strictlysupreme Chapter 285 We'll see each other again soon!
Chapter 285 We'll see each other again soon!
After saying this, the old man looked at Xue Lan and smiled: "Don't you think this old man is bragging?"
Xue Lan looked at the old man opposite her and shook her head slightly: "Aren't we doing that right now?"
Yun Wuhuan laughed heartily, his withered fingers extending from his wide sleeves and pointing at Xue Lan: "She really is a different kind of little girl."
As he spoke, the old man's eyes welled up with tears.
He looked at Xue Lan with tender eyes.
"Woo!"
The sound of bugle calls for assembly echoed through the camp. The old man stood up and said to Xue Lan, "This old man won't take up any more of your time."
After speaking, the man walked away with his hands behind his back.
Xue Lan suddenly bowed and said in a solemn and clear voice, "Junior Xue Lan respectfully sees off Senior."
The old man's voice was hoarse: "Little girl, it's kind of you to listen to this old man talk for so long. I couldn't help but tell you this because I thought you were the last person to see him."
“You are all good children, yet you are sent to the battlefield by us old folks at such a young age.”
"I'm so sorry!"
……
The last syllable of her sentence faded into the increasingly loud bugle call, and a single tear rolled down Xue Lan's cheek.
The woman flicked her sleeve and chased after the old man.
……
As night fell, the mountains above the desolate region resembled lurking giant beasts. The wind whistled past their ears as several figures dressed in black landed nimbly outside a cave.
Wu Yijun opened the map in his hand: "This is it. This is the last cave where the woman was imprisoned, and it has five floors."
With a slight twitch of her fingertips, a tall puppet beside her entered the cave as gracefully as a ghost.
Xue Lan stood opposite Wu Yijun. The woman lazily raised her eyelids, her gray eyes devoid of any life: "What exactly does the Demon Clan want? These four cave dwellings are all poorly guarded."
It was as if they had abandoned these women and fled together.
Yue Cheng stood beside Xue Lan and said, "I felt something was wrong before. The Demon Clan's retreat this time was too big, retreating nearly a thousand miles, as if they wanted to give us all the land in between. It's really too strange."
For a moment, everyone present looked worried.
A moment later, Wu Yijun's puppet returned, and the woman turned to look at her companions behind her: "Same as the previous three."
Upon hearing this, the group immediately transformed into streaks of black shadow and flew into the cave. Wu Yijun remained at the cave entrance, while the girl took out an array plate from her sleeve and quickly set up a large array at the cave entrance.
The array flashed with magical light a few times before completely merging with the mountain, as if it had never existed.
Xue Lan and the others flew down the passage in the cave, with Yue Cheng and A Yue leading the way. Whenever they saw a demon, they would chop it up and attack it.
Anyway, death won't affect the soul search.
Following behind, Xue Lan kept flicking out one black dream fruit after another from her sleeve.
These things lurk in the darkness, undetected by anyone.
This was a backup plan left by Xue Lan. If there were any powerful demons in this cave that were difficult to deal with, these fruits might be of some use.
The group made their way smoothly to the fourth underground level, but they only saw scattered demons and no sign of the imprisoned women.
The deeper they went, the stronger their sense of foreboding grew. They exchanged glances, each seeing deep worry in the other's eyes.
Upon reaching the fifth and final underground level, the anxiety that had been hanging in the air finally subsided.
A-Yue was speechless as she stared at the horrifying scene before her.
Before them stood a mountain made up of women's corpses. At its peak sat a demon dressed in black robes, holding a staff.
She was old and withered, with a pair of eyes that shone with an eerie blue light.
"You've finally arrived!" A hoarse, unpleasant voice came from the demon's mouth. She cawed and laughed like a noisy crow as she looked at the group of people in front of her, whose eyes were full of wariness.
It was like looking at a group of ants, a coldness tinged with mocking laughter.
"But it was too late!"
She looked down at the mountain of corpses at her feet.
Those women, those tattered and battered women, were like a pile of worthless broken stones at her feet.
Yue Cheng couldn't help but strike her, punching right through her shoulder.
But the demon remained standing there, leaning on his staff, with an expression of extreme infatuation on his face.
"No one can stop the arrival of the Demon God! The ants of the Yuanming Realm will eventually become our food."
Her eerie blue eyes flashed with a sharp light once more.
"These are the consequences of destroying the Pillar of Revelation..."
Before she could finish speaking, a sharp arrow was thrust into her chest. A girl who appeared out of nowhere looked at her and softly said:
"A dying person should not speak."
The demon's infatuated smile froze, and he collapsed to the ground like a hard rock.
Xue Tong was somewhat surprised. The girl looked at Xue Lan and asked, "Am I already this powerful?"
Xue Lan shook her head slightly: "Her life essence was drained long ago."
What was left here just now was nothing more than a walking corpse.
"Moreover..." Xue Lan pointed to a mountain of corpses beneath the demon's body.
“These people didn’t just die; their connection to the underworld is very weak. And they’re not just women.”
After Xue Lan finished speaking, everyone looked at the mountain of corpses again and found that the mountain of corpses that they had just seen was full of female corpses had changed. The bloody corpses on it had turned into bare white bones.
They come in all sizes, and not all of them are women.
“It’s a nightmare!” Xue Tong exclaimed.
Xue Lan pursed her lips slightly.
"Those missing women must have been taken away for sacrificial purposes."
"A sacrificial ceremony?" Everyone looked at Xue Lan.
"There are six Heavenly Pillars in total, belonging to six demon tribes that were loyal to the Demon God a thousand years ago. Four of them are now among the human race, while the rest can only be found in the Desolate Domain or the Nine Heavens Demon Realm."
The location of that one in the desolate region is currently unknown, but the one in the Nine Heavens Demon Realm...
Xue Lan smiled slightly: "Only in the face of life and death."
It was a matter of life and death!
Since we're facing life and death, things will be much easier!
"To deal with the demons, we must stop them from awakening the demon god." Xue Lan looked at her companions around her.
"After the Ten Thousand Crafts Workshop, I'm afraid I'll have to rely on you all to accompany me on a trip to the Nine Heavens Demon Realm!"
Yue Cheng smiled and said, "You're carefree in the mortal world, yet you think of me when facing life and death?"
Everyone around burst out laughing!
Xue Lan lowered her eyes.
My Lord Demon God, it's been so long...
No, we'll be seeing each other again soon.