Evil Master and Disciple

Led by Zhuge Benlei, Ye Feng traveled through the dense primeval jungle.

After crossing two low hills, we arrived at the foot of a rather tall mountain.

In the shade of the mountain, the two met up with Liu Yinshui, Zuo Tianyi and Qi Yao.

Qi Yao returned to Xingluo Peak the day before yesterday to gather information. Jin He said that they might have been targeted by the omnipresent shadow, and that they should not go here to meet up with Liu Yinshui and others, so as not to expose their location.

Qi Yao did not completely follow Jin He's advice.

She chose to sneak out of Xingluo Peak during the darkest time before dawn today.

Of course, Qi Yao is not a brainless woman.

She had asked her grandmother, Master Xuanchi, to help her check whether there were any shadows secretly monitoring her around her residence.

She rushed back only after making sure that there was no shadow staring at her.

She returned here this morning and brought the good news to Liu Yinshui and others that Ye Feng and his team had successfully rescued the girl a few days ago and were heading here through the underground river.

This finally put Liu Yinshui and others, who had been worried for many days, at ease.

When everyone met, they hugged each other.

Ye Feng said, "Thank you for your hard work these past few days. Take me to see the resettlement site you found."

Liu Yinshui nodded, knowing that the wilderness was not a place to talk, so he led Ye Feng to a patch of thorns.

Ye Feng was suspicious.

The next moment, Fang Tong and others actually walked directly through countless thorny bushes.

Only then did Ye Feng realize that the thorns before him were just an illusion.

Ye Feng said: "Liu Yinshui, you are really good. The illusion array is so realistic!"

Liu Yinshui laughed and said, "I just study magic arrays occasionally, it's not something I can show off!"

Although he said it very modestly, even a blind person could see the smug look on Liu Yinshui's face that was hard to conceal.

After passing through the thorns that were almost lifelike, there was a stone wall in front.

Zuo Tianyi explained: "The thorns are the first illusion array, and the stone wall is the second layer."

As Zuo Tianyi reached out and touched the stone wall, under the stimulation of spiritual power, a faint dark green luster appeared on the stone wall.

Everyone passed through this layer of water curtain one by one.

Liu Yinshui and Zuo Tianyi's greatest abilities could only do this. With their attainments in the art of magic arrays, they were far from being able to add some killing arrays to the two illusion arrays. They only added a layer of defense array to the stone wall illusion.

However, this has opened Ye Feng's eyes and made him look at Liu Yinshui with new respect again.

Is this an uneducated and unlearned playboy?

This is obviously genius!

After passing through the stone wall illusion, everyone walked into a cave. At the beginning was a semi-natural, semi-artificial rock passage that was more than ten meters long. It was obvious that this cave had been inhabited by humans before, but not for very long, at most a few thousand years.

It is probably the place where a wandering cultivator from Tianyun Mountain once practiced in seclusion.

At the end of the passage, which is more than ten meters long, is a large cave with three passages leading to unknown directions.

Fang Tong introduced the situation inside to Ye Feng.

Those three passages are not very deep. They were carved out by our predecessors based on the cracks in the mountain. There are seven or eight stone chambers in each passage, and there are about twenty stone chambers and caves in total.

Holding torches, everyone led Ye Feng into one of the passages, and then into a stone cave.

These stone chambers and caves are larger than Ye Feng expected, about 30 square meters.

There are about twenty stone chambers, which can accommodate more than three hundred girls. They can still accommodate them if they squeeze in.

It is still early, and this place is nearly twenty miles away from the connection point of the earth veins. It will be difficult to conceal the whereabouts of more than three hundred girls walking twenty miles in this primeval forest in broad daylight, so Ye Feng plans to wait until dark to bring those girls here.

In the cave, Fang Tong and Ben Lei took out fine wine and delicious food from their respective storage bags to welcome Ye Feng who had returned triumphantly.

This made Sanzhi very happy.

Before leaving, Sanzhier had almost eaten up the hundred or so roast chickens that Chen Xiaodi and Mo Zhu had made in the past few days, and he had been wanting to change his taste for a long time.

Ye Feng and his brothers drank while telling each other what they saw and heard during this trip to the underground world.

It's just that this kid has developed a bad habit of bragging.

The stories he told were artistically processed and had almost zero credibility.

For example, he did not encounter millions of evil spirits, nor did he encounter twenty-three thousand earth spirit beasts, nor did he fight with a thousand-foot-long python for three days and three nights.

Ye Feng mainly talked about some interesting stories in the underground world. As for what happened in the underground cave where the girls were, Ye Feng did not say much.

It just said that countless naked bodies of girls were found at the bottom of an abyss.

Then they entered from the underground abyss, killed their way upwards, and finally rescued all the girls imprisoned in the three-level cave.

A few bullies and scum who had never seen the world were fascinated by what they heard.

Except for Liu Yinshui who looked at Ye Feng with disdain, Fang Tong, Ben Lei, Qi Yao, and Zuo Tianyi believed every word of the story Ye Feng had just told.

"This time, in addition to rescuing over 300 girls, we also seized a large number of spirit crystals. We had already agreed while we were inside that 20% of the spirit crystals would be given to the mortal girls, and the remaining 80% would be divided equally among all of us."

Few people took it seriously.

I thought, isn't it just some spirit crystals? With so many people sharing it, I probably won't get much.

As for how many people Ye Feng and others killed when rescuing the girls, and whether they knew anyone among them, these people did not ask.

After Ye Feng finished telling the mythological story, he asked, "Liu Yinshui, have you bought all the daily necessities I asked you to buy?"

Liu Yinshui nodded and said, "The day before yesterday, Fang Tong and Ben Lei spent a whole day shopping in the city. They bought a thousand quilts, over a thousand sets of women's warm cotton-padded clothes and shoes, and a lot of cloth and straw. As for food, coal, vegetables, rice, oil, salt, and salted fish for the twelfth lunar month, it's enough to support three hundred girls for a year or two."

Ye Feng hummed.

After he came to this world, he realized that the most important strategic material in this world, besides food, was thatch.

Ye Feng originally thought it was very strange, but later he realized that cotton was definitely a rare commodity in this world.

Most people rely on thatch to survive the winter.

The grass in the ancient saying "the army does not move out, but the food and fodder must be sent first" also refers to thatch.

Du Fu has these lines in his poem "Song of the Thatched Cottage Destroyed by the Autumn Wind".

In August, the autumn wind howled, blowing away the three layers of thatch on my roof.

Thatched trees fly across the river and scatter on the riverside. The high ones hang on the tops of the tall trees, while the low ones float and sink into the pond.

A group of children in the south village deceived me because I was old and weak, and I was a thief who could not stand it.

I openly carried straw into the bamboo forest, my lips parched and my mouth dry, unable to cry out. Returning, I leaned on my stick and sighed...

Whether in the ancient times of Ye Feng's previous life or in the world Ye Feng lives in now, thatch is an important reserve material.

These girls had no cultivation, but they had enough thatch and bedding to survive the harsh winter.

Ye Feng asked Fang Tong and Ben Lei to take out all the supplies they had purchased and pile them in a place in the cave.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Ye Feng called everyone over, put on hundreds of pairs of cotton coats and shoes, and went to the earth vein connection point to meet the women.

Those girls were always barefoot, and they couldn’t even walk in the gravel-covered underground world, and it was difficult for them to cross the twenty-mile primeval forest.

Ye Feng considered this very carefully.