Suddenly, there was a commotion in the originally quiet camp, and I saw a large number of people rushing out of the tent and sweeping around with a vigilant face.

When the bright light of fire shone out of Chen Ning's body, those mercenaries immediately spotted Chen Ning's figure, but when they saw that Chen Ning was alone, the tense nerves relaxed a little.

"What kind of people, what is the purpose of breaking into our camp!"

In the mercenary team, even a big man shouted at Chen Ning.

Hearing this, Chen Ning stopped less than twenty meters away from this group of mercenaries, arched his hand, and said, "Everyone, I have lost my way when I pass by here, and I don't know if I can borrow a map." ”

Hearing Chen Ning's words, the group of mercenaries on the opposite side immediately looked at each other, with a look of surprise on their faces, and after a moment of silence, a middle-aged man who looked like a leader spoke, "Where are you coming from, and where are you going?"

Chen Ning hesitated slightly, and said, "Everyone, can you tell me first, whether this is the territory of the Xiongnu Kingdom?" ”

Hearing Chen Ning's words, many of the mercenaries on the opposite side looked at Chen Ning with a look of surprise.

"Yes, this is the territory of the Xiongnu Kingdom. ”

This time, it was a relatively thin mercenary in the crowd who answered Chen Ning.

"Great, I'm going to a third-level city Taoliu City this time, I don't know if you can tell me the direction, there will be a heavy thank you below. ”

"What did you say, you also went to Peach Willow City?"

As soon as Chen Ning's words fell, one of the mercenaries said in a surprised tone, while some of the rest of the people also looked at Chen Ning with surprised and strange expressions.

Seeing the expressions on everyone's faces, Chen Ning also showed a trace of doubt in his expression, could it be that he had said the wrong thing.

Puzzled, he asked, "Guys, do you have any questions?"

"Hehe, it's not a problem, it's just a little surprised, because we're also going to Taoliu City. ”

One said with a smile.

"Since the little brother is also going to Taoliu City, then we might as well go on the same road, there is still a long distance from Taoliu City, and the road is not very safe. ”

The middle-aged man who had the leading figure said with a smile on his face, his tone was very pleasant, because just now he found that he couldn't sense Chen Ning's strength, as a mercenary who had walked the Xuantian Continent all year round, even if he knew that Chen Ning must be strong, he had this idea in his heart.

"The head of the regiment is right, this is a long way from Taoliu City, if you walk alone, it is not very safe, it is better to join us." ”

The slender man from earlier said the same.

Hearing this, Chen Ning hesitated slightly, then agreed, and said, "Okay, thanks to everyone's dislike, then let's go together, it just so happens that I am not familiar with the route, with everyone's help, I can take a lot of detours." ”

Seeing that Chen Ning agreed, these mercenaries also showed a kind smile on their faces.

Subsequently, after some small talk, the relationship between Chen Ning and this group of mercenaries also became a little familiar unconsciously, and at the same time, Chen Ning also had some preliminary understanding of this mercenary group.

This mercenary group is a small mercenary group called Brothers, there are not many people, only seventy or eighty people, among them, in addition to the head of the group who has the strength of the Xuanshi high-level, there are also five Xuanshi middle-level masters, as for the others, they are all some Xuanshi and Xuanshi low-level.

However, due to the fact that he had to hurry tomorrow, Chen Ning chatted with the people of the brother mercenary group for a while, and then went to rest.

Chen Ning came to an open space, took out a tent from the space ring and set it up, then entered the tent and sat cross-legged on the ground, took out two third-order demon cores and entered the cultivation state.

Suddenly, the energy in the demon core flowed into Chen Ning's body at a very terrifying speed, but the difference was that as soon as these energies entered his body, they ran towards the purple and green sword spirit in Chen Ning's dantian, and they were not absorbed by Chen Ning at all.

The current Ziqing Sword Spirit is very weak, and its strength is not even one-ten-thousandth of what it was in its heyday, so now Chen Ning does not plan to snatch energy from them for the time being, but instead transmits all the energy in the demon core to the Ziqing Sword Spirit, so as to accelerate the recovery of the Ziqing Sword Spirit.

Because from the moment the Ziqing Sword Spirit woke up, he had already been able to borrow some of the power of the Ziqing Sword Spirit, and according to Chen Ning's thoughts, as the power of the Ziqing Sword Spirit increased, the power he could use would definitely become even stronger.

In addition, Chen Ning also has his own plans, his current strength has just broken through the Great Xuan Master, and he does not dare to improve his strength as crazy as before.

Especially after the instability of the Xuan Qi in his body before, he had a trace of scruples about improving his strength too quickly, because he understood that that it would only lead to an unstable foundation, and he was afraid that it would have a great impact in the future.

The speed at which the purple green sword spirit absorbed the energy in the demon core was very fast, much larger than the consumption of Chen Ning's cultivation in the past, and the two third-order demon cores were actually absorbed by the purple green sword spirit in just one hour.

Chen Ning took a deep breath, and now, he was taken aback by the speed at which the Ziqing Sword Spirit absorbed the energy of the demon core.

After all, the third-order demon core is not a second-order demon core, if two second-order demon cores are consumed in an hour, Chen Ning can barely withstand it, but if two third-order demon cores are consumed in an hour, even if Chen Ning's cultivation resources are still relatively rich now, he feels a little unbearable.

Although it is easy for him to hunt third-order demon beasts with his current strength, the number of third-order demon beasts is not as large as that of second-order demon beasts and first-order demon beasts, and it is also very easy to attract the attention of fourth-order demon beasts, after all, third-order demon beasts are already considered high-order demon beasts, and wanton slaughter will definitely attract fourth-order demon beasts.

"Alas... Two third-order demon cores are consumed in an hour, and forty-eight third-order demon cores are consumed in 24 hours a day. ”

Chen Ning sighed secretly, and his brows, which had not been stretched for a long time, furrowed tightly again.

.....

In the early morning, when the sun on the horizon had just revealed its blushing face from the line of heaven and earth, the sound of conversation came from outside the tent of the brothers' mercenary group, accompanied by the "crackling" sound of firewood burning.

Chen Ning, who was sitting cross-legged in the tent, slowly opened his eyes, and then walked out of the tent, his eyes casually scanned for a week.

I saw that there were already more than 40 people moving around the area, lighting fires, collecting tents, and some people were holding weeds to feed their mounts, looking busy.

"Hai, Chen Ning, did you sleep well last night?"

At this moment, a deep voice came from not far away.

Hearing the sound, Chen Ning turned his head to look and saw a burly man with a naked body walking towards him.

This person, Chen Ning, recognized that it was the leader of the brother mercenary group, He Mu.

"Well, it's okay!" Chen Ning replied with a smile.

Last night, he didn't sleep at all, to be precise, since Chen Ning cultivated Xuan Qi, he rarely slept.

Sleeping, is nothing more than excessive consumption of divine damage during the day, the need to sleep to let the body repair itself, once a person enters a deep sleep, the head is blank, into the ethereal mirror, in this state, there is no sense of the passage of time at all, and ordinary people use such the most basic way to restore the god consumed during the day.

Unlike martial artists, when they enter the cultivation state, their spirit will also enter the ethereal mirror, and in this state, their gods can not only be restored in the same way, but also recover countless times faster than ordinary people sleeping.

After a simple breakfast, everyone in the brother mercenary group immediately began to hurry, and Chen Ning had no mount, so he sat on a carriage full of goods, and hurried all the way in the direction of Taoliu City.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Ning followed the team of the brother mercenary group for a day, during which Chen Ning also chatted with some mercenaries from time to time, because Chen Ning did not have any severance, and some people from the brother mercenary group also got along very well.

At this moment, Chen Ning, who was sitting cross-legged on the carriage full of goods and closed his eyes, suddenly moved, and then his slightly closed eyes suddenly opened, staring at the front with some fierceness, and shouted, "Everyone be careful, there is movement ahead, it should be a demon beast rushing in our direction." ”

With Chen Ning's shout, the entire team suddenly stopped, staring at the front with fierce eyes, but after looking at it for a while, the front was calm, and there was no abnormality in the slightest.

"Chen Ning, you're too sensitive, everything is normal ahead, what kind of demon beast is there. ”

Seeing that there was no movement in front of him for a long time, a mercenary turned his head to look at Chen Ning and said with some complaints.

"Yes, Chen Ning, you are too suspicious, and in the future, before you figure things out, you should make less jokes like this. ”

This time it was He Mu, the leader of the brother mercenary group, who spoke, and his tone was a little reproachful, obviously, he also thought that Chen Ning was too suspicious.