Chapter 440: Wandering Heaven and Earth
The origin of the Five Directions Domain is ancient, and it is known as the place where life was first born.
The domain is divided into five large domains, southeast, northwest, and central, with the central domain as the core, and the other four domains surrounding and clustering outside.
These five great domains are all vast in area, and there are countless life source stars. Among them, the Northern Domain is the most chaotic, the folk customs are fierce, and it is known as the War Domain; the Eastern Domain adheres to the inheritance of ancient Oriental civilization and cultivates the immortal path, which is called the Eastern Immortal Domain; while the Western Domain is called the Domain of the Gods, and the glorious miracles left by countless gods coexist in the domain, and the cultivation method of gods and demons occupies the mainstream.
The rest of the Southern Regions are known for their wealth and prosperity, and all kinds of civilizations in the region are brilliant and splendid, and thousands of families are blooming.
Entering the Southern Regions is like walking into a place where countless cosmic civilizations are miniature, and the diversity of civilizations in them makes people feel incredible.
It is precisely because of the convergence of countless civilizations that the trade of the Southern Regions of the Five Directions has also flourished. Even after the Southern Regions were overrun by the Shadow Creatures, nothing changed.
It's just that there were many transactions that were in the open in the past, and they were forced to go into the shadows.
At this time, on a life source star within the southern region of the five directions, there was a caravan moving forward.
The area where the caravan was located was barren for thousands of miles, with sand and sparse vegetation on the ground, and occasional undulating hills as far as the eye could see, but they were all low hills, and few were high mountains. It is conceivable that such a landform will not take many years before it will completely degenerate into a desert.
The sky was overcast, the thunder was faint, the cloud pressure was very low, and the air was dull, as if heavy rain was coming.
The whole procession of about seventy or eighty people meandered along. In mid-air hundreds of feet above the ground, there are people riding flying war beasts, looking into the distance, responsible for vigilance, and the people on the ground are in a strict formation. Many people are fluctuating and powerful, which shows that the force of this team is not bad.
In fact, this caravan is a smuggling team that has purchased a lot of items at low prices from the Five Directions Domain, and is preparing to enter the area occupied by the shadow creatures to sell items.
This kind of team living in the gray area has its own necessity and has always been unavoidable.
All smuggling. Most of them are speculative moves by people who act steadily and have flexible hands, but there are indeed huge profits, and if the border defense along the way that smuggling needs to pass through can be properly managed, sometimes it is even the pattern of officials and bandits.
The caravan that was marching in the barren area was less than a hundred people, which was not large, but it was not small among the smuggling teams.
The team dragged three sealed black iron chariots with rhinoceros-like beasts, and it was this team that was loaded with them. This time, it is going to smuggle goods into the area ruled by the Shadow Clan.
Among the dozen or so people in the center of the whole procession, there was an old man who looked like a rich man, who was the owner of these goods.
There were more than a dozen people in the team who were the old man's personal guards, and the other sixty or so were experienced teams hired by the old man to escort the safety of this smuggling.
The hired team is called the Nightcrawler, and it is a team that is used to coming and going on the borders of the Shadows and the Five Directions, charging a high fee for guarding. But the strength of the team is good, and it is not the top. But it is also the middle and upper level of countless escort teams in the border area. The members of the team have a wide range of professions, including warriors, mages, assassin scouts who are good at assassination and concealment, wizards with mysterious spells, and onmyoji who are proficient in the geography of mountains and rivers, stars and feng shui.
The team even spared no expense. A small team of six Sky Riders was raised.
This is not the first time that the employer and the escort of this team have worked together, so they know each other well and talk happily as they move forward.
"Team Leader Leo, we're going to enter the border area occupied by the Shadow Clan in a few days, right? Now that the two sides are at war, our business of reselling goods is getting worse and worse. The inventory along the road is very strict. I heard that last time, there was a merchant smuggling team, and when they were crossing the checkpoint, they went wrong and were killed by the Shadow Clan's border guards."
The one who spoke was the employer of this team, the old man who was used to smuggling at the border, his expression looked quite kind, and he always smiled before saying a word, but in fact, there was a secret shrewdness in his eyes, and there was a sense of being old and sophisticated.
The old man's name is Mu Cheng, he wears a dark brown robe, and he also has a second-order cultivation.
The leader he called Leo was a middle-aged strong man with long brown hair and dark blue armor, shaped like a mad lion. The old man Mu Cheng's words fell, and Leo smiled:
"Elder Mu can rest assured, the reason why the caravan you said was killed as a whole was because they were unruly, and there were people hiding in the team, ready to be smuggled out. You know, for both sides, it is tacit to the existence of us border traders, but it is not allowed to smuggle the door, the shadow side is especially strict in this inspection, it is strictly forbidden to smuggle people in the area under their control, if a certain team dares to help people smuggle from the shadow territory to our five directions, once discovered, it will immediately be the tragedy of the entire team being wiped out. ”
Mu Cheng said with some worry: "I may be a little old, I don't know why I have become sentimental recently, I always feel that this trip is frightening and ominous." After this time, I should also officially consider retiring. ”
Leo continued to laugh and said: "Don't, if you retreat, Mu Lao, wouldn't we have one less patron for nothing, our nightcrawler team is not big in the first place, and if Mu Lao takes care of the business, I'm afraid it won't be far from not being able to eat." ”
Mu Cheng smiled dumbly, and after thinking about it, he asked cautiously: "This time the goods are very important to me, if I can successfully get rid of them, there will be a lot of profits, so I should be extra careful, I see that there are a lot of new faces in your team, no problem, right?"
Leo waved his hand and said, "Elder Mu, don't worry, our team expanded a while ago, and we recruited a few newcomers to come in. But they are all innocent, absolutely no problem. ”
After speaking, he pointed to a young man not far behind him and said, "Elder Mu, look, that young man's name is Fang Ji, who is the person we newly recruited into the team this time, a third-order summoner, a fierce beast that can communicate with other worlds. ”
Mu Cheng then looked at it, the young man named Fang Ji was wearing a black ordinary law robe, sitting on the back of an earth dragon beast that everyone in the team had. Xu sensed the old man's gaze, turned his head, and smiled faintly.
Mu Cheng is old and sophisticated, and he is not lacking in etiquette because the other party is an ordinary guard, and he also nods in return.
I heard Leo say again: "Besides, let's come out this time." The two deputy heads of the regiment are also here in person, can you still rest assured?"
Hearing this, Mu Cheng subconsciously looked at the front of the team.
Two young men and women, each riding on a powerful beast, walked at the front of the group.
The man was born with bright eyes, a powerful nose, and long blond-brown hair fluttering in the wind. Wearing a gorgeous tight-fitting light armor, he is handsome and extraordinary. It is the earth dragon beast under his seat, and it also overpowers the dragon beast ridden by others, tall and fierce, different from the green-brown skin of ordinary dragon beasts, his dragon beast is dark silver all around, like a cold iron cast, a divine horse.
And the fierce dragon beast also had two bulges on its back, which anyone who knew anything about foreign beasts knew it. This Earth Dragon was already in the stage of its imminent evolution, and once the two protrusions on its back were broken, the Earth Dragon could evolve into a Fourth-Order Wyvern.
The woman beside the man was even more stunningly beautiful, with a mixed Eastern and Western face, and her long black and brown hair was as beautiful as a waterfall, fluttering in the wind, and against the background, the woman's complexion was even more sparkling. Bright and moving.
The woman's slender waist is as slender as a willow, which highlights her round buttocks and the fullness of her chest. Ups and downs, trembling and towering. It is indeed a beauty that is unique in ten thousand, and has a seductive style.
She wore a cold silver tight-fitting armor, which was carved with branch-like concave and convex textures, but it had an extra kind of heroic spirit.
The strange beast under the woman is also different, and at first glance it looks like a white Pegasus. It has huge wings, but it has the head of a bird, and its four hooves are like hammers, which are doubled to increase its aggressiveness, and its eyes are cold. The place of the divine horse is not inferior to the earth dragon of the man beside him.
These two handsome figures, a man and a woman, are the deputy commanders of this escort team.
Even within the entire Five Directions Domain, the two of them were very outstanding figures. The woman's name is Jiu Mulian, her qi fluctuates, and she has reached the peak of the third order, and she is at the level where she can break through to the fourth order at any time.
The man's name is Luck, and his cultivation is even more amazing, and he has already entered the fourth order at a young age.
It is said that there are many large teams that recruit Luck to go and promise a lot of profits, but he insists on staying in the Nightcrawler team, but the reason is a bit bloody, almost everyone knows, Luck is because he loves Jiu Mulian, the beloved daughter of the leader, so he deigned to stay in the team, and wanted to become the leader's son-in-law.
Everyone in the team is spreading that Luck will soon hit the fourth-order middle grade, and he can have such strength at such an age, even if he is placed in the central region, he will be regarded as a rare young powerhouse, not to mention that in this border land, he is really outstanding.
With so many highlights gathered in one person, it is no wonder that this Le Ke is arrogant, and when he looks forward to it, except for Jiu Mulian beside him, he does not say anything to anyone, and his face is as heavy as ice.
"How? Elder Mu, our two deputy commanders are well-known masters in the entire border, and with them personally escorting this trip, you and the safety of this batch of goods will not have any problems. ”
Leo said proudly.
Mu Cheng nodded again and again, and suddenly heard a thunder in the sky, he glanced at the sky: "It looks like it's going to rain, this place is barren, and there are fierce beasts from time to time, since it's raining, why don't we find a high ground to stay and continue to move forward after the rain?"
Leo also looked at the sky, turned his head and greeted the young man he had introduced earlier, "Fang Ji, you go and ask Deputy Head Jiu Mulian, it's going to rain, should we rest on the spot?"
The young man named Fang Ji was naturally hiding in this team, preparing to pass through the border and go deep into the area ruled by the shadows.
After he left the Central Domain, he urged the power in his body, changed his appearance slightly, and lost a little weight on his body and face, and suppressed the power in his body, constricted the shining essence in his eyes, and pretended to be a third-order mid-grade cultivator.
Going all the way like this, he finally came to the Southern Regions, and when this team called Nightcrawler was recruiting, Fang Di's heart moved slightly, so he joined it.
He had already made relevant preparations for this trip before leaving, and the new identity plate showed that he was a son of a small family in the Northern Regions, except for the name given by Fang Di himself, everything else was not made up, but true. The person who was replaced by Fang Di was indeed a person, who was cultivating in a secret territory under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Alliance, and would never be born in a short period of time.
Fang Di's identity was revealed to the public, and he was a third-order summoner.
At this time, according to Leo's instructions, he urged the earth dragon beast riding under him, caught up with Jiu Mulian in front of the team, and asked if he would rest in place and wait for the heavy rain to pass before hurrying.
Fang Di said a little bored when he spoke: "It's good luck, just join a team casually, and meet such a beautiful deputy head of the regiment, it looks really eye-catching." ”
Fang Di thought in his heart, and couldn't help but glance at Jiu Mulian a few more times.
Jiu Mulian obviously noticed Fang Di's gaze, frowned slightly, and felt dislike in her heart, feeling that this newly recruited Fang Ji's eyes were unruly, I am afraid that his temperament is not much better, and he is likely to be a womanizer.
Next to Jiu Mulian, Luck, who was parallel to her, glanced at Fang Di coldly, full of warning and disdain.
"Just take a break here, and then go after the rain stops. ”
The voice of Jiu Mulian is like a pearl and jade, clear and beautiful, and unforgettable.
A few minutes later, the group camped on a nearby plateau, and the sky grew dark and the stars rose into the sky.
The night came with heavy rain.
Fang Di was alone in a tent in a corner, looking like he was pretending to sleep, but in fact, he was urging the power in his body to operate, treating the injuries that had not fully recovered after being attacked and killed last time.
At the same time, a wisp of black qi as thin as a gossamer quietly overflowed from the end of Fang Di's nose with his breath, disappearing into the rain curtain and darkness, like a spiritual snake wandering into heaven and earth.
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