Chapter Fourteen: The Lesson of Blood

  "Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" Just as the second, third and fourth elders had walked out of the small cave entrance, a hail of arrows came flying towards them, and the three men let out shrill cries of pain as they fell backwards to the ground. The several people behind them quickly ducked down to avoid the arrow shafts, and pulled on the hems of the three men's clothes to drag them back.

  Guo Fei and Jin Datong were stunned, rushing quickly to the entrance of the cave to watch. Lao San and Lao Si had three arrows in their hearts and two more in their throats, they were already dead. Lao Er was shot with two arrows in his belly and two in his thigh, covered in blood and shaking uncontrollably.

  "Our own people's arrows!" Jin Datong took a closer look at the arrow shaft, his anger bursting forth as he shouted: "Damn it! You're shooting your own comrades with a thousand cuts! We're not skull soldiers, you've got no eyes!"

  "Haha. Hand over your Soul Crystal and I'll spare your lives!" A loud, arrogant voice boomed from outside.

  "You, you did it on purpose!" Jin Datong's face changed color and he said in a trembling voice.

  "Cut the crap and hand over your Soul Crystal, I'll spare your dog lives!"

  "Which camp's rabbit, I'm at odds with you guys, and you actually dare to bully me, Jin Lao Da?" Jin Da Tong's eyes suddenly turned bright red, and the large sword in his hand swung out as he was about to charge out.

  "Older brother!" The second-born grabbed Jin Datong in a pool of blood.

  "Second brother, it's all because of me that you've been wronged. Don't worry, I'll fight to the death to get justice for you." Jin Datong said with bloodshot eyes.

  "Big brother, when you're rolling around in a thorny bush, how can you avoid getting pricked? It's just that... I never thought I'd die at the hands of my own people instead of the ghost tribe. Human hearts are unpredictable, big brother, your eyes are too straightforward, be careful, they came prepared."

  Lao Er said, pulling out another cloth bag from his inner pocket, his hands shaking: "Lao Da, I have two more 'Fireball Talismans' here. I don't want to die here. If the Ghost Tribe gets my corpse, it will become a skeleton zombie and never be reborn. Please use the Fireball Talismans to cremate me, send my ashes back to Wei Guo, and bury me beside the small hill in our Black Cow Village. The method of using the Fireball Talismans is..."

  Lao Er stuttered and couldn't continue speaking, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and suddenly stopped breathing.

  "Second brother, don't say any more, I know, I know!" Jin Datong burst into loud sobs.

  Guo Fei and others were also disheartened. Although the second child was petty, that was his nature, but he was sincere to his brothers. Looking out through the hole at the blurry crowd outside, there were at least a hundred people, estimated to be an archery squad.

  Several people saw Jin Datong so sad, and they all looked at Guo Fei. Unconsciously, Guo Fei's performance had already gained their trust and became the backbone of the group. Guo Fei waved his hand to several people, and they instantly hid behind the cave entrance, drew out their weapons, and waited in a tight formation.

  Guo Fei did not expect, nor did others, that their own people would openly use violence, so they didn't even leave a guard at the entrance of the cave. This bloody lesson made Guo Fei once again realize the cruelty of this world. His heart gradually became cold and angry, and his chaotic emotions gradually calmed down.

  "The lesson must be learned, if I was the first to go out, I'm afraid I would have lost my life." Guo Fei thought to himself, he didn't think that even if he died, he could return to Earth, perhaps becoming a ghost soldier of the ghost tribe, wandering here forever.

  "Big brother, this is not the time for sorrow, let's mourn and adapt to the change!" Guo Fei pulled a handful of Jin Datong, saying in a low voice.

  "Lao Er and I grew up together since childhood, it was me who instigated him to leave the country and come here to make a fortune. Now that he's gone, how can I face his parents? I owe him an apology! Lao Shi, do you have a way to avenge him? Lao Er's spirit shouldn't be far away, he should see us take revenge on our enemy."

  "Big Brother, now the enemy is in the open and I'm in the dark, they're strong and we're weak; if they don't move and we do, it's a big taboo. We can only wait quietly for an opportunity, believing that they will soon be unable to wait and rush in. At that time, we'll take action and avenge Second Brother!" Guo Fei said in a low voice.

  Jin Datong was sorrowful, but his rationality remained, and he naturally knew that Guo Fei was telling the truth. He nodded with red eyes, his veins bulging on his hands as he tightly grasped the hilt of his sword.

  "Throw out the soul crystal, let you go, otherwise we will rush in and you won't have a way to live. No one can survive under my 'knife scar' hands. Along the way, you are not the first wave, nor the last wave, today I, Knife Scar, am going to make a big fortune. Hehe." The arrogant voice outside came in again, with an air of having already eaten several people.

  "Scar of a knife, it's him!" Jin Datong seemed to recognize the person, fiercely shouting and punching the ground, creating a hole in the ground.

  "Boss, didn't Second Brother say there's a fireball token? Can we use it? I see at least a company of archers outside. This cave entrance is small, but inside it's spacious and obstacle-free. Once they charge in and occupy the entrance, we'll be completely exposed and can be shot to death by their arrows." Guo Fei looked around and said.

  "Right, right." Jin Datong finally came to his senses and opened the blood-stained cloth bag, pulling out two pieces of animal hide from inside.

  "How is this thing used?" Jin Datong was puzzled and exclaimed in surprise.

  Kuo Fei almost jumped up when he heard this. Earlier, Lao Er had mentioned using the law, but hadn't finished speaking before he died. Jin Da Tong kept saying "I know", but actually didn't know how to use it at all.

  "How do I use it?" Lao Jiu leaned over from the entrance of the cave and whispered.

  "Speak quickly!" Jin Datong urged anxiously.

  "I worked as a young apprentice in a shop selling monk-specific items in Zhao State for several months, so I know this stuff." Old Ninth said with some pride, as if having been an apprentice for just a few days made him a monk, and he started bragging in such an environment.

  Guo Fei also understood him. A cultivator in this world was a person with great magical powers, very mysterious. Guo Fei and Jin Datong were barely considered ordinary warriors.

  Just now in the big battle, the one who flew and escaped was a great divine power cultivator. The cultivators who had close contact with him also saw the camp leader Wang Zhi. He can emit invisible sword energy, known as Qi Cultivator. In Guo Fei's judgment, Zhao Xue should be a cultivator of spell techniques, known as a Spell Master, and her healing method should be a spell technique.

  "Stop beating around the bush and get to the point, how do I use it?" Jin Da impatiently asked.

  Lao Jiu was taken aback, and immediately realized he had lost his composure. At this critical moment, boasting about these things was clearly out of place, so he hastily said: "Boss, when a cultivator uses a fireball talisman like this, it's controlled by their thoughts. Once the thoughts are cultivated to a certain point, they can be infused into an unowned curse symbol. When the curse is released, using one's thoughts to guide it will cause it to explode. Second Brother clearly doesn't have such thought cultivation, so he has no choice but to use a clumsy method - dripping a drop of his own blood on top. It's said that the blood contains the seeds of one's own thoughts; as long as you shout 'explode', it will burst open."

  After listening to Lao Jiu's words, Jin Datong's eyes flashed fiercely and he was about to bite his finger to drip blood on it. Guo Fei hastily stopped him, saying: "Boss, let me do it, my movements are faster, suitable for releasing the talisman."

  "Thanks a lot!" Jin Datong hesitated for a moment before handing over the Fireball Symbol to Guo Fei.

  Guo Fei took out one of them and handed another to Jindatongdao: "Use the first one for now, and use the second one at a critical moment."

  Jin Datong nodded and put it away, Guo Fei took out a unfolded one, carefully under the guidance of Old Nine, dropped a drop of blood on the crimson symbol on the beast skin.

  The talisman flashed a thread of red light, and a sense of spiritual connection arose, as if the talisman had come to life. Guo Fei felt that there was a hidden fireball inside, which could be detonated at any time.

  "Hurry up, they're closing in!" Old Six crouched at the entrance of the cave, softly warning Guo Fei and the others.

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