140 Jiang Fengmian (1/2)

”Damn!” Xue Wei heard the voice as clearly as everyone else, and he knew that they had been noticed.

”What to do now?” the priestess asked, for once slightly unsettled about what was happening around her. But Xue Wei just glanced at her and snickered. ”Now, we start fishing for people,” he said with a grin on his face.

”Fishing for people?” the priestess was surprised. She had no idea what Xue Wei meant, but it did not sound pleasant.

”They will not leave us alone, so our best option is to find somewhere where we can put up an ambush and deal with them,” Tianyi voiced his agreement. ”We can easily deal with the village's remnant experts! What we need to do is split them up. I have not killed anyone for quite some years; it is about time for me to let loose again!”

”You killed my mother,” the priestess said in a low voice, startling Xue Wei and Hei Gou. Tianyi snorted in response, replying, ”I never wanted to kill your mother. If you say I killed her, then is it not also accurate to say that you killed her?”

”I did,” the priestess agreed, her voice filled with agony. Xue Wei frowned. Was there something he had not understood about this situation? Hei Gou was also similarly puzzled and confused, but they both realized that now was not the time to question their past.

Although Tianyi made it sound as if it was easy, the fact was that the 'remnant experts' of the village amounted to at least a couple hundreds.

Albeit true that the majority of them were Earth Warriors and simple to kill, they had the advantage of numbers.

If they disregarded everything and threw themselves at Xue Wei and Hei Gou, the two of them would stand no chance of surviving.

They had entered the fog, and were now trying their best to get through it. It was the same as the last time Xue Wei and Hei Gou had entered it. Their sense of time felt diluted again, but unlike before, they did not care about their destination. As long as it was far away from the village, they would be satisfied.

The priestess, Hei Gou, and Xue Wei were attached to one another with a rope they had bound across their waists so that they would not separate from one another. When they finally made it out of the fog, they were once more greeted by the familiar red light that was ever present in the Vermilion Forest during the day, as the sun shone through the dense red tree crowns above them.

From the light, they could see that it was now midday, which in other words meant that they had walked a whole day and a half through the world of fog.

Suddenly a rustling appeared in front of them, and an unknown expert who had yet to discover them walked in their direction.

”Hide!” Xue Wei shouted with a compressed voice. The rest of his team hid behind the towering and thick logs of the trees.

”Let's assess the situation first,” Xue Wei continued to speak with a compressed voice. He knew that this person could not hear him, but his comrades could.

At this point, Xue Wei's biggest worry was the priestess. She had hidden as requested, but he was worried that she would feel pity for the villagers she had lived with for so many years and jump out to warn him.

However, his worries were proven wrong, and the man continued walking through the area without being interrupted.

Xue Wei noticed that there was no one else but him in the vicinity. The expert was a relatively young man. He was an Earth Warrior of the eight layer, and his eyes were always on alert.

Suddenly, they lit up, and he bent down to look at the footprints he had found on the forest floor.

Noticing these, he quickly saw that they scattered. This made his glowing eyes turn severe, and after the seriousness turned frightened. He glanced at the trees and stood up before he started backing up. It was clear he had noticed them.

He then started fiddling with a warning light he held in his hands, but before he had the chance to do anything, Xue Wei stepped out from his hiding spot and launched his attack.

Mind Infestation!

The young man struggled for a short while before he was incapable of fighting back, and then he turned limp, staggering to the ground before his eyes dimmed and all life left his body.

”Hurry, stand next to him,” Tianyi ordered. Xue Wei did as he was told, and then he felt a strange power enter both his and Tianyi's sword-body.

”You benefit too,” the sword pointed out. ”Because of our contract, you will benefit every time I consume a soul,” he explained. ”You might become even more wicked than me, getting addicted to this boost in your own soul,” he snickered.

Xue Wei shook his head. Although his spiritual power was increasing from consuming souls, he would never kill innocents for that purpose alone.

”But I will soon be able to make a soul body,” Tianyi said casually. This confused Xue Wei. What was a soul body? He knew he had to ask, but now was not the time.

”Let us move to the next place,” Xue Wei ordered. He did not want the corpse to be found, so he covered it under a thicket with branches and leaves.

At least the man died through spiritual means and not blunt force, so the cleanup was effortless and straightforward.

Once the scene had been cleaned up, the group started moving around in the forest. Xue Wei's spiritual power was spread to the limits to find targets for them, and they would strike rapidly after locating an expert.

Currently, the experts were walking one by one in the forest. All of them held warning lights in their hands, but none of them had the time to light it before collapsing without any sign of life.