Chronicles of Ascension: The Path to Immortality

Three days later, it was dark and Jiuhufang was still sleeping.

Except for a few stalls selling spiritual vegetables, there were basically no people on the street.

Zhang Xuan set out early and came to Jiuhu Bridge.

He saw several people waiting.

When they were almost there, the black-faced man said, "This time, our hunting team has a total of 13 people. I am the captain of the hunting team, and my name is Gao Qiang."

Everyone introduced themselves to each other.

Zhang Xuan learned that the hunter with the highest cultivation level was the captain Gao Qiang, who reached the third level of Qi Refining.

Most of the others were at the second level of Qi Refining.

There were also two at the first level of Qi Refining, one of whom was himself.

From the surface, Zhang Xuan's strength was at the bottom.

Gao Qiang gave everyone a package.

Zhang Xuan opened the package and found a pound and a half of spiritual grain, a rope, and a ground escape talisman.

"This is too generous." Zhang Xuan felt unbelievable.

Everyone smiled when they saw the things in the package.

Gao Qiang continued, "This time we will enter the Black Forest for half a month. No matter if we have any harvest, we will return on time. The rope is the weapon given to you for hunting monsters. Each person at the first level of Qi Refining has one earth escape talisman, and each person at the second level of Qi Refining has two earth escape talismans for escape."

"Captain, it takes half a month to go from Neiji to the depths of the Black Forest. Half a month is too little time for us." An old man in red at the second level of Qi Refining asked.

"Of course we don't rely on our speed. The Monster Hunting Alliance arranged a flying boat for us and bought the information about the monsters in advance at a high price. We just need to go to the place where the monsters appear according to the information, hunt the monsters, and then take the flying boat back." Gao Qiang explained.

Sure enough, after a while, a flying boat came over, and the three words "Monster Hunting Alliance" were written on the flying boat.

"Come on." A boat master with a mouth full of gold teeth waved to Gao Qiang and his friends.

"Go."

At Gao Qiang's command, the members of the Monster Hunting Team jumped on the flying boat one after another.

This was Zhang Xuan's first time riding a flying boat.

The wind whistled past his ears as it sped by.

He watched the scenery passing by his feet.

"Brother, is this your first time hunting?" a voice asked next to him.

Zhang Xuan looked up and saw the hunchbacked old man.

He and Zhang Xuan were the only two people in the team who were at the first level of Qi Refining, and they were both at the bottom.

Zhang Xuan nodded.

"Hehe, I have participated in it five or six times, and everyone calls me 'Old Oily Head'."

"Old Oily Head?" Zhang Xuan complained in his heart.

It must be because everyone thinks that this hunchbacked old man is slick, so everyone gave him such a nickname.

However, the hunchbacked old man was not ashamed of it, but was quite proud of this title.

"If you don't be more careful, keep your eyes and ears open, you may die in the mouth of a monster in two or three times. You don't understand." The old oily head seemed to see Zhang Xuan's thoughts.

"Please teach me more, senior old oily head." Zhang Xuan acted modestly.

The old oily man nodded in satisfaction, and then he started talking.

From the old oily man, Zhang Xuan learned that the hunting team belonged to the Monster Hunting League.

Moreover, it was obvious that the Monster Hunting League had already reached a scale in hunting monsters.

A large number of hunting personnel were recruited, and there were hundreds of hunting teams.

The Monster Hunting League would equip each hunting team with corresponding supplies, pay year-end salaries, and transport team members into the depths of the Black Domain Forest.

Most importantly, the Monster Hunting League was equipped with special monster information exploration personnel, who would mark the location when they found the traces of hunting monsters and immediately report to the Monster Hunting League headquarters.

The Monster Hunting League headquarters could arrange for the monster hunting team to hunt monsters.

The monster hunting team could get 10% of the monsters hunted, and the remaining 90% would be submitted to the Monster Hunting League.

Among this 10%, the captain alone took 90%, and the remaining 10% was shared by more than a dozen other team members.

"This difference in share is a bit too big." Zhang Xuan said in a low voice.

"If you are strong enough, you can also form a hunting team and be the captain."

Zhang Xuan looked for the voice and saw that the person who spoke was Gao Qiang.

Unexpectedly, the wind on the flying boat was so strong, and he still spoke in a low voice, but the other party actually heard it.

Zhang Xuan smiled awkwardly and simply lowered his head and said nothing.

"Captain, what monster are we hunting this time?" asked the red-clothed old man at the second level of Qi Refining.

"A first-order mid-stage monster sea monkey."

"First-order mid-stage monster? The highest cultivation level of our hunting team is only at the third level of Qi Refining, not even at the middle stage of Qi Refining. How can we compete with first-order mid-stage monsters?" asked the red-clothed old man.

"Don't forget, we have 13 people. A lot of ants can kill an elephant. If the hunting target is just a first-order early stage monster, I can do it myself. There is no need to form a monster hunting team." Gao Qiang said coldly.

"No, I want to quit." said the red-clothed old man.

"Quit?" Gao Qiang's eyes flashed with a fierce light, "Don't forget, you signed a life and death contract. You can't quit unless you die. Let me say one more thing. During the battle, whoever dares to escape without my order will also die."

The old man in red was like an eggplant hit by frost after hearing this.

A heavy atmosphere suddenly filled the whole flying boat.

Zhang Xuan used his spiritual sense to scan the bloodthirsty bat in the Shangyu Dharma phase diagram.

"The bloodthirsty bat is also in the middle stage of the first stage. It should be able to beat the sea monkey." He thought to himself.

In less than an hour, the flying boat had left the Fairy Cat Valley and entered the Black Domain Forest.

The ancient trees in the Black Forest are towering, with branches spread out.

The boat master is an old hand, and he flew the boat in the Black Forest without any scratches.

"Are we almost there?" A man asked the boat master in front.

The boat master scratched his head and said, "It's almost there, it's almost there, why are you in such a hurry, it's not like a young man entering the bridal chamber..."

As soon as the boat master finished speaking, a black shadow fell from the towering ancient trees.

"Take out your weapons——" Gao Qiang roared.

Zhang Xuan immediately took out the rope, looked up and saw a sea monkey with a hideous face more than ten feet tall.

The sea monkey held a stick in his hand and smashed it down from the sky towards the flying boat.

Gao Qiang picked up a mountain axe and smashed it directly at the stick in the sea monkey's hand.

"Bang——"

The mountain axe in Gao Qiang's hand actually slipped out of his hand.

Fortunately, the sea monkey was stopped in an instant, and the boat master drove the flying boat and cleverly avoided the sea monkey's attack.

Everyone threw the ropes in their hands towards the sea monkey.

As soon as the ropes touched the sea monkey, they automatically entangled together.

Several ropes were directly wrapped around the sea monkey's legs.

The sea monkey grabbed the branches of the ancient tree with both hands and swung his legs up like a swing.

Several team members holding ropes were thrown into the air.

"Get off the boat!" Gao Qiang ordered.

Several people on the boat jumped directly.

The boat master was still frightened and drove the flying boat back.

The sea monkey held a big stick and smashed it directly at Gao Qiang, who had the highest cultivation.

Gao Qiang took out a knife again.

Everyone found that this knife was actually a medium-grade magic weapon.

"Clang--"

With the sound of the collision, Gao Qiang took a few big steps back, and the bones of his right arm holding the knife were broken, which was actually broken by the big stick.