Chapter 297: Meeting!
Day 17 deep into the Black Thunder Mountains. Music-Text-
Every day, every hour, every moment.
Beware of spirit beasts that may appear at any time. It is rare to see spirit beasts in the foundation building period here, and when they appear, they are at least the spirit beasts of the early stage of Jindan.
These days, when they were resting, Su Ze and the four of them were divided into two groups and took turns to guard. Su Ze and Zhao Mingyun are in a group, and Zhao Dazhi and Xiao Li are in a group. In order to hunt more spirit beasts and pick more spirit grass, they had very little rest almost every day. Fortunately, cultivators recover much faster than ordinary people, and a small amount of rest every day is enough. After more than ten days of fighting, everyone was dirty and looked like beggars on the street. Su Ze and Zhao Dazhi are okay, it's nothing if the two big men are dirty and tired, but Zhao Mingyun and Xiao Li, two big beauties, complain every day, and no girl likes her dirty appearance. But they also all know that they can't stand the hardship of going out to practice, so what kind of cultivation is there to talk about.
Although the experience is hard, the harvest is also gratifying. During this time, they hunted a total of six Jindan spirit beasts, including the blue-faced lion, of course, only in the early stage of Jindan. Even if it was only a spirit beast in the early stage of Jindan, including the Dragon King Snake, they had also hunted four million spirit beasts with spirit stones, which was only a small number. A lot of fourth-level spirit grasses have also been picked, at least dozens of them, and their value is currently immeasurable, but tens of millions of spirit stones are definitely worth it.
For Zhao Mingyun, Xiao Li and Zhao Dazhi, the accumulation of the previous one or two decades is far less than one-tenth of this.
The harvest is so great, and they have suffered a lot. Not every Jindan spirit beast is like the Dragon King Snake and the Blue-faced Lion, there is no danger. When hunting the other four Jindan spirit beasts, Zhao Dazhi and Xiao Li were both injured, and the injuries were not light. Zhao Dazhi now has scars on his arms that have not been removed, and his entire arm has almost been removed.
And just yesterday, they also encountered a spirit beast in the middle of the Jindan period, if Su Ze hadn't thrown out a psychedelic dust in time, there might have been casualties.
"There are only about ten days left until the end of the trial, should we be ready to go out?"
In the evening, when it was time to rest, the four of them sat around the campfire and discussed how to end the trial and leave the Black Thunder Mountains. This time, they gained a lot of things, and more importantly, they accumulated experience in fighting with Jindan spirit beasts. After a few big battles, everyone's strength has greatly improved. Su Ze even felt like he was about to break through. He has also been building a foundation for half a year, accumulating deep enough, cultivating and fighting every day, and his strength has improved by leaps and bounds. After going back, I will retreat and hit the middle stage of foundation building!
"Su Ze, what do you say?" Zhao Dazhi looked at him with inquiring eyes.
Su Ze said indifferently: "Whatever you want." β
Participating in the five trials this time, he originally wanted to contribute to the sect. Of course, by the way, I have made a move with the Jindan spirit beast, and now that the goal has been achieved, it is not bad to go back.
"Senior Sister Xiao and Senior Sister Zhao, what about you?" Zhao Dazhi asked them.
Xiao Li said: "You are all gone, is it possible that I will stay here alone to be a snack for the Jindan Spirit Beast?" β
Su Ze left, Zhao Mingyun was definitely leaving. She didn't have the strength to kill the Jindan Spirit Beast alone.
"Then we'll rest for the night and go back tomorrow." Zhao Dazhi clapped his head.
After that, everyone took turns to rest.
At this moment, a small mountain col hundreds of miles away.
A strange beast that was several feet tall, with golden hair all over its body, and looked like a big tiger, gasped for breath.
"Damn, I almost died at his hands when I met a human from the foundation building period before. Now that he broke through the Jindan, he met three more human Jindan monks, and he was almost planted in their hands, which was really unlucky. Of the hundreds of phantom moles, I'm the only one who 'deserves' to be so unlucky. β
This strange beast was the phantom mole rat that escaped after a big battle with Su Ze on Honglinpo twenty days ago. During this time, he hid, and because of a blessing in disguise, he ate a fifth-level spirit grass by chance, and successfully evolved into a Jindan spirit beast. His human language is still influential, intermittent. Although he broke through the Jindan period, he was unfortunate to meet three human Jindan monks, one of whom was still a Jindan monk, Rao was very talented, if he didn't escape quickly, I was afraid that he would die on the human monks.
This phantom mole is called.
From the moment he was born, he only remembered his name and the ethnic group he belonged to. There are not many phantom mole rats, and the entire population is only a few hundred. They are born and raised spirit animals, and every couple of phantom mole rats have to release the heavens and the earth on the day the child is born, so they are absolutely strong when they grow up. In a dangerous place like Black Thunder Mountain, in addition to fighting with human cultivators and other spirit beasts, he also has to deal with all kinds of dangerous natural environments, and those who can survive are definitely the strongest of the strong.
The characteristics of the growth of phantom mole rats are obvious, they do not need to cultivate, they only need a lot of food. The corpses of all kinds of humans and spirit beasts, spirit grass, and even the blades of soldiers in the late stage are their food. They absorb all kinds of power very quickly, and anything that reaches their stomach can quickly become its own power.
It is because of this characteristic that they eat very much. The tribe could not provide so much food for them to grow, so they were released into heaven and earth to let them grow on their own.
That's one of the phantom moles.
In just four or five years from his birth, he has grown into the Jindan stage. But it couldn't even remember how much food it ate.
No human cultivator can make a pact with the Phantom Mole Rat, because no one can provide it with the food it needs to grow. There was once a human cultivator who estimated that a phantom mole rat would have to eat at least a hundred humans or cultivators of the same level in order to advance to the next level. For example, a phantom mole rat at the beginning of the Jindan stage needs to eat a hundred spirit beasts in the early stage of the Jindan stage to advance to the middle stage of foundation building. And the same is true in the infant period. Not to mention the Yuan Infant Stage, it is the spirit beast in the early stage of Jindan, as little as hundreds of thousands, as many as millions, and a hundred heads for spirit stones is tens of millions! This is only the promotion from the early to the middle stage of foundation building, and when it comes to the Yuan Infant Stage, it is simply astronomical, and no human being can afford it.
Therefore, no matter where it is, there has never been a rumor that a human cultivator has a contract spirit beast like the Phantom Mole Rat.
No human cultivator is willing to become a contract spirit beast with the Phantom Mole. It's like marrying a wife in the secular world, no matter how beautiful a woman is, no matter how rich a man is, when this woman can spend all your money in one day, a man will never marry such a woman!
"Whew!"
"Whew!"
"Whew!"
Not far away, three figures chased after them.
"Damn, it's here again!"
Hearing the movement, the phantom mole immediately erected the hair on his body, but when he looked back, he saw that there were three humans, a man and two women, and they were good with their legs. The other party has a Jindan monk, and a woman who is almost the same as the Jindan monk's combat strength, which is terrifying to think about.
He immediately turned into a shadow of light and fled.
"Such a fast speed, worthy of the phantom mole rat, the king of spirit beasts!"
"Zhao Pu, you are slow, Yidan and I will chase after you first, this phantom mole rat is worth more than all the spirit beasts we hunted before-"
"Okay, you go first, I'll come later!"
The three of them were chasing and discussing. They are well aware of the value of the phantom mole rat, especially the phantom mole rat in the Jindan period, the value is unimaginable.
These three people are none other than Yidan, Concubine Liu Chen, and Zhao Pu, who are constantly hunting Jindan spirit beasts in Black Thunder Mountain. It's a pity that among them, except for Zhao Pu, the strength of anyone is above the phantom mole, but the speed of this guy's escape is too fast, and they can't even catch up with the middle stage of Jindan or even the great cultivator for a while.
Previously, they had also hunted seven or eight Jindan spirit beasts, and there was one mid-stage Jindan among them, but in terms of value, it was definitely not as good as the phantom mole rat in front of them who had just been promoted to Jindan.
The chance of encountering a phantom mole rat, and it is a phantom mole rat that has just been promoted to the Jindan stage, is simply one in ten thousand. Whether you live or die, the value is immeasurable.
Just the Phantom Mole Rat in the early stage of Jindan has the speed of a Jindan Great Cultivator, which is difficult to find among thousands of spirit beasts.
The three people and one beast were galloping in the Black Thunder Mountain, and it was Yidan and Concubine Liu Chen's amazing strength that they dared to do this, in other words, they were ordinary Jindan monks, how could they dare to be so unscrupulous.
In a few moments, he chased for hundreds of miles.
Passing by a rock, there were three people standing on the top of the rock, and they happened to see this scene.
"Isn't that a Dan of the Nanheng Sect, it is a spirit beast that is being chased by them, it is definitely not a mortal thing! Senior brother, Yunliu, let's go and seeβ"
Three people, two old and one young.
"Okay, senior brother."
"Yes, Master!"
The three of them chased in the footsteps of Yidan and Concubine Liu Chen, chasing all the way.
But they only chased for a few breaths, and they were almost out of sight. The oldest man shouted, "Liuyun, your uncle and I will chase after you first, and you will come later!" β
"Yes!" The young man had just achieved Jindan, and the gap in strength was too far, and he knew that he would drag his master back, so he immediately responded.
The two older men, especially the Great Monk Najindan, were much faster than Yidan and Concubine Liu Chen, and it didn't take long for them to catch up.
"Yidan Immortal Gu, Senior Sister Chenfei!" He shouted.
"It's Iwatsuru, Iwamoto!" The two looked back and immediately recognized them. The great monk of Jindan cultivated as an elder of the Xiaoyan faction, Concubine Liu Chen's fellow disciple Yanhe, and another Jindan mid-stage was his junior brother, and he was also the same sect as Concubine Liu Chen.
As soon as the hearts of the two moved, they immediately communicated with each other. They chased the phantom mole rat for a short time, but unfortunately Zhao Pu's strength was too poor to help at all, the two of them alone could not completely stop the phantom mole, before they thought that if there was another Jindan mid-stage, someone who was not weak blocked the way of the phantom mole, they could trap him, and then capture him alive. But the appearance of Yanhe Iwamoto not only did not make Concubine Liu Chen, the junior sister of the same sect as them, happy, but worried. If they know that the spirit beast they are chasing is the Phantom Mole Rat, even if they join forces to restrain the Phantom Mole Rat, it is difficult to say who will end up with it.
Yidan Immortal Gu did not stop, and responded lightly: "The two of you are here, what is the so-called matter?" β
Yan He said: "I just saw that the two fairies seem to be tracking what spirit beast, I don't know if it can be useful for our brother?" If there are not enough people, my apprentice Song Yunliu is also behind-"
Concubine Liu Chen smiled charmingly and said, "A little thing, don't bother the two senior brothers." β
Yan He sighed deliberately and said, "Since that's the case, then don't disturb the two fairies." I just happened to see a phantom mole, so my brothers went after himβ"
Yidan, Concubine Liu Chen and the two turned their heads at the same time, and when they saw him looking at them with a smile, they immediately scolded the old fox, it turned out that he had already seen the phantom mole, and said what to help, but sure enough, it was not good.
"Humph!" Once he snorted coldly, "Since the two of you have seen it, don't you also want a piece of the pie?" β
"Sure enough, it's a phantom mole!" Iwazuru Iwamoto glanced at each other, it was just Iwazuru's tentative words, in fact, he couldn't be sure at all. The eyes of the two lit up, it was a legendary beast! Yan Crane immediately shouted: "Two fairies, with all due respect, that phantom mole is extremely fast, and it is not below us. Why don't we all work together to capture it? β
Yidan and Concubine Liu Chen glanced at each other, they both knew that they were seen by the Yanhe brothers, but they were afraid that they would not be able to leave them. And it was too difficult for the two of them to easily capture or kill the phantom mole. It's easy to catch up, but it's hard to beat. Easy to beat, hard to kill. It's easy to kill, but it's even harder to capture!
The value of a living phantom mole rat is obviously much stronger than that of a dead one.
"Okay, if you catch the phantom mole, you and I will divide it equally!" After Concubine Liu Chen communicated with Yidan, she immediately decided.
"It's a deal!" Yan Crane laughed, "You go to the southeast, we go to the northeast, and then we will join the circle!" β
Yidan and Concubine Liu Chen didn't say a word, and went directly to the southeast.
The four of them, two Jindan mid-stage and two Jindan Grand Monks, attacked from both sides, and immediately made the Phantom Mole Rats perceive a greater crisis.
It should be in a panic immediately, if it is surrounded by the four of them, it will be difficult to escape.
"What to do? Damn humans, what an abomination! "It's time to go crazy.
Suddenly, he saw a cave in front of him and rushed into it in a panic.
"Not good, strong enemy-"
And Su Ze and Zhao Mingyun, who were resting in the cave at this moment, suddenly felt a powerful force fluctuation and stood up immediately. Whether they were cultivating or sleeping, they all got up in fear to meet the enemy.
He didn't expect that there were still people in the cave, if he hadn't been in a panic, there was no way to escape, he wouldn't have noticed it at all, and he got into it all at once.
The cave was so dark that no one could see anyone.
"It's a Jindan spirit beast, it's very strong!" Su Ze shouted, "Everyone be carefulβ"
It's just that before his words fell, there was a huge collision, and Zhao Dazhi's whole person was hit by the huge body of the phantom mole rat on the wall of the cave.
It should also be a hasty response, he doesn't care whether it is a human or a spirit animal in the cave, it is a completely instinctive attack.
"Big brother!" Su Ze hurriedly pounced, took Zhao Dazhi in his arms, and then dodged a blow and rushed towards the entrance of the cave. The cave was very dark and the enemy situation was unknown, so it was obviously not wise to fight it in such a situation. The enemy is too strong, and if you start in such a narrow place, the final result is likely to be all killed by the other party.
"Ahh But with a miserable scream, Su Ze's face changed greatly, and he could hear that it was Zhao Mingyun's voice. Zhao Mingyun couldn't completely dodge the attack, and was swept away by Gangfeng, and went out of the cave with a blow.
"Mingyun!" Su Ze didn't dare to hesitate and went straight out of the hole.
Xiao Li followed, but she was not damaged at all.
"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"
At the same time, they saw Zhao Mingyun who fell to the ground and a figure as fast as lightning in the distance, miles away.
Yidan, Concubine Liu Chen, Yan He, and Iwamoto came from two directions respectively, and when they saw someone, they secretly said that it was not good, and they only thought that the phantom mole was intercepted by other cultivators!
When they arrived, they found that it was just a few juniors in the foundation building period, and they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
They didn't even look at Su Ze and them, and stood guard directly at the entrance of the cave. Yan He laughed even more: "Great, the phantom mole has entered the cave and can't escape!" β
They chased him just now, and almost trapped the phantom mole rat several times, but he escaped at a very fast speed, and now that he has entered the cave, it will not be difficult to capture him alive.
But then something more unexpected happens.
"Xiao Li!"
"Mingyun, you're hurtβ"
Yidan and Concubine Liu Chen saw Xiao Li, who looked tired, and Zhao Mingyun, who was bleeding from their mouths, and immediately ignored the phantom mole rat and hurriedly stepped forward to ask.
Su Ze was about to pass over, when he saw Concubine Liu Chen and Yidan, he stopped alive. Zhao Mingyun got up from the ground, saw her mother, wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and said, "I'm fine, I was injured by a spirit beast just now, just take a rest." β
She was only slightly swept away by the wind, and the injury was not serious.
Su Ze heard that she was still full of energy, and knew that her injuries were fine, so he was relieved and helped Zhao Dazhi to stand aside quietly. It was really that two Jindan Great Monks appeared at once, which made him have to be cautious. Although, Yidan is something he knows! But her disciple Lin Changgong still died of his own injuries. As for the other rock crane, he felt even more difficult to mess with. As the saying goes, the gun shoots the first bird, and it is better to shrink when it is time to shrink.
When Xiao Li saw the master, he also explained: "See the master, the disciple is fine." β
She was injured some time ago, but her pale face was just because she didn't rest well, and it was fine.
"How did you end up here?" Yidan and Concubine Liu Chen also saw Su Ze and the injured Zhao Dazhi, and were very curious about how their apprentices and daughters could venture here to come to the trial!
It is said that with their strength and cultivation, they should not go deep into a thousand miles, this is too dangerous.
"Senior Sister Xiao Li!"
"Dazhi, Su Ze!?"
At the same time, Song Yunliu and Zhao Pu arrived almost at the same time, and they were also very surprised!