The man was dressed in a brown shirt, with a good look, holding a black tassel gun, standing on a tree trunk in the distance.

"Little brother, we have no ill intentions, we just want to invite you to join the team and tide over the difficulties together."

"Difficult?"

Ji Ning frowned, quietly looking at the crowd opposite, puzzled.

There are probably about 20 people in this team, and all of them are cultivators.

In the outer area of Xiushan, it should be a rampant existence, and there will be no monsters to threaten them, so why is it difficult?

Seeing that Ji Ning was puzzled, the man raised his eyebrows, and asked in some surprise:

"Little brother, don't you know what's going on outside?"

Ji Ning hesitated for a moment and said:

"I've been hunting demon beasts in the mountains for more than two months, so I really don't know."

As soon as these words came out, the middle-aged man led by him had not yet spoken, but he saw a sloppy young man behind him who had a recessed socket, and said with a smile:

"It's just a willow bone, and I dare to hunt demon beasts in Xiushan alone, and I have stayed for two months, and I am not afraid to flash my tongue when I say big things!"

"Don't be rude!"

The middle-aged man at the head frowned and scolded.

Ji Ning's face remained unchanged, and he said lightly:

"Believe it or not, I really don't know what's going on out there, and I don't have the desire to know."

"If you don't say anything, I'll go."

"Wait!" The middle-aged man waved his hand violently to stop Ji Ning, and then said with a solemn face:

"Little brother, now Xiushan can't get out!"

Ji Ning was stunned when he heard this:

"What does that mean?"

"Ugh." The man sighed and said helplessly:

"A while ago, the Heavenly Survey Mansion suddenly issued a bounty for a murderer who fled into Xiushan!"

"On the wanted warrant, it is clearly written that the wanted person is just a mortal, who has opened a trick, is seriously injured, and cannot escape far."

"But it's such a mortal who actually made the Heaven Survey Mansion issue a sky-high reward order for one hundred high-grade spirit stones!"

"What!?"

Ji Ning's eyes widened, a hundred high-grade spirit stones?

In the Taoist Temple, he can only receive five lower-grade spirit stones every month, and even these five lower-grade spirit stones are out of reach of ordinary miscellaneous disciples, otherwise Li Hu would not betray him.

And the high-grade spirit stone is a hundred times rarer than the lower-grade spirit stone!

One hundred high-grade spirit stones is equivalent to 10,000 low-grade spirit stones, and ordinary monks may not be able to save enough for a fraction in their lifetime, but now the Heaven Survey Mansion has issued such a sky-high reward for him!

"It seems that those two things are really amazing!"

Ji Ning's expression was solemn, and he silently looked at the ring on his right index finger, and the gold paper and mysterious bone token taken from under Jiang Chuan's chair were all placed there.

I just don't know, what exactly does it do?

"With such a sky-high reward, few people can resist it, and besides, it's just killing a stinky child."

Xue Zhongjing's expression was depressed, and he said with a wry smile:

"In the Northern County, countless rivers and lakes rushed to hear the news, and even some well-known cultivation forces, adventure groups, etc., are only for the reward of the Heavenly Patrol Mansion, and I am also one of them."

"But who would have thought that as more and more people went by, time passed day by day, and almost all the peripheral areas were searched by us, and we couldn't find the person on the wanted notice."

"On the contrary, I don't know what happened, the demon beasts inside Xiushan inexplicably poured out in groups to the periphery, injuring a lot of people, and even some cultivators died!"

"Seeing that there is no benefit here, we want to retreat, but unexpectedly, the people of the Heavenly Survey Mansion will unite with the imperial court and set up countless checkpoints on the periphery of Xiushan, and within three months, only allowed to enter the mountain, and no one is allowed to go out of the mountain!"

Ji Ning's expression was surprised, and he asked:

"Xiushan is so big, you want to leave, how can they stop it?"

"If you can go, you can go, someone has already sneaked away, but we don't dare."

Xue Zhongjing's expression was helpless, and he smiled bitterly again and again:

"Among the forces in the rivers and lakes, there are eyeliners of the Heavenly Survey Mansion and the Imperial Court everywhere."

"It is no secret who sneaked away, who followed the order to stay in the mountains."

Ji Ning suddenly realized.

"Are you afraid that you will run away now, and the people who survey the heavens will settle accounts after the autumn."

"That's what it means, I'm just a little monk of an ordinary adventure group, relying on the black market to sell demon pills for a living, if I offend the Heavenly Survey Mansion, I'm afraid I don't even know how to die."

The corners of Xue Zhongjing's mouth were bitter, and he turned his head to look at the rest of the people behind him, and then said:

"There are not a few monks in the rivers and lakes who obey the orders of the Heavenly Survey Mansion, and where there are people, there are rivers and lakes."

"Today's outlying areas are divided into two boundaries according to the north and south."

"The north is the danger zone, with the most monsters, and the south is a relatively safe area."

"Those powerful and numerous cultivators gathered together, divided into camps, set up camp in the south, came to the north during the day to plunder resources, and retreated to the south to rest at night."

"And we, the small scattered cultivators who are weak and weak, are not allowed to live in the south, otherwise we will be regarded as a danger to clear, and we can only survive in the northern region, not only have to worry about the demon beasts that run out of the central region at all times, but also have to guard against the attacks of the rest of the cultivators."

"So far, as far as I know, there have been no less than fifty loose cultivators who have died at the hands of those big forces, and their money has been robbed."

"So in order to survive, I spontaneously recruited many casual cultivators like me, and everyone was together, resisting danger together, and carefully surviving for three months, and I should be able to live."

After the man finished speaking, the room fell silent.

Ji Ning's expression was solemn.

He didn't expect that after he escaped into the depths of Xiushan by mistake, so many changes would happen in the outside world, and the people of the Heavenly Survey Mansion would force the people of the rivers and lakes to stay in the mountains to search, and the demon beasts in the middle would even run out.

In such a critical situation, it has not been twisted into a rope, but has once again divided the north and the south, and the strong infinitely squeeze the value of the weak until the other party dies.

"Sure enough, not everyone is as kind as Miss Ye!"

Ji Ningyu sighed in his heart, and then continued to fall into contemplation.

The current situation is not without danger.

According to Xue Zhongjing's words, those big forces have already divided the safer areas and are not allowed to join in the casual cultivation, so he naturally cannot be an exception.

After all, if everyone runs away to the southern part of the periphery, who will resist the demon beasts that run out from the depths?

"It stands to reason that I'm not afraid of the Heavenly Survey Mansion to track me down, anyway, they were also chasing me and sneaking out, there shouldn't be any problem?"

Ji Ning thought for a moment, then shook his head again.

No way.

After so many days of searching, no one has been able to find any trace of him, presumably the Tiantianfu side has already tacitly accepted that he was eaten by demon beasts, after all, those people only thought that he was a child who had only opened his mind, and it was impossible for him to live so long in Xiushan.

So now, he can't take any risks.

Sneaking out, there is a high probability that he will be treated as a bird, caught back to kill chickens and monkeys, he might as well stay in the mountains, slowly survive for three months, and then go out with the crowd of Wuyang and hide from the world.

And now that you have decided to stay, it seems like a good choice to join the team of the man in front of you.

After all, it is really dangerous to stay alone in the mountains.

"I join you."

Ji Ning nodded and said calmly.

"Good!"

"Little brother, then please come with us back to the station, where we have set up tents and watchtowers, as well as food and medicine."

Xue Zhongjing greeted Ji Ning with a smile on his face, and the rest of the team also left lazily in one direction.

Ji Ning nodded, but he didn't immediately relax his vigilance and join the team, but followed behind everyone from a distance.

Seeing that he was so cautious, the sloppy young man who had just begun to mock him said disdainfully:

"Boss, I really don't understand what you're doing with him."

"A waste willow bone, what can it do if you really run into a demon beast? Besides, seeing that this guy doesn't trust us so much, I'm afraid he will run away when he is in danger! ”

Ji Ning frowned, and was about to say something, but he heard the sloppy young man then turn his head and mock him:

"Boy, if you don't want to come along, get out!"

"If we wanted to attack you, with the strength of your Willow Bone Realm, we would have died a hundred times a hundred times, so why didn't we wait until now to kill you."

"In my opinion, even if you join our team, you are still a burden here, eat and drink for nothing, it is better to hurry up!"

"Jiang Hailiu, stop it!"

Xue Zhongjing snorted coldly, the spiritual energy in his body surged, and an inexplicable majesty emanated from his body.

"In times of crisis, everyone should be in the same boat!"

"The more one of us to help, the more hope of survival, and don't forget how you and your brother promised me when you first joined here, you have to obey my command for everything!"

"Now, I want him to join our team, do you have any objections!"

The man's tone was serious, and there was no expression on his upright facial features, and his aura was terrifying.

When the sloppy young man heard this, he shrunk his neck stupidly, and didn't dare to refute it anymore.

"It's such a strong breath, what I perceived before was right, it's the upper realm of condensation, no wonder I can be the head of this group of people."

Ji Ning raised his eyebrows and was secretly shocked.

At this moment, Xue Zhongjing, who was angry, turned his head, also looked at Ji Ning and said calmly:

"Little brother, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not."

"Although what Jiang Hailiu said offended you, there is still some truth in it, you joined us, everyone is equivalent to grasshoppers on a rope, life and death together, we don't need to harm you in this kind of crisis, so please believe us."

"If you can't trust us, then I don't think you need to join our team, after all, I don't want to be abandoned by my own people and stabbed in the back at a critical moment."

Ji Ning looked at the man quietly for a moment across a forest, then smiled slightly, nodded and said:

"Okay."

Then, his speed increased, and he came directly behind everyone.

Seeing this, Xue Zhongjing's frowning brows relaxed slightly, smiled and patted Ji Ning's shoulder, and didn't say anything more.

The sloppy young man didn't speak, but he rolled his eyes and glanced at Ji Ning with disdain.

Obviously, he didn't look down on this little boy who only had willow bone cultivation.

Ji Ning's expression was calm, and he only glanced at the sloppy young man lightly, and didn't pay much attention to him.

Bronze bone realm, the breath is vain.

With such strength, he may not even have to use his aura, he can be killed.

As soon as the picture turned, Ji Ning followed everyone to the team's camp, built behind a flat hillside, surrounded by wood, a simple fence was built, and in the forest a hundred meters away from the wall, there was a faint guard tower.

"The watchtower is to be guarded every night to prevent the enemy from invading."

"As soon as you joined, I won't let you keep a vigil alone, and I will follow the two brothers to get acquainted with each other first."

Xue Zhongjing pointed to the sloppy young man in front of him.

The latter was now sitting in front of the tent with a sleepy face, chatting with another young man who was clearly a few years older than him, with similar eyebrows and eyes, but with a markedly different temperament.

"The more stable one, called Jiang Liuhai, is Jiang Hailiu's elder brother, he is very strong, and he has hunted the demon beasts of the Silver Bone Stage alone."

Xue Zhongjing said, scratching his head a little embarrassed:

"I know he offended you just now, but I'm sorry, the team is not manpowered, everyone has to go out to explore the ruins during the day, hunting monsters to earn resources."

"Only Jiang Hailiu is relatively free, because his work is done by his brother, so it is most appropriate for him to teach you this kind of vigil, I hope you don't take the previous conflict to heart."

"With iron bones, have you hunted the demon beasts of the Silver Bone Stage alone?" Ji Jingjing stared at the steady young man quietly, his eyes were a little solemn.

He could feel that this man was completely different from the scruffy youth, exuding a dangerous aura that only those who had been born and died all year round.

And with his gaze, the river and sea in the distance also suddenly raised his head, and his eyes looked sharply.

The two look at each other from afar.

"I'm okay with that."

After a moment, Ji Ning shrugged his shoulders and agreed.

Anyway, he has no intention of going out to hunt demon beasts and explore the ruins, so in this dangerous time, it is better not to easily expose his strength.

As for the vigil with Jiang Hailiu, as long as the other party no longer provokes him, he can also act as if nothing happened before.

But if the other party kicks his nose in the face......

Ji Ning walked to the tent, condescendingly, and smiled at the sloppy young man sitting on the ground and said:

"Hello."

"Brother Xue said, let's keep vigil together tonight."