Chapter 150: The Ghost Forest
The air in Youzhou was all smelling of fish, and it was the same desolation everywhere, and there were no cities or villages within the scope of Chang Ling's sight and divine sense.
There are also mortals living in Youzhou, but their situation is several times worse than that of Qingzhou, and the savings of several generations cannot be exchanged for a ticket to cross the immeasurable sea, and their weak bodies do not support their 'smuggling'.
The demon cultivators and evil cultivators in Youzhou have always been extremely fond of these mortals, whether it is their flesh and blood or soul, they are extremely useful things.
Mortals who still live in Youzhou will not build cities and villages on the ground, and in some places with harsh environments, there may be caves or spaces dug out of the ground, and they will retreat in these places, and every time they go out to look for food, they must be extremely careful of the demon cultivators and evil cultivators who pass by.
Of course, their caution is useless, and everything is left to fate or the choice of those who pass by.
Chang Ling Edgeworth flew for a while and came to the place marked on the map as the 'Ghost Forest'.
The so-called 'ghost' is nothing but a term of mortal legend that the soul of a mortal does not enter reincarnation after death for special reasons and remains in the human world, and is called a ghost.
Demon cultivators will use special methods to extract the souls of ghosts or directly from mortal bodies, using vicious and cruel methods to condense them into yin puppets or powerful ghosts, which is a later story.
The source of this so-called ghost forest is the place where an evil cultivator once 'raised his soul'.
The whole forest is full of locust trees that are more than 1,000 years old, and the location is in the extreme shade.
Back then, that evil cultivator placed a large number of mortal souls here, refining them with the power of pure yin all day long.
Later, in time for a certain demon punishment operation, this area was turned into a place where the righteous path monks were stationed, and the Yuanying Realm monks of the Nine Great Sects jointly attacked and killed this Yuanying Realm evil cultivator here.
The evil cultivators who were able to cultivate to the Yuan Infant Realm, in addition to the chaos and madness, once they fought for their lives, they actually beat those Yuan Infant Realm cultivators to serious injuries.
They left in a hurry to recover from their injuries, and the follow-up treatment of the 'Ghost Forest' was put on hold.
At that time, it was at the height of the ghost forest's ghost qi and yin qi, and no one in the rest of the Jindan Realm monks dared to make a rash move, at first everyone would still close this place, and as time went by, the demon punishment action was carried out again and again, and the power of this ghost forest gradually dissipated, and now it can no longer cause any substantial damage to the monks.
This time I came to Youzhou to punish demons, in addition to the lives of demon cultivators and evil cultivators who can be exchanged for rewards, some spiritual objects that are unique to places with extremely heavy yin qi can also be handed over for exchange.
The Ghost Forest is one such place where there may be treasures.
This 'maybe'......
As Chang Ling continued to get closer to the Ghost Forest, he encountered more and more fellow monks.
Most of the monks have just come to Youzhou, and they will not be in a hurry to fight with the demon cultivators, so wouldn't it be good if they could find some spiritual objects to exchange for spirit stones?
The ghost forest is the closest 'shaded land' to the place where you go ashore, and the leaves of the old locust trees are bald by groups of monks, and there are even many locust trees that require several people to hug together, and even the bark has been picked clean.
The corners of Chang Ling's mouth twitched slightly, and he sighed and walked into this ghost forest.
The appearance of the ghost forest did not fall into its name, and the gust of yin wind made Chang Ling feel a little cold.
However, she didn't see the so-called ghosts, and there were many monks within the scope of her divine sense and sight.
Over there, a group of monks from the Contemplation Jindan Realm cheered and celebrated in order to dig out a piece of Yin Bamboo Shoot from the ground.
There were many monks here almost in a circle, and there was a small Yin Spirit Bird standing in the middle, and this group of monks stared at each other viciously, and they all froze there for a while, until the Yin Spirit Bird flapped its wings and turned into a black mist and dispersed.
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Such a gloomy place, but it is surprisingly lively.
Chang Ling quickly walked around this ghost forest, and if she stayed here, she would not gain anything, she picked a few locust flowers at random and inserted them in Ah Bi's ears, took out the Chixiao Sword again, and prepared to leave the ghost forest.
Just as she was about to step out of the shadows, someone behind her suddenly shouted out to her.
A young man in a white robe ran over panting, and said breathlessly: "This Taoist friend, below is Bai Jinnian, a monk from the Bai clan in Yuanzhou, who is a high-grade cultivator in the Concentration Realm, and after coming to Youzhou, he was separated from the people in his family, and seeing that Daoist friends are also alone, I don't know if I can form a team to explore this Youzhou together?"
The Yuanzhou Bai clan is a subsidiary immortal cultivation family under the Yuanhua Sect, and its strength can only be regarded as medium on the mainland.
Every time there is a demon killing activity, there are minimum requirements for the number of people involved in each sect and the immortal cultivation family, and the personnel of each affiliated family will also be counted into the corresponding sect, most of the real elite disciples of the nine major sects will not come to Youzhou to take risks, except for some inner disciples, most of them are selected from the affiliated immortal cultivation families.
These families did not have powerful elders who could follow and protect them, and most of the elders sent by the sect also focused on the disciples of the sect, and their situation was not good.
Chang Ling didn't debunk his rhetoric, and if he formed a team, it wasn't impossible, after all, there were too few people in Qingzhou Sanxiu who participated in the demon punishment operation every time, and the information that Chang Ling could grasp was really a bit insufficient.
After Chang Ling readily agreed, he was led aside by Bai Jinnian, who was beaming, and there were also three or five richly dressed young people standing there.
Due to several times of quenching, Chang Ling's height is much taller than his peers, except for being too thin, he is already as tall as an ordinary adult female cultivator.
She had a mask on her face that she had previously purchased in Qingzhou that could change her appearance, and since her cultivation was promoted to the middle grade of the Condensing Realm, the strength of her divine soul had also been further improved, and she could already ensure that under the Jindan Realm, no one could see her true face through this mask.
At this time, what appeared in front of these people was a somewhat pale, ordinary face.
Coupled with Chang Ling's somewhat cold look, these people were greatly disappointed.
Although beauty cannot be eaten as a meal, beauty is really pleasing to the body and mind.
"Chang Ling, from Qingzhou, is in the concentrating realm. Chang Ling said softly.
After listening to Chang Ling's background and cultivation, the faces of these people became a little more ugly, and even a few people couldn't help but complain to Bai Jinnian.
It is worth mentioning that if there is a person with a stronger soul than the person who transmits the voice, the content of the voice can also be heard.
Chang Ling listened to these complaints about her.
After listening to it, she couldn't help but want to complain a few words, the words of these people complaining are obviously outdated, and Fu Ning's scolding words can throw them off for several streets......
Bai Jinnian comforted these people for a while, and turned around and smiled apologetically at Chang Ling.
Chang Ling smiled and waved his hand, the young people who had just left the house and were forced to come to Youzhou, it was normal for them to be a little resentful and arrogant, so let's wait for reality to hammer them down.
After Bai Jinnian went to pull a few more people over, he finally gathered nine Condensing Realm cultivators.
"My brother told me that not far from this ghost forest, there is a Black Wind Mountain, which is inhabited by a team of evil cultivators refining zombies, and there is an evil array arranged by the evil cultivators of the Jindan Realm on this Black Wind Mountain, which can not only cover up the specific location of those evil cultivators, but also cause a lot of damage to the trespassers, so this demon killing operation has been carried out for so long, and the Black Wind Mountain has still not been cleared. ”
"For the Jindan Realm cultivators, the cost of breaking the formation and then killing those evil cultivators is too high and the return is too low, after all, there are at best five or six Condensing Realm cultivators on it, and ordinary Condensing Realm cultivators have nothing to do with that mountain protection array. ”
As soon as Bai Jinnian's voice fell, a young man in a blue brocade robe on the side spoke: "Don't sell Guanzi, do you have a way to break the formation, let's just say it, and there is also the issue of head distribution, if you can break the formation, the credit will naturally be indispensable to you, what about the others." ”
He glanced lightly at the group and said nothing more.
Every time they kill a cult cultivator of the lower grade of the Condensing Realm, they can get a reward of a medium-grade spirit stone, and their respective family sects will have additional rewards after they go back.
The bounties on the Demon Punishment Order are all for the low-grade cultivators in each realm, and the bounty for the high-grade cultivators in the Condensing Realm has reached ten medium-grade spirit stones, and the bounty for the upper-grade evil cultivators in the Condensing Realm is full of fifty medium-grade spirit stones, which is a lot of wealth for the cultivators of the Condensing Realm.
Chang Ling was in high spirits when he listened to Bai Jinnian's words, but he was suddenly interrupted, and he felt uncomfortable for no reason.
"Let's wait until the battle is over to see who contributes the most and who survives. She said unceremoniously.
I don't know how these people's family sects teach them, such a lack of etiquette and greed and arrogance.
The young man was choked by Chang Ling, and glanced at her quite contemptuously, among the monks present, only Chang Ling was a cultivator in the condensation realm, from Qingzhou, and the little fox who looked like her spirit beast standing on her shoulder was also a mortal fox who had no spiritual power to cultivate.
She can have such an awareness, naturally it is good, the first person to die, who else can there be besides her?
Bai Jinnian adjusted the atmosphere for a long time before he continued: "I can't completely break the formation left by the Jindan Realm monks, at most, I can only remove the part that shields the perception of divine consciousness, and then you can find the traces of the evil cultivators, but in the process of fighting with them, it is still possible to be attacked by the formation." ”
"According to the exact information, there are a total of six evil cultivators in the Concentration Realm on the Black Wind Mountain, four of them are in the Concentration Realm, and two are in the Concentration Realm. Bai Jinnian said with a smile.
Chang Ling instantly converted these evil cultivators into spirit stones in his mind.
One hundred and forty medium-grade spirit stones.
Even if these people share one point, it is a huge amount of money that Chang Ling can't exchange for several tasks in Qingzhou.
Chang Ling suddenly felt that his beautiful and bright future in Youzhou was illuminated by the shining spirit stone.
Because she really didn't know much information, Chang Ling acted completely according to Bai Jinnian's command, and she and another silent monk were responsible for using her divine sense to search the north of Black Wind Mountain after Bai Jinnian broke through the fog array.
After the plan was preliminarily decided, everyone didn't say anything more, they jumped on their magic weapons one after another, and Yukong traveled towards that side.
Bai Jinnian is definitely not the only one who can break through the fog array, they still have to go over as soon as possible to avoid being preempted by others.
Everyone's magic weapons were all of a kind, and Chang Ling's broken sword caused them to laugh again.
"Not all the monks in Qingzhou are like me. Chang Ling explained solemnly.
They're not as rich as I am.
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Everyone flew at full speed for about two or three hours, and finally saw a mountain shrouded in black mist in the distance.
On the way to Black Wind Mountain, they still haven't encountered any demon cultivators, and those demon cultivators are not fools, every time they punish demons, there are many people who directly hide well, although various demon cultivators have also rewarded the heads of righteous monks, but demon cultivators do not talk about credibility and have no morality.
has been relied on a lot of debts, and there are fewer and fewer demon cultivators who want to participate in such a struggle.
Of course, there are some bold demon cultivators who choose to take the initiative to fight with the righteous path monks, after all, in addition to the rewards, the body and soul of the righteous path monks are the most suitable things for refining into various yin things.
Standing at the foot of Heifeng Mountain, Bai Jinnian took out four palm-sized pennants from his arms, threw them out, and the four pennants continued to rotate around him, he sat cross-legged on the ground directly, his hands quickly sealed, and his mouth kept muttering something.
As the sweat on his forehead continued to fall, everyone also found that their divine sense could already penetrate the black mist to probe the specific situation on the mountain.
"Let's go. Chang Ling turned around and said softly to her companion, as soon as her words fell, the figures of the two of them flew out quickly, and the people who stayed in place could only see two afterimages.
Not to be outdone, the others flew forward.
Although most of them were forced by their families to come, their own strength is not weak, and they have also accepted a lot of benefits from the family, and they still have a lot of confidence in dealing with these Xu Xie Xiu, and what they are most afraid of is just letting their companions take the lead.
As he continued to march up the mountain, Chang Ling's speed gradually slowed down.
She and Abi's divine senses are both taken to the extreme, and they don't let go of the wind and grass of every grass and tree.
The people who traveled with her did the same, and one of them had a tacit understanding to focus on one side.
Walking slowly upward, I didn't encounter anything.
Suddenly, a scream rang out not far away.
If Chang Ling remembered correctly, it was a man in a turquoise shirt from the previous team.