Ancient Demon Slayer Chapter 6

The broken plank road was still barely passable. After leaving the narrow passage, Feng Qianjun let Leo rest temporarily on a high ground, then turned around to drag the body over for inspection.

It was a soldier from the Jin army. His whole body was limp from the collision, and had long been stiff and cold. Feng Qianjun said, "This man was thrown down after he died. Can you tell the cause of death?"

The two men checked over and over again, but found no knife or arrow wounds on the Jin soldier's body, nor any purple-black bruises on his neck.

"Maybe it was poisoning." Leo said, "It's been too long since he died. I can't tell. We need to find a coroner. Does he want to destroy the body?"

The Jin soldier's face had a distorted and terrifying expression, and it was obvious that he was frightened before he died. But generally speaking, people will feel fear and hideous when they die, so it is hard to judge. The only thing that can be confirmed is that he has been dead for at least two days, and his face is covered with white frost, but it has not rotted because of the cold weather. It just happened to match what the city secretary said.

Feng Qianjun: "I'll go to the top to look for any traces. You stay here for a while. If anyone comes, shout. I can see you."

Leo replied: "It's okay. I've always had good luck. Nothing will happen for a while. The body just fell and didn't hit me."

Feng Qianjun brought an iron crossbow and a thin steel knife on his waist, and walked up the cliff of Yixiantian Mountain to check. He turned back and said, "I guess the person who dumped the body knew that we were down there, and didn't intend to hit you."

Leo: "???"

Feng Qianjun was very agile. He first jumped onto a rock, then turned around and climbed up to a ten-foot-high protrusion of rock. He continued to rise step by step and finally jumped to the top of the mountain where there was a narrow gap in the sky.

Leo was still thinking about what Feng Qianjun said - he knew there were people down there, but he didn't plan to hit me? What did that mean? Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind. Was the person who dumped the corpse warning us not to pass through this place?

For some reason, Leo always felt that there was a pair of eyes watching him secretly.

Feng Qianjun waved at him from high above, and Leo also waved at him.

"What did you find?" Leo shouted.

Feng Qianjun disappeared without answering. Leo became uneasy. Not long after, Feng Qianjun found another way down from the high cliff, leading a military horse.

Leo breathed a sigh of relief. Feng Qianjun saw his expression and knew that he was worried about him, so he smiled and said, "What? Tianchi, are you worried about me getting into trouble?"

Leo said: "Of course! It's a bit dangerous to act alone in the wilderness."

Feng Qianjun suddenly said, "We just met by chance. We have only known each other for less than twelve hours. You kid."

Leo didn't know why, but he felt a little embarrassed. He saw Feng Qianjun carrying the body with one hand and putting it on the horse's back. He tied it tightly, patted the horse's B*tt0cks, and said, "Let's go! Take him back to Maicheng, Maicheng! Go!"

The horse just ran away with the body on its back.

The two men lit a fire in the leeward part of the mountain and decided to camp outdoors for one night and make plans after they got out of the mountain the next day.

Leo looked towards the campfire. For a moment, the two of them were speechless, both in a trance.

"Brother Feng, what are you thinking about?" Leo asked Feng Qianjun.

The fire reflected on Feng Qianjun's face. Feng Qianjun said calmly, "I'm wondering how that person died. What about you?"

"Me too." Leo replied. Time was limited, so it was not appropriate to strip a fallen soldier's clothes for a detailed inspection.

"Maybe it's a very small hidden weapon," Leo said, "some of them are extremely poisonous and can achieve this effect."

Feng Qianjun frowned and said, "Forget it, go to sleep, dear brother. Although my martial arts skills are not as good as your guardian, I still have some. You can sleep next to me at night, don't be afraid."

Leo was not afraid, his luck had always been good, if there were any enemies, he didn't have to do anything, God would take care of them for him. When he went south to Xiangyang, Xiangyang was surrounded like an iron barrel. Leo waited and waited, but couldn't get into the city. So he took a risk and ran to the flat ground outside the city in the middle of the night with a lantern he had picked up, intending to conquer this first important city in Jingzhou on foot.

This stupid and absurd move really attracted the attention of the enemy's 200,000-man army. The Qin army immediately sent a team of 100 people to chase him, but the arrows were either shot off the target or blown away by the wind. Leo got lost while running and couldn't tell the direction. He led hundreds of cavalrymen to the river outside Xiangyang City. It was cold and the river was frozen. Leo slipped and slid across the river. The cavalrymen chasing behind him were too heavy and broke through the ice and fell into the water.

As soon as he reached the other side of the river, Leo found a ladder that someone had built. He thought it was a wooden ladder secretly arranged for the siege, so he climbed up the ladder. When he reached the top of the city wall, there was no Xiangyang defender, and the Qin army chased to the bottom of the tower. Leo pushed the ladder down, and many enemies were thrown into the icy river. Finally, he tidied his hair and clothes, and came down from the city wall as if nothing had happened, so he entered the city smoothly.

Whenever he encountered trouble, Leo's life was always like shouting "Hey? There's a ladder here! Great! There's a horse here, great! Great! Great! Great!" Amidst countless sincere praises of "great", any enemy who dared to oppose him along the way would inevitably end up falling to the ground and pissing his pants.

As Leo was thinking, he turned around. Feng Qianjun was sleeping with his back to him. Leo then reached out a hand from behind him and touched and pinched Feng Qianjun's arm.

Feng Qianjun: ...

Leo: "Brother Feng, your arm is quite stiff. It will probably take some effort to give you the acupuncture."

Feng Qianjun felt a little embarrassed and asked, "Really?"

Leo said "hmm" and touched Feng Qianjun's chest. He had studied medicine for eight years in the mountains, and one of the things he learned was to identify acupuncture points. He first touched the wooden man and then the master. People have different muscle orientations and body shapes, so the location of acupuncture points can easily be different. The master had been ill for a long time and was thin. He was not as strong as Feng Qianjun, and his arms and chest had a sense of strength.

Feng Qianjun reminded him: "Brother, we have only just met for the first day, and things are progressing too fast."

"Oh." Leo took back the hand that was pinching the acupuncture points on Feng Qianjun's shoulder and said casually, "I don't mean anything else, I'm just curious."

Feng Qianjun said: "What are you curious about? My brother is about nine inches, usually less than four inches."

Before Leo could react to what nine inches and four inches meant, he said, "You are not a killer, Brother Feng, you are lying."

Feng Qianjun: ...

Feng Qianjun, who had his back to Leo, suddenly had a dangerous look in his eyes, but he smiled and said, "How do you know?"

"A killer's arms and chest don't look like this," Leo said. "My master is a killer, and his body shape is different from yours in many ways."

"There are differences among assassins," Feng Qianjun turned around and explained, "the techniques they practice are different."

"Hmm." Leo did not insist and closed his eyes. Feng Qianjun became uneasy, but when his lie was exposed, Leo did not care much and fell asleep first.

A gust of wind blew, and Feng Qianjun suddenly opened his eyes, sniffed, and glanced to the north. The Big Dipper gradually descended in the sky. As the time passed Zi and entered Chou, a strange smell came from the wind.

Feng Qianjun immediately sat up and turned to look at Leo, who was still sleeping soundly.

The smell was getting stronger and stronger, drifting from the upwind. Feng Qianjun gently drew out his knife, looked around with the knife, and walked towards the place where the smell came from. The two horses tied to the tree nearby began to sense something was wrong and became restless.

There was a slight sound from the bushes. Feng Qianjun stopped in front of the bushes, holding a dagger in his hand. Suddenly, a figure rushed out silently!

Feng Qianjun immediately drew his sword and chopped it into the chest of the black shadow like lightning. At the same time, he suddenly pulled back, drew his dagger with his left hand, and almost at the same time, stabbed the side of the neck of the attacker from behind!

Feng Qianjun: "!!!"

The knife in his right hand went straight to the enemy's heart, which could have killed him in one blow, and the dagger in his left hand stabbed into the enemy's neck. These two moves were well planned and could have ended the lives of the two people in front and behind at the same time. However, what Feng Qianjun never expected was that the two sneak attackers ignored the sharp blades stabbing into their bodies, and the man behind him clamped his arms around Feng Qianjun's neck. The man in front of him hugged half of Feng Qianjun's body tightly!

Feng Qianjun opened his eyes wide and smelled the odor of a rotting corpse. The dead faces of two Jin soldiers appeared in front of him!

Dead person?!

Feng Qianjun's neck was restrained. He wanted to wake up Leo, but he couldn't make a sound. He raised his foot and kicked the zombie in front of him. There was a dull sound, and the other party's chest made a sound of broken bones. He flew backwards and fell down the hillside.

After getting rid of the one in front of him, the one behind him kept tightening, a huge mouth covered with rotten blood was less than three inches away from his face, and it was about to bite off his neck!

Leo's dog woke up and ran over to bark at the zombies.

Feng Qianjun turned around and lifted up the zombie, but the zombie's arm did not relax at all. He brought the zombie monster to the ground and broke the dead man's arm, but the dead man refused to let go. The tricks he used against the living were completely useless against this monster that was not afraid of pain!

"Chen..." Feng Qianjun uttered with difficulty, signaling the dog to quickly wake up its owner.

The two horses were frightened and broke free from their reins and ran away. Leo was sleeping soundly, and even thunder could not wake him up. Feng Qianjun and the zombie were rolling and fighting three steps away from him. Leo just turned over with his back to Feng Qianjun. The zombie held Feng Qianjun's neck tightly with its hands and wrapped its legs around his waist, like a ghost possessed. It opened its mouth several times to bite, but Feng Qianjun dodged it every time.

Feng Qianjun dragged a living corpse that was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, which was about to be strangled to death, and struggled to crawl in front of Leo. Finally, he grabbed the blanket under Leo and pulled it hard.

Leo rolled over and hit his head on the stone on the ground. He suddenly screamed and woke up.

Leo: "Brother Feng?"

Dog: "Woof! Woof! Woof!"

Feng Qianjun: ...

"Ah!!!" Leo screamed and yelled, "What?! Ah! Ba?!"

Feng Qianjun's eyes went dark, and he tried to pull the zombie's hand. Leo immediately stepped forward and said, "Stop shouting! Is this a Ba? Brother Feng? What are you doing?"

Feng Qianjun pointed at the zombie's arm, gnashing his teeth, and was about to die. Leo hurried forward to help pull it back. The zombie growled at him and began to bite him. Leo quickly retracted his hand and shouted, "Ba! A living Ba! No, this is not appropriate... a monster!"

Feng Qianjun: ...

Leo picked up a stone and hit the zombie's finger with it. Feng Qianjun was already exhausted and made a gesture, meaning "Run quickly and don't worry about me". He took the zombie and used up his last bit of strength to slam into the cliff wall.

"Wait a minute!" Leo turned his head and saw a dagger stuck in the zombie's neck. He stepped forward, pulled it out, and cut its arm with force. However, the bonfire was out, and it was pitch dark and he could not see anything. Leo took a deep breath and turned on the heart lamp. A bright white light shot out from his hand, illuminating the face of the zombie. In an instant, the zombie roared, and it was afraid of the light of the heart lamp released by Leo. It raised its arms to block it. As soon as its arms loosened, Feng Qianjun broke free in an instant. With a loud shout, he threw the zombie over his shoulder and smashed it hard on the rocks!

Before Leo could react, Feng Qianjun shouted, "Quickly retreat!"

The zombie was thrown against the cliff by Feng Qianjun with all his strength, and his brain burst, emitting a pungent stench. His body drooped limply, and he died for the second time.

Leo panted and said, "Where did the monster come from?"

Leo was about to step forward, but Feng Qianjun kept coughing, so he pulled him back and said, "We can't stay here for long, let's go!"

"Wait!" Leo said, "I need to see it carefully. This is the first time I see a Ba. Where did it come from?"

This was not the first time Leo encountered a monster. The existence of Ba had long been recorded in ancient books. Legend has it that after death, ancient corpses did not decay for many years and turned into walking corpses, which were Ba. Just seeing a moving creature still aroused his curiosity. However, Feng Qianjun felt that everything that happened in front of him was beyond his acceptance. His eyes were full of shock and he could not stop gasping.

Suddenly, the dog started barking again in the direction of the woods.

"There are still a lot of them over there...Brother, are you sure you want to study them at this time?" Feng Qianjun said.

Leo turned around and saw thirty or forty zombies appearing from all directions on and below the hillside. Some were intact, some were wearing tattered clothes, and no one knew how long they had been dead. They were staggering towards them.

"No, no, it's too much. Let's talk about it next time." Leo quickly changed his tone.

"Why don't you run?!" Feng Qianjun made a prompt decision and took Leo and ran in the opposite direction.

Feng Qianjun ran very fast and instantly pulled Leo less than ten feet away. Leo looked back while running, and Feng Qianjun realized that this kid couldn't run without martial arts, so he turned around to rescue him. Unexpectedly, several zombies appeared on the road, blocked Leo's way, and pounced on him.

Leo didn't bother to shout anymore. He paused on the spot, turned around and ran towards the edge of the cliff. Feng Qianjun chased him back. Leo ran to the front of the cliff, grabbed the dead vines on the mountain and climbed up. A zombie had already caught up with him from behind. Feng Qianjun had to rush over to save him. When Leo climbed halfway, he pulled hard, and the huge rock that was pressing on the top of the dead vine suddenly rolled down with a shocking sound!

"Be careful!" Feng Qianjun shouted.

After hearing the reminder, Leo dodged to the side and swung in a circle in the air.

The huge rock from the top of the mountain fell down, first flattening the three zombies chasing Leo, and then rumbling down the slope, instantly knocking down a whole row of zombies, running over them, falling down the second slope, and disappearing without a trace.

On the way to the mountain, Feng Qianjun was surrounded by a circle of zombies. He only had a dagger in his hand. He looked around and saw that Leo had escaped from danger. He quickly lay down. Feng Qianjun shouted: "Shine! They are afraid of light!"

Leo immediately pressed his right hand on his left chest, but before the heart lamp was released, another figure appeared in that instant, and swept through the encirclement like a gust of wind. With a few slashes of the knife, the blade flashed, and the ring-shaped knife spun, cutting the surrounded zombies into two pieces. Then he threw the knife to Feng Qianjun. It was the weapon that Feng Qianjun had dropped on the hillside before.

"Thank you!" Feng Qianjun said.

When the man showed his face, Leo's heart trembled, and he suddenly shouted: "Blake?! Is it you?"

The person who came was Blake. He had nothing in his hands. He took the lead and jumped over the bushes, leading the two of them to run towards the cliff.

Leo suddenly remembered the incident of abandoning the body a few days ago and asked, "Are you the one who asked us to take a detour?"

Blake stopped at the foot of the cliff and glanced at Leo: "Wait here, don't leave, and come out of the mountain at dawn."

After saying this, he turned around and went back along the same path he came from.

"Where are you going?" Leo shouted, and when he was about to chase after him, he was caught by Feng Qianjun.

"What is that?" Feng Qianjun asked Leo, "Explain it clearly!"

Leo said: "It's too complicated to explain... There must be something fishy here!"

He explained to Feng Qianjun the legend that "a corpse that has not decayed for a long time will turn into a Ba". However, there is no record in ancient books about the reason for the transformation into a Ba. It is only known that when a Ba appears in the world, there will be a severe drought in the world. The drought in China has lasted for more than 160 years, big or small. Longzhong is a Feng Shui treasure land on earth, and there is a Ba appearing in the world. What does it mean?

Why is Blake here again?

Leo had to go and take a look no matter what. Relying on the protection of Suixing, as long as he was careful, nothing should happen. If he didn't go, Blake might be in greater danger.