In the valley of the mysterious ruins, after experiencing a life-and-death battle in which more than 200 Zhuji and Jindan monks participated, blood flowed like rivers and corpses were scattered all over the field.

The smell of blood was in the air.

While Chen Ping retreated quickly, he picked up the corpse of a relatively complete third-order demon beast.

Throw it into a storage bag.

In this battle, the demon beast was sneak attacked, and under the surprise, the human monks took the lead, and the demon beast was a big rout in the early stage.

However, the Canglan Grassland has been banned for thousands of years, inaccessible, and the demon beasts have no natural enemies, plus the entire grassland is occupied by demon beasts where the spiritual power is abundant, which leads to a lot of high-level demon beasts on the Canglan grassland.

As the war continued, a steady stream of demon beasts in the wasteland joined the battle, and now the situation has long been reversed.

Today's monsters have the upper hand.

Therefore, in the process of retreating, everyone needs to guard against the attack of demon beasts.

Fortunately, Jiang Youwei was powerful enough, and under his organization, the large army retreated in an orderly manner.

There is Jindan in front to open the way, and there is Jindan to press the formation, and the foundation and the Jindan monk who is too seriously injured are in the middle.

Chen Ping's cultivation is low and his strength is weak, so he arranges to open the way in front of the relatively small danger.

"Chen Daoyou, come on, you and I will cooperate and set fire to the wasteland!" A thin Jindan monk shouted after killing a bat demon.

Chen Ping paused for a moment.

This.

Don't say anything else, let's just say that this green reed, how can you set it on fire?

The emaciated monk smiled:

"Hehe, look at Chen Daoyou's dragon fire skills are good, Chen Daoyou just set the fire on it, and leave the rest to you."

Chen Ping didn't say a word, and played a dragon fire technique.

A fiery dragon roared and rushed towards the wasteland, and the originally green reeds ignited in an instant.

I saw the emaciated monk roar, and his arms drew a Tai Chi posture. The moisture in the air quickly gathered in his palm.

As he slammed his palm out, the droplets of water containing special spiritual power shot out with a "poof", covering the green reeds.

Under normal circumstances, as long as the dragon fire technique is over, the reeds will instantly burn to ashes, and those reeds that have not had time to burn will not be able to continue to burn and will quickly extinguish.

But with the blessing of the emaciated monk's droplets, the reeds were not only not extinguished, but burned more vigorously.

This process lasted at least two or three breaths.

What's even more amazing is that after reaching the Jindan level, fire escape is a common spell, and it is impossible to be afraid of ordinary flames. The same goes for monsters.

In fact, the Foundation Cultivator had basically ignored ordinary flames.

However, the flames burning from these reeds seemed to retain the afterglow of dragon fire, and those demon beasts really didn't dare to rush in.

Not bad.

This is a drop of water.

It's gasoline.

I have to say that the world's excellent spells are really strange, and I can't learn them all.

This spell is quite useful.

Although you can't kill demon beasts, you can temporarily drive away demon beasts.

Two or three breaths of time was enough for this team with only Jin Dan and Zhuji to hurry.

"Ang~"

Another fire dragon flew out of Chen Ping's palm.

"Poof"

The emaciated monk's 'Tai Chi' followed.

"Daoyou, this spell is good."

"Hehe, Chen Daoyou's dragon fire technique is also good, and his power is extraordinary."

"Ang~", "poof".

“.”

When he reached the first teleportation point, Chen Ping saw an old man standing there from a distance, with two poles inserted beside him, and two bloody heads with round eyes were inserted into each pole.

There is also the corpse of a demon beast next to it.

"You Daoyou, put away the attack and killing array and the defensive array, and let me wait in." Jiang Youwei shouted.

Then he turned to everyone and commanded:

"You don't need to pay attention to the original group, everyone is divided into two groups again, the foundation building Daoist enters the teleportation array first, and the Jindan Daoist is postponed."

"Good!" The old man said calmly.

"The formation is intact, right?" Jiang Youwei looked at the two heads on the pole.

"Intact, or the leader has the foresight, he knows that these beasts are not dead, and they may come to destroy the teleportation formation, and set up an attack and killing array in advance."

“.”

Unlike when I came, there were more than 60 people when I came, and there were only about 30 people on the way back.

More than half of them died.

Among the thirty people, Chen Ping saw that there were still many unfamiliar faces, and it was the monks from the other three villages who decided to stay here.

After all, this village is the closest.

The return journey is short and the risk is minimal.

Nearly thirty people, divided into two teams to enter the teleportation array, first an ancient tower guardian holding the token, with a group of foundation building monks into the teleportation array, and then it was Chen Ping and Xiyue's turn.

Jiang Youwei and the two Jin Dan did not follow in the later period.

Presumably, it is necessary to postpone and disassemble the teleportation array.

Before entering the teleportation array, Chen Ping was still a little worried, for fear that the teleportation array would be destroyed, but fortunately, it was not damaged.

After coming out of the second waypoint, there were no ambushed monsters or monks.

And then it's just a matter of moving on to the third, the fourth...

It wasn't until more than ten teleportation points were teleported that everyone's hanging hearts were relaxed.

When he was recuperating at a rest point halfway, Chen Ping was able to take a serious look at the group of people.

Many people who knew each other were never seen again, and Minghe, who had been adjacent to Chen Ping for 4 years, was not seen, and I didn't know if he died or took this opportunity to run away to other villages.

The contact person for the third group, the master of the General Affairs Hall, also did not appear.

The atmosphere at the scene was a bit sad.

There were not many Terran monks in the Canglan Grassland, but as a result, more than half of them died in the Great War, and more than half of them were Zhuji and Jindan.

This village is like this, and the other three villages are definitely not much better.

The problem is that I haven't found a way out of the Canglan grassland yet.

Everyone was silent at the moment.

Silently heal or restore spiritual power.

"Jin Daoyou, is that broken arm in the ancient tower related to walking out of the Canglan grassland?" After half a ring, some monks couldn't help but ask.

Brother Kim rubbed his sore arm:

"I don't know yet."

"A hundred years ago, the leader of that great battle once spied on the ancient tower of the underground palace and may have hidden mysteries. Combined with the information left by the ancestors and the fragments of information collected over the years, pondering day and night, he analyzed the secret method of activating the ancient tower of the underground palace. ”

"Now it seems that the path is the right one."

"This time, at least knowing what is hidden in the ancient tower is a step closer. If you can find clues from those ancient tower runes this time, you may be able to find a way out of the Canglan Grassland. ”

Brother Kim's words were an encouragement to everyone's morale, but they didn't seem to have worked well.

It's been a hundred years, and only a small step has been taken.

So will it take another hundred years?

Will this mystery be solved in a hundred years? What if it's just another small step?

Wait another hundred years?

Not to mention that Shouyuan is only two or three hundred years old Zhuji monks, and five or six hundred years old Jindan monks can't withstand such consumption.

"Didn't Senior Jin solve the secret method? Tell me if it's easy to understand those runes? One of the monks asked.

Is it easy to understand?

Brother Jin smiled bitterly inwardly.

If it is really so easy to solve, the previous secret method does not need to spend so much effort of the guardians of the ancient tower, it has taken more than a hundred years to do this, to lay out step by step.

"There will be a way. It's a big deal to wait for a few more decades, to maintain faith, the Taoist couples and children I am waiting for may still be waiting for me to come home. Brother Jin pretended to be calm, but sighed heavily in his heart.

After speaking, he found that many monks looked at him strangely and felt inexplicable.

What's going on with these people?

Why is there a hint of pity in his eyes?

“……”

Everyone was in a low mood, and they chatted about the future with a couple of words.

Part of it is because of the sadness caused by the large number of deaths, and more is the despair of not being able to get out of the grassland.

Chen Ping didn't say anything.

Although he had compassion for those who died.

But it's also very open-minded.

Traveling through these decades, I am used to seeing all kinds of life and death, and compared to the misfortune in the Qingyun Domain back then, the number of dead monks here is far from comparable.

On the way to cultivating immortals, what has never been lacking is the word 'death'.

As Brother Kim said, the battle was not without its gains.

At least I saw the severed arm and the words.

For Chen Ping, it can be regarded as a potential direction of effort, so that he will not be confused, clueless, and completely guessed as before.

With a direction, a lot of things will be a lot easier. As for whether this direction is correct or not, let's talk about it after verifying.

……

After a little healing and resting, and counting the number of people, everyone started the return journey again.

The journey was smooth and soon returned to the outskirts of the village.

When the first monk walked out of the waypoint, he quickly attracted the villagers who had stayed behind.

In fact, knowing that this battle could not be protracted, many villagers have even been waiting outside the teleportation point, waiting for the latest news.

"Senior, how's the battle going?" Some villagers couldn't wait to ask.

But when one by one, Tsukiji and Jindan monks walked out of the teleportation point, the villagers who were expecting it were silent.

Many questions don't need to be asked anymore.

It's all written on the face.

Chen Ping saw the Taoist priest of the master of the general affairs hall in the crowd, holding a child, holding two children and looking at the front of the crowd.

When he saw Chen Ping, Brother Jin and others, who were also in the third group, come out, they opened their mouths, wanting to ask something, but they were afraid of getting the news they didn't want to hear.

Nervously staring at the exit of the formation, more and more people could be seen, but he never saw the familiar figure, and his face became more and more pale.

When the waypoint is closed.

She staggered and fainted.

"Mother, mother, what's wrong with you."

The acquaintances around her saw her faint, and hurriedly went over to help her up, and hugged the crying child.

Chen Ping sighed lightly and walked back.

Such scenes are not isolated, they occur in multiple places at the same time, and the atmosphere of sadness spreads throughout the village.

Hundreds of years of anticipation, not responded.

……

Returning to the cave mansion and saying hello to Xiyue, Chen Ping did not go directly back to his quiet room, but went to a vacant room and released the corpses of the two third-order demon beasts in the storage bag.

One is a snake demon, which was killed in the dungeon.

The other one is a bat demon, which I picked up on the way back.

The corpses of the two demon beasts are considered complete and intact.

He took out the beast killing knife and skillfully dissected the demon beast using dissection.

The skin and flesh are separated, the demon crystals are left, and the internal organs are removed.

The skin is used by yourself, and the skin of the third-order demon beast is the most important material for drawing the third-order rune, so you can leave it first.

Meat can be sold.

Today's demon beast meat is no longer of much value to his body refining, and his body refining technique has been completed.

These third-order demon beast meat has always been relatively popular in the village, and it is a good source of replenishing spiritual energy. Chen Ping himself had a large amount of spirit stone ore and did not need demon beast meat, but other monks did not have so many spirit stone ore ore.

After the internal organs are disposed of with the dragon fire technique, the flesh is frozen using the ice sword technique.

Now it is estimated that many people have brought back demon beast meat, and the supply exceeds demand, and they will sell it after a while.

After processing the monster meat, he returned to his quiet room.

Take out the third-order early-stage demon beast in the spirit beast bag, which is only the size of two or three sparrows, the Snow Falcon.

Still dying.

At this moment, when I saw the light of day again, I saw Chen Ping, it fluttered its two snow-white wings, and took two steps back in horror, as if it was hit by Chen Ping's sword.

"Don't be afraid, don't beat you, treat you."

Chen Ping took its neck hair, lifted it up and put it on the table in front of him, gave it a rejuvenation technique, and then tied it up with a soul whip and put it back in the spirit beast bag.

This kind of monster beast is very rare.

This kind of demon beast can only appear in the Canglan Grassland, a continent that has been inaccessible for thousands of years, and it is rare to see it in a place like the Ethereal Continent.

If he hadn't read the relevant information in the book, Chen Ping wouldn't have known this kind of demon beast at all.

The most precious thing about the snow falcon is that its primordial attack ability is very strong, which is equivalent to a sharp high-level magic weapon.

No, magic weapon.

You can take it back to see if you have a chance to make an envoy, and if you can succeed, it will be a very good attack weapon.

But this will have to wait until after walking out of the Canglan Grassland, and there is not even the corresponding Royal Beast Book here.

After this trip, the biggest material gain is this snow falcon. ’

'I don't know what the value of those two stone tablets is, I have to check the information after returning to Lingxiao Sect. ’

The only regret is that these two things will not be effective until they come out of the Canglan grassland. ’

There is only one most important thing now, and that is to get out of the grassland. ’

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but think of a scene in the dungeon again.

Who is Zhao Changxing?

Why did that broken arm mistake me for Zhao Changxing?

In that severed arm, it seems that he came to this conclusion because of the sword intent in my body?

There are two kinds of sword intent in my body - one is the sword intent comprehended by practicing the Qingmang Sword, and the other is the sword intent comprehended from the Seven Star Longyuan Sword.

The Qingmang Sword is a secret technique created by the ancestor of the Ling Xiao Sect. And the Seven-Star Dragon Yuan Sword comes from the Helian family.

Either way, you need to go back to Xizhou to have a chance to inquire clearly.

Get.

It has returned to the original point - out of the Canglan grassland.

That's right. ’

'Those runes. ’

Chen Ping remembered the complicated runes on the ancient tower.

Thinking of this, he immediately took out the rune pen and had to draw those runes while they were hot.

Those runes are not simple, they are different from ordinary runes, and there are a lot of them, and it is really easy to forget them after a long time.

Three hours later, it was also night, and Chen Ping raised his head from the state of drawing talismans at the desk.

Looking at the large stack of rune papers on the table, he let out a long breath.

'More than a hundred.' ’

'It's finally finished. ’

I didn't understand what these runes meant, but I just wrote them down and pondered them slowly.

Next door.

Xiyue also exhaled in the quiet room and put down the pen and paper.

Completed the rune drawing in the memory.

She is not a talisman master and can't draw talismans, but she is a pretty good formation mage.

Although the formation mage does not need to mention the stroke characters, in fact, when arranging the formation, the drawing of the formation pattern and the drawing of the symbol are similar.

Therefore, she can be regarded as having a certain foundation.

She remembered that in the dungeon, when Jiang Youwei instructed the guardian of the ancient tower to memorize the runes, he mentioned that Jiang Youwei himself would memorize the runes of the first fifteen columns.

She looked at herself drawing runes.

…… Almost fifty photos, three times more than what Jiang Youwei remembered.

Thinking of this, she felt a sense of pride.

… Let you (Chen Ping) still despise my formation level?

The corners of his mouth bent involuntarily.

Picking up those talismans, he went to Chen Ping's quiet room very honestly, and knocked on the door of Chen Ping's quiet room by surprise.

"Master? What are you doing here? Chen Ping got up.

In the middle of the night.

"Ah, it's nothing, I'm tired of sitting, come and take a walk." Xi Yue pinched the stack of rune papers with one hand, put her hands behind her back, and walked in casually.

Look here and there, it's like walking around.

"By the way, when I was in the dungeon, some of those rune seats were recorded, you ......" Xiyue said nonchalantly.

Just as he was about to introduce the topic to the runes and let Chen Ping see what the difference is, he suddenly saw the stack of rune papers on Chen Ping's desktop.

It was a moment, because the rune at the top was the first word of the rune of the dungeon series.

"You recorded all the runes in the dungeon?" Xiyue asked.

"Yes, do you want to see it?" Chen Ping patted the rune paper, Xiyue has experience, maybe he has a unique insight into the understanding of these runes.

"All of them?" Xi Yue fixed her eyes on the rune paper...... That stack, at least hundreds.

"yes." Chen Ping didn't know what Xiyue was surprised about.

"You have recorded all those runes in the dungeon?" Xiyue was short of breath.

Chen Ping was even more speechless:

"Yes, as a talisman master, isn't it easy for me to memorize?"

Xiyue suddenly felt tightness in her chest.

Is it simple?

After all, Chen Ping had just married Dan, and he was at most a second-order rune master before, and his understanding of runes was not necessarily how deep he was.

And there are hundreds of runes in the dungeon, all of which are very complicated, and if you want to clearly memorize the lines of each word, many monks may be able to do it.

But keeping in mind the thickness of the lines, the size of the spacing, the direction and strength of the strokes, these are by no means simple.

The second-order rune master is somewhat undersighted.

Xiyue walked over and flipped through the runes with one free hand.

The more you roll, the more rapid your breath becomes.

She didn't know about the back, but she had just finished writing the first fifty.

It can be said that Chen Ping's memory points are more accurate than hers.

"What was Master going to say just now, what's wrong with these runes?" Chen Ping asked.

"Ah, nothing." Xiyue patted the rune paper and said lightly: "The master just said that you have drawn these runes well, and you are almost at the level of the master." ”

Chen Ping: ???

Master.

You didn't even see my runes when you spoke just now.

"What is the master taking?" Chen Ping saw that she kept one hand behind her back.

As soon as the words fell, Xiyue's wrist flicked, and the runes returned to her sleeves with a thud.

Disappeared without a trace.

As if she had never taken it.

"What else can I take?" Her two slender white hands patted casually:

"What? What do you have to do? Is it also in the way of you because the teacher's hands are behind you? Are you the master or the seat? ”

You?

Why did you suddenly get angry?

How many hundred years old people still can't go through menopause?

Chen Ping was speechless and complimented:

"How can it? That must be you, the Master. ”

Xiyue looked like she knew it, and glanced at Chen Ping...... Really, sooner or later, I will be by this apprentice.

"If these rune seats are taken for study, they will definitely be able to find clues out of the Canglan grassland. It's good that you can be my assistant. By the way, the atmosphere in the village is not right during this time, and there are many new faces, so I will go out as little as possible. Xiyue picked up Chen Ping's stack of manuscripts, her face was not red, and her heart did not skip a beat.

"Shizun will take it." This is exactly what Chen Ping thinks.

If these runes really hid any secrets, then he wanted to decipher them as soon as possible.

He didn't want to stay here for another hundred years.

As a prisoner, Xiyue is obviously the one with the most experience.

It's best for her to interpret it.

(End of chapter)