"Granny once said that if you get lost in the Great Wilderness and can't return to the village before dark, don't panic."

Qin Mu composed himself and thought, "There are many ruins in the Great Wilderness, and those ruins are often full of mysterious and strange things. Hiding in the ruins might even save my life. Whether a ruin can save my life depends on two points. First, whether there are stone statues similar to those in the village. Second, whether there are a large number of strange beasts in the ruins. These strange beasts are spiritual and know where to hide from the darkness..."

There were quite a few ruins in the Great Wilderness. During his flight just now, Qin Mu had seen the remains of some city walls and villages. The dilapidated walls were very ancient, but he didn't have the time to stop and check if there were any stone statues.

Half of the setting sun had already disappeared behind the mountain. Suddenly, there was a deathly silence between heaven and earth, a silence that made one go crazy.

Then a whooshing sound came. Qin Mu looked up and saw a large number of big birds roaring past in mid-air, covering the sky with their dark shadows. Then the ground shook, the woods fell down, and strange beasts emerged from nowhere and dashed away.

Qin Mu even saw that in a lake, there was the sound of water. Several red big fish, each several zhang long, actually jumped out of the water, using their fins as legs and running wildly on the ground!

Qin Mu was a bit confused. Were these fish that were running on the ground still fish?

"These strange beasts are all running in the same direction. There must be a place to hide from the darkness there!"

He was greatly inspired and rushed forward with these strange beasts.

The sky was getting darker and darker. The darkness in the distance swept in like a tide. This darkness was different from the normal night. It was like a great flood, overflowing the mountains, the valleys, and the wilderness, submerging everything. Even though Qin Mu had seen the darkness sweep in before, he still felt extremely shocked.

The darkness was approaching menacingly, and the herd of beasts was still running towards it. Qin Mu hesitated for a moment. The direction the herd was running was the direction from which the darkness was coming. Was there really a safe place ahead to hide from the darkness?

What if there wasn't? Wouldn't he end up dying without a burial place?

"Never mind. The darkness is coming too fast. Even if I turn around, it's too late. I can't outrun the darkness at all. Now I can only run with the herd of beasts!"

He gritted his teeth and rushed forward madly.

More than ten li downstream from the Remnant Elderly Village, the battle between Granny Si and the Five Elders of Lijiang River had also reached the most crucial moment. At first, only the Four Elders of Lijiang River were besieging Granny Si. But since they couldn't defeat her for a long time, Qi Yanbing, the leader of the Five Elders who had been watching the battle on the cliff, immediately joined the battle. The Five Elders besieged her and formed the Five Elements Demon Refining Formation.

Unexpectedly, Granny Si could only barely hold on under the siege of the Four Elders. But when Qi Yanbing joined the battle, Granny Si's strength suddenly soared. Even the Five Elements Demon Refining Formation of the Five Elders couldn't trap this old woman.

The Five Elders were both shocked and angry. Only then did they realize that this old woman had deliberately shown weakness in order to wipe them out in one fell swoop and had lured Qi Yanbing into the game to prevent him from escaping.

Granny Si tiptoed around like a ghost. The silver needles and threads in the basket seemed to come to life. In an instant, she stabbed the Five Elders of Lijiang River all over their bodies, wounding them. Streaks of threads pierced through these five old men, fixing their souls and bodies, making them unable to move.

This little old woman had a beaming smile on her face. She stepped forward with a pair of scissors in her hand and said, "I haven't refined human skin for a long time. I don't know if my craftsmanship has become rusty..."

She came in front of Qi Yanbing. Suddenly, Qi Yanbing opened his mouth, and a silver pill flew out of his mouth, hitting Granny Si head-on.

The silver pill grew as soon as it met the wind. With a swish, thousands of sword qi burst out from the silver pill, expanding outward with a clanging sound. In an instant, it turned into a sphere composed of pure sword light, dozens of zhang in diameter!

Granny Si didn't expect this and hurriedly retreated. Her body suddenly softened and moved up and down in the air like an earthworm, dodging the streaks of sword light. At the same time, the scissors in her hand flew out, cutting through the streaks of sword light like two silver dragons with a clicking sound.

After all, she was caught off guard and was still stabbed by a streak of sword light. This sword light came from behind her. She was hunchbacked, and there were places on her back that she couldn't see. This sword light just stabbed into her hump.

The sword light all over the sky disappeared, and the broken swords fell to the ground with a clanging sound, sticking all over the ground within a few mu.

And the silver pill also fell to the ground with a patter and stopped moving.

Granny Si also landed on the ground, reached out and pulled out the sword from her back, and frowned slightly.

"You still managed to dodge it..."

Qi Yanbing, the leader of the Five Elders, showed a look of despair in his eyes and said in a hoarse voice, "I 暗算 you with the sword pill at such a close distance. There are 6,842 swords hidden in the sword pill, but you still managed to dodge it. You must not be an unknown person in the Demonic Sect! There is no old woman like you in the Demonic Sect. Who on earth are you?"

He suddenly noticed Granny Si's back. He saw that there was a wound where the hump had been pierced by the sword, but there was no blood flowing out. Instead, light shot in, and it was obviously empty inside.

Qi Yanbing couldn't help but feel creepy. "This is not your true appearance. You are wearing someone else's skin..."

"You've injured my skin."

Granny Si frowned, and the voice that came out was not the usual old woman's voice. Instead, it was very pleasant to hear. Just by listening to this voice, one would surely think that she was a beautiful woman in her prime, not at all like the appearance of someone who was already half in the grave.

Granny Si pressed her throat, sighed, and muttered, "There's a leak..."

She took out the thread from the basket and sewed up the sword wound on her back. She tried her throat, and her voice returned to normal.

Suddenly, Qi Yanbing's face changed drastically as if he had seen a ghost. He exclaimed, "I've heard your voice. I know who you are! The wife of the leader of the Heavenly Demon Sect..."

Granny Si's face changed slightly. She put her finger on the thread that ran through the five people. The Five Elders of Lijiang River were immediately cut to pieces by the thread, and their flesh and blood scattered all over the ground!

Strangely enough, the thread didn't get stained with any blood. Instead, it automatically wound around like a living thing, shrank into a ball of thread, and returned to the basket.

Granny Si snorted and cackled, "You lame fellow, how long have you been here?"

Not far behind her, the lame man came limping along with a crutch in his hand, wearing a beaming smile on his face. "I just got here, just got here. Sister, I didn't see anything, and I didn't hear anything either."

Granny Si glanced at him and smiled. "It doesn't matter if you saw something. As long as you didn't hear anything, it's fine. Let's go back to the village."

The lame man hesitated for a moment and said, "Li Tianxing, the leader of the Heavenly Demon Sect, was wise and valiant all his life, but he did one stupid thing. In his later years, he took a fancy to the most beautiful Demoness at that time. So he abolished his original wife and wanted to marry her as his new wife. The Demonic Sect was in an uproar. On the wedding night, that new wife secretly harmed Li Tianxing, ruined his cultivation that he had cultivated for hundreds of years, and stole the Demonic Sect's Town Sect Demon Canon. The elders and ancestors of the Demonic Sect all came out of seclusion to hunt her down, but she still managed to escape and has been missing ever since..."

"Is there such a thing?"

Granny Si giggled and said, "When I was young, I heard that there was a person who refined his two legs to the level of a god. His two legs were known as the Divine Legs. His speed was unparalleled in the world. But he didn't learn well. He learned to steal and liked stealing things, so he was called the Number One Divine Thief in the World. Although he hadn't become a god yet, his name already had the word 'god' in it, so he was envied by the gods. When he went to Yankang Country to steal the Imperial Decree, the Number One Divine Thief who had never failed was discovered by the National Preceptor. The National Preceptor cut off one of his Divine Legs. But he also managed to escape the National Preceptor's pursuit and disappeared without a trace with the Imperial Decree. The National Preceptor of Yankang Country is known as the First Person Under the Gods, but he couldn't keep the Divine Thief. He should still be keeping that Divine Leg of the Divine Thief, waiting for the rightful owner to claim it, right?"

The smile on the lame man's face became even wider, and he smiled obsequiously. "Granny, we are all disabled people in the same village. We once said that each of us has our own little secrets and we don't ask about each other's origins. From now on, I'll be a mute and a deaf person, keeping my mouth shut."

Granny Si snorted, picked up the basket, and walked towards the village. "Did Mu'er inform you to come and help me?"

The lame man shook his head. "The sound of your fight with these five old fellows was too loud, and the fluctuations were too strong. We felt it in the village, so the village chief asked me to come and see if you needed any help."

Granny Si's face changed slightly, and she said hastily, "Has Mu'er returned to the village?"

"I didn't see him when I came."

"Oh no!"

The two of them hurried back to the Remnant Elderly Village. Before they reached the village, they saw the sun set. The darkness rose from the horizon, spreading across the horizon, surging like a tide, rising higher and higher, devouring everything along the way and rushing towards them!

Granny Si returned to the village and quickly searched the village. Her face turned pale involuntarily. "Mu'er didn't come back?"

The darkness completely engulfed the Remnant Elderly Village.

"Granny, don't worry."

The village chief was carried over by the lame man and the apothecary. He stopped Granny Si, who was about to carry the stone statue out to look for Qin Mu, and said, "We've already taught him what we should teach him. As long as he's learned it, he should be able to survive in the Great Wilderness. It's no use for you to go out now. It's already dark."

Granny Si was dejected and also knew that what the village chief said was right. The darkness had submerged the Great Wilderness. If Qin Mu was still alive, he could survive the night without her help. If he was already dead, it would be useless for her to carry the stone statue to look for him.

"He still has that jade pendant to protect him..."

Although she thought so, Granny Si knew that the jade pendant on Qin Mu's chest was only used to protect babies, and the protected area was limited. Qin Mu had already grown up, and the light of the jade pendant could only protect his chest.

"Mu'er, you must be smart..." Granny Si whispered.