Chapter 378: Rune Beast

"This monster is indeed very strange, how did you find it, and where did it go?"

Zhao Di's eyes widened, and he said in surprise.

But he chuckled in his heart, and faintly felt that something bad would happen.

If he didn't guess wrong, most of the demon beasts that these people saw were formed by being infused with pure demonic qi, or living in an extremely strong demonic environment for many years.

Either way, obviously, it means that this matter is related to demonic energy, and there may even be the existence of high-level demons!

Could it be that this Demon Yuan Continent has also been invaded by the ancient true demons, so it has cultivated a lot of demonic beasts?

But after 10,000 years, unless there is a steady stream of demonic qi to nourish it, it is impossible to continue to have low-level demonic beasts. After all, the lifespan of a low-level Warcraft is not very long.

Zhao Di was suspicious in his heart, and pretended to be very curious, and asked these low-level monks what they knew.

It's a pity that these people let the low-level demon wolf escape, and there is no evidence, and Zhao Di can't find more information from it.

After that, Zhao Di asked a lot about the human monks here.

It turns out that Jinmai City is just a xiǎo city on this vast, rumored and endless Cangfeng grassland, and in the north of Jinmai City, there is a large city inhabited by human beings, called Hangu City, which is the real prosperous place.

In the Han Lonely City, there are even several Yudan period existences, and the place is much larger than Xiǎo cities such as Jinmai City. Around Hangu City, there are more than 20 subordinate human cities such as Jinmai City, all of which are relatively close to the situation of Jinmai City.

As for how big the Cangfeng Grassland is, what the situation is outside the grassland, and whether there are other human cities, these questions are not something that these Qi Refining Stage cultivators can know, and Zhao Di has not obtained much information.

Just like that, I was chatting while flying, and about a day later, I saw a stone tower more than twenty zhang high, and there were two Qi refining period monks on the top of the tower.

After these two people saw Zhao Di, they were very respectful and polite.

Zhao Di knew that these two people were the out-of-town sentry posts of Jinmai City, and once they found that a large number of beasts appeared, or that there were "high-level" demon beasts above the third level, they would ignite the "Flying Flame" magic weapon in their hands, a kind of consumption magic weapon that could rise to a height of hundreds of zhang and bloom with colorful dazzling spiritual light, which could be detected thousands of miles away, warning humans thousands of miles away.

In this continent ruled by monsters, survival is the theme of these human beings.

Zhao Di and the others flew for most of the day, encountered several such sentry posts on the way, and finally saw a large area of yellow and green farmland.

Surrounded by farmland, it is where the Jinmai City is located, which is about dozens of miles wide, and there are huge stone walls more than 100 zhang high built on all sides, so you can't see the internal buildings. Obviously, this very tall and strong city wall was built to defend against demon beasts.

The people working in the farmland were all mortals, but everywhere there were low-ranking monks dressed in uniform pale yellow dresses patrolling, and Zhao Di saw more than a dozen people at a cursory glance.

A few people flew close to the city wall, and Zhao Di finally saw the building inside Jinmai City, and immediately frowned.

Everywhere there are dense pavilion buildings and vertical and horizontal wrong roads, which appear very dense and narrow, which makes Zhao Di, who is accustomed to seeing the situation of Xiuxian Sect mén opening and closing, magnificent, and covering a vast area, feel a little depressed.

Although the grasslands are extremely vast, human cities do not dare to be too big. The larger the area, the larger the defense area and the greater the pressure to defend when facing the monster. Therefore, almost all of the human dwellings in Jinmai City are stacked on top of each other, and farmland is arranged near the outside of the city.

In this way, once an abnormal situation is discovered, those mortals can hide in the city for refuge, anyway, low-level demon beasts will not deliberately destroy farmland and other things, and they rarely besiege human cities for a long time. Once a group of low-level demon beasts appears, as long as humans stick to the city, have a certain amount of food and other reserves, and patiently wait for the demon beasts to disperse, they can resume production.

This is also why on the Cangfeng grassland, the stronghold of human survival, there are only such big cities, and there are no scattered villages. Because only a certain number of human beings can rely on each other to form a self-sufficient group and survive in this treacherous grassland.

However, every few hundred years, there will always be a large-scale herd of demon beasts, and at this time, the humans of Xiǎo City must prepare several years in advance and temporarily move to the nearby big city, otherwise they will survive the siege of the beasts.

It is said that every few hundred years, there are always one or two cities that are breached by demon beasts, and millions of humans almost all die under the claws of demon beasts, but with their tenacious survival, human beings can always reproduce in this cangfeng grassland.

And the monk with a spiritual root with a very low probability of appearing is obviously the guarantee of human survival.

Therefore, in the Cangfeng Grassland, the monk is a very respected and loved horn, when Zhao Di and a few others flew over the farmland and pasture, those mortals who were working cast respectful glances, especially Zhao Di who flew on the dragon, which attracted countless people in amazement, joy or envy.

"The living environment of human beings here is even worse than the younger generation imagined. It seems that they are just surviving in the ravages of demon beasts, I really don't know how these low-level cultivators do it!" Zhao Di sighed lightly, and flowed with the mixed yuan son Jiāo in his divine sense.

"I'm afraid it's because the shapeshifting demon beasts don't bother to clean up these humans, otherwise, a shapeshifting demon beast is enough to destroy a city overnight!" said Mixed Yuanzi with a light snort and shook his head.

"Well, there's a way for everything. If humans slaughter too many monsters and other creatures, they will also be contaminated with evil energy, and in the Buddha's view, it is the accumulation of karma, and there will be no good death, and legend has it that they may even be punished on the spot by heavenly thunder and other heavenly ways. Presumably, high-level demon beasts and others also have scruples in this regard, so they will not kill humans indiscriminately for no reason. Zhao Di guessed.

Just thinking about this, Zhao Di, surrounded by several Qi Refining Stage cultivators, had already come to a three-story hall on the city wall, which was still majestic.

This is the city lord's "palace", but at this time, the city lord of Jinmai City happened to be not here, so Zhao Di had to sit and sit and wait for a while, and those Qi refining period monks were naturally politely accompanying them.

For a high-level monk like him, who often meditates for years and decades, even if he waits for ten days and a half months, he will not feel the slightest bit difficult. But those very young Qi Refining Stage youths seemed to be a little unable to hold their breath.

"The city lord has gone to the north to investigate, and it will probably take a few hours to come back, so why don't we have a fight!" a fair-skinned boy of seventeen or eighteen years old took the lead in speaking after throwing a few glances from the others.

"Why, I was not convinced when I lost last time, and if I lose again this time, you will have to be on duty for me for two months!" a young man in his early twenties smiled slightly mockingly.

"I won't lose again this time, but I consulted Uncle Peng before I made this Earth Talisman Beast!" the young man blushed slightly, defended, and then said to himself as if he was cheering up: "What, are you afraid of losing and don't dare to compete?"

The young man snorted lightly: "Afraid of losing to you? Hmph, the rune beasts I made three years ago can beat you! There are seniors here today, and I don't dare to bother." ”

When Zhao Di heard what Fu Beast said, he was also quite interested, and immediately smiled faintly and said, "Although you do your own thing, it has nothing to do with me." ”

"Thank you, senior!" the boy waited.

"Okay, the seniors also said that it's okay, you guys can quickly have a discussion, this time I bet xiǎo six sons, and I have seen his earth genus xìng rune beast, it is indeed jīng liang!" another young man also said with great interest.

Surrounded by several people, the young men and teenagers who were competing came to the empty place of the main hall and each took out a slap of a big xiǎo yù stone.

The yù stone in the young man's hand was in the shape of a tiger in a dark yellow sè, and there seemed to be some kind of complex and profound rune painted on it, and Zhao Di, who pretended to glance at it casually, was secretly shocked in his heart.

With his current knowledge, he couldn't see through the meaning of this rune, he only felt that it must be extraordinary, and the refining method of the yù rune was also quite peculiar, not in any kind of refining method he had ever seen.

Zhao Di thought that he was quite knowledgeable and experienced in talismans and refining tools, but he couldn't see the mystery of the tiger-shaped yù talisman refined by this Qi refining period cultivator, which was really a bit unbelievable.

And the young man also took out a wolf-shaped puppet with a green sè, although the carving was quite rough, but there were also mysterious runes carved on it.

Zhao Di's heart was even more surprised.

He had already seen that although the materials used by the tiger-shaped yù and the wolf-shaped puppets were completely different and their forms were very different, the runes on them were quite similar and seemed to be from the same source. Obviously, this so-called "talisman beast" was a refining tool or talisman making method that he had never seen before.

"I don't know what's so special about this talisman beast!" Zhao Di wondered in his heart, looking over here with interest.

"The competition begins!" the middle-aged man who had been selected as a notary announced it, and then the two of them bit their fingertips, dripping a drop of jīng blood on the "Fu Beast" in their respective hands, and each played a strange trick.

The dark yellow yù talisman in the young man's hand turned into a three-foot-long stone tiger with skin like a mountain rock in an instant, and the wolf-shaped puppet in the young man's hand turned into a big xiǎo approaching wooden wolf after a flash of blue light.

Zhao Dizheng was stunned in surprise, but he heard the two of them each instruct their own rune beasts:

"Go, kill that timber wolf (Shi Hu)!"