Chapter 194: Lost Trace Lake

Thin mist, no wind.

The morning sun just appeared, and the traces of morning light were particularly distinct in the mist, golden, in slanted wisps, like a bead curtain blown by the wind. The golden morning light dragged the shadows of the stilted buildings long, hitting the dirt slope on the west side of the building.

The dark green He Shouwu vines on the dirt slope grew very lushly, and someone specially built a vine frame for it, which seemed to be well taken care of. However, perhaps because it was too quiet, these vine leaves looked like flower snakes crawling up the dirt slope in the hazy mountain mist, looking very intimidating.

The vines climbed up to the second floor along the frame. On the bamboo pole under the eaves of the second floor, there were also a few pieces of wax-dyed cloth hanging, the indigo butterfly patterns dyed with thick dust, motionless in the mist, like some ghost that had slipped into the village.

The bonfire pond in front of the village was piled with thick ash. In the past, the fire ash here was always hot. There were always children throwing some strange grass roots and insects into it to roast, and in less than half a day, they could be dug out and eaten. But now, the fire ash was cold and blue.

This is an extremely ordinary village scattered on the outskirts of the Miao Border. If you enter the continuous mountains of the Miao Border from Sanxiang, you can reach this place by going less than a hundred miles deep.

The Chestnut Creek in front of the village courtyard was still murmuring, but the terraced fields on both sides were already desolate, overgrown with weeds, and the village was silent and uninhabited, as if it had been abandoned for many years.

Cheng Xinzhan picked up a handful of blue-gray ash in the fire pond, looking at the dead and silent village, without cooking smoke, without chicken crowing, without white dogs and children chasing and playing, he felt a bit blocked in his heart, his hand loosened, and the blue-gray ash slipped from his fingertips again.

"Xinzhan, you are right."

Shen Zhaoming pointed in one direction and said.

On the way here, Cheng Xinzhan had already briefly explained the relationship between this Miao village and him.

And everyone looked in the direction Shen Zhaoming pointed, and found that the doors of several houses nearby had been smashed to pieces, but one could vaguely see the Daoist demon-slaying pictures pasted on the doors from the fragments.

Although there were traces of destruction, there was no blood in the village, which was a good thing.

The Miao people listened to the advice and left, and the Southern Wilderness demon had indeed been here.

But this was already the eastern edge of the Miao Border, adjacent to Sanxiang, and the demon had actually come here. I really don't know what the inside of this big mountain has become.

Where did the people of Chestnut Creek Village go? Are they still okay? Is the old village head's body still strong?

No one could answer him.

There was no time to be sentimental. With errands on them, everyone left and continued to walk deep into the forest.

"Have you heard? Xin Chenzi is now in the Fourth Realm, and he is extremely favored by the Green Robe. He has also begun to call himself a sect ancestor. He is respectfully called the Southern Star Old Ancestor by the demons under his command, taking the meaning of the stars in the Southern Border. As for the sun and moon of the Southern Border, heh, naturally they are left for the Green Robe Old Ancestor. It's truly ridiculous."

Song Jishu saw that Cheng Xinzhan's mood was a bit low, so he took the lead to talk about interesting things.

The Southern Border and the southeast coast are places where the situation has changed on the Divine Land recently, and the Southern Border is originally coastal, plus the Green Robe Old Ancestor transformed into a dragon to manage the Southern Wilderness inside and outside the sea, which is a place where the eyes of the world gather.

Anyone with a long-term vision has inquired about and understood the Southern Border.

Perhaps influenced by the bad atmosphere at sea, the Green Robe Old Ancestor now also calls himself a Great Sage, called the Erosion True Great Sage, and is called the Three Sages of the Demonic Path together with the Sea-Covering Great Sage and the Heaven-Supporting Great Sage, and his limelight is unparalleled for a while.

This newly promoted Great Sage has also completed the unification of the Southern Sect demonic forces in name and half-fact, and he himself is the Hong Jiaozhu.

Saying it is half-fact is because there are still some forces on the South China Sea that respect this newly promoted Great Sage in their mouths, but refuse to bow down and pay tribute. Many sea demons also openly respect and secretly satirize, saying that the long worm on land also dares to come to the sea to show off, really thinking that he is the two from the East China Sea?

This naturally made the Green Robe Old Ancestor quite unhappy, so at this very moment, this true dragon is wandering on the South China Sea. To tell the truth, with his natural power as a Fifth Realm true dragon at sea plus his absolute strength as a master of Southern Sect demonic arts, there is no true dragon on the South China Sea. With those mixed-blood inferior clowns, even if they are in the Fifth Realm, they are really not the Green Robe's opponent.

It is not impossible for this Li dragon to complete the de facto unification of the South China Sea.

As for the land, the Southern Wilderness is already an iron plate. The Green Robe Old Ancestor felt that Mount Baiman was too small, and moved his bedroom to the former site of Mount Lantao, which is now called the place of the Purple Evil Dragon Cave.

And the current Mount Baiman is presided over by Xin Chenzi.

"A villain who succeeded by relying on the chicken and dog ascending to heaven, actually dares to call himself Southern Star. It is a complete stain on Xinzhan's Nandou nickname."

Huang Miaoluo said indignantly.

She also intended to tease and pull the topic to Cheng Xinzhan.

Fang Weimin didn't hear Huang Miaoluo's meaning, just nodded as a matter of course.

And although Cheng Xinzhan felt that this Southern Star Old Ancestor sounded really awkward, he felt even more that the nickname Nandou called out by his own fellow disciples was also very inappropriate in front of outsiders!

He was a bit shy and said, "Don't mention it, don't mention it!"

However, seeing him like this, everyone became interested. Song Jishu asked with a smile,

"What is Nandou?"

Before Cheng Xinzhan could stop him, Huang Miaoluo had already told the story of Cheng Xinzhan's four appearances on the sect's Nandou list, and emphasized that Cheng Xinzhan was the first person in the sect to be on the four lists at the same time, because the Qi-eating list has restrictions, and those over fifty will hide their names. For example, Fang Weimin's name is on the Golden Core list, but his name has already disappeared from the Qi-eating list.

"At that time, everyone in the sect was guessing which Daoist child Xinzhan was."

Huang Miaoluo said with a smile.

"Six breaths of Qi-eating, thirty years of Golden Core, Master Cheng's talent can be seen."

Li Chengyan said with a smile.

However, who doesn't have lists like this? Among those present, who hasn't been on them? It's just that they have all reached the Golden Core realm. The actors on the stage have become spectators, and the chess pieces on the chessboard are slowly becoming chess players. No one pays attention to the lists anymore.

It's just to make Xinzhan smile. Cheng Xinzhan felt very shy and couldn't smile, but this topic did indeed disperse a lot of the worries in his heart. However, he didn't want to continue talking about this matter, so he opened his mouth to pull the topic back to business, walking and saying,

"According to the information collected by the alliance, at that time Xin Chenzi led a group of demon soldiers to besiege Red Wood Ridge. Red Wood Ridge Vice Hong Jiaozhu Yao Kaijiang defected to the enemy and suddenly opened the mountain-protecting formation. When the demon soldiers attacked, another Vice Hong Jiaozhu Hong Changbao could not contact the Red-Haired Old Ancestor, and realized that a big problem had occurred.

"However, what Xin Chenzi and Yao Kaijiang did not expect was that the Red-Haired Old Ancestor had passed the Blood-Transforming Divine Knife to Hong Changbao long ago. Hong Changbao relied on the power of the magic treasure to drag down the two demon heads, covering the Red Wood Ridge disciples to abandon the mountain and flee north.

"Red Wood Ridge is the leader of the side sects after all, and has a good friendship with the Green Dragon Cave. Along the way, there were many noble people who did not show their faces to help. Coupled with Xin Chenzi and Yao Kaijiang being in a hurry to return to the Southern Wilderness to welcome the Green Robe Old Ancestor who had transformed into a dragon, this allowed the Red Wood Ridge remnants to get rid of the pursuers and flee deep into the mountain, but the ancestral court of Red Wood Ridge was completely destroyed.

"Subsequently, Xin Chenzi entered the Fourth Realm, and was determined to rectify the interior of the Southern Wilderness, having no intention to pursue the Red Wood Ridge remnants, just sending his subordinates deep into the Miao Border to cut weeds and remove roots.

"The Red Wood Ridge remnants fled and scattered all the way, and were found by Hong Changbao all the way. Those who fled privately fled, and those who died died. Now there are ten thousand people in total, hiding in the area of Lost Trace Lake on the Wu River. Those remnants who can be found by Hong Changbao and are willing to continue to follow Hong Changbao have some skills on them, and they are all people who dare to risk their lives.

"So the Southern Sect demon soldiers who searched and surrounded them all the way did not dare to fight to the death with this group of dead soldiers, just set up a formation on the periphery, surrounded that piece heavily, and moved their hands from time to time, wanting to slowly consume the people of Red Wood Ridge to death."

"And the alliance does not want these ten thousand people who have a deep hatred with the Southern Sect demonic forces to be slowly consumed, so this order arrow was issued. This errand is not small. Ten thousand remnants of Red Wood Ridge, and more than fifty thousand Southern Sect demon heads surrounding them outside, I had to move reinforcements and call you all over."

Cheng Xinzhan introduced while walking. The group moved very fast, hiding their shadows and concealing their breath, and came to the lower reaches of the Wu River, and slowly groped toward the upper reaches of Lost Trace Lake.

The Wu River is a river in the middle of the big mountain. Both sides are high peaks that go straight into the clouds, and the big mountains are crowded together, so the big river also bends and turns. The few people went upstream along the big river. The front mountain covered the back mountain, looking at the front without knowing where to go, and looking back without seeing the way.

The top of the mountain was covered with clouds, the waist of the mountain gathered mist, and the foot of the mountain grew miasma. People flew over from the sky and looked down, and couldn't see anything. Everyone was almost skimming low against the river surface, so they could see the river water clearly. A little higher, they only heard the sound of water, but couldn't see the water light.

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The river water was dark green, reflecting the gloomy ancient trees on the mountains on both sides. The ancient trees were climbed by vines that had been there for thousands of years, as thick as a thigh, hanging from the trees into the river, but they didn't rot, and continued to grow in the water, like big snakes.

Tigers roared and apes cried on both sides of the river, and there were heavy shadows in the water.

Such dangerous mountains and evil waters, no wonder there are many demons and monsters.

No wonder the people of Red Wood Ridge could escape so far under the pursuit of the Southern Sect demon soldiers. It is really not an easy thing to find people in such a primitive forest.

After not knowing how many turns they made, and bypassing a big mountain, the sound and light in front suddenly penetrated, and passed into the ears and eyes of everyone. Various cursing sounds and magic rainbows rose one after another, the demon flames were towering, and the blood evil was like clouds.

Everyone restrained their escape light and breath, and slowly approached.

The Wu River suddenly became wide here, and branched out into many tributaries. The water veins were intricate and complex, like a net, dividing the land and mountains into small islands. Water mist, mountain mist, and wood miasma mixed together, forming a piece of mist that covered the sky and the sun, surrounding this group of small islands, making people unable to see the scene inside.

This is a famous dangerous place in the Wu River basin, Lost Trace Lake.

And on the periphery of this mist, there are demon banners and demon flags all over the mountain, surrounding Lost Trace Lake tightly.

Everyone saw that these demon banners and demon flags all over the mountain were different, with different pictures and characters, including those demon soldiers who were shouting and shouting, and the slogans they shouted were also different. But this group of demon soldiers was not ordinary miscellaneous soldiers. The few people saw clearly that these demon soldiers had also set up a formation.

A suspended blood river was connected end to end, like a silk ribbon, surrounding Lost Trace Lake. There were blood-colored vines dancing in the blood river, like dragons and snakes.

The blood river seemed to be gradually shrinking, and it looked like it wanted to rush away the mist on Lost Trace Lake.

Many demon heads threw themselves into it, standing in the blood river and performing magic on the mist.

Among these people of Cheng Xinzhan, Li Chengyan and Wang Chengyi of Mount Juqu had a deep hatred with the Three Corpse Islands, so they basically took the errands there. Shen Zhaoming of the Jingming Sect was good at water techniques, so he was also killing demons in the Sea of Ten Thousand Corpses. Only Song Jishu of Mount Gezao ran more to the Southern Border. He had some understanding of the situation of the Southern Sect demonic forces. After watching for a while, he said to everyone,

"Xin Chenzi now has eight resounding Third Realm demon heads under his command. These demon heads made a name for themselves in the Southern Border long ago. Some were born in Mount Baiman, some were figures at the level of other demon sect masters in the Southern Wilderness, and some were born in the Miao Border side sects or demonic sects. They were all figures who called Xin Chenzi brothers and sisters long ago. Some have higher seniority than Xin Chenzi, but with the rise of the Green Robe Old Ancestor and Xin Chenzi, their power has risen greatly, and they have all thrown away their faces and gathered at Xin Chenzi's feet, calling themselves the Eight Great Vajras of the Southern Sect."

Song Jishu was very disdainful and continued,

"The one surrounding Lost Trace Lake now is three of these Eight Great Vajras. Look at the southwest, that group of demon heads wearing blue clothes and black hats, that is the sect of the Yin River Ghost Master Yang Xuanla. To the northwest, that group of demon heads wearing red clothes, their weapons are mostly vine staffs, that is the subordinate of the Blood Vine Old Mother Long Youpo. That blood river should be the means of the Blood Vine Old Mother."

"The one close to us, and also the one that looks the most chaotic, should be the subordinate of Yao Kaijiang who defected to the enemy. His subordinates are all people caught from Mount Baiman and other small demon sects in the Southern Wilderness. Now this Yao Kaijiang also learned from other demon heads and took a nickname, called Green-Faced Yelang."

"It's strange to say, these three are all from the Miao Border. Xin Chenzi insisted on sending them here. Who is this disgusting?"

Cheng Xinzhan nodded and continued,

"I have also heard of these Eight Great Vajras. These three were all sect master-level figures before they surrendered to Xin Chenzi. It is rumored that Long Youpo among them has passed five thunder tribulations, and she is aiming for the Fourth Realm, not an ordinary figure. So with just these nine of us, if we want to directly break the outer formation and save the people of Red Wood Ridge, this is a daydream."

"In my opinion, if we want to alleviate the predicament of Red Wood Ridge, we still have to enter the encirclement, go inside Lost Trace Lake, see how many experts the Miao people of Red Wood Ridge have, what the casualties are, how much spiritual jade and medicinal herbs are left, and if we want to solve the predicament, how to win their trust, and then talk about mobilizing or helping these people break out."

"What do you think?"

Everyone listened without objection, nodded, and signaled Cheng Xinzhan to continue.

"Now I don't know what the situation is inside, and whether the three demon heads are watching at all times. It is not appropriate for the nine of us to act together. Why don't we divide into three groups, two groups outside, cooperating with each other, and also responding, and one group enters the encirclement, makes contact with the Red Wood Ridge remnants in Lost Trace Lake, and forms the right to speak as soon as possible. After entering, cooperate inside and outside, keep in touch, and then discuss cooperation and breaking out. What do you think?"

Everyone thought about it and had no opinion. Li Chengyan and Wang Chengyi also took out sound transmission talismans and distributed them to everyone.

Talking about grouping, the golden boy and jade girl of Mount Juqu and the brother and sister of Mount Bingfeng are good at joint attacks and should not be separated. After a few people added up, they formed these three groups,

Cheng Xinzhan, Shen Zhaoming, and Huang Miaoluo took the lead to enter the interior of Lost Trace Lake to figure out the situation inside.

Song Jishu, Meng Xuqi, and Meng Xuyi formed a group, and Li Chengyan, Wang Chengyi, and Fang Weimin formed a group. These two groups first made some noise outside, preferably breaking a gap in the demonic formation, so that Cheng Xinzhan's group could take the opportunity to enter.

Everyone discussed and felt that they should avoid the Blood Vine Old Mother and find opportunities under the other two demon heads.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 195 =====