Volume 1: The Past of Qingluo Chapter 27: The Gathering of Cultivators (3)

Just as the blood-patterned black-robed Qi Refining Realm cultivators in the depths of the jungle mountain range were about to set off according to the requirements of the two old men, Li Changyue and his party arrived at the edge of a huge canyon. The huge canyon section is like an inverted heavenly dome, and most of the canyon slopes are not very steep, but the vegetation at the bottom of the valley is completely covered, and it is nearly a thousand feet deep, and the light is quite dim, and it looks like a huge beast from a distance, stretching to the distant Yuedang Mountains.

"Deacon Luo, this huge canyon is different from the place we passed by before, there was a strange step here a year ago, and I have never entered it." Li Changyue looked around the huge canyon for a moment, then turned to Deacon Luo's somewhat hesitant face and said. To be honest, Li Changyue didn't plan to go in and take risks, he had been to this place once before, and with his keen mental power, he felt the danger from a distance and evacuated.

"This canyon is indeed a real forbidden place, and it is also marked on this map, not to mention you, I have only explored the edge once."

As he spoke, he took out the previous map and let everyone look at it again, and the yellow mark in this place meant that this was a third-order forbidden land.

"Judging from the previous encounters with second-level demon beasts, many of them may have escaped from here, and there are several traces of activity in the vicinity." Captain Luo on the side also reminded, "These demon beasts seem to be stimulated and seem to be afraid of something." ”

Deacon Du also said with a jealous face: "We have arrived at a place not far from the destination, is there no need to go down further, it must be very dangerous below, and we can't deal with it." ”

"Yes, yes, I also think so, since everyone thinks it's too dangerous here, it's better to go directly to the place requested by Elder Murong and wait for the rendezvous!"

At this time, Deacon Zhao Shen, who was wearing hair, his face twitched slightly, and when he saw everyone saying this, he immediately followed the suggestion to leave here temporarily.

Li Changyue also understood everyone's reactions: Don't look at the second-level or even two-level third-level demon beasts that they dealt with before, it was relatively easy, that was because these demon beasts were not dense, and they were relatively ordinary in terms of strength, but when it came to this third-order forbidden place, it was not so simple.

"It makes sense, I also feel that we can't go any further, once we encounter a huge unknown danger, not only will we suffer casualties, but also delay our mission, let's just take a look around." Deacon Luo exhaled, waved his hand, and made a decision.

Such a decision was also expected by Li Changyue, after all, as a person who has stepped into the cultivation world, who doesn't want to live longer, to explore the way of longevity and long-term vision, and live a chic and comfortable life, no one will really work hard.

However, just when everyone heard Deacon Luo's decision and nodded in agreement, Li Changyue keenly noticed that Zhao Shen's eyes showed a look of relieved joy, which made him feel very surprised: because he suddenly thought of why Zhao Shen made him feel a little familiar, because this guy's figure and expression were a bit like the fierce face of the Blood River Sect Qi Refining Realm cultivator who attacked Deacon Chen and his party that day. At that time, it was Li Changyue who used the raid to finish off this guy and took the monk's treasure weapon with his hand!

In addition, Li Changyue found that there was also this familiar figure in the memory of his eight-year-old recovery, when in the midst of the fire, there seemed to be this figure among the small leaders of the many masked black-robed people who the deacon of the Li family and the disciples desperately resisted, although Li Changyue's father did not die at the hands of this person, but his father and the disciples of the Li family were also sacrificed because of the forces behind this person.

Regarding the Li family incident, Li Changyue only remembered that the strong man of the Li family came to support in the end, and a violent fluctuation of vitality sounded in the sky, and he fainted in a brilliant light, leaving a chaotic sound of fighting in his ears. Afterwards, Li Changyue woke up and already had the consciousness of the original world, and Li Changyue of the original world happened to be seriously ill that year, and now it seems that at that time, Li Changyue of the two worlds has invisibly merged his thinking and consciousness, but Li Changyue is in it and does not know it.

"It seems that this Blood River Sect has great plans for the entire Huoyang, and this Luofeng is just a prologue!" Li Changyue speculated in his heart, "And this Zhao Shen, there is no doubt that he is a traitor, I have to find an opportunity to get rid of it or notify the town guard department!" ”

After Li Changyue preliminarily determined Zhao Shen's identity, he immediately put him on the "death blacklist", but for the time being, he didn't act rashly, there are so many people here, and he is not sure who can be trusted, and he will have to meet with the monks of the town guard brigade later, so it is not appropriate to do it for the time being.

A day later, Li Changyue followed Deacon Luo and his party to basically complete the patrol of most of the surrounding area and decided to go to the predetermined place to meet. I don't know if it's everyone's illusion, they feel that the aura around this canyon seems to be a little too dense, and in just over a day, they have been attacked by more than ten demon beasts, two of which turned out to be third-level demon beasts, which made everyone a little worried.

"Deacon Luo, how far are we from the intended location?" Deacon Du asked from the side, not seeming to know the exact rendezvous method, "Now that the task is basically completed, I think we should rush over as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, Deacon Luo, can you tell us what to do next?" Zhao Shen on the side also rolled his eyes and asked Deacon Luo.

Captain Luo and the others didn't seem to know the inside story, but they didn't come forward to ask about it, which made Li Changyue a little surprised: It seems that the Town Guard Division doesn't seem to believe everyone here, and this mission is a bit intriguing.

"Hehe, you don't have to worry, just do it, and the above will naturally tell us the next plan when the time comes." Deacon Luo looked at the appearance of everyone and smiled, "Na, there are still more than a hundred miles to go, and you should be almost there after crossing a mountain range in front!" ”

Deacon Luo and the people behind him stood on a high ground, and then pointed to a smoky, steep and treacherous mountain range in the distance and said indifferently.

"It's so far away!" "Didn't you say more than 500 miles at the beginning, if it is estimated that it will be almost 700 miles according to the current location, this is not mistaken?"

Deacon Du's eyes jumped when he saw the distant mountain range, obviously not expecting it.

"This is a bit too deep, Deacon Luo, you are not mistaken, we usually patrol an area of five hundred miles!" "After five hundred miles, there are fourth-level demon beasts infested, and only people from the late stage of Qi cultivation and above will lead the team there!"

Zhao Shen looked reluctant, and his eyes flashed with a little anger, and he was very resistant to Deacon Luo's sudden request.

"Why didn't the Town Guard tell us in advance, it's too dangerous here, and I object to us going in so recklessly!" Zhao Shen said directly against it.

Some of the body forging martial artists below heard the conversation of Deacon Luo and the others in front of them, and they were also discussing it below.

"It's too dangerous to go seven hundred miles!"

"Yes, to be honest, this is the first time I've been to more than 400 miles."

"Didn't we go to death!"

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"Alright, listen to me!" Deacon Luo glanced at everyone lightly at this time.

"This mission is very important, it was personally assigned by Lord Townguard, and not only our team, all teams are so demanding!" Deacon Luo explained, and then the true yuan in his body was slightly condensed, and the momentum of the peak of the middle stage of qi refining was revealed, and he suddenly ordered in a stern and firm tone, "The words have been made very clear, everyone must carry it out, otherwise they will face severe punishment from the Law Enforcement Hall!" ”

After speaking, he looked around at everyone, then looked at the cloudy weather, and ordered: "Let's find a place to rest first, we only need to hurry from tomorrow, and don't worry about anything else." ”

After saying this, he turned to Li Changyue and smiled slightly: "Captain Li, your task has been completed, now you can join us to go to the rendezvous, or you can return to Fenglin Village by yourself." "What are you going to do?"

Li Changyue was a little surprised by Deacon Luo's words, but after a little thought, he replied: "I'd better follow the team to carry out the mission, after all, I've already come here, and I can calculate my strength." ”

"Okay, Captain Li is worthy of being the leader of the younger generation of my town guard division, then you will be a member of the team from now on!" This Deacon Luo praised Li Changyue quite appreciatively.

"Don't dare to be, Deacon Luo is serious, what is the task to order!" Li Changyue arched his hands and was modest.

Everyone had different expressions, but except for Captain Luo and a few body forging martial artists, the others seemed to be somewhat resentful: they really didn't want to go, and they really didn't understand whether this Li Changyue was a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers or was really stupid!

Captain Luo was calm, in fact, although he didn't know the specific task, he still knew some inside information: before leaving, he and several deacons and disciples of the Luo family were actually received by the elders from the family. The aura on the elder's body seemed to be nothing, and he was suspected of being a powerhouse in the Ning Gang realm, and he listened to some of Luo Feng's recent briefings, and Deacon Luo was among them at that time. As a child of the Luo family, it is natural to obey Deacon Luo.

Seeing such a situation, Li Changyue made up his mind: "In this way, this town guard should have someone to suspect, Deacon Du and Zhao Shen are obviously not trusted!" "But this operation obviously has a larger layout, and there should be a showdown later, and I have faintly felt two or three peeps along the way, and it doesn't seem to be a group of forces!"

Thanks to Li Changyue's spiritual power beyond the same level, he still found two or three snoops, although this surveillance was very secretive, but he was still found some clues by his rich experience in wild exploration.

As for why he chose to go together, the reason is very simple, since even the deacon of the town guard division has been mixed into the spies, it is obvious that the way back may not be safe, according to the urine nature of the Blood River Sect, there must be a dangerous ambush on the way back, although Li Changyue said that his strength was good at the peak of qi refining, but he would not be arrogant enough to face the many monks of the Blood River Sect by himself.

Instead of this, it is better to follow the team to carry out the mission, this town guard must have a backhand, but it is safer, and in the end, you can earn a batch of contributions from him! Especially when he saw Deacon Luo's "profiteer" expression, he didn't know how much strength he was hiding, but before the power of Deacon Luo's casual shots, the "cunning" Li Changyue found that Deacon Luo's cultivation was a mid-level exercise, and he realized that his strength was still too weak now, and he was a little beyond his strength to do it alone.

At this time, thunder and lightning flashed in the sky, and the torrential rain was pouring down, but fortunately, everyone was cultivating and wearing rainproof coats, but they were a little embarrassed and their vision was blocked, and it was not safe in this jungle.

"There are a few natural caves in that mountain, let's rest there for the night!" Deacon Luo looked around and said to everyone.

"Yes, we'll rest here for the night!" Deacon Luo commanded.

Everyone rushed in, walked into one of the more open caves, and looked around.

"How can there be so many animal corpses, and the bones of a few human warriors!" Deacon Du looked at it, and his face was a little ugly.

"Let's clean it up, there's nothing too good for the time being."

Captain Luo instructed his subordinates to step forward and prepare to clean up the corpse.

"Wait a minute, there is something wrong with this corpse, there don't seem to be too many wounds on the body, and there are no traces of a fight, it's weird!"

Deacon Luo suddenly waved his hand at everyone to stop, and approached several corpses to inspect them, those human warriors were wearing short robes and different colors, sitting or lying there, and the weapons were scattered aside.

"None of these weapons have entered the ranks, they should all be martial artists in the forging period." Li Changyue also walked cautiously around this cave the size of dozens of zhang, and then analyzed to everyone, "But these warriors seem to have died without resistance." ”

"They should have encountered an unknown attack, we must be vigilant tonight, and be on duty in two rounds to protect ourselves!" "That Deacon Du, Captain Luo, and Captain Li are in a team of three, and Deacon Zhao and I are in a group, and they change shifts every two hours." "The rest of the team members are assigned by themselves and are always vigilant."

Li Changyue saw that Deacon Luo's distribution seemed very reasonable, and he also guessed in his heart that he might have a lot of distrust towards Zhao Shen, but he kept his face silent, and they were on duty first at the first post: he walked to an open space and sat down cross-legged and simply practiced the "Purple Xuanjue". For the time being, there was no better exercise, so he decided to practice this "Purple Xuan Jue" first, and if possible, he could try to perfect the exercise as before.

"Take a break, let's take care of it."

Deacon Luo got up from the meditation and walked in front of Li Changyue and the others. For Qi Refining Realm cultivators, it's okay not to rest for a day or two, but this will affect the physical state, so it is still necessary to maintain abundant True Yuan and Spirit, especially during such a dangerous mission.

More than two hours passed, and in the second half of the night, when Li Changyue and the others were meditating and falling asleep, the temperature in the cave seemed to drop a lot, and a trace of cold air extended in from all sides, but it was not noticeable. Everyone is above the peak of the late stage of forging, and they don't feel different about a little cold.

However, Li Changyue's facial muscles moved slightly, his eyes suddenly opened, and the removal of this temperature change and a trace of cold air would not make him make a fuss, but because there was someone like Zhao Shen on duty this time, he was still not very relieved, so he decided to wake up and check it as soon as there was any movement.

Looking around, I saw that Deacon Luo and Zhao Shen were on duty near the entrance of the cave, and there was nothing wrong for the time being.

Li Changyue waited for a while, found that there was no problem, and when he was about to fall asleep again, he suddenly saw that two of the black-robed team members seemed to be a little abnormal.

"Uh, uh......" The two team members on duty looked a little dull, and there was a slight sound in their mouths, and they couldn't hear what they meant.

In a blink of an eye, the faces of several team members resting on the ground seemed to have changed slightly, as if they were having a nightmare.

"Well, what's the situation?" Deacon Luo is also very vigilant, his strength is also good, and he also feels the strangeness of the team members.

"Chen Yulin, Fang Teng!" "What's wrong with you two!"

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Deacon Luo immediately stood up and asked the two team members, but they did not respond.

"It's not good, there is a situation, everyone is on alert!" Seeing this, Deacon Luo shouted.

Li Changyue had already stood up and quickly walked over to one of the team members who was unresponsive.

"Deacon Luo, I still have breathing, but my breath has weakened, and my spiritual consciousness seems to be affected!" Li Changyue checked it a little and said to Deacon Luo.

Deacon Du, Captain Luo, and the two team members who had completed the forging body also flew up in an instant when they heard the sound, but the remaining four team members who were at the peak of the late stage of the forging body still did not react, two of them sat cross-legged, and the other two seemed to be still sleeping!

"There's something wrong with this cold!"