Chapter 9: The Deceased
The poor mercenary team was chased by the demon beasts for several days and hid in a large city, so as to avoid the desperate pursuit of the demon beasts. And the sixth-order demon beast that Zhiling was not fully turned on guarded outside the city with thousands of demon beasts, and finally attracted the pursuit and killing of the Terran powerhouse. And Nangong Tianling left the Demon Beast Car on the day he left Sword Casting City more than a month ago, and what was left in the car was only a small machine beast that could speak human words. When Nangong Tianling left the demon beast car, no one in the mercenary team noticed anything abnormal.
More than a month ago, a boy sat behind a scorpion bigger than an elephant and entered the Demon Beast Mountain Range, and this boy was none other than Nangong Tianling.
"What's your next plan?" asked Ma Tianshu.
Nangong Tianling looked into the distance, that was exactly where he was going, the northern part of the Donglong Empire, "Hide in the shadows, so that all the forces can't find it, work hard to cultivate, and at the same time find out the master behind that lizard." ”
After only a month, Nangong Tianling was still in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, but the difference was that Nangong Tianling had reached the second level of qi cultivation with the help of the Book of Heaven, and his control of spiritual power was more handy. As he walked, Nangong Tianling motioned for the scorpion to stop, jumped off the scorpion's back, walked to the side of the road, and picked a few small grasses, which often happened during the month. These grasses are not ordinary weeds, but hard-to-find herbs, most of which are fire and poison properties, which cannot be used to heal wounds, but can be used to make cannonballs. Nangong Tianling carried a small cannon made by himself, named Qingzhu Cannon, which was made of green bamboo as the main material, before the existence of scorpions, the Qingzhu Cannon was the most lethal weapon that Nangong Tianling provided to him when he fought against the enemy, and gave him a lot of help when hunting demon beasts in the Demon Beast Mountain Range before. The disadvantage of the green bamboo cannon is that it needs to consume a lot of ammunition, and the maximum power is also determined by the ammunition, and the green bamboo cannon only provides the firing speed of the shells.
Nangong Tianling put away the herbs, returned to the back of the scorpion, and continued to hurry. Suddenly, I saw a dense black patch in front of me spreading rapidly, "It won't be so unlucky, I actually encountered poisonous ants, and the scorpion fled quickly." Under Nangong Tianling's order, the scorpion fled with full horsepower.
At this time, a blue figure flashed over, "This friend, can you do me a favor and let your beast pet take me." Nangong Tianling stabilized his body behind the scorpion, and then looked at the blue figure, which was a woman with the appearance of a captivating city and a country, and she was fleeing in embarrassment.
Nangong Tianling was taken aback when he saw this woman, "Zeng Shishi, why are you?" and then reacted, remembering that he was running away now, and hurriedly shouted: "Come up." Zeng Shishi jumped and stepped on the back of the scorpion.
"Thank you. Zeng Shishi raised her head and looked at Nangong Tianling, "Why are you?" Zeng Shishi obviously felt that this was impossible, "You didn't stay in Nangong, why did you come to such a dangerous place?"
"People say that Shibei should be impressed by each other for three days, we haven't seen each other for so many years, why do you still look at me with the same eyes as before!" Nangong Tianling was looked down upon by Zeng Shishi and felt very unhappy.
Zeng Shishi crossed her shoulders and looked at the long sword that was wiping in her hand, "You and I, as alumni for many years, I think I should remind you that although your trap beast is very good, it is a pity that it can't be on the stage." In this kind of place, once no one inputs the aura or there are no spirit stones as an energy source, it is just a pile of scrap metal. And how many spirit stones are you carrying with you when you go out this time?"
Zeng Shishi and Nangong Tianling are the same age, both have studied at Xianhe College, and the two are also classmates. Xianhe College is a junior college, which is a six-year school and only accepts children to enroll, so many people have embarked on this path of admission when they were young, accompanied by their parents. However, the requirements of the senior academy are relatively strict, you need to be at least twenty years old, and you need to have a certain degree of achievement in cultivation to enroll, and after enrolling, you can live in the academy to learn all the time, but generally few people really learn in the academy.
Nangong Tianling understood that Zeng Shishi was motivated by good intentions, so he didn't care too much, "My trap beast has been improved, no, it should be called Yanjia." Yan armor doesn't need spirit stones, don't you see that I haven't added spirit stones to it for so long?"
Zeng Shishi only noticed at this time that the scorpion under her feet was not a beast pet, "You still have a little progress." When Zeng Shishi looked at the poisonous ants chasing behind, her face turned slightly pale, "Your Yanjia speed doesn't seem to be very good, if you continue like this, you will soon be caught up by that group of poisonous ants." ”
"Don't worry, look at me. Nangong Tianling took out a bag of powder and kept sprinkling the powder to the rear. I saw that as soon as the poisonous ants touched these powders, their speed dropped greatly, but this small powder could not stop tens of millions of poisonous ants. Seeing this scene, Zeng Shishi's face turned even paler, "This is the poisonous fire powder I took from my master, there is nothing peculiar about it on weekdays, but once I encounter poison, it will burn a raging fire, as long as the powder is not burned, it cannot be extinguished with water." Under Nangong Tianling's explanation, Zeng Shishi's face gradually improved. Because there were already flames in the poisonous ant colony, and the flames slowly turned into fires and spread, the poisonous ants were confused and could no longer catch up with the scorpions. It only took half an hour for the scorpion to shake off the poisonous ants and flee far away.
When she arrived at a safe place, Zeng Shishi did not sigh and said, "It's finally safe." And directly asked Nangong Tianling: "Why did you come to the Demon Beast Mountain Range alone?"
"Of course, it's an experience. Nangong Tianling replied without thinking.
"Who are you fooling, your father is a famous Nangong Ba, how can you use such a hard time to go out and train alone? You shouldn't have run away from home, right?" Zeng Shishi looked at Nangong Tianling, who was wearing a coarse cloth robe, and he didn't look like a child of a big family at all. She didn't know that this was the coarse cloth clothes that Nangong Tianling specially prepared in Sword Casting City in order to hide her identity as a child of the Nangong clan. However, Nangong Tianling's current behavior is no different from running away from home, they all want to leave their family and not let their family find him.
Nangong Tianling ignored Zeng Shishi's question, "What about you? Your father is the famous hall master of the North Palace, shouldn't you also have experience?"
"Don't mention my parents. When Nangong Tianling mentioned the hall master of the North Palace, Zeng Shishi showed a displeased expression, "As soon as I was busy with business, I was handed over to my master Zizhu to raise, and he only came to see me once every few years." ”
The North Hall is one of the two major super forces in the north of the East Dragon Empire, as the hall master of the North Temple, it is not easy to be the hall master of the North Temple, not only to guard against the plot of another super force, but also to guard against being weakened by the empire. Compared with the patriarch of the Nangong clan, it is really a lot harder, because since the Nangong clan has become the only super force in the southeast of the Donglong Empire, it only needs to guard against the riots of the demon beasts in the Demon Beast Mountain Range and the attack of the sea clan demon beasts on the continent, and most of the rest do not have to worry.
"Your father is also for your good, the situation in the north of the empire is different from the situation in the southeast, it will be dangerous for you to follow your parents, but it is safe to follow Zizhu Jushi. "Nangong Tianling knows a lot of things within the Nangong clan, and understands the situation in the north and west of the empire.
"I know, but I just miss them. Zeng Shishi's tearful appearance is like a helpless girl, which is very pitiful. "You are not allowed to tell anyone about it, otherwise you will look good. It didn't take long for Zeng Shishi to raise her head and look at Nangong Tianling and say, while gesturing her little fist.
Looking at this cute little fist, Nangong Tianling could break out in a cold sweat, he had no doubt that this little fist could blast him away with one punch. Three years ago, when Nangong Tianling had not yet graduated from Xianhe Academy, Zeng Shishi was a genius in the academy, she was only thirteen years old, she had only cultivated for three years at that time, and she had already reached the eighth level of qi training, and many people in the academy who were not eye-opening had been taught by her with her fists.
"What level of strength have you reached now?" Nangong Tianling asked casually.
Zeng Shishi fiddled with her long sword, as if admiring a treasure, and replied nonchalantly: "Condensation of the first order." ”
Nangong Tianling gasped, "I have actually reached the realm of condensation, and I deserve to be a genius." Then I remembered that not long ago, Zeng Shishi was embarrassed when she was chased by poisonous ants, "Since you have reached the first level of qi condensation, how can you still be so embarrassed?"
At this time, Zeng Shishi blushed and lowered her head, "The reason why it looks like this is all because of this queen bee honey." Zeng Shishi took out a jar of queen bee honey.
"That's not right! Queen bee honey is a treasure only found in the hive of giant bees, how can it be chased by poisonous ants?" Nangong Tianling eliminated all kinds of different speculations, and finally looked at Zeng Shishi with wide eyes, and spit out a sentence for a long time: "You are too unkind!"