. Although he was fast, he left almost no trace behind.
Make footprints.
However, it was different with the footprints he traced.
As the distance increased, these footprints not only did not weaken, but even became more and more obvious. At the back, there were even holes in the ground, just like when running wildly, the footsteps directly exploded the ground.
Li Guanqi was even more certain that it was Ryota Aoyagi.
According to the information he got from the road a few days ago, the Qingliu family has a very famous footwork called "Thunder Running", which relies on high burst in exchange for high speed.
This footwork is so famous that it is recorded in books in southern Xinjiang. Li Guanqi also saw this passage in the 800-year-old book collection in Moxie Gu Village.
"Um?"
Suddenly, Li Guanqi stopped.
Because in the dark forest ahead, there is a silvery-white light that illuminates the forest within a hundred meters.
In the light, there was a purple crow as big as a house, with its pupils tightly closed.
Opposite it is a young man wearing a green shirt. Judging from his appearance, he even looks a bit childish, looking a bit like 18 or 19 years old.
At this time, the young man in green shirt was kneeling on one knee, holding a green samurai sword in his right hand... Well, according to what Wang Xiu said, in the land of the shogunate, there are no knives, only swords.
Then let’s call it the blue long sword.
The young man in green shirt held the long blue sword in his right hand and thrust it straight into the ground. His eyes were closed, but his brows were furrowed. Sweat was dripping from his forehead, and his face looked painful.
"I see."
Li Guanqi suddenly realized.
"I actually fell into a game of illusion."
Illusion game.
As the name suggests, Dark Crow used his soul illusion to pull Ryota Aoyagi into an illusion. However, Ryota Aoyagi did not sink into it, but instead dragged Dark Crow's soul down into the water, and both of them entered an illusion.
Originally, the illusion was constructed by Dark Crow, but due to Ryota Aoyagi's resistance, this illusion was no longer the home ground of Dark Crow, but became a battlefield for both Ryota Aoyagi and Ryota Aoyagi.
The illusion game is another form of soul battle.
It's no different from the collision between soul attack and soul defense. It's the same who wins and who lives.
Whoever loses...the loser's life and death will be decided by the winner.
"Is it possible that we have been fighting for two days in a row?"
Li Guanqi stepped forward and came to the outside of the forest shrouded in silver light, and looked carefully at the green-shirted warrior inside.
At this time, Ryota Aoyagi was sweating profusely, trembling all over, and frowning.
On the other hand, the big dark crow next to him was extremely calm.
Obviously, when this illusion just started two days ago, it might still be a "game".
But now two days have passed, and the Dark Crows have completely gained the upper hand, while Aoyagi Ryota has fallen into desperate resistance. The defeat has been determined. If it drags on any longer, Aoyagi Ryota will definitely die.
"Then add me. The three-person game will be interesting."
Li Guanqi raised his lips slightly, took a step forward, and stepped into the silver screen of light.
"Buzz——"
As if passing through a piece of water, ripples appear on the surface of the silver-white light curtain.
Li Guanqi's eyelids were drooped, looking drowsy.
He adjusted his posture and sat cross-legged opposite Ryota Aoyagi, then completely relaxed his mind and allowed the surrounding illusion power to affect his soul.
soon.
His soul was like falling into a lake, sinking and sinking again...
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…
"Mother! Mother!!!"
Dark clouds covered the sky and earth, and heavy rain poured down.
In a remote mountain village, corpses were strewn all over the ground and blood flowed into rivers. Even heavy rains could not wash away the red blood on the ground.
Many horse thieves broke into the village, burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of evil.
Men killed them directly, women were raped first and then killed, even teenage girls were not spared.
On the outskirts of the village, inside a crumbling wooden house.
A big man was lying on a disheveled woman with tears streaming down her face, performing unsightly behavior.
The woman's shrill cries could not be covered up even by the thunder rolling outside and the rain hitting the forest.
And the big man and the poor woman were not the only ones in the wooden house.
"mother!!!"
A thin little boy whose clothes were full of patches was grabbed by the head by another young man and pressed the right side of his face to the ground. No matter how hard he struggled, he could not resist the power of the adult behind him.
He could only cry.
The little boy looked at his raped mother in front of him and cried loudly, but he was completely powerless to stop this criminal atrocity happening in front of him.
After the big man was finished, there was a skinny young man.
After the skinny young man... outside the wooden house, there was a group of horse thieves eager to try.
One after another.
Finally, under the rough actions of a dozen horse thieves, the young woman's pupils dilated, and she just collapsed on the straw-covered wooden bed, motionless. Scarlet blood flowed from her thighs and dripped on the floor.
A pool of blood formed.
Don't die with peace of mind.
"mother……"
The little boy was sitting under his buttocks by a fat man. His cry was already hoarse. His eyes were red as he looked at his mother's body.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, great job."
Suddenly, a man's voice came from above.
"who?!"
The leader of the horse thieves was immediately shocked and rushed out of the cabin.
I saw a strong man wearing a blue short coat sitting on the roof of a nearby room. His open collar and exposed arms all had strong muscles, as if they were full of explosive power.
He looks rough.
He has messy light blue hair and an unkempt beard. The short jacket he is wearing is obviously the lowest quality coarse cloth, and even his feet are only straw sandals.
But the strange thing is that at this time, there was a heavy rain, but a layer of white mist appeared around the strong man, and not a drop of rain could actually fall on him.
"Hey, that dead fat pig."
The green-haired strong man held a piece of weed in his mouth, with a bit of cynicism in his eyes. He looked at the fat horse thief in the wooden house who held the little boy under his butt. He chuckled and said: "Move your butt quickly, otherwise we will be treated badly."
Soon your mouth will be able to lick your ass."
"Um?!"
The fat horse thief's face suddenly darkened.
"Pfft!"
The next moment, blood spurts out!
"Bang!"
When the blood spattered, the green-haired burly man had disappeared before the surrounding horse thieves could react, while the fat horse thieves flew out in an instant and fell hard to the mud, splashing blood and mud.
When everyone looked around, their pupils suddenly shrank.
I saw the fat horse thief, his whole body was now divided into two parts, his head was forcefully stuffed into the lower body of his butt, and blood and intestines flowed all over the floor.
