Chapter 332

"It's a bear."

Li Yan laughed dumbly and shook his head slightly.

Bears are very smart. In some ancient hunting tribes, there is even a saying that bears are people who were cursed and had to crawl on all fours, which shows a glimpse of it.

The thing this creature does most often is to stand up and wave when the visibility is dim, attracting people to come over.

By the time people get close and see clearly, they have no chance to escape.

But provoking them is purely looking for death.

"Let's go."

Li Yan quickened his pace and smiled at Lu San: "I was just saying we'd find someone to ask for directions; local wild beasts will do."

While speaking, they were getting closer and closer to the mountain forest.

After getting closer, they could see more clearly.

It was indeed a bear, tall and strong, with dense brown fur, a slightly reddish chest, a wide nose and large mouth, and eyes like copper bells.

It stood in the forest, one claw leaning against a tree trunk, the other claw waving up and down, its eyes bright and full of gloom.

Man-bear?

Li Yan was a bit surprised when he saw it.

The man-bears commonly referred to by the common people are mostly brown bears, common in cold plateau areas, while in this Ezhou area, there are more black bears.

There is no doubt that brown bears are more terrifying, larger in size, and more fierce in temperament. Sometimes they even prey on black bears.

But soon, Li Yan knew the reason.

Around the neck of this man-bear, there was actually a collar, which looked like Tibetan silver, not short of years, and inlaid with jewelry.

Because it was covered by dense fur, it was only seen after getting close.

And this man-bear had already sensed something was wrong.

Li Yan and the three were different from the previous common people; not only did they not run away, but they also vaguely made it feel palpitations.

"Roar—!"

The man-bear roared and turned to flee.

This move was beyond Li Yan's expectations.

He was about to chase, but Wu Ba, the wild man beside him, dropped his luggage, gave a low growl, and rushed out suddenly.

His figure was agile, wind was born under his feet, his muscles exploded, like a cheetah, and he even lowered his body, using both hands and feet.

Li Yan and the other two only felt a gust of wind blow by. The wild man Wu Ba had disappeared into the forest. Where was the timidity on the boat before?

Soon, the roar of a brown bear sounded ahead.

Lu San frowned, patted the demon gourd at his waist, and suddenly poisonous bees whistled out to help Wu Ba.

And Li Yan shook his head and carried the luggage.

The two quickened their pace and passed through the dense forest.

They saw the wild man Wu Ba's muscles bulging, actually grabbing the man-bear's head and forcibly pressing it to the ground.

The man-bear roared and struggled wildly, the huge bear paws splashing mud, its buttocks and body twisting left and right, but it was still difficult to turn over.

And this wild man Wu Ba had eyes full of excitement, even with a trace of fanaticism, revealing ferocious fangs, and even his skin began to turn red.

This guy's fur was abnormally lush.

He had shaved it clean at the time, and it had grown out to an inch long in the past two days. In his excitement, every hair stood up, looking more like a wild beast than the man-bear below.

Feeling the man-bear's struggle, Wu Ba's eyes suddenly revealed ferocity. One hand pressed the man-bear's head, and the other hand clenched into a fist and smashed down suddenly.

"Wait!"

Seeing something was wrong, Li Yan hurriedly stopped him.

However, it was already too late.

The wild man Wu Ba awakened the body supernatural power. The methods he learned from childhood were all to deal with various wild beasts, and at the same time, he imitated them, more like primitive imitative boxing.

He had long ago learned dark energy in his ignorance, his whole body's strength was concentrated, and he knew the weaknesses of wild beasts.

Crack!

With one punch, the sound of bone cracking suddenly rang out.

The man-bear's neck twisted abnormally, blood and brain matter splashed from its ears, half of its head collapsed, and its body stopped moving.

Li Yan stopped in his tracks immediately, narrowed his eyes, and looked at Wu Ba.

Subconsciously, he hadn't treated the other party as a companion. He took him in temporarily because Lu San was kind-hearted and wanted to save the wild man's life.

After all, this was a man-demon, a half-human, half-monster existence.

Just like now, after hammering the man-bear to death, Wu Ba seemed to have aroused some kind of ferocity. He didn't seem to hear Li Yan's words at all, and punched twice more with a thud.

Pfft!

The man-bear's brain was completely shattered. Wu Ba reached out and grabbed the sticky brain matter, intending to send it to his mouth.

"Wu Ba!"

Just then, Lu San gave a shout.

Wu Ba shivered and stopped. The blood color in his eyes faded rapidly. He stole a glance at Lu San and hurriedly rubbed a few times on the man-bear's body to wipe the brain matter off his hands.

Then he stood up awkwardly, standing there at a loss.

Seeming to know Li Yan's thoughts, Lu San shook his head and whispered: "You can't look at him with human eyes. Wild beasts joining a new group always need time to adapt."

"Give me some time, he will be a good companion..."

Having said that, he walked up quickly, his face stern, muttering in the upper language.

Wu Ba shrank his head, and his body seemed to be a head shorter.

The little white fox had already grown a circle, just following behind Lu San's butt. Seeing Wu Ba being scolded, it was excited, jumping up and down, following and baring its teeth and hissing.

Li Yan laughed dumbly and didn't say anything more.

Since Lu San had spoken, he had to believe it.

Thinking of this, Li Yan also stepped forward to the man-bear's corpse, took off the collar hanging on its neck, and checked it carefully.

I saw that the collar in my hand was made of Tibetan silver, not short of years, the patterns were full of auspicious clouds, treasure vases, lotus flowers, and carefully inlaid with red coral, turquoise, and blue lapis lazuli and other gems.

It looked like something from Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism.

And there was yin-sha energy lingering, clearly a magic weapon, and a line of words was engraved inside:.

Li Yan couldn't understand it at all, but he had already guessed that this man-bear was probably raised by someone.

On the other side, Lu San also finished scolding Wu Ba.

I don't know what Lu San said, but Wu Ba hurriedly took the luggage behind Li Yan, lowered his head, and stole a glance at him.

Li Yan didn't pay attention, but frowned, pinched the dharma formula, and took a deep breath at the air: "Follow me!"

Having said that, he quickened his pace and walked in front.

Lu San and Wu Ba followed closely, while the little white fox ran and jumped on the mountain forest stone wall with its big tail, one step faster than Li Yan.

This little thing was quite spiritual and already knew what he was going to do, directly using its sensitive sense of smell to lead the way in front.

The crowd traveled all the way, passed through a mountain col, and a dirt road appeared ahead. Although it was covered by wild grass, it was still vaguely visible.

And on the ground, there were also dragging bloodstains and some animal fur, clearly hunted by the man-bear before.

Seeing this situation, Li Yan had already sensed something in his heart.

Sure enough, after turning over a mountain ridge, he suddenly saw a ruin.

This was an ancient kiln site. The kiln furnace had collapsed, but the structure could still be identified. Pottery shards and old tools were scattered in the grass, and the surrounding dirt piles were messy and covered by wild grass, looking like grave mounds.

In front of the kiln site, a stone platform was also built, with a lot of traces of fire, and several formation flags were inserted on it, which had long faded due to wind and sun.

It was clearly a grand ritual that had been performed.

Li Yan shook his head slightly and said to Lu San who followed: "It seems that this place is one of the strange kiln sites mentioned by the Shen family servant, but it has been dealt with."

Having said that, he looked to the other side. The place where the kiln site was located must be rich in high-quality porcelain clay. This place was also, with a hill, which was even dug away by half.

Red soil, green vines, and a black mountain cave, with animal and human remains outside, and dense flies flying around.

The originally agile little white fox had stopped, baring its teeth at the black cave entrance, its fur exploded, seemingly guarding against something.

Li Yan pinched the formula and sniffed. He suddenly sensed a faint yin energy inside, as if something was watching them in the darkness.

"Don't move randomly."

Li Yan's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he entered the cave quickly.

As soon as he stepped in, he could feel the cave was abnormally cold, and a black smoke whistled out from the darkness, rushing toward his face.

"Hmph! Thinking too beautifully!"

Li Yan raised his hand, and the invisible Soul-Hooking Rope whistled out. Feeling the movement of the hook, he pulled it again.

Whoosh~

The darkness suddenly scattered, and yin winds arose in the cave, soon becoming quiet again. Although it was still cool, there was no such chilling yin cold.

!.

Li Yan flicked his hand and continued to walk forward.

Sure enough, there was a corpse lying deep in the cave, already decayed for a long time, wrapped in a dark red monk's robe, with vajra pestles, leather drums, and other things scattered around.

At the same time, Lu San also lit a torch and walked in.

"It's this guy."

Li Yan looked at the corpse on the ground and said: "This is a Tibetan Esoteric Buddhist master. I don't know why he ran here, and even after death, he still attracted people to possess them."

That's right, in a short time, he had already figured out the origin.

This unknown monk had a powerful soul. After death, his yin soul did not dissipate, controlling the man-bear to go out and eat people.

Eating people was just a means, the purpose was to attract people to come, and they had to be Mystic Sect cultivators, so he could possess them.

Unfortunately, he was unlucky and ran into them.

Lu San was a bit surprised: "These people are rare in the Divine Land. Why did they run to Ezhou from thousands of miles away?"

He was right. Since the collapse of the Si Tu Bo Dynasty, the Tibetan region had formed forces such as the Guge Dynasty and the Ladakh Dynasty.

During the Daxing years of the previous dynasty, the Golden Tent Wolf Kingdom pressed on the border, and the forces in this region surrendered one after another, and many Dharma Kings joined the Golden Tent Wolf Kingdom to fight against the Mystic Sect.

Seeing the rise of the Great Xuan Dynasty, they scattered the Golden Tent Wolf Kingdom, and these forces surrendered again, voluntarily paying tribute, and were called Wusizang.

That place had a vast area, harsh environment, sparse population, and remnants of the Golden Tent Wolf Kingdom active in secret, stirring up the situation.

The Great Xuan Dynasty didn't want to spend too much effort, so it adopted a strategy of appeasement as the main and military strikes as the auxiliary, gradually calming the turmoil.

Now it could be considered stable, but because the Tibetan Esoteric Buddhist masters and the Mystic Sect fought too fiercely during the previous dynasty, although the Tea-Horse Road trade was prosperous, the Mystic Sect did not have close contacts.

"You'll know when you see it."

Li Yan wiped his hand and took out a letter from the monk's arms, but after opening it, his face suddenly stiffened.

It was all Tibetan, and he couldn't understand it at all!

"What is this..."

Li Yan muttered and began to check other things.

This monk should have had deep cultivation before he died. At least these things on his body were magic weapons, mainly a vajra pestle, a prayer wheel, and a small human skin drum.

The first two had a kind of gang-sha power, while the human skin drum emitted a cold aura. Touching it with his fingers, white frost spread.

Li Yan narrowed his eyes, clenched his fist, and suddenly electric arcs sizzled. He smashed the human skin drum flat with one punch.

Bang!

A muffled sound exploded in the air, and yin cold energy overflowed.

Afterward, the vajra pestle and prayer wheel were also smashed and broken by him.

These magic weapons were all enshrined in front of the altar all year round. To him, they were useless, so it was better to destroy them directly and melt the materials later.

Besides that, there was a small bottle of ghee. After opening the lid, the rich medicinal fragrance immediately hit his nose.

This should be something for Tibetan Esoteric cultivation.

Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism emphasizes the "Three Mysteries": body mystery, speech mystery, and mind mystery. It has various rituals and various hand seals and secret techniques.

Ghee can be used for practicing hand seals and also for offerings. Looking at the situation, many precious medicinal herbs were added.

Finally, Li Yan picked up a Thangka.

Since the last time he fought with a Tibetan Esoteric monk in the Phosphorus Mine Canyon, Li Yan had roughly inquired about relevant information from the Law Enforcement Hall.

This Thangka was also a magic weapon in Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism, used to help practitioners enhance faith and mindfulness, a bit like the Mystic Sect's mental cultivation.

It generally depicts the images of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

And the one depicted on this Thangka was a bit terrifying and strange.

It was a pair of male and female gods, both with ghostly faces and fangs, pitch black, with six arms each holding magic weapons, and entangled with each other, wrapped in flame-shaped patterns, forming a shape similar to an embryo.

Seeing this, Li Yan felt inexplicably palpitated.

He was thoughtful and carefully put away the Thangka and the secret letter.

This monk ran here from thousands of miles away. Although he didn't know his purpose, and didn't know why he died, it definitely wasn't simple.

And he even brought a man-bear as a pet, and wasn't stopped by the officers and soldiers along the way, which was also strange...

There are people in the Buddhist sect who are proficient in Tibetan, so handing it over to Chengjue of the Law Enforcement Hall might find the reason.

Afterward, Li Yan moved the corpse out, piled it with the remains outside, found some withered branches, and burned it with a fire.

After doing these things, it was already afternoon.

And Lu San also called out a few times in the distance. The birds around scattered and flew away. He walked over and shook his head: "There are two villages a few miles away, both are Miao villages."

"And twenty miles further north, there is an inn on the official road."

Li Yan frowned: "Miao villages generally don't welcome outsiders. Let's hurry on our way and go to the inn to ask for information."

Having said that, the three of them quickened their pace and left the mountain valley.

The distance of twenty miles was not far, nor was it close. By the time they arrived, the sun was setting.

I saw an official road, close to the river, with a two-story inn standing alone by the official road.

It was a soil and wood structure, not high-end. Outside, wine flags were fluttering, a few horses were eating forage in the stable, and cooking smoke was drifting from the roof.

There was a waiter busy in the stable.

Li Yan and the others' images were striking. As soon as the waiter saw them, he knew they were not to be trifled with, so he hurriedly walked over, nodding and bowing: "A few guests, please come in. Are you staying for a meal or staying at the inn?"

"We want two upper rooms, and then get a table of wine and dishes."

Li Yan ordered while walking into the inn.

After entering the door, he immediately felt a few gazes.

Li Yan looked around and saw that the inn was very simple, with yellow soil rammed into the ground, and the tables in the hall were also a bit broken.

There weren't many people in the shop. A few people were sitting at one table, men and women, old and young, one of whom had a fishing drum on his back.

And on the other side, there were also a few people sitting. The leader was a middle-aged fat man in brocade clothes, surrounded by people in black tight-fitting clothes, looking like a merchant and his servants.

Li Yan didn't pay attention and, led by the waiter, came to a large room on the second floor and put down his luggage.

As soon as the door was closed, Lu San whispered: "These people are a bit wrong..."

"I know."

Li Yan shook his head and smiled: "There's a smell of soil and corpse on them. They are old hands who often go down into tombs. Could it be that these people have eaten leopard gall and want to rob the royal tomb?"

Second update later.

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Here are cloud gods who use radios to forecast the weather, ghost gods holding electric batons. There are fire gods carrying flamethrowers, Daoist masters who use pistols as palm thunder, and Yangtze Dragon Kings who guard dams.

When you possess technology and power that transcend the era, you are the gods and immortals in the eyes of mortals......

(End of chapter)