ccnovels #656 - Mountain Taoist Temple
#656 - Mountain Taoist Temple
Since Chen Yuanjie, a member of Chenjiabao, had already spoken, Lin Yu naturally felt no pity.
Although Sanyang, as a mountain demon, wasn't stable enough when pulling the cart, a creature with two hands and two feet always had a flexibility advantage over a four-legged animal.
Lin Yu gave Sanyang instructions, and then the demon pulling the cart stood up and pushed its hands outwards.
Although the villagers of Chenjiabao were manipulated and had strange postures, they didn't gain any enhancements; they were still just mortals!
Sanyang stretched out its hands and pushed, instantly sending more than a dozen villagers flying or falling to the ground!
Chen Yuanjie wasn't idle either, using the spear in his hand as a club, constantly sweeping left and right, knocking away the people blocking the way.
"Aren't you afraid that your fellow villagers are still alive?"
Lin Yu couldn't help but ask, looking at Chen Yuanjie's decisive actions.
Chen Yuanjie said in a low voice: "Their hands and feet are all bent and they're still moving, how could they be alive... Why would I entertain such unrealistic fantasies?"
Although Chen Yuanjie had once hidden underground, afraid to show himself, and his heart wavered for a moment due to being backstabbed by his loved ones, but...
He was, after all, a martial artist of this Prison Mountain Realm!
Born and trained in martial arts here, he knew from a young age how cruel and ruthless this world was.
Despite a brief moment of confusion, after being encouraged by Lin Yu to step out, he would never let his weakness and emotions affect his judgment when faced with such a cruel situation.
Chen Yuanjie recognized those distorted, puppet-like villagers at a glance.
They were the aunt who used to give him candy when he was a child, the second uncle who had been helping him since his father passed away, the cousin who specially helped him repair the roof in the summer to keep him from getting too hot...
The cousin who had explored caves with him, the younger cousin who encouraged him to learn martial arts after discovering his great strength, the younger cousin who often hid in his house after being beaten, vowing never to return to his aunt's house...
Indeed, Chen Yuanjie also had fantasies, what if they were still alive? After all, their expressions still looked so vivid!
But...
He also knew that those were just fantasies!
"Woo—!"
The spear swept across, making a fierce sound, like the ancestral land under his feet was weeping.
"Fuck you!"
Chen Yuanjie struck repeatedly with his spear, cooperating with Sanyang to force a path out of the encirclement!
Before him was the gate of Chenjiabao, the standing stone gate washed clean by the heavy rain, its color deep and heavy.
Sanyang stepped forward and used its strength to directly smash open the tightly closed gate, and then the carriage carrying twelve people left Chenjiabao!
Chen Yuanjie gripped his spear tightly and slumped back in front of the carriage, feeling an extreme pain in all his meridians, as if his body was about to be twisted inch by inch.
"Hiss..."
He exhaled a breath of foul air, grimaced, and looked back into the distance, opening his mouth in self-deprecation.
"After wandering the world for many years, today is the first time I've cooperated with a demon to fight my own fellow villagers."
Lin Yu said, and Chen Yuanjie thought for a moment, then said.
"Then I really know a place, going north on the shady side of Double Saw Mountain, there's a dilapidated Taoist temple, said to have been built by a Taiching Sect disciple after returning to his hometown, it's been abandoned for a hundred years, but there are still some formations in effect, but honestly, for any powerful demons... those formations with a hundred years of history, I'm afraid they won't be of much use."
Chen Yuanjie said, and Lin Yu nodded.
"Okay, that's the place—does Senior Brother know how to get there?"
"Of course, I'm familiar with every stone and grain of sand in this Double Saw Mountain, even if it's been a long time, I definitely won't mistake the general direction!"
"Turn left ahead!"
Chen Yuanjie once again acted as a navigator.
And Lin Yu, seeing that Chen Yuanjie knew the way, once again unfolded his mental power and began to explore the surrounding area for new attacks.
But strangely, after leaving Chenjiabao, the entire Double Saw Mountain was incredibly silent—logically speaking, there should always be some wandering demons in such a large mountain.
Especially since Lin Yu and the others had already reached the depths of Double Saw Mountain, and it was the time when demons were most active.
However... the entire Double Saw Mountain was silent.
Dead silence.
Neither sound nor mental perception revealed any demons or humans approaching, nor any abnormalities.
This was the greatest abnormality.
The heavy rain gradually stopped, and the moisture from the rain-soaked clothes gradually evaporated.
Although the wet clothes and skin surface could resist the heat for a while, it wouldn't last long.
Yue Zhenqiao in the car had already begun to distribute his last summer heat avoidance talismans—after all, in Yue Zhenqiao's view, Lin Yu had already taken out precious talismans that could "bring rain," so if he still hid and treasured his talismans, it would be a bit inferior.
With Yue Zhenqiao's talisman attached, Lin Yu looked at Chen Yuanjie beside him.
"How much further?"
"It's just ahead," Chen Yuanjie looked and was also a little strange, "But it's really strange, normally this distance should take longer, there should always be some demons and wild beasts blocking the way... Now how come we haven't encountered even one, or even seen one!"
Although the terrain of Double Saw Mountain is steep and full of strange rocks, most of the mountains in the Fire Prison have little vegetation, and the field of vision is generally more open.
Even if no demons attacked, seeing traces of some demon activity was still possible.
Lin Yu also nodded.
"So, perhaps as I expected... Although the abnormality appeared within Chenjiabao, the abnormality isn't just Chenjiabao!"
The previous livestock had already proved that perhaps the scope of this bizarre disappearance wasn't limited to humans, nor was it limited to Chenjiabao.
Sanyang had been wandering in this mountain for a while and for a certain distance, and had also not encountered any demons.
So, within Double Saw Mountain outside of Chenjiabao, those demons might also be within the scope of the behind-the-scenes black hand's hunting!
This was also why Lin Yu wasn't sure that the behind-the-scenes black hand was definitely a demon.
Chen Yuanjie nodded again, his expression solemn.
"Things that are abnormal must have a reason, we still have to be very careful."
"But... it's just ahead!"
Chen Yuanjie pointed in a certain direction ahead, then said in a low voice.
Sanyang pulled the carriage just past a boulder, and along the direction Chen Yuanjie pointed, an ancient and quiet small Taoist temple appeared on a slope.
Lin Yu narrowed his eyes.
"Abandoned for a hundred years, then it's really a bit extraordinary."
Around the Taoist temple, he actually saw a large area of lush green vegetation growing densely, which was extremely inconsistent with the style of this Fire Prison.