As soon as he said goodbye to everyone, Zhan Chen began to retreat, and from now to the tenth of next month, there is still nearly a month, and he can grasp it well.

So in the following days, he repeated the retreat process of refining the pill and taking the pill, and in just one month, he refined six fifth-grade mid-level nine-turn golden pills, and the accumulation of true yuan soared by a small half.

It wasn't until the morning of the 10th that he got up and thought to himself, "Great, this is exactly the life I want! Sufficient pills can help me accumulate true yuan, and the experience of tasks can make my realm consolidated, which is called the way of literature and martial arts." ”

Today's Zhan Chen is not afraid of danger and challenges, but longs to wander on the edge of life and death, and more than a year of cultivation in the Holy Maiden Peak has made him feel that his bones are all fresh, and his fighting instinct is weakening.

He hurried to the rendezvous place and found that there were already many people waiting, most of them were only martial artists, and there were as many as two thousand people.

While he was observing, he heard someone calling to him on the side: "Zhan Chen!"

Zhan Chen turned his head to look, but shouted happily: "It's Brother Wan!"

It turned out that Wan Zheng and his party of five were already waiting there early, and Zhan Chen also hurriedly stepped forward to meet them, but asked, "Brother Wan, how can there be so many martial artists besides us today?"

Wan Zheng smiled slightly and explained: "Brother Zhan, you don't know where we are going-Chihong Ore Vein, but it is the largest mine near Moluo City, located in the outermost extension of the Chihong Mountain Range, where it is rich in third- and fourth-level refining materials, and for the Moluo Sect, these resources are extremely important, so it requires a large number of people to mine. ”

"The third- and fourth-level refining materials are no longer something that ordinary people at the martial apprentice level can mine, so at least supernumerary disciples at the martial artist level can mine these minerals, and the martial artists you see are only a part of the labor there, and it takes more than 30,000 people to mine martial artists there. ”

"But I see that there are only about 2,000 people here. ”

"These people are just supplementary manpower, and most of us outer disciples used to be deacons in the mining and were in charge of overseeing them. ”

Zhan Chen couldn't help but think of the experience he had when he was a supervisor in Huangyangang, and suddenly understood.

While they were talking, a burly fat man came down from the mountain, he looked five points similar to Pang Scorpion, and he was also an out-and-out fat man, but although his body was fat, it did not affect his flexibility, and his every move exuded infinite strength.

The fat man was dressed in the clothes of an inner disciple, and it was obvious that his cultivation had reached the level of the Martial King, he came to everyone and shouted loudly: "Everyone, I am your leader and your new steward in the future, my name is Pang Snake, please take care of me in the future!"

"Pang Snake?" Zhan Chen couldn't help but be stunned, and looked at Wan Zheng on the side with questioning eyes.

Sure enough, I heard Wan Zheng say: "It's not good! This Pang Snake is also Pang Scorpion's brother! The two of them are known for their ferocity, and they are known as Snake and Scorpion!"

Hearing him say this, Zhan Chen's heart suddenly became vigilant, "Pang Scorpion and Pang Snake are brothers, it seems that this trip is not as simple as it seems, and that Pang Scorpion will not let me go after all." ”

After a while, everyone came, there were a total of 2,300 martial artists, 36 martial artists, and Zhan Chen saw Lin Qiu's figure in the team again, and the sense of uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.

Pang Snake counted the number of people, then ordered the team to march and march towards the northwest.

Along the way, they trekked through mountains and rivers, and it took them nearly half a month to reach their destination.

Zhan Chen raised his eyes and saw that there were tall and stretching mountains in front of him, which could not be counted, and they stretched to the horizon, as if there was no end in sight.

And most of these mountains are densely populated with ancient trees, connected together, as if they are clothed in green for those peaks.

At the foot of the mountains, a large river runs north and south, and a town is sandwiched between the mountains and the river.

Zhan Chen learned from the mouths of Wan Zheng and others that it was the famous Chihong City. The castle was famous for its smelting and trade, and it is said that many people who went into the mountains to mine and prospect for medicine would take the proceeds from the woods and exchange them for yuanshi.

Therefore, the alchemy and refining tools there are relatively prosperous, and I heard that there are many well-known alchemists and swordsmiths who live in them.

Pang Snake walked at the front of the team, saw Chihong City, and shouted excitedly: "Everyone hurry up, let's try to get to the station before dark." ”

The group quickened their pace, and instead of entering the city, they passed around the town and continued into the jungle.

Looking at the distant Chihong City, a trace of regret flashed in Zhan Chen's eyes, if he entered that city, he might be able to accomplish many things, but then he adjusted his mentality, since he was going to stay in the Chihong vein for half a year, were you afraid that he would not have the opportunity to go to Chihong City?

After walking for more than ten miles, they officially entered the dense forest, and they felt again: the trees around them were more than 20 meters high, and the canopy was even denser, covering the sky and the sun, making the entire forest shrouded in darkness.

The spiritual energy in the forest is dense, and even forms bursts of spiritual mist, permeating the woods, giving people a hazy feeling, and they can't even see the scene in the distance.

The distance is even more overgrown with spiritual grasses, Zhan Chen casually looked at it, he could see a few first-grade elixirs, and he was secretly frightened: "This is really a treasure land, you can find so many elixirs at once, so it may not be difficult to find high-grade elixirs." ”

At this time, there was a commotion in the team, and it turned out that many martial artists began to leave the team and go to pick the elixir on the side of the road.

Seeing this scene, the Pang snake in front couldn't help but be angry, and roared: "What are you all doing, don't you want to die? I found out that any guy dares to go to collect the elixir on the side of the road casually, and kill him!"

As soon as this order came out, everyone hurriedly re-established the line, and no one dared to anger this strong man with the high-level cultivation of the Martial King.

At this moment, suddenly there was a vibration in the nearby grass, and a black shadow shot out from it, rushing towards a martial artist in the ranks.

Before the man could react, he felt that his throat had been bitten and let out a "wow" sound, killing him instantly.

Everyone hurriedly drew their weapons and looked at him, only to see a monster beast shaped like a wild cat, greedily biting the victim's neck and sucking blood.

"It's a cat demon!" Someone immediately shouted, this is a second-grade mid-level demon beast, although it is only the size of a domestic cat, but its speed is comparable to that of a high-level martial artist, and it is good at hiding sneak attacks, which is quite difficult to deal with.

Immediately, several martial artists surrounded it, blocked the beast's retreat, and hacked it to death.

At this time, Pang Snake walked over, glanced at the dead body on the ground, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Back to the steward, he was attacked by the cat demon. ”

"So that's the case, when you enter the depths of the dense forest, there are more demon beasts. Everyone pay attention to vigilance and think more about their own lives!"

"Lord Steward, what should we do with this junior brother's body?"

"Hmph, we need to hurry, we don't have time to pay attention to this idle matter, you can throw it in the haystack. After saying this, Pang Snake turned and went to the front.

Several martial artists stared at his back and dared not speak, but they finally did not do what Pang Snake said, but chose to take his body with them and find a place to bury them in the future.

This episode didn't affect their trip, and their rivals were attacked by monsters several times, but no one died again.

Zhan Chen personally killed a second-order demon beast, this was already the tenth demon beast he had killed, and he couldn't help complaining: "How can there be so many demon beasts here?"

Wan Zheng smiled on the side: "Brother Zhan, we are still just in the extension of the Chihong Mountain Range. These can only be regarded as frightening and dangerous, if you go deeper into the Chihong Mountain Range, you may encounter demon beasts above the fourth order, that is the danger!"

"Oh, there are still demon beasts above the fourth order in this Chihong Mountain Range?"

"That's right, the Chihong vein is just an extension of the Chihong Mountain Range, and the deeper you go into the mountain range, the more dangerous it becomes, and the higher the level of the demon beasts encountered. I have heard that after breaking through the realm of the Martial Saint Great Perfection, our Demon Luo Sect Sect Master Yin Xuehai once went deep into this Chihong Mountain Range, but he was seriously injured and fled back. ”

"Oh, what happened in the middle?Yin Xuehai is a Martial Saint powerhouse, is there an opponent who can't deal with it?" Zhan Chen couldn't help but ask.

"He didn't reveal anything after he came back, and no one dared to ask him about it, but there were rumors that there was a ninth-order demon beast hidden in the deepest part of this Chihong Mountain Range. ”

"Ninth-order demon beast, this is an existence comparable to the immortal of the Dao Peering Yuan Realm!" Zhan Chen called.

"Yes, so from then on, the sect master issued an order, only allowing the sect to mine minerals outside the Chihong Mountain Range, and not to go deep into the center of this mountain range, probably because he was afraid of the existence in this mountain. ”

While the two were talking, the team climbed a large mountain and came to the top of the mountain.

There is an open field, there is a camp, there are a lot of houses in it, enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people to live, and there are three big black characters "Chihong Village" written at the entrance of the camp, which looks strong and powerful.

Zhan Chen knew that they had arrived at their destination.

At this time, I heard Pang Snake shouting inside: "Go and call your steward, I was ordered to hand over the task to him!"

Several of the deacons who were running in it hurriedly welcomed them into the stockade and quickly informed the original steward.

After the two of them passed over, the team settled down, and in the evening, everyone also raised a bonfire and held a celebration ceremony for the visitors, which lasted until late at night, and they did not say anything.

Besides, after Zhan Chen finished eating, he walked into his room and looked at it, this is a living room with 50 square meters, divided into two parts: a cultivation room of 30 square meters and a bedroom of 20 square meters, and the conditions are good.

Looking at all this, Zhan Chen showed a satisfied smile and muttered: "The environment here is much better than on Shadow Peak, and the mountain aura is also extremely abundant, without the dark and turbid aura of the earth aura, I really want to retreat here for a long time." ”

But he knew that this was an extravagant hope, because tomorrow the team would be concentrated, and Pang Snake would begin to assign duties and tasks.

"I'm going to have a good night's rest, and I'll have to deal with that snake tomorrow. Zhan Chen thought silently.