Chapter 134: Under Control (Please Subscribe)

The mountain forest was dense, and the light could not spill through.

Xiang Tao and his group of many were hurried and tense; they scattered slightly in the mountain forest around the camp, searching everywhere, treating the scattered empty husks and remains as nothing, clearly having long known of this situation.

It was the work of an evil cultivator!

In their understanding, this was how it was, a situation intentionally misled by Xiang Tao.

At this moment, they moved in a hurry, their divine sense scanning chaotically, wanting to find the whereabouts of Zhao Jinlin.

In just one night and half a day, the traces he had passed through last night had basically vanished completely.

"... It's not him."

Yu Jian felt a bit relieved here; at the very least, his lie had not been completely exposed, and as long as Du En was sensible from here on, it could still be smoothed over.

Xiang Tao was just about to continue thinking this way when he remembered that Du En had been burying corpses for many years, and had even built his career by burying evil and strange corpses for others.

That's right, he actually hadn't left this area to return to patrol and search for spirits, but had instead taken the initiative to find Xiang Tao's side, secretly following and observing to ensure that the situation remained under his own control.

This could not help but make Xiang Tao further confirm that the mastermind behind last night's events was indeed some evil cultivator.

Thinking of this, Xiang Tao felt quite self-satisfied. Looking at the others behind him who were already showing signs of unease, his gaze flashed, and he spoke formally: "It hasn't even been a few years of peace, and now evil cultivators have started appearing and causing trouble again, and they are even active around the camp; it is truly rampant. Therefore, following the old precedent, the priority of all other matters will be set aside, and our main energy will be used to guard against and be vigilant of evil cultivators!"

"Bastards!"

Therefore, after a bout of anger, Xiang Tao quickly calmed down.

Xiang Tao pondered, thinking of the places he had just searched and comparing them with the general orientation, and finding that there were still omissions, he said nothing and silently continued his search further here.

Returning here, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

Xiang Tao hurried to his residence, the three-story high building in the middle of the camp. As the formation was adjusted and strengthened, the inverted bowl-shaped light barrier exposed to the outside began to show color, blocking the sunlight and isolating the inside from the outside.

Of course, this approach also had a small flaw, which was that the patrol guards who went out for daily patrols might be attacked and killed by evil cultivators because they were alone.

"Yes!"

Whether it was tracking or hunting, whatever he said, they would do!

Although this situation was actually already very clear—nine times out of ten it was the work of evil cultivators—they had long been very accustomed to these old rivals, or rather, old crises.

That is why they needed to spread out to investigate now.

As for why it ended after catching only one, it was probably because Xiang Tao had suddenly intervened.

"Hmph! Still sensible!"

Yu Jian's expression was somewhat uncertain, and he did not notice that a figure had just flashed past in the distance behind him.

So many years had passed, and he hadn't been killed by an evil cultivator for being in close contact with those kinds of corpses; he figured he probably wouldn't be this time either—it was as if some evil cultivator were his father!

They were accustomed to this, so there were no complaints or hesitation, and under Xiang Tao's lead, they quickly returned to the camp.

Not until this moment did Du En secretly walk out.

Therefore, after a round of divine sense observation, naked-eye observation, and spell-based investigation, they could only confirm in the end that a person had died here last night, and now that Zhao Jinlin was nowhere to be found, the one who died could only be him.

Yu Jian wanted to think of more harsh words, but thinking of how Du En didn't even have any misgivings about Xiang Tao, he couldn't continue thinking that way; he always felt that he wouldn't be afraid.

It was the corpses of the eight new patrol guards, including Luo Zi, who had just died!

However, very quickly, Yu Jian had a harvest here.

The way the outpost camp dealt with evil cultivators was actually slightly better than the shanty town outside the city: Xiang Tao sat in the camp, adjusted and strengthened the formation, and then waited for the rabbit to hit the stump!

Whether in the shanty town outside the border city or in this outpost camp, these Foundation Establishment cultivators of Nanmo City were usually the passive side when facing the problem of evil cultivators.

Or rather, Du En was that evil cultivator!

But now it seemed that it was entirely his own overthinking.

This was lifting a rock only to drop it on his own feet!

The reason why it was still like this around the camp was naturally because of Xiang Tao's arrangement of raising Evergreen Wood, which caused such a result.

"Evil cultivators are causing trouble, look at that brat..."

It was Xiang Tao!

He made a show of guarding the formation hub and adjusting and strengthening the formation, but in reality, he left at the first touch and had secretly left the camp at this time.

And the others were in no mood for idle chatter; they scattered one after another, either to pass on the situation or to make corresponding preparations to guard against evil cultivators.

Arriving at the sound, the tense crowd quickly gathered, came to the place where Zhao Jinlin died last night, and saw the slight traces of flesh and blood stained on the trees and soil.

"It really is like this; the corpse that should have been buried by that brat last night has disappeared..."

Then, Xiang Tao really returned to the camp to sit in the hub, waiting for changes while guarding.

As long as the evil cultivators caused trouble again, they would sooner or later bump into him themselves.

Du En thought this to himself.

The place he had just searched and supplemented was the location where Du En used to bury corpses; he had found it by following the traces of digging and burying, as well as the remains of the corpses, so he had not found the wrong place.

"Looking at it now, Jinlin's previous performance was probably caused by the bewitchment of an evil cultivator; there was no entrusted killing at all, it was purely borrowing a knife to kill, and then he was tricked out and killed..."

He shook his head, shaking off these increasingly absurd thoughts.

He had just severely established his authority and lectured those new patrol guards, and then this happened right after; it was simply slapping his own face. This made Xiang Tao become incomparably gloomy, his magic power stirred, and even the atmosphere became oppressive.

The result was that the one from last night was not found.

The others immediately shrank their heads, not daring to breathe loudly, silently waiting for this camp master to speak.

Following the obvious traces left today that had not yet disappeared, he arrived at another place around the camp.

While returning to the camp, he suddenly wondered if Du En was playing tricks.

"Hmph! Next, let's see if you are really lucky..."

"The situation is going smoothly, and next, I can fully launch an attack, lengthen the time window, and divert everyone's attention. Hmm, keep Yu Jian for now; mainly target the other old patrol guards. In short, create an image of evil cultivators being rampant and specifically slapping Xiang Tao's face."

Moreover, the more he pondered this now, the more he felt it was mysterious whether he would be sensible later; he estimated it would be the same later on, but now he needed to guard against evil cultivators...

"There's a situation! It's bloodstains!"

Also because of Xiang Tao's arrangement of raising Evergreen Wood, the information that might have been contained in these flesh and blood remains had all disappeared as their vitality and the like were extracted.

Yu Jian and the others responded loudly, without the slightest hesitation.

The result was that discoveries were made in two places, while one place had none!

Xiang Tao paused slightly, and the brow that had been furrowed relaxed.

He raised his hand and waved, and mana flowed out, overturning the soil to reveal eight corpses buried one zhang deep inside.

Investigating is impossible; one can only see if luck is good and if one can run into the main culprit, and then, either find a way to escape and survive, or have even better luck and run into one of them when they are alone, in which case there is still a fight to be had, winning by relying on numbers.

It is true that when out on daily patrol, one might be killed when separated, but, as long as one does not get separated, that is all!

They have their own countermeasures; next, they will form teams with each other, patrolling during the day and night, switching shifts to fill in the gaps, thereby barely maintaining the baseline for daily patrols.

Starting with the veteran patrol guards might be a better way to hoard spiritual objects and spiritual materials.

Furthermore, it can also stir up the harm and influence of the evil cultivators, so that the camp side and the border city side will no longer be as deathly silent as before.

Must hurry and get moving, to actively seek out the evil cultivators and disrupt their secret, hidden schemes!

(End of this chapter)