Xuantian 1: Ancient Xuandongtian

[-]. A horse will not gain weight without night grass.

Within the territory of Yunyang Sect, the western forest.

Seventeen cultivators wearing animal skins gathered together.

The animal skins on these people were very smooth, seven of them had all middle-grade magic weapons, and the remaining ten people all had mid- to low-grade magic weapons.But without exception, the boots were dirty and stained with mud and blood.

And the hair is messy and simply tied up.

"Boss, when will this prey arrive, and when will we take action?" A cultivator at the tenth level of Condensation Yuan said to the leader of a cultivator who had perfected the Spiritual Yuan Realm.

The other party pondered for a moment and said, "Hurry, according to the trajectory of the prey, we will reach our hunting circle in a few days."

"But how long do we have to wait?"

Another beast-skin monk at the twelfth level of Ningyuan asked.

This man was also wearing animal skins, but he was quite clean, his hair was well combed, and there were no stains between his fingernails.

"Why do you have so many questions? Whatever time the boss said! Go back to your place and stay." A beast-skin monk who was in the middle stage of the Lingyuan Realm scolded.

But at this time, another monk who was also in the Lingyuan realm, but in the early stage of the Yuan realm, tried to persuade him: "Hey, fourth brother, I am also a new member of the gang. It's okay to ask a few more questions. Don't be so fierce!"

"I'm most annoyed by people who talk nonsense and haven't started to take action yet? They just ask questions. When the action starts, they push them. If you don't want to do it, just get out." The former replied.

The monk at the twelfth level of Ning Yuan had a gloomy expression, but he did not express his anger.

"Hey, fourth brother, calm down."

"Humph!"

The monk in the middle stage of the Lingyuan realm looked disdainfully at the monk at the twelfth level of Ningyuan, seeming to look down on him.

Unexpectedly, this glance triggered a conflict.

"I quit!"

The monk at the twelfth level of the Condensation Realm said.

"Get out now!"

"Don't, brother. We've already done this, and the prey is coming soon. Why are we leaving at this time?" Lao Wu persuaded.

The monk at the twelfth level of Ning Yuan said: "I can't stand this anger."

Then he walked away.

After the man left, Lao Wu said reproachfully: "Fourth brother, why are you doing this? Although we also have seven monks in the Spiritual Realm, the other party also has five, and one of them has a top-quality magic weapon. .

As for the other half, we are at the top level of nine condensed elements, and the other half is also at the sixth level of seven condensed elements.

Generally speaking, we do not have an absolute advantage in numbers, cultivation, or magical weapons.

Even if there is, it is still a small advantage.

That's not enough to hunt them down completely.

Once one or two of them escape and leak the news, we will no longer be able to take this path. "

The fourth child said: "That's why it's a sneak attack and a head-on confrontation. How can we have the strength?"

"He is also a good fighter. Why do you have to force him to leave?"

"To be honest, I can't trust him, and I don't want to share the spoils with him. Do you think he's clean, does he look like he's with me? Thanks to not telling him what the prey is this time, I'm afraid he will Seeing prey cower."

"okay!"

A voice interrupted the two of them.

"Old Four and Old Five, you two should stop arguing. Whether something can succeed or not does not matter how many people there are, but whether there is a chance. If there is a chance, one person less will be a lot. If there is no chance, one person more will not be a lot more."

Said the leading monk who was in the perfect spiritual realm.

"But there is a hidden danger, brother." A monk who has perfected the Single Realm of Spiritual Yuan reminded him.

"what?"

"Fifteen miles away from our ambush circle, there is an animal den. There are probably four or five second-level monsters in it, and there may even be third-level monsters. This may be a hidden danger, because after we kill the people, the bloody The qi will float ten miles away in a stick of incense, and when the time comes, it will attract these monsters."

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"What Lao San said makes sense, what should we do about this?"

"Then we will resolve the battle within a stick of incense and quickly clear the battlefield."

"Do you want to change places?"

"No! The bush area is the best place to set up an ambush. We will ambush in the bush area and keep an eye on them. When their magic weapon is damaged and their spiritual energy is consumed a lot, and the space is replaced and repaired, we will take action again."

So the monk from the twelfth level of Ning Yuan left earlier and headed east.

A week later, he was bitten by a snake in the forest. While he was in a hurry to ask for help, he met a young man.

The young man was tall, wearing a black cloak covering his whole body, and holding a long spear in his hand.The long gun was wrapped with black thread all over its body, and the head of the gun was holstered.

"Fellow!"

"Ok?"

The man called out: "Which mountain monk are you from, fellow Taoist? Can you help me!"

The young man looked closely and saw that there was indeed an injury, so he came closer and said, "What's wrong with you?"

The man's calf was bleeding, and the wound was new, but it had a tendency to suppurate.

Seeing this, the young man frowned and said, "You are suffering from a quick poison. I'm afraid I won't be able to hold you back to the mountain gate."

So he took out a bottle of elixir from the package and gave it to him and said, "Take it quickly. This is a second-level spirit-suppressing elixir. It cannot detoxify, but it can prevent the spread of the poison."

"Second-level spirit-suppressing pill? This is a life-saving pill worth five spiritual stones!"

"Here you go, here you go, I'm on my way."

The man immediately obeyed and said, "Excuse me, my friend, are you from Heshan? What are you doing in this western forest?"

"Yan Moshan, a disciple of Mo Sheng. As for coming here, I want to join a hunting team."

"Oh!"

"I'm going to be late, see you later."

"Wait a minute, may I ask your friend's name?"

"Mu Hanchan."

"I am a monk from Dianren Mountain, and my name is Kuang Liangshi. I will bear in mind my fellow Taoist's life-saving grace, and I will definitely repay you in the future," the man said.

Mu Hanchan replied: "It's a small effort, you can repay it or not, I'm leaving."

After that, he left quickly.

Two days later, Mu Hanchan arrived at the camp.

"Why are you here just now? Detective!" one person said with a hint of ridicule.

Mu Hanchan thought nothing happened, so he said, "I'm a little busy. I'm a quarter of an hour late. Sorry!"

"That won't work. We don't like people who are unpunctual. This team no longer needs you." One person said, with a silver armband on his sleeve, which is equivalent to the deputy commander of the team.

Mu Hanchan immediately changed his expression and said, "What do you mean? I only came a quarter of an hour late, and I was kicked out of the team in less than an hour?"

"Cough cough!"

At this time, a middle-aged man with a golden armband coughed twice.

He said: "It's like this. We are here this time with a newcomer who also has a special talent for spiritual consciousness. We originally wanted to train him. The main position of reconnaissance is naturally yours. It's just that you didn't arrive on time. We're off again, so."

"But didn't I also arrive? And I haven't started hunting the beast yet." Mu Hanchan said in confusion.

"But our personnel list has been uploaded. Just before half a stick of incense, you didn't arrive, so I didn't report your name." said the monk with the silver armband on his sleeve. His cultivation level is at the single level of the spiritual realm. Complete.

Only then did Mu Hanchan notice that there was a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old beside him, but his cultivation level was only at the eighth level of Condensation Yuan.On his sleeve, he wears the investigator iron armband that should belong to him.

When the man saw Mu Hanchan paying attention to him, he looked at Mu Hanchan with bad intentions.

"It seems like there is no place for me?"

Mu Hanchan asked.

"No, just join the group. As for the reward, you and the newcomer can split it in half. The two investigators can better determine the situation of the monsters." The leader with the golden armband looked at his shoulder Soul Eagle said thoughtfully.

Although Mu Hanchan was a little dissatisfied, he agreed because he was late and felt wrong.

This was his first time working with this hunting team, and he was unfamiliar with everyone in it.This is also the seven-star mission he received from Elder Xu Changshu.

You will be rewarded with ten spiritual stones for one month of reconnaissance with the group.

Mu Hanchan's plan was that after this mission, his meridian fatigue should be completely recovered, and he would return to the manor to retreat and attack the twelfth level of Condensation Yuan.

In order to prevent his cultivation plan from being disrupted, it was nothing to him to endure a little grievance from time to time.

Two days later, we reached the bush zone.

At night, Mu Hanchan knew that the official hunt would begin tomorrow, so he crushed a piece into powder, mixed it with first-class spiritual water, and fed it to his soul eagle.

When the young man with the iron armband saw it, he laughed and said, "What kind of beast are you? You actually feed me spiritual stones. What a waste of nature."

"Horses are not fat without weeds, and the same goes for eagles. Soul eagles cannot eat meat, which will affect their speed, and they cannot eat spiritual stones raw, so they must be ground into powder and mixed with first-level spiritual water."

"Nonsense."

"If you don't understand, don't speak." Mu Hanchan replied with a frown.

"Haha, the last word is that the talent of spiritual consciousness is strong. I haven't reached the divine soul realm yet, and I can detect the slightest movement within a ten-mile radius. How about you?"

"I can't, but once the soul eagle is fed, it can detect the general situation within a radius of fifty miles."

"Those who rely on external forces are useless. One's own strength is the last word." The other party said.

Mu Hanchan frowned again, feeling very unhappy, and said, "I don't think so. You can just do what you want. Besides, what does my feeding the eagles have to do with you?"

"Hehe, idiot."

When the young man saw that he could not gain any advantage through words, and Mu Hanchan became increasingly unhappy, he smiled scornfully and went back to his tent.

In the next two days, the young man indeed showed his talent.

In terms of spiritual consciousness reconnaissance, it is exactly the same as Mu Hanchan's reconnaissance.

So the leader with the golden armband said: "It seems that little brother's spiritual talent is really extraordinary. Of course, Brother Mu's Soul Eagle is also really good."

Mu Hanchan felt that his talent was good and that he was a talented person, so he did not continue to be hostile to him.

But the other party didn't seem to restrain himself and said, "It's just a lame man relying on crutches."

After hearing this, Mu Hanchan endured it again.

Another day passed and the team gained a lot.

Mu Hanchan took a fancy to a trophy.

The young man also took a fancy to it.

It is a minion of a blue bird, not precious and of low value.

Mu Hanchan said: "Captain, give this to me. I want to put it together and make an ornament for my Taoist companion."

The leader with the golden armband agreed, but Young Man Re disagreed and said: "I also share in the success of hunting this second-level blue bird, and I also want this minion."

So someone said: "Why do you insist on trying to squeeze someone else? Why don't you insist on grabbing this worthless pawn from someone else if you don't want someone with a better reputation?"

"Every time, I am the first to tell the previous form, which shows that my reconnaissance is more effective than his."

In fact, it is not that his reconnaissance is more effective, but that there is a difference between the direct transmission of spiritual consciousness and the indirect transmission of Soul Eagle.The former is fast, but has a short distance.The latter is slower, but has a wider range and deeper depth.

"I think I'll give it to Brother Cheng. It's true that he reports his location and monster status first every time." The monk with the silver armband said.

Mu Hanchan said: "In that case, I will not accompany you. It seems that this team does not need two investigators."

After saying that, he turned to leave.

"Wait, you can leave. Leave the newly prepared secondary bait." said the young man surnamed Cheng.

So Mu Hanchan left the second-level herbivorous monster bait.

"And the carnivorous bait?"

"Sorry, I made the carnivorous bait myself using personal materials."

"How do you prove that the material is your own?"

"We didn't encounter any real carnivorous monsters along the way."

"Okay, okay, hurry up and leave." The silver armband monk urged.

Upon seeing this, the leader of the gold armband thought of the relationship between the silver armband and the young man, as well as the young man's background, and acquiesced.

So Mu Hanchan left.

During the few days they spent together, his cloak and gun holster were never removed.

[-]. No one is rich without windfall.

Five miles away from the camp, Mu Hanchan was sitting cross-legged with an unhappy look on his face, as if he was digesting his emotions.

The fire of the camp could still be seen dimly in the distance.

"go with!"

With a thought, the soul eagle on his shoulders rose into the sky.

Five miles range…

Ten miles range…

Fifteen miles range…

"Huh? Why are there more than a dozen monsters gathered together?" Mu Hanchan thought in confusion when he felt the fluctuating information transmitted by the soul eagle to his consciousness.

So I let the soul eagle fly higher to conduct widespread reconnaissance.Twenty miles range…

25 miles range…

Thirty miles range…

"Ah? Is there something underground?" Mu Hanchan took back the Soul Eagle and thought again in confusion.

Because he found that about thirty miles away, there seemed to be some kind of monsters hiding underground, about three to five in number.

"I'll go take a look."

Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly felt that the spiritual energy I had gathered earlier felt wrong.

"No, those who gathered earlier were not monsters."

"If it's not a monster, what is it? Is it another hunting group? If so, I can join them when I arrive."

Mu Hanchan thought again.

So, in the middle of the night, he quietly moved to the place where he had previously conducted reconnaissance.

"Huh? Why is there no firelight?"

Mu Hanchan thought strangely because there were usually fires in the camp at night, at least in the center of the camp.In the hunting business, there are very few campsites that turn off the lights at night.He didn't even see where the camp was.

"go with!"

The soul eagle was driven by his thoughts to conduct reconnaissance again, and found that there were indeed sixteen or seven spiritual power groups.

"This is obviously a human monk! There is no doubt that this kind of fluctuation in spiritual power is a human monk. Six spiritual realms and ten condensed realms."

"But why didn't you see anyone?"

Mu Hanchan was very strange.

At this moment, he noticed a towering tree nearby. This big tree was very conspicuous in the generally short bush zone.

This tree is a green birch tree, six feet in diameter. Its height cannot be determined accurately due to the darkness of the night.

The green birch tree is one of the low-level trees, probably between the 2nd and 3rd levels.

Mu Hanchan walked quietly behind the tree, looked at the dry and hard bark, and thought to himself: "The age of this tree is probably between 350 and 470 years old."

Then I thought: "Should I go up the tree and have a look?"

But after some thought, I finally decided to wait for dawn in the bushes a dozen feet away.

"Undercurrents are surging!"

He used the Dark Spirit Formation, the second level of Dark Spirit Skill, to hide himself, and there was no longer any spiritual power fluctuation coming out of him.

A monk at the ninth level of Ningyuan who was on a branch four feet above the ground seemed to hear some movement under the tree, but the movement was not loud. He thought it was a wild deer passing by and continued to doze off.

It's five o'clock.

"At noon today, their group will definitely enter our encirclement, which is under this tree."

"Then what shall we do?"

"The three of you at Qizhi must prepare the third-level spirit-beaming net, and be sure to catch them all at once."

"Okay, but how do we lead them to this tree?"

"This is easy to handle. Just tell them that we have a late-level third-level monster here. We are almost out of health. However, we don't have enough manpower and our spiritual power is running low. If we continue to fight, we will either suffer heavy casualties or be dragged away. Take off.

So we need help very much. If they are willing to help, we will split the spoils [-]/[-] with them. "

"This is a good idea. No hunting team can resist the temptation of the residual blood monster."

"First change your clothes into Fengxingshan's clothes, and remember to look more like you, smear blood on your body, and be out of breath. Most importantly, your expression should be filled with fear, panic, and a little nervousness.

It's better to have the regret of missing out on something good. "

"Okay, but where are we going to find the monsters? If they come and see that we are not hunting animals, wouldn't they become very suspicious?"

"Well, let's let the second child lure the monsters. In less than an hour, we will be able to lure a mid-level third-level monster."

"Midterm?"

"Well, there is a slight risk in the later stage, but it's actually not bad in the mid-term. By the way, your messenger will also join the battle. Remember to put fresh blood on it to avoid them becoming suspicious."

"Okay, let's do that."

Mu Hanchan vaguely heard it in the bushes more than ten feet away, but he didn't hear it clearly.

But vaguely, he seemed to feel that there was something strange about this group of people.

So he temporarily gave up his plan to join his group and waited quietly to watch.

With the blessing of the second level of the Dark Spirit Array, he is not worried that monks below the Condensing Spirit Realm will discover his existence.

After an hour, the third-level monster finally arrived.

"Everyone, hurry up and surround us!"

"Why is it a mouse?"

"Don't underestimate it. This is the third-level leaf-bush blue rat, the king of the jungle bushes. Be careful, don't let him break through the formation."

"Whizzing!"

"Squeak!"

"Sure enough, it's as fast as the wind. The second one was almost bitten when I was leading it just now."

"I heard from the second brother that there seem to be two third-level leaf-bush blue rats in the nest!"

"What? Are you trying to scare me?"

"I'm not scaring you. It's true. And judging from the look on the second child's face, it doesn't seem like he's lying. Fortunately, he didn't attract the other two."

"Even if he doesn't attract him, the leaf bush blue rats are social monsters and will look for their own companions. What if they come looking for this one?"

"So we need to fight quickly. How much is the monster worth? The third-level monster is indeed valuable, but hunting it is too strenuous."

"Yes, it is better for hunters to harvest."

"Yes, especially hunting small and medium-sized teams."

Only then did Mu Hanchan realize that he had discovered a conspiracy that was unfolding.Or maybe this kind of conspiracy has been staged before but this time, and I just happened to encounter it.

He continued to wait until noon, when the prey finally came.

At this time, he also quietly released the soul eagle on his shoulder.

"Aren't the third-level monsters you're talking about late-stage? Why are they only in the mid-stage?" asked a monk with a golden armband and a perfect Spiritual Realm.

"In the later stage, the risk will be too great, and we are too reluctant." The other party said weakly.

And the companion echoed and said weakly: "That's why I need your help. We can't even handle it in the mid-term."

"Are you so useless? You won't dare to challenge in the later stage?" said the monk who has perfected the single realm of spiritual element with the silver armband.

"We in Fengxing Mountain are not very good at hunting animals, and we are not as skilled as you Yan Mo Shan. Among the twelve sect sects, you, the monks from Yan Mo Shan, account for [-]% of the members of the Beast Hunting Association."

"But didn't you mean residual health? Why does it seem to us that this monster is only half-healthy?"

"We pulled it off earlier and it started to bleed."

"Ok?"

"You also know that the healing ability of the third-level monster is very powerful. As long as you don't attack him, or the attack strength is not strong enough, his wounds will slowly heal automatically."

"In that case, we have to do more, and I want to divide it into [-]% and [-]%," said the golden armband monk.

"Okay, okay. You can split it into [-] or [-]. We only ask for this sect mission."

After negotiating the terms, the group began to cooperate in hunting animals.

Only thirteen of the original 16 people from the group that attacked the monster were present, but all thirteen of the new group were present.

The two groups of people changed every hour, and before they knew it, it was four quarters in the afternoon.

At this time, one of the people in the group asked: "How come those people from Fengxing Mountain don't have armbands when hunting animals?"

"Maybe they don't hunt animals often, so they're not used to wearing them."

"But their hair is so dirty."

"And by the way, why do their magic weapons have so much spiritual power? It doesn't look like they came all the way hunting?"

Before they had time to think about these questions, the leader of the other party shouted: "Hurry up, it's your turn, we can't hold on anymore."

So the group of people who came after them rushed to get on top, because the besieged leaf slam dunk rat had scars all over its body and its breath was weak. It was obviously at the end of its strength.

The group of people who shouted earlier gave their companions a look.

The companion said: "I will go to the tree to see if there is a new hunting team nearby. If it doesn't work, I will call for help."

"No, it's almost done. We can kill him in this round." said the golden armband monk.

But the man still went up the tree to see.

The young man with a bronze armband in the group said, "I'll go up and have a look too."

Looking up, his spiritual power fluctuated. Seeing that there was no hunting team within a radius of thirty miles, he said to the three people who had already been ambushing: "Do it!"

A spiritual net with a diameter of eight feet fell from the sky, perfectly covering the group of people who followed.

Seeing this, the young man with the bronze armband asked in surprise: "You?"

Then he was knocked down by a palm.

"What do you mean?" asked the monk who had perfected the Spiritual Realm with the golden armband in the Spirit-beaming Net.

The other party smiled playfully: "What do you mean?"

"Oh!"

A man fell from the sky and fell heavily to the ground, spitting out blood bubbles from his mouth.It was actually the young man who climbed the tree together before.

Now the trapped group finally understood.

The silver armband monk scolded in horror: "Killing fellow disciples is a serious crime. Aren't you afraid that the patriarchal hall will find you?"

"Who told you that we are from the same sect of Slaughter? We are not from your sect. You are from Yanmo Mountain and we are from Fengxing Mountain. Have you forgotten?"

"Stop talking nonsense and deal with them."

So the group outside the net launched an attack on the group inside the net, and the people inside the net had to bear the attack of the trapped leaf dunk rat.

At this time, Mu Hanchan quietly opened a package of meat flower-shaped things, and slowly retreated, twenty feet later, he quickly left.

He retreated ten miles away before stopping, and used his soul eagle to detect every move on the ground.

After a while, all the people in the net were dead, and the leaf bush blue rats in the net were also dead.

"Hey, hurry up and collect the trophies, their magic weapons and robes. And the storage bags of those Lingyuan realm monks. Then quickly change out of our Fengxingshan clothes."

"Okay, boss."

Someone suddenly pointed to the sky and said: "Hey, boss. Look, there is a second-order eagle in the sky. Why don't we shoot it down?"

"It's not easy to hunt the ones in the air, and the eagle pulls them high, so forget it."

At this moment, the leader sniffed it with his nose and asked, "What's going on? What does it smell like?"

"When I eliminated them just now, I seemed to vaguely smell this smell."

"Could it be that the elixir bottle they had on them broke?"

"Check it out quickly."

But after a search, no cracked elixir bottle was found, and the smell became worse and worse.

"No, this seems to be the bait of a carnivorous monster, and the grade is not low."

"Look quickly and find where it was placed."

After another search, I found a bunch of fleshy flower-like things in the bushes that seemed to have just bloomed not very long ago.

"Level [-] carnivorous monster bait!"

"Who put this? Who put this?"

The leader asked immediately.

At this moment, a man at the top of the tree came down from the tree and shouted: "No, boss, there are five monsters coming over there. They are all third-level monsters, and they are less than ten miles away."

Upon hearing this, the others panicked.

They began to scatter without caring about what was in the stolen net.

However, Yegulan Blue Rat is the king of the forest, let alone a third-level one.

In less than half a stick of incense, these people were all dead, and they all died within five miles. Only the leader escaped to a distance of seven miles.

The last five third-level monsters came to the Shuling Net, tore it into pieces, and carried the dead Leaf Dunk Rat back to their caves.

A soul eagle in the sky saw everything in its eyes and transmitted the images to Mu Hanchan's consciousness.

He took a deep breath, immediately stood up and went to clean the battlefield, collecting most of the valuable things.

After counting, a total of 28 magical instruments were found.

Among them, there are three high-grade instruments, seven of medium-high-grade instruments, [-] medium-grade instruments, and six of low-grade instruments.There are also three storage bags sealed with spiritual power, which were found on a gold armband, a silver armband, and another leading monk.

After collecting the things, Mu Hanchan left quickly.

At this moment, a spiritual elixir monk who was sitting cross-legged in a cave in Qingquan Mountain slowly opened his eyes.

He murmured to himself: "Huh? Why did one of my leaf dunk rats die? Are the other ones also acting strangely?"

But after a while, he seemed to notice that the abnormal movement had disappeared, so he thought: "Forget it, let's bring it back to the cave in a while. It's really not safe to keep it in captivity."