CHAPTER 444: 321 SWEET-TALKING XIAODU

"It’s so quiet." Liu Junhu muttered under his breath.

The team advanced along the central dirt road, searching each earthen house, but there wasn’t even half a shadow of a person, let alone any mechanisms or secret passages.

The Ancient City was eerily silent, and Liu Junhu felt deeply uneasy.

"Shh." Liu Juncai issued the order to keep quiet, gave a look to the young man up ahead, and casually pointed to a shop by his side.

"Yes." The young man, whose name was Ying Chengnian, responded softly, his attitude respectful and deferential.

He didn’t mind Liu Juncai’s commanding demeanor; in fact, he also came from Shaohai Province City, and had long hoped to forge a connection with the Liu Family from the capital.

But the Liu Family was so arrogant, they never gave him a chance.

On the contrary, the Liu Family’s leader, Liu Juncai, was very friendly towards Du Yu.

What Ying Chengnian found even harder to tolerate was that Du Yu showed no special reaction at all to Liu Juncai’s kindness.

This number one Disciple of Shaohai really didn’t know how to seize an opportunity at all.

Ying Chengnian’s heart was filled with both jealousy and regret.

If only he could switch places with Du Yu, he’d be thriving by now.

What’s the use of being the First Disciple?

So what if you follow the Ancient Pine Tower Lin Family?

Your outlook is so narrow—just a frog at the bottom of a well...

With bitterness in his heart, Ying Chengnian led two teammates and pushed open the earthen door of the inn.

Inside the main hall were mud tables and benches, surprisingly well made.

Outside, Liu Juncai stood in the center of the dirt road, gazing toward the far end of the street.

As the team members scattered to search the buildings, the street became even quieter. In the distance, atop the building at the city center, a pair of Ancient Wilderness Hammers stood still, showing no sign of movement.

"Ah! Ah..."

Suddenly, a girl’s sharp scream came from inside the inn.

Liu Junhu’s heart jumped, and he jerked his head in that direction.

"Wait." Liu Juncai pressed a hand down on Liu Junhu’s shoulder, stopping his impulsive cousin.

Soon, from the shop on the right, Du Yu rushed out with a teammate. "What happened?"

"No, stop! Don’t!" The girl’s scream from inside the inn sounded heartrending, sending chills down everyone’s spine.

"Let’s go." Seeing Du Yu had returned, Liu Juncai barked the order and charged into the inn with the rest.

In their sight, Ying Chengnian was running out of the kitchen, his face equally panicked. "What happened?"

Liu Junhu took the lead, Electric Little Star dashing at his heels as he rushed into the back courtyard. "You?"

The girl was sitting by the old well, her face deathly pale, a stained patch on her chest.

Her Black Pearl was shattered!

"Someone, someone..." The girl’s words stopped as she looked to the center of the backyard.

The others followed her gaze just in time to see a female Soldier poking her head up from the ground. "You’re out. You’re not allowed to divulge any information. Come with me."

As she spoke, the female Soldier emerged from the ground and gestured toward the back door.

The girl looked at Liu Juncai, her expression ashamed and frustrated, but had no choice but to lower her head and walk towards the back door.

From inside the old well, a dust-caked Wolf Lake Dog crawled out, chasing after its master.

Liu Juncai’s face darkened.

This person’s exit was utterly worthless!

The girl hadn’t managed to clarify who the attacker was at all.

Was it the Sand Soldiers and Sand General of Ancient Wilderness City, or was it students from another province lying in ambush here?

"I knew this damned Ancient City was fishy!" Liu Junhu blurted out.

"Search!" Liu Juncai commanded grimly. "Whatever’s hiding here, dig three feet if you have to, but find it for me!"

"Right, we’ve got to find it!" Ying Chengnian echoed, striding into the backyard.

The back courtyard of the inn was quite open, with only three rooms.

Apart from that, there was nowhere to hide.

Liu Juncai stood in the center of the yard. She no longer stopped Liu Junhu from leading the search, instead keeping Du Yu by her side as a guard.

Du Yu also summoned Little Tai Sui, watching as the others searched the rooms one by one.

"Hee hee~ Idiots."

"Hm?" Du Yu’s heart skipped. "Burning Sun?"

Little Fen Yang murmured quietly, "He’s on the roof. Seriously, they’re such idiots~"

Du Yu instantly looked up. The gable roof was perfectly clear—it could only be behind, dead in the team’s blind spot.

"What did you find?" Liu Juncai whispered.

Du Yu: "Behind..."

"Bang!" Before Du Yu finished, a thunderous noise erupted.

It sounded like something had burst through the rooftop and crashed down inside.

Liu Junhu, with one leg already stepping out the door, instinctively leapt outside and turned back to look in.

Amid swirling yellow sand, Ying Chengnian was pinned to the floor by a heroic young man!

"Yang Mingyu!?" Liu Junhu blurted in surprise. Wasn’t this Shandai’s number one Paper Crane Disciple?

Yang Mingyu, descending from above, stomped Ying Chengnian to the ground, then planted his foot hard on Ying Chengnian’s chest.

Ying Chengnian’s Demon Breath Battle Robe shattered, clean and crisp.

And the Black Pearl on his chest was crushed completely as well.

"Puh!" Ying Chengnian tasted blood in his throat.

His chest stomped brutal and hard, he spat a mouthful of fresh blood, splattering down Yang Mingyu’s pant leg.

This is impossible!

Ying Chengnian’s face turned red, his heart sinking into despair.

No matter how much of an ace Yang Mingyu was, at most he was a Demon Tamer·Peak Stage.

How could he, just with bare hands and without the aid of any Demon Soldier, crush my battle robe?

"Hmph." Yang Mingyu crushed the "corpse" beneath his foot, then thrust his blood-red spear forward in a flash!

"Hiss!" A bloody long serpent shot from his arm, aiming right at Liu Junhu standing outside the door.

Yang Mingyu’s movements were as smooth as flowing water, making the bloody serpent look like it shot right out from the tip of his spear!

Water Demonic Beast·Coral Flood Dragon!

This kind of Demon Beast was extremely rare; it wasn’t a river creature, but a Water Demonic Beast from the ocean itself.