Talisman Emperor
Chapter 326 Five Great Villains
The Crimsonscale Treasured Wagon had gone and disappeared at the end of the road, leaving only Chen Xi alone on the spot, and he looked around to his surroundings, however it was unable to find anything related to Firecrow Town.
The environment of this place was covered by luxurious bushes and yellow and green weeds swayed by the wind, it was a vast wilderness, a, and he was simply unable to see where exactly Firecrow Town was.
Fortunately, his heavenly sense was quite strong. After searching for a while in the area of around several thousand kilometers, he finally saw a wooden plaque hidden within the bush.
The wooden plaque was completely rotted and hung on the rotten branches of the tree, and it was the same color as the surrounding weeds, making it very difficult to notice unless one searched carefully.
Only two crooked and crooked words were written on the wooden plaque – Firecrow Town.
Chen Xi jumped up to arrive in front of the wooden plaque and after seeing it for a while, she swung her hand to cut in front of him. A sharp blade-like strong wind shot out from his palm and swept horizontally, and the nearby thick weed that was as tall as a man was cut in half.
A small, winding road appeared before his eyes.
Over time, the plants grow and wither. Instead, this weed hid the path that led to Firecrow Town. Actually, if I were to look down from the sky, I should be able to find the location of Firecrow Town, but this way, my trail would be exposed, and it was very unworthy … Chen Xi thought for a moment, then she did not hesitate in the slightest to move forward along the way.
Sunsets and twilights appeared, and a cold wind suddenly rose. Chen Xi ran for almost ten minutes before vaguely seeing a small town appear on the horizon.
To his surprise, the sky above the small town had completely surged with a thick layer of pitch-black mist that looked like the terrifyingly terrifying qi of vindictive spirits condensed there without spreading, without spreading out, and exuded a sanguinary aura and a powerful terrifying aura.
Supposedly, many evil and evil people were hiding in Firecrow Town, and they had committed a terrible crime that caused widespread anger, so they were chased and sought after by the cultivation world of the entire Darchu Dynasty. At this moment, just from the terrifying qi that wrapped around it without dispersing, this rumor should be true. Chen Xi flashed as she pondered.
Wu ~ Wu ~ Wu ~
The night descended and a cold wind whistled, and the stream of air contained a terrifying cold that was gloomy and terrifying. It was like a vengeful spirit lamenting on the ground, causing the distant Firecrow Town to appear like a ghost town.
Chen Xi suddenly stopped because she saw a skinny figure coming out of Firecrow Town towards her.
This was a very thin young man who was thin and weak to the point that he looked like a gust of wind that could blow him up, but his head was large, and his black hair was as disheveled as a bird's nest.
“Dear guests, welcome to Firecrow Town. I'm a Firecrow Tavern officer, and you can call me Qiao Sheng. I'm guessing this is your first time to Firecrow Town, may I know if you need a guide? ”This skinny young man named Qiao Sheng smiled brightly and revealed a row of snow-white teeth, and it was very easy to cause someone to have a good impression of him.
"Guide?" Chen Xi asked with interest. He already knew that Qiao Sheng's cultivation was only in the Golden Hall Realm and could not pose a threat to him.
Qian Sheng grinned as he said, "Right, a guide. I can help you get to know the surroundings of Firecrow Town. What you should pay attention to, what you can ignore, Firecrow Town rules, and so on. I can help explain everything to you. ”
Chen Xi asked. "How much?"
Qian Sheng stretched out three fingers. “30,000 Newborn Condensing Pills. ”
Chen Xi nodded and said, "Alright, agree. ”
The entire Firecrow Town revealed an oddity, and he felt there was really a need to find a guide to get to know the surroundings immediately. As for the shocking price, he did not mind.
“Great. As long as nothing unexpected happened, straightforward guests like you would fully be able to stay in Firecrow Town. '' Qian Sheng smiled widely as he spoke, and then he began to lead the way forward.
Chen Xi measured the surrounding environment as she followed quietly behind Qiao Sheng, and she quickly entered Firecrow Town.
In fact, Firecrow Town was actually more like a village with muddy roads and tattered houses, and each area was filled with a desolate and impoverished aura.
Under the veil of that night, only a few scattered lanterns lit up in Firecrow Town, and the flames of the lanterns flickered as the cold wind blew. When viewed from afar, they were like ghostly flames flickering with oppressive gloom.
As he walked and walked, Chen Xi suddenly stopped moving, and then he turned to look towards his right side.
More than 10 bare round wooden pillars stand towering more than 30 m from the main road. Each wooden pillar had a corpse hanging there, the corpses of naked young women. These naked corpses were tied tightly around the neck by a very fine rope, their arms were tied behind, and only their legs were flying in the air. The eyes of the naked corpse were wide open like plates and covered in a deadly sheen.
A gust of cold wind blew onto these corpses, and they were like many lifeless scarecrows.
A middle-aged man stood on the last round wooden pillar. He wore embroidered clothes and marten robes with a round hat on his head, and his expression was warm and friendly like a great benefactor often seen in the world, he said, however he rubbed his chin as he measured the corpses of the women who had just been hanged.
Chen Xi's eyes narrowed slightly. The rich-looking middle-aged man's body surged with a dense killing intent, and it even vaguely formed layers of black and misty light around him, and it was an aura of 'sin' that could only be formed from torturing countless people to death and one's hands stained by the countless souls of those who had died unjust deaths.
"That's Scarecrow Zhang, one of the five great villains in Firecrow Town. '' Qiao Sheng quickly explained from the side. “The biggest addiction of this person is to collect female corpses and process them into human puppets with secret techniques. Every time he collected 100 corpses, he would ignite them with phosphorous flames, causing them to look like many bright lanterns flying into the sky from afar, and it was an extremely incredible sight. ”
Chen Xi said calmly, "People of the Zhang Scarecrow?"
Qiao Sheng nodded and said, “True, in Firecrow Town, almost everyone has a nickname, and very few people use their real names. ”
Swish!
Not long after, the sound of flowing water was carried by the wind, and it contained a sharp and pungent bloody smell within it.
Chen Xi raised her eyes to look up, and she saw a bald man who was showing off his upper body was sitting on the side of the road. A large wooden basin was placed before him, and inside was a thick layer of dark red blood and snow white as well as a clean human skull floating in the blood.
"This is Skull Li, and just like Scarecrow Zhang, he is one of the five great villains in Firecrow Town. He liked to refine other people's skulls into bone pearls that were the size of a thumb before wearing them. "Qiao Sheng pointed to Skull Li's neck and said, "Look, he's wearing a piece of white bone formed into a necklace around his neck. There were a total of 108 bones, and all of them were refined from human skulls. Isn't this so beautiful? "
Chen Xi focused his gaze. Sure enough, he saw a rope necklace with many bone pearls that were like human skulls that had shrunk many times. They had empty eyes and bright teeth, and they seemed to laugh viciously.
Similarly, a layer of black and 'sin' fog light coiled around Skull Li.
Qiao Sheng greeted Skull Li before bringing Chen Xi to continue advancing.
On the way, Chen Xi could not help but ask. "People of the Zhang Scarecrow, Skull Li, who are the other three criminals?"
Qiao Sheng said with a smile, “I know you will definitely ask. Besides them, there was also Crimson Matthiola. She's a woman addicted to growing Crimson Matthiola flowers, but the Crimson Matthiolas she needs use living people as fertilizer. He buried the entire person alive in the ground before opening a bloody hole in the top of the person's head, and then he planted Crimson Matthiola inside. ”
"In addition to Crimson Matthiola, there was also Wu Fuzi. This old man's hobby could still be considered normal. But she likes to hear the sounds of crying and screaming while she sleeps. So he dug a big hole in his room and brought a group of people alive inside. Every time he went to sleep, he poured some evil spirits into the pit, burning these people to the point that they let out shrill cries and shouts, and only then did he fall asleep peacefully. ”
"The last one is Qi Yin. His temperament was ice-cold and indifferent, and he very rarely appeared in Firecrow Town. Most of the time, he moved in the Dark Forest and enjoyed fighting and killing ferocious demonic beasts. ”
Chen Xi nodded and said, "The Scarecrow Zhang, Skull Li, Crimson Matthiola, Wu Fuzi, and Qi Yin. Among these five great villains, it seemed to me that the Yin Qi was the only one that could still be considered normal. ”
Qiao Sheng grinned and said, "After you stay here for a long time, you will get used to anything.
Chen Xi frowned and said, "Couldn't anyone manage this place?"
Qiao Sheng was stunned, then he shook his head and said, “That's impossible. This is a crime scene. In this place, whose hands have not been stained with a few lives? If it wasn't for them being pushed into a corner, there probably wouldn't be anyone willing to come here and suffer. ”
As he spoke here, Qiao Sheng seemed to have realized something, and he reminded with a stern expression. “Tamu, I have to warn you. You don't have to poke your nose into someone else's business. Although the scarecrow of Zhang and the others have killed countless people and are criminals who escaped to Firecrow Town and deserved to die, if you put your nose into their business, the, then I'm afraid you'll end up like those dead people. ”
Chen Xi was silent. He remembered how the people in the Crimsonscale Treasured Wagon called him a 'devil' when he left. Aren't these villains in Firecrow Town exactly like demons?
This place is indeed a place of exile for evil.
Along the way, Chen Xi asked Qiao Sheng a few other things, and he gained a rough understanding of the situation in Firecrow Town.
There are over a thousand people living in Firecrow Town now, there are bandits, assassins, thieves … The only common point among them was that these people were sought and pursued by the entire Darchu Dynasty, and they chose to stay here because they were pushed into a corner.
The reason the Darchu Dynasty did not exterminate them all was very simple. Firecrow Town turned its back on the Dark Forest, and ferocious beasts roamed freely in the forest, causing every step taken within the forest to be filled with killing intent. Although it was extremely dangerous, it contained various spirit materials and spirit ores. If the villains in Firecrow Town wanted to survive, then they would have to pay a sufficient amount of various materials each month. Otherwise, they would face the siege of Darchu Soulguard of the Darchu Dynasty.
In other words, Firecrow Town was like a prison, and these criminals served as laborers in a prison.
As for wanting to escape from this place, it was simply impossible. Qiao Sheng did not give specific details, but he solemnly guaranteed that any criminals who escaped from Firecrow Town were captured and brought back in less than three days. But when they were captured and brought back, they were already corpses.
Of course, Chen Xi had asked about Qiao Sheng as well. Yet he never imagined that this person was actually a member of the Darchu Soulguard.
It's strange!
This place is really too weird.
As of now, Chen Xi had still not wrapped her head with the situation in front of her.
But in a short time, he put this burden on his mind. He had no intention of staying for long in Firecrow Town. He instead wanted to go through Firecrow Town to enter the Forest of gloom before heading to Thunder City and all the way until he arrived at Silken City.
Not long after, a large area appeared in front. There were ruined walls and ruins everywhere, and there was only one simple and crude tavern standing alone there.
Not only was the shop simple and crude, it was extremely broken. The surrounding walls were covered in mottled black dust and half of the roof already had many cracks split open, and it seemed like it could collapse at any moment.
A twisted and unstable wooden plaque hung at the entrance of the tavern. On top of that wooden plaque was a dim, wordless Firecrow and two-word – Firecrow Tavern.
The night sky was like ink and waves of loud laughter that rumbled like thunder rang out from the tavern from time to time. In this gloomy little town, the city seemed bustling and bustling.