Fire Monster

Chapter 269 Turning Back to Kill
"Take a short break before exploring this mountain again!"

The third headmaster was very steady. Everyone meditated on the spot and distributed the spiritual ashes. Even Zhao Guanshan got five cubic meters of spiritual ashes.

This was undoubtedly a huge harvest. The spiritual ashes obtained allowed at least five demon hunters of the Tianlong Taoist Palace to strengthen five +10 spiritual weapons, and even Wang Xuan strengthened one +10 spiritual weapon.

"It's really strange that the spiritual ash produced by these yellow flying insects is so rich. I haven't seen such a rich harvest in almost three hundred years."

Wang Xuan was very surprised. How could he not be surprised? Although his nine teammates did not get the spiritual weapons with enhancement +10, almost everyone of them had a spiritual weapon with enhancement +9 this time. It was a huge profit. It could be said that today's battle was equivalent to the gains of the past fifty years.

Although, during these fifty years, they spent most of their time practicing in reality, which is also exaggerated.

In short, this wave of sudden wealth has boosted everyone's morale.

Only Zhao Guanshan felt regretful, as his spirit's load-bearing capacity had reached its upper limit. Three of the items were enhanced by +10, and the rest were all enhanced by +9. They could not be enhanced any further.

So apart from one cubic meter of ashes used to cover the imperial seal oil lamp, the rest was given to Wang Xuan.

About two hours later, everyone set out again and headed straight for the Three Skull Mountain.

When you get closer to Skull Mountain, you can no longer see its overall shape, only its jagged rocks, which look extremely hideous.

However, there is a path leading to the inside, which is the open mouth of the giant beast.

Everyone walking among them had a terrified feeling, as if the three giant beasts were still alive and could swallow them up at any time. That would be a joke.

They have walked into a trap.

After entering the mountain, there is a smooth road ahead, because the skull of this giant beast is hundreds of miles long, and the entire mountain is its mouth, so there is really no end in sight.

At this time, Zhao Guanshan looked back with some concern. He could vaguely see the situation outside and everything seemed normal.

The other witchers also looked back, but found nothing. However, it seemed that everyone felt a little uneasy.

Only the third chief who was walking in the front had firm steps, striding forward courageously.

There were no monsters along the way, and there was nothing else except the sound of everyone's footsteps. The feeling of uneasiness became stronger and stronger, and his own footsteps became more empty, and even echoed.

It was at this moment that Zhao Guanshan seemed to hear a voice ringing deep in his mind.

"Look back, danger is behind."

Zhao Guanshan turned around suddenly and almost bumped into Wang Xuan who was walking behind him.

"Brother Chengfeng, do you think there is something wrong?"

Zhao Guanshan stared at Wang Xuan and his men with wide eyes, and suddenly felt something was wrong. "Boss Wang, there are ten of you in total, right? Why is there one more fellow Taoist now?"

That’s right, Wang Xuan now has ten subordinates.

Wang Xuan turned back in astonishment, counted very carefully, and said, "That's right, there are ten. Brother Chengfeng, you must be dazzled."

As he said this, Wang Xuan also shook the old bell in his hand, and the sound that came out was not the clear sound of a bell, but the sound of wind and thunder. At that moment, Zhao Guanshan felt that his perception had suddenly increased more than ten times, and his mind suddenly became clear. He looked around and was suddenly shocked, but saw that there were gray figures everywhere, standing there motionless, densely packed together, and those that could not be separated would extend upwards, even above his head and under his feet.

It turned out that they had been walking on these people's heads all the way.

At this moment, everyone was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat. Then someone suddenly shouted, "The master is missing. Have you seen the master?"

"What? Wasn't he walking in the front just now?"

Wang Xuan shook the bell in his hand and shouted sternly. This was true. Before Zhao Guanshan turned around, his attention was always on the front. He wanted to shout and ask the third headmaster to slow down.

How could it disappear just as I turned around?
But the third headmaster had indeed disappeared. His wind and thunder bell was a spiritual treasure that could instantly increase perception tenfold. It was the best treasure for traveling at home, fighting illusions, and demonic infection. In this state, everything could be clearly seen.

Zhao Guanshan also felt horrified, because he had indeed sensed the presence of the third sect leader before, but it seemed that as soon as he turned around, the third sect leader disappeared.

"There's something wrong with this. Fellow Daoist Chengfeng, I remember you just said that there's one more person in Boss Wang's team?"

A demon hunter from Tianlong Taoist Palace spoke up.

Everyone's eyes immediately focused on Zhao Guanshan, who nodded quickly.
"That's right, that's right. I just counted them. Including Fellow Daoist Wang Xuan, there are indeed ten people in his team. However, since Fellow Daoist Wang Xuan rang the bell, there are only nine people left."

"This place is too treacherous, we might as well retreat first!"

At this time, one of Wang Xuan's men suggested that Wang Xuan should cover his mouth but it was too late.

"It's impossible to retreat. The more we want to retreat from this place, the harder it is to retreat. If I'm not mistaken, the six demon-hunting teams before the Tianlong Taoist Palace got lost in this way. Brother Chengfeng, you also have a magic treasure in your hand. Why don't you lead the way this time?"

"Okay! No matter what, we have to find the master." Zhao Guanshan nodded seriously. He had taken fifty spirit stones from someone else and couldn't just leave them alone.

At this time, Wang Xuan stopped shaking the bell, and his enhanced perception slowly descended. The densely packed, sardine-like gray figures around him also disappeared, and when he sensed them, he found that they were all hard stones.

Zhao Guanshan walked to the front holding his imperial seal oil lamp, and a group of people followed closely behind him. This place was not complicated, and there were no maze-like roads. Everything seemed normal.

This time, Wang Xuan was also on high alert. He chose to walk at the back, holding a spiritual weapon in one hand and a bell in the other. He would count every hundred steps he took so that he could keep in touch with everyone at any time.

In this way, they walked ten hundred steps in a row. After Wang Xuan counted ten times, a mysterious and ambiguous voice suddenly appeared in Zhao Guanshan's mind again.

"Look back, there is danger behind."

This time, Zhao Guanshan hesitated for a second before turning around. He did not bump into anyone, and everyone stopped instantly.

"Brother Chengfeng, is there anything wrong?"

Wang Xuan asked, he felt that everything was quite normal at the moment.

But in the next second, Zhao Guanshan suddenly activated the imperial seal oil lamp, and a ray of orange-yellow light lit up, covering everyone, instantly increasing everyone's perception by at least fifteen times.

But precisely because of the heightened perception, someone immediately exclaimed in surprise.

"Fellow Daoist Yu Lei, what's wrong with you?"

Everyone felt their scalps tingling at this moment, and saw that the demon hunter named Yu Lei from the Tianlong Taoist Palace had kneeled down on the side of the road without knowing when, with his head lowered. Someone touched him carefully with a spiritual weapon, and Yu Lei fell to the ground with a bang. The whole person instantly turned into a ball of black ash, which looked like black spiritual ash...

"What's going on! What happened?!"

Everyone was horrified. They were all witchers, spirits, but they had never seen such a way of death. Doesn't this mean that if they died like this, they would never be able to return to reality?
Zhao Guanshan was even more terrified. In fact, he deliberately delayed for one second this time, because he was not sure whether the voice in his mind was really a reminder from Xiao Huomiao or some kind of illusion.

When he heard the warning, he turned around quickly, and as a result, no one died except the third headmaster.

This time, someone actually died.

Doesn't this mean that he was indirectly responsible for the death?
"Fellow Daoist Wang Xuan, did you find anything this time?"

"No, I know nothing. Before you looked back, Yu Lei was walking fine, but I don't know why he knelt on the side of the road in such a short time."

Wang Xuan said in a deep voice. He also felt strange. How come he, a dignified eighth-level spiritual body, felt inferior to Zhao Chengfeng?

"Wait, Fellow Daoist Chengfeng, shouldn't you explain why you keep looking back?"

"Last time you looked back, the headmaster disappeared. This time you looked back, Yu Lei died. It seems that both of them are related to you."

At this time, a demon hunter from Tianlong Taoist Palace asked.

Hearing this question, Zhao Guanshan immediately turned off the imperial seal oil lamp. If the perception is too high, one will start to have wild thoughts, right?

"I felt there was danger behind me, so I turned back. There was no other reason. Everyone, I suggest you keep going."

After saying that, Zhao Guanshan turned around and continued walking forward.

No one said anything more, as they all knew that they should not make any guesses or let their imagination run wild at this time. Wang Xuan stayed at the end and continued to count every hundred steps he took.

This time, everyone was on high alert, especially keeping an eye on Zhao Guanshan. If things went as expected, he would do something weird again after a thousand steps.

But unexpectedly, Wang Xuan had reported it dozens of times, but Zhao Guanshan didn't change at all. Even Zhao Guanshan himself was curious.

He walked forward for thousands of steps, and finally he could not help but stop and look back. Everyone behind him was facing a powerful enemy. After all, the way this Taoist Chengfeng turned around and killed was quite strange.

Even though Wang Xuan was used to the wind and rain and had a lot of experience, he couldn't help but feel his hair stand on end. No way, no way, is someone going to die again? But he saw it carefully and clearly. Am I a fake master?

But after Zhao Guanshan looked back a few times, he breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, everyone was there and safe.

"Everyone, what do you look like? I'm just worried, so I turned around to take a look."

"So you don't feel any danger?" someone asked nervously.

"Yes, I really just turned back for routine."

Zhao Guanshan also felt that he was being reckless, but at this moment, that vague, ambiguous voice reappeared in his mind.

"Look back, there is danger behind you!"

(End of this chapter)