out of time

Chapter 44 Cause and Effect

Amidst the tragic death of the middle-aged monk and the echoing screams, the Patriarch of the Vajra Sect who was searching for Xu Qing in the city suddenly raised his head.

As a Foundation Establishment cultivator, his five senses are extremely sensitive. Hearing the miserable sound in the distance at this moment, his expression darkened instantly. He jumped into the air and walked towards the place where the sound came from.

Although there are strange beasts around, he is a strong foundation builder after all, as long as he doesn't encounter strange existences, or a large number of strange beasts, he doesn't care.

Even if it is a strong heterogeneity, it will affect him, but with his cultivation base, as long as he stays in the restricted area for no more than a month, it will not cause too much trouble.

So after confirming the direction, the Vajra Sect patriarch roared and used his cultivation power to make his voice travel farther.

"Wrap that kid around and wait for me!"

While speaking, his figure in mid-air exploded at a sudden speed. From a distance, it looked like a meteor howling, piercing the sky.

At the same time, at the battlefield just now, another elder of the Vajra Sect suddenly backed away without hesitation the moment Xu Qing approached.

He heard the roar of the ancestor, but he didn't want to die needlessly here.

Even if he was punished by the ancestor afterwards, he would admit it. It was because Xu Qing's evil spirit was too strong. When he shot fiercely, the murderous intent in his eyes made him unwilling to take risks.

So at this moment, the speed of retreating is extremely fast, even using the flying talisman directly, retreating hundreds of feet in an instant.

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes. He also heard the low growl of the ancestor of the Vajra Sect from far away, but he chased after him without stopping. In an instant, his complexion changed suddenly, his breathing stopped, he turned around without hesitation, and galloped in the opposite direction.

And the moment Xu Qing turned around, the Vajra Sect elder who flew into the air had a horrified look on his face. He felt a cold rush towards his face, and even noticed a huge figure appearing beside him.

The face of the figure has no facial features, only a long hair fluttering, like a woman, and the body under the face is huge, wearing a long white dress.

At this moment, a large number of faces appeared densely on the long dress of the faceless girl, and bursts of mournful crying spread all around in an instant, endless strangeness permeated all directions, and even the moon in the sky turned blood red directly.

Seen from a distance, the figure of the Vajra Sect elder was like an ant in front of the giant, insignificant, and under the weeping and gaze of countless faces on the faceless woman in the white skirt, the Vajra Sect elder's body trembled violently, his expression changed, unexpectedly Slowly also began to cry.

But in this crying, his eyes showed extreme fear, as if his crying was beyond his control.

Until his crying sound merged with the crying sounds of countless faces on the faceless girl in white skirt, and after they were separated from each other, bursts of white breath emanated from the seven orifices of the Vajra Sect elder, and quickly penetrated into the face of the faceless girl in white skirt. body, the next moment...

The body of the Vajra Sect elder turned into a mummy without any breath, and fell to the ground.

At the same time, there was an extra face on the faceless woman in the white skirt, and it was the elder of the Vajra Sect.

He was expressionless, floating on the white skirt, crying.

This scene was seen by Xu Qing, and also by the Vajra Sect Patriarch who rushed over at this moment, both of them were shocked.

Xu Qing took a deep breath, suppressed the shock in his heart, accelerated sharply, and galloped towards the city.

It's just that although Xu Qing can leave, the ancestor of the Vajra Sect who came from a distance has a numb scalp and dare not move his body.

Because the faceless girl in the white dress was walking towards him.

The Patriarch of the Vajra Sect knew very well that facing such an existence, he could not move quickly, otherwise, he would end up like his elders, so in his panic and apprehension, the faceless woman in white skirt passed by him and gradually moved away.

Until then, the Vajra Sect patriarch was relieved, but for some reason, there was a trace of doubt in his heart.

"Encountered this weird existence twice...why do I have a feeling that it seems to be helping that brat..."

"Evil door!" The Vajra Sect patriarch gritted his teeth, looked towards Xu Qingyuan's direction, and felt more and more that he must be eliminated.

In the dark night, all kinds of roars came and went, echoing in every corner of the city, the sound of chewing, crying, and sneering filled all directions.

Under the moonlight, ruined walls and ruins appeared everywhere, as if they had become monsters, making the strange feeling in the city even stronger.

Xu Qing, who was galloping inside, was already familiar with the roar and strangeness here, but his face was still pale, as if he was being stared at by countless malicious eyes, and these eyes turned into ice-cold, as if they were attack his body.

When Xu Qing passed by the place where he hunted vultures that day, when his whole body was getting colder, his eyes swept away, and his pupils shrank for a moment...

Not far away, next to the abandoned carriage that was stuck in the mud, the blood-colored puppet that was supposed to be hanging on the shaft of the carriage has changed its position at this moment. Instead of hanging there, it was placed on the carriage, with its back facing Xu Qing, unable to see its front.

Xu Qing's scalp tightened, and he left here quickly.

Not long after, the Vajra Sect patriarch came after him. When he looked around vigilantly, he saw the carriage, and also saw the blood-colored puppet sitting on the carriage facing him.

The doll's inlaid eyes were dim, and the whole body was wet red with a strange look, looking at the Patriarch of the Vajra Sect gloomily.

The ancestor of Vajra Sect's pupils contracted slightly, his heart felt hairy, his footsteps slowed down instantly, and he carefully left the area step by step, then he was relieved and accelerated again.

But he didn't chase and get too close. He was already aware of the wickedness of the young man in front of him, and he knew that the other party had a way to make the other party rich in an instant, so he didn't plan to get too close to force a shot, but was going to stare at him with his cultivation base. The opponent, wait until dawn, and then attack and kill.

Although, as a Foundation Establishment cultivator, it would be detrimental to Foundation Establishment's face to deal with such a condensed qi so cautiously, the Patriarch of the Vajra Sect decided to put safety first in such an environment.

So he slowed down and followed behind at a leisurely pace.

Xu Qing, who was in front of him, also noticed this. He had already simulated the means of counterattack in his heart, and he had already completed the preliminary preparations for shadow manipulation. He held the black pill in his hand, waiting for the opponent to approach.

He is sure that after the other party has endured his methods, although he will not be fatal, he will still be embarrassed and unable to escape for a short time, and although he will be seriously injured by the other party, the escape after such a serious injury will be more real and will not easily arouse suspicion. It is convenient for your next seduction plan.

But the ancestor of Vajra Sect established the foundation clearly, but was still so cautious, which made Xu Qing even more vigilant.

However, although the other party did not approach, Xu Qing felt that his seduction plan still had to be carried out, so he speeded up and went straight to the direction of the City Lord's Mansion.

Getting closer.

The location of the City Lord's Mansion is in the central area of ​​the city. The heterogeneity here is stronger than other places, but the number of alien beasts is decreasing for some reason.

This change made the complexion of the ancestor of the Vajra Sect who was chasing after him change slightly, and the sense of crisis in his heart was very strong at this moment.
He looked up at Xu Qing's back in front of his eyes, and then at the collapsed building beside him, his footsteps suddenly stopped.

Instead of continuing to chase, he started to retreat.

This scene caught Xu Qing by surprise. At this moment, he was still a hundred feet away from the City Lord's Mansion, and the Vajra Sect Patriarch who was chasing behind him actually wanted to retreat.

"It's too late to retreat now!" Xu Qing gritted his teeth fiercely, raised his right hand suddenly and swung it violently, and immediately a large number of black pills scattered around.

This time, in order to achieve his goal, Xu Qing directly used up half of his remaining black pills, and now they fell all around, and they all exploded!

In an instant, this place seemed to have turned into a huge vortex, causing heterogeneous substances from all directions to surge in, affecting the void, distorting the surroundings, making all areas of sight blurred.

The heterogeneous richness has reached an astonishing level.

This scene changed the complexion of the Vajra Sect patriarch who was retreating, but it was more puzzling, because Xu Qing's body was also surrounded by the thick heterogeneity.

Going on like this, let alone the issue of alienation, just the strange beasts and weirdness attracted by the heterogeneity will also make Xu Qing, who is in it, die without a burial place, which is tantamount to suicide.

At the moment when the Vajra Sect patriarch was puzzled, the city lord's mansion, which was hundreds of meters away, suddenly shook violently, and the heaven-shattering and earth-shattering roars spread in all directions, and suddenly spread in all directions.

The earth trembled, and the blood moon in the sky blurred.

The complexion of the ancestor of Vajra Sect changed, and the feeling of life and death crisis became stronger in an instant. His pupils constricted, his body retreated rapidly, his eyes were fixed on the front, and figures flew out from a building like a city lord's mansion!

Those figures are all extremely skinny, but they have black flame wings, and their whole bodies are thick and shocking. Wherever they pass, the void seems to be distorting.

This scene already shocked the Vajra Sect Patriarch, but what made him turn pale and gasp was that the City Lord's Mansion suddenly collapsed with the roar.A huge hole in the ground was exposed.

A dry figure with a height of hundreds of feet is crawling out of the cave under the roar that shakes the sky!
From a distance, this figure is slender and slender, like a dead tree, and the exposed part is hundreds of feet, but at this moment it is obviously not fully crawled out, it seems to be only the upper body.

So it waved its arms, and a large number of rotten vines spread out from the fingers of both hands in an instant, shooting out towards the surroundings and piercing the ground.

The furthest ones even pierced in front of the ancestor of the Vajra Sect.

As if using this as a support point, the huge dead tree-like figure was climbing out at an accelerated rate.

"What the hell is this!!" The Vajra Sect patriarch trembled in his heart, cursed in horror, his whole expression changed drastically like never before, he exploded at full speed, and retreated crazily.

But what made him go crazy even more was when he saw the figures of flying wings rushed out attracted by the heterogeneity. After they rushed out from the City Lord's Mansion, their target was the heterogeneous area formed by the child with unknown means.

But for some reason, after these flying wing figures rushed into that area, they quickly got out of it, roared and looked around, and then locked on to him one after another, roaring towards him.

"What's going on!! Where's the kid!!"

All this made the eyes of the ancestor of the Vajra Sect wide open. Even though he was at an astonishing speed, he was quickly overtaken. During the roar, the ancestor of the Vajra Sect was forced to make a move, and his foundation-building cultivation had to explode.

This caused the rushing flying winged figures to collapse, but the strange thing is that they recovered in an instant and continued to pounce. In the distance, in the huge cave where the City Lord's Mansion is located, the terrifying existence is about to completely disappear. climb out.

The life-and-death crisis made the ancestor of the Vajra Sect even more crazy. At this moment, when he was entangled here, there was a crack on the ground next to a wall at the edge of the heterogeneous area in front of him.

At this moment in this crack, Xu Qing is carefully avoiding it, looking out vigilantly along the crack.

In this ruined city back then, following the trail of the birds, he found two safe shelters, one was his cave, and the other... was this gap!
This gap is also the place where he escaped from being chased by strange beasts after he obtained the exercises in the City Lord's Mansion and was severely injured in his chest.

It's just that it's too close to the City Lord's Mansion, so Xu Qing didn't choose this place as a temporary residence.

Under the catastrophe of the gods opening their eyes, all living things and living beings are doomed to perish, only the birds... For some unknown reason, most of them survived.

At the same time, they seem to be able to find some locations instinctively. Although they are not absolutely safe, they are relatively blind spots, which are easily overlooked by strange beasts and weirdness.

Of course, this is only relative. If there is no ancestor of the Vajra Sect here to attract, then Xu Qing's actions just now are looking for death.

Seeing the embarrassment of the ancestor of the Vajra Sect at this moment, and noticing the huge figure struggling to climb out of the huge pit of the City Lord's Mansion, Xu Qing also took a breath, but he quickly gritted his teeth fiercely, and rushed out with a shake of his body, facing the distant The ancestor of the Vajra Sect who was chasing him threw out the black pill again.

In one breath, he threw more than ten more pills.

The black pills fell to the ground and exploded one after another, and the heterogeneity here is already rich and shocking. With the explosion of the black pills at this moment, it seems to have broken through a certain critical point in an instant.

In an instant... Because Xu Qing left the crack, the malevolent gazes regrouped on him, and they moved away directly, looking at the area with more heterogeneity, and at the same time in multiple positions in the city, Whether it was a strange beast or a strange one, they all paused and looked there together.

The next moment, gallop away!

At the same time as the roar of extreme anger came from the mouth of the Vajra Sect ancestor, Xu Qing galloped without looking back, taking advantage of the opportunity when those strange beasts and weirdnesses were attracted by the heterogeneous area, and fled at full speed.

The Patriarch of the Vajra Sect also wanted to escape, but those flying wing figures entangled him, even if he wanted to retreat, he would inevitably be delayed. At this moment, he was even more anxious in his anxiety, and his hatred for Xu Qing was extremely strong in his heart.

At this time, Xu Qing was speeding faster and faster on the street in the distance, and he had already distanced himself from the City Lord's Mansion, and was about to go to the direction of the city wall, but at this moment...a cold breath rushed towards his face .

In front of him, there was the sound of crying, and a faceless woman in a white dress came from a distance.

At first glance, the other party was still far away, but at the second glance, this strange figure had already appeared in front of Xu Qing.

The speed was so fast that Xu Qing couldn't dodge at all. At this moment, his breathing was rapid and his pupils constricted. His body was instantly covered by ice cold, and his mind was instantly blank, as if frozen.

And the faceless girl who was walking, quickly appeared dense faces, all crying terribly, their cries passed into Xu Qing's mind, and turned into fluctuations, causing Xu Qing's expression to be affected and changed uncontrollably , was about to cry like those faces.

But at this moment... some of the faces on the faceless man in the white skirt suddenly stopped crying. They looked at Xu Qing blankly, their expressions gradually changed, and slowly they smiled, opening their mouths as if they were saying something , but no sound came out.

Soon, more and more faces stopped crying, until finally... almost half of the faces on the faceless woman in the white dress stopped crying, and all looked at Xu Qing, each smiling, with soft expressions.

They all moved their lips slightly, as if they were speaking softly, saying two words that others could not hear.

Amidst the smiles and mouth movements, Xu Qing stayed there, staring blankly at the many faces on the huge faceless woman in front of her.

Before he could see it clearly, the faceless woman in the white dress moved away and walked past him, until she was far away, and the crying sound echoed again...

Xu Qing's stiff body also recovered at this moment. He turned his head suddenly with shortness of breath, and stared blankly at the faceless woman in a white dress who was walking farther and farther away. Her white figure was like a burning fire in this dark night. ...

Just now, those smiling faces on the other side...Xu Qing felt very familiar.

deja vu...

One of them in particular, he remembered, was the one he carried to be cremated to rest in peace... the old man from the pharmacy.

Xu Qing was silent, looking at the figure in the distance, and vaguely understood something. After a long time, he bowed his head deeply and murmured softly.

"Thank you."

Those smiling faces before also said these two words.

"Thank you."

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