After Consul Gu announced the list of the fourteen teams participating in the trial, he instructed several deacons to distribute the necessities of the trial such as storage bags, positioning beads, and the road map of the team to the disciples who participated in the trial. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is an old tradition for the outer door to distribute storage bags before the trial, and the storage bags issued this time are the same as the one Zhao Lengfei got at the entrance ceremony, they are all lowest-level storage bags, and the space inside is only more than half a cubic meter large, and it can't hold too many things.

In order to cope with this trial, the high-level disciples all carried a lot of things, and most of them had a storage bag on their waists that was bulging and could not be full, if they encountered valuable materials during the trial but could not take them away, wouldn't it be a big loss, so no one at the outer gate would issue a storage bag.

Zhao Lengfei's waist was also hung with a low-level storage bag that was issued when he entered, and the middle-level storage bag given by Elder Nangong was too conspicuous, and he had already put it into his storage belt.

The bead is worn by a string that can be attached to the wrist, and if you put it in a storage bag, the tray will not be able to find it.

After distributing the things, Consul Gu and Qi Shan each explained a few words, and the ritual before the trial was over, after Qi Shan and Consul Gu left, the members of each team found a place in the square and gathered together to discuss.

Zhao Lenghai's eleventh squad also gathered together, their squad was mainly divided into two camps, Han Qi and Mu Xizi belonged to Zhao Lenghai's camp, Cao Yu was neutral, Lan Susu was extremely popular among the male disciples of the outer sect, Gongsun Qiu and the rest of the team belonged to Lan Susu's camp, the people of the two camps stood face to face, the atmosphere looked a little awkward, and no one spoke for a while.

"Senior Brother Zhao, are you dressed like this?" In the end, it was the neutral Cao Yu who spoke first to break the deadlock.

Zhao Lengfei wore a wide hoodie on his upper body, covering himself tightly, especially he also buttoned the hat of his jacket, which looked very weird, this kind of top that was a bit like a cloak Da Shengguo didn't have it at all, in order to cover the thorn armor on his body, he went to Xuanyin City to find someone to customize.

The thorn armor is an auxiliary magic weapon, although it is a ground level, the spiritual power fluctuation is not large, Zhao Lengfei originally designed it to look like leather armor, and the spirit stone inlay is built-in, although the shape looks a little strange, it is difficult for ordinary people to see its level, and most of them will treat it as a dust-level magic weapon.

Consul Lu made some improvements to Zhao Lengfei's design, and the thorn armor finally refined looked similar to the thickened robe, and the shape became more ordinary, but its bright colors looked more conspicuous, especially the inlays of the lower-grade spirit stone and the middle-grade spirit stone were changed to the outer chest, lest others not see that this was a ground-level auxiliary magic weapon.

Zhao Lengfei took off his hat, revealing a neat short hair, he smiled awkwardly, pointed to his head and said, "That's the reason." ”

Cultivators pay attention to casualness, and there are many outer disciples who wear tattoos and piercings with rings, and there are a few who like to wear strange clothes, but there is no one like Zhao Lengfei who cuts his hair like this. His hairstyle was too strange in the eyes of the other disciples, and Mu Xizi, Han Qi and the others all covered their eyes and were speechless in surprise.

Cao Yu pointed at Zhao Lengfei's hair with his finger, and laughed out loud after a while, "Haha, Senior Brother Zhao, why did you cut your hair, it's too strange for you to look like this now." ”

"Isn't it strange that I cut it when I didn't have time to take care of it during the trial? Then you won't laugh like this. Zhao Lengfei scratched his head and said.

"Don't laugh, don't laugh, let's discuss the trial, hurry up and set the captain to go, you see that the other teams have already started to act." Cao Yu saw that the atmosphere of the team had eased slightly, and hurriedly proposed.

"Okay." Someone in the team immediately chimed in.

"I nominated Senior Sister Lan to be the captain, does anyone disagree?" Gongsun Qiu would not let go of any opportunity to curry favor with Lan Susu, and hurriedly spoke.

Zhao Lengfei didn't speak when he heard it, the captain was only in name, and he didn't have the right to restrain the other members of the team, he didn't care who was the captain, but Han Qi and Mu Xizi didn't think so, Mu Xizi was the weakest in the team, and he was soft-spoken, but he was embarrassed to say anything, Han Qi was different, he pouted and said, "Senior Sister Lan is the captain?" What is the rationale? ”

"Do you still need a reason for this, Senior Sister Lan's strength is obvious to all, and the highest ranking in the team is also Senior Sister Lan, you haven't even made it to the foundation building list, so you're embarrassed to worry about the captain's position?" Gongsun Qiu's tone was quite disdainful, and his arrogant appearance made Zhao Lengfei and Cao Yu both frown.

"Oh? Is that really the case? Then how to count Senior Brother Zhao's defeat of Senior Sister Lan, how do I remember that the highest ranking in this team is Senior Brother Zhao, and Senior Sister Lan seems to be not on the foundation building list like me now. Han Qi sneered.

Gongsun Qiu only thought about currying favor with Lan Susu, and he spoke with a quick mouth, and he actually forgot about the fact that Lan Susu's position on the foundation list was replaced by Zhao Lenghai, he peeked at Lan Susu, and saw that the other party's face had not changed, and said with some annoyance: "Han Qi, are you deliberately looking for trouble?" ”

"What, it's not enough to tell the truth? I nominated Senior Brother Zhao, who is the highest ranked on the foundation building list, to be the captain, but who disagrees? Not to be outdone, Han Qi said.

"Senior Brother Han, it's not the same who is the captain, I have no interest in being the captain, so you don't need to help me fight for it." Zhao Lengfei patted Han Qi on the shoulder and spoke in his ear.

"Senior Sister Lan is a senior disciple of Elder Nangong, her strength is strong, and when she encounters danger in the trial, she will definitely need Senior Sister Lan to contribute more, since Senior Brother Zhao has no intention of being the captain, I think I will choose Senior Sister Lan as the captain." Cao Yu said.

"Senior Brother Cao is too modest, how can Senior Sister's strength be compared to Senior Brother Cao, I think it is more appropriate for Senior Brother Cao to be the captain." Lan Susu, who had not spoken, spoke.

"Me? No, no, although I advanced to the late stage of foundation building one or two years earlier than my junior sister, I stayed in Xuanyin City all the year round, and I didn't have much experience in fighting, and I would inevitably be in a hurry when I encountered danger in the trial. Cao Yu waved his hand again and again.

"Senior brother has won the award, Senior Brother Han and Senior Brother Zhao, if any of you want to be the captain of the team, I will not object." Lan Susu said again.

"Senior Sister Lan, we don't have any opinion on you being the captain." Zhao Lengfei knew that Han Qi just couldn't get used to looking down on Gongsun Qiu, so he hurriedly spoke, and Han Qi didn't say anything more when he saw that Zhao Lengfei had expressed his position.

"Okay, since everyone has no opinion on me being the captain, then I will take this responsibility down, I promise to do my best to let everyone pass this trial, we will set off first now, and then discuss the formation on the way." Lan Susu commanded in a rather resolute tone.

The trial route of Zhao Lengfei's team was about 3,000 miles long, passing through eight dangerous places in the Sanyuan Mountain Range, including Shuangtan Peak, Xindao Lake, Tiger Monkey Valley, and Baishui Forest, and a total of more than 30 kinds of precious materials needed to be collected along the way.

There are disciples patrolling the outer gate station for hundreds of miles all year round, so there are very few demon beasts infested, and some are just some beasts, and the high-level disciples in the middle and late stages of the foundation building can easily find and deal with these beasts, so it is easy for every team to start this hundred miles.

It is much more dangerous to go out of the outer gate station within a hundred miles, and it is possible to encounter the attack of demon beasts at any time, and the trial routes are carefully designed after years of exploration, and most of them are only first- and second-order demon beasts along the way, and it is very rare to encounter third-order or more demon beasts.

Demon beasts were first evolved and mutated from beasts, they can cultivate and advance like cultivators, the cultivation realm of demon beasts is divided into twelve levels, the cultivation realm of first- and second-order demon beasts is equivalent to the foundation building period and enlightenment period of cultivators, but the strength of different types of demon beasts at the same level is very different, the weakest first-order demon beasts can't even beat mortals, and the strength of the strongest first-order demon beasts even exceeds that of cultivators in the fusion period.

Cultivators often use spirit stone elixirs to enhance cultivation, and demon beasts are no exception, ores, herbs and other materials rich in spiritual energy are the objects collected by demon beasts, and many demon beasts also like to attack other types of demon beasts and cultivators, using them as food and supplements.

The biggest difference between demon beasts and cultivators is that they pay great attention to reproduction, most demon beasts regard reproduction as more important than advanced higher realms, their descendants are demon beasts as soon as they are born, and only a few will degenerate into beasts.

There are very few cultivators who get married and have children, and the dual cultivation of male and female cultivators is more for cultivation, rather than having children, and the women of cultivators are still ordinary people, and they do not have any innate advantages over mortals in terms of root bone qualifications.

Zhao Lengfei After they left the outer gate station, they hurried while studying how to fight as a team, the combat effectiveness of the team is much higher than that of individuals, especially against demon beasts with low IQ, it is very effective, and the second-order demon beasts with high combat effectiveness may be able to easily defeat the cultivators of the Enlightenment Period, but it is difficult to deal with a team of cultivators in the Foundation Building Period.

The marching formation of the squad was determined not long after they left the outer gate station, Gongsun Qiu, Lan Susu and Cao Yu, the three people with the highest cultivation were in front of the team, in a zigzag position, four steps away from each other, most of the demon beasts encountered in the march could be discovered and prevented in advance, so the responsibility of the three people in front of them was the heaviest, and it was also very dangerous.

Han Qi and Zhao Lengfei are at the back of the team, they are four steps away from each other, and they are equally dangerous behind, especially the demon beasts that appear behind are difficult to detect in advance, and it is quite difficult to dodge.

The others were in the middle of the team, four in front and three in the back, two steps apart from each other, more compact than the head and tail of the team, even if there were spirit beasts attacking on both sides, it was impossible to break up the team.

Once someone in the team sends out a danger signal, so people must stop advancing, the people in front and behind the team need to immediately converge to the middle, the whole team can form a ring lineup of nine outside and three inside three in a breath, there is enough danger that should appear in any direction, even if it encounters a spirit beast or beast with low combat effectiveness, it must be fought by two people, and no one is allowed to break away from the team to risk alone.

Zhao Lengfei and the others spent several hours rehearsing the possible dangers during the march to ensure that no one would mess up when there was danger, and after everyone mastered several changes in the team lineup, they had left the outer gate station for more than fifty miles, and they did not encounter any beast attacks on this road.

This situation is normal, the outer gate will clean up the beasts near the station every once in a while, most of the surviving beasts have seen the skills of cultivators, and are very afraid of humans, the beasts have the instinct to avoid evil, and when they see more than a dozen people acting together in full gear, it is too late to hide, how dare they take the initiative to attack.

After the formation drill was completed, Zhao Lengfei proposed that everyone learn some gestures from him, so that they could communicate when it was inconvenient to make a sound, and the disciples in the foundation building period could not transmit the sound, and it was indeed difficult to communicate when it was inconvenient to make a sound, so his proposal was unanimously approved by everyone, and even Gongsun Qiu couldn't think of a reason to oppose it.

Tactical gestures were still learned by Zhao Lengfei when he was on Earth, and he slightly changed the meaning of some of these gestures to suit his current situation and identity, and the people who could become high-level disciples of the outer sect were all intelligent and abnormal, and they quickly mastered the gestures that Zhao Lengfei taught them. They had never been exposed to gestures before, and they felt that the gestures taught by Zhao Lengfei were concise and clear, and the gestures were clear and would not cause misunderstandings, which was very practical.

The movements and meanings of these gestures look very mature, and they are still related to each other, not at all like they were thought of temporarily, everyone thinks that these gestures were invented by Zhao Lengfei himself, and they can't help but look at Zhao Lengfei a little higher.

They hurried while studying, and had left the outer gate for more than 100 miles before dark, which was officially out of the outer gate's shelter.

The terrain within a hundred miles around the outer gate station is quite gentle, and the grass and trees are relatively sparse, not only are there no demon beasts, but even valuable elixirs and refining materials are very few, Zhao Lengfei and they walked all the way, and only found a few ordinary herbs that were not up to the grade, Lan Susu Gongsun Qiu and Cao Yu did not look down on these things, and they did not pick them easily, and several disciples in the team who were not as rich as the three of them would not be so wasteful, and whoever was close would pick the herb.

After leaving the 100-mile range of the outer gate station, the terrain began to undulate, the grass and trees also flourished, the potholed ground was covered with a layer of rotten fallen leaves, it was easy to sink your feet into the pit, and the signs of activity of the surrounding beasts and spirit beasts were even more, Zhao Lengfei and they immediately slowed down their marching speed for safety.

After only a few miles of travel, Lan Susu accidentally stepped into a puddle full of rotten leaves, Rao is her quick reaction, still wet half of her shoes, and the soles of the shoes were stained with rancid mud, she secretly said in her heart, raised her hand to signal everyone to stop: "It's not early, let's find an open place to prepare for the night." ”

The Sanyuan Mountain Range is the birthplace of the three major rivers of Yingshui, Tushui and Chilianshui, and the rivers and lakes are all over the mountain, they quickly found a river beach without grass and trees, Lan Susu arranged for everyone to search the river beach within a mile of the river beach, and after making sure that there were no signs of recent activity of spirit beasts around, everyone unanimously decided to spend the night here.

They didn't find anything to eat along the way, so they all took out their own food from the storage bag to satisfy their hunger, Zhao Lengfei saw that there were fish in the river when he searched the river, and he wanted to catch a few to eat, but he saw that everyone had no intention of looking for food, so he didn't mention it.

Zhao Lengfei brought enough food for himself to eat for a month, he believed that the food brought by others was at least not much than his own, after all, it was impossible for others to have both a storage belt and an intermediate storage bag like him, it would take them two to three months for this trial, and it was a matter of time before he started to find food, and he couldn't help frowning when he saw that everyone didn't mention the matter of finding food.

Cultivators' cultivation can be substituted for sleep, and after Lan Susu arranged the order of the vigil for the team members, he found a clean ground, spread a blanket on it, and meditated and cultivated, except for the two people who were in charge of the vigil, everyone else found their own places to meditate and cultivate.

Zhao Lengfei originally customized a few single tents in Xuanyin City to prepare for the trial, but when he saw that everyone didn't have anything similar to a tent, he was embarrassed to take out the tent and use it, so he spread the spirit animal skin and spirit feather futon that he used to use to set up the Spirit Release Array on the ground and made it cross-legged.

Looking at the senior brothers and sisters who were meditating on their own, Zhao Lengfei had a headache, Gongsun Qiu and his team were nothing, for the safety of the team, the other party did not dare to do anything excessive, he was worried that the other people in the team were too poorly prepared, these people did not seem to have any experience in survival in the wild, and now they looked okay on the surface, but in a few days, trouble will definitely follow, once they encounter danger, casualties in the team are inevitable.

Zhao Lengfei sighed, and also entered the cultivation state, these things are not something he can worry about alone, he can only take one step at a time, if there is really danger, he can protect Mu Xi well, as for the rest of the team, he really can't care about it.

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