Chapter 40: Fiasco

"Giggles" Little Lori smiled happily, putting a strip of meat not far ahead.

The eaglet "Ah Huang" flapped its wings and rushed to it, and its sharp beak immediately picked up the meat strips.

"This little guy is worthy of being a descendant of the Eagle Vulture King, and he is so strong after only two days of coming out of the shell. Zhang Xu walked over and sighed. It won't take a few days for this eaglet to take to the skies.

"Yes, yes, Ah Huang is very powerful. Little Lori smiled happily.

Zhang Xu said helplessly: "Ah Xi, can we give it a name with a bright spot, such as thunderbolt, lightning and the like, Ah Huang sounds like a dog's name." ”

"No, it's called Ah Huang, brother in charge, don't you see that it's covered in yellow velvet, isn't it Ah Huang?"

This is the fluff is good, and it won't take long for the fluff to fade, and then it will give birth to real feathers, see that the feathers of other eagle vultures are mostly gray, this eaglet must also be gray feathers, and then call Ah Huang is not the scene. But since little Lori likes it, Zhang Xu can only compromise helplessly.

"By the way, what about Su Man, I can't see her for a few days?" Zhang Xu asked strangely.

"Sister Su Man, oh, she is working hard in that eagle's nest, you don't know, brother in charge, yesterday Elder Ma Chuang Ma scolded her fiercely, and the scolding was fierce. Sister Suman used her skills and said that she had to build a foundation. Little Lori smiled.

It turned out that he was stimulated, Zhang Xu suddenly felt in his heart.

"Come, Ah Huang, I'll take you down the mountain. Zhang Xu stretched out his palm to the little eagle Ah Huang, and Ah Huang chirped and threw himself at Zhang Xu, looking very happy.

Don't look small about this little eagle, but her IQ is high, and there are forty or fifty people in the entire Iron Sword Gate, except for Zhang Xu and Xiao Lori, no one else can easily touch it.

Cultivation is a long-term thing, it is not an overnight achievement, and it must be combined with work and rest. Now that he has successfully built the foundation, Zhang Xu naturally won't spend all his time on cultivation all day long, he has to enjoy the good time in time, and cultivation is too boring. So I decided to go down the mountain and take a walk, and by the way, I walked the birds.

Little Lori has always worked hard, but she is worried about the safety of her brother, who knows if there are any demon beasts in the grassland under the mountain?

Holding the little eagle in his left hand and the little Lori in his right hand, Zhang Xu Shi Shi ran down the lonely mountain.

"Boss. ”

"Boss. ”

The disciples of the Iron Sword Sect who met along the way saluted and greeted their beloved Zhang Da Sect, and Zhang Xu responded with a smile, chatted with them cordially, and asked about the harvest.

"Today is more unlucky, I searched all over the large mountain slopes, and I found ten spirit grasses, and they are all first-order spirit grasses. Tomorrow, after I have finished cultivating, I will decide to go deep into the grassland to find out. A monk said stupidly.

"Be content, let's all look in this mountain every day, this lonely mountain is not big, it has been turned over several times, and it is good to find so many. As poor as you are, you couldn't save a few spirit stones in a year in the past, but now how many spirit grasses have you found in this short period of time? At least there are more than a hundred, and there are nearly 100 spirit stones in exchange, which has been able to withstand the hard work of the past for many years. His companion laughed and scolded.

"And say me, don't you do the same, who is afraid of the spirit stone piercing your hands?" the monk said with a smile, and began to pat Zhang Xu's ass as soon as he turned around, "All this is thanks to joining the Iron Sword Gate, we can be regarded as living a good life, let's follow the head of his old man is right." ”

"Yes, yes, the Iron Sword Gate is mighty, the head is mighty!" said the other monk with a smile.

Zhang Xu smiled and waved his hand, scolding: "Don't talk nonsense, remember to hand over 30% of the harvest to the door, you are all well fed, and you can't let the head of the family be poor." ”

"Sir, you're fine, you won't forget. The two monks replied with a smile. It is natural to hand over the confiscation to the sect, and there is no reason to just ask for it and not contribute, and all the monks know this very well.

After these days of getting along, Zhang Xu's majesty has been established, but he himself is an easy-going person, and he doesn't want to be serious all day long, so the disciples in the door are willing to talk to him, and they also like to listen to him ridicule and scold. Of course, it doesn't matter if you laugh and talk at ordinary times, but no one dares to disobey Zhang Xu's order at a critical moment, and the monk who was shot to death is a lesson from the past.

Wei Suo was very busy and excited, as the general manager, he had hundreds of spiritual grasses in his account every day, all of which were handed in by the disciples of the Iron Sword Sect. Of course, it was to enter the public account of the Iron Sword Gate and not into his private pocket, but this already made Wei Suo extremely excited. He was busy keeping accounts and counting the spirit grass every day, and he was even less interested in cultivation.

"Look, master, we now have three thousand two hundred and fifty-one spirit grasses, of which there are five hundred and three second-order spirit grasses and more than forty third-order spirit grasses. Make a fortune!"

Wei Suo took the account book and showed it to Zhang Xu, and his mouth was almost crooked when he smiled.

"Look at your little bit of talent, only a few thousand spirit grasses will make you smile like this. Zhang Xu said disdainfully.

"Master, these are thousands of them, worth tens of thousands of spirit stones!" Wei Suo argued with wide eyes.

Do you know what is most valuable in our Iron Sword Gate right now? It's not these tattered spirit grasses, but the eaglets and more than a dozen eagle eggs on the top of the cliff!

If the eaglets can be successfully domesticated, each of them will be worth thousands of spirit stones when they grow up, and the same is true for eagle eggs, as long as we hatch the eaglets, they can also be sold for a lot of money!"

Zhang Xu reprimanded, very annoyed by Wei Suo's poor vision.

"But master, aren't you in charge of hatching eggs?" Wei Suo said aggrievedly.

I'll go, Zhang Xu can't wait to slap him, Lao Tzu is in charge, what do you think of me as a hen?

"What nonsense! The reason why Master Ben personally hatched this eaglet was to use it as a mount in the future. As for the other eagle eggs, can they not hatch one by one?"

"But sir, why did your egg hatch while the other eagle eggs didn't move?"

"Of course, it's the temperature. The top of the cliff is nearly a thousand meters high, the cold wind is howling and the temperature is very low, and these eagle eggs are naturally not easy to hatch on the top of the cliff. You take a few people up and take them all out, find a cave at the foot of the mountain and put them in, and then make a fire in the cave to keep the temperature, and catalyze them with mana from time to time, and in a few days, they will naturally hatch. ”

Zhang Xu casually ordered, everyone else was busy training, only Wei Suo was more idle, and Zhang Xu could only give him this task.

However, Zhang Xu did not tell Wei Suo about the method of blood catalysis, if it was really catalyzed by blood, Kitty Eagle would only use catalysis as his parents and relatives, and what Zhang Xu wanted to do was not to hatch eagle vultures for some monks as mounts, but to sell these future eagle vultures for a big price!

Just as Zhang Xu and Wei Suo were talking, Xiong Xian escorted Qian Ziwang to break through the heavy interception of the demon beast, entered the vast grassland, and came towards the lonely mountain.

When he saw Xiong Xian reappear, Zhang Xu was slightly annoyed, if it weren't for this old guy, Tiejianmen would still be able to live a good life for a while.

However, after hearing Qian Ziwang tell about the fiasco of the Chamber of Commerce's army, the anger in Zhang Xu's heart disappeared.

The rabbit died and the fox was sad, if the army of the Chamber of Commerce was annihilated by the demon beasts in the mountains and forests, how could these dozens of people survive alone with only the Iron Sword Gate?

"Although Deacon Qian can rest assured, my Iron Sword Sect will definitely obey Deacon Qian's orders and prepare for the arrival of the army. Zhang Xu solemnly promised.

Zhang Xu's attitude made Qian Ziwang very satisfied.

"Zhang Zhang, don't worry, my chamber of commerce will never forget your achievements. ”

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In the next few days, Zhang Xu led the people of the Iron Sword Gate to prepare to welcome the army. Thousands of troops arrived at Lonely Mountain, and the movement was definitely not small. The camp for the monks, the food for the army, the cave house for the high-ranking members of the chamber of commerce, etc., all need to be arranged.

Of course, with the Iron Sword Gate, there are more than 40 people, and it is impossible to prepare perfectly. Zhang Xu only ordered half of the people to cut down wood and transport it to the top of the cliff to build a few wooden houses for the heads of the chamber of commerce to live in.

The other half of the disciples were sent to the grasslands to hunt, whether it was a yellow sheep and a bison, an elk or a rabbit, and they could hunt as much as they could, so that the monks who came from afar could have a full meal.

In private, Zhang Xu called Wei Soma to Fengping.

"The army of the Chamber of Commerce is coming, and we can't occupy the top of the mountain anymore. Elder Feng, you go around the mountain to see that place has more spiritual power, and together with Elder Ma, you can lead people to open up a camp as the residence of our Iron Sword Gate. We finally built the lonely mountain, and we had to sacrifice the top of the cliff with the most abundant aura, but we can't lose ourselves. ”

"Yes, the master" Feng Ping and Ma Chuang agreed. The two of them also knew that a place with and without aura was a world of difference, because it was related to whether the cultivation of the disciples of the Iron Sword Sect would rise or not.

"Wei Suo, do you know what you're going to do next?"

Wei Suo nodded heavily: "Yes." The wolf is coming, and I must watch over our possessions lest they be coveted. ”

Zhang Xu was very satisfied: "Yes, our Iron Sword Sect has made a fortune these days, and everyone is so rich. But the thousands of monks who fought in the mountains and forests were very hard, fighting with demon beasts every day, where did they have the strength to find the treasures of heaven and earth?

The most important thing to be a person is to be low-key, and if you have a spirit stone, you have to pretend that you don't have it. Tell the brethren to hide all the herbs they have found for me, and keep them from outsiders. To the outside world, it is said that this lonely mountain is very desolate, and there is no natural treasure. In this way, others will not be jealous of us. ”

Wei Suo smiled: "That is, to make a fortune in a muffled voice, I understand the master." However, the 10% we seized needs to be handed over to the Chamber of Commerce, and I'm afraid we won't be able to hide it in the end. ”

Zhang Xu said: "When the Chamber of Commerce collects and seizes it, it is all at the end of the hunt and returns to the Feihuang Realm, where do you need to hide it then." As for now, you can hide it for me for as long as you can! Don't hatch the dozen or so eagle eggs, hide them first, and then hatch them after we return to the Flying Yellow Realm......"

The wealth is moving, the current strength of the Iron Sword Gate is still too weak, and the Beast Spirit Realm is not the Flying Yellow Realm, it belongs to the land outside the law, Zhang Xu has to be more careful.

Wei Suo went to carry out Zhang Xu's order, this guy can't cultivate, but he is very good at doing these trivial things, and he doesn't need Zhang Xu to worry about it.

Feng Ping walked around the entire lonely mountain, and finally found a platform with a circle of several acres on the north side of the mountain, there is a cave in the middle of the cliff under the platform, the cave is about more than ten zhang deep, in the cave, Feng Ping felt the aura fluctuations. This cave is on the wall in the middle of the cliff, and it is not easy to find if it weren't for Feng Ping's natural sensitivity to aura.

This should be a branch of the Lonely Mountain Spiritual Vein, and the spiritual energy is very thin, and it can only maintain four or five people cultivating at the same time.

"The top of the cliff will be used as the camp of our Iron Sword Gate, and the cave will be used as a place for cultivation, and the big guys can at least take turns to cultivate. Zhang Xu checked it and made up his mind.

Although the aura here is thin, it is better than nothing. This lonely mountain is so big, it is suitable for the peak of the cave, it is impossible for thousands of monks to be qualified to cultivate on the peak, and it is already good that the Iron Sword Gate can have such a cave.

After the decision was settled, the materials belonging to the Iron Sword Gate were transported to the north platform of the mountain one after another, and the important seizures such as the killed eagle vulture feathers and iron claw eagle eggs were transported into the cave and hidden.

Ma Chuang cut some vines and weaved them into ropes, which hung down from the platform to the mouth of the cave, through which the monks could enter the cave. On the platform, seven or eight wooden houses were built with bamboo and leaves, which served as a shelter for the Tiejianmen and others.

While the monks of the Iron Sword Gate were making various preparations, Li Pingbo was leading the army of monks to retreat from the mountains and forests.

However, under the attack of the demon snake and many demon beasts, the retreat road was destined to be difficult, and it was destined to suffer heavy casualties.

The attack of the demon beasts was just like that, after all, with thousands of monks waiting for them, although the number of demon beasts was large, they could not break through the defenses of the monks. But the Demon Snake King is different.

The winged demon snake was too fast, and it sneaked around the monk army from time to time, making Li Pingbo tired of coping. And every sneak attack of the Demon Snake King brought losses to the army of several or even dozens of people.

By the time the army withdrew from the mountains and forests and reached the grasslands, as many as five or six hundred corpses were left along the way. The monks who managed to reach the steppe were in their early 3,000s.

Seeing that the human monk had fled to the grassland, the Demon Snake King finally stopped the pursuit. It seems that the statement that monsters have their own territories is true.

After counting the number of people, Li Pingbo's face was extremely ugly. The army of more than 5,000 monks before the departure is now only about 3,000 people, and it has lost 40 percent! It is really an unprecedented fiasco.