In the early spring, the ironwood desert finally began to have vitality, especially after a few dripping spring rains, the ground actually had a little dampness, the unique vegetation sand holly began to glow with green shoots, the fork-like leaves gently shook in the breeze, and the silver fern bush trees that could only grow to half a meter high could only grow to a body of dust, revealing the original deep blue crown leaves, gerbils, red-tailed lizards, wild wolves, and five-peaked camels began to flash in the endless desert from time to time.

In the distance, the Great Rhino Mountain Range is green, and the melting snow water flows down, and some of it will also flow into the Great Ironwood Desert, turning into countless small silver streams that can only be submerged.

The Fire Dark Mine is still very dry, and the red color of the Fire Iron Spirit Mine is the main color here all year round, and the changes in the land fifty miles away have little impact on it.

The overseer, Zhang Song, did not assign them another mine slave to come over, only a lame reason: too many mine slaves died last year.

Zhang Song and the three brothers of the Zhao family actually have no deep hatred, the only reason is that Zhao San lost a game a few years ago, causing him to lose nearly half a year's income, and since then, Zhao San's injury has not healed and he has not played again.

The four of them sat in the deep dark cave, each holding a piece of black bumpy food in their hands and chewing it, and a basin of clear soup with a few vegetable leaves floating next to them.

Xiao Heihei, who has been fed by Wei Zhen, has always been disdainful of such a simple food, but fortunately, this is a fire dark mine, and there will always be some good quality fire spirit stones in the fire iron spirit mine, although it is only a corner, but it is enough for it to eat, and it always takes three or five days to show up.

Four years later, Xiao Heihei's body has become the size of a ball.

"I want to take a trip to the Rhino Mountains. Wei Zhen said. This was the third time he had said this, and this time his tone was resolute.

As soon as he spoke, Zhao San sighed lightly and said, "Wei Zhen, there is no need for this. It doesn't matter if my injury is good or bad, it's not worth the risk for me, you still have a great future. ”

Zhao Er wanted to speak, but his mouth opened and stopped, and his eyes looked at Zhao Da, who was drinking clear soup with his head down.

The reason why Wei Zhen wanted to enter the Rhino Mountain Range was very simple, in order to find an herb called "Heavenly Star Flower".

"Celestial Star Flower", as its name suggests, generally grows two blue leaves, each leaf has a triangle, like a star in the sky, which is the origin of its name.

The two-leaf "Celestial Star Flower" belongs to the third-order herbs, and each additional leaf grows up, the grade is raised by one grade. Although it has a flower name, it rarely blooms, because once it blooms, the "Tianxing Fruit" produced is already a six-grade herb, which is extremely rare.

There is only one effect of "Celestial Star Flower", which is to treat the wounds of the meridians. Wei Zhen was rash and his meridians were injured, and Mao Yiqing gave him the only third-order "Heavenly Star Flower" treasured by the Maoshan Sect, so the injury would heal, and there was no aftermath left.

"There you go. But we can only cover it for seven days at most. Zhao Da swallowed the last bite of the black pimple and agreed calmly.

He understood Wei Zhen's intentions, and by the end of the year, Wei Zhen would be fifteen years old and could sign up for the once-in-a-decade battle to change his life in Broken Tooth City.

The so-called battle of changing lives is that the lord of Broken Tooth chooses a single mountain in the rhinoceros mountain range as a battlefield, and all slaves over the age of fifteen and under twenty-five can sign up to participate, and obtain a certain number of identity plates on the opponent's body within the specified time, and the last person to come out alive is the successful life changer. These people will be sent to the upper realm to get the opportunity to learn advanced psionic skills.

According to the Mu family rules, every slave has two chances to participate in the battle of changing lives in his life, and the first battle is limited to the spirit stage like Broken Tooth City. The second battle was limited to the level of spirit master, but the age range was greatly relaxed. As for the slave who cultivates as a spiritual captain, he is already the backbone of the Mu family, and he will delegate tasks and take charge of one party, which can be regarded as a real rebirth.

Fan Tian's original intention of sending Wei Zhen to the Haiqi State Slave Army Training Camp was here, hoping that he could rely on his own efforts to grow step by step through the battle of changing his life, and only those who rose in this environment of harsh conditions and life-and-death competition could deal with the more cruel spiritual world in the future.

Zhao Da had already decided in his heart that Wei Zhen would stand out in this battle to change his life, and as for why he had such a strong confidence, even he couldn't tell himself. Maybe it's just that Wei Zhen swung his fist in front of him day after day, with only two simple movements - striking out and retracting, and there was never any impatience in his expression, and this tenacity made him have to admire from the bottom of his heart.

As his body ages, Wei Zhen has become the main force of this mining team, and he is gone, but the three brothers of the Zhao family still have to continue to live in the fire and dark mines, and treating Zhao San's injuries is the only bargaining chip.

So Zhao Da accepted Wei Zhen's kindness, Wei Zhen doesn't talk much on weekdays, but he is definitely a person who knows how to repay his kindness, which Zhao Da already knows in his heart.

After the eight sonorous gongs, the entire Fire Dark Mine fell silent from the hustle and bustle of the day, but the sky on this side was still crimson, very different from the desert night sky where stars rose in the depths of the distance.

But as time passed, the crimson was swallowed up and assimilated by the endless low desert night.

At this time, a thin figure emerged from a tent, his movements were very swift and hidden, and he ran as he went, his eyes carefully observing his surroundings to avoid making any noise, and at the same time carefully avoiding the arrow tower sentry in front of him.

This person is naturally Wei Zhen.

The mine where he and Brother Zhao and the others were located was already on the edge of the fire dark mine, and after avoiding four or five arrow tower sentry posts, he ran for nearly half an hour before he successfully escaped the scope of the mine.

In fact, the security of the Huoyin Mine is not strict, and they are not worried that the miners will escape, as long as the food and water are controlled, no one can escape from here. Outside the mining area, to the south is the vast ironwood desert, and to the north is the rhinoceros mountain range, which is a natural cage.

Wei Zhen ran with all his might, he only had food and water for a day, and in one day, he had to enter the Rhino Mountain Range, a hundred miles away, to get supplies there.

Time passed little by little, the early sun on the edge of the desert gradually rose, and when Wei Zhen stopped to rest for the first time, the sun had risen in mid-air, and Xiao Hei exhaled dissatisfiedly on his shoulder. When Wei Zhen stopped for the second time, the sunlight was no longer so strong, slanting on his body, and Xiao Hei Hei hid in his arms as if angry, no longer showing up.

The third time, when Wei Zhen instinctively wanted to lie down and rest, he finally plunged headlong into the vast forest sea in front of him, the sun had sunk, and there were only patches of residual light in the western half of the day.

The starry sky flashes at night, the beasts in the mountains and forests still howl one after another, the nightingale cries somewhere, but the nearby is only the neighing of mosquitoes.

Wei Zhen's luck was not bad, and not long after entering the forest, he found a pond. He first drank a lot of pain, and then filled the iron kettle on his body, and then jumped into the pond and touched a few fat fish.

He did not dare to stay in the same place for too long, and while it was still dark, he hurried for a mile before he stopped in a glade and raised a wood fire. When the fire was about to burn, he used the speed of earth to annihilate all the sparks, and a few fat fish were wrapped in a few thick leaves and put into the hot ashes.

This is the way to survive in the wild that Zhao Da told him, open flames will attract fierce beasts, so they must be extinguished as soon as possible.

After eating fatty fish, Wei Zhen climbed a big tree more than ten meters high, chose a comfortable position among the branches between the trees, and fell asleep with Xiao Heihei no longer making noise.

When I woke up, it was the middle of the night, and what I saw and heard in my eyes was exactly what I had just seen.

Wei Zhen had no intention of sleeping again, he had never seen the "Heavenly Star Flower" once, but he had heard the master mention that this herb was born deep in the mountains and would glow blue at night.

He crept down the tree, and by the moonlight that shone through the woods, he hurried into the depths of the forest.

Zhao Da's right eyelid had been jumping for three days, and he had a faint premonition that something bad would happen. Overseer Zhang Song had wandered three times at the mouth of their brother's mine that day. If he hadn't cared about himself and Zhao San, he would have broken in and checked.

"Why hasn't Wei Zhen come back yet, he's in a hurry!" Zhao Er smashed his fist on the mine wall, bringing up a cloud of dust and smoke. Zhang Song, that guy's eyes almost stuck in. ”

His words sudden, and his voice became hesitant.

"Big brother, Wei Zhen won't-"

"No, it won't. ”

Before he finished speaking, he was directly interrupted by Zhao San, who had been silent.

Two more days passed in torment.

Zhang Song put on his overseer uniform early in the morning, shook the tribulus whip in his hand, and walked straight in one direction. Behind him, there was also a group of slave troops.

Zhao Er saw this scene from afar, and suddenly knew that something was wrong in his heart.

Wei Zhen had been walking in the periphery of the Rhino Mountain Range for three days, except for the turning of the terrain, he chose a straight route, because he was not familiar with the geographical environment, so he did not dare to rush in, and left his own mark in the place where he had traveled.

But on the fourth day, when he tried to turn back, he found that the mark he had made was missing—he knew he had lost his way.

Wei Zhen wasn't too worried about his own safety, as a seventh-level spiritual warrior, he still had the power to protect himself on the periphery of the Rhino Mountain Range.

He was worried about the three brothers of the Zhao family in the Huoyin Mine, if he didn't get back in time and was found missing by the mine's supervisor, then the three of them would be in danger.

The mountains in this area are high and dense, and Wei Zhen has sensed the aura of the fierce beasts several times, this is a kind of mental induction, and he doesn't need to witness it with his own eyes, but he can judge that he is not the opponent of those fierce beasts.

He carefully bypassed the place where the beasts were entrenched, and continued in the direction he had envisioned.

It wasn't until the night of the seventh day that the scene before me finally became wider.

A river about a foot wide was laid out in the line of sight, and the shallow waves of light reflected in the moonlight were like floating silver streams, drifting to unknown places in the gusts of wind.

Behind the river is a series of small peaks, no more than a dozen meters high, which contrasts sharply with the towering dark night mountain shadows behind them.