Lu Chen, who had been slowly approaching, suddenly stopped in his tracks. Yi Xin, who was lying in the bushes further away, felt a buzzing sound in her head and her mind went blank. Her heart was beating so fast that it felt like it was about to explode.
On the other side of the cave, the strange man who was gnawing on the leopard's leg also stopped for a moment. He suddenly raised his head but did not turn around. Instead, he roared, "Stupid dog, shut up!" As he spoke, he fiercely bit down on the flesh on his hand and then cursed vaguely, "You're lucky today. You didn't catch the woman you wanted to catch, but a yellow leopard came to throw its life away. After I finish eating this leopard's leg, if I still can't catch anything, I'll eat you too! "
The barking in the cave slowly subsided. It was unknown whether it was because the little dog was frightened or because it was heavily injured and had no strength left.
The strange man sneered. After eating a lot of meat, he seemed to be in better spirits. Although he still looked old and decrepit, the greedy and ferocious look in his eyes became more intense. He muttered to himself, "Damn it! If I had caught that woman today, I could have … "
"What could I have done?" Suddenly, a cold voice came from behind him.
The strange man was so shocked that he almost dropped the leopard's leg in his hand. He suddenly turned around and saw a man standing behind him. Moreover, the man's face was somewhat familiar. It was the man who had spied on him during the day.
"Ah …" The strange man let out a ferocious roar. He jumped up and directly used the leopard's leg as a weapon to smash it towards Lu Chen. His momentum was like that of an enraged beast.
However, his body had only jumped halfway when he suddenly felt a chill in his waist, followed by a burst of sharp pain. The strange man immediately let out a heart-wrenching scream. When he looked down, he saw that a black dagger had pierced into his waist at some point. His jump with all his strength just now had directly cut a shocking large wound on his back.
Red blood instantly gushed out like a blood fountain, but it quickly weakened. It was as if the old and decrepit body had long lost its vitality.
The strange man staggered backwards, his mouth constantly letting out angry roars. However, it seemed that his already weakened and decayed body could no longer bear such a heavy wound. Not long after, he fell heavily to the ground, gasping for breath and struggling. At the same time, he used an unimaginably vicious gaze to stare fiercely at the man who suddenly appeared.
Yi Xin ran over from the side, and when her eyes met the strange man's terrifying gaze, she was so scared that her face turned pale. She didn't dare to look at the beast-like man any longer, and ran to Lu Chen's side like a wisp of smoke. "A-are you alright?"
Lu Chen glanced at her and shook his head, and then he pointed at the ferocious man and said, "The trap in the river valley was supposed to harm us."
Yi Xin's heart skipped a beat. For a moment, she did not know what to say.
She only saw Lu Chen smile coldly. He slowly walked to the strange man's side with the black dagger in his hand and squatted down.
The strange man's body subconsciously shrank back, but he still stared at Lu Chen with a fierce gaze. If looks could kill, Lu Chen would have been killed countless times by him.
However, Lu Chen did not seem to feel anything. At most, he only showed a trace of disgust and said, "You better behave."
The strange man's body and face were covered with blood, looking especially ferocious and terrifying. Hearing this, he laughed sinisterly and scolded, "Get lost, I will eat you … Ah!"
A mournful scream suddenly came out of his mouth again. Yi Xin, who was standing not far away, was shocked. She turned to look, only to see Lu Chen's expressionless face, seemingly unmoved by the strange man's miserable state. In his hand, the black short sword had already pierced into the strange man's thigh, and with a twist, it tore a large hole in the man's leg.
The strange man roared and screamed. He rolled around on the ground and screamed himself hoarse.
Yi Xin only felt her hair stand on end. At the same time, she could not bear it. She walked over and secretly pulled on Lu Chen's sleeve. She softly said, "Lu, Brother Lu, don't be like this …"
Lu Chen turned back to look at her and suddenly said, "Do you know who he is?"
Yi Xin felt a little scared under his gaze. She did not know why, but at this moment, although she could feel that Lu Chen did not have any hostility towards her, she still felt a little afraid of him. She was even more afraid of Lu Chen than that ferocious strange man.
She lowered her head and softly said, "I don't know."
"He is a barbarian." Lu Chen's voice sounded in her ear. His calm voice seemed to have a trace of coldness.
Yi Xin was shocked and said, "Barbarian? Didn't the barbarians retreat to the Southern Wilderness after they were defeated in the war a thousand years ago? "
Lu Chen glanced at the old barbarian who was still screaming miserably on the ground and said, "Most of the barbarian tribes have retreated, but the Thousand Year War was too intense. Even some of the passages and mountain ranges were destroyed by those powerful True Sovereigns and True Ones. So, there are still some barbarians left in the Chaotic Lands."
This was the first time Yi Xin heard of this. She was stunned for a long time before she said in surprise, "So there is such a thing. But I have never heard of the barbarian tribes in the Chaotic Lands."
Lu Chen said, "The remaining barbarians mostly live in the form of tribes and live in the depths of the Chaotic Lands. They will not easily come to the outskirts. It is not strange that you do not know of them."
Yi Xin hesitated for a moment and said, "I heard that the deeper you go into the Chaotic Lands, the more dangerous it gets. If that is the case, why don't the barbarians come to the outskirts? Isn't it better to live there?"
Lu Chen said indifferently, "Because in the Chaotic Lands, in the eyes of the barbarians, we human cultivators are more dangerous than the demonic beasts in the Chaotic Lands."
Yi Xin was stunned and subconsciously wanted to refute. In her impression, although there were good and bad people among all the cultivators she had met, there were rarely people like the Devil King who killed without blinking an eye. To be more precise, she had never seen such a cultivator in all her years of cultivation.
But just as the words were about to leave her mouth, she suddenly saw the man in front of her and swallowed them back down. She lowered her head and said, "Don't they have their own tribes? Why is there only one person here? And why did he come to the outskirts where there are many human cultivators? "
"The depths of the Chaotic Lands are extremely dangerous. Although the barbarians have gathered into tribes, it is not easy for them to survive. So for many years, they have developed a custom. The elders of the tribe who are old and weak and can no longer hunt in the central regions of the Chaotic Lands have to leave the tribe and fend for themselves. "
Yi Xin slowly opened her mouth. She felt a chill run down her spine and a patch of icy white faintly appeared in front of her eyes. It was as if the beautiful world in front of her had suddenly been flipped upside down, revealing a cruel and cold side.
Lu Chen's calm voice continued, "This should be the case for these barbarians. Because they are old and weak, they cannot stay in the central regions of the Chaotic Lands where the demonic beasts are extremely dangerous. They can only slowly migrate to the outskirts and settle down in this river valley in the outskirts. They wait for their deaths while harming others."
As Lu Chen spoke, he glanced at Yi Xin and saw the expression on her face. He suddenly said, "You heard it just now, right? That trap was meant to capture you. Do you want to know what will happen to you if he captures you alive?"
Yi Xin looked at him blankly. Looking at Lu Chen's calm yet deep eyes, she suddenly felt a bone-piercing cold, as if she had fallen into an icehouse.
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