For twenty days, the team was unharmed, protected by a mountain quake, and the road they had passed through was a perennial one, so no beasts or eyeworms dared to provoke them.

Shan Zhen and his party finally arrived at the seventh temple of the Earth Covering Temple.

It is an underground labyrinth, with an underground entrance to the temple in the south, east, and west. The temple warriors came and went through the entrance, wearing the coat of arms on their chests, and they were only allowed to pass after showing the coat of arms to the guards.

"It's the second captain! Please come in!" The guard saw the mountain earthquake from a distance and immediately opened the iron gate at the entrance.

On both sides of the passage are torches made of fish oil, which can be burned for a day without being extinguished. Every five meters, there is an opening above the passage to allow air from above to circulate in.

The light in the passage was no worse than the ground at noon.

The passage is about twenty meters wide and can easily accommodate dozens of people moving side by side, and on both sides of the passage there are rooms for the warriors of the temple, and the passage is very dense, and every hundred meters away, you can see a wide intersection. In the center of the intersection is a delicate statue, which is connected to the thick rock floor, which seems to be one, holding a shield in its left hand and a sword in its right hand, with a serious face and a face that still bears the appearance of an ancestral dinosaur. Two bright red scales stood on each of his shoulders, like two eyes, and their eyes were blazing.

"Wow! I never thought that the Temple of the Covering Earth was built underground!" Huang Kai exclaimed, he looked around curiously, this one wanted to touch it, and the other one wanted to take a look.

Shagwa laughed and said, "I have investigated the Earth-Covering Temple, and this statue is the first founder of the Earth-Covering Temple, and it is the deity of the Earth-Covering Temple. He created a legendary technique called the Covering the Earth Decision. It is an exercise that surpasses the A-level exercises, has the power to conquer the heavens and the earth, and has even been recognized by the will of the world!"

Each temple has at least one exclusive world-class exercise, which can not only exercise the body and soul, but also allow cultivators to break through their own soul limitations and enter the soul evolution zone. And the earth-covering temple of the earth-covering has such an effect.

"It's a pity that part of it was lost in the later stage of the land overlay, and the big temple has since lost its own world-class exercises. Shagwa sighed.

A temple captain wearing a one-star coat of arms walked past the passage, he had a pair of eyes as cunning and deep as a cobra, but everywhere he passed, a layer of coldness was invisibly shrouded, and he looked up and saw the mountain quake.

His face suddenly became a little unkind, and when he was about to pass by Shan Zhen's side, he snorted coldly at Shan Zhen.

"Huh!" came a panicked voice from behind Shan Zhen.

A powerful momentum leaked out from his body, intentionally or unintentionally, and the temple dependents who followed him immediately fell unconscious and fell down in large pieces.

Shan Zhen raised his head, his eyes were cold, and said, "Fourth Captain, don't you know that you are not allowed to release momentum at will in the temple?"

"Oh oh! I'm sorry. The fourth captain laughed and immediately retracted his momentum, but his attitude was still bad. He set his gaze on the three would-be temple warriors who were following closely behind Shanzhen.

He could see at a glance that Huang Kai and Shagwa's foundation, these two people definitely had the strength and proper qualities of temple warriors, but he couldn't see the details of Lin Ye who was following the two of them.

"You have the guts to recruit three temple warriors without the permission of the temple!" he said.

"I don't need to report to you, you can mind your own business, Snakeeyes. Shan Zhen said coldly.

The facial muscles of the fourth captain, who was called Snake Eyes by Shan Zhen, twitched, and he touched the one-handed sword in his hand, as if he wanted to pull it out, but finally gave up on the idea.

A hint of annoyance flashed in the snake-eyed eyes, and he said, "Really, then you can report to the elders properly!" he thrust his one-handed sword into the scabbard, and strode towards the exit of the underground passage.

"Brother Shanzhen, does he have a bad relationship with you?" Huang Kai asked with a sigh of relief.

"Ignore him. Shan Zhen said, and he continued to walk, not knowing what was going on in his mind.

Only Lin Ye could see that these two captains must have had a deep relationship before, and they must be very familiar with each other.

The temple is divided into a residential area, a cultivation area, a combat area, a meditation area, an underground square, a market area, an entertainment area, a mission area, and an exchange area. Each area has its own function and occupies a different plot of land. For example, if you take the residential area as an example, it can be subdivided into the temple dependents area, the temple warrior area, the elder living area, the merchant area, and so on.

There was a total of one elder in each temple, and ten squads. Among them, there are 3,000 temple dependents, and the temple dependents can recruit handymen, counting these people, a temple has a total of nearly 20,000 people, and the temple warriors are not only ten squad members with a total of 200 people, but also a hundred wandering temple warriors who are independent of the squad, they are temple warriors who become after participating in the assessment held by the temple alone, so they are directly under the jurisdiction of the elders.

The temple is fully functional, covering an area of almost a thousand acres underground, and almost everyone has a regular job.

Shan Zhen was to lead them through the underground plaza to the Elder Quarters in the northernmost residential area, where there was a separate small plaza dedicated to assessing the new temple warriors.

Around the underground plaza is a long row of stalls, all of which were placed by the temple's dependents, including the occasional temple warrior.

Each squad is assigned a dedicated quarters, but Temple Warriors rarely live here, and they have to travel around to earn merit points in order to complete their missions, with little time to rest. In order to punish those Temple warriors who sit and wait for death, the temple has also set up a punishment mechanism, if a temple warrior does not complete a task within a month, then his merit points will be reversed by 5 points, which is equivalent to two and a half C-level mission rewards.

Correspondingly, although temple dependents can also receive up to C-level missions and earn merit points, they do not have this punishment mechanism, they have more time, and they are responsible for the normal operation of the temple. These nearly 3,000 temple dependents, plus more than 10,000 ordinary people, together make up the prosperity of the temple.

The bustle in the square is just a drop in the bucket, and the most lively is the entertainment area and the market area.

In the brightly lit square, Shan Zhen and his party seemed very insignificant, and there were a lot of shouts in the square.

"Come and see! Freshly baked meteorite contains unknown metals, suitable for crafting weapons, and you only need ten natural stones to carry it home!"

"Take a look, take a look! A lost fragment of the Advanced Breathing Method, and the gifted person realizes that a whole set of Breathing Methods is not a dream! It is only used in exchange for five natural stones!"

"A bomb canister crafted from black powder can easily blast open a cavern and mine precious ores. At the same time, it is also the most suitable for dealing with some armored beasts! Only two natural stones! Good quality and low price!"

All natural stones found in the wild are not usable from the start. Instead, it was handed over to the temple, but it was cut into a uniform form, and then distributed in a unified manner. At the behest of the Divine Wing Kingdom, all temples are subject to the same natural stone standard.

I don't know when people started to find that natural stones can assist them in their cultivation when they are cultivating, whether it is practicing breathing methods or more esoteric exercises, natural stones will make their cultivation more efficient with half the effort. Therefore, natural stone has become the best hard currency in the temple.

Of course, gold and silver still circulated within the tribe and in the city, after all, the output of natural stone was so small that it could only be used to supply the temple.

"Don't take their word for it," Shan Zhen said, "If you really buy these things with natural stones, I bet you'll regret it in less than a day." ”

If you really have the ability, why not create your own?

"Half of the goods on the stalls are profiteering, and while there are times when you can find something good, I swear, you don't have the eyesight. If you want to buy something, it's best to go to the market area to the east. ”

Everyone nodded understandingly, but there were still some people who didn't take Shan Zhen's words to heart, and they were all attracted by the dazzling array of goods. When they left the Dongshan tribe, they all brought with them the most precious natural stones in their families, and they carried the hope of their families that one day they would be able to get ahead in the temple.

In the very center of the square are three stone monuments, which are placed side by side, and the top of the monument is written with a leaderboard.

"Temple Dependents Leaderboard. ”

"Temple Warrior Leaderboard. ”

"Temple Captain Leaderboard. ”

The leaderboard will only show the names of a maximum of 100 people, and the leaderboard will indicate which squad they belong to.

Among them, the temple captains are all on the list because there are only ten.

The leaderboard on the stele is updated every other month, and today is the day the leaderboard is updated. The front of the stele was crowded with people, and even the crowds could only be seen. The last fifty places in the ranking are blocked by people's heads, and nothing can be seen.

Among these steles, the stele with the temple dependents and temple warrior rankings is the most popular. Some people laughed out loud when they saw their names on the leaderboard, while others hung their heads in disappointment and slipped out of the crowd.

Lin Ye saw that on the temple captain rankings, Shan Zhen's position was in the third place, and the first place was the captain, and the second place was the fourth captain Snake Eye who had opposed Shan Zhen before.

"How are these rankings divided?" Huang Kai asked.

"The leaderboard is compiled by the temple dependents who are in charge of this area, and they have their own set of calculation formulas, which are divided by investigating the merit points obtained by the people in the mission area that month, the level of the coat of arms, and the degree of completion of the task, and most importantly, the results of each monthly assessment. It's not absolutely correct, but it's generally accurate. ”

"What! Is there still a monthly assessment?" Huang Kai exclaimed.

"You can choose not to participate, the monthly assessment of the Temple Warriors is a jousting competition supervised by at least five captains. Winners receive 20 merit points, 2nd place earns 10 merit points, 3rd to 10th place earn 5 merit points, and 10th to 100th place earns 2 merit points. It's a great public encounter, so the rewards aren't as generous. ”

"Temple warriors who don't compete will drop down the leaderboard. Shan Zhen said.

Just as the earthquake was explained, a sad voice came out of the crowd.

"Alas, if I hadn't been careless, I would have met the 37th place in the first game and the 5th place in the losing group in the last monthly assessment. My luck is really back! The luck of the fifth place is also quite back, and I met the first place in the first game - the king of the earth quark!"

The way the game works is that everyone has a chance to lose, but the second defeat will result in a straight exit.

The voice looked a little lost when he saw that his position on the leaderboard had slipped directly from forty to eighty-ninth.

"Huang Gao!" Shanzhen shouted in a low voice.

The voice was visibly startled, "Huh, who called me?"

A slightly thin man walked out with his head touched, he looked left and right, obviously not hearing the sound of the mountain earthquake clearly.

"Huang Gao!" Shanzhen shouted again.

He turned his head and immediately saw Shanzhen, and immediately shouted happily: "Brother Shanzhen, you're back!"

The person who followed Shan Zhen touched his head and was a little confused.

"Huang Gao is a temple warrior of the second team, and he is on the same team as us. Shan Zhen smiled and nodded, and introduced.

"I'll hand over these temple dependents to you to take to the temple dependents, and I'll take these three new temple warriors to meet the elders. ”

The temple dependents do not need to see the elders, as long as they are sent to the temple dependents, there will naturally be someone to receive and arrange everything.

"Leave it to me!" Huang Gao patted his chest when he saw this, and left with twenty people first.

And Shanzhen also took Lin Ye, Huang Kai and Shagwa towards the depths of the residential area.

"Huang Gao is one of the elite Temple warriors in our team, and when you pass the assessment, I will tell him and let him lead you through the process of the mission. ”

The eyes of the three of them lit up: "This is really good!"

The elder happened to be in the house at the moment.

Shan Zhen first took Huang Kai and Xia Gwa into the house, leaving Lin Ye outside the door.

In less than two hours, Huang Kai and Shagwa passed the assessment. Just before, they were still nervous in their hearts, but as Tong Shanzhen said, the difficulty of the assessment is much simpler than Shanzhen's assessment.