The village in the file was not very far from Yuzhou City.
It was at least within the jurisdiction of the Yuzhou Town Demon Division.
It wouldn't take long for the two Foundation Establishment cultivators to hurry with all their might.
Li Xingtian followed behind Zhao Wanqing for a while, and only felt that the posture of Zhao Wanqing in front of him was a bit strange.
It looked as if her right leg was injured, and every time she landed, there was always a somewhat unnatural feeling.
This also caused Zhao Wanqing's hurrying speed to not be considered fast in Li Xingtian's eyes.
"You have an injury to your right leg?"Li Xingtian opened his mouth to inquire.
Zhao Wanqing was surprised and looked sideways, "How do you know?"
"You always subconsciously unload when your foot lands."Li Xingtian explained and then continued to inquire, "Are you sure it's okay to drag such a leg?"
"Time is urgent ..."
Li Xing Tian's tone was calm, "So urgent that you didn't even eat the healing pills?"
"I ate it, it's just that those blood qi weren't able to be removed that quickly, which is what caused the slow recovery."
"Then can I trouble you to stop?"
Zhao Wanqing stopped her pace at those words, her gaze looking at Li Xingtian in doubt.
"I have a way to solve this, please cooperate, in case of an attack, there's no way I can guarantee your safety."
Li Xingtian opened his mouth to explain a sentence, then his gaze quickly scanned over, indeed he could vaguely feel a blood qi wrapping around Zhao Wanqing's body.
Isn't this wound ... a bit much?
"A bit offensive, please bear with me."
Li Xingtian also stopped his pace and manipulated his aura in his hands, quickly wrapping a few wounds that contained blood qi.
After Li Xingtian's aura touched that blood qi, it was as if that blood qi recognized its owner and quickly submitted to the aura that Li Xingtian manipulated.
With a slight hook, the blood qi aura surged out of Zhao Wanqing's wound along with Li Xingtian's aura.
Zhao Wanqing froze as she felt that the vicious and pestering blood qi in her body, as if she wanted to be entangled for the rest of her life, was easily taken away by the aura without any resistance at the moment.
It was as if a daughter who had been raised for eighteen years had been taken away by a ghostly yellow-haired boy with a hook of his finger.
Zhao Wanqing wanted to say something, she was curious as to why Li Xingtian's aura could suppress the blood qi so easily.
"Gong method problem."Li Xingtian read Zhao Wanqing's expression since, "There is a reason why Master called me here and not Senior Sister."
"Thank you ...," Zhao Wanqing opened her mouth to thank, in any case, with less of that entangled blood qi, the pain was indeed sharply reduced by a lot.
Li Xing Tian gently nodded his head as a response, after all, bringing a foot-dragger to work was always a stupid thing in Li Xing Tian's eyes.
His experience in his last life told him not to be teammates with stupid people.
Right now, Zhao Wanqing was already considered half a fool in his eyes.
If she couldn't show what made her stand out in the next case, then Li Xingtian would consider taking over Zhao Wanqing's command and handling the case in his own way.
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"This is where I found the traces of the ritual tracks."Zhao Wanqing pointed at an empty field with no traces, "They're moving fast, we have to hurry."
Li Xingtian's gaze quickly swept across the empty space, if what Zhao Wanqing said was true, the ground had indeed been handled very cleanly, with not a single trace of usefulness remaining.
Zhao Wanqing kicked the location of the original formation eye with her foot and did not find any energy fluctuations:
"For them to be so arrogant in their ritualistic sacrifices, they must have reached a certain critical point, or a change of heart that would make them so reckless."
"That's why we have to go and anticipate their next place of operation."
Li Xingtian gently nodded his head, sort of agreeing with Zhao Wanqing's scheme, it seemed that she wasn't just going around investigating in a hot-headed manner.
It was enough to have a plan and an idea, and it seemed that Zhao Wanqing also had a destination to go to next.
Zhao Wanqing's destination was to go north from here.
Yuzhou City was surrounded by water to the south and mountains to the north, and Zhao Wanqing thought that since the Yuzhou City's Demon Suppression Division had found out that the group of evil cultivators were engaging in sacrificial rituals, it was only natural that they wouldn't be able to be so blatant anymore.
They were just evil cultivators, it wasn't that they didn't want to live anymore.
It was highly likely that they would target the hidden villages that leaned against the mountains.
For one thing, this kind of hidden village was not easy to detect, and secondly, there were trees on the mountain, so even if they were really detected by the Demon Suppression Division, they would not be caught so easily if they were quickly dispersed and fled as a whole.
So under the night, Zhao Wanqing led Li Xingtian to run furiously all the way towards the nearest village in the north.
Zhao Wanqing had already looked at the topographical map of the surrounding area before she set off.
Around half an hour or so, the two were close to the village Zhao Wanqing had mentioned.
"Wait!"Li Xingtian suddenly stopped in his tracks, slightly frowning as he surveyed the surroundings.
Zhao Wanqing hurriedly stopped, "What's wrong?"
"Into the maze."Li Xingtian swept his gaze around the dense forest, "We've circled around here at least three times."
Zhao Wanqing froze at his words, three laps? She had no perception of this.
"It's not difficult to leave this maze, but I'm afraid we're exposed."
Li Xingtian swept his gaze across the surroundings and then quickly sensed a point of spiritual energy fluctuation.
Although his cultivation had started over after being reborn, Li Xingtian's insight and experience was still there.
At the beginning of the mission, Li Xingtian paid close attention to the surrounding situation.
Li Xingtian's vigilance towards evil cultivators was always stretched to the limit, for no other reason, because all the evil cultivators he encountered had the same characteristic - no bottom line.
Li Xingtian cautiously felt his way towards the aura fluctuation point.
Zhao Wanqing also quickly followed Li Xingtian's footsteps, and then saw Li Xingtian peel back the grass and pick up a small stone from the ground.
Li Xingtian checked it over and over again before carefully placing the stone back in its original position:
"It's the Stone Bead Maze, follow me."
Zhao Wanqing heard this and followed behind Li Xingtian, only to see Li Xingtian turn left and right as if he was going around in a circle, and after a couple of rounds, he actually made it out.
Then, Zhao Wanqing froze.
What met her eyes was the village that had long been slaughtered.
All the houses had long been burnt to ashes, and the smell of blood came with the cold wind at night.
Headless bodies hung all over the trees at the head of the village.
Li Xingtian looked down to his feet the traces of the formation rituals were still there, and they hadn't even been dealt with.
"How did they ... they dare?"
Zhao Wanqing's voice trembled slightly, capturing people from the village to sacrifice to evil cultivators and sacrificing an entire village to evil cultivators was a completely different concept.
The rituals of evil cultivator sacrifices were nothing more than refining blood and human souls to externally cultivate themselves.
But both blood and soul are best for adult men.
The rest of the women, children, old and young can not provide much blood.
It will even pollute the qi and blood.
So even the vicious evil cultivator will not do this kind of damage to people against themselves.
Moreover, this is a whole village of people ah, the old, weak, women and children are not spared!
This is simply a massacre!
Li Xingtian spoke, "They left in a hurry, they didn't even deal with the formation rituals, I'll memorize these rituals so that I can go back and inquire about the situation, you go inside and see if you missed any useful information."
When he glanced at Zhao Wanqing's expression, he understood that she had lost some ground and made the arrangement.