Chen Mo jumped down from the ground and arrived at a cave within the crack in the underground, where there were three corpses that he had just struck down with a punch. There were also two living people, but they were severely injured, their mouths stained with blood and expressions filled with terror.
To prevent the two from running away, Chen Mo directly crippled both of their hands and feet. The two screamed in pain, their bodies already wounded, and now they were completely incapacitated. Whether they could survive until tomorrow was uncertain.
"How come, weren't you very arrogant just now? Now why are you so timid?"
Chen Mo mockingly stared at the two trembling figures and asked.
"No, the words just now were not spoken by us."
One of them spoke shakily, his eyes filled with a hint of supplication, as if begging Chen Mo to spare their lives.
Chen Mo ignored the pair's pleading looks and then, with a cold face, said, "So those so-called blood demons are just your pests? They suck human blood, are they blood pests?"
As soon as Chen Mo finished speaking, the two people's faces immediately revealed shocked expressions, "No, that's right."
"What are you, from which power?"
Chen Mo's eyes narrowed into a sliver, his gaze cold and piercing with an intent to kill. It seemed that if they dared not to answer or if they lied to him, he would slay them without hesitation.
Death is not to be feared, but the terrifying thing is that Chen Mo would torture them. Breaking their limbs was just the beginning, but that chilling and murderous gaze of Chen Mo's made them unwilling to even imagine how they would be tortured by the former.
"We are poison masters, from the Tianlong Imperial Dynasty..."
"Poison master? How can the Tianlong Imperial Dynasty have poison masters?"
Chen Mo's brows were furrowed. In his memory, the Tianlong Imperial Dynasty had flourished under the rule of Empress Nu, and the magic and bug arts had half died in the Tianlong Imperial Dynasty and even been suppressed several times by Empress Nu due to the incident of magicians refining. On the contrary, Miaozhou to the west had become a paradise for many witches and bug masters.
"How could that be impossible? The Grand Astrologer of the Tianlong Imperial Dynasty is a second-grade wizard, and under his promotion, the practice of magic and bug arts has become widespread in the Tianlong Imperial Dynasty..."
This statement made Chen Mo even more confused. To strengthen the ruling of the imperial family, the position of the Grand Astrologer of the Tianlong Imperial Dynasty has always been vacant, and for three hundred years, what have the Tianlong Empresses done?
The plot's development seems different from what I imagined. Chen Mo rubbed his chin and continued to ask, "Since you are bug masters of the Tianlong Imperial Dynasty, why are you here in the Huanghai Empire, killing its people?"
"This is the command of the Grand Astrologer. We are his disciples, and if we want to advance further, we have to raise blood pests for him. Once we gather a certain number of blood pests, we have a chance to become his personal apprentice."
"Blood pests, quantity, harming the common people..."
Chen Mo murmured those keywords in his mouth, and his expression suddenly changed, "One blood pest can only absorb the qi and blood of one person. After that, you need to accumulate ninety-nine blood pests to turn them in, and then you can make a further step forward and become an advanced disciple."
"You, how did you..."
The man's face changed slightly, and he stared at Chen Mo in amazement, never expecting him to know such confidential matters.
"That's it, that's it. The cause and effect cycle, indeed the cause and effect cycle."
Chen Mo placed his right hand on his forehead, laughing maniacally as if he had gone mad, "I thought that in the world three hundred years later, how could there be someone so eager to kill me. It turns out everything was part of a calculated plan... Do you also fear that I will kill him?"
"Hah, hehe, I was still a bit unsure, but since you have all taken the initiative, I won't be polite any longer. It's time to settle the score from three hundred years ago."
"This time, I am no longer a weakling without the ability to retaliate."
"Ye Liangchen, I'm coming to find you right now."
...
Chen Mo laughed unrestrainedly underground, and the two bug masters heard the words in a daze. Who is Ye Liangchen? They were not talking about the Grand Astrologer, but about a name they had never heard of.
Before they could even figure out what was happening, Chen Mo's gaze landed on them. At that moment, the intent to kill was intense to the extreme. The two men were as silent as a frozen duck, and their strong desire for survival propelled them into action.
Although their limbs were broken, they still had a trace of divine energy within them, and they could still try to counterattack. As long as there was still a glimmer of hope, they all might survive.
Around the cavern, one by one, tiny pests, about the size of fingers, burst out and charged towards Chen Mo like a flood or fierce beasts.
Seeing this, Chen Mo did not retreat but instead moved forward, and with a single punch, he unleashed a terrifying air vortex that shook the entire cavern to its foundation. All the blood pests were instantly turned into a pool of blood, staining the cavern red.
Chen Mo leaped onto the ground and looked around. Zheng Liang and Sun Qian had been released, but Song Qiang was severely injured and lying on the ground, panting heavily, his face looking somewhat pale.
"Brother Chen, the wizards, are they dealt with?"
Sun Qian was scared, but seeing that their team leader was still by his side, he mustered up his courage and did not hide. Instead, he shielded the other person behind him.
"The people inside the cave have been dealt with, but I think there are still some enemies in Qingzong Town who haven't been fully eliminated."
Chen Mo looked up and glanced around the space, seeing that the mist had not dispersed. This meant that while they had resolved the issue with the witch who controlled the land, there was still another witch who controlled the fog that needed to be addressed.
These people must have two groups of troops, and they had only dealt with one of the groups.
"What should we do? If the enemies don't show themselves, we will be very passive."
Sun Qian was startled and carefully surveyed the surroundings again.
"If the enemies don't come out, then we should go and find them ourselves."
"How do we find them?"
"Use your enemy detection symbol"
"This, this won't do. The enemy detection symbol I've made at my current level can only detect enemies within a radius of a hundred zhang, and without a specific target, even if the range is increased, it's still hard to find them..."
Sun Qian shook his head, looking helpless, while Chen Mo gave him a helpless glance. Without giving him the opportunity to refuse, he grabbed his shoulder with one hand and leaped down again, returning to the cave.
"Brother Chen, what are you doing..."
Sun Qian's nose twitched slightly, suddenly catching the scent of strong blood, and he opened his eyes to survey the surroundings. There were five corpses and the cave soaked in blood.
"These are the blood of blood pests. By using their blood to make a enemy detection symbol, only one is needed... as long as there is a blood detection symbol made from the blood of a blood pest, the range can be expanded and the position of the enemy can be found accurately."
"Is the enemy detection symbol made in this way? Isn't it supposed to be made with special cinnabar?"
Sun Qian blinked his eyes and stared at Chen Mo blankly, his eyes showing a clear, naive expression.
"Why don't you, as a symbol master, even know this basic knowledge... oh, it's all because of playing mobile phones..."
Chen Mo's mouth twitched, and he sighed and explained, "The medium is different, so the purpose of searching for enemies is also different... Making an enemy detection symbol with the blood of blood pests can search for blood pests that have the same origin. Since those guys are mainly engaged in raising pests, the blood pests must be carried by them. To find them, you just need to find the blood pests..."
