Chapter 20: The Spikehorn

Seven or eight hours later, the night fell quietly, a round of crescent moon hung on the dark blue sky, the silver moonlight sprinkled on Cangwu Mountain, so that Cangwu Mountain was changed into a silver coat, the whole mountain is more mysterious, but also more secluded, like a giant beast is dormant and asleep, so that the people in it, do not dare to act rashly, have stopped hunting demon beast activities.

After a day of rushing and hunting demon beasts to practice formation tactics, Yin Ning's hunting team will choose a resting place on the bank of a small river with fragrant flowers and plants, green water like a jade belt, according to the original words of Han Yueshan, who is extremely rich in hunting experience, the terrain here is flat, the field of vision is broad, and it is only three hundred steps away from the best hiding place in the woods, which is the most ideal resting place, whether it is a human monk or a demon beast attacking, you can find it early, and after observing the enemy's strength, whether you decide to fight or retreat, you have enough time to prepare or escape。

Although Han Yueshan is arrogant, his speech and attitude towards others are always domineering, which is disliked by the other five members of the team, but there is no doubt that his experience and strength make him undoubtedly the leader of this hunting team, as long as it does not damage his own interests and lives, the other five people are still willing to obey the orders issued by Han Yueshan, for example, in choosing a resting place, after observing the surrounding environment, and feeling that they will not be used by Han Yueshan, after becoming cannon fodder, the five of them agreed to rest by the river for a night and wait for the dawn.

Monks are different from mortals who are arrogant and noble, their bodies nourished by mana are not afraid of the sun and rain at all, and they are not very afraid of the cold and heat, so the monks spend the night in the wilderness, they do not need to set up camp like mortals, they only need a clean place within a radius of a few feet to meditate, and the monks can spend the night peacefully.

Yin Ning was sitting cross-legged on a smooth bluestone at this time, closing his eyes and recuperating, although his appearance was calm, but Yin Ning's heart was extremely excited, this day's experience, the people and things he saw, were much more than what he had seen in the past six or seven years combined, which made Yin Ning sigh in his heart.

"The world of cultivation is really as vast as the sea! What I have glimpsed now is only the tip of the iceberg, but it has already made my heart so swaying and dizzy!"

Yin Ning smiled lightly, suddenly opened his eyes, looked at the somewhat hideous and terrifying ghost head mark on his right wrist, and fell into deep thought.

This hideous and terrifying ghost head pattern grew on Yin Ning's right hand like a bone appendage, but it did not make Yin Ning feel the slightest fear and fear, but made him extremely at ease, and he could sleep calmly in the wilderness, because this ghost head pattern was nothing else, it was the product of Yin Ning after signing the "Yin Ghost Blood Contract".

The Corpse Nightmare Sect is a great sect of the Demon Dao, although there is not much viciousness and cruelty in the sect's internal exercises, it is not like some real evil sects, it needs to kill innocents indiscriminately, suck ** blood, draw souls, and do everything to improve its strength.

But the Corpse Nightmare Sect definitely follows the set of cruel heavenly laws of survival of the fittest and the law of the jungle, especially among the outer disciples who are as many as ants, the Corpse Nightmare Sect encourages infighting, but in the important places of the sect, such as the cultivation of spiritual lands, it is definitely necessary to use the rules and regulations to restrain the cannibalism between the same sect, but these rules and laws to stop infighting are ineffective in the hunting grounds and places of trial, so these areas naturally become the Shura Field, and the cannibalism between the same sect is staged almost every moment, as long as the hands and feet are clean, do not leave any key evidence, then the sect generally will not pursue the crime of mutilating fellow sects committed in these specially designated areas.

The Corpse Nightmare Sect's cruel method of cultivating disciples is indeed under the survival of the fittest, giving birth to a large number of outstanding disciples who are extremely cruel and ruthless in both their hearts and means, and they have an advantage in the battle with the other six factions of Zhaoyou Kingdom, but this cultivation method also has a big drawback, that is, it makes the various cultivators in the Corpse Nightmare Sect who are already selfish and selfish even more suspicious of each other, and it is difficult to unite and cooperate, like a plate of scattered sand.

Therefore, in order to eliminate the mutual suspicion that naturally arises when the people of the sect go to the hunting area and the place of trial, which are not subject to the rules of the sect, the high-level leaders of the Corpse Nightmare Sect specially launched a contract called "Yin Ghost Blood Pact".

After dripping his own essence and blood into this kind of contract, within the effective date of the contract, he can no longer kill his companions who signed a contract with him, and make a fortune to kill and seize the treasure, otherwise the Yin ghost pattern that will dissipate after the expiration of the contract will always exist in his body as evidence that he killed his fellow disciples。

Almost all cultivators will not leave any hidden dangers on their cultivation path, so after signing the "Yin Ghost Blood Contract", almost not many Corpse Sect members dare to take risks and do that treacherous thing, and they can finally rest assured that they can expose their backs to their companions who signed a contract with them.

"It's a pity, most of the demon beasts I encountered today are first-class demon beasts, and they don't look much different from the beasts I saw in Jiuliang Mountain before, I hope that tomorrow, I can see some powerful demon beasts, let me open my eyes again." ”

Now Yin Ning has long forgotten most of his previous apprehension and worry about his own life, at this time, he is like a playful teenager who goes out on a long trip, full of curiosity about novelties, his heart is extremely excited, his mind has been thinking wildly, and in the second half of the night, he fell asleep.

Because Yin Ning was participating in the hunt for the first time, the others in the team thought that he was inexperienced, so they did not arrange the task of keeping vigil for him, so although Yin Ning slept a little less, he was also mentally healthy when no one disturbed him.

Early the next morning, Han Yueshan, who was as alert as a leopard, was the first to wake up from meditation, and after waking everyone up, he took out a map engraved on the animal skin, and pointed and gave orders to everyone on it.

"Yesterday we were not very lucky, we encountered some first-level demon beasts, although they were easily killed, but they did not gain much, maybe they didn't even earn the purchase of the 'Yin Ghost Blood Contract' contract and the spirit stone of this map, so it is not possible to go on like this, so today we went deep into thirty miles, and arrived at the edge of the central area, where there are mostly second- and third-level demon beasts, and because of the abundant spiritual energy, there are many elixirs, which is where we show our strengths. Yin boy, you are a novice and don't have much combat experience, so you follow Luo Dai and take charge of defense together, listen to Luo Dai's command, what he tells you to do, you will order your refining corpse to go there to make up for defense. ”

The other five people did not have any objections to Han Yueshan's proposal, and performed their duties, even if it was Yin Ning, who was named, although he still had more or less indignation towards Han Yueshan in his heart, but there was no thought of yang and yin in his heart, after hearing Han Yueshan's words, he immediately came to the side of the ugly man Luo Dai, followed Han Yueshan who led the way, and advanced to the depths of Cangwu Mountain.

An hour later, after passing through some mountains and jungles, everyone finally came to the edge of the central area in the Hanyue Pass, the environment here was more quiet, but the roars of demon beasts from all directions from time to time were also more clear and shocking, as if they were close at hand, making people shudder, and Yin Ning, who had experienced this scene for the first time, did not dare to breathe.

Luo Dai, an ugly man with a lot of experience next to him, looked at Yin Ning's cautious way of looking around, and smiled indifferently: "Senior Brother Yin, take it easy, take it easy, low-level demon beasts generally won't take the initiative to attack human cultivators, unless we annoy them, of course." ”

Yin Ning, who was nervous in his heart, was trying to relieve his anxiety by speaking, and when he wanted to start a conversation with Luo Dai again, Han Yueshan, who had been leading the way and scouting in front of him, suddenly let out a suppressed exclamation, attracting everyone's attention to the past, there must be a major discovery, and the other five people began to cheer and think in their hearts, and involuntarily accelerated their pace to catch up.

"This is Aoki Zhi, looking at its color and luster, it has at least seventy or eighty years of medicinal power, and it can be sold for at least more than a hundred low-grade spirit stones. ”

The six people hid behind a black shrub, set aside the unknown black plant in front of them, carefully observed, and saw that in the middle of a flat green space with green grass and thousands of purples and reds, a dark cyan big Ganoderma lucidum was gently swaying in the breeze.

"Don't worry, this kind of medicinal elixir must have been guarded by a guardian demon beast, but why didn't you see it?

When everyone was about to move when the price of Aoki Zhi assessed by Lu Xingcai hooked up their hearts and began to move, the most calm and calm Han Yueshan said skeptical words, but they poured cold water on everyone's fiery hearts like a basin of cold water, instantly extinguishing most of the greedy fire in everyone's hearts, so that everyone continued to lurk patiently.

Six pairs of eyes kept searching carefully on the grass full of flowers and plants, with a variety of colors and charming eyes, after a long time, everyone's eyes were almost gone, but they still found nothing, and their cultivation was too low, and the detection range of their divine sense was too small, and they couldn't cover the entire grass at all, so they couldn't find even a trace of the so-called guardian demon beast, and the six of them were very distressed.

"There!"

In the end, Yin Ning, who had the lowest cultivation but had excellent eyes, noticed something unusual, stretched out his hand, and whispered softly.

Hearing Yin Ning's low voice, the rest of the five people who were about to give up were shocked, and hurriedly looked in the direction Yin Ning pointed, and sure enough, they saw that in a piece of green grass, there was a jet-black color that was very incompatible with the surrounding green grass and red flowers.

"It's a beast's hoof! In order to find out what kind of demon beast it is, it seems that the only way to startle the snake is to startle the snake. ”

Han Yueshan, the most decisive of the six, saw that he could only see something similar to the hooves of a beast, but could not see the whole picture of the demon beast, so he immediately took out a red talisman with a flame pattern from his storage bag, injected mana, and immediately sacrificed the talisman.

The red talisman shattered in midair, releasing a fist-sized fireball, dragging a trail of black smoke, and quickly crashed into a green space not far from the beast's hoof.

Moo! Moo! Moo!

Han Yueshan's grass startling snake immediately had an effect, I don't know if it was deliberately hiding or just sleeping in the ordinary guardian demon beast, it was finally awakened by the alarm, after a few low roars like the roar of a wild bull, the place where the beast's hooves were exposed immediately shook by the wind and grass, and a light and agile beast shadow quickly jumped out.

Everyone looked at it, only to see that this beast was seven feet tall, the appearance was like a horse and a deer, the whole body was wrapped in green leaves, the color of the coat was emerald green, it was sparsely dotted with white spots the size of copper coins, the tail was slender, the limbs were strong, and the most peculiar and impressive thing was that the beast's long head was topped with a super long horn that seemed to be made of several withered thorns and old vines, like a short sword.

"Spinocer!"

After Lu Xingcai, who was next to Yin Ning, saw the appearance of this beast clearly, he exclaimed in a low voice with a little fear.