Chapter 17: Iron Gorge

Tiexia Ridge is the largest canyon ridge in the Mosang Empire, located more than 70 miles east of Rock City, more than 2,000 miles long and more than 500 miles wide.

The Iron Gap Ridge and the Chir Mountains are the two dangerous places in the Empire, among which there are many dangers, and the further you go, the safer it is, and it is the third most abundant medicinal land in the Empire.

The other two are the Sunset Mountains and Wanyuan Caves bordering the empire, and 80% of the medicinal materials in the empire come from these two forbidden areas, and Tiexia Ridge also dedicates more than 20% of the medicinal materials to the empire every year.

The Mosang Empire is one of the four major empires on the Qiuji Continent, located at the southernmost edge of the Qiuji Continent, bordering the Cangqian Empire to the east, the Qiheng Empire to the north, and the Xichang Kingdom to the west.

There are four forbidden places such as the Sunset Mountain Range in the Qiuji Continent, and the north of the Mosang Empire is also bordered by Wanyuan Cave, one of the four forbidden places, and the Sunset Mountain Range separates the Cangyu Empire, the Qiheng Empire, and the Mosang Empire.

The sun was still slowly rising in the east, and the entrance of Tiexia Ridge ushered in a group of guests, all eight of whom were wearing green robes, and the patterns and star silk marks on the robes indicated that this group of people were the herb collectors of Qingxiang Valley.

Six men and two women, each carrying a large basket frame behind him, with a thin rope wrapped around his body, a weapon on his waist, and a whole mountain forest field investigation battlefield suit, this team of people is Xingqi's murderous team, they are making all preparations, and the next day they will go out to collect medicine, the task is tight, and they have to hurry up.

"Come, stop. Please show your badge. More than 20 fighters lined up, and the leader was a middle-aged man with a knife face, who looked gloomy for a while.

Several fighters stepped forward to block the direction of the team's advance, in fact, this fighter is mainly to prevent some medicine collectors from going in to collect medicine without permission, such as the two-year task that some medicine collectors have completed, and then entering Tiexia Ridge to collect medicine is not his own, and he has to pay 20% to Qingxiang Valley, otherwise he will not be allowed to enter.

"We are Team 273, and we are going to go to Tiexia Ridge to collect medicine, this is our card. He Shu said loudly, and after speaking, he also received the body cards of the eight people and handed them to the fighters in front of him.

"Hmm......" Ichito looked at his body card, ran over to Scarface, and handed it to Scarface, who took it, looked up and glanced at the eight people, and nodded.

"Okay, make sure it's okay, let it go, good luck to you. The fighter walked back and said with a smile.

He nodded to Scarface and said, "Jack, get out of the queue and take them to Section A." ”

"Yes, no problem. "Jie Ke Doushi led the eight people towards the mouth of the gorge.

"Who was that team just now, I feel like I'm eyeing it. It's a lot of trouble, the team leader actually smiled at the people," Ichito asked.

"That's right, I've noticed how many times we've been eyeing people. Another fighter said.

"It's not going to be a murderous squad in the limelight, but I've heard that they're assigned to Zone A. I haven't seen them fight, and I don't know if they're as ruthless as they are rumored, but if they do, they're going to be able to fight with Scar Boss. It's boring to stay in this place. He sighed again around a fighter.

"Yes, it's better to hear than to see, just hearing about their battle makes your blood boil, that's the real warrior. But the purple-haired boy with a big sword on his back just now was not the same as the rumored purple madman who was the least afraid of death. A fighter suddenly noticed.

"Let's make a bet, everyone is bored here anyway, and it's entertaining. I bet they will be able to complete the task, and all of them will return unharmed. "Ichito Shi affirmed.

"All of them are unharmed, no way, what kind of place is this, but I believe it with a full load. The fighter spoke his mind.

Scarface and the squad leader looked at several of their team members and smiled......

"After going over this mountain, a few canyons on the right are Area A, and here I am. Jack Fighter said respectfully to He Shu and the others.

Jack complained to the captain of the team that he asked himself to take them to Area A alone, usually there are two people, of course, the two fighters are for the medicine team to guide the way, of course, if the medicine team needs it, you can also ask the two fighters to escort them when they collect medicine, but they have to pay a certain amount of money.

Jack thought to himself that he had to deal with those low-level soul beasts alone along the way, and he might not be able to protect the members of this team, and he really wondered if these people had offended the captain.

But on the way, I saw the performance of this team member speechless, I didn't want to take action by myself at all, this silent team, damn it, was full of fierce people, especially when I saw Hu Zhaosheng tear up a sixth-level wooden bear soul beast, which shocked Jack, it was really a ruthless person, and now Jack himself is a little stunned.

A day's journey, half a day's journey. Jie Wu's head was shaking, and he found that he was not here to protect but to be protected, so he simply pointed it out and didn't go by himself.

"The front is, okay, thank you," He Shu was a little absent-minded along the way, and stood up and said, "Do you want us to send someone to send you back."

Looking at this dutiful, but timid Jack, because every time a soul beast appears, this guy always trembles, so he can only let Hu Zhao, a gorilla, open the way.

This girl has been more respectful of her team all the way, He Shu really can't bear to let him die in the mouth of the beast, He Shu didn't think that he was just a one-star fighter.

Hear this. Jack shuddered again, depressed and speechless, worthy of being a fierce man, it is better to leave early. "No," he said, and Jack disappeared from the woods.

In a small deep valley in Tiexia Ridge, Xingqi, Xiao Ke, Luo Mei, Mo Qing, Ma Keluo, Hu Zhao, Xu Feng, and He Shu formed a circle.

"From now on, we will stay in the canyon for half a month, the first ten days, we will act together, collect the medicine for eight people to divide equally, and in the next five days, everyone will look for medicine separately, and you can also form a team of several people.

The most important thing during this time is that if you don't have a soul beast, you have to find a soul beast to form a contract, with a soul beast as a helper, your life is safer, and the probability of finding medicine can also be improved.

This soul beast, you have to think about it, there are soul beasts with sensitive noses, soul beasts that can fly, and soul beasts with strong combat effectiveness, you now have an afternoon to think, think about it, and we will set out to find it tomorrow. This will be of great help to us in the future. He Shu told the seven people about his plan.

Everyone agreed with this decision, and they camped here today, and everyone was a little excited to go deep into the mountains for the first time, and everyone settled down.

Xing Qi and Xu Feng were in charge of inspecting whether there were any strong soul beasts within a few miles nearby, Xiao Ke, Ma Keluo, and Hu Zhao were going to set up eight cabins before dark, Luo Mei and Mo Qing were responsible for cooking dinner, and there were also traps. And He Shu went to say that he was the captain, and also went outside to patrol to determine tomorrow's route.

"Roar!" This is the sixth one-star soul beast discovered by the team, the Banqi Cow, which is a soul beast of strength and speed, which meets the soul beast standards required by Xiao Ke, so everyone is exerting their strength on this Banqi Niu.

Everyone first beat Banqi Niu to half death, and then let Xiao Ke come to subdue it, and the soul beast couldn't make a contract if it wasn't subdued.

This amazing scene appeared, Xiao Ke rode on the Banqi cow, the old cow shook off Xiao Ke on his back, this red eye, really rolled down from a hillside, the old cow hit a big tree, screaming in pain, Xiao Ke was also injured all over his body, and finally took down this stubborn cow.

On this continent, humans can conclude contracts with soul beasts, but the level of soul beasts can only be higher than that of humans themselves. However, the soul beast must be subdued by humans.

The higher the level of the soul beast, the more difficult it is to subdue, because they all have advanced intelligence, but it is easy to subdue, as long as the soul beast thinks that you are beneficial to it, it is much stronger than it. A person can only make a contract with one soul beast.

Now there is only Hu Zhao left in the team without a soul beast, and Luo Mei's soul beast is a brown king snake, a sixth-level soul beast, fast and extremely poisonous, which was caught by everyone with a trap.

Mo Qing's soul beast is the most beautiful, the five-colored bird, the one-star soul beast, it was Xingqi who used his flying claws to cover it, and he wanted to be a soul beast, but he found that this bird was just good-looking, and he didn't have the strength to fight, so he gave it to Mo Qing.

This incident caused Ma Keluo and Xu Feng to have strong hostility towards Xingqi. Who let Xingqi catch such a beautiful bird and give it to Mo Qing, who they were looking for.

Xu Feng's soul beast is a one-star horse monkey, the horse monkey is flexible, good at reconnaissance from the forest, and has good combat effectiveness against the enemy. Xingqi's soul beast is a white cloud crane, a two-star soul beast, this is the envy of everyone, this is Xingqi risked his life, buckled the white cloud crane's neck and flew two miles before taming.

Everyone is not jealous, every effort is gained, not to mention that everyone's soul beasts are not bad.

It's just that He Shu talked to Xingqi after this, and he was limited to two years of the mission. made everyone despise again, he was not worried that the Yicheng medicinal materials that Xingqi was going to give him were gone.

Marroco's soul beast is a flame tiger with strong attack power and strong wind. Hu Zhao wanted a powerful bear-like soul beast, and until now, he had only encountered a sixth-level wooden bear before. It's a pity that as soon as they met, they were torn apart by their own excitement, and Hu Zhao regretted the wooden bear very much.