Chapter Thirty-Six: In the Troubled Times
Chapter 36 is in the troubled times
The early morning in the ghost desert came very early.
It was the fifth watch, and the sky was already bright, Fang Junmei stretched his waist, took out the dry food from the storage bag, ate some at will, and set off on the road to the next ghost storm.
In the ghost desert, there are a lot of ghost storms in general, but between the two, the distance between them is at least ten miles away.
Fang Junmei performed the air dance technique and ran all the way. Once you reach it, you can start collecting it immediately.
The second.
The third.
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Relying on the help of the Three-Breath Divine Stone and the growth of his own strength, Fang Junmei collected the Wind Shadow Sand at an extremely fast speed.
If he was seen by those outer disciples who had mocked him before, his jaw would drop to the ground.
In fact, if it weren't for a long time to spend on rushing and recovering, Fang Junmei could have charged faster and more.
In the ghost desert, there seemed to be no other people or other creatures, and no one came, Fang Junmei seemed to be the only existence in this heaven and earth. For him who is in a hurry to do the task, he is naturally happy.
This task is time-limited, within five years!
When Fang Junmei took over the task, more than three years had passed, that is to say, he only had more than a year to do this task, and then the time to dig back and forth was only about a year. In order to earn more sword spirit stones, Fang Junmei was never willing to be distracted by anything.
But will things really be so smooth sailing?
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In a flash, more than a month has passed.
Fang Junmei harvested the Wind Shadow Sand at a rate of about ten regiments per day, and calculated at three hundred regiments, it was sixty thousand lower-grade spirit stones, which was really a lot of money.
Fang Junmei came out to do the task for the first time, and he had such a harvest, and he was really happy in his heart, but he didn't notice his direction, he had deviated more and more from the edge, and began to go towards the center.
This night, the bright moon hung high again.
Fang Junmei was still chasing in the wind.
He has changed his routine, resting and recovering during the day, and traveling and searching for wind shadow sand at night to reduce the physical exertion caused by the heat.
After all, he was just a mortal who had just embarked on the path of cultivation for a few years.
In the ghost storm, Fang Junmei chased the last cloud of wind shadow sand.
Roar –
Suddenly, there was a roaring sound, coming from the northwest direction, the sound was like the roar of a wild beast, and it was like an illusory wind roar, but the anger contained in it was obviously the smell of life, and it was by no means an ordinary wind howl.
Fang Jun's eyebrows flashed when he listened.
It was the first time he had heard anything else in more than a month.
After his gaze flashed a few times, Fang Junmei first collected the wind shadow sand as fast as he could, and then cast a gravity technique, and with a bang, he fell to the ground and looked at where the sound came from.
In the distance, the light is still dim, and there is no other abnormality to be seen with the naked eye.
Fang Jun's brows furrowed, and he couldn't help but regret that he hadn't cultivated his spiritual sense well.
After thinking for a moment, Fang Junmei cautiously searched in the direction of the northwest.
......
Roar –
The roar of the wind did not stop, but became louder and louder, and the anger contained in it became stronger and stronger, as if it had been provoked.
The most important thing was that he actually approached in the direction where Fang Junmei was going.
"It can't be any guy who plans to lead the way and rely on me to get out of his own crisis, right?"
Fang Jun's eyebrows spun quickly, giving birth to a strong bad feeling.
When I looked behind me again, I finally saw something unusual with the naked eye.
I saw a little white light, from the northwest direction a few miles away, approached, and then stared at it, where was the white mang, it was clearly a man in black, driving a snow-white long knife, flying in his direction, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional.
And behind this man, the flying sand rolled.
In the rolling sand, there was a fat monster more than ten feet high, like a human figure, with two clusters of earthy yellow light at the skull, like two eyes, flashing with light, strange and mysterious. Carrying the wind and sand to chase after him, it is very magnificent.
The roar came from the mouth of the monster.
"Fellow Daoists, run!"
The man in black seemed to see Fang Junmei, and shouted loudly, his voice was clearer and more powerful, it should be a young man.
Fang Junmei's face turned dark when he heard this, and he almost spit out a mouthful of old blood in anger.
Why did you take the monster in other directions, why did you have to let me run away when you brought it to me?
Make your heart come to mind!
Before the other party's words fell, he saw that the man in black had changed direction violently and headed in the direction of due north, with a posture of reluctance to drag Fang Junmei into the water.
But in that case, why shout that again?
Fang Junmei was a little stupid, could it be that he was wrong to blame this person?
In an instant, he got the answer.
I saw that the wind and sand monster chasing the man in black was actually separated into two groups, one of which was still chasing the man in black, and the other was chasing in the direction of Fang Junmei.
I see.
This monster turned out to be a doppelganger, but the size after the doppelganger was nearly thirty percent smaller, and its eyes became one-eyed.
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Swish!
Fang Junmei didn't say a word, turned around sharply, and headed in the direction of the south, that is, the direction of the Sunset Mountain Range.
The other party is already able to fly, so at least in the early stage of the floating dust, he can't beat it, how can Fang Junmei fight?
Although he has a high spirit, he is not arrogant and ignorant. And this monster must be unable to communicate, otherwise how could he be inexplicably chasing and killing him.
Run!
Run!
Run!
Fang Junmei was like a rabbit, and he flew through the air dance technique, but where did the two legs run through the wind, and seeing the separated wind and sand monster, he chased closer and closer.
This monster is the first time Fang Junmei has seen it in his life, it is all made of wind and sand condensation, it looks a little empty, and the yellow existence at the head is somewhat similar to the wind shadow sand he collected, but it is much bigger and more condensed.
The heat wave is rolling in!
The other party chased closer and closer, and the two huge arms had already begun to wave, and between the swings, they saw a series of flying sand arrows, hitting Fang Junmei's back.
The sound of breaking the sky, roaring like a ghost!
If you are hit, you will break your tendons and fracture if you don't die.
Fang Junmei didn't dare to take it hard, and hurriedly opened the Three-Breath Divine Stone, and while escaping, he dodged left and right.
Among them, there is a thrilling place that hangs and hangs, and if anyone sees it, keep it for him to sweat.
......
However, although he didn't hit, Fang Junmei's crisis still hasn't been resolved, dodging will inevitably delay the escape, even if it's a very short moment, the monster is chasing closer and closer!
Fang Jun's eyebrows were ugly, and the inexplicable dark clouds rolled towards his heart.
......
Roar –
At the moment of crisis, the roar of the second wind and sand monster also sounded in Fang Junmei's ears, and it was getting closer and closer.
"It's already got that guy out?"
Fang Junmei heard the voice, his brows condensed again, only when the other party had already dealt with the man in black, he also began to hunt him down.
I couldn't help but turn around and take a look.
At this glance, his face was slightly stunned.
I saw that the man in black was not killed, he was still standing on the knife, and he was carrying the monster and came in his direction again.
Fang Junmei's eyes narrowed, and there was a big murderous intent, if the other party really planned to calculate him, even if Fang Junmei didn't want to fight for his life, he would drag him on the road together.
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After a few breaths, the situation changed again.
The man in black seemed to realize something, and suddenly made another turn and made a detour.
"Come to me, get on my knife, with your speed, it's impossible to escape!"
The voice of the man in black sounded in Fang Junmei's mind, not in his ears, using spiritual sense transmission, this method is also one of the lowest level spells, although Fang Junmei has learned it, he has not used it yet.
Hearing the other party's words, Fang Junmei couldn't help but hesitate, whether the other party was sincere or out of a calculation.
"You're going to die, what are you hesitating about? If Lao Tzu wants to calculate you, why did he go north just now?"
The man in black seemed to have penetrated the thoughts in Fang Junmei's heart, and scolded loudly.
Fang Jun said the same with his eyebrows, he didn't dare to delay any longer, he made a detour and leaned towards the other party.
The two are getting closer.
The arrows of wind and sand that hit the two of them are also getting denser and denser.
"Come up!"
More than thirty feet later, the man in black shouted.
Swish!
Fang Junmei rose into the air and jumped onto the knife, and before he could stand firmly, the man in black had already controlled the long knife under his feet, and he made another sharp turn, rushing towards the direction of the Sunset Mountain Range in the south.
Twenty or thirty sand arrows swept past the bodies of the two men.
Roar!
The two of them got together, and the two separate monsters also gathered together at this moment, looking at the two who were flying farther and farther away, they let out an angry wind roar again, and at the same time merged again.
This fusion, as if the strength was also a little stronger, when chasing the two again, they were getting closer and closer.
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"Brother Dao, is there no other way to get rid of them?"
Fang Junmei gasped heavily, and only then did he have the strength to look at the man in black.
This person is also a young man, about the same height as Fang Junmei, with wider shoulders, but his figure does not appear excessively majestic, but gives people a feeling of strength and strength, like a spear.
The appearance is not very handsome, but it is extraordinarily stylish, the face is well-defined, the edges and corners are sharp, as if the knife has been cut out, the sword eyebrows and tiger eyes, the nose is plump, the two pupils are dark and deep, and the stars are shining.
The most special thing is that there is an inch-long scar that extends from the top to the bottom of his right eye, as if it can blind his right eye if it is just a little deeper.
With long black hair and dancing in the wind, this person's temperament is wild and strong, revealing the taste of a good and brave man who is not afraid of heaven and earth, and no one is disgusted.
"I've been thinking, hahaha-"
Hearing Fang Junmei's words, the man in black laughed and said, he was heartless.
After bringing the above Jun Mei, this person's speed must have been a little slower, but he could still come out with a smile, with a heroic attitude that did not care about life and death at all.
Between the eyebrows, there is a certain youth, fearlessness, and passion.
He shouldn't be very old, and his realm is only a little higher than Fang Junmei, so he should have just advanced to the early stage of floating dust.
Fang Junmei shook his head and smiled when he heard his words.
For some reason, the wariness of this person instantly became much smaller.
"What kind of monsters are these guys, and what are their weaknesses?"
Fang Junmei asked again.
The black-clothed young man said: "They are one of the unique creatures in the Ghost Desert, called the Wind Shadow Beast, if the Wind Shadow Sand is the lowest unique creature here, then the level of the Wind Shadow Beast is one order higher than them, and most of the time it is hidden under the sand, as for what weaknesses there are, I don't know." ”
Fang Jun frowned and said, "What did you do to make it chase you so madly?"
Hearing this question, the young man in black smiled bitterly: "I accidentally broke into its lair and accidentally broke something, it's as simple as that. ”
Fang Jun's eyebrows flashed, and when he heard that the other party didn't want to say more, he didn't ask any more questions.
"Rise to the sky, maybe get rid of it?"
Fang Jun's eyebrows spun quickly.
"No, it can rise higher than me. ”
Fang Jun frowned, looked at him a few more times, and then didn't speak again.
......
The snow-white long knife, holding the two of them, swayed left and right, dodging the arrows of wind and sand from behind.
"White-clothed, you have to think of a way!"
The spirit of the young man in black saw that the old god Fang Junmei was standing on the knife, looking relaxed with nothing to do, and couldn't help but say.
When Fang Junmei heard this, he smiled slightly: "Since Your Excellency can still laugh, you must still have hole cards hidden in your hand, what am I anxious about." ”
When the young man in black heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then laughed again: "You guy, it's interesting, much more interesting than those guys in the clan." ”
Fang Junmei smiled but did not speak.
The young man in black said again: "But in my hand, I really don't have any hole card means, and I can laugh out, just because my courage is greater than others, and I don't care about life and death." ”
Fang Jun shrugged his shoulders noncommittally.
Seeing that Fang Junmei ignored it, the young man in black was a little embarrassed, his expression finally became serious, and asked: "Now that the lives of the two of us have been tied together, at least we have to do something to live a little longer, white-clothed, how are you learning spells?"
"It's just the basics. ”
Fang Junmei said without the slightest embarrassment.
The black-clothed young man said: "Show it, you come to attack, I will control the sword, you must escape into the Sunset Mountain Range to see if it will chase it there." ”
"Good!"
Fang Jun's eyebrows sank slightly, and he nodded in agreement.
Swish!
After a sound, Fang Junmei turned around and pinched his hand.
Whew-
In an instant, a fireball-like thing flew out of his palm and smashed into the Wind Shadow Beast that was getting closer and closer.
Sure enough, it's the most basic!
The black-clothed young man in front of him turned black when he saw it, and suddenly hated why he came back to save Fang Junmei because of that little bit of guilt, which was really not his usual style.
The two stood back to back, on the knife.
A frenzied urge to move the long knife under his feet.
One after another casts the most basic spells.
Both of them are not gullible people, but in the current situation of yin and yang, they actually handed over their backs to each other, and I have to say that fate is a very wonderful thing.
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Whew-
Fireballs flew away.
But behind the wind and sand that met the Wind Shadow Beast, it passed through silently, and there was no sound of explosion.
After passing through, it gradually dissolves into nothingness.
The Wind Shadow Beast, apart from letting out an even more angry roar, showed no signs of injury, and its speed did not slow down.
Fang Jun's eyebrows flashed.
Whew!
Two fireballs in succession shot out towards the two yellow crystal-like eyes at the opponent's skull.
Perhaps sensing these two attacks, the Wind Shadow Beast was somewhat threatening, and stretched out its two Great Wind Sand Palms and slapped them at the fireball.
Bang!
After two explosions, the air wave exploded into flowers.
The body of the Wind Shadow Beast, because of the qi waves, was finally a little slower, and Fang Junmei and the black-clothed young man who were watching it breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
Roar –
Another angry roar came, and the Wind Shadow Beast still chased after it, with a posture of not tearing the two apart and never giving up.
Fang Junmei succeeded in one blow, did not stare at the fireball technique, and cast the spells of the other systems he had learned one by one.
Eventually, when an ice sword technique was cast, another unexpected surprise came.
After the ice swordsmanship hit the opponent's quicksand-like body, it actually froze, a piece of white frost, spreading across the opponent's body, and even the quicksand froze into ice, although it didn't take long.
But Fang Junmei reacted extremely quickly, and the next time he blasted out, he had already aimed at the opponent's feet.
Frost freezes again!
Rumble!
The Wind Shadow Beast was chasing after it at high speed, and after its feet were frozen, it stumbled and fell to the ground.
"It's him, if you dare to get closer, you will smash me with a frost spell!"
The young man in black laughed when he saw it, and Fang Junmei was also in good spirits, and finally found the right way.
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In the great desert where the ghost wind was howling, the Wind Shadow Beast never gave up chasing and killing the two, no matter how many times it was frozen by the frost.
However, the young man in black and Fang Junmei felt that something was wrong, because their mana had been consumed more and more. The Wind Shadow Beast, on the other hand, didn't give them the slightest sense of consumption, and if the situation continued, the two of them would be the ones who died.
At this moment, the Sunset Mountain Range is still at the end of the distant sky.
"Those in white clothes, take some pills to replenish mana. ”
The young man in black said with a slightly condensed expression, and after finishing speaking, he first took out a jade bottle, poured a few grains, and slapped it into his mouth, banging sound.
"Bring it. ”
Fang Junmei stretched out a hand and patted him on the shoulder, not polite to him at all.
"Don't you have it yourself? This is the most common Qi Replenishing Pill!"
The young man in black turned his head, his eyes widened, first he froze, and then he said with a grim look.
"This ...... Not really. ”
Fang Junmei said with an embarrassed expression. His spirit stones were all spent on cultivation, where was there any extra money to buy pills.
The young man in black was speechless, and stuffed the jade bottle to him: "What kind of sect and sect are you, so poor that you don't even have a single pill to replenish mana?"
Fang Junmei took the jade bottle, first poured a few pills and swallowed them, rolling mana, flowing out of the pill, swimming to all parts of his body.
This mana is very mixed, and it is not the purest sword vitality, so it can be seen that it is really not a good thing, but now, it must be better than nothing.
"Jun Mei below, born in the Taoyuan Sword Sect, I don't know what to call my brother?"
Fang Junmei smiled.
When the young man in black heard this, the essence in his eyes flashed, and the corners of his mouth hooked an evil smile, and he said in a long voice: "It turned out to be a little cub from the Taoyuan Sword Sect of the conceited and decent Daomen......
Hearing the other party's words, Fang Jun's eyebrows flashed in his eyes, and he said lightly: "Listening to Your Excellency's tone, it seems that you have some opinions about our Taoyuan Sword Sect, could it be that he is a little cub from the Demon Gate?"
Not humble, not arrogant, not the slightest.
Between the two, there seems to be a bit of-for-tat.
When the young man in black heard Fang Junmei's words, he laughed and said, "Dao Lang in the troubled world!"
I don't say anything about the sect, as if this name is enough to represent something.
"Are you a member of the Troubled Family of the Five Great Demon Gates?"
Fang Junmei asked, some of Song Shede's introductions to him flashed in his mind.
Originally, the Great River Country had five major demon gates and five great avenue gates, which were opposites. Among the Five Great Dao Sects, the Luofu Sword Sect has been destroyed, and now there are only four left.
Among the five major demon gates, the Troubled Family is the only one that exists in the nature of a family, and ninety percent of the clan are sword cultivators, acting ruthlessly, and it is very difficult to provoke.
When Dao Lang heard this, he said a little viciously: "The Troubled Family is indeed my own family, if Your Excellency is afraid, roll down the knife as soon as possible, Lao Tzu can escape alone, and the speed can be faster." ”
When Fang Junmei heard this, he smiled and said, "I have long wanted to fight a monk in the Floating Dust Period, Your Excellency be careful not to be slapped by me from behind." ”
"Hahaha-"
When Dao Lang heard this, he laughed heroically, with indescribable joy.
Fang Junmei also smiled.
For the first time, this pair of juniors who were fleeing for their lives gave birth to a feeling of sympathy for each other.
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The two of them are happy to fight, and they still work hard.
The Troubled Knife Lang drove the long sword, and while dodging, fled in the direction of the Sunset Mountain Range. Fang Junmei, on the other hand, released an ice sword technique after each Wind Shadow Beast approached, slowing down the momentum of the opponent's pursuit.
After more than two days of this long pursuit, he finally saw the light of day, and it was also a loss to replenish the qi on the Dao Lang of the troubled times.
The Sunset Mountains are just around the corner.
"I've been here before, and I know of a great place for an ambush!"
Dao Lang of the Troubled Times suddenly said murderously: "If it still chases after it, Brother Junmei, are you interested in slaughtering this Wind Shadow Beast with me." After killing it, its two Wind Shadow Sand Spirits were divided equally between the two of us. ”
The Spirit of Wind and Sand?
Of course, Fang Junmei hadn't heard of it, but just by listening to the name, he could probably guess what it was, and its value would definitely be much more expensive than Fengying Sha.
"It's done!"
After a slight groan, Fang Junmei shouted in a deep voice.
"Enough seeds!"
Dao Lang laughed and praised.
Soon, the two of them entered the territory of the Sunset Mountain Range, and the Wind Shadow Beast did not give up and still chased after it.
After Dao Lang's eyes were cold, he communicated with Fang Junmei and arranged it.
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At the junction of the Sunset Mountain Range and the Ghost Desert where the two fled, more than ten miles to the south, there was a water-like existence within a radius of several miles, but the surface of the water was bare, not even half a water grass, and the bottom of the water was clearly visible, only about half a zhang deep.
But if any mortal really thinks it is water, and goes there to drink water, and keeps it, he will die and have no place to be buried.
It turns out that this water swamp is a swamp with strong sinking power, even if the goose feathers float on it, it will also sink quickly, which is by no means comparable to ordinary human swamps.
Although the Wind Shadow Beast is not a mortal, it can soar into the air. But after all, with the low intelligence, coupled with the two bold boys Fang Junmei and Dao Lang in the Troubled Times, they may really have the possibility of successfully killing it.
Knock Knock –
The footsteps rumbled, and when the Wind Shadow Beast that had left the ghost desert swept over the land, it had already made footsteps, and the sound of footsteps was heavy.
The two of them are getting closer and closer to this swamp.