Chapter 44: The Search for the Dead
Han Yuan walked slowly on the path, and there was still some hot pain on his back where he had just been burned. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info have to say that his previous behavior was that he was rash and stimulated Feng Quan too much. No matter what kind of mediocre teacher Feng Quan is, after all, he is also an outer sect teacher in the foundation building period, as long as he is named a "punishment disciple", he will always suffer from the loss. Feng Quan didn't have much brains for his small belly, if it wasn't for Yan Wenbin coming forward before, I was afraid that he really wanted to kill him directly.
Such arrogant and arrogant behavior is really inconsistent with his usual cautious character, which makes him feel happy and reflect on himself at the same time. I think it's because the days of worshipping the Xuanyou Sect in the past few months have been a little too smooth, the power of the Han family can't reach into the sect, and Han Ying, who has the most hatred for him, seems to have no idea about his arrival, the only Liu Danjiao is still a fledgling teenager after all, and his means are still immature/immature, fighting alone, and he has never posed a threat to Hanyuan.
This kind of life is too happy and stable compared to the days when I was always under the threat of death and my spirit was tense and ready to fight. However, it was this kind of stability that smoothed out his original fighting spirit and caution, so much so that he occasionally forgot that this was the Demon Gate, and forgot that the Han family was lurking and ready to devour him at any time!
Realizing this fact made Han Yuan feel terrified. Under the seemingly peaceful life, there are actually countless undercurrents hidden, and since the Xuanyou Sect is the demon giant of this Guangping Mansion, it is impossible for it to be as warm and affectionate as it seems. As a new disciple can't see the inside of the sect, there will definitely be more challenges waiting for him, the known Han Ying, or the unknown others!
He can't relax. How dare he relax?
Han Yuan exhaled deeply, his gaze a little more resolute. After entering/entering the Xuanyou Sect, the confusion for a while disappeared, and only firm beliefs and goals remained, and the state of mind also rose invisibly. If the previous cold abyss was still confused, he was extremely determined at this moment, at least before the foundation was built, there would never be any more mental obstacles.
Of course, Han Yuan was still quite a distance away from building the foundation, and before that, he would have to face the threat of Han Ying and even Feng Quan. The grudge has been settled, and there is no way to do it, so I can only wait for him to solve it little by little.
Although he reflected on his previous impulses, Han Yuan did not have any remorse for making a feud with Feng Quan. Similar to Feng Quan, a teacher who misleads people's children and bullies the weak and fears the hard, unless he can swallow his anger like other disciples, he will be hated sooner or later, but it is only a matter of time. In the final analysis, Feng Quan is just a foundation building practice of the outer gate, and he is considered weak in the foundation building period. As long as he can be careful, it will be difficult for Feng Quan to do anything to him. He even dared to intercept Han Taehe, the treasure of the Jindan powerhouse, was he afraid of offending another Feng Quan?
At present, whether it is Han Ying or Feng Quan, or even the contradiction with Liu Danjiao, it can be postponed. The most critical thing at the moment is the exam of the physical martial arts class and the spiritual law class on the second day.
In the cultivation realm, especially the disciples of the Demon Dao, the strength is supreme. A monk may not be able to refine pills and refine weapons, nor can he make talisman arrays, but he must not be able to fight. The word actual combat can be said to run through the entire Xuanyou Sect's selection process for disciples, even the monthly examination is no exception. The physical martial arts course and the spiritual law class are the two main courses of the outer gate, and they are the most important, and their monthly examination methods are naturally different, only assessing the actual combat ability of the disciples. Something like someone going to the market to buy elixir in the drug and poison class to get through the test is absolutely impossible.
Early the next morning, all the new disciples of the Outer Gate who practiced Qi at more than the fourth level in the Twelve Peaks of the Outer Gate were led by their respective physical martial arts and spiritual law teachings, and they entered the Dry Bone Plain in a mighty manner.
Han Yuan walked in the dry bone plain, the gray sky and the chaotic yin aura around him gave him the illusion of returning to the Han family's medicine mountain. It's just that now such a yin and evil qi is no longer possible to cause any harm to his body. His steps were light, but from time to time there was a crunching sound coming from under his feet. The voice was astringent, like the sound of grinding teeth and gnawing bones, and thinking about the source of the sound, even a bold person like Han Yuan felt a little uncomfortable.
Dry Bone Plains, just by listening to the name, you know what is stepping on under the feet of the cold abyss. In this land, there are countless dry bones piled up. There are monsters, and more people are humans. Due to the passage of time, most of the corpses have decomposed to the point of white bones, and occasionally you can see dried corpses that have been weathered and broken into countless pieces.
Thousands of years ago, it was called the City of Dry Bones. Although it is called Dry Bone, it is actually just like the Xuanyou City at this moment, and it is a prosperous city attached to the once famous Great Sect Dry Bone Mountain. Later, the Dry Bone Mountain fell, the Xuanyou Sect was established, and the once prosperous city was completely turned into a dead domain. The yin and evil qi generated by countless corpses and bones made this place unremarkable, nourishing countless demon beast poisons, and finally it was classified into the outer gate of the Xuanyou Sect, and became a fixed monthly examination location for the disciples of the outer sect.
In the monthly examination, disciples with different cultivation levels naturally have different requirements. The class on the fourth or fifth floor of Qi cultivation only needs to stay here for one night. And a disciple like Han Yuan, who was already not far from building the foundation, was asked to capture a demon corpse that was not weaker than his own cultivation within two days and bring it back.
Such a standard is not difficult to say, and it is definitely not easy to say simple. The so-called evil corpse is a corpse with evil energy on its body and can cultivate on its own. Although these corpses are not sapient, they are strong, neither painful nor injured, and are very difficult to deal with.
And that's not even a big deal, it's more important that there is a time limit that must be caught and brought back within two days. You must know that usually out of hundreds of corpses, only one corpse can contain evil qi and have the possibility of transforming into evil corpses, and among these possible corpses, only two or three out of ten can actually become evil corpses. Therefore, even in a place like the Dry Bone Plain, it is definitely not a simple matter to quickly find a demon corpse that is only higher than one's own cultivation. If you're unlucky, you may not even see a low-level demon corpse in two days.
Of course, the disciples, including Han Yuan, all brought corpse grass that could attract corpses, and as long as they ignited them, they could attract a large number of corpses. It's just that this kind of thing is a double-edged blade, and it is easy to provoke several powerful demons at the same time. Once besieged by the corpses, even the strongest disciples may not be able to eat and walk around. Therefore, Han Yuan still chose to look for it on his own for a while, and it would naturally be best if he could find the lonely corpse.
After all, in addition to the monthly examination task of searching for corpses, places like the Dry Bone Plains are undoubtedly a good place to hunt for treasures. Countless demon beasts and poisonous insects lurk here, and there are many rare spiritual materials, many of which are second-order materials that are needed by monks in the foundation building period. Of course, there are unlucky people who die here in every monthly exam, and the storage bags they left behind are also a lot of wealth.
It didn't take long for Han Yuan to find a few nascent elixirs, but they were still very young, and Han Yuan didn't bother to spend precious time picking them. There were some good poisons, all of which were excellent cultivation materials for him, and they were put into a storage bag by Han Yuan. On the road, you can occasionally see the corpse in the gray robe of the outer door, which looks much "fresher" among the countless broken bones, and the storage bags and magic weapons on the body have naturally been picked up. Han Yuan didn't have the kindness to help them settle down, but just calmly crossed over and continued to advance towards the depths of the Dry Bone Plain.
The further you go in, the thicker the evil aura becomes. It is only in such a strong evil aura that it is possible to give birth to a powerful evil corpse. Theoretically, the strongest demon corpse can even initially open up the spiritual intelligence and achieve the foundation building. Of course, in a place like the Dry Bone Plain, there is a sweep every time there is a monthly exam at the outer gate, not to mention the powerful evil corpses in the foundation building period, even if it is a high-level evil corpse that cultivates qi, it is not so easy to find.
Han Yuan is facing such a situation at this moment. Although the gains of poison and poison were not small along the way, Han Yuan did not find any evil corpses whose cultivation was not weaker than his. Halfway through, I saw a few small demon corpses with two or three layers of qi training, and they howled without any wisdom and wanted to use him as blood food, but they were all whipped by Han Yuan and put them one by one. With Han Yuan's current strength, the demonstrators of the second and third levels of Qi cultivation were really no challenge, and he didn't even bother to spend the time killing them again.
As time passed, the gray sky gradually deepened, and after the dull yellow of the setting sun disappeared, the plains almost completely lost their light. Everything was shrouded in darkness, and countless demon beasts crawled out of the darkness to feed, making a sound of snorting. Even with the eleventh layer of cold abyss qi vision, it was difficult to see the surroundings clearly without using the illumination talisman. In such darkness, the flesh and blood of the cultivators were simply as eye-catching as lights, attracting countless demon beasts and corpses. Therefore, most disciples will choose to find a safe place to lurk and rest, and wait until the sun rises tomorrow to continue looking for their target.
But this kind of darkness made Han Yuan extremely reassuring, as if he was like a fish in water, without the slightest discomfort. It was as if he had returned to the poison cave he had once been, his blood seemed to be boiling, and his senses were mobilized to the limit, ready to fight at any time. That period of fighting in the dark was firmly engraved in the depths of Han Yuan's memory, and even became an instinct. Even though it had been more than a year since he escaped from the poison cave, Han Yuan's sense of battle had not weakened in the slightest.
From this point of view, although the years were tragic, they were a gift and gave him a huge advantage. Although he couldn't see his surroundings clearly, Han Yuan's sense of hearing and touch rose infinitely, allowing him to clearly hear the sound of poisonous insects crawling under his feet and feel the slight vibration of the ground.
And...... The roar of a corpse faintly came in the distance, and the screams of an unlucky person.