Cultivation begins with the Shen family

Chapter 35 Field Battle
In the next period of time, Shen Zhirui followed the rest of the team to start the border patrol mission.

With that temporary stronghold as the center, the barren land with a radius of hundreds of miles is the area they need to patrol.

And there are a total of four patrol teams on their side, two teams are dispatched for each patrol, and the remaining two teams rest in the stronghold.

After the two patrolling teams return, the two resting teams in the stronghold will replace them and continue patrolling the surrounding area.

Compared with the fierce fighting that broke out in other places on the border, Shen Zhirui's area seemed much calmer.

Since their place already belonged to the fringe area of ​​the Jue Ling Sand Sea, the Xuanling Sect and the Liu family did not have too many monks in this area, just to prevent the other side from detouring to attack the rear from here.

Therefore, both the enemy and the enemy in this area are also very restrained, and everyone has only completed the patrol tasks above and below.

Although the monks of the two sides would fight each other after encountering each other on the border, but only up to this point, neither of them would easily enter each other's territory, leaving a buffer zone for each other.

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The gust of wind howling from the Jue Ling Sand Sea rolled up the endless yellow sand on the ground, and it was gray everywhere, giving people a feeling of covering the sky and blocking out the sun.

On a piece of barren sandy land, there were continuous sounds of sand and rocks collapsing and brilliant magic attacks burst out.

At this time, Shen Zhirui and his party were fighting fiercely, but this time their opponent was not the Liu Family cultivator in Shiyi County opposite, but khaki strange insects.

I saw that these strange insects were more than several feet long, and their whole bodies were covered with khaki sand and stones. They didn't have any claws on their bodies, and there was only a weird mouth on their heads.

This kind of strange insect is called sandworm, and it is the only kind of monster that can survive in the sea of ​​​​extreme spirits for a long time.

As we all know, above the surface of the Jue Ling Sand Sea, the spiritual energy is almost cut off, and all spiritual plants and monsters that rely on spiritual energy to survive cannot survive here.

However, monsters like sandworms have their own special abilities. They live in the dark underground all year round, relying on devouring things with spiritual power in the ground to survive, and occasionally attack monks on the surface.

But relatively speaking, this kind of monster only lives in the Absolute Spirit Sand Sea, and basically rarely enters the territory of human monks.

Moreover, the intelligence of this kind of monster is very low, most of the time it acts on instinct, and the main attack method is to use its own body covered with hard sand to attack with brute force.

What's more, most of the strengths are only around the middle and lower ranks of the first level, and they don't pose much threat to human monks.

"Boom."

Accompanied by a flash of sharp cold light, Shen Zhirui put away the knife and cut a middle-grade first-grade sandworm opposite him in two, and its two huge bodies fell heavily on the sand.

However, even though the body had been split into two parts with a single knife, the two parts of the body were still writhing continuously. There was no trace of blood at the wound, but a stream of thick mucus flowed out.

In a blink of an eye, those two bodies turned into two sandworms, and they began to burrow into the sand with all their might.

Shen Zhirui, who saw this scene, did not show any surprise, and swung the horizontal knife in his hand again, splitting the sandworm that was divided into two into several pieces again.

After a flash of swords and swords, the ground was covered with disgusting slime and wreckage like sand and stones.

Shen Zhirui's gaze scanned the piles of wreckage, and then he came directly to one of the wreckages, and took out a stone-like thing from the mucus-filled body.

This stone-like thing is a kind of concretion that was born in the body after the sandworm swallowed the spiritual mine deep in the ground. It contains pure spiritual power, which is almost comparable to the spiritual stone.

However, the birth speed of this kind of concretion is extremely slow. Some first-order low-grade sandworms have no concretions in their bodies at all, and the first-grade mid-grade sandworm like Shen Zhirui's beheaded gave birth to this concretion, but its spirit Strength is only equivalent to two or three spirit stones.

In order to obtain such a stone, it took a lot of effort to kill the first-tier middle-grade sandworm, and it was unavoidable that the gain outweighed the gain.

On the other side, other people in the team also dealt with other sandworms, looking for possible concretions in their wreckage.

After all, this kind of stone is still rich in spiritual power, which can help them recover their spiritual power in this place where the spiritual energy is thin.

"The sandworm attacks encountered during these days are too frequent, it seems abnormal"

As an aboriginal monk in Shayu County, Wenshi Zhuang is very familiar with the habits of sandworms.

Generally speaking, this kind of monster only lives inside the Absolute Spirit Sand Sea, and hardly appears in areas where humans are active.

However, in the past ten days, they have been attacked by inexplicable sandworms again and again, which is obviously contrary to common sense.

Everyone couldn't help feeling the abnormality when they heard the words, but they couldn't figure out the reason.

The only thing that can be imagined is that some cultivators from the Liu family secretly controlled these sandworms by means of beast control, and commanded these monsters to attack them.

But judging from the attack process of these sandworms, it doesn't look like they are being controlled, they are just acting on instinct.

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As night fell, Shen Zhirui's team set up a simple temporary camp in a leeward valley.

The four sides of the camp are earth walls built with the earth wall technique, and a pile of bonfires are burning in the middle.

It happened to be Shen Zhirui's turn to watch the night tonight, so he sat down on the sand a few miles away from the camp.

The cool night breeze brushed his cheeks, and he looked up at the bright moon hidden behind the clouds, and his thoughts gradually drifted away.

Today has been 45 days since he left the family. He doesn't know what's going on in the family, and he doesn't know if his grandfather has left the customs, and whether he has successfully broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm.
In addition to these, he was also worried about the clansmen who came to the border with him, wondering what happened to these clansmen?

Although he was relatively peaceful here, he had heard that the battles in other places were extremely brutal, with a large number of monks casualties every day.

However, while he was still thinking wildly here, the little gray pig who had signed a blood contract with him made a new discovery.

He had released the little gray pig in his arms earlier, and let it move around here to find food by itself.

Unexpectedly, it has a new discovery now!
Shen Zhirui hurriedly got up and rushed to the place where the little gray pig was, and quickly left the temporary camp.

As he got farther and farther away from the camp, he immediately became vigilant. After all, after staying away from the camp, he would be vulnerable to unknown dangers.

Not long after, Shen Zhirui came near a gentle slope, and the little gray pig who called him over also ran towards him.

Through the contract established by the two parties, he can know that the new discovery is behind this hillside.

I saw that Shen Zhirui put the little gray pig into the cloth bag at his waist, then restrained all the breath in his body, and quietly sneaked behind the slope.

At the same time, in a hidden corner behind the hillside, two people, a man and a woman, were having an affair.

"Wu Lang. After I tell you that secret, you can really agree to marry me into the family and help me repair the lost Yin Yuan."

The woman gasped and spoke intermittently, her voice was extremely alluring.

At this time, a boy also said while panting heavily:
"Junior Sister Xu, as long as you can extract the secret that Senior Brother Feng is planning to plot next, I will definitely marry you.
Besides, you also know that my cousin has been listed as a true disciple by the sect and has started to prepare for the establishment of the foundation. When the time comes, I will definitely find a way to help you find the spirit to repair the Yin Yuan."

Not far away at this time, Shen Zhirui was even more surprised when he heard the conversation between the two clearly.

From the voices of these two people, it was not hard to tell that they were Xu Mengqing and Wu Zifan who were on his team, but he didn't expect that these two people would actually do such a despicable thing in this wilderness.

And isn't Xu Mengqing and Feng Tianjie a couple of dual cultivators?Why are you hooking up with Wu Zifan again now?
The most important thing is what is the secret about Feng Tianjie mentioned in their conversation?
For a moment, Shen Zhirui was a little confused, the relationship between these three people seemed to be too complicated.

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(End of this chapter)