Chapter 44: Choosing a route
The Extreme South Wilderness is one of the most dangerous areas in the Tianyan Continent, where it is deserted, there is no life at all, only yellow sand and raging winds.
Zhou Ling led the three of them to walk in the endless desert with difficulty, looking at the vast yellow sand, everyone's mood was very heavy.
"Have you prepared everything for everyone?" Zhou Ling stopped and wiped the sweat from his face and said.
"It's all prepared, water, clothes, and by the way, Yu Wei also gave us the elixir to prevent heat stroke. Jialan said.
"This endless desert makes my head dizzy, and my feet are also uncomfortably hot, when will it be the end!" Yun Tianhe was steaming all over, and his face was a little molted by the high temperature, as if it was already too hot.
"You take the pill I gave you first, if you get hot, you're going to get heat stroke!" Yu Wei reminded.
Yun Tianhe hurriedly took out a white pill and swallowed it, and then drank a sip of the water in the kettle, and a cool feeling suddenly permeated his whole body.
"Your medicine is really amazing, it's much more comfortable all of a sudden!" Yun Tianhe said as he regained his spirits.
"If there are a lot of these ordinary pills in my pharmacy, it's a pity that I didn't bring too many of them this time, no one thought that they would pass through such a perverted place, so I can only give you two pills per person!" Yu Wei said helplessly.
"Don't be impatient, let's study the specific route before it's too late!"
While calming everyone's emotions, Zhou Ling took out the map and opened it in his hand, and several people gathered around to watch.
"You see, the Southern Xinjiang Desert stretches for more than a thousand miles from the southeast of the Yelang Dynasty, but the Martial Arts Academy is located in the northwest of the You Dynasty, which means that the desert area we pass through is not very large, we only need to travel along the straight road. Zhou Lingbian said while gesturing his finger at the edge.
"What do you mean we don't need to spend too much time in the desert?" asked Yu Wei.
"That's right, but the premise is that we must pass quickly, and we can't delay!" Zhou Ling nodded in response, and then looked at the corner of the desert edge on the map, "But there is one of the most dangerous places in the southern sandy region on this line, which is called the Death Desert!"
"You mean, that countless gold diggers have a death desert that they never return?" Yu Wei asked, his eyes widening.
"That's right!"
Zhou Ling saw a trace of unnamed fear in Yu Wei's eyes.
"I heard my father say that the desert is actually not barren, on the contrary, there are many precious medicinal materials and precious crystals, he once took a few family members to enter to collect medicine, but it is said that they were attacked before they really entered, and he was the only one who came back alive!" Yu Wei said heavily.
"Oh my God, it's so terrifying!" Jia Lan screamed in fright when he heard this.
"What kind of attack was it?" Zhou Ling continued to ask Yu Wei.
"I don't know, my dad didn't make it clear!" Yu Wei shook his head and said.
"He doesn't know how my father said those family members died, I heard that there are demons in that place!"
"Demon?" Yun Tianhe and Jia Lan exclaimed in unison.
"It's also possible that it's a demonic beast!" Zhou Ling said, "There shouldn't be any so-called demons in this continent!"
"So what do you think?"
After Zhou Ling asked, everyone was silent, they had all heard of the danger of the Death Desert, and if they really wanted to go to this place at this moment, no one dared to give their opinions at the first time, and they all fell into silence.
"Can't you go around?" Yun Tianhe was the first to break the silence.
"We have to go through more desert terrain to get around, and it's easy to get lost in this place for a long time, and we don't have much time left, and now that fifteen days have passed, we have to hurry up and make a choice. Zhou Ling said.
"I choose to go with you, my father has been to this death desert, so I naturally want to break through!" Yu Wei said in a deep voice.
"I'm an orphan, I don't have anything to worry about, if something really happens, I'll die there, and I choose to go with you!"
Yun Tianhe said categorically. He lost his parents since he was a child, he was taken in and raised by a kind person, and he has been relying on his own penance to the present, he is eager to become a martial king strong one day, and then serve the dynasty like Zeng Yuecheng.
So, everyone turned their attention to Jialan.
Jia Lan has always been the pistachio in the team, although his cultivation is lower than all of them, his sunny and optimistic personality Everyone likes him very much, but after listening to Zhou Ling and Yu Wei's words, he has already been scared to the point that his legs are trembling at this moment.
"Oh, what do you think I'm doing?"
"Now it's only yours to decide!" Zhou Ling said.
"Actually, I don't want to practice martial arts, it's my grandfather, he said that I am the most talented in our family for generations, and I will definitely be able to cultivate strong in the future......!
"Stop, stop, we don't want to listen to you, we just want to ask if you would like to continue with us now, or crush the Tonglian Crystal and go home to your grandfather!" Yu Wei raised his hand to interrupt Jia Lan's chatter.
"I'm ......!"
Jia Lan was a little incoherent.
Zhou Ling squatted down and patted Jialan on the shoulder, he knew that Jialan had to make his own decision at this time.
"It's okay, no matter what you decide, we won't blame you, just think it out for yourself!"
"I think our group is actually the strongest, but I've always held everyone back!" Jia Lan said with a bowed head.
"You underestimate yourself too much, don't forget that when we met Jin Tan and Luo Bei that day, it was you who used your ingenuity to deal with them and buy time for Zhou Ling to recover his strength, otherwise the consequences would be unpredictable!" Yu Wei said.
"Yes, you are so smart, you finally got the opportunity to go to the academy, don't give up easily, you can't let your grandfather down. Zhou Ling comforted.
"Can I?" Jia Lan finally raised his head and looked at the three of them suspiciously.
"You can do it! Okay, don't be verbose, we have to go!"
Yun Tianhe impatiently grabbed Jialan from the ground and pushed him forward, no longer listening to Jialan's choice.
Zhou Ling and Yu Wei looked at each other and smiled, and the two of them quickly followed, heading in the direction of the Death Desert.
In the sky above the border of the Yelang Dynasty, two figures stood like immortals, staring at the four Zhou Ling below, it turned out to be Bing Lan and Mo Qian.
"Mentor, this Zhou Ling is really bold, and he really dares to choose the route to the Death Desert!"
"Haha, I thought that every time I came down to supervise the exam, it was the most boring, but now it seems to be even more interesting!" Bing Lan smiled.
"Well, watching them experience is much more interesting than practicing in the academy!" Mo Qian also agreed.
"If you don't cultivate well, can you still be the senior of these freshmen? Besides, the inner courtyard assessment is about to start, and if you don't prepare well, you will be caught up by those boys!"
Bing Lan had an expression of hatred that iron could not be made of steel.
"Don't worry, mentor, I won't forget my business!"
"Okay, go down and keep an eye on them, it's my Force that costs you to stand so high!"
Bing Lan didn't wait for Mo Qian to react after speaking, and with Mo Qian's exclamation, she pushed him into the air.
"Mentor, if you throw me down so high, it will kill me!" Mo Qian exclaimed loudly as he fell.
"Then hurry up and grow wings, or hurry up and cultivate to the realm of the Martial King!" Bing Lan didn't pay attention to Mo Qian, turned around and turned into a small figure and disappeared.
In mid-air, a small wood-colored sword flew up horizontally to hold Mo Qian who was falling, and then carried him to the ground slowly.
"It's good to have you, buddy, otherwise I would have been thrown to death by the grumpy mentor!"
Mo Qian put away the wooden sword and said, then took out a spar, which was different from the Tonglian spar on Zhou Ling's body, it was much larger, and there were also crystalline flowing shrunken terrain and red dots flashing on it.
This is a map of the spar communication, which clearly shows the specific location of the new students who have experienced this time.
"The mentor told me to keep an eye on you, he must have been hiding somewhere to sleep!"
Mo Qian looked at the empty air and complained.
"I haven't slept, if you don't fulfill your duties well, I'll let you train with them!"
Bing Lan's reprimand was heard in the air, and Mo Qian was so frightened that he flew forward.