Douluo, there is a system but I don't want to use it

Chapter 72: Village Massacre
"Teacher, please have some tea!" Liu Erlong handed a cup of tea respectfully to Qiu Fengyan.

"Well, from today on you are my apprentice." Qiu Fengyan picked up the tea and took a sip.

"If you join my sect, you must naturally abide by certain rules. First: we are all of common origin and must never forget our roots. Second: do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you. Liu Erlong, you must remember this, are you willing to abide by it?" Qiu Fengyan said seriously.

"Erlong will remember this and abide by it for the rest of his life!"

"Okay!" Qiu Fengyan then smiled and helped Liu Erlong up.

With Fang Tian's witness, Liu Erlong became Qiu Fengyan's apprentice. Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan took Liu Erlong to the local junior soul master academy to apply for graduation in advance. From then on, Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan had a little tail following them.

After seeking Fang Tian's consent, Qiu Fengyan taught Liu Erlong Ba Duan Jin, Jiugong Bu, Condensed Silk Soul Control, and Willow Leaf Flying Knife. He also taught the secret art of natural bone forging.

However, Liu Erlong was asked to swear a martial spirit oath and not pass it on to anyone without permission.

It was the first time that Liu Erlong saw a self-created soul skill, and so many of them, so she was naturally ecstatic.

Everyone in Douluo Continent knows that the Haotian Sect, the number one sect in the world, relies on its self-created soul skills to conquer the world.

Now that he could learn his own soul skills, Liu Erlong felt dizzy. It felt like a huge pie had fallen on his head.

"It's so worth it to worship this master!" Liu Erlong sighed.

In the days that followed, Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan traveled around the continent while teaching Liu Erlong various skills.

That day, the two men were speeding up their journey with Liu Erlong to spend the night in the small town ahead.

"Teacher, look, there is fire and thick smoke over there!" Liu Erlong suddenly said, pointing to the sky in the distance which was beginning to darken.

Fang Tian turned his head and saw that the sky was dark red and thick smoke was rising up.

"What is burning that can turn the sky red?" Qiu Fengyan asked in surprise.

"There should be a village or a mountain burning in the distance. Otherwise there wouldn't be such a big fire. Let's go and take a look." Fang Tian said as he started to rush over there.

With the speed of Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan, even with Liu Erlong, they were still almost reaching the speed of sound.

In less than a minute, the three arrived at the burning village.

However, the scene I saw was horrific!
Almost all the houses in the village were on fire, and judging by the distribution of the fire points, it was completely arson. If it was caused by an accident, it would not have burned so evenly.

There were many corpses scattered on the ground. Most of them were purple in color and shriveled and thin, as if everything in their bodies had been sucked dry by something.

Judging from the clothes on the corpses, these bodies should be villagers of this village.

"Search separately to see if there is anyone alive?" Fang Tian said with an angry look on his face.

"Okay! Act separately." Qiu Fengyan was even more angry than Fang Tian when he saw this village massacre, and said with a cold face.

The three of them split into two sides and began to act.

Fang Tian used all his mental power to search carefully for any living people. However, things did not go as he wished, as he saw more and more corpses, and even the body of a child less than one year old who had been killed by a fall appeared in Fang Tian's mental exploration.

"Bastard! If I find out who did this, I will cut him into pieces!" Fang Tian cursed angrily.

Fang Tian searched around and finally met up with Qiu Fengyan, but he still didn't find a single living person. "It seems like you didn't find a single living person like me." Qiu Fengyan still had an angry look on his face.

"Yes, not only did we not find any living people, we didn't even find any clues." Fang Tian said with a helpless smile on his face.

"It seems that we can't avenge these villagers!" Qiu Fengyan's face now turned helpless.

"Teacher, I have a way to find clues!" Liu Erlong, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.

"Do you have a solution?" Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan looked at Liu Erlong in surprise.

"Yes, yes! Yes. My friend Xiao Hui can find the enemy." Liu Erlong said proudly.

"It's the little squirrel that you insisted on taking with you when you followed us." Qiu Fengyan asked in surprise.

When Liu Erlong followed Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan, she insisted on taking a small gray squirrel with her. Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan thought it was Liu Erlong's pet and didn't say anything.

After all, a little girl lost her mother, was helpless and alone. Isn't it normal to have a pet as a companion?
Moreover, this pet is quite smart. It knows how to bow and salute to ask for food, and can understand human language. Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan also like this little squirrel very much.

As for why there is no trace of this little squirrel in the original novel, Fang Tian estimated that this little squirrel might have died in one of Liu Erlong's soul hunting. Liu Erlong later liked to kill soul beasts to vent his anger, which might be because of the little squirrel's death in the beast's mouth.

Usually Liu Erlong always holds Xiao Hui in her arms or lets it squat on her shoulders.

In order to make traveling easier today, Fang Tian put Xiao Hui into his storage bag that could hold living things.

"Yes, teacher. Xiao Hui has a very sensitive sense of smell. Once I lost the hairpin my mother left for me, and it was Xiao Hui who helped me find it in the grass." Liu Erlong said with a smile.

"Well, we'll rely on Xiao Hui today." Fang Tian said as he released the little squirrel from the living storage bag.

"Xiao Hui, can you smell the body to see if there is any scent of a living person?" When Liu Erlong saw Xiao Hui being released, she immediately called Xiao Hui to start working.

The little grey squirrel was released and was a little dazed at first, but when he heard his owner calling him, he immediately ran over.

Xiao Hui followed Liu Erlong's instructions and carefully sniffed the air around the corpse.

"Gu! Gu!" The little squirrel suddenly stretched out his right paw and pointed to the east of the village, with an expression of fear on his face.

"It seems that the murderer is in the east, and the aura must be very evil or full of murderous intent." Fang Tian analyzed.

"I'll go take a look! You guys follow me." Fang Tian said as he flew towards the east.

Usually Fang Tian runs on the ground, although he can use stacking speed and vacuum bubble in the air, but the consumption is greater than using them on the ground.

But today, I couldn't care less about that. Finding the murderer was the most important thing. As for the problem of the dark sky, it didn't exist at all.

Although the skill of Purple Qi Yun Shen is mainly to cultivate the spirit, it also has some nourishing effects on the eyes. After so many years of practice, Fang Tian can easily achieve night vision. Not only Fang Tian can do it, Qiu Fengyan can also do it easily.

Fang Tian continued searching towards the east and finally saw a group of people moving quickly in a forest.

These people had blood on their bodies, their aura was dark and eerie, and they also had a bloodthirsty aura.

Fang Tian accelerated and surpassed these people, landing more than fifty meters in front of them.

(End of this chapter)