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"My head hurts...... Ye Chaoxiao slowly opened his eyes, feeling a mess and tingling pain in his mind, as if there were thousands of silver needles piercing him. After a long time, this terrible pain gradually disappeared, and Xuan Yi reflected the scene around him—a huge cave, or rather, an underground cavern, surrounded by stalactites with strange postures, and he was lying flat on a stone bed. Although the meridians on the body did not last until they were about to explode like before, they were also extremely sore, and they couldn't exert their strength, but fortunately, the aura in this underground cave was much more abundant and rich than that of the outside world, and as long as it ran for a week, the battle qi could be recovered quickly.

"You kid, finally woke up?"

Hearing a familiar voice, Ye Chaoxiao subconsciously turned his head and found that Bai Yanruo was also looking at him not far away, although he forced a smile, but what the smile couldn't hide was abnormal tiredness, and his face was still a little pale, as if he had just been seriously ill.

"Where is this? And where is Xuanyi?"

"This is the destination of my mission, he went to explore the way, originally planned to take you back to Yuehua City and I will come out with him to complete the mission, but it is not safe to do so, and it is a waste of time, so we still decided to take you with us. Bai Yanruo said slowly, several days had passed since he escaped from the wolves that night, and during this time, he and Xuanyi began to move towards their mission goal while resting and recovering. During this period, Ye Chaoxiao had been in a coma, and they could neither discard him at will, nor could they send him back, so they had to continue to take Ye Chaoxiao with them.

"Little brother, you've finally woken up, you've been in a coma for a week, and if you don't wake up, we're going to really send you back." Ye Chaoxiao said with a chuckle when he heard a voice, and then a figure floated lightly past him, holding more than a dozen lilac fruits in his arms. Sitting on the stone bed where he was lying, while handing the fruit to Ye Chaoxiao, he took out a parchment scroll from his arms, on which several general routes were sparsely drawn, which seemed to be the map in the cave below.

"Have you found out?" Seeing the situation on the drawing, Bai Yanruo picked up a fruit, took a bite, and asked as he chewed.

"Except for the rest of the place, everything else has been discovered, that is, only that place remains. Xuanyi took out a delicately crafted knife from the storage ring, carefully peeled off the skin of the purple fruit, cut it into pieces, and then took small bites. After eating one or two pieces, Xuan Yi put down the knife and pointed his finger at a place on the map, judging from the title map, this place is different from other places, because it doesn't seem to have any route to reach! Ye Chaoxiao, who was looking at this map, was puzzled, and heard Bai Yanruo say slowly-

"Is that so? Also, if it wasn't difficult, it wouldn't be a mystic mission. But, seriously, are you sure, it's really that monster that's guarding there?"

"No, I have seen its description in the ancient books of the clan, and it is genuine. Okay, now the question is, how are we going to deal with him, it stands to reason that in terms of the strength of that monster, none of us is enough to deal with it alone, so ......" Xuanyi swallowed another piece of pulp, and then wiped the residual juice from the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief, and glanced at Ye Chaoxiao next to him from the corner of his eye, and said with a slight smile.

"No, it's too dangerous, how do you know that the two of us can definitely hold that monster back, and even if you can, you haven't been to that place, how can you be sure that there are no other dangers in that place. Seeing Xuanyi's look just now, Bai Yanruo immediately knew what his plan was, and immediately stood up and rejected him with righteous words. He had considered sending Ye Chaoxiao out of the Yuehua Mountains first, but was stopped by Xuanyi, thinking that it would be safer to take Ye Chaoxiao with him, but he didn't expect Xuanyi to think like this, he knew that he shouldn't have agreed to Xuanyi to travel together, otherwise there would be so much trouble.

"Any choice is risky, is it possible, do you want your little brother to fight that monster outside and outside?" Xuan Yi seemed to have guessed Bai Yanruo's reaction, stood up unhurriedly, and looked at Bai Yanruo with a subtle smile, and the originally empty underground cave didn't know why the smell instantly became stronger. Looking at the burning eyes of the two, Ye Chaoxiao roughly guessed a few points even if he didn't understand the situation anymore, in order not to let the scene be so embarrassing or even worsen, Ye Chaoxiao coughed a few times, and said seriously:

"Brother Bai, what kind of task did you receive—"

"Ye Chaoxiao, you ......" Hearing Ye Chaoxiao's voice, Bai Yanruo suddenly felt a little anxious, if Ye Chaoxiao really agreed to Xuanyi's request and something happened, not to mention that he had promised Xiao Yihan before that he would push Ye Chaoxiao into the inner courtyard, even his own conscience would be full of condemnation and remorse.

"Also, Brother Bai, since we are all here, we don't need to hide it from the little brother, let's say, let the little brother make his own decision. Xuanyi also put away the smile on his face, and said to Bai Yanruo seriously, through the past few days of getting along, he also roughly saw what kind of person Bai Yanruo is - probably a guy who wants to desperately protect others because of self-blame and repentance, and can't take care of himself, although the IQ is indeed not high, but it is not an interesting thing to work with such a person. And, I don't know why, every time he sees Bai Yanruo, he can always think of the figure that was as motionless as a mountain in that fiery night.

"Whew...... All right. It seemed that after a long ideological struggle, Bai Yanruo sighed, sat down on the ground slowly, and began to talk about their tasks:

It turned out that as early as nearly two months ago, the branch of Qianwen Pavilion in Yuehua City received a message and task from above, in a certain underground cave in the Yuehua Mountain Range, there is suspected that there is a magical treasure of heaven and earth, and the stalactite cave will go through tens of thousands of years of creation to condense the treasure - ten thousand years of quenching milk. Although this kind of exotic treasure does not have the effect of directly increasing cultivation, it is a kind of healing medicine, not only can quickly stop bleeding, repair internal organs, even the broken and burst meridians in the human body can be repaired, in addition, it also has great value for the refining of the body, huge effect and extremely high rarity, so that the ten thousand years of quenching milk is invaluable, once it is present, it is natural to avoid a burst of bloody rain. Perhaps in order to prevent the leakage of news, the above chose to carry out the task entrustment, and what was written on the task reward was just a hundred-year-level quenching milk, and the task positioning was only in the yellow level B, and this matter was privately told to the two by Director Yi Lin of Yue Huacheng.

Even so, the hundred-year-level quenching milk is already a great temptation for ordinary people, so as soon as this task came out, it was taken over by several brass-level token holders one after another, but soon after they entered the Yuehua Mountain Range, there was no news of them, and over time, no one even claimed this task, seeing that the stipulated deadline was about to arrive, Yi Lin had no choice but to increase the reward of the task for Xuanyi and Bai Yanruo to complete.

"Since that's the case, why don't you go and complete your task?" After listening to Bai Yanruo and Xuanyi's descriptions, Ye Chaoxiao also roughly understood the ins and outs of the matter, but he still asked with some puzzlement. If it's because you're worried about his safety, there's no need, judging from the surrounding environment, this stalactite cave is very large and secret, and even if you are here alone, there shouldn't be any danger.

"Why do you think the previous batches of people have folded?"

Bai Yanruo said in a deep voice, his face looked very bad, and he pointed a finger at the area on the map that Xuanyi had not explored, paused, and said slowly:

"That's because it's all folded on the guard beast that quenched the milk—"