Chapter 514 - Chapter 514: Chapter 506 Infant Demon (1/2)

Chapter 514: Chapter 506 Infant Demon

“Don’t worry, if we can’t enter the city tonight, we can just ask to stay at someone’s house for the night. At most, we’ll pay a little extra silver money, and they’re sure to agree.”

Qin Niu wasn’t really afraid.

If they truly encountered a demon, it would be the demon’s misfortune.

“Master, there seems to be a house up ahead.”

Xiao Qing pulled aside the curtain on the left side of the carriage, pointing at a house by the roadside in front of them.

The population was rather sparse in this area.

It was quite rare to see a village of more than a dozen households gathered together; more commonly, one would see these scattered individual homes.

Qin Niu quickly brought the carriage in front of this house.

The front gate was tightly shut, and the courtyard door was also closed.

Even the windows were tightly latched.

“Anyone home?”

Qin Niu called out from outside. Although there were different dialects in different places, the official language throughout the Hundred-Tempering Immortal Sect’s territory was uniform.

There was no language barrier in communication.

There was no response from inside the house.

“We are travelers on the road, could we stay at your home for the night? I can pay double the money.”

Qin Niu called out again.

Still, there was no response, but he knew there were people inside.

A moment ago, when they were still far off, he had seen someone enter and quickly close the door.

Since the other party was unwilling to open the door, Qin Niu couldn’t force his way in and had to continue driving the carriage forward.

Along the way, the households they encountered had all closed their doors and windows early, and local people were no longer visible from outside.

Under the influence of this atmosphere, Wang Wanyan became even more frightened.

“Wan Yan, don’t be afraid. We shouldn’t be so unlucky as to encounter a demon. And even if we do, at worst we’ll just have to fight it out.” Qin Niu dared to travel the jianghu, naturally possessing a certain strength.

If any random demon could eat him, then he wouldn’t need to attend the Water and Land Dharma Assembly.

The experts who participated in the assembly were even more formidable than demons.

The carriage sped along the road, with only the sounds of the rolling wheels, the hoofbeats of the two horses, and their heavy breathing to be heard.

The sky gradually darkened, and the entire land was enveloped in blackness.

Qin Niu sat on the shaft of the carriage, gripping the handle of the Ink Blade tightly, ready for any possible fierce battle.

As long as they didn’t encounter any particularly terrifying demons, he wasn’t afraid.

In this thinly populated region, especially at night with lush trees and hills all around, it indeed gave one the creeps.

The carriage entered a grove of oak trees.

“Hiss!”

Both horses suddenly reared up without warning, coming to a halt.

Qin Niu tensed up in quiet vigilance.

Only Green Ox following behind the carriage appeared carefree, truly fearing neither heaven nor earth.

“Gua! Waa, waa!”

The sudden crying of a baby ahead gave all three of them a big scare.

Xiao Qing and Wang Wanyan, terrified, clung to each other, huddled inside the carriage.

Both were Innate Realm experts with no lack of equipment, but faced with this eerie situation, they were no different from ordinary people, completely dominated by fear.

“It looks like there’s a baby in the middle of the road up ahead!”

After taking a closer look, Qin Niu said to the two inside the carriage.

They could faintly see a plump baby lying in the middle of the road, probably no more than four or five months old, unable to even crawl.

The baby lay there, waving its limbs and crying nonstop.

“Most likely some heartless parents abandoned their child here. I’ll go check!”

Upon hearing it was a baby and possibly an abandoned one, Wang Wanyan’s fear instantly dissipated by more than half. Naturally kind-hearted and without thinking further, she wanted to get out of the carriage to check on the baby’s condition.