Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 895 - 241: Fan Wu’s Terrifying Aura! Tens of Thousands of Troops Are Simply Nothing!_4

After saying those words, Yan Dahu actually felt as if he had become smarter. He held his head up with pride, then turned to look at his older brother, "You always say I’m dumb, but wasn’t that answer pretty smart?"

"Yes, yes, the smartest. Even I can’t match you," Yan Dalong barely suppressed a twitch at the corner of his mouth, not bothering to argue with his stubborn younger brother. It was also because he thought there was some truth in what his brother had just said.

"Is that so?" Yun Jiuqing scratched her head. To tell the truth, she had a bad feeling, but the thought that Daoist Priest Fan was by her side made even the worst premonitions seem inconsequential.

Thinking this, she couldn’t help but glance toward Daoist Priest Fan on the other side, only to find that his expression was as usual, as if nothing was truly amiss.

Seeing this, Yun Jiuqing immediately set her worries aside and simply discarded the slight unease that had surfaced in her heart.

However, what she did not know was that Fan Wu’s calm demeanor was not because he had noticed nothing, nor because their surroundings were truly calm, but rather because Fan Wu simply didn’t see what he had perceived as any threat.

In fact, Fan Wu knew that Yun Jiuqing’s ominous premonitions were not wrong, because, with his astonishingly keen senses, he could see and hear many things.

But what he saw and heard posed no threat to him, so Fan Wu simply didn’t care.

It’s like when a person walks without paying too much attention to an ant underfoot. Maybe there are some who would, but clearly, Fan Wu was not one of those people.

As time ticked by, Fan Wu and the others traveled along the road from Kaihai County to the Imperial City and came to a very peculiar place.

Xing Fengzi looked at the mounded earth slopes on both sides, raised his eyebrows, and said, "This place looks very much like a ’critical point of terrain’ mentioned in military tactics books. If an army were to pass through here, they would likely be ambushed by the enemy very soon."

"Eh?" Yan Dalong was curious, "Little Taoist Priest, you’ve actually read military tactics books? Aren’t you a Taoist Priest?"

Xing Fengzi explained, "Inside the Taoist Temple, we have not only texts on cultivating the Dao and Daoist scriptures, but also some other books for entertainment. When I have nothing to do, I like to look at other kinds of books."

As Xing Fengzi finished speaking, he suddenly realized something wasn’t quite right.

It was because Xing Fengzi noticed that the traders, who had been passing by, stopped not far behind them. When Xing Fengzi looked back, he saw that, out of nowhere, there were now hundreds of traders gathered behind them! These traders did not leave the road but were blockading one end of it.

Xing Fengzi could even see an unfriendly look on the faces of these people, which turned his expression extremely grave in an instant. He immediately warned the others, "Something’s wrong! There’s something off about these people, definitely!"

Fan Wu and the others slowed to a stop, as up ahead there was also a large group of traders gathered, motionless, blocking the way. Together with the group behind them, the total number of traders was nearly a thousand, completely blocking their path.

Even the usually thick-headed brothers, Yan Dalong and Yan Dahu, could tell that something was very wrong; their expressions grew serious.

In such a situation, even a fool would know that these people meant harm. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Moreover, these brothers were merely a bit slow on the uptake, not fools.

If they were fools, they would have been dead by now. How could they still be standing here?

"Big brother, could these guys be from the government?" Yan Dahu flexed his wrists, a hint of fierceness flickering in his eyes, "A few weeks ago, a thousand of them were no match for the two of us. There are only about five or six hundred of them now, right? Do they really think that with just five or six hundred people they can take us down? These fools, what wishful thinking!"

Just as Yan Dalong was about to sneer in agreement, he suddenly heard something else, his eyebrows immediately furrowing, "No, something’s not right... Be careful, there seem to be more than just these hundreds of people. Don’t you notice something stirring on both sides?"

Everyone turned their gaze to the tall earth slopes arcing on both sides, as the sounds of activity from within the slopes grew louder and louder, as though many people were running.

Yun Jiuqing gasped in shock as she turned her attention in those directions, "Where did so many people come from, and why didn’t we notice them before?"

On the slopes on both sides, a dense crowd had gathered, and some of these people had already started running down, blocking the path of Fan Wu and the others from both the front and the rear!

In these people’s hands... were all kinds of weapons, with the most common being long spears! The multitude of spears resembled dense bamboo shoots, creating a scene that was utterly chilling to behold.