Mortal Bones

"Mei, you must remember this."

"In the Xuanhuang Tower, every choice you make when facing life and death is more important than your mental cultivation or even your luck."

"Because this Xuanhuang Tower was originally transformed by the will of Emperor Xuanhuang's soul."

"Every choice you make in Xuanhuang Tower is actually a test for you by Emperor Xuanhuang."

"And once your choice complies with the emperor's will, or is the answer he is looking for, at least for that moment you will receive the blessing and protection of Emperor Xuanhuang."

"Mei, you must remember that even if you ascend to the sky, several great emperors are still watching this world."

"The Golden Scale Pond in Youyuntian and the Xuanhuang Tower in Xuanhuangtian are their eyes looking at the world."

After seeing Ta Ling's actions after her decision on Xu Taiping's choice, Gu Qingcheng unconsciously recalled her eldest brother's last warning to her before parting ways with her.

"It stands to reason that without the request of the people in Xuanhuang Tower, we strangers cannot get the mission bounty. So the tower spirit's response to Rusty Lion's decision..."

Thinking of this, Gu Qingcheng's cold beautiful eyes suddenly showed an excited look, and then murmured:

"This is Emperor Xuanhuang's response!"

"Qingcheng girl?"

At this time, Gu Qingcheng, who was deep in thought, was suddenly awakened by a voice.

Turning around, she found that Xu Taiping and Zhai Mo were looking at her strangely, and then she realized that she must have been distracted just now.

"Xi... Mr. Xishi, what are your orders?"

She quickly said seriously.

"I just said that you, Nan Xing, Mr. Zhang and Yu Zhu will place the rescued refugees in the stone fort. Zhai Mo and I will guard the entrance of the stone fort. We will save as many as we can."

Xu Taiping repeated what he just said.

The reason for this arrangement was that among their group, only he and Zhai Mo could fight against the monsters with the power of blood.

"Don't worry, Mr. Rusty Lion, I will definitely assist Nan Xing and Mr. Zhang with all my strength."

Gu Qingcheng nodded immediately.

Unexpectedly, Gu Qingcheng would agree so readily, and Xu Taiping was a little surprised.

But he didn't think much about it, he just smiled at Gu Qingcheng and nodded slightly.

"Master, stay."

But just when Xu Taiping was about to turn around, Gu Qingcheng suddenly called out to him again.

"What's wrong?"

Xu Taiping thought that Gu Qingcheng was causing trouble again, so he frowned slightly.

Gu Qingcheng did not answer, but put his hand into his sleeve and pulled out a long knife.

This long knife, both the scabbard and the handle are purple-gold, and it’s hard to tell what kind of material it is made of. Before it was taken out of the scabbard, the power of thunder kept spreading through the gaps in the scabbard.

"Master, continue."

Gu Qingcheng threw the long knife in his hand towards Xu Taiping, and then explained directly without waiting for Xu Taiping to ask questions:

"This sword is called Lei Po. It is a relic of the great emperor that my brother found in the Xuanhuang Tower. You can borrow it from me first."

"A relic of Emperor Xuanhuang?"

Xu Taiping was shocked.

And after feeling the heavy weight of the long knife in his hand, which weighed a thousand kilograms, and the power of thunder in the scabbard, which was like a roaring lion, he no longer doubted Gu Qingcheng's words.

"Rumble!..."

While the two were talking, giant rats, already chasing the fleeing refugees, appeared in their sight.

"Thank you Miss Qingcheng for lending me the knife."

Xu Taiping was not polite to Gu Qingcheng. He picked up the long knife in his hand and turned around, looking at the approaching rats with a wary expression.

For him right now, a good knife would be of great help to him.

As for Gu Qingcheng's thunder soul, he could already sense it even without drawing the sword. It was several times stronger than the spiritual weapon in his hand.

After seeing Xu Taiping accept Lei Po, Gu Qingcheng did not hesitate and immediately walked into the stone castle with Nan Xing and the others.

When he sensed that Gu Qingcheng and the others had all entered the stone castle, Xu Taiping glanced at Zhai Mo and said:

"I'll go over and intercept the rats. You can pick up the refugees here and send as many people in as possible."

"Okay!" Zhai Mo didn't say anything else, just nodded heavily.

Although the rats were very dangerous, he still believed that Xu Taiping had the ability to intercept them.

"bass!"

After explaining to Zhai Mo, Xu Taiping unsheathed his sword without saying a word.

"boom!"

Even though he didn't use any real energy, the moment he drew the sword out of its sheath, the blade of the Thunder Soul Sword still emitted an extremely terrifying aura fluctuation.

This aura fluctuation full of thunderous power even frightened the rats that were still thousands of feet away to stop in their tracks.

Xu Taiping, who had no time to marvel at the power of this thunder, immediately took advantage of this gap and continued to fly quickly towards the rats, shouting loudly:

"Everyone, run this way, there is a shelter here."

Because Xu Taiping used his true energy when he said these words, when he shouted these words, he could hear them clearly within a few miles.

The originally helpless refugees, after hearing this voice, immediately seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, turning around and running towards Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping took a cursory glance and found that there should be sixty or seventy refugees running towards him upon hearing his shouts.

Although some other refugees also wanted to come over, they were scattered by the swarm of rats behind them before they could even run a few steps.

"It's not bad to be able to save sixty or seventy people."

In this situation, Xu Taiping never thought that he could save everyone.

"Boom!"

When the distance between him and the refugees was only a hundred feet, Xu Taiping immediately used the "A World Step" without sacrificing his true energy.

"Swoosh!"

In just a moment, Xu Taiping had come behind the refugees.

"Keep running straight ahead, I'll cover you! There is a stone fort behind the rocky hill. When you get there, someone will take you there."

Xu Taiping raised the long knife in his hand and shouted with his back to the crowd.

"Thank you, young man!"

"Thank you, young man!"

Although most of the refugees were running for their lives, there were still sporadic thanks that reached Xu Taiping's ears.

"That's enough."

Xu Taiping raised the corner of his mouth slightly, then suddenly opened his mouth and spit out a breath of mist towards the rats in front of him using the mist-borrowing technique.

In an instant, the whole mountain forest was covered with mist.

For a moment, many giant rats lost their direction and began to run in all directions of the forest.

However, even so, there were still hundreds of giant rats rushing out of the thick fog and rushing towards the path where Xu Taiping was.

"Boom!"

Accompanied by the sharp sound of breaking wind, a silver blade flashing with lightning, "swish" cut from the neck of the first row of giant rats from bottom to top.