Chapter XXVIII

Su Aotian suddenly realized, no wonder he had to register first, it seems that this employment token is not an ordinary thing, most of them have powerful monks in it with functions such as tracking and surveying, and they can quickly respond to accidents in the event of an accident.

From this day on, Su Aotian started a new period of city life. In his spare time, he first walked around, familiar with the terrain, and when he met a suitable hire task, he would survey the distant terrain by the way, and after getting acquainted with it, when there was no task, he also went out to find some fierce beasts, medicinal herbs, and so on. There are very few first-level fierce beasts near Yuanwu City, and third-level fierce beasts are also far away from the city, and most of them are second-level fierce beasts, which is suitable for his current realm. With his cultivation in the fourth stage of Qi refining, the power after merging the soul is even greater, and although it is difficult to deal with the second-level fierce beast, it is safe to protect himself, so that the quenching body can continue to improve. It may be because of the strong vitality of heaven and earth, and the cultivation progress of the divine soul seems to be faster. After more than a year like this, Su Aotian did six or seven mercenary tasks intermittently, and during this period, he also encountered some fierce beast attacks, but fortunately, they were all thrilling and dangerous, and they were all completed safely.

At this time, his water system exercises finally cultivated to the second stage of qi refining, which was more than twice as fast as when he cultivated the wood system exercises, and at the same time, the wood system exercises had vague signs of breaking through to the fifth stage of qi refining, this speed was much faster, and the power of the five elements began to gradually appear.

On this day, the recruiting department issued a mercenary task, which was to go to the Lingcui Valley in the west of Yuanwu City to recruit fifty people, and the cultivation was unlimited.

Su Aotian secretly said that this task was also peculiar, and he still came to the recruitment office.

I saw a monk standing in front of the counter of the recruiting office, who seemed to be an employer. Su Aotian's divine sense was extremely powerful, so he could easily detect the cultivation of some low-level cultivators. After a little investigation, he found that the faint aura fluctuations on this person's body were not below Mo Da, and he knew that this person was a master of the ninth stage of qi refining, and immediately felt that this task was not simple.

At this time, the monks kept coming in the hall, but most of them were watching, and there were not many people who went up to negotiate the payment.

For more than a year, Su Aotian has been familiar with the reception monks, these monks are all people with poor qualifications, and they have no future in cultivation, and they are generally more kind to people when they do these miscellaneous jobs. Su Aotian then pulled the monk aside and asked him why the monks who accepted the hire were not so enthusiastic.

The monk knew that he had not been here for a long time and did not know much about the area around Yuanwu City, so he briefly talked to him.

It turns out that this Lingcui Valley was originally a cultivation treasure in this place, although it is not as good as Yuanwu City, but it is much stronger than other places around, many years ago, there was a Jiedan monk who led the descendants of the disciples to establish a Lingcui Villa there, and after several generations of business development, it gradually became a large force. It's just that it's very far away from Yuanwu City, and it usually takes a month to walk, and along the way there are many dangerous peaks and canyons, and the third-level fierce beasts on the road are frequently infested, and the monks who rob homes and houses often set up ambushes in these dangerous places. This Lingcui Villa usually only comes to Hongwu City once a year, purchasing some cultivation materials and selling some special products and materials from Lingcui Valley, and the transaction volume is very large every time, and the robbers in Yuanwu City are also very angry. Lingcui Valley did not kill the robbers, but regarded it as the experience of the younger disciples, and for many years, it never sent a Jiedan monk to accompany him, and he was often escorted by disciples at the end of Qi refining and the early stage of foundation building. Because in the area of Yuanwu City, the monk Jiedan is already a top cultivator, either a sect elder or a family guest. This kind of person will never look down on this kind of large road goods and materials pulled by oxen, so the monks who have fallen into the robbers are almost all Qi refining monks, and there are only two or three foundation building monks, forming a large gang around. These people gather in the mountains and forests, come and go like the wind, there is no fixed place, it is not easy to exterminate, and secondly, the ideas of the various sect families are similar to those of the forces such as Lingcui Valley, that is, the monks cannot just practice behind closed doors at home, they have to go through some ups and downs, in addition to the descendants with outstanding talents in the family can be carefully cared for and cared for, most of the disciples are also pursuing an attitude of self-destruction, as long as they are not blatantly killing people and seizing treasures, the struggle between the disciples of the younger generations, the older generation is very tacit and does not make a move, and life and death are in peace. Only those monks who survive these bloody storms can their minds be sharpened and their future achievements be even higher. The existence of these bandits is also regarded as a kind of experience.

Therefore, the hiring task in this Lingcui Valley is extremely dangerous, although the pay is expensive, but few people are interested, and it is difficult to recruit people every time. Even so, there are difficulties in casual practice, and although there are casualties every time, there are still some people who, for various reasons, take risks and accept employment. All the monks who come are willing to accept the employment, and they are waiting to see if there are any high-ranking monks who will also accept the employment, so that they can have a support to increase the probability of completing the task and saving their lives.

When Su Aotian heard this, he was moved.

Over the past year or so, I have also encountered several dangers, but they are not too serious, and they do not have much benefit from my own cultivation. In this mission, all those who are hired start from ten spirit coins, the higher the cultivation, the higher the reward, the monks of the ninth stage of qi refining can get one hundred spirit coins, and the foundation building monks can get five hundred spirit coins. The purpose of the forces such as Lingcui Valley is to train their disciples, not to let them die, so they hire these loose cultivators, to put it bluntly, they are cannon fodder, the cannon fodder takes the lead first, and their own disciples will shoot later, so that they can get experience and not die easily. For them, the spirit coin is just a number, and for casual cultivation, the spirit coin is a resource. Su Aotian's cultivation in the fourth phase of qi refining can get twenty spirit coins, although he is not short of spirit coins, but he is also from a poor background, twenty spirit coins are really a lot, and this trip is also dangerous, just to experience it.

The idea is certain, so Su Aotian went to sign up.

The reception monk didn't expect that he was not afraid of the risk, and was shocked, but he couldn't dismantle his own desk and didn't let him sign up, so he was surprised and still went through the formalities for him. The employer of the ninth phase of qi refining glanced at him, and he was also a little surprised, but he was immediately relieved, in his eyes, the cannon fodder is the same, the difference is only the level of cultivation.

There are also a few monks who have signed up one after another, all of them are Qi refining cultivators, there are also those in the fifth and sixth phases, and there are also those in the seventh and eighth phases, although the age of the monks is not easy to see, but they are much older than Su Aotian, and they are running out of time. It is rare for a young monk like Su Aotian to be far from the end of his rope, but he is in a hurry to die. The monks secretly slandered, but it wasn't me who died anyway, and no one was nosy, after all, a strange thing like Moda was not encountered in a hundred years. Only the few monks who also signed up secretly scolded Su Aotian for being inferior in cultivation and dragging his feet.

After a while, a monk from the ninth phase of qi refining came, and he also accepted the hir, and immediately several monks from the seventh and eighth phases signed up. Then it was deserted for a while, and until noon, only more than 20 people signed up.

This situation is also expected by everyone, so the employer and the casual practitioner are not in a hurry.

Suddenly, a loud laugh sounded outside the door: "I finally made an appointment with Gao Daoyou, we are not late." As he spoke, two monks entered the hall, and the crowd immediately became commotion: "It's Senior Wei!" "Two foundation building monks, great!" "Do they also want to take on the task?

The monks rushed up and surrounded the counter.

The monk surnamed Wei waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "According to the cultivation!"

As soon as these words came out, all the monks were speechless, and no one dared to refute them out loud, so they had to wait for the two foundation building monks to register one by one according to their cultivation level.

After only a while, fifty places were recruited, and there were more than ten monks left, and there was actually a sixth phase of qi refining, seven or eight fifth phases of qi refining, and only three or four people were similar to Su Aotian's cultivation, or slightly lower.

The Zhuji monk surnamed Nawei glanced at everyone, and saw that Su Aotian's cultivation was the lowest in the team, and there was only the fourth phase of qi refining, and he didn't like it on his face, but he didn't say anything about it.

Originally, in order to avoid disputes between monks and monks, the recruitment office specially formulated some regulations, one of which was that monks should accept tasks on a first-come, first-served basis as long as they met the requirements of the employer. Although the monk surnamed Wei didn't like it in his heart, he couldn't break the rules, so he could only be secretly angry.

This time, everyone secretly ridiculed Su Aotian for not knowing whether he was alive or dead, but now everyone envied his good luck, especially those monks who were higher in cultivation than Su Aotian and had not reported their names, they all stared at him viciously, eager to pull him out of the team immediately and add it to himself.

The employer of the ninth phase of Qi refining saw that the number of people was full, and he had no intention of increasing the number of places, but just gave a salute to the two foundation building monks and said, "There are two seniors who have helped each other, and the juniors are grateful. At the end of the day, the juniors will be waiting at the west gate of the city. The two foundation-building monks did not dare to hold it up, and said, "It is easy to say, and you must arrive on time." Then the employer went out.

Monk Wei said, "Tomorrow as soon as possible, don't miss the time. "Walked with another Tsukiji monk.

The monks in the hall also dispersed, and each of them prepared to go.

When Su Aotian returned home, he didn't have anything to pack, so he meditated quietly all night, and when he arrived the next day, he came to the west gate of the city.

Before the hour came, everyone had arrived.

With a wave of his hand, the monk surnamed Wei divided everyone into several small groups according to their cultivation and spiritual root attributes, each with its own function. As for Su Aotian, he was directly ignored and assigned to a pathfinder team led by a monk in the sixth phase of qi refining, walking at the forefront of the team. The group of people was mighty, carrying dozens of green ox carts, and drove towards the Lingcui Valley.

The monks of the ninth stage of qi refining specially prepared a car for the two foundation building monks, and the others could only walk on their own feet.

The casual cultivators who participated in this employment were all familiar with each other, and they performed their duties along the way, and they walked in an orderly manner. The group of monks who were in charge of exploring the path, although they all belonged to the category of cultivation that was basically at the bottom, actually looked at Su Aotian differently, and their words were not polite, but they always supported him. Su Aotian didn't mind.

In the blink of an eye, he walked for three or four days, and he was quite calm along the way, and he met several third-level fierce beasts, all of which were killed by all the monks, and the bones, beast cores, etc. were naturally taken away by the high-level monks, and Su Aotian got nothing. He put away some of the meat and sprinkled it with spices when he camped, and the aroma was so fragrant that it attracted many greedy monks to feast on it, and after eating it, his relationship with him became kinder. This barbecue beast meat is practiced by him when he fights fierce beasts in the wild all the year round, and the average monk is addicted to the practice of exercises, and few people go to the wild to barbecue beast meat, and after eating Su Aotian's barbecue, some monks feel that this monk with inferior cultivation is not useless. Naturally, some people gave Su Aotian's beast meat to the predecessors of Zhuji, and the two of them did not insist on shirking, and they both ate some.

After more than ten days of walking, the convoy reached the front of a dense forest. Monk Na Wei gathered everyone together and said, "This Dark Moon Forest is one of the most dangerous areas of this trip, and if there are bandits, this is an excellent ambush location, so you must be in good spirits. "After that, the personnel have been redeployed, and Su Aotian is still a pioneer of the pathfinder.

When they entered the forest, everyone followed suit. Su Aotian and the two monks walked at the front of the team, the two walked slower and slower, and gradually opened a distance of about a zhang from Su Aotian, Su Aotian only didn't know, still walking unhurriedly in front.

As soon as he entered the Dark Moon Forest, Su Aotian let go of his divine sense. Although he doesn't have a very clear concept, he knows that it must be much stronger than the monks in the Qi refining period, and as for how far the foundation building monk's divine sense can reach, he doesn't know. At least two or three hundred miles ahead, the traces of birds, beasts, insects and ants are clearly recognizable, as if they were vivid. He also sensed that there were several fierce beasts with strong breaths watching around, and he felt that they were at least fourth-level fierce beasts, and when he saw the extraordinary momentum of this group, he did not act rashly.

Su Aotian walked alone beyond the crowd, and the monks behind him only thought that he was shallow and ignorant of the severity, and he was happy that there was a ghost in front of him who was sending death, and no one reminded him. I don't know that he is a bamboo in his chest, so he can have no fear in his heart.

Suddenly, I felt something strange in the dense forest on the left, and something was sneaking at high speed, but it didn't make a sound, and when I checked its direction, it was aiming at the middle of the convoy.

After experiencing the Zhou Quanfeng incident, Su Aotian already knew that the hearts of people in this immortal cultivation world were sinister, and in the case of his own lack of strength, he had to hide himself at all times, and easily not let people feel that he was any different. Although he didn't want others to think that his divine sense was far beyond ordinary people, he also didn't want to let the monk team be attacked without knowing it, so his heart moved and slowed down.

He was so slow that all the monks just thought there was something abnormal, and they all cheered up at once.

The leading monk in charge of exploring the path hurriedly swept up to Su Aotian and asked, "Have you found anything?"

Su Aotian pretended to be scared and said, "That's not true, it's just that it's too dark in front of me." ”

The leading monk was about to be reprimanded, and several large trees in the middle of the left of the group were already shaking and crackling, and one thing had approached the convoy and launched an attack.

The monk's reaction was also very fast, and in an instant all the shield walls were erected, and the rocket ice rain was scattered towards the big trees, and the area was emptied in an instant.

I saw a behemoth rushing over quickly, the shield wall was like paper paste, and it was pierced at once, and the rocket ice rain did not hurt it in the slightest, rushing to the front, opening its big mouth and wanting to devour.

At this time, it was clear that it was a big green snake, the thickness of a water tank, two eyes the size of a teapot, and a large open mouth with jagged fangs, which was more than enough to swallow a person.

A loud shout rang out in the ground: "Evil beast dares!"

With the sound, a large fireball exploded violently on the side of the snake's mouth, and under the fluctuation of the aura, the trees next to it fell down as if blown by a strong wind, and the big snake hissed miserably, and the blood light collapsed. After the explosion, the big snake was beaten so that it threw its head back and fell backwards, and several fangs in its mouth were broken, and the long snake letter was broken.

There was already a person standing on the roof of a car, it was the monk surnamed Gao.

The power of this blow was so huge, Su Aotian could only look at it secretly: "Monk Zhuji, the supernatural power is indeed extraordinary!"

Although the serpent was repulsed, it was not mortally harmed, and then it suffered a lot, turned its head, and fled quickly into the depths of the forest.

The monk surnamed Gao didn't chase after him, and at this time, the monk surnamed Wei came out of the car and said with a smile: "Brother Gao is really extraordinary, and he tried the knife and beat this blue-spotted python away, hehe!" At this time, all the monks also gathered around, and there were many sycophants. The monk surnamed Wei waved his hand and said, "Hurry up and hurry, and get out of the Dark Moon Forest first." ”

After this attack, all the monks cheered up, except for Su Aotian who was still exploring the path in front, two or three more monks walked to the front and helped to explore the path together. Maybe the encounter of the blue-spotted python was noticed by other fierce beasts, knowing that this group of people was not easy to provoke, and they were not attacked by fierce beasts on the road.

After walking for three days, he finally walked out of the Dark Moon Forest.

This time, only in the forest encountered a fourth-level fierce beast blue spotted python attack, the team can be regarded as unscathed, the smooth process greatly exceeded everyone's expectations, all the monks feel that it is a good sign, this trip may be smooth sailing, easy to earn spirit coins and return. There was always a high degree of tension in the dense forest, and as soon as they escaped, all the monks unconsciously relaxed, and naturally felt a little tired, and some monks suggested resting.

The monk surnamed Wei observed the terrain and saw that there was a small valley in front of him, so he said: "This place is too close to the Dark Moon Forest, it is not a good place to rest, I will wait until I get out of the valley in front of me, and it will not be too late to rest." The monks had no choice but to go on.