With Zheng Yi's skills, neither the guards at the mine nor the defenders around the checkpoint could detect his presence.
Zheng Yi returned to Hewan Village without almost any obstruction.
If Feng Haitao hadn't been holding him back, his speed would actually be faster.
Seeing the silence in the village, he breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Finally we caught up. Contact those who were hunting outside immediately and ask them to come back as soon as possible."
Zheng Yi did not immediately deal with the two Zhao family members.
After all, with the attitude of the Cangyan Realm’s Heaven towards him. If he had taken action first, there was no telling what would happen.
The best option is to set up traps near the village and wait for those people to come to your door.
The most important thing is to take action after the people in Hewan Village take action.
Only in this way can the influence of heaven be weakened as much as possible.
"Let me take a look." Zheng Yi found the place on the map where he found the children of the Zhao family.
In order to deal with this situation, Zheng Yi is not only using magic but also monitoring the surrounding movements.
It has already been prepared.
Zheng Yi actually laid out a lot of false clues near each guarding spirit.
These clues are quite secretive. If you are not an experienced hunter who has experienced the mountains and forests, you can only detect them if you follow them deliberately.
Since those Zhao family members have not arrived at Hewan Village yet, it means that they were deceived by false clues and are still circling in the mountains.
Through the previous conversations between these people, they obviously knew that Zhao Mingtang was dead, but they obviously didn't know where or how he died.
"Lord, everyone has been notified. They haven't left the village too far and will be back soon." While Zheng Yi was thinking about the problem, Feng Haitao ran in in a hurry.
Perhaps after hearing Zheng Yi's soliloquy, Feng Haitao said doubtfully: "My lord, wouldn't it be bad if the Zhao family could find out through some means that one of their people was dead?"
"My lord, your future plans will inevitably involve dealing with the Zhao family. If this happens often, they will realize something is wrong sooner or later, right?"
Zheng Yi was stunned when he heard this. He knew that he had been too immersed in thinking about the problem just now, and he actually said what he was thinking.
Before coming to Cang Yan Realm, he would definitely not have made such a serious mistake.
Maybe it was because he was surrounded by some of the simplest low-class people, which caused him to lose part of his vigilance.
Secretly warning myself, I must pay attention to it in the future. Then Zheng Yi explained to Feng Haitao with a smile.
"Using some means to distinguish one's own life and death is indeed a very important source of intelligence."
"However, the changes in this intelligence source are too great. Even those warlocks who can spy on the secrets cannot completely calculate it."
"Just knowing that a person has died, apart from a definite result, does not yield much truly useful information."
"Even in the future, we can definitely take advantage of this to make a fuss."
Seeing that Feng Haitao still didn't seem to understand, Zheng Yi smiled and pointed to the forest outside.
"Just like now, if those people don't know that Zhao Mingtang is dead, they may not be where they are now."
"But now, they will soon be surrounded by us. So you said, what is the benefit to them from knowing this news?"
Feng Haitao frowned in thought: "I see." He bowed respectfully to Zheng Yi and said, "Thank you, my lord, for your advice."
Zheng Yi nodded slightly: "In fact, I shouldn't have told you these things. What you can figure out is what truly belongs to you."
"If you rely on my advice every time and don't think about it yourself, then you will only be able to see the surface of things clearly in the future."
The people of Hewan Village who were responsible for hunting moved faster than Zheng Yi expected.
They returned to the village a tea time earlier and, under Zheng Yi's arrangement, set up a siege.
"You losers..." Seeing these people's clumsy hiding methods, Zheng Yi almost scolded them.
Then he thought that a few days ago these people were just miners digging underground every day, and he resisted the urge to curse.
If he is not taught but punished, he is called cruelty.
Given the living environment of these people, it is impossible for them to be good at these things.
It's because I haven't thought of it before. If I want to teach them this method, it's naturally impossible to scold people for this kind of thing.
"Listen to me now..." Zheng Yi suppressed the anger in his heart and taught these people how to hide as soon as possible.
The situation is urgent now, and even if we want to save them, it will not be a matter of time.
They must ambush before the group investigating the cause of Zhao Mingtang's death arrives.
Therefore, Zheng Yi did not say any nonsense and directly told them where everyone should hide.
As an entry-level monk, he is naturally different from ordinary people.
Many places are certainly hidden in the eyes of ordinary people. But for monks like them, it is not easy to investigate.
But there are some places that may seem conspicuous, but for monks, they are very easy to miss.
In the forest in the distance, a burst of birdsong suddenly came.
A flock of birds flew into the sky and were gone in the blink of an eye.
"Here we come!" Zheng Yi's heart moved.
Looking at the frightened birds, one could tell that the Zhao family had probably arrived, and they were probably only a mile or two away from their current location.
Zheng Yi hurriedly made a gesture of silence: "Everyone, be quiet. Don't act rashly without my order."
A villager whose body was half covered by branches replied and then went back: "Don't worry, Immortal, we won't make a sound even if we die."
On the surface, he didn't seem to be hiding very well, and a large part of his clothes was exposed.
But his clothes blended in with the surrounding environment very cleverly.
Even if a monk passes by, it is unlikely that he will find someone here as long as he does not use his spiritual sense to investigate carefully.
The most important thing is that when Zheng Yi asked these people to hide, they deliberately avoided their sights from places where enemies might pass by.
As long as these people in Hewan Village do not expose themselves for some reason, it is basically impossible for those in the Zhao family to discover their existence.
Just as they were hiding here, Zheng Yi saw a person running hurriedly from Hewan Village to where they were.
"...How could it be such a coincidence?" Zheng Yi felt depressed.
When he had to deal with Zhao Tianming before, the Zhao family happened to be near Hewan Village. He could only make hurried arrangements and rush back to support.
The ambush has just been set up now, but other problems have arisen.
Somehow, I'm afraid there is still the influence of heaven.
Zheng Yi didn't care about hiding and rushed out to intercept the Hewan Village villager who was running towards them: "What happened?"
"Shangxian, the village chief sent someone to inform us that the mine owner is here. He said it was an urgent matter, so I was afraid of delaying your important event, so I came to find you quickly."
The villagers of Hewan Village mainly have two names for Zheng Yi.
One is Zhou Kunshan and Feng Haitao. They are called Lord Zheng Yi. As for the ordinary villagers, they basically call Zheng Yi Shangxian.
After all, in their eyes, Zheng Yi is an out-and-out immortal. Let’s not talk about Zheng Yi’s previous show in the ancestral hall.
Just the skills Zheng Yi taught them, as well as the earth-shaking changes in Hewan Village in recent times, are no different from gods to them.
Zheng Yi had no intention of correcting this.
This identity has only advantages and no disadvantages for him.
Before Zheng Yi could speak, he heard a voice from the jungle behind him in the distance.
"Hey, you're so lucky, I met someone here."
"You two, come here. My lord has something to ask you."
Just hearing that commanding voice, Zheng Yi's brows almost knitted together.
"Don't say anything for a while, leave it to me to handle it." Zheng Yi first sent a message to the villager who reported the news, telling him not to act rashly.
When he turned around to face the Zhao family and his party, Zheng Yi had completely changed into a different look.
As if all of a sudden, he became a whole head shorter, and a submissive look appeared on his face.
Except for the fact that his skin is much fairer than that of ordinary people in Hewan Village, there is almost no difference in his demeanor.
"Sir...sir, can you call me?" Zheng Yi's cautious look was a bit annoying just by looking at him.
However, the Zhao family and others did not find anything wrong.
In their eyes, this is how ordinary people should be.
"Yes, I'm talking about you. Why are you still standing there? Get over here!"
It was still not the two Zhao family members who spoke, but one of their head guards.
How could the noble Zhao family condescend to talk to a dirt-legged miner?
"Hey... this... come here." Zheng Yi stumbled and walked forward.
He walked very slowly on purpose, and sometimes he fell down accidentally.
In addition, the villager who was with him next to him also staggered away as he led him away.
The reason for this is naturally to allow these people to all enter the encirclement.
However, the Zhao family and others did not know Zheng Yi's purpose.
Seeing Zheng Yi looking so clumsy, he couldn't stop laughing.
"I've seen stupid people, but I've never seen anyone so stupid."
"Hahaha, look at this idiot, he can accidentally fall down while walking."
"Don't laugh. The mountain road is indeed difficult to walk... It's normal for people with mud-legged feet to be clumsy."
The two young masters of the Zhao family frowned.
"These trash have never let us down in terms of stupidity."
"I have never seen such a stupid guy. Such a person does not deserve to live in this world. After you finish asking the questions, kill him."
Zheng Yi, who was performing hard, probably didn't expect that just because he looked a little clumsy, these two young masters of the Zhao family were going to kill someone.
At this time, Zheng Yi was calculating the distance between the two parties.
"One or two more falls, and they will be completely surrounded."
When the two sides were close enough, they were right in the middle of the ambush circle.
Originally, Zheng Yi wanted to trick these people.
Now, he already has a certain understanding of the Zhao family. But after all, this information was obtained from the surrounding villagers.
Their understanding of a huge empire is too one-sided, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are blind men trying to grasp the elephant.
In fact, let alone them, even Zhao Tianming, who manages the mine, has a more detailed understanding of the entire Zhao family than the two young masters of the Zhao family.
Unfortunately, Zhao Tianming had already started rushing here, and he had no time to gather information.
"What are you looking at? Why don't you kneel down and worship the young master of the Zhao family?"
Seeing Zheng Yi's dumb look, the leader of the guards immediately scolded him unhappily.
"Oh..." Zheng Yi agreed expressionlessly, making a gesture of kneeling down.
But no one noticed that he had already grabbed a small flying sword in his hand.
Just when Zheng Yi was about to take action, a young master from the Zhao family suddenly changed his expression: "Not good!"
His whole body suddenly tensed up and he was about to take action.
This person has the cultivation level of the early stage of crystallization. Considering his age, his cultivation level is already pretty good.
But he moved quickly, and Zheng Yi moved even faster.
The sword energy soaring to the sky suddenly erupted, and the sword energy with the power of the divine transformation stage was simply indestructible.
Before the two young masters of the Zhao family even had time to react, the powerful sword energy penetrated their bodies.
Not only them, the five guards standing behind them were also affected by the sword energy.
Although only one died.
But none of the other people were intact.
Two of them had their arms cut off, and the other one lost a leg.
The remaining one was even more miserable. Half of his stomach was missing, and his intestines and internal organs were scattered all over the floor.
With such a serious injury, even if there was any elixir, it probably wouldn't be able to save this person's life.
Seeing Zheng Yi take action, other villagers jumped out of their hiding places and attacked the nearest Zhao family.
Although these villagers have not been practicing for a long time, they have been able to lay the foundation for the exercises provided by the Zhao family, and their progress is quite rapid.
Whether they were calculating or not, the guards of the Zhao family were all frightened by Zheng Yi's sword energy.
Before they could recover, several people died at the hands of the villagers in Hewan Village.
After just a face-to-face meeting, there were only three people left in the Zhao family, including the leader of the guards.
"You damn bitches, do you know what you have done?" the guard leader yelled in shock and fear.
The two young masters of the Zhao family that he was responsible for protecting were killed in front of his eyes.
If anyone knew about this, all nine of his clans would probably be buried with him.
"You should take care of yourself." Zheng Yi raised his small sword and pointed it at the leader of the guards.
This guy's cultivation level is pretty good, slightly better than what he is now.
Zheng Yi might not lose in a normal battle, but that would be a waste of time.
Activate the small sword directly.
The sword energy of the master in the transformation stage spurted out again. (End of chapter)