pertwk Chapter 2238 Change of Face
Chapter 2238 Change of Face
Chapter 2238 Change of Face
The dark forest contained everything—spider silk, wild fruit, bird feathers, insect eggs, and leaves—yet none of them could touch him.
Such a person should be wandering in places full of flowers, but now he appears in the wilderness.
The man in the hat saw him and felt a sense of unease. The man was heading straight for the dilapidated house, which meant he was coming for him.
As expected, the man in blue startled him the moment he spoke: "Tang Jingye?"
"Who are you?" The man frowned, looking him up and down. "What kind of prank is this?"
More than a hundred years ago, when he went out to handle some business, he was tricked by his fellow disciples.
Those forgetful fellows, are they going to try the same old tricks again?
"The Heavenly Centipede you're waiting for won't come," the man in blue kindly told him. "It stole from the Xuanjing warehouse in Tongyue Town, but was captured last night after failing to do so."
Tianwu and Tongyue Town! Upon hearing these two keywords, Tang Jingye's heart skipped a beat, and he looked at him with suspicion and uncertainty: "How did you know?"
“I just came from Tongyue Town.” The man in blue sighed. “You immortal sects and demon races who have just emerged from seclusion have obtained some dubious information, but you don’t know that the world outside has changed. You will only be used as pawns.”
A flash of red light appeared in Tang Jingye's hand as he drew his longsword, the tip pointing at him.
"Are you one of Cang Yan's people?"
“I am not.” The man in blue smiled, making him even more handsome. “You bear the name of an ancient sect, yet your methods are too petty. You only stole a little bit of Xuan Crystal.”
Tang Jingye's forehead vein throbbed, and he hesitated to speak.
Yes, the other party knows his name, and of course, they also know his background.
"What do you want to do?"
"I'm here to help you, to help you make things even bigger." The man in blue suddenly stepped forward. "But first, I need to borrow your face."
His movements seemed slow but were actually fast; he reached Tang Jingye in a single step!
"You're courting death!" Tang Jingye raised his wrist, his sword forming three points of cold plum blossoms, aimed at the man in blue's throat, abdomen, and lower vitals. Though the movements were light and agile, the sword tip possessed a fierce aura; a tree branch, though still three feet away, was instantly severed!
A large boulder diagonally behind the man in blue let out a dull cracking sound as it was also cleaved in two by the sword energy.
A mountain breeze blew by, causing the jungle to sway and silencing all sounds inside.
A moment later, a squirrel peeked furtively into the area and saw that the fight in front of the dilapidated house had ended.
Tang Jingye collapsed under the pine tree, a bowl-sized hole in his chest, blood gushing out. His longsword had been knocked three zhang away and stuck in the ground.
But he wasn't dead yet. Although his head was tilted to the side and he didn't even have the strength to lift his neck, he was still staring at the enemy in front of him.
"You...you..." Who are you?!
The man in blue stood in front of him, looking down at him, and gently licked the blood off his fingernails.
That was Tang Jingye's blood.
"It's quite fresh."
After saying this, his appearance changed, and his facial features slightly shifted.
Just a few breaths later, the man in blue changed his expression—
Tang Jingye's face!
Upon witnessing this scene, Tang Jingye on the ground stared wide-eyed, while the other person tilted their head to match the angle of his head.
Referring to the original template, his facial features were made subtle adjustments again.
The two faces are exactly the same, like looking in a mirror, even the mole on the jaw is exactly the same.
"Alright, we've been out for quite some time." The man in blue grabbed him by the back of the neck with one hand and lifted him up. "We, well, I should go back to the sect."
The last thing Tang Jingye saw in his life was a smile on "his" face, both familiar and terrifying.
When the next mountain wind blew by, there was no one left in front of the dilapidated house.
At Chen Shi (7-9 AM), a group of people arrived and surrounded the dilapidated house. The leaders were Commander Chen and Giant Mao Ling.
There wasn't a soul in sight, inside or outside the house, except for the squirrels in the trees that were disturbed a few times and were grumbling.
The giant Maoling was very dissatisfied: "Could it be that the centipede lied again, and its accomplices are not here at all?"
It's very frustrating to have come all this way empty-handed. I was traveling all night yesterday, and I should have been taking a nap this cool morning, but Aunt Zhu kicked me out to do some official business.
It looked at its brother with envy, while the dwarf slept soundly on its shoulder.
At this moment, the guards discovered a pool of blood under the pine tree behind the house.
There are marks on the tree trunk and the ground, indicating that someone was seriously injured here.
Commander Chen squatted down to examine the wound: "The bloodstains changed color recently, so this person was injured no more than an hour ago."
The giant from Maoling reached out and rubbed the blood-stained sand, brought it to his nose and smelled it, even licking it: "Human, male, must be several hundred years old, his cultivation is not weak, the spiritual energy in his blood has not dissipated. Also, this person is probably dead."
Commander Chen asked curiously, "How do you know?"
Just by taking one more bite, can we draw so many conclusions?
“I just tasted a small piece of flesh, a fragment of the heart, it was so fresh.” The giant Maoling smiled, licking his mouthful of yellow teeth with his tongue, as if savoring the taste. “This man’s heart has been ripped out, I don’t think he will live much longer.”
I haven't eaten a person in so long, I miss it terribly.
"The contact person for Tianwu was killed?" Commander Chen frowned. "Someone beat us to it. Could it be their enemy?"
The giant Maoling stood up, turned around and walked back: "I don't know."
It's none of his business; he can't be bothered to think about it.
……
Since they were going to travel with Aunt Zhu, Pu Hua and Sun Hongye decided to stop riding the Mountain Eagle and instead take the Maoling Giant Special Train.
The Maoling Giants only resemble humans in appearance; in reality, they have no kinship with humans. They are born with talents in both earth and wood, possessing the ability to shrink distances, and can cover thirty to fifty zhang (approximately 15-25 meters) in a single stride.
No matter how rugged the mountains, it can traverse them as if they were flat ground. Sun Hongye sat on the giant's shoulders, one second she was enjoying the leaves scraping her face at the bottom of the valley, the next she was standing on the top of a cliff feeling the mountain wind blowing in her face, and then she looked down into a bottomless abyss. It was incredibly thrilling.
Sun Hongye now understood why Aunt Zhu had scolded them: "How could they be late at this pace? Before the battle, these guys were probably hiding in some corner, slacking off, and overslept."
The giant from Maoling also mentioned the broken house, but the group lacked sufficient information to understand what had happened, and their wild guesses could only be abandoned.
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The further you go towards Jucheng, the fewer desolate wilderness areas there are, and the more prosperous towns become. Not only are there more vehicles and horses on the road, but birds also come and go in the sky.
Both land and air traffic are busy.
The giants of Maoling do not take the usual paths when traveling, but instead choose cliffs and secluded valleys. This strange scene often attracts travelers to stop and watch, pointing and talking. However, most onlookers are filled with curiosity rather than fear.
After all, there were so many strange sights along the way that even villagers who came out to see the world had their eyes opened.
Putting everything else aside, small whirlwinds often roam the plains where the group is currently traveling, mostly following the main road or side paths.
(End of this chapter)