One person: Starting with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, his grandmaster uncle emerges from seclusion.

That sensible little girl, so kind it broke your heart, was captured by a group of ruthless bandits and taken to the deep mountains!

"What a tragedy... God, you're tearing my heart out!"

Li Yueying sat on the ground, her hands gripping the earth tightly.

After a brief period of grief.

She suddenly got up from the ground.

His eyes were no longer gentle; now they revealed a ferocious, almost predatory look.

She rushed into the kitchen without a word and grabbed a kitchen knife from the cutting board.

"Yueying! Where are you going?!"

When Aunt Li saw this, she was so frightened that she almost jumped out of her skin and quickly went up to hug her waist.

"Let me go!"

Li Yueying gritted her teeth, tears mingling with sweat as they streamed down her face.

"I'm going to find Bao'er! I can't live without her!"

"I'll risk my life to kill those beasts!"

The commotion alerted several villagers outside.

The village chief rushed in with two men and hurriedly stopped Li Yueying.

"Yueying! Don't do anything foolish!"

The village chief, tears streaming down his face, pressed tightly on her hand holding the kitchen knife:

"Those people are beyond our capabilities. You're not going to rescue them, you're going to your death!"

"I'll go even if it means dying! Let me go!! Let me go!!!"

Like a maddened mother leopard, Li Yueying struggled desperately despite being blocked by several men, her heart-wrenching cries echoing in the courtyard.

During the scuffle.

The neatly stacked pile of firewood in the corner of the kitchen was knocked and scattered all over the floor.

The thick wooden plank covering the cellar was revealed below.

……

Just as the crying and shouting from above were becoming increasingly chaotic.

Below the cellar.

In this dimly lit, cramped space.

Zhang Tianyi slowly opened his eyes.

He didn't get up, but instead checked his internal condition first.

Hmm... it's still terrible.

At least he can move now.

Zhang Tianyi took a light breath.

Above the head.

Li Yueying's near-collapse cries and the villagers' helpless attempts to dissuade her.

It came through clearly.

"Has something happened...?"

Clang.

The wooden board was flipped open.

The few loose pieces of firewood that were originally on top rolled off.

The sudden noise silenced the villagers who were struggling above.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to look at the dark cellar entrance in astonishment.

Li Yueying was also stunned.

She was still clutching the kitchen knife tightly in her hand, tears welling in her eyes.

Amidst the astonished and uncertain gazes of the crowd.

A slender hand rested on the edge of the cellar.

Followed by.

A young Taoist priest, dressed in tattered clothes and stained with blood, slowly crawled out from inside.

Zhang Tianyi straightened up.

He glanced at the wary villagers around him, then at Li Yueying, whose eyes were red and swollen, and smiled as he spoke:

"Excuse me, ma'am, have you seen a pretty girl?"

Chapter 431 The Celestial Master Leaves a Talisman and Makes a Promise; Three Hammers Sever the Dragon Vein!

In the small courtyard.

The atmosphere had been tense and filled with wailing and lamentation.

The situation came to a standstill because of Zhang Tianyi's slow and leisurely climb out of the cellar.

"You...you're the young man Bao'er carried back? You're awake?"

Li Yueying's voice was somewhat hoarse, and the kitchen knife fell limply to the ground.

"So you were hidden down there by Bao'er..."

"Bao'er?"

Zhang Tianyi patted the dust off his sleeves.

His gaze swept over Li Yueying's face, which was filled with anxiety and despair.

The woman's features did indeed bear a resemblance to the little girl who had sung nursery rhymes in her ear and applied herbal medicine to her.

He looked around at the villagers holding hoes and wooden sticks.

Then, the lingering smell of blood in the air.

Zhang Tianyi's nonchalant expression gradually faded.

He stepped forward, glanced at Li Yueying, and spoke calmly:

"Ma'am, you just said... that girl was kidnapped?"

Li Yueying has not yet answered.

Aunt Li, who was standing nearby, was already sobbing uncontrollably, and intermittently continued the conversation:

"They were a group of bandits wearing ghost masks... They started killing people indiscriminately as soon as they entered the village."

"Bao'er ran into them while protecting me."

"Those guys even said something like... take her to a good place, then just knocked her out and carried her away."

The village chief, standing to the side, sighed, tears streaming down his face, and stamped the end of his pipe in his hand.

"What a tragedy! The two Wang brothers at the village entrance, along with more than a dozen other villagers, were all killed by those beasts."

What kind of plague have we, in this poor, remote place, provoked...?

Zhang Tianyi listened quietly.

There was no interruption.

But his hands, tucked into his sleeves, were slowly tightening, his nails digging deep into his palms.

Although I don't know who these people are.

But they must have found him by following the trail he left along the way.

He killed many Japanese soldiers and traitors, and naturally had many enemies.

And in this peaceful little mountain village, there are these unarmed villagers.

It was all because they took him in that they suffered this undeserved disaster.

That kind girl named Bao'er.

It was also because of him.

That's how it fell into the hands of those people.

Zhang Tianyi closed her eyes.

Calm down.

He just stood there.

But the surrounding air seemed to have lost its warmth at that moment.

It was so cold that it made me shiver involuntarily.

"Auntie."

Zhang Tianyi opened his eyes and rummaged around in his pocket for a moment.

He took out a jade talisman with a warm and lustrous color and intricately carved thunder patterns, and handed it to Li Yueying.

"Keep this jade talisman safe and keep it close to your body. Ordinary evil spirits and villains will not be able to get close to you."

Li Yueying stared blankly at the jade talisman that looked incredibly valuable.

I didn't dare to answer it right away.

Zhang Tianyi gently placed the jade talisman into her palm, then took a half step back.

He straightened the tattered Taoist robe he was wearing.

With a solemn expression, he bowed slightly to Li Yueying.