Chapter 28: Morning glow for ten thousand miles

"Human heads growing on trees?"

"It's on the vine."

"Could the heads of those headless corpses on the ground have all transformed into part of the vine?"

"I only know that if we don't run fast, we'll have two more heads hanging up there in a while."

……

Li Youyi carried Gao Huan on his shoulder and ran wildly in the dense forest. Behind them, the trees always emitted a swift "rustling" sound, as well as various human-like hoarse laughs.

Fleeing to a canyon, he looked back.

In the dark blue sky, a thick vine rushed out of the mountain cliff like a dragon python, with heads swaying on it, straight into the hundred-meter fog dome.

"Run!"

Stepping on streams when encountering water, leaping when encountering ravines.

Even when they couldn't hear the vine sound, they didn't dare to stop at all.

Really exhausted, and the vine hadn't caught up yet, so Gao Huan carried Li Youyi. Li Youyi performed the Jade Void Breathing Method on his back, recovering his energy and physical strength at the fastest speed.

The two took turns, or fled together, exhausted for a whole night.

When they rushed out of the dark and gloomy dense forest, they couldn't persist anymore, sat down one after another, and fell down again, lying softly on the grass of a hillside.

The sweat was dried up, the strength was exhausted, as if the soul had been drawn away.

"Don't run anymore, can't run anymore, Master Li, you go first... don't worry about me... let me hang up there. If I take one more step, I'll die." Gao Huan lay there, exhausted, just wanting to sleep until he was unconscious on the ground.

"Then I'll hang up there too!"

Li Youyi was also tired; he just felt the ground was really soft and the sky was really warm.

Taking a deep breath...

"Eh!"

The gloomy, rotten, and moldy smell in the forest was gone.

Li Youyi opened his eyelids, then turned over and sat up, slapped Gao Huan's butt, and laughed loudly: "Gao Fish Soup, get up quickly, get up quickly, that vine monster didn't catch up, we have come to the human world, blue sky, white clouds, green grass, wild flowers... hahaha..."

The morning glow was soft, and the mountain breeze was gentle.

These things that were so ordinary on Earth were, in Li Youyi's eyes at this moment, like a fairyland that would only appear in dreams.

The most ordinary human world was more precious than a fairyland to the two who had experienced darkness, slaughter, ghosts, hunger, and anxiety.

Li Youyi closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

Soil, fragrant grass, wild flowers... even the blue sky and white clouds were so sweet and charming.

All fatigue vanished in an instant.

Gao Huan finally sat up, saw the surrounding environment clearly, and also laughed foolishly like Li Youyi. Afterward, like a madman, he rolled and crawled toward a goose-yellow wild flower, picked it, put it to the tip of his nose and smelled it hard, saying repeatedly: "It's this taste... it's this taste..."

The two fled for a night, with thorn scratches everywhere on their faces, hands, legs, and clothes, sweat dried and wet, wet and dried, looking extremely miserable.

After gradually calming down.

Pain, fatigue, and hunger struck back vengefully.

The food and water they carried had long been lost in some ravine or stream. On the contrary, things that couldn't be eaten, like the Yellow Dragon Sword, the evil camel bell, and the money bag, were not lost at all.

The two lay down again.

Gao Huan chewed the wild flower in his mouth and said weakly: "We can't lie down like this, we can eat grass roots, and then go find a stream to drink our fill."

"Yeah, if we can find a town where humans live, take a hot bath, and have a bowl of noodle soup with cilantro, I wouldn't trade it for a fairyland," Li Youyi said.

Gao Huan had light in his eyes again because of what Li Youyi said, swallowing his dry throat wildly: "I don't want cilantro... I want soy sauce beef..."

Suddenly.

A thick and deep voice sounded above their heads: "What are you two muttering about?"

The two, who were already exhausted, sleepy, and hungry to the extreme, sat up like they had been electrocuted.

Slowly turned their heads.

Looking up along the shadow cast on the ground.

Only to see a man in his early thirties with a sturdy build standing on a hillside not far away. He had thick eyebrows and huge eyes, a slightly wide face, long and slightly curly hair, and skin that was rough but had great texture.

Gao Huan couldn't understand what he was saying, but he could feel the awe-inspiring aura on the opponent.

Li Youyi felt it even more intensely.

This person's ability was definitely much higher than his, otherwise, it would be impossible to appear there silently. You must know that even when he was in a state of extreme fatigue, he never completely let go of his vigilance.

Just now, when he was lying on the ground chatting and joking with Gao Huan, he had been mobilizing cold and hot air currents to recuperate his exhausted body, in order to recover his physical strength as soon as possible.

What was terrifying was not just the opponent's aura and cultivation.

It was the ruthlessness in the opponent's eyes that disregarded life; this kind of look could definitely only be cultivated by killing countless people.

Shi Jiuzhai laughed and scolded: "Were you two sent out to scout and keep watch? Why are you so miserable, did you encounter evil demons or dead souls?"

Li Youyi could understand the general meaning of Shi Jiuzhai's words and instantly realized.

It was the clothes he and Gao Huan were wearing that caused the opponent to have some kind of misunderstanding.

The clothes the opponent was wearing also looked very much like monk's robes.

But not brown, but winter-green.

How should this be explained?

Can this be explained?

Tell the opponent that the two of them stripped the clothes off dead people and wore them?

The opponent would probably rather believe that they killed people and stole money.

Li Youyi didn't dare to bet on the opponent's character, so he hurriedly nodded, pretending to be overly frightened, gesturing while saying: "Evil demon! Many heads... vines... so thick..."

Although he had learned the language of this world, he hadn't used it for many years and was very rusty.

However, it just happened to fit his current state.

"You encountered the Thousand-Headed Long Teng?"

A look of apprehension clearly flashed in Shi Jiuzhai's eyes. He strode down the hillside and slapped Li Youyi with a palm from the air.

The palm force whistled.

Li Youyi only felt a violent wind and huge waves attacking, his body like a lonely boat in the deep sea, thinking that there was some flaw and he had been seen through by the opponent. He had no choice but to grit his teeth and mobilize the cold and hot air currents in the spring eyes at the soles of his feet, pushing out both palms.

Then let's fight for our lives!

"Boom!"

Li Youyi was sent flying, his internal organs feeling like they were about to shatter, and he couldn't climb up anymore.

"Haha, no wonder you were able to escape death; you little wolf cub have already opened three spring eyes, right? At your age, that's not bad."

Shi Jiuzhai walked to Gao Huan, grabbed his cheek with his big hand, identified it carefully, and said in surprise: "Actually still a pure immortal body? Why is there no magic power in the body at all, just transformed?"

Li Youyi couldn't understand what "little wolf cub" and "three spring eyes" meant at all.

He had only opened two spring eyes at the soles of his feet, where did the three come from?

However, he also understood that the opponent was not suspicious, but was testing his strength. Fearing that Gao Huan would reveal the truth, he hurriedly said: "That's right... he just transformed successfully..."

"The Thousand-Headed Long Teng should have been full, otherwise you would never have been able to escape."

Shi Jiuzhai loosened his iron-pincer-like fingers and asked: "Who do you two follow?"

Li Youyi guessed that this outfit on his body might represent some force. This person in front of him was likely a powerful figure with a face in this force.

Li Youyi had thousands of thoughts flash through his mind in an instant, and he smiled: "We two naturally follow you, my lord."

"Haha, you have a clever spirit, good, follow this king from now on!"

Shi Jiuzhai walked back up the hillside, his tiger eyes fixed on the long and narrow river valley in the shade between the two mountains below. On both sides of the river valley, the mountain terrain was majestic and steep, rising more than a thousand meters.

A dirt road was opened by the river, and a large funeral procession was continuously walking out from the side shrouded in Nether fog.

Li Youyi and Gao Huan dragged their exhausted bodies, climbed up the low slope, and appeared beside Shi Jiuzhai.

The terrain here was very high, and the field of vision was wide.

Looking around.

Under the morning sun, the ancient ridges and mountains were all shrouded in white morning fog and warm glow, like the dragon spine of the earth extending to the horizon and gradually becoming faint.

The sky was high and the earth was wide, the wind blew the robes like flags, giving people a feeling of great ambition.

The funeral procession by the river valley below, people like ants, all wearing gray-white linen clothes. Four people carried one coffin, a thousand coffins walked together, like a long white snake extending out.

There were work chants echoing between the mountains on both sides, and there were sounds of riding beasts running back and forth.

Paper money was scattered all over the dirt road, and some were rolled up by the wind, drifting to both sides of the big river.

The coffin at the very front, made of silver-like material, bound with hemp ropes, as large as a house with connected beams, was likely able to hold over a hundred people. It was placed on a cart, pulled by a green ox larger than an elephant, and the sound of the cart wheels could be heard clearly even in the empty valley a thousand meters away.

Li Youyi said: "Are these all salvaged from the Blood Sea?"

"Otherwise?"

Shi Jiuzhai laughed: "The Jiuli tribe relies on salvaging coffins from other realms at the Blood Sea Coffin Dock, selling them to the entire Lingxiao Twenty-Eight Prefectures, making a fortune. Such a good business with no capital, yet only they can do it, who isn't jealous?"

From today on, the Earth Wolf King Army will also share a piece of the pie in this business.

The world is already in chaos, how can Lizhou be the only one at peace?

"Let's go, let's return to the main camp first, and wait for them at the Dragon-Killing Mouth ahead."

Shi Jiuzhai spat out a mouthful of gray fog, the wind was strong, and the gray fog spread for several zhang, wrapping Li Youyi and Gao Huan inside. Afterward, he rushed down the mountain on the other side, stepping over cliffs and walls with one step of ten or more zhang.

Li Youyi and Gao Huan, who were in the gray fog, only felt wrapped in dense cloud clusters, as if they had no weight, always flying behind Shi Jiuzhai.

"Spitting out clouds, stepping over cliffs and walls in one step. Is he still human?"

In the minds of the two, such thoughts emerged.

Li Youyi was extremely worried; this person's status in the force must be extremely high, and it was normal not to remember the people below. But returning to the main camp, the two of them would definitely be exposed.

By then, what kind of death would it be?

Must find a way to escape as soon as possible.

At this moment, Li Youyi had no intention of tracking the skeleton demon or saving Cai Yutong; he only felt that he and Gao Huan were already facing death.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 29 =====