Chapter 220 - 220: Village!!!

Nie Li : "As we are done here lets continue our search for the Stones of Light!"

Du Ze : "Okay," ​​

Although Du Ze was a little confused, he did not ask any further.

The group continued moving towards the distant mountain.

Nie Li : "Wei Nan, merge with your demon spirit and search the surrounding area and see if there are any similar ancient monuments. Although i doubt something exists here that can hurt you, safety comes first, don't stop in one place."

Wei Nan when he merges with it, his physical size will be smaller and not easy to notice. At the same time, he has high speed, so an ordinary demon beast wouldn't be able to catch up to him.

Wei Nan : "Okay, I understand."

Wei Nan said, nodding his head. He quickly merged with his demon spirit, his limbs became particularly strong and then he bolted away like the wind.

Wei Nan followed the ground, but maintained a distance of roughly a thousand meters while searching the parameters; however, there wasn't anything to discover.

Gradually, they reached the foot of the mountain. The lights that were halfway up the mountain are very close to them now.

Soon they all saw a village. However, what makes this village different from others is that the houses here are built on top of the towering trees. Some places were open platforms, with huge Thunderbird demon beasts quietly standing there.

On the head of the Thunderbirds, there's a crown-like item glowing in the darkness.

The light that shot into the sky must have come from these Thunderbirds.

This place should be a huge village with tens of thousands of residents living here. Furthermore, from the location that he's standing, there are even more lights in the mountains. Seems like the settlements here are not only one.

Some of the grey leather armour guards were holding sharp spears, standing on the branches of some of the huge trees. Not far from his current location, knocking sounds could be heard on top of the mountainside, they seem to be digging something.

Guards : "You dare slack off?! You're simply seeking death!"

One of the guards spoke in the Woodland Empire's language. He's mercilessly whipping the miners.

Some of the miners couldn't withstand the chores and fell to the ground. The guards seem to have no compassion and continued whipping them, until one of the miners stopped breathing, he then coldly barked...

Guard 2 : "Drag him away and clean the area!"

The ore that they are mining is the raw stone of the Blood Crystal!

The usage of the Blood Crystal is doubtless. Although only one Blood Crystal could be refined from a few hundred pounds of the raw stone, it's already significant.

At that moment although they didn't try to hide they all felt killing intent. Which immediately made them be cautiously and looked at the grass at their side.

The grass moved, a figure slowly appeared before his eyes.

??? : "Who are you?"

A tribal girl, wielding on a long sword appeared from the grass. She was warily looking at them, filled with hostility.

She looked different from an ordinary human. She has a pair of silver coloured wings growing from her back.

These wings are not from merging with a demon spirit, but something that is growing on her body. She's wearing silver armour, and those green eyes of hers were emitting a faint light in the darkness.

Lee : "Isn't she similar to the Silver Winged tribe from the Woodland Empire era??"

The first generation Patriarch of the Silver Winged tribe implanted the wings of a Silver Winged Thunderbird into his body and passed them to his direct descendants. Only the noblest descendants are able to have the silver wings in the Silver Winged Family.

She's at least a 5-star Gold rank expert!

The girl narrowed her eyes when she heard Lee and almost lashed at them but Nie Li was one step faster...

Nie Li : "Your honourable highness, nice to meet you. I am a traveller who is passing by, and accidentally came here. If I have offended you in any way, I hope you'll understand."

Hearing Nie Li speak with the standard Woodland Empire's language, a hint of doubt flashed within this girl's eyes and she solemnly asked.

Girl : "Who are you, where have you come from?"

Although earlier she heard Lee speaking and almost lash at him, she felt more like she was insulted for some reason as she couldn't understand his words...

Nie Li knew that the Silver Winged Family must have moved in here during the Age of Darkness. Because the Woodland Empire's era is already in the same timeline as the Age of Darkness, and drowned in the endless horde of demon beasts.

Nie Li : "My ancestors are from the Silverlit Family. Thereafter, during the long Age of Darkness, we continued to run and luckily survived. I broke into your territory by accident."

Girld : "Silverlit Family?"

The Silver Winged Family's girl was stunned for a moment and revealed a slightly excited expression.

During the era of the Woodland Empire, the Silverlit Family was one of Silver Winged Family's allies, both sides had a close relationship. They also had many marriages between each other; therefore, their relationship is extremely close.

The Silver Winged Girl : "Ever since my ancestors moved here, we have not had any contact with the outside world. We were no longer able to return to the original mainland and could only live in this dark world. I welcome your presence here, I'll immediately inform my father about it. Follow me!"

Nie Li : "Okay."

Nie Li followed behind the girl, walking inwards.

Girl : "My name is Hongyue, what's your name?"

Nie Li : "I'm Lei Zhuo."

The girl slightly nodded. She was a little suspicious about Nie Li's identity, but once she heard his surname, she no longer had any suspicions.

However, through time, there's not many that could remember that the surname Lei, is the surname of the Silverlit Family.