Gao Qiang and the others shook their heads, and Uncle Ming continued: "It's not surprising that you don't know, the 'Red Dust Pavilion' is not within our Eastern Empire, but within the suzerain's country, because the people of the 'Red Dust Pavilion' rarely appear outside, they all stay in the sect and concentrate on cultivating. However, the 'Red Dust Pavilion' is the first sect in the world, but it is recognized by all the major sects in Central Continent, because each generation of the 'Red Dust Pavilion' is the number one master in the world in their time, and no one from other sects has ever won this honor. Although the number of people in the 'Red Dust Pavilion' is not large compared to other major sects, the proportion of masters in it is the highest, and according to legend, the martial arts of Lan Feng, the pavilion master of the contemporary 'Red Dust Pavilion', have gone to the 'peerless realm'. ”

Everyone was stunned, because they had never heard of this realm in martial arts, they only knew that martial arts were divided into acquired realm and innate realm, including Yu Ruoxi.

"You may not have heard of the 'peerless realm', right? It is a realm that you can't imagine, in the world, there may be only Lan Feng who has reached this legendary supreme realm, the world only knows that martial arts are divided into the acquired realm and the innate realm, but they don't know that there is a higher 'transcendent realm' behind the innate realm, as well as the legendary 'peerless realm'. The transcendent realm is divided into five levels: transcendent level 1, transcendent level 2, transcendent level 3, transcendent pinnacle and transcendent great perfection, as for the level of the 'peerless realm', no one knows, it is no longer a realm that mortals can reach. Maybe only Lan Feng, the pavilion master of the 'Red Dust Pavilion', knows the classification of this realm. Seeing everyone's stunned expressions, Uncle Ming knew that they had never heard of this realm, so he explained it to them.

"Okay, you just know those things, now back to the point, just now we talked about the classification of ancient beasts and primeval beasts. The level of the ancient beast is represented by the 'silver realm', which is divided into five levels, corresponding to the five levels of the human transcendent realm, the first level of the silver realm is equivalent to the transcendent first-level realm of the human being, and so on, while the level of the primeval beast is said to be represented by the 'golden realm'. It is equivalent to the 'peerless realm' of human beings, but the specific level is the same as the 'peerless realm', and no one knows. Uncle Ming continued the original topic.

"How did those strange beasts come about, and why do they have such great power?" Chen Fan asked the doubt in his heart.

"These strange beasts are said to be a breed handed down from the flood period, and they have also inherited some bloodlines of those terrifying monsters during the flood period, so they will have such a powerful power, and according to the amount of bloodline that can be inherited, the power that can be used is also different, so it is divided into three categories. It is said that during the flood period. There are Jinjing-level monsters everywhere, and there are many higher-level monsters, but then I don't know why, those monsters slowly disappeared, and humans slowly rose, and now, it has become a situation where humans and alien beasts are both divided from each other. Uncle Ming continued to answer questions for Chen Fan.

"Is it possible for a foreign beast to serve a beast?" Chen Fan continued to ask.

"Yes, but how. No one knows, only in general. Each alien beast will have a large group of beasts as subordinates, just like our human officers, the more advanced the beasts, the more beasts it serves, and even some high-level beasts will have low-level beasts as its subordinates. It's more like us humans. The strong are respected, and these strange beasts seem to have wisdom, knowing the advantages of each beast, knowing that they should cooperate with each other, and will also take advantage of the loopholes of humans to attack. Very smart!" Uncle Ming nodded in admiration.

"Do you know the situation of the alien beasts here?" Chen Fan thought for a moment. One more question was raised.

"You say 'Nongxia Forest'?" Uncle Ming looked up into the distance, and after a moment's pause, he continued to answer: "I've been to the 'Nongxia Forest' many times, but I don't dare to say that I know much about this place, because I haven't been in the innermost area. The farthest I've been has been five years ago, and that time I lost my best friend, when he was killed by a strange beast in order to cover my escape, and the strange beast I saw that time was also the most powerful ancient beast I had ever seen in the 'Thick Gorge Forest' - the fourth-level ancient beast poisonous flame snake. After finishing speaking, Uncle Ming was a little sad, probably thinking of the friend who lost his life in order to cover his escape.

After a pause, Uncle Ming continued: "The place we are in now is still on the periphery, not very dangerous, with the strength that your companion has now, it is enough to protect yourself." Then you go in the middle part, which is much more dangerous than here, poisonous weeds, poisonous snakes, poisonous insects, poisonous gases, trees and flowers and vines that eat people, large groups of fierce beasts, a large number of exotic beasts, and those unknown dangers, crises are everywhere, and they will kill at any time, if you want to go inside, please be careful. After speaking, Uncle Ming also looked at Shui Yiyi and them enviously, they had reached the innate realm at such a young age, and their future achievements were limitless. Although he looks only in his forties on the surface, he is actually in his sixties, and he is able to maintain his current appearance, thanks to the fact that he entered the innate realm in his forties, and the innate true qi in his body is endless, plus he has a friend who is a pharmacist and taught him a way to maintain health, which has this effect.

"Do you know where there are the most herbs?" After hearing Uncle Ming's explanation, Chen Fan frowned, lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head and asked a question.

"Do you want to pick herbs?" Uncle Ming was a little stunned, "Are you a pharmacist?"

Chen Fan said lightly: "I'm not a pharmacist, she is." After speaking, he pointed to Chen Hong.

Uncle Ming looked at Chen Hong, who smiled and nodded.

"That's great," Uncle Ming's tone was a little excited, "Our destination is a place rich in medicinal herbs, we want to go there to pick an herb to save people, if you want to pick herbs, why don't you go with us." ”

The more Uncle Ming talked, the happier he became, he was worried about this trip, originally there was only half of the chance of success in this mission, but now it has lost a quarter of its manpower, and a quarter of the people are unable to fight because of serious injuries, and the others have also suffered some minor injuries more or less, and the combat effectiveness has been seriously insufficient, and the chance of success of this mission has been left by ten percent.

If Chen Fan and others can join, the chance of success can be increased to eighty percent, except for being very unlucky. Except for encountering fourth-level ancient beasts, it can basically be said that success is in sight. You must know that in Chen Fan's group, there are at least six innate realm masters, and all of them are no less than Uncle Ming's innate second-level masters. This power is even if it encounters a third-level ancient beast. If there is only one, it can be defeated or even killed, and the third-level Ancient Beasts are not common in the middle part of the Dense Gorge Forest, and they are generally first-level and second-level Ancient Beasts.

Chen Fan thought for a while, nodded and agreed: "Okay, let's go together." ”

His purpose in entering the Nongxia Forest was ostensibly to hunt down and kill the main members of the Seventh Flame Sun Clan, but in fact, his real purpose was those rare and precious medicinal herbs in the Nongxia Forest.

Now the martial arts of Chen Hong, Gao Qiang, and Ma Shan are too low, and they want to rely on their own cultivation to quickly improve their skills in a short period of time. It was basically impossible, and Chen Fan accidentally saw that there were pills that could quickly improve his strength recorded in the "Secret Book of Nature", but the herbs for refining the pills were difficult to find outside, and the Nongxia Forest was rich in medicinal herbs, so he wanted to come in and find them, if he was lucky enough to find those herbs, he could refine the pills that could improve his strength. At that time, the skills of Chen Hong and the other three will increase rapidly. You can gain enough power to protect yourself.

However, he was not familiar with the Nongxia Forest, and he had no idea where the herbs he needed were found. Now that Uncle Ming, an old horse who knows the way, offers to lead the way, of course he will not refuse.

"Okay, okay, when we clean up the battlefield, let's go on the road together. Seeing Chen Fan agree, Uncle Ming was overjoyed. At the same time, a big stone in his heart was also put down, he was really afraid that Chen Fan would not agree just now, if this was really the case, it would be difficult to complete the task this time, and the life of the head of the family would probably not be saved.

"Uncle. May I ask why you just said that I am a 'shield swordsman'?" Gao Qiang suddenly spoke from the side at this time, and looked at Uncle Ming with puzzled eyes.

Thinking that the success of the mission was in sight, Uncle Ming was in a good mood at this time, and when he saw Gao Qiang's questioning face, he smiled and said: "If you want to say 'Shield Swordsman', you must first talk about the team, the origin of the team, you should know, right?"

Gao Qiang and the others nodded, and even Chen Hong nodded to indicate that he knew, only Chen Fan did not nod, and the puzzled look in his eyes expressed the doubts in his heart.

Uncle Ming had been paying attention to Chen Fan's expression, and when he saw his eyes, he couldn't help but ask strangely, "Little brother, don't you know the team?"

"I've heard about it, but I don't know the specifics. Chen Fan said indifferently.

He really didn't know that he hadn't been exposed to these things before, and after he came out, he either fought with people or concentrated on cultivation, and he didn't have any chance to contact outside things at all, so he didn't know the meaning of this team at all.

"Oh, then I'll tell my little brother about the origin of this team. Although Uncle Ming felt very strange that Chen Fan didn't know about the clan, because basically all martial artists knew this, but looking at Chen Fan's expression didn't look like a fake, and there was no need to do so, so he continued to explain, "The clan, was founded five hundred years ago. ”

"At that time, there was only one country in Zhongzhou, that is, the Great Qin Empire, at that time, the Great Qin Empire was strong, the whole people admired martial arts, there were many sects in the country, and the masters were like clouds. At that time, in order to maintain the spirit of the people's martial arts and maintain a strong national strength, the ten strongest sects at that time were named the top ten factions in the world, and they were re-evaluated every five years. Because of this, the struggle between the sects has never subsided, in order to compete for the rank of the empty sect, the various sects and factions continue to kill each other, and it is getting more and more intense, and finally there is a big fight that shocks the world. ”

"This bloody struggle basically implicated all the major sects, and the killing was unprecedented. There were three super sects that were originally within the top ten sects that were removed, and the disciples in the sect were basically dead, and the remaining seven super sects were also seriously injured, and those sects that did not enter the top ten sects were also killed and injured. ”

And this war also directly led to the division of the Great Qin Empire, and finally about four hundred years ago, Zhongzhou was divided into the current five empires: the suzerain, the Eastern Qin Empire, the Northern Qin Empire, the Zhao State, and the Southern Barbarian State. There are several small subordinate states under each empire, and our Eastern Empire is a vassal state of the Eastern Qin Empire. ”

At this time, Chen Fan had a general understanding of this world, he didn't know the composition of this world very well before, but now he finally has a general understanding of his position. It turns out that there are very few worlds I know, and the outside world is still very big, and countless strange people and strange things are waiting for me to know. Thinking of this, a look of excitement flashed on his face, traveling the world, this is what he has always longed for!

Chen Hong has been paying attention to Chen Fan. Seeing the excited look and excited eyes that flashed on Chen Fan's face, he couldn't help but reach out and gently hold Chen Fan's palm, and smiled slightly at Chen Fan, who was looking at him, and the emotions in his eyes included comfort, support, and attachment.

Chen Fan also smiled slightly, everything was silent.

"At the end of that battle, all the sects were no longer able to fight, so they had to temporarily stop fighting and sit down to discuss how to solve the problems caused by this bloody battle. Uncle Ming continued.

"After a long period of negotiation and deliberation. In the end, under the advocacy of the three peerless powerhouses, everyone decided to jointly establish an organization by the three peerless powerhouses, the role of this organization is to allow the various sects and factions to challenge each other in it, and those who need to challenge other sects can apply to this organization first, and then this organization will notify the challenged sect, and everyone will make an appointment to compete in the ring. And according to their performance in the ring, each school is ranked. This effectively prevents the various sects from fighting each other, greatly reduces the number of dead and wounded, and satisfies the vanity of each sect. If you want to achieve a better ranking, then go to the ring to challenge, you can't blame others if you lose, you can only blame yourself for not being good at learning. ”

"It's a big hit. In the case of all the sects being seriously damaged, this is already the best solution. Therefore, this organization was established and continues to this day, and this organization is now the 'Hero Guild'. ”

"Ahh It turns out that this is how the 'Hero Guild' came about. Gao Qiang exclaimed from the side.

"That's right," Uncle Ming continued to explain, "There are two kinds of ring challenges in the 'Hero Guild', one is single, the other is team, the person who participates in the solo challenge is called the 'challenger', and the team participating in the team challenge is called the 'challenger team'. That's where the earliest teams came from. ”

"Later, the various sects were no longer satisfied with the competition between high-end combat power, but also wanted to compete with the reserve forces in the sect, that is, those younger generation disciples who had just learned and succeeded. But if these disciples were to fight those challengers, they would surely die. Therefore, we can only distinguish these younger generation disciples from those challengers, and we cannot let the challengers challenge those young disciples. ”

"So, the 'Hero Guild' came up with a solution, which was to reclassify these young disciples into another kind of personnel similar to 'challengers' according to the 'challenger' system, called 'experiencers', taking the meaning that they had just debuted and still needed to be experienced. In the same way, 'Experiencers' can also form teams, and these teams are called 'Experiencer Clans'. Our White Jade Clan is a team of Experiencers. ”

Everyone listened attentively, and they all looked at Uncle Ming quietly, and when he continued, they were afraid that they had missed half of the content.

"'Experiencers' can also challenge each other, and the same is true for the 'Experiencer Team', but because there are too many 'Experiencers', it would be a waste to stay in the sect like this, so the 'Hero Guild' later introduced a new system, that is, the 'Experiencer' and the 'Experiencer Team' are divided into nine levels, and all the 'Experiencers' can obtain points by completing the tasks released from time to time in the 'Hero Guild', so as to improve' The level of the Trainer itself and the clan is also another kind of competition, which not only reduces their own killing, but also allows them to obtain the resources or information they need at the same time, and also gives the Experiencer the opportunity to exercise, killing three birds with one stone. ”

"When the system was announced, it was very popular, and everyone was happy to accept the tasks posted in the guild. Later, it gradually became the way it is now, and there are even tasks such as escorting merchants and finding pets. ”

Hearing this, everyone suddenly realized, although everyone knew what the team did (except for Chen Fan), but they didn't know anything about its origin, and now they heard Uncle Ming's explanation, and they understood.

"You haven't said what a 'shield swordsman' is, so what is it?" Gao Qiang still remembered his question, and asked again, with an expectant look on his honest face.

"Don't worry, I'll tell you. Due to the quest released by the 'Hero Guild'. There are many missions that require adventures in some dangerous areas, and some are missions to escort caravans, and in these tasks, sometimes the 'experiencers' need to be fixed in place to defend, at this time, the body skills and light skills are useless. And what needs to be strengthened is defense, in view of this, some people give up flexibility, put on iron armor, pick up iron shields, and become a defense-oriented warrior, and according to the different weapons held by the warriors, people call them 'shield swordsmen', 'shield swordsmen', 'shield gunners', etc., so you understand?"

Gao Qiang nodded repeatedly. Although he is more honest, he is not stupid, and such a simple thing is understandable.

"In addition to these, there are some relatively rare professions among the 'practitioners', such as archers, pharmacists, etc., archers can generally only exert their power in a specific environment, so there are relatively few cultivators, which is a common profession in the army, and the pharmacist itself generally does not have much combat effectiveness. will only collect medicine and alchemy to heal the injuries of the team members. Generally, they don't go on a mission, and they only go out when they want to pick herbs. And some powerful pharmacists can also refine elixirs that can improve the combat effectiveness of team members in a short period of time, but the consequence is that there will be a period of weakness after the battle, and the length of this time depends on the level of the elixir and the level of the pharmacist. With that, Uncle Ming looked at Chen Hong again. There are some doubts about her identity as a pharmacist. Because generally speaking, the pharmacists in the clan are older people, and those who are younger are just apprentices, and they can only stay at home to watch the door, and they can't come out. Especially when you come to such a dangerous place as the Nongxia Forest, it will only drag down the entire team.

Seeing Uncle Ming's expression, Chen Fan understood what he was thinking, but he didn't explain.

Chen Hong's martial arts are not good, but he is very talented in collecting and refining medicines, and the largest medicine shop in Nongxia Town, "Baicaotang", is happy to buy the herbs refined by Chen Hong, and the purchase price is higher than that of others.

Chen Hong's weakness is curing diseases, because she has never tried it, so she doesn't dare to diagnose medicine, and she is very proficient in collecting and refining medicines, and even has good achievements in alchemy, if she has enough raw materials, she can even refine pills that can improve her skills.

Normally, the herbs she sold were all those that were not needed to refine those pills, and the ones she needed had already been preserved, and now they were all in Chen Fan's storage pool.

The people of the white jade team are still busy dealing with the battlefield, finding out some beasts whose fur is still relatively well preserved, starting to peel them, and then roughly processing them, putting them aside, and preparing to sell them after going out, as the team's funds, after all, the furs of those giant tigers and iron-backed apes are still relatively valuable, and they don't miss any opportunity to make money, which is the practice of almost all teams, after all, everyone wants to make money to maintain their lives, and the team members' accommodation, equipment, weapons, horses, etc., don't need money? Without money, nothing can be done, and there are at least more than 400 beasts killed and injured this time, and only a few people can do it, so the processing time is still relatively long.

Chen Fan and the others took the opportunity to ask Uncle Ming some other questions, with an old Jianghu like Uncle Ming, if they don't take the opportunity to ask for advice now, they will regret it in the future, and Uncle Ming also helped them answer them one by one in detail.

By the time all the people of the White Jade Clan had been dealt with, it would be almost an hour later.

At this time, it was almost time to Shen, Yu Ruoxi, Uncle Ming and Chen Fan discussed it, and felt that they should find a place to rest in front of them today, and then go on the road tomorrow morning, on the one hand, in order to avoid this battlefield, so as not to have to fight with other fierce beasts attracted by the bloody atmosphere here, and on the other hand, to give the injured team members a chance to rest.

They walked a few miles, found a dry place, and began to set up camp.

After Chen Fan and the others set up their tents, they saw that the people of the Baiyu clan had already found dry firewood, set up a fire, and barbecued the wild boar and tiger meat they had just cut down to prepare dinner.

At noon, everyone didn't eat well, and after a life-and-death struggle, they were already hungry, so now prepare dinner in advance, combine lunch and dinner, and eat together.

The fragrant smell of barbecue meat also aroused Chen Fan's appetite, and he led everyone to the fire where the barbecue was being made.

The members of the White Jade Clan's team saw Chen Fan and others coming over, and hurriedly stood up, respectfully inviting everyone to take their seats.

In this world where the strong are respected, the master of the innate realm is the object of respect of the world, that is the person who stands at the top of the human race, which is also the lifelong dream of most martial artists. Every Innate Realm master can arouse people's respect, and now, there are at least six Innate Realm masters gathered here, and it is such a young girl, the members of the White Jade Clan are even more worshipped.

The strong strength of killing fierce beasts lightly, the moving demeanor between the hands and hands, and the mystery of the black veil on the face deeply attracted the members of the White Jade Clan, especially those single men who were still relatively young, and regarded Shui Wu as their idols in their hearts and admired them deeply.

Fortunately, they also knew the gap between themselves and Shui Wu, plus it was the first time they met, and Shui Dancer had never spoken, so that others couldn't guess their thoughts, so they didn't come forward to talk to Shui Wu, otherwise Chen Fan would be in trouble.

Although there is no wind, it is still relatively shady under the shade of large trees, and in this quiet forest, barbecue meat around the fire has a unique flavor.

While eating barbecue and chatting about the battle that happened just now, everyone sighed with emotion, and also looked at the women from time to time, and the admiration in their eyes was revealed. Yu Ruoxi and Uncle Ming sat beside Chen Fan, chatting with Chen Fan, and from time to time vaguely inquired about the origin of Chen Fan and others, Chen Fan replied sentence by sentence, without mentioning the origin of himself and others.

He himself will not mention his own origin, Shui Yi said that others don't believe it according to their origins, and Chen Hong and they can't mention it because they still have a holiday with the Liesun faction, so they have to say nothing. His answer was that he and the others had just left the sect and were going to go outside to practice, and they came to the Nongxia Forest to look for medicinal herbs, and Shui Yiyi and them came to protect them, because of the precepts of the sect, they would not talk to anyone other than him, so please ask Yu Ruoxi for their forgiveness.

This explains their origin very well, and it can explain why Shui Yiyi and them don't speak, as for this reason, if Yu Ruoxi and they don't believe it, Chen Fan doesn't care, anyway, Chen Fan is just looking for an excuse, there is no need for Yu Ruoxi to believe it. Chen Fan didn't care much about Yu Ruoxi and them, he would agree to go with them this time, but he was not familiar with the path and wanted to find a guide, but he didn't treat them as friends because of this, Chen Fan wouldn't care about how they felt.

Seeing that they couldn't inquire about the origin of Chen Fan and others, Yu Ruoxi and Uncle Ming didn't care, everyone has their own hardships and bodies, inquiring about other people's bodies is originally a taboo, others are willing to say that of course it is the best, and if they don't want to say it, they must not be reluctant, otherwise it will be more than worth the loss if they are disgusted. Both of them are old rivers and lakes, and they are still very clear about these things, so not only did they not be cold to Chen Fan because of this, but they became more enthusiastic.

Both of them have the heart to befriend Chen Fan, and most of their words are admired, and they reveal the meaning of friendship. (To be continued......)