Chapter 244: Chapter 244

They would regret that they shouldn't have played this game, otherwise they wouldn't have been counter-hunted, and so thoroughly at that, everyone had been hunted down.

If they could do it over again, they believed they would be well-behaved second-generation members, cultivate their sect's techniques, then become pillars of the sect, and then...

Now, there was no "and then", everything was too late.

Among their regrets, what they regretted most should be about Xiaoyao. They regretted why they had to capture Xiaoyao. If they hadn't, none of this would have happened.

Also, if they hadn't kept pursuing Xiaoyao and had left earlier, they wouldn't have died...

If all of this could be "if," they believed none of them would choose such an outcome.

"Oh, you still have a breath left. Are you dying with eyes wide open? Well, there's nothing I can do about that. Who told you to do so many bad things, this is retribution." Xiaoyao looked toward the "corpse" that had made the sound, directly revealing the other's condition, just one breath left, definitely going to die.

This "corpse" was none other than Feng Hai, who had been leading these young men before. Who would have thought his life was so tough that he still had a breath left.

"I don't understand, when did you set up traps here? If we hadn't come, wouldn't you have wasted your efforts?" Feng Hai couldn't figure it out or understand.

"I can still explain this to you." Xiaoyao said with a smile. "I was always here. When you were chasing me, I was setting up traps here. Of course, not just here, there were other backups too. According to your habitual thinking, you would definitely think the return route was safe, so your guard would be much lower."

Who would think Xiaoyao would continue setting traps on the route they came from? Everything seemed to become clear now. Why Xiaoyao had been nowhere to be seen before, why so many of them couldn't find him, the reason was that Xiaoyao had always been behind them, not in front. They had been searching in the wrong direction, so of course they couldn't find anyone.

Why didn't Xiaoyao appear during that time? Of course, he was preparing these traps. After preparing them, didn't he immediately appear before them.

From disappearing to appearing, there seemed to be nearly a day and night in between. This time was enough for Xiaoyao to prepare many things, and without anyone interfering.

At that time, everyone had gone to the front. The place where he was became a vacuum zone again, which was also the main reason he could set up the traps properly.

After setting up the traps, Xiaoyao immediately went to lure people over. He had prepared several plans, though the other plans were no longer important now since these people had all fallen into the trap.

This was also a blind spot in human psychology. Generally, places just passed through would be assumed to remain the same as before, without thinking there would be any changes in between.

"Who exactly are you?" Feng Hai asked again, word by word.

"My name is Xiaoyao, a small servant." Xiaoyao replied.

"I don't believe it." Feng Hai still didn't believe Xiaoyao's truth, and this was also his last sentence. After these words, he stopped breathing and never would again.

He died with eyes wide open because he felt Xiaoyao hadn't told the truth. He felt that even in death, he didn't know who Xiaoyao was and would have to walk the road to the Yellow Springs with this doubt.

If he had known that Xiaoyao was telling the truth and that he was dying with eyes wide open because he didn't believe the truth, he would probably have died even more unwillingly.

Xiaoyao didn't check if there were any survivors because he didn't care whether these people had a chance to survive. Even if there were survivors, he wouldn't deliver finishing blows.

Not only did he not want to waste this time, but also because anyone who could survive under his heaven and earth net might be heaven's will, heaven still wanted this person to live, so why should he go against heaven's will? At least it wasn't worth it for these scumbags.

But heaven didn't seem to intend to let these people survive. Perhaps because these people had committed too many evil deeds, heaven wouldn't pity them at all. Not one of them escaped the heaven and earth net, not one was alive. Tʜe source of this ᴄontent ɪs noⅴelfire.net

Afterward, Xiaoyao didn't even clean up the place and left directly, because there was nothing here worth cleaning up.

After the heaven and earth net was used, it was just a pile of waste. Even if mechanism experts came, they wouldn't be able to tell what had happened. Being able to see that this was caused by mechanisms and traps would already be quite good.

As for whether those corpses would be discovered, was this important to Xiaoyao? Not important, not at all.

If these corpses were discovered, so be it. When they wanted to find someone for revenge, let them look. They might not necessarily find him anyway. Even if they knew, if they came seeking revenge, it might actually be quite interesting.

If roaming the martial world didn't have some grudges and vendettas, it would always feel like something was missing. Perhaps this would be better.

However, even if discovered, tracing it back to Xiaoyao would be very, very difficult, almost impossible, because no one here knew Xiaoyao's identity. Even if they knew, they didn't know where Xiaoyao was.

As for finding people related to Xiaoyao, well, as long as they dared to look, they could find them, but did they dare?

Those related to Xiaoyao, Guxing and others were in the Great Tang Empire. Not to mention that the Great Tang Empire wasn't a place the Azure Dragon Society dared to cause trouble, even Guxing and others themselves they didn't dare provoke. Each was at Emperor Level. Their Azure Dragon Society and similar sects weren't those super major sects. They had Emperor Level experts, and not just one or two, but they might not be able to defeat Guxing and others, especially within the Great Tang Empire.

Not all sects could contend with empires. Countries had rankings, and sects also had rankings. Second-rate sects could only contend with kingdoms.

Hei Xue and others? If enemies also counted as relationships, then they counted too. However, Hei Xue and others were from the Demon Cult. The Demon Cult could destroy even Heavenly Gate, destroying their Azure Dragon Society would be easier than moving a finger.

Under such circumstances, the Azure Dragon Society and similar sects had even less courage to provoke the Demon Cult. They would pray to gods and buddhas if the Demon Cult didn't destroy them for besieging Xiaoyao.

This was actually very possible. Not because Xiaoyao was important to the Demon Cult, but because this was a very good excuse for the Demon Cult. The Demon Cult always acted unreasonably. Not to mention such unreasonable excuses, even without excuses, they would do the same.

However, discovering that Xiaoyao had connections with the Demon Cult was almost impossible. Only a few Demon Cult members knew. What others knew was that Xiaoyao had once disrupted the Demon Cult's affairs and should be an enemy of the Demon Cult.

No matter what, this matter was over for Xiaoyao. He wouldn't pay attention to it anymore and continued his career of roaming the martial world.

Xiaoyao didn't go back but prepared to cross the mountain region ahead, choosing a direction toward his needed destination. Although Xiaoyao didn't know the map here or the terrain, finding the right direction shouldn't be wrong, he should still reach his destination.

Crossing forests, climbing snow mountains, flying over canyons, in these twenty days, Xiaoyao had done many similar things. Today, he finally crossed this mountain range. Before him was a suddenly open plain that seemed endless at a glance. It appeared this mountain range was right at the edge of this plain.

In these twenty-plus days, Xiaoyao had gained quite a bit in the mountains. Although this place couldn't compare to Heavenly Heart Mountain, it was also undeveloped. Here were many accumulations from thousands or even tens of thousands of years in this mountain range. Some treasures of heaven and earth were possible, and such things were often encountered by chance but not sought. Xiaoyao was unlucky enough to encounter some.

This could only be said that Xiaoyao's luck was quite good.

Of course, the places Xiaoyao passed through were all places others couldn't reach. He had walked in a straight line, but the problem was that this straight line was extremely difficult. Normal people couldn't cross it, even experts would sigh in despair. But Xiaoyao still made it through because he had exquisite skills and ingenious tools.

Well, ingenious tools accounted for a larger portion...

"Chi Chi, we've eaten too much wild game these past few days. Now let big brother take you to eat something light." Xiaoyao suddenly said at this moment.

Chi Chi seemed to understand Xiaoyao's meaning because they saw a small town ahead, and such a small town probably wouldn't have any exotic delicacies, vegetables and radishes would definitely be abundant.

Chi Chi was never picky about food, it was a glutton, not a gourmet.

Soon, Xiaoyao arrived at that small town, but the situation wasn't quite what he had imagined. This small town was very prosperous, not only having mountain and sea delicacies but also some strange things Xiaoyao had never seen before, including food.

Actually, this small town was an adventurer's town. Most of the people inside were martial world wanderers who came here for missions. In this mountain range, although it wasn't as rich as Heavenly Heart Mountain, there was still considerable wealth that could attract many people to come here for adventure and treasure hunting.

However, the direction they entered wasn't Xiaoyao's direction. If they knew Xiaoyao had come out from this direction, they would definitely be very surprised, because there was almost no path to walk there, cliffs and precipices, canyons and swamps, with extremely harsh environment.

Many people had tried, but basically all retreated in defeat. Those who barely managed to enter faced almost certain death. The side they entered from was different, although the terrain there was also somewhat difficult, it was at least safe. Generally, anyone with some ability could return alive.