Chapter 127: The Elders of the Demon Slaying Alliance
The disciples of the various immortal sects of the Demon Slaying Alliance were not very interested in chasing Li Yi'an at first.
In order to deal with this situation, the high-level leaders of the Demon Killing Alliance set up some pills, exercises, and magic weapons as rewards for this experience, hoping to mobilize and stimulate their enthusiasm.
But it backfired, and after a period of time, the elders found that these disciples of the Immortal Sect had no motivation to participate in this hunt at all.
The reason for this is because of their special status.
Because the disciples of the Immortal Sect who participated in this hunt are all the best sons of various sects, there are core disciples, and there are many inner disciples.
For them, there is no shortage of pills, exercises, and magic weapons, so to speak, no attractiveness.
Therefore, without enough material and spiritual impulse, let them go all out to find the nearby demon clan to collect Li Yi'an's information in this icy and snowy twilight glacier, and there is no door!
Some of the inner disciples still have some eager ideas. But the core disciples of the various Immortal Sects, not only did they not actively participate in the experience, but they even appeared in a state of slackness and passivity.
They have nothing to do all day long, they eat and sleep, they are full of sleep and hurry, and they encounter a few demon clans by chance, and they are too lazy to move, and they don't want to find things for themselves.
A few days ago, somewhere on the Twilight Glacier in a cave...
The core disciples of the Sword Sect, Senior Brother Wang Dao, Senior Brother Chen Gongzi, Third Senior Brother Liu Youcai, and their junior brother Wuya were sitting around a bonfire chatting.
Wuya suddenly thought of the lazy daily life of the senior brothers in the past few days, and was a little puzzled, after throwing some dry firewood to the bonfire in front of him, he asked Liu Youcai beside him, "Third senior brother, are we still arresting this Li Yi'an?"
Liu Youcai was struggling with a piece of chicken breast, and after hearing the endless question, he wiped his mouth and said: "Catch a fart? Lao Tzu is eating and drinking well on the fifth front, and suddenly informed me to come to this ghost place to practice, not only freezing to death in the ice and snow, but also the reward is pitiful, you see, what is this chicken frozen!"
Liu Youcai pursed his lips and continued: "Besides, let's bother and work hard, even if we catch Li Yi'an?
After he finished speaking, he no longer struggled with the muscles in his hands, left them behind, and took out a few jugs of wine from the spatial ring with his backhand and distributed them to the senior brothers present.
Chen Gongzi took the wine jug from his junior brother Liu Youcai and said with a smile: "Senior brother is reasonable, this twilight glacier is icy and snowy, and it is the same every day when you open and close your eyes, and I occasionally encounter a few suitable places to live, but it is also very boring." What's more, these demon clans that have not yet transformed are far inferior to the fourth front, and the graceful little lady in the mandarin tower is wonderful~ Yes, senior brother!"
Their elder brother, Wang Dao, was picking his teeth and making a 'tsk' sound.
"Oh, that, four junior brothers, it's not right for you to say that, we are also part of the Immortal Sect, don't ask what the sect gave you, you have to ask yourself, what contribution do you have to the sect!"
When the three junior brothers Chen Gongzi, Liu Youcai and Wuya heard Wang Dao's words, they immediately felt respect in their hearts, but when they thought about it, it was not right, this was not what their senior brothers would say on weekdays.
Sure enough, Wang Dao took a sip of wine and continued: "Go and say hello to the inner disciples in our sect, let them slow down the speed of the pursuit appropriately, experience the style of the twilight glacier, drink a little wine, bask in the warm winter sun, isn't he fragrant~"
Wang Dao stretched his waist and continued, "Whoever loves to chase, whoever goes..."
After he finished speaking, he actually found a place, took out a blanket from the space ring and covered his body, and fell asleep...
Seeing this, the expressions of the remaining three senior brothers returned to normal, this is the normal appearance of their senior brothers.
They stepped aside and said in unison, "Senior brother Gaojian!"
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Soon after the core disciples of the Sword Sect appeared in this slackness atmosphere, the inner disciples were gradually 'infected'.
What are you doing chasing Li Yi'an with all your might?
With such a small reward, the credit is also that of the elders, not only will you not get any benefits, but you will also offend the core disciples.
Since then, the disciples of the Sword Sect have been hungry to eat, to eat and sleep, to sleep enough symbolically to hurry, and even deliberately avoid the demon clan, unless they bump into their faces uninterestingly, they are willing to do it.
Seeing this, the other disciples of the Immortal Sect also began to reflect on this phenomenon, and when they thought about it, they all blamed themselves for being stupid.
In the blink of an eye, the disciples of the Immortal Sect have completely changed, and the twilight glacier has become their 'vacation place', drinking and chatting when they have nothing to do, sleeping when they are tired, drinking when they are thirsty, and they can also bet and play when they are bored.
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When the various Immortal Sect elders of the Demon Slaying Alliance realized this problem, they were all angry Heavenly Spirit Gai trembling, like the lid of a teapot after water had been boiled.
Their hearts are anxious, anxious like ants on a hot pot.
They are the ones in charge of this pursuit operation, this group of disciples is just bringing experience, if this operation fails, the sect will not punish these disciples, and they are the ones who suffer.
The reason for this is that they don't pay enough attention to this operation, and they feel that Li Yi'an, who is in the condensation realm, can make any waves under the pursuit of so many elders.
But after actually entering the Twilight Glacier, they realized that the Twilight Glacier was too big.
They are like headless flies about Li Yi'an's whereabouts.
At the time of the fourth front, the ghost three of the Ghost Sect and the Bailichuan of the Sword Sect had Li Yi'an's information and some of the speculated whereabouts in their hands.
But in this twilight glacier, where do they go to find clues?
Do you want to go to the sentry camps of the various immortal sects?
The people who were hunted down by the Immortal Sect, unless their brains were eaten by the nine-tailed fox, would take the initiative to crash into the sentry camp of the Immortal Sect, and the first intelligence personnel to be sent out were just to mobilize the sentry camp in advance, let them assist, and collect abnormal information during this time as much as possible.
If you really get any useful information, it will also belong to the blind cat encountering a dead mouse.
What's more, Li Yi'an has always been cautious and cautious, and since the auction house, he has always deliberately concealed his information and whereabouts.
And this place is different from other places, on the twilight glacier, the most likely person to have clues to Li Yi'an's whereabouts is not the human race, but the demon race!
Because as long as it is a living person, it will always be more or less encountered by other demon clans.
However, even the demon clans in the territory divided by the Immortal Sect would not take the initiative to provide the situation, let alone other demon clans.
The only way is for them to use strong means and strength.
But with the number of elders they have at the moment, even if all the elders are out hunting demons day and night, the efficiency is too low.
Li Yi'an, who is so cautious in his whereabouts, is very likely to deliberately avoid the demon clan of the twilight glacier.
As a result, the scope and difficulty of the search have greatly increased, and there is a shortage of manpower.
As for asking for help from other fronts, it is also unrealistic to mobilize manpower, because there is too much time, and the manpower that can be mobilized from several nearby fronts is basically here.
The only thing that could solve the urgent need was these Immortal Sect disciples who were far more numerous than them!
Therefore, they had to find a way to mobilize the enthusiasm of these Immortal Sect disciples as soon as possible and expand the search scope as much as possible.
Obtain as much useful information as possible from the surrounding demon clans, sentry camps, and even some local aborigines, and successfully complete this mission.
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At the beginning, the Demon Killing Alliance asked the elders of the various Immortal Sects to deal with the laziness of their own Immortal Sect disciples behind closed doors.
But the elders were in trouble again.
Because the identities of the disciples convened this time are quite mixed, some of them are their own disciples, and some of them are the disciples of other elders in the sect.
Only a few of your own disciples can be effective in verbal persuasion, and the disciples of other elders will not listen to you at all.
If you use too much force, as soon as the experience is over, you will return to the sect to complain, and you will directly offend a dozen elders, and in the days to come, how will you still mix in the sect!
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Of course, this is only the tip of the iceberg of many problems revealed after the Demon Slayer Alliance entered the twilight glacier.
Today's Demon Slaying Alliance is nothing more than six immortal sects, temporarily formed for a common goal.
The various immortal sects in the alliance have huge differences and controversies over the future of the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan, as well as the distribution of benefits.
Not only that, but there are also a lot of grievances and hatreds accumulated between the various immortal sects over the years.
For example, the Instrument Sect once delivered a batch of magic weapons to the Sword Sect, but the Sword Sect finally refused to admit it.
For another example, the disciples of the Sword Sect once roasted the war beasts of the Imperial Beast Sect during a large-scale confrontation of the Immortal Sect.
And the Imperial Beast Sect, decades ago, secretly looted the materials of the Dan Sect once.
There are many such related things, and some of these people back then have become today's inner disciples, and some have become core disciples.
As for the older parties, some of them have become elders!
If it weren't for the order of their respective sects this time, they would not have been able to work together in life or death.
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Irritability, depression, anger, and resentment filled the minds of these elders, but at this point, the development of events was like a mountain pressing on their hearts, making them breathless, and if they hadn't practiced for many years, I am afraid that they would have been depressed long ago.
And the most pressure is the elders of the Feather Arrow Sect, they are not only the leaders of the Demon Slaying Alliance, but they also have to bear the pressure of the sect.
Yu Wentuo is the most difficult one among them, because all indications indicate that Xu Long is likely to die at the hands of Li Yi'an.
If the above reasons are not resolved as soon as possible, it will not only affect the progress of this operation, but even cause the entire alliance to fall apart for their own interests and grievances.
Forced by the situation, the Feather Arrow Sect had no choice but to take the lead in recalling all the elders and disciples of the Immortal Sect except for the intelligence personnel sent to the various sentry camps.
They urgently need to solve the problems of the present in order to prevent future events from developing in an uncontrollable direction.
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A few days later, in response to the above many problems, the high-level leaders of the Demon Killing Alliance made large-scale adjustments to all the disciples and elders of the Immortal Sect who participated in this operation.
First, extract most of the elders and go directly to the depths of the twilight glacier, go to the front to snipe Li Yi'an, and adjust it at any time according to the information obtained.
Its purpose is also to break up the elders who have grievances among the various sects and temporarily alleviate the contradictions within the alliance.
Second, on the basis of the original reward for hunting down Li Yi'an, the experience reward was increased, and the rules of experience were adjusted to fully mobilize the core disciples and inner disciples of each sect.
According to the requirements of the experience, all the disciples of the Immortal Sect who participated in the experience must wear the magic weapon temporarily refined by the Instrument Sect, and the team composed of one person or at most three people must act.
According to Li Yi'an's cultivation in the Condensation Realm, it would take at least two months to leave the Twilight Glacier with all his might, so the duration of this experience was two months.
This magic weapon is a ring-shaped ring with a simple appearance, and its main function is to record the identity information of each immortal sect disciple, as well as to record the points of demon killing.
However, since this ring is temporarily refined, the grade is not high, no matter what kind of cultivation the demon clan is killed, only one point will be recorded.
This is also a protection mechanism, after all, the twilight glacier is too big, if you really encounter a demon clan with high cultivation, you don't have to think about killing to get points, just run.
Not only that, but if the two people wearing the ring can show each other an approximate direction within a certain distance.
The reason why this is so is because points can be obtained not only by killing demons, but also by defeating the disciples of other immortal sects.
However, in the process of capturing points, you must not kill the opponent, otherwise the killer's points will be invalidated.
As for the other part of the elders, they began to advance towards the twilight glacier every day on the periphery of the twilight glacier, and if they found the disciples of the Immortal Sect who were waiting to do nothing in place, they would directly clear their points.
At the end of the experience, the top 10 teams will receive magic weapons and elixirs.
The top three teams in terms of points will also reward each team with the same immortal weapon on the basis of the original magic weapon and elixir.
Not only that, in order to increase the enthusiasm of the disciples of the Immortal Sect for the acquisition of information, the information about Li Yi'an is worth points ranging from five hundred to one thousand, provided that this information must be useful for pursuit.
Moreover, during the training period, if a team reaches 10,000 points, they will directly receive all the rewards of the top three.
Of course, there are rewards, and naturally there are punishments.
At the end of the training, if a team's points do not reach the average line, or if the team's points are emptied to zero, there will be different punishments according to their different identities in the sect.
The core disciples will be demoted to inner disciples, and their cultivation resources will be halved, while the inner disciples will be directly exempted from the cultivation resources within the sect for one year.
The rewards are provided by the Demon Killing Alliance, and the punishment is also supervised and carried out by all the elders of the Demon Killing Alliance.
During this training, if there is an irresistible accident that results in the death of a disciple, the responsibility will also be borne by all the elders of the Demon Slaying Alliance.
This series of measures made these elders shout in their hearts, so cool!
The shared responsibility means that they no longer need to consider the worries of the forces behind these rabbits, and they can do what they want.
While mobilizing the enthusiasm of these disciples, this is also a way to deal with and vent grievances between various elders.
With this batch of rings refined by the Instrument Sect, you can check the points of all the disciples of the Immortal Sect at any time.
And behind this ranking, it represents the strength of their respective elders!
Seeing his own disciple suppressing his 'long-cherished enemy', there was an inexplicable feeling of refreshment in his heart.
Even some elders and their opponents will bet on the ranking of this experience, the deeper the grudge, the more irresolvable, the more bets they make, the more ruthless.
Spirit stones, war beasts, magic weapons, magic weapons, and even immortal weapons are all their bets, and some elders even pressed their arms and thighs up, so they almost didn't directly say that they were gambling on their lives.
And so on the night after this new rule was made.
All the disciples of the Immortal Sect were visited one by one by the elders of their respective sects after nightfall.
The elders warned this group of uncompetitive disciples that they must go all out in this trial. Of course, this is from the perspective of the overall situation of the sect, not a personal grudge.
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The day after these measures were issued, almost all the Immortal Sect disciples got up early and started to act.
In their hearts, they hate and love Li Yi'an.
Because the adjusted reward can be said to be the most generous reward among all the experiences over the years.
Everyone is an inner disciple, even a core disciple, and in terms of their respective realms, no one is worse than the other, and they are all eligible for the highest reward.
Hate because the initial points in that ring are zero, as long as one person starts to act, all the other participants will passively enter the game, and no one wants to be punished.
The reduction of a core disciple to an inner disciple would result in the loss of a lot of cultivation resources, and as for the resources that the inner disciple was exempted from for one year, he couldn't even think about it, what was the difference between that and the miscellaneous work of the outer gate.
Other outer disciples still have dreams, how can you, as an inner disciple, be willing to fall.
At the same time, according to the new regulations, not only can the points between different sects be plundered by each other, but also the points between the same sects can be taken from each other.
As a result, the core disciples can advance on the twilight glacier at a uniform speed, but the inner disciples who are slightly weaker can only avoid the core disciples and rush to the deeper part of the twilight glacier to obtain points.
The competition between different immortal sects, they can still understand that the same sect can actually capture points, which makes this group of disciples feel that this regulation is that these elders are deliberately disgusting them and retaliating for their laziness a few days ago.
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After a night of gambling, seeing the vigorous appearance of these disciples, the elders all showed fatherly smiles.
How long the path of cultivation is, young monks, it is all the more important to maintain this upward momentum!
In the afternoon of the same day, the elders also began to act, and some of them went to the depths of the twilight glacier to prepare to snipe Li Yi'an.
While supervising this group of experienced disciples, the other part of the elders collected and sorted out the information about Li Yi'an, and transmitted it to the companions in front in time.
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Somewhere in the Sword Sect's camp...
Wuya had a sad face, "Third Senior Brother, what's wrong with this, the elders are really playing!"
Liu Youcai nibbled on a chicken wing, and said unhurriedly: "Hmm... I think about it, this reward is not bad, even if there are few elders in the sect, but this mechanism is a bit difficult to do, it is estimated that some people will fight for immortal weapons, make a loss?", Liu Youcai looked at his second senior brother hesitantly.
Chen Gongzi yawned and said indifferently: "Immortal weapons, it is indeed rare, although it is not as attractive as the delicate body of those little ladies, but it is also a rare stunner, wonderful~ Yes, senior brother!"
Wang Dao poked his little head out of the bed, looked at his three junior brothers, and then turned his head and continued to sleep.
Wuya was stunned and asked curiously: "Senior brother, senior brother, this is...?"
Liu Youcai's arm hung on Wuyan's shoulder and smiled: "Senior brother, you don't understand this, what senior brother means, recuperate and wait and see!"
The three of them took a step back and said in unison to Wang Dao, who was sleeping, "Senior brother Gaojian!"
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