THE VALLEY OF HELL
Chapter 9. Past Times

While at the inn, Dong Huang was curious about the journey of Fan Tian's life, so he again questioned why he could part with his brother.

Fan Tian did not mind telling the situation so he separated from his family.

***Tell the past***

The valley that initially looked very calm, when it began to twilight, saw the activity of the residents in the valley who were all people who studied medicine and alchemy, do not realize if there will be a dark event for them.

They were surprised by the arrival of the group in the settlement where Fan Tian was staying, one of them immediately gave the order to spread by gesturing through his two hands.

While the figure who gave the order continued to walk straight forward like not afraid of anyone who would block it.

Moments later from every house in the settlement, there began to be the sound of women and children screaming hysterically and screams of pain coming from the mouths of men.

Some of the men who are residents of the settlement are seen trying to fight against the group that came to attack them.

In one of the buildings of the house where Fan Tian lived, his grandfather had both of his parents sent.

"You better get out of here! Under this book be with you and do not fall into the hands of the wicked!" Said a man with great emphasis.

"Dad! What about you? You better come with us to get out of here." Reply to a man.

"Go quickly! Don't let you be late!" Shouted the old man who immediately ran away leaving the four of them consisting of two five and seven-year-old boys and two adults who were the parents of the two boys.

"No! Don't leave Grandpa! Grandpa should come with us! Leave me!" Shouted a seven-year-old boy.

The adult man beside him immediately embraced the boy so as not to follow the old man who had left the four of them.

"Dad! Let me stay with Grandpa here!" The boy shouted many times for his father to let go.

They left the valley with sadness to save themselves along with their two sons.

"Stop anyone who puts up a fight!" Shouted the figure who had previously given the order.

The sound of screaming from the pain they felt as well as the clanking of weapons made of metal began to be heard in reply in the originally very peaceful valley.

Occasionally the figure who was the leader of the group swung a sword in his hand to slash at everyone he met.

A while later, finally his pair of eyes were fixed on the figure of a sepuh man who was running towards him while doing the same thing as what he was doing.

"Catch that old man!" The leader ordered by pointing towards the old man he was referring to.

Some of his subordinates immediately attacked the old man he was referring to with the sharp weapons they had.

"It turns out your martial arts aren't bad either. All right, let me face you!" Said the leader who immediately ran over and unleashed a slash attack towards the old man.

.trings.

The sound of swords clashing against each other.

The old man was still able to compensate for the martial arts skills of some swordsman who ganged himself.

While fighting, suddenly an arrow shot out and stuck right at one of the old man's legs.

"Acchhk!" Shouted the old man.

Despite this, he continued to fight.

A few moments later, another arrow stuck to his other leg.

Shouts of pain were heard coming out of the old man's mouth.

The old man's movements slowed down even more, so the leader directly landed his kick into the old man's stomach.

Buukkk

The old man's body was immediately pushed back and crashed onto the ground.

"Catch her!" Shouted the leader.

Three of his subordinates immediately locked onto the old man's body movements and snatched the sword in his hand.

There are seen dozens of men and women who are still alive collected by them.

"Is there nothing left?" Ask the leader.

"All the places we've checked and we no longer find anyone alive other than them." Answer a subordinate.

"It seems you have learned the meaning of our coming to this place."

"For that, you better quickly hand over the Life Gold Pill you have."

Said the leader while staring at the old man who had previously been crippled.

"I don't understand what you're saying." The old man responded to the words of the figure standing in front of him.

"Ha..ha..ha...ha...ha....do you think that before we came here we had no solid foundation?"

"We are just ordinary farmers who want to live in peace and tranquility in this valley, why do you think that we have that thing you're looking for?" Reply to the old man again.

"A Medicine God genius disciple is trying to trick me? All right, I want to see how far you can go." Said the leader while gesturing to his subordinates.

A subordinate immediately dragged a woman before the old man and began to torment him.

The screams of pain began to sound. The old man began to feel unable to bear to see the suffering experienced by the woman.

"Stop!" The leader's orders.

"Are you still strong?" Further asked.

The old man remained silent and seemed to not want to talk.

"Well, if you don't want to talk, we'll continue the show." Said the leader.

When he wanted to give a signal to again torture the woman, the old man spoke up.

"Wait on! Stop your actions!"

"I am indeed a disciple of the god of medicine, but the pill you are referring to is simply an exaggerated story, for it never existed." The old man explained.

"Do you want to deceive me? I can only remind you not to try to play games with me, because I will act even more cruel to them!" Said the leader with his evil smile despite being blocked by the cloth covering his face.

The situation back then was silent as the leader gave the old man a chance to think.

Amidst the silence, faintly heard the sound of the cry of a small child in the middle of the forest that was still not too far from the settlement.

"It seems like there's still something you're missing. Hurry up and catch the kid! If it's difficult for you, just finish it!" The leader's orders again.

"You come with me!" Say one to some other figure.

They also immediately went towards the direction of the voice of the cry of a child.

"Don't yell, they can find us." Whisper the grown man who was the boy's father.

"My wife, we need to move even faster before they can catch up to us."

The adult woman running beside him just stared and nodded at what her husband said while holding the five-year-old boy.

A short while after they ran, they could finally be chased by the group hunting them.

"Stop! You can't run away from us anymore.quickly give up and come with us to return to the valley." Said the man who became the leader of the small group.

"Zhu'er, you're a man, so you have to be strong to protect your mother and sister." Whisper of the man who was the father of the boy.

"My wife! You guys keep running, let me face them." Said Fan Tian's father.

"Tian! You must listen to your mother and brother and never go against their orders." Further.

The woman's face immediately turned sad after hearing her husband's words.

"Come down and save yourself and our two sons." Said the man while lowering his son.

"Zhu'er, run as fast as you can and never look back." The father's orders.

The boy simply nodded his head and immediately did as his father commanded.

"My husband, you should be able to catch up with us!" Shouted the wife.

The father immediately pulled out his sword and immediately turned around while running to block the six people who were chasing them.

"Ohh, it looks like he's trying to protect the woman and the two boys....All right, you three keep chasing them, let the three of us face this guy." Orders of one of them.

When their distance was close, the man immediately jumped up high and prepared to release the sword slash in his hand.

The six figures immediately split up and the three others immediately continued their pursuit of the two boys with their mother.

Fan Zhu continued to run along with his mother who was still holding Fan Tian.

When the three of them arrived at a path that would lead to the main road, the woman immediately slipped her in-laws into Fan Tian's clothes.

"You must run after your brother to find a hiding place and make no sound so that they can't find you both."

"Zhu'er, take your sister as far away as possible and never stop one bit unless you have found a safe hiding place." The boy's second mother's orders.

Fan Zhu continued to run while holding his sister's hand to be able to continue their escape while shedding tears of fear and sadness.

It was fortunate that Fan Zhu and Fan Tian's physiques were already used to being trained to be able to become a swordsman, so their running speed was above the average of a seven-year-old normal boy.

After getting a place to hide, Fan Zhu immediately pulled his sister's hand to hide in that place until the morning was approaching.

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