C247 lair
Liu Zhifei was in a hurry to report to the Heaven Shaking Sect about the Sirius Sect disguised as a bandit, so he left first. After obtaining his consent, Yang Junshan temporarily left the Third Squad and returned with the caravan to Xishan Village. They agreed to report back to their stronghold three days later.
Not long after the other members of the third group left, the caravan organized themselves and resumed their journey. There were no more twists or turns along the way, and they soon entered the borders of the town.
Although Xishan Village had gained a lot from this trip to the market, in the end, they had met with bandits that had lost a Martial Disciple, and one more was heavily injured. In addition to that, there were more than ten village assistants who had died, which had cast a shadow over the journey this time.
Not long after entering the small town of Wasteland, Xishan Village's caravan quickly gathered with the Western Mountain Village cultivators who had come to assist them. At the same time, the people from Tu Meng Village who had come to assist Meng Shan and the others also came.
Taking advantage of the lack of attention from others, Yang Junshan whispered with Yang Tian for a while before quietly leaving the caravan, walking towards the forest where the Desolate Land town and the Desolate Mountain town intersected.
After waiting in the forest for about an hour, a gust of wind passed through the trees. Yang Junshan suddenly opened his eyes, and a smile appeared on his face as he asked, "How are you back so soon?"
A girl about fourteen to fifteen years old appeared from behind a big tree about ten Zhang away from Yang Junshan. She made a face at him and said, "So boring. You must have noticed."
Yang Junshan smiled, but Bao`er's face had a trace of anger on it, "Damn, can you tell me how you found me? I couldn't hide from you when I was in the little ghost realm, and now that I have advanced to the evil ghost realm, you even found out that no one in the third level of the martial realm noticed me. Only those late stage martial realm cultivators seemed to have noticed my existence."
Yang Junshan wouldn't tell her the reason, but asked, "Where's Tigress?"
A deep tiger roar came from the forest, and with the help of the colorful trees in the forest, a colourful giant appeared and disappeared in the forest, then suddenly appeared from behind a giant tree in front of Yang Junshan, and then suddenly pounced on him.
"Aiyo, aiyo, don't do that!"
Yang Junshan was' shocked '. The tigress was not like the' mountain tiger 'that he had seen before; after advancing to the Spirit Demon level, her body was almost ten feet tall and her weight was no less than a thousand pounds. If such a huge monster still threw itself into his embrace like a spoiled child, the consequences would be dire.
Even though Yang Junshan had a powerful physique, he was still knocked down by the force of the tigress' pounce. He flipped over on his horse, causing the fish wrapped beside him to bend over in laughter.
After playing with the tigress for a while, Yang Junshan scratched the soft flesh on the back of the tiger's neck with his hand. The tigress finally quieted down beside him, squinting her eyes comfortably as if she was asleep.
"Thank you for your help earlier. If it wasn't for you two secretly taking care of them, my father's caravan wouldn't have lasted so long." Yang Junshan said.
Baobao snorted lightly and said: "It's good that you know this. Now you know why I'm here right?"
Yang Junshan smiled, "I have never doubted Lady Yu'er's abilities."
Yang Junshan didn't mind Bao Yu's supercilious look. He then asked, "How is it, they didn't find out, did they?"
Bao Yu'er shook her head and said, "Originally, it was very difficult to avoid that late stage Martial Disciple cultivator from the group of bandits, however, after the bandit leader had retreated, he was in a hurry. Other than sending out a few messengers, he went straight to a valley in Mt. Qu, where there is a cave that seems to be their temporary resting place.
Yang Junshan revealed an excited look, "As long as we can find their resting place, that's good. If this is not the first time these cultivators are pretending to be bandits and robbing, then this cave is probably the cultivation resource they used to hide and rob."
"But," Bao Yu'er looked at Yang Junshan and said, "That group of bandits left not long after they entered the cave, but only five people left. Two of them were injured in the previous fight and stayed in the cave."
"What?" Yang Junshan suddenly stood up, walked back and forth for two steps, then ordered BaoYu'er, "There's no time to lose, you have to inform my dad to come as soon as possible, I was just waiting for an opportunity to take action, but I didn't think that the opportunity would come so fast. You should mark out the general location of the valley on the map, and I will go and take a look."
Yang Junshan and Tigress followed the location marked on the map by Bao Yu'er, and once again arrived at the Barren Mountain Town. They quickly entered the Mt. Qu, and headed straight to the valley where the Heavenly Wolf Sect cultivators were hiding.
The valley that the Sirius Sect cultivators were hiding in was extremely remote, but it was extremely far from Ling Zhang County. The border patrol cultivators rarely noticed this, and the path to and from the valley was not rugged at all. On the contrary, there was a narrow but rather flat slope that led outside the mountain.
After this group of Heavenly Wolf Sect cultivators robbed the other caravans, they probably used this path to transport the goods into the valley. They didn't know how they found this place, but did they know that the cultivators of the Heavenly Wolf Sect had already started to infiltrate Mengyu County?
Suppressing the wild thoughts in their hearts, the two of them were already close to the valley, and could even see the opening cave in the valley from afar. According to Baobao, there should be at least two wounded remaining cultivators of the Heavenly Wolf Sect inside.
Yang Junshan whispered a few words into the girl's ear. Although the girl couldn't say anything, he could understand what Yang Junshan was saying. After hearing him, he moved away from him and started to walk towards the cave.
Before, Yu'er had been worried that the Celestial Wolf Sect bandits would have set up an early warning formation in the valley, and as an array master, Yang Junshan had already confirmed that not only did the valley have an early warning formation, talisman traps, but also a simple formation array at the entrance of the valley.
After restraining his own aura, the traps and restrictions in the valley couldn't be hidden from Yang Junshan's Spiritual Awareness. On the contrary, after being slightly modified by him, the effect of the traps had been removed.
Just like this, they continued their journey until they arrived at the entrance of the cave. The cultivators of the Heavenly Wolf Sect inside did not sense the approaching danger at all.
Yang Junshan held his breath and checked the array at the entrance of the cave, but it turned out to be just a simple magical trench array. This array could be used as a trap and could also be used as a defensive array.2
However, Yang Junshan soon found that this array was also laid with chess. Yang Junshan could not help but feel relieved. He initially thought that there was also an array master hidden in this group of Heavenly Wolf Sect cultivators. It seemed like he was overthinking things.
As an array master, Yang Junshan could only be considered an ordinary array master. But to him, who had mastered the art of array theft, he could be called a master when it came to array dismantling.
However, Yang Junshan didn't completely remove the formation around the cave entrance. Instead, without touching the formation, he made some changes to the chess piece, making this array look completely different from before.
After that, Yang Junshan swaggered into the array, but the array didn't have any reaction to it. After Yang Junshan entered the array, a strong wind started to blow in the mountain forest above the cave.
This cave was extremely spacious. Although Yang Junshan had entered the cave, he was actually standing on the inner side of the formation. About a hundred feet away from the cave entrance, there were two Martial Disciples sitting there, seemingly recovering from their injuries.
The two looked familiar. Yang Junshan was sure that these two were among the robbers from before. One of the injured cultivators was in the third stage while the other one had just opened his dantian.
There was a passageway on both sides of the two people. From afar, one could see quite a few things piled up inside the tunnel. It was likely that these people had robbed all kinds of cultivation materials and brought them here.
Yang Junshan had an idea. A jade-like longbow had appeared in his hand. Its long and slender arm looked like a huge snake carved out of white jade.
Yang Junshan held the longbow in his hand and circulated the spiritual energy in his body. As the bowstring was pulled out, an earthen yellow spiritual energy arrow slowly took shape, and became clearer as the longbow opened more and more. The spiritual energy arrow also aimed at the third level Martial Disciple cultivator sitting on his left hand.
However, at this moment, footsteps came from the right passageway. Yang Junshan was shocked, his right hand that was about to let go of the bowstring slowly relaxed. When he looked up, he saw a Martial Disciple walking in with two bowls of inky black medicine.
There was actually another Martial Disciple here, and one who was not injured at all. However, when Bao Yu'er saw the group of seven members from the Heavenly Wolf Sect, only five of them left with them.
Yang Junshan's heart sank. He had forgotten that this group of Heavenly Wolf Sect bandits had chosen a remote place to stay, but that did not mean they would not leave people here to guard the goods and materials.
This was going to be troublesome!
Just when Yang Junshan was hesitating about whether he should make a move, he heard the two injured cultivators say, "Looking at the time, Boss Wang and the others should have caught up to the group of Heaven Shaking Sect border cultivators. I wonder if the other teams have already caught up."
Hearing this, the injured cultivator put down the medicine bowl in his hand, "Those people definitely know our identities. They must be in a hurry to return to the border stronghold to report the news, and this is the best time for us to kill this group of border guards. As long as we kill this group, the secret of robbing a merchant caravan in Mengyu County will not be exposed!"
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