Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 355 Ambush
Ren Yuan looked at the arrowhead that the ghostwriter had left on the bamboo and said in a deep voice, "Something is wrong. Let me see what's going on."

As he said this, he flew up and prepared to go up to the sky to see where he was now.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the man flew to the tip of the bamboo, countless pointed bamboo leaves turned into emerald green arrows, whizzing towards him from all directions.

Ren Yuan was forced back to the ground, and said with an unpleasant expression: "It's bad, we have entered a large formation set up by others."

Before he finished his words, thick yellow fog rose from the surrounding bamboo forest, blocking everyone's view in an instant.

The fog also had a strong stench that was so suffocating that it felt as if the soul was about to faint from the stench.

"Cover your mouth and nose quickly, the mist is poisonous!" Ren Yuan shouted hurriedly.

The soldiers hurriedly raised their sleeves to cover their mouths and noses. Unexpectedly, the bamboo shoots on the ground suddenly turned into sharp thorns, piercing upwards and piercing the soft belly of the horse!
Almost no war horses were spared, and they fell to the ground screaming with their intestines dragging...

Just as the ghostwriters fell to the ground in a mess, green figures emerged from the mist and swooped down like ghosts. Several ghostwriters were unable to dodge and were stabbed with the swordsman's knife with screams on the spot.

But when they drew their weapons and wanted to fight back, those figures suddenly flew back into the bamboo forest and merged with the thousands of green bamboos.

Ren Yuan quickly ordered his men to gather together and watch for each other to prevent a surprise attack by the enemy.

Unexpectedly, this played into the opponent's hands. Everyone felt a sudden shake under their feet, and with a loud bang, the thunder bombs buried underground were detonated at the same time. The violent shock wave blew people and bamboos into the air.

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The explosion was so shocking that it could be heard clearly in Xingyang City several miles away.

Feng Tietou, the garrison commander of Xingyang, was startled. He quickly left his companion behind, pulled up his pants, rushed to the top of the city wall, and asked in a sharp voice: "What's going on? Are the government troops coming?"

"I didn't see any government troops," the commander on the city wall was also confused. He pointed to the direction of the nearby Youhuang Valley and said, "It seems that there was a commotion in the bamboo forest."

Before he finished speaking, Feng Tietou heard loud explosions and flames and thick smoke coming from the bamboo valley.

"You bastard, you don't even take me seriously!" Feng Tietou was as stubborn as his name suggested. He immediately gave an order, "Call out a thousand soldiers and follow me to see who is trespassing!"

"Understood sir." The generals responded hurriedly in a deep voice.

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In the bamboo sea.

After the thunderbolt fire bomb exploded, those bamboo puppets also launched a suicide attack, rushing straight towards the people of Gou Chen Si who had just landed, and bang bang bang bang, blowing them to pieces.

The scene was extremely tragic, with broken limbs and bodies flying everywhere and scattering in the overturned bamboo forest.

When the smoke cleared, there was no movement at all on the scene.

Meng Huai and Master Tui then appeared. Looking at the people from the Gou Chen Division who had not even left a complete corpse, Red Beard said in surprise:
"It's so easy to kill them all? I thought they were so powerful."

"More than a year ago, I chased that kid named Ren like a dog." Lord Tui spat and said confidently, "It's only been less than two years. Even if he can be reborn, how strong can he be?"

"It's better not to be careless." Meng Huai stroked his red beard and said in a deep voice: "To be on the safe side, we need to check the dead one by one and make sure that everyone is dead and there are no escapees before we can invite the prince to come and take a look."

"I understand. I'll do as you say." Lord Tu nodded and followed your advice, but he only wanted to examine the body of one person.

So he searched among the pile of corpses and finally found the only woman.

Lord Tu turned over A Yao's body and was about to look for the Emperor's Sword that he had been thinking about all the time, but he exclaimed in surprise.

"Hey, why is it a dummy?"

"This is mine too!" Meng Huai looked at the 'Ren Yuan' in his hand with a shocked expression, and found that it was light and fluttering, and was basically a broken puppet. "Oh no, they have been prepared!" The two of them reacted quickly, and their scalps tingled, and they wanted to leave this place quickly, but it was too late...

Before he finished speaking, A Yao flew out from the air and split Lord Tui into two pieces with one sword!

Ren Yuan and others also appeared from the void and besieged Meng Huai fiercely.

Meng Huai hurriedly tried to use his internal energy to resist, but was horrified to find that he could only use 30% of his full strength, and he was actually poisoned without realizing it.

"What's going on? I clearly took the antidote?" he blurted out in shock.

"It's very simple, because we also poisoned it." Ren Yuan sneered, and the Yaoguang Sword flashed and pierced his forehead.

Meng Huai screamed and revealed his true form, which turned out to be a giant red-haired mandrill.

He was indeed a great demon who had passed the twelve levels. There was a hole in his head and half of his brain had spilled out, but he was not dead yet.

I saw it leap up and fly, howling and trying to escape.

"Where are you going?!" Yang Zhong used his magical powers to build a thousand-foot-high wall, and one man could block the way for ten thousand men!

Half of the red-haired mandrill's brain was spilled out, and its intelligence was obviously affected. It crashed headfirst into the abrupt mountain wall.

With a loud bang, the mountain wall collapsed, and he fell on his back with a scream, his face flattened.

Before he could get up from the ground, Chen Baxian descended from the sky, opened his mouth and spewed out Samadhi True Fire, singeing all his red hair.

Chen Baxian then swung up the Panlong stick and hit him hard on the head, smashing half of Meng Huai's head. Now the remaining half of his brain was also scattered...

"Haha, the big monster is no more than this!" Chen Baxian hit Meng Huai several more times with the stick, and only after making sure that Meng Huai was dead, he put away the Panlong stick and said happily.

"You are only capable of stealing heads." Yang Zhong could finally tease him.

"Hehe, if you have the guts, then go ahead and rob it." Chen Baxian was in a good mood and didn't bother to argue with him.

Ren Yuan naturally had no time to argue with the two of them. He quickly searched the surroundings with A Yao, and found no other threats. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Fortunately, we were prepared, otherwise we would have been in big trouble."

Everyone was still terrified as they looked at the huge hole created by the explosion. "Luckily, the Lord of Guards saw through their trick in advance, so we were able to use the substitution technique to escape. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to save our lives, let alone counterattack."

"How did the Lord of Guards discover their trick?" they asked curiously, "And he predicted their every step so accurately."

Ren Yuan touched his nose and didn't know how to tell them, "I dreamed about this..." Even when everything was safe and sound in Beijing, he would sleep with the Youxian pillow every now and then to see if he would have a prophetic dream.

This time they are deep in enemy territory and face many dangers, so it is natural that Ren Yuan cannot be complacent.

After he came out, he didn't get on the boat all night and kept dreaming. Naturally, he dreamed of the murder in the bamboo sea.

The difference in strength between the two sides was obvious. Otherwise, Xiao Zong would not have to go to such great lengths and could have just led his men to crush Ren Yuanduo to vent his anger?
Now that Ren Yuan knew about the arrangement in advance, there was no way it would work. As a result, Ren Yuan took advantage of the situation and killed two of his generals...

"Of course it's the Lord of Guards who has foreseen the situation." However, the fewer people who know this secret, the better. Chen Baxian immediately covered up the secret for Ren Yuan and said, "Otherwise, how could Marshal Chen think so highly of him?"

"General Chen has a sharp eye. He can tell at a glance that the Lord Wei is no ordinary person." As expected, everyone was fooled.

What else could Ren Yuan say but smile and remain silent.

(End of this chapter)