Chapter 8: Mercenaries

Early the next morning, Mu Tianxiang got up early, sat on the bed and pinched a cultivation method with both hands, and slowly closed his eyes again, early morning renewal of all things is the best time for cultivation, Mu Tianxiang didn't want to waste the slightest time, cultivation is like sailing against the current, only perseverance can make progress. As Mu Tianxiang continued to become energetic, his sturdy chest rose and fell violently, sweat rolled down the upper body of **, the meridians of his body were like a brute dragon, and the surging heartbeat made a "bump" sound.

The pores of the whole body greedily sucked the air around them, forming small cyclones, and the vitality filtered by the pores slowly precipitated in Mu Tianxiang's dantian along the meridians. "Huh" Mu Tianxiang exhaled a long breath of turbidity, and practiced for a week, because he had to go out to do errands Mu Tianxiang stopped practicing, Mu Tianxiang didn't want to disturb the boss lady anymore, and decided to go out early today. But when he walked through the courtyard and entered the lobby, he saw the proprietress who never got up early sitting quietly at the counter.

"Sister Lotus is early," Mu Tianxiang scratched his head embarrassedly.

"Why, I'm not going to say hello when I want to go out. The proprietress who was in a daze said,

"No, aren't you afraid of disturbing you, Sister Lotus is reluctant to let me go," in order to alleviate the embarrassment, Mu Tianxiang made a rare joke.

"Go, go, I'm afraid you'll steal something from the store and run away. The proprietress said unforgivingly.

"Then I'll go," Mu Tianxiang said.

"Let's go, let's go, I can't keep you, and I won't listen to you," the proprietress sighed.

"Remember my words, pay attention to safety, don't be greedy, nothing matters, life is the most important, and when you die, there is nothing......," the proprietress earnestly advised.

"I know," Mu Tianxiang walked out of the shop quickly. I'm afraid that if it's a little later, I won't be able to leave.

According to Sister Lotus's guidance, Mu Tianxiang came to the mercenary association in the town, and now the sky is still sprouting, but the hall of the mercenary association is already noisy, and there are people talking about it everywhere.

"Prefecture-level intermediate team leader, welcome everyone to join the ......"

"There is still one person missing, there is no limit to the level, the team is full of masters, rest assured to join ......"

"All income, reasonable distribution, to ensure that you are satisfied with ......"

......

Everywhere there were monks who pulled people together. Mu Tianxiang knew from Sister Lotus that there were four main types of teams entering the mountain, first, the sect organization, second, a fixed mercenary team, everyone had cooperated many times and understood each other, and third, the artist was a bold individual. These three will not come to the hall. Mu Tianxiang is mainly aimed at the fourth type, that is, some temporary mercenary teams, this kind of team is generally disbanded after one time, and the mutual trust and cooperation tacit understanding is very poor, but fortunately, they don't pick people. At this time, the mercenaries who are constantly shouting in the hall belong to the fourth type. The first time Mu Tianxiang came, the main thing was to learn experience. Didn't expect to get it all at once. Soon a mercenary team was selected to join. Without him, the name of the team is domineering enough, called "Mara Next Door".

This is a small mercenary group of ten people, after a brief introduction, Mu Tianxiang learned that the leader of the team is a very burly man with a full beard, about the same height as himself, and is a prefecture-level junior master who has been mixed in the Yanming Mountains all year round, and the rest of the people are all Xuan-level, only Mu Tianxiang has the lowest level.

"What's the little brother's name, how old is it, what level?" the head of the regiment walked over and patted Mu Tianxiang on the shoulder and asked cordially.

"Mu Tianxiang, he is sixteen this year, and he is intermediate in the yellow level. Mu Tianxiang didn't hide it.

"My name is Hu Kui, the first level of the prefecture, you can call me ** in the future. Captain Hu said: "The level of the little brother is a bit low. ”

"There's no way, there's no sect, I practice by myself, and my qualifications are not good. Mu Tianxiang said gloomily.

"Hey, it's all the same, our casual cultivation is like this, the qualifications are not very good, all the cultivation resources have to fight with their lives, and they are not as good as the sect and the family. Hu Kui seemed to have some sad past, and sighed.

"This time, our main task is to collect some elixir on the outskirts of the Yanming Mountain Range, it is not a big problem, your main task is to take care of the horses that carry the luggage. Follow the line and stay safe, I'll give you a hundred gold coins a day, and our trip will take about three days. What do you think. Hu Kui said.

"The mercenary is really rich, a hundred gold coins are equivalent to a thousand taels of silver. Mu Tianxiang agreed with satisfaction.

Hu Kui saw that Mu Tianxiang had no problem, so he left, and discussed with several Xuan-level masters about entering the Yanming Mountain Range. After a brief exchange, the ten-person small mercenary came to the outside of the town and entered the Yanming Mountain Range.

From time to time, the silent mountain range heard the howl of wild beasts, and the mercenaries walked quietly on the rugged mountain road, a pair of vigilant eyes constantly scanned the surrounding environment, holding their respective blades in their hands, ready to deal with all unexpected situations at any time, everyone's nervous mood also affected Mu Tianxiang, Mu Tianxiang pulled out the single knife on his back, drove the horses with checked luggage, and stared nervously around.

As an old mercenary who has been wandering in the Yanming Mountains for many years, Hu Kui methodically commanded everyone to collect the elixir they found and drive away the beasts around them. Mu Tianxiang found that except for a few brief instructions, the rest of the mercenaries were silent, and the communication mainly used eyes and some brief gestures to identify the signals of danger and safety.

As the team continued to deepen, the level of elixir collected became higher and higher, but the harassment of demonic beasts became more and more frequent. When the team turned to the foot of a mountain, a small-scale demonic beast attack suddenly came, showing the cruelty of the mercenaries in front of Mu Tianxiang's eyes.

The attackers were a group of fire-attribute red wolves, hiding in the grass, and the mercenaries who were exploring the path were unaware for a while, and were instantly overwhelmed by the swarming fireballs, and suddenly turned into a piece of charcoal.

Attacked by Hu Kui, Hu Kui shot out angrily, held up a shield composed of vitality in his left hand to protect his whole body, picked up the blade in his right hand, and killed the red wolf pack like lightning, straight to the head wolf, and the rest of the mercenaries did not panic, their bodies were staggered, and they each selected their opponents and killed the wolves. The level of the monster is not high, and it was quickly killed by everyone, and the beast core was not found in the body of the destroyed monster. In this regard, everyone only sighed with a slight sigh of regret, not every low-level demonic beast will give birth to a beast core, and everyone is used to it.

For the first time, there were casualties in the team, and everyone's mood was not high. The mercenaries have become more cautious, but in the jungle full of monsters, casualties are inevitable, and mercenaries are commonplace. Everyone simply buried the dead mercenaries and continued to set off to find the elixir.

"Little brother is the first time, this is the life of our mercenaries," ** came to the back of the team, patted Mu Tianxiang on the shoulder and said.

"It's okay, I've been a soldier before, and I've had a lot more deaths than that. Mu Tianxiang didn't want ** to see his nervousness.

"Yes, it's not easy, this world. Hu Kui said with emotion.

"It's getting dark, now we have entered the periphery of Yanming Mountain, there will be no more ordinary beasts here, all of them are demonic beasts, there will be more demonic beasts at night, everyone find a place to rest." We will not enter tomorrow, but will search horizontally on the periphery for elixir. After walking for a while, ** said.

It is common sense that the monsters at night are more ferocious, and all the mercenaries cheered, found a leeward hill and began to set up camp. Mu Tianxiang also drove the horses into the camp, unloaded the supplies, and began to light a fire to cook, and the rest of the mercenaries were not idle, making simple traps and obstacles around, and sprinkling medicinal powder to avoid the invasion of demonic beasts.

The mercenary's dinner was simple, using the meat of the beasts hunted during the day, he simply sprinkled some spices on the fire and barbecued it, and began to gobble it up after drinking the hot soup cooked by Mu Tianxiang.

The long night was spent peacefully, when the day was bright, Mu Tianxiang had already finished cultivating, and the aura in the forest was more sufficient, Mu Tianxiang felt that he had improved a lot, and he felt that he needed a small opportunity to break through to the high level of the yellow level. Mu Tianxiang let out a long breath of turbidity, stopped cultivating, slowly stood up, and began to prepare breakfast for everyone. The rest of the mercenaries also got up one after another, cultivating or wandering around the camp separately.

"Roar, roar, roar, ......" Suddenly, a huge beast roar came from the hill not far away. Then the huge vitality rushed into the sky, and although it was still a certain distance from the place where the incident occurred, the surrounding trees were still shaking violently in the impact of the vitality. The sound came and went quickly, and it quickly became quiet.

The sudden sound alarmed everyone, and the mercenary stood in the camp in amazement, looking at the post in the distance.

"Commander, what's going on," the mercenary asked, babbling.

"Last night, I didn't feel normal, there may be a high-level demonic beast around. Hu Kui pondered for a while and said.

"And what happened to the vitality just now?" the mercenary asked.

"It must have been caused by a fight between two demonic beasts. Look at the vitality is not like the vitality of human beings. Hu Kui pondered and analyzed.

"Why is it over so soon?" the mercenary asked.

"It should be, one of them killed the other monster in one blow, so the battle ended quickly," Hu Kui said.

"Is it possible that one magical beast will sneak up on the other, and the two sides will break out in a short distance and deal a tragic blow, and finally end up together?" said one of the mercenaries, touching his chin.

"I can't rule out the possibility," Hu Kui said in deep thought.

At this time, Mu Tianxiang observed that the rest of the mercenaries were breathing rapidly, and their eyes were radiating a greedy gaze.

"Let me remind you that the vitality just now can only be emitted by the peak of the earth-level level, and even the demonic beasts of the heavenly pole. Hu Kui hurriedly said, "It is likely that we will die here." ”

Hu Kui's words did not dispel the greed of the rest of the mercenaries. Yes, if it is really two earth-level peak demonic beasts that have died together, then the demon core and a body of flesh and bones are all heavenly treasures. Representing a large amount of wealth, what are the mercenaries born and died for, this group of outlaws who have long put life and death aside, no one can resist in the face of such a big temptation, an adventure in exchange for a long time of enjoyment, it is a hundred times stronger than working hard every day, this account will be counted by anyone. Even Mu Tianxiang's heart became inexplicably hot.

In the end, under everyone's bewitchment, Hu Kui also agreed to take a look.

The demonic beasts in the surrounding mountains have long disappeared without a trace under the coercion of the power of high-level demonic beasts, so soon everyone came to the small hill, and the mercenaries used were inexplicably excited, everyone had come to such a close place, and the demonic beasts had not yet appeared, indicating that they were either dead or seriously injured.

Mu Tianxiang poked his head out as carefully as everyone else, looked into the distance, the scene in front of him stunned Mu Tianxiang, as if who had triggered the forbidden spell, the valley in front was in a mess, all the trees were destroyed, and there were rolling rocks everywhere, so long time had passed, the smoke and dust caused by the impact of vitality were still floating around, in the dust, Mu Tianxiang vaguely saw a black giant tiger with a length of more than three zhang being tightly wound by a giant python, but now although the two sides were entangled, they were motionless. Life and death are unknown.

"It's the Nether Tiger and the Canglong Python," the experienced Hu Kui exclaimed softly.