Chapter 34: The Shadow Forest
Lin Fan washed up in the room, and when he broke through last night, a large amount of impurities were discharged from his body, so the surface of his body looked dirty, and then Lin Fan took out a piece of clothing from the storage bag and changed it in.
After doing this, Lin Fan, who was dressed in green clothes, looked a little elegant, and his bright eyes inadvertently flashed a touch of fine light, as smart and dazzling as stars.
Not long after, Lin Fan's figure appeared on the street of Dark Night Town, Lin Fan walked on the street leisurely, and after a period of wandering, Lin Fan learned about some of the conditions of the Shadow Forest outside Shadow Town.
The Shadow Forest is located in the eastern part of the Kaiyuan Kingdom, separated by thousands of miles from Danyang City, the Shadow Forest stretches for thousands of miles, full of barren mountains and Daze, there are some powerful demon beasts in it, as well as some precious spirit grasses, which attract countless scattered cultivators to come to adventure every year, so it has also created the prosperity of Shadow Town.
In the southeast corner of Shadow Town, there is a scattered gathering place, which has two functions, the first Shadow Town's large and small trading houses, when they urgently need some kind of spirit grass or monster materials, they will issue tasks here, and give a certain amount of spirit stones as a reward according to the difficulty of the task.
The other is that the adventurers who generally go to the Shadow Forest will look for the right eye here and the adventurers who are also casual cultivators will go together in a team, or there are some more difficult, but well-paid tasks, and there will also be monks who are willing to take risks and choose to find someone to form a team, a few people together, it is better than a single person, unless it is a few powerful casual cultivators, unwilling to team up with others, will choose to enter alone.
Despite this, there are many monks who stay in the Shadow Forest every year to become the belly of the monsters, but it does not stop the monks from adventurous.
It didn't take long, according to the guidance of passers-by, Lin Fan soon came to this monks' gathering place, only to see that the area in front of him was full of people, and there was an endless stream of monks coming and going, and the scene was also very chaotic, shouting and scolding, all in one piece.
Lin Fan was shocked to see this scene, the mysterious and arrogant immortal cultivator who was originally in the eyes of mortals was no different from ordinary citizens here.
"The Iron Blood Regiment has recruited people, and it also needs two people above the fifth layer of the Condensation Qi Realm, and the reward is one hundred spirit stones, and they will leave when they are full. A man who looked three or five thick shouted there with a broken gong in his voice, and there were seven or eight monks around him, among whom the lowest cultivator had also reached the fifth level of condensation.
"Haha, what's so great about the Iron Blood Regiment, if you want to come, come to our Lone Wolf Regiment and reward one hundred and twenty spirit stones. At this moment, a gloomy-looking man laughed at the side, and there were many monks around him, all of whom were sneering.
"****, wild wolf, what the are you talking about, isn't Lao Tzu's iron-blooded group still as good as your lone wolf group? Isn't it just envy that Lao Tzu got a five-colored grass a few days ago, and if you dare to slander my iron-blooded group, Lao Tzu is not finished with you." The three or five thick rough mine man looked at the man with a gloomy face.
Seeing that the two were arguing, everyone next to them was also happy to see the joke, but the middle-aged man named Wild Wolf smiled in his mouth and did not answer.
Lin Fan has only been here for a while, and he has seen two or three cases of this situation, which seems quite funny, it seems that these adventurers usually have a lot of grievances, plus they have been adventuring and fighting in the dark night forest all year round, all of them are very short-tempered, and their temperament has become extremely bloodthirsty.
Seeing such a situation, Lin Fan secretly shook his head, the cultivation of monks is focused on the state of mind, most of the adventurers here are deceitful and mercenary, and they have lost the mentality that a monk should have, and in the future, in terms of cultivation, it is too difficult to improve again.
Lin Fan came to the task release area and saw that most of the commercial houses he saw on the street yesterday had posted tasks here, and there were special people in the reception, and every task needed to be registered with them in advance.
For example, the tasks released by Baibao Zhai are: collect jade snake saliva, two hundred spirit stones per bottle.
Lin Fan glanced at a few of them, and reluctantly found that the tasks that were generally easy to do had already been taken over early, and the rest were either very dangerous or difficult to complete.
For example, collecting jade snake saliva is extremely rare, and it needs to be found at a specific time and in a specific place, and this kind of task itself depends on luck to complete.
"Brother, is it alone?"
Suddenly, Lin Fan felt someone tap him on the shoulder, and at the same time, a gentle voice came from behind.
Lin Fan turned around and found a young man dressed in white, looking at him with a smile on his face, this person had an eighth-layer cultivation of condensing qi, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, handsome, obviously this person was talking to him just now.
Lin Fan glanced at the young man cautiously, nodded and said, "Yes, I don't know what happened to the next friend?"
"Hehe, introduce myself, my name is Lu Qing, I see that my brother ** has been wandering here for a long time, presumably he has not joined other teams, I don't know if my brother is willing to join the team below, of course, we will distribute the proceeds of the adventure fairly. Lu Qing said with a smile on his face.
Lin Fan secretly said in his heart, "That's really the case", but Lin Fan didn't plan to team up with this unmasked person, and Lin Fan always felt that this man named Lu Qing had a strange smile, and he was not as kind as he seemed on the surface.
"I'm sorry, I don't have any plans to form a team yet, so please find someone else. Lin Fan refused without thinking about it, he originally planned to be alone.
Hearing that Lin Fan rejected him, the man named Lu Qing flashed a hint of surprise in his eyes, so he said: "That's a pity, but everyone has their own ambitions, so don't force it, take your leave." ”
"That kid actually refused the boss's invitation, I really don't know what to do. ”
"Hmph, when he enters the Shadow Forest alone, you'll know how stupid his actions are. ”
Not far away, with Lu Qing's turn, several people in his group were talking one after another, and their voices were undisguised.
Lin Fan heard it clearly on the sidelines, and sneered in his heart, but he ignored those people, people don't offend me, I don't offend people, this is Lin Fan's code of conduct.
After Lu Qing's stubble, Lin Fan no longer had the heart to wander around, who knows how many people will come over to talk to him in a while, Lin Fan thought about it for a while, then turned around and walked in the direction of the Shadow Forest.
"Hehe, that kid really dares to go to the Shadow Forest alone"
"The stunned young man who just debuted really doesn't know whether he is alive or dead. ”
Lu Qing looked at Lin Fan's distant figure, and a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes, several of them had a bad reputation in Shadow Town, and they often invited some newcomers with low strength to form a team, and they didn't know how many people had suffered their losses, many people dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, and some people had never been out of the Shadow Forest again.
But these Lin Fan naturally didn't know.
The Shadow Forest, a forbidden place for mortals and a paradise for adventurers, is full of ancient trees and monsters, where danger and opportunity coexist.
At this time, Lin Fan had just come to the edge of the Shadow Forest, and from time to time he could see the green grass, stained with some dark red blood, and he couldn't tell whether it was a human or a demon beast.
This discovery made Lin Fan suddenly vigilant, put away the last trace of luck, and the whole person became cautious.
The Shadow Forest stretches for thousands of miles, the ancient trees are towering, those trees are extremely tall, a tree is often a few people hugging each other, the old vines criss-cross the trees, all of them are comparable to buckets, and they look like giant pythons, entangled together.
When he was still on the periphery of the Shadow Forest, Lin Fan could occasionally see the figures of some adventurers, and Lin Fan chose to avoid them intentionally or unintentionally, trying not to meet them.
When Lin Fan went deep into two or three miles, he couldn't see anyone else at all, there were already traces of demon beast activity in this location, and occasionally he could hear a few roars of demon beasts in the distance, and the air was filled with a murderous aura.