Qingqiuzhou, a mysterious region of mangroves.

An old man sat flat on the ground with difficulty, with three bamboo blades stuck in his back, and the wound was already showing signs of solidification. Blood flowed from both strands, and the sharp dagger slashed along the leg wounds, and the bones were visible, and even the blades on the bones were deep. The heart-wrenching pain caused the old man's body to twist and tremble uncontrollably.

The eight people surrounding the old man, all of them were middle-aged, with a gloating smile. One of them, a middle-aged man with a goatee, said gloomily: "Surnamed Xiao, do you think you are really something? Do you think we really regard you as the boss? If you know each other, hand over the secret book, for the sake of many years of friendship, I will give you a good time." Otherwise, our eight brothers will definitely let you taste the taste of not being able to survive and not being able to die!"

The old man who was surrounded in the middle was the person named Xiao Yao that Yue Chen had seen. Xiao Yao replied with difficulty: "It turns out that the eight of you have already taken refuge in Zuo Tai, I am really blind to these dog's eyes and mistakenly regard you as cronies." The old man is dead anyway, you can watch it. As for that secret book, I have left it to a person who is useful to the sect, and the bastard of Zuotai will never think of it. ”

Another said: "Old Xiao, there is one thing you are still wrong. We didn't take refuge in Senior Brother Zuo a long time ago, but we were originally his people. You are also an extremely smart person, and if you can hold the secret book and live to the age of Jiazi, you should be considered to have lived enough. It's just that Senior Brother Zuo doesn't want to wait any longer. In this hunt, whether you can get the Secret Book or not, you are dead. In my opinion, a happy death is much better than life and death. ”

Xiao Yao laughed dryly a few times and said, "It doesn't matter if you die. But if you don't die, I will never let you go. I'll go first today, and I'll be waiting for you over there. ”

A middle-aged man with a yellow face let out a laugh like a devil crying, and in the laughter, there was a strange snake in his palm that was half green and half white. When Xiao Yao saw this snake, his already distorted body convulsed in despair, and a sentence came out between his teeth: "You are so vicious!"

Seeing that this strange snake was about to bite Xiao Yao's throat, it suddenly stopped, raised his head and spit out his core, dazed. It seemed to be summoned to a sharp and looked around. After a while, the little snake gradually calmed down and slowly turned to look at its current owner. Xiao Yao and the other seven people were also puzzled, staring at the little snake, the snake owner looked very angry, but before he could get angry, the neck of the little snake instantly became thicker, and the snake core was several times thicker, and it stabbed the master's throat fiercely.

The yellow-faced middle-aged man roared miserably, fell to the ground, and began to curl up in a ball, and the ghost howl of endless pain seemed to come directly from the abdominal cavity. The little snake rose into the air the moment its master fell, and after a gorgeous dance, quickly rushed to the other side.

This is Yue Chen and the other four people, and the little snake obediently climbed into Ximen Xue's palm, as if he had seen a relative who had been separated for many years, and he actually stretched out his heart to make love.

Dongmen Yu said: "Big brother, are you afraid of snakes?"

"I've hated this thing since I was a child!" As soon as Yue Chen finished speaking, the little snake in Ximen Xue's palm let out a hiss, causing Ximen Xue Gege to laugh. Yue Chen said again: "Xiaoxue, take care of it in the future, don't let it run around." With that, he motioned for the three of them to wait here first, and walked over by himself.

"I've seen seven senior brothers!" Yue Chen said very politely, "Everyone belongs to the same family, why did the eight senior brothers treat Senior Brother Xiao so viciously?"

The seven people glanced at each other, and one of them said, "This junior disciple is a new outer disciple?"

"Exactly!"

"Oh, that's it! A few of us did have some holiday with Senior Brother Xiao. However, today, the junior brother made a move, so he had to give up. In the future, the junior brother should say a few more kind words in front of Senior Brother Xiao, and don't embarrass us. We're leaving. With that, the seven kept a certain distance and slowly retreated, carrying the corpse farther away by the way.

Yue Chen thought about it, didn't say anything, and after inspecting Xiao Yao's injuries, he said, "Senior Brother Xiao, it looks like most of the injuries are flesh and skin, and they don't hurt the root of Senior Brother. As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Yao's mouth moved, and before he could speak, Yue Chen felt the wind behind him, and a person with a sharp blade attacked.

I didn't see how Yue Chen moved, his arm leaned back like a spirit snake, and suddenly heard a muffled snort from a person behind him, and he fell heavily to the ground. Before Yue Chen could get up, someone behind him hurriedly shouted, "Don't kill me, it was my fault just now!"

"Let's go, I don't want to kill people!" Yue Chen said slowly, and said to Xiao Yao: "Senior Brother Xiao, where are the medicinal materials here that can help you deal with your wounds?" Before he finished speaking, the wind behind him was again, and a faster and stronger breath came, and at the moment when a sharp blade was inserted into Yue Chen's vest, the sharp blade suddenly stopped.

When Yue Chen looked back, the person who attacked him for the second time was still the same person just now, his actions were like a raccoon dog and a rabbit, and he was surprisingly fast. At this moment, he was pierced through the back of the heart by a broken sword, and the sharp blade in his hand stopped forever.

Nangong Lang slowly pulled out the broken sword and said, "Master, this is a region where if you don't kill people, people will kill you." The six of them could not leave alive. With that, Edgeworth chased after him. Which six people are not stupid, seeing this situation, they will run away. It's just that running with both feet on the ground is much slower than flying. In an instant, all six of them died under Nangong Lang's broken sword.

Yue Chen clearly felt that the aura coming from Nangong Lang's body was getting stronger and stronger. The speed and degree of this kind of cultivation and refinement are far beyond his own ability. It won't be long before you can surpass yourself a lot. And at this moment, when Yue Chen looked at the eight corpses again, Yue Chen found that his heart was changing, and he no longer felt a deep uneasiness, but was closer to peace of mind.

Shaoqing, Yue Chen and Dongmen Yu used the snake skin given by the snake ancestor earlier to bandage Xiao Yao's wounds. Yue Chen said: "Senior Brother Xiao, let's say goodbye, we regret it for a while." ”

"Don't be pretty! just now, you heard our conversation, I have a secret book on me!" Xiao Yao said in a deep voice, "If you don't dislike the old man, can you allow the old man to go with you, maybe, you can help somewhat." ”

"We just didn't want to take you away because we were afraid that you would become a burden and add to the chaos. Dongmen Yudao, "However, if you tell us what that secret book is and what is inside, maybe we will consider it." ”

Yue Chen pondered: "In this Divine Fox Sect, if there is such a well-informed person to help, it will be considered a blessing. Then he said, "If the senior brother doesn't dislike it, go with us." On the way, the junior brother also has some things to ask for advice!"

Seeing this, Dongmen Yu quickly sharpened a cane and handed it to Xiao Yao, and advised: "Don't play tricks, otherwise, you have also seen the fate of the eight of them." ”

Xiao Yao said with a smile: "Among the four of you, you are the most talented, but in terms of future achievements, I am afraid that your eldest brother is the highest." Brother Yue, you can get such three assistants, plus the old man and me, if you want to make some trouble in the Divine Fox Sect, I think it will be easy. ”

Yue Chen smiled loudly, didn't answer in time, and said in his heart: "Actually, my favorite thing in Yue Chen is quiet. After thinking about it, he asked, "Senior brother, where in this red forest region, there will be a spiritual material called Yunluo Stone?"

"Yun Luo Shi, you actually know Yun Luo Shi?" Xiao Yao looked a little surprised, and continued: "A task like Yun Luo Shi has long been an exclusive task for inner disciples. Among the outer disciples, there are very few people who know this kind of spiritual material, and there are very few of them. ”

"In this way, not only the stone tablet, but also the jade box that generates the seven-colored light is a way to suppress and restrict the outer disciples, but even the tasks on the Divine Fox List are the same. It's just that the sect does this, what is the benefit to the sect?" Yue Chen asked puzzledly, "If this is the case, it is better not to accept so many outer disciples, but it will save a lot of trouble." ”

"You've discovered a small part of the secret, and it's really tight. Xiao Yao said, "This matter already existed when the Divine Fox Sect opened its sect. According to legend, before the foundation of the Divine Fox Sect was laid, the Divine Fox Mountain was controlled by the four most powerful forces. Until one day, the Divine Fox came, unified the four factions, and opened the Divine Fox Sect. Despite this, the four forces of execution are still infighting.

For this reason, a wizard beside Shenhu first set up a puzzle and disintegrated the original four forces one by one. The faction that was eliminated first was designated as the door of death. The second eliminated ones have become miscellaneous doors. The two most powerful forces, which cannot be completely disintegrated, form the outer gate. The descendant faction of the Divine Fox has become the inner door.

Even so, the old contradictions have been alleviated, but the new ones have become more acute. This genius came up with such a wonderful method, which not only ensured the interests of the inner disciples, but also suppressed the disciples of the other three sects very crownedly.

In fact, the original four doors are not what they are now. In the accumulation of tens of thousands of years of vicissitudes and changes, the Divine Fox Sect has gone through many hardships, and many grievances at the beginning of the establishment of the sect have completely disappeared. At the same time, because of the infighting, it has also caused the current situation, the door of death is really the door of death, and the door of miscellaneous is really miscellaneous.

And this kind of suppression and struggle, according to the old man, is probably far better than the scene at the beginning of the establishment of the faction.

As you just said, in fact, in the current Divine Fox Sect, tens of thousands of more outer disciples and tens of thousands fewer outer disciples really don't make any sense. But the thing is often that there are always people who like to get a sense of superiority from others to satisfy their own vanity. Therefore, the existence of outer disciples is not meaningless at all. At least, the stone tablet that is collected every three years is of some use.

In the world, things often focus on 'existence is reasonable'. A beautiful idea, it only exists in dreams. ”

When Yue Chen heard this, he was speechless for a long time before he asked again: "Senior brother, what is the situation at the inner gate?"

"Hehe! When I was at the inner gate, a puppet like Zuo Tai was a person like us in the outer gate. Do you dare to imagine what kind of scene the inner door will be?" Xiao Yao said meaningfully, "When you get to the inner door, it all begins." ”

Dongmen Yu said: "In other words, the number of disciples in the inner gate is much more than that in the outer gate?"

"As far as I know, that's the case. Xiao Yao said, "When you become an inner disciple, not only can you live in the blessed cave of the world, but you also have the secret art of immortality to cultivate, and you are also everywhere Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the strong are everywhere." All kinds of cultivation treasures between heaven and earth can be sold in the halls and shops under the jurisdiction of the four halls and four halls. It's just that I heard that in the inner gate, there are several kinds of spirit stones used to trade. And this kind of spirit stone can be fed with the soul of the divine fox and reused.

In addition, each inner disciple will have a jade plate, and if he can complete the tasks assigned by the sect, he can also let the jade plate get the soul of the divine fox. But such a divine fox soul only has one chance every quarter, and it is personally identified by the deacon elders in the sect. The soul of the divine fox on the jade plaque can nourish the cultivator's soul and spiritual mansion, and its true divine benefits also vary from person to person. ”

"Divine Soul?" Yue Chen heard Xiao Yao say this, and said, "As far as I know, only a cultivator of the Holy Light Realm will gradually form a powerful divine soul. But because of his limited cultivation, he has never seen it with his own eyes, and when he thinks of the situation of sealing the earth demon, he still has an epiphany. Lingfu must be what I often call the Jade Mansion. Moreover, Senior Brother Ouyang and other personal disciples were said to have obtained extremely precious cultivation spiritual materials to assist in cultivation. It seems that the personal disciples in the Chengming Sect have similar treatment to the inner disciples in the Divine Fox Sect. A disciple like us has to solve everything on his own, but he is no different from the outer disciples in the Divine Fox Sect. ”

After a long time, Yue Chen suddenly asked in his heart: "Since there are these similar situations between the two factions, why is there a world of difference in the definition of cultivation?" and then asked: "Senior Brother Xiao, the disciples of the inner gate, are they still graded according to the seven colors?"

Xiao Yao nodded and said, "That's true." It's just that the identity of the inner disciple is not only the distinction of the color of the clothes, but also the distinction of the forbidden spell of the sect. What kind of clothes to wear for the realm of cultivation, it's okay to be low, but it's absolutely not okay to be high. ”

Three voices asked at the same time, "Why?"

A cold voice replied: "Because to become a strong man, only by defeating the strong is the best proof." It was none other than Nangong Lang who said this.

Xiao Yao laughed loudly, seemed to forget his wounds, and looked up to the sky and said to himself: "I, Xiao Yao, have finally survived!"

Suddenly, Xiao Yao's face was solemn, he looked at the four of them very solemnly, and said word by word: "There is only one chance!"