At three o'clock in the afternoon, the visibility is extremely low, just like the twilight after the sun has set and the sunset has dissipated. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Even if it's autumn, it's not a sunny summer, and the sky is gray and gray, and it shouldn't be like it is now.

Gu Xiaozhao looked up at the sky, his brows furrowed.

The black wind whistled through the air, and the terrible sound of the wind echoed among the mountains, deafening.

It has been more than ten days since entering the mountain.

For more than ten days, the black wind has not stopped, the further into the mountains, the more rapid the black wind becomes, the speed of the group is getting slower and slower, and now, it has deviated from the plan, at least five or six days less than the plan.

The black wind was nothing, and most of the time it swept high in the air, like a cluster of flowing black clouds, only occasionally sweeping down the ground.

Only when you walk on the ridge and be careful everywhere, even if the group of more than 20 people is the worst martial artist at the first level of the Qi Refining Realm, you don't dare to take it lightly. Those who despise the mountains often stay in the mountains forever.

What hindered the march of Gu Xiaozhao and the others was the beast tide.

Yes, the black wind is often accompanied by a tide of beasts, and whenever the black wind blows from the depths of the Hengduan Mountains to the outside of the mountains, large-scale migration of fierce beasts will appear, and they come from the depths of the mountains, as if they are hiding from something, and the creatures they meet along the way have become the things in the belly of the beasts.

There is no certain pattern to the occurrence of animal tides, sometimes every few decades, sometimes once every ten years.

Before the beast tide is generated, there will always be a black wind as an outpost.

Whenever the black wind is raging and lingering for a long time, those hunters, miners, medicine collectors, and all kinds of adventurers who are still in the Hengduan Mountains will retreat in the direction of Dishui Temple, and among them, even bandit gangs like Hengshan Yiswarm will not continue to work.

Time is of the essence.

Once you delay time and are caught up by the beast tide, even if you are a gang composed of all Qi Refining Realm martial artists, you will not be able to end well.

At this time, the Dripping Water Temple will issue a convening order, summoning all the disciples of the Three Mountains and Four Academies to gather and give them the task of the sect to resist the invasion of the beast tide.

Every time you face the beast tide, there will always be many characters who stand out, and these strong people who have been tested in actual combat are real geniuses, for example, there were Xu Dongyang, Mu Xiaosang and others nine years ago.

There are also many so-called geniuses who have fallen in this battle, and these pseudo-geniuses can only become a joke in the mouths of the living.

It stands to reason that Mu Xiaosang and Gu Xiaozhao are also convening, but this time, Mu Xiaosang asked the Council of Elders for leave.

In this way, when they return to the dripping view, they will not be punished.

Of course, this is because they took leave before the Black Wind came, and if it was after the Black Wind came, then no matter who it was, no matter how powerful his background was, it would be impossible for him to take leave to go out and escape from the battle.

Of course, to those gate valve kids, this is nothing.

Their tasks can be entrusted to the accompanying disciples, and the safety of their lives is also taken care of by the guardian samurai.

Therefore, every time the beast tide, very few noble sons from a family of gate lords are killed, and even if they are killed, the murderer is not necessarily a fierce beast.

Speaking of which, Gu Xiaozhao and others are really unlucky.

As soon as I entered the mountain, I encountered a black wind, and the beast tide broke out.

Nine years ago, there was only one beast tide, and the time between these two beast tides was too short.

For this trip, Wei Nan was very well prepared, a talisman master, a talisman apprentice, a pharmacist who was good at cooking, an agile martial artist who was responsible for pathfinding, a strength martial artist who was responsible for coolies, a high-level martial artist who was responsible for combat, and even invited an old hunter as a guide.

This hunter's surname is Tang Mingjin, and his reputation is also the most prominent among the hunters in the entire Dishui Guanfang City.

He has always walked alone in the mountains, and each time he has gained a lot, and he has escaped from the siege of those bands of thieves many times.

Not only that, but he often kills those bands of thieves, using traps or various mechanisms to kill those thieves, and those thieves often steal chickens and rice, not only giving away heads, but also wealth.

After a long time, everyone knew that this person was not easy to mess with.

also gave him a nickname, known as the lone wolf.

Tang Jin is in his early fifties, his beard is gray, slightly hunchbacked, he always walks to the side of the road, never walks in the middle of the road, his eyebrows are slightly drooping, and he looks very bitter, like an old man who lives a very depressed life.

Of course, Gu Xiaozhao would not underestimate the other party.

Sometimes, Gu Xiaozhao was also in charge of pathfinding, and once accompanied Tang Jin with a certain monkey-like runic warrior, he also used to break the delusion to prove the truth, checked Tang Jin's virtual reality, and saw a black flame of light surging on him.

This kind of black is different from the black on Wei Nan's body, there is no gloomy and obscure aura, especially the lack of yin and evil aura.

The black on Tang Jin's body was a very normal black, and this was the case with the water attribute true qi in the five elements.

Gu Xiaozhao couldn't feel the aura of anger on Tang Jin's body, in his opinion, the other party should be a martial artist at the third level of the Qi Refining Realm.

However, the true combat power of an old fritter like him cannot be measured by realm cultivation.

After all, the story of a mid-level martial artist in the Qi Refining Realm planted in his hands spread in Fang City.

Maybe it's a legend.

However, nine years ago, when the Black Wind Raid Beast Tide came, Tang Jin was far away in the depths of the mountains, and almost everyone thought he was finished, but after the beast tide passed, he appeared in Fang City unharmed.

This is something that everyone has witnessed, and there is no room for falsehood.

Gu Xiaozhao's attitude towards Tang Jin was very good, of course, he had an excellent attitude towards all irrelevant people. Under normal circumstances, Gu Xiaozhao can be neither humble nor arrogant, not arrogant, nor inferior to others.

Wei Nan's attitude towards Tang Jin was also very good, and even Wan Siwei, who had a nose on his forehead, would not show a stinky face to Tang Jin.

Of course, this treatment was earned by him.

After the third day of the black wind, the beast tide appeared, at first, it was just some small fierce beasts, even if they were gathered in groups, it was nothing to Wei Nan and the others, it was nothing more than a little effort and a little delay.

However, as everyone goes deeper and deeper into the mountains, the fierce beasts they encounter become more and more fierce, and the most annoying thing is that these fierce beasts are like taking stimulants, as long as they see them, they pounce on them, often not dying.

I don't know if it's due to the influence of the black wind, or for other reasons, the fierce beasts in the state of the beast tide are very bloodthirsty.

Under normal circumstances, both humans and animals have the instinct to survive, and at critical moments, the instinct of survival often prevails. However, this is not the case with the beasts in the midst of the beast tide, and death is like a home for them.

Moreover, the fierce beasts in the state of beast tide no longer have the concept of territory, and most of them are in groups and rarely appear alone.

Once they are entangled, it will take a long time to get rid of them, and if the time is delayed a little longer, a second group of beasts will pounce.

In this way, it will be troublesome.

At first, everyone was following the road map on the treasure map, and did not listen to Don Jin's words and detour.

So, five days ago, everyone was in big trouble.

Since the beginning of the morning, I have encountered several waves of fierce beasts in a row, there are fierce beasts equivalent to the cultivation of martial artists in the body refining realm, and there are also many fierce beasts equivalent to martial artists in the qi refining realm, and the most important thing is that those fierce beasts have come forward one after another, not afraid of life and death.

It was only in the evening that under the leadership of Tang Jin, they got rid of the beast tide, and Wei Nan and his party also suffered losses for the first time.

Two were killed, one was seriously wounded, and two were missing.

In other words, the group of twenty-eight people has been reduced by five, yes, the seriously injured one is also equivalent to a reduction, although there is an accompanying pharmacist, Wan Siwei and Aunt Jian are also talisman masters, but it is impossible for that person to recover immediately.

He could only be forcibly pulled on the road, and it was impossible to throw him down.

Leave two people to guard him or go back?

For the seriously injured and the two people who remained, this treatment is equivalent to giving them a death sentence, and it is better to stick to the road and hope for a miracle.

After that, the group also left the road map, and under the leadership of Don Jin, they stopped and walked, but they did not completely leave the route shown on the treasure map, and after going around for a while, they returned to the correct route.

Strange to say, in this way, their group rarely encountered a large number of fierce beasts in groups, and occasionally encountered, it was just a small group of fierce beasts that had dispersed, and it was easy to solve it.

It's just that time has been delayed.

Of course, if you go the same way, time will also be delayed.

Perhaps, there will be more dead and wounded, unlike now, except that the seriously injured man did not miraculously fail to wake up one morning, there were no other losses, not even minor injuries.

It's just that, sometimes, there are dangers that cannot be avoided.

Gu Xiaozhao withdrew his gaze from the sky above him, jumped down from the top of the bushes, and then, with his head down, he burrowed into the weeds with his waist down, and rushed forward like a wild boar, and soon came to a clearing.

This is the camp of the group.

Compared with the camp ten days ago, the camp here is not known how simple it is, so the grass and bushes are roughly removed.

The splendid carpets, desks, and dishes on the floor had long since been lost in the arduous trek of the previous days, not only these household utensils, but also the tents used for camping had been lost in the bitter battle five days earlier.

The sky is the house, the earth is the seat, and that's it.

Now, it was still three o'clock in the afternoon, but the group stopped and set up a camp to rest, but they had encountered a problem, and everyone needed to sit down and discuss it and make a decision before they could go on the road.

In the middle of the open space, there were a few people sitting, and sitting in the middle were Mu Xiaosang, Wei Nan, Wan Siwei, and Mr. Qin.

Aunt Jian sat behind Mu Xiaosang with a small burden on her back, which was very in line with her status as a subordinate.

Kaohsiung stood behind Wei Nan, his eyes flashing, and he swept around vigilantly from time to time. Before Gu Xiaozhao appeared, his gaze shot away. After seeing that it was Gu Xiaozhao, his upper eyelids fell and he withdrew his brilliant eyes.

A foot away in front of them, Don King sat on his knees.

Seeing Gu Xiaozhao, Mu Xiaosang beckoned to him, Gu Xiaozhao walked over and sat down beside Mu Xiaosang.

At this time, Tang Jin Fang spoke and continued to speak earlier.