Chapter 24: Ascension
At dusk, the master and apprentice climbed to the top of the mountain, and they also encountered two demonic beasts, both of which were hunted and killed in a few moves between Ye Peizhi raising his hand, Xiao Nan shook his head and sighed, showing a look of envy for his master.
Standing on the top of the mountain, looking around into the distance, the mountains are towering and green, and the mountains are continuous.
After a while, Xiao Nan always felt that there was something strange in the mountains opposite, a beam of white mist rose from the gentle jungle, it was already dusk, it should not be the water mist that was steaming.
If so, among the endless mountains, there is no only one place that rises from the clouds. That doesn't happen unless there's a hot spring or someone has a bonfire there.
"Master, look there. ”
"What's wrong?"
"It must be the smoke that someone else has set on fire. ”
Ye Peizhi nodded, "Let's go over and take a look, follow me." ”
The two of them blew through the forest like the wind, and every leap was more than a zhang, Xiao Nan sighed in his heart, he didn't expect that in just a few months, he would have such extraordinary abilities.
More than half an hour later, the two approached the place where the smoke rose.
"You just hide here, I'll go and see, don't make a sound. Ye Peizhi pointed to a hidden place and said.
After saying that, she lowered her body like a nimble dolphin in the water and walked over from among the weeds and bushes, Xiao Nan seemed to be infected, and also lowered her body and hid behind the bushes.
A moment later, a voice came.
"Xiao Nan, come here. ”
It was the master's voice, Xiao Nan straightened up, and walked over there with a probe.
Soon I heard the cacophony of talking, and then saw dozens of people gathered in a clearing surrounded by trees in front of me.
"Here, come here. ”
Xiao Nan followed the sound and saw where the master was, and walked behind her.
"Elder Ye, this is the newly accepted apprentice of your elders. A sturdy man asked.
"Well, Master Duan, have you met Jingyun, Master Ding, and Sister Wang together?" Ye Peizhi asked as she looked at the few people in a circle in front of her.
"We all met, it was Jingyun who informed us and asked us to gather together, and then I met Ding Fengwei's two people, who were covered in injuries, but Elder Ye can rest assured, they are all flesh injuries and are not in the way. Master Duan said.
The two of them were so red-eyed that they almost killed the old dog surnamed Qian several times, but they still let him escape. The two of them chased and killed more than a dozen disciples of the Tongyang Sect along the way, and then they ran into us again, rested for a day, and led Jingyun and more than a dozen clever disciples to leave. Another chubby middle-aged man said.
"Master Liang, there are thirty or forty of us gathered here, right? Do we have any casualties?"
"There are forty-three people, and as far as we know now, there are more than ten disciples who died, a few were killed by the wandering bandits, and the rest were killed by the people of the Tongyang faction, but they lost more people. The middle-aged man called Master Liang turned cold.
"Listen to Master Ding, you have been poisoned by the surname Qian, it's okay, right?" Master Duan asked.
"Six ......or seven points have been restored. ”
A few people were still talking, Xiao Nan glanced around, more than forty people, but there were more than a dozen people who were in a state of weakness and obviously had some signs of hindrance, and these people should have been injured to varying degrees.
The sky was dark, more than forty people, three bonfires, everyone was eating roasted or stewed monster meat around the bonfire.
Ye Peizhi distributed some healing pills to the wounded, and gave a few bottles to several team leaders, telling everyone not to scatter their actions, and there was no need to show mercy when they encountered the Tongyang faction.
The next day, Ye Peizhi led the more than 40 people to the depths of the Zongyun Mountain Range, after all, it was not easy to come once, and everyone had to gain something.
There are a large number of people, and some of them have relatively high cultivation, so everyone is full of interest and wants to hunt higher-level demonic beasts together, and the benefits will be greater.
Ye Peizhi always let Xiao Nan follow behind, and the demonic beasts encountered along the way were harvested by this group of people like chopping vegetables.
"Elder Ye, this time we are outnumbered, so let's take everyone to the high-level area, otherwise everyone will have more to gain than they gain when they come out this time. ”
"Well, that's the only way, but there are a lot of people, and you need a few masters to coordinate and manage a group of disciples, so there can be no more personnel losses. ”
So several masters each led a dozen people, a total of four groups, of which a dozen or so wounded were independently assigned to a group, and the lightly wounded were responsible for taking care of the seriously wounded, and they just followed the team.
In the Longitudinal Cloud Mountain Range, they went deeper and deeper, and in the past few days, the demonic beasts they encountered could be easily hunted with only a group of people, and the leading masters were almost just watching the battle from the sidelines, and they didn't need to make a move.
It's just that after more than ten days, the defensive ability and attack ability of the demonic beast have been enhanced to the point that it is a little difficult for a group of people to deal with, and after two days of going deeper, the demonic beast encountered is even more powerful, and it takes several groups of people to work together to be able to hunt.
And on a few occasions, if it weren't for the master who was watching the battle from the sidelines, there would have been a few more injured disciples.
Everyone's original mood was a little decadent, but after more than ten days of experience these days, the fighting spirit began to rise.
Except for a few masters, even the disciples who had been to the Longitudinal Cloud Mountain Range many times were the first time they had gone deep into such a sinister place.
Xiao Nan is also in one of them, belonging to the group with the lowest cultivation, but every time he participates in the battle, he will be frequently praised by several masters who are watching the battle.
"Elder Ye, now I understand why the three elders of the Qingfeng Sect are vying for this kid to be an apprentice, he has only been cultivating for a few months, and he is stronger than the apprentices I have brought for several years. ”
"Master Liang, don't compare yourself like this, they are all disciples of the Qingfeng Sect. Ye Peizhi always stared intently at Xiao Nan who was flashing left and right in the field, for fear of a mistake.
"This kid is so talented, there are dozens of people in the field, he is the most clever, the timing of his attacks and the points of attack are almost the most appropriate, especially his dodge and the speed of his punches are quite hot, even those of us who have hundreds of years of experience. ”
"Master Duan, you think too highly of him, but he is indeed a man with brains. Being able to adapt to changes is indeed very rare for cultivators. Commenting on her apprentices with everyone, Ye Peizhi naturally gave birth to a happy heart.
Indeed, in the more than ten days of hunting with everyone, Xiao Nan himself also felt that he had added a lot of actual combat experience, once he joined the battle, he would become extremely calm, and after a few moves, he would naturally formulate a set of attack tactics that he thought were the most suitable and effective according to the situation on the scene.
And it was also during these more than ten days, every night, like many disciples, he would take out the spirit stone and meditate all night long.
But unlike the other disciples, the speed at which they used to absorb spirit stones in the Demon Void Realm could not be compared with the current Xiao Nan, Xiao Nan's speed was many times faster, which may only be known to a few of his masters.
Xiao Nan himself also clearly felt that his absorption speed was getting faster and faster, whether it was a soul spirit stone or a body spirit stone, it was now almost comparable to the absorption speed of a small worm, and he could absorb a medium-grade spirit stone in one day.
In the past ten days, after absorbing eight spirit stones, he has finally upgraded from the primary level of Demon Lack Jing to the middle level, and the Yuan Soul Bead in his body has also increased several times.
"Why is it so big?" At the moment when the upgrade first appeared, he was more shocked than surprised, as if he felt that his entire body was full.
The next morning after the upgrade, he found the master with joy and was about to tell her, but before he could speak, Ye Peizhi glanced at him and said very usually: "You have been upgraded?"
Xiao Nan had no choice but to nod his head normally, and the surprise suddenly disappeared, but some of the changes brought to him after the upgrade still made him quite useful, even if he was motionless, he felt that his body was more agile and his mind was sharper.