After who knows how long, the noise outside finally stopped, and I heard someone digging frantically.

After Ye Yang was rescued by Shang Xingyan, he joined forces with him to pull me and Su Su up.

I sat on the ground, panting for what felt like forever before I finally caught my breath.

The first thing I looked at was Ye Yang. Aside from his clothes being torn to shreds by the wind blades, he was actually fine.

When I saw Shang Xingyan, I almost burst out laughing.

Shang Xingyan and the five Embroidered Uniform Guards' clothes were all torn into strips. The whole person was burned black, and half of his hair was gone.

Shang Xingyan said with a mournful face, "Young Master, please act like a human being!"

"He's not human!" Nalan Huaide popped out of nowhere, pointing at me and scolding, "You Embroidered Uniform Guards have been inhuman since his father's time, and he's even worse!"

Nalan Huaide's current appearance was even worse than Shang Xingyan's. I stared at him and said, "Is it your year of birth? Why are you still wearing red underpants?"

Nalan Huaide's official uniform was burned away, leaving only a strip of cloth around his waist.

"Inhuman, inhuman! Beast, scum!" Nalan Huaide was about to be driven mad.

I heard him cursing louder and louder, and I got up to beat him, but Shang Xingyan held me back tightly. "Young Master, just let him curse a few times!"

"More than a thousand ghost soldiers, not a single one left. Six civil officials of the Punishment Department were lost, and he's the only one alive. He also used a Qianjun Talisman (Thousand Army Talisman) from the Underworld, but he didn't get anything in return. I'm worried sick for him, wondering how he's going to explain."

"If you don't let him curse a few times, he'll go crazy! Madmen are scary, and mad ghosts are even scarier!"

"Birds of a feather flock together!" Nalan Huaide was so angry that he jumped, but he also knew that he couldn't do anything to us. If he really provoked me and Shang Xingyan, and we joined forces to beat him up, he would have to endure it. He just cursed and disappeared.

After he left, I had time to look at the mountain.

This glance made me gasp.

The ground within five hundred meters was turned over, and the grass and trees on the mountain were turned into scorched earth, and even the stones were turned into powder.

I looked at Shang Xingyan and said, "Uncle Shang, did you also use some kind of ghost artifact to protect us?"

"Don't call me uncle, you're my uncle!" If ghosts could cry easily, I guess Shang Xingyan would have burst into tears. Shang Xingyan said, "You didn't say anything beforehand. I risked my old life and used three treasures of the Confucian school from the underworld to protect you."

"The key is that one of the treasures wasn't even mine. I borrowed it from someone to admire for two days. Now... I can't live anymore."

I blinked and said, "Let Nalan Huaide compensate!"

Shang Xingyan said, "How can I make him compensate?"

I turned to the Embroidered Uniform Guards and said, "Did you guys keep any evidence just now?"

"If not, it doesn't matter, we can just search their souls!"

I said, "Uncle Shang, this matter must be Nalan Huaide's fault, no one else can take the blame. Think about it, are we in the right?"

"We're in the right, what are we afraid of?"

"Even if we're not in the right, we're not afraid. Even if we're not in the right, we can argue three points, right?"

"You go back and think about it carefully, we can't let that old Nalan Huaide get away with it."

"I still have something to do, I'm leaving first!"

I sent Shang Xingyan away, turned around and ran, "Leng Gou, Su Su, run! Don't wait for Shang Xingyan to come to his senses, I can't afford his Confucian treasures."

I hadn't run far when I saw Shang Xingyan coming back, standing there looking at me with a resentful face: "Young Master, please be a human being!"

I immediately became angry: "It's just a Confucian treasure, isn't it? You go back and wait, I'll find a way to trick Xia Xia once, and trick a treasure out for you, go back quickly! Lest Nalan Huaide accuses you of wrongdoing, we still need you there!"

Now, not to mention Confucian treasures, the only thing I can take out that is related to Confucianism is a writing brush, which I still use to write spirit talismans, and it's more appropriate to call it a talisman brush.

Shang Xingyan had no choice but to curse: "Little bastard, even more ruthless than your old man, how did I get to know such a pair of you!"

Another one cursing and returning to the underworld!

What's going on?

When I looked at Ye Yang, I saw him giving me a thumbs up!

However, that expression didn't seem to have anything to do with approval!

I didn't have time to say anything more to them, so I took the two of them and followed the marks left by Zhu Ziyan into the mountains.

After I chased into the sacred mountain all the way, I suddenly found that the marks on the road were gone!

I chased forward for a while and had to stop: "Su Su, did Zhu Ziyan encounter some accident?"

What I agreed with Zhu Ziyan was to leave a mark every three hundred meters or so.

But now I have run out of two three hundred meters, but I have not seen any marks.

According to the usual practice in the martial world, if you don't see a secret mark twice, it means that the person who sent the message has encountered danger, and the people who are chasing after him either have to evacuate immediately or have to fully reinforce him.

Su Su shook her head and said, "Zhu Ziyan's luck has not changed, she should be fine. Huh..."

Su Su's exclamation made me stunned.

Friendly reminder: Today is assistant Su Su's birthday, there will be an extra update!