Chapter 93

Lin Xuanzhong is only twenty years old this year, but he has such attainments in the Eight Desolation Steps at a young age, although it is not too good, but it is enough to make everyone realize that Lin Xuanzhong's qualifications are indeed very good. After watching one of the competitions, the middle-aged team leader has already recognized Lin Xuanzhong's qualifications.

Of course, just recognition does not mean that the middle-aged team leader has the intention of accepting Lin Xuanzhong as an apprentice, but it is that Feng Zheng and Zhang Buwen and other fifth-order martial cultivators are more interested in accepting Lin Xuanzhong as an apprentice. After seeing the talent shown by Lin Xuanzhong, they all felt that it was definitely a good thing to be able to take Lin Xuanzhong as an apprentice.

Regarding Lin Xuanzhong's body method, some of those fifth-order martial cultivators felt familiar, and some of them saw it for the first time, in short, no one could recognize it as the Eight Desolation Steps. As for the fourth-order martial arts cultivators, when they competed with Lin Xuanzhong, they only felt that Lin Xuanzhong's body technique was surprisingly fast, and they didn't pay much attention to what kind of body method Lin Xuanzhong used.

Five days have passed in a blink of an eye, and the rain stopped three days ago, and this afternoon the weather is clear, and the mercenary team has already set off in the post station, and everyone is already discussing the departure of the convoy.

The teams that left today were all in a hurry, and they would leave as long as they could. Although the road conditions may be bad in some places, there is a set time for the mercenary team to complete the mission, and it is impossible for a mission to take a whole year, so not only the mercenary team itself will not survive, but those who issue the mission will not be happy either. Besides, although the road conditions are not very good, as long as you avoid areas where you can't drive, you won't have much of a problem starting now.

In the afternoon, the middle-aged leader gathered everyone together as everyone had guessed, and then explained the matter of leaving tomorrow. In this way, everyone is also preparing to leave.

I have been living happily in the post station for several days, and many people are reluctant to leave, but it is still important to complete the task. When packing up, many people are thinking about the joy of being in the inn. I have to say that because of Lin Xuanzhong's relationship, they have lived well during this time, better than usual. On the other hand, Lin Xuanzhong also made great progress in cultivation because of the guidance of everyone.

Not only did he learn how to practice basic skills and martial arts, but he also reached a new height in his understanding of physical skills and martial arts. For a long time in the future, even if there is no one to guide him, Lin Xuanzhong can rely on what he has learned before to cultivate for a long time.

Now the main problem for Lin Xuanzhong is how to solve the problems in his body, because he is more and more familiar with those fifth-order martial cultivators, Lin Xuanzhong has also indirectly mentioned his own physical problems, but the answers he got are not satisfactory.

Fortunately, someone suggested that Lin Xuanzhong go to a middle-aged team leader, and the middle-aged team leader's rich experience may be able to solve Lin Xuanzhong's problem. In the past few days, Lin Xuanzhong has met the middle-aged team leader several times. It's just that as before, the middle-aged team leader didn't mean to know more about Lin Xuanzhong. However, the thin and tall man in charge of the team and Lin Xuanzhong had been looking for him a few times, on the one hand, to remind Lin Xuanzhong not to attract too much attention in the gambling house, and on the other hand, he could be regarded as getting to know Lin Xuanzhong with each other.

After several exchanges, Lin Xuanzhong already knew that the other party's name was Mo Lingyun, and he was a fifth-order martial cultivator, of course, his strength was relatively close to that of a sixth-order martial cultivator. is only in his thirties this year, and obviously his own qualifications are not bad, and the important thing is that his own character is more prominent.

Although his appearance looks more capable and his momentum is very strong, Lin Xuanzhong found that the other party's personality is very different from his appearance, and the other party is actually a very easy person to get along with, and Lin Xuanzhong will not be restrained because of his temperament and strength. In this way, after contacting the other party a few times, Lin Xuanzhong did not feel any discomfort, but also got a lot of guidance through communication. In any case, many people in the team can be regarded as half of Lin Xuanzhong's master, and this relationship alone allows Lin Xuanzhong to fully integrate into the mercenary team.

Now that the middle-aged leader has informed everyone about tomorrow's departure, today everyone did not fight outside or eat and drink in the tavern as they did a few days ago, and packed up their things in their respective rooms early to prepare for departure. In fact, there is nothing to pack, the only difference from when they came is that many people have to put more jade in their baggage.

In the past few days, the mercenary team has won a lot of jade from the gambling house, although most of it is spent in the post station, but the rest still makes many people's pockets bulge.

Having said that, in fact, the middle-aged team leader was in a hurry to leave also considering that Lin Xuanzhong and others often went in and out of the gambling house, although they spent a lot of the jade they won in the tavern, but this behavior of eating and living for nothing was obvious, if it was because it was raining and couldn't hurry, it was said that it was over, but if it was sunny and then didn't leave, I am afraid that the post station would not be as simple as driving people, and the middle-aged team leader was worried about causing other incidents, so it was better to decide to leave early.

Nothing happened overnight, and the next morning all the personnel gathered on time in an open space under the attic, and then, with the help of the post man, everyone escorted the convoy on the road.

The food of the five mammoths in the post house was also not bad, and after a few days of rest, they were all in good condition when they first hit the road. And after a night, the road conditions were much better than yesterday, and the convoy was moving at a normal speed, following the rutted tracks left by the mercenary team that had left earlier.

There are not many roads to the city that never sleeps, so as long as you follow the convoy in front of you, it will be very safe along the way. It has to be said that the next rain is very beneficial for everyone to carry out their tasks, and the possibility of encountering danger when gathering so many mercenary teams together will naturally be greatly reduced.

With this in mind, the members of the mercenary team were very relaxed, and they got together in twos and threes and kept talking about some interesting things, many of which were related to what happened in the inn before.

An hour later, the team had already marched ten miles forward, and at this rate, it would not be a problem to walk a hundred miles in a day, so it would only take five days for the team to reach the city that never sleeps. Five days is not a long time, but it is not a short time, and everything is easy to say if there is no danger.

Time passed quickly, and the convoy stopped to rest only when it was time to eat along the way. At the end of the day, as expected, the convoy arrived a hundred miles from the post station. After a good night's rest, I had breakfast the next morning and set off again. However, today was not as smooth as yesterday, and soon after the departure, someone noticed something unusual.

"Do you smell anything?" someone at the front of the convoy asked aloud, frowning.

"It smells like rotting corpses," the man next to him was the first to reply. Then, everyone tried to smell the smell in the air.

After a while, many people said they smelled the smell. And the source seems to be directly in front of the convoy, and if some beast died a few days ago, it rained a lot and smelled after the weather cleared, but there is nothing surprising about it. At present, although it is clear what is going on in front of him, the middle-aged team leader still lets the team move on.

As the convoy advanced, the smell became heavier and heavier, and vaguely everyone heard the sound of some fierce beasts, but the distance was too far away to hear what kind of fierce beasts they were for the time being.

"There should be a situation ahead!" I saw Ye Yun covering his nose and saying to Lin Xuanzhong and the others on the side with certainty.

"It shouldn't be a big deal, otherwise Qingyi and they should have come back early. He did not refute Ye Yun's words, but Lao Zhang also expressed his opinion.

"The convoy is getting closer and closer, and soon we will know what is going on over there. After the two finished speaking, Lin Xuanzhong followed and expressed his opinion.

"Qingfeng is right, wait over there and take a look. As soon as Lin Xuanzhong finished speaking, the middle-aged woman picked up again.

Of course, as Lin Xuanzhong said, as long as they go over there to take a look, they will naturally know what is going on. At the request of the middle-aged team leader, the convoy sped up.

It didn't take long for the voice to come from the front clearer, and at this moment a person in charge of the situation returned to the convoy and briefly explained what was going on ahead.

It turned out to be a group of corpse vultures eating, but the food of those corpse vultures appeared in a strange position of the huge beast corpse, right in the middle of the road, horizontally and vertically, occupying about five meters of the road. When the convoy approached, everyone covered their noses and looked incredulously at the huge corpses on the road, and a flock of no less than twenty corpses.

The rotting beast carcass was even more broken by the vulture's pecking, constantly emitting a foul smell, and the pungent stench kept hitting everyone's nerves.

The man in Tsing Yi and another member of the mercenary team were standing not far from the front of the convoy at this time, and it was surprising that both of them were covering their noses with cloths and were much more clever than they were with their hands. When the convoy came, the two also walked towards the convoy.

"Qingyi, what's going on?" asked the middle-aged team leader aloud.

"Brother Zhou and I have already checked, and the several mercenary teams in front of us have indeed passed by this road, and there are obviously different rut marks in front of those vultures feeding area. The carcasses of those ferocious beasts must have been deliberately placed there at night. The man in Tsing Yi gave a serious look at what they had discovered.

For a moment, the expressions of the entire mercenary team became serious. According to the man in Tsing Yi, since the corpses of those fierce beasts were deliberately placed there, it was natural that someone wanted to cut off the road ahead, at least to make the road impassable temporarily.

"Big brother, what should we do?" Judging from the current situation, the corpse vultures that are eating will not be driven away by the bombardment of everyone, because the corpse vultures will not give up the ready-made food.