Lin Dongjiu looked at the attention value column on the system panel, his eyelids twitching.
More than 7,000 followers!
This was the first time that he had received such attention at once, and all of this was brought about by the quirky girl next to him, which made him take a breath:
How terrifying!
The most important thing is the prompt sound interspersed by the system:
"Congratulations to the host for accumulating 10,000 attention points. I will give you a magic weapon - the Spirit Book!"
"Note: Spirit Branding Book: Anyone who holds this book can impose a soul brand on the target, making the target surrender to the person holding it."
"Another note: When a thinner applies a soul mark to a target, the target must be incapable of resisting or give up resistance in order for the application to be successful."
Lin Dongjiu's eyes lit up as soon as he heard the system's introduction to this magic weapon, and he immediately became interested.
If this thing works well... Lin Dongjiu's lips curled into a smile. If there weren't so many people there now, he would have eagerly taken out the Spirit Branding Book and looked at it.
...
The two teams in the square are ready to go. There are more than a hundred disciples present today, and there are more than 80 disciples going to the Burial Dragon Mountain Range. From this point of view, the size of Lin Dongjiu's team is a bit small.
Their destination, the Burling Dragon Mountains, is more than 200 miles north of the Luoxia Sect. It is the habitat of many spiritual beasts and is famous for its ferocious and bloodthirsty spirit beasts.
Level 1 spiritual beasts can be seen everywhere on the outside of the mountain range. Going deeper into the mountains, level 2 spirit beasts appear from time to time. If you are unlucky, the probability of encountering a level 4 spirit beast is also very high.
The last time Lin Dongjiu entered the Buried Dragon Mountain Range, he just wandered around the periphery. If he accidentally entered the depths of the mountain range, it was doubtful whether he could come out alive.
Moreover, because few people dare to set foot in the Dragon Burial Mountain Range, it is rich in spiritual energy and rich in products. If you are lucky, you can pick spiritual herbs that are more than a century old on the outskirts of the Burial Dragon Mountain Range.
If you dare to go deeper, you may encounter legendary treasures of heaven and earth, so many monks are willing to put their heads in their belts and take risks in the depths for treasures and opportunities.
But the depths of the Dragon Burial Mountain Range are a death restricted area. They are afraid that they may find treasures but lose their lives to enjoy them. Ordinary people will die if they enter.
The sect master asked his disciples to go to the depths of the mountains for training and sent four elders of the Infant Transformation Realm to follow them. The sect master also went there in person, which was enough to show how dangerous it was.
The team going to the Burial Dragon Mountain Range for the trial began to set off under the leadership of four elders. After seeing the team leaving, Lan Qiong cleared her throat and said:
"Our destination is Luo'an Village, which is not too far from the Dragon Burial Mountain Range. In comparison, our mission this time is relatively easy, but I hope everyone will not take it lightly and always be wary of sneak attacks from the Demon Palace."
Elder Xu Ming also shouted: "Let's just follow them and set off now!"
The team of more than twenty people moved very fast, but the team in front was faster and had long since disappeared.
Most of the disciples in the team walked together in small groups, among which Cao Yushan and Lu Dajin were surrounded by the most people. From time to time, there were waves of slapping and laughing, and there were many people who wanted to please them.
Lin Dongjiu and Su Ruxue were walking at the back, but no one was willing to approach them or talk to them. It must be that Miss Su Ruxue's identity was too intimidating to them outer disciples, or they were afraid of being offended.
Su Ruxue's fiery temper.
Lin Dongjiu saw that all the female disciples in the team were keeping a distance from Su Ruxue, and couldn't help but wonder, could she really have friends in the sect?
However, Su Ruxue was like the sister next door beside him along the way, chattering non-stop, without any of the aloof airs that a young lady should have on weekdays.
Lin Dongjiu felt that even the breed had changed since Su Ruxue became familiar with him. The image of the overbearing and unreasonable young lady at the beginning was more like a disguise. After they met frankly, she was left with enthusiasm and innocence, which made him
It's still a bit unaccustomed to it.
Lan Qiong, who was at the front of the team, turned around and looked at the two of them curiously from time to time, as if he wanted to ask something, but due to his elder's dignity, he controlled the urge to step forward and talk.
She said why did this stinky girl beg her to come to the second team? It turned out that her lover was here for a secret meeting!
It's just that Su Ruxue's lover doesn't seem to be very motivated... Lan Qiong couldn't help but frown secretly.
"Congratulations on getting Lan Qiong's attention, the attention value is +1!"
"Congratulations on getting Lan Qiong's attention, the attention value is +1!"
"..."
Lin Dongjiu was a little embarrassed when he heard the continuous beeps. He also looked at Elder Lan Qiong curiously, and their eyes immediately met.
He smiled at Lan Qiong, but Lan Qiong panicked and immediately turned around like a child who had been caught doing bad things.
Elder Xu Ming, who was beside Lan Qiong, seemed to have noticed something strange about her. He coughed and said, "You brought up this child Ruxue. I didn't expect that she has her own Taoist companion now. Time has passed."
It’s so fast.”
"Yeah, after all these years, you still can't beat me." Lan Qiong glared at him and said with a cold face.
Elder Xu Ming scratched his head: "Qiong'er, you know that after so many years, you think we will..."
Elder Lan Qiong snorted softly and said, "Didn't I tell you that when you can beat me, I will agree to be your Taoist companion."
Elder Xu Ming said with a bitter face: "I...well...I really can't beat you! If it doesn't work, you can change your request!"
"no way!"
Lan Qiong put her hands behind her back and raised her little face high. She looked even more arrogant than Su Ruxue.
...
It was almost noon, and Lin Dongjiu and the others had already walked halfway through the journey. When passing through a valley, he still remembered that he was tricked by Chen Yi here, and then escaped to the Dragon Burial Mountains and met the little girl. These things seemed to be just like that.
Happened yesterday.
After walking forward for a while, you can already vaguely see the winding outline of the Dragon Burial Mountain Range.
The peaks of the Dragon Burial Mountain Range in front of us are undulating, overlapping in height and low, stretching for thousands of miles without end.
When he saw it from the sky, the Dragon Burying Mountains at his feet looked like a giant dragon lying on the vast land, so it was appropriate for people to name this mountain range the Dragon Burying Mountains.
Moreover, when he was in Luo'an Village, he even listened to the old man telling some legends about the Dragon Burial Mountain Range.
The old man said that the mountains were actually formed when a divine dragon broke through the space barrier and came to the Fairy Continent, and finally died here. In the end, the divine dragon's body turned into the Dragon Burial Mountains.
As the sun set, they had already seen Luo'an Village.
Su Ruxue looked at the village and said with some doubts:
"It's strange, it's already evening, why isn't there even a family making a fire to cook?"
When Lin Dongjiu saw that there was no smoke rising from any house in the village, his heart jumped suddenly, and an uneasy feeling instantly enveloped his whole body.
"No...why did the village protection circle above the village disappear?"
Elder Xu Ming, who was leading the team, stopped. He was a formation master and could tell something was wrong at a glance.
When Lin Dongjiu heard this, his heart beat violently, and the cold sweat on his forehead remained in his mouth without even noticing it.
Yes, when he was in the air with the little girl that day, he could still see the big bowl-like magic circle upside down above the village, but why has the magic circle disappeared now?
Lin Dongjiu felt more and more uneasy. There was only one possibility for the magic circle to suddenly disappear, but he didn't want to think about it, or even dared to think about it.
Everyone quickened their pace and arrived at the entrance of the village. They saw no one on the rural road, not even a single poultry.
The whole village was eerily silent, and all that could be heard was the sound of the wind, like someone wailing in a low voice.
Elder Xu Ming looked solemn, and he asked several disciples to go to the nearest homes to check.
Before these disciples came back, Lin Dongjiu already knew the result. His consciousness had already scanned the nearby houses and found no one there.
All the villagers seemed to have moved away, but the farm tools everywhere and the unpacked clothes hanging in the yard told them that the villagers were still living here.
The disciples came back soon, shaking their heads and saying they didn't find anyone.
Lan Qiong and Xu Ming looked at each other and shouted: "Everyone is under martial law! Keep up with us and don't fall behind!"
All the disciples felt vaguely uneasy in their hearts. They took out their personal weapons and followed the two elders closely for fear of falling behind.
Su Ruxue also took out her sword and walked in front of Lin Dongjiu. She whispered:
"The magic circle outside the village has most likely been breached by the Demon Palace, and the villagers in the village may have..."
"impossible..."
Lin Dongjiu's face instantly turned extremely pale. He interrupted Su Ruxue's words and seemed to be talking to himself:
"It's impossible. The villagers just ran away to avoid the Demon Palace. They will definitely come back when the time comes. They will definitely come back..."
Su Ruxue noticed something strange about Lin Dongjiu and pushed him:
"Xiao Lin...are you okay?"
Lin Dongjiu forced out a smile: "I'm fine..."
But his smile was uglier than his cry, which made Su Ruxue even more worried.
The village was eerily quiet. As everyone walked in, they could smell a pungent fishy smell in the air. This smell was a bit like the smell of blood!
"There is a smell of blood in the air!" A disciple raised his head, sniffed carefully, and said.
When he said this, several disciples beside him nodded in agreement.
Elder Xu Ming's original solemn expression had disappeared, replaced by a terrifyingly serious expression.
Elder Lan Qiong clenched his teeth and his eyes almost burst out with fire.
Everyone had reached the center of the village, but the scene in front of them was something Lin Dongjiu would never forget.
"They are all dead...What the hell is going on..." The disciples below suddenly became commotion.
They found the villagers, but they were already dead, and their deaths were extremely miserable.
More than 300 villagers, men, women, old and young, were neatly tied to wooden stakes.
Underneath the wooden pile is a huge platform, with the four corners of the platform held up high by four huge rocks.
There is also a stone staircase connected to the bottom of this platform, which looks a bit like a simple altar from below.
The corpses of these villagers became extremely shriveled, their bodies were covered with blood, and their torn clothes were already stained red with blood.
And these corpses had a large opening cut open from the heart. The heart inside had disappeared, replaced by a diamond-shaped black crystal.
The faces of every corpse were without exception bloody, but one could still clearly see the hideous and deformed outlines of their faces, and one could imagine how painful and desperate they must have been before they died.
A gust of breeze blew by, and the smell of blood hit their nostrils. Several disciples with poor tolerance had already begun to vomit. This kind of bloody visual impact was much greater than a simple murder.
Su Ruxue hid behind Lin Dongjiu, not even daring to look. She was originally afraid of corpses, ghosts and other things. When she saw such a strange scene, she was so frightened that she turned pale and did not dare to leave Lin Dongjiu even half a step.