At this moment, there is no room for much thought, the wooden card has already flown out a long way, and if it doesn't follow, it may be late, and the figure jumps in the air, like a dragon soaring up.

The wooden sign flew very steadily, but the speed was extremely fast, Xiao Chen chased it all the way, and found that this wooden card was not leading to the Hall of Merit, and finally stopped in an unknown courtyard.

Xiao Chen walked in with doubts, and found that in the courtyard, there were already more than ten people here, and the girl he had just seen on the big tree was also here.

She saw that Xiao Chen actually came here, with a slightly surprised expression on her face, Xiao Chen counted the number of people, including him, there were ten people in total.

Everyone has at least the realm of a middle-grade great martial artist, and the realm of that girl is the highest, with the realm of a top-grade peak martial artist. It is a hurdle for a great martial artist to reach Wuzun, and the sooner he enters the realm of Wuzun, the higher his achievements will be in the future.

For this reason, the Heavenly Sword Pavilion even had a clear rule that if he could not reach the realm of Martial Venerable before the age of twenty-five, he would be directly disqualified as an inner disciple.

Except for Xiao Chen, the rest of the people knew each other, and they were gathering together and chatting quietly, "I don't know if I will come back if I go this time, I almost died there last time." ”

"Yes, if I wasn't in a hurry to lack merit points, I wouldn't have risked my life, I feel that my cultivation has reached a bottleneck recently, and I have to buy some pills to assist in my cultivation. ”

Xiao Chen's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he looked at the necklines of these people, and found that all of them were only embroidered with two gold threads, which were the signs of ordinary disciples, and none of these people were core disciples of the inner gate.

But how did they receive the high-level task of the sect, could it be that I was deceived Xiao Chen remembered what happened on the second floor, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.

In fact, he was indeed deceived, and on the second floor of the Hall of Merit, the list of high-level tasks that the person gave him was all extremely dangerous, and few people took over the high-level tasks that had accumulated down.

Everyone can pick it up, the really normal high-level task, the person didn't show him it, and he didn't know what was wrong with it.

"Hey, what peak are you, what's your name, good face. My name is Mu Xinya, I'm from Corundum Peak, and we've just met. While Xiao Chen was pondering, the girl took the initiative to come over and greet Xiao Chen.

I don't know why, Liu Ruyue and Liu Suifeng didn't wear Qingyunfeng's signature clothes, not even Xiao Chen. is still wearing the clothes he brought, so outsiders can't tell at a glance which peak Xiao Chen is from.

Xiao Chen retracted his thoughts and carefully looked at the girl in front of him, this girl was only sixteen or seventeen years old, her appearance was superior, her face was always full of smiles, and she had two mandarin duck knives stuck in her waist.

It feels like a little girl next door, looking extremely lively, Xiao Chen smiled faintly: "Qingyun Peak, Ye Chen!"

Mu Xinya and the eight men all looked at Xiao Chen with some surprise, looked at them carefully, and after half a sound, Mu Xinya spoke: "Didn't you go to the second floor first yesterday? Why did they take this task, didn't they show you other high-level tasks?"

Seeing that Xiao Chen was a little puzzled, Mu Xinya explained the reason in detail, and Xiao Chen suddenly realized after listening to it, no wonder that the person would leave for a long time before taking out the task list.

Moreover, the danger factor of the task is very high, and the room for task selection is extremely low, so all of this is combined with Mu Xinya's explanation, which can only show that this group of people has really fooled themselves.

Seeing that Xiao Chen's face was a little wrong, Mu Xinya persuaded: "Don't think too much, just work hard to complete the task if you have already taken it, the punishment for failing the task is very serious." ”

The other people were not core disciples, and their feelings about Xiao Chen's current situation were completely understandable, and they all spoke out to persuade them, and Xiao Chen and these people also became familiar with each other.

Among these people, a disciple of Beichen Peak named Ma Cheng has the most experience in this mission, he has been there twice in total, and he has not reserved telling everyone what he knows.

"The location of the mission is hundreds of meters deep underground, our main task is to protect those ordinary people who are mining, there are often some strange things in the underground, you must not be careless, if there is something that cannot be dealt with, immediately retreat and call the elders to come, it is important to save your life." ”

Plop puff!

Ma Chengzheng said, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and three old men dressed in black appeared in front of everyone, and above the necklines of the three old men, there were two crossed golden long knives.

This is the sign of the Heavenly Sword Elder Taishang, who has a respected status in the Heavenly Sword Pavilion and has the power to directly issue meritorious tasks.

The momentum on the three of them is unfathomable, and the momentum is as majestic as the ocean, Xiao Chen conservatively estimates that the three of them at least have the cultivation of a martial king.

Especially the old man in the middle, he is even more impressive, his old face is full of wrinkles, clouds, and his eyes are flickering with cold light from time to time, which looks terrifying.

The old man looked at everyone, frowned slightly, and said with some displeasure: "The number of people is getting smaller and smaller every time, and there is actually a low-grade great martial artist running in, and the Hall of Merit has suppressed our task too much." ”

What the inferior martial artist said was Xiao Chen, even if Xiao Chen was dissatisfied in his heart, he didn't dare to have any temper at this moment, shut up, and was silent.

"Forget it, let's make do with it, there haven't been any major events recently, it's relatively calm, and ten people are enough. A person next to him spoke up.

The old man in the middle nodded, "I'll tell you in detail about this mission now, to make a long story short, I won't be verbose." ”

"The task is very simple, that is, to patrol underground, protection is also surveillance, those ordinary people who dig spirit stone mines, the task will be completed after a month. ”

It's really simple, saying it is equivalent to not saying it, Xiao Chen slandered in his heart.

After the old man finished speaking, he took out a jade bottle and aimed it at everyone: "Take it easy, don't use your vitality to resist!"

Sou!

In the jade bottle, a huge suction force came, Xiao Chen heard the old man's words, did not run the vitality to resist, and was sucked into the jade bottle with a brush.

This jade bottle is actually a secret treasure, the bottle has a small world of its own, in the void, the pitch black is not visible to the five fingers, and the other nine people have not seen it, and they don't know where they went.

In this pitch-black space, time seemed to stand still, Xiao Chen knew that this was similar to the space in his Qiankun Ring, and he was not panicked in his heart.

Sitting cross-legged, he directly entered the cultivation state, and slowly ran the purple thunder to spend this boring time.

Bang!

I don't know how long it has been, Xiao Chen felt that the soles of his feet were solid, and the person had come to the space outside, and when he opened his eyes, he found that he was in a damp stone room.

Standing up, Xiao Chen immediately felt that the aura around him was terrifying, making people a little unbelievable, as if he could touch the ethereal aura with his hand.

"Is this the spirit mine?" next to him, Mu Xinya looked around curiously with wide eyes.

The remaining eight people, as well as the old man who brought them, did not appear, only the two of them were here. There is a stone table in the stone room, and there are two simple stone beds, and all kinds of daily necessities are available.

Could it be that in the next month, both of them will live in this place, Xiao Chen feels a little headache when he thinks about it. On the other hand, Mu Xinya, with a smile on her face, looked around at the surrounding environment, and flipped the utensils in the stone room from time to time.

A stone door opened in the stone room, and a middle-aged man dressed in black walked in and said, "You two have been assigned to a group, and you will live here for a month, if you have anything to do in the future, let's go, I will take you out first to familiarize yourself with the environment." ”

Really want to live together, Xiao Chen was a little embarrassed when he thought about it, and said to the man: "Senior, is this really no problem?"

The middle-aged man said strangely: "What's the problem, it's cheap and good, they all live together in groups of two, if you want to change it, I can change it for you immediately." ”

"No need, no need!" Xiao Chen hurriedly waved his hand and said, if he lived with a man, he was afraid that it would be even more unbearable.

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "Don't call me a senior, I'm not that old, just call me Uncle Ye or Ye Wen, let's go quickly." ”

"By the way, wait a minute, I almost forgot, take this first. ”

The middle-aged man handed the two of them a map made of animal skins, Xiao Chen took it and looked at it, and found that it was a maze-like tunnel map, with dazzling lines and twisted lines.

The words of the eighth layer are written on the map, and the comparison of the map is found, just the mine road on this layer has an area of thousands of square meters, which is frightening.

Xiao Chen found the place he was on the map and found that there was a bright spot on it that was slightly glowing, and he didn't know what it was.

Ye Wen explained: "This point of light is the waist card on your waist, as long as the waist card is not lost, you don't have to worry about getting lost, if in addition to the rest time, the waist card does not move for a long time, it means that you are in danger, and someone will immediately support you." ”

This probably also has the meaning of surveillance, with this map, the whereabouts of the two of them will be completely mastered, Xiao Chen thought secretly in his heart.

Ye Wen then pointed out on the map the location of the headquarters in this layer of the mine, and told them that the black lines marked were dead ends.

After explaining for a long time, Xiao Chen and the others also had a general understanding of this mine in their minds, and they were not at a loss and knew nothing.

After telling the two of them about the mechanism of the stone gate, Ye Wen took the two out to familiarize themselves with the mine, and they didn't go far out of the stone room. In the dim mine, I saw a group of ordinary people with dark faces who had not taken a bath for an unknown amount of time.

On the wide road, these people dug hard into the ground with mining manuscripts, their faces numb and lifeless.

The task of excavating spirit stones is arduous and huge, and it seems a little unrealistic to use Heavenly Sword Pavilion's own disciples to excavate them. These people were all sent here after signing a life and death contract with the Heavenly Sword Pavilion.

They were told in advance about the hardships and dangers here, but because of the high pay, all of them had the idea of leaving after working for five years and making a fortune.