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Chapter 707 Chapter Summoning Demonic Spirits
Chu Fei walked slowly, constantly looking at the surrounding environment.

Before this, I was so absorbed in spiritual practice that I paid little attention to the basic social situation.

At that time, the wind of perception continued to receive information from all sides. Chu Fei heard about the daily life of the people, but gained a deeper understanding of people's livelihood.

It was obvious that Qingshi City could not be defended, and the ordinary people were not stupid, and everyone saw this.

But where to go next? Too many ordinary people have become penniless after continuous migration. If they continue to migrate, what will they eat on the road?
The people are not stupid, they are just powerless.

Faced with this situation, Chu Fei could only sigh. There was not much he could do.

In fact, in order to rescue ordinary people, Chu Fei paid out of his own pocket, which was worthy of his status as deputy city lord.

Moreover, if they migrate again, it will not only be a matter of food, but also of safety along the way and the physical strength of the people.

Previously, many people migrated from Hongsong City to Xiaoheishan City, and then from Xiaoheishan City to Qingshi City. The total distance was less than 220 kilometers. They could hold on if they gritted their teeth.

But if they retreat from Qingshi City, they can only migrate to Cangyun City.

The closest high wall of the Cangyun City Cluster to the Qingshi City is the "Iron Mountain Pass", which is the gateway for the Cangyun City Cluster to face the Hongsong City Cluster, a truly majestic pass.

If you want to retreat from Qingshi City to Tieshan Pass, ordinary people have to go through "Wangjia Town". Wangjia Town is a checkpoint controlled by the Red Pine City Lord's Mansion and is also the location of the military base.
From the map, the locations of Tieshan Pass, Wangjia Town, and Qingshi City are approximately:

********Wangjia Town

Iron Fan Pass********
******Bluestone City*
The straight-line distance from Tieshan Pass to Wangjia Town and Qingshi City is about two hundred kilometers.

Between Qingshi City and Tieshan Pass, there are mountains and ridges, high mountains and dense forests, and all kinds of strange beasts. Ordinary people can't walk through. So, they can only go around Wangjia Town.

But Wangjia Town is in the hands of the Tianlong people.

Thinking of this, Chu Fei couldn't help but sigh, and then thought to himself: Why not let these people die of gluttony? As the deputy city lord, I have done my duty well.

As for the fact that I collected some pure spiritual power in this process, it is reasonable.

Currently, the Tianlongs have not blocked the trade route to Wangjia Town, and merchants can come here. After all, the Tianlongs also need to buy things, and they also need to win over some masters who want to obtain strange spirits or evil spirits - mainly because there are too many masters to offend, so for the time being, they can still buy food.

While thinking, Chu Fei returned to the City Lord's Mansion and immediately issued a reward as the deputy city lord - medicine in exchange for food.

Less than half an hour after the order was given, someone came to the door.

A new staff member reported: "Report to the city lord, there is a master outside the gate, and he said he has a large amount of food."

Chu Fei nodded and said, "Take him to the living room first."

In the living room, Chu Fei saw the person who came. He had a middle-aged appearance, and his cultivation aura was in the late 11.0 stage. The clothes he was wearing had "Qingqing Merchant Group" written on them.

The name is easy to remember.

When the visitor saw Chu Fei, he immediately stood up and introduced himself with his head bowed slightly: "Greetings to City Lord Chu. I am Guan Qingyun, the deputy leader of the Qingqing Merchant Group, and I am in charge of the Qingqing Merchant Group's trade work in Cangyun City.

In addition, the Qingqing Business Group serves the captain of the second team of Thunder City, Long Qingqing.

Captain Long highly praised City Lord Chu for stabilizing the price of medicines and suppressing unscrupulous merchants. "

Chu Fei's eyes flickered slightly: He must have agreed that he had wiped out the Triumph Merchant Group and slapped the face of Qi Hongbin, the captain of the First Team.

However, this thought only flashed through his mind for a moment, and Chu Fei smiled and said, "Thank you for the compliment, Captain Long. This is what I should do.

From the name, I think Captain Long is a woman?"

"She is the most beautiful girl in Thunder City." Guan Qingyun blinked and showed a "mysterious" smile on his face.

Chu Fei smiled and said, "Then I must meet Captain Xia Long if I have the chance."

In his heart, Chu Fei was wondering, this so-called most beautiful woman, is she beautiful in appearance or in cultivation?
Guan Qingyun: "When I came here, Captain Long asked me to invite him on his behalf. If there is a chance, I hope to meet the city lord."

"Oh, it only took me seven or eight days to clean up the pharmaceutical market. Is seven or eight days enough to get here from Thunder City?"

Of course it is enough for an individual to travel, but it is definitely not enough for a merchant group to travel.

Guan Qingyun smiled, "I set out half a month ago and just arrived today. I communicated with Captain Long during the trip. Currently, communication mainly relies on the landline of the two inspectors."

Chu Fei suddenly realized, "I see. So you came here for the reward this time?"

"Yes. We brought 200 tons of food this time, 150 tons of which were urgently purchased from Cangyun City.

Of course, food is just a side dish and is not worth much money; what we want more are the ghosts, as well as the flesh and blood, crystal cores, etc. of alien species.

Captain Long would rather get a living Celestial Dragon, preferably one that can transform."

So that's how it is. The next step is naturally negotiation.

Chu Fei needed food, but Guan Qingyun said that food was worthless and was prepared to give 200 tons of food directly to Chu Fei.

In return, Chu Fei gave Guan Qingyun some skills on how to capture evil spirits, including some core skills that were not made public. The reason for this was that if the method didn't work, at least he could save his life.

After a brief exchange, Chu Fei sent Guan Qingyun away.

Although it was just a preliminary exchange, Chu Fei and Guan Qingyun had a good impression of each other.

After seeing Guan Qingyun off, Zheng Chengan went to Chu Fei's office and started asking about the sword.

Chu Fei said naturally: "In the heat treatment, this has been set up as an automatic program.

The sword casting technology has made further progress this time. You will know when you get your hands on it.

I estimate that compared to the sword that Liu Jinhui took away, the quality is at least 50% higher. Compared to the sword I have now, the density of the formation has also increased by 100%, so I think the effect will be even better!"

Chu Fei never lies, the heat treatment is real, but it is useless and just for show; the density of the array has indeed increased. But the question of "thinking" cannot be answered accurately, right?

Zheng Chengan was satisfied, and then he said: "I received your information earlier, and I sent someone to investigate and found that it was true.

The Celestial Dragons have not attacked tonight, and many famous bounty hunters have also disappeared.

After some investigation, it was discovered that these bounty hunters had indeed gone to the place where the Celestial Dragons were and participated in the descent ceremony of the demons.

Those bounty hunters with "outstanding combat achievements" can stand in the innermost circle of the scene where the monsters descend and can directly hunt down the monsters when they descend.

According to the Celestial Dragons, the demons are at their weakest the moment they first descend."

Chu Fei was a little confused after hearing this. "Last time, a large number of ghosts descended on the battlefield. These ghosts must have strong combat power when they first descended. I don't see how weak these guys are."

Zheng Chengan sneered, "I think these bounty hunters will fall flat on their faces! They sound more like sacrifices to me, and they are eager to be sacrifices!"

Chu Fei nodded slightly, "No matter what, we still have to be prepared."

…………

On the Tianlong side, the old site of the Wei family in Hongsong City was already crowded with people.

In the large glass conference room on the top floor, Liu Jinhui was reporting the situation to Yan Xiaolong, the inspector of Lieyanlu City:

“现场有48个赏金猎人，其中有4个拿到了11.0的脑袋，18个拿到了10.0的脑袋，剩下的拿到了三个以上9.0的脑袋。”

Yan Xiaolong was a little confused. "So many people? Level 11.0 and 10.0 Awakeners are not cheap. After the previous continuous battles, there shouldn't be many Awakeners in Qingshi City now, and the remaining ones are even harder to kill."

Liu Jinhui smiled, with a hint of sarcasm in his smile: "Some of these heads were picked up by others because they were killed by others and no longer wanted." [Note ①]

Yan Xiaolong glanced at Liu Jinhui. His mockery seemed to have many layers. He asked with a slightly raised tone, "Who killed so many people?
According to our previous estimates, it would be good if we could achieve three or five victories in one night, and it would take at least five days to meet the summoning conditions.

Now it’s completed ahead of schedule.”

Liu Jinhui's sarcasm was even more obvious: "I don't know who it was, but after I found out that the 'trophy' was beyond my imagination, I tried to understand the truth, but I got nothing.

Those who picked up the heads kept their mouths shut and said they were obtained in battle. In particular, there was a bounty hunter with a cultivation level of 10.2 who came with a head of 11.0 and said he hunted it alone.

Yan Xiaolong twitched the corner of his mouth but said nothing.

Liu Jinhui continued, "Later, I counted the heads and found that the number of heads belonging to Bluestone City was roughly the same as ours, including the bounty hunters, and even less in Bluestone City.

In other words, there is a mysterious killer who is secretly hunting people from both sides of our group, and is generally leaning towards Bluestone City.

Tsk, what do you think this guy wants?
It’s simply confusing behavior!”

Yan Xiaolong narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking, "Is it possible that this mysterious killer is a master of Bluestone City? He first cooperated with the people of Bluestone City to kill our people, and then attacked the 'comrades' of Bluestone City?"

Liu Jinhui was stunned for a moment, "Can it be operated this way?"

But the next moment, Liu Jinhui's eyes suddenly widened, "I thought of someone!"

"Chu Fei!" Yan Xiaolong said, "A few days ago, there was a family massacre in Qingshi City. It was said that Chu Fei did it. There are many different opinions about the reasons, but in summary, there are only three reasons: the first is to assassinate Chu Fei, the second is to kill Wang Yujing, and the third is to disrupt the pharmaceutical market."

Liu Jinhui nodded slightly, "It's very likely. And these masters have a lot of spoils. Should we praise Chu Fei publicly?"

Yan Xiaolong shook his head slightly. "Without evidence, it's useless. Besides, we have suffered more losses. Would it be a slap in the face if we publish the contents?"

Hit yourself in the face? Hearing this, Liu Jinhui looked a little unhappy. But City Lord Liu was a shrewd man, and he sneered, "Anyway, we still have to thank this mysterious psychopathic killer. We were originally planning to complete the plan in five days, but now it's two days earlier, and the effect is better."

Yan Xiaolong looked at the "summoning formation" in front of him with a slightly solemn expression.

Below, the leader of the Tianlong Sect, Yin Yunlong, was presiding over the ceremony. The ceremony looked very complicated and grand, attracting the attention of many masters who were participating in this kind of ceremony for the first time.

However, they didn't know that these rituals were all fake!
The method of summoning ghosts is actually very simple, which is to use a large number of deaths, souls, negative emotions, etc. to locate and guide the existence of the high-dimensional world to open the channel - the low-dimensional world can only locate or guide it, and has no ability to open the channel.

But the "audience" around didn't know that. They just felt it was mysterious and weird, and full of anti-scientific routines.

At the same time, Zhang Shengtao, head of the Zhang family, was giving a loud "speech":
"Everyone, the demon spirit is about to descend, everyone be prepared. The demon spirit will be more powerful than the ghost spirit.

The foundation of the ghost is about the early 10.0, and the foundation of the demon should be in the middle or late 10.0.

Those who are not strong enough can form a team of three or two.

In addition, I still want to announce some danger precautions. After all, the demon spirit is not the ghost spirit. We don’t know the specific situation. What I just said is based on the experience of summoning ghost spirits three times before.

The demons are dangerous after all, so if you are unsure, I suggest you quit immediately."

Faced with Zhang Shengtao's "kind" persuasion, instead of leaving, everyone moved closer to the central "altar".

Seeing this, Zhang Shengtao sighed, stepped into the air, and left leisurely. But after leaving the crowd, Zhang Shengtao showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth: It's hard to persuade the damned ghost with good words!

On the altar, Yin Yunlong's movements became more erratic and strange. As the "ritual" progressed, dark clouds appeared out of nowhere in the sky and blocked the moonlight - in fact, these were not dark clouds, but the existence of the higher-dimensional world could not be recognized in the lower-dimensional world, especially because the masters on the scene were not skilled enough to recognize it, resulting in "garbled characters" and a "dark cloud".

The dark clouds began to swirl after they appeared, gradually forming the shape of a tornado and extending toward the ground. But the whole process was silent, without any sound, as if everything in front of me was an illusion.

This tornado was descending slowly and twisting unsteadily. It felt a bit strenuous, but also indescribably hideous.

After more than ten minutes, the tail of the "tornado" finally touched the "altar".

The next moment, "human figures" with snake tails began to appear in the tornado.

These "human shadows" were not big at first, only about 30 to 50 centimeters; but after the tornado circled a few times, they quickly expanded to the size of normal people, except that they had no legs behind them, and the part below the waist became a snake tail structure.

In addition, compared to the light gray and almost transparent appearance of the ghost, the demon spirit is semi-transparent black, and its somewhat hideous face can be vaguely seen.

The evil spirits circled in the tornado, but for a while they were unable to break free from its control.

As time passed, more and more demons appeared. It looked like there were already more than 300 or 500 demons, but probably more than 1,000. But even so, the tornado was still spinning.

In fact, it is called a tornado, but in reality it is a channel, a channel coming from a higher-dimensional world.

At a certain moment, everyone suddenly heard a whistling sound.

Yin Yunlong also breathed a sigh of relief, "It worked."

Then the dark clouds suddenly disappeared, the tornado collapsed, and then thousands of evil spirits rushed in all directions.

The bounty hunters near the altar became excited when they saw the evil spirit appear, and immediately tried to trap the evil spirit using the same method they used to trap the ghost.

The result is - it's useless!
"Not good!" An expert exclaimed, his voice filled with despair.

The next moment, the evil spirit was seen passing through a master, vaguely grabbing a "human figure" and dragging it out of the body, and a shrill scream was heard.

【Note ①: Guess how many layers of sarcasm Liu Jinhui has.】

(End of this chapter)