Chapter 65 Ruined temple, terrifying demon
The warm fire flickered and burned in the temple.
Someone started a fire?
Lang Ren was shocked.
How could there be temples and humans in this desolate mountain?
The fire flickered, and a figure appeared in the temple under the reflection of the fire.
Just as Lang Ren approached, the figure in the temple raised an axe-like object and then chopped it down fiercely.
"Bang! Bang!"
The sound of chopping bones echoed clearly, and it seemed that some liquid reflections splashed.
Lang Ren paused and looked at the reflection in the temple, and his heart skipped a beat.
The figure, holding an axe, seemed to be... chopping something?
Could it be chopping people?
Without holographic perception, he could not see the situation in the temple, and could only rely on guessing the scene reflected by the fire in the temple. The more he thought about it, the more horrified he felt.
He gave up the idea of entering the temple. In this uninhabited place, even getting married in the forest could be encountered, and who knows what dirty things he might encounter.
"Squeak..."
Suddenly, when Langren was about to leave, the figure in the temple seemed to have noticed something, and the hand holding the axe paused. With the sound of the door being pushed open, a figure poked his head out of the temple door.
"Young man, come in quickly!"
The figure was an old man. The moment he poked his head out, his face was alert. When he saw Langren, who was radiating light, his eyes suddenly lit up and he hurriedly shouted.
A living person?
Looking at the old man, Langren was startled and frowned slightly.
"What are you still standing there for, come here quickly!"
The old man pushed the door open and waved his right hand, while the axe in his left hand was dripping with blood.
Langren did not move, but stared at the axe in his hand vigilantly.
Seemingly seeing his concerns, the old man dropped the axe in his hand and said anxiously: "I just killed a rotten corpse to ignite the horror and dispel the weirdness. Come in quickly and don't be contaminated by the red mist."
Hearing this, Langren's expression moved.
Does this old man seem to know the secret of the red mist?
He observed carefully for a moment and found that the old man in front of him was indeed a living person. After confirming that the other party had no ill intentions, he nodded and rushed to the temple.
With a bang, the temple door closed.
In the dilapidated temple, the warm firelight dissipated the coldness. Lang Ren looked around and looked around.
This temple is not small and looks a bit old, but there are no statues on the altar, only some spider silk and weeds.
"This is a dead evolutionary beast, turned into a rotten corpse. Young man, come and warm yourself by the fire. I didn't expect to meet humans here. I'm surprised." The old man smiled and said with a kind temperament.
Nodding, Lang Ren walked to the fire and found a chopped and rotten evolutionary beast corpse placed nearby, with blue blood flowing.
What's weird is that this fire is not lit by firewood, and the air is filled with the smell of meat. This fire is actually fueled by rotten corpses.
"Old man, why are you alone in this dangerous place? Why do I see that you don't seem to be afraid of this red fog and Wei Ye?" Lang Ren's eyes were reflected brightly in the firelight. It was the second time he met a stranger in the dangerous area. He was always alert and curious about people from the outside world.
The red fog outside the temple was diffused. He was surprised to find that the red fog did not seem to approach the temple, and the old man next to him seemed to be able to breathe normally.
This made him more curious.
"The red fog came, I encountered strangeness, and got lost here. Fortunately, I killed two rotten corpses to scare the demons, so Wei Ye and the red fog dared not approach." The old man sighed with a bitter face.
Scary demons? The red fog dared not approach?
Hearing this, Lang Ren looked outside, slowly exhaled the waste gas in his body, and took a deep breath with courage and greed.
As the fresh air entered his body, he felt a little dizzy and his head was swollen. Soon, a comfortable feeling spread throughout his body.
In fact, if he hadn't met the old man, he would have almost given up. A series of high-intensity running and fighting had made his desire for oxygen reach its limit.
Now that the red fog couldn't get close, he had a chance to breathe clean air, so he took courage. Even if the air was polluted by the red fog, he would accept it. After all, he had reached the point where the arrow was on the string and had to be shot.
"It's really no problem." Lang Ren's face began to return to ruddy color. He looked at the old man and felt relieved.
"So that's it, old man. To be honest, I also encountered something strange. I don't know much about this red fog and the terrifying demon. Can you tell me what the terrifying demon and red fog you just mentioned are?" Lang Ren arched his hands and said.
"You don't know the terrifying demon? Then how did you survive in this red fog?" Hearing this, the old man looked a little stunned, as if he had seen something strange.
"I lost my family, and they didn't tell me about these things. I just held my breath and survived. Fortunately, I was lucky and didn't encounter any danger." Lang Ren's expression was sincere, like a junior who was asking questions humbly.
The old man nodded, smiled, and praised: "Meeting is fate. You are very lucky. You can survive in the red fog until now. It can be regarded as a blessing after surviving a disaster. But you should not have reached the violent period, otherwise how could you not even know about the red fog."
Lang Ren nodded and did not choose to hide it. After all, his realm aura is here, and hiding this fact will only increase others' disgust.
"The so-called terrifying demon, you have seen it, is to burn the rotten corpse. These things are the products of the strange night. Similarly, burning them can dispel the red fog and dispel the strange night, but the range is very small." The old man touched the beard on his chin, and his eyes were a little erratic.
He said it very easily, but the weight of these words shocked Lang Ren and set off big waves in his heart.
Igniting the rotten corpses can actually dispel the strange night and the red mist!
This unprecedented discovery refreshed Langren's knowledge.
In his and the townspeople's understanding, only priests and night watchmen could dispel the strange night, and they had never thought that lighting rotten corpses could have such a magical effect.
"Interesting." Langren felt that this statement was very new, and at the same time he was also very surprised. The townspeople and experts of the past generations should have tried this method.
But the fact was before his eyes that these firelights could indeed dispel the strange night. He was very confused. Could it be that the elders in the past did not discover this magical effect and missed this point?
When he was a child, he remembered that there was a custom of cremation in the town. In order to prevent the dead body from turning into a corpse, it was often cremated as soon as possible. Perhaps because of the protection of the cremation and the bronze statue, the rotting corpse could not come in and the residents were not threatened, so there was no Tried.
He thought so.
"As for what the red mist is..." the old man paused and said with a mysterious face: "I can tell you, but the condition is that you have to carry me back to my town. I am lost here and my legs and feet are inconvenient."
"I can see that you have awakened the Holy Light Realm. You must be a night watchman, right?" His expression suddenly became a little excited, and his tone was trembling.
Sure enough, conditions were made.
"I am indeed a night watchman." Langren did not feel any surprise, nor did he choose to hide it. After all, his body-protecting holy light field could be seen by everyone.
"No wonder, no wonder you did not enter the violent breeding stage, but you were able to survive the night. I am lucky to meet the legendary night watchman in my lifetime." The old man's expression changed and became full of awe. He suddenly knelt on the ground and bowed heavily.
Afterwards, he said sincerely: "These terrifying demons alone cannot hold on for too long. I don't have the protection of the Holy Light Realm, so please take me out of here. As long as you take me, we can survive in this red mist." Go down, and at the same time, I will tell you the secret of the red mist.”
Lang Ren helped him up and signaled that there was no need to salute.
He narrowed his eyes slightly. This old man was very tight-lipped and cunning, trying to pull him into the same boat.
He doesn't think that the other party sincerely respects him. The other party is sure that he doesn't know the secret of Hongwu, and uses this as a condition.
Having seen the horror in the red mist, he was very curious about the secret of the red mist. Fortunately, he asked about the method to dispel the red mist. Even if he did not know the secret of the red mist for the time being, he still had the means to survive.
"Don't worry, it's too dangerous outside. I can go hunting for carrion until dawn. Then it will be safe. I'll take you back." Sitting in front of the fire, Lang Ren lowered his eyelashes and took his time. said.
"It's different. This red mist is too big and terrifying. It completely exceeds the calamity I have seen any master encounter when he breaks through. All the creatures in this dangerous area will suffer. If you stay here, If it goes on for a long time, you will definitely encounter something unknown." The old man had a heavy face and was a little anxious.
"What kind of calamity does a master encounter when breaking through?" Lang Ren grasped this point and thought about it carefully.
From what the old man said, it seemed that someone had made a breakthrough and encountered the so-called "tribulation", which even affected the entire range of living beings.
The more Langren thought about it, the more surprised he became. Why would a breakthrough encounter disaster and strangeness, and it could even affect nearby creatures?
The most important thing is that the master's breakthrough mentioned by the old man reminded him that the system said that the red mist was coming to find him.
"No way... No way, this thing was all caused by me?" Lang Ren suddenly came up with this idea, his eyes were a little dull.
He has indeed fallen into a bottleneck period recently, being stuck in the recovery period and unable to break through five times. However, he also understands that after all, during the evolution period, he needed the core of the transformation period to successfully break through. Now that he has entered the recovery period, the energy required is even more Horrible.
He felt that the energy he had fused was not enough, and it would still be some time before he could break through. How could he encounter disaster?
It shouldn't be.
And when Mao Shenli broke through the recovery period, nothing seemed to happen.
Langren felt that he still knew too little information and had to find out the secret of Hongwu as soon as possible. Now he was a little confused and felt that Hongwu came to him because of the so-called calamity?
"Is the red mist the calamity that masters encounter when they break through?" Lang Ren asked tentatively.
"I'll tell you the details when you send me back. It's not far away, and I'm quite familiar with it. As long as you follow the direction I pointed, you can find my town. As a night watchman, you will definitely be welcomed by me. The love of the townspeople." The old man smiled and changed the subject.
Mentally cursing, Langren began to talk to him one after another.
Soon, I learned from the conversation that the old man's name was Zhang Fu, and he was a resident of a nearby town. There was no priest in the town, and every household relied on the fear of demons to spend the night in fear.
Precisely because there is no protection from the priest, it is easy to encounter accidents. After the red mist filled the air, Zhang Fu encountered something strange and came to the temple. As for what strange thing he encountered, the other party did not elaborate.
"Let's leave quickly. In this way, I will tell you in detail on the way that the top priority is that we should leave here as soon as possible, otherwise the door of hell will open and we will not be able to leave." Zhang Fu looked out the window anxiously, with a respectful look on his face, and begged.