At the beginning of April, one night, the night was clear, and the high moon bend seemed fuller.

Under the starry night sky, there is an ink-stained landscape painting.

On Wutong Mountain, the spring cicadas began to call at some point, and there was a vague summer dryness.

The small courtyard on the mountainside is still quiet.

On the side of the west cliff, in the stone formation, there was a figure sitting cross-legged, Jiang Xiaobai, as in the past, doing his cultivation homework, every day.

The stone formation has the effect of gathering the aura of heaven and earth and guiding the vitality of the body, and there is no other negative effect, Jiang Xiaobai has tried.

Now, he began to use this magic circle to swallow the aura of heaven and earth, and his efficiency was increased by a third compared to before, speeding up his cultivation speed in disguise.

“hou”

A low roar came.

Da Bai walked from the courtyard to the west cliff and let out a low roar.

Jiang Xiaobai exhaled a breath of turbidity, withdrew from his cultivation state, and opened his eyes.

He turned his head to look at him, and a pair of dark green beast eyes looked at him.

Now that Dabai's injuries have healed, it should be said that he has almost recovered a few days ago, but he has not left this courtyard.

Now the hair on its wound is almost growing, and at this time it roars, it is leaving.

"There you go!"

Jiang Xiaobai said.

The big white whined twice in his throat, then turned his head around, and his huge and mighty body jumped a few times and disappeared into the mountains and forests under the night.

Jiang Xiaobai looked at the direction in which it disappeared, his eyes flashed, and finally turned his head and closed his eyes again.

....................

White Dragon Snow Mountain, soaked in the night.

"Haha, get rich. ”

A hearty laugh.

In the black gas mountain forest, in a certain stream on the mountainside, a person laughed, breaking the silence of the night.

Two men wearing military-style chemical protective suits and night vision goggles appeared in this dark stream.

Here they found a strange stone the size of a basin, which shimmered faintly in their field of vision like white jade.

"Shhhh ”

The other hurriedly booed and whispered.

"Yes, yes, yes, be quiet!"

The man quickly stopped laughing and nodded repeatedly.

"Now we send it, this size is estimated to be fifty or sixty pounds, hurry, let's carry it away." ”

He walked over to the glowing milky stone, bent down and tried it with his hand, his words filled with joy.

Such a large piece of strange stone is rare among the ones found so far, and even if it is handed over, it can get a lot, so it is naturally happy.

"yes, we sent it. ”

At this time, the person behind him followed and spoke, his voice was somewhat hidden and gloomy, and while he was speaking, the man took something out of the darkness with one hand, and suddenly burst out, grabbed the neck of the person in front of him with one hand, and stabbed the man in the waist with the other hand.

"Click"

There was a dull sound of clothes cracking, and the man who was choked by the neck suddenly let out a sore snort in his throat, and his body stiffened suddenly, and then he struggled violently, and pushed his backhand elbow back.

The man behind him felt a tightness in his chest and a muffled grunt, but his hand was even harder.

After a few breaths, the person in front quickly lost his struggle and stopped moving.

He's dead.

After a while, the man let go of his hand, confirmed that the other person was dead, and pushed forward, pushing the person straight to the ground.

"Hehe, I can carry this stone alone, I don't need you. ”

The man sneered, but there was a slight trembling, which was the fear and excitement of killing people for the first time.

The two of them went together to hunt for treasure in the black air dense forest, so as to have a care, and now, seeing the stone eye open, he wants to monopolize it.

He leaned down and touched the washbasin-sized milky white stone, his pure aura banishing away his fear and excitement after the killing, and a smile of joy appeared on his face under the protective mask.

What a good thing!

................

"This is what I found out first. ”

"Obviously, the old man saw it first. ”

"Nonsense. ”

"Phew, old immortal, I want to rob Lao Tzu's gems. ”

"If you don't accept it, you will try to ......"

"Ahh.....h

In the dark night, in the dark forest, these similar conversations and scenes are happening.

Compared to daytime, the dark air dense forest at night is a better time for cultivators to hunt for treasures.

Because these milky white stones emit a faint white light at night, they are easier for people to spot.

Although the black qi would block the line of sight, it was best to come out at night to find these strange stones that could speed up one's cultivation.

But when it comes out at night, it is more dangerous, and although there are many fewer beasts in the black air forest, it does not mean that there are none.

So when I go out to hunt for treasure at night, I usually don't go alone, I travel together.

But where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are interests, there are disputes.

The importance of milky white strange stones to practitioners is self-evident, at the beginning, everyone still maintained their honest duties, you picked up the big strange stone, others will come to congratulate two sentences.

But as time goes by, and more and more cultivators join, people will become more and more greedy, and they will gradually be exposed.

Before, he was honest and dutiful, talking and laughing, and when he saw a big enough temptation of interests, he would immediately turn his face and fight with each other, or kill people.

The moon is dark and the wind is high on the night of killing, and the uncertain factors of fierce beasts and black qi already exist in this black qi dense forest, which prompts this kind of cultivator to become fierce because of the battle of greed in his heart.

This trend has also been detected above, and strict rules have been put in place to stop such fights, but human greed cannot be stopped by these things.

This kind of scene is still happening in this black air dense forest, but it has become smarter and more secretive.

...............

White Dragon Snow Mountain, clear night sky, a golden phantom came in the breeze.

On the mountainside of the snow-capped mountains, the lights are bright.

The golden phantom descended and entered the black air dense forest inside.

Jiang Xiaobai followed Dabai and returned to the snow mountain, wanting to see what had changed.

Today's snow-capped mountains are heavily guarded.

And the black gas also spread to the mountainside.

Last time, the old monk Kong Ming said that the black gas of the snow mountain had erupted once, and the scope of the outbreak was so widespread?

"Hey, why are there so many cultivators?"

After he fell into the Black Qi Forest, he found four or five cultivators with internal qi fighting.

It's strange how this is going on.

Then he discovered the reason for the fight, a milky white stone the size of a basketball, glowing with a faint white fluorescent glow in the darkness.

"Huh"

Jiang Xiaobai was shocked for a while.

This milky white glowing stone actually contains a pure aura.

This kind of stone was originally not available in the snow-capped mountains, so how did this come about?

Jiang Xiaobai had a thick suspicion in his heart, and the Yang God Phantom was swaying in the black air dense forest.

He found quite a few cultivators, and these people were looking for this kind of stone in the mountains late at night.

At the same time, Jiang Xiaobai found some of these stones through his divine thoughts, which were distributed irregularly in some hidden places.

Jiang Xiaobai tried to touch this stone with his hands, and as soon as he moved it slightly, a stream of pure spiritual energy poured into Yang Shen's body.

He found that this pure aura could be easily absorbed by him, and there was no need to go through multiple refining.

This discovery made Jiang Xiaobai extremely surprised for a while, according to this situation, this kind of stone can significantly speed up the cultivation speed, in a way, it is a remarkable thing.

This kind of spirit stone that contains the aura of pure heaven and earth appears in the snow mountain?

He suddenly understood the reason why most of these cultivators appeared in this place in the middle of the night.

This is a great temptation for those who are in practice.

Jiang Xiaobai's eyes thought for a moment, where did these spirit stones suddenly appear in the snow mountain?

His eyes looked at the depths of the black qi mountain forest, and the golden phantom moved, rushing towards the depths of the black qi.

Along the way, he saw fewer and fewer people in the cultivation, and the black qi became thicker and thicker, and the yang god gradually flowed out of golden light to resist the erosion of the black qi.

However, he found that the deeper he went, the more and more milky white spirit stones they were, and they grew bigger and bigger, ranging from the size of a basketball to the size of a millstone.

His eyes became brighter and brighter, and the guess in his heart seemed to be more confirmed, Jiang Xiaobai continued to climb up hundreds of meters, wanting to go to the valley where the black qi first appeared to explore.

However, when he was still three or four hundred meters away from the height of the valley, the concentration of black qi had changed from quantitative to qualitative, which made him Yang Shen gradually unable to bear it.

The concentration of this black qi in the snow mountain has grown a lot, it is not like the original, and after continuing to climb hundreds of meters with his cultivation, the Yang God defense has reached a critical point.

Jiang Xiaobai resolutely gave up and continued to climb, and when he went up again, the damage to the Yang God was not as simple as a physical injury.

He turned around and rushed out of the mountain, flew high into the sky, rode the breeze, shone on the moon, and disappeared out of the sky.

Soon after, Jiang Xiaobaiyang God returned to his physical body and opened his eyes from the courtyard of Wutong Mountain.

"Spirit stone, if my guess is correct, there is a spirit stone vein in the place where the black gas broke out, and this world is really strange. ”

His eyes sparkled in the darkness of the night, and he whispered to himself.

After speaking, he got up and went back to the courtyard lightly, and after a while, he took a thick knife and went out, and then he carried a knife and went out of the courtyard.

If someone sees it during the day, they don't know what he's doing.

What can you do, of course, to chop stones.

Of course, this kind of thing in the world can't be left behind, just like collecting medicine.

It's just a knife!

So, twenty minutes later, Jiang Xiaobai appeared in the Emerald River, a hidden place at the foot of the snow-capped mountain, with his canopy boat.

Although the snow mountain river is blocked, the snow mountain is so big and the mountains are mountainous, with Jiang Xiaobai's familiarity with this place, there is naturally no problem.

When he entered the mountain, he also found that there were several sentry posts in the deep mountains and forests, which were heavily guarded.

Jiang Xiaobai understood after a little pondering that there was a spiritual stone on the snow mountain that could speed up people's cultivation, and he would definitely attach great importance to it, as for the matter of building a base here from the villagers a few days ago, it was naturally nothing.

Not long after, Jiang Xiaobai relied on his extraordinary foot strength to shuttle through the primeval mountains and forests to the mountains where the black gas spread.

When he traveled with Yang Shen before, he knew that these cultivators were distributed in the black qi mountain forest on the mountainside, which belonged to the periphery with a low concentration of black qi.

If they went further inside, their divine souls could not withstand the erosion of the black qi, and inside, there were more and larger spirit stones distributed among them.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest, all this is also the same principle

Of course, Jiang Xiaobai would not rob them, he would just go to a more inner place alone.

He thought he was alone.

As a result, his mind swept to a person who made his mouth open slightly.

Old monk of Kongming.

At this time, the old monk in Tsing Yi was holding a spiritual stone the size of a bamboo basket in each hand, shuttling between the mountains and forests, which can be said to be like flying.

He didn't find Jiang Xiaobai, but Jiang Xiaobai found him.

"Master Kongming!"

Jiang Xiaobai shouted.

The old monk Kongming was stepping on a cliff slope under the mountain rocks, and when he heard the sound, his eyebrows were slightly stunned.

Then, he found Jiang Xiaobai.

"Little friend, it turns out that you are also there. ”

The old monk Kongming threw the two stones in his hand down the stone slope, and made a gassho with his backhand, calling the Buddha's name.

The spirit stone slammed down the stone slope with a muffled sound.

Jiang Xiaobai thought that the old monk was a little funny like this, and flew back and forth, and laughed softly:

"Master, you're here to move stones, too. ”

"Amitabha, the old monk also knew that this spirit stone was not long in coming, and he was going to move a few pieces back, this spirit stone contains the aura of heaven and earth, and the cultivation or engraving circle should have a miraculous effect, and I want to verify it. ”

"Then the master should go and get busy, I also want to try some luck. ”

The old monk left. ”

The old monk of Kongming was not polite, said goodbye, went down the stone slope, hooked his feet to the two big spirit stones, and the two big spirit stones were kicked up, and then the old monk took one after another, and disappeared into the darkness with a brisk walk.

Jiang Xiaobai looked at it, and began to work hard to find this milky white spirit stone.

In a moment, in the silence of no one, there was a clanging sound of cutting and smashing.

Those small ones are too lazy to move and time-consuming.

........................

Time flickered, and a few more days passed.

As groups of cultivators entered the White Dragon Snow Mountain, they haunted the black mountains and forests, and began a pattern similar to "map treasure hunting" and "sect mission".

The cultivators on the entire snow-capped mountain and the above form the prototype of the unique social organization structure of this world.

Above is the head or head of the "sect", who controls the snow-capped mountain, and the cultivators are the "disciples".

The "disciples" can obtain cultivation materials by completing the sect's task - finding spirit stones, and the disciples can exchange experiences with each other or exchange materials.

The exchange of "materials" is not simply firewood, rice, oil, salt, or money, but the secret methods of cultivation taken out by various families.

And the "currency" for buying and selling this kind of thing is these milky white spirit stones.

This unique trading model is also a manifestation of the subsequent emergence of spirit stones and the shortage of resources.

Because of the black qi, almost all cultivators can only stop at the peripheral "treasure hunting".

And with the influx of more and more cultivators, there are more monks and less meat, and the probability of finding the spirit stone begins to decrease rapidly, and it will be difficult to get to the back.

In this case, many cultivators who confiscated the spirit stones came up with a way to exchange them for things.

How can money and property be compared to spirit stones, so various martial arts secret methods appeared in the exchange market.

In the current era of cultivation, many Dao systems have disappeared into the dust of history, and many practice inheritances have also disappeared, and the situation of various families is similar.

And now that the world has come, as long as you are not a fool, you know that the future will be a world of strife.

Collecting exercise cheats is a very happy thing.

(Two more in one to send, counting, three more today, the promise in the group has been achieved, and I will slowly try to add more in the future, so I will try my best to refuel.) ）