Mingyue cautiously came to the vicinity of the secret passage, scanned the surroundings with full consciousness, and waited for a while, then picked up a small stone and knocked it rhythmically on the bluestone blocking the secret passage.

After a while, there was a response from the other end of the bluestone, Mingyue first released the aura of body protection, and then prepared a few other defensive magic weapons, and let the silver-horned tiger hide behind a large stone not far away, and then moved the bluestone at the entrance of the secret passage.

The bluestone was removed, revealing the swarthy hole below, but no one came out. Mingyue's divine sense had already investigated, and found that there was no one else within two hundred meters except for Zhou Tong who was hiding in the corner and secretly observing above, so he smiled faintly and whispered to the entrance of the cave: "Zhou Tong, come out." ”

Hearing Mingyue's voice, Zhou Tong breathed a sigh of relief, carefully climbed out of the hole and looked around, seeing that Mingyue was the only one, he couldn't help but ask curiously: "Didn't the other seniors come together?"

Mingyue nodded and said, "They have other things, I came here alone, how about it?" How many exercises did you get in half a year?"

Zhou Tong didn't ink, he took out more than a dozen books and a few jade slips directly from the storage bracelet and handed them to Mingyue, and said a little embarrassedly: "There are a total of sixteen books of cultivation exercises, but they are all the most ordinary kinds, seniors see if they meet your requirements?"

Mingyue glanced at it casually, and saw that the name and content of the exercises were not repeated, nodded with satisfaction, and put them all into the storage ring, and then took out sixteen low-grade spars and handed them to Zhou Tong and said, "This is the reward that was said in advance." Although he already had a certain amount of preparation, Zhou Tong, who really got the spars, was still a little excited, and thanked Mingyue again and again, with these spars, Zhou Tong was confident that he would improve his cultivation to one or two steps again in a short period of time.

Mingyue didn't waste time on greetings, and said to Zhou Tong: "Next, you continue to collect exercises, but don't have duplicates, and also, collect some exercises or secret techniques that can conceal cultivation as soon as possible, I can buy them with two spars." ”

Zhou Tong was a little surprised that Mingyue would make such a request, but he didn't ask too much, hesitated for a moment and said with a bitter face: "Senior, I have seen a few exercises and secret techniques with hidden cultivation in the shop that sells exercises in Giant Rock City, but the price of that kind of thing is too high, and I can't exchange so many good things with them." ”

Mingyue thought for a while, took out more than twenty skins of second- and third-order demonic beasts, and handed over a fourth-order demonic beast magic crystal to Zhou Tong and said, "These are enough, right? "In fact, there are still a lot of better beast skins and magic crystals in the storage bag on Mingyue's waist, but considering Zhou Tong's strength, giving him those will attract the attention of others, so Mingyue only handed over the low-level demonic beast materials that he had accumulated before to Zhou Tong.

Zhou Tong nodded again and again after taking the animal skin and magic crystal: "Enough, enough, these can be exchanged for at least two exercises like that, but senior, I don't dare to guarantee the effect of the exercises." ”

Mingyue waved her hand disapprenosingly and said, "It's okay, you just need to bring it." ”

Zhou Tong smiled and said, "Then it's no problem." ”

Mingyue asked Zhou Tong: "How long will it take you to change the practice of concealment cultivation?"

Zhou Tong thought for a while and said, "The day after tomorrow, there is a familiar caravan going to Giant Rock City, and if it goes well, you can come back in half a month." ”

Mingyue thought for a while and said, "Today, a month later, I will come to you at this time to get the exercises. ”

Zhou Tong nodded and said, "No problem." Mingyue nodded and signaled that Zhou Tong could leave.

After Zhou Tong entered the secret passage, Mingyue covered the entrance of the cave with bluestone again, and after cleaning up the traces of movement, beckoned Ah Zi Cat to leave as fast as possible and enter the woods to join Hongshang and the others.

The transaction with Zhou Tong went well, Hongshang finally put his mind at ease, everyone discussed it, and decided to rush overnight to find Ouyang Feng and Qingfeng as soon as possible, so as not to encounter danger between the two.

It is very dangerous to rush at night, but there is a fifth-level demonic beast silver-horned tiger with Azi Cat, and there is no harassment of demonic beasts along the way, and when it is almost dawn, Hongshang and others have already come to the place agreed with Ouyang Feng, but because they are a day in advance, they do not see Ouyang Feng and Qingfeng.

After a short rest, Mingyue left Hongshang and Silverhorn Tiger to protect Pei Di and the others, and left alone to look for Ouyang Feng and Qingfeng. In the evening, Ouyang Feng, Qingfeng and Mingyue returned to the meeting place to find Hongshang and the others, Ouyang Feng did not waste time, drew a simple map on the ground, and explained to everyone the harvest of him and Qingfeng in the past two days and one night.

Ouyang Feng pointed to a point on the map and said: "This is the place where we found that gang of bandits last time, there are three groups of sentry bandits thirty miles to the northwest, twenty miles to the northeast and forty miles, the number of each group of bandits is about twenty people, and the two or three people who take the lead range in strength in the early and middle stages of foundation building, the group of bandits in the northwest is the strongest, and there is a swordsman whose strength is equivalent to that of the late stage of foundation building and two middle-level magicians." According to the analysis of eavesdropping on their conversations, the big boss of this gang of bandits should be looking for a spar vein about fifty miles north of us, but the specific location, number and strength are still unclear. ”

Hongshang looked at Ouyang Feng and asked, "Do you have any plans?"

Ouyang Feng thought for a while and said, "I plan to go to that area with Qingfeng for a while, see if I can find the boss of the bandits, and then see if they really have news of the spar mine, and then decide whether to do it or not." ”

Hongshang said uneasily, "Wouldn't it be too dangerous for you two to go?"

Ouyang Feng shook his head and said, "No need, Qingfeng and I are relatively fast, and we are not going to fight." ”

Hongshang sighed and said, "That's it, well, you two have to be careful." Ouyang Feng nodded.

Mingyue asked expectantly, "What about us, are we going to get rid of the four bandits one by one?"

Qingfeng shook his head and said: "No, they will send people to contact each other every morning and evening, it is impossible for you people to kill four groups of bandits across almost a hundred miles in one day, it is better not to startle the snakes, and discuss countermeasures when we come back." Mingyue nodded with some disappointment.

Determining the next action plan, Ouyang Feng set off with Hongshang and the others, walked for more than ten miles, placed Hongshang and the others in an extremely hidden cave they found, covered the entrance of the cave with vines, Ouyang Feng and Qingfeng set off with big banya, all the way north to find the boss of the bandits.

Without saying a word all the way, they killed a few eyeless demonic beasts as quickly as possible, and Ouyang Feng and Qingfeng came to the area where the bandit boss might appear in the middle of the night. Ouyang Feng and Qingfeng took turns to release their divine senses to search, and the big banya squatted on Ouyang Feng's shoulder, and also pricked up his ears to listen to the movements around him.

The two of them lost weight and shuttled aimlessly in the mountains and forests, and at noon the next day, Ouyang Feng and Qingfeng almost walked around the area within a radius of dozens of miles, and they didn't have a good rest for a few days, Ouyang Feng and Qingfeng both felt very tired, and were about to give up this time to take it back and try to find a way with Hongsheng and them, when the big plate tooth sitting on Ouyang Feng's shoulder suddenly grabbed Ouyang Feng's hair with his claws, and then pointed in one direction with his other grab and squeaked, signaling that there was movement in that direction.

Ouyang Feng and Qingfeng didn't care at first, thinking that Da Banya had found that there was a demonic beast or beast or something in that direction again, and it had been tossing a lot in the past few days, but Ouyang Feng was also very puzzled, Da Banya's ear power was actually stronger than his divine sense.

Ouyang Feng and Qingfeng glanced at each other, but still walked in the direction pointed by Da Banya, to see what was there. After walking for more than a hundred meters, Ouyang Feng, who was still a little arrogant, suddenly stopped, grabbed Qingfeng again, and signaled him to be quiet, because at the edge of Ouyang Feng's divine sense, there were more than twenty gray-headed people gathering together to barbecue meat, and Ouyang Feng could even smell the faint smell of meat wafting in.

Qingfeng stood motionless in place, and the voice said, "What's wrong?"

Ouyang Feng replied: "There are more than 20 people less than 300 meters ahead, if I guess correctly, they should be the target we are looking for." ”

Qingfeng was stunned when he heard this, and then said with great joy: "What are they doing?

In fact, it is not to blame Qingfeng for being greedy, with the growth of strength, the number of spars needed for cultivation is also increasing, when it was still the early stage of foundation building, a maximum of two spars per day was enough, which was nothing at all in terms of Ouyang Feng's previous family background. Later, when it was time to build the foundation in the middle stage, the number of spars required per day increased to about ten, so that Ouyang Feng and the four of them would consume forty spars every day, plus the spars provided to Pei Di and the rice bucket, forty-five spars were needed every day, which made them a little unbearable to eat their old books.

Now, Ouyang Feng and the four of them have all entered the late stage of foundation building, and the number of spars required every day has doubled again, reaching a shocking thirty pieces, which is nothing. After some of the classics left by Xi', it was learned that when the cultivator broke through the Jindan period, he needed a large amount of heaven and earth vitality to supplement it to help the aura in his body solidify the pill, and the place with a large amount of heaven and earth vitality was difficult to find, and it could almost be said that there was none, so that he could only absorb the aura contained in the spar to replace, so that a large number of spars must be prepared when he knotted the pill.

Hongshang once calculated, according to the description in the classics, a person must prepare at least about 5,000 pieces of lower-grade spars when he marries the pill, and if it is less, it will affect the probability of the pill, and in Hongshang's hands, there are now more than 10,000 lower-grade spars, which can barely be used to impact the golden pill twice, of course, the premise is to control the consumption of the spar in the next time, otherwise even two times are not enough, Hongshang has been worrying about the spar these days, so after learning that these bandits may have mastered the news of the spar mine, I feel that this is a good opportunity to solve the shortage of spar。

Ouyang Feng shook his head and said, "It's too far away, I can't be sure yet." ”