288 Swamp of Death
Unlike the team led by Ye Qin who easily passed through the forest area, the team led by Qian Bojiang encountered a lot of demon beasts after entering the forest, and it was Qian Yang and other five monks who walked in front and attracted the attention of many demon beasts in the forest, so that Ye Qin, Sun Shi and others did not encounter many demon beasts along the way.
Qian Bojiang Yang Zhen and other five Qingdan monks did not expect that there were so many demon beasts in the forest in advance, not small, and their hearts broke into the nest of the black-bellied demon snake in one place**, causing the black-bellied demon snake group to be crazy and furious, killing while fleeing, killing no less than a dozen third- and fourth-order black-bellied demon snakes chasing in one go, and they rushed out of the forest area in embarrassment and got rid of the pursuit of the demon snake group.
Escaping from the tight gloomy forest made them breathe a sigh of relief, and when they looked back at the gloomy forest, they still had palpitations.
It was already a swampy area, and although there was a faint fog everywhere, the field of vision was much more open and clear, not as dark and stuffy as the forest, obscured by the gloom of the ubiquitous dense forest.
"Senior brother, I knew that there were so many demon beasts in this forest, so I should have acted with Ye Sun and them. Let's go up with ten foundation-building cultivators, and a demon snake nest of dozens of third- and fourth-order demon snakes is not to be feared at all. Yang Zhen came out of the forest, not small, his heart stepped on the skeleton of a brother in the swamp, he suddenly felt unlucky, depressed and vented the unhappiness in his heart.
The other three Qingmen monks were also quite dissatisfied at this time.
They were originally ten foundation builders, and even if they encountered danger in the Cold Lake Forest, they had enough strength to protect themselves. However, Senior Brother Qian had to go separately, and there were half fewer people, so they were embarrassed along the way, and even a medium-sized demon snake nest had to be avoided as much as possible.
"Hmph, what do you guys know. If you want to reap the benefits, you have to do it separately. Qian Bojiang escaped from the forest and said with a cold snort, his eyes were cold, looking at the swamp in front of him, as if he was thinking about something, "Senior brother, what are your plans?"
Yang Zhen heard that Qian Bojiang seemed to have something to say, and hurriedly asked.
Of course. ”
Qian Bojiang nodded, didn't hide it, and said with a sneer, "Those guys hesitated along the way, and they didn't have the intention of fighting with the monks of Wanyue Lake at all, their cultivation is low, and it is a burden to be with them." Instead of walking with them, it is better to use them as bait to attract the attention of the monk of Wanyue Lake.
I pretended to be in a hurry and rushed into the Cold Lake Forest, just to make them mistakenly think that I would definitely rush to the front with my meritorious service. They can safely follow behind and pick up bargains.
But I was so stupid that they would never have imagined that we would hide and follow them silently. In case of danger, let them bear it, and we will wait for the opportunity to pick up the cheap in the back. If the enemy is too strong, let's withdraw and let them be behind. ”
"Senior brother, they are all brothers in the same sect, it's not good to use them as shields!"
A monk looked very surprised after hearing Qian Bojiang's attention, and said hesitantly, Qian Bojiang immediately swept the monk with cold eyes.
The monk shuddered, and did not dare to say anything more. They are all acquaintances who have known each other for a long time, and they are very familiar with Qian Bojiang's character, and they are ruthless and do everything.
Using the same disciples and brothers as shields can only be regarded as trivial.
"Hmph, all of us are cannon fodder sent out of the city by the sect to fight, if one is not good, maybe we will all die in this cold lake forest. You all remember to me, what we are asking for is immortality and wealth, and their life and death are related to us, don't be a bad and good person. For the sake of our safety, and for the sake of obtaining enough military exploits, and future glory and wealth, we must do this. Let's go, find a hidden place in the nearby swamp and hide, and when their team passes, we'll follow them!"
Qian Bojiang stopped talking nonsense and flew into the swamp.
The monks looked at each other and recognized the practice. Although Qian Bojiang's methods were a little ruthless, it was beneficial to them all. Out of consideration for the merits of the war, they chose to sink.
Under the leadership of Qian Bojiang, they rushed into the swamp area and found a place to hide.
About half an hour later, the edge of the swamp was full of ** leaves, and the oil was bubbling with a pungent fishy smell.
Ye Qin floated down from among the branches with a flying sword in his hand, and didn't find any traces of people passing by at the edge of the swamp, and couldn't help but say to himself: "It's strange, Senior Brother Qian, are they walking so fast? Why haven't you found any trace of their movements after chasing them for so long?" Could it be that they have taken a different fork in the road in the forest?"
This also blames Ye Qin for making a mistake in judgment.
Qian Bojiang hurried to the Cold Lake Forest as soon as he left the city, which gave Ye Qin a wrong impression, thinking that Qian Bojiang was in a hurry to make meritorious contributions to kill the monks of Wanyue Lake, so he didn't think about other aspects, let alone Qian Bojiang, who began to design and use them as soon as he left the city.
However, Ye Qinchen was used to acting cautiously.
No matter what Qian Bojiang plans to do, whether he is going to die, or to kill the enemy. He is careful and does not want to make any loopholes easily. He never put his hope in these fellow monks, with whom he had no friendship. In this dangerous Spirit Mist City, you still have to rely on your own cultivation strength, others are unreliable, even if you are in the same sect.
Ye Qin glanced at the swamp in front of him where the mist of poisonous charcoal overflowed.
Because of the fog, it is not clear to see dozens of feet away. This swamp area is temporarily weird, and there are rotten punishment points outside, and there are strange aquatic plants around it, and a pity toad can find one or two rare spiritual grasses, and the swamp is empty and abnormal, dead and silent, and there seems to be no demon beast activity.
But Ye Qin didn't think that there were no demon beasts and no danger here.
He didn't rush in, but waited for the rest of the team.
Soon, Sun Shi came out of the forest and flew to Ye Qin's side.
Then Shen Bao, Feng Tong, Shi Wenhong and other three people came out of the forest one after another.
The forest is dark and uncertain, and they use the left and right front and back cover to advance. Two people in front, three people in the back, covering each other. Although the speed of this march is slower, it is the safest, and one person can be supported by the enemy and the other four can be supported in time.
"We haven't found any traces left by Senior Brother Qian and the others, and we probably have lost contact with them. We must be prepared to respond to emergencies, and in case of an enemy, we may not be able to support each other in time. ”
Ye Qin cautiously said to the other four fellow disciples.
Sun Shibo and the others didn't care, he had long expected that this would be the result.
Ye Qin looked at the swamp, and suddenly his eyes froze, and he saw that in front of the swamp mud, there was a broken skeleton floating in the dark water, and he carefully picked up the skeleton with a dead branch and looked at it.
The cold lake relies on the forest to produce ice spirit stones and wood-based ** water ice-based spiritual objects, and many monks who have come to adventure have died in the past hundred years, and it is normal for there to be skeletons on the ground, and he has seen several pairs in the forest.
However, the pair was somewhat new, and there was a broken piece of cloth hanging from it, which had not yet completely rotted away from the saprophyte of the swamp.
"This skeleton has been dead for more than ten days, and there are biting marks of the monster's fangs on it, so it should have died from the mouth of the fierce monster. This silk cloth is very thick, this skeleton is a monk of Wanyue Lake, it seems that our enemy has come. ”
Ye Qin took a small piece of residual fabric from the skeleton of the skull, looked at it carefully, and then threw it on the ground casually, and said flatly.
"Senior Brother Ye, this cloth is a very ordinary silk cloth, and there is no place of origin written on it, how do you know that this skeleton is a monk from Wanyue Lake? Do you know what fabric the monk of Wanyue Lake wears?" Shi Bao picked up the rag, pondered for a while, and said in surprise.
"If you look at the thickness carefully, it's two or three times thicker than the fabric of our clothes, don't you see anything?"
Ye Qin smiled faintly.
He didn't know much about fabric, but as long as he compared his own clothes, as well as the brocade clothes worn by monks such as Sun Shishen Bao, it was obvious that this piece of cloth was several times thicker than theirs.
The monks are generally not afraid of the cold and are not too particular about clothing.
However, the kind of place like Wanyue Lake belongs to a perennial cold place, and the low-level cultivators in the Qi cultivation period can't stand the cold, so they are naturally thicker. And after they arrive at the foundation, even if they are not afraid of the cold, they will still get used to retaining this habit of thick cloth clothes.
On the contrary, the climate of the Lingwu Immortal Cultivation Realm is mild, and ordinary monks do not have the habit of wearing thick cloth clothes at all, and the clothes worn by the monks are on the thin side.
Ye Qin had only thought of this by accident just now, so he speculated that this skeleton should be a monk from Wanyue Lake, not a monk from the Spirit Mist Monk. Of course, this guess is only seven or eight points accurate, and it is possible that the guess is not accurate. But it doesn't matter, if you go further inside, you should soon find more traces of the activities of the monks of Wanyue Lake.
Sun Shi's expression suddenly became solemn. He is a veteran monk in Qingdanmen who has been mixed for hundreds of years, and he has only cultivated the fourth layer of foundation building so far. For a monk like Ye Qin, who is young and young, but his cultivation is as high as the fifth layer of the foundation, he is a little naturally wary and repulsive.
He could see that Ye Qin had a bright future, and it was not comparable to an old monk like him, so he didn't have the heart to compete with Ye Qin for the team leader at all. And the cautiousness and carefulness that Ye Qin inadvertently revealed made him a little surprised and in awe.
"Senior Brother Ye, according to your speculation, there should already be monks from Wanyue Lake in this Cold Lake Forest. Moreover, it is impossible for a foundation building monk to die easily, so this skeleton should be a Qi cultivation period monk. Qi cultivation period cultivators have only one role here, and that is to collect ice spirit stones. ”
Sun Shi also thought of this, and said in deep thought.
"Yes, I estimate that the monks of Wanyue Lake have already started mining in this cold lake forest, and many of them are Qi cultivation stage monks. It's just that I don't know how many guards they have during the foundation building period. There shouldn't be too many, otherwise it wouldn't have allowed this Qi cultivation period cultivator to be accidentally killed by demon beasts and die in this swamp. We should have a chance to sabotage their mining activities here. ”
Ye Qin Zhengse said.
"Then what are you waiting for, let's go over and find out their situation at once, maybe we can slaughter them. Let's go back to the city for meritorious service, at least we can rest for a few months and don't have to take the task of killing the enemy again. ”
"That's right, our two teams have a full ten foundation building monks, and they can definitely hit them hard.
Zhuan Bao, Feng Tong, Shi Wenhong and other monks were all excited, although they were not eager to make war exploits, but if they didn't pick up the bargain, they would definitely be fools.
If the enemy was just a group of Qi cultivation stage cultivators, then their task would be easy.
Seeing that they were excited, Ye Qin shook his head and said flatly, "Don't be too happy, we've just entered the edge of the swamp, and it's still far from the ice lake mining area." In case there is a large group of foundation building monks of Wanyue Lake on the other side of the ice lake, we can't say that there will be a fierce battle. Let's go, let's go see the situation on the other side of the ice lake first!"
Ye Qin was just about to leave, but his face suddenly changed, and he suddenly looked in front of the swamp, with the shield and flying sword magic weapon clasped in his handkerchief. In the hazy fog and steps outside, he was striking out: four dim drunken peak divine shadows They were talking and laughing, and they did not find Ye Qin and the others in time. Looking at their outfits, most of them wore plain white and blue, and they were all high-level monks in the Qi Sealing Period.
One of the women in white came out of the mist and carefully picked a shuttle of spiritual grass that was haunted by the light water vapor from a swamp. "Ha, I've found another mist flower for more than ten years. There are so many water system spirit grasses in this place, and no one picks them up everywhere, but it is not as difficult to find as Wanyue Lake. Uncle Shi also said that there are many monsters here, which are very dangerous, and I don't see any danger. She looked up excitedly and was quickly stunned.
Several Wanyue Lake monks behind the woman also saw Ye Qin, Sun Shi Shen Bao and other five Spirit Mist Foundation Building Monks, so they stood silently not far in front of them, and couldn't help but be stunned.
They didn't expect to encounter the monks of the Spirit Mist Realm here, and five foundation building stage monks appeared in one go. Any one of the five people will probably be able to pinch a few of them to death like ants.
"There aren't many enemy beasts here, but they're really dangerous, so let's just give the boss a tie-down. ”
Sun Shi never thought that there would be a few low-level monks from Wanyue Lake who came to the door, laughed, and approached them with flying swords in his hand, intending to capture the woman alive and torture them to see how many monks from Wanyue Lake were in this Cold Lake Forest.
"It's not good, run away!"
"Quickly release the signal for help!"
The monks of Wanyue Lake changed color in shock, and hurriedly turned around and fled. At the same time, with a whoosh, a flying rocket soared into the sky. It was released by one of the alert monks who had fallen behind.
"Bastard, bastard, you dare!"
Seeing that they actually released a signal and failed to stop it in time, Sun Shi was immediately furious, and directly drove the flying sword in his hand to pounce. A golden light flew by, without any pity, and before a few male and female Qi cultivators could escape from dozens of dogs, they fell to the swamp.
After Sun Shi killed the enemy, he quickly took off the spiritual weapons and slightly valuable things on the bodies of several of them.
These are all evidence of his meritorious service, and the spiritual weapon has the mana breath of the monk, and the mana breath of each monk is not distinguished, so it can be identified. These items can prove how many enemy monks he has killed, and how many highly cultivated monks he has killed.
The flying rocket soared into the sky, and it had exploded in mid-air, emitting dazzling lights of various colors.
Soon, there was a commotion in the depths of the swamp for dozens of miles, shouting and screaming, rushing towards the place where they were.
Ye Qin didn't make a move, it was enough to deal with a few Qi cultivation period cultivators, and Sun Shi alone made a move.
The flying rocket, as well as the shouting, made him unexpected, frowning, not only are there monks from Wanyue Lake here, but it seems that there are not a few of them, otherwise it would not cause such a big movement.
"Senior Brother Ye, now that we have been discovered, what should we do? Shen Bao hurriedly asked.
"I don't know who I am, and if I rush to kill indiscriminately, I'm looking for death. Let's avoid it for a while and find out the situation. ”
Ye Qin rolled his eyes and said angrily, "Completely destroy these corpses without leaving a trace." There are a lot of monsters here, and they may not be able to confirm who did it, and they may think that the monsters killed their people. This cold lake forest has a radius of hundreds of miles, there are many demon beasts, the fog is the most pervasive, several monks were raided by demon beasts, and it is normal to send a signal for help when they are dying. And we can hide people anywhere here, and it's not so easy for enemy monks to find us. ”
Shen Bao nodded, shot a few fireballs, and burned the corpses of the Wanyue Lake monks with Feng Tong and the others, and then stirred up the swamp. Subsequently, a group of five of them immediately disappeared into the swamp under the leadership of Ye Qin.
This area is either a gloomy forest or a misty swampy area, and even if there are thousands of monks from Myriad Moon Lake gathered here, it may not be easy to find their location.
Moreover, Ye Qin knew very well that this was just an ice spirit stone collection point, not a heavy place, and it was impossible for Wanyue Lake to hoard a large number of monks in such a remote place from the main battlefield. There are dozens or hundreds of Qi cultivation period cultivators here, which is enough to collect ice spirit stones here.
As for how many foundation monks there will be, it's hard to say. The Spirit Mist Realm sent a monk to sneak attack. The monks of Wanyue Lake would not send monks to ambush here.
Ye Qin left the scene with the rest of the team not long ago.
At this time, Qian Bojiang came out of the hidden place in the swamp not far away with his team, and scolded a few words angrily.
He originally planned to follow behind Ye Qin and the others, and let Ye Wei and the other five people stand in front of him, so that he could find out the situation of the Wanyue Lake cultivators. But I didn't expect the situation to change suddenly, and a few Qi cultivators from Wanyue Lake who came out to find death appeared, and they were picked up by Sun Shi by confession.
The entire Cold Lake Forest has fallen into chaos, and after the monks of Wanyue Lake are alarmed, they will definitely send a large number of people to search around. A few of them could encounter the Wanyue Lake monk anytime, anywhere, in any direction, and the previous state division was no longer feasible.
"It's already messed up here, it's hard to figure out what's going on. Fighting on their own. Ba, fight to get some battle merits, and then return to Lingwu City. I hope you don't run into the other party's powerful foundation building monk. ”
Qian Bojiang cursed a few words, and quickly left with his team, disappearing into the swamp. Before he knew how strong the strength of the Wanyue Lake cultivators here was, he didn't dare to abuse his own strength at will.