CHAPTER 325: CHAPTER 187: SHE, TOUCH HER AND YOU DIE

The gaze of the mysterious person fell upon Yun Sheng’s feet.

Following the direction of his gaze, Yun Sheng looked down and found that due to wearing heavy shackles, after walking some distance, several wounds had been chafed into her delicate skin.

She hadn’t felt much pain before, but now that the person was examining her like that, Yun Sheng felt the wounds burning fiercely.

"Weirdo," Yun Sheng muttered, her mouth twisting as she followed Sixth Son’s father and the others back to the mine.

"Don’t bother looking, he’s already left," Cheng Bai emerged, stroking his chin and gazing thoughtfully at his good friend Ye Beiming.

Before entering the area, Beiming had cautioned him that they must be careful with their words and actions in the mine area, especially since Cheng Bai was known to be the most impulsive and hot-blooded among the three of them.

A few days earlier, Cheng Bai had wanted to intervene several times after witnessing the mysterious people torturing villagers, only to be stopped by Ye Beiming.

Unexpectedly, today it was Ye Beiming who first broke their rule.

It seemed that the normally overly calm Ye Beiming would lose his composure once matters involved Little Divine Doctor Yun.

Ye Beiming’s eyes shifted as he said in a deep voice, "How are things on Jiuxiao’s end?"

"I’ve ascertained the destination of the Purple Gold Ore; we can take action in at most five days. It’s just, what should we do with these mysterious people afterwards," Cheng Bai said, glancing at the Magic Array behind him.

The destination of the Purple Gold Ore was their true objective.

"Kill them, leave none alive," recalling the wounds on Yun Sheng’s feet and the whip from earlier, Ye Beiming’s voice was as cold as the ice spikes in December. Just hearing that voice made Cheng Bai feel a chill in his bones.

Tsk tsk, it seems the Little Divine Doctor Yun is truly his brother’s Achilles’ heel—touch her and you’re dead.

After returning to the mine, the villagers all breathed a sigh of relief, having survived yet another day.

But Yun Sheng noticed something: on the wall of the cave nearby, there was an unfamiliar bat.

She approached the bat, and it silently landed beside Yun Sheng. Hidden beneath the drooping wings of the bat, Yun Sheng found a small note.

It was a message from Zong Ren.

In the past few days, having failed in their attempts to establish contact with the troops of Marquis Weiyuan, Yun Cai Canglang no longer had any hope for the stationed soldiers.

They suspected that the troops had already been bought off by these mysterious people.

Without military support, relying solely on the forces brought by the Sky Hunting Corps, breaking into the mine area and through the outer defenses and the Magic Array would be extremely difficult.

It was clear that getting help from the military was no longer a possibility.

Yun Sheng thought for a moment, then took out a Token from her storage ring.

This Token was provided by the Sacrificial Elder of the Daoye Mountain Hunter Soldier Branch, when Yun Sheng had accepted their invitation earlier. She remembered that the branch’s leader had mentioned that as long as she presented the Hunter Token that symbolized the status of the Sacrificial Elder, she could request assistance from the Hunter Soldier Alliance unconditionally.

Although they were currently in a remote region on the outskirts of Great Zhou, the reach of the hunters extended far and wide. With an Elder Token, help could come from anywhere.

Without delay, Yun Sheng wrote a letter, hid the Hunter Token on the bat, and sent the bat on an overnight journey back.

After secretly completing this arrangement, Yun Sheng returned to the cave.

Just before dawn, in Nanya Town, where Yun Canglang and the others were anxiously waiting, they finally heard the flapping sound of a bat’s wings.

Zong Ren waved his hand, and the bat descended. From the bat, Zong Ren discovered a token and a letter.

Yun Canglang eagerly opened the letter and after reading it, a rare look of admiration appeared in his eyes.

"Wow, our family head truly lives up to the reputation. Not only is he the Medicine Hall Elder of Wuxuan Wuji Hall, but he also holds the esteemed position of Sacrificial Elder in the Hunter Soldier Alliance. Quite impressive," Zong Ren said, cherishingly stroking the Elder Token.

Sheng’er actually has connections with the upper echelons of the Hunter Soldier Alliance and even possesses an Elder Token. Yun Canglang couldn’t help feeling embarrassed; it seemed his niece was far more capable than him.

The Elder Token of the Hunter Soldier Alliance might not be as influential as Wuxuan Wuji Hall’s Sect Token, which can mobilize nearly one hundred thousand martial artists in an instant, but in terms of convenience, it was more practical than the Sect Token.

To use the Sect Token, one must be a Vice Hall Director or higher in the Wuxuan Wuji Hall to issue a call to arms that could be heeded nationwide, and the user must be the holder of the Sect Token.

However, the Elder Token of the Hunter Soldier Alliance doesn’t require such complications; the presence of the token is equivalent to the presence of the elder himself.

Therefore, as long as Yun Canglang and his people carried this token, they could go to the closest Hunter Soldier Branch near the border and obtain their assistance.

"Ancestor Master, I’ll take the token with me. I’ll go to the Hunter Soldier Branch to seek support. In the letter, Sheng’er also mentioned that we should rendezvous at a deserted hill dozens of miles away from the mining area in three days. I leave my fifty men in your hands. You and the Demon Beasts are best suited to take care of the rendezvous," Yun Sheng’s letter was brief due to the pressing time, with just a few short sentences.

Yun Canglang didn’t even understand what Yun Sheng had instructed them to rendezvous for.

"Understood. The master is always astute in his dealings; I just need to follow orders. As for you, when you go to the Hunter Soldier Branch, it’s best to bring more Mages over. The Thunder Explosion Array inside the mining area is quite troublesome," Zong Ren immediately set off with Zhou Quan and others to the location specified by Yun Sheng.

Yun Canglang wasted no time and immediately rushed to the nearest Hunter Soldier Branch.

Around dawn, the bat brought back a reply from Yun Canglang.

"It’s about time to make a move," Yun Sheng said after reading the letter, and immediately burned the letter.

She gathered Sixth Son’s father and a group of villagers who had been observed over the past few days to be trustworthy. "Listen carefully to what I am about to say. I plan to lead the villagers to secretly escape."

Over these days, Yun Sheng had built a special authority among the villagers thanks to her medical skills.

The villagers had almost complete faith in her words.

But today, when Yun Sheng talked about escaping, everyone was shocked.

"Escape? That’s absolutely impossible," the villagers shook their heads like rattle-drums.

The ruthlessness of those mysterious people had been witnessed many times. It was impossible to escape, not even for an individual, let alone a group.

Furthermore, there were over three hundred villagers inside the caves at this moment, along with more in the animal pens and those gathered to cook. In total, the mining area had over four hundred innocent villagers.

Such a sizable group, equivalent to the scale of an entire village, had no chance of escaping unless aided by a large number of Flying Magical Beasts.

The villagers were unwilling to die needlessly.

"Little Sheng, this is too rash," even Sixth Son’s father disagreed with Yun Sheng’s plan.

"Everyone, hear me out first. I’ve already inspected the mines today. The veins can be mined for at most ten more days. If we work day and night, no more than seven days. Do you think that once the veins are depleted, those people will let us live?" Yun Sheng knew that for these villagers, sometimes a bit of appropriate intimidation was more effective.

Indeed, as soon as Yun Sheng said this, the villagers’ faces showed fear, and they were at a loss.

**Thank you, Bei Yu and Smoke Rings, for your rewards.**