Chapter 57, Chapter 58, Chapter 59: Exploration and Battle

Hao found his target on the third day, the number structure here is the same as the one in the poem he saw in the photo, in order to increase the accuracy, Hao also deliberately spent an extra day looking at this area from all directions, calculating this area, and finally got the same answer, this is not a coincidence can be explained, there must be something underneath.

However, Hao did not act in a hurry, he found a cave that was obviously not deep nearby, this cave did not have any complicated tunnels, he took the team to start exploring and training in it, and completed the exploration of this cave for two consecutive days, unexpectedly, they found a magic herb in the depths of this cave, although it is not extremely cherished, it is not a treasure of heaven and earth, but this kind of magic herb is also a cherished variety, called the cemetery mushroom, which only grows in the area where self-conceited energy and positive energy converge, and found about 100 grams of cemetery mushroom, which is worth about 1,000 spirit stones。

This is pure luck, but it can't be repeated, it is impossible to have such a thing in every cave, it is an unexpected joy, and at the same time, it also makes Hao more sure that there should be something in the cave he marked, even if it is not the treasure of the hole card of the spirit magician, it must be one of its laboratories, because the production of cemetery mushrooms requires harsh conditions, although this is underground, but it is not an underground world, it should be impossible to produce cemetery mushrooms, and it appears, which means that there must be a negative energy area here.

Hao silently pondered the possibilities and the dangers of entering the cave to explore, but the elves' interest was high compared to him.

These elves have never left the elf empire, they have grown up in a peaceful world since they were born, in addition to work and study on weekdays, the biggest entertainment is to watch magic TV, read newspapers, etc., all kinds of adventures, stories or something, they naturally know a lot, but really experience it firsthand, this is actually the first time, so how can they not be excited?

As for escaping from the border before, that one is called an escape, not an adventure, and that naturally doesn't count.

Since the general public came to the plant alliance, as the elves of the elf race, in this plant alliance life is very comfortable, although the quality of life is naturally not as good as the elf empire, but life is worry-free, food and clothing are worry-free, and walking on the street, the eyes of the people around them also make them feel very comfortable, at the same time, the more they contact Hao, the more they understand the strength of Hao, this is not the strength of extraordinary strength, but the kind of strength in intelligence, so far, they are really convinced of Hao's wisdom IQ, and Hao is really cautious and steady, following people like Hao, they are really safe, you don't have to worry about overturning at any time during wild adventures.

Since this is the case, then they are naturally very excited, this feeling of experiencing adventures by themselves, there is really a sense of excitement and extraordinary excitement, just like they are experiencing the stories of those adventures, underground, magicians, magic towers or something, isn't this enough to make them excited?

"Tomorrow morning, we'll start exploring the target cave. Hao told the elves and the non-commissioned officers that night.

Then Hao began to assign the task and said: "As Mr. Eri requested, we are still divided into three shifts, one shift to rest, one shift to build the camp, and one shift to follow me to explore the cave, and the fixed explorers are me, Miss Aiyi, Miss Anyang, and everyone else must be divided into three shifts." ”

When these words came out, the elves except Ai Yi and An Yang all showed disappointment, and a small number of non-commissioned officers also showed disappointment, but Hao didn't pay attention to it at all, and continued directly: " The second is the issue of discipline, as long as the people who go down to the cave, we will march the law of military when exploring, I have repeatedly emphasized discipline, emphasizing orders, that is, to use at such a time, once the military law is practiced, I will not leave any mercy, anyone must obey my orders, even if you die standing there, you must be motionless, otherwise you survive, I will also kill you to show the severity of military law, I hope I will not let me use this article, I hope you will be cautious. ”

Everyone's hearts are awe-inspiring, when Chu Hao was facing the battlefield of the Jianwei Demon Beast Group, he killed the extraordinary warrior Elf Yinkong in battle, and the line is military law, you must know that the whole team has three transcendentals, Hao can directly kill one person without changing his face, which can be completely seen Hao's attention to military discipline and orders, and everyone is telling himself in his heart that he must not commit the bottom line in Hao's heart, which is really going to die.

At present, Hao appointed some personnel arrangements, mainly focusing on three aspects, such as reconnaissance, main force, and backup, and at the same time equipped twenty of the most elite human clansmen to protect Ae, along with An Yang, also served as Aid's personal guard.

Ai Yi asked Hao in surprise: "I understand the intention of protecting me, after all, on the battlefield, a mage is the strongest and most vulnerable, any military book will emphasize the importance of protecting mages, but you and we have a master-slave contract, if you die, we will not survive, I think it is more appropriate for you to stand with me to accept protection." ”

Hao looked at the people around him, and the people around him also showed the same expression, he thought about it, and said to An Yang: "Miss An Yang, you come to accompany me to do a test." With that, he got up and went straight to the clearing.

An Yang looked at Ai Yi, and followed him to Hao, Hao took off the leather armor on his body, revealing the linen clothes behind the leather armor, and then said to An Yang: "Miss An Yang, please use your fastest speed and highest attack skills to attack me." ”

An Yang was stunned, and she said stupidly: "Attack...... You, you're going to test your defenses, but my fastest speed, highest attack skills, you have to use your fighting spirit!"

Hao smiled and nodded, the human non-commissioned officers didn't know what was going on, all the elves were in an uproar, and immediately several elves opened their mouths to stop the test, Ai Yi hurriedly ran to An Yang's side, and said to Hao: "Don't mess around, this is a fighting spirit, don't say that you took off all the leather armor, you are wearing leather armor, no, wearing plate armor, in front of the fighting spirit, it is no different from tofu, a knife down, you will be directly halved, I can tell you, don't want to take risks, I won't live alone if you die." ”

Speaking of this, Ay seemed to think of something, his face turned red, and he said writhingly: "I mean, according to the contract, we can't live if you die." ”

Hao said directly: "Don't worry, you also know that I have always been cautious, how can I take risks in this kind of place?" If you really don't feel at ease...... Speaking of this, Hao took a step back, and he looked at Anyang.

"Miss Anyang, please take a step in front of me and swing your sword, just like I was standing there just now, don't worry, I believe in the accuracy of your attack. ”

An Yang is a standard elite-level transcendent warrior, although he is only a first-order warrior, but his foundation is very solid, he is a warrior who has been cultivated by the great family since childhood, and he is a warrior who guards his descendants, how can he not grasp the accuracy or something? ”

Hao continued to smile and nodded, "I care...... Then Miss Anyang, please. ”

Waiting until Ai Yi left, An Yang pulled out his long sword, this is a first-order enchanted weapon, the attached magic is a flame enchantment, as soon as he took it out, An Yang entered the fighting qi into it, and immediately everyone on the scene felt a wave of heat rushing towards him, and then in the next moment, An Yang had disappeared in place, and slashed down with a sword about twenty centimeters directly in front of Hao.

The fighting spirit strengthens the enchanted fire damage, coupled with the sharpness provided by the fighting spirit itself, this sword goes down, and sure enough, as Ai Yi said, a whole set of plate armor will be cut in two, but at this moment, Hao actually reached forward and directly used his palm to pick up the sharp edge of this sword, Anyang had no time to change his move at this time, everyone was exclaimed, in their imagination, Hao's palm was not injured, and it was natural for him to be directly scorched and crushed.

But in the next moment, Hao's palm was directly wiped at the sharp edge of the blade, An Yang only felt a huge force attacking, even if she had already enabled the fighting spirit, she could no longer hold the long sword, and saw that Hao's palm was gently pulled around, and An Yang's long sword had already fallen into his hand, and his palm was unharmed.

Everyone looked at this scene in a daze, An Yang couldn't believe it, she looked at her palm, and then looked at the long sword in Hao's hand, she asked after a few seconds: "God, how did you do it?"

Hao smiled and held the blade in his hand, handed the long sword back to An Yang, and then said: " I was a few days ago, I reached the level of strength in the martial arts, to this step, I can basically control most of my own strength and body, just a little trick, it seems that my palm directly touched the blade, but in fact, it is a matter of angle, my palm in contact with the blade slightly sideways, from the side of the blade cut in, this will naturally not be cut, as for the temperature problem, in fact, my palm will still feel hot, but through sweat, and the palm of the palm subtle vibration to avoid being burned, this palm has a name in the martial arts, called the cow's tongue palm, I don't know why it's called this name, but this is just one of the combat skills in the martial arts. ”

An Yang took the long sword, still in disbelief, she couldn't believe that a human being, a mortal who didn't even have the energy in her body, could actually take her combat skills with her bare hands, and she used her fighting skills, and she took it from the blade of the sword with her bare hands, which ...... How can it be!?

Hao looked at An Yang's expression, he didn't explain, in fact, the strength of martial arts is one-sided, this is a kind of road that only focuses on the physical body, only focuses on the control of the physical body, skills, and the potential development of the physical body itself, when it comes to turning into strength, in fact, the road has already ended, and even Hao suspects that there are no three supreme realms behind it, it is just a lie and deception, at least after turning into strength, his development of the physical body has reached the limit, whether it is the control of the physical body, breathing, muscles, blood, etc., the so-called three supreme realms, Hao can't imagine that the physical body has any room to develop, and his analysis has not been answered, There is no information coming in the dark, although he has not used the super state yet, but in Hao's mind, this transformation is actually the end of the physical body.

That's right, that's the limitation of the physical body, at least that's the limitation of the human body.

Unless it is a race with a strong physical body such as a dragon, a phoenix, or an ancient beast, otherwise in terms of physical body alone, the mortals of the vast majority of races in the ten thousand races are actually weak in the physical body, and although this martial art is fully systematic, it is natural that it does not belong to the path of a transcendent professional, because it does not open up the energy circulation in the body, but it cannot be compared with the path of a transcendent profession by relying on the physical body.

However, although there is no so-called supreme three realms, Hao, who has reached the transformation of strength, thinks that he can also be compared to a third-order transcendent warrior, and the reason is that his physical body is far stronger than that of humans.

This is a gift from that Venerable One, and now he, not to mention the various skills in martial arts, exercise, explosion, etc., the physical strength alone can be compared to the third-order warrior transcendental, with the strength of two or three thousand catties in every move, the speed is amazing, the physical recovery power is amazing, and the reaction speed is also amazing, these combined, let him even rely on the physical body alone is enough to match the third-order transcendent warrior, coupled with the strength of the martial arts, this is possible to do the scene just now.

Hao said to Ai Yi and the elves at this time: "So you don't have to worry about me, it's just a test, when I really fight, I will return to the whole body equipment, leather armor, long-range weapons, melee weapons, etc., do everything, in this case, I can be a third-order warrior with extraordinary combat power, if it is used in the rear, it is a pure waste, at this time I must join the front of the battlefield." ”

Ai Yi didn't answer at this time, she looked around Hao left and right a few times, and then smacked her tongue: "Amazing, I haven't seen anyone use their flesh to catch the fighting spirit...... Magic doesn't count, if I have enough time to add all kinds of protection, I dare to use the palm of my hand to catch the fighting energy, but you don't use magic, it's really powerful...... Why don't you show me a chest rock?"

Hao originally wanted to talk about the next arrangement, but at the moment, he glanced at Ayi, ignored her, and continued to say to the rest of the people: "According to the previous arrangement, tomorrow will ...... Let's enter the target cavern!"

There was nothing to say that night, and everyone went to bed early, recuperating for the next day's real exploration.

Early the next morning, Hao ordered all the personnel to explore the cave, a total of one hundred and sixteen people, all equipped with sophisticated leather armor, crossbows, spears, melee short soldiers, and the elves were equipped with elven military heavy crossbows, plus Hao, a third-order warrior with extraordinary combat power, Aiyi, a second-order magician, and An Yang, a first-order transcendent warrior, such combat power can actually explore the ruins or dungeons of the third order or something.

But Hao still decided that the speed of exploration was going to slow down, he decided to spend five days exploring the outer area of this target cave, and then use five days to cautiously test the inner circle, the reason is very simple, if the rumors are true, then the bottom of this cave is likely to be the location of the legacy of the spirit magician, the spirit magician, it is not at all the level that their current team can imagine, if it is not for the fact that this spirit position is no longer there, Hao will not even think about it, how far away to hide, the difference in strength between each other is too great, a spirit position may just yawn, they will be wiped out, that is the highest apex under the holy position, it is the existence of standing at the peak of mortal things。

Fortunately, the spirit mage was already dead, and the remaining ruins, although still terrifying, were not unsolvable, so this was their chance, just be careful, and always find a way to enter.

Everyone came to this cave under the leadership of Hao, it was pitch black, but Hao had already prepared, he did not let everyone use torches, ghost creatures and some undead creatures, they reacted very keenly to temperature and flame, Hao used a magic light, charged with a crystal, as long as the magic power was entered, it could emit a pale white glow, and Ai had already charged dozens of crystals before this, which was enough to use for hundreds of hours.

Everyone went down the cave until after walking for about thirty minutes, there were several forks in the road, and Hao muttered a few strange poems in his mouth, and then he directly chose one of the forks and walked down, and the rest of the people looked at each other and followed behind him.

In this way, everyone walked back and forth for nearly an hour, passing by several forks in the road, Hao chose one of them without hesitation, and everyone didn't know what the basis for his choice was, but relying on their confidence in Hao, they still moved forward firmly.

By this time, the entire cavern was no longer barren as before, and some underground plants, mosses, and the like began to appear, and the reconnaissance team also reported some traces of biological activity, but these traces seemed to have been there for a long time.

Hao didn't feel any surprise at this, but the elves such as Ay began to discuss this discovery, some people said that there were undead creatures patrolling, and others said that it might be traces of explorers running from a long time ago, but no matter which one it is, the appearance of these traces means that there must be something here, and they are likely to have really found the treasure left behind by the spirit magician.

Sure enough, in the next exploration, they kept finding all kinds of battle traces, as well as several corpses that had already decayed into white bones, and even the white bones had begun to shatter, and fortunately, these corpses did not turn into undead creatures, and there were no ghosts, although their weapons and equipment had already turned into slag, but at least they did not cause any trouble to the team, which was already a good situation.

Hao thought as he walked, and at the same time carefully thought about what he saw and heard along the way, especially the corpses, the possibility of their death, etc., unconsciously, the team went deep into the ground at least a few hundred meters away, suddenly, a cold wind hit, Hao immediately waved his hand back, and the non-commissioned officer who had been following his orders to pay close attention to him immediately waved his hand to the rear.

Suddenly, hundreds of people stopped, raised their crossbows, and held the spear in the other hand, at this time, from the front, several scouts hurriedly ran back, and the scouts led by them rushed to Hao's front and said: "There is an abnormality ahead, there are many dry bones emerging from the ground, and we also see some phantoms emerging in mid-air, that should be the ghost type undead creatures you said!"

Hao immediately knew what the previous unnatural feeling was, the bones that appeared at the beginning, their death did not become undead, this is one thing, the second is that the place where they died is too close to the entrance, if the entrance is so close, people will die, it is impossible for no one to escape, report the anomaly here, so that countless explorers have already come, this is the weirdness.

But if this is a mausoleum for a magician, then it all makes sense.

Any magic creation, even if it is a magician mausoleum built on the node of the free energy convergence of heaven and earth, will gradually decline over time, and the magic facilities, magic traps, and permanent magic inside will gradually decay, especially if it is activated, the decay will become more and more serious, until it finally fails, in other words, those corpses are estimated to have died under the outermost magic traps, but those magic traps have declined, so they can enter safely in the outermost areas.

But now was not the time to think about it, Hao immediately shouted loudly: "Hand crossbow ready, Ae, use magic missiles to target all spirit attacks, blazing glue to smear melee weapons!"

Under Hao's order, hundreds of people immediately took action, each of them prepared their weapons, and Ai Yi was also ready for a magic missile attack, and in less than half a minute, there was a sound of skeleton shaking in front of him, from the most tattered ordinary skeletons, to the skeleton soldiers with complete weapons and equipment, and then to the tall giant skeletons, and the three black warriors covered in pitch-black armor pressed the formation, although this is also an undead creature of the skeleton species, but it belongs to the second-order to third-order high-level undead creatures, with curse magic, and its strength is strong.

There are hundreds of skeletons alone, filling the caves in front of them, and about twenty or so looming ghost phantoms, the strength of these ghosts is a first-order transcendent creature, their physical damage is almost none, but they have extraordinary magic damage, as long as they penetrate life, they can absorb the vitality of life, they can be seriously ill, or they will die, and the most terrifying thing is that they are almost virtual undead creatures, and the effect of physical damage on them is very low, and magic damage is needed to destroy them, of course, enchanted weapons are not in this category。

"Shoot!"

The distance between each other is not far, this is an underground cave, although it seems spacious, but there are many corners in front of them, these undead creatures came out of the corner, and the distance between them is only about seventy meters, this distance is already a shooting distance, Hao immediately issued the first wave of attack orders.

Immediately, hundreds of crossbow arrows of hand crossbows and heavy crossbows shot out, shooting a large number of skeletons in front of them to the ground, these skeletons did not dissipate, but even the skeleton warriors equipped with armor weapons were also missing arms and legs under the crossbow shot, which lost their mobility and combat power.

At the same time, more than twenty ghosts roared directly, and they were greeted by the magic missiles sent by Ey, the magic defense of these ghosts was very weak, and Ey's magic missiles were optimized by Hao, and about eight were fired at a time, each of which directly disintegrated and disintegrated a ghost, but the remaining dozen ghosts did not retreat, they still rushed towards everyone regardless of it.

(Sure enough, it's not a wild undead creature, it's a magic effect, or an undead creature bound by magic control, otherwise even an undead creature, as long as it's wild, it will instinctively run away...... )

Hao flashed this thought in his heart, and then he rushed forward directly with a spear in a few steps, jumped up more than three meters high with a step under his feet, and stabbed straight at a ghost, the spear was like electricity, and under a stab, the ghost wailed and turned into nothingness, Hao's spearhead was an enchanted weapon, and it was just right for these ghosts.

Under the stab, Hao's entire body had not fallen, and the three ghosts around him immediately pounced on him, and Hao was not in a hurry, the spear in his hand was like nothing, and the three ghosts were immediately scattered, and at the same time, other ghosts also pounced in front of the crowd, and Ae's second magic was only used at this time, and Hao immediately shouted: "The first group, tear the scroll!"

Under the order, a human non-commissioned officer did not hesitate, directly tore open the scroll in his arms, and suddenly a soft light emanated, this light seemed to the human eye to be only soft, but these ghosts were wailing, scattering and fleeing, their bodies were smoking, but this did not kill them, it was just a short expulsion, at the same time, the next eight magic missiles were sent out again, and eight more ghosts were killed.

Hao only fell to the ground at this time, he took a deep breath, his face immediately turned red into cinnabar, and at the same time, there were beads of sweat floating on the surface of his body, and his skin turned red, in this state, his speed became very fast, one step was ten meters away, jumping up again and again, stabbing again and again, before and after only a few seconds, five more ghosts were stabbed and shattered under his spear, at this time, all the ghosts were destroyed, and none of the people were attacked by the ghosts.

But before Hao could take a breath, the group of skeletons in the distance had already rushed to the front, these skeletons were very flexible, and the speed was also fast, everyone only had time to launch a wave of crossbow arrows, and immediately the melee came, and the human tribesmen at the front raised their spears under the command of the non-commissioned officer, and then stabbed forward one after another, a large number of skeletons and skeleton warriors were stabbed to pieces, but there were many skeletons, and as long as they were not stabbed in the spine or head, they were not injured or killed.

The most important thing is that these skeletons are all not afraid of immortality, and they actually stubbornly stood up to the spear formation, straight up towards the human race, and as soon as they touched the battle, at least seven or eight human beings were cut by various weapons, and the most unlucky two were directly cut off in the head, and died in the battle formation in an instant.

"The second group, the third group, change weapons!"

Hao let out a loud shout, and then he did not withdraw from his current state, but continued to breathe deeply, as if he was about to burst his lungs, puffed up his whole body, and at the same time rushed towards the front of the battle column, before the person arrived, the spear in his hand changed from a thorn to a sweep, like a stick, sweeping a large area, and smashed at least ten skeletons in front of him.

At the same time, under Hao's order, the first formation of spearmen retreated, and the personnel of the second and third formations directly threw down their spears, each took out the machete weapon in his hand, and listened to the order of the non-commissioned officer, slashing forward one by one.

What Hao wants is this kind of one board and one eye, in this slash, all the skeletons that come into contact with it are all chopped to the bone slag, and the skeletons are immediately shattered, at least half of the skeleton soldiers are crushed, but still like that, these skeletons are completely unconscious, and continue to rush forward with the slash, and suddenly several more human tribesmen are slashed and killed.

"Fourth group, fifth group ready!"

Hao ordered loudly, controlling the military array to maintain the array and change, and then, a crossbow arrow shot from the front, Hao's skin was extremely sharp at the moment, his throat was slightly itchy, and immediately, Hao's whole body leaned back, and a pitch-black crossbow shot directly in front of him, and when Hao stood up, he saw a black warrior in the distance throw away the crossbow arrow, pulled out a heavy sword with black light, and the other two black warriors who each took out heavy weapons, stepped towards the front of the battlefield.

"One third-order, two second-order ......"

Hao's heart sank slightly, he clenched the spear in his hand and stared at the three black warriors.